April 7, 2025 • 42 mins
In this edition of Trends Da Xuxa, Miles and special guest co-host Francesca Fiorentini discuss their respective weekends, Trump tanking the stock market with his dumb-ass tariffs, the 'Hands Off' demonstrations happening all over the world (that you probably didn't even hear about because the mainstream media is in shambles), receding hairlines being sexy now? (feat. Walton Goggins) and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Have you seen that clip of the Brazilian girl. No,
there's this, there's this little these kids. There's like this
lady named Shusha who's like this huge performer in Brazil,
and all these Brazilian kids were trying to get into
like a big free concert for the kids, and like
they let all these other people in and like all
these regular kids didn't get it, Like these poor kids
(00:23):
couldn't get in because they let in like industry people
like whatever. And so this like six year old girl
is outside the concert. She's screamed about how long, how
long we've been waiting here? And they letting other people in.
She's like, what kind of show, Shusha is this? Let
me just play this because this, I think sums up
the energy of how different kids are like abroad. Like
this kid is like what the fuck? I suppose job?
(00:46):
Because I said, you you understand this.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is so good. But this is from the age that energy.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
From adults miles we talking about kids. I know, no
you do, you see you see it from adults. But
they'll be be like I told you my kids allergic
to strawberry, and you gave me this jump of juice,
you fuck, And then they throw it at a teenager's head.
It's like the energy is all in the wrong direction.
(01:25):
Hello Internet, Welcome to this Monday morning trending episode of
The Daily Zeitgeist. This is the episode we're going to
tell you some of the things you may have missed
over the weekend, some of the things surely we missed
over the weekend because you know, the microphones were down
and the news cycle continues. But here we are trying
to give you the best. All Right, I'm gonna stop
with this. I don't know why I try to like it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I was getting into it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Should I go even suck when? Welcome to this morning
edition of the Daily zeit Geist. I'm Miles Gray. You're
intrepid host, and I'm thrilled to be joined today by
the Intrepid. I'm gonna just everything is a dodge Intrepid,
and I am joined by Francesca Fiorentini.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hello, Francesca, Francesca Catherine Fiorandini.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Is that your middle name?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, it's Kate, but Catherine is much more in PR.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, Kath, I know the way you said that. I
was like, damn, well, you got an MPRS name.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
No, it's Kate, It's it's Basically my initials are FKF,
which I like to think of just fuck off.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, because my voice, Oh yeah, like a thirteen year
old Hi Miles, Happy Monday, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's not everyone's like, is it black Monday? I don't know.
I was only three years old when that happened. But no,
I guess if you're comparing the raw numbers, this stock
market hasn't found twenty two percent once, just just a
tad less than that, but still fucked up. Anyway, Let's
first get into our overrated underrated so people can get
an idea of where we're coming from. And based on
(02:50):
how you're covering your face, I'm guessing you're gonna come
up with this on the fly. Francesca, I saw.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
We didn't do the homework, but I haven't because it's Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, my overrated And I think maybe Francesca and I
both share this one because you maybe this was in
the cold open. But honestly, now that I talk about it,
just our complaining culture in the US overrated. We complain
about fucking all the things that don't matter and none
of the things that do. Not that everyone doesn't, but like,
we are not built with this like, yo, what the
(03:34):
fuck is this ship kind of energy? We were talking
about little Italian kids, a little Brazilian kids. They got
the fucking fuego. Okay, that's burning inside them, and it's
about like it's like Wi Fi's broken.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Mom.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I know, I know the high pack. Can you anymore
any more? Tokens like, yeah, we are very We're very
used to the creature comforts. But like you know, in France,
when they're trying to import milk from Spain, people will
just like stop the trucks and slash slash tires and
(04:07):
just be like no, we defend our dairy farmers.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And he's just like what yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I remember even being one of like the last the
first time I was in Italy, I was so shocked
because a guy was like, usually we would garnish this
with an orange, but they came from Portugal and we
don't know how they grow them, so we put a lemon.
Just so you know, this is different than our user presentation.
I was like, bro, I I'm from the land of
eating plastic fruit and chemicals, but thank you so much.
(04:32):
This is wow. Thank you for taking a stand. I
didn't even know it had to be taken.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Maybe little xenophobia as well, but hey, look whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Lily, Like, you know, France was at France also that
tried to raise their mean yeah, it's all xenophobic, but
you know it's Europe. Uh, France tried to raise their
retirement rate. Retirement yeah two, I think like sixty except meanwhile,
we are living there, We're talking about social security and
we all know, oh that like retirement is now sixty seven, right,
Like it's going like I think in like a couple
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of years it will have hit sixty seven, so it's
no longer sixty five?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
What have we done shit about it?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean I'm sure like a French person will go
into like a Walmart and see like an elderly greader
and be like, oh my god, what crime did they commit?
That this is their sentence and you're like, oh no, no,
they sorry. They are still also in the process of
toiling because this is the United States. Anyway. That's my
overrated Did you have an overrated too?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I mean it's a spoiler and it's not political, but
I will also go real political always. But if people
haven't seen White Lotus third season.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh I haven't, But talk your shit because we are
going to get to that. But don't spoil it because
I'm only that episode four because I'm very spoil it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
But I will say that it's an overrated season and
it's sad because I think some of the actors are
incredible and the characters had good there was good bones,
but the writing was not good.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
This is what I hear.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's too bad because I really like White Lotus. I'm digging.
I like the soundtracks of season two and three. The
third soundtrack is fire.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
All that time music.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The time music is amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I can't any of it. Unfortunately, I'm sure what I.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Do is I go to like, you know, I'm sure
Spotify has this. I do Apple podcast or Apple whatever
music and you look at someone who, you know, a
blessed soul has created the playlist. They found it, so
you can get it that way. But yeah, it's an
overrated season and it's too bad because like it's part
pro posy man and she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I know, but hey, she's she's killing it as like
the zanned out woman from North Carolina. I'll say that
she is.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But it's like anymore, there could be funnier lines and
she's not there.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And then the three friends are the best storyline in.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
My opinion, because that's that like sweet spot of this
is normal, but they're caddy and they're there's drama, but
I just like that. That's like a really good storyline.
Everything else is a little bit it's too bad.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, all right, let's talk about what is underrated. My
underrated is when you go to like a public restroom
or restroom at a restaurant, any kind of place, and
the default water that comes out is lukewarm. I think
that's very underrated. I find that very I like that.
I don't like having ice cold water hit my hands.
I just it's just a weird thing. That's because I'm
(07:22):
a soft ass American and I'm not out here complaining
about the real shit. I'm like, this water is too cold.
But I went somewhere they only had one faucet. It
turned on and it spit out lukewarm water, and I
was like, this shit is fucking This feels like a luxury.
And I'm gonna stand by that.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That doesn't see that does not square with your overrated.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I know, I know, but I'm saying, what's too soft?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And then a lukewarm water.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that's what I just said. That's what I'm saying.
I know, I know, I'm out here complaining about cold
water touching me. Manos, okay, but I.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Like it a little loose last manos.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh sorry, thank you said look, this is outre because
I'm speaking pigeon Spanish that I learned just ambiently in La,
not ever taking a class. But yeah, thank you Brian
the editor who said, yes, a very Japanese take. It is.
It is. It's like one of those things I like
because it's considering. It's like a small detail you're considering
for the user experience, and I appreciate it. I don't
(08:18):
know many people who are out here will be like, ah,
it's lukewarm, you know what I mean. I don't know.
Unless you like your fucking ice water to wash your hands,
I don't. So thank you to that place I went.
I will not give you extra business because it was
a little bit of a weird time, but the bathroom water,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think everything in my house is sentient because I
have a toddler, as you know, and so like the
towel in the bathroom that she.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Uses to wash her hands before dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Is like your dog. No, it is a talking towel talking.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I mean I am the towel, And it's not just
like a thing.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It just does that shit where your kids wipe their
hands all over you, like treating your pants like as
a napkin.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yo. Why do they do that because it's easy, it's
so you know what.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It was bad because it's it's something you do initially
out of like I don't have anything else here, just
wiping one here, and then they're.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Like, oh, I like treating my doormat.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, yes, fucking Because now I'm really I'm really in
that era where I'm like, was he eating? Now I'm
wearing all black, like I'm the fucking about to protest.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
No, But that's the worst because all the dust crumbs
like show up on the on all black stuff. It's
unclear what to wear. I think it's patterns, and I've
decided it's all patterns because it stains the most. That's
why moms. You're like, why do moms and people in
their forties and fifties start to wear just like patterns
and like Sparkle number one. It's because we're like half
(09:43):
dead inside chapel Roone's right, and number two it's because
like we're just there's nothing but stains and crumbs and
random spatterings, and.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So you've got to have it all black.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Stain cao.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It is stained camo.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, I've just I don't even I'm so dead inside.
