The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 362 (Best of 3/10/25-3/14/15)

Episode Date: March 16, 2025

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Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly Zeitgeist. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious comedian who's about to make her off-Broadway debut with her standup show, How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents. She's also the creator of Emily in Paris. It's Abby Govindan!

Oh my God, hey guys, I'm so excited to be here, not the creator of Emily in Paris? It's Abby Govindan! Oh my god, hey guys, I'm so excited to be here, not the creator of Emily in Paris. That was just a mass disinformation campaign that was extremely successful. So what happened, you, after Emily in Paris was somehow nominated for best comedy series at the Golden Globes. You just were like, hell yeah, I created the best comedy series and started saying some wild shit about Emily in Paris and your role as creator. This was the tweet, February 3rd, 2021. The original tweet that went viral was like, as the creator of Emily in Paris,

can I just say why the fuck were we nominated for a Golden Globe? Can I curse? Yeah. Why the ash were we nominated for a Golden Globe? Hey, hers. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Why the ash were we nominated for a Golden Globe? I made that show as a prank, and then several news outlets tweeted it as if it was real, and I got reached out to by the BBC. I talked about it in my solo show, actually.

It's a lot of fun. That's so funny. And it was a lot of fun. It was a very fun month that went viral. That's so great. Dude, I stayed for a follow-up. They were like, so you made it as a prank of fun. Like it was a very fun month that went viral. Yeah. Great. They were like, so you made it as a prank? Whoa. Yeah. That's so sick.

Yeah. I like got back to the cast and the crew and the actual creator. It was insane. Like it's, it is really funny. I was like 22 and living with my parents when this went viral. It was in like 2021. Abby, the BBC is on the phone. Yeah, then that's, I was just like, this show is so bad that people earnestly thought that like some 23 year old who lives with her parents

like made the show. Yeah, it was really, it was a fun time to be on the internet. It was like pre post woke. Like it was fun time to be on the internet. It was right. It was like, free post woke, like it was fun to still be on the internet, like being racist still had consequences in 2021. Do you remember that? vaguely? Now, now like, if you're racist on the internet, they hand you like a $200 million podcast

deal and like a TV series. Back in my day Yeah, I Went at the peak of woke there used to still be consequences for being racist. That's why I shit Yeah, yeah I just read a slur and people would like tweet out your home address and like text your high school and like, you know Make sure make sure you didn't get hired for work for another decade now Like you tweet out a slur you get a million followers for a work for another decade now like you tweet out a slur you get a million followers in a podcast deal it's crazy yeah yeah like hey man do you want to be the new face of black rifle coffee yeah yeah why not I just like that little one of the tweets that you did in that sort

of string of the Emily in Paris of yes I am an Indian woman who created a show about a white girl in Paris. Why would I care about telling diverse stories when I can tell not diverse stories and make $20 million from it? No. You guys did your research. This is hilarious.

So funny. What is something from your search history? Something from my search history, how to give a dog a massage. I was thinking recently where I'm like, so you pet dogs, you cuddle dogs. But I'm like, I bet they would want a massage too, especially as they get older and like their joints get, you know, start to hurt. And I Googled how to give a dog a massage and the videos, believe it or not, really fucking weird.

So I'm personally taking my foot off the gas a little bit. Because they're greasing the dogs up for it? You're like, what the fuck? Oh my God, no, but I'm sure that exists. I don't even want to think about that. That's a natural nest next. They put on like the music and it was more like rubbing than like kneading, you know? And I'm like, oh, I just want to give my dog like a little bit ofing, you know?

And I'm like, oh, I just want to give my dog like a little bit of a, you know, some squeezes in the shoulders and the haunches and, you know, pat them on the head. It's kind of what I was more looking for, but this was a whole, a whole fucking thing. So I think there's different degrees of how far I've gone. Where'd you net out?

Like what kind of service did you provide for the dog? Chiatsu. Hot stone therapy. Swedish. Went deep. Yeah, reiki. Yeah, it was a combination between a reiki and like a light tissue.

I do that to my dog though, because I'm like, yeah, come on, man. You've had a hard, like I do the same thing mentally to my dog thinking like, yeah, they'll like this. But I just kind of massage like the neck because I'm like, well, they hold their necks up all the time, so I just kind of like, just work out those neck muscles.

And not in a way where I'm like, is the pressure good? More just to be like, here is soothing touch on your neck muscles. Yeah. I feel like I wanted to do that to my dogs, and they just never fucked with it. They just wanted little scratches. They're doing things like, what the fuck is this?

We all have our preferences as dogs. And speaking of the Reiki thing, my now wife and I were like in Lake Arrowhead, which it doesn't matter where we were, but it was for Valentine's Day. And then we were like kinda hanging out after the dinner. So she like checked her phone real quick to make sure our dog was okay

and had like a bunch of messages and her row or our Rover wanted to give him energy healing like from wow like and She was like, oh wait, that won't hurt him, right? And then 50 minutes late she just like I'm like you're worse than this lady is cuz like she's like what? Oh, like tell us about his trauma and and like insinuating that there was trauma. She's like, he can't be around skateboards. He may have been neutered like two weeks too early or something.

And I'm like, what are you doing? But yeah, it's a real people do. What is your dog a Scorpio? That's actually, yeah. My dog, yeah, he's a Scorpio for sure. He's such a Scorpio. Oh my God, that dog is such a Scorpio. Such a Scorpio.

What a little bitch. If you met him, you'd be like, I don't know what month that is. a Scorpio. What a little bitch. If you actually be like, I don't know what month that is. I'm with you, I can't, I have no fucking tolerance for it. I hate the sky. Anything, clouds, stars, fuck them all. The sun. Not drones. I do?

