In this edition of PolterZeitgeist, Jack and Miles discuss the upcoming midterm elections, "6-7" entering the lexicon, that AI 'Friends' video, Feds charging Kat Abughazaleh with conspiracy for… protesting, Google Trends 2025 list of top Halloween costumes and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Poulter Zeitgeist.
There we got, yeah, Poulter Zeitgeist courtesy of Entropy, because
that's a spooky movie and it's the day before Halloween.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Miles hmm, oh wait, so the geist is ghost. What's
Poulter uh movie?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, pull vault.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let's see poult a disturbing oh a disturbance.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Ghost, disturbance ghost. Hell yeah, all right, all right polter Geist.
My name is Jacob Brian. That over there is mister
Miles Gray. Yeah, and this is the episode where we
tell you what is trending on this Thursday, October thirtieth.
What's happening? We got Halloween tomorrow. We're gonna talk how
(00:48):
what's happening?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh yeah, what's in the world? A lot a lot?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We got elections coming up, perhaps you haven't, perhaps the
very last ones. Yeah, of the.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Normal like just only light fuckery variety if we take
away just sort of you know, just the sort of
you know, the traditional voter suppression tactics that the right uses.
But yeah, some big ones, obviously New York the mayor
ole race that's coming up. Michael Bloomberg, I think just
gave like a fucking one and a half million dollars
(01:20):
to Cuomo against their effort.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
There's like a lot of a lot of stories being
like the there's a there's a shift, there's a movement,
and if this movement keeps up, Cuomo is going to
overtake Mom Donnie. And it's like a tiny blimp.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh yeah, oh I've seen that where they're like they're
like at this pace and I saw them. Yeah, I
saw quote tweeted like my son is now twice the
size he was ten months ago. At this rate, he
will be one trillion pounds by the time he's twenty
years old. And you're like, yeah, sure that, I get
what you're trying to say. There, Yeah, to be yeah,
people needed to be a close race. That's were I
(02:00):
feel like we're seeing the other side of the I
mean not really the other side, but like you know,
the Democratic Party, why, even when they're losing pretty convincingly,
will find a way to manufacture storylines that are like
you never I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Keep your eye on this one.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Look, I don't want to say we failed this before
the election. Okay, so let's let's make it seem like
a surprise on the day.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And also it's just it's amazing to see the solidarity
that exists among people who hate any kind of equity
or equality when it comes to our country. So it's like,
you even have Republicans who are like Andrew Cuomo is
a piece of shit freak who's killing America, who are
now like, I mean in this in this case, I
(02:44):
must say I have to back Andrew Cuomo, like someone
hid his biggest rivals from the New York State Legislature,
or like backing him because again, socialism kind.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Of in the form of Mom Donnie.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, Mom, Donnie's gonna sell the rich. He's gonna make
the make the rich have to be sold. It's not
like they've got the guillotines out already.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Virginia also a huge governor's race that could also help
gauge the temperature of a state that Trump won. But also,
you know, Virginia has this interesting thing where they vote
like they have a history of voting for a governor
from the party that lost the White House in the
previous presidential election for the.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Last twelve elections.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So that bodes well for former CIA operator Abigail Spamberger
who's the Democrat. Hell yeah, has a lead over Winsome
Eurel Sears, who's a former marine Magafreek, you know, stands
for all the usual inhumane nonsense.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
But she's a black woman, so maybe that will help.
I don't know that. That's kind of like a thing
mag alects do.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Is like, but if they're black, right, is it less
racist if racism is said by a black person?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Is it less racist?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't know. We will see Samberger.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Everybody every woman of color, a low IQ individual. Does
that backfire in this case?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And hearing that over and over and over again for
the past eight years.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, not great, not great branding.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And then also they have as just like a funny thing,
a listener shout out Jillian who was like, you just
just know the lieutenant governor's race, this one the Republican candidate.
The Democrat who's running for lieutenant governor wasn't at the debate,
so he put an AI version of her up to
debate with and it was a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
But again, what shows you where they're at, where their
heads are at.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And then obviously for us here in California, the big
one fifty measure fifty not the.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Big one we're always talking about, but in this.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Not the earthquake, No, the devastating earthquake that will completely
shatter the city.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
No, no, not yet, not yet, not yet.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
But this is this is one that would allow the
people in Sacramento that That's why I've been getting spam
texts of both sort from Donald Yeah, I gotta, I
gotta spam text from Arnold be not how should happen? Yes,
if it doesn't go through, America would be in a
(05:13):
lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I mean, look, so proposition fifty is where if
voters of California approve it, that means there will be
new maps put into effect that will create five more
Democrat seats in the House. Obviously, this is in a
direct response to what Governor Abbott is doing in Texas
and then many other states too, like like just other
states are now trying to be like this looks like
(05:35):
we're going to get fucking swept in a midterm.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So what if we cheated to avoid that?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's what the Republicans are saying, and the Democrats are like,
we're yeah, So this allows Democrats to fight fire with fire.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Essentially, yeah, And at this point, I mean like, yeah,
fucking doing to go go for it, do fucking something,
go with God.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I don't if Schwarzenegger doesn't think it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Big news for teachers and elementary school age children. Dictionary
dot Com announce the word of the year for twenty
twenty five, and it is so weirdly they they printed
it as the number sixty seven, which was confusing. But
it's obviously six seven. It's a word, it's a number,
(06:27):
possibly two words. Someone confusing, seemingly. Dictionary dot COM's director
of Lexicography, Steve Johnson, wanted to make six seven the
word of the year to spite his friends who are teachers.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh great, great use of your your position to try.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Johnson knew they had quote something really interesting when he
got a message from his friend, a middle school teacher
early one morning, like waking up from a fever dream,
being like, oh God, do not make six seven the
word of the year. And he was like, yeah, so
I guess I gotta do that. Yeah, Steve Johnson is
a is a twelve year old boy. It says like
(07:09):
there's another quote from teachers. Teachers are banning this slaying
six seven and disciplining students who breached the rule. Quote.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I've been teaching for twenty years and I've dealt with
all sorts of slang. Nothing has driven me crazier.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Than this one.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Geez Adria Laplander is sixth grade language arts teacher in Michigan, says.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Something that you would have thought would have gone away,
it just kept on growing larger and larger, snowballing into
kind of like a cultural phenomenon. Is the is the
positive read on it?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah? Great? You know, kids say whatever you want, man,
fucking knock yourself out.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, someone was so I said, fuck I whenever I scroll,
like I'm just never saving posts. But there was somebody
talking about, like, you know, you're talking about six seven
being weird, and then like we used to fucking act
like Cornholio from Beavis and butt Head, right, like that
was probably awesome. Like what the fuck are why does
everyone need tepee for their bung hole?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Sir? Please don't make TP for your bunghole the word
of the year.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
That's the bush meme.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now like sure they made TP for your bumhole the
word of the Yeah, I get I guess back then
we didn't have a meme driven uh information economy where
no diction. The dictionary was fueled by you know, engagement
and clicks. So those probably, but six seven is one
(08:30):
of the probably, you know, most used words that I
that I hear around and.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Your your kids, you do it in a way that
is driving you up the walls.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It's just no, it's just every every time a number
comes up, they'll say six, even you just have to
say it like that, I guess, yeah, And then they
usually say seven, eleven and afterwards, and then go into
a weird rhyming thing. And then they started saying other
numbers that I haven't committed to memory yet because they
aren't the word of the year.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You should be like those better you better be reciting
pie over there.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Those better either be Pie or the numbers from Lost.