I can't even patterns do nothing for me that I'm
just gonna wear all black.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You don't seem to be very You're not a big
pattern person.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Got a big pattern. I do like it. I do
like a bright color. But you know what, just treat
me like I'm on the New Zealand rugby team because
it's all black. Okay, all right, let's take a break.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And my underrated Oh shit, that's right.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
What the fuck? I'm so sorry?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So wow, I have one.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
But now I was looking at my stalks and I
couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, that's distracted.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
No, no, very briefly, I don't know if it's underrated.
Maybe it's perfectly rated. But for me, it was underrated
because I was like, I don't really like these. But
because I got into the White Lotus mood, I bought
the White Lotus Cocktail book that I saw, I buyed
it and because this is how I roll. I like
to drink anything that the people in the shows I'm
(10:51):
watching are drinking. So I have the Downton Abbey Cocktail Book.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's very good. That got me through the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, okay, and.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
That's very perfectly rated.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I don't know about this cocktail book world see, but
then it just had an Apparol Sprits and I was like,
I didn't need a cocktail book to tell me how
to make that, buddy, yess, I.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Will do it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And the Apparol Sprits is the perfect drink. I will
just say that it sucks to be my My husband
is sober, so I have to shrink a whole bottle
proseco on myself. No, but I had two of those
while watching The Light White Lotus finale and it was
it was good.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's a very good drink.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I'm very into this idea that like whatever you see
on the screen is like yo, I'm having that because
oh I do that since I was a kid, like
I remember always seeing shit in movies and TV. I'm like, mom,
how do I how do I? Yeah? Like I remember
when The Sopranos was on, I would fucking do this shit.
Everybody would get together on Sundays and we would eat
Italian food and watch the Sopranos.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
See that's great.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, that's why you realize like the amount of like
you know, smoking ads in the fifties or sixties or
whatever it was, like that is insidious.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Like that shit absolutely works on people.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I don't also got really into the Narco series, but
they just drank whiskey, and I'm like, I can't really
do that.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah. I think part of that also comes from the
fact that, like if as a kid, I'd be like, oh,
look at that thing from the show, my mom would
be like, man, we ain't getting that shit. So then
I think that built up into me, and then as
an adult, I'm like, there's nobody telling me I can't
have what I'm seeing on the TV screen. Yeah exactly,
And I wild eat Baked ZD fucking three years straight.
I give a fuck.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Just freeze it toge out of the freezer.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, all right, let's take a quick break. We're gonna
come back and just just catch up with whatever is
going on in the news. We'll do that right after
this and we're back. Wow. So the big thing I
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think that was trending over the weekend was definitely the
performance of the stock market and how obviously that ties
into the larger economy. Black Monday was trending for days.
People were like, there's it gonna be black? Mind, this
is October nineteenth, nineteen eighty seven. Again, it fell twenty
two points that day. This time it was just more
like a just a shitty thud, little bounce back and
(13:12):
then falling again. All that to say not great. All
I know is I'm pretty sure when the graphs look
like the lines are going nearly vertically down, that's not good.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
No, it's supposed to look like a heartbeat. That's how
you know it's active and.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Alive, right, right, right, Yeah, Cause you imagine, like what
would they say if it was a flat line for
a long time. That would probably also freak out capitalist.
Where's the growth?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, oh exactly, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Not growing to the point that will consume us.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
All.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So, yes, the numbers weren't great. I think. Look, I
think most people that bothered to take economists at their
word throughout this presidential campaign and at the start of
the mentioning of tariffs, were like, yeah, this is I
think not going to be good. It sounds like this
is going to be really bad and will only plunge
us further into terrible, terrible situations. And now we have
(14:03):
people on CNBC like scratching their heads at what's going on.
CEOs and hedge fund managers are currently screaming at the
top of their lungs. It's like six point six trillion
dollars was wiped out last week and now they're acting
like they got catfished by Trump or some shit. It's
so weird to see those clips are like this is
actually if you think about the prosperity under a President
(14:23):
Trump and in this last administration, like we're headed for
a new era of American blah blah blah under Like
now they're like, what the fuck is this guy fucking doing?
Is he fucking for real? We didn't vote for this.
I voted for inequality, and now I'm like equally fucked
as other billionaires. I don't like this. Yeah, not not great.
I think the messaging though, has been even worse around
(14:45):
this because now many of Trump's economic advisors are now
having to face the media over the weekend, and everyone
is doing some form of like this guy isn't falling
you silly kids. It's actually fantastic, very very frightening.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, give him t time, you know, it is.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
It's very divided because anyone who doesn't work for the
administration directly is like this is bad.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Even the people who.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Launder the administration's lies, Like Ted Kruz is like, well,
you know, I don't think dad, you know, the tariffs
are good forever, but uh, you know, for a small time,
you know, like right, but they're admitting, like everyone's openly
admitting that tariffs are taxes on people usually yeah, mostly.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
In fact, that's exactly what they are. It's just attack.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It's simply a tax, and yeah, we pay higher prices
exactly right. Rand Paul is obviously Rand Paul is occasionally
right on some things, and he's right on this. But
then you got Howard Leutnik, who's out here, and I
swear to God, like I like the most you know,
I haven't hung around a lot of people who like
do that much cocaine, but like, let me, the Commerce
(15:51):
Secretary is just giving the craziest.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Energy right now.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He's out here and he's like, you know, we're gonna
bring these jobs back to the to the United states.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I mean, it's gonna be automated, but there's gonna be job.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, let's play that clip because me, Howard Lutnick has
been saying so so much double like it's everything, it's
it's gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. This is a
clip first where Margaret Brennan is asking him, hey, like,
just just to start off, the economy looks fucked. The
markets are fucking wailing. Do you think there's gonna be
(16:25):
any kind of let up? And then he tries to
do the thing about no, and this is why it's
going to be so fucking good. Here he is, mister
Howard Lutnik, take it away.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Is the administration considering any kind of offset, any kind
of subsidy? You mentioned the first administration there was some
bailout to farmers to help them deal with the pain
from Chinese retaliation. Are you looking at that now?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I'm not that. I have not participated in any meetings
with respect to that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
No good country is.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Focused on You realize trillion factories going to be built
in America, huge GDP the factories being built in America?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Are you that takes years?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
And you've said that robots are going to fill those jobs.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh the there go Margaret Brennan then pushes back because
he's like, there's gonna be trillions of dollars in factory
that we make now immediately.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
The factories that are being built, name one show us.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa? What are you fucking Jacobin?
I didn't come on here for this kind of fucking
grilling session, do you forget? So okay, go on, She
pushes back, that will take years, years, and you are
talking about motherfucking robots, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yours, and you've said that robots are going to fill
those jobs. So those aren't.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Really automated jobs.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
It's automated factories, automated factories. But the key is who's
going to build the factories, who's going to operate the factories,
who's going to make them work great American workers? You know,
we go to a place of armies of millions of people,
well remember the army of millions and millions of human
and being screwing in little little screws to make iPhones.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That I'm sorry, dude, we can't have the wonkafication of
like tech industry where he thinks it's Umpah Lumpas singing
a song down the factory line, like.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
The screw our little screws in millions of little hands.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And it's just like he's he's like, you know, behind
closed doors, He's like, you know, these Asians with their
little hands, it's shinies with their bodies.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They're better than us.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That's you're seeing the way they put these fans together.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I mean, like, I can't believe it. We're screwed. We
need people with literally hands in America. Have you seen
the hands on us?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
He goes on and he's basically like it's going to
be amazing engineers and they're going to be you know,
high school graduates.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
And you're like, oh, what is it? What is it?
Is it?
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Is it automated?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Is it a bunch of Americans doing screwing like little screws?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Or is it engineers? Or is it high school? Like
what are you talking about here?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
There?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It's just it is so nonsensical. It feels satirical. This
is the most disturbing clip, and I likened it to
being like America is being cornered in like the worst
party in the world by a dude again who's like
so high on Codd and he's like.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yo, man, it's gonna be it's gonna be robots.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
What it's gonna be like high school grad robots, who
were also like, it's it's so disturbing.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Were you at the Calvin Harris Show, like last week, dude? What?
