The Daily Zeitgeist - What We Trend In The Showers 11/11: Chuck Schumer, Funko Pops, ICE, FOX News

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

In this edition of What We Trend In The Showers, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti discuss Democrats calling for Chuck Schumer to resign, Funko Pops going extict?, an update on ICE in Chicago, Fox News flipping on Trump? (not really) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That one courtesy of New Chris in reference to our conversation yesterday about what we do in the showers and why that would be a better show than what we do in the shadows, where you just find out what people are actually up to in them showers. Oh, I will say just real quick. Yeah. Just as a pitch, not to pitch on yesterday's topic. Just feels like what we do in the showers could be like in the way what we do in the shadows is like a house full of vampires, like a house full of creatures from the Black Lagoon type, like like shape of water. They have to be in the showers. Yeah. Everyone's yeah, they live in the showers constantly living in the showers i like that uh those are the kind of ideas you're going to get from our special guest co-host today a hilarious and brilliant producer and tv writer

you know i'm from the yoz this racist podcast it's andrew tis this mf her can't shut up da na na na na no no no no no no t um that wasn't even that wasn't even a reference to anything that was just like me trying to make up something yeah um are you a daily shout you're showerer. I'm just, I'm just fucking pulling things out of the ether, you know. Are you a day, that, so these are the questions. Are you a daily shower and do you, uh, we had the guys from the no such thing podcast on. I see. They have, they had an episode about showering. And I do think showering is interesting because it's like, it's the one place where you are like, you purely make up your own routine. Yeah. Like you're not, you have no, nothing to pull from.

other than movies where people, in the movies, people turn on the shower as they're in the shower, you know? I remember that from Psycho. They just, like, stand there in front of the thing and then just get hosed with, like, ice cold water for, like, five seconds, which is just an insane move. I don't know what, like, maybe the 50s, maybe the 50s, just, you know, that's what we were all trying to get back to

is racial injustice and instantly comfortable shower, shower temperatures. That's right. I remember there was a time when America was great and the showers were warm right away. Look at this scene from Psycho. And I remember, like, I'm still working off of ancient, like, I remember my mom when I was very young telling me you work from the head down because other, because the logic is like the soap from the head like runs. It's like dusting rules. Yeah, exactly. It's dusting rules.

That's how white people end up not washing their legs. Because they have been They mentally have been told You have the belief that Yeah My dirty hair water has cleaned my legs Yeah I'm

It sounded like I was going to tell you my routine I'm of the mindset That there's no upside to telling anyone Your shower routine There's only downside That's fine And that is totally fun No I shower every day

I just use all Costco products every single Costco product in the thing. I recently got into a relationship that has escalated to the point where the person feels comfortable talking about what's in my shower. Uh-huh. And telling you the truth. I may need to change some of that shit up. Yeah.

Kirkland signature body wash. Kirkland, everything. Yeah. Hot dog scented. Not as sexy as I personally thought. That's right. What do I know? All right.

Andrew, you got to get out of that relationship, man. That's my immediate advice. You got to get out there. If they don't like you for your Kirkland brand shower stuff, man. Bad news. Yep, I agree. All right. Well, we're thrilled to have you here.

We're going to go through some news stories because this is the trending episode. Democrats are calling for Chuck Schumer to resign. For some reason, you know, can't please everyone. No, they're citing a lack of leadership. The fact that those eight Democrats caved on the ACA subsist. in the shutdown. At a time when it would seem that the progressive

politics, the progressive part of the party had momentum. They were like, we're sorry. The timing is wild. I genuinely, I was,

I was at a dinner party. No big jail. Just flex. Flex. Flex. Yeah. And someone at dinner was like, oh,

looks like the shutdown might be over. And I, like a fucking idiot, was like, oh, right. Obviously, with the like sweeping mandate of the midterm elections. Exactly.