Yeah you get out for eight fifty six house. Let
me tell you my friend Chris memorized my social Security
number and would just say it over and over again,
just like.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Out loud, yeah, out loud with you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's so stupid, but such a funny thing that would
just cause panic to one specific person.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And then we're hanging out a couple of weeks ago
and he still remembers it, which fucked me up.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Two eight three six six two nine five two All
right at somebody's let it rip, folks.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Uh did you see this? The future of sitcoms? Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Dude, what a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So I I thought it had to be satire first,
Like I thought they had to be making fun of
like AI people.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
That was earned that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Wait, it's that's Ernest, a guy named tech Halla like
as inal Valhalla, seamless portmanteau of tech and Valhalla. So
we know we're on solid ground here hosted an AI
generated video of friends moments, essentially with the proclamation that
sitcoms will never be the same again. Yes, my immediate
(10:21):
thought was like, this is funny. They're making fun of AI,
like this is the most sloppiest of AI slop uh.
And you go to his page and it's just like
all of his tweets are about like different innovations in
AI and like trying to get people excited.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh my god, wait, is there is this a pulp
fiction one?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He also did?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
This is really fucking bad. You know what they call
a quarter pounder with cheese and paris?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What are they call a royal with cheese? Royal still
a burger.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese
and paris? What do they call it? A royal with.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well cheese metric system and a fancy label? This is
this is this, It's okay again. It's just like worse.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The Friends one is awful, though Friends one is wild
because I don't truly everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
They are like weird parts where they like pause and
like smile at each other, like waiting for the person
to come in. It's really, like, really feels the most
like a bad well hallucinogenic experience.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
His sitcoms are so specific in their performance too, like
so an algorithm's idea of what that behavior is. It
just makes it look like these people are fucking like
are fucked up on drugs or aren't making sense all
Like all the women look like versions of each like
of the same person, and all the men like it's
like a Chandler fucking what's the other guy.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Called ros Ross and then the other guy Joey, Like
they're all Joey in there.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I didn't even but yeah, I guess there are like
joey ish Chandlers and Chandler is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Rosses and Rachel Rachel ish rosses. But then I's just
want to spin around with her back or guitar. There's okay,
this this ross line.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, let's just listen to this line because this is
what I want to point out, because yes, the ship
is glitchy. Like at one point, somebody's head is on backwards.
A hand opens the door from like opens a closed door,
and like their body is on the other side, and
they're like, look at, look at how seamless this is.
But their inability to even like approach what like for
(12:43):
any of this to work. Like the thing that drove
pulp fiction, that drove friends is like writing, you know,
it's like joke writing or like script for pulp fiction,
and like they just have like such a shitty grasp
of that. Yeah, but I guess I wouldn't expect tech rose,
but like, yes, this line. Let's let's hear this line.
(13:03):
As there's some bricks to maybe and mama and running, howse,
what one more time? As there's some bricks to maybe.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And mama and running? Howse the bricks the baby and my.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
But they've got feels so crazy. Nelly cats, smelly cat,
what are they feeding you?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And then this guy goes like a guy comes in
and laughs and then goes sits down on another couch
or there's.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Another the same people are sitting over there.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
This is the problem, man, Like, this is like all
of this ship is based on stuff humans are making.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's just a remix. It's a seamless remix.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
All all you're doing is just making bad fucking xerox
copies of ship we've already seen.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So what what fucking what use is this?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I get that they're like, this is a future, So
what you're gonna be like shit out a terrible version
of friends.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, that makes versions of other shit that's already been created, which.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Is like what you know that.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That's what's artistically bankrupt about it is just that you're
just like copying other people's shit without like giving them credit.
But it's also what is going to make it suck
so bad is that it's just like again, it's like
a thing that's fun for the people playing with it
to be like, wow, look what you can do, but
you can't, like, I don't know how you incorporate this
(14:35):
into making like a good thing that anybody wants to
watch it all other than people who are like WHOA,
I feel like I'm on drugs a little bit, but
like bad ones.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Whoa I made an arm come out of that lady's forehead, right,
all right, cool, I don't know, we'll see there.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Melly cats, Mellie Cat, whoa what?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And then like they cut over and like these women
are just like pawing at each other nonsensically, like they
don't know how to just show affection. It's like, so
fucking whatever, good luck man, good luck tech Hala.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, there is a so the person who originally generated
it called it the one with the weird AI, so
like they were like, this is glitch is fucking like
kind of trippy, but like I do think that this
is a good like a good encapsulation of like how
AI proselytizers feel. They're just like, well, this is fucking crazy.
(15:33):
Line go up? Look at how much does this make?
