The Daily Zeitgeist - You Are Trendering… The TwiZeit Zone 3/26: Harry Potter, Trumpdate, Phone-Induced Overload, Bill Maher

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

In this edition of You Are Trendering… The TwiZeit Zone, Miles and special guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra discuss the new Harry Potter TV show, a quick update on Dear Leader, a new study on phone-induced overload, Bill Maher receiving the Mark Twain Prize for humor(???) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So you have to work extra hard in a way that doesn't compromise who you are in your integrity. You know, I like to say I was kind of like a silent ninja. Listen to It Girl with Bailey Taylor on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know Roll Doll. He thought up Willie Wonka and the BFG. But did you know he was a spy? In the new podcast, The Secret World of Roll Doll, I'll tell you that story, and much, much more. What?

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Listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to this Thursday, March 26th edition of You Are Trendering the Twysite Zone. Shout out to David Lesser for that one. On the Discord, I'm Miles. You know that because you listen to the show. showing you know my voice. But guess who my guest co-host is.

If you're a K-1 since day one, you already know who's stepping up to the microphone. But if not, please welcome. Sophia Alexander. Hey, so excited to be here to be your Jewish Jack, if you will. Please no one call me that outside. Ju Jack Swing. Yeah.

Jew Jack City, baby. Stupid as fun. All right. Anyway, Sophia, you're here. let's get into what's trending. Everybody is talking about the new Harry Potter. What is it like the book of the philosopher's poetry book? I believe it's called a shadow of its former self, the TV show.

So there's a new HBO series. Oh, shit, sorry. Let me just mute that tab really quick. So there's a new HBO series that just released their first sort of like teaser trailer for the, you know, reboot Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which was previously adapted as a film back in 2001

but this is just like, I don't know I love the first one. Yeah, sure. I've only seen three-fourths of the first one and then about 20 minutes of each subsequent one. I've seen every single one I re-watched them around wintertime. To me they're like posy movies.

Yeah, everything's very like wooden you know, there's fire. People porn, you know what I mean? It's like the school has like the most incredible food and the candles are all floating. Is the food good there? Is that like a point? Really fucking good.

Okay, looks. I wasn't sure if like that's like a plot point in the book where they always talk about and the food. I never read the books. No, I never write the books. Good. But I. Oh, right, because we're the,

we're that like in between generation where either you were reading them when you're like kind of an older teenager. And for me, was listening to like rage against the machine and smoking weed so I was like nah I don't know about wizards right now bro people's history of the united states I mean about that shit I was reading you know uh like just yeah hezzi and shit but also Ken keese and like Yukowski and like Alan Ginsburg I was like in my field oh you would have loved this you would have loved this but um yeah I mean, I think for most people, because of the J.K. Rowling of it all are like very lukewarm on it.

But even for like the people who are like really into the series, I feel like most people have been like, it's fine. And on the worst case, they're like it looks like a bizarreo knockoff of the original in this weird way, an uncanny way. It's out here being Timu Christopher Columbus. The color grading is so. dark. It's like very, very cold. You know what I mean? That's not giving winter warm vibes, you know, but hey. I would never cozy up with this. I'll tell you. Okay, good. Good to know. You have limits. Um, yeah. But then like, there are also like a lot of people like, if it's a reimagining, why does it look exactly the same? Like this sets like the same. Well, and I think that's

where this is where a multinational corporation comes in and goes, look, motherfuckers, we spent billions of dollars designing like a coherent design language for merchandise. theme parks, et cetera. If we start fucking with the form, then that means diagonal going to look like shit. If it doesn't look like the one we already built in Orlando and Hollywood,

okay? So that's probably why. Hear me out. Okay, this is definitely something that I think as a capitalist as they should have thought of. Why don't you develop a whole new visual language and like a little, you know,

side trip? Double dip. So then, yeah, you fucking build a different wing of Harry Potterland. I guess it's like hard. Harry Potter, the new generation, and then you do new shit there. That's more shit to sell. How are you so dumb that me, someone that grew up in the Soviet Union is telling you how to make money.