Not drones, though, they're cool. Those are angels. Had a nice conversation with some people with a drone podcast that we might have to have on this show. Oh, that'd be sick. Yeah, just how to fly them, showing some sick footage that they caught. Damn, you shot this in one take

going through a sushi restaurant? That's sick, dude. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? Again, going to the tech stuff, I really think that open source software, Lennox, the decentralized web, the Fediverse, Mastodon, PixelFed, these things that cannot be purchased by billionaires where where there is like an actual community that's not just aggregated out of an algorithm to you and proliferated with ads.

Right. What's the Fediverse? That was for FediWalk fans, right? That's the Discord server? Yeah, that's how it all, so Blue Sky is on an open protocol. And these things I don't fully understand completely. The Fediverse is on the activity pub protocol, which is the equivalent of you know how your email

can reach every other email account, like you could send from AOL to Gmail to Proton or whatever. So you can follow people through different and interact with people through different social sites. So like a Pixel Fed hashtag you could follow it through Mastodon or PeerTube, which is like their version of YouTube. So it's more, it's reliant on like donations of people chipping in and helping, but it's also people volunteer and just run servers.

And so it's a little more socialized. So it's not impenetrable, but it's certainly a little more insulated from getting billionaireed, getting musked, having what happened to Twitter. Getting made awesome, you mean? Just so good. Put that thing on. It's like Axe on steroids, dude.

Every kid just South by Southwest. Yeah. Oh man. We were down at South by Southwest during the interactive part where all these people with pink lanyards are just walking around with just the hungriest eyes trying to make eye contact with you to ask you what you think about AI in this new corporate landscape. Yeah, I would say that is something that's overrated. I'm so sick of that being perpetuated as though, I mean, when you start a community, you have a town of, like, you ever driven through a small town, there's like 50 people,

you know, like, they have a post office, you're like, how the fuck are they doing this? And they're basically all just trading around a million dollars, maybe they're happy with it. And then to get to get bigger, you have to like create this new horizon, new landscape. So you're developing, you're growing, you're growing. And I think they've kind of run out. They've sold us on this idea that it's just going to keep going. And AI is the next frontier and we're going to create so many jobs.

And then today Google just laid off a ton of people. Their last quarter earnings were like $26 billion. I mean, get out of here. None of that shit has to do with jobs. Did you see the stock performance, Dave? Did you see the stock performance? That's- Yeah. That's what I care about.

The shareholders bless their hearts. Jobs, that's overrated. That's why they're like, oh, shit. It's not because of Trump fucking up the economy. We'll just fire these people to keep our stock price up. Good, good, good. These layoffs are going to put their stock price on steroids, man. It's going to be like Google stock on steroids.

Yeah. And their employees on unemployment. Corporate people love to talk about putting stock on steroids. Yeah. And their employees. Talk about putting things on steroids. I feel like, yeah. The idea that everything needs to grow forever and ever is like, I remember that, uh, when we started the website cracked and like we were like growing and we're like, man, this is like a good size for this. Like we have a good team. We have like a good amount of like, let's just like chill here for a little bit.

Get good, get good and better at like what we're currently doing well. And like telling that to the parent company that owned us. They're like, no. How do you scale? Yeah, get this thing on steroids, man. Yeah, how we put this bad boy on steroids, dude? How do you? Oh, no. All right, so you guys are doing way better

than we ever thought was possible. How do we 100X that? What the fuck are you talking about? How do I 100X you by next year? That's the question I need you eating, breathing, sleeping. Yeah, I think when that is your entire civilizations, like DNA for a number of years, it's going to lead to weird places.

I would say we're in weird places right now. And just how refreshing the idea of a small town where everybody's just trading around the same million dollars sounds to me right now is probably, it's probably a problem. Probably suggests that there's something at large that's not quite right with how things are going. I think everyone feels it to some degree though,

because I think that people do, I've been trying to like, I think of how when self-help books come out or when people like have a Ted talk and they'll do some little like snippet or phrase, a little axiom they have. Mine lately is like, make it a little bit harder. And I think of like 2005 to 10ish, when all this tech stuff was just kind of starting

and going back to there and be like, all right, it clearly blew out of proportion and made trillionaires and they don't give a shit about anyone else and this wealth disparity is nuts. And people do miss that idea of like, wait, wait, there are way more businesses. Like you could see brick and mortar businesses. Did everything have to get amplified?

Did I, I mean, we all hated blockbuster video. We all hated like walking in there and getting the late fees because you couldn't drive over when you were sick to return your thing. And that was a bad version of how they did it. But then you think of, I used to like call ahead to a restaurant and go pick stuff up. I didn't have to have like a car service swing by

and grab it for me. And everything getting appified on that level, like every delivery you get, everything being like, I'm just at my computer all the time and like life is coming to me from these apps I use. And I mean, there's still an advantage in calling a restaurant because a lot of the times they change their prices for those apps. So it's funny when I look in like my phone book that has been like based in like, you know, like Google calendar, whatever, for like years, like all of

the numbers that I have. And there's so many are restaurants that I used to just call up straight up and just make my order and then go pick up. And like, as I scroll through, I'm like, damn, I don't, he's just, that shit is gone. Yeah. Yeah. So we've tried to get back into that and just little things like make it a little bit harder and just going back to kind of a 2008 sort of, yeah, I can call and swing by. It feels a little more like that little town as opposed to like living in this gigantic

future world. Yeah. Giant hive mind where what content are you going to contribute to the giant hive mind? And yeah, they just removed all the friction from everything, which is what we thought we wanted. Even now, when I wake up, I'm like, oh, I have to see people today. I don't want to do that. The stuff that I'm not looking forward to is the friction, but then that turns out to, in retrospect, be the best parts of life. That was the texture that made us. Exactly. That was friction. Oh, you mean life?