Line go up? Like, like there was the one the
AI company that released. They were like, we did a
full episode of South Park and then you watch it
and it's just the most like dead thing with like
characters moving around and they're like putting themselves in it
and being like that's an interesting idea. Cut to the
next scene, like it just doesn't doesn't make any fucking sense.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Ah well, I mean it can continues to not make sense,
and said, I don't know if you were there that
episode last week where I was talking, there was like
this one AI researcher saying, like all these models are
trained off of high quality human product, like the like
the actual things humans create, and they're running out of
(16:17):
material to feed the machine. Pretty soon it's going to
start feeding off of the own its own slop that's
out there, and it's going to be even worse.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I don't know, so whatever, I.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Mean, they fed it all of friends and this is
what it came back. It's like, I don't know if
this isn't going to be spread the noisy the bricks
and I go, maw.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh, Ross, Ross, You're so crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know where this ends. It
seems pretty stupid and like a bubble that's going to
burst at some point, or maybe not. Maybe they'll just
be able to like kind of stay afloat on the bullshit,
or you know, everyone else will foot the bill. Yeah yeah,
oh yeah, well that's happening one way or the other. Yeah,
(17:03):
I mean we are all right, let's take a quick
break and we'll be right back. And we're back. We're back,
and the mask off. Just intimidation corruption eighties movie Bad Guy.
(17:26):
Shit is really reaching a new, a new level with
the Trump administration. It feels late. And one example of
this is that former guest currently running for office in Illinois,
kat Abugazl, was hit with a federal indictment for essentially
just protesting.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
For protesting outside of an ICED attention center. I mean
people may have seen the clip where she was shoved
over by an ICE agent. Yeah, and that what they're
alleging was that she her and others because they like
to hit people with conspiracy charges and they're protesting, quote
physically hindered and impeded a federal agent who was quote
forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed
(18:09):
to avoid injuring any of the conspirators.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
What right?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
What okay?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
They had to drive too slow?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Do you have any idea how dangerous that is for
them to drive too slow? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Or were you trying to run someone over or driving
aggressively and people get in front of your car and
then you're like, you want me to drive slow and
not drive over you. The Nightman also alleges Abaza, along
with other individuals quote banged aggressively on the agent's vehicle
quote damn, crowded together in the front and side of
the vehicle, and quote pushed against the vehicle to hinder
(18:47):
and impede its movement.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
They said other people.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
In the group wrote gig on the vehicle and broke
a rear windshield white wiper, and also alleges that Abu
Gazle specifically quote joined the crowd the front of the
government vehicle and with her hands on the hood, braced
her body and hands against the vehicle while remaining directly
in the path of the vehicle, hindering and impeding the.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So those basically attempt at homicide.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, what the is this?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I mean, this is becoming more and more common people
getting indicted. We've seen terrible prosecutions of protesters before, not
even just in this administration, but like, why is a
Palestinian American candidate for office being targeted for exercising their
free speech rights?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Like, we still have these fucking rights.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Just just to remind everyone these rights are still there,
even't totally towards the constitution, although in action it does,
it obviously feels that way. So she banged on a
car and then stood in front of it braced it
so we wouldn't get ran over. And then we're inviting
people because the government wants to scare this shit out
of others who you know, would dare to protest or
(19:55):
go out in physical space to let this government know
that this is actually immoral, inhumane, illegal.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
By the way, Kat who kind of launched this campaign
on the grounds of, like why not somebody needs to
do this to like challenge the mainstream Democratic Party and
like have actually progressive politics for people, is tied for
first and that race, according to polling, there's sixteen other candidates,
(20:23):
but she's tied for first. So I mean that's yeah,
definitely makes me hopeful. Let's hope that this bullshit doesn't
slow her down.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I mean yeah, even the person in Jane Shakowski, whose
seat that she's go gunning for, like is like, this
is fucking bad. Like what the I mean, I don't
i'd you'd hope for that much to come from, you know,
a Democrat talking about another person running as a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it's really fucking terrible.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And I just saw that Katie Miller Chenk Wiger fucking
blowout argument that went completely off the rails.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Suddenly, yeah, this.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Would see so Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller basically threatened.
Somebody was like, uh so they were on Piers Morgan's
uncensored and she was like, what it was uncensored? She
warned chunk, we were that he better checked that his
application is clean. Yeah, he is a US citizen, but
(21:21):
I guess denaturalizing yeah yeah, yeah, unrening him with deportation.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
The whole that whole segment was fucking wild because you know,
at one point Chenk is like goo god, I mean,
I only I'm glad, you know, I only expect lies
out of a Miller's mouth or whatever, and then she
takes it in this whole thing about like anti Semitism,
and the other panels are like what She's like, that's
an attack against Jewish People's like, no, I'm attacking you personally.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You as a person.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I never mentioned anything about it. I'm just talking about
your just behavior as a human being. That's how I'm
categorizing it. And she's like, Pierce, I'm going to go
I'm going to go if this is if this is
what you're going to allow, and then they started just
like defeating her in a debate. Well yeah, and just
being like you're your bad faith attacks about people saying
that like anyone's opposition to genocide or something is anti
(22:12):
Semitic because it kept going back and forth into this
thing when he's like, I'm not talking about any of
this right now, I'm talking about you are whatever?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So she she she threatened a bolt, but stuck around
just to say, I'm going to get my husband to
call Ice on you.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, dude, I do want like, how often on average,
how often during a given day are the people in
the Trump administration having the conversation from that Mitchellum web
sketch where they're like, are wait the thing that so
she just threatened somebody beat her in a debate, and
she just threatened to deport them like her, No, are
(22:49):
we the baddies?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Because I think the are we the baddiest thing? You
already have to operate from a place of like sanity, yeah,
and morality. All of these people I think have probably
done all a mental homework to completely insulate themselves from
their own thoughts or subconscious.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, and then just you know, Pro public doing an
investigation into corruption and I think North Carolina emailed questions
to one of the people associated with with what was
being investigated, and Matt Mercer, Republican Parties communications director Matt
Mercer responded, writing that Pro Publica was waging a jihad
(23:25):
against North Carolina Republicans, which would not be met with
dignifying any comments whatsoever. Then said, I'm sure you're aware
of our connections with the Trump administration, and I'm sure
they would be interested in this matter. I would strongly
suggest dropping this story.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Like the new my dad's a lawyer, my dad's a
cop thing.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I'm sure aware of that. I know somebody in the
Trump administration I'm connected to that is probably happening on
a daily basis, at least people who actually have connections
in the Trump administration. And then like you know, a
thousand times a day with people who don't and are
just like I think you might know, like think about
what this has done for corruption and con artists to
(24:09):
just have the ability to dangle Trump connections, you know,
Like that's why corruption is bad, is that it's just
like there's no fucking rules everybody's just gonna be able
to be like yeah, uh, I've got an end with
the guy. There's like no way to check it all right. Finally,
we did want to check in, as we do every
(24:29):
year on trends with the Google freight geist. It is mad.