How to capital. How to capital? I don't know. I mean, it's like, I feel like with all these sort of like cult like franchises, people just do not. You know what I mean? Like if they go too far, people like, what the fuck is this? Like, because even with Star Wars, they keep it kind of the same. Lord of the Rings is kept the same.

Game of Thrones. They're not going too far. But I guess, whatever, I don't know what the fuck Harry Potter fans want. And if they're still fucking with it like that. But even seeing that, I did. When I saw that Snape was black, I said, oh, oh, I already know about this. I already know where this is going. He's described in the books as having pale white skin.

Oh, my God. It's real interesting that. They're like, you know, we're going to be progressive, but like, how does it go in the other direction where evil people are black? Let's do that one. We're going to change something. It'll be that. What do you think? What do you think about this?

What did you think about that? Yeah. I mean, there's also like the John Williams score is no more. They've swapped it in for Hans Zimmer. Okay. I don't think so. That original score is iconic, but whatever. Yeah, exactly.

Do like a spin-off, you know, like they did with Wednesday and shit. Like, do something different that has the iconic shit, but build something new. Show like Ron Weasley and his fuckboy era. Like, they're like, oh, now people are feeling Ron. Okay. Then let's see. Or what was a? Oh, no, Neville.

Neville Longbottom. That was the one everybody was like, ooh. He got loin. He glued up. Yeah. Well, let me see that. I don't, like, he was, he's been looks maxing since the first movie. He's been looks maxing, dude.

he's aura farming and who is who uh what's that lady who did uh what's that show girls Lena Dunham Lena Dunham so Lena Dunham needs to do like a fuck boy take on Neville Long Bottom post Hogwarts graduation and he's just like a

piece of shit fuck boy I just feel like that's called the Neville Long Bottom stories and the O's and in bottom are our boodies. Oh okay Oh, yeah. You know. Was he straight? Do he know?

Because I feel like you could do a lot with like long bottom. Okay. Okay. It was, I mean, at the very least he liked women. I don't know if he evolved. But see, that's why you could fuck with it. You know what I'm saying? Was he experimenting?

Do a heated rival we were with wizards? Oh my God. Miao. We shouldn't fucking do that. You know what I mean? They're dropping the, dude. They're dropping the ball.

Dropping the ball, bro. Y'all, we can't keep giving you guys fucking free ideas. God. We have to think of everything. This is so stupid. Brian called it heated alchemy. Yes. Yes.

He did wizardry. Oh, that's so hot. Heated sorcery. Oh. You know how much roadplay you could do? Oh, my God. Oh, my God, bro. The scarf and roadplay alone.

I don't want to know what they're doing with those wands. Or maybe I do. I do. I do. Yeah. Okay. You can summon some gnarly sex toys. Some of them are ribbed for her pleasure.

I've seen them once. I have seen them. There's another thing. Just a quick current selection of hallucinations the president is experiencing. He thinks ICE being at airports, airports is going well. He posted this yesterday on Truthos. She said, I'm so proud of our ICE patriots. They were unfairly maligned by the lunatic Democrats for years.

And now at the airports, in addition to what they are supposed to be doing, they are helping people with bags, even picking up and cleaning air. I haven't seen that at all, you fucking liar. Go on. He said, they're so proud to be there. The fact is, they shouldn't have to do this, but they are rehabbing a fake image given to them by the radical left Democrat politicians. The public is loving ice.

So the Democrats unwittingly did us a favor. What are you talking about? I've just seen videos of like bewildered teenagers walking around. Oh, you saw that one of those two young. Yeah. Oh, my God. I'm like, you got them out of a hot topic. to come here.

They're so confused. You got them out of a McDonald's play place. These kids were fucking children. I was like, bro, there's no fucking way. I'm like, okay, the Hitler youth, it all comes back in some version. Just shock in their little faces. Yeah, yeah.

