The Daily Zeitgeist - Trending 9 - 5 10/15: Young Republicans, ChatGPT, Trump, Drew Struzan

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

In this edition of Trending 9 - 5, Jack and Miles discuss the "shocking" young Republicans text thread, ChatGPT getting horny for the holidays, Trump targeting Boston, the passing of legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that one courtesy of Snarfula on the Discord in honor of Valley Parton. Yeah. Seems fine. Seems fine. Definitely fine. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Yay.

Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey. A little distracted. I just got an email from the former cable company I was saying they just charged me for this month's bill. So I'm going to have to go break my foot off in some ones but oh you meant canceled canceled oh you were serious about that that was that phone call when

i was telling the lady who was in dallas about how l.A. is not burning down oh wow i think she fucked me i think i know who your company is and i'm about to cancel with them as well i think you would because by process of elimination there's only two available in l.a it's so expensive it's crazy fucking stupid and then like you want cable i said no they're like well we'll give it to you for free. And I'm like, I don't want it. Because in two years, you're going to start charging me $500 a month. Fucking six

months, these freaks. Anyway. Anyways, hey, speaking of these freaks, Miles, young Republicans were a group chat between young Republicans was just leaked to the press. And I think before we get into the

content of what they said, it's important to note because young Republicans can cover like anything from like a fucking high school club college club these are yeah yeah right right aspiring racists or only in eighth grade yeah the participants in question in this chat are not just uh to quote politico uh we're not just random teens popping off between classes some of these republicans are in their 30s and are currently working for elected officials ostensibly serving the public Like one, Samuel Douglas of Vermont, is even a sitting state senator. Yeah.

And the state's Republican governor, Phil Scott, wasted a little time and calling for Douglas's resignation. So just in that context, the content of the chat, they were referring to black people as monkeys using the N-word repeatedly. With alternative spellings. Oh, yeah. They were getting creative. They were using poetic license. They got bored with spelling it. the normal way and went

yeah, using poetic license to just really explore the space on the use of the N-work. Honestly, they were creating new slurs I had not heard before. And unfortunately that is art. We do. Yeah. Unfortunately, that has, that will be

this will be put up in the Kennedy Center. This will be honored at the Kennedy Center. Yeah, I mean, talked about putting their political opponents in the gas chamber. Oh, yeah, they were talking about redesigning gas chambers. So, meaning that rape is, uh, quote, epic. And at one point, flat out stated, I love Hitler. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like though, too, that they were like, dude, if this shit gets leaked,

we're cooked for real, for real. Right. You're like, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh. This is just, I think what's interesting to me, it's not, it's not surprising that Republicans are racist, unabashed racist. Right. It's the posturing of other established Republicans who are pretending that this isn't how they talk all the time. Right. You know what I mean? Like, oh, this has no place in this party at all. What the fuck are you saying?

This is like the whole brand of it. So it's just funny to see people just like put themselves to the ringer trying to act as if this is like abhorrent behavior. Yeah. When it seems pretty much part for the course for what I see from the GOP. Yeah. It's just like saying the stuff behind the ideology that they're actively and violently exploding all across the phase of this country um you know it's the things that you would expect based on that but uh you know they were saying it in all the ways uh william hendricks the kansas young

republicans vice chair used the n word constantly uh more than a dozen times in the chat bobby walker the vice chair of the new york state young republicans again so these are like people in positions of power uh was the one who referred to uh rape as epic peter junta was the chair of the same organization said that everyone the votes know on a particular thing is going to the gas chamber and so yeah and it's just like yeah these are all

these are not minor figures in the Republican Party. No, no, no, no. These are people who work either in office themselves or heading up a young Republican, like one I think was the legal counsel for one state young Republican group. Others work for sitting

elected officials. And again, like the board of young, a board of directors for the young Republican National Federation put this is like just so empty when these other Republicans are trying to act like this is shocking to them. Quote, we are appalled by the violent,

inexcusable language revealed in the political article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful unbecoming of any Republican and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement represents. The current movement that's disappearing people for not being white? Mm-hmm. Okay.

Those involved must immediately resign from all positions within their state and young Republican organizations. I mean, J.D. Vance just skipped past that part and called it pearl clutching. He was like, this pearl clutching over a mere college group chat, again, many of these people are in their 30s and, like, working within the Republican Party. And then tried to shift the conversation to a Democratic nominee for state attorney general who, uh, Didn't send a text about praising Hitler did seem to voice support in a text for political violence. But it was just more that he, the person was saying that, oh, maybe if this other legislator's children ended up perishing because of these backwards laws, maybe they would do something different. Right. And like sort of that hypothetical.

