The Daily Zeitgeist - When September Trends 10/1: Baseball, Government Shutdown, Trump's "Ceasefire" Proposal

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

In this edition of Wake Me Up when September Trends, Jack and Miles discuss Postseason baseball, The government shutdown, Trump's non-ceasefire proposal for Israel, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban getting divorced, and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I think Nick Semper Tyrannis If I have my memory on correct Yes Nick Semper Trannis Shout out to you It's time to wake up for the singer of that song September's over Spooky season has begun Wow, this is also, this is, I'm just going through the Discord scrolls.

This is, I also, I just want to shout out. Which we do, we do print the Discord out on a scroll. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't look online. Many scrolls, yeah, the Dead Sea Scrolls. Everyone says it's an online thing. No, no, no, it's, it's on papyrus on bamboo dowels in my closet. It's updated.

Victor brings it prints up the Discord every morning for us to read. Bring me the scrolls, Victor. Also, a title. Septrender's been used. Hand sandwich in 2022 also said, Wake me up when Septrender ends. When September ends. But now we've got it different.

Now it's different. And then the brew also did, do you remember the 21st night of Septrender? Do you remember? September is, it's very malleable for the. September has trended. See, that's too much. You can't double up.

It becomes incomprehensible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. My name is Jack O'Brien. there's Miles Gray. This is the episode where we tell you what is trending right now. Postseason baseball. As we record this, they're doing postseason baseball at like 10 in the morning.

I mean, what? On the east coast. Yeah, probably a noon game right now for the Guardians and the... A lot of people in Cleveland and Detroit, cutting out on work, cutting school today. Hell yeah. Who do you like better? A lot of Ferris's Bueller day is off. If you had to pick Cleveland or Detroit, what do you pick in?

Not as a city-wise? As a city. I mean, I have more friends from Cleveland, I would say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. I do say I like the people I know from Cleveland quite a bit. Also, like the few people I know from Detroit, they're great. But I got to go. I got to give it up to the land.

The land? Yeah, good. Great, grand, wonderful. We're all witnesses. Shout to the Dodgers, who got off on a winning foot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 10, 5. Had to show Cincinnati. You know, just Ohio is just still, we'll see.

We'll see how you guys fair. Ohio. Anyway, but there was a dirigible outside of Dodger Stadium. I just want to say, because I live near Dodger Stadium, and like, I looked up in the air. What did it say, Miles? It said, looked up at the good year blimp. It said Miles Zimper 10. Tent, 10.

I think is what I couldn't tell. You know how at the end of that video, the, it was. a good day music video. It turns out not to have been a good day that Ice Cube walks out and he's surrounded by cops. Uh-huh. Who are ready to shoot.

I do wonder if then, like, the implication is that everything else from that day was not actually good. It's just like, ah, man, I don't know what I was thinking. My brain was broken.

And like, he actually, like, busted in one second with Kim. And, yeah, wow. Kept dribbling the ball off his foot in basketball. Yeah. 15 turnovers. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

50 turnovers. Oh, for 15. But the shot attempts are, you know, in the double digits. And they said if this wasn't pickup, I would have fouled out. But whatever. Like three flagrants, actually. All right. What's happening in the news?

What's happening? Yeah. Government shut down one of these stories that I don't, every time it happens, I'm like, all right so this bad i don't it's not good when the government shuts down policy heavy for a dumb guy like me to get my brain around sure sure that's and i'm glad you're able to admit that um because most people are like what the government what's the governments do uh last time uh i think the last shutdown was i think with trump was on in 2019 uh in 2018 going into 2019 that was 35 days yeah uh and for a lot of people were like this could also be long but

just, you know, like, they're talking about Congress gets paid in a shutdown. Things like the Smithsonian, for example, might not be open. Somebody who's going to D.C. to see family, I was like, going to take the Geist Child to fuck at the Smithsonian, man. Just look at those big ass planes and shit, rocket ships and shit. Right. Luckily, I think they announced, like, look, we're going to be open at least until Monday. Until the money runs out. And then we'll go from there. Yeah, because the shutdown, I think, is going to happen

near the end of a paper. So employees, the first paycheck they miss would be on October 24th. But then essential things like the FDA, like the USDA or FDA, those kinds of things still keep going, Social Security. But anyway, either way, the government shut down. And look, the Democrats finally pushed back because they had the chance to have a shutdown in March. And people were like, oh, maybe they'll use this as leverage against the one big beautiful bill act. They didn't famously and everyone's like, why did Chuck Schumer vote for this to continue the fucking government? But now there's like, fuck it. And the demands are simple and straightforward.