Like, you can tell they still were processing that this is what they do. And also, I was like, and they got, they don't have those masks on. Trump is really, he's, he said a lot of things where he was like, oh, well, now they don't have masks. This is actually going to help a lot. He's so, hey, he's senile, so he doesn't actually understand what's going on or the optics of it. He merely thinks, oh, people just didn't like that they're wearing masks. No, no, no, it's all the activity around it. It's the breaking up of families and taking people away and then caging them and fucking turning a blind eye, all that. That's the priority. It's not that, we want to see your faces. No, we want to see their faces so there's

some accountability for the fuckery. I don't think he will ever stop thinking like what he is, which is like a reality TV star. Yeah. And he doesn't think about the actions. For him, it's like who is portrayed as a villain? Yeah,

how can we change the perception? He, I think, has devoted maybe less than one thought to what ICE actually does. No, because he's like, Stephen, what do you think?

It's good. And, but there's been a few reports this week that he's really realized, Like he's realized, oh, maybe he needs to do something about the mass deportation thing because he's, maybe someone showed him polling numbers that weren't totally made up. And they were like, oh, yikes. Maybe he tried to go to his favorite restaurant and he realized no one worked there anymore because of his policies.

Who's favorite restaurant? I mean McDonald's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He also said, I sent ice to the airports yesterday and they've been great. He said that the lines went from one. airport. They had one line that was four hours yesterday. Today was half an hour. Big, big different side. Okay. Where? Is that true? And is it because of ice agents or is it because more TSA people showed up to work, even though they're not getting paid? And you're saying no to a deal to get them paid.

Or did a lot of people cancel their flights because they didn't want to get harassed by ice agents at the airport? You know what I read is that people are starting to fucking sign up for clear in droves to try and get through security faster because that seemed to be like, the one thing that potentially gets you through a little bit quicker. But anyway, then there's also, he thinks Iran wants to make a deal. He's still saying that. He said the Iranian negotiators are very different and strange. They are begging us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been

militarily obliterated with zero chance of a comeback. And yet they publicly say that they're only looking at our proposal. Wrong. They better get serious soon before it's too late. They better get serious soon. Uh-huh. Yeah. Can we talk about which words were in quotation marks in that?

Strange. Begging. Pretty wild when they said they are begging us. When you say they are quote unquote begging us. Oh, so they're ignoring you. Yeah. Is begging sarcastic? Like, it's wild on like the president doesn't know how to use quotation marks.

No. That's a trope in like sitcoms from the 90s. I believe Joey on Friends experienced that in like 90s. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that was like a thing. I remember Chris Farley had like a bit all the time when I said no. It was like, I don't bathe or, you know, do these other things just funny. It was funny then, but not when it's dealing with a war.

And also why strange in quotation marks? Maybe he didn't want to like offend them. Does that mean like Brown? I don't understand. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like there's a copier. I don't get. Strange.

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It doesn't matter. because you don't. None of it makes sense. It's a senile old, yeah, it's like trying to make sense of a senile old man yelling, racing shit out of a car that's driving by and go, huh, let?

And then be like, don't work. I don't know. The fucking guy's probably going to crash on his way to wherever the fuck he's going. All right, let's take a quick break. And we'll come back with an interesting scientific study. And also America's most insuffable comedian getting an honor. This Christ. All right.

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And some people are really good. No, actually, I'm fine. Actually, we're... I don't quote-unquote hate my quote-unquote phone. I don't quote-unquote feel like this is an abuse. quote unquote situation. I feel good and fine and my relationships with people are good and fine.

And so is my attention span? Am I bleeding out of my nose, Miles? You are, you are. But that's because you keep snorting pixie sticks. It told me it's not going to do anything. Do you have good phone hygiene like that? Like, are you good? Like, do you have rules for if like,

oh, I'm not going to, I'm not going to look at this app or I try and limit the time there. I hide my apps further in my phone to try and encourage, like, less use? What I've done is I've stopped. doing mostly social media, which is why people are like, no, but seriously, when are you performing? Yeah, and you're like...

