The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 430 (Best of 5/11/26-5/15/26)

Episode Date: May 17, 2026

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of the weekly zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment, laugh stravaganza. Uh, yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Uh, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny stand-up comedian, comedy writer who is on the globe.

dominating podcast ain't at footy. My co-host, co-host is my enemy. No, your lover. It's my friend. My lover. It's Chris Martin! Chris Martin,

aka, do I have to do one? Yeah, yeah. Big up the mandem. Oh, big up the UK mandem. Big up the man, Chris, thank you for joining us. Thanks, ma'am. And he was all mellow.

Yeah, get the jokes in now. Get them in. I had to do it all. You've never heard that before. Get him in. Get it off your chest. Do you like being named Chris Martin? I mean, I don't know.

I just sort of should have changed. I should have changed it. I should have changed it. I did try to. Isn't it for three? This is true. It's pretty common name, very common name. Yeah.

Like many years ago, when I was much new, I was like, this guy's, this guy's cramping my style. So I'll go on as Chris John Martin. And then I found out his middle name, also John. No. You literally have, oh, you can't escape. No. No. No.

So it's a prison. Yeah, I'm happy to carry on. In my head, I arrogantly feel at some point, like, I'll surpass him. And this is, you got him. This is step one on the ladder, baby. It is. It is. All right.

Let's step one of Take Down Chris Martin. It's called SEO, man. That's right. I mean, come on the day. He's like, guys. He's never been on. Exactly. Yeah.

One nothing. This person. He's a coward. Yeah. You know? Does he go to the Ralphs on Hollywood and Weston? Out of it? No.

Is that the Chris Martin they talk about when they say it's My first mind in I'm four? No. Crying again? No. It's me. With hot dogs in his hands? Clutching two back.

Yeah, he's crying. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? The last thing that I searched, I had to look this up, was flock of seagull's hair. Mm. Because I'm sort of becoming obsessed with like Gen Alpha style, just in general. I don't know if it's just me getting. old where you know you reach a certain age and all youth style choices are like baffling but I feel I feel like I'm old enough to have experienced other ones before but this one is like more baffling

than others and I was just noticing all the the kids they fluffing up the sides and then they got the waterfall down the middle and I'm like wait isn't that isn't that just the flock of seagulls like kids are rocking the flock of seagulls like that it kind of like that because it's fluffed up it's like faded on the side and then they're fluffing it up, but then it just falls straight down the forehead. Wow. But it's like a flock of seagulls perm kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, God. There's nuance to these broccoli cuts out here is what you're telling me. Sometimes they got all broccoli. Up on top. Yeah. It's wild to me that like young people, like young dudes are getting like perms and shit. That's just, that's like that my favorite thing about when the people don't have the right curl to rock the floppy broccoli.

They're like, I might just have to get a perm, no. Yeah. I spent my entire childhood getting roasted for having curly hair and having people asked me if I had a perm and now like curly hair's in. Like all the things. Like I had a friend that legitimately asked me one time. Like, do you think if you shaved it off, it would grow back normal? They were really worried about you. They're like, hey, man, I'm catching strays just being your friend, dude.

Do you think you're accursed for life? Or is there something that we could do to just like let you start over again? I heard your mom wasn't saved, and that's why you have the devil's curly hair. No, on my basketball team, a couple guys that nicknamed me DNA because they said I had fucked up DNA because of your hair being killed. Because my hair was curly in the front and not in the back and they couldn't figure it out. And it's like, you got fucked up DNA. Wait, it was, wait, it was curly in the front.

Curly up front, straight in the back? Yeah, like a reverse mullet sort of situation. That would actually, I saw a dude with a pretty tight mullet like that where it was like tight little curls up top and then the fucking thick ass mane in the back. A lot of people would pay a lot of money for that. Curly up front? I don't know. Straight in the back.

It also could look like you had a hair transplant of like cubes. Yeah, yeah. To strengthen your hair line with pubs. Yeah, yeah. They're like, oh, man, I mean, I guess you can graph my chest hair on up there. Yeah. Well, why not? Why not?

Anyways, you look great. I got to tell you. I thought if I did that with your. chest hair like because your body hair like it stays one link like it doesn't just grow forever yeah yeah yeah you get that transplanted onto your head and never have to get haircuts again where it's gonna take a brave man to find out and i'll be forever yeah although my i have weird like body hair because i have like i'm not really a hairy dude but i like 14 chest hairs but they're of like varying lengths oh really something that i'm like bro this should not be this

long this one's been here since seventh grade this one's kind of new oh yeah yeah yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this one of my, one of my longest, one of my most faithful hairs. But I thought you're asking about flakas eagles because everything seems so cyclical now. And I'm like, I feel like we're eventually going to go back into the 80s. Like we're dancing around the night. We're like in the white 2K 90s era right now with kids fashion. And I'm like, are we going to go for it?

We're going back to the 80s at some point? Why not? You know? I feel there's some stuff that feels very 80s, like the like the white, the white, the white, socks that kind of get baggy. Like everybody looks sort of like 80s, late 80s frat boy. Like the sock and shoe choices.

That and like pleaded skirts. I see a lot of pleaded like tennis skirts out there too. That feels very like country club, uh, coated for me, but I'm sure people who are more into trends. Like it's actually this other thing. And I'm like,

I'm sorry, my only frame of reference for this is like some kind of 80s tennis match. Right. I feel like the 80s was like kind of pulling some 50s shit a little bit also. So. What is something you think is underrated? I'm going to pull something crazy out of my ass. Okay.

I'm going to say... As you're underrated or you're just saying you're describing it act? Okay. That's my underrated. Get ready. The album American Life, released by Madonna in 2003, is a criminally underrated album. Okay. American Life. What's on that one? Let's see. Well, American Life. I'm drinking a soy latte. I get a double shotte.

it goes right through my body and you know I'm satisfied. That's the lyric? Is this the one where she looks like Che Guevara and shit on the album cover? Yes, yes, yes. Okay. So it is for the world that we're living in today, still, in my view, extremely relevant, extremely like, it's an album that is almost 25 years old at this point,

but it still hits, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when it came out, it was trashed critically. It was critically, like, you know, everybody hated it. Panned. But for me, in 2003, that was, I was 10 years old. That was the Madonna that, like, opened my eyes to the world. And I think that was when I became politically aware, you know?

Right, right, right. Just watching the American Life music video and all of that. So, you know what? Totally out of left field, but that's my underrated for you. What is the American Life music video? What was happening in that? Well, funny you should ask, it's actually been banned. What?

And there's actually two different versions of the American Life music video. So the version that was released after it was banned is just Madonna front to camera in a military uniform with a bunch of, with the world flags flashing behind her. But before that, but the band version is Madonna basically. hosting a, it's like a fashion show, a war fashion show. And it's like she drives a tank out onto the runway and she's

like throwing grenades. And it's all very commentary on the war in Iraq. And just like, it's all commentary on that basically. And kind of like pushing back at that. There, she flies a plane into the world trade

center in that? Does she really? No. Okay, I was like, wait. 2003. But she actually has two band music videos from that album. The Die Another Day music video was banned because it depicts her being waterboarded by North Korean official. Die Another Day the Bond song?

Yes. One of the worst James Bond theme songs ever, but my favorite James Bond theme song. Yeah. shit. That's just wild. Do you listen to that album consistently or when was the last time you listened to that album? Because whenever I find- I listened to it this morning.

Oh, okay. Does it transport you to that time or is it just been such a mainstay in your listening that like it kind of doesn't? Because I recently listened to something I listened to a lot when I was 13 and they fucking sent me back. What was it? What was it? It was actually not 13.

It was maybe I was 14, 15. It was the high tech. the producer of high technology album. Specifically, this one track by common called Sun God. And I used to listen to this shit all the time when I was in the summer when I was in Japan. Like, because I had a CD player and I would just by myself be kind of like an independent, young teenager walking around. And recently when I just gone back, I had a moment. And I was like, I haven't walked around and just listen to music walking around Tokyo like I used to when I was a kid.

And I put that song back on. And I had to like stop because I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm time traveling. I'm time traveling. And I really love that about music. So I wasn't sure if that, if it had that same quality. Because some things we listen to so much, it's just like part of who we are. You know, I haven't had the intense, that quite of an intense one. But when I do listen to die another day, I am transported back to me being like 10 years old in my parents living room, pretending I'm Madonna, like running around like with a gun, like, you know, like pretending I'm

like a spy because that was very my, my tea when I was 10 listening to Madonna. I love to like, you know, dance around and pretend I was her. So yeah, that, but maybe not the whole album. I think the album, as I've gotten older, has, like, the meaning for it has, like, evolved over time because I'm like, oh, I get what she's talking a lot about aging and stuff like that and becoming older and regretting your past and regretting burning bridges with people and stuff like that. Right. And I'm like, oh, I know what that means now. But when I was 10, I had no fucking clue what she was talking about. I wanted to. I wanted to, like, know what it was like. I was like, I was like, I. I know what that means. And I was like, I That shit meant.

I was like, yeah. I get it. Right. I get it, Madonna. What is something you think is overrated? My overrated this week, I actually wanted to go with cult documentaries. Wow. I just feel like we're at a point right now where they're getting really overrated.

We had a good run with cult docs. Sure. I think, you know, the last good one that was about the FLD Yes, which we've had so many good ones. But now I think we're just kind of trying to stretch it a bit too far. Wait, but you just told me before of a great cult. Well, see, that is the one I was going to bring up. Okay.

So the Natureboy cult came out on Hulu. It's just called Nature Boy, the cult of Nature Boy. When you first said that, it was like, Rick Flair? Yeah, a lot of people were like, yeah, Rick Flair. But Nature Boy was basically a guy who got popular on TikTok and Instagram live really during the pandemic for being like black people need to free themselves from a Babylon, which is what he called America by eating fruit and topping medicines. And I'm going to like, yeah,

I'm going to move to Mexico and then Panama. They had to move a bunch of places because people kept calling the police on them. And then people would be like, that's so cool. I'm going to go live with him and give him all my money. And it slowly built into a cult, but it also was one where he did not try to hide that it was a cult at all. Like he would be like, yes, this is a cult.

And we do expect you to believe what everything we believe. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know what? You knew what it was. Yeah. And so the whole documentary, though, tries to set it up in a way where it's like, oh, the same kind of cult coercion.

But then it's like all these lives of people being like, yes, we know we have been coerced into this. And then I left. And now I'm in the cult. And now I'm in the, yeah. And so most people watching this one were a little like, oh, Hulu, this is just people being like, yeah, I went and did a dumb thing for a bit. And then I realized it was dumb.

and went back home. Right, right. Then he got arrested. Yeah. But the marketing material makes it very difficult to tell the difference between one where it's going to be like, holy shit, they all died. And one where everyone's like, and, you know, it was a weird summer. Yeah, a weird summer where the whole time people are like, hey, you're being scammed.

Hey, you're like, in all of this lives, it's just, and people in the comments like, this is a scam, he's scamming you. I don't want to blame it all on Kobe Bryant's death. Yeah. It was very vulnerable. Yeah, yeah. What happened to the call docs? with charisma.

Yeah. What happened to my cult leaders who put the work in? The last one I saw that felt really good was probably like Mother God. Yes.

Because when she turned blue off the colloidal silver and they were like, get her into this hotel. It's like, okay, something's up here. Oh,

and then yeah, they were like playing acoustic guitar to her corpse. There were just so many visuals they were like, okay. Yeah.

That was a good one. And so, you know, that, but that was a few years. Yeah. But then after I watched the Hulu one,

I found out that on YouTube, there's a 40-part documentary someone made, as this was all happening, that is actually better than the Hulu doc. It's got the good stuff. It has the good stuff, and I realize, like, Hulu kind of sanitized it. And now I feel like we're in this air of, like, cult docs where things are kind of just

sanitized in a way to make a, just very general point of, like, everyone is a bit of a victim. Right, right, right. Like, the Hulu one goes into this long thing of, like, but Nature Boy was also assaulted and had his issues. And it's like, do we need to be? focus on that or maybe we could focus on

how he like told a woman to stop taking her meds and she died like two weeks like that's not going to be in the documentary. That's not a movie one. Right, right. That's a little space. It's very weird like what they kind of decide and yeah. And then there was one on Netflix that came out that I was like this I feel is maybe

our one good cult doc what I can't remember what it's called but it is about FLDS and it's about a woman who basically had to undercover take her husband down. Oh right. And did she like befriended that one woman who used to be a documentary, a documentarian, and she befriended, like, one of the wives, and they started working together and had to, like, basically tell this guy, we totally believe

you should have nine-year-old wives. We're so on your side. And even though the whole town, yeah, the whole town is like how, yeah, trust me. Yeah, trust me. Yeah, yeah. See? The whole town is like turning against them. She had to stick with it and be like, no, no, we let. And then she turned all the evidence in, got the guy arrested. Yeah. So there are good cult documentaries out there, but you need, there's a wilderness of bad ones. A bad, and they're trying to trick you right now, A lot overrated. And you need to watch. Right, right, right.

And just a lot. TBSA with Ashley Gray to find out. That's what I was doing. And like there's one on surviving Jehovah's Witness on HBO. Not good. Sorry, guys. Yeah. Yeah.

That was barely a cult. They're just like, they made me knock on a lot of doors. Right. And I know. But that is. They show like footage of people. You're like, oh, my knuckles. Oh, God.

My knuckles are so. I remember that day. It says, yeah, dramatization. Boom. Yeah. And it is like, oh, yes. I just said that your mom. made you as a 10-year-old walk like five miles to knock on doors.

I couldn't go to birthday parties. And it's like, okay. Like, I knew Jehovah's Witnesses brought up and I was just like, bro, that's just sounds boring. Yeah. So, you know, the cult of Andrea Yates, boring. Sorry, that one wasn't very good. Yeah. So I just. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's have more discerning taste. And also, we're going to do that by knowing they're out here, knowing that it's easy right now to get a cult dog made because of that. Well, I think it's easy to get a cult made. Honestly, yeah. It's never been easier to make a cult. Yeah, people want, like, cults are.

How don't I start one? Yeah, yeah. I think that sometimes. Because everybody's just looking for an alternative to the status quo. Yeah, yeah. A Democratic Party, Republican Party. Like, it's the same thing that drove Trump. It's just like everybody, like, wants an answer.

That's not the one they've been hearing. Yeah. Because that the official narrative is evidently bullshit. Yeah. And so now they're like cults. It sounds like a lot of work. It does. That's why people are watching documentaries about cults instead of,

of joining them. Instead of joining. I don't know. And this is why, man, you got to keep track of like 100 people. Yeah, the nature boy I want. As soon as he was like, yes, we live in a house, but all of the other people have to sleep in their tents and have to poop and pee outside, but I can use the toilet inside and no one else can.

That would have been a wrap for me. I'm like, no, I'm not doing this. Yeah. But I think the future of cult docs is bright. I think we're going to discover cults that give us, yeah, yeah, they're in the future. Mish. Like, we're getting some good stuff. Yeah, like some 20-person crews.

Oh, yeah. But right now, sorry, we're in a bit of a. Yeah. A lull. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, we fix the cult problem for a bit, you know, after nexium. Right, right, exactly. Do we feel like documentary, like we're headed for a golden age?

Because that was always my theory is that now that everybody is constantly filming their lives, we're going to live in a golden age. You could make a compelling documentary about literally any human being on the planet Earth because there's just enough footage of everyone. Like, are we there? Oh, absolutely. I think A Perfect Stranger, which just came out on Netflix, a few months ago, It was about the neighbor who shot another neighbor.

Yeah, the black woman who was like, she was a mom, and the old white lady hated kids and shot the black mom. Through the door, right? Yeah, the entire documentary is told through police cameras and cell phone footage, and it shows everything because they never, yeah, the cameras are just always on. Everyone was recording everything. And thank God for those police cameras. That's what I've been saying.

It goes through great documentaries. And there's a little point where like the cop realizes she, didn't turn it off and she was like complaining about the white lady and she's like what a fucking bitch and then she's like oh god damn all right and she's like talking it's like hey she's like i just want to say i'm sorry i called her a bitch like i know that's not gonna get me but you know but fuck you too was the cops name angela fucking angel but i think we're there perfect stranger was a good one there also was one that came out about like how every child influencers life is ruined and it was all made through found footage from

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That one was really good. It's a kid influencer on Hulu. And so I think that's where things are going. And we're going to have cult docs where they just are like, yeah, we recorded every illegal thing we did. Yeah. Like, that's, like, each of all did that. I actually put my phone in cinematic mode.

Yeah. Because I thought this shit looked mad. It looked real cool. And we were like, no, why wouldn't we film us like putting snakes all over a child? Right, right. Exactly. So. And that's me getting bit on my scrotum by a cobra in slowmo.

That's 120 friends per second. Yeah, and me just doing it all ticket. What was this you here? Yeah. So the cold, I have faith in the future of cult docs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's important. That makes me happy.

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All right. I think. Let's take the wheel. It does feel weird like the Ron Bergeny thing with a teleprompter where it's like, am I saying anything there's no prompter? Is this a podcast if I can't hear my own voice? I can't hear my. Who am I? This is disoriented.

Anyway, we're recording, right? Okay. We got thumbs up from Javier. Justin. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Justin, we're recording. Oh, yeah.

Are you going to any dogs or anything for the rest of the next? No, I don't think we have any clips. Okay, cool. Clipless. Clippers. You didn't think I was good enough guests have clips? Yeah. That's basically how we stretch the episode.

Yeah, yeah. It's just Chris Martin. It's not burn all these clips. Yeah. This is how Jack knows it. This is how we let us know it's a bad episode. Jack goes, are we recording this? And then we go, oh, shit.

All right. Just off this guy. safe work. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. This isn't going to be clips at all. He's just, the pizza, the pizza muffin gate is gone to the guy.

He's on the side. He's on the hill. He's on the gucitted trousers. Those are nice trousers. Oh, thank you so much. It's a gusseted crotch. Gusset. You see that?

You say gusseted? This, that's a gusseting. Oh. To make it wider. Yeah. I need that. I need that. Sounds horrible.

The word gusset. I'm saying that. Gusseted. Sounds like an old English sort of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

All right, Quentin. Footy. Fuddy. What is? Ain't it? World Cup. Is it? Coming up.

Okay. It is happening. I remember in 1994 how excited I was when the World Cup came to the United States. Yeah. Because it was, it felt like probably like the equivalent of like the world's fair or something like in the early 20th century. Like now the world will come to our doorstep and we will participate in this global phenomenon. It was my first experience really with the sport like in terms of like engaging with it. And I remember the final between Italy and Brazil.

And that was like, that made me a fan from that point. Cut to now in 2026. And I barely remember it's happening because just America is just such a fucked up place that I'm like, we don't deserve anything good. At least anything that would bring like the government, any sort of pride. I feel like the people and all the people who come from other countries, we do deserve to have a World Cup here where you could finally maybe see your home country play. And because from all soccer fans, the World Cup is like the thing you want to be at. And it's crazy that I talk to myself, other fans I know, everyone's kind of like, fuck, dude.

Like, I'm going to go to Mexico, I think, to watch, like, or I'm going to go to Canada. Like, I don't know if I can, I don't even want to watch it here. For a few reasons. One being the ticket prices. Because right now, it will cost you almost $3,000 to see the U.S.'s first match against Paraguay. at SoFi Stadium in L.A. $3,000. I actually don't know.

I get paid $10 per base. I'm like, boy, baby sitting a unit. And that's good, right? $3,000. Again, because of FIFA's dynamic pricing scheme that they have, which is like a euphemistic description, dynamic pricing. I know, it sounds so exciting. It sounds too cool.

It could go down, but it probably won't because what is called is, fuck you, I'm greedy pricing. Right. And FIFA even takes a 15% cut if you try and resell your tickets. They used to not do that. They used to be like, yeah, get people there. Now they're like, we're going to take a 15% cut. Off both ends.

Yeah. How are they doing that? Huh? How are they doing that? Because it's all the official reset. They've got their own resale platform. Right. You can read.

They want you to resell. Yeah. Which is like, they're like, we don't want anyone to be, we don't want the scalpers. Right. We want to be the scalpers. Exactly. We saw what you were doing with Pokey main cards. And then scalper is just like all, you try and scalp a ticket and you just like get swept up by a AI robot.

Like one of those Boston dynamic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a giant one. It comes into your house and just like sweeps you. Like, I mean, because like there's four categories of tickets, category one being obviously like the most expensive. Sure. Just for, in 2022, the last World Cup, for the opening match, the highest tier ticket. get a category one ticket was only $618.

I mean, I'm saying that as, it's crazy. The Overton window is so fucked. I'm like, it was only $618. The lowest ticket was $55. Yeah. Even for, and then group matches, the lowest, sporting event. Yeah.

Yeah, like you would have tickets to a sporting event. So anyone can enjoy. Sure, some seats might be higher up, others might be closer, but hey, we're giving an opportunity for people. If you, during the group maze, you've got a group's phase, it was $11 at the lowest level. You compare that to right now. group matches when about like four months ago when people started looking at tickets prices were like the lowest one you get 100 now it's like 5x that so there's not even any

affordable option for people to go just because they want to see anything did you see how smaller period like section of the yeah they're six dollar tickets and then you had to zoom in on the map and it was the tiniest little green slither it's like literally it's like one guy's like i got $60 ticket. It was like enough, I think truly like enough to be like, well, we offered it. Yeah. We offered cheap tickets.

Now don't ask how many. There were four. Yeah. You get the golden ticket and you get to pay $50 to for a seat. But other than that, you have to be a millionaire. Yeah. And then now for the final, the World Cup final. So at last, like when again, people were first seeing these tickets,

a category one final match ticket was $6,370. It's now over $30.30. It's now over $30,000 for the highest tier ticket. Where's that going to be? In New York. Yeah. Heard of it. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And not to mention, like, all the people now, especially Europeans who are like used to being like, oh, the World Cup is in this country, I'll take a train and we'll follow the team across places. They're like, most people are like, wait, what the fuck is the distance between Philadelphia and Dallas? Right.

You know, like, people are also like, this makes no sense. Also, our, you know, our transit system is. great for that kind of stuff unless you're flying everywhere. Take the high speed rail from Philly to Dallas. Didn't I read on one like every say everyone's getting it. It's like everyone's like price gouging. It's like the summer of price gouging. So some of the like places where you'd get the sky train or something from the airport to the stadium,

which are normally like 10 bucks, they're 100 now. Oh, they're literally, they're raising their price. They're like everyone's just like, yeah, you're just exploiting fans love of the game. Yeah. Well, the other thing too is like national teams, they get to buy, like they'll They'll get access to a block of seats because they have guests of the national team set up, the players, their families that they have access tickets for. They're now being quoted like $2,000 a ticket, up to $3,000 a ticket. And they're like, what the fuck?

These used to be way cheaper. Right. Like we're going to burn half our budget just getting tickets for people. Yeah. Because again, Gianni and Fantino. We're only going to be able to afford the top half of our uniform. The shorts will just be like basketball short, just like whatever you want. Yeah.

But we're going to be wearing dark color shorts today, as long as they're dark colored. But then, like, to their point, too, about everybody wanting to, like, get in on, like, the excitement, hotel, like, hotels were cranking up prices, too, because they were also told, this is going to be, like, such a huge boon to the city and all, like, all the traffic. Quote, nearly 80% of U.S. hoteliers in 11 World Cup host cities say bookings are tracking below original forecast, with some describing the tournament as a, quote, on event. Some are saying that it's lower in years where there was nothing even going on. So it's like, in terms of overall traffic, like that they've made it. No one's even

book. They've made it too expensive. They're just right. You got to. I don't even know what they're going to do. Like, I guess are they eventually going to just panic and then drop the prices? I think, no, I reckon like week of yours, all the prices are going to come down. And no, who the hell is going to spend like hundreds of dollars to watch like, just pick two random teams playing. Right, right, right. Especially ones that requires people from those countries to come support them, too. If they're not even there, then you're, like, relying that there was, like, a diasporic community somewhere in that city that would have enough people to give it the same environment.

It's just going to be crazy. So another, this article goes on, quote, the U.S. Metro's hosting World Cup games will, quote, generate some GDP growth this summer, concentrated in leisure and hospitality sectors, but those, quote, will not have a material impact on overall jobs and economic gains. this year. So there's nothing, all of this like financial, economic fantasy world shit about like, this is how the World Cup's going to be so great. It's been overtaken by greed to the point where now they have lost the ability to even attract people to even make anything of it. So, yeah, I'm not sure, you know. Yeah, this isn't how capitalism is supposed to work, right? It's supposed to be

like a thing where the prices are fluid and they go up and then people like don't buy it. And so they come down, but yeah, we keep being told, well, you like, don't understand. There's like complicated forces. Well, think of like Trump's thing with the gold card visa where he's like, I'm going to charge people a million dollars and they're going to love it. They're like, no. Because that sounds a lot, like Dr. Evil style, just because that sounds like a lot of money. They're like actually, I could, with 500,000, I could probably get into the U.S. you know, realistically or something. But I guess the other thing, too, if the situation in the stadiums isn't good enough or bad enough, just outside, I do want to warn people if you are watching any matches in Texas.

Now, this is what I'm excited. Just know that the Southern Baptists. Yes. Are rubbing their midst right now being like, oh, this is a good opportunity for us to spread the word of God to those who may not have been fortunate enough to be colonized by a Western European nation early in its history. They are basically all they're thinking of like, we can convert people. This is our time. All these people are going to be here. there are many soccer theme tactics,

but one that isn't is what they call a tellgate, where they quote, using the time-honored tactic of speaking to the heart by appealing to the belly. They're urging evangelists to host a tellgate door-to-door evangelism strategy where a team can purchase a grill to walk through a neighborhood

and grill hot dogs for the community. Quote, as the team moves down the street, they can stop it to each house to offer free hot dogs, share the gospel, pray with the residents, and invite them to church. This is a great way to get to, know your community while also having gospel conversations.

Have you ever wanted a free door-to-door hot dog from a person who's telling you you're going to hell? Like, it starts to make sense. Yeah, it does a little bit. Where you're like, tailgate, you go to a tailgate and then you like speech the gospel. Why are they out in neighborhoods recreating? That's where it's not like tellgate at all. It's basically door-to-door harassment with the promise of a free undercooked hot dog.

The free food, though. I mean, I'm not, I'm not a Southern Baptist, but you're not. No, no, but you didn't make it up there. Stage one of getting me on board is a free snack. Is a free hard dough? Because some of the religion, some people will just shout you in the street. Yeah. And they're not offering snacks.

Yeah. So you've got to give them, is it hot dogs. At my university in England, there's like you're the Christian community. You get, there's like cakes and sandwiches. Like you are just like, what's the deal? How do I? What's the catch? You go, and then, you know, if you're strong-willed enough, you go, well, I'll listen to you for 10 minutes.

Yeah, that's not terrible. Like a time share pitch. Yeah, it's not terrible. The free jets to be right. If you're confident enough, you can get out of there, you know. With a free hot dog. I just think they have some interesting things to say in my experience. Well, this is the thing, too, is like going to hot dogs.

I love hot dogs. And being like, hey, I got some hot dogs if you want a hot dog. I would just be like, this is a different grub hub. I'm good. I'm God, actually. Leave me alone. There's another one. This is so funny.

Another suggested evangelism method is the e-ball soccer strategy, which uses familiar soccer concepts to communicate principles found in scripture. Using a multicolored evangelism soccer ball or e-ball, participants use dribbling, shooting, and other drills to help explain the gospel message. That does sound like that would be really effective. And I bet they're really good. Yeah, really good football players. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure.

There's a guy you can do like, a lot of toe kicking. I see someone do it. If I see someone do a toe punt, I'm like, I, you lost me. Yeah. I was so on board with everything, but use your toes. You got sandals on? Oh, yeah. You must have broke your toe.

What are you doing? Like my man, J.C. Exactly. Sandals. The first cleats out there were woven sandals upon Christ feet. Someone say these are the Adidas Copas. The crossbar of the goal is just to crucifix. Oh, yeah, yeah.

It extends out further. It is a crucifix. And just can you hit the... Can you hit the man on the crucifix? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a handball, Jesus. You hit his hand. It's a joke. It's a joke.

You almost knock the nails out. Yeah, they usually have a good sense of humor. Then the other one, this is just so stupid, it was the Yellow Card Initiative. They said, under the Yellow Card Initiative, FIFA World Cup-themed yellow and red cards are used to, quote, illustrate sin and how it can cause us eternal separation from God if we don't repent and give our lives to him. So, yeah. These are good. How did you get a red card? Interfaith marriage, interracial marriage.

You wore something that resembled a rainbow, therefore they would think you're, you're, you. You support the LGBTQ plus community. Those are all red car defenses. Yeah. I guess smoking in a cigarette. I don't know. I don't know. Whatever you want.

Whatever you want. But that's, again, everything's going to do a VAR rule. And they just go and look at the internet and go, actually, no, that's fine. That was good. We were mistaken. That was good. Okay. You know what?

I got in my ear. I had to go to the monitor and you are vindicated. But like everything just does feel like a version of it's always going to be you're going to hell. Mm-hmm. You need a better marketing strategy than. You're going to hell, dude. You want a hot dog? Yeah.

I was recruited in a similar way. When I was in Kentucky, there was like one good basketball pickup game on like Tuesday nights. And it was at a fellowship of Christian athletes. You'd go play in the game. And then they would make you. They were like, all everybody to the other room where we're going to like preach. And what everyone's like sweating after. Yeah, basically.

All sweaty. I think there might have been snacks. But you just, the only. thing it taught me was how fucking weird like some of the religion that was like yeah yeah yeah so I was in a car accident with my sister she was next to me

and she died and I know she's in hell because she wasn't saved and so you just need to you're like I thought losing the game was bad I know yeah I just put up a double double what fuck is this so anyway guys you in now right you guys are a great way

of spreading the gospel of hell fucking weird southern baptist churches are i mean i just remember you know going to like religious like lutheran and catholic school from my whole like school till high school and every time they talked about the hell stuff i was just like dude shut up like i was just like what is the point of this because i think if you're not really if you're not raised in that it just sounds crazy yeah and you're not gonna like that's just not appealing to be like well first of all you haven't convinced me i'm going to hell. And now then I have to hang out with all you guys and like your like lukewarm

hot dogs and shit? No, I'm good. I'm good. But what if they put that messaging in the form of a soccer ball? Go on. Hello. Because that is the thing you guys like is just the pattern on the side of that. That's what my two year old. I'll read through a football program

and I'll be like, this play is a ball. Yeah. They're like, you like Arsenal, right? Young man? Yeah, I do. What about the Arsenal of Christ? That's not they always get you though. The first like three things. You're like, I'm like, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And you think like, good people should

be rewarded, but yeah, yeah, that's a cool thing. And you think that anyone that does that should be burnt at this, whoa, whoa, hey, buddy. Tell your, tell your best friend who you think might be gay, you can't be friends anymore. We'll leave you alone. What?

I don't, do I still get, I thought he's getting a free football out of this. You're getting a free hot dog. Okay, okay. And now, and that's even iffy at this point. I keep all this talk back I don't like it. Welcome to America, the World Cup. Yeah, yeah, all the highlights. Man, that 1994 World Cup, like that Colombian players hair is the one thing.

Oh, yeah, blonde. Yeah, yeah. And then there was also, did Hegeta playing that World Cup too, the keeper? But yeah, Carlos Valderrama definitely, then after that, because then he came to MLS. And everyone was like, we got the curly, curly Carlos Valderama hair guy. Baggio with his little ponytail at the back. His little Padawan braid from Star Wars. Is that the first celebration, Babetto?

We had a baby. I think so. The baby celebration. Yeah. Let's go back. Let's time travel back. I was collecting Coca-Cola bottles, I remember. Right.

That had like different flags. I got the Brazil one. That was good capitalism battle. Yeah, this is what we used to be good at. This is some good at capitalism by that. We used to be like, we'll make a Super Bowl out of anything. Yeah, you know? And now it's fucking, it's over.

They're like, I don't want a promotion. Can't even do this blood soup, sure. But it's baby's blood soup. It's the big sponsor. You don't like this? Here's the thing, though, as a football fan. Yeah. There's a lot of problems with it, pricing.

But if someone said to you, do you want free tickets to that game? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll still got it again. Free tickets. That's the thing. And I think that's what's so vile about, like, the tournament as it is now, it's because they take something that is so sacred to people and are now just being like, how much, how many dollars can I squeeze out of every single person to the point where

they don't realize, like, you're, what's at stake is the sacredness of, it. Yeah. We're now, even for me, someone who's been, I remember five years ago being like, dude, when it's, when it's fucking here, I'm going to fucking New York. I'll go to Canada. I can't wait to be traveling around for the World Cup. I've always dreamed of doing this shit. And now, like, they've completely, they've yucked my, um, for lack of a better word. And now it just like, it just feels fucking gross and accessible, like the magic of having all these people being able to, that's the thing they don't realize is like the fun is being around a ton of other people who it's just as sacred to them rather than this gate, you know,

filtering out people, they're like, can you afford $3,000 to watch 90 minutes of a sport? I've always wanted to watch a soccer game in Elysium, the thing. Everyone's rich. What's funny is like, it's they're raising all the prices. And as a British person, when I go to a sports game in this country, I'm like, I think you guys have already nailed that. Like, you've already, you've already completed overpriced spawning. He's getting a beer. It's like $22. It's $21. Yeah, all right.

And you're like, in the UK, even to go like the Premier League game, if you said someone 21 pounds for a beer. It's right. You're like, mate, you're having a bubble? Yeah. You have it's crazy. So the fact is going to be even more expensive. That's the sad thing.

You have these people, I want to go watch our team. And someone's like, do you want to go for a beer? Sorry, dude. I'm not a millionaire. I can't have a beer after the game. I'm just going to shoot heroin in the bathroom. Yeah. I'm just going to go.

Just for my money on that. All right. Give me the free hot dogs. It's the one thing that I can afford. I don't care the price I have to pay. Right. All right.

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Yeah, yeah, a little bit. Always talking about it. We love a bit of a scam. You know what I mean? Yeah. All right. I like that you notice that I just wrote Critical Condish. Yeah.

I like that. Let me take a note while Miles is talking. Critical Condish. I can't wait to watch this one. That doesn't breathe. Yep. All right. Wouldn't it be critical.

Krik-Kindish, dude. Krik-Kondish. I like it critical Kondish for some reason. Just taking one syllable. Yeah, one syllable. I like to be efficient. RFK Jr. visited Ohio as part of his cross-country, take back your health tour. And, you know, if they hit some animals with their tour bus and get to boil their dicks to make a new stew, all the better. So we don't know that that's happened yet. But he popped by the Cleveland Clinic. which is in Cleveland, I believe, and was given extraordinary access to a patient who was splayed open for heart surgery. And at one point, he was seen fiddling

with the controls of a robotic arm in the operating room. The robotic hands were disconnected from the patient. They had to come out and note that. But I just feel like, what better metaphor like this guy just coming in, no, like maybe being the least trustworthy person to oversee the healthcare system and just immediately like sitting down

at the controls of a robotic operating room for your chest ripper robots. What a fucking, and also that's wild too. Like if you wake up from surgery, they're like, bro, you'll never guess what happened when we were doing open heart surgery. I'm like, I'm suing everybody. I would, yes, I would be immediately filing a lawsuit.

why was he there? Yeah. He sneezed into your chest caffeine. Yeah. And now I have brainworms. Or a chest buster. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just fiddling around is so wild that it's just like,

hey, dude, do you want to give it a shot, man? This robot that's doing open heart surgery? Hey, you want to see where we got this guy cut open back here? I feel even RFK would be like, is this okay? And they're like, yeah, dude, he'll be fine. We can fuck around for at least like five more minutes before it gets fucking critical here. Critkin dish.

Yeah. And this is why I request all of my surgeons to record my surgeries because. Right. You never know. You never know. Yeah.

Got or could you imagine it's like a little part? Look his right hand starts blowing up. Right. One of those like, you know, those nightmare stories you hear about people who were like, just not under anesthesia enough where like they couldn't move.

I felt everything. But was paralyzed basically. That would be. Probably the nightmare. Like, hey, oh, RFK is here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. You want to hop behind the controls and you're just like, fuck, no, fuck, no, fuck no, fuck no.

I mean, this also is like just, I'm again thinking about the patient in this situation. Yeah, I'm just, I know that this is supposed to be funny, but oh my God, could you imagine? Like, we have only recently passed laws that were like, you can't do like colorectal exam. or cervical exams on patients while they're under anesthesia. But now we need a law that says you can't have...

Randos popping in. Yeah. Any even rando. Yeah. We need a fucking bill for anti-rando medical interventions. Where you get... Yeah, bro, you want to test it out in the middle of a procedure? Fuck that.

Catholic said there's a terrifying. about being awake during IVF operations because a nurse was stealing the meds. No. Oh my God. Nurse, you do see a lot of nurses. I saw Nurse Jackie. In the rooms. Yeah.

It's a tough. And the doctors, too. I saw the pit. Yeah. They get access to the good shit, you know? Yeah. Were they doing that thing where they were like just skimming off like a vial basically? Yeah, I think so.

Probably. Oh, that's crazy. And then like, yeah, I thought it was a full dose cut to this person. was like, I'm fucking feeling everything. I'm awake. Replacing it with saline is what Catherine just said. Fuck all that. No way.

So my thing was I was addicted to saline. I was mainlining saline. Stay hydrated. Yeah. You know. Hakeem Jeffrey's talking big game. I'm kind of into it. I don't know.

Like, what if this dude just like, I, like, there are those stories about historical, like, politicians who are just like not particularly good and then they get put in like a crazy situation and suddenly they're just like, I've arrived. Yeah, this is, I don't think that's him, but he did said, so like in response to all of the, you know, systematized white supremacy that is going on in response to the Supreme Court overturning the Voting Rights Act, he said, we will beat the far right extremists. We're going to win in November. which is the same shit we've heard before.

And he said, and then we're going to crush their souls as it relates to the extremism that they are trying to unleash on the American people. Whoa. Fuck yeah, Doug. Soul crushing defeats. Yeah. And then there's skulls.

Like, that's kind of what I want to hear from. Yeah, I mean, I'm like, are you okay, Hakeem? Did you bump your head or something? This isn't the rhetoric I'm used to hearing out of the minority. leader. DJ rhetoric. But yeah, I mean, thank you. But I mean, like, he's not alone.

Clearly, like, all the Democrats are like, yeah, we're just going to have to finally realize that, like, fighting fire with fire is the thing to do rather than being like, when they cheat, we just follow the rules harder. That doesn't seem to be the thing. Like Ted Liu has also said some version of that. There's, like, other Democratic politicians who have said. said things like we also need to think about how we can kneecap the Supreme Court with like term limits or these other things. So they're saying a bunch of shit. But the thing is I'm like, let me see it.

Now you're talking big. Like soul crushing is, that's big for Hakeem Jeffries. Soul crushing? But anyway, right now they have laid out plans this week to basically begin the redistricting fight before 2028 and then also after the census. but like New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington are states where they're like, yeah, we have the power to do these things, but they can't do it immediately because it's too close to the midterms. Yet apparently it's not too close if you're not totally craving. Yeah, yeah, if you're in like Mississippi or Louisiana or Florida or whatever.

But that's that they are, they're saying, we hear you, we need to do something and we're going to do something. We're going to. Rudy Giuliani's going to be riding up an escalator to. what he thinks is a meeting with St. Peter, and it's going to be a Team Jeffries in a Terminator mech suit. Bring that soul. Give me that soul.

Going to crush your soul new. Going to crush your soul. All right. Let's talk about Open AI, because they've got a movie at Khan. The Cannes Film Festival is happening. The standing ovations are about to be clocked with a stopwatch. Well, luckily, this wasn't at the actual festival,

because that would have been a true. true abomination, although it feels like maybe we're only like one year away from there being a full-blown AI generated film at Ken. Demi Moore, I didn't realize, though. Yes, Demi Moore, big AI proponent. Yeah. Her and Reese, of course, you know. Why?

You all know about Reese. What did Reese? Yes, Reese Whiterspoon. She got money in the... Yeah, they're all just... They're just invested, right? Yeah, exactly. About a week ago, Reese Witherspoon was quoted being like...

women need to embrace AI so that they don't get left behind, like, from the new, like, from like a feminist standpoint. And then Demi Moore. And, you know, come to find out, like, they're all probably invested. There's no way you're saying this shit and not invested. If you are, that's actually the worst kind of person. You can be like, oh, you're done. Yeah. Demi Moore's quote is, AI is here.

And so to fight to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. Would you sound like the fucking Terminator now? Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. You would lose immediately. It is inevitable. Don't get the fuck out of here. Just embrace the shitty movies.

Yeah, this movie that was shown at the industry market, Critters. Cridders with Z. That's how you know it's cute. And also that title must have been completely shot out by AI. Yeah. Everything seems shout out by AI. It's like the characters.

What do you think the prompt was for these characters? It was like, Give me a children's movie that will make a billion dollars and yeah, cute animals. Yeah,

someone like not even knowing about animals, that's how dumb they are. It's like, give me a thing that's like for kids. That's just going to look cool. Yeah,

talking animals. Yeah, this looks like a kitten, puppy, and ox with horns. It's like Muppet babies for the where the wild things are. Creatures.

Yeah, yeah, It feels like what, like, it's like what, how they started out. But it also like popples, that might have been before you guys' time, but there used to be these stuffed animals that like you would roll up and like they would pop out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's written by two screenwriters from Paddington and Peru. Okay.

It was produced by OpenAI's creative strategist, Chad Nelson. Oh, hell, yeah. Does that mean he is the prompt, the guy entered the prom? Yeah, you know it was. Okay. You know he. Nelson for this one. Hell yeah.

Hey, what are you working on in there? Oh, just cramming away at this kid's movie, man. I'm going to get it right. I'm going to get it right. Oh, man.

It's a while that he really is the, like, I guess the writer and director, or he made a short film. It was an AI generated short film written and directed by him was the source material, and then they hired two screenwriters,

the ones behind Paddington. in Peru to like make a feature. Yeah, exactly. Okay. The feature length version is directed by Nick Cleverov. That sounds made up. Totally made up name. AI generated.

Yeah, Cleverroff. He's the director of, do you remember that AI Toys R Us commercial? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it looked like shit. He's the guy. That was his proving ground to direct this. Was that Toys R Us commercial that looked like absolute shit. But just like made film executives' eyes turn into dollar signs.

Oh, but he also worked on that. Yeah, but it's interesting. This guy also previously worked on the title sequence for like Narcos. So he was doing shit before AI. Right. But then it was like, he was like, yeah, the thing is I relied on other creative people to help me with that. Now I can just fucking cut them out of it and ask my robot friend. Like Andy Warhol.

Like Andy Warhol. Yeah. Yeah. The, this film was announced where all, uh, important films are announced in the Wall Street Journal. But yeah. We're all inevitable products are announced in the Wall Street Journal. Like, so what?

You use fucking AI to make this very, like, generic looking kids film. The benefits are either it cost like three bucks to make or two seconds to make. It costs $30 million to make this. That's fucking nonsense. Yeah. They had to pay a chat. And the screenwriter. That was Chad.

That's Chad Nelson's salary. Yeah, yeah. You don't get a Chad Nelson without spending $30 million. $28 million for me and the writers. Do the rest for two. That's 30 million. I mean, their plan is to get some, you know, appeal to the fans. And the fans are a buzz quoted one person said on Twitter, this is obvious investor bait

and will suck unbelievable amounts of shit. I like that. You got to put that on. What are they going to do, right? Because presumably they think it's going to be like a moment when they're like the first AI generated children's film in theaters. Yeah, they think it's going to be like the Wizard of Oz when it was like the first color film or whatever. But if kids don't like see what they see in a trailer or whatever, they're not going to be like, oh, dad, take me to the monumental cinema. event where the entire industry

fell in that moment by distributing this nonsense. Like, I don't know. I'm, that's where I'm a little bit because I'll just lower the investors. They're like, you want to get in on this, man. It's a fucking AI kids film. But play that out a few more stuff.

They'll lower that like, so for instance, the filmmakers said they were aiming to premiere this film at Con, which didn't happen, but it is screening at Con for industry members in the market. So like it's, you know, like in a place down the street from where the actual films are not related to

crime. Yeah. When people are like, oh, I'm actually doing something for New York Fashion Week. It's actually a warehouse in New Jersey. But it's happening during New York Fashion Week. That's right. Yeah. So, I mean, but that's kind of what AI does is it opens with like big promises.

And then it's like, yeah, you know, it's kind of a version of that once you like pay attention and actually see how much we're actually like killing people. So, yeah. Oh, man. I'm there, I, you know, whenever that movie comes out, you know it's gonna suck unbelievable amounts of shit.

Suck unbelievable amounts of shit. Can't argue with that. And I genuinely believe the, uh, the, animal farm has to be better than, than whatever this Critters movie. Oh, the new animal farm.

The new animal farm, which does feel, AI if. It does, but not as bad as this. But yeah. Isn't it like Seth Rogen voicing?

It's got a crazy lineup. It has Seth Rogen. Andy Circus. Merrill Streep. It has like, Laverne Cox. Yeah.

It's got so many crazy. Woody Harrelson. Gatton, Gatton, Mataraso, yeah. Mataroso. Yeah. Right now,

it's doing, came out already? Yeah. The Animal Farm movie came out on May 1st. With like the craziest cast in the world. Ever. 27% right now. It looks like a fever dream.

Wow. But how much money did it make? Domestic? Five million dollars. No fucking way, really? Wow. What was the budget? 35 million dollar budget.

Wow, they definitely use AI. Oh, they did. Yeah, that can't. Well, no, because, like, you can't only spend 30. Like, animated movies cost a shitload of money to me. That is true. Oh, it was released by Angel Studios. What, how did they get fucking Seth Rogen to be in an angel studio?

Because it was probably one of those things where they made it and they couldn't find a distributor. And then someone goes, we'll do it. Yeah. That is. What a fucking hell. marketed as animal farm A Cautionary Tale. You said it.

Brother, you said it. I mean, I remember when we saw the trailer and it felt like this might actually be completely missing the point of the actual book. Miles. Yeah. I think it was. I think it was.

I think it was. I think it might have. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show. if you like the show. It means the world to miles.

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