Oh man, sir dude, drink some water. Man, you're fucking
the corner of your mouth looks like you got wheat
paste or something in there. What the fuck is this?
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Later on in this conversation with Margaret Brennan too, she's
also like, yo, dude, what's up with like the fucking countries?
Also on this tariff less like all motherfucker's using a
I because a lot of people suspected they just put
a prompt into grock and its spit out this formula.
But here he is also talking about how the tariffs
are like very genius, and also stop looking at the
(19:58):
countries that we fucking really levied tariffs against.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Stand in the rose garden holding up that chart that
you helped make that that wasn't actually tariffs. That was
actually confusing to investors because it was some kind of
other formula and the countries themselves seemed kind of random, Like,
why are the herd and McDonald Islands, which don't export
to the United States and are quite literally inhabited by penguins,
(20:25):
why do they.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Face a ten percent of tariffs?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Did you use AI to generate this?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yeah, the idea look.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
On the list off because the idea what happens is
if you leave anything off the list, the countries that
try to basically arbitrage America go through those countries too.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Okay, here's the point too, we have to really raise
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
The penguins are gonna arbitrage, They're gonna arm There was
one omission on that list.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I felt like, of all the countries that I kept
looking down, I was going to kind of mania, okay,
and then I just said, then we just wait, well's
where's Russia on here? Oh it's not on there? Oh amazing, Okay, okay,
and we're talking about it's every country suns with all
this bullshit.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Dude, what are you fucking I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I was at the you know, like hands Off rally
on Saturday, and there's still like a lot of Putin signs.
You know, Trump is Putin's puppet people are on that
and it's like.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
You know, uh, it's.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
True, Like he doesn't do enough to dissuade the fact
that we all know he's an asset effectively, and Putin
is grudging it right now. Yeah, I mean, how you
gonna have Like you're gonna have Israel? This is my
favorite part. Israel got seventeen percent tariff, which is amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And you know, some Zionis groups are like, why would
you do this? We've done everything.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You asked, you know, Slash, You've helped up with everything,
you've helped just.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Do everything we've ever wanted. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's a
very very jarring thing but makes it so painfully obvious.
And also like denying the use of AI when she's like, okay,
why the fuck is Penguin Town and Unicorn Island on
this fucking list and he's like, ah, no we didn't.
That laugh was so guilt ridden. It was pretty funny.
(22:18):
Even if he didn't know exactly how it worked, he
probably heard and he's like, come.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
On, just explain it. Then then how did you.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Come Ah, this is this is this is a gotcha
show And I didn't agree to any of this. That's
probably what he's gonna fucking say. But anyway, Then we
had Kevin Hassett, who is the White House Economic Council Director.
He was just out here with like the worst fake
grin I've ever seen, just purely laughing off like every
(22:48):
concern that was being raised to him in a way
that was I think even more scary because he's just
like so coy. He's like, I don't know, like I
just think everything's gonna be better. What are you talking about?
People are freaking out.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
I want to show what he wrote this week. He said,
the truth is the tariffs are taxes. They don't punish
foreign governments. They punish American families. When we tax imports,
we raise the price of everything from groceries to smartphones,
washing machines, and every other conceivable product President's owned. Vice
president last term, Mike Pence said, this is the largest
peacetime tax hike in US history.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Your response, Well.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
We just saw that the Senate has agreed to budget rules.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He's smiling so big.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Now that it's going to give the biggest tax cut
in history in order to make space for these policies
and to not have the runaway deficits that gave us
all the inflation and the Biden administration. Then we've got
all the above approach where we're reducing taxes.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
This guy is just flailing and it's so hard to
watch again them just try and launder this terrible, terrible
scheme of whatever. I don't know. This is the other
part when we were talking before, I'm like, I'm so
back and forth on this. This is part of a playbook.
This is like a very violent wealth redistribution scheme. This
(24:03):
is all part of a destabilization process. This is all
part of making material situations in the US so bad
that they can flip a switch to completely change our
social norms on us. Then I'm then I see these
people out there, I'm like, these people are beyond ignorant,
they are beyond stupid.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I think they're just doing what the thing is. I
don't think they're stupid.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I think they're doing what everyone else in the administration
is doing, which is whatever Trump wants to do. And
because he is set up his administration and of course Congress,
which is very ironic, some senators are even speaking out
against him because it's like your entire party has rolled
over for this criminal president. They are making, you know,
(24:47):
they're trying to put lipstick on a pig. They're trying
to roll this turn and glitter and make it shine baby.
And I think, you know, during the Bush years, there
was always this question we would have sort of consistently,
which was like, is this just about the oil and
the money like the Cheney or you've got like these
true believers like the John Ashcrofts or others who are like, no,
(25:09):
we're in a literal holy war and we're going to
kill them. I think it's kind of like the broad
analysis of colonialism generally, it's like, is this about spreading
religion or is this about the money?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And the answer really is both, you know exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It's like it's oh, the people like the Jarvins or
the people you know, like the cha Months I forgot
his last name, but the you know, these billionaires who
are also increasingly invested in crypto, they're like, this is
all good because if we're creating a crypto national reserve,
the dollar gets devalued. People obviously are going to be
working for less money. None of these jobs are going
(25:45):
to be union jobs. They're going to be desperate. Meanwhile,
our crypto schemes are going to rise so it's it's
it is accelerationism. It is late stage capitalist accelerationism, and
they're banking on the people not doing shit about it,
and I would like to argue otherwise.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, either way. I mean, like even watching Crypto take
a dive too, it's like, yeah, you know, like even
though you say it's recession proof, it's still tied to
people's financial outcomes, and when they see shit going south,
they're gonna be like, well, time to get rid of
my digital coins to try and make some real money.
It's all very, very, very wobbly at the moment, and
we'll talk even more on tomorrow's episode, because the fallout
(26:24):
isn't just limited to what we're seeing in the Market's
like the coalition of evildoers is also They're starting to
get a little bit sweaty here, being like, well, I
didn't think billions of die to lose billions of dollars here,
what's going on? And even Musk and Peter Navarro were fighting.
So hey, we'll see. We'll check in with all of
that soon. But let's move on to another big story.
(26:47):
As you were talking about over the weekend, there were many,
many demonstrations over fourteen hundred demonstrations around the world, not
just in the United States but around the world testing Trump.
These are part of the hands off demonstrations. And look,
you'd say, unless look, if you don't have social media
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or no people who are out there or engaged in
your own community, you might not have known that any
of this even happened. I think gil Scott Herron said,
he said the revolution will not be televised, and one
of the reasons is they don't want you to know
that people are getting together to sort of make their
you know, displeasure known in very public protesting like settings.
(27:28):
And you look around New York streets fucking filled. It
looked like the end of World War II or some shit,
the amount of people that were just crammed into the streets.
And then you're like, oh, yeah, the New York Times
probably what's what are they saying? What's on what's on
the Monday the New York Times? What are we see
in here? What are the Sunday New York Times. The
story was about the environmental toll, about the war in Ukraine.
(27:49):
That's the front page thing. Huh oh interesting. I mean
they did have one photo from one protest at the
very bottom of the page. That was like so zoomed
in you get no sense of the scale of the protest.
It's just like a photo crammed with people with signs,
and then it's like, if you want to know more,
go to page eighteen. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Washington Post
(28:11):
similar thing. Their story. Their top story on Sunday shout
out fucking Jeff Bezos. Their top store on Sunday was
about a skier who died trying to jump over a
highway last year.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I mean that's pretty tight. But like if that skier
who jumped over the highway had a like fuck Trump sign,
they would not cover it at all.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. If I'm maybe this's like he
was a maga, a maga skier, and that's that's why
they're covering it too, because they're like, oh, this guy
had a dream to jump over a highway, a busy
highway and it didn't work out. They had a little
photo at the very bottom of the page also just
kind of teasing out what was going on.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean, you know, these are some of the biggest
demonstrations we've seen, and we've been you know, there's been.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
This narrative of like, you know, are the people with it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
It was amazing to the resistance.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, where's the resistance gone? And like, I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You guys were the resistance because you actually covered this
president honestly, and now that the people are making up
for it and you know where to be found.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And it's not just.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Like big newspapers, right, it's local news. It is you know,
local papers there. I think some of the most inspiring
actions over the weekend happened in smaller towns where you're like,
people weren't they got you maybe like a couple hundred
RSVPs And then you know, a couple thousand people showed
up flanking sides of the roads and whatnot, Like that
(29:33):
is really important. People are making connections and then you
just like talk to folks and they're clearly you know.
