The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendpa Smurf 8/20: Angie Nixon, Prince Harry, Nithya Raman, 'Dune: Messiah'

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

In this edition of Trendpa Smurf, Jack and special guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra discuss Angie Nixon vs. professional astronaut/mean girl Gayle King, California losing Prince Harry, Nithya vs. Karen Bass on Zoom Livestream, ‘Dune 3’ selling preorders months in advance and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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on this morning's episode, I believe, about the top Papa's. We were ranking top popas in reference because we of course had Brandy Posy on

and love Brandy Brandy the great Brandy Posy was talking about her time on Warped Tour and noted that

Papa Roach still got the kids are still got it back into Papa Roach and so

we were ranking our top poppas. And before I even introduce you, Sophia Alexandra, today's special guest co-host, all right, let's just do that. We're thrilled to be joined by today's very special guest co-host,

a hilarious stand-up comedian who hosts 420 Day Fiance with some guy named Miles. It's Sophia Alexandra! So happy to be here. I am your so-so filling in for my mind. There it is. And you had some great pitches.

for our list of top popas. I think I'm forgetting some that we hit yesterday because we had Papa Smurf. We had, I think I said, thank you Vanadium Silver for that trend, Pah Smurf, short show title. Papa Smurf, Papa John, who, bottom of the list.

Dapa Roach, I said, Papa Smurf, Papa John. You had a really good pitch this month. Yeah, I said Mama's and the Pappas. Mamas and the Pappas. But then I was like, I think they were pretty shit, actually. Yeah, maybe. And the mom was in the popas?

Entirely possible. Wasn't one of them a rapist? Like, wasn't it one of them the Phillips guy? Possibly. It's entirely possible. Because then they're fighting for bottom spot with Papa John. Right. Then my other pitch was...

Papa shot. Yes. It was Papa shot. Papa shot. Because I'm really good at it because, as I said, my body type is referred to as Lady Slender Man. so I just stand far away and just put the ball right into the basket. And it's just injected a really great sound. Yeah, yeah, where you just like reach over and you're not,

you don't even pick up the balls. You're just hitting the little lever and the thing going ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, setting world records with your wingspan. Anyways. And my third one is pop and lock. Pop and lock. Yeah. It's a slant rhyme.

rhyme. It's a slant papa. It's fine. Give me yours. I think that's, I think we've covered all the papas that I know. There's, of course, the papa, which, you know, I have a good friend from Sweden, whose son calls him Papa, and I find that adorable. I love Papa. Papa is really cute.

Papa, like, if I had really thought it through, I would have taught my kids to call me Papa instead of my biological father, Jack O'Brien. But alas, I did not. Can I, is it too late to be your kids, Papa? You want to come in and be my, the Papa that stepped up? Yeah, the Papa that didn't have to stop stepping up because I was always there. That's how I'll pitch myself as I enter your children's lives. Who?

Papa Pia. You got your mama Mia, but what about Papa Pia? Papa Pia. Papa Pia. Anyways, this is what the show is now. My name is Jack O'Brien. You may address me as Papa. Papa, please.

I'm Papa, O'Brien. My friend Davy Kirsch, who's a really funny comedian in Portland, has this great bit about how she thinks that, like, she wishes she could go back in time to when her dad hit her because she knows how to get out of it now because like she's an adult and a stripper and she's like, I just know how to turn things around now and she's like, I would have just been like,

yeah, papa, yeah, that feels good, yeah. Yeah, daddy. She's like, he would quit right away. And I probably butchered it. And anyway, watch Davies. There you go. Watch that. Let's get into the news, shall we? That's what this episode's about in addition to ranking papas or papas.

We have the mainstream media continuing not to know what to do with this. Left wing surge of energy that's coming up out of the streets, racing over a obstacle course made of old couches to grab. This is a reference to an old surge commercial from the 90s that nobody's gonna remember except Miles. But and then they get the surge and they all and they scream, Surge. Anyways, that's what we're doing in the 90s. But yeah, so the mainstream media don't know what to do.

They're like, what the fuck is this? We got to throw some water on this shit. So Gail King had Angie Nixon on and she was like, so you've campaigned with Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Hassan Piker. Do you want to see them on the campaign trail with you? And Angie Nixon had to be like, what? No, that's, I haven't.