It's about health care. Okay. So what they're trying to do is like cut, like it help ensure that the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act that were going to expire at the end of the year because of the big beautiful bill, what they're going to prevent that. So they want to extend that. They want to help prevent health care costs from going up because of different other subsidies. There's also they want to make sure that money that's been appropriated by Congress actually gets spent by the executive, like really straightforward shit. It's not like, we're appealing to democratic norms. It's like, no, this is everyone's fucking health care.

These are people's health care that we're trying, that we're hanging this all on. So, you know, we'll see where this goes. I mean, I think the one thing that probably one of the bigger contributing factors to the Democrats this time around actually like finding a spinal cord. is a fact that their favorite thing optics is on their side this go around since most voters believe that this shutdown

would squarely be on the GOP since they run everything there are no fucking rules at all. The whole thing. They got the whole thing. And people were pointing out

that back in 2011 Donald Trump said the president is to blame for shutdowns. So I think we got him. I think we got him guys nailed his ass to the wall.

is there a way to message this that it's about the Epstein files because right like wasn't it at least partially like they were trying to that was a that was just kind of a convenient thing that happened to Cohen's like you mean like not swearing in Adelaide Grahalva yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I feel like if I was the Democrat you know the Republicans never have any uh are never beholden to the truth so why not be like it's about we want to provide health care they don't also they don't want the Epstein files released Oh, yeah. I mean, they gaveled in for literally two seconds yesterday. Yeah.

Like, they did the swear of the, Swear of Allegiance, and it's like, this session's adjourned. And they're like, what the fuck? You got to, okay, until at least next week. Car speeding by. Yeah, yeah. The Republicans are doing memes. They're like, countdown timer, like a 20, from the TV show 24, countdown timer until the Democrat shut down. And then they put Chuck Schumer's head on the hot dog guy from, I think you should leave.

So I'm sorry. Swish. I think you should leave memes are not the language of the right. But okay, go ahead. Go ahead. Do the thing that you see people doing that. I mean, I think they're the language of everybody now. And I'm sure Tim Robinson totally approves of that and loves.

He's like, honestly, that was actually the original intent of the hot dogs. It was Chuck Schumer. We were talking about Chuck Schumer being toothless and getting in the way of the big, beautiful bill. The other thing is like there, there are concerns, right? like the worst case scenario here because Russell Vought who is the you know one of the main architects of Project 2025 he works in at OMB he's like I've been studying shutdowns for its ages and I know how to maneuver through these things like you know he's been threatening mass firings through like because of the shutdowns be like well if it shut down I mean we might as well just lay off I can I might as well completely remake the federal workforce according to what my desires are right so there's like a version potentially where they just run some form of zombie government the way they want because nothing is actually operating. But that would be an even bigger pain in the ass for them because truly nothing would get done.

It requires competence, I think, which also not a strong suit of the engineered incompetence administration. And also like last time, the unions that represent the federal workers, they're also like, yeah, shut this shit down. Like these people are like. They'll be fine. I think they're just like, man, this is existential either way. Right. So fucking do something. And I think that message was heard.

People aren't going to be able to afford health care in, you know, if they don't do this. If they don't get this discussion. Yeah. Yeah, people already can't. And I think a lot of people also say, like, the government's already basically fucking shut down with all. Like, it operates so, it's even worse now. Yeah. Because of all the layoffs and things like that.