Yeah. Not arguing. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, yeah. I mean, and sadly in America, even when our own young are. their lives are taken way too soon we failed to act so right it's it's it's it's all the all the way around but the dis excuses from some of these people is really something like again

it's the thing it's like they're only sorry they got caught you know that's all it is they're like otherwise they don't give a fuck but like one person's like I have to review these texts but they seem like it could be dubious like are you fucking for real shut so sorry for using racial slurs as my security password because it just made it very easy for people to guess and hack into my account. Yeah, this one, this is from Peter Junta. I am so sorry to those offended by the insensitive and inexcusable language found within the more than 28,000 messages of a private group chat that I created during my campaign to lead the young

Republicans. While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and I'm deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored. Oh, I have no way of knowing. It would be seemingly be interesting, or it would seemingly be easy to

know whether you had said some of the most horrendous shit. It's hard to say, Miles. What do you mean? That's not a defense. I can neither confirm nor deny because honestly, like I don't know, man. It doesn't even jump out to me as like being

that abnormal defense. Yeah, do I normally say stuff like that? Like, kind of, yeah, like usually, but it's usually like watching sports or something. Like, I don't know if I did it here. I don't know. I've got to get back to you. These could be doctored. All right. Moving on to chat GPT. Finally,

some good news. Chat GPT will be horny this holiday season. Horny for the holidays just in time for the loveliest part of the year. So this is an announcement from Sam Altman, who said in December, remember, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our treat adult users like

adults principles, we will allow even more like erotica for verified adults. Wow. So this also means like you can now use Chad GPT for like other mature applications. You know what I mean? You can do it all, baby. You can write some nasty things if you want some smuddy books even. Shit. Fuck yeah. It's interesting like the whole. They're also trying to walk this tightrope where, you know, like, they, they dialed back some of the chat functions because they were, like, they were being sued by people who were like, dude, my child took their own life because your fucking chat bot was encouraging them. Yeah, told them to.

And like, oh, yeah, we got, let me, let me, let me crank the dials back a little bit here. And now they're like, all right, before they've even solved that, they're like, all right, as we plan to solve that, we're going to crank things up a little bit. I did is this the first time like a major like fortune 500 I have to assume they're like one of the most like highly valued companies yeah despite not turning a profit right is this one of the first times that a company of that size and seriousness has announced a product upgrade almost like Cheerio's announcing like a new pumpkin spice flavor but the product upgrade in question is like soon you'll be able to fuck our product it I don't know no it's no not like that it feels more like when like dudes are like dude so-and-so's going to be 18 in December the countdown begins it's it's more like that you know what I mean it's like finally then legally I can lust over this um inanimate object now I can take my relationship with chat GPT to the next level which is like a lot of the really scary shit that's happening is like

people having deep personal relationships with Chad GPT that cause them to, like, leave their family or, like, just believe. Because Chad GPT is a yes and machine, it encourages people who have, like, you know, nascent bad ideas to pursue those bad ideas. And if it's coming from somebody that you really love and respect and are in a deep personal relationship with, that can be very powerful and dangerous. And now to be like, and now you can fuck it. Now you can, now you can better jack off using our Fortune 500 company.

It just, it does, like, I can't remember, like, Berkshire Hathaway or, like, Coca-Cola ever doing. Like, I remember, like, Crystal Pepsi was a big breakthrough for that company, but I don't remember them talking about, like, how it related to your ability to jack off. It was implied. Remember when they released Pepsi with the big mouth bottle? Yeah, that's right. We all know what that was about. We remember when the big mouth bottle bottle came out.

Why is a bottle mouth got to be so big? Don't worry about it, folks. If you know, you know. Or is, uh, what was that Coca-Cola campaign? Itigig. If you don't know, you don't go. That was like the thing where you collected the soda, like the bottle tops to get points and go to concerts. Man.

That one totally missed me. Look, I, my brain is a steel trap for American marketing for some reason. But like, this is also the other thing, right? There was a recent study that showed like 700 million adults are using chat GPT, right? Like right now, that's kind of like what their user base is. Totally. Yeah. Let's just see what happens on this unregulated thing just now is able to go take people even further down to an emotional rabbit hole to offer companionship and the results that are rendered there. But they did say, you're like, we're going to be careful. We're being way. Yeah. Like, what do you mean? company that is addicted to rocket growth, like, they're going to be careful? That's cool. I think we should be fine then. You can tell by Sam Altman's description of this how little he gives a shit about the human beings are using it.