Hassan Piker is just somebody that you guys bring up repeatedly every time one of us wins an election. It's like a cool brown straw man that you love to drag out for situations like this, which have nothing to do with anything. So Hassan Piker, you've said you want to marry him and have his babies. Why do you love him so much? And in regards to what you're going to do about all of these kids that are about to lose snap benefits, would you say that Hassan Piker is the most,

responsible or like the mostest responsible what are we doing you saying top 10 top five most responsible um yeah and then she when she's like you don't i don't know i he he did not campaign with me she's like oh well um like would you she but like would you kiss him like if you like i heard you are kissing him what no i wasn't um Well, would you? It's like, what the fuck are you doing? You mean girl as political reporting. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So weird. It's like, are you reporting for the yearbook? Is that what this is? Real quick, would slash wouldn't on Tompiker. Thank you. Would you also say he has best eyes? Prince Harry and Megan Markle are reportedly,

we're losing them. California's losing them. The U.S. is losing them. They're reportedly moving back to the U.K. after living in California for six years and trading royal life for making a bunch of lame shit for Netflix life. I have to say I myself am outraged by the move. By them moving back? Yeah. Yeah, because I got no fewer than four breaking news. news alerts today. And when I checked, they were all about them moving back. I was like, you don't give me those when fucking mass shootings happen. Yeah. Why?

What is the agenda here? I actually got an Amber alert that they were like that he's absconding with Megan Markle, with our Megan. It was a push notification to my phone that went, um, I like don't know what they can do to like, stop being talked about, like they stop being royalty. They made shit TV just like everyone else who lives in Los Angeles.

I say is someone that is a Los Angeles resident that's made a lot of shit entertainment. That's right. It's what we do here. It's what we do. I'm saying you're one of us. Yeah. And you were blending in seamlessly by just being a normal LA piece of shit. So why would you go back to being.

what another person that already exists in that country? Yeah, I mean, I will say they're not any ordinary people. They're, I think, beyond the standard of living of our celebrities. Like, I think celebrity where life is like too hard for a royal. Like, royals are just like people who go through life having their ass wiped for them figuratively. So I do think it's like, man, the harsh reality of being a celebrity in Montecito, California is like... They're like, living on Tyler Perry's fucking gigantic estate has been really hard on us as a family.

Yes. A number of mega personalities, including Katie Miller and Megan Kelly tried to claim this is a win for Trump. They're like, they're fleeing Trump. I'm going to go ahead and say Harry is fleeing Miles because our nation is only big enough for one charismatic prince

born on September 15th, 1984. My God, that, you went a long way and you landed that plane. Thank you. I appreciate you so much.

That Miles and Prince Harry born on the same day for people who are going to call you. Who's that guy? Lindy, which is the one that landed the plane on the river? Yeah,

call me Lindy for my a long walk to a safe landing. No, it's just kind of the most charming thing to go such a long way to just call your co-host A prince. A charismatic prince. Yeah, it's just the cutest wind up for the cutest landing. But I was going to say, I think that they're moving back because King Charles has cancer. King Charles has cancer.

And I guess, like, secretly or something, Harry and him are friends or whatever. I don't know. Yeah. So this is... I could give two fucks, but I got four news alerts about it. It's a very normal news story, I think, is that somebody is moving home to be closer to their sick father, who is, you know, it probably doesn't have that much longer to live. And in England, in the UK, it is being called Project Thaw. and framed as a conspiracy theory where, like, there's a secret plot to repair Prince Harry's frosty relationship

with the rest of the royal family and with the British people. I mean, that's the whole thing. I don't think they would be moving back unless the king was dying. Right. Because, I mean, as much as people shit on them, like, even when they're here, like, in Britain, when they're in Britain, it's, like, insane. People have never hated a black woman more in that country than when she's around, you know. Yeah.

And that's saying something because, yeah, they're, we all know about the British. We all know about the British. Don't even get me started on those people as an Irish guy, you know. Yeah, it's a weird, it's a weird world. Yeah, like, they probably enjoyed being away from. Like, there is a profession of media personality called Royal Watcher. Yeah. Which I guess is like our paparazzi, but it's like their experts.

But just dedicated to them. Just dedicated to them, people who don't do anything. So they're just like having to interpret the smallest, you know, slites and, you know, just writing this fan fiction about people. who don't do anything is is kind of interesting. It's an admirable level of commitment to the bit with them and the royalty. Yeah, which I do feel like it's like a real choice. It's like those people that weren't sorry about like causing Britney's breakdown. Like they would do interviews with those paparazzi and they were like, I don't know, man. It seems like she deserved it. I don't think.

It's a living. What is wrong with you? There's so many weird, like there are people that I read a headline recently about how like there there are celebrities who have paparazzi that are like dedicated to them and they like go through their whole career with this same person and they have like a weird grudging respect. I want to say it was like Nicole Kidman maybe. Somebody who has had like a long accomplished career and has just like had the same basically professional stalker who's just like always there in the background. And they don't talk to each other, but it's almost like the movie Heat,

like a lifelong, like cat and mouse game. Totally. You know what I mean? And the weird thing from the point of view of like, the mindset of the professional stalker, right? You see them think that this is a relationship that is like a good one. In their head, they'll say stuff like,

oh yeah, I've watched Brittany grow up. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've stalked her for 20 years. You didn't watch her grow up. You're not her fucking dad. Like, well, who is also a piece of shit. But the point is like, that weird thing where the parissocial connection to them is like, oh, no, we're in a voluntary thing.

And it's like, no, it's not sex. It's rape, brother. Right. It's one of those things that if you, like, just taken completely, out of context, it would seem like a weird sci-fi, like Black Mirror episode. Like, I live my life dedicated to this one famous person who we treat as a God and I am like their disciple against their will. They hate me. They would have me kill. If like no, there were no consequences, they would have me kill, but I just like kind of follow them around. And I've

learned their patterns. And so I know where to go. And then, yeah, it's very strange. Yeah. And I give psycho interviews like, Oh, yeah, no, their favorite foods are these. Yeah, yeah. Do I know them? No. Have I made them fear for their life as they're escaping with their baby? Uh, yeah. But you know what?

I've watched her grow up. I feel like imaginative historians of the future, like, will, will be interested, like, we'll write books about this and people will read it being like this. Who's such a weird culture? So strange. Very unhinged. don't understand. Let's take a quick break.

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one of them causes cervical cancer, but the other one is Papa John. Well done. Well done. Our list grows and the list grows. Papa Hall of Fame. Did you watch the big debate last night between Netia Rahman and Karen

Bass. Did you know there was a debate on Wednesday night? I sure did not. Yeah. Know that or watch, but I was at a gay open mic. Okay. Well, that's fun. In my own way, I think I participated. You're not alone and having not watched it. The Zoom live stream, it was shown on Zoom live stream. That's how they decided to, you know, share it with the world, not television, Zoom live stream. And they were like, oh, we're at capacity. Like, it was a fucking, like, board meeting or some shit. And so then people, the only way to experience it was on radio.

Like, the debate for the mayor of the second largest city in the country was only broadcast on radio. And I do kind of like the vintage approach. We're taking to democracy. They're like, it's only available on vinyl. Right. Which would be worth buying because apparently Nithia Raman rinsed Karen Bass. Which this has not been her strong suit.

Like she has so many complicated thoughts in her brain and like, you know, she's like a policy wonk. And so sometimes she has trouble, I feel like speaking in concise, like, debate, worthy, you know, quips. It has nothing to with how good you're going to be at governing. It's just a matter of like, can I speak in sound bites? And she can because she's really smart and she like is like getting better at it. And it was according to the LA Times, the audience that came because it was like a, I think it was sponsored by the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association of person. So like a cursed organization.

and the audience was very heavily pro-bass at the start, and people were eventually like a play. It was like Rocky Four. People were like eventually like applauding for Nithia. And Karen Bass, like, was just coming off as a villain. Like she kept being like, well, that, yeah, whatever. That's you. You know, like, she just like couldn't come up with good talking about.

Those are her comebacks. They're like, yeah, well. Yeah. That's just like, opinion. She also like trashed taco vendors as like a thing. It's just like no feel for the pulse of L.A. So anyways, I wish this had been a little bit more professionally distributed, but

it does sound like, you know, things are moving in the right direction. And it also feels weirdly like the media doesn't give a fuck about this race because we haven't like gotten any polling. We just got that one fake poll that said that Karen Bass was like up by 12 points. And she was like, ha ha, on a roll, baby. And then it was like, oh, no, somebody made that up to scam Cal Sheet. So I don't know. I'm sure we'll start getting more attention.

I mean, LA is like such a small city and so like non-consequential. Like how many people. It doesn't matter. Who cares? Michael, how much could have banana cost $11? Exactly. How many people could possibly live in L.A.? Like, four?

Exactly. So what do they do there? It's like movies or something? Whatever. That place is... I mean, what's their GDP? Like, I don't know. The fifth in the world out of countries?

California, I mean, not Los Angeles. But I just mean, the idea that none of the shit matters is a wild one. But we should get four news. alerts about the Megan and Harry situation. I think that's... Thank you. Prush. Yeah.

Those news alerts were happening as this debate was like about to start by the way. So fucking stupid. Yeah, Brian the editor pointed out that from the debate, from her debate performance, you can tell Karen is in fact an asshole. And also noted this is neither here nor there or is it that her ex-husband's name is Jesus Lechuga, which I believe is Jesus lettuce. It is, in fact, Jesus lettuce, and that makes me giggle. That's a lot of fun.

It also has chug in it, which I'm sure all of the kids were like, oh, owned. Except where they would never say that, because owned us from 4,000 years ago. Jesus lettuce is also what I was saying after I fucking ate a Taco Bell the other day. You know what I'm saying? Jesus. Explosive diarrhea. I think it's time for another pop-up.

And I got one. I think it's time. You work on that while I tell the listeners about the fact that that Dune 3 tickets just went on sale on AMC. And they crashed the site. People went fucking nuts. This is weird to me. So this is like an IMAX 70-millimeter screen.

deal and those are still in short supply. Like this, I'm going to put IMAX theaters in the same boat as like doctors. You know how there's always, there's like not enough doctors for some reason. People are like, yeah, well, but that's just, that's how we do it. We only let this amount of people be doctors and that's who are our doctors.

I feel like IMAXs are similar. They're like, yeah, you'll have one IMAX theater per city. and then a bunch of lesser IMAX theaters that claim to be IMAX theaters but aren't really. So everybody's rushing to snap up the IMA 70 millimeter screenings, which is causing theater chain websites to crash. And AMC's CEO publicly apologized for the crash and announced that $2 million in IT costs have been approved in order to fully address the issue. I'd like to know if AI was involved. In crashing? Like if they just outsourced a bunch of the work that would have been done by people.

And now they have to actually... In terms of like running the website. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Maybe like me, like, what is it? Automated. Thank you. Automated some systems and maybe that shit is just not.

Because like I was hearing from a lot of my tech friends from after massive layoffs, then those companies are now hiring them back. Yeah, hiring people back. That's the... Sorry! We actually need you. So maybe that's what this is. The magical dance of AI.

Fire everybody and then hire fewer people back at worse rates and be like, sorry, we need you. But now you're more desperate. It is weird that people cannot stop pre-ordering shit. Like we were talking about this with Brian yesterday on Grand Theft Auto 6, like that everybody's pre-ordering that game, even though it's a purely digital purchase that, like, will not, it will be impossible to run out of that. Like this one, I guess I understand a little bit more. But why then? Why are they pre-ordering Grand Theft Auto 6?

Yeah, why, like, what is driving that impulse to pre-order, do you know? Just like culturally. A feeling of comfort in their heart that they have it. Oh, like a little dopamine rush that, like, yeah, yeah. I mean, people are so excited about that game. I feel like we're just going to have to have a week of episodes where we only talk about Grand Theft Auto 6 because that's all anybody's going to be doing for a week. But I will say. Did you pre-order it?

No, I've never played a video game. Like, I don't play it, but I might have to do this one. Oh, I don't know you've never, you're not a video game guy, Jack. I stopped playing at N64. I was like, this is. Me too. I'm not good at. So much time playing that for that Mario 64 game.

And I was just like, I feel bad. And I also have like an addictive personality. And so I was just like, I can't do this or else I'm going to just do this all the time. And so I stopped really playing video games for the most part. But this feels like, especially because I have an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old in my house, this feels like a good time to jump back in. That's actually, yeah, the perfect time. I hope they still have that thing where you get to shoot sex workers.

Yeah, I think that's kind of the eight-year-old's really going to love it. It's the whole thing. I will say that there is a trend of media companies being like, oh, no, we crashed our site. People are so into, our show's so good. People crash the site. There's so many people. It's like the equivalent of like having a front page news story showing long lines outside of your movie is like, what this is.

So, like, if you were to spend money to pay a small hacking collective to knock the site offline when the tickets went on sale, that would be money well spent, technically,

for, like, the Dune 3 marketing team, you know? Yeah. It's also furthering the concertification of movies because the number of IMAX tickets

are being listed online for hundreds of dollars. It's unclear if they're, like, actually selling at that price, but that's, people are trying to do two movie tickets, what we did to like sports and gaming TV, which is too stupid. It's such a fucking scourge, man. It sucks.

The resale market for like concert tickets and all that. It's so fucking, I hate it so much. Yeah. Just wait till dynamic pricing comes along and it's like, based on who you are and where you are right now. the time that you came to buy it. This ticket is $70. That's just, that's what we think. It'll be like, everything will be like airline tickets, you know, where it's just like,

there's no set price. The tickets are just what they are. How much you got on you? How much you got on you right now? That's the approach. You got $700? Yeah, we'll take. That's how much the ticket is, 700.

Why are airline tickets allowed to do that? I just thought of that in this moment. Like, well, I'm, I'm, sure I'm not the first person, but that's kind of fucked up. Oh, do you want to fly in the sky? Oh, I guess you don't. Okay. Bye, Jack.

I don't know what this goofy voice is where I'm like, oh. I like this guy. He could, uh, sell me anything. Anyways. Sell dirt to worms. Sell dirt to me, a dirt farmer. Guess what? I have a new papa for you.

Fuck. This one's real good. This one's top a list. Okay. This one we love. Okay. It's papyrus. Font. Papyrus font. Papyrus font. Yeah, you let me have that one. I'm allowing it.

Great. Thank you so much. Judges, do we have a rule? Yes, that is correct. Papyrus font is effective at work. Amazing. Well, that's where we're going to leave it now. We're going to go back to our writer's room where we're brainstorming Papa's. We'll be back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. 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 we will. Talk you all tomorrow. Bye. Meow. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb.

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