In this edition of James Bond OOTrendin, Eh?, Jack and Miles discuss Denis Villenueve directing the new Bond movie, Palantir's line going up, a 'Big Beautiful Bill' update, the tourist denied entry to the US because of a JD Vance meme, Elon trying to save Tesla with a year's old broken promise, 'The Simpson' killing off Marge?! and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of James
Bond double O trendon a fucking suck.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Just bailed on double.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Is that why you're saying a A yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Because he's Canadian man?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, okay, okay, genev New Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
How you say you say a shigan nester? Offensive offensive
impressions of French Canadians of a human. Yeah, my name's Jack.
That over there is mister Miles.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Great, I'm you're in the title. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I mean, like, of the people that they could have
announced to make the next Bond movie, like, he's probably
I think he might be at the top of the list,
like him, maybe Ryan Coogler, like those, those would be
the two people, like they just don't miss and they
make things in like a bunch of different genres, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, I think with Denny he just does such a
good job too of like letting the space between action
really fucking feel significant, And that'd be a really dope
aesthetic in a Bond film, because already with the Daniel
Craig stuff, they were leaning more into like this guy's
kind of fucked up from like killing people all the
time and getting his lovers killed.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's kind of like a spooky guy.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm starting to think that subconsciously he's into that. He's
just like a weird accidental serial killer. Did you know
his name is actually pronounced Dennis Villanova.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's Danny Villanueva.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's right, all right. Anyways, that's was just announced as
we're recording this Vidy, you've said some of my earliest
movie going memories are connected to Double O seven. I
grew up watching James Bond films with my father. Ever
since Doctor Noahs Sean Connery, I'm a diehard Bond fan.
To me, he's sacred territory. I intend to honor the
(02:20):
tradition and open the path for many new missions to come.
This is a massive responsibility. He sounds like he's freaking
out a little bit, but also incredibly exciting for me
and a huge honor. Amy David and I are absolutely
thrilled to bring him back to the screen. Thank you
to Amazon MGM Studios for their trust. Didn't name check Bezos?
(02:41):
Oh interesting?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh I thought you're calling his new name is check Bezos.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Check Bezos, dude, check Bezos.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Thanks for that check dude.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, there was People are showing like this clip like
years ago, how he's saying like his dream is to
do a Bond film like well before this, so yeah, good.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's nice when you see.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Someone be like and that was a good decision from you.
Get well done.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That part in Dune two where they're like floating just
off the you know they wear those like anti gravityess
and they're floating just like a foot off the ground
was so like because I've had that dream so many times,
you know, like where you're like trying to run but
like you can't touch the ground like it was. It
was so wild, Like that was such a fucking cool
(03:26):
scene like that. He's he's very visually.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I just just do that, but make it James Bond
this time.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yes, that well, I mean that's some shit you could
event in the Bond universe. I think you just try
it anti gravity.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Get lazy and just take stuff from all your other
films and just make them Bond scenes, Like do the
border scene in Sacario but James Bond. But just fuck it, man,
same set up. Somehow You're getting some guy across whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Bomb loses it and like starts chasing after somebody and
then like keeps them prisoner in his house, m prisoners Billianuve.
But there is anyways, Miles, what's going on Palenteer, Oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, Palenteer, Peter the Peter Teal funded company. It's it's man,
if you're if you're on Capitol Hill and you like
morally dubious stock trading, you better be all in on
Palenteer because a lot there are seven members of Congress
and maybe over a dozen White House officials according to
(04:27):
financial disclosures, who are you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Know, buying that Palenteer stock.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And you know, Palenteer has played a central role in
these ice kid nappings. So let's be clear here, Like
this is they're saying, like, oh okay, if we're ramping
this up, then Palaenteer stock is going to go up,
So I will buy Palenteer stock to profit off of
the pain of people.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
A lot of alliteration there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Just a quick fact Palaeer's stock price it was seventy
three dollars a share on the first day of Trump
in office, and it's around one forty today, so it's
nearly doubled.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And you know, there's a few.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Democrats like California's Rocana, who also appears to own some
of this stock he has been saying, or you know,
like people are like, oh, that's done from like a
like a financial advisor, and it's like, I'm not top
picking specific stocks. They're the ones who are just saying
I should profit off of this. It's clearly not me.
