The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendfurkey 11/26: Turkey Prices, 'Wicked For Good', Karoline Leavitt, American Eagle/Sydney Sweeney

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

In this edition of Trendfurkey, Jack and special guest co-host Mort Burke discuss the rising price of turkey, 'Wicked For Good' hitting the box office, the mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew getting arrested by ICE, American Eagle moving on from Sydney Sweeney and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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a new one coming up called a timeless masterpiece. He's just nose-grinded into the Zoom. It's Mort Burr! What's up, dudes? Yes, thank you. That's actually correct. I could, yeah, I was a big nose grinder. You know, there was a period where I learned, I learned Nali Nosegrinds. That was a big highlight, skate highlight for me. Nali. Noli. Nosegrins. Yeah, yeah. So the kids used to call me me. Nali. How are you? I'm doing great, man. It's the slowest news time of the year. That's why you call, you guys called me in because you were like, who knows almost nothing about politics? Let's get more than here. Who could just come in and fucking kill time? This episode starts and Brian, the editor, is already making the stretch sign.

It's just like, yeah, but we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to do a little Thanksgiving trending update, and then we will have an episode coming out on Black Friday, special Black Friday up with Amy Miller, the wonderful Amy Miller. It's been too long. But for right now, Mort, we want to talk about it's still, it's the day before Thanksgiving. We're all rushing out to the store to get our birds. and you might notice a little something different this year. You don't say.

25% more expensive this year. Oh, that's it. Now, is that good? I can't remember. Do we like that? I can't recall. We like when the line, so it is good because here in America,

we like when line go up for corporations. And we don't give a fuck about people and human beings. So line is good news. Line is God. Line is God. And line go up for, So they're saying that this is mostly driven by feed. So apparently you got to feed these little fuckers, you know? You got to feed them.

And feed is apparently a complicated, like it's a combination of, you know, vitamins and blah, blah, blah, you know, different things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just going to keep listing, listing vague things to stretch this out. Can't we just torture them until they get fat? Doesn't that work? It's designed by a nutritionist, though. Like every poultry farm has their nutritionist that's like, we're going to tweak the formula a little bit this year.

But the tariffs, a lot of that shit has to be imported, and the tariffs are making the feed more expensive and therefore our dang birds more expensive. I personally, so we covered this same story as it related to candy bars around Halloween, the ingredients. specifically the chocolate, the ingredients that make chocolate have to be imported. And, you know, they were ahead of that one.

Yeah. And so fortunately, they made some adjustments on their end to reduce the chocolate in their chocolate. Good. Key. Yes. And just ramp the sugar up to be like, I don't know, they'll be so high that they can't even notice that there's no chocolate of these chocolate bars. It's just like a brown gel. do that or tune in next year when a Snickers is $40,000

right. Or they could take a slightly lower profit margin. I will not hear that. I don't like that one. We don't like that one. That means line that means line goes sideways and we do not like the line go sideways. But yeah

according to this article, animal feed makes up 60 to 70% of producers operating costs. Each farmer has their own special feed mixture, usually prepared by a nutritionist, most include minerals, vitamins, other ingredients. Imported from abroad, those ingredients have recently

been hit by tariffs imposed by the... We don't like to say that because that makes... Just kind of dampens the vibe in the country if we blame them. There's a dark magic to it. But anyways,

I feel like this one will be harder to tell. You know, like when they lower the quality of the feed that's going into the turkeys. Like, I'm sure it'll just be like, I don't think it'll be, I forget which movie it is,

but they, like, cut into the turkey and just, like, a cloud of gas comes out and deflates. I doubt that will specifically happen. I'm assuming it'll just be a lower quality of, like, nutrition and hardiness. Yeah, we'll have this, well, so it'll be great, because we'll have this condition where all of a sudden people are like,

that's weird, I'm allergic to turkey. And then everyone over 60 will go, everybody who's young is so weak. You can't handle it this fucking... It's just that they've been feeding the turkeys the feed equivalent of dirt weed. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, bad pot for the turkeys.

