The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 393 (Best of 8/4/25-8/8/25)

Episode Date: August 10, 2025

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one non-stop infotainment. laugh stravaganza. Uh, yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. I'm thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer.

You know him from the US This Racist podcast. It's Andrew T. Oh, my God. I spent, I spent my AKA thinking up time rebooting my cable modem router, other router, cable modem again. So I don't got jack shit. I guess I'm Andrew A.K., Andrew T.A.K. The fucking tech support. Tech support. Hi, everyone.

Hey, hey. What a fucking. IT support. Yeah, yeah. IT in the house. ITTI. I TTI. I T.I. You're the person who gets the clown in the sewer. Is that it? Yeah. Is he the clown? Is it the cloud? Or is this a Doctor Who situation? It's just in it. It doesn't matter. The clown is the toll booth? Yeah. Wait.

is it i mean you'd have to assume i haven't read the book no but god gross wouldn't it be oh my god gross the idea of reading the book oh what the fuck we Andrew our guest reads books no dog i got to tell you she was just the character that must have been a joke i did a it was a sketch i was doing a sketch where i was a person who reads in america but certainly the it has to refer to the monster in the sewer, it can't be like No, it's the doctor of the monster in the sewer. I'm just wondering if they call it

called old petty wise it at any point. No one tell me. I don't want to know. If I was the clown that got misgendered, I'd kill a bunch of kids too, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like I'm tech, that's technically what I am, a clown that gets misgendered. That's right. Can't argue with that.

In our third seat, a clown that gets misgendered, a hilarious stand-up comedian, writer, improviser. You can catch her at the monthly facial recognition comedy show, which she also produces. You can check the footnotes for upcoming dates. It's Paula Binali!

Oh, I thought you were going to say Bill Scarsguard, but okay, it's me. Hello. How are you guys doing? I'm good. I guess this foster cat, if anybody wants to adopt it, It will rip my heart out, but also it's probably what you should be doing is fostering cats and not foster failing every pet that I have.

Yeah. What are the actual odds that this is just your cat now? I don't want to talk about it. Well, that's like how a lot of them happen because, like, there's just no one taking in pets. And, like, there's one of the, okay, now she's rubbing her face on the laptop, so the camera's shaking. um there's like a bunch of pets that are now in the it's weird to say they're pets in the foster system but they're in um rescues and shelters because uh people are getting deported they're literally getting deported and their pets are getting and so it's like that's fine yeah i guess because their pets have asylum

but they don't as human beings like what the fuck you know right Jesus Christ yeah so adopt pets please Otherwise, everyone who fosters is just going to have all the pets forever. It is a very sweet girl. They're so cute. Oh, my God. Is it a boy? It's a girl. She's about like six or seven months.

And she's just like the cuddliest baby. So sweet. Loves, loves a camera. Yeah. She's a star. She's a star. Put her into your films. Be a stage mom with this cat.

She's still young. She's still young. at it for Hollywood. She really does. Oh, she's so cute. She's got blue eyes. She does love, well, that's the worst part. But other than that, very cute. We do not allow that. Oh, yeah. She was in the Sydney Sweeney commercial. She's always like, I have the best jeans. And I'm like, calm down. I know. Oh, my God. I got a white dog at one point. My friends would not let me hear the end of it. They were like, wow. Wow. Wow. You've changed. Interracial adoption

Golden Retriever What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? The thing that I have been searching the last week or so and this is just going to be TMI and I'm going to do it anyway

is how soon after hitting perimenopause you can get HRT because I've been feeling very toasty lately. I'm like, well, I was going to try to power through, and then my sister was like, no, if you start my younger sister, who probably shouldn't know these things, I don't think, is like, no, if you start earlier, it helps more. So I'm honestly just like searching for HRT and then I'm slowly watching places change the name of it from like hormone replacement therapy,

which people, well, bigots just automatically associate with trans to menopause therapy or menopause hormone therapy, which I think is really interesting. And so I'm going to die on the hill of calling it H.R.T. Oh, yeah, look at that. Mayo Clinic, menopause hormone therapy. To feel uncomfortable. And I want them to be like, wait, what gender were you assigned at birth? I can't tell.

So hormone replacement therapy is now menopause hormone therapy, according to the Mayo Clinic, because everybody is scared of it. And men is capitalized for some reason in menopause. They wanted to make themselves even more comfortable. It's menopause. That's right. Yeah. So just I've been searching up a lot of gender affirming care, I guess is what we're going to say.

There you go. Yeah. It's interesting trying to figure out like, does my insurance cover this? Do I have to pay out of pocket? We live, obviously, you all know this, in a hell country. One of the shithole countries we've heard so much about. We live in a hell of a country. I agree, Torrey.

Hell of a country. Hell of a fake country. Here I am trying to figure out, hmm, is there any way to like mitigate some of these very miserable symptoms? And then, you know, thinking about,

oh, we don't know very much about how to deal with menopause slash perimenopause because we don't invest in, even before all the briefs got canceled, we don't invest in researching anything about women's self because it's not urgent. It's a real mystery, actually.

I feel like that's like the first sentence. What God intended. It's very complicated. It's very complicated. It's scary. God intended women to suffer. And so here we are, yeah, believing that science isn't real. And I'm trying to get answers from Google that aren't AI generating because that sucks. The AI turns out not helpful. When the entire medical establishment doesn't really know what the fuck they're talking about, I'm just going to trust Google's AI to kind of summarized my way out of that problem. Yeah, they're pretty good.