It's a pretty common refrain from members of Congress when
they've been asked about problematic stock trading. And Stephen Miller,
(05:24):
the chief architect of all this nonsense, he is holding
up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in stock
and who knows what that's even valued at now. But yeah,
they're profiting off the Ice kidnappings via Palenteer.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Cause they like the they were just getting contract after
contract after contract, like from the Pentagon from Doge was
like what if we just like dump everything into Palenteer
and like Palenteers the system that make America go. And yeah,
the Ice kidnappings like feel pretty aimless and like poorly executed,
(05:59):
like the you know, like not not that that's my
critique of them, but I would say when I was
talking about evil financial advisor, I'd be like, are they
they seem like they suck at their job.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
But so you've noticed.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Hmmm mm hm.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Anyways, fuck Palanteer's let's talk about the Big Beautiful Bill. Yeah,
while we're talking finance in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Luckily, it's not gaining a ton of traction right now.
They the latest setback comes from the parliamentarian who you
might remember from the Inflation Reduction Act, and they're like,
you technically can't do this under the reconciliation process. Basically,
the parliamentarian is the non partisan procedure and rules nerd
and make sure a bill is actually adhering to the rules.
(06:51):
And this is important because the Republicans are trying to
pass the bill with a simple majority, like they're using
reconciliation so they can just make huge changes with a
simple majority already no filibuster and be.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Like, okay, let's move on.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But the parliamentarian just flagged some huge parts of the
bill that are central to its mission of taking away
healthcare from millions of people, even though Republicans are.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Out loud being like they're not doing that. It's not
just straight up lying.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What Yeah, so the Big Beautiful Bill not that the
just because we love just your health, just because it
says it's making cuts to Medicaid in the text of
the bill doesn't mean that's what we want to do
or we're gonna do geez.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
This is from one of the reports I've read.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Quote one issue is a directive that states cut the
tax they impose on Medicaid providers from six percent down
to three percent, effectively having the amount that states will
receive in tax revenue from those providers. Critics say the
change will result in major challenges rural hospitals that rely
on that money because it becomes part of a big
pot of tax revenue for states that plays into the
(07:54):
complex formula that determines how much federal funding is received.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Then the other parts of this.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Is this is a quote from thing.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Just in case anyone thinks that we write an incredibly
long run on sentence, this is a quote from a source. Yeah, yeah,
this is from NPR find then PR. Yeah they to
use a fucking period, yeah, com God damn it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
One of the other, like the other things that have
been flagged by the parliamentarian, was the one that was
barring Medicaid from covering gender affirming care. Okay, great, thank you,
and also denying coverage and some Medicaid recipients who are
not US citizens, and their whole thing is like, we
would want to have this on mister Donald's dusk by
July fourth. That's it seems like this is going to
(08:35):
maybe delay, but who knows, they might just cobbleshit together
with no time for anyone to read it and go
with that and give all the billionaires to go.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Here you go, billionaires, and fuck you everyone else.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, really does seem like they don't think there's gonna
be an election like that, they don't need to get
votes anymore, which Donald did tell them, and he wasn't
even wrong about anything, you know, mhmm, this will be
the last time you need to vote, because yeah, they're
doing some pretty unpopular things, yeah, both legislatively and then
(09:08):
just like from the executive side, all right, one thing
that they're doing that's popular is defending the good name,
the good face of JD Vance. So this is an
ongoing story, but US officials are refuting claims that a
tourist was denied entry for having a JD Vance bald
(09:30):
meme on his phone. The Border patrol agents say, first
of all, it was it was somebody named Mad's Michelson,
and that name is apparently so common that it's not
the famous actor, it's just another Mads Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh yeah, which the.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
First time I heard the name Mads Michelson, I was like,
you know, that genreally sketch in h I think you
should leave where He's like, gosh, that's how I felt
about naming my kids anything besides Mad's Michelson O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh shit, Micholson.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Anyways, good good work to this person's parents by naming
him as Michelson.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So he's saying he was banned because of JD Van's
bald meme. I think the Norwegian media was also reporting that, uh.