I think Ken Clippen sign interviewed some people in Madison, Wisconsin,
which you know is more liberal, but people are fed
up with the Democrats too. There's plenty of anger to
go around. It's not just about Trump. It is a
lot about Democrats. I spoke at the LA rally and
(29:53):
you know, shitting on them, saying Chuck Schumer has to
go and everyone very on board with that message.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, I think this is That's why it's such a very,
very instructive moment to know who is going to capture
this energy in the right way, because you can you
can see the Dems start shape shifting in the shadows
and coming back down and be like, no, we've we
figured it out.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The status quo is bad and we gotta we gotta
change it, guys, So like, just come vote for us again.
And I just feel like that brand is so tarnished.
I'd hate to see it get co opted by some
other evil doing force, which I know that's kind of that.
These are these moments in history where you, like, you
see that the population is ready to fucking put their
(30:37):
energy and needs a new outlet, and what are they
going to pour into because one of the other options
is something can become very problematic and be like, nah,
maybe it is autocracy. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Well, I think that's a really good point. I'm actually
like a little bit, I'm I'm I agree with you.
Like I'm concerned as well, because I think if there
were any moment for an established figure AOC to start
something new and to make a break with a Democratic
party because I do think it is very clear there
are too many, too many centrists to go through, too
(31:08):
many corporate centrists to go.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Through to before it is they will.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Ever give you your your time, your day in the light.
And I don't believe in just doing a like we're
we're the third party, you know, just a random you know,
only when elections roll around, you know, Jill Sign rears
her head again.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No, it's got to be strategic.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
We need to be in Congress, like that thing needs
like all this needs to be part of Congress too,
because that's where it's lost.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah, and there has to be the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
which is just kind of meaningless, actually has to pull
its weight. And the fact that I think it's Maxwell
Frost or I forgot, I get Maxwell Frosts and grecs
are confused.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
My bad, My bad, my bad.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
But you know there is some new younger leadership in
the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but they got.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
To do shit with that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Again, like you said, this is there's a lot of bandwidth.
You know, remember, political bandwidth is when people are tired
of the status quo. Obama had massive political band with
after eight years of Bush, and he really didn't do
shit with it, to be honest with you, he was
not able to do what he wanted.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Obviously.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That was also the dawn of dark money that David
Axelrod did not take seriously and nobody took seriously. Oh,
corporations are completely buying our elections. Cool coo cool, And
so I'm like, if you're absolutely right, if we don't
see some new shit or some real ideas, it's just
gonna be you know, a Candae Owens, a Tucker Cralson
or someone or someone on the so called left was
(32:30):
kind of just as unhinged and untethered and unaccountable to
real people as other folks.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
And so I just I worry.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I'm not trying to police anything, but I'm just like, I.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
We got to me that's how. But I mean, that's
how people who are looking at like movements and how
they can use that energy to further their own goals,
like look at this and go, how do we get
these people? Because in the same time, too, you have
more people who are quote unquote independents or like even
Republicans who are like, what the fuck's going on? They're like,
I didn't expect this, Like the fact that people are
even like why is he doing that? That's kind of
(33:05):
new for like, as I'm like, not even a maga criticism,
but a questioning because before it's like, yeah, dude, we're
losing man, or we're winning. We're fucking brutalizing trans people,
We're brutalizing immigrants. Yeah, dude, it's all winning. It's all
winning now, and be like, wait, my son's business actually
can't function if there are these kinds of tariffs, and
then my grandkids have no place to live, and well,
(33:26):
why would he do this? And I think having another
party that isn't branded as Republican or Democrat allows a
lot of people who may have been Republicans or vote
Republican to be like, oh, yea, I'll vote for this
thing because they're not going to say I'm voting for
a Democrat, like just.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Because the Democrats brand ultimately has been just literally what
Chuck Schumer says, which or and James.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Carbill wait around they dead, and then in a.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Few years people like, hey, Democrats are looking pretty good
and that is a horrible strategy.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, and we've shown it doesn't work. Save I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Maybe they're also praying for another global pandemic like the
bird flu. Well, and you know, we'll recess it sate
Joe Biden again if he's still around. Like this is
the you know, the dead end spiral of I mean, honestly,
like a party that's kind of circling the drain and
has been for a while. It's just a bad brand
in every way, shape or form. They don't have vision,
you know. And while we are then the majority, and
(34:19):
we are right, it is true that we don't have vision.
It is true the Democrats are lacking their leaders or
don't know good leaders.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
When they hit him in the goddamn face.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, or told when someone does emerge by other people
with interest in the party, like now, I can never
be that person, like and I'll tell you why, and
like we have to do everything we can to suppress
that purchase.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
And look at the people that they've Eric Adams is
going to be the future orongagey Gavin.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Newsom is going to be the future.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Which honestly, my favorite arc in this whole moment is
that Gavin Newsom is burning any possibility. I mean, he's
gonna try, but like people are not happy and excited
about him. Like I had to play Jane Fonda critiquing
Gavin Newsom to my mom for my mom to be like,
I don't know if I like Gavin Newsom anymore, you know,
because like she loves Gavin Newsom, and it's like, okay,
(35:06):
but we can do so much better.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, it's like look past his slicked back hair. Okay, no,
he's an actual piece of shit. So yeah, very interesting times.
But again, like when we talk about where is the
resistance and all this stuff, it's just that again the
media just hasn't been covering it because as we've seen,
like there was the People's March on Inauguration Day and
they're like it wasn't even as big as the Woman's
(35:27):
March in twenty seventeen. The resistance is dyed. But again
research shown there have been more than twice as many
street protests in February of twenty twenty five then February
of twenty twenty four. These are these things are increasing,
like they are increasing in number, but again they're just
not being talked about. It's weird because maybe the billionaires
(35:48):
on the newspapers. Right, let's take a quick break. We'll
come right back and talk about good news for people
with receiving hairlines like me, because Walton Goggins, We'll be
right back and we're back. Uh, you were talking about it.
(36:10):
The White Lotus season finale occurred last night on while
I am very I think I'm only halfway through the season,
and I think I'm only halfway through the season because
I'm not excited to start the next episode. I'm like,
all right, get talk. Why did you leave that blamer
out full? Dang, Like That's why I'm right now. Anyway,
all that to say, the finale happened, I have texture
(36:33):
as where people were like, what the f like mixed reviews.
I'm seeing people be like, whoa, that was fucking wild
or some people like that was fucking full of plot holes,
and I do not like it. One thing, regardless of
what you think is the New York Post is like
they posted some shit they said receding hairlines are suddenly
sexy thanks to White Lotus hunk Walton Goggins, and then
(36:56):
like said by a bunch.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Of New York Posts, fucking old crust journalists too like
got famous doing upskirt shots and.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Right yeah, are like, yeah, we're back.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Baby, We're back, Baby Goggins core. That's the new fucking
way I dress just big linen shirts, button opened up,
some kind of weird amulet necklace. But I guess they're
pointing to the fact that social media has so many
people just posting how horny they are for Walton Goggins.
So then they're like, yeah, okay, therefore ipso facto receiving
(37:28):
hairlines are hot. This is the Walton Goggins effect and
you can't do anything about it. Yeah. I just once
said quote, I love Walton so much. He's half forehead,
half teeth, and yet it all works. The man is hot.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
She's got a lot of a lot of Steven Tyler energy, Like.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Oh shit, yo, yes, that big ass mouth.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
It feels like just the big ass mouth.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
First of all, I think it's important to understand that
it's not the receding hairline. It's everything else that you
just said it is. He's looking very good for however
old he is. His body's right, it's the button down,
it's the amulets, it's the you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
They like the confidence of a Hollywood star.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
The confidence of a Hollywood star.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
It is his little like you know, dimples, he is
an attractive man y, but but he's definitely.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I don't know. I look, I got daddy issues, and
I was not into him.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I thought he just looked crusty, like he looked hellicicrusty, yeah, tired.
If they had given him like, you know, if his
storyline had been different and he wasn't just sort of
an anxious wreck the whole time, I might have been like,
you know, hot, hot.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Hot, But yeah, yeah, yeah. I think a lot of
people are just look they Walton Goggins is just big
right now. The people are really all in on that.