They just removed all of the contouring and different rubble. I don't even want to see anybody do it. In that version, the ideal world is just being in some Matrix-style pod, where it's like, just take my body heat and run the computer. But I feel like that's, that's how I view things. Like what, at my worst moment where I'm just like, I just don't want to like risk anything, I don't want to, you know, it's just my laziest worst inclination. And it always, like, I now know that that's the wrong instinct. Like I need to fight against that instinct, but I feel like they have used that

instinct to just make our lives more and more, uh, closer and closer to just being getting out of bed. Look what happened. You got to eat salad, pot pie. That's right. You would have never had salad, salad in Texas. We're salad pot pie.

Miles was termed for that. No, it was Blake. So that was all the salads in Texas were salad pot pie. That was Miles's term for us. That was Blake's. So drenched. Oh, that was Blake's. Yeah, Blake's are nice. Yeah. Kate, what's up with you? Thanks, overrated.

I feel like I'm going to get haters for this, but I think seeing a movie in theaters is overrated. Wow. And now the show is over. Thanks, Kate. Thanks for being here. Well, Kate, great having you. Yep. And now the show is over. Thanks Kate. Well Kate, thanks for being here. Great having you. Yep.

Like I think it's important, I think people should do it, like that should exist. Yeah, sure. I just don't like it very much. I would like to be on my couch. Were you always like anti-theater? Like and then with everything coming on stream,

you're like, okay, thank you, now I'm winning. Or you just juxtaposed together, you're like, oh, thank you. Now I'm winning. Or you just juxtapose together. You're like, oh yeah, I prefer couch. Yeah. I think it was working like co-founding and being inside a basement theater, like 14 hours a day. Like what I want to do for fun is not go be in another dark room. And then the pandemic and everything coming on streaming. Like when you had to go to a movie theater and that was the only way you could like see a new movie

and you would make it a big thing and go with friends. Like that was great. I liked that. But now that you have the option, I'm like, why would I do that? I want to be at home on my couch with my snacks and not pay a bunch of money for it. Do you do people come over, watch movie or you just, yeah, that's nice. That's like a, yeah, I, I do think I was underrating movie nights at home. Like for, for a while movie, movie nights at home, make your own popcorn.

Like I get, you know, that can be, but I haven't done, I, we need to do the thing where people, I haven't done the thing where people come over to watch a movie since like the days when I was getting screeners all the time. And that was like, you know, they got fucking blah, blah, blah. I am legend. We could watch this shit right now or whatever. But I do miss that actually, like that aspect of it, I think, would be fun rather than like, oh, I'm at home. I can watch this movie that's in the theater.

They make it a thing to get together and we can also. Subtly during the pandemic we would do, cause when we were seeing movies in theaters all the time, I would, there would be certain people I would go with to see certain movies. Like there were, there were a couple of friends. I always went to see the like King Kong and Godzilla movies, the new ones. And so one of those came out in like 2021 and we did it over like FaceTime. We streamed it together over FaceTime.

And then we also like my husband and I have a national theater membership, like where you can, they have like recorded from the National Theater in London, they have recorded shows like Shakespeare shows, like classic theater and you that you could just like watch it. Like it's a movie. And so having people over to do that is really fun too, cause it's a little culture-y, but you're still at home on your couch and you don't have to like get dressed up and go out.

You could just like watch a Shakespeare thing and then pause it and be like, what? What? I have to look that up. I'm like, can we put the subtitles on? Actually, this isn't helping. Right. Yeah, exactly.

Did he propose to her or is he going to murder her right now? I know it's a dick joke, but how is it a dick joke? Yeah. Right. Man, that actress seemed to really enjoy delivering that. I just don't know what it meant. Yes. God, he's loved it too.

That's so much more fun with friends when you're allowed to talk. Right. Man. Yeah. When I'm at a Shakespeare show, I'm always laughing at the wrong parts. Like, ah! Damn it. Hamlet to be or not to be is fizz. I think it's funny. I think it's a funny question.

Hey, you all down to see Macbeth right now? Don't fucking say that in the theater. By the way, Hamlet would have been called Skull Guy if it was on television. It was on CBS in the early 2000s. Skull Talker. That was just Ghost Rider. All right. Let's take a quick break and we will be right back.

There's a type of soil in Mississippi called Yazoo clay. It's thick, burnt orange, and it's got a reputation. It's terrible, terrible dirt. Yazoo clay eats everything, so things that get buried there tend to stay buried. Until they're not. In 2012, construction crews at Mississippi's biggest hospital made a shocking discovery. Seven thousand bodies out there or more. All former patients of the old state asylum.

And nobody knew they were there. It was my family's mystery. But in this corner of the South, it's not just the soil that keeps secrets. Nobody talks about it. Nobody has any information. When you peel back the layers of Mississippi's Yazoo Clay, nothing's ever as simple as you think. The story is much more complicated and nuanced than that.

I'm Larisen Campbell. Listen to Under Yazoo Clay on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? And I go in and she's eating my lunch. Or if hypnotism is real? You will use this suggestion

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Hi, I'm Bob Pitman, Chairman and CEO of iHeart Media. I'm excited to share my podcast with you, Math and Magic, Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. Make sure to check out my recent episode with legendary musician and philanthropist, Jewel. I didn't want a million dollars. I wanted a career. I wanted a way to figure out how to do something that I loved for the rest of my life. Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math, and the ever important

creative spark, the magic. Listen to Math and Magic, Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Amartines. The news can feel like a lot on any given day, but you can't just ignore las noticias when important world changing events are happening. That is where the Up First podcast comes in.

Every single morning in under 15 minutes, we take the news and boil it down to three essential stories so you can keep up without feeling stressed out. Listen up first from NPR on the iHeart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back, dude. We're back, dude. And you you know, I'm always, I've always got the stock app up on my smart smartphone device and just like Pokemon go dude. All right. So I have Pokemon go up, but like in many ways Pokemon go like can teach you a lot about the stock market, but I just, I just live and die with that thing with

the stock ticker, you know, I'm like, how's that thing with the stock picker, you know? I'm like, how's that fricking NASDAQ doing? Dude, it's fucking S and P five hundo. Dude, just focus on the P the pepper. Cause it stays grinding in the S and P. The salt and pepper 500. Is that what it stands for? You could actually tell me that.