So I've come back just to do that, and I'm sort of coming back to do that, but I'm no longer like making it my business to check the shit. And I think I've diverted successfully my energy to the long reads subreddit. And all I do is I just find articles, long form articles that are really interesting to me.

And then I'll just zone in. Yeah. Like zone out. Well, that's actually good. That's actually good. Brian, the editor, has no social apps on my phone. It's the best thing ever. I recently started doing this.

I think they're fucking better than me, Brian. I don't think he said that. I'm just kidding. I know. And I know. And we're working on this. Because you always think when someone says what they're doing, go, what the fuck. But yeah, for me, I, like now I try and use Reddit on the computer.

I try and use Instagram on the computer. I try and use like those things like sit my ass down like old school and be like, make me, scrolling like this shit was early Facebook. That helps me get over it real quick. And then I'm like, I'm done. I still have the apps on my phone,

but I'm slowly gaining the discipline to try and just look at shit on the browsers. But anyway. Here's my question though about the browser looking. Aren't you on the computer like all the time because you're recording? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm saying that not really is a question because I know the answer. So how does that work? You have more access to everything.

It's more just like because I do that, I'm not trying to have my ass in this chair screaming into a mic all day. So I'm like, here's your time. If you want to see what's up, go look on and go look now. What's what they're saying on Twitter or fucking Instagram

or blue sky would have go look now. And then I'm like, all right, fuck that. Get my ass out of the chair. And then I go on with my day. I see. That makes sense.

And then I don't have like the, I don't know. I think the more you like reorient yourself to be like looking at Instagram is of like I sit down and do it at a computer thing, the less you're like, oh, I want to do that even to pass the time.

Because even when I'm bored in lines now, I just fucking, I just look around. I'm trying to, I'm trying to bring that skill back from 92. Yeah. You know what I mean? Just staring,

clocking shit, just using my brain. And for me, just establishing other routines. Like, sure, like right now I could just completely space out and, like,

go dead eyed and like just stare at my Instagram for a while. Or like, How don't I release it? Or I could engage and co-host this podcast right now. Yeah. And I can go for walking my dog. And I can go and, you know, have a writing date with someone like where it's like we sit across from each other and we both write.

And it's like, cool. There you go. So and you know, like and but also let's be real, I also got to fight the doom scroll demons. And I think a lot of us too are just freestyling with doom vibes constantly with the phone. No one's perfect. Yeah. Don't think I'm doing. I'm succeeding at this.

all the time or anything. It's a struggle. The problem is the second you're in, you're fucking in. Yeah. That's the issue. Like, you don't even notice you blink and you're like,

how long have I been looking at this fucking random ass celebrity thing that I don't care about actually? You're like, Sidney's brother got deployed? What the fuck do I give a fuck about this? Yeah. So there was a study, right,

that was saying that the study track nearly 300 participants over several months, which combined usage data with self-reported mental strain. What stood out during this period wasn't the heavy usage. Rather, users who constantly pick up their phones for short bursts reported higher levels of overload. Not to say that being on your phone in a long time isn't going to cause overload, but the people who are constantly picking up, they say this kind of behavior that involves quick checks, app switching, short interactions, creates a pattern of continuous interruption.

So it appears to be more mentally taxing than longer uninterrupted sessions. like you on our long reads. Look at you. Quote, every time you check your phone, your brain has to shift focus, process new information, and re-engage with whatever you were doing before. Do that dozens or even hundreds of times a day and the cognitive loads start to add up. The study calls this fragmented use, which suggests this pattern is what leads to feelings of being overwhelmed. My honor, may I approach the bench? You may, you may. My honor, I believe it is because we're looking for those little hits of dopamine. And so picking it up all the time, you're just like trying to get that little hit.

And I guess, I don't know, when I do in our long reads, am I, like, shooting up for, like, an hour? I don't know what that's the equivalent of, but something. Yeah, you're not, well, see, it's like you're not doing bumps of cocaine. You know what I mean? You're just doing big old fucking, just, just shooting up black tar and just not not. It just sounds like it's not better when you say it. I don't know if the study knows that.