I'm sorry you're going through that. The symptoms, I've heard of the hot flashes. Yeah, the hot flashes. How hot, how flashy. You ask the tough questions. How flashing we're talking? I had this very strange moment where I've been trying to be responsible and be in bed reading a book at 10 p.m.

right. Congratulations. I mean, that is great. Obviously, it's summertime, right? So windows are open. I don't have the comforter on. I'm just got like my little one sheet and I'm like reading my book and there's like you can feel, you know how you can feel the air like under the sheet that's like around your body. I feel it like I can feel the temperature rising under the sheet as I'm going up like a meter. You're creating a hot air balloon under the sheet. And I was like, oh, oh, this sucks. It's like, what is happening? So I think I need to start taking an ice pack to bed with me Just to be safe

Just an emergency You know those like break in case of emergency ice packs That you can take? Yeah, yeah And that I take on like hikes and stuff For my kids Yeah, the chemical ones Uh huh

Yeah, yeah I need one of those like for my bed Yeah Just to be safe Just to be on the same Back of the neck Yep, yep I like it

I have to sleep with a blanket as well Like even if it's like so hot I have to like need some sort of In my mind, it's like protecting me from an intruder. You know, like this thing. A creep who could come into your room. Yeah, they can't get through the blanket, though. So, yeah.

Yeah, something about like sleeping without a blanket. My body is like, we're not actually sleeping. Yeah. I don't know what you think this is, but this is not bedtime if you're sleeping with nothing on top of you. I can't even nap without something on top of me. Like, that's how ingrained it is. That it's like, oh, well, what are we doing here? We're just hanging out on a bed.

this is nothing so yeah I relate to that good I'm thinking great I'm thinking now I'm like reverse claustrophobic I like to have something close and like I find it nice and cozy I think I descend from pack or like den yeah a den animals yeah I got that I got that den animal inside of me you do that dog that den dog I like I sleep with a bunk bed just laying on top of me So, like, I have a bed, and there's no, like, risers. Yeah, take the legs right off. I did, I used to, like, feel very comfortable under beds, like, as a kid. I would just, like, kind of hide under a bed.

Yeah. Then they would come and take me, and my dad would tell them that he has a very particular set of skills. Sorry, what is something you think is underrated? So, okay, I learned this story relatively recently, and I'm, I can't believe, I don't know, it feels like it needs to be taught in schools. it's the city corp center engineering crisis you guys hear about this you guys know about this you guys hear about this anything i can't wait to hear more my favorite journalist my edward r murrow was always a j leno

so with that lead in i can't wait to hear what's next it's it's a skyscraper that's built on stilts uh it was built in the 70s and the reason it's on stilts is that there was like a church underneath it that refused to move. But the city court was able to get the property rights like above the church, but not the church itself. So their architect and engineer came up with this like, we'll put it on stilts. It's a skyscraper. It's not a little building. So it's just like up on stilts. And it's kind of like they're not on the edges of the building, but sort of on the inside. It's kind of like if you had a stool and then the stilts of the stool were really crowded sort of near the center.

It doesn't seem very stable. So, yeah, the City Corp Center right in New York City, right in Manhattan. Man. Man. Man. That sounds terrible, Katie. Yeah. So, yeah, it's right in Manhattan.

That's my parish. Yeah. That's my local parish. Your parish is under the shit. I didn't notice the big building on top of it all these years. So it was this great feat of engineering. The structural engineer, Bill Le Measure, which is a good name. Fantastic.

Bill La Measure. Bill Le Measure. And it's going to get really ironic. So he was in charge of designing the building. And then after the building was already built, it's out there, people are in it. Everyone's like, wow, building on stilts, cool. He discovered a fatal flaw in it that he, by his calculations, It had like an almost 100% chance in the next century of collapsing and killing a bunch of people.

So already hilarious. So it was made with bolted struts instead of welted struts, amateur move. I mean, I know what you guys are thinking like, why did they go with bolted instead of welded? Welded. Yeah, welded. Just screw it in with a little screwdriver. Yeah, yeah. Right.

And so basically, Bill the measure did not measure. This is not a real name, by the way. He did bill, but he did not let meger. Hey, this got worked on my house or what? Fucking got him. Boom. I hope he collapses. A hurricane was coming and it was going to kill a bunch of people.

So he discovered that he did not. Give a shit. I'm sorry. There's something called quartering winds, which is just like sideways winds. So he, like, calculated the effects on each face, but not the quartering wins, amateur move. And so because the struts were bolted rather than welted, something to do with, like, sheer versus other forces, you know, physics.

And so, like, if this hurricane hit Manhattan, this was in 1978, the building would go down. And he built it in the 70s. He built it, yeah, like, he built it. in the 70s. So in 1978, he actually whistleblue on himself because he was like, he had at some point, he's like, I consider just driving off a bridge at this point because this was like a huge mistake. And it all, it really only came surface because he kept getting questions from a structural engineering grad students who are like, how does this building work? We don't understand it. And he's like, let me check them out. It looks impossible. Yeah. And so he built twice, Le measure once.

as they say. Right. And it was actually a really incredible building because it was like the first one that had something called a tuned mass dampener, which is sort of like a weight on springs that when a building sways and wind, it like counters the sway. So the building doesn't sway as much. That's fun. It's very cool. And like buildings still used that. Like this was the first building that used it. So it was actually, it was a really, it's not like this structural engineer was an idiot. He was really, really good. He just. didn't realize his firm used bolted struts, and he hadn't done this calculation. So he, like, told Citicorp, CitiCorp panicked and told the city, the city panicked. But then they decided to, like, in secret, they did not tell the public because they didn't want them to panic. In secret, they had construction crews come in the dead of night into the building and replace the struts.

Like, they added, I think they just had to add more bolts or add more struts to it to make get safe. And so they would go, like, come in at night in secret. It was a secret for almost 20 years that this building almost came down. And then they're like, yeah, that happened. Don't worry about it. It was fine. It turned out great. So they did fix it. They did fix it. Yes, they fixed it. And they had a, but the city had this evacuation plan for like 10 city blocks for people if the hurricane was going to hit because they were not going to be able to finish the renovations in time. for the hurricane.

So it's just like their plan B was like everyone out of Manhattan. Just leave, please. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated? You know what I think is overrated, guys? And this is more common in men than it is with women. Using hypotheticals to get to know someone. Oh.

I hate it. I don't like doing it. Men love. That's not men become best friends. Where's your other? Oh, talk, talk. Landers. I'm tired in the water, bro.

Oh, my God. You're cheap our best friends. Fuck. All right. Sorry, I'm just deleting the second act. Yeah, I bet you are. Would you rather for Marcella? Yeah, I'm so sick of people using hypotheticals as interview questions, as a way to, like, get to know someone.

These are not real. People will lie to you, guys. Dream dinner date, go. Funest way to lie to someone and sound fucking, like, cool or made up. And it's like, oh my God, please. I'm begging. This is also why society is fucked off because we do shit like that and we don't get to know each other. And then people are like, you were a Republican this whole time?

And it's like, yeah, bitch, because all you fucking asked what questions about lions, tigers, and bears. God damn. Ginny Sweeney, would you rather play a bear in a swimming pool? And then Zendaya's like, wait, she's Republican. You know what I mean? Like, you know, they sussed her out. She's never seen with them out and about. But, you know, you see the other actors with each other.

other and like they sussed her out because they ask the right questions you know they didn't just ask her like okay would you rather yeah okay who would you want to dream dinner guest although that one might tell you something if she's like uh trump's weird but like jd advance is kind of a vibe i really like janey a bounce in my blue eyes like i guess hypotheticals would be good if you hate the person you have nothing to say to them. I feel like that's a great time to use hypotheticals. You know, Christmas with the family and you're uncomfortable about having real conversations, I think that's totally appropriate.

But you're just like trying not to let anyone get to know you because there's a howling void underneath. But it does feel like there's like a meta way in which this works, which is like two people that love hypothetical questions, Marcella, you can just be like, fuck both of you, but they will connect with each other. Yes. And it kind of like separates the garbage. That's usually what happens.

Separates the garbage from the cold. Hypothetical. How would you kill Marcella? Oh my God. You know what I would do? There's always somebody. Yeah. Poisoning ear candle.

Dripping. Yeah, just a little bit of poison ear candle. Arsenic in the ear candle. I feel like it's very popular with people who are also like, oh my God, chat GPT is my best friend. Yeah. You know, like people who just like to have. Exactly. We agree. Men. Yeah.

Arsenic in the air candle sounds like ChatGPT tried to write an Agatha Christie novel. Oh. But accidentally gave away the ending in the title. Well, yeah. I haven't quite figured all that out yet. How could it? Great, underrated and overrated. Love that they were two different things.

You've fucking nailed it. A plus work, Marcella. We're going to take a quick break, and then we're going to come back. We're going to talk about some news. We'll be right back. Hi, I'm Master Model Builder Noel at Legoland Discovery Center, Toronto, inviting you to build the best summer ever. Jump into a world of fun, creativity, and playful learning at the ultimate indoor Lego playground. Explore Miniland created from over a million bricks.

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These are the questions we explore in hoax, a new podcast from me, Dana Schwartz, the host of Noble Blood. And me, Lizzie Logan. Every episode will explore one of the most audacious and ambitious tricks in history, from the fake Shakespeare's to balloon boys, and try to answer the question of why we believe, what we believe. Listen to hoax on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And one thing I love about that story is that he built an impossible-looking building, and it was like, was not careful about it.

It was just like, yeah, no, it looks great, but like that saved his ass. They're just like, you're going to get that. Wild, man. Like, how is that possible? And he was like, possible. Oh, shit, it isn't. Oh, no. I'll talk about this every once in a while that there was this huge landslide in Peru that, like, destroyed an entire town, like a town of, like, there were 30,000 people who died.

And, like, I think it was. eight years before this landslide happened, it was caused by an earthquake. A group of climbers was climbing the mountain that it happened on and were like, oh, no, and came down, told, like, everybody told all the people who were like, you know, officials, and they were kicked out of the country because they didn't want to cause a panic. They're being negative. Yes. You're just being too negative. Negative. Yeah, yeah.

I'm actually at capacity right now. I can't hear about landslides. Thank you. I'm at capacity. I've had such a hard four months. You cannot, please. You're trying to get me to do emotional labor about landslides. Do not put your shit on me right now.

That is trauma dumping, all right? Yeah. But it's because I think about that story every time people are like, why is nothing happening with climate change? And some people are like, well, it's kind of this like, like diffuse problem. It's like too much of a bummer. And it's like, well, even when it's an acute problem with like a very specific like, see that mountain, that's going to come down on you and it's going to kill everybody. Like very soon. The next time there's an earthquake, something like that

specific. And they were like literally, not only did people just like kind of make the jack off hand motion and like go on with their day, they kicked them out of the country for like foreseeing. Being too much of a bummer. You are hereby deported on the grounds of being a fucking bummer, man. It's so scary how that just keeps happening where we just watch that new NetGeo Ryan Coogler documentary on Katrina, which is so sad and a really good documentary. But it's just one of the things we're like, guys, these levees are dog shit. Like we have no wetlands to. We knew about that.

Yeah. This is so bad. It's like, yeah, everyone knew. No, no, no, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Yeah, you're going to say something more intelligent. No, no, no, no. People who, like, paid attention to the news, like, they were saying that every time an earthquake or every time a hurricane would, like, come through there, they'd be like, in the levees, they're going to break the next time, like, with a direct hit.

And then as Katrina was approaching, they're like, you know, the levees might break with a direct hit. And then the levees broke with a direct hit. And they didn't fucking evacuate. They, like, didn't have anybody there to help in case of that very disaster. that had been predicted a hundred times. And even after they broke, people were like, I mean, why is there so much water in the city? What the fuck is the deal with all this water? It's so wet in here.

It was white supremacy. Yeah, it was white supremacy and not caring about shoddy. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, all right, great underrated. What's something you think is overrated? So I read this book that was on the New York Times bestseller list a bunch of time called. Jesus Christ, we get it. I don't know these parts of the show when people talk about books.

So it was called Remarkably Bright Creatures, and I was under the impression based on the cover art, as well as the synopsis of the book, that this was going to be about a mystery-solving octopus. And it was barely about that. Maybe 5% of the book was octopus-related? It was a novel. And I thought it was going to be heavy. That's like a big book? It's normal. I don't know. It's normal. It's just a book.

It's a book. But it's fiction. But it's fiction. Blake, do you know what fiction? Sorry, Katie, we got to stop down here and tell Blake what's what. That's what happens when things are rubbing together, right? And they don't. Actually, you know what? We don't have time. We don't have time.

No. Keep going. Keep going. Yeah. So like it was, it was like, so it did have some octopus in it. Most of it, though, was like, feel good family crap. And I could not give less of a shit. Like I, the only parts of the book I wanted to read was about this mystery solving octopus. And the author made the baffling decision that that was not the interesting part. The interesting part was following some random guy trying to track down his dad that he hadn't seen since he was born and finding his grandma or whatever. It was, and it was the big, I'm so mad.

People have a real, like, human bias, you know? They really know. They're just like, the most interesting part would be this person and what they think about their parents. It's like, uh, we know. By the way, word for word, word for word, you're the first half of that review was my review of finding Dory also. It was like, it could have been about a crime-solving octopus. and instead it's family-friendly bullshit. You got that into the New York Times, by the way.

By taking out a full page, I add. Of course. Well, it doesn't matter how you get it in there. It's the destination, not the journey. Yeah, that's why I'm a New York Times bestseller, by the way. I just called myself that on a full page ad. When you said brightest animals, I thought you were going to talk about the angler fish and other animals with lights coming off of her.

It would have been better. I would have been so there. Remarkably bright creatures. These are creatures that give off light and just a list of them in a book I would have enjoyed more. And were the people smart? Was the person and their dad's smart? No, they weren't. They weren't very smart.

The author said like, this person is smart. And then everything else was to the contrary. So, and there was just so much focus on detail that I didn't care about. It was like, kind of like, it was like cockteasing this octopus and not giving us any of this fucking octopus. Yeah, yeah. That's fucked up. So, remarkable bright creatures, go fuck yourself. I put that in Italian for you.

I feel so bad if the very sweet author ever finds out, if the author is like, it's broken. We'll have the money. It seems like a very nice lady. You're more than welcome on our show. I'm sure. There was a recent story about an octopus. Did you see that story where a octopus that couldn't solve any crime, but is a Pacific giant octopus or something the other,

in the San Antonio Aquarium, was accused of like trying to pull a child into the tank somehow? Nice. I'd read a book about that. I know, right? Here it is. One octopus solves the crime. The other octopus does the crime. Yeah. According to Brittany Taron, this is the mother's,

name, which is just two white lady names matched together, but Brittany Taryn on TikTok said the octopus starts coming out of the tank. And the reason we don't have pictures or videos of this is because my friend was also freaking out. And then she said that her child got bruises on the arm. And the octopus was not letting go. I mean, so I have insight into this where this is a new thing that the San Antonio Aquarium is doing, where it helps. So one of the kids, there were two kids, there were two

kids. The kid who was grabbed was wearing a Kansas City Chiefs hat. The other kid was wearing an Eagles hat. This is how they predict Super Bowls now where the octopus pulls a child wearing the hat into the which child is drowned by the octopus. So it looks like it's the chiefs in 2025, 2026. Tragedy on two counts. I thought you were going to say that the that child was you and they were just like we've got to make it a child otherwise. It's not going to be believable. They actually thought I was a child. He was human-sized and had a full beard, but he was licking a lollipopin out a propeller hat. Biggest legs on a child I've ever seen.

There was a whole vetting process. Like, there was 2,000 applicants, and I made it through all of it. How did you not realize I wasn't a child? All right. Let's get into some news. Let's talk tourism. Sure. They're saying tourism bad in America right now.

I mean, okay. So tourism on fire is one of the. way that I'm sure the news is being given to Trump because have you noticed that he's really like into things being hot lately? He's like this is hottest, hotter than ever, the hottest country. It's not literally hottest because he

puts it in quotes. Yeah, yeah. So hot. Well, he puts everything in quotes. He probably like puts his own name in quotes. He doesn't know how quotes work. But anyways, yeah, the Grand Canyon literally hot right now. The Dragon Bravo fire has been going on since July 4th.

Destroyed dozens of structures, including the Grand Canyon Lodge, which is one of the main tourism nexases? Next-eye? Whoa. Nexuses. You put it in the story, Katie. I wrote it, but I don't know. I don't know.

Locus. Locus of tourism. There we go. And this also might be tied to the federal government just like not being staffed anymore because the way that they handled this was, so there was a lightning strike on the 4th of July. God was like, hell yeah, America, brother. Happy fourth, bitches. And there was a lightning strike.

And the federal government was like, it always feels like they just found out about controlled burns or something, like that day. Because they were like, let's do a controlled burn, which you're supposed to do during the winter when things aren't like hyperflammable. You're supposed to like start the fire intentionally and like have a path. And you don't just declare a. declare a fire that is not in your control, a controlled burn. But that's what they did here. And it got out of control. And hence now you can't go to the Grand Canyon anymore in Trump's America.

We're also hearing bad news that Vegas tourism is down in June by 11%. And that was before, you know, the Grand Canyon fire, which is fugging up air quality in that whole region. And nobody can figure it out. you know it's it's weird maybe all the lost wages jokes finally hit people right it's this is such a welcoming country to to foreign tourists as well coming up like people weren't afraid it's it's so also the world cup is coming up as well with this fucking awful in this administration why would anyone want to come here during the world it's the worst timing like instead of having a like tourist camp you know other countries i've seen them they're like visit italy it's i mean it's the place

everybody visits it's fucking sick look at look at all this art i think that i'm directly quoting the campaign now i hope i don't yeah they're really mailed yeah that's that was it yeah that's in there so fucking sick look at the art venice is fucking the streets of fucking water dog fucking water streets yeah the streets are wooder again i think this might be a philly specific ad campaign waldoos are both polite We need a Philly Pope after the Chicago Pope. I know. Oh, my God.

Could you imagine? He went to Villanova. He went to Villanova. He did. So he is kind of a Philly Pope. Oh, man. By the way, like, you know, the only logos that you see when you're at the part of the Jersey Shore where I am are like Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Eagles, no more

of the Sixers because they're a garbage organization. And then. And then Villanova. But Villanova is big right now. I think the Catholics are very proud to have Villanova Pope down the shore. Nice, yeah. Anyways, some of the reasons that tourism might be down. Instead of having a, you know, well, come to America, visit our giant land that you can roam freely inside of.

Our outward messaging has been like, we will fucking, we will lock you up. Your family will think you're dead. We don't like the way you look. We will send you to a country you're not. even from and you'll end up dead maybe. Your parents will not know where you are or that you've ever existed.

Right. We'll erase you like one of those guys in Stalin pictures. You just like won't be on the historical record. So that's one thing. Yeah, that's a tough obstacle to overcome. Yeah. It is too early. We're still testing the results on that campaign. Also,

he's completely fucked the economy. So people inside America have less spending power. You know, that does seem like one of those unfakable things. It's like if people have money to go to Vegas, like they can't be doing too bad because they will go. If they have money to go, they will go. And if they're not going to Vegas, that means the economy is actually not doing great. So I don't know what this means because I've heard Trump is killing it on the economic front.

But I am just curious, Katie, from your perspective, how are we doing? How's it looking from outside? Yeah. Are we being too harsh? I do remember talking to a German tourist in the U.S., and they were, like, selling me on the U.S. as a tourist destination. They're like, oh, you should, like, travel more in the U.S. because, like, we come over there. You can, like, go wherever you want. You don't need a passport to go from state to state. There's so much nature there, and your cuisine is amazing.

No, they didn't say the cuisine part. but do is there a palpable sense that going to the united states is less attractive and more unwelcoming than before it's pretty palpable i it's palpable yeah we've actually been both both me and my husband have been asked by various people if it's safe to go to the u.s and like asking us for advice and like they're kind of like saying like this is all overblown right like i can go it's fine And we're like, uh, maybe, maybe. But yeah, I think it kind of depends also on which country people come from. Like, a lot, like people we've talked to who are from South American countries aren't not necessary.

They're like canceling plans. They're not going. Yeah. Italians, I think, are confused and are a little bit wary because of the news about, like, border problems. I don't think they usually have too many. issues but I don't know my I mean like I can't I can't confidently reassure them which is weird because they're like is it safe to go to the US like in terms of like the border I'm like I don't know I mean like hopefully if you have you've made no mistake on your flight arrangements or any

of your paperwork and like you didn't pack too much luggage so they're going to like accuse you of staying longer maybe it'll be fine but I can't it's very strange to like be ask that and not be able to be like, what are you talking about? It's fine to go. I mean, you think they're confused. Think about ICE having to decide whether or not to arrest them when they have dark skin and dark hair and they don't speak English without an accent. I mean, that's hard on ice, too. I will ask you to remember. It is very funny when Italians are sort of prejudiced against each other because it's like, guys, in the eyes of America. Right. You're all Italians. Yeah. We were just in a, in a.

Ireland last week. And obviously this is anecdotal. But, you know, if you have a choice as an international, you know, like coming in internationally to the United States, you have a choice between almost any country. And also, why would you go to a country and spend your money there that is currently waging a trade war against the entire world? Like, like, in making things more expensive for you at home. And I mean, forget us. Also, like, you know, for them in other countries. And we also, while we were there, I saw. So I'm getting all this Irish. pop-up shit now on my Instagram and this saddest tourism thing

I've ever seen was like this guy it was an Aer Lingus thing saying there's this gorgeous unknown city in the United States that you have to go visit direct flights from Dublin to Indianapolis and it was like the saddest thing

in the Indianapolis. There's nothing to do Indianapolis. They have like I think a steakhouse that's supposed to be good and like I've heard they have one steakhouse And fias and fias of corn. They have steak in Indianapolis, unlike Ireland where there's no beef products whatsoever. But there's all the comments where, like, people saying, I'm from Indianapolis. For the love of God, do not come here.

You deserve so much better than coming to Indianapolis. Can you imagine going from Ireland to Indianapolis? Like, Ireland is beautiful. There's just a pub on every corner. people just like playing just like you know in like movies from the 50s about like there's a duob group on every corner like that kind of community that we made up

that happened in the 50s like that's actually what Ireland's like there's just a group of people playing fiddles in every pub who just like they just like randomly started playing together they're like oh you're playing the fiddle and then like come in with a fucking you know washboard that they're playing or some spoons I don't know or you could go to a massive convention center.

Right, exactly. So it depends on what you like. Everybody has different, you know. Indianapolis is like a city that was built to host the NCAA final four. And the combine. Yeah, and the combine. It's like, yeah, stuff like that. It's good for events.

It's good for, yeah, like professional, like a bunch of salespeople have come in for the weekend to all, you know, hear the keynote from the CFO of Salesforce. That's what Indianapolis, I feel like, is good for. I feel like it's sad lanyards. It's hard to travel as an American now and not have people, like, demand to know why we're tariffing the shit out of whatever country you're going to. And it's like, I don't know. I don't know. Art of the deal, man. I don't know. Art of the deal, brother. It's going to be big. It's going to be real big. We're getting a good deal. It's going to be huge. Just wait. You'll see. All right. So people, people have caught on that it's. Yeah. They're, they're.

They're, like, and this is not just, like, people on vacation. These are, like, researchers who will, like, like, that work at the university or, like, is it safe to, like, go to the U.S. for conferences and stuff? So, like, even in their, like, professional lives, they're worried, which, again, we can't just be like, yeah, no problems. It's like, you know, yeah. Yeah. No, it's good. Just, I don't know, check it out. Indianapolis.

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there's that song, home, here do I go, home is where I'm wrong with you. That is making the rounds everywhere, causing a re-appraisal of the hey, ho, stop, clap, stomp. The genre of like kind of lo-fi indie from the 2010s, I guess it was. Yeah. Like that, hey-ho song about Lumineers and. How's that go? Oh, they go, hey.

And then they go, oh, okay, I understand. Why is it so catchy? It's abusive. It is pretty low, catchy. It's, uh, but this is the one that I have heard in the most Volkswagen commercials, I believe. The home heard of the lyrics. The brand new facade. The thing that, uh, I think people are responding to is, uh, the performance.

First of all, it's like, I think we all heard it in the car. car commercials and assumed it was like some American Idol runner-ups, like number five pop song. You know, I did not know that this is what the people look like. I'm going to now share my screen so we can watch this. And there's nothing wrong with the way they look. It's just not exactly. Don't neuter all my comments before I make them.

Their look is great. I think what they're doing is fantastic. it's good uh so i'm playing the video without sound for you guys so you can see the vibe of the people is this a tiny desk concert i can't tell if it's tiny it's it's a timu tiny desk concert is what's going they had to throw that desk away right after we're not to play the audio because i i will crawl it and make us take this episode down but uh that that you got to look at what what they're what they're looking like she does smack herself in the head of so far that her little beanie falls off.

And the lyrics are Alabama, Arkansas. I do love my mom and pa. Not that way that I do love you. Well, holy, me, oh my, you're the apple of my eye. Girl, I've never loved one like you. Man, oh man, you're my best friend. I'll scream it to the, anyway.

These were Jack's vows. Hot and heavy pumpkin pie, chocolate candy. Jesus Christ. Ain't nothing please me more than you, darling. So I do. Jesus Christ. Sorry. I stepped in some chocolate candy while I was writing my vows.

What the fuck with Jesus Christ. Did AI write this shit? What is happening? It does. It does feel a little bit like that. It does feel a little bit like that. I did not know they looked like this. The guy looks like he.

has spent, I don't know if he has actual dreadlocks in this video, but he is flirting with him and he has, he is, he is very seriously considering it. It's, the look is so, I'm going to, I hate what I'm about to say, but it's true. I do have, uh, this album on vinyl. Oh, man. And I didn't know they looked like this. So this is like music that it's like, okay, I'm shuffling around my house, you know, uh, paying, um, outstanding bills and, uh, taking eviction notices off my home. And this is good to play in the background during that. But the look of these people, like a children's song is what like, that's what, that's how I, I felt like, I was like, this is a good, this is good children's movie soundtrack music. Like, and so to have a guy who

seems like a cult leader, singing it into the eyes of somebody who, appears to be on all sorts of drugs. She does, she looks like a child who is on drugs. Yeah, yes. That's the energy. I think that's what's throwing me. That's what's throwing me. That's what your hag off is.

David Koresh and the magnetic zeros. Anyways, I don't hate the song as much as everybody. Everybody's like, it's the worst written song of all time. And, you know, it's just, I think, again, it's doing what it set out to do, which is, Be earnest as hell. Is it earnest? It feels tryhardy to me. Oh, so tryhardy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think they're earnestly trying. It is the tri-hardest shit. Yeah, I think they're earnest. They're trying so hard and they do not give a fuck. Yes, try-hard is one of the, like, if you had to describe this in three words, like, I do feel like try-hard would be in there. Yeah, you fucking try-hard. it's it's like the audio equivalent of like PDA you know where like you're in public and you see like a couple like exactly it's humiliating the whole thing is humiliating it's so embarrassing yeah what's that clip of is it tire bank saying this is so humiliating that's kind of how I feel watching this I love her yeah truly giving us some of our great our great memes all right speaking of humiliating

I do want to move on to a real-world, like, kind of Glass Onion situation. Real-world White Lotus meets Glass Onion meets Oscar after-party. Who died? I'm so intrigued. No, unfortunately. I mean, I'm not going to say, unfortunately. But, yeah, it's for some reason they let a Vanity Fair reporter tag along and, like, take acid with them on this Ritz-Carlton yacht crew. So it's like a, it's like, what would a, what would a cruise look like for Dakota Johnson, Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, Orlando Bloom, Pharrell Williams, Martha Stewart, Naomi Campbell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Ricky Martin, Jaden Smith, Toby McGuire for some reason, Alicia Silverstone for some reason, Janelle Monet, wow, Janelle Monet, Sophia Vergara, and of course Leonardo DiCaprio.

there you know but this is a yacht it's not a cruise because to me a cruise is like it's what if a cruise it's like someone's getting dysentary but so that many people we know it it's like a giant yacht it's like a mini cruise ship giant yacht and they're just like everybody is treated like that you know like they I'm sure people were being carried around like you know what I mean like just like touch the deck yeah nobody's foot they're just like Piggy back. I said piggyback, like as they just went from daquery to daquery. They do still drink dairies, which I was a little disappointed in throughout. I was like, that doesn't seem like, it seems like they should have some version of daqueries

that's like beyond what we have access to. Well, we love Hemingway. Oh, Jack, I have a daugree for you. Next time we hang out. Oh, yeah? Next level daquiry. Yes. It's not the kiddie stuff that you get at the bar.

I'm picturing the virgin daquiry I used to order at TJF Friday. It is nothing like that at all. It's not even sweet. picturing Tom Brady drinking a TGF Friday's dacry with a big dollop of a whipped cream on top. As his skin continues to constrict around his face. Yeah. It does keep getting tighter. It does.

I get this shit tightened a little bit. I need a skin tightening at noon, so I got to go pretty soon. The article does note that the ship set sail as the big. beautiful bill was being passed so like as normal people are being robbed of their health care and like this massive bill to make wealthy people more rich is passing these people are all getting on a massive yacht and like the the one celebrity who was there that i have to give a shout out to is Miguel the musician is there but he does not post about it and he's just there to perform and then he gets the fuck out.

And I'm like, hell, yeah, Miguel. I kind of love him, honestly. I do too. But we just get these little,

little views, these little pinhole views into like what these people are like. So the writer is told that a 28-year-old Brooks Nader is poised to be the breakout star of what, just breakout star of this like influencer cruise. And parentheses, a mover and shaker being. Maybe, says Sarah Jane. We'll get to Sarah Jane in a moment.

The striking blonde is a former Sports Illustrated swimwear model. And rumor has it is dating Brady, whose head I can see across the deck in his new spectacles, a six-foot-four librarian. I like that Tom Brady is like wearing glasses to be like. Just when you thought he couldn't get hotter. He's a six-foot-four librarian. It's like, it's a new look for him. And it sounds great.

I still want to fuck him. Lauren Sanchez, then they say Lauren Sanchez, Bezos, first noticed Brooks on Instagram and decided to befriend her. Sarah Jane tells me. So Lauren Sanchez Bezos, like Jeff Bezos's wife is just like going around discovering people and being like, you get to come to our parties now. And like, you're hot enough to come to our party. Right. Jesus Christ.

Oh, this is so fascinating. I was wondering how all those people wound up at their wedding, at the Bezos people, their wedding. It's like, what, you're just, you're just sending out, like, invitations to everybody who is at, what, the Oscars. Like, I don't get what the metric is here, because you guys aren't real friends because you're barely even real people. Right. They're not. They just, they only surround them. So there's a good quote later from Martha Stewart that talks about this.

Martha Stewart is on another fucking planet. It's wild. But, like, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kate Hudson. and Janelle Monet have all been in things that are like about shit like this. It's this, yeah. They've been in like White Lotus and then Glass Onion, which was about like a Elon Musk type inviting a bunch of people on like a weird thing like this. And like the writer is like, so is this like weird for you?

Patrick's horseenary, he's like, yeah, you know, but what am I going to do? Say no to this. horrifyingly humiliating thing. Janelle Monet is like just straight up is like is this glass onion or what? Even Kate Hudson is here. Good for her.

Good for her. Yeah, I just owns it. I will allow it with Janelle Monet because, yeah, that's, Janelle Monet can do absolutely nothing wrong. I do want to talk about Sarah Jane though because she has some great quotes defending Sanchez Bezos.

Oh boy. Yeah. She's got some things to say she's like i guess jeff bezos is the top of the richest people but like there are a lot of big people where it's like yeah it should be like that he made it fucking big and like they've been in love for like years or something they're so secure and real if the press was going to attack her friend is emblematic of the age of oligarchs well sanchise doesn't give a fuck it's fuel i find that so inspiring so just it's not it's not it's just, you know, she's aspiring to be a Kardashian and like this like fuck the poor thing. She's like so hungry for wealth and fame and status. And like that hunger is like powering her.

You know, like that. So she's like both embarrassingly like bougie and into this shit and also embracing that in a way that she should be embarrassed about. But like a thing that should be embarrassing and instead she's like that's my personality actually this isn't one mistake this is me this whole thing is me this whole thing is just my

shit that this is my shit this is being put on by a billionaire Israeli billionaire who is a billionaire because he well he he made his money by selling a poker site yeah so don't you feel silly

Tori after making that statement Yeah, poker, not predatory at all. No, it's actually fine. He made his money off of people's gambling addictions. The good old fashion. Yeah, the old fashion. Good old fashioned way. It's not some tech idiot.

He's a gambling, a vulture, yeah. He talks to one of the people who like sells these sorts of yacht experiences, and he says, say you want to go to Greece tomorrow. You go to Greece. And then they explain it with, with crypto and AI cash piling up in recent years. the boats have to get bigger. That's a very positive effect. But of course, it's still the ultimate luxury.

So they treat this as like it's solving a problem that people have, which is like too much money because of crypto and AI. So it's just, you know, the upwards, all of these new, every new development that people write about in the mainstream media and seem excited about on Wall Street is all just ways to,

redistribute money upward and then those people unfortunately they have a problem they have to deal with which is like what am i going to spend all this money on and so this gives us not a small boat not definitely not a tiny little boat big boat a shit boat martha stewart has some amazing quotes in here so she's talking about how like she it used to be cool to be on yachts but that she says i mean it's almost common now, extreme wealth. We know everybody that's really rich. We know them all. I mean, it started in the 1990s. When I first went public with like her Martha Stewart Omnamedia, I was hanging out with Bill Gates and Charles Simonia, I don't know who that is, and the Google boys. I mean, that's when it started. The Google Boys, them Google Boys. But now everybody has

one she says the reason he got a yacht envy what she's talking about an ex-husband was when he visited ron perlman's boat i was on the board of revlon like it's just all the shit i don't what yeah she's just going from one like statement she just seems so like bored and just insulated i was CEO of the atlantic ocean so yeah i was on ron perlman's boat at one point she's flipping through her instagram feed and finds that she's just getting a lot of outrage comments from fans. Somebody wrote, meanwhile, people can't afford food or rent.

And her agent leans over and whispers to me to the writer, there's not a better Instagram follow than Martha Stewart 48 at Martha Stewart 48. So that's, yeah. 48, next president. But, like, they still, they like, know, they get it. So, like, the writer is like, do you, does this, bother you. What with like

Zoran Mamdani being nominated in New York and like Donald Trump trying to like help billionaires and she's like the old Roman Empire's coming to an end. I always get that. I'm mother hen. I'm not supposed to be doing this stuff. I'm supposed to be

in the garden picking tomatoes so she turns it into like a women empowerment thing. Yeah. Yeah. But. And then she has a run where she's like mad about people caving to Donald Trump. But then she goes on to say, I'm a great admirer of Elon Musk and what he's done. He's an inventor. He's like the Michael Angelou of our time. And look what's happening to him. Even he is struggling and there's very little he can do until something big happens. People hate him. I mean, I had to put my Tesla in the garage and I like my Tesla. What kind do you have? The fanciest one self-driving Tesla. Even my daughter won't take it and she's an environmentalist. She won't take it. She won't take it. She won't Take it.

What is it happening? I can't give this fucking thing away. Yeah. Then there's like a model dancing and she's like, keep dancing. You're setting the vibe, girl. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Toby McGuire is there with his teenage son.

Everyone's doing small doses of LSD, getting shit-faced on margs and dacks. And just like go back and forth between talking about how surreal it is to be. famous and around this many other famous people and then like trying to justify why it's okay and yeah it's just they're like larping as people from before we knew that this is unsustainable it feels like

yeah this feels like the 90s anyways uh it just it feels like oh also at the end as the guy's getting off the boat he gets a call from like one of the people involved with organizing it. And they're like, ooh, could you not say that this person was there?

Also this person. And then, like, a little later, they're like, actually, you can't write this article. And he's like, yeah, sorry, I was there. You let me there. Yeah, this is done. I'm allowed to say what I saw. But makes sense that they wouldn't want him to say that. It's just, I guess they're getting a little lazy.

And they chose not to, like, car bomb him or whatever. Like, there's a person who revealed the Panama. Papers. Oh, brutal. Yeah. Anyways, how sick would it have been to be there, you guys, right? God, I know. I can't believe I was busy.

The amount of stuff I would have stolen while these people were doing drugs, I'd just be like checking all of the doors to all of the rooms. I've stolen from way worse places. On eBay and then just like give all the money away, help someone pay their rent. Like, I would have been a problem on this. but like pulling out like the orca signal and like pointing it directly into the water like I would have been a major fucking problem so I don't know not sick for me personally what's that high pitch squeal that she's making into the water don't ask don't ask about

it's fine do more drugs do more drugs do more drugs this is going to really freak you out when you're on LSD and the orcas finally attack they can smell it they can smell the LSD through the whole of the boat into the Oh my god Orcas love LSD They can't get enough of it Their whole world's one big acid trip Those stupid fish

I will I will admit that I'm a little hostile to this Because I'm fucking a hater And I'm jealous And like I just am not On my grind set Hard enough

I'm like I wish I could have been there You know Yeah dude One of these days I'll taste what a true Dackery Taste like In the mouth of

Tom Brady. That makes it sound like I want them to baby bird it to me. Which is fine. That's how they drink. There's no straws. They have to regurgitate food to one another just so it doesn't get contaminated by the upper middle class. I feel like that was the Epstein thing.

I don't know if that was this yacht specifically. You're right. I confuse these two things all the time. It's easy to do. We have no glasses on this, on this island. All drinks are mixed in mouths. and regurgitated between guests. All right, that's going to do it

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