The Border patrol says it was because of his admitted
drug use. They didn't explain why he admitted drug use,
but were they like the fact that they were not
like we didn't go through his phone, Like what are
(10:32):
you talking about? And they're just like, no, it wasn't.
It wasn't those memes that we found on his phone,
so that I don't know, it's weird that they're going
through people's phones.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I guess, yeah, the more because he like apparently they
he said that when they asked to asked him like, oh,
or so you he admitted to trying marijuana once in
Germany and once in New Mexico. Oh yeah, you can't
let that guy in this country. And he's like, I
didn't think it was an issue because there it's legal there.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Wow, anyway, in your own.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Drug user, shame Jesus, shame.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Fragile, fragile, fucking people.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
We'll be right back. And we're back. We're back.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Also, I'm gonna trust like he was having the interaction
with them, I'm assuming he watched them deny him entry,
you know, like after seeing the JD Vance bald meme.
You know, anyways, interesting, interesting, how thin skinned JD.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Van says.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Let's talk about Elon Musk's attempt to save Tesla. I
don't even know if we should call it an attempt.
It was a fucking swish from way downtown. He launched
some robotaxis.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
M M.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You know he so, Yes, the burning Tesla dealership. Yes,
giant fhallus is carved in the hoods of cyber trucks.
Not a great look. But he bet big that the
launch of his self driving robotaxis would turn everything around.
Beginning with a test run of a small squad of
self driving cabs in Austin, Texas, which began this weekend. Now,
(12:21):
I was when I first saw this, I was like, oh,
did they not have waymos in other cities, because we've
had waymos here for a couple of years in Los Angeles,
and actually we had them for like two years before
anyone could use them because they were just driving around
the street like training essentially just drinking up all our
(12:43):
driver behavior into their fucking AI. And then they became
a thing and people kind of used them, like some
people kind of use them, but this was being treated
like we've done it, figured it out Elon Musk. I
guess the additional thing that he's adding to that equation
(13:08):
is that in some future world, after like the cars
are all trained up, you'll just be able to like
park your Tesla somewhere and then start making money as
it acts as a robot taxi for other people.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So a lot of people were talking about why they
were getting their cyber truck, like, it's fine that it
costs much, because once I start doing the taxi stuff,
it's just going to pay for itself.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So the pitch you will make a little extra money
while ensuring that complete strangers have sex in the backseat
of your car.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, yes, but I want that.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's kind of my thing.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Also, yeck you imagine the fucking because those things are
equipped with cameras, so I'm sure just horrible things happening.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, and they just fucking suck that even like the
FEDS are even looking into it, and now they're like, yo,
what what are you doing with these cars that are
veering into oncoming traffic?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Oh, by the way, Brian the editor just found an
article Tesla's robotaxi service is set to debut today. Here's
what to know from five years ago. That's what like
in both of these cases, like even the idea that
it was debuting. Now, yeah, I was like, why is
this being treated like a story. We already have these
(14:28):
way mods. We already you know, burnt them. We defeated
them in Los Angeles. But anyways, so they are debuting,
they are doing wild shit, like people are taking video
of their ride. And first of all, there's a Tesla
employee just sitting shotgun at all times quote unquote monitoring
(14:51):
the ride. But in one case, like we see the
car the car like turns like gets in the left
turning lane and then the wheel just starts like jerking
back and forth as it drives straight through the intersection
and into oncoming traffic and then like slowly drifts into
the other lane.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It just never mind.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
It doesn't like if you saw someone driving like that, like, yeah, round.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Did you have a fucking episode?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Are you high?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Like it looks like me or it looks like you
know how Like we used to make fun of how
people would drive in like movies when they're clearly not driving,
like oh yeah, when they're.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Like back and forth and back and forth.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
That's what the.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Fucking steering wheel looks like.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Is this thing's trying to make a left turn and
it just nopes out of it, and you're like, this
is this is an actual failure that has just failed
to even make a left turn.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Videos posted online showed Robotaxi speeding, Like we said, the
most concerning one had the Robotaxi steering wheel randomly jerking
around then careening into oncoming traffic. There's not a car there,
but yeah, Like, but it's also kind of wild because
like the person who's monitoring it acts like it didn't happen.