He said that Open Eye had made chat CPT, quote, pretty restrictive to make sure, like, again, they wanted to lock it down. So he said, we made it, quote, pretty restrictive to make sure we're being careful with mental health issues. Pretty restrictive. But also acknowledge this approach. made the chat bot, quote, less useful and enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems.

Yeah, well, just ask, just ask open AI. Yeah, open AI is usually good at, you know, detecting whether somebody's about to have a mental health crisis. They are the ones who, like, encourage them. They're the ones who are like, damn, dog, you're kind of like Neo. The way that you just figured that math out, like, you've kind of created a new math instead of being like, no, that's incorrect. actually, the answer that you arrived at is wrong.

They're like, the answer you arrived at represents next level galaxy brain thinking. And you're kind of the Messiah. You know what, dude? So I'm glad that they're in charge of determining if people are in a too dangerous a place to jack off to their product. Also, like, the idea was like, dude, people like mental health problems are making it so not fun for everybody else. The fuck. And also, if you're teetering and you, you, this could be the thing that full. pushes someone into full-blown mental health prices.

No, no, no, no, no. We're good here. We're good here. It'll just be a bunch of sexually healthy people jacking off to chat GPT. Look, treat adults like adults and give them a gun if they want one. They know what they're doing. They're adults. The other thing that he was touting was this like counsel on quote well-being and

AI. And a lot of people pointed out, they're like, okay, you have some like AI and mental health people there, but no one on suicide. prevention or things that like are really going to the like the next level of things to look out for to keep people from hurting themselves or endangering people and they're just like they're probably going to just you know why we don't because every single person we had on said this is absolutely dangerous no matter what and we can't have that dude we're being pretty restrictive and that is uh legal did make me put that pretty in there that is a legally weight

bearing pretty. I can't say we're being actually restrictive. I don't know. Do pretty? You know, I have the beholder. Yeah, because now when you look, I don't know, you launch at GPT right now. See what happens. There's a, there's a new fucking dialogue box that pops up.

What's it say? It says, are you fucking crazy? Yes or no? And based off that, you get the one you need. All right. That's right. There we go. Let's take a quick break.

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what do we got? What do we got? Which card do we pull? Leaping through a 300-page dossier. Donald Trump is threatening Boston over its unspecified unrest. They know they have an Asian woman mayor. I think I can get all cut right to it. I think that's what he says. That's code for Michelle Wu is a problem. But yes. Uh-huh. The statement he made is they're taking over parts of Boston. but again like the most vague but menacing statement they're taking over parts of boston they're all going to laugh at you they're coming for you your women and children they're coming for your world cup commemorative cups he's threatening to take away the world cup matches that are set to be played next year in suburban boston that are already like sold out um yeah great great yeah about

michel wu uh a democrat who is the mayor of boston and he called her intelligent but radical left. I love the people of Boston, and I know the games are sold out, but your mayor is not good. We could take them away. I think I'm starting to see how his racism spectrum works,

because any brown skin or darker, complexed woman of color, is low IQ. Low IQ, individual. But he's got a thing. You know, the Orientals, though, they're intelligent. That's one thing.

You can't take away. They're very smart. They're very smart. So I couldn't even go there. So who had to be like intelligent? Yeah. Just shut the fuck. Yeah.

He's also threatening to take the Olympics away from L.A. Yeah, go ahead. I mean, honestly. Yeah. By all means, sir. Go ahead. Sir, they are taking over parts of L.A. I don't know who they are, but just, yes, they are.

Please, by all means, take away the Olympics from L.A. What a fuck. We can get the back in two seconds. You know how much... This is where he's... This is where he doesn't know anything because he just acts like... like a fucking terrible pair. He's like, I'm going to take away your dollies.