But I'm sure, like to your point, right, like for the people who constantly pick up, a lot of that may be tied to the specific like searching for likes and comments and that kind of behavior too. And also I just get too, people like, like even if you're not checking like your specific social media account, people just always looking to be like, is there something new happening? Something new happened. Like something fucked up happening. And you got to give yourself some time because guess what, honey? It's happening all the time. You know what I mean? That ain't changing.

That's how you free yourself. I remember I asked my dad about that when I was before I had a kid. I was like, man, aren't you like worried? Like, weren't you worried about like having a kid and like the world being fucked up? And he's like, yeah. And he's like, you know who else a lot about that? Your grandfather. And you know who else thought about that?

Your great grand is like, that shit doesn't end. So that's true. Except that first. Not to say that you can't do anything about it, but except that there is a lot happening that you cannot control. And then within that, how can you navigate? Um, wise man. Uh, and I know Jack has been talking about him coming on the show. Oh my God.

I think we might have him on for a second, for a second. My dad just had a really big art show. I'm like really proud of him and I'm like, I want to gas him up because my dad wasn't always like like a popping artist. Like he was a teacher for a long time. Tell me about this. When is it? And can I go?

Yeah, yeah. There's a, he has a show that opened in L.A. And then, um, he's actually going to be in like the permanent installation. at Lachma in the new building there. The Geffen building? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has like... That's amazing.

Like, he's like, he was chosen, like, each sub-discipline within the museum, like, whether it's photography, painting, sculpture, whatever. They picked an artist for a permanent installation. And, like, they picked my dad to be, like, the photography installation. That is a really dope piece. And I, we have to go. And we have to take pictures. There will be an opening in April slash May, Zitegang.

If you're in L.A., come through. take a picture with the god, my dad, and I'll be the proud son off to the side. I'm not even playing, though. I'll fly back to LA for this. Okay, well, I'll tell you. I'll let you know. But here's a guy who we don't need to fucking honor.

Bill Maher, the White House just announced that Bill Maher is going to be the first recipient under the new Trump Kennedy Center Management. He'll be the first recipient under that regime for the Mark Twain Prize for American humor. I couldn't think of someone who's more fucking annoying and undeserving of something like this. Unless, I don't know, unless Islamophobia is now fully defined as American humor, it might be based on this current administration. You don't think doing the same thing for like 40 years.

But increasingly being on the wrong side of history, you don't think that deserves an award? Nah, no. I mean, maybe, I don't know. I mean, he did have dinner with Trump. Remember, he came out? He was like, he was very, like, measured. And I was very surprised in the beginning. That was when Larry David penned that op-ed that was like,

my dinner with Adolf after Bill Maher was just like fucking glazing Donald Trump. Yes. I love the shit out of fucking Larry David and good for him. And the entire thing is incredibly sad and reminds me of like Dennis Miller. You know, remember when we lost him to the right wing side? Oh, yeah, babe. He used to be like totally different. Yeah, he was always kind of like, it was in him.

But yeah, when he fully just became like right wing talker, yeah. But it's funny too because like just last month, Trump was talking shit about Bill and he's like he's a highly overrated lightweight. But I'm sure at that point. Probably doesn't remember any of this. He doesn't probably even remember who Bill Maher is, if we're being honest. He probably thinks Bill Murray's getting the award. And he's like, I love, I love Hedgehog Day.

Hedgehog Day. I love Hedgehog Day. It's my favorite movie. Spooky Busters. What else was he in? Lost in. Lost in transgender. Transatlantic.

She's like, what the fuck is he talking about right now? They were all great. Also, like, King. Sea level. Was he in? Life. level. Yeah. Oh yeah. The life sea level with Steve Zedan. That was great. That was great.

