The Daily Zeitgeist - VP Mike Trendce 4/14: Rat Tzar, Discord Leaks, Succession, JuiceJacking, Mike Pence, $1 Hot Dog

Episode Date: April 14, 2023

In this edition of VP Mike Trendce, Jack and Miles discuss NY's new Rat Tzar, the Pentagon/Discord leaks, the SuccessIon/Murdoch connection, the FBI's old ass "JuiceJacking" warning, Mike Pence getting warm welcome in his home state, and a disasterous $1 hot dog night in (where else?) Philly!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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york's rat czar this is just a it's a fun story new york has appointed its first ever rat czar it's fun for now and then i'm waiting to see like how this will turn apocalyptic but a rat czar is someone in charge of getting rid of rats they are not a rat that they've given political powers to um which was my that's how it got my attention in the first place you say rats are i'm like what who is this rat and what is their skill set because you have and i love it czarist autocracy, too. You know, pizza rat comes from New York. It's like point guards and talented rats are what are being produced by New York City. Killer Hezzy. Where's that rat with the killer Hezzy?

Yeah, yeah. So Mayor Eric Adams announced that Kathleen Karate has been hired as the city's director of rodent mitigation and will find innovative ways to cut off rats' food sources and use new technologies to detect and exterminate rat populations. She's making a salary of $155,000 a year, which is a lot, but it presumably doesn't break down to all that much, if you think about it per rat since New York has. Yeah. I mean, all the rats.

Can she even live in New York making that much money? I know. Truly. Probably not. Yeah. Well, I guess that's the thing. It's like,

well, I'm actually, here's the thing. I'm so swashbuckling. I will live amongst the rats so I can understand them. That's why I don't have to worry about things like rent. Yeah. So the job was posted back in December when the rat problem was,

uh, I think it came across mayor Adams's desk because he was ticketed for a rat infestation in a Brooklyn row house. He owned, so, you know, just a slum Lord, like any self-respecting people and paid for that person in New York.

Did he pay that ticket off? Yeah, he has not paid that ticket off, Miles. As of December, he hadn't actually paid it. But what he has done is appoint a rat czar who's going to get results. Her first job is going to be get the rats out of that row home so he can then contest

the spot. Write the ticket. But the job posting called for a background in urban planning. Okay. Makes sense. But also said that the applicant should have a swashbuckling attitude crafty humor why and general aura of badassery i'm sorry that's in the job description that's in the job description i think their plan is to sword fight the rat probably you're looking for a rat czar actually it sounds Sounds like. Alright, that humor out.

Gotta go. So, Discord leak is big news. Jack Teixeira, is that how we're pronouncing that? Yeah. Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard has been charged with two counts

under the Espionage Act related to retaining and distributing classified and national defense information being detained in Boston. The main thing that I'm still trying to understand is like this story took over the mainstream media. This was the number one story on New York Times like for over 24 hours. It's the number one story on drudge so you're you got both sides being really blown away by this it seems like just at first blush like this is a person who was trying to impress teenagers in a chat room on a discord and started like just showing them the most classified documents right that they could the day that like the news story started circulating government records indicate that he used his government computer to search for the

word leak so it's like not it doesn't seem like a sophisticated operator maybe he's so sophisticated he's no snowden huh i know how this'll this'll play so i'm gonna do something seemingly very basic yeah i don't know for like people like eric swalwell and like sort of establishment democrats there's always this thing that like in american politics someone who leaks classified information the immediate thing is always like that person's a traitor when a lot of the times unfortunately we live in such a cryptic environment as it relates to our government's actions in general that sometimes that's the only time we get a moment to like be like, whoa, what the fuck are we doing? Oh, fuck all that. And then they want to keep that shit secret.

In this instance, I don't know what his fucking motivations are, but it's clear, though, to like. So for the Republicans, they're like, oh, this guy is like a right wing dude. And they could be like like he's a traitor but then you have people like marjorie taylor green who if you're like on the far right this like especially with marjorie taylor green who has like a lot of you know kremlin-y talking points she's doing stuff of like who's the real enemy here right you know what i mean it's like yeah she said quote he told the truth about troops being on the ground in ukraine and a lot more because we had no idea there was like a small force like of americans in ukraine and you're like oh interesting oh i had no idea and then just

going to be like oh like or like being able to to do like start a war with uh with like russia you know they they have all kinds of everyone has their reason to evoke this i mean that seems like it should be the big news story. Not that it was leaked, but that there are U.S. troops on the ground. But I guess they're like, we don't want... They're putting them at risk. And it's like, well, I don't know, man.

You're putting all of us at risk by fighting this lukewarm proxy war against Russia. Right. And doing such a good job of keeping the document secret that they're available to Jack Tashara. Yeah, on Discord. 21-year-old trying to impress his Discord group that met

playing video games. Yeah. So anyway, she said he's a white male Christian and anti-war. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime. Yeah, that's probably what happened. Yeah. It's great fodder for the outrage machine yeah i guess what was revealed is compelling so maybe that's what it's being treated that way because

they know they can't report that because it's technically violating like national security so instead they're just talking about so okay i that that is clarifying but yeah it's like one of those things where it's like because it sounds sounds like the Washington Post said like there's videos of him like saying racial slurs and like popping off a gun and stuff. I am not team Teixeira, I will just say. Of course. But it's like one of those weird things where you find yourself like for me personally, I'm like, well, like leakers and stuff like this where they're revealing just how reckless our foreign policy is or these other things i'm like well you know i kind of want to know these things yeah but again it's very easy to then just be like it's a traitor blah blah blah so look i'm more saying like oh wait what what happened uh in these leaks and now everyone gets to go to their corners and you know

eric swalwell and the like and like quote tweet marjorie taylor green like who's the real traitor here it's like right i don't know focus on like shit like gun control uh but i guess that this helps kind of take the attention away and onto the leak that i actually care about because it's stupid and doesn't matter and i'm an idiot um the murdochs have long suspected like rupert wait which murder okay rupert and co not the south carolina Murdochs have long suspected like Rupert. Wait, which Murdoch? Okay. Rupert and co. Not the South Carolina Murdochs. No, not the Murdochs. Did you watch that documentary yet? No, I haven't.

Man, we've been talking about it a lot. It's another thing to like visually begin to put the pieces together and your fucking skin is going to crawl off your body. Yeah. Well, the other Murdochs who make my skin crawl off my body, the Rupert Murdochs of Manhattan, have long suspected someone is leaking their lives to the writers of Succession. It's like Succession is so dead on. There's this new Vanity Fair article that details a bunch of the dark secrets and one of the sons like struggled with mental health and shit like that but the detail that blew my mind is that sherman says there was actually a clause in rupert murdoch's divorce uh from jerry hall i think is the name of one of his exes uh preventing her from giving the succession writers any plot ideas so like they specifically called it out and we're like yo they are getting so much right that one of you motherfuckers has to be leaking

and so therefore i have to specifically say that you can't do this wow i wonder if uh anything's gonna mirror this season in real life. Hmm. Yeah. Hmm. Interesting. So I don't know. I always suspected that succession was pretty close to home and that they had a lot of the details of what it's like to be in a room with these people. But apparently they watch it and we're like, who the fuck? Who's telling us? Right.

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And we're back. And there's a warning from the uh that was getting a lot of coverage about how public phone chargers at places like airports can be hacked and bad actors can hit you with the malware malware my i call it malware i like malware that's just what i wear to the mall my new kicks or it's like no man, man, I studied abroad in Spain. It's actually pronounced malware. Malware. Okay.

It's actually malware. So, yeah, a lot of people are like, what the fuck? Like, wait, what? The bulletin reads, think twice before. And this is the FCC. And they're talking about the FBI. I said, think twice before using public charging stations. Hackers could be waiting to gain access to your personal information by installing malware

and monitoring software to your devices. This scam is referred to as juice jacking. I mean, I am extremely important, so everything checks out. Hackers are probably very interested in what's on my phone, so check that out. Yeah, like one of these, like this journalist over at Slate, Heather Tall Murphy, like actually was asking around, like, is this true?

And even like reached out to like hackers who are like in the, you know, info security space. And they're like, I mean, like a better version is using like rigged cables than like this, like what even they're describing. Even then, there's not a lot to say that this is a widespread problem. And so then they're like, what the fuck is the deal like why talk about this and then like they talk to like someone at the fcc and other places and they're just sort of saying oh yeah like they referenced an old bulletin from 2019 like that's what the fbi person said and everyone took this as like big news because the fbi put this out. And they're like, yeah, there's like this warning from 2019. And I apparently it looks like the reason the FBI social person even shared it is because, quote, the agency regularly provides reminders and public service announcements in conjunction with our partners. And as the author, the writer Slate says, in other words, it seems that the FBI, like many other entities in America, feels the need to put out content.

It turns to old stuff when nothing new is going on. What's our posting schedule look like this week, guys? Exactly. What do we got? What do you got for me? Hold on.

Before you take off for your birthday on the weekend, let me know what the posting cadence is going to be. Look at the engagement stats we got on that one time when you claimed that people's refrigerators

might be reading their phones over their shoulders and having sex with your mother yeah your refrigerator may be banging your mom click here to know if you have one of the dangerous models yes um so yeah um as super producer bay says in the chat just remember bring your own phone charger and rechargeable battery. I'm look, I love, you trust phone chargers and rechargeable batteries. Where are you getting those? Unless you're building your own, unless that's a home build.

Can you imagine a homebrew rechargeable battery? Just like electrical taping, a bunch of like diesel rechargeable batteries. You're like, no, it's safe. It's safe. It's safe.

All right. Mike Pence. Has he announced that he's running for president? I mean, he did. Okay. So right. Mike Pence. Has he announced that he's running for president? Yeah, baby. I mean, he did. Okay. So, it's out there. Doesn't seem like it's been picking up a ton of traction, but what happened? So, he recently

appeared in Indiana. Maybe he's not fully... Oh, no. You know what it is. It's because he did a book, and he did his book tour, and that's when everyone goes, yeah, okay, so you're running. Right. Because you never put you never put out a book about like oh you want to hear about my story unless you're running for president but he is definitely edging with us because we don't know what he is doing he is not really filing official paperwork yet and he's saying i'm gonna make my decision i think it's like a lot of people like ron de santis because we've even heard ron de santis there's a potential he might not step up this year yeah

nobody wants to fuck with trump yeah like because he's shook daddy and he's like yeah maybe 2028 or whatever the fuck that is i mean it's like a better fucking time um so yeah pence i think who knows i mean he still has to go testify and all this other shit. Everybody was like, Ron DeSantis is like Trump with an Ivy League education. And it seems like that is just Ted Cruz. He just seems like he's another Ted Cruz to me at this point. Exactly. With just like slightly less sniveling. Mike Pence is one of a kind, though, baby.

He is one of the strangest humans to watch like public figures to watch in motion um because yeah because he is like a like a meat suit powered by corporate donations yes and that's really it like i couldn't tell you i mean like i get like we have stuff from his like past as like a radio dj to get like some inkling as to who he was before he became like a governor and all that shit but all that to say is he was in his home state of indiana for you to imagine he is beloved uh speaking to the fucking nra damn this is like where you go to warm up for the more hostile crowd yeah right so here's his entrance to go address the nra in his own state of indiana

like a river go address the NRA in his own state of Indiana. I love you too. We love you, Mike. And a lot of booze. So, yeah. I mean, I think still some people look, Mike, you basically didn't stop the steal when you could have, bro. Yeah. Maybe you should have had some backbone, man.

Maybe you should have some backbone, but whatever. That's where he's at uh he's a candidate who no one cares he just like bears down and you can like kind of see the wheels working behind the eyes but not really that was like one of those things too he probably was so fucked up by that like after he's like oh man i don't know mother i don't know if i should run mother this is he probably had all the people booing killed like this probably would happen part of me feels like he's not even capable of that oh he's just like a fucking he has so much money behind him does he even i to me he's just like he's like this inanimate object yeah he is an inanimate object but like he's an inanimate object powered by a corporate behemoth of money that is just trying to do whatever it takes.

Yeah. Well, I'd be I'd be surprised if he wouldn't have me killed for saying this. If he if he was a listener to the show. Yeah. I mean, look, I think mother is probably the more dangerous of the two. Karen Pence. Oh, I mean, I can't more dangerous of the two. Karen Pence. Oh, I mean, I can't,

I can't wait to read the, the play once we've had time to process what was going on there. Yeah, absolutely. And then finally $1 hot dog nights. Uh, one of them got out of hand at a Phillies game. Philly,

baby. Philadelphia people are getting all bad rap because they started throwing hot dogs. It started innocently enough. It began with a kid who ate 13 hot dogs and people kept trying to get him to eat more, which devolved into them throwing hot dogs at him or to him. And then people started hurling water bottles from the upper deck uh everything

went not that that's a direct quote uh several fans were thrown out of the game um something i didn't know about the dollar hot dog night is that they are not selling the same hot dogs that you get on normal night at the ballpark. You're getting the dollar hot dogs. You're getting the dollar hot dogs. And like, so somebody, I guess there was one, like in 2015,

there was a Kansas city Royals buck night, which is when you can get a hot dog for a dollar. And people took pictures of what the hot dogs looked like. And they look like crime scene photos. They look like, I don't mean to be like really fucked up like autopsy photos yes like of like necrotizing flesh yeah but in the shape of a hot dog and you're like i'm sorry what the fuck is this and they asked specifically that question what the fuck is this and there's not been an answer um so america you know i bet the

fucking hot dogs they sell normally don't cost a dollar no you know and they're making fucking or i don't know i don't know fucking margins on fucking hot dogs but i can't imagine those little meat tubes are that much per unit no i bet like even in a way when it's dollar fucking hot dog night they're like they're still making like 98 cents on every hot dog kind of thing oh yeah for sure i mean these look like two cent hot dogs photographs these look like you know they're i mean they're probably it's pure margin because these are hot dogs that they would have otherwise thrown out or that were thrown out they look these were fished out of the garbage yes were fished out of the garbage. Yes. These were fished out of the garbage

and served to you. So anyways, I did not know that, but pass it along as a service to the Zeitgang. Don't eat dollar hot dogs. Dollar hot dog night is... The dollar hot dog is its own thing.

Yeah. It is its own entity and you might not want to fuck with it. Dollar hot dog night will lead to a $15,000 ER bill. Right. Do the math, folks. It ain't worth it.

All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Friday afternoon. We are back on Monday with a whole episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to y'all on Monday.

Bye. Peace the fuck out. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

have followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk

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