Someone said, scientifically speaking, Walton Goggins is the hottest weird
looking guy or the weirdest looking hot guy that ever lived.
Uh yeah, I don't know. Again neither.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
He's just he's just an attract He decided to not
shave his head and grow and grow like a you know,
go tee the way a lot of men with receiving
hairlines do. But you can pull this gets pulled off
in Italy. I lived in Argentina, gets pulled off there
a lot. Just grow it a little bit long again,
the amulet, let.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
It wave around. I think exactly a lot of people
later on the article are just like, no, it's because
he has charisma and he's confident exactly. That makes no
matter how you cut it, cut it or slice it,
that works. And I think that's one thing I was
always told when I be like, like, I remember asking
my grandpa. He's like, he's like, how many girlfriends you got?
And I'm like, I don't have any girlfriends. He's like oh,
(39:38):
And I was like, what do I do? He's like,
just be you. He's like, just be you. He's like,
that's that's the secret. And I was like, just be me.
He's like, but I'm not tall like the other kids.
He's like, you're funny. Do that and ye and my
ticket to the bottom. Y'all just being funny. Yeah know
what you.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Look like, Miles. You can't just be like, oh, then
I was funny to make up for how.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
He No, not even that, No, not even that, not
even that. Well, you know I'm saying. When I was younger,
I was you know what I mean, Like I had
a very awkward stage and I had braces and my
Shiit didn't really start popping off to like my twenties.
I feel like, you know what I mean, I had
this like I was like this little kind of rat kid.
I love my inn rat kid though, I honor you.
(40:22):
But yeah, Walton Goggins, I think the secret there is
just he's a he's a good actor, and he's funny
and he's look y'all should watch the early episodes of
the Shield and tell me if you're fucking with that
Walton Goggins. That's how we'll really know, because that's pre
that's pre veneers and pre plugs. Walton Goggins, Okay, let
me know where my day was at, you know what
I mean. Yeah, he's just yes, yes, yeah, yeah yeah,
(40:47):
different time, and that's when he was just a very
interesting kind of character actor. And then over time I
think he's just become this heart throb. Oh yeah, Brian
that saying he's like, I guess people forgot how muffkers
were thirsting over Tony Soprano. That was an era too,
when people were really feeling the Tony Soprano. Look.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Yeah, I mean it was the tender moments with Carmela
for me.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
But also he's just like a he's an Italian womanizer, right,
It's just it's all it's nothing but confidence.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Oh yeah, nothing but confidence and unleashed horniness. Uh that's
I think what people are responding.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
To Woggins is sorry, last things. He's just an attractive guy.
Stopped trying to He's not ugly.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
It's just the I know, it is just weird. That's
already written in this like the con the perspective has
already fucked up where they're like, yeah, who could who
could love someone with their receiving hairline? Unless you're Walton Goggins. Sure,
I guess. But anyway, good news for the news the
guys at the New York Post or the receiving hairlines
(41:48):
who gained just a little bit more confidence from Walton Goggins.
So in that way you've done a service, although we
don't need more people with more confidence at the New York.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Posts and the Hoggins.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Uh gog my dog. Good to see. Uh all right, well,
those are the things that we're trending over the weekend.
We will be back tomorrow with a new episode and
even more news and analysis and screaming and laughing, all
of it together in one package. It's the daily Zeitgeist.
We will see you then, but until then, take care of yourselves,
take care of each other. Get your vaccines, don't do
(42:19):
nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you then.
Bye bye,
Have you seen that clip of the Brazilian girl. No,
there's this, there's this little these kids. There's like this
lady named Shusha who's like this huge performer in Brazil,
and all these Brazilian kids were trying to get into
like a big free concert for the kids, and like
they let all these other people in and like all
these regular kids didn't get it, Like these poor kids
(00:23):
couldn't get in because they let in like industry people
like whatever. And so this like six year old girl
is outside the concert. She's screamed about how long, how
long we've been waiting here? And they letting other people in.
She's like, what kind of show, Shusha is this? Let
me just play this because this, I think sums up
the energy of how different kids are like abroad. Like
this kid is like what the fuck? I suppose job?
(00:46):
Because I said, you you understand this.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is so good. But this is from the age that energy.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
From adults miles we talking about kids. I know, no
you do, you see you see it from adults. But
they'll be be like I told you my kids allergic
to strawberry, and you gave me this jump of juice,
you fuck, And then they throw it at a teenager's head.
It's like the energy is all in the wrong direction.
(01:25):
Hello Internet, Welcome to this Monday morning trending episode of
The Daily Zeitgeist. This is the episode we're going to
tell you some of the things you may have missed
over the weekend, some of the things surely we missed
over the weekend because you know, the microphones were down
and the news cycle continues. But here we are trying
to give you the best. All Right, I'm gonna stop
with this. I don't know why I try to like it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I was getting into it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Should I go even suck when? Welcome to this morning
edition of the Daily zeit Geist. I'm Miles Gray. You're
intrepid host, and I'm thrilled to be joined today by
the Intrepid. I'm gonna just everything is a dodge Intrepid,
and I am joined by Francesca Fiorentini.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hello, Francesca, Francesca Catherine Fiorandini.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Is that your middle name?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, it's Kate, but Catherine is much more in PR.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, Kath, I know the way you said that. I
was like, damn, well, you got an MPRS name.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
No, it's Kate, It's it's Basically my initials are FKF,
which I like to think of just fuck off.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, because my voice, Oh yeah, like a thirteen year
old Hi Miles, Happy Monday, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's not everyone's like, is it black Monday? I don't know.
I was only three years old when that happened. But no,
I guess if you're comparing the raw numbers, this stock
market hasn't found twenty two percent once, just just a
tad less than that, but still fucked up. Anyway, Let's
first get into our overrated underrated so people can get
an idea of where we're coming from. And based on
(02:50):
how you're covering your face, I'm guessing you're gonna come
up with this on the fly. Francesca, I saw.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
We didn't do the homework, but I haven't because it's Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, my overrated And I think maybe Francesca and I
both share this one because you maybe this was in
the cold open. But honestly, now that I talk about it,
just our complaining culture in the US overrated. We complain
about fucking all the things that don't matter and none
of the things that do. Not that everyone doesn't, but like,
we are not built with this like, yo, what the
(03:34):
fuck is this ship kind of energy? We were talking
about little Italian kids, a little Brazilian kids. They got
the fucking fuego. Okay, that's burning inside them, and it's
about like it's like Wi Fi's broken.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Mom.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I know, I know the high pack. Can you anymore
any more? Tokens like, yeah, we are very We're very
used to the creature comforts. But like you know, in France,
when they're trying to import milk from Spain, people will
just like stop the trucks and slash slash tires and
(04:07):
just be like no, we defend our dairy farmers.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And he's just like what yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I remember even being one of like the last the
first time I was in Italy, I was so shocked
because a guy was like, usually we would garnish this
with an orange, but they came from Portugal and we
don't know how they grow them, so we put a lemon.
Just so you know, this is different than our user presentation.
I was like, bro, I I'm from the land of
eating plastic fruit and chemicals, but thank you so much.
(04:32):
This is wow. Thank you for taking a stand. I
didn't even know it had to be taken.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Maybe little xenophobia as well, but hey, look whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Lily, Like, you know, France was at France also that
tried to raise their mean yeah, it's all xenophobic, but
you know it's Europe. Uh, France tried to raise their
retirement rate. Retirement yeah two, I think like sixty except meanwhile,
we are living there, We're talking about social security and
we all know, oh that like retirement is now sixty seven, right,
Like it's going like I think in like a couple
(05:04):
of years it will have hit sixty seven, so it's
no longer sixty five?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
What have we done shit about it?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean I'm sure like a French person will go
into like a Walmart and see like an elderly greader
and be like, oh my god, what crime did they commit?
That this is their sentence and you're like, oh no, no,
they sorry. They are still also in the process of
toiling because this is the United States. Anyway. That's my
overrated Did you have an overrated too?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I mean it's a spoiler and it's not political, but
I will also go real political always. But if people
haven't seen White Lotus third season.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh I haven't, But talk your shit because we are
going to get to that. But don't spoil it because
I'm only that episode four because I'm very spoil it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
But I will say that it's an overrated season and
it's sad because I think some of the actors are
incredible and the characters had good there was good bones,
but the writing was not good.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
This is what I hear.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's too bad because I really like White Lotus. I'm digging.