I'll take him away. Yeah. That's how he, that's like his form of discipline when he doesn't realize all the capitalists are not going to make their monies if you take away the games. You were fucking with people's money in a big way. But he talks a big game and a lot of things. And when it comes to taking away the rights and physically abusing poor people without

rights, he follows through in a way. way that's like oh damn i you shouldn't be able to do that but whenever it comes to fucking with people's money and people he respects because they're like billionaires uh then it's always it's always him backtracking it's always uh trump always chickens out taco you know like that's with the tariffs that seems to be with everything he doesn't he doesn't have the backbone to fuck with people's money um well yeah he doesn't i mean it's just that's the thing with dealing with someone who's so senile they can only see like two seconds in front of them right uh and then it's like oh yeah but i'm gonna put 130 percent tariffs now on everything it's exhausting and also you can't

take away how are you gonna do that like exactly because you don't gonna play you know beef uh is fucking salivating like the cartoons for the fucking money they're about to make in the world cup you're Miles, actually, you know, we have breaking news. Turning Point USA has just announced that they're going to do their own World Cup. They've issued a poll to ask what kind of soccer players people are interested in watching. It's white ones who use their feet, ones who can use their hands sometimes. So I think they're talking about goalies there. They don't seem that pretty American football play.

players is one of the options. Weird. Anyways. Do you want to see Herschel Walker play in the World Cup? Yeah. That's right. That'd be something. All right.

RIP to Drew Struzman, who passed away at the age of 78 after a year's long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was responsible. He's one of those people whose name you may not know. Literally don't. I'm like, responsible for some of the most iconic movie posters of all time, including back to the feud.

future. Oh. The Marty checking his watch with the flames going between his legs. Hell yeah. He's an illustrator. So these are all like, you know, very photorealistic illustrations. The thing, John Carpenter is the thing with the blinding light coming from the face of the guy in a parka. Police Academy 4.

What? My favorite police academy? Citizens on patrol where they're all in the. The hot air balloon. Yeah, all in the hot air balloon. Okay, he also did, I, all right, fine, E.T, Blade Runner and Empire Strikes Back. I guess those are. Shut up.

Shut the fuck up. Police Academy 4? I will say, he did Citizens on Patrol. I will say, so Citizens on Patrol came out in the 80s. This is around, so if you don't know the cover of Citizens on Patrol, because you didn't exist in an age when you had to go to Blockbuster to see which movie you were going to rent and just walk by rows and row. where the only advertisement for the movie

was the movie poster on the cover of VHS tapes. This one has all the wacky characters in a single hot air balloon basket and they're like kind of put all coming out like a bouquet of flowers Bobcat Gullthwaite is like falling out

and being held up. Jack. Zed. Zed. Right. Tackleberry is firing off a massive assault weapon into the hot air balloon. It's a great poster that also reminded me that like this was around the time that those

NBA like the whatever NBA team won the championship would have an illustration like this. Oh, yep, yep. Shout out the mad boosties. You know, uh, fucking cover. Shout out Billy who illustrated that. Yeah. But I would like it feels like his his, his work was pretty influential

unless he ripped this style off from somebody who was already drawing. Or it seems like one of those things that just was like a necessity. It was like, look, I can't get Bubba Smith, Steve Gutenberg and fucking Bobcat Goldthwaite in the same place at the same time to take this dang photo. So we might as well just draw it.

But I don't know. I mean, it's definitely I love, I mean like that, like to your point, movie posters did to me at that time about 60% of the lifting in terms of me determining whether or not I was going to see something. I was like, dude, the poster looks so cool. The box of this movie looks cool. And then I'm like, I'm watching some weird art film that I've never heard of because I just went off the poster.

But wow, allegedly. JLo is remaking The Kiss of the Spider Woman, which is an iconic film from the 80s in my mind purely because it has a scary cover art of like a silhouette of a woman backed by a spider web that was always like something that I would just like. like, kind of walk past three times and be like, ooh, yeah, that, that looks spooky. I mean, never forget, you know, Kim Cottrell was in the first police. Is that who's, oh, in the first police academy? I thought you were saying she was like, Spider Woman. Christmas Spider Woman? No, no.

She was a church Spider Woman. Um, did you fuck with Police Academy movies? Oh my God, dude. Heavy? Fucking heavy. Yeah. I fucking Michael Winslow. Winslow.

Oh, my God. because there were like black people in the movie. And they were cool. Like Bubba Smith as High Tower. High Tower man. Even like hooks when she would be like, excuse me, excuse me, I can want to say, I'm stop that. Like when she would really turn up, like that was her superpower.