(16:11):
The person who's sitting in the passenger side doesn't like
freak out. He acts like all the people whatever, I'm
on a flight that experiences turbulence and I like grab
the people around me, like yeah christ and everyone's just
like chill as fuck.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Uh yeah, it's just the guy writing shotgun in there,
because it is clearly like so into the cult of
Tesla or something.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, it just does this like kind of thing. It's fine, right,
it's meant to do this, and it does it well.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Actually, in other videos, the robo taxi randomly hits the
brakes because it notices a cop car. There's like two
times where they were like, we've found it like slamming
on the brakes and we couldn't figure out why. Then
like when you look back at the tape, there's like
a cop car visible, Like is that this is robot me?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, freaking it's just like, oh fuck, they're gonna fucking
do something, bro, what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, good luck man.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And this you'd imagine if Musk was on the good side,
the good and the good graces of Donald Trump, the
US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wouldn't be investigating Tesla
over this.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So once these videos started circulating. An investigation was opened
up and they were like, oh, they're just because Elon
Musk was like, we're actually being super paranoid about safety,
doesn't actually mean that they did the necessary uh yeah testing,
and you know, like all like what what Waimo did?
They Uh, their cars drove the roads that they would
(17:45):
be driving for years without passengers. Uh up to a
year I think or it was a full year, and
Tesla was like a couple months and was just like, yeah,
I get it into production, which we've seen how careful
he is with just the constant barrage of fucking rockets
exploding in the sky California and Texas. So yeah, I
(18:08):
don't know, we're forced to rely on YouTube videos of
glitches for insight because Tesla has been as yeah, like
any any company with money on the line is going
to use lobbying to try and make it so that
there's not this oversight. They're fighting it pretty heavily. It
tested its vehicles with safety drivers throughout Austin for a
(18:31):
few months, then Musk announced in late May, only weeks
before the plan launch, it started testing without safety drivers.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Seems not good enough.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
God, I mean, he's so thorough usually els usually so
so details oriented.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So there's a story going around that I didn't want
to believe is true that the Simpsons killed kill Marge.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, I was like, what the f I saw that too,
and people put like a put her in heaven. I
saw one headline that had like an image of her
like in the clouds. I was like, what the fuck
is this? And I also, sadly I didn't care to know.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But does she die? So they kill her off.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Kind of not in the present, so you know how
sometimes they will like flash forward to the future where
Lisa's president is an alcoholic I think. So it's basically
a flash forward set thirty five years in the future
where Marge is dead, but it is confirmed her soul
(19:35):
is in heaven and she's now married to Ringo Star.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
So oh perfect, yeah, sorry, I'll be yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So she ended up all right, all is well, that
ends well, she's fine, mm hmmm, so we can rest easy. Yeah,
this weekend knowing Marge Simpson is that she's mortal, mortal
in heaven getting sucked by a beadle.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Like this is doing like seven hundred years in the
future and reveal that Homer is like immortal, right, and everyone.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Else is just exactly the same age.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, that's just funnier all right, but a good luck
good luck.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Brian the editor was saying that the lady who voices
March has been complaining about how painful it is to
do the voice for like twenty years. Oh wow, So
maybe maybe this is just the Simpsons being like, oh,
you think you think you can't get touched March.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, you think we can't.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Valeries Family Kevner's seventy four My God, superducer Victor says,
you can tell in the new episodes that it's putting
a strain on her voice. Jesus, Oh no, the Simpson's
gotten really like dark.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, Matt Greening just be like you get in that booth,
go and you say my special.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Little guy go.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I mean I do understand.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It's like, oh, it's a tough voice to do.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Like, that's okay. We found her, we found the new March.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'm just saying my odd.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Dish, yeah, nail doubt.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Those are some of the things that are trending on
this Thursday, June twenty sixth We are back tomorrow with
the Who last episode of the show. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your
vaccines while you still can. Yeah, get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law, co
produced by Bee Wayang.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Co produced by Victor Wright, co written by J M McNabb,
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of James
Bond double O trendon a fucking suck.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Just bailed on double.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Is that why you're saying a A yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Because he's Canadian man?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, okay, okay, genev New Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
How you say you say a shigan nester? Offensive offensive
impressions of French Canadians of a human. Yeah, my name's Jack.