I like the soundtracks of season two and three. The
third soundtrack is fire.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
All that time music.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The time music is amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I can't any of it. Unfortunately, I'm sure what I.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Do is I go to like, you know, I'm sure
Spotify has this. I do Apple podcast or Apple whatever
music and you look at someone who, you know, a
blessed soul has created the playlist. They found it, so
you can get it that way. But yeah, it's an
overrated season and it's too bad because like it's part
pro posy man and she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I know, but hey, she's she's killing it as like
the zanned out woman from North Carolina. I'll say that
she is.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But it's like anymore, there could be funnier lines and
she's not there.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And then the three friends are the best storyline in.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
My opinion, because that's that like sweet spot of this
is normal, but they're caddy and they're there's drama, but
I just like that. That's like a really good storyline.
Everything else is a little bit it's too bad.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, all right, let's talk about what is underrated. My
underrated is when you go to like a public restroom
or restroom at a restaurant, any kind of place, and
the default water that comes out is lukewarm. I think
that's very underrated. I find that very I like that.
I don't like having ice cold water hit my hands.
I just it's just a weird thing. That's because I'm
(07:22):
a soft ass American and I'm not out here complaining
about the real shit. I'm like, this water is too cold.
But I went somewhere they only had one faucet. It
turned on and it spit out lukewarm water, and I
was like, this shit is fucking This feels like a luxury.
And I'm gonna stand by that.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That doesn't see that does not square with your overrated.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I know, I know, but I'm saying, what's too soft?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And then a lukewarm water.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that's what I just said. That's what I'm saying.
I know, I know, I'm out here complaining about cold
water touching me. Manos, okay, but I.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Like it a little loose last manos.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh sorry, thank you said look, this is outre because
I'm speaking pigeon Spanish that I learned just ambiently in La,
not ever taking a class. But yeah, thank you Brian
the editor who said, yes, a very Japanese take. It is.
It is. It's like one of those things I like
because it's considering. It's like a small detail you're considering
for the user experience, and I appreciate it. I don't
(08:18):
know many people who are out here will be like, ah,
it's lukewarm, you know what I mean. I don't know.
Unless you like your fucking ice water to wash your hands,
I don't. So thank you to that place I went.
I will not give you extra business because it was
a little bit of a weird time, but the bathroom water,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think everything in my house is sentient because I
have a toddler, as you know, and so like the
towel in the bathroom that she.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Uses to wash her hands before dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Is like your dog. No, it is a talking towel talking.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I mean I am the towel, And it's not just
like a thing.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It just does that shit where your kids wipe their
hands all over you, like treating your pants like as
a napkin.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yo. Why do they do that because it's easy, it's
so you know what.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It was bad because it's it's something you do initially
out of like I don't have anything else here, just
wiping one here, and then they're.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Like, oh, I like treating my doormat.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, yes, fucking Because now I'm really I'm really in
that era where I'm like, was he eating? Now I'm
wearing all black, like I'm the fucking about to protest.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
No, But that's the worst because all the dust crumbs
like show up on the on all black stuff. It's
unclear what to wear. I think it's patterns, and I've
decided it's all patterns because it stains the most. That's
why moms. You're like, why do moms and people in
their forties and fifties start to wear just like patterns
and like Sparkle number one. It's because we're like half
(09:43):
dead inside chapel Roone's right, and number two it's because
like we're just there's nothing but stains and crumbs and
random spatterings, and.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So you've got to have it all black.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Stain cao.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It is stained camo.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, I've just I don't even I'm so dead inside.
I can't even patterns do nothing for me that I'm
just gonna wear all black.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You don't seem to be very You're not a big
pattern person.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Got a big pattern. I do like it. I do
like a bright color. But you know what, just treat
me like I'm on the New Zealand rugby team because
it's all black. Okay, all right, let's take a break.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And my underrated Oh shit, that's right.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
What the fuck? I'm so sorry?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So wow, I have one.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
But now I was looking at my stalks and I
couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, that's distracted.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
No, no, very briefly, I don't know if it's underrated.
Maybe it's perfectly rated. But for me, it was underrated
because I was like, I don't really like these. But
because I got into the White Lotus mood, I bought
the White Lotus Cocktail book that I saw, I buyed
it and because this is how I roll. I like
to drink anything that the people in the shows I'm
(10:51):
watching are drinking. So I have the Downton Abbey Cocktail Book.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's very good. That got me through the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, okay, and.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
That's very perfectly rated.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I don't know about this cocktail book world see, but
then it just had an Apparol Sprits and I was like,
I didn't need a cocktail book to tell me how
to make that, buddy, yess, I.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Will do it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And the Apparol Sprits is the perfect drink. I will
just say that it sucks to be my My husband
is sober, so I have to shrink a whole bottle
proseco on myself. No, but I had two of those
while watching The Light White Lotus finale and it was
it was good.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's a very good drink.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I'm very into this idea that like whatever you see
on the screen is like yo, I'm having that because
oh I do that since I was a kid, like
I remember always seeing shit in movies and TV. I'm like, mom,
how do I how do I? Yeah? Like I remember
when The Sopranos was on, I would fucking do this shit.
Everybody would get together on Sundays and we would eat
Italian food and watch the Sopranos.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
See that's great.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, that's why you realize like the amount of like
you know, smoking ads in the fifties or sixties or
whatever it was, like that is insidious.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Like that shit absolutely works on people.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I don't also got really into the Narco series, but
they just drank whiskey, and I'm like, I can't really
do that.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah. I think part of that also comes from the
fact that, like if as a kid, I'd be like, oh,
look at that thing from the show, my mom would
be like, man, we ain't getting that shit. So then
I think that built up into me, and then as
an adult, I'm like, there's nobody telling me I can't
have what I'm seeing on the TV screen. Yeah exactly,
And I wild eat Baked ZD fucking three years straight.
I give a fuck.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Just freeze it toge out of the freezer.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, all right, let's take a quick break. We're gonna
come back and just just catch up with whatever is
going on in the news. We'll do that right after
this and we're back. Wow. So the big thing I
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think that was trending over the weekend was definitely the
performance of the stock market and how obviously that ties
into the larger economy. Black Monday was trending for days.
People were like, there's it gonna be black? Mind, this
is October nineteenth, nineteen eighty seven. Again, it fell twenty
two points that day. This time it was just more
like a just a shitty thud, little bounce back and
(13:12):
then falling again. All that to say not great. All
I know is I'm pretty sure when the graphs look
like the lines are going nearly vertically down, that's not good.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
No, it's supposed to look like a heartbeat. That's how
you know it's active and.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Alive, right, right, right, Yeah, Cause you imagine, like what
would they say if it was a flat line for
a long time. That would probably also freak out capitalist.
Where's the growth?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, oh exactly, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Not growing to the point that will consume us.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
All.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So, yes, the numbers weren't great. I think. Look, I
think most people that bothered to take economists at their
word throughout this presidential campaign and at the start of
the mentioning of tariffs, were like, yeah, this is I
think not going to be good. It sounds like this
is going to be really bad and will only plunge
us further into terrible, terrible situations. And now we have
(14:03):
people on CNBC like scratching their heads at what's going on.
CEOs and hedge fund managers are currently screaming at the
top of their lungs. It's like six point six trillion
dollars was wiped out last week and now they're acting
like they got catfished by Trump or some shit. It's
so weird to see those clips are like this is
actually if you think about the prosperity under a President
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Trump and in this last administration, like we're headed for
a new era of American blah blah blah under Like
now they're like, what the fuck is this guy fucking doing?
Is he fucking for real? We didn't vote for this.
I voted for inequality, and now I'm like equally fucked
as other billionaires. I don't like this. Yeah, not not great.