The one huge thing is, like, this will definitely hit the DMV area, you know, around the Capitol since that's where a lot of the federal workforces felt a lot of the layoffs. Everything's so fucking expensive. We're going to talk on tomorrow's episode about Halloween, but, like, it's just everything, healthcare, every, everything has gotten so much more expensive because of these fucking tariffs. It's just, like, passed along to people and, like, there's no indebt. Like, it should be the main thing people are talking about when they're talking about. the economy instead of fucking Wall Street. It's just like every little thing has become so much more expensive and because we live in this like hyper consumption era where they've removed all, you know, friction from purchases

and, you know, it's like, hey, do you want to look at the cash register? You just paid for it. It's like being, it's like the air pollution. It's just like you don't even notice it. It's just like fucking suddenly you have way less money. Have you seen the palm payment system they have, like, at Whole Foods or an Amazon-owned store? Like, when you're like, what the fuck is that? They're like, you just put your palm over.

Like, what? No. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you didn't know that they chipped you? Like, yeah, oh, thanks for that. Thanks for that. Now you can pay for everything with your hand because just give us your fucking money. I think that's one thing, too, where, you know, the Democrats are in the weirdest will they want they game in terms of embracing the kinds of, you know, economic popular.

They need to to kind of begin to to mount a proper midterm campaign. Right. Like, yeah, that should be coming out of everyone's mouth also. But then maybe that means. How expensive everything is, yeah. It's like, but we don't want to sound like a common Zeran Mamdani. Right.

Who am I? Zeran? Yeah. You mean the most popular politician in your party in like five years, 10 years? Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back.

I want to talk about, how we've entered the, the Dark Ages, uh, re Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ah, come on. Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient. Still using yesterday's tech, upgrade to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon,

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High-tech dark age Exactly like because you're just like so flooded with bullshit I worship the orange Yes Peter Thiel Is currently on a lecture He's doing he's delivering like a four-part lecture series In San Francisco

About the Antichrist Oh wired wired did an article on this A few days back Peter Thiel remind me again He's a theologian right he's he's a angel investor in technology so he has a connection to angels that's all you need to know um but his definition of the antichrist is basically anyone who gets in the way of the things that he wants to make money off of essentially like he's like the real threats to like the

people i think the antichrist is going to be is like someone who wants to regulate AI like he like names names. He specifically mentions Greta Thunberg and this like anti-AI like technologist who nobody's like ever heard of. The Antichrist is supposed to be like charismatic and like unite the world.

Yeah, yeah, right. Talking about people who just are like I don't think everybody should die. He's using it like a teenager in the 90s. Exactly. He's like, dude, they're the Antichrist. Dude, they won't even let a skateboard here. Yeah.

He, it's also just like everything he says, you're like that you're talking about yourself. Right. What are you doing? Like you are destroyer of worlds. I mean, did those people ever go on a New York Times interview and when asked if they were the Antichrist just like stumble and give a non-committal answer? Because that's what you did. You started sweating like visibly.

You started sweating like the Kim Piel meme when they asked if you were the Antichrist. But somebody. the Wired article is pointing out that a lot of his philosophies around the Antichrist are based on a Nazi jurist a guy who was a lawyer for the Nazis and

did a lot of you know he he rapidly published the most prominent defense of Hitler's Knight of the Long Knives Oh God. So just quoting the article for Teal the Antichrist's Evil is pretty much synonymous with any attempt to unite the world.

How might such an Antichrist rise to power T-Last by playing on our fears of technology and seducing us into decadence with the Antichrist's slogan, Peace and Safety. God. You kill it. Kill it. So promising to rescue people from the apocalypse,

which does, again, it sounds so familiar to me of like somebody who just keeps saying Everything is like apocalyptic and bad, and only I can save it. Only I can save you. Again, maybe not Peter Thiel, because complete absence of charisma. But it does remind me of someone. I just can't quite put my finger on it. And then they point out, Teal's never publicly acknowledged Wolfgang Poliver,

the Austrian theologian's influence, though, arguably runs through nearly everything he's ever said or written about the Antichrist. In the 90s, Paulver wrote a series of papers about Karl Schmidt, the German, legal theorist, tapped by the Nazis, to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship. Poliver's paper critiqued a lesser-known theological and apocalyptic line of Schmidt's thinking, and they seem to have fascinated Teal ever since. And, yeah, so he's now just dedicating all of his public appearances, primarily to a set of ideas about Armageddon, quote, borrowed heavily from a Nazi jurist.