Maybe. Who knows? But it is in fact, Bill Marr. And I think it was a vulture in their right up there. Like they rightly pointed out. It's like, isn't it quote, an inspired selection in that there are a few other comedians who so routinely anger people on both sides of the political spectrum. So in that sense, I mean, he does have something. The thing is, it's not that he makes me angry. He makes me tired. He's like a classic edge lord at like an open mic where like they think they're saying the most like

brave and crazy thing that anyone's ever heard. The truth is people say that all the time. And you're, it's not shocking and I fucking hate that he thinks that like that's what he's doing. I'm like, no one is offended. No one thinks you're like, oh my God. Like he's just presenting such

new shit. We're not ready for it. Well, check this out. I was smoking a blunt with DMX's brother-in-law last Superhead gave me a dedication in her memoir. Superhead said I could use the N-word low-key. I know, right? I do.

Sometimes. Even before she said that, coincidentally. I said I was using it not retroactively, but pre-actively, before I even got the pass, I was using it. I always knew, and that's what I told people when they would threaten to beat me up, is that, don't worry, I'm going to get the N-word pass. Don't worry. I'm fine four years ago, etch. Jesus. And then there was this shit where like the White House posted some weird videos on social media yesterday.

We're like there's this clip. It looked like it was like the like the shot was of someone's feet as if they didn't know they were shooting a video. And then you hear a woman saying it's launching soon, right? And people are like, what's launching? And people are like, is this? I have to say, both videos freaked me out. Yeah, they the first one that was like, yeah, I don't know. if there are people like, are they slow rolling out a nuclear attack? Are they trying to send out

ominous videos? That feels a little too much intentionality for the White House considering the shit that they post. Part of me is also like, this might be like some signal to like insider traders or something where they're like, oh yeah, that video went up and down. Okay. So, so at all. All right. I know what I have to do on Polly Market now. Oh, it was a grainy video of an American flag. That's the one that sealed the weirdness for me. Yeah, just a glitchy shot of the American flag, which is weird because you're like, it looks like the U.S. is in distress because it is

when you show the flag like that. But sure, maybe it's something really cool. I don't know. It could also just be one of these inept fucking people to White House who doesn't know what the fuck they're doing and posting weird shit. I mean, if someone just accidentally posted a video saying a phrase and it's just a shot of,

and it looks like someone was accidentally had their phone on, I would have maybe excused it, but the line specifically that she says and the little caption that says like sound on, sound on, that's

purposeful. And then the second one with the glitchy American flag, I think if I was an unhinged monster, that is how I would like tease my nuclear attack. Jesus. I don't even know.

I just thought like, why would you be doing that? It seems like a really bad music video rollout, you know? There's something where, like, but another person is like, oh, that's really cool. Because the way they said it, there's another person saying it's cool. So I don't think it's like sounds like a thing where something is like, it's like, oh, like a never before seen escalation and warfare in our modern era versus like if it was like some website where you're like, oh, that's really cool. and someone goes, oh, and it's launching soon? Who is saying it's really cool? There's another person saying something about it.

Like, you can hear someone. It's not like, oh shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just to me, like, I could also see them talking about something completely innocuous. But typically, if I feel like, I don't know, Trump likes to just say shit on truth. So I was like, I might do it. I might go shroom cloud on you. I'm sorry, I'm going to misuse quotation marks and be like,

I'm going to bomb, quote, unquote, Iran, quote, unquote. And then we're just like, holy shit, what does this mean? It means I'm going to give up. Actually, it's the opposite of what I'm saying. Oh, man. All right. Well, that's going to do it for these trending moments for today, Thursday, March 26. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new episode.

Even more nonsense happening all around the world that will touch on. Thank you, Sophia, for joining me. I might even see you tomorrow for that episode. Because Jack is off on spring break with his family. Jack. New Jack. So we'll see you tomorrow. Until then, take care of yourselves.

Take care of each other. Get your vaccines. You know, don't do nothing about, hey, that's transphobia, xenophobia, white supremac. Just be a fucking good person. Tell people to knock that dumb shit off. Yeah, yeah. Introduce yourself to somebody in your neighbor. Good. Why not?

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