And I'd be like, uh-huh. It's not standards and poor. Yeah. It's salt and pepper. Pepper 500. But yeah, man, this, the line goeth downward. Um, and you know, Trump continues to sort of make good on his promise to make the country as fucked up as possible.

Um, and he's had to deal with not only outrage from his voters, but also the oligarch homies and the hyper wealthy buddies because they do not like when stonks go down and the Dow continues to move in the wrong direction. And all Trump did on Monday, just to try and like fucking help out, like kind of steady things, was he posted like over like a hundred times in six hours on Truth Social, just anything.

Did he really? Yeah, dude, it was fucking wild. It was just shit like retweeting articles Yeah, dude. It was fucking wild. It was just shit like retweeting articles that were like, Trump's doing good. Like just this weird thing. He's like, let me just tweet out all the nice things people have said.

I remember this from the first administration, actually. I'm having like a sense memory of like when things start going bad, he just like fucking starts retweeting things compulsively. Yeah. Yeah, right. It's like basically if a restaurant had like an account and they just started reposting their five star reviews when they're in the middle of like a racism controversy,

they're like, but look at this one, Linda from Mission Viejo loved the penne. But anyway, so now this has like become a huge thing with everyone talking from Fox News to the Wall Street Journal being like, this is actually bad. Like, I don't know what the fuck's going on. Like this, like, because so many of these people are, there's money is tied up in the stock market. They're like, what the fuck is,

like now we're getting touched. Now what the fuck is going on? That's the big, you know, you don't see it until it starts fucking with people's money. Yeah. And then all of a sudden the media class is like, wait a second, this, this seems bad. Yeah, the way I still stay wealthy is now being, is now in jeopardy because of this guy. And now it's time for the media and Trump's lackeys

to sort of tell the people why the chaos is good. There's one that I particularly sticks out to me, this guy, Rob Schmidt, who's on Newsmax and one of their stupidest, like, and that's, that's an achievement to be one of their dumbest people on Newsmax and one of their stupidest like and that's not an achievement to be one of their dumbest people on Newsmax. Yeah, this is he tweeted this out just to try and tell people to fucking chill the fuck out quote yeah the Dow is plunging this is happening because we have a president with the balls to undo a globalist economic agenda that's decimated American wages and quality of life.

This is the pain that comes from real change. It's much easier to just pass the buck. So yeah, Trump's balls are giving you pain. Yeah, that's right. It's good. They're too big, Miles. I've been saying they're so big. His smoke too, he smoked too tough. His balls too big. I look, I don't give too much of a shit when the stock market is doing well, because that money's just getting funneled upward to corporations and like, you know, they use it to do stock buybacks. But when the economy takes an absolute shit,

like that's when trickle down economics actually becomes a thing. That's what it is. Yeah, that trickles down on all of us. And when the stock market goes down, yeah, corporations are suddenly like, yeah, we've got we're facing headwinds. We got to start firing people. When it goes up. Yeah, they just keep keep that money for themselves. So it's a real win win for like five people and lose lose for everyone else. But it's a real win-win for like five people and lose-lose for everyone else. But it's also a little thrilling when this happens because it does seem to be the only thing that matters to this country in terms of who gets to wield power is when the- Don't fuck the money up. Yeah. Don't fuck the money. Like that, keep the stock market on the rails so that the wealthy people and

the wealthy corporations that drive everything forward, I wouldn't say progress, but everything else. Keep the wheels of power in motion. All that needs the money to go forward. But the Democratic Party only really exists because they cater to keeping that whole the like the, you know, the capital E economy. That's what like they sacrificed, like that's what Obama sacrificed the hope and change message for when he like bailed out the Wall Street banks. It's, you know, why

Bernie was not allowed to win against Hillary. And then I think like internalized Wall Street Journal op-eds caused Democratic voters to think Biden was the only real option in 2020, but it, it also feels like the thing that could be the Jenga block that could cause the second administration to really fall apart. You know, like Trump. So Trump, like there, there definitely seems to be like more pop culture support for Trump this time around. I just found out Tiger Woods openly endorses Donald Trump.

Trump said he was the Tiger Woods of presidents during that posting spree. He was fucking stupid. There's all sorts of rappers who are endorsing him in a way that I find troubling. The real buy-in that's important though, that he had the first time around, that he might stop having this time is Wall Street and the massive corporations. Like, and you know, all of his like radical, we do things a little different around here. We serve things top of style. We, we, we cut all government programs and policies.

If that fucks up the money of wall street and like the big economy, I do feel like that's a thing that might make this second administration like a little bit. Interesting. Yeah. It might, it might start to the deep state might start really deep staking on his ass in a way that might make things pretty difficult for him. Otherwise he's just going to keep, you know, he'll be fine. And these corporations and big money people, they love predictability.

They like to be able to predict how much money is going to come in. And when you have a guy making decisions, even though his balls are so fucking big, it's like you elephant. One thing they didn't take into account. Like the balls market is back to his ass. They all back to that. They were like, I don't know, man. Like, let's just go full Trump. Let's say in a bull market, it's a ball market.

That's right. The NASDAQ is surging. Dude, the NAS sack. Oh man. Yeah, he has, so one thing we do know about Trump, ginormous sack and balls, tiny little bit. Tiny, but who needs one when you got that? Who needs one when you got those actual? We love potatoes around here, don't we?