the guy who rapidly published the most prominent defense of Hitler's Knight of the Long Knives, end quote. So he's also, the reviews aren't great either because he did it in Austria, I think, first. Really great place to kick it off. Because Peter Till's born in, he's German. He's born in Germany. Yes. And he apparently did this like fucking lecture for like 20 Catholic theologians specifically. Like people who fucking know their shit.

shit. And they came out of there being like, what the fuck is this guy talking about? Like, truly, one person, this is from one, the dean of faculty of Catholic theology, I think from the University of Innsbruary. It said, quote, Tiel believes almost fanatically in the problem solving potential of technology. He therefore sees the central evil of the present in the fact that innovative stagnation has prevailed for some time. What the, geez. I mean, that's true. And it's because you guys are like over leveraged on this shit and like, you know, you guys suck at your job. He's like,

and the surest sign of the apocalypse is that we haven't invented anything good since the iPhone. Well, that's one way to deal with sucking at your job. You're talking about innovations that are profit-driven. You're not talking about innovations that better the world, sure. Like maybe invest in those things. Maybe that could actually be a way to problem solve.

He goes, this professor goes and say, quote, Next, this with apocalyptic thinking in the biblical images of the Antichrist and the catacon. In a problematic way, Teal attempts to identify these ideas with specific individuals or institutions in current world events. Conclusion, as a Catholic theological faculty, we see it as, quote, our obligation to offer a counter to such tendencies in research and teaching, end quote. Teal's ideology cobbled together from various religious philosophical fragments was thus rated unsatisfactory, at least by the University of Innsbruck. so damn son not they not they said it's a no for me dog i love when uh there's an opportunity to say

somebody is theologically and intellectually interesting and instead they say interested interested yeah exactly he seems to be interested in being smart yeah it's like i mean the guy the guy's into rap he can't rap at all he's interested but he's really into it but i don't know it just like it makes me nerd as the flotilla gets closer and closer to gaza and like the most powerful people in the world are these types of like dark ages dip shits who just keep getting away with murdering people. Yeah, who's a defense contractor like deal is. Yeah.

It just makes me very nervous for all of them. But I mean, shout out to everybody on that flitilla. Yeah, getting closer and closer. And the warnings become they're just, it's warning after warning they're receiving, but they've continued on at least. Yeah. Because what's the other option? Like everybody, even the, you know, the government's,

that are supposed to be protecting them are like saying the Spanish officials have urged the flotilla quote not to proceed any further Italy's prime minister Georgia Maloney also called on the flotilla to turn back saying that she feared it could undermine attempts to reach a peace deal

it's just like what is your other option you're going to give the fucking baby formula to the cartoon bad guys who are almost certainly going to just like dump it into the sea while while you watch like they're doing something incredibly brave yeah the fact that like this is how you know the the western media of course is just like both sidesing it and being like well some say it's undermining peace talks others say

they're just trying to deliver absolutely necessary uh you know food and just like life sustaining aid to people who are being blocked from having it like explicitly being blocked from having it. Potentially starve to death. Yeah.

And they're like dropping they're being already attacked you know with drones and it would be like if your neighborhoods on fire and the fire department doesn't arrive and you as neighbors like

fuck it we're going to put it out and someone should have come on you're going to undermine the fire department when they get here. It's like where the fuck are they because everything's burning down so what the fuck you talking about yeah this is just another just very you know uh this is our new form of appeasement uh and just being able to be like well don't don't in the name of

peace talks don't do the thing that would help people who are not being helped by the western world at all yeah yeah but i just i i i fear for the way this will turn out in a world where fucking peter teal is giving uh you know presentations about how greta thunberg is the Antichrist and people are just like okay I wonder when yeah I wonder when Trump will also designate Antichra as a terrorist organization anyone who's Antichrist you're gonna be you're gonna be well that is one of the signs of the Antichrist is like talking about the Antichrist a lot and I feel like we we've got two great candidates I'm just saying yeah just like the 2024 election we got two great candidates uh let's talk about so

So we did mention the potential deal to end the genocide in Gaza. Potentially. Donald Trump has come out and said he's got one. Yep. And it is absolute bullshit. It's not a ceasefire. Yeah. It's not a ceasefire agreement.

