The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendzel Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time 8/13: Maggie Haberman, ‘Untold’, Greenland Energy,  Paraquat, AI Crash, Karoline Leavitt

Episode Date: August 13, 2026

In this edition of Trendzel Washington, Jack and Miles discuss more details about Trump’s decoy plane fiasco, Maggie Haberman on Trump, Netflix’s ‘Untold’ episode about Raygun, an update on Greenland Energy, California banning paraquat, the incipient AI crash, Karoline Leavitt leaving the White House, gamers = ATC and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to season three of burden of guilt on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendzel Washington is the greatest actor of all time period. Oh, wow. I want courtesy of Kentrosaurus on the Discord in reference to the classic podcast from W. Camel Bell. That was, you know, a statement of purpose. It had a very clear thesis statement. What's the latest Denzel film? What's Denzel in these days?

That's my question. I don't know. Isn't he, is he doing any? What's he up to? What's coming up on there? He has something coming up. I remember seeing something and being like, oh, that is interesting. That is a cast.

And what is that? Miles, I just remember it. His newest Netflix movie is an unconventional heist thriller? Is that we're talking about? the one who's the Patinson? Patencing. God damn it.

Patinson and Denzel, now you know you're in trouble. That got my attention. It's called, here comes the flood. It's called

Lethal Weapon Six. That would be amazing. Denzel and Patinson. Wow. Are they partners? Are they on opposite ends? I think they might be partners.

It's actually impossible to know the answer to that question. This is, This is the episode where we do some late Googling and half-assed internet research. And say, what else? What else? What else?

My name is Jack O'Brien. That's something else. And that over there is my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. I'm something else. I'll tell you what. This guy's something else. I'll tell you who's something else. Okay.

Maggie Haberman. Max. Uh, Maggie. Just doing such a weird position to be like this. vaguely, like, I don't, it's like Donald Trump just can't quit her because she represents the New York Times or something. Yeah. And also she's like kind of friendlyish.

She plays into his ego, so he'll always, like, she, you know, she knows what she has to do for access. It's funny, too, because right now it's such an interesting time for all these access journalists, considering that this motherfucker was like, y'all might just die on the fucking decoy plane I sent up there. You know what I mean? You go down. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Like, you know, there's, it's only, I feel like in the last few days now, there's, like, people writing and discussing more. It's like, like, journalists, like, that feels like pretty fucked up, you know, that, like, he would have been okay with you guys getting blown up. And just being some of his, like, weird sacrificial meat shield. Because they also bring up how Bill Clinton had to swap planes, like, in the past. Yeah, we talked about that, but he took the journalists off.

He didn't have the journalist something. He did. He wasn't like, and these people, you know. If they die, they die. It's probably worth it. You know, easy swap, 300 of them made for my life. And you're like, they'd be happy to die for the president. And they're still like this like weird, like de facto deference to the office without

really just reporting on who this guy is as a fucking human being. Yeah. And like, bro, like he would have just let y'all get killed and would have laughed his ass off. It's also funny too. like the people that were on the plane versus not. I wonder what they're thinking because like, you know, Hegg Seth went on the other plane. Rubio was on.

Oh, Heg Seth got pulled. Heg Seth got, he went with daddy. Okay. Rubio got, he got left behind. Sorry, son. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If he dies, he dies. Wow. Yeah. So it's like, yeah, there was one of his like, uh, AIDS, one of the women who was like one of,

one of his aides that everybody's always like, the human printer. Yeah, the human printer. she got pulled she got she got she got pulled with the guy Ralph Nauda the guy who was like

the dude who worked at the pool from the hidden documents oh right that guy made it on the plane Skavino made it on the plane Donald Trump Jr. was left on the decoy

amazing but Baron was on the plane Donald Trump Jr. and Eric it's just like oh this is pretty clear you're playing favorites here. But yeah, I know Scott Besson was also on there

with Rubio. He was left. He was left behind. Damn. That's rough, bro. Yeah. That is some shit that you can't really forget. Like, he knew exactly what he was doing. It's not like he didn't.

They said they're like, no, Rubio knew. Rubio knew. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Really? I'm sure. I mean, that's what you would say. changes their shoe size because they're so insecure and in need of the approval of that person. I'm sure they're really taking it

standing that that the guy was like, yeah, he can die. I think we're good. I mean, obviously someone who famously, we just saw from his Katie Miller podcast appearance really, really was really into the East Coast, West Coast rat beef. He should know beefs. Befs can be

bloody. People were getting killed back then, unlike now. Unlike now. I've never heard of any rapper being killed dying in a robbery or otherwise. Anyways, Maggie Haberman. Yes, Maggie Haberman. This is what she does. She, you know, leaks out these little details about that make you realize how crazy things are behind the scenes.

This isn't from her reporting. This is from somebody who spoke to her, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Axios. Because, like, you know, right now we always talk about how, like, do Trump doesn't care about anything. He's not seen engaged. They just got to give him distraction projects. And that's what she said. This is from Axios.

Maggie Haberman tells me 70% of President Trump's mind share. This is a quote from her, maybe plus or minus 5% goes to his gilding, construction, renovation, renaming, and tribute projects. Quote, he is spending a huge amount of energy,

mental and otherwise on these renovation projects, beautification projects around Washington, and then monuments to self. There's no president. Monuments to self. Yeah. There is no precedent. in U.S. history of a sitting president devising such

endeavors in their own name. Yes, right. We know that. And making that their whole job. Yeah. Because, I mean, we talk all the time that this dude is clearly not engaging with the actual business of the government, like wars or inflation. Presumably. Yeah. Like when it comes to his cabinet, just being like,

let's give him this. Government. No. He calls that the yucky part. And he wants to do the money thieving and gilding stuff. Uh, yeah. And I mean, every day he gets a little bit slower, a little weaker, a little stinkier. He talks a lot about his own death and whether or not he'll be good enough for heaven.

And along with that, I'm sure, like, the thoughts of, like, his legacy. So he just wants to blight the earth with these beautification projects. I still remember that moment after Charlie Kirk was assassinated and they were, like, he really could have, if he had his wits about him still, you know, and was like in, in prime shape, could have probably turned that into something even more, like, devastating and weird and, you know, fascistic, if he wanted to.

And that moment where he, like, it was a press conference, a couple days after, and they were like, and sir, like, you, are you upset about the death of your friend? And he was, like, moved right on to talking about his ballroom. Yeah, yeah. That was what I was like, oh, thank you. Thank God. Thank God.

This guy does not have it anymore. Doesn't have it. But just, that's again, and I, and like we always said, it's grandpa's asleep and the kids are running the household. And they just have to tell him stuff to keep him updated.

But again, and this isn't to absolve him of any fucking responsibility. But like, people understand that he is vulnerable. He's mentally gone. So they're like, oh yeah, I can just,

I'm going to fucking make him do shit that me and my interests are really interested in. And it's perfect. It's win-win. He doesn't have to do anything. And I get to make up policy. Right. All right. Well,

that, I don't know. Somehow that, like in any other administration, you would be like, God, that's terrifying. That's disqualifying.

It's disqualifying. It's scary. But his actions, his intentions are so bad that it's almost like, oh, well, you know,

that's not the worst thing of the world. Yeah. And there's a lot of critics, like, you know, even within journalism who talk about like, so much of the, I'm not so much, the most, the entirety of mainstream media has been captured by corporate interests. So because of that, the editors who, they're, you know, they're all saying, it's like journalists don't want to do reporting and report on Trump a certain way. It's just that if you do, you don't really have a lot of

job prospects. Right. Because these editors are like, well, what, who's my boss? Oh, he's a billionaire. What is he, what's his long term goal? So I have, I can't quite be like, Donald Trump is mentally gone and unfit for office and keep pounding that fact every day. So they have to do some form of like, oh, the president said this and this and pretending like this. Because when it was Biden, it was very easy to be like, look at this. This guy's old. There's a lot of questions about his ability to do, do, do, do, do. And so because there wasn't that sort of fear of whatever the retribution would be.

And now, like, just sort of in this era that we happen to be in with this administration, Just that ability to really talk about it has just been really blunted. And so, yeah, you get, you have to, like, hear things in these, like, little asides. Or it's like, yeah, he's only spending, like, maybe 10% of his day thinking about real shit. Everything else is fantasy building. Yeah. I mean, and I should say that it, him doing this shit is probably clearing path for, like, much, for, like, very awful people to do things. I just, I'm assuming that without one central leader, they're doing it worse.

They're doing it more disorganized and a more disorganized. Yeah, because everyone gets to run their little corner of the government in their own weird way. And then when they just have to do a book report to Pappy to be like, oh, yes, sir, I'm winning the Iran war, dad. Are you winning, son? Yeah. Good job, son. Well, let's talk about untold. Let's move off of the president and talk about the untold series.

Have you watched any of these Netflix documentaries? Yeah, I'm trying to think of which ones I have, because I've definitely, I'll definitely dabble in a Netflix documentary. What was the one of the most recent? Whatever, it doesn't matter. Do they do jailblazers? I know they did Malice in the palace.

Oh, Vince Young? I watched the, wait, no, not Vince Young. Oh, there's another sports one. Steve McNair. The Murder of Air McNair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So these are like documentaries about, you know, sports stories that people remember

and they're like, actually, you go a little bit deeper. And it's not exactly as you remembered it. Yeah, jailblazers, they recently did. Pretty good documentaries. I watched, you know, my son plays chess. And so I threw on untold chessmates, the story of Hans Neiman's cheating scandal against Magnus Carlson.

And that story had a bunch of things about anal beads. Oh, that was the anal vibrator. That I was like, oh, I didn't think it was

going to focus this much on the anal beads of at all. But it certainly spent 20 minutes just diagramming how they would have gone up his ass and signal. Yeah, you have to know some of

these beads really have nothing, no bearing on your actual chest skull and they have nothing to do with it. Give me some of those beads, man. Wait, why is that,

so he was? What happened there? It's, so it's just like he's not, a top like five player but uh he is like top 30 player and there there are things from early in his career the guy who beat magnus carlson is like the best player in the world and who nobody could beat there are some things from early in his career where he was cheating in online chess and so it's just

you don't you don't come away being like oh i have a definitive answer on like whether this guy was cheating or not sure it's like he's like infallible you know like he has he has Magnus Carlson has lost. Yeah, Magnus Carlson has lost and he's lost more since this, since he lost to this guy. And so it does, I don't know. It's one of those things where you don't really have a clear answer, which is what makes it a fun documentary.

Oh, okay, cool. I thought they're going to be like, they're talking about the anal beads because the guy who designed him. It was like, yep, I mean, I didn't design these beads for the intent of transmitting signals via but certainly worked well. But, hey, you know, I love to see that their, products are being used. Yeah. But so there's a new untold and it is Raygun. Breaking Badly. Fuck. Breaking Badly. Oh no. Chronicles. Okay. I want to know. I want to know. Yeah, I do too. Kind of it. So they dropped a trailer and it ends with the line,

am I Rachel or Raygon? Oh, which made me be like, fuck this. Fuck off. But also. like, I'm going to watch if, oh, so you're gone. Yeah, so you're a very strange person. But otherwise, like the interview, she seems like fairly normal in the interviews. She's like a professor, wasn't she? Yeah, she's a professor of breakdancing. And so that's like kind of how she got into it. But seeing her just be there and be like, you know, tell the story as if, you know,

it's a normal person this is happening to does make it more competitive. compelling because you're like, oh, wait, what? Yeah. Like, it kind of, it just makes it harder to understand, you know? Yeah, yeah. Okay. I mean, I want to know, because at the end of the day, everyone was like, how the hell did she even get selected?

Like, how was that a good decision? And then, yeah, she had to go, like, incognito mode after because she became the joke of the earth. Yeah. I mean, she went incognito mode while also, like, I think trying to make money off of it a little but there are two compelling things for the documentary. It opens with her being like, so as I'm going to the Olympics,

I'm talking to my therapist and I'm like, I'm really stressed out. Like I think this is going to go badly. You're going to book me up. What's the worst that could happen? Like you're going to be a lot. And it really is just like, for people with anxiety,

it's like the worst that like don't watch this because you're going to be, it's like an anxiety trap of just being like that that fear that you have it happened it's true it can happen

the worst possible thing that could happen for your anxiety it is possible and then there's also an interview with her parents where they're like growing up

did you ever have the thought that like she could be an Olympian and her dad starts laughing uncontrollably and her mom goes never

never right away Neva. Neva. He's like, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that. Oh, well. Yeah. We're a, Raygun, we want to know more, you know. We want to know more.

Although you should have just let that person do that musical. I remember one of the last things was like you stopped that person doing Raygun the musical. That's right. That's right. Maybe she wanted a taste. If she was a business person, she's like, yeah, bro, give me 30% of the door. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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And we're back. We're back. We're going to do a couple loose ends. A couple updates. Truly just two loose ends. Two loose ends. Two loose ends. A couple loose ends.

I got one. I got a couple. And then I got a couple. stories that are just like one-off things like yeah this is happening well yeah i think because a lot of time we'll like we'll talk about a story and then something will have resolved and then you're like wait what happened that thing so first done greenland because they're like is it a soft invasion uh yes it is however turns out the government of greenland has stood up to greenland energy which is uh an American company. Greenland.

Greenland energy. And delayed their drilling operations. It wasn't, again, we talked about how they, it's a dangerous game because what happens if they're like, full long, get the fuck out of here right now, motherfuckers, you think we're stupid? And escalating and, you know, activating senile authoritarian Trump. Right. Becomes the excuse for Trump to invade.

Yeah, exactly. So they didn't get hit them with a full throat of fuck you dickweed. but more of a polite, yeah, like you guys will probably need to do this invasion the right way with the proper paperwork. Like, we're not just going to let you just pull up like this. Yeah, and drill for oil in a protected environmental region.

There's like species that, you know, the local hunters sort of rely on. You just can't just kind of come through here with your gigantic machines. The government said, quote, the necessary regulatory process cannot be completed and the necessary approvals cannot, therefore be obtained before the planned start of drilling, which they were like, we're breaking

ground today. So it sounds like the earliest it could be is next winter in 2027. So yeah. Okay. Yeah. We'll have to wait to see it. We're so sorry for Greenland Energy for that, for the delay. Yeah.

There's a statement after it's like, despite the delay, we are still very much dedicated to this prospective project. Yeah. just playing the part of good financial partner while also being like, could we just like kick this down the road until Donald Trump is no longer

the president? Yeah, yeah, let's do that. Let's do that. Yeah, yeah. Which also seems to be Iran's strategy where they're just like, yeah, we'll start negotiating again when this guy is dead or no longer the president.

How about this January about 21st, 2029? Probably it's around the inauguration, right, of whoever the next person is. Yeah, the other thing that was trending is Paracquot. And I only mention this. I mean, this is a big story, but the reason I'm mentioning this is because the first time I had heard the word paraquot was in the big Lobowski. And we did an icons episode, obviously, on The Dude.

And there's the scene towards the end of the film where him and Walter are confronting the big Lobowski over there, over his plot. And the dude's like, it just calls him, you human paraquot? Parraquot. And I was like, what the fuck is that? Paraquot? I always just pictured like an ass pimple or like something, something having to do, you know, some, some like medical skin thing. Yeah, sure, sure.

I mean, here, let's let him say it. You just met me, you human paraquot. You're like, damn. That can't be good. A pariquot. It's a pesticide, or at least by the death most widely known. definition a pest site. I'd love to know if this is like old English, because

if it is, but based on, you did a curse research. I did a cursory. I did a cursory. Didn't render much. And did not get an alternate definition of paracotta. Other than a very powerful pesticide. Anyway, it is a very dangerous pesticide virtually, a people every article I've read, it says

virtually proven to cause Parkinson's. It's probably like, we just need a couple more studies, man, but it's pretty damning, like the data they have on people who are interacting with paraquoise. and later on develop Parkinson's. Anyway, all that's say, it's poisonous.

And it was just banned in California, which is good news since the state is the largest user of it because of all the crops that we grow here. Many farm worker advocates have been calling out paraquot for ages, again, because it's deadly, but you won't be surprised to learn that all these countries that the U.S. loves to shit on, they've already banned its use

because it's deadly and can cause Parkinson's, You know, so like that's China, the UK, the EU. But the EPA reapproved it for use in 2021 and 2024. It's under Joe Biden's. Yeah, man. Well, hey, man, keep on paraquotting, baby. But it's, but yeah, California has banned it. So that is, that's good.

Because we're run by corporations. And we're also run by golf course, which this is probably the reason there was a 2025 study published in the Journal of American Medicine Association, I think JAMA, the respected medical journal, found that living within one mile of a golf course is associated with a 126% higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease

compared to living six or more miles away, which seems weird until you realize that golf courses are just like drenched in pesticides and, you know, just draining pesticides into the groundwater and the water table. Wow.

So that's another... That's the devil's bargain for living near a golf course. Like, well, I live right next to the golf course. And oh, I'm also, I have to drink poison runoff. Right. And also a mile away. Like, there's plenty of poor neighborhoods

a mile away from a golf course. Very true. Especially like in L.A. Because they're just like somehow suddenly in the middle of, of the city. Fenced off compounds of rich guys playing golf. Anyways,

fuck paraquots, I guess. Thank you. You chemical, even you chemical. Paraquot? Paracquot? A couple other quick things. Michael Barry, the guy with a glass eye from the big short, is

predicting a massive AI crash now. So that's just something that's happening out there. What? Even him now? Even him. There was something, too. Like, I just saw a headline that was like, economist sounds alarm on AI, AI growth.

And it was like the most basic stuff is like, they're counting their revenue from people buying the stock rather than the business generating revenue. That doesn't seem like good, I think. Seems almost bad. It seems almost like a scam. What is going on? Oh, the thing that everybody,

not everybody that we and a lot of people have been pointing out since it first started that's that seems weird to you the very business fundamentals that like everybody i mean they must have been just actively ignoring it up to this point i guess i think because so much is also completely detached from what the reality is and it's so much into like the potential of a thing and getting ahead getting in front of a huge the next big thing i'm curious i would love to know and i'd probably need to ask ed zitron and other people people who know, but like the same way, like, the dot-com boom, at least, like, laid the infrastructure for the internet.

Right. Like, is there any, like, what are we going to use these data centers for? It's a great question. I've known. You know what I mean? What do those become? Like, is that when we find a- Pay-Crate?

Jack, tell me right now. Make a prediction right now. I mean, I'm sure there are good uses for AI that, like, for smart computers that could be used in in the future. just not by this current organization of civilization. I need to fine tune

these LLM so they can convince me that I fuck good when I chat with them. That's right. And then there's another story that's making the rounds on social media about how sports betting is treated

by Gen Z and millennials as a long-term investment structure or investment opportunity. there's shares of participants who treat sports betting as a deliberate part of long-term financial strategy for boomers that is 1% Gen X, 6%, millennials 14% and Gen Z is 26%. Wow.

And then shares of participants who have directed investing funds to sports betting at least once in the past year, over half of Gen Z has done that. directed investing funds. Yeah. So instead of investing money in something long term. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I mean, it tracks with everyone's economic nihilism, just general nihilism. Yeah, yeah. Everyone else can somehow make something happen within three quick decisions.

Yeah. And there's certainly no like steady way to get anywhere. That's not good. Not good, yeah. That's basically the summation of that story is, seems bad. Jesus. We got Carolyn Levitt, the hot lips, mouthpiece of fascism, who has announced that she is leaving the White House,

spend more time unconvincingly lying to her young children, presumably. That announcement was first made by Trump and later, confirmed by Levin on social media and then Twitter flagged the post for being made with AI which caused the daily beast to claim that like

the picture she posted had been AI altered. But like you could the stuff that they were pointing out there like look her hair has been volumized. Her cheekbones are higher. Her chest was enhanced. Her waist was slimmed and it's like you can look at the picture and be like no no it's not what are you talking about.