I think the messaging though, has been even worse around
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this because now many of Trump's economic advisors are now
having to face the media over the weekend, and everyone
is doing some form of like this guy isn't falling
you silly kids. It's actually fantastic, very very frightening.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, give him t time, you know, it is.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
It's very divided because anyone who doesn't work for the
administration directly is like this is bad.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Even the people who.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Launder the administration's lies, Like Ted Kruz is like, well,
you know, I don't think dad, you know, the tariffs
are good forever, but uh, you know, for a small time,
you know, like right, but they're admitting, like everyone's openly
admitting that tariffs are taxes on people usually yeah, mostly.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
In fact, that's exactly what they are. It's just attack.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It's simply a tax, and yeah, we pay higher prices
exactly right. Rand Paul is obviously Rand Paul is occasionally
right on some things, and he's right on this. But
then you got Howard Leutnik, who's out here, and I
swear to God, like I like the most you know,
I haven't hung around a lot of people who like
do that much cocaine, but like, let me, the Commerce
(15:51):
Secretary is just giving the craziest.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Energy right now.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He's out here and he's like, you know, we're gonna
bring these jobs back to the to the United states.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I mean, it's gonna be automated, but there's gonna be job.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, let's play that clip because me, Howard Lutnick has
been saying so so much double like it's everything, it's
it's gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. This is a
clip first where Margaret Brennan is asking him, hey, like,
just just to start off, the economy looks fucked. The
markets are fucking wailing. Do you think there's gonna be
(16:25):
any kind of let up? And then he tries to
do the thing about no, and this is why it's
going to be so fucking good. Here he is, mister
Howard Lutnik, take it away.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Is the administration considering any kind of offset, any kind
of subsidy? You mentioned the first administration there was some
bailout to farmers to help them deal with the pain
from Chinese retaliation. Are you looking at that now?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I'm not that. I have not participated in any meetings
with respect to that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
No good country is.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Focused on You realize trillion factories going to be built
in America, huge GDP the factories being built in America?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Are you that takes years?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
And you've said that robots are going to fill those jobs.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh the there go Margaret Brennan then pushes back because
he's like, there's gonna be trillions of dollars in factory
that we make now immediately.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
The factories that are being built, name one show us.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa? What are you fucking Jacobin?
I didn't come on here for this kind of fucking
grilling session, do you forget? So okay, go on, She
pushes back, that will take years, years, and you are
talking about motherfucking robots, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yours, and you've said that robots are going to fill
those jobs. So those aren't.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Really automated jobs.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
It's automated factories, automated factories. But the key is who's
going to build the factories, who's going to operate the factories,
who's going to make them work great American workers? You know,
we go to a place of armies of millions of people,
well remember the army of millions and millions of human
and being screwing in little little screws to make iPhones.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That I'm sorry, dude, we can't have the wonkafication of
like tech industry where he thinks it's Umpah Lumpas singing
a song down the factory line, like.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
The screw our little screws in millions of little hands.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And it's just like he's he's like, you know, behind
closed doors, He's like, you know, these Asians with their
little hands, it's shinies with their bodies.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They're better than us.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That's you're seeing the way they put these fans together.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I mean, like, I can't believe it. We're screwed. We
need people with literally hands in America. Have you seen
the hands on us?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
He goes on and he's basically like it's going to
be amazing engineers and they're going to be you know,
high school graduates.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
And you're like, oh, what is it? What is it?
Is it?
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Is it automated?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Is it a bunch of Americans doing screwing like little screws?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Or is it engineers? Or is it high school? Like
what are you talking about here?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
There?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It's just it is so nonsensical. It feels satirical. This
is the most disturbing clip, and I likened it to
being like America is being cornered in like the worst
party in the world by a dude again who's like
so high on Codd and he's like.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yo, man, it's gonna be it's gonna be robots.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
What it's gonna be like high school grad robots, who
were also like, it's it's so disturbing.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Were you at the Calvin Harris Show, like last week, dude? What?
Oh man, sir dude, drink some water. Man, you're fucking
the corner of your mouth looks like you got wheat
paste or something in there. What the fuck is this?
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Later on in this conversation with Margaret Brennan too, she's
also like, yo, dude, what's up with like the fucking countries?
Also on this tariff less like all motherfucker's using a
I because a lot of people suspected they just put
a prompt into grock and its spit out this formula.
But here he is also talking about how the tariffs
are like very genius, and also stop looking at the
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countries that we fucking really levied tariffs against.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Stand in the rose garden holding up that chart that
you helped make that that wasn't actually tariffs. That was
actually confusing to investors because it was some kind of
other formula and the countries themselves seemed kind of random, Like,
why are the herd and McDonald Islands, which don't export
to the United States and are quite literally inhabited by penguins,
(20:25):
why do they.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Face a ten percent of tariffs?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Did you use AI to generate this?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yeah, the idea look.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
On the list off because the idea what happens is
if you leave anything off the list, the countries that
try to basically arbitrage America go through those countries too.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Okay, here's the point too, we have to really raise
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
The penguins are gonna arbitrage, They're gonna arm There was
one omission on that list.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I felt like, of all the countries that I kept
looking down, I was going to kind of mania, okay,
and then I just said, then we just wait, well's
where's Russia on here? Oh it's not on there? Oh amazing, Okay, okay,
and we're talking about it's every country suns with all
this bullshit.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Dude, what are you fucking I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I was at the you know, like hands Off rally
on Saturday, and there's still like a lot of Putin signs.
You know, Trump is Putin's puppet people are on that
and it's like.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
You know, uh, it's.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
True, Like he doesn't do enough to dissuade the fact
that we all know he's an asset effectively, and Putin
is grudging it right now. Yeah, I mean, how you
gonna have Like you're gonna have Israel? This is my
favorite part. Israel got seventeen percent tariff, which is amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And you know, some Zionis groups are like, why would
you do this? We've done everything.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You asked, you know, Slash, You've helped up with everything,
you've helped just.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Do everything we've ever wanted. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's a
very very jarring thing but makes it so painfully obvious.
And also like denying the use of AI when she's like, okay,
why the fuck is Penguin Town and Unicorn Island on
this fucking list and he's like, ah, no we didn't.
That laugh was so guilt ridden. It was pretty funny.
(22:18):
Even if he didn't know exactly how it worked, he
probably heard and he's like, come.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
On, just explain it. Then then how did you.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Come Ah, this is this is this is a gotcha
show And I didn't agree to any of this. That's
probably what he's gonna fucking say. But anyway, Then we
had Kevin Hassett, who is the White House Economic Council Director.
He was just out here with like the worst fake
grin I've ever seen, just purely laughing off like every
(22:48):
concern that was being raised to him in a way
that was I think even more scary because he's just
like so coy. He's like, I don't know, like I
just think everything's gonna be better. What are you talking about?
People are freaking out.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
I want to show what he wrote this week. He said,
the truth is the tariffs are taxes. They don't punish
foreign governments. They punish American families. When we tax imports,
we raise the price of everything from groceries to smartphones,
washing machines, and every other conceivable product President's owned. Vice
president last term, Mike Pence said, this is the largest
peacetime tax hike in US history.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Your response, Well.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
We just saw that the Senate has agreed to budget rules.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He's smiling so big.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Now that it's going to give the biggest tax cut
in history in order to make space for these policies
and to not have the runaway deficits that gave us
all the inflation and the Biden administration. Then we've got
all the above approach where we're reducing taxes.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
This guy is just flailing and it's so hard to
watch again them just try and launder this terrible, terrible
scheme of whatever. I don't know. This is the other
part when we were talking before, I'm like, I'm so
back and forth on this. This is part of a playbook.
This is like a very violent wealth redistribution scheme. This
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is all part of a destabilization process. This is all
part of making material situations in the US so bad
that they can flip a switch to completely change our
social norms on us. Then I'm then I see these
people out there, I'm like, these people are beyond ignorant,
they are beyond stupid.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I think they're just doing what the thing is. I
don't think they're stupid.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I think they're doing what everyone else in the administration
is doing, which is whatever Trump wants to do. And
because he is set up his administration and of course Congress,
which is very ironic, some senators are even speaking out
against him because it's like your entire party has rolled
over for this criminal president. They are making, you know,
(24:47):
they're trying to put lipstick on a pig. They're trying
to roll this turn and glitter and make it shine baby.
And I think, you know, during the Bush years, there
was always this question we would have sort of consistently,
which was like, is this just about the oil and
the money like the Cheney or you've got like these
true believers like the John Ashcrofts or others who are like, no,
(25:09):
we're in a literal holy war and we're going to
kill them. I think it's kind of like the broad
analysis of colonialism generally, it's like, is this about spreading
religion or is this about the money?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And the answer really is both, you know exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It's like it's oh, the people like the Jarvins or
the people you know, like the cha Months I forgot
his last name, but the you know, these billionaires who
are also increasingly invested in crypto, they're like, this is
all good because if we're creating a crypto national reserve,
the dollar gets devalued. People obviously are going to be
working for less money. None of these jobs are going
(25:45):
to be union jobs. They're going to be desperate. Meanwhile,
our crypto schemes are going to rise so it's it's
it is accelerationism. It is late stage capitalist accelerationism, and
they're banking on the people not doing shit about it,
and I would like to argue otherwise.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, either way. I mean, like even watching Crypto take
a dive too, it's like, yeah, you know, like even
though you say it's recession proof, it's still tied to
people's financial outcomes, and when they see shit going south,
they're gonna be like, well, time to get rid of
my digital coins to try and make some real money.