That over there is mister Miles.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Great, I'm you're in the title. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I mean, like, of the people that they could have
announced to make the next Bond movie, like, he's probably
I think he might be at the top of the list,
like him, maybe Ryan Coogler, like those, those would be
the two people, like they just don't miss and they
make things in like a bunch of different genres, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, I think with Denny he just does such a
good job too of like letting the space between action
really fucking feel significant, And that'd be a really dope
aesthetic in a Bond film, because already with the Daniel
Craig stuff, they were leaning more into like this guy's
kind of fucked up from like killing people all the
time and getting his lovers killed.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's kind of like a spooky guy.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm starting to think that subconsciously he's into that. He's
just like a weird accidental serial killer. Did you know
his name is actually pronounced Dennis Villanova.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's Danny Villanueva.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's right, all right. Anyways, that's was just announced as
we're recording this Vidy, you've said some of my earliest
movie going memories are connected to Double O seven. I
grew up watching James Bond films with my father. Ever
since Doctor Noahs Sean Connery, I'm a diehard Bond fan.
To me, he's sacred territory. I intend to honor the
(02:20):
tradition and open the path for many new missions to come.
This is a massive responsibility. He sounds like he's freaking
out a little bit, but also incredibly exciting for me
and a huge honor. Amy David and I are absolutely
thrilled to bring him back to the screen. Thank you
to Amazon MGM Studios for their trust. Didn't name check Bezos?
(02:41):
Oh interesting?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh I thought you're calling his new name is check Bezos.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Check Bezos, dude, check Bezos.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Thanks for that check dude.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, there was People are showing like this clip like
years ago, how he's saying like his dream is to
do a Bond film like well before this, so yeah, good.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's nice when you see.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Someone be like and that was a good decision from you.
Get well done.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That part in Dune two where they're like floating just
off the you know they wear those like anti gravityess
and they're floating just like a foot off the ground
was so like because I've had that dream so many times,
you know, like where you're like trying to run but
like you can't touch the ground like it was. It
was so wild, Like that was such a fucking cool
(03:26):
scene like that. He's he's very visually.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I just just do that, but make it James Bond
this time.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yes, that well, I mean that's some shit you could
event in the Bond universe. I think you just try
it anti gravity.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Get lazy and just take stuff from all your other
films and just make them Bond scenes, Like do the
border scene in Sacario but James Bond. But just fuck it, man,
same set up. Somehow You're getting some guy across whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Bomb loses it and like starts chasing after somebody and
then like keeps them prisoner in his house, m prisoners Billianuve.
But there is anyways, Miles, what's going on Palenteer, Oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, Palenteer, Peter the Peter Teal funded company. It's it's man,
if you're if you're on Capitol Hill and you like
morally dubious stock trading, you better be all in on
Palenteer because a lot there are seven members of Congress
and maybe over a dozen White House officials according to
(04:27):
financial disclosures, who are you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Know, buying that Palenteer stock.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And you know, Palenteer has played a central role in
these ice kid nappings. So let's be clear here, Like
this is they're saying, like, oh okay, if we're ramping
this up, then Palaenteer stock is going to go up,
So I will buy Palenteer stock to profit off of
the pain of people.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
A lot of alliteration there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Just a quick fact Palaeer's stock price it was seventy
three dollars a share on the first day of Trump
in office, and it's around one forty today, so it's
nearly doubled.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And you know, there's a few.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Democrats like California's Rocana, who also appears to own some
of this stock he has been saying, or you know,
like people are like, oh, that's done from like a
like a financial advisor, and it's like, I'm not top
picking specific stocks. They're the ones who are just saying
I should profit off of this. It's clearly not me.