You know the difference how light can hit your face. Yeah. Yeah. There are really interesting videos that it shows a human face and a light merely like revolving in front of them 300, like in a circle. They look totally different. And you will look completely different at different angles. And so yeah, I'm not one to.

A, like, of course, I think people would believe that given the how vain the people are that work in the administration, they would be fucking like yassifying their pictures or something like that. Sure. So I get like the instinct to do it. But at the same time, like, do a. little research because it was just merely a different photo from another photographer from the same event. Do we have to tell you about Tin Eye Daily Beast? Guys, you just find, you just put

the picture and be like, there it is on Getty Images. Wait, what's Tin Eye? That's okay. Yeah, I don't know, I'm, it must be it. I'm not saying I'm questioning you. I'm just like, I've never, it's like a reverse image search. Oh, I see. Post it or stick an image in there and it'll tell you like, they're a time that it was posted basically. Oh. Ten I, Mike.

Ten I. And finally, the Trump administration is looking for gamers, calling all gamers out there. In the past, they've blamed video games for mass shootings numerous times.

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. It's not an incredibly outdated. It's a video game problem. Yeah, yeah. but now they're trying to get gamers to help them solve a major transportation problem, which is the shortage of air traffic controllers. Last year, the Department of Transportation launched a campaign to recruit gamers into the ranks of air traffic controllers since some air traffic controllers have said that gaming influenced their decision to take up the profession. I have to assume this is also true of plumbers and carjackers from Mario.

Yeah, yeah. But, so what, like, because you're staring at a screen and not moving and like kind of directing things, I guess I can see it. Yeah, you're keeping track of multiple things, apparently, and I don't know if this person has, you know, like they're saying this under duress,

but the head of the air traffic controllers association, like said, like, he's like, oh, good on them. And said that, like, gaming skills, quote, absolutely translate to working as an air traffic controller. And said it's an innovative approach to capture the attention of the American youth. For far too long, air traffic controllers

have been told, have been the people behind the curtain that you don't really know about. But anyway, it's that's like another thing. It's like, again, I don't know if that's being said to be like, yes, very good, dear leader, a fantastic decision. They're like, what the fuck are these kids going to fucking do?

Yeah. It's nothing like a fucking video game. but I don't know I mean it definitely I think if anything it's an acknowledgement that the air traffic controller situation is dire yeah exactly

that they're desperate maybe is maybe would another innovative approach be helping working with their union or making sure that that's a job that's you know not so stressful

again I'm not sure I'm not sure but nah make it get the video games dude get

get a high score. What if we, what if we gamified this? There's like fun little satisfying sounds that play when you safely landed a plane. Hell, we could get these people to do it for free. Right.

Hell yeah, man. I mean, great. I hope. I would love to see that work because, I do wonder like, air safety is very important. I wonder what the,

because I think I talked about it on the show, but I know somebody who works in, like, dentistry. at a university and they were saying that they've had to adapt their training

because the kids who are like coming through dental school are so much worse with their hands because they've just been working with screens their whole life

so like they just like have worse ability to like manipulate like terrible dexterity yeah dexterity with their fingers and hands and stuff like that so like training them is much much harder so that's like

something, a skill that has like gone down. I wonder if there are, uh, other skills like air traffic controllers where like this new, the new way that we're trained on screens has like made us better. Yeah, but then in a way you're like, maybe it's a computer that's going to do that. Right. The shit we do with our hands, like the human thing that is real that makes us different. Yeah. Uh, I'd hope though.

I don't know. I mean, on some level, you know. They've been trying to make like berry picking robots for a long time. There's an article about, I forget, one of those, like, big berry companies has been, like, really working on this. And it's really hard to create a robot that will effectively, like, pick berries because it's, like, such a fine, you know, motor skill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also requires you not sure to, like, crush them. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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