The Democrats found the leverage to get to, you know, do the right thing. And to hear the details of it being literally the exact opposite of what the fucking election should have met. Like, listen, you can also say it means nothing, but then why were you waiting until after the election to clearly renegotiate? Why would you cave? I think they got scared. I think they experienced.

progressive politics or the power of progressive politics and immediately went back to like their old boring X. They were like, oh, that's, that's too much. I can't live like this. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think the thing that, um, I think I probably trotted this POV. Well, I probably initially have said things like this on, on my podcast. Yo's this racist. No big deal. But yeah, I will say I probably said it to this audience also, which is, I think for years, I feel comfortable, you know, check the archives. The Democrats have just been a center-right party, our entire lives, and we're moderately old. But, like, I think no one's really wanted to say it.

But, like, yeah, they're just right-wing goons who want people not to have health care in general. Yeah. No, they're totally on board with this. They feel threatened when progressive wins and there's, like, some momentum. him. And so they, uh, they went back and just gave on all these, all these things that the shutdown was supposed to be about. Uh, Schumer himself didn't vote to end the shutdown, but, uh, his leadership is being called into question, uh, for the cave in, uh, happening under his watch, uh, representative, Rashida Clay, uh, said Senator Schumer has failed to meet this moment and is out

of touch with the American people. So it's a lot of house members basically saying, this guy sucks shit. let's let's wrap it up you know this is Pelosi announced her retirement at the end of last week representative jipal speculated schumer either can't control his caucus or gave his blessing and i mean there are no there's no other option those are the two options definitely no other options i feel pretty comfortable saying very clearly he gave his blessing this is exactly what he wants and has always wanted um it does sort of like bring into question why the government was shut down at all if this is clearly what? Exactly.

If this is, yes. What happened? Like, just fucking, then who gives a shit? We know, you know, I guess they needed to do the theater of, oh, we're trying to protect the ACA subsidies, but. But purely, yeah. I mean, they've rendered it purely theater at this point. Like I said, no Democratic senators have publicly called for Chuck Schumer step down,

but move on, pulled its members, which you got to feel like this is the Chuck Schumer stronghold, right? Yeah. MoveOn. dot org isn't that just like in 2025 right that is move on dog dot org uh oh god and 80% thought that chuck schumer should step down of of move on people people who are still uh with the move on organization and voluntarily clicking on polls right exactly i'll tell you what i think um there's also this quote from mark kelly because people are like well somebody from the senate might be willing to say something

brave or something, something about how this guy fucked it up. So they asked Mark Kelly, who everyone was, you know, kicking the tires on as a potential VP before they went to the walls. So he was asked, and I just want to read his rambling response because I think I see the future Democratic nominee for president here in his ability to say absolutely nothing. So they asked, you know, if he would support Schumer stepping down. said, so Chris, again, we found ourselves in a situation. I don't think the Senate has found itself in before. I think under any president, Democrat or Republican, they're going to care about the American

people's health care and care if they're going to be able to put food on the table and try to bring down costs, not to do the opposite. So when I hear folks say things like that, I understand their frustration. But I also hope they understand that we all need to be on the same team here. And what matters at this point is restoring these tax credits, if we can do it in December. Oh, my God. That was the whole, that was the thing, the tax credit. Yeah. Now you probably can't do it.

I mean, I guess also, like, being on the same team here, let me, let me propose this, because I don't want to be on the same team as these people who give Trump everything he wants. Yeah. So he doesn't want to be on my team. not, I don't want to be on his team. If that. Andrew, again, we found ourselves in a situation. Anytime it opens that way, again, we found ourselves in a situation. Like, let me take it back to, so I was born in, yeah.