It's all very, very, very wobbly at the moment, and
we'll talk even more on tomorrow's episode, because the fallout
(26:24):
isn't just limited to what we're seeing in the Market's
like the coalition of evildoers is also They're starting to
get a little bit sweaty here, being like, well, I
didn't think billions of die to lose billions of dollars here,
what's going on? And even Musk and Peter Navarro were fighting.
So hey, we'll see. We'll check in with all of
that soon. But let's move on to another big story.
(26:47):
As you were talking about over the weekend, there were many,
many demonstrations over fourteen hundred demonstrations around the world, not
just in the United States but around the world testing Trump.
These are part of the hands off demonstrations. And look,
you'd say, unless look, if you don't have social media
(27:07):
or no people who are out there or engaged in
your own community, you might not have known that any
of this even happened. I think gil Scott Herron said,
he said the revolution will not be televised, and one
of the reasons is they don't want you to know
that people are getting together to sort of make their
you know, displeasure known in very public protesting like settings.
(27:28):
And you look around New York streets fucking filled. It
looked like the end of World War II or some shit,
the amount of people that were just crammed into the streets.
And then you're like, oh, yeah, the New York Times
probably what's what are they saying? What's on what's on
the Monday the New York Times? What are we see
in here? What are the Sunday New York Times. The
story was about the environmental toll, about the war in Ukraine.
(27:49):
That's the front page thing. Huh oh interesting. I mean
they did have one photo from one protest at the
very bottom of the page. That was like so zoomed
in you get no sense of the scale of the protest.
It's just like a photo crammed with people with signs,
and then it's like, if you want to know more,
go to page eighteen. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Washington Post
(28:11):
similar thing. Their story. Their top story on Sunday shout
out fucking Jeff Bezos. Their top store on Sunday was
about a skier who died trying to jump over a
highway last year.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I mean that's pretty tight. But like if that skier
who jumped over the highway had a like fuck Trump sign,
they would not cover it at all.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. If I'm maybe this's like he
was a maga, a maga skier, and that's that's why
they're covering it too, because they're like, oh, this guy
had a dream to jump over a highway, a busy
highway and it didn't work out. They had a little
photo at the very bottom of the page also just
kind of teasing out what was going on.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean, you know, these are some of the biggest
demonstrations we've seen, and we've been you know, there's been.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
This narrative of like, you know, are the people with it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
It was amazing to the resistance.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, where's the resistance gone? And like, I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You guys were the resistance because you actually covered this
president honestly, and now that the people are making up
for it and you know where to be found.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And it's not just.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Like big newspapers, right, it's local news. It is you know,
local papers there. I think some of the most inspiring
actions over the weekend happened in smaller towns where you're like,
people weren't they got you maybe like a couple hundred
RSVPs And then you know, a couple thousand people showed
up flanking sides of the roads and whatnot, Like that
(29:33):
is really important. People are making connections and then you
just like talk to folks and they're clearly you know.
I think Ken Clippen sign interviewed some people in Madison, Wisconsin,
which you know is more liberal, but people are fed
up with the Democrats too. There's plenty of anger to
go around. It's not just about Trump. It is a
lot about Democrats. I spoke at the LA rally and
(29:53):
you know, shitting on them, saying Chuck Schumer has to
go and everyone very on board with that message.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, I think this is That's why it's such a very,
very instructive moment to know who is going to capture
this energy in the right way, because you can you
can see the Dems start shape shifting in the shadows
and coming back down and be like, no, we've we
figured it out.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The status quo is bad and we gotta we gotta
change it, guys, So like, just come vote for us again.
And I just feel like that brand is so tarnished.
I'd hate to see it get co opted by some
other evil doing force, which I know that's kind of that.
These are these moments in history where you, like, you
see that the population is ready to fucking put their
(30:37):
energy and needs a new outlet, and what are they
going to pour into because one of the other options
is something can become very problematic and be like, nah,
maybe it is autocracy. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Well, I think that's a really good point. I'm actually
like a little bit, I'm I'm I agree with you.
Like I'm concerned as well, because I think if there
were any moment for an established figure AOC to start
something new and to make a break with a Democratic
party because I do think it is very clear there
are too many, too many centrists to go through, too
(31:08):
many corporate centrists to go.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Through to before it is they will.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Ever give you your your time, your day in the light.
And I don't believe in just doing a like we're
we're the third party, you know, just a random you know,
only when elections roll around, you know, Jill Sign rears
her head again.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No, it's got to be strategic.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
We need to be in Congress, like that thing needs
like all this needs to be part of Congress too,
because that's where it's lost.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah, and there has to be the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
which is just kind of meaningless, actually has to pull
its weight. And the fact that I think it's Maxwell
Frost or I forgot, I get Maxwell Frosts and grecs
are confused.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
My bad, My bad, my bad.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
But you know there is some new younger leadership in
the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but they got.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
To do shit with that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Again, like you said, this is there's a lot of bandwidth.
You know, remember, political bandwidth is when people are tired
of the status quo. Obama had massive political band with
after eight years of Bush, and he really didn't do
shit with it, to be honest with you, he was
not able to do what he wanted.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Obviously.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That was also the dawn of dark money that David
Axelrod did not take seriously and nobody took seriously. Oh,
corporations are completely buying our elections. Cool coo cool, And
so I'm like, if you're absolutely right, if we don't
see some new shit or some real ideas, it's just
gonna be you know, a Candae Owens, a Tucker Cralson
or someone or someone on the so called left was
(32:30):
kind of just as unhinged and untethered and unaccountable to
real people as other folks.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
And so I just I worry.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I'm not trying to police anything, but I'm just like, I.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
We got to me that's how. But I mean, that's
how people who are looking at like movements and how
they can use that energy to further their own goals,
like look at this and go, how do we get
these people? Because in the same time, too, you have
more people who are quote unquote independents or like even
Republicans who are like, what the fuck's going on? They're like,
I didn't expect this, Like the fact that people are
even like why is he doing that? That's kind of
(33:05):
new for like, as I'm like, not even a maga criticism,
but a questioning because before it's like, yeah, dude, we're
losing man, or we're winning. We're fucking brutalizing trans people,
We're brutalizing immigrants. Yeah, dude, it's all winning. It's all
winning now, and be like, wait, my son's business actually
can't function if there are these kinds of tariffs, and
then my grandkids have no place to live, and well,
(33:26):
why would he do this? And I think having another
party that isn't branded as Republican or Democrat allows a
lot of people who may have been Republicans or vote
Republican to be like, oh, yea, I'll vote for this
thing because they're not going to say I'm voting for
a Democrat, like just.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Because the Democrats brand ultimately has been just literally what
Chuck Schumer says, which or and James.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Carbill wait around they dead, and then in a.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Few years people like, hey, Democrats are looking pretty good
and that is a horrible strategy.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, and we've shown it doesn't work. Save I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Maybe they're also praying for another global pandemic like the
bird flu. Well, and you know, we'll recess it sate
Joe Biden again if he's still around. Like this is
the you know, the dead end spiral of I mean, honestly,
like a party that's kind of circling the drain and
has been for a while. It's just a bad brand
in every way, shape or form. They don't have vision,
you know. And while we are then the majority, and
(34:19):
we are right, it is true that we don't have vision.
It is true the Democrats are lacking their leaders or
don't know good leaders.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
When they hit him in the goddamn face.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, or told when someone does emerge by other people
with interest in the party, like now, I can never
be that person, like and I'll tell you why, and
like we have to do everything we can to suppress
that purchase.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
And look at the people that they've Eric Adams is
going to be the future orongagey Gavin.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Newsom is going to be the future.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Which honestly, my favorite arc in this whole moment is
that Gavin Newsom is burning any possibility. I mean, he's
gonna try, but like people are not happy and excited
about him. Like I had to play Jane Fonda critiquing
Gavin Newsom to my mom for my mom to be like,
I don't know if I like Gavin Newsom anymore, you know,
because like she loves Gavin Newsom, and it's like, okay,
(35:06):
but we can do so much better.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, it's like look past his slicked back hair. Okay, no,
he's an actual piece of shit. So yeah, very interesting times.
But again, like when we talk about where is the
resistance and all this stuff, