The Daily Zeitgeist - Trends of Theseus 5/22: Wendy's, Box Office, 'Skibidi Toilet', US Pennies, Sesame Street

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

In this edition of Trends of Theseus, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss Wendy's crazy new burger (available in Canada only), a quick check in with the box office, the upcoming 'Skibidi Toilet' film (directed by Michael Bay), the US treasury ending the penny next year, Sesame Street moving to Netflix and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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someone's behavior, the first thing I try and think of is how is that a plea for love? Whatever behavior you see from someone, it's them asking for love in some way. And I think we see it in children the most where when a child's throwing a tantrum, they're simply asking for presence, love and connection. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shankar. I host a podcast called A Slight Change of Plans that combines behavioral science and storytelling

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Like ship of theses, but if you break down the trends and put them back together Are they still the same trends Blake? This is a question that I you know you that one courtesy of vanadium silver Love love a nice ship of Theseus No, you are fucking love that so much love that. Oh, hey man, it's like the ship of Theseus What am I anymore? You know, Blake, I'm Jack. You're broke.

Oh, I I'm stuck like this now. I'm so I can't, I can't do anything else, man. Friday, man. It's Friday, Thursday, goddamn afternoon, man. What are you doing? Brian? I'm sorry. I can.

Hey, look, come on, man. Um, anyways, Blake. Yes. Long, look, come on, man. Anyways, Blake. Yes. Long weekend coming. My God. You got big plans, what you doing? Ooh, I'm gonna be. Getting up on some stages, entertaining the peoples.

Nah, you know the week, Memorial Day is my Sabbath. It's the one day I take off a year, and I'm taking it off, so no stages, no podcasts. Yeah. No, no dance. Just BBQ. Just BBQ. No, no dance. Just BBQ. Just BBQ. Getting the thighs out.

Gonna take these thighs out and just, yeah. I have special shorts that I wear for- For Memorial Day? Yeah, yeah. They're made of flags. They're made of, they are made of actual flags. Yeah. Nice. That I climb up the pole that's pre-greased and I grab the flag off.

It's all part of the weekend. Wave those flags, fella, is what the sailors all say. Yeah, it is. What are you doing? Same exact thing that you just described. I figured, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Putting on my flag shorts, climbing up the pole,

waving my booty around and getting whistled at by sailors. I love it. Yeah. I'm taking it easy, man. I had a little travel. Waving my booty around and getting whistled at by sailors. I love it. Yeah. I'm taking it easy, man. I had a little travel. Had a little damn travel to do, man. I'm tired, you know? It's just, I don't know.

What are you doing, Jack? Is this all your presidents in one impression? Is that, is this? That's basically it. W, H, W, Biden. That's right. Yeah. Well, just those three, just the best ones. Yeah.

My favorites. Your top three. Weird. Weird taste for just like do nothing shit presidents who are, yeah, blandly genocidal. Anyway. That's the good type. Yeah. That's what I like. They don't seem to realize how evil they are.

Blake, I don't stop talking about this unimportant stuff. We gotta talk about Wendy's. We gotta talk about Wendy's. There's a new cheeseburger that's been announced for Wendy's Canada and I'm pissed. This is OK. Like, you know, Trump was talking about, well, we're going to make them the 51st state and all that.

Rasmus has this is war. This is the last straw they're taking. So what they've done is they've put grilled cheese sandwich on top, grilled sandwich on the bottom and hamburger in between grilled cheeseburger, cheeseburger in between and how it took this long to get here. I will never know. So did they steal this from us? Like how did these Canadian food scientists steal American food scientist ideas and bring it up north? That's what I'm like that because this is not a Canadian idea They're not smart enough to come up with something like this. Yeah. No, this is yes this sophisticated there's a mole

There's a funny leak. We got a guy Plot of the latest. Yeah, the new mission of possible movies coming out this weekend and this is the plot How did Canada get the idea for the most American food? I will say, in description, it sounds better than what is pictured, even in the, like, you know, fake photo where they're like, this is the best that it could possibly look. They're still using hamburger buns.

It just looks like hamburger, but like, it looks like a grilled cheese sandwich that somebody made in the microwave. You know, it doesn't have that like buttery crustiness to it. Um, so it's like shit. Yeah. It does kind of look bad. Uh, so just use a different bread. Yeah. Oh my God. This is the baddest I've ever seen. I'm grinding my teeth. Furious. I have a wake apnea right now. I'm so pissed off about this. This is infuriating. Um, do you ever eat shit like this? Like, do you ever like the weird, like, do you, will you get something like this or are you just at the age now where

it's like, well, this is kind of ruin my month. Yeah, it would ruin my whole day if I eat something like this. But yeah, I do still sometimes like there's the occasional. It's usually when I'm in charge of the kids. Yeah, like I did. I did a trip up to State Park and planned out lunch, packed a nice little lunch for us, healthy lunch, got out of the park around 6 p.m. and was like, oh no, we've got three hours until we get home.

And so we did some McDonald's and there was a Taco Bell nearby so we did a bang bang. And it was, you know, it was wonderful. It was lovely. I got to introduce my children to Taco Bell, but it's pretty rare that I'm like off on my own, just eating for pure enjoyment and without any regard for the future.

The closest thing I've had to something like this is KFC did something, I think it was called the double down or something. And it was, you know, it was called the double down, man. But brother, I knew it when I said it. Yeah, that is right. I think it was called. Honey, I love it was called the double down. That's right.

It was like two fried chickens, fried chickens were the bread, right? And then was it a cheese and a bacon in the middle of it? A cheese, I like that you're talking about it like a Somali egg. Yeah. A cheese. Well, a cheese from the year 2065

is somehow in the middle of it. And then a shard of bacon. And it was, yeah, it was great. You know, it made me. How you say? Fantastique. But yeah, no, that was great. You know, it made me. How you say, fantastic. But yeah, no, that was the only time I've ever, I think had like a food challenge. And then there was like off menu things

where when I was in Cincinnati, they do a thing where they take a pizza and then wrap like a chili bowl that you can eat or something in the pizza. Or it's some sort of chili. And wrap a chili bowl that you can eat. That in the P or it's some sort of heat and wrap a chili bowl that you can eat. That can't be the best way to describe that. No, it is. I don't understand. I don't know what you're describing, whatever you just said, you take a pizza, what you're describing.

It's a huge slice of pizza. So that's like the tortilla. So it's basically, that's the burrito outside. I can't talk anymore. And then there's some disgusting thing in the middle of it. Maybe it's like a chili dog and then you eat that. And I was tempted to do that. Yeah. Yeah. But I had to do stand up that night. But, but I, but I, Cincinnati is a avant garde in the chili arts. Yes. They really push, push boundaries. They really have. Did you, by the way, see Tom Cruise eating? We talked about this on trending.

I don't give a fuck, okay people? There's not that much news we're gonna talk about. Handcuffs are off. Did you watch Tom Cruise eating popcorn? Because I was just about to say, the place where I get my junk food binges out of my system is usually going to the movies. It's like, that's when I will eat, you know,

a full day's worth of calories and just popcorn and Sour Patch Kids. 100%. But I don't eat the popcorn by throwing a fastball one at a time of the popcorn at my face the way that Tom Cruise does. There are people who are just so tightly wound that you would say like, oh yeah,

of course that's how that guy eats popcorn where I've even seen it where my wife will like take a video of me without me knowing of just me sitting and like my like, fist is clenched for some reason. I'm like watching TV and it's like, what is going on in that guy's life? And what's going on up there, buddy? Yeah, that guy's got to go back to therapists. Um, but with him, it's been like printed out and like kind of circle it for you and be like, right here, you

seem like you're holding an attention right here, right? Your knuckles are turning bright white. And then right here where the thing that you're holding in your hands just disintegrated into dust. I have been like stressed out while eating something with a plastic fork and broken the, snapped the fork in half and then snapped it in half a second time. Like the shorter thing that seems like it would be

structurally impossible to, yeah. And managed to snap that in half because yeah, sometimes I'm a bit tightly wound. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what? It gets flagged and I work on it and then I forget and then it happens again. It gets flagged by my CEO, the chairman of the board in my heart. She says, FYI, let's take a second look at this. Just so you know, this sucks to be around. So work on it, please, if you want this to continue our marriage.

But no, I did watch the video and he is, you said throwing reverse fastballs into his, he's I would say violently eating popcorn. Yeah. And just strike after strike though. That's just going boom. But he also, yeah, shamed somebody for eating all their popcorn before the movie started, which how dare you, if you're going to be a fan of, if he's supposed to be the like ambassador to movies, like don't be shaming people for what they do in the privacy of their movie seat.

Yeah. I do that by the way, every time I go to the movies, I polish one off. Yeah. Oh, you're a human being. Unlike Tom Cruise, who's a fucking alien who manages to, yeah, that's the sound. It makes the sound of a rifle recoiling every time he eats a piece of popcorn. The Colonel's rattling off his veneers

sound like just bullets hitting the side of like a cyber truck. Other movie news. So by the way, we're supposed to have our biggest film going weekend at the, we're here in Boffo for the box office this weekend. I'm not predicting big things for the Mission Impossible movie, but my, my touch on box office predictions hasn't been great lately, but I, I just feel like the last one,

the last Mission Impossible movie was a box office disappointment. And this one is like getting worse reviews than that one. The last one, the last Mission Impossible movie was a box office disappointment. And this one is like getting worse reviews than that one. So I'm curious if, if it's going to follow through or if people were just like, Oh, this is part one of a two part movie. Like maybe fuck off with that. Well, we'll see. But then Lilo and Stitch, the live action is coming this weekend, which is probably

the one I'll end up going to see. Even though I still haven't fucking seen Sinners. And I will be swearing under my breath the whole time I'm taking my kids to be like, I haven't even fucking seen Sinners and I'm watching this bullshit. God damn it, I want to laugh at Tim Robbins. I haven't seen that one either.

I did see Friendship and it's great. Is it? Yeah, it's so fun. Yeah, yeah. Highly recommend. But other film news besides the Bofo B.O. that we're hoping for to help save the film industry is the Skibbity Toilet movie.

So we talked before about how this was in the works and that Michael Bay was loosely attached. But it's all it's like one of those things that I don't know, like there's they always announce a movie project and then like nothing really like ever comes of it. It's like, oh yeah, you know, they were supposed to do, you know, a slap bracelet movie, you know what I mean? Like just like some trend and then it doesn't really make sense and you never hear of it again. Um, the skippity toilet movie is in production and Michael Bay is directing a

skippity toilet being the like YouTube franchise that started with just like a, an unnerving guy's head in a toilet. Um, yeah, Jesus. Then it's just like, yeah, it's like a weird thing that almost feels like it was designed to make people like my first read on it being a, an elder millennial, like my first read on it was like, Oh, this is like a thing that's like, you know, just designed to make people be like, haha, I have a thing that like weirds my parents out. And it's so weird and unnerving. And then you like look at, like, I assumed the first video in the series

would be the most popular video. It's like, they have like 15 minute long, like epic sagas where like TV head guys versus toilet head guys are like fighting one another in a dystopian future. And there's all sorts of lore and stuff. So this is just, you know, we're rocketing into a future that no longer makes sense to my brain. This is the world that will be going on around me as I slough off this mortal coil 40 years

from now. I wish I still didn't know about this. I didn't know about this until you just brought it up. And then I looked at it. I'm like, this blows. I hate this. I hate this. And that's not a comment on whatever artistic angle anyone's taking it.

I hate whatever this is. I hate. It's not for me. And I hate it. My anyone's taking it. I just, I hate, I hate whatever this is, I hate. It's not for me. And I hate it. My parents probably hated it. Their parents probably hated it. There's a long line. Yeah, my genetics aren't made up to watch whatever the hell this is.

How we feel about this is like how like 40 something people felt about like the Beatles in the sixties. Yes. Well, this is just being done to make us feel uncomfortable. Nobody can actually like the way this sounds. This is like Elvis moving his hips for me. I can't, these hips are telling lies. You're still uncomfortable with that, with Elvis moving his hips. Yeah.

You like a more leg locked Elvis. I want him to move like Lurch. Yeah, I want an FDR style Elvis. Just no hip movement whatsoever. Keeping his hands on his lap with a blanket over his knees. Exactly. Let's take a quick break, we'll be right back. Amy Robach and TJ Holmes here.

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is how is that a plea for love? Whatever behavior you see from someone, it's them asking for love in some way. And I think we see it in children the most where when a child's throwing a tantrum, they're simply asking for presence, love and connection. And I think we're all just big children who are still asking for love, still seeking that approval, still wanting that connection and that embrace. And also to meet everything with love, right?

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And by God, I am going to do it and no one can stop me. Listen to a slight change of plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and we, we have managed to not cover any news thus far. Um, it's, it's the end of the week guys. What can I say? Um, so at best it's the end of the week, the end of the week. Um, RIP, the U S penny, uh, we will say that is a new story that's happening. The treasury department, uh, will reportedly stop producing the penny next year at the RIP the US penny we will say that is a new story that's happening the Treasury Department

Will reportedly stop producing the penny next year at the behest of Donald Trump who called them wasteful. I think correctly He's probably not wrong about this other countries have you know? Canada our our superior neighbor to the north who? You know has better ideas for cheeseburgers now than us all of a sudden. They got rid of their penny. Norway, New Zealand, Finland, Australia, and the Netherlands have transitioned to a penny free state. And it sounds glorious. The penny does have some defenders though. This group called Americans for Common Sense. Oh, I like that. though, this group called Americans for Common Sense.

Oh, I like that. And it's run by a lobbyist for the zinc industry. Fantastic. I love it. What a bad country. Yeah. And then Sesame Street, this was news earlier this week, but after being screwed over by the Trump administration,

David Zaslav and all those letters and numbers that never paid a dime for their sponsorship deals, Sesame Street has finally found a way to pay the bills by moving to Netflix. And Netflix kind of, I don't know, somehow did something cool. They won't be exclusive to subscribers. Like the episodes will air on PBS on the same day that they drop on Netflix. Whereas with HBO, new episodes like came to PBS like months after premiering on cable, which like didn't seem like that big a deal to me because I don't feel like, I don't feel like Sesame Street is super topical.

Right. I need up to date Big Bird coverage on the tariffs and how they're being rolled back and frozen and then rolled back out again. Yeah. The number of the week. Well, that was the week like five weeks ago. I don't know what the number of the week actually is. This is fucking bullshit.

Yeah. That is good that they're letting it air. I love that. I feel like on the one hand, it's like, you know, a good thing that they're doing. On the other hand, I feel like Netflix is so far from feeling like they're competing with PBS in any way, you know, any sort of cable in any way, because they're just like, yeah, no, like it's, we're, we're a totally different universe and nobody who has Netflix watches PBS.

It's the least they could do. It's the least they could do. Like literally the least they could do. The very least, yeah. Also like this just, like this should be a fucking public service. It's so frustrating to me. Like the statement for the, like with the announcement,

like talked about how they think communities across the US should continue to have free access on public television to the Sesame Street they love. And like mentioned that it's like research, the Sesame Street workshop is excited to bring our research based curriculum to young children around the world. Like that nothing has ever been more clearly something that should be a public service, you know, like research based children's entertainment as opposed to like all of the slop that is being just dumped into children's minds via like YouTube.

It's just like, Hey, kids eyes light up when you like show them a frog that has a dick that does a remix of a like popular eighties hit. That's a real thing. Like the crazy frog. Do you know the crazy frog song from years and years ago? I don't think I, I probably do there. Anyways, there, there are multiple iterations of that dick. Yeah. The, the frog just like started like showing up with a dick and balls like in later videos. Like, great. Yeah. It's market research. Hey, it just, the kid's eyes like lit up.

And so we have to keep going in that direction. Yeah. No, I, I know if I saw a frog with a dick, I would just act like that's normal and my heart rate would not change whatsoever. And my eyes were just, I, it's funny, I totally agree with you that that that Sesame street should be a public service. And yet the last hands in the world, I would want Sesame street in, is this current administration. So it's like, Oh, cool.

Like Zaslav and Netflix are, you know, they're, they look like the nights and shining armor compared to these people. So it's just like, all right, why don't you just take care of it for a little while and then hopefully, you know, the government can, if it ever gets right again. Yeah, it's I mean, so it's run by a nonprofit and the Sesame Street workshop and they like laid off a bunch of employees. Last year, they claimed it was due to the company's financial difficulties, but it suspiciously happened immediately after more than 200 employees announced their plans to unionize. Like literally they were having a block party celebrating the unionization

effort, and then they were like, like received an email that was like, Hey, we have a zoom meeting coming up, uh, that you should come attend that. I think like the subject line transition plan. Yikes. And then we're told that they were being laid out like a hundred of them. And yeah, so I don't know, maybe now that they're flush with all that cash, they will hire the employees back. I mean, Sesame Street Workshop also has a rainy day fund that reported net assets of

$439 million for the end of 2023. And none of that was touched. And instead they fired hundreds of employees. But the good news is that despite, you know, those efforts, Sesame Workshop were successful in certifying their union a couple of weeks ago, voting 74% in favor of joining the OPEIU Local 153. So I don't know, it's a mess, but. Yeah, it's never all good. Never all good. It's usually not good at all.

But yeah, exactly. There's like slight silver linings though. Yeah. I don't know. They did all sorts of like shady boilerplate union busting shit and Obviously like, you know Sesame Street's good about teaching children about literacy and vampires with OCD, but they actually don't have a great record on labor rights lest we forget the time that Oscar the Crouch became a scab during the

1975 New York City sanitation workers strike. Residents of Sesame Street just tricked Oscar the Crouch into becoming a scab because they were like, well, you like garbage. Why don't you help us collect all this trash and take it to the dump? That's your favorite place. So you know, we should have known back then that Sesame Street's up to the dump. That's your favorite place. So, you know, we should have known back then that Sesame Street's up to no good. I don't blame Oscar for that, by the way.

Like you dangle some trash in front of that guy. Like they knew what number to dial up to get that guy to scab. So I'm sure he regrets it. That's right. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending. On this Thursday, May 22nd,

we are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Uh, Blake, where can people find you? Follow you. Uh, go see you all that good stuff. Yeah, there's a whole ass. There's a humongous ass of an episode tomorrow. Massive ass speaking of Apple. As is co-hosting it. Oh my God. Oh boy. Oh Jesus. Holy shit. Oh brother. At Blake Lexler on social media. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup on August 1st.

I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm sure that won't affect the audience to either shows, putting them so close together. And then on August 29th and 30th, I'm going to be in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd.

I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd.

I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. I'm going to be in Philly doing standup again on August 22nd. Now I'm sure that won't affect the audience to either shows, putting them so close together. And then on August 29th and 30th, I'm going to be in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, uh, also doing standup, but, um, yeah, at Blake Lexor and social media. And this was fun. Oh, I'm on the behind the bastards. I'm on this week and, uh, next week, I think she was talking about, you know, uh, we're talking about, I almost said Carl Reiner, week. I think she was talking about, you know, we're talking about.

I almost said Carl Reiner, motherfucker. Carl Reiner. No, it was Carl Schmidt, who was the basically the designer of fascism. And yeah, Robert, unbelievably breaks it down as he always does. So it's really interesting. Great. All right. Well, we are back tomorrow until then. Be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine while you still can. Get your vaccines while you still can.

Get your flu shots while you still can. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bae Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright, co-written by J.M. McNabb,

and edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries. Amy Robach and TJ Holmes here. Diddy's former protege, television personality, Danity King alum Aubrey O'Day joins us to provide a unique perspective on the trial that has captivated the attention of the nation. It wasn't all bad, but I don't know that any of the good was real.

I went through things there. Listen to Amy and TJ presents Aubrey O'Day, covering the Diddy trial on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What happens when we come face to face with death? My truck was blown up by a 20 pound anti-tank mine. My parachute did not deploy. I was kidnapped by a drug cartel.

When we step beyond the edge of what we know, I clinically died, the heart stopped beating. Which I was dead for 11.5 minutes. And returned. It's a miracle I was brought back. Alive Again, a podcast about the strength of the human spirit. Listen to Alive Again on the iHeart Radio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Jay Shetty joins us. The people who need the most love often ask for it in the most unloving ways. So when I see someone's behavior, the first thing I try and think of is how is that a plea for love? Whatever behavior you see from someone, it's them asking for love in some way.

And I think we see it in children the most where when a child's throwing a tantrum, they're simply asking for presence, love and connection. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shankar. I host a podcast called A Slight Change of Plans that combines behavioral science and storytelling to help us navigate the big changes in our lives. I get so choked up because I feel like your show and the conversations are what the world needs encouraging, empowering, counter programming that acts like a lighthouse when the world feels dark. Listen to a slight change of plans on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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