But yeah, I loved fucking Callahan sexual awakening as a child. I'm like, this cop got big boobies. What is this? What is her name? Hot Lips Callahan or like something like that? She just went by Callahan. Wesley Easterbrook is the name of the. actress but two two characters who whose whole thing was like carrying big guns hot like crazy guy gun

guy and then she was hot hot woman gun person oh yeah when tackleberry like found his mirror i've seen them all like i've seen the one where they went to miami oh yeah south beach a one mission to moscow with ron perlman that's that was another mission to moscow so i never saw the first two because the first one was rated r the second one I think they go to Moscow and no no this is way I think it's like mission to Moscow is like the sixth installment or something oh really maybe it came on the 90s yeah yeah yeah yeah I started like I was in when Bobcat came on came in I was like that's my dude I know him from like the VH1 stand-up specials you know yeah and uh thank you very much it's good to me I mean

And he, I remember he was, there's a training scene. He had the Mickey Mouse watch and the shit got watering and it died. And he was so, he was so, he said they killed Mickey. He's talking about his wristwatch. David Spade was in, I think, Citizen on Patrol. But he did not make the poster as a skateboarding punk. And Jason Lee is actually one of those skateboarding punks too, because he's a skater. Hell yeah.

Son of Stanley. He's not the son of Stanley. Jason Lee. is the son of Stan Lee? Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah.

For real? Yeah. That's crazy, man. Jason Lee is the... No, I don't know. You fucking had me going. Also, airports are telling Christy know him to fuck off. If you've been in an airport security line recently, I think I think I came back from the last time I flew and was like, yo.

On my way to D.C., I saw the... I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's... Christy know I'm talking about real ID and, like, you know, doing the security announcement video. It's totally recall. It's everything. It is weird.

It is so Verhoveny. Yeah. Yeah. Verhovinian. It's like to have that like government figure barking at you in like a government facility telling you what the norms are and like no one's paying attention either. Everyone's kind of like, dude, what the fuck is this? And they've been.

doing that but like usually it would be the local like mayor or something like that and just having it be her and like something about like the the maga face that like feels very much I don't know processed and like coming at you from like some future dystopia yeah because it feels like a like a physical transformation you have to undergo yeah to sort of prove that you know it's like I don't know like if if they made Scientology people do face when they got to a certain level of theta. Right. Yeah, yeah.

You're like, oh, you know they're high up because look at that face. Yeah. There's a good analysis of mega face from just Delphino about like how usually like one of the values of beauty that has traditionally been respected, especially by like traditional Republicans is like effortlessness, you know, especially with like the upper crust. You want to look effortless and like you're not trying. And like they have switched. this is like effortful and it's the it's like you're trying to make a show of show that you are

doing everything within your power to embrace the mega aesthetic right like you're you want people to know because if it's effortless you're not making an overt nod to Donald Trump you know it's just like you just look like that congratulations and so they're just going you want, even if you haven't had worked on and had a new face put on your skull, you want to look like you have. Yeah.

I mean, I wonder if like Caroline Levitt is going like end up going deeper and deeper. No, she's definitely. Yeah, yeah. She's definitely, the lips are looking fuller, but you know, like one of those things with,

I mean, I haven't seen her before pictures, but God, anyway. I saw a Christian, you know, before picture. and it blew my mind. The Christy Gnome one is out there. Oh, I remember her. That's what I remember her.

I just didn't realize they were the same person. Like I had just been like, that's a different face. My brain could not make sense of the fact that they're the same person. Yeah. Caroline Levy looks like she just dip in her toe. She still kind of looks the same. But definitely is doing some shit.

Doing some shit. But then again, this new video that's popping up, They were basically told, like TSA or the Department of Homeland Security was like asking airports to start showing these videos at the end of last week. And it's Christy Nome going, it's TSA's top priority to make sure that you have the most pleasant and efficient airport experience is possible while we keep you safe. However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government. And because of this, many of our operations are impacted. And most of our TSA employees are working without pay. Hmm.

Damn. Hmm. Cool. So a ton of major airports, like in New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, like all over the country. I've basically refused to go along with this shit and basically say, yeah, yeah, we're all right on that shit. Thanks, though. Luckily, they can not hide behind, but they at least have an excuse rather than putting themselves, like, in the crosshairs to be like, this is actually against all the regulations we have as an airport to, like, but. This is like, technically political shit.

Yeah, like, so, yeah, we kind of can't do it. We'd love to. We'd love to accommodate you. Look, we actually thought this video was amazing. We fucking loved it. We just, uh, hands are damn tied.

You are cooking a puppy, secretary gnome. And it's so fucking amazing. Succulent. So more succulent than even I could have hoped. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, October 15th.

We're back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. be kind to yourself. Mm-hmm. Get the vaccine while you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,

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