It's a violent ultimatum to Hamas, which is basically like, give up or I'm going to let BB do whatever he wants with you. And I'm going to back him up. Angry demands. It seems to be what it is. I mean, again, you know, there's, it's basically calling for total disarmament for Palestinians, no guarantees for statehood. And Israel also continues to occupy and control border crossings. Yes, they've given no concessions.

They're just continuing to slaughter people. At one point, they called, you know, representatives from Palestine and Hamas to a peace talk and then kill. them or tried to assassinate them. So, so like you wonder how this is going. Who's undermining the peace? Yeah, who's undermining? It's definitely the boat full of

aid that is being sent to the people who are suffering on the ground and definitely not the Israeli government who keeps being like... Sending missiles. No, no, no. Come over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll... A little bit to the left. Just stand right under... Stand right under... You see where that X is on the ground? Just stand right there and we'll

start the peace talks. Yeah, yeah. Hold on. Let me get behind this blast shield really quick. I mean, you know, like this is again, like in the West, you're seeing like American Al like France and like the UK doing basically some form of being like, come on Hamas, take the deal and let's end the suffering. And you're like, I'm sorry. Is Hamas carpet bombing Tel Aviv? Am I missing something here? Like how do you expect an oppressed group to just agree to giving up their arms with zero guarantee. Yes.

Attached to that for statehood or even the IDF leaving. Yeah. It's not a fucking deal. It's just an ultimatum. But again, don't cry for Netanyahu because the Israeli government just made a deal with a like a conservative like consulting firm, media firm that Doju, Don Jr. and his wife are major stakeholders in. Yeah, this is from this was reported by responsible statecraft. Quote, the government of Israel is hired a new. conservative-aligned firm ClockTower X LLC to create media for Gen Z audiences in a contract

worth $6 million, at least 80% of content ClockTower produces will be, quote, tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other relevant broadcast outlets. They'll even deploy, quote, websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations. In other words, Clock Tower will create new websites to influence how AI GPT models, such as ChatGPT, which are trained on vast amounts of data from every corner of the internet, frame topics, and respond to them all on behalf of Israel. Clocktower will integrate its pro-visual message into Salem Media Network properties, a conservative Christian media group.

So they're like, we'll flood this zone with Hasbara if you want. And we can put out so much shit that it will basically tip the scales for how AI is even perceiving the world. So anyway, so Don Jr. and his wife are making money from that. And again, like, kind of just imperceptibly, you know, I feel like AI, high price, these are all things that are like being put injected into our bloodstream, like imperceptibly, you know. AI is not for us, as Chris Crofton kept saying, it's not because look it's, look who's spending the money on its bad state actors. Yeah. Just a couple quick news hits.

Donald Trump was photographed with the Trump 2028 hat. So that has begun, which I don't even know what the process for that is going to be. but he was just like, you know, given a smug smile with a Trump 2028 hat on the Oval Office desk. Yeah, he had two, like, laid out, which basically made it seem like, Hakeem, Chuck, welcome. Here are your hats you can take with you.

Ah, got your ass. The reviews are rolling in on Pete Hegseth's performance that we talked about on yesterday's episode and had some sound clips from. And it is getting five strong could have been in emails. Yeah. Actually, I think it's more of a should have been an email. Yeah.

Should have been said to yourself in the bathroom to the mirror. For everyone involved, it should have been an email. But yeah, again, for someone trying desperately to seem like he's not a Fox News talking head, just way over his head in the role of head of security and defense for the entire country. Like they were pointing out the thing that we were joking about yesterday that this like seems like the inciting incident. for a Tom Clancy novel where all the military gets taken out at once. People, this is a quote from, I think is the New York Times, or this might be the Daily Beast, but even before the gathering, some military leaders raised alarms about the risks of concentrating so many senior figures in a single room.

It's a waste of time for a lot of people who emphatically had better things they could and should be doing. It's also not an excuse. It's also an inexcusable strategic risk to concentrate. so many leaders in the operational chain of command in the same publicly known time and place to convey an inane message of little merit. Oh, come on now. Come on, man.

Did you, didn't you, I mean, I think we were a little unfair because we didn't actually play the whole thing. That's true. All nine fucking 40 minutes of it. But I think the thing that we really left out was the end, how he ended this speech and the energy in the room at the end, which I think. You know, this speaks for itself. Yeah, speaks for itself.

Take it away, Pete. Move out and draw fire. Because we are the war department. Godspeed. Root! Attention shot! Oh, that's the mandated get out of your seats. Jesus.

And he just walks off, head low. Wow. What a fucking goober. Like not even a single... I thought, I was like, oh, at least somebody saved his ass with a roo? But that was... Yeah, no. That was the mandated thing.

That was bone crusher saying, attention. Bone crusher reference, timely reference. Yeah, I don't know. Move out, draw fire. Yep, great, great, great. One thing that people are pointing to is that this was the first time that Trump specifically said that he wanted to use our, quote, dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. So that seems not good.

yeah well how does that even work guy who has no idea how anything works he just says shit all the time and like that's what's also infuriating because the shit that he says with follow through is so fucking diabolical yeah but he says like 10 he's got about like a one in 10 average of like every 10th thing he says he'll probably follow through on right and he's like yeah maybe we should do that flood the zone with shit literally shit so many headlines from that that was like he said to use that and I and I get that when the president says something like that you kind of are like holy shit what's this guy thinking but I think we're past being like this guy is so he's such a serious leader right what is he saying I think you can just

maybe do a daily the I mean obviously the newspapers don't do that but maybe you can condense all the five outrageous things he says per day and just be like here are the fucking five dumb fuck things he uttered today anyway here's what's also happening um Other quick news hit, Nicole Kidman has, I guess Keith Urban, is the one who ended the most boring celebrity couple. I never had a single thought or feeling about these two. Other than like it was weird and like he started looking weird, I think, like halfway through like started getting that like plastic surgery face. But I don't know, an absolute powerhouse of, of, uh, of the acting. Nicole Kidman fucking rips.

I don't think I've ever heard a Keith Urban song? She wanted to make it work. God. A source previously told people that Kidman 58, quote, didn't want this and had been, quote, fighting to save the marriage. Damn. But Keith's out here and he's urban. So what are you going to do, you know?

So I, mate. Sorry, Mike. Got to get a divorce. Got to get a bit of the old. divorce. Yeah, all right. You all right? Yeah, well, I'm going to try being single for a beat. I think, I'm sure you'd be fine, Nicole. Yeah, yeah, you can take the kids as well. Yeah, all right, then. Yeah, again, like you said, I don't, it's, I mean, I get it to when people, I don't need celebrities to be out there. Like, I totally get, having their privacy. You know what I mean?

And I'm sure that's probably what they were up to. But also, there as a couple. What are these two up to? I have no idea what they're about. at all, which is fine. But when it comes, like, they've been together 19 years. I'm like, wow, I couldn't tell you a single fucking thing about anything about this marriage. I have apparently no understanding of, like, how big a career Keith Urban has. Like, sorry to any Keith Urban fans out here for being dismissing. The way you just apologize was like, you just read the Wikipedia, go, oh, fuck.

This guy is huge. It's so long. so long, man. People are, there's all sorts of shit about his, uh, you know, uh, rifts and Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Oh, like he's always, uh, he's like a bad guy. Actually, I just misread one of the things. Anyways, uh, I just misread it. So I'm, uh, never mind. I get it, though, looking back at early Keith Urban. He was, uh, pretty easy on the eyes, you know, so. Sure, man. Hey, Godspeed to you both. Godspeed to you both.

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