It's a pretty common refrain from members of Congress when
they've been asked about problematic stock trading. And Stephen Miller,
(05:24):
the chief architect of all this nonsense, he is holding
up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in stock
and who knows what that's even valued at now. But yeah,
they're profiting off the Ice kidnappings via Palenteer.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Cause they like the they were just getting contract after
contract after contract, like from the Pentagon from Doge was
like what if we just like dump everything into Palenteer
and like Palenteers the system that make America go. And yeah,
the Ice kidnappings like feel pretty aimless and like poorly executed,
(05:59):
like the you know, like not not that that's my
critique of them, but I would say when I was
talking about evil financial advisor, I'd be like, are they
they seem like they suck at their job.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
But so you've noticed.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Hmmm mm hm.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Anyways, fuck Palanteer's let's talk about the Big Beautiful Bill. Yeah,
while we're talking finance in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Luckily, it's not gaining a ton of traction right now.
They the latest setback comes from the parliamentarian who you
might remember from the Inflation Reduction Act, and they're like,
you technically can't do this under the reconciliation process. Basically,
the parliamentarian is the non partisan procedure and rules nerd
and make sure a bill is actually adhering to the rules.
(06:51):
And this is important because the Republicans are trying to
pass the bill with a simple majority, like they're using
reconciliation so they can just make huge changes with a
simple majority already no filibuster and be.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Like, okay, let's move on.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But the parliamentarian just flagged some huge parts of the
bill that are central to its mission of taking away
healthcare from millions of people, even though Republicans are.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Out loud being like they're not doing that. It's not
just straight up lying.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What Yeah, so the Big Beautiful Bill not that the
just because we love just your health, just because it
says it's making cuts to Medicaid in the text of
the bill doesn't mean that's what we want to do
or we're gonna do geez.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
This is from one of the reports I've read.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Quote one issue is a directive that states cut the
tax they impose on Medicaid providers from six percent down
to three percent, effectively having the amount that states will
receive in tax revenue from those providers. Critics say the
change will result in major challenges rural hospitals that rely
on that money because it becomes part of a big
pot of tax revenue for states that plays into the
(07:54):
complex formula that determines how much federal funding is received.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Then the other parts of this.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Is this is a quote from thing.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Just in case anyone thinks that we write an incredibly
long run on sentence, this is a quote from a source. Yeah, yeah,
this is from NPR find then PR. Yeah they to
use a fucking period, yeah, com God damn it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
One of the other, like the other things that have
been flagged by the parliamentarian, was the one that was
barring Medicaid from covering gender affirming care. Okay, great, thank you,
and also denying coverage and some Medicaid recipients who are
not US citizens, and their whole thing is like, we
would want to have this on mister Donald's dusk by
July fourth. That's it seems like this is going to
(08:35):
maybe delay, but who knows, they might just cobbleshit together
with no time for anyone to read it and go
with that and give all the billionaires to go.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Here you go, billionaires, and fuck you everyone else.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, really does seem like they don't think there's gonna
be an election like that, they don't need to get
votes anymore, which Donald did tell them, and he wasn't
even wrong about anything, you know, mhmm, this will be
the last time you need to vote, because yeah, they're
doing some pretty unpopular things, yeah, both legislatively and then
(09:08):
just like from the executive side, all right, one thing
that they're doing that's popular is defending the good name,
the good face of JD Vance. So this is an
ongoing story, but US officials are refuting claims that a
tourist was denied entry for having a JD Vance bald
(09:30):
meme on his phone. The Border patrol agents say, first
of all, it was it was somebody named Mad's Michelson,
and that name is apparently so common that it's not
the famous actor, it's just another Mads Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh yeah, which the.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
First time I heard the name Mads Michelson, I was like,
you know, that genreally sketch in h I think you
should leave where He's like, gosh, that's how I felt
about naming my kids anything besides Mad's Michelson O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh shit, Micholson.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Anyways, good good work to this person's parents by naming
him as Michelson.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So he's saying he was banned because of JD Van's
bald meme. I think the Norwegian media was also reporting that, uh.
