The Daily Zeitgeist - Vick's Vape-o-Trend 5/7: Hantavirus, "Manic" Markets, Epstein, Detective Stranglione

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

In this edition of Vick's Vape-o-Trend, Jack and Miles discuss the Hantavirus outbreak (feat. CIA time-travelers & Benny Johnson), the "manic" stock market rally, Epstein's "suicide note" (as foun...d by former cellmate, Detective Stranglione) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:07 Listen to Help from a Hypocrite Wednesdays on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of VIX VAPO trend. Hey, easy. I told you that in confidence. You told our entire listener base that in confidence. I told all of you that in confidence that I was smearing the vix on my face. That one courtesy of Snorffula on the Discord in reference to, yeah. Yesterday, Miles was putting some Vicks on while he was having a good time at a rave. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:43 You got a Beams shirt on right now? Beams? Yeah. Oh. Okay. From Japan. Oh, somebody just got back from? Whoa.
Starting point is 00:02:53 I've been wearing this. Dan, that's one of my like three t-shirts that I've gotten compliments on and so that I wear them. So I wear them all the time. Oh, wow. It's great. It's a beautiful shirt. Just don't get a stick on it. Not to mention your beautiful shirt.
Starting point is 00:03:11 Beautiful t-shirts, Jack. Oh. From Japan. Am I ever right, Jack? Am I ever right? Am I ever right? Fucking added in my brain. Miles
Starting point is 00:03:24 It's about that time again The time for a CIA time traveler To have warned us about Antivirus No, it's that time for us to Be worried about a global pandemic Yeah, or not You know, it's like the World Health Organization's like
Starting point is 00:03:46 Look, there's going to be more cases But it's not going to be anything like the COVID pandemic or anything. So I do, I think it's, it's good to say that up top because I feel like everyone's first reaction, because I remember first hearing about Haunted virus in outbreak. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:04 And like, that's a, yeah, that's a haunta. I was like, dude, Ebola, haanta,
Starting point is 00:04:08 what the fuck? But yeah, this just so you know, the world health organization on today said, we expect more cases to emerge. Quoted, we do not anticipate a large epidemic anywhere similar to COVID and underlined. that they're saying also
Starting point is 00:04:23 there's no evidence of a widespread transmission risk. I'm going to hold on to that because I don't want to do the thing where I'm like, yeah, right, here we fucking go. I'm going to file the toilet paper. We live in an era where increasingly people don't trust experts. And even though the U.S. is no longer part of the WHO,
Starting point is 00:04:40 I still think that smart people work there. Yeah, there's something about like where it's not transmissible as much when you are not symptomatic. At all. Yeah, it's not transmissible. So, like, you are very sick when it is transmissible. So it's not as perfectly designed for global spread like COVID was.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Yeah, there's just no treatment for it. Those are the things that are like freaky. You know, there's like really no treatment. The mortality rates are pretty high with it. And as of right now, you know, there's, I think, a few Americans that they're monitoring who are on that cruise ship. Yeah, that's the other thing is that it started on a cruise ship. So everybody's a little, yeah, it's got like a cinematic, uh, backstory. Cruise ship outbreak.
Starting point is 00:05:28 No one wanting to have the germy cruise ship near them until now. I think they're landing in Tenerife. But yeah. But what did the CIA, wait, I missed the whole part about a CIA time. I do want to just, it does actually like now that I'm hearing you talk about the World Health Organization and the fact that the U.S. isn't really a part of it anymore, it does make me feel better about that information. It's like, oh, so we're not,
Starting point is 00:05:52 we're not trying to hide data for political purposes right now. So that's good. That does make me feel a little bit better. So some people are freaking out about the possibility of, you know, another pandemic. And it's not helping that another tweet has seemingly predicted the future. What was the last one? The last one was the name of the shooter at the White House correspondence
Starting point is 00:06:17 Center. There was somebody who like tweeted. Yeah. It was like they tweeted, I think, his name. And then their avatar was a Pepe the Frog in a tuxedo. And so, um, so this is a 2022 posts that implied that hantavirus would follow Corona as the next global health emergency. Uh, it's from a, an account that's called a soothsayer, um, at I am soothsayer. and it just says
Starting point is 00:06:49 2023, Corona ended. 2026, Hanta virus. And oh man. The account has only posted four times. Oh,
Starting point is 00:07:00 brags that it reads the future. So naturally, some people believe that the account was run by a quote CIA time traveler. That's, I mean, that's the,
Starting point is 00:07:10 so you got to do Occam's razor and just go with the simplest solution first, which is, of course, CIA time traveler. Yeah, and you know, I'm going to just guess just based on the other three times it posted other than
Starting point is 00:07:23 this one, it's one is, everyone is happy today and weep tomorrow. Damn, I mean, not wrong, not wrong. How about this one from this, the all posts, I mean, the hauntavirus ones and these these all happen on June 10th. The other one was
Starting point is 00:07:39 love is jealous with limitations. It is possessive, but never greedy. Damn. So it's like, Very fortune cookie coded. Yeah. And then it just did Corona ended, onto virus. And then the last tweet from this account,
Starting point is 00:07:54 June 17, 2020, if a person made you smile and laugh for how many times already, for sure that person can make you cry real tears too. Okay. That's a really good point, actually, when you think about it.
Starting point is 00:08:06 Yeah. If a person made you smile and laugh for how many times already, yeah, for sure that person can make you cry real tear. Okay. Yeah. All right, you're CIA for sure.
Starting point is 00:08:16 This person's CIA. For sure, for sure, for sure. Some people are speculating, and these are just haters. But some haters are speculating. It's just another case of someone creating tons of accounts with tons of wild predictions. But when one of them becomes relevant to current events, it turns up in searches and is widely shared. That's too. But that eliminates my belief in CIA time travelers.
Starting point is 00:08:43 And so much, much more boring. I hate this. But yeah, this is, according to Dr. Simon Godek, he said, this is how these scams work. Someone creates an X account, sets it to private, and posts hundreds of different predictions with every possible virus name and scenario imaginable. Then, once one event vaguely lines up with reality, they delete all the other failed predictions and leave only the correct one visible. people do the exact same thing with predictions about the Pope dying,
Starting point is 00:09:15 celebrity death, wars, and other major events he added. You are welcome. Damn, all right, you don't need to be so cunty about it, Dr. Simon Godek. Simon. Simon. I mean, a lot of people naturally freaked out on the internet. Yeah. Because, again, we've been through this, Miles.
Starting point is 00:09:32 I'll drop the exact same. And it does feel like we're on this steady cycle every six to eight years, just some earth-shattering event happening. But the fact that we have a haunted broom closet in the form of our defunded CDC does not make me feel good, although I'm glad the World Health Organization is like being like that we're monitoring it. Nobody freak out yet. But the other thing is that we also have people like Benny Johnson, famously, the drug fire killed my baby in a mass shooting. First stop for any information. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:08 He has a very, very different take on it. And he's already freaking out in a way that's odd because he's saying this is about rigging elections and it's a sigh-op. Right. It's going to be a new virus. It's going to be a new virus. And it's really convenient that these viruses only happen in election years, where Democrats are set to potentially underperform or lose. And Republicans are set to maintain power. Wait, wait.
Starting point is 00:10:36 he said the Democrats are going to underperform and lose and that's what all my numbers are telling me Miles Democrats are fucked um okay go okay sure sure it's very convenient and extremely reckless somehow we have this outbreak on a cruise ship that was sailing from one of the only islands that was so isolated that they're this like he's like he's like he's like They went to an island that didn't even have COVID. That doesn't even make sense. But here's the other part he goes on to that this. He's like, we have to deny that this is actually a real thing.
Starting point is 00:11:17 Basically is what he's telling. I was listening. Get COVID right. And I want to be as aggressive as we were in 2020. We said that this is an op to rig elections. That's what we're going to say right now about haunt a virus. But it's worth you understanding what's going on in the world. and these siops that are about to be pressurized on us
Starting point is 00:11:39 and what the purpose of those siops actually are, which is mail-in voting. Wow. Okay. Okay, dude. Is it a sci-op or is there actually virus that are like they're making it up? This is like the nobody else is real. Everybody is robots.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Right, right, right. That guy didn't actually die of that disease. Tell me more about sci-op's guy who was found to be getting money from the Kremlin to spout bullshit on the internet. Tell me more about this, please. Yeah. And also like, he who is a sciops, he's sciops everywhere. Right.
Starting point is 00:12:11 I just also love like this stupidity of like, the Democrats are so omnipotent. And they can from whole cloth create a global pandemic, killing countless people. Yet they're stumbling in all these other ways, stupid in all these other ways. But I thought MAGA is in control of everything. It's just always convenient who suddenly becomes the most powerful overlord of the earth when convenient. And in this, I guess in this instance, it's Chuck Schumer. We've all seen, we saw, we saw that video of him when his response to the, uh,
Starting point is 00:12:45 Trump loss was starting to chant, we will win. Um, so yeah, I mean, that, that guy seems like he's got it all figured out and is playing multi-dimensional chess. Uh, it's just wild for him to be like, okay, so let's get our talking points ready. Uh, this. potential illness, pandemic is not happening. Yeah. Just so we have to get aligned on this.
Starting point is 00:13:11 It's very, it's very surreal. It's like, you know, I pray that it doesn't get to anywhere close to the levels where like people are actually in huge numbers coming down with hauntavirus. But this isn't one of those things where like people are going to be like, I got COVID and I was fine. I was back on the golf course like two days later. Right.
Starting point is 00:13:32 This one takes you out. Yeah. No. It's like either you could, you could maybe walk out unscathed and there's also a very high likelihood that it could end your life. Right. But I don't think, we'll see how cocky they'll be. But I don't think hopefully it's going to arise to that level where we have to be that scared. I just, I guess really I'm just talking. I don't want to, I don't want to have to think about a fucking. Right. I love how he started off being like, yeah, right. An illness on board a. uh cruise ship come on like what the way he started his stream was we're not doing this again
Starting point is 00:14:10 we're not doing this again we're not doing this again we're not doing this again just want to begin the show by saying what up chat happy Thursday we're not doing this again we're not gonna do it we're not going to do it we're not going to do it again we're not going to do it again we're not going to do it again he says it for like a minute straight he's like we're not doing this again we're not doing this again we're not doing this again
Starting point is 00:14:33 It seems like he's doing a incantation. Right, right, right. It reminds me of the guy who was at the White House press dinner, like trying to shoot everybody and, like, ran by. And it was like he, it seemed like he thought he was invisible, like had an invisibility spell. It's just like people are so far out of touch with the world around them. They're just like, I'm going to say it seven times and then it will be true.
Starting point is 00:14:57 We're not doing this again. We're not doing this again. People aren't getting sick. Sickness freaks me out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he knows because even though maybe the money that you're being paid to act like it's not that great. I think deep down, you know, like, we're not doing this again.
Starting point is 00:15:13 It's so funny. All right. I just wanted to do a quick report. Quant, the people who like pay attention to the stock market and try and figure out what's going on there are calling the stock market's current rally Manick. You're saying it's bordering on manic. What does that even mean? Like the way that You know
Starting point is 00:15:36 Very positive and energetic In a way that seems totally disconnected from reality Oh Yeah Yeah okay yeah yeah Yeah yeah That makes sense Because yeah
Starting point is 00:15:48 We're just continuing to see Certain stocks rally I was also listening to The NPR version of our show Their daily zeitgeist Much less jokes about jacking off but it's like three stories a day. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:16:08 Guys, I'm available for consultation. But they were talking about the oil companies having record profits. And it was just so weird. Like they talked about it as like a, well, of course they have record profits because they've raised the prices. It's just like, wait, why of course? Why aren't you interrogating the logic at the center of this? they raise the prices because of a historic energy shock due to the attacks on like fossil fuel facilities. And then it's not just record earnings, it's record profits.
Starting point is 00:16:41 So. Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't. And like they just, it's just they in, in, like they're just, I feel like they're scared of sounding like they don't, they're not on board with it or something or like. I think it's like there. Anything that would be a commentary that inspires more class consciousness, I think he's just not going to happen. on something like that mainstream is like NPR. You know, because like the commentary on that would be around the morality of gouging people
Starting point is 00:17:09 for gas that they need just because you can. Right. And that's wrong. So I don't think, because I think that's like the thing that's easy for, you know, to be sort of objective is to just be like, and they made a ton of money. Am I going to inject my commentary on that? I don't know. I'm sort of paid to just tell you what is happening dry. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:30 Yeah, yeah, that's kind of how they did it. Like they were like, and then, you know, some have asked, well, could this eventually drive the U.S. economy into a recession? Like, they can't talk about it as like. Already in one. Right. And they can't acknowledge that. They're like, could it drive the U.S. into a recession?
Starting point is 00:17:48 This oil executive says he doesn't give a fuck, but like not in those words, he's like, for now the oil companies are going to keep doing what they're doing. This oil executive couldn't be reached in his tropical bunker as he just reaps all the profits. I mean, yeah, I mean, to that point about just the everything being disconnected from reality, Jamie Diamond, the JP Morgan Chase CEO, was basically being like, yeah, man, the AI buildout, every fucking dollar we're wasting in AI is worth it.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Oh, really? Yeah. And like, when you have some of the head of JP Morgan's, I'm like, oh, it's bad. It's bad. He's having to like come out and be like, and be like, and we're actually glad. It's good. This is good. Because what? There's been about a trillion dollars. This is a trillion dollar investment.
Starting point is 00:18:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is good. And if it all goes to shit, it's fine. We're all insulated. We'll probably just ask Trump for a bailout. Yeah. With all the like circular investing and then just like being able to, it's like the extremely wealthy of like figured out a way to just have a closed system that praise on consumers.
Starting point is 00:18:59 and because nobody speaks on behalf of consumers, like it's just covered as like business as usual. Like that's actually what the, I think it was Canoco Phillips executive said. They were like, and when asked about like whether it was going to cause a recession and whether that might change their calculus, he said,
Starting point is 00:19:18 I think for now it's steady as she goes. Like, oh, great. That sounds good for you. But I just like, I can't figure out why nobody is, calling it out. Like I, and just being like this,
Starting point is 00:19:32 this doesn't like two fucking different worlds. Yeah. Yeah. Especially with media. Like you have the group of people who are, who look at like a recession and like, we'll be fine. We can afford shit becoming more expensive by 30% like fine.
Starting point is 00:19:48 Right. Right. And so even then when they read about that, it doesn't, it doesn't have the same sting as other people who are like, what the fuck? Like most, I mean,
Starting point is 00:19:56 most working people are like, like in a state of what in the fuck is going on around me. Right. Like everything is unaffordable. I can't buy anything with my wages. There's at every turn there seems to be some kind of escalation on a global crisis that's going to make my life more difficult or the future generations more difficult as this government continues to borrow and borrow and borrow and bankrupt the country.
Starting point is 00:20:25 Most people, I think, truly are, I think that's just the thing. I think maybe the media is like, dude, if we start talking that shit, like, it's truly just going to set a match on everything. Right. Then they'll know, we also know that it's bad. So let's just talk around it. And I think, you know, the credit to the people who are like actually reporting on the stuff that, you know, connects the dots here. Right. Yeah, there's just a, because the next thing is would be people being like, then what the fuck do we need to do?
Starting point is 00:20:54 Right. To arrest some semblance of control back in terms of. of like our financial destinies because we can't just be being led to the fucking fire by billionaires who are who like at the last second can pull like an emergency parachute cord and then fucking end up not going in yeah and seem to be preparing for that with like all their island bunkers and shit you know yeah we just need these people just need to be more uncomfortable Jamie diamond needs to be a household name all these people just need to be up with new household names right I think that's the other thing too they're all able to sort of they have the luxury of anonymity to a certain next like other oligarchs know who they are yeah but it's yeah they're all calling each other and asking each other favors and yeah they're on a telegram group circle jerkin about how fucking smart they are and like mark andreson started yeah exactly you get like you wake up to 40 text messages from mark andreson yeah i mean like that's why um like i've been like ed ed zitron's both you get like you get like you gettron's post you're
Starting point is 00:21:56 Like I've been reading a lot more about just the AI stuff has just been going so up and down and up and down. But I think like when you have something like when there's so much anxiety with people being like, what the fuck is all this AI money going towards? What is the point of this? And you have to have like a huge like banker be like, no, this is fine. This is good. He said the technology is so powerful. It's worth the trillion dollar investment.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Again, bullshit. You're going to have to trust. us on this one. Yeah. Because I'm sure on another level too, right? Because there's also surveillance technology wrapped up in AI and I'm sure like if they're playing like a one and a half moves ahead kind of chess game, they're like, well, then we can also use this technology to, to put down like any like rabble rousers who are, you know, saying stuff on the apps that we own or trying to coordinate things on the apps that we own. It gets, they can detect our rabble pre-Rowls as Cash Vettel was saying, you know, before before, before our rabble even starts
Starting point is 00:22:56 getting roused, Kattauil has the ability to minority report us. So that's what they're telling themselves. I do feel like we're fortunate in the respect that the technology they're doubling down on does seem to suck in a lot of respects. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests. from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day
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Starting point is 00:27:27 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And we're back. And we started with the CIA Time Traveler Conspiracy, and we're on to some other good stuff. Epstein's suicide note has been released unsealed by a judge. Case closed.
Starting point is 00:27:51 Moving on. He killed himself. Why does anybody care? It's, so it's kind of a weird one. It's his note. I feel like this guy might have been weird. Let me read it to you here.
Starting point is 00:28:07 They investigated me for months. Found nothing! exclamation point. It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. What you want me to do? Bust out crying. No fun.
Starting point is 00:28:19 Not worth it. No signature. If real, it would be the rare suicide note to reference the little rascals. Because that line, what you want me to do, bust out crying? Oh, wow. From, let's see.
Starting point is 00:28:38 The character, Steimie. Oh, Steinie. Yeah, he wore the little hat, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I don't know. I only know Alfa had the little thing popping up at the back of his head.
Starting point is 00:28:49 And Buckwheat. Oh, no. Stimey was also black. Oh. Wow. Okay. Okay. Jeffrey Epstein, ally.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Okay. He was apparently a big fan because he had overused that phrase before in communications with it. It was like he loved that quote and was like just using every opportunity. he could to use it. Like he used it with his brother, when his brother was like,
Starting point is 00:29:15 hey, do you want to go to dinner? And he was like, what you want me to do? Bust out crying? He's like, what? No. He did seem to love that quote.
Starting point is 00:29:26 However, something that was, like the headline that I was seeing was that it was his suicide note. This note was from weeks before his suicide. It was his first alleged
Starting point is 00:29:40 suicide attempt that he claimed was actually an attempt on his life by his cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione. So the judge who was unsealing it was unsealing it in a case involving Tartaglione, who is an ex-cop who was convicted of a quadruple homicide in 2016.
Starting point is 00:30:04 But that... So it's very suspicious just like he was being accused of trying to harm Jeffrey Epstein. And then he was like, and then I found this note. He was like, oh, I was totally going to hurt myself. So it couldn't have been me. I mean, is there even, is there even like handwriting analysis done on this?
Starting point is 00:30:24 Or it's just truly, this was a thing unsealed from his cellies case. Unsealed from his cellies case. Without sort of necessarily being like, yeah, and he wrote that. Right. And he signed it. It's just like, this is a piece of, okay, well, I'm sure the internet. I'm sure the internet is going to find a fun way to go absolutely nuts with this one. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:42 Yeah. Well, again, at the time Epstein claimed he didn't try to kill himself telling guards that the red marks around his neck were the result of Tartaglione attacking him. And Tartaglione was like, oh, yeah, I found this note in a graphic novel. Right.
Starting point is 00:30:57 Which also doesn't seem like the sort of thing you leave out. Like you hide it in a graphic novel if you're planning to. Yeah. Kill yourself? I don't know. a note, it's so interesting. He said it was taken out of their cell. He said, I quote, I opened the book to read, and there it was.
Starting point is 00:31:15 Oh. So the guards all come in, and they're like, why are you choking him? They pull him out and, like, give him medical care. And I crack this graphic novel, you know, as I'm one to do when I'm being suspected of trying to kill somebody. I mean, I wonder what the interesting thing is, though, what you want me to do. Bussed out crime. That does, I mean, I think this was definitely written by him because it's a weird, like, match with his past things. It just doesn't seem like it is explicitly a suicide note because the context is it was found in a graphic novel in his cell by a guy who might have been trying to kill him.
Starting point is 00:31:58 Right. Yeah. You know. Very murky. Very murky stuff. I mean, also, they didn't investigate you for months, just for years. That's true. They found a lot.
Starting point is 00:32:07 They found a whole, like, we're still sifting through everything they found. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think that Epstein guy was all the way on the up and up. No. If you're asking me for my honest opinion. Either was his Selly who was in there for quadruple homicide. A quadruple homicide.
Starting point is 00:32:24 He was an ex-cop who tried to get into cocaine dealing, somebody who he was partnering with misplaced $250,000 of his money. and then he had him meet him at his uncle's bar and strangled him with a zip tie, which interesting. So he likes to strangle people. Kind of a strangle guy. Kind of his move. What are those marks on your neck, Jeffrey?
Starting point is 00:32:49 It's from strangle guy myself. It's from the strangle guy that you put in his cell with. Like, truly, if they didn't want people to think that they were trying to off him, like, put it, and meet your cellmate. Tartaglione the Strangler. Yeah, like in the really weird comedy conspiracy version of this as a movie, it's like, we need a guy with Epstein who's like, who can strangle a guy. You know, that's going to be the easiest way to make this thing look like a suicide.
Starting point is 00:33:22 And like, I know just the guy. Detective Strangley. Bobby Hangman. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus for it. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon.
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