The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendsaw Man 10/27: Trump MRI, Scott Bessent: Soy Bean Farmer, Air Traffic Controllers, Chainsaw Man

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

In this edition of Trendsaw Man, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Donald Trump meeting with the giant magnetic donut, Scott Bessent feeling the 'pain' from China tariffs, the air traffic controller shortage amid the gov't shutdown, a quick box office check-in and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I never used Instagram and suddenly I've been using Instagram so much. Dude, we should tell Jack Wagner about that. Dude, what the fuck do you think? Who's going on? I'm lacking willpower at all. I downloaded Instagram from another. dimension fuck off

Jack you did what from another dimension where it's like all these girls Another dimension Another dimension Another dimension That's what we should bring to it

And be like There's a song that we feel like is from another dimension This is the way his voice changes. That's not how he was talking a second ago. I had this I saw this music video being shot

in Shinjuku, Japan when I was that summer, I was there. And I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, because I'm old. And I was like, the beast. As fuck. That's like Japanese, like, municipal workers. And I kept it moving because I was like, I'm not really fucking with the Beastie Boys. And then the song came out. and I was like, I am again.

Let's go. Never really had bars, but the, those songs do sound great. Yeah, it's weird how few quotables they have. Now, don't you make me. It's like, the most quotable line to me is, way. Oh.

Yeah, that's about it. Rock. Yeah, it's like the little ad libs and shit like that. I do feel like they have no quotables. They have no lines. What's the hardest piece of bar? They're wrapping. I like my sugar with coffee and cream.

Yeah. It's the only bar. Bars. But I'm pretty sure they just like got that from overhearing an old person. From the sugar hill gang or something. I like my sugar with coffee and cream. If you know what I'm saying, young lady. Anyway, can you happen to my insulin?

Hello, the internet and welcome to. this week trend edition of their daily zeitgeist. It is Monday morning, October 27th, firmly in spooky season. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka Hack O'Dian.

Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Yep. A.k.a. Jack-O. Lantern. Yeah. I'll be um, Miles, a Biles grave. I think is... Biles of Grave. Oh, man. Yep. Sorry.

Mousel. I don't even want to think about that. That's so fucked up. I got kids, man. Biles of Grave, dude. Sorry. You're twisted in the head, bro. Some people were dropping some treehouse of horrors,

a.k.a.s in there, because when you were gone, we spent an inordinate amount of time at the end of the show trying to figure out our ski treehouse of horror names. Biles of Grave is pretty good. Oh, my name is Jack and Brian that over is Miles Gray. And this is the episode where we tell you, we check in. It's Monday. morning where we are uh check in on what was happening over the weekend uh we also check in with

ourselves tell you what's going on with us uh by telling you something we think's underrated something we think's overrated uh miles what is something that you think is underrated um god this is so stupid underrated i'm just seeing what it is For me, that's going to have to be... For me, it's got to be... Dude, flies, fuck. Okay? I didn't know.

It's probably been in countless B-roll in, like, art films or something. But I was outstite... You're not saying fly as fuck. You're saying flies. No, I'm saying flies, the insects. Insects. They get it from the back. Uh-huh.

Yeah, they do. Like, they get down from the... And I didn't... I don't know, for whatever reason, I don't... I just didn't think of it until they started having sex on a chair I was sitting on. And I was like, what the fuck? Yeah. I was like, that looked like that.

One fly was given the other fly the business from the back. Was there movement? Or it just like landed on its back and just kind of stayed there? It was, I didn't see, I couldn't look. I'm not going to lie. I didn't catch any pumps. Like, what's the stroke game like? Yeah, I didn't know.

The stroke game was strong on this fly. But the first time, it just, first time it caught my. the one fly was hitting it from the back road was in that position. Then they were chasing each other and then they went on the other arm wrist and they were doing the same thing. I go, what the fuck? I think these flies and I googled it to flies fuck and then yes, they do.

Sure do. For whatever reason, I just thought like bugs like just do like weird egg shit. You know what I mean? Like fish. Just like swim by give it a little a misting and then that's it. Exactly. I didn't know these insects.

likes like to copulate. Mm-hmm. But yeah, they do. So anyway, I was last Friday years old when I learned that. And then I was just like, wow, this is really interesting. This is really interesting. And I also learned that male flies are like, they get around. They get around.

Come on. Yeah. Yep. I've always had a feeling about male flies when I saw them land and like start rubbing their greedy mitts together. Exactly. You know, I'm like, ooh. Oh, yeah, the club is popping a night, man.

Like a horny middle-aged man Rubbing their mitts together Tonight I see some flies that could be having my baby Nasty Landing on shit and just fucking in front of everyone Right there in front of God and everyone Yeah I mean really interesting Like once you start reading about it

Like the female fly can like store the sperm So it's like in a to go cup Just you know Fertilize on demand pretty interesting stuff uh all right about that everyone hey speaking of tell your kids about uh sex things uh my underrated has to do with the movie hocus pocus and just the kind of weirdness of the universe that i just read another fact i'm so sorry yes in other house flies the female penetrates the male using the egg laying tube all right enough said just so you know it all kinds

of ways boom sorry fly real freaky shit triple s from miles gray getting pegged they're Pegging. Sorry, you said, I didn't mean to interrupt. You said fucking hocus pocus. Yeah. What was the last time you watched a movie, Hocus Pocus? Last Thursday. For real? Yeah, or Wednesday, right before Her Majesty took a trip, we watched it. With the Geist Child?

With the Geist Child. Tried to watch Casper because he likes ghosts and shit. Yeah. He was like, he didn't really get the really amazing 80s cameos that happened in the beginning, like Father Guido Sarducci that like SNL character Isn't that the guy called? Yeah, Father Guido Sarducci.

Yeah, they were like fucking Roman Catholics. Am I right guys? Yeah, exactly. Don, I'm like, you don't know Don Novello from SNL kid? But yeah, no, I watched, we got through about half of it before he was like, what the fuck is this? Yeah. My kids

are very anti this movie at first, but then we got some laughs. It was a blast. Definitely better than I remember. because I think I watched originally when I was like a teen and was like trying to be a cinephile as a personality and like I was watching with my little sister. I didn't watch until maybe five years ago for the first time. It's a revisionist history of the Salem witch trials. Yes.

Where the trials were correct. They were right. These were witches. And so they catch these three witches. red-handed hang them they're brought back from the dead because our main lead character so that 300 years later

our main lead character I gotta think would you guess 15 years old at that in yeah yeah maybe 15 at 14 15 years old I mean he reads as like a you know sophomore at most in high school

yes he lights a candle that it says not to light never do that and the curse says that if the candle is lit by a virgin, you bring them back. And he is promptly roasted by everyone

from his six-year-old sister. Yep. His six-year-old sister knows what a virgin is. Yeah. And he's like, great job, virgin right away. There's like a part where they're like telling a grown adult that they think is a cop like, because he's dressed as a cop for Halloween. They're like, look, this is what?

what happened, you know, we brought these wishes back for the dead and like, you know, my brother lit it because he's a virgin and the grown adults like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, craziest thing that I just heard there takes him aside and it's like, you really a virgin, man? Yep. Yep. Yep. It's it's the fixation on that kid being a virgin, the entire film. It's funny because like you were saying, I never watched it as a kid. I watched it as an adult five years ago. And I was like, what the fuck to think I'm talking about this kid being a virgin? A Disney movie. This about eight-year-olds.

But this was like 90s shit is talking about like, dude, he's a virgin. Pocas walked so American Pie could run. Yes. You know? Yep. It's, there's a lot of debate, though. There are a lot of people who say like in like which terms, if that means a sexual virgin or something. Because I kind of got into it.

Once I saw it, I'm like, are they really just being like, oh, this kid does. of fuck. Yeah. I mean, it certainly seems like that. I mean, I was around that age at that time. There was not a, there's not some alternate definition of virginity. I did tell my, I told my kids that it meant that he had never kissed anyone. Whichly comes home and he's like, dad, I lost my virginity. Like, oh shit, what? No. I got a kiss on the cheek. You're like, oh, God, what have I done? The very last line of the movie is a 14-year-old. old puritan who is like has been you know resurrected from having to live as a cat for 300 years you know and his line is to his like seven-year-old sister being like yeah it's crazy story this candle got lit by a freaking virgin like that's the last line of the movie is like a puritan roasting him

for being a virgin right puritan like i don't know yeah That's how it be. It does be that way. Was it triggering for you when you were on that scouting trip and an 11-year-old called you out for not for being a virgin? Oh, right. You're talking about, I thought you were talking about my work as a scout leader. No.

No, no. Yeah, I mean, that's a story that I've told on this show before. Formational story. My dad, basketball coach, went on a recruiting trip. to, you know, this, like, trailer park neighborhood, and there was basketball hoop outside. So I was just like, he was like, stay out here, shoot hoops while I, you know, go and talk to this young man. And a group of kids came around and were shooting hoops with me.

And immediately, we're like, this kid's a virgin. I think I was 12. I remember it was the same trip where I finished the book, Jurassic Park. And the movie hadn't come out yet. I was like, I might have been like 11. Yeah, I was reading Jurassic Park. I was like my parents would have would describe me as a bookworm. I was like, that was my personality.

And they're just like, yeah, this kid is definitely a virgin. So they made me admit that I was a virgin and then like we're bringing other people over to talk to me about the fact that I was a virgin. Like I was a, I was an oddity, you know? I was a curio. This is such a, such a, Such a thing in the 90s, man.

I know. It was, it was so hypersexual and they, like, coming out of the 80s into the 90s. They're like, because there's just so, there was so much virgin talk all the time. And I remember I've, I knew, I don't know, probably kindergarten what a virgin was. Yeah. But that was also because I, and I've told this story before because I got the sex talk at six years old when I went to the AIDS walk. And my dad had to show me what condoms, like what condoms were, not with a flashlight. You were a hard-living kindergartner, when you learned.

Well, that was that and also TLC, like, everybody had condoms and shit on. And I was like, Dad, what are all these things everywhere? Right, right. He's like, it's your flashlight. What's that cool pair of glasses she's wearing? The one thing I was, like, talking about the puritan, like, the fact that a Puritan thought it was weird that he was a virgin. And then I remember this cracked article we did that was, like, one theory on history is that the Puritans actually, like had lots of rules around not having sex right and like that's what lasts with us but the reason

they had to have that many rules is because everyone was constantly fucking everywhere like there are like eyewitness accounts of people they're being like yeah and goody marshal was like in a bush fucking like and like in town square like getting getting caught fucking on their front porch and stuff so that could be historically accurate that the Puritan 14 year old was like I he's still a virgin sis I can't can't believe it um but it is just why I don't know it's a very like Disney Disney kid movie that just repeatedly is like do you fucking believe this shit I also want to give an honorable mention to the movie sleepway camp I watched the last Halloween for the first time it's a 1983 slasher movie uh it's just having

a moment, like, I'm seeing it covered by a bunch of, like, different film podcasts. It's, I, like, hear people, like, bring it up in conversation. It's just a, it's a pretty standard Friday the 13th style thing where, like, kids go to sleepaway camp and people start getting murdered one by one. And then there's a truly wild twist at the end that I'm not going to share. But, like, the other thing that's weird about is, like, all the adults are just, like, fucking creeps. And it's like, that's not the, they're not the, they're not the, slasher. It's just that is ambiently what's happening in the background.

So I'm just wondering like if that's having a moment because of that or right. Anyways, those are underrated hocus pocus, sleepway camp and the fact that flies fuck. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated

Western colonial world traditions of honoring family. I saw this video of just like I'm assuming like a Nigerian mom, there's like, or I don't know, this is like a Yoruban tradition of this, of these kids.

They honor their mother by like chanting by, it's like this like, this is a way they're honoring their mother and I was so touched by this, but it's specifically chanting because they are calling all of her spirits back. Let me just read like this one description of how people were saying it. She's calling. So this is like a, I'll play some of the audio.

This is the mom. This is a child chanting to her mom. And this mom is just taking it in, but this is like a ceremony to honor her mom says she's calling out her soul from every mission that she went, that she sent it on that gave away her power. Her chant is somatic sonic force that calls her spirit back into her body so she can complete her mission and live on purpose. The voice is full of love, but it's a love we don't recognize because we have been reared on the saccharine sentimental love of Eurocentricity in Hollywood. I was like, what? Wow. This video is powerful.

By the way, if you're picturing that and you're just like picturing like some formal ceremony, that's just happening in a living room. The mom is just like on a couch in a t-shirt. And then by the end, she like sits up and she starts to tear up. Yeah. And this is like a thing. I think it's so visceral. There are a lot of black people in the comments, which I get because there's so many people being removed from Africa. You're like, this is genetically encoded in me for some.

I'm, I don't know, like, I don't know. Like, I don't know, I started watching this video. I didn't even read the captions. It just said, happy birthday, mama. And I watched it. I was like, what the fuck is going on? And I felt all this shit swirling up. And when I read the description, I was like, man, like, I could connect that so quickly that this was some kind of evocation.

And I was so touched by this. And I was like, God, with the emptiest fucking gestures. I know. And like, America and things. It's like, I buy you this. It's all. Yeah. Whereas, like, the idea of.

acknowledging a parent like a mother's dedication that somehow her dedication renders her slightly weaker from having to give her power to look after her family to to just be there as a as a parent as a pillar within a family that the process to honor them is to if to call these spirits back into their body to rejuvenate them was just so fucking touching and so beautiful i was just like god this was just just really beautiful to watch and I was just like damn I I think like most I think African American people

you just long for this deeper connection to Africa and all of these traditions that you know innately it's in your bones somehow yeah don't know why because really you've been in we these bodies have been in Africa much longer than they were in America but

there's just generally too just that concept of acknowledging parenthood in this way of like it is this process to dedicate yourself to love other people that it's it's a selfless act that you it can weaken you it can diminish you but to acknowledge that in a way to say like how do I reconfigure how do I reintroduce all that energy back to you to give you something back because you poured it all into me I think it's beautiful and I was like yeah giving their life force to like giving

their life to you know their life force and like to have a way to like just like actually do something from your that's like very evidently like from your soul like back to them is very cool it's it gets at like i mean we're going to talk about this on tomorrow's episode but just like this version of western culture that's like cut off from any sort of spiritual like you know the unconscious power of like all these traditions and you know we live in a world that just assumes this is it and then like there's like a weird version of Christianity laid on top of it

but everything is like very dry and wrote unless you have it a belonging to like a church that is you know um so but yeah fucking dang part dude really fucked us up with his dual really I blame Descartes Descartes is though

overrated fuck that dude uh my overrated is how just normal our spam situation is uh we were talking about how Chinese scammers apparently made $1 billion off that toll scam last year that where I think a lot of Americans said, you know, American listeners are like, oh yeah, I got hit with that. It's basically them being like, hey, you went through this toll. We've all been through tolls and been unsure if it actually took. You owe this money and it's like compounding and

basically just like hit us here with this money. And they made a billion dollars off that last year. And so as part of that, I was just like, people outside America. Like, is this just in the United States that it's this bad? Because, like, my phone is, I get probably, you know, three to five spam calls a day. More spam calls than regular calls. We get like seven. Yeah. And so some people got back to us. Reporting him from Germany, I get a scam text about every two weeks. I've received calls in the past, but the quality of them. was so bad that I was never fooled by them at any point.

Second person. To answer your question on the rate of scam calls outside the U.S. I live in Germany and was worried about the uptick in scam calls I was getting. I've gotten six all year. All year. God, we live in fucking hell. In Yorkshire, no scam

calls. I returned to the U.S., this is the third person. I returned to the U.S. and deleting texts and ignoring calls constantly. And then Melbourne, Australia, one scam call per week. That's it. One spam call per week. That's still too many scam calls, but that's...

Brian, the editor of Mexico, not a single scam call here all year. One scam call per week, which is, I think, the highest rate that we got on this report from abroad is 1.42nd, 1 over 42 of what we're experiencing in the United States. Unreal. unreal it's a bad it's a bad system you guys it's it's not this is not the one i think just like ambiently being here is so bad for your health and on every level you know what i mean like not to mention the lack of actual like safety nets for like you know socialized care but just like everyone's trying to scam you everyone's got a gun everyone could be a nazi people are kidnapping it's just like seems bad seems bad i really just don't even want to

like you i was just telling you earlier i'm like i don't even want a fucking phone anymore it's it's become truly like a vector for suffering yeah and not just because of the text you send me during basketball games it's not just that it's just generally like scam calls i get this fucking i get called by this florida number three times a day in the morning yeah from like six a m to eight a i'm usually getting three of them then they lay off and it's like a bunch of other bullshit throughout the day. I'm waiting on a callback from like a park ranger that's like out in a part of L.A. that's, you know, not where I'm, it's not a area code that I'm used to seeing.

So like I've had to answer a couple because I'm like waiting for this callback. Yep. And it's always, yeah, it's just always. Hi. Hey, how are you? Oh, good. I wanted to call about your reverse mortgage. Yeah.

I actually just took out a sick reverse mortgage. Oh, hell, yeah. Yeah, we're actually. So sometimes the calls should be listened to. You should hear them out. Yeah. And like there was this one guy. Reverse mortgage.

That's your fair. Reverse mortgage. Yeah, I'll talk to Morton when he comes back. Yeah. There is one where like they accidentally sent me $40,000 and I had to send it back to them. But that was just a minor error. All right. Let's take a quick break.

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Hold up, Sophia. A real-life cult? And what is a dirt ritual? No clue. But according to this person, contractors are tearing down the patio to find out what's going on with their ceiling and her neighbors are not happy. Well, she needs to report them ASAP. She did. And now they've been confronting her in really creepy ways all the time. So do we find out if this person survives their neighborhood cult or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast. podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. The forces shaping the world's economies and financial markets can be hard to spot.

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about what it was and then we found out that he was getting an MRI mm-hmm um and maybe a cognitive exam and everyone's like oh interesting get an MRI just for your checkup usually no i've never got an MRI. Brain imaging at your checkup. So a lot of people are just like, what the fuck? I mean, again, this is just, the evidence is just there for everyone to see that he's not in good health. Mr.

President, you're nailing it so hard that you're actually a medical Marvel. We're actually, we want to study you like they study the Hulk in the Marvel universe. He said, he basically said that on Air Force One. He's like, yes, you know, they said they've never seen anything like it. my brain is so damaged like it's like listen to him it's truly

I mean whenever he says something is good we should always just assume it's the worst thing you could ever think of the word of Walter Reed mentioned advanced medical imaging did you get an MRI I did I got an MRI it was perfect

I mean I gave you I gave you the full results we had an MRI and the machine you know the whole thing And it was perfect. You could ask the doctors. In fact, we have doctors traveling with us. But I think they gave you a very conclusive.

Nobody has ever given you reports like I gave you. And then he goes on. Like I gave you. I give you the most reports. No one's lied to you about my health like I have. So the facts according to him are that like he went in there. They couldn't believe how good everything looked. Like it almost no context.

for why he went in there. Oh, but hey, if you keep having trouble drinking glasses of water, come back in two weeks. The evidence that, like, what one would say seem like the objective facts of the situation are he was required after, you know, recently getting a medical checkup, he was required to go back in for a very serious battery of tests that seemed to suggest that they were looking for something and that he's traveling with doctors everywhere, which also, I don't know if that's, standard operating procedure? Rapid response.

I'm traveling with 40 doctor, a whole team of doctors. Whole team. Look at it. Working on me every night as I'm asleep, trying to make sure that I keep breathing. Everything's really good. That's sort of having Ben Carson might actually help because magic hands. It's a good neurosurgeon, gifted hands. Gifts guys got some of the best hands.

But yeah, the other thing that's also just funny, everyone on the internet's like, yeah, right, cognitive test, which I always get when I go because nothing's wrong. with my cognition um that's why you're getting any kind of cognitive test everything's fine everything's fine probably not anything to do a little droopy face on nine eleven and the other things we've seen that was wild i didn't know you could fix that maybe you know yeah i don't know you could just like it's light work if it's light yeah you can yeah it's also just funny too like along with that you're getting MRIs he keeps lying about fucking solving wars that's like his new old man senility obsession he's like you know i have many wars i stopped you like dude saving lives

man fuck up talking to st peter he's like hey just just FY i did another one it was sick other one call me dj calid but for peacemaking um all right we also have kamala harris news what is this last year that uh she made headlines for suggesting she might run for president and unfortunately the headlines are from this weekend, not last year, this weekend. In an interview with the BBC, she said, she might possibly be the next president arguing, I'm not done. I've lived my entire career as a life of service and it's in my bones. Unless you think bones is too weird a thing to say, in which case it's in my blood.

We've focused group tested both of them and they were pretty close to one another. Next interview, it's in my blood. wow interesting i mean this is also wow i don't even know man like broadly even before i get into the candidates right this is going to be solved electorally no is it no no probably not but that's where that it's like so in fury i wish people are like guys we got to get fucking serious here they're there like indiana just called another special session to redraw carve up their maps to to shit out another republican seat for the house like they are maneuvering to basically render voting, like, so it becomes moot.

Yeah. But yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't know. Look, I'm open. I'm open, Kamala. Do you just, do you want to talk that populous shit? I don't know if you will. No, no, no, no, no. But, uh, she, she dismissed polls in which she's ranked behind the rock saying, if I listen to polls, I would have not run for my first office or my second office. And I certainly wouldn't be sitting here, which is a wild thing for someone who like so definitely is poll oriented. and trying to just can't answer questions on like in the moment because I feel like she's waiting waiting on the polling to shake up to like bick her head and get a brahma bull tattoo on her fucking arm like the rock or something shit and be like i mean here i am i do sometimes think it's interesting to like think about what it's like to be one of these like she's got to be going through a weird dissonance where she had like everyone being like you've got this we think you're a great candidate and you're going to win and then she lost and the truth came like crashing down around her and everyone else I feel like like I was I wasn't knowingly lying I was like you know hoping that

she would be a viable candidate but like it just must be she also had a spark when she started and then she like her shit turned to garbage as as the song says so that didn't help either but I like she as we were saying before we started recording the people who have limitations are oftentimes the last to know yeah yeah especially if you're powerful and people's checks depend on you yeah and that you're in an echo chamber where those checks are clearing whether or not you are actually a viable candidate just as long as you believe you are enough to like actually make a run for office and to be and you know for Kamala being a part of the establishment establishment, the whole, all the machinery, the consultants, the people who you try to derive wisdom from about the reality around you, they're all saying some version of like, it's these fucking freak progressive bums and groups.

Yeah, yeah. They're fucking everything up. We need to get rid of these people. That's not what people want. They want us to be like, oh, okay, it's okay if you have a little Nazi tattoo. Yeah. We bang with that also. Okay.

Oh, you were, okay. Yeah, I mean, it's very predictable. But again, I mean, like, sure, I mean, Gavin Newsom is also talking about running also. I'm like, yeah, I think there's going to be momentum behind Gavin Newsom. I think, like, that seems like that's a lot, like the mainstream media is candidate, you know? Oh, 100%. They're just like, this is the dude. This is that guy.

Did you see what his social media consultants did on Twitter? Yeah. It's like the two rich kids are fighting in Trump and Gavin News. it's like well our rich kid is like he's got slick back hair and he talks shit and also hates the unhoused that's right this reminds me of like when during the run up to the 2020 election when people are like don't look now but mike pence has a shot and all the articles were just like billionaires saying that it's just like uh-huh yep all right we also have an update on treasury secretary scott beset who gave an interview with ABC News in which he discussed

trade negotiations with China and their American soybean boycott. China is not buying soybeans from the U.S. and it's killing soybean farmers. And worry not, though, farmers. Yeah. Don't worry, this guy gets it. Why does he get it so much? Mm-hmm.

He is also a soybean farmer. Yeah, dude. He said, I too have felt pain. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Are you really like a $3,000 suit? the fuck are you talking about

but he's like holding a pitchfork with a straw hat yeah american gothic how is he yeah what's the what's the billionaire or you know hyper wealthy logic here as to how he's a former hedge fund manager worth 600 million dollars who leases out

he leases out land he owns to actual farmers oh he's a farmer landlord the landlord of farmers and in that respect is essentially that's a landlord saying

they're a working class renter I get it dude I'm also working class oh really? Oh I didn't I didn't know that you you I live in a 300 square foot apartment in New York City in the sense that I am the landlord

of one of those yeah exactly I have walked inside it and said I will not help you with any of this shit here talk to Joe Pesci you're backed up plumbing not my problem asshole it's definitely yeah uh i feel your pain because like my tenants are really late with rent recently i really feel the pain shut the fuck up obscene like yes i i feel like everyone gets that this is so fucked up but i think so many people are too fucking busy to know how

fucked up things are i really i really uh want people to remind your friends out there who aren't engaged how dire the situation is i've like had to tell like friends over the weekend who are like hey what's going on i'm like to it this guy trumps a loose cannon huh as a dickhead huh please prepare prepare uh let's take a quick break we'll be right back what's up everybody this is snacks from the trap nerds podcast and we're bringing you the horror every week all October long. Kicking up this month, I'll be bringing you all my greatest fear-inducing horror games

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To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And not a great time to be flying in the United States, I would say. Over the weekend, U.S. airports reported more than 20 incidents of air traffic controller shortages on Saturday alone. Oh, just on Saturday? just on Saturday. Oh, okay. Cool, cool, cool.

8,000 flights delayed. Sorry. 100,000, 88,000 flights. 8,000 flight delays. This is, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who's warned that this problem is only going to get worse if the shutdown continues and also noted that if you are a loyal listener to this show, you may remember that air traffic controllers have been very worried about this.

for a long time. Yeah. They've been taking on second jobs to supplement the lost income of the shutdown, but like they were already doing that before the shutdown. Hey, they had a lot of cuts, huh? Yeah. Like, what the fuck? I mean, I don't know if this will change anything because right now,

Democrats, as of this week, they said, we're not, we're not budging on this. Right. We're not going to let them fucking completely shit on health care. I mean, we voted, I mean, some of us voted for it. earlier, but like, but now the rubber's hitting the road, meeting the road, we're, we're against it. But the last shutdown ended because of the pressure, because of all the, like, air traffic being completely clogged up. That was after 35 days. Right. I don't know if that's going to change anything, because this time around, like, this administration's like, yeah, I mean, I don't know,

the more unstable the country becomes probably the highly, the likelihood of us being able to just declare martial law goes up, too. Right. They can do their, job at gunpoint. I'll tell you that much. Yeah. It seems bad. You know, they're saying they're reportedly, quote, more concerned about issues that were already causing them problems prior to the shutdown, including controllers being overworked amid staffing shortages. They also resent being used as the political pawn and the pressure point to see when a shutdown should end, which seems to be, yeah, that this is the thing that like makes politicians be like, well, fuck, I need to get out to Tahoe this weekend, you know?

I mean, is there any way? Can I get a private air traffic controller I staffed there just to do my flights? Is that possible? Can we do that? Could my private chef do the air traffic controller? Guys really great. Really a smart guy. Man, you should see him.

He's like, because, you know, my family, they're all picky eaters. You know what I mean? So he'll make four different dinners at the same damn time. Four different kinds of hot dog. It's our employer that's slapping us in the face, Graves said, referring to the frustration that Congress is still being paid while the government is shut down. Yeah, and Trump's taking trips. He's fucking building a ballroom reportedly at least $300 million.

He keeps adding numbers to that figure. And they're giving away with like $40 billion to Argentina. But yeah, there's no, there's no money for fucking food assistance or any of this. It's, yeah, it's really, again, like this is the kind of chaos. there's like just just from an administration that is you know no concept of the norms and you know frankly is trying to erase any concept of norms yeah but i don't think they understand that all of those things put everyone at risk you know it's not just like oh well if you got to catch a flight this week that's boo who for you uh no everyone is unsafe if we're i wonder if he thinks

that he has like separate air traffic control i mean the president might but you know i like Everyone needs that web of air traffic controllers. Like, that's, you can't just be like, yeah, I got my own guy. Got my own guy handling this shit. I mean, that seems like the cynical, wealthy thing to do, just like we've seen with like firefighting too, or they're like, oh, I've got my own fire department for a wildfire. Yeah, I'm not using LAFD. You should democratize air traffic controller.

So like it's Uber where people could just hop in and do the job when they're nearby. and we're not even nearby, just have like an internet connection and then they can just... Jack, fire up the fucking control panel for all the flights in LAX right now. You want to get a... Hop it for three hours and do a run of air traffic controlling.

This is like the thing is that so many... These Republicans believe that they live on TerraFerma without realizing that they're undercutting all these things that to them represent the ground they stand on. Right. You know what I mean? Like, I don't think you understand what that means when people go hungry that you think that's just going to be limited to certain

areas like those effects permeate and I'm and again many people that are this wealthy can insulate themselves to a certain extent but if you're not that even if you're like hopping you're still out here in a world where there is tremendous suffering and that's going to manifest in ways that again you want to nip that in the bud you want to help people you don't want people out here trying to survive because you have a cruel government that even with the like the food assistant that's because they don't pay anyone a living wage that's why we have to have these programs but all of every we are all very much connected whether they like it or not and I think it's like the idea that they don't think any of this is going to boomerang back not

necessarily yeah they're going to be surprised they're going to be surprised how connected we all are I feel like at some point um hey we should connect they love to connect though oh yeah circling back on that connection and finally a box office report so the big uh movie debut this weekend was Delivered Me from Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen one. At least that was according to estimates heading into the weekend. This was the story of Bruce Brinkstein making Nebraska, which is a sad album he made in a bedroom.

It is, I love the album, but it is a, like the crazy thing about it was that he like made an album of demos, essentially, like songs he was writing in a bedroom with a guitar. And then everyone was like, come on, man, you rock. People like to see you rock out, including movie audiences to the degree that like this movie about the making of like a quiet, tortured album by a guy going through depression, like the trailers are all him like performing on stage. Like it's just going to be a Bruce Springsteen concert film, Jeremy Allen White from

the bear, rather performing on stage as Bruce Springsteen. But instead, the number one movie at the box office this weekend was Chainsaw Man, the movie. Yep. Another anime success story last month, Demon Slayer set a genre record when it debuted. Demon Slayer's been, been killing to the box office. It's slaying the box office, if I may say so myself. Yeah. Slaying those demons in Hollywood.

It's no yibah, Infinity Castle. 70 million debut. Yeah. Jesus Christ, dude, just shows you that it's, it's so funny, like, our world is filled with so many groups that you don't realize exists that are like in lockstep with each other, like these interest things that I know it's so funny how many people, there was someone, my friend's dad was like, there was like these, these like cartoon movies at the movie theater, like they weren't Disney. Yeah. Yeah, it's called anime. What the heck? And it's barely mentioned that the young protagonist was a virgin.

yeah but before i saw one battle after another both of those demonslayer and chainsaw man were both like the movies that played before um oh like a preview yeah the previews yeah oh man i wish i've i wish i watched more anime because i like the one thing so many younger people are into now yeah you're on black and japanese and like oh bro like do you fuck with attack on titan i'm like no sorry i'm cool do it sorry i can't do it sorry i watch I watched Dragon Ball when I was when I were a lad

It was dragon ball Krayon Shin-chan Chibir-Maruko Sazai-San What else was I watching? Rama 2-1 Those are the kinds of things

I was fuck I feel like once again We're learning Our world is small Our world has been small Up to this point You know We've talked about it with

Wembingyama and Otani and the box office where it's like, oh, there's people elsewhere doing awesome shit that has just been like sort of artificially blocked from you up to this point. And now here we go. Like, you were a regional baseball league. You were a regional basketball league for many years. You were a regional film industry.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Well, you're going to go see chainsaw man? I don't think so. I just don't know what's going on, so maybe not. I do think I might see, I might start, because I tried the Demon Slayer streaming show,

and I liked it. Yeah, I only got like three episodes in, and there's just something about like stream, like when it's just so, so much to get through, you know, where I'm just like, I don't. So, but the fact that there's like a movie version, I think I'm going to try and use that as my entry point. Zaygang, let me know if I'm,

I'm fucking up, and there's a better entry point. Oh, yeah, I would love to hear Zite Gang's being like, okay, what's your gateway anime for Jack? Because it might not be a film. It has to be film. No, don't give me streaming shit. Okay. Has to be a film.

I've seen Akita? Akira? Yes, I have. Yeah, yeah. Oh, Akira? Oh, that shit fucking rips, dog. Yeah, yeah, I saw Akira, dog. I think was awesome.

And, like, also one of those things where it's like, oh, this movie is so influential. Yeah, seriously. The visual language of like film. Springsteen delivered me from nowhere, fell below projections, made just $7 million domestically 16.1 globally. And the reviews don't seem to be like that. Crazy.

Bringing it back to the World Series, some people have pointed out that releasing a movie about a Dad Rock icon on the same date as Game One of the World Series might have been a mistake. So we'll see if it picks back up after this. Yeah. Oh, this week. Let's just, let's just end it this week, baby.

Come on, Dodgers. I mean, last time we talked confidently about the Dodgers on here, they got crushed. It was wild how everybody immediately was like, they suck. The Dodgers suck. Yeah. I was definitely ready. I didn't think we would sweep the DJs. And just the arc, the narrative going into the World Series has been such a fantasy.

like that I was like they got a lot of fucking like momentum going into that first game especially with us having a break they got they yo ass kicked vigorously they got a vigorous ass kicking in the first game which probably uh was helpful but yeah um I also don't think baseball is a sport where people are like all right now I'm mad and I'm going to try harder and do better like trying harder can be bad like the thing that helps baseball teams like when they're having fun and they're just like a bunch of goofies like dumb dumps that yeah just like have that that seems to work really well yeah because it's a little like damn it's like it's like golf you know like yeah you you kind of need to be icy to like have

all your shit together and not like have an error on like you know in a fielding error or like not getting your own head pitching thank god we have a fucking yo boo what i call yoshi Oh, no. Yeah, he was awesome. Freak. Anyways, that's been Sports Center. That's been our Monday morning trending episode. We are back tomorrow with a very special, whole ass episode of this show.

A spooky season is upon us. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines. What, you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow.

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