That's right. Mm-hmm. But yeah, I feel like it might just go in a different direction for him. Well, I mean, it's clear. Anytime someone comes in and disrupts the economy or like at least the status quo or talks about it, the forces tend to sort of circle around to try and like purge it from the system. But I think in this time, because Trump comes in with such pro business speak, they're just having trouble wrapping their head around the fact

that this guy is also absolutely rocking the boat, like in the most fucked up way, and they're like, wait, what, what, wait, where, where all of our capital protecting instincts now, or have they gone out the window as they try and, cause now it's just turning into like begging on Fox news where where people are like I would tell them the president, you know If this is a sales pitch Maybe we need to tweak the sales pitch a little bit and really get people to understand sort of how we look at this Long-term and you know, I don't know how people like they're supposed to look at that last tweet and be like yeah my entire my My whole retirement might be in jeopardy because he has

Elephantiasis. What is it the balls and the mouse? The thing is, this guy is destroying the economy intentionally. And I know many people are just like, well, he's just dumb. He doesn't he's doing like he's dumb and doing it on purpose. That's why it looks so fucking ridiculous, because his way of doing it is so absurd. And he talks tough on tariffs, then walks it back. So then, and then threatens them again. And again, like you're saying, Blake, it's that unpredictability that

sense sends the markets in the direction that it is. And then while people are fearing like a full blown recession, Trump only worsens the problem when he gives answers like this. A lot of people were sharing this clip of him talking to Maria Bartiromo where she's just like sharing this clip of him talking to Maria Bartiromo, where she's just like, this whole interview was meant to like calm the market and be like, I'm going to throw you softballs like saying, you know, do you expect a recession? And then you just say, No, you say, this is I'm very confident in what's going to happen. But this is how this

fucking question was handled. When Maria asked the dear leader. Because there are rising worries about a slowdown. You've got the Atlanta Federal Reserve saying we're gonna have a contraction in the first quarter. Look, I know that you inherited a mess and you said that the other night. I've only been here two years. But are you expecting a recession this year? I hate to predict things like that. There is a period of transition because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth back to America.

Okay. Can you answer the recession thing? What about the recession? I hate to use words like recession. I hate to predict anything. The best is when he's like, and you inherited a mess, I had not been here two weeks.

I've been here for 24 hours. Two weeks? I've 24 hours, two weeks. I've only been here. But are you expecting? I've only been here for like, you know? Yeah, so this is it's getting bad. And again, the Wall Street Journal has op-eds now that essentially like the distillation of the op-eds are like, please stop, motherfucker. Our precious stonks and economy are shitting the bed.

And meanwhile, Gavin Newsom's new bestie, Charlie Kirk, is telling his viewers that they need to, he said they need to shut up about egg prices. This is now just what they do. Like, just shut up about the thing that I was telling you that he's gonna make better. And he also told us he's gonna make, just shut up about it now, okay?

Gassum Newsom? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. It'll be interesting to see where this goes. If he, if he's able to, I don't know. The, the one thing that like keeps me from thinking this is going to continue to fall apart is that I feel like a lot of the like stock market and just like market economy in general to this point has been like they can just kind of will themselves to stay, you know, like they can like during the pandemic, they were just like, I don't know, we'll be fine.

Like, just pretend like shit is good. We'll raise prices. We'll just, yeah, we'll raise prices and we'll scan PPP loans push push the pain downwards Yeah, this is a scary thing about him, too Is that I'm trying to find a silver lining in a sack of shit, but like he in a big bald sack shit But he does he's like the most rolling thing that was such a bike a scary word in politics Which is probably like 15 20 years ago is he just couldn't care less where the guy doesn't say anything that he actually believes in or thinks is true. So he will pause tariffs. He'll take the tariffs away. He'll put the terrorists back and they'll be like, Hey, remember when you, uh,

tried to put tariffs and it was destroying the economy, like I don't, we like, let's not talk about egg crisis. Show you what you should talk about egg prices. It is nice to hold this. Yeah. It is nice to see them going through the exact same thing that Democrats were going through where it was, why doesn't everybody shut the fuck up about all the ways we're doing a bad job?

Yeah. That's just the job of a party when they're in power is like telling their supporters, stop protesting guys. Just everybody shh. Wait, stop. Why are you pointing out all the fucking inconsistencies and what we campaigned on and what we're delivering? This is like a hateration in the nation, in this danceery.

Let's get the hateration. Yeah, so that's kind of ties directly, Blake, what you were talking about, about just the fact that they say whatever is, whatever benefits them in the moment is my theory on the JD Vance meme. So our writer, Jam, was wondering if there's a deeper truth behind these JD Vance memes. Was that from Wired? Where is that quote from? The deeper meaning thing? The deeper meaning? Or no, deeper true.

Oh, Gizmodo. It was in the Gizmodo article. Yeah, so Gizmodo wrote an article that was arguing that these memes are apparently popular across both the left and the right. The right is also memeing him. Have you seen, you've seen those right? Blake, the like toddler face JD Vance memes?

Yeah, they're everywhere. Yeah, it's like the new currency of the internet. It was after the Ukraine meeting, right? Yeah, so yeah, like quick background on it. If you're on the internet, you're seeing his bulbous face staring

back at you. It took off after the internet, you're seeing his bulbous face staring back at you. It took off after the Zelinsky meeting, which this one is still my favorite. They just took the picture of him saying, you got to say, please and thank you, Mr. Zelinsky, and just gave him the biggest cheeks. He just looks like a big baby and it's really well executed. And then people from there, I mean, people have been doing that for a little while, like turning him into a cabbage patch doll, but that it really took off. And now it's like all anybody's doing. I don't know what he actually looks like anymore. I know. That's the amazing thing is that, yeah, there's the overly patriotic minion is one that I've seen.

Baron Harkonnen from Dune. Although, yeah, he looks a little kind of shredded in that one, I feel like. He looks like Alex Jones, like in that one where he's kind of like that Harkonnen, hulking. Yeah, HGH body and head. Yeah, they swapped out his head for the nuclear explosion from the original Akira manga.