I know. And I feel like that answer just made, like, the head of the DNC so horny. I know. I know. Oh, my God. Am I, I, I'm seeing Kamala loser energy. Yeah, yeah, love it, love it. Actually, not just an ability to.

say nothing, an inability to say anything. Yeah. And then you know, he's a white guy, which they've been really worried about. Yeah. Fucking astronaut. Are you kidding me, dude? An astronaut who can equivocate like that? God. I mean, look, I guess the end of the day. The thing that has been

remarkable is, it doesn't matter who the candidate is. Like, for president, it really seems it's just always other factors. Yeah, yeah. It does. My theory is that it's just going to go back and forth until like something dramatic changes. It's just going to go back and forth because like Trump is as popular as he was the day after January 6th. But the way he was able to recover from that was

that he was no longer the president. And because both parties do not have the, you know, best wishes of the American people in mind. It will just go back and forth between people being mad at whoever's in power because they're openly fucking them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's the, The, oh, yeah, yeah, right, right. That's the only difference. Fuck these people. Oh, my God, fuck these people. Yeah.

All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about Funko pops. That's fun. In the heat of battle, your squad relies on you. Don't let them down. Unlock Elite Gaming Tech at Lenovo.com. Dominate every match with next level speed, seamless streaming, and performance that won't quit. Push your gameplay beyond performance with Intel Core Ultra processors.

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or wherever you get your podcast. and we're back yeah andrew are you a collector um kind of yeah like in that paper bro that's what i and that's what i that is the correct answer um i guess i i'm getting into digital watches now people may remember i got a cassio and i got um i have on order a fairly insane upgrade kit for the Cascio, so we'll see how that goes. Digital watches. So much easier to read.

I had a moment where I was like, I haven't wound any of my, including the automatic analog watches in way too long. So who am I pretending? This is a bracelet, and I just have to acknowledge that it's a bracelet

because I am trapped in the prison of gender. Man, bracelet. I'm not comfortable apparently wearing a bracelet. and that's a me problem. Sorry, what was that, Jack? So, Funko pops are possibly going the way of Beanie Babies. You know, shelves behind YouTubers ranting about woke Star Wars movies may be about

to get a whole lot emptier because of the funco company, which they're, I've never totally understood them. Like, they're just like little baby cartoon versions of things. They're cartoon versions of things. I'm just going to violate possibly, I guess I never for, and there's no way I signed an NDA or if I did that anyone from here is going to hear this, but I'm still mad. I have on,

you know what, I have on this show before I trotted out various axes to grind on pitches that didn't make it in. So I'll just now reveal my fun copop pitch for Robot Chicken, which was I pitched a robot chicken sketch where, I think it's like a haunted house. I don't remember the setup, but basically someone goes into a situation where it's like a house full of fun co-pops. And every, it's like sort of like a haunted house thing, but every time he turns back to look at the funco pops or every time the camera cuts to a new one, their eyes are 10% bigger until the entire screen is swallowed in an inky blackness. And it's an existential horror sketch.

And that was rejected. Their eyes are just big black dots. It's like the void of nothingness. It's fucking horrifying. It's like the worst, the scariest thing that can happen to someone in a movie is like their eyes like suddenly go black. That's usually a bad sign.

But here they're just like, cute, only that. Yeah. Anyways, they just admitted they may not survive another year as sales slump and losses mount. Reportedly they're at the risk of defaulting on their loans, which total $241 million. And have yet to figure out some bullshit way to incorporate AI into their company.

I feel like, which Wall Street's not going to like that. Thing that is crazy to me is that they have like that, they have basically the pre-AI, AI, AI aesthetic. That's what these fucking things are. Yeah, surely. Just like churning out shit. It's like, could be the number one thing. They're, the reason they're not AI is because they,

I would imagine, pay and partner for licenses to IP as opposed to taking it. They just licensing. So the company started with, one guy who had a very specific thing. He really wanted a, like, Frisch's big boy, you know, the restaurant, big boy. Hell yeah, bro. Those big boy statues. He wanted a, like, piggyback with a big boy.

Okay. So he made it happen. Yeah. And nobody bought that. It was a total flop. And then he was like, all right, well, while I'm at it, it started licensing, uh, serial mascots. And those were a little bit more.

more successful. Then he made Austin Power's bobbleheads. And people were like, uh, yes, please. And then he sold it to like some aggressive capitalist who was just like, we're, we're gonna fucking put the pedal to the floor here and do this for literally everything. I mean, look, this is the reason why AI has any traction on, on Wall Street is like, the American people, at least for some or globally, but mostly the American people, let's be real, have proven.

that they will just chow down on slop if it hits the right nerve. Oh, give me that slop. It's just slop. It's just, it's like the physical manifestation of slop. Yes. People have argued that the popularity of Funko Pops is due to a lack of physical media in the streaming age. Like people needed a thing to buy or like get as a gift or something like that.

And like in lieu of books and movies and CDs, they're just like, here's the thing. Yeah. That doesn't matter. It feels like eternally there was going to be a need for something that costs $18 or less. Right. That you can give someone as a last minute thing. Yes, exactly. Yeah.

And Funko Pop's do, God, I literally just did this for my friends' kids' birthday. You did a Funko Pop? Yeah, I was just like, I don't know, fucking Five Nights at Freddy's. I think you've seen this before.

Here you go. And she fucking loved it. Loved it. If I may. Yeah, they have done everything from Jackie O. Awesome. Fortunately, they didn't do it in the, like, pink suit with the bloodstands. Yeah.

They didn't do, they didn't do JFK, which was just like a bottle of jam in, like, the fucking pop. They did Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. It's such weird. They also did, um, fucking Laura Palmer from, like, wrapped in plastic. like 17-year-old murder victim Laura Palmer from the pilot episode of like such a haunting vision that it like drives the entire creepy aesthetic of the show and nothing can not be cheapened yes that will there's nothing that won't do there's nothing they won't do the Travis Bigel one in particular just looks like a baby because like with a little mohawk it just looks like a little baby with a tuft of hair but he's holding a handgun you Yeah, it's like Muppet Babies for everything. Yeah. It's kind of the vibe.

He has a little wild, now that you say that, they never managed to make a TV product out of this fuckers. I know. They're blowing it. I mean, I think, yeah, Lego jumped all over that and, you know, the huge missed opportunity by them. They have dipped their toe into that idea by releasing little golden books. Do you remember these, like the little, like the ones with the gold. binding and it's like a sort of a board book with like soft pages. I know this is a me problem.

I just put together. That's why they're called golden books because of the binding on the spine. Yeah. So I guess like on the bookshelf, it's just like a whole golden. Exactly. Yeah. And like little golden books are,

you know, they'll have like little engine that could and like all these classic stories. But then randomly they'll just have like garbage IP plays. And in this case, So the one that our writer J.M. included is a book of Funko Seinfeld characters called Seinfeld. Who are these people? Oh, my God. What's in that book?

It's, so I don't know what's in that one, but we were given a version of this for friends. It was like, it's nice to have friends, and I read it to my kids, and it is just, it's just references to the show. with no, no, like, lessons or interesting things happening. It's just for collectors, but it's weird. Yeah, they don't know. You're truly psychotic for reading it to any children. I know. I fucking just like, so Friends was a thing.

Took place in New York where 9-11 never happened. The little Michael Richards. Yeah. I'll say the N-word several times on the patent. But it's a collector. It's very authentic. Yes. So, one of the problems of this company is run into, in addition to, like, not jumping all over the IPAI train, is that they have way too much shit that no one wants, got too much shit on them.

They announced that they were going to hire a third-party company to destroy between 30 million and 36 million worth of Funko Pops in 2023. They're just like, that's their, they're like, we have to spend a chunk of our budget just to destroy these things in a way that's not going to kill everyone within a 20 mile radius. This seems like the most print on demandable thing on earth.

I think so. I mean, I'm sure. How did you end up with that much shit? And like, the internet is so vast. How could you not get it snapped up on eBay? You know? Yeah. I guess it's Build a Bear. Like, how is this not the bill?

build a bear model. Why don't you just have a bunch of like blank plastic fucking heads? I like that this is just devolved into us pitching Funko like ideas. Listen, I will just say you guys done a ton of research. I'm looking in the document now. It is shocking to me. I guess I just assumed this was entirely a tariffs thing because this is the most like built in China garbage product possible. You could imagine. Yeah. They actually won't reveal what Funko pops are made of. Which is that? Like, Vice tried to investigate.

They were like, so you've said that you may not recycle these. What was going on? The company hasn't confirmed it, but people do believe that they're made of polyvinyl chloride, aka PVC, which is a real problem to manufacture and a real problem then to dispose of

because the chlorine it puts into the waste stream. This is the same substance that was in the Ohio. train that derailed in 2023 causing mass evacuations. Yeah. Yeah. Producer Brian points out, like I was sort of suspecting, I think there are human souls in there. Yeah. Yeah.

So this company may not last the fiscal year, but all of their toys will outlive every single person who's listening to this. That's the dream. That's the dream of forming a corporation. Exactly. Your trash will never, never die. That's right. They will never forget us. God.

Just flooding the earth. All right. Elsewhere in the news, border patrol agents were posing at the Chicago Bean, which is very infuriating. They were taking a cute photo in front of the Chicago Bean, led by Gould Gregory Bovino, who has been pictured doing weird little salutes, rock paper scissors, which some speculate is the new Nazi dog whistle referring to a paper bee. beats rock Nazi meme, which was briefly sold as a t-shirt by Walmart. I didn't, for anyone else, I don't know if everyone listening to this already knows what this is.

I didn't, but it instantly, it's, it's paper beats rock is like a Siegheil beats a black power fist. Yeah, Sighail beats the Pat Fow, the Black Power Fist. Yeah. Not good. Jesus Christ. Openly, uh, embracing. Yeah. Naziism.

Well, you know what? No, I'm just kidding. Um, I was like, where's he going with it? Um, I, Well, what I will say is, yeah, obviously, fucking every ice agent obviously believes this. So, like, I mean, I guess my, you know what is sort of of the, of the version of like, I don't know.

Is it, is it news that an ice agent is a Nazi? That's my question. I would argue that it's not. It's not, but it is worth reiterating, I guess, repeatedly. Yes, you're right. Yeah. They, uh, as they were taking the picture, they took off their mask. Someone shouted, say, little village, uh, and the group of agents

where, like, little village, like, that's there, say, cheese. This is a snide reference to the Mexican American neighborhood, Little Village, where the agents have been abducting, teargassing, and terrorizing residents. Yeah. I mean, not that this is, like, super helpful, but one thing that probably is worth, like, having this moment and others remind you of is, is, these people are powerful, they're dangerous, but they are corny morons.

Yes. And so, like, remember that when it's time to do whatever it is that you think is the right thing to do. Right. And then they noticed journalists, and they were like, mask up, guys. Yeah. How come you never report on the work we do to improve the community? Yeah.

I don't know. You're shooting people. Yeah. Pulling guns on people. You're like one of them got arrested or like almost got arrested because they like had pulled a gun on a woman who was driving her car. And like the police were like, what the fuck? Like there's a carjacking happening.

And he's like, oh, no, I'm like technically a nice agent. So, yeah. There's a additional deal. details of the top level of ICE and DHS, the Wall Street Journal reported that like Corey Lewandowski and Christy Noem are like feuding with the other ghoul Holman. There's like a power struggle there. But there's a good detail where people are critical of Noam and Lewandoski who have been using the $170 billion infusion of cash from Congress to do splashy things. Among examples. Some ice officials have cited a week ago, the pair ordered ice officials to buy

10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights and for their own travel. Once the officials looked into the proposal, they learned that Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn't own the planes. The planes also don't have engines. Yeah. Which would need to be purchased. Yeah. But, you know, That's a spirit flight, baby. I mean, yeah. Listen, again, I'm not saying they're not dangerous. I am saying they're really dumb and just do not forget that.