I think they like were more careful this year, and
it feels like it's more grounded. So the thing we've
pointed out in years past is that so this is
Google's list of the top costumes top like really yeah,
(24:51):
based on search and you know, various data. I mean
to be honest, like they have so much data on
all of us, they should be able to use high
degree of fidelity. And in the past, so it's a
useful tool. But in the past, like their data collection
and organization has been like really bad, like shockingly that
(25:13):
like they they'd have like Spider Man Superhero spider Man
like with no dash between, like on the same list
of like top fifty costumes. This year they only gave
us the top twenty five. Definitely looks like an editor
has gone through this and you know, made sure there
(25:34):
weren't quite as many dupes, and it does seem I
was like going in, I was like, well, if the
top five aren't all K pop demon hunters, this is
this list is bullshit and they do have that the
top five. You got Roomy, Zoey, Mira, Genu, baby Saga
as the top five character.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Who's your favorite?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Saja boy oh man, Baby Saja would be the best
cost him, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Just because of the little nani and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, and then there's the abs guy, right.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I like the one that's just all hair. I think
that's mystery.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, he's pretty good. I like the Tiger comes
in at number eight, which I didn't know that was
the name of the That's that's the Tiger's called dirty Dirty.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I didn't know that that card that is not really
dirty all right anyway, Lea Boo Boo let Boo Boo
number seven.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Is non see Chicken dress. So Chicken Jockey from Minecraft
is the is the first non demon hunter and then
followed by le Boo Boo another capop demon hunter, Alphabet
from Wicked, the Lorax still still hanging tough.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I'm saying this is where I'm this is. I think
this is how every year. This is when we start
getting a little wobbly, we go really at number ten,
number ten, las yeah, number eleven, Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Who the fuck is that? It better not bet No
motherfucking Hamilton the musical, And.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I think it's Hamilton. So I think Hamilton the Musical
has entered the zeitgeist as a thing that like a
certain age of kid gets into. It's like dinosaurs and
Greek myths and like that. You know, it's like there's
that is an acceptable thing. Harry Potter, like Hamilton. I
(27:22):
hear a lot about people still being like, yeah, we
actually took you know, our kids to see a local
production of Hamilton, Like they know all the words to
the song, and it's you know, six years after that
was a thing, you know what more than that, probably
right like ten twelve years. But I do think like
that has hung around and it is a thing that
(27:44):
like is still in the zeitgeist. Ladybug at number sixteen.
I don't know if that's a character or or what,
but Gaby from Hanging.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
To the Ladybug. Yeah, these okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
The two that really made me go hmmm, Donnie Darko
at number twenty, What the fuck like that made that
makes sense to me in the year two thousand and
four or what you know, like when I first saw
that and I was like, Yo, Donny fucking Darko, blew
my mind. I haven't seen it, but I mean I
(28:19):
do wonder if that's still just like a thing kind
of like Hamilton but for teenager boys. We're like, but
have you seen Donnie Darko?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
No bro, get away from me, man, I'm just here
to fucking drink your dad's alcohol.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
All right. The one the one that really I feel
like they they stopped paying attention at on the very
last one, number twenty five, Lord Farquad from Shrek. Okay,
Lord Farquad from Shrek. So this is one where you
can shop costumes like off of this link to see
like where they're getting this data and like what costumes
(28:56):
they claim people are dressing up as like they must have,
like they must have just the Lord Farquad costume technology
must have taken a leap forward this off season, and
you go, it's just the clothes. It's just like a
red cape, red little tunic, black tights with like a
(29:19):
little red hat, says hat Ard fringe wig. Maybe maybe
like five percent of them have the Anton Sugar wig
that would actually let you know that it was that
it was not Anton Sugar. Although if I do see
a kid in a Lord Farquad outfit with the wig,
I'm gonna be like, oh Anton Sugar from No Country.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So Brian the editor said that on the other podcast
Mess with Sidon Maurice definitely check that show out on
Big Money Players. So they spent twenty minutes talking about
Shrek and Farquad. I know these are ever presents in culture,
Shrek and Far Quad. People like that over Shrek when
you look at what like So if you go in
front guys and it says, let's like you can look
(30:01):
at the data part right, it just said a lot
of these They're just basically saying that a spike in
fark a search.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
For these trending costume means.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
That and uncle like, okay, now, does I mean every
twenty five people you see out there's going to be
a Lord far Quaters.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And nor more than last year. Yeah, maybe more people
than you saw in August. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
What are you going to be? What are you gonna be?
Following me?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
So our seven year old is going as Venom, my
wife is going as a ghost spider. So I'm going
with my time tested greenbl oh okay, sitting Batman ill
fitting Batman, making return ill fitting Batman, moose knuckle Batman.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Why is this guy handing out candy Batman?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah? Yeah man. A similar situation with the Green Goblin,
where it's like a very tight costume that like I
need to figure out what to what to do. Like
I think I'm just gonna have to be like Green
Goblin trying to out the seventy six ers this year,
Short Philly Green Goblins ship, Hey why not?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Why not? You are you priest? Priest?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Priest? Interesting? Yep and in no way creepy.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I you know, I famously don't put any thought into
Halloween costumes. It turns into back before my house burned down,
I used to have a lot of like just random
ship I could slap together to make a costume. This
last year, for my friend's fortieth birthday, I dressed because
I went to a Catholic high school, so I dressed
as a pre we.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
The theme was like a prom for my friend's fortieth,
So I dressed as.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
A pre were the supervisor.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You were there, I was the DJ and priest and
I just thought that was funny. So I still have that.
So I think that's that's just gonna be the easiest one.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, just a button up in a little white piece
of paper collar.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Oh, I got it, I got the legit stuff. Man.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Oh you've got the scepter. You burn an incense walking
around with that incense.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
It is on accident because I'm fucking swinging that shit
way too hard.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
There you go. All right, those are some of the
things that are trending on this Halloween Eve. All hallo, yvive.
We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of
the show and we will talk to you then. Happy Halloween.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
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Speaker 1 (32:35):
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Poulter Zeitgeist.
There we got, yeah, Poulter Zeitgeist courtesy of Entropy, because
that's a spooky movie and it's the day before Halloween.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Miles hmm, oh wait, so the geist is ghost. What's
Poulter uh movie?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, pull vault.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let's see poult a disturbing oh a disturbance.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Ghost, disturbance ghost. Hell yeah, all right, all right polter Geist.
My name is Jacob Brian. That over there is mister
Miles Gray. Yeah, and this is the episode where we
tell you what is trending on this Thursday, October thirtieth.
What's happening? We got Halloween tomorrow. We're gonna talk how
(00:48):
what's happening?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh yeah, what's in the world? A lot a lot?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We got elections coming up, perhaps you haven't, perhaps the
very last ones. Yeah, of the.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Normal like just only light fuckery variety if we take
away just sort of you know, just the sort of
you know, the traditional voter suppression tactics that the right uses.
But yeah, some big ones, obviously New York the mayor
ole race that's coming up. Michael Bloomberg, I think just
gave like a fucking one and a half million dollars
(01:20):
to Cuomo against their effort.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
There's like a lot of a lot of stories being
like the there's a there's a shift, there's a movement,
and if this movement keeps up, Cuomo is going to
overtake Mom Donnie. And it's like a tiny blimp.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh yeah, oh I've seen that where they're like they're
like at this pace and I saw them. Yeah, I
saw quote tweeted like my son is now twice the
size he was ten months ago. At this rate, he
will be one trillion pounds by the time he's twenty
years old. And you're like, yeah, sure that, I get
what you're trying to say. There, Yeah, to be yeah,
people needed to be a close race. That's were I
(02:00):
feel like we're seeing the other side of the I
mean not really the other side, but like you know,
the Democratic Party, why, even when they're losing pretty convincingly,
will find a way to manufacture storylines that are like
you never I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Keep your eye on this one.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Look, I don't want to say we failed this before
the election. Okay, so let's let's make it seem like
a surprise on the day.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And also it's just it's amazing to see the solidarity
that exists among people who hate any kind of equity
or equality when it comes to our country. So it's like,
you even have Republicans who are like Andrew Cuomo is
a piece of shit freak who's killing America, who are
now like, I mean in this in this case, I
(02:44):
must say I have to back Andrew Cuomo, like someone
hid his biggest rivals from the New York State Legislature,
or like backing him because again, socialism kind.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Of in the form of Mom Donnie.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, Mom, Donnie's gonna sell the rich. He's gonna make
the make the rich have to be sold. It's not
like they've got the guillotines out already.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Virginia also a huge governor's race that could also help
gauge the temperature of a state that Trump won. But also,
you know, Virginia has this interesting thing where they vote
like they have a history of voting for a governor
from the party that lost the White House in the
previous presidential election for the.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Last twelve elections.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So that bodes well for former CIA operator Abigail Spamberger
who's the Democrat. Hell yeah, has a lead over Winsome
Eurel Sears, who's a former marine Magafreek, you know, stands
for all the usual inhumane nonsense.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
But she's a black woman, so maybe that will help.
I don't know that. That's kind of like a thing
mag alects do.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Is like, but if they're black, right, is it less
racist if racism is said by a black person?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Is it less racist?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't know. We will see Samberger.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Everybody every woman of color, a low IQ individual. Does
that backfire in this case?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And hearing that over and over and over again for
the past eight years.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, not great, not great branding.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And then also they have as just like a funny thing,
a listener shout out Jillian who was like, you just
just know the lieutenant governor's race, this one the Republican candidate.
The Democrat who's running for lieutenant governor wasn't at the debate,
so he put an AI version of her up to
debate with and it was a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
But again, what shows you where they're at, where their
heads are at.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And then obviously for us here in California, the big
one fifty measure fifty not the.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Big one we're always talking about, but in this.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Not the earthquake, No, the devastating earthquake that will completely
shatter the city.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
No, no, not yet, not yet, not yet.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
But this is this is one that would allow the
people in Sacramento that That's why I've been getting spam
texts of both sort from Donald Yeah, I gotta, I
gotta spam text from Arnold be not how should happen? Yes,
if it doesn't go through, America would be in a
(05:13):
lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I mean, look, so proposition fifty is where if
voters of California approve it, that means there will be
new maps put into effect that will create five more
Democrat seats in the House. Obviously, this is in a
direct response to what Governor Abbott is doing in Texas
and then many other states too, like like just other
states are now trying to be like this looks like
(05:35):
we're going to get fucking swept in a midterm.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So what if we cheated to avoid that?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's what the Republicans are saying, and the Democrats are like,
we're yeah, So this allows Democrats to fight fire with fire.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Essentially, yeah, And at this point, I mean like, yeah,
fucking doing to go go for it, do fucking something,
go with God.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I don't if Schwarzenegger doesn't think it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Big news for teachers and elementary school age children. Dictionary
dot Com announce the word of the year for twenty
twenty five, and it is so weirdly they they printed
it as the number sixty seven, which was confusing. But
it's obviously six seven. It's a word, it's a number,
(06:27):
possibly two words. Someone confusing, seemingly. Dictionary dot COM's director
of Lexicography, Steve Johnson, wanted to make six seven the
word of the year to spite his friends who are teachers.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh great, great use of your your position to try.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Johnson knew they had quote something really interesting when he
got a message from his friend, a middle school teacher
early one morning, like waking up from a fever dream,
being like, oh God, do not make six seven the
word of the year. And he was like, yeah, so
I guess I gotta do that. Yeah, Steve Johnson is
a is a twelve year old boy. It says like
(07:09):
there's another quote from teachers. Teachers are banning this slaying
six seven and disciplining students who breached the rule. Quote.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I've been teaching for twenty years and I've dealt with
all sorts of slang. Nothing has driven me crazier.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Than this one.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Geez Adria Laplander is sixth grade language arts teacher in Michigan, says.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Something that you would have thought would have gone away,
it just kept on growing larger and larger, snowballing into
kind of like a cultural phenomenon. Is the is the
positive read on it?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah? Great? You know, kids say whatever you want, man,
fucking knock yourself out.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, someone was so I said, fuck I whenever I scroll,
like I'm just never saving posts. But there was somebody
talking about, like, you know, you're talking about six seven
being weird, and then like we used to fucking act
like Cornholio from Beavis and butt Head, right, like that
was probably awesome. Like what the fuck are why does
everyone need tepee for their bung hole?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Sir? Please don't make TP for your bunghole the word
of the year.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
That's the bush meme.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now like sure they made TP for your bumhole the
word of the Yeah, I get I guess back then
we didn't have a meme driven uh information economy where
no diction. The dictionary was fueled by you know, engagement
and clicks. So those probably, but six seven is one
(08:30):
of the probably, you know, most used words that I
that I hear around and.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Your your kids, you do it in a way that
is driving you up the walls.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It's just no, it's just every every time a number
comes up, they'll say six, even you just have to
say it like that, I guess, yeah, And then they
usually say seven, eleven and afterwards, and then go into
a weird rhyming thing. And then they started saying other
numbers that I haven't committed to memory yet because they
aren't the word of the year.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You should be like those better you better be reciting
pie over there.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Those better either be Pie or the numbers from Lost.
Yeah you get out for eight fifty six house. Let
me tell you my friend Chris memorized my social Security
number and would just say it over and over again,
just like.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Out loud, yeah, out loud with you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's so stupid, but such a funny thing that would
just cause panic to one specific person.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And then we're hanging out a couple of weeks ago
and he still remembers it, which fucked me up.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Two eight three six six two nine five two All
right at somebody's let it rip, folks.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Uh did you see this? The future of sitcoms? Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Dude, what a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So I I thought it had to be satire first,
Like I thought they had to be making fun of
like AI people.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
That was earned that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Wait, it's that's Ernest, a guy named tech Halla like
as inal Valhalla, seamless portmanteau of tech and Valhalla. So
we know we're on solid ground here hosted an AI
generated video of friends moments, essentially with the proclamation that
sitcoms will never be the same again. Yes, my immediate
(10:21):
thought was like, this is funny. They're making fun of AI,
like this is the most sloppiest of AI slop uh.
And you go to his page and it's just like
all of his tweets are about like different innovations in
AI and like trying to get people excited.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh my god, wait, is there is this a pulp
fiction one?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He also did?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
This is really fucking bad. You know what they call
a quarter pounder with cheese and paris?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What are they call a royal with cheese? Royal still
a burger.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese
and paris? What do they call it? A royal with.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well cheese metric system and a fancy label? This is
this is this, It's okay again. It's just like worse.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The Friends one is awful, though Friends one is wild
because I don't truly everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
They are like weird parts where they like pause and
like smile at each other, like waiting for the person
to come in. It's really, like, really feels the most
like a bad well hallucinogenic experience.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
His sitcoms are so specific in their performance too, like
so an algorithm's idea of what that behavior is. It
just makes it look like these people are fucking like
are fucked up on drugs or aren't making sense all
Like all the women look like versions of each like
of the same person, and all the men like it's
like a Chandler fucking what's the other guy.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Called ros Ross and then the other guy Joey, Like
they're all Joey in there.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I didn't even but yeah, I guess there are like
joey ish Chandlers and Chandler is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Rosses and Rachel Rachel ish rosses. But then I's just
want to spin around with her back or guitar. There's okay,
this this ross line.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, let's just listen to this line because this is
what I want to point out, because yes, the ship
is glitchy. Like at one point, somebody's head is on backwards.
A hand opens the door from like opens a closed door,
and like their body is on the other side, and
they're like, look at, look at how seamless this is.
But their inability to even like approach what like for
(12:43):
any of this to work. Like the thing that drove
pulp fiction, that drove friends is like writing, you know,
it's like joke writing or like script for pulp fiction,
and like they just have like such a shitty grasp
of that. Yeah, but I guess I wouldn't expect tech rose,
but like, yes, this line. Let's let's hear this line.
(13:03):
As there's some bricks to maybe and mama and running, howse,
what one more time? As there's some bricks to maybe.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And mama and running? Howse the bricks the baby and my.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
But they've got feels so crazy. Nelly cats, smelly cat,
what are they feeding you?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And then this guy goes like a guy comes in
and laughs and then goes sits down on another couch
or there's.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Another the same people are sitting over there.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
This is the problem, man, Like, this is like all
of this ship is based on stuff humans are making.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's just a remix. It's a seamless remix.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
All all you're doing is just making bad fucking xerox
copies of ship we've already seen.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So what what fucking what use is this?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I get that they're like, this is a future, So
what you're gonna be like shit out a terrible version
of friends.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, that makes versions of other shit that's already been created, which.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Is like what you know that.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That's what's artistically bankrupt about it is just that you're
just like copying other people's shit without like giving them credit.
But it's also what is going to make it suck
so bad is that it's just like again, it's like
a thing that's fun for the people playing with it
to be like, wow, look what you can do, but
you can't, like, I don't know how you incorporate this
(14:35):
into making like a good thing that anybody wants to
watch it all other than people who are like WHOA,
I feel like I'm on drugs a little bit, but
like bad ones.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Whoa I made an arm come out of that lady's forehead, right,
all right, cool, I don't know, we'll see there.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Melly cats, Mellie Cat, whoa what?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And then like they cut over and like these women
are just like pawing at each other nonsensically, like they
don't know how to just show affection. It's like, so
fucking whatever, good luck man, good luck tech Hala.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, there is a so the person who originally generated
it called it the one with the weird AI, so
like they were like, this is glitch is fucking like
kind of trippy, but like I do think that this
is a good like a good encapsulation of like how
AI proselytizers feel. They're just like, well, this is fucking crazy.
(15:33):
Line go up? Look at how much does this make?
Line go up? Like, like there was the one the
AI company that released. They were like, we did a
full episode of South Park and then you watch it
and it's just the most like dead thing with like
characters moving around and they're like putting themselves in it
and being like that's an interesting idea. Cut to the
next scene, like it just doesn't doesn't make any fucking sense.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Ah well, I mean it can continues to not make sense,
and said, I don't know if you were there that
episode last week where I was talking, there was like
this one AI researcher saying, like all these models are
trained off of high quality human product, like the like
the actual things humans create, and they're running out of
(16:17):
material to feed the machine. Pretty soon it's going to
start feeding off of the own its own slop that's
out there, and it's going to be even worse.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I don't know, so whatever, I.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Mean, they fed it all of friends and this is
what it came back. It's like, I don't know if
this isn't going to be spread the noisy the bricks
and I go, maw.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh, Ross, Ross, You're so crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know where this ends. It
seems pretty stupid and like a bubble that's going to
burst at some point, or maybe not. Maybe they'll just
be able to like kind of stay afloat on the bullshit,
or you know, everyone else will foot the bill. Yeah yeah,
oh yeah, well that's happening one way or the other. Yeah,
(17:03):
I mean we are all right, let's take a quick
break and we'll be right back. And we're back. We're back,
and the mask off. Just intimidation corruption eighties movie Bad Guy.
(17:26):
Shit is really reaching a new, a new level with
the Trump administration. It feels late. And one example of
this is that former guest currently running for office in Illinois,
kat Abugazl, was hit with a federal indictment for essentially
just protesting.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
For protesting outside of an ICED attention center. I mean
people may have seen the clip where she was shoved
over by an ICE agent. Yeah, and that what they're
alleging was that she her and others because they like
to hit people with conspiracy charges and they're protesting, quote
physically hindered and impeded a federal agent who was quote
forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed
(18:09):
to avoid injuring any of the conspirators.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
What right?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
What okay?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
They had to drive too slow?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Do you have any idea how dangerous that is for
them to drive too slow? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Or were you trying to run someone over or driving
aggressively and people get in front of your car and
then you're like, you want me to drive slow and
not drive over you. The Nightman also alleges Abaza, along
with other individuals quote banged aggressively on the agent's vehicle
quote damn, crowded together in the front and side of
the vehicle, and quote pushed against the vehicle to hinder
(18:47):
and impede its movement.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
They said other people.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
In the group wrote gig on the vehicle and broke
a rear windshield white wiper, and also alleges that Abu
Gazle specifically quote joined the crowd the front of the
government vehicle and with her hands on the hood, braced
her body and hands against the vehicle while remaining directly
in the path of the vehicle, hindering and impeding the.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So those basically attempt at homicide.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, what the is this?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I mean, this is becoming more and more common people
getting indicted. We've seen terrible prosecutions of protesters before, not
even just in this administration, but like, why is a
Palestinian American candidate for office being targeted for exercising their
free speech rights?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Like, we still have these fucking rights.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Just just to remind everyone these rights are still there,
even't totally towards the constitution, although in action it does,
it obviously feels that way. So she banged on a
car and then stood in front of it braced it
so we wouldn't get ran over. And then we're inviting
people because the government wants to scare this shit out
of others who you know, would dare to protest or
(19:55):
go out in physical space to let this government know
that this is actually immoral, inhumane, illegal.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
By the way, Kat who kind of launched this campaign
on the grounds of, like why not somebody needs to
do this to like challenge the mainstream Democratic Party and
like have actually progressive politics for people, is tied for
first and that race, according to polling, there's sixteen other candidates,
(20:23):
but she's tied for first. So I mean that's yeah,
definitely makes me hopeful. Let's hope that this bullshit doesn't
slow her down.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I mean yeah, even the person in Jane Shakowski, whose
seat that she's go gunning for, like is like, this
is fucking bad. Like what the I mean, I don't
i'd you'd hope for that much to come from, you know,
a Democrat talking about another person running as a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it's really fucking terrible.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And I just saw that Katie Miller Chenk Wiger fucking
blowout argument that went completely off the rails.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Suddenly, yeah, this.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Would see so Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller basically threatened.
Somebody was like, uh so they were on Piers Morgan's
uncensored and she was like, what it was uncensored? She
warned chunk, we were that he better checked that his
application is clean. Yeah, he is a US citizen, but
(21:21):
I guess denaturalizing yeah yeah, yeah, unrening him with deportation.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
The whole that whole segment was fucking wild because you know,
at one point Chenk is like goo god, I mean,
I only I'm glad, you know, I only expect lies
out of a Miller's mouth or whatever, and then she
takes it in this whole thing about like anti Semitism,
and the other panels are like what She's like, that's
an attack against Jewish People's like, no, I'm attacking you personally.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You as a person.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I never mentioned anything about it. I'm just talking about
your just behavior as a human being. That's how I'm
categorizing it. And she's like, Pierce, I'm going to go
I'm going to go if this is if this is
what you're going to allow, and then they started just
like defeating her in a debate. Well yeah, and just
being like you're your bad faith attacks about people saying
that like anyone's opposition to genocide or something is anti
(22:12):
Semitic because it kept going back and forth into this
thing when he's like, I'm not talking about any of
this right now, I'm talking about you are whatever?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So she she she threatened a bolt, but stuck around
just to say, I'm going to get my husband to
call Ice on you.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, dude, I do want like, how often on average,
how often during a given day are the people in
the Trump administration having the conversation from that Mitchellum web
sketch where they're like, are wait the thing that so
she just threatened somebody beat her in a debate, and
she just threatened to deport them like her, No, are
(22:49):
we the baddies?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Because I think the are we the baddiest thing? You
already have to operate from a place of like sanity, yeah,
and morality. All of these people I think have probably
done all a mental homework to completely insulate themselves from
their own thoughts or subconscious.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, and then just you know, Pro public doing an
investigation into corruption and I think North Carolina emailed questions
to one of the people associated with with what was
being investigated, and Matt Mercer, Republican Parties communications director Matt
Mercer responded, writing that Pro Publica was waging a jihad
(23:25):
against North Carolina Republicans, which would not be met with
dignifying any comments whatsoever. Then said, I'm sure you're aware
of our connections with the Trump administration, and I'm sure
they would be interested in this matter. I would strongly
suggest dropping this story.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Like the new my dad's a lawyer, my dad's a
cop thing.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I'm sure aware of that. I know somebody in the
Trump administration I'm connected to that is probably happening on
a daily basis, at least people who actually have connections
in the Trump administration. And then like you know, a
thousand times a day with people who don't and are
just like I think you might know, like think about
what this has done for corruption and con artists to
(24:09):
just have the ability to dangle Trump connections, you know,
Like that's why corruption is bad, is that it's just
like there's no fucking rules everybody's just gonna be able
to be like yeah, uh, I've got an end with
the guy. There's like no way to check it all right. Finally,
we did want to check in, as we do every
(24:29):
year on trends with the Google freight geist. It is mad.
I think they like were more careful this year, and
it feels like it's more grounded. So the thing we've
pointed out in years past is that so this is
Google's list of the top costumes top like really yeah,
(24:51):
based on search and you know, various data. I mean
to be honest, like they have so much data on
all of us, they should be able to use high
degree of fidelity. And in the past, so it's a
useful tool. But in the past, like their data collection
and organization has been like really bad, like shockingly that
(25:13):
like they they'd have like Spider Man Superhero spider Man
like with no dash between, like on the same list
of like top fifty costumes. This year they only gave
us the top twenty five. Definitely looks like an editor
has gone through this and you know, made sure there
(25:34):
weren't quite as many dupes, and it does seem I
was like going in, I was like, well, if the
top five aren't all K pop demon hunters, this is
this list is bullshit and they do have that the
top five. You got Roomy, Zoey, Mira, Genu, baby Saga
as the top five character.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Who's your favorite?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Saja boy oh man, Baby Saja would be the best
cost him, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Just because of the little nani and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, and then there's the abs guy, right.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I like the one that's just all hair. I think
that's mystery.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, he's pretty good. I like the Tiger comes
in at number eight, which I didn't know that was
the name of the That's that's the Tiger's called dirty Dirty.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I didn't know that that card that is not really
dirty all right anyway, Lea Boo Boo let Boo Boo
number seven.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Is non see Chicken dress. So Chicken Jockey from Minecraft
is the is the first non demon hunter and then
followed by le Boo Boo another capop demon hunter, Alphabet
from Wicked, the Lorax still still hanging tough.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I'm saying this is where I'm this is. I think
this is how every year. This is when we start
getting a little wobbly, we go really at number ten,
number ten, las yeah, number eleven, Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Who the fuck is that? It better not bet No
motherfucking Hamilton the musical, And.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I think it's Hamilton. So I think Hamilton the Musical
has entered the zeitgeist as a thing that like a
certain age of kid gets into. It's like dinosaurs and
Greek myths and like that. You know, it's like there's
that is an acceptable thing. Harry Potter, like Hamilton. I
(27:22):
hear a lot about people still being like, yeah, we
actually took you know, our kids to see a local
production of Hamilton, Like they know all the words to
the song, and it's you know, six years after that
was a thing, you know what more than that, probably
right like ten twelve years. But I do think like
that has hung around and it is a thing that
(27:44):
like is still in the zeitgeist. Ladybug at number sixteen.
I don't know if that's a character or or what,
but Gaby from Hanging.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
To the Ladybug. Yeah, these okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
The two that really made me go hmmm, Donnie Darko
at number twenty, What the fuck like that made that
makes sense to me in the year two thousand and
four or what you know, like when I first saw
that and I was like, Yo, Donny fucking Darko, blew
my mind. I haven't seen it, but I mean I
(28:19):
do wonder if that's still just like a thing kind
of like Hamilton but for teenager boys. We're like, but
have you seen Donnie Darko?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
No bro, get away from me, man, I'm just here
to fucking drink your dad's alcohol.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
All right. The one the one that really I feel
like they they stopped paying attention at on the very
last one, number twenty five, Lord Farquad from Shrek. Okay,
Lord Farquad from Shrek. So this is one where you
can shop costumes like off of this link to see
like where they're getting this data and like what costumes
(28:56):
they claim people are dressing up as like they must have,
like they must have just the Lord Farquad costume technology
must have taken a leap forward this off season, and
you go, it's just the clothes. It's just like a
red cape, red little tunic, black tights with like a
(29:19):
little red hat, says hat Ard fringe wig. Maybe maybe
like five percent of them have the Anton Sugar wig
that would actually let you know that it was that
it was not Anton Sugar. Although if I do see
a kid in a Lord Farquad outfit with the wig,
I'm gonna be like, oh Anton Sugar from No Country.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So Brian the editor said that on the other podcast
Mess with Sidon Maurice definitely check that show out on
Big Money Players. So they spent twenty minutes talking about
Shrek and Farquad. I know these are ever presents in culture,
Shrek and Far Quad. People like that over Shrek when
you look at what like So if you go in
front guys and it says, let's like you can look
(30:01):
at the data part right, it just said a lot
of these They're just basically saying that a spike in
fark a search.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
For these trending costume means.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
That and uncle like, okay, now, does I mean every
twenty five people you see out there's going to be
a Lord far Quaters.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And nor more than last year. Yeah, maybe more people
than you saw in August. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
What are you going to be? What are you gonna be?
Following me?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
So our seven year old is going as Venom, my
wife is going as a ghost spider. So I'm going
with my time tested greenbl oh okay, sitting Batman ill
fitting Batman, making return ill fitting Batman, moose knuckle Batman.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Why is this guy handing out candy Batman?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah? Yeah man. A similar situation with the Green Goblin,
where it's like a very tight costume that like I
need to figure out what to what to do. Like
I think I'm just gonna have to be like Green
Goblin trying to out the seventy six ers this year,
Short Philly Green Goblins ship, Hey why not?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Why not? You are you priest? Priest?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Priest? Interesting? Yep and in no way creepy.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I you know, I famously don't put any thought into
Halloween costumes. It turns into back before my house burned down,
I used to have a lot of like just random
ship I could slap together to make a costume. This
last year, for my friend's fortieth birthday, I dressed because
I went to a Catholic high school, so I dressed
as a pre we.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
The theme was like a prom for my friend's fortieth,
So I dressed as.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
A pre were the supervisor.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You were there, I was the DJ and priest and
I just thought that was funny. So I still have that.
So I think that's that's just gonna be the easiest one.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, just a button up in a little white piece
of paper collar.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Oh, I got it, I got the legit stuff. Man.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Oh you've got the scepter. You burn an incense walking
around with that incense.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
It is on accident because I'm fucking swinging that shit
way too hard.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
There you go. All right, those are some of the
things that are trending on this Halloween Eve. All hallo, yvive.
We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of
the show and we will talk to you then. Happy Halloween.
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