Oh, yeah. That's all great stuff. Although it should be noted that the photoshopping of JD Vance began on the Republican side when Congressman Mike Collins as our friend of the show, former guest Katbo put it, Mike Collins yassified Vance's portrait. Do you guys remember this?

Like where there was a portrait of him and they just like made him look like a chat. They just turned him into a chat. It was like, it's like Ozempic mixed with some Botox and fillers basically. Yeah, yeah. And human growth. Like the new JD. Yeah.

They just made him like, Yeah. Fucking square jaw stud, instead of a round face baby. And so they- No, they're all with baby face. They threw the first stone in this battle. Yeah.

But now like even Fox News is reporting on the liberal trolls sharing the memes and like, it's a great screen cap. It's wild to have that Chiron and like run this image or says liberal trolls share wild memes of JD Vans and then just show all these fucking, fucking brutal memes. Like, why even, I think that's where it's, there is like this weird appeal even to Republicans

where normally like Sure, there's always like they'll do the thing like, you know I remember there was a plenty of outrage reporting on like the shitty memes people would Post of like the Obamas or Biden or whatever But like in this version like it feels like they're trying to also be like look what they're fucking doing to us But also like they're showing so many that I'm sure people are like, yeah, that's kind of funny though. That looks about right. And when you consider the fact that Republicans are also sharing this too, it again- And Nazis, like everybody. Yeah, there's a Yahoo article that says, but they're equally,

if not more popular on the right. Explicitly pro-Trump accounts on X that otherwise spend their time bashing liberals or posting embarrassing memes of their party second in command. It does feel like the couch fucking all over again. I do want to note he tried to get in on the joke. He posted a meme of himself as Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, like pointing at the TV. But he, of course, just combined his face with Leonardo DiCaprio. So he like looked handsomer than he actually is.

So he's not really ready to laugh at himself so much as just once is like, hey guys, I can laugh at myself. Look how handsome I am kind of. But yeah, so Gizmodo's argument is that like the, you know, the popularity of these is evidence that there's something uniquely alien and awful about him and that the distorted version of his face actually speaks to a deeper truth. And I think there's something true there.

I'd say there's something unacknowledged in his persona in particular, that he went from being this liberal darling on MSNBC, to people were calling him a hope for defeating Trump on the Republican side, to being business Nazi and the vice president in the space of a few years. I feel like it's boring to say like, these guys are empty suits who don't believe in anything. But there is something existentially terrifying about the fact that the way you get ahead in this current version of our society

is to be completely devoid of belief and just like not, yeah, just be willing to have meaning and belief projected onto you and be completely otherwise empty and not believe in anything. It's just like this like complete nihilism that he represents.

And the fact that he's just this completely malleable asshole who like succeeds in like going from one extreme to another at a time when, you know, people like this is these belief systems are like, you know, liberal versus mega. People are like, we're about to have a civil war over this. Then you have this guy who just like fits in on both sides. I feel like there's like something existentially terrifying about that. And so to attack that malleability by making up memes about him fucking couches that just

seem true immediately, or like bending his face in ways that also seem true, like it's like kind of attacking him at his using his superpower against him. Right. Yeah. It's true that like I can't picture what he looks like now because I've seen so many. And I don't know that that would be true of other people necessarily,

but because he just, there's something, he's just a complete fucking cipher. Yeah. It's because he's like, to your point, because he's so amorphous to be able to ascend and to fit in whatever space he needs needs to to curry favor or gain power It's like yeah that same Amorphousness lends itself to be like oh well you now you can actually be anything we say you are

Yeah, like I'm sort of like like that's the subtext. Yeah. Yeah It's like with spies like in movies where they're like the perfect spy someone who's not memorable, you know And it's like oh he is the least memorable person like from Ohio You know like it's if it wasn't for his eyelashes, you know, like it would be beautiful Yeah, and he's kind of looks like he kind of looks like one of the dudes who would have who pulled up with Zod and Superman He does look like one of the dudes who would have, who pulled up with Zod in Superman. He does look like one of the dudes who, you know what I mean? Cause they also have like kind of the beard with like the smoky eyeliner vibe.

And I'm like, you know, he used to be close to some- You were kicking it with Zod, bro. You were that one bearded homie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was your name? God, what was your name? That wasn't me. I'm sorry.

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The economy, the big economy, the one that the mainstream media pays attention to, the one that will fuck us over. It has the ability. So when it's going good, it doesn't make most people rich. It's not good for regular people. The rich people just do stock buybacks for the C-suite. But when it's going bad, it really fucks everybody up.

It's going bad, so that's not good. No. Well, the thing, the economy is one of the main reasons people gave as to why they wanted Trump back in office. Yeah, it's his whole thing. He's government business, president business guy. Yeah.

And I mean, and who could blame them if you aren't aware of all the existential threats that he poses to America and your only metric for deciding who to vote for in a presidential race is my life good in 2019, then yeah. Sure. Great. You've, then yeah, sure, great. You've succeeded there. But like CNN recently did a poll on Trump's handling of the economy and he is in the worst position he's ever been in. 44% approved, 56% disapproved.

That's a net thumbs down of 12%. And on Vox, they sort of plotted out sort of where this was in terms of like other polls and economy. And this is a total outlier. Like it's fucking. Yeah, it's way the fuck down. You know what this is reminding me of actually. This is so stupid, but this is reminding.

Remember how like when George Lucas brought the prequels back, everyone was like, and now we can have the pure George Lucas vision with all the people just being like, you're a genius, George, you got this one, George. And then it came out and it just sucked shit because it was like, he, and like all, like when you hear him talk about the original trilogy of Star Wars, he's always like complaining

about all the notes he got and like all the battles he had to fight and like people give it like pushing back and like that the battles he had to fight and like people give it like pushing back and and like making it good. Yeah, making it like, yeah, reigning in his worst instincts and being like, I mean, that's a cool idea. Let's go with the cool idea and not like the shitty one where you think you're like a good comedy director and that Jar Jar Binks is gonna be the future of I feel like this is the Star Wars prequels of the Trump is going to be the future of, I feel like this is the Star Wars prequels of the Trump presidencies where he just is fully, it's all gas, no breaks. And he, the only thing that was keeping anything on the rails up to this point was the brakes. That was it.

And now it's just- Because now we are off the fucking charts, literally. We are in the scene where Jar Jar Binks is doing comedic pratfalls that kill people at the end of that first movie. But he's fighting, man. He's fighting. Yeah, he's fighting. But this polling and just generally the attitude from the town halls and everything, people can see for themselves that this is like affecting their day to day. Like whether it's people getting laid off, lack of prices coming down, Dodge trucks going up in the tens of thousands of dollars overnight because of tariffs and shit like that.

And the polling all that's rattled them because now the right wing is just going so hard on telling people that the tariffs that are fueling all this chaos are good. So just a couple, let's just take a quick tour of some of the takes from the right wing talkosphere. This first one is from Laura Ingraham, who is telling her viewers to literally just ignore all of the talk about the economy. Just don't listen to it. That's step one. This is Laura Ingraham explaining this is how you protect yourself from all the haters. Isn't it great to have an optimistic president who has a real plan to make life better for Wall Street and Main Street? Just ignore the sky is falling reports in the regime press. Tune out the breathless reporting about market gyrations because even the most dedicated globalists, they know Trump is good for business.

That was, whew. It's wild to call the mainstream media the regime. Regime, yeah. You guys control the entire government right now. You are the regime. Yeah, what, do you? I'm sorry, Laura, define regime, literally for me just so we're clear on that. Ignore all the negative stuff

the regime media is saying about dear leader. Yes, exactly. Please, find a new angle regime media. Again, every version of someone on Fox is has there I think everyone's got their own little spin on how to be like, how do we get these people to fucking ignore the tariffs or try and spin the tariffs as good. This is Greg Gutfeld doing his he's given the listeners or the viewers on Fox

since or the five. This is Greg Gutfeld's 4d chess on how to navigate tariffs. You know, a tariff is not a tax. If you don't buy the five. This is Greg Gutfeld's 4D chess on how to navigate tariffs. You know, a tariff is not a tax if you don't buy the goods. And I'm tired of the media calling the tariff a tax. It's the opposite. You know, a government issued tax is an involuntary cost on you. You're paying for stuff that as a New Yorker, you don't benefit from. I spent, I pay a small fortune in taxes and I still have psychopaths living on my street. I have roads that destroy the car suspension and I can't take the subway.

But I pay more taxes than my dad made in his whole life as an income, but it doesn't really matter. I'm going to make Jesse so happy right now. You know what causes inflation? I'm glaring at Harold, DEI. Uh oh. Uh. And Harold is the one person of color in the room?

Yes, exactly. And he said I'm glaring at Harold. And then they're like, he's joking, haha, it's again, whatever, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but that's so that's sick, dude. Tight. So you don't got to pay on that tariff if you don't buy it like the fucking food. Don't buy it. It's imported. All the shit that's imported for American consumers. Like, does he have any idea how much we have to import to sustain this consumer economy?

Yeah, that's also such just like a rich brain rot thing of like, I pay for the subway, but I don't even use the subway. And it's like, do you, do you not use the subway because you live in a gated community in Connecticut or no, you live in New York. So, okay. Do you not use the subway because you get driven everywhere? Like that's not the same thing. I don't take the subway because people know I'm a racist piece of shit and they

confront me about it on the subway and that's not the same thing. I don't take this the subway because people know I'm a racist piece of shit and they confront me about it on the subway. And that's the fucking issue. Right. I thought I'd be just another anonymous white guy in a Patagonia vest, but I'm not. But again, these things are fucking tax hikes on consumers. Like he's looking at it again, like the most overly simplistic way in that he's saying, well, the higher prices will make a consumer just want to buy the American stuff. And then that's how it helps, you know, everybody get more America centric. But again, these tax you, we all know this, these are just passed on to the consumer because since when is a fucking company a business telling us, oh, yeah, we'll totally make less money on this. And you know

what, we'll absorb the hit, we're not gonna pass that onto the consumer. That's not our business model. We also like, America can't, we can't feed our own people on the food we grow here. We have to import food. We have to. So that's not optional. You don't like potato chips made out of corn

and hamburgers made of corn? Look, nobody's saying anything bad about corn here. Sounds like you don't like corn. When the other countries have to raise their prices also, just like based on what we've seen from corporations of the past, I don't know, decade. Like it seems inevitable that the corporations are also the American corporations, even if they don't have to, will raise their prices because they can. And like that's they raise their prices anytime they can. And so if the competition raises prices, they just raise their prices as well.

That's basically what we've seen with inflation, even though that description puts a bunch of economists and consultants out of work. So it's never the one that we get, but that seems to be what's happening. Yeah, look at increases. Inflation across the board for as long as it's been happening in the past five years. As inflation is happening, corporations are making record profits. Like that, that's all you need to know. That's all you need to know. Like they, they're making way more money than they've ever made. And inflation is going up.