Like, they're powerful, but you're smarter than them and remember that. Yeah, yeah. And those plans are probably fine if you just get, like, if you board them at the top of the hill, you know? Yeah. Like a really big hill and then get going downhill. You know? Just about reaching the right.

That's right. Velocity. And then people are remarking that Fox News actually asked Trump interview questions in a way that they're like, this feels tonally different. Yeah. She brought up the controversy around the 50-year mortgage idea, which I guess is the Trump administration being like, I don't know, you can't afford houses. What don't we? When we bust that thing out. Can even further.

It's not my problem, 50 years from now. Countries probably won't be around. So I'm saying this as someone who doesn't understand mortgages or finance at all. We were talking about this a little bit before we started recording. 50 year mortgage just means that you are eternally renting your house from the bank. Yeah, you're a renter at that point. He said, he suggested it wasn't a big deal because most people already have 40 year mortgages, which they don't.

He also objected to Ingram saying that Magafolk weren't happy, but his explanation was not like, yeah, no, I've been seeing polling that says there. his rebuttal was Mega was my idea it was nobody else's idea I know better than anybody else Maga wants to see our country thrive She's wrong on that

Because he defines what Magafolk are And if part of being a megafoke Is being happy with Trump She's he's got her there That's it's true Also he stole that from Ronald Reagan That's right Who stole it from like some other Nazi

In the 50s right Like okay Just make sure I determine Because I can tell I love it remember like the Epstein thing where he was like if you're if you're still talking about Epstein you're not mega essentially yeah that's true mean girl rules this just mean girl rules yeah yeah yeah no true

scotsman no true magerman he he tried to shush her at one point uh and also asked if his uh she also asked if his gold oval office decorations were from home depot but i don't know can't even unpack that. Sorry, go ahead. And we shouldn't get Fox too much credit because the way they put this on their website was with the headline, President Trump, the economy is strongest it has ever been. He did say that. Yeah, he certainly did. So we're good here. Can't deny that.

Yeah. So I'm not holding out hope that they're going to be. It's like there's a, there's a genre of story of like hopeful middle Democrats who are like, Tucker Carlson's kind of making some sense. Marjorie Taylor Green, like, just like cherry picking details of people saying. If that's what you're looking for, you are part of, you are, you're part of the problem. You're part of the 20% who voted to keep Chuck Schumer and you have a move on account. I think these people might be coming around because that's always been their thing. It's just like, you know, they're probably the same like people, Russian gate people who were like,

well, nobody would have voted for him if they had the true. truth. And so, you know, well, I mean, it's the same people that think the same fucking electoral geniuses that think the endorsement of a Cheney. Yes. Yeah. It's more important than like

fucking the enthusiasm of like actual non-right-wing people. Yeah. It's just like which hermetically sealed bubble of delusional people is, happens to be in control at this moment is just the question that we can ask ourselves.

Oh, God. All right. Andrew, thank you. much for trending. What a blast. Where can people find you, follow you? You're just racist.

I will say, actually, we have a new premium show on available on suboptimal pods called Starter Trek. Tani Newsom, my co-host,

who is Star Trek royalty is walking me through. Currently, we're walking through all, most of the Star Trek pilots. We're going to be doing

a lot of Star Trek episodes. I'm a person who likes Star Trek, but doesn't know shit about what's happening. And that is conceit. It's an interesting

show. It's like a show that I wish I had an excuse to like get into because it was one like my philosophy professors would always be like you should watch Star Trek. There's like some really good shit in there. Yeah, there is some really good shit in there. It's wild that anyway, yeah, if you can find out my opinions

on Star Trek. Yeah, exactly. All right, that's going to do it for us today. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get your vaccines where you still can, get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk

to you all tomorrow. Bye. Peace. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Baye Wang. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb. And edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries.

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