The Border patrol says it was because of his admitted
drug use. They didn't explain why he admitted drug use,
but were they like the fact that they were not
like we didn't go through his phone, Like what are
(10:32):
you talking about? And they're just like, no, it wasn't.
It wasn't those memes that we found on his phone,
so that I don't know, it's weird that they're going
through people's phones.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I guess, yeah, the more because he like apparently they
he said that when they asked to asked him like, oh,
or so you he admitted to trying marijuana once in
Germany and once in New Mexico. Oh yeah, you can't
let that guy in this country. And he's like, I
didn't think it was an issue because there it's legal there.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Wow, anyway, in your own.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Drug user, shame Jesus, shame.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Fragile, fragile, fucking people.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
We'll be right back. And we're back. We're back.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Also, I'm gonna trust like he was having the interaction
with them, I'm assuming he watched them deny him entry,
you know, like after seeing the JD Vance bald meme.
You know, anyways, interesting, interesting, how thin skinned JD.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Van says.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Let's talk about Elon Musk's attempt to save Tesla. I
don't even know if we should call it an attempt.
It was a fucking swish from way downtown. He launched
some robotaxis.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
M M.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You know he so, Yes, the burning Tesla dealership. Yes,
giant fhallus is carved in the hoods of cyber trucks.
Not a great look. But he bet big that the
launch of his self driving robotaxis would turn everything around.
Beginning with a test run of a small squad of
self driving cabs in Austin, Texas, which began this weekend. Now,
(12:21):
I was when I first saw this, I was like, oh,
did they not have waymos in other cities, because we've
had waymos here for a couple of years in Los Angeles,
and actually we had them for like two years before
anyone could use them because they were just driving around
the street like training essentially just drinking up all our
(12:43):
driver behavior into their fucking AI. And then they became
a thing and people kind of used them, like some
people kind of use them, but this was being treated
like we've done it, figured it out Elon Musk. I
guess the additional thing that he's adding to that equation
(13:08):
is that in some future world, after like the cars
are all trained up, you'll just be able to like
park your Tesla somewhere and then start making money as
it acts as a robot taxi for other people.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So a lot of people were talking about why they
were getting their cyber truck, like, it's fine that it
costs much, because once I start doing the taxi stuff,
it's just going to pay for itself.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So the pitch you will make a little extra money
while ensuring that complete strangers have sex in the backseat
of your car.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, yes, but I want that.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's kind of my thing.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Also, yeck you imagine the fucking because those things are
equipped with cameras, so I'm sure just horrible things happening.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, and they just fucking suck that even like the
FEDS are even looking into it, and now they're like, yo,
what what are you doing with these cars that are
veering into oncoming traffic?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Oh, by the way, Brian the editor just found an
article Tesla's robotaxi service is set to debut today. Here's
what to know from five years ago. That's what like
in both of these cases, like even the idea that
it was debuting. Now, yeah, I was like, why is
this being treated like a story. We already have these
(14:28):
way mods. We already you know, burnt them. We defeated
them in Los Angeles. But anyways, so they are debuting,
they are doing wild shit, like people are taking video
of their ride. And first of all, there's a Tesla
employee just sitting shotgun at all times quote unquote monitoring
(14:51):
the ride. But in one case, like we see the
car the car like turns like gets in the left
turning lane and then the wheel just starts like jerking
back and forth as it drives straight through the intersection
and into oncoming traffic and then like slowly drifts into
the other lane.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It just never mind.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
It doesn't like if you saw someone driving like that, like, yeah, round.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Did you have a fucking episode?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Are you high?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Like it looks like me or it looks like you
know how Like we used to make fun of how
people would drive in like movies when they're clearly not driving,
like oh yeah, when they're.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Like back and forth and back and forth.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
That's what the.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Fucking steering wheel looks like.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Is this thing's trying to make a left turn and
it just nopes out of it, and you're like, this
is this is an actual failure that has just failed
to even make a left turn.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Videos posted online showed Robotaxi speeding, Like we said, the
most concerning one had the Robotaxi steering wheel randomly jerking
around then careening into oncoming traffic. There's not a car there,
but yeah, Like, but it's also kind of wild because
like the person who's monitoring it acts like it didn't happen.
(16:11):
The person who's sitting in the passenger side doesn't like
freak out. He acts like all the people whatever, I'm
on a flight that experiences turbulence and I like grab
the people around me, like yeah christ and everyone's just
like chill as fuck.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Uh yeah, it's just the guy writing shotgun in there,
because it is clearly like so into the cult of
Tesla or something.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, it just does this like kind of thing. It's fine, right,
it's meant to do this, and it does it well.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Actually, in other videos, the robo taxi randomly hits the
brakes because it notices a cop car. There's like two
times where they were like, we've found it like slamming
on the brakes and we couldn't figure out why. Then
like when you look back at the tape, there's like
a cop car visible, Like is that this is robot me?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, freaking it's just like, oh fuck, they're gonna fucking
do something, bro, what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, good luck man.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And this you'd imagine if Musk was on the good side,
the good and the good graces of Donald Trump, the
US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wouldn't be investigating Tesla
over this.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So once these videos started circulating. An investigation was opened
up and they were like, oh, they're just because Elon
Musk was like, we're actually being super paranoid about safety,
doesn't actually mean that they did the necessary uh yeah testing,
and you know, like all like what what Waimo did?
They Uh, their cars drove the roads that they would
(17:45):
be driving for years without passengers. Uh up to a
year I think or it was a full year, and
Tesla was like a couple months and was just like, yeah,
I get it into production, which we've seen how careful
he is with just the constant barrage of fucking rockets
exploding in the sky California and Texas. So yeah, I
(18:08):
don't know, we're forced to rely on YouTube videos of
glitches for insight because Tesla has been as yeah, like
any any company with money on the line is going
to use lobbying to try and make it so that
there's not this oversight. They're fighting it pretty heavily. It
tested its vehicles with safety drivers throughout Austin for a
(18:31):
few months, then Musk announced in late May, only weeks
before the plan launch, it started testing without safety drivers.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Seems not good enough.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
God, I mean, he's so thorough usually els usually so
so details oriented.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So there's a story going around that I didn't want
to believe is true that the Simpsons killed kill Marge.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, I was like, what the f I saw that too,
and people put like a put her in heaven. I
saw one headline that had like an image of her
like in the clouds. I was like, what the fuck
is this? And I also, sadly I didn't care to know.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But does she die? So they kill her off.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Kind of not in the present, so you know how
sometimes they will like flash forward to the future where
Lisa's president is an alcoholic I think. So it's basically
a flash forward set thirty five years in the future
where Marge is dead, but it is confirmed her soul
(19:35):
is in heaven and she's now married to Ringo Star.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
So oh perfect, yeah, sorry, I'll be yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So she ended up all right, all is well, that
ends well, she's fine, mm hmmm, so we can rest easy. Yeah,
this weekend knowing Marge Simpson is that she's mortal, mortal
in heaven getting sucked by a beadle.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Like this is doing like seven hundred years in the
future and reveal that Homer is like immortal, right, and everyone.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Else is just exactly the same age.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, that's just funnier all right, but a good luck
good luck.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Brian the editor was saying that the lady who voices
March has been complaining about how painful it is to
do the voice for like twenty years. Oh wow, So
maybe maybe this is just the Simpsons being like, oh,
you think you think you can't get touched March.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, you think we can't.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Valeries Family Kevner's seventy four My God, superducer Victor says,
you can tell in the new episodes that it's putting
a strain on her voice. Jesus, Oh no, the Simpson's
gotten really like dark.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, Matt Greening just be like you get in that booth,
go and you say my special.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Little guy go.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I mean I do understand.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It's like, oh, it's a tough voice to do.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Like, that's okay. We found her, we found the new March.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'm just saying my odd.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Dish, yeah, nail doubt.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Those are some of the things that are trending on
this Thursday, June twenty sixth We are back tomorrow with
the Who last episode of the show. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your
vaccines while you still can. Yeah, get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law, co
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