Although I will say this, the only people this works out for is my family, which my wife thought I was crazy when I filled her house with hundreds of chickens this year to sell to our neighbors. But look he's laughing out. You're sitting on all those damn chickens. I will say, if they lower the quality of turkey,

I feel like one person we can or one entity we can bet will not notice of the mainstream media in the United States. Like that I feel like we're really ill prepared for like all the shrinkflation and like all the ways that life is going to become like incrementally shittier every year under the Trump administration and in this like worsening economy where we're completely, you know, decoupled from corporations is that like nobody like there's not really I can't think of a place where I would go. go to, like, get a consumer report on, like, anybody else noticed that turkey sucked shit? It was just, like, rib. Their ribs were what? They kind of seemed like Elon Musk. Like, they had a lot. Their ribs were just wire, so they looked big, but they had no meat on them. Yeah. Yeah. We're like, does anybody else's turkey? Was it glowing? And it, it tastes, like, oil kind of? Like, it was not good. It coughed when you cut into it. Um, speaking of turkey, the White House turkey pardon. of course, a dumb story that is gobbled up every year, was especially unhinged this year. Donald Trump took the opportunity to ramble about Chicago crime, calling Governor J.B. Prisker a fat slob,

while also insisting he doesn't comment on people's weight. So, you know, off to a good start. Yeah. He also said that when I first saw their pictures about the turkeys, I thought we should send them, well, I shouldn't say this. I was going to call them Chuck and Nancy, but then I realized I would be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I wouldn't pardon them.

I wouldn't care what Melania had told me, darling, I think it would be a nice thing to do. I won't do it, darling. I just, I love his little imaginary dialogue with his wife because it's just, so it's tin-eared. I don't believe it. I don't believe that they've ever called each other, darling. She kept talking about what a beautiful body I had and how she was completely. attracted to me sexually. Yeah.

She wasn't repulsed by my weird neck and butt. It reminds me of like all those stories you would tell where he'd be like, and these generals, big, strong guys would come up to me with tears in their eyes and they'd say, sir, sir, you're the greatest, you're strong and virile. There was no, there was no sexual tension at all. You're like, come on, man. Come on. Let's see.

He also said these were the first ever certified Maha, like make America healthy again, turkeys. but then added, I don't know if I agree with that. So maybe he was saying, like, his past turkeys were just as good. But he said this about, because he kind of commented on the feed thing. He said, they've been fattened on a steady diet of grass beef to allow the smoothies and all the other things that they've been eating for this occasion. This was a really big occasion, and they've eaten every fattening food that you can eat.

Do turkeys eat beef? Is that part of? I don't know what's going on. That feels weird to me. I do think it's a little funny that he said smoothie only because I'm picturing little tiny chicken smoothies, which is- Yeah, it is cute. It's cute. The guy's got an eye for a cartoon.

He doesn't have an eye for like authentic, happily married person dialogue, but he can create a cartoon, which is what I think is going on in his head at all times. Yeah, big body shame with the best of him. That's what he's going to. He went from questioning if the turkeys will attack him, claiming that millions of criminals poured into our country, you know, just standard Trump stuff. And then apparently one of the turkeys was, like, went missing.

So there might just be a turkey running around the White House now. It is fun how half this shit, it either is a terrible nightmare or it turns into a children's book. Those are the two options. Yeah. But, yeah, and then people are being abducted and taking away from their families and all that good shit. Yep.

I will say just on the subject of just things falling apart and the White House seeming to be a chaotic mess, did you see, I think it happened a couple weeks ago, but apparently Trump put up a sign outside the Oval Office that was just printed on some printer paper and says the Oval Office in like bright gold, live, laugh, love cheesecake factory font. Yeah, it's so good.

I love it when his behavior is exactly identical to your weird hoarder neighbor, you know? Yes. Like that's such a, somebody is doing, somebody isn't about to have a psychotic break if they're taping paper to the outside of their house. Yes. Yeah.

It looks like some shit that would be like a White House themed party at a sorority would put up. You know? Yeah. It's literally just three pieces of printer paper with the oval and office printed out. And yeah. It's so funny.

Yeah. And the... It's half, like, half wine mom and half the shining, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah, exactly. A spokesperson who was asked about it said, the president selected the swoopy font himself. He was personally and very involved in these beautification projects.

And they call that a beautification project. Beautification projects. Oh, that's so good. Straight up printing shit on printer paper and taping it to the outside of the White House. It's kind of wild That's all good Yeah I feel like it is kind of You know

It's bad because everybody has to like You know have less money And be in Fear for our safety But I do just like wonder I think the last time we had someone's brain melting I can't even remember

Oh is Biden Brain melting But like he was protected by a cadre of like, you know, people who are like... First of all, I don't think he wanted to be doing anything. Right, yeah. He was sleepy. At least he was sleepy.

Yeah. This guy's got just a surplus of energy and no handlers. And yes, exactly. And his handlers are... Right. The sort of people who would be like, yes, sir, right away, sir. Kinko, sir. We'll get that sign up on the double.

How about we frame him and put him inside? No. No frame. paper, packed to the front of the place. No. You would get evicted from your Los Angeles apartment for doing this. Yes, you would. You absolutely

would. Like, this is a homeowners association would never allow this sort of shit. Dude, we, okay, I put my recycling out at 3 p.m. and I got a note from the neighbors on my trash can that I wasn't supposed to put it out until 6 p.m.

This is a track in the place where it was supposed to be. Yes. But they would arrest me if I started taping shit to the front of my place. This is the Oval Office, basically. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some pop culture. We'll be right back.

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Wicked for good. Yeah, I haven't seen it. My mom just recommended it. So this is apropos timing. She recommended Wicked for Good. Oh, that's the new one, right? See, I didn't even go to it too. Yes, I think so.

Yeah, they split them on our ass. It dropped last weekend, and we do like to pay attention to the box office here. And it made $150 million in North America, $226 million. worldwide, broke all sorts of records. It's the third biggest all-time opening for any musical behind The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, which, you know, how are you going to compete with that? But the second biggest three-day opening of 2025 after a Minecraft movie, and putting those two movies together, I was like, because I was looking at the wicked movie poster, which is like purple versus green, like those are the big color, you know, glend,

is on the purple side and then the green is obviously the Wicich Elphaba. And I was like, I feel like there's a change. Like back when we were at Cracked, I would, uh, we had this thing about how all modern movies like after Michael Bay and like the Transformers movies, just everything turned blue and orange for a long time. And now I feel like we've entered a like green and purple and pink era in the world of movies like the all the hit movies like uh looking back at the super mario brothers movie like there's a lot of like purple and green and wicked minecraft is like a lot of green and like pink and i'm just

wondering like not to get too deep into color theory since i don't understand shit about it but but it does feel like well i don't understand color theory i do like that speech that merrill street gives in the devil wears prada where she talks about how uh you're of course course referring to Surulian and like how, you know, that traces the influence of like that color across the world of fashion and how like it's now made its way down to the bargain basement, like a place where you bought your shit sweater over the course of many years. But I do think it's interesting that we're like there, we might be in a new, a new world of these colors. So I'm just calling it up. See if you, if you see it.

anywhere ask if you see it anywhere and tell Zika keep an eye out for purples and greens. Keep peeping. Look, two things. First of all, I'm very glad there's not film footage of me pushing children out of the way to get in the line for the Minecraft movie. Thank God. Were you

into it? Yeah, not my proudest moment. Yeah, I was pushing toddlers. No, I didn't see. But yeah, well, I've been saying for a while that movies turned into video games and video games turned into movies, right? So, like, John Wick, God bless, is just a video game, you know? But then if you look like the

operative time, that's like a fantasy film. And these are very, all these colors, very childlike, very video gamey. They're very, like, I think nobody wants to be an adult because no, the number one adult is taping paper to the outside of our co-owned house. That guy sucks.

That guy sucks. So we all want to be more like barren. Yeah, yeah. So we all want to be treated like 11-year-olds, which is fine, and that's what these, that's what these colors scream to me. This is like, this is like a very kind of young pre-teen girl color scheme, which I'm down for. Yeah, Brian, the editor shared the color wheel and pointed out that they might have just moved everything a click to the left. They're just like,

okay, we're going to try these. They like left it to AI and AI got lazy. They're like, I don't know, pink, who gives a shit? Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure there's some Barbie influence in there. Like the Minecraft movie, Jason Momoa is wearing like a bright pink jacket the whole time. Like, you know, I feel like so much money goes into these movies. you're always like, who, who's getting paid? Like how, and then you see the credits at the end of the movie. You're like, holy shit, there's so many people. Like, I think there are people whose job it is to just be like, okay, so actually,

this movie is going to tank shit if we don't turn that yellow jacket into a pink jacket. And I think they're probably not totally wrong. But like that stuff is important. If we don't turn that into a pink jacket, Mort Burke's not going to buy it and make love to his life in it. Call me Jason Momoa. K-pop Demon Hunters is a very purple and pink movie, I will say, and just completely took off.

Did incredibly well. So I'm just saying, this is obviously a very easy one to just cherry pick, but it's probably why Oppenheimer wears purple and pink exclusively the whole movie. Yeah. I think I might have that detail wrong. So anyways, I'm putting this out there less as a. the thing that I have a bunch of evidence for them or just to hear any any color theorists out there. What do you all hear? What do you see? You got your ear to the street. And let's see,

what else we want to talk about? Carolyn Levitt, the spokesperson for the White House, she is being asked about the fact that the mother of her, so her brother's baby mama, like they're not, they're not together, but she just got arrested by ICE and is in the process of being deported. And ICE is saying that, like, this woman has, like, a criminal record and her lawyers are like, she actually doesn't. She has no criminal record whatsoever. A quote, I don't know where that is coming from. Show us the proof. There's no charges out there.

She's not a criminal illegal alien. Yes. And also, even if she did, she does not deserve to be abducted from her home, you sikos. I just I'm putting this story out there because I think it's worth paying attention to because it's definitely within the scope of possibility that like Trump connected people would be using ICE as their own personal like you know my brother has a disagreement with the mother of his child and like you know custody stuff is fucked up or whatever so it would be convenient if she went away like we've seen them do that. You've seen, I think, Stephen Miller's wife in a, like, debate on TV, tell somebody that they should get their papers in order because they were going to be targeted just for, like, beating, you know, winning the debate. So this is more a message to the journalists out there. Maybe, maybe keep an eye on this one. It feels like they did it right before the slow news Thanksgiving weekend.

Yeah, they trot out three turkeys as a distraction, but they can't help but say racist shit while they do it. Yeah, yeah, one got, Mr. Chuck Ely Sacks, but Mr. Mr. Gobble Gobbles in the bathroom. Uh-oh. And finally, uh,

we've moved on, American Eagle has moved on from Sidney Sweeney. Even they, like, everybody in response to the Sydney Sweeney ad campaign were like, this was actually a win for them. And like,

the fact that people thought it wasn't cool was actually, like, just proves that they're stupid. And American Eagle seems to have, moved on to Martha Stewart. They're just like, yeah, we're going to try and do a genes ad that doesn't start making people think about eugenics. Which really, that's, that's like such a low bar for your advertising. It's like the number one thing to check off your list, I feel like. Yeah. Yeah, try not to bring up genetic prejudices. You psychos, yeah. But yeah, it's the, they're moving it

along. The hook seems to be what would Martha do? And then she's just like in an all denim room. for some reason, but it's weird also that American Eagle is so out, it's so, like, they're like, okay, what's our next American Eagle campaign? Like, I don't remember you guys having a campaign before this. I don't, I don't remember you guys having stores anymore. Yeah, like, I haven't seen anyone wear or talk about American Eagle since, like, malls were a place where people hung out. Yeah, it just seems like all these things are like giant money laundering scheme. I'm like, all right, we got to get, we got to clean up $100 million. Let's pretend like American Eagle still exists. I feel like that might be what's going on. All right. That's

going to do it for us on this Wednesday afternoon. Back on Friday with a whole last episode of the show, a little Black Friday episode, even less full of news than this, than this episode, if you can believe it. Until then, where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Yeah, at Mort Burke. I'm posting sketches and stuff on Instagram. One popular. off jack popped right off popped the fuck off 20040 000 views baby 240 000 views oh doctor everything's come back you better you better go watch that shit well you're gonna be at thanksgiving you're gonna be getting drunk with your friends from high school and they're gonna be like yeah like quoting the sketch and you're not gonna know what the fuck they're talking about if you don't go watch that right

now exactly the new cowbells mort and i'll be back on friday uh with amy miller and we will talk to you all then, until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while you still can, get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and have a happy Thanksgiving. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Wayne.

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