Like those, those two things are related. The people who are making record profits are the ones raising the prices. Yeah. I remember we were doing this as it was happening, Jack, like we kind of stopped even trying to say inflation because that gave all these companies cover for they're just out in the open greed because there are many studies, you know, that was like in 2023, like 50 corporate profits or to tell us in the like 2020-2021 at a certain point It's like fucking bro. Just keep turning the fucking heat up. But anyway, I think sorry I think egg prices are a really good microcosm of this because like we know there's bird flu That's like being reported on genuine public health like threat, but also killing all the chickens

But there are egg conglomerates whose farms have not been hit by bird flu who are raising their prices because they can because everybody knows bird flu is out there and will accept higher prices. Like it's a market economy, which, but it's a market economy run by conglomerates that are essentially monopolies. So they get to price hike when they can get away with it. Yeah, it's like, oh, yeah, we're like, just, you know, we are 40% of the companies, just this one company. It'll it'll look it looks different because the boxes are different. Yeah, we do different boxes. And so it seems like you have different options.

of the tariffs as tax hike has come up because, you know, Caroline Levitt, who's the terrible press secretary of the White House, she was pressed by the Associated Press during a briefing on this. And she just goes like, oh, man, she just just spins herself into circles being like, these are not tax hikes on American people. Just because the prices go up doesn't mean it's a tax hike. This is her getting very, very defensive over the definition of a tariff or tax hike and it gets a little snippy. Let's see this. Actually not implementing tax hikes. Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that again have been ripping us off. Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people and the president is a staunch advocate of tax cuts as you know he campaigned on no taxes on tips no taxes on overtime no

taxes on Social Security benefits he is committed to all three of those things and he expects Congress to pass them later this year I'm sorry have you ever paid a tariff? They don't get charged on foreign companies I mean that guy sucks too and ultimately when we have fair and balanced trade, which the American people have not seen in decades, as I said at the beginning, revenues will stay here, wages will go up, and our country will be made wealthy again.

And I think it's insulting that you're trying to test my knowledge of economics and the decisions that this president has made. Wow. I mean, Caroline, let's keep it a buck, my darling. You don't know what it is. But I like, though, that you do the, I think it's insulting that you're like calling me out and just broadly act as if what you said was correct on any planet. She is not incorrect.

It is insulting. It just happens to be accurate also. Yeah. I also like- I don't know what the fuck she's talking about. Have you ever paid a- I love it. The reporter's like, I'm sorry, have you even paid a tariff?

Do we even- what the fuck are we even talking about here? Yeah. That guy sucks too though. It's like kind of a perfect- it's like I agree with what he's saying, his content of what he's saying is correct. But I'm like, the way you're saying this sucks, dude. I want to punch you in the face. Have you ever paid a... Yeah.

Well, that is a problem with the mainstream media. I'm importing a bunch of phrase t-shirts that I'm going to be selling outside of Coachella. I paid a tariff. I paid it. Now, it's funny, this exact quote, this is like basically the same thing that I'm going to be importing a bunch of phrase t-shirts that I'm going to be selling outside of Coachella. I paid the tariff. I paid it. Now, it's funny, this exact quote, this is like basically not everyone is in agreement over like if these tariffs are good, because this is Ben Shapiro.

He is not, he's like, well, yo, what the fuck is going on? Like, please explain what the fuck is happening. Here's a clip of Ben Shapiro from his show. This is him reacting to that Caroline Leavitt exchange with the Associated Press. Again, I'm gonna need some clarification as to how this is actually going to, in the short-term, medium, and long-term,

benefit Americans. We can talk about other countries ripping us off as much as we want. And again, if the goal here is to lower the tariffs by getting other countries to lower their tariffs, then great. I'm all in. Makes sense. But if the idea is the tariffs themselves enrich the American people, that is

against pretty much all economic knowledge for the last couple of centuries or so. So maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it'll turn out to be great. Century. I like it goes, uh, like even like it's somehow it's a bridge for Ben Shapiro. It's a bridge too far for you because I bet this guy's stock portfolio almost looked like deep fried dog shit. If he's like, I don't know what, what's the fucking deal here?

Like explain it to me. Cause I am not feeling it right now. I don't like what I'm seeing because a lot of people show all the gains that have been made in a lot on most of the stock market since Trump came in office have been erased from all of the tariff bullshit. So that's who I feel with the worst for all those gains, Jack. Yeah. All those gains.

What's that onion headline? That's so good. Or no, it's a Jezebel headline. Or no, not God. I don't know. It's a headline that's like, yeah, it's a reductress headline that is like, oh no, worst person you know just made a good point. Yeah, right, right, right, exactly.

Yeah, for him to be like, I just, what the fuck? Just again, they're throwing their hands up. And I think this is gonna continue to be a nightmare for the Republicans because it's one thing to tell a person like in Kentucky that the Southern border is a hellscape and that immigrants thousands of miles away are doing dog buffets on the locals because that's like an obscure and nebulous threat that they can just sort of create in someone's mind in the theater

of the imagination. But it is a completely different endeavor to tell someone that is seeing the prices not come down at their local stores, that is seeing their retirement go fucking wacky because it's tied to the stock market that the reality that they are experiencing is not what they are in fact experiencing. And I think that's just you're just seeing them really fucking grapple with this. And there's plenty of true believers who are don't who are completely disconnected from that. But you can see not everybody is quite on board with this, especially the

the capitalists who their life's blood is the fucking market. And that is, you know, that it's not doing the thing that it needs to be doing. Yeah. That seems pretty clear. Sorry, I was distracted. I was working on something. The Italian magician made the bench disappear.

And then for the prestige, he made the bench appear. Oh, bench Shapiro. Wow. Is that's what I've been working on over here. How dare you just the way you're saying his name. I have like bench Shapiro. Yo, Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro, you know, the bench disappeared and then it appeared. Oh, so you're welcome. You caught that it appeared. Thank you.

You're welcome. You caught that? Kate, did you get that? I feel like I'm still processing. Yeah. It's a thinker. It's a thinker. Exactly, dude. It's like the movie The Prestige, right? Damn, dog.

How did it f***? Oh, shit. So tight. Wow, so tight. Spoilers, dog. How'd it f***? Oh, shit. So tight. Wow, so tight. Spoilers, man. All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show, if you like the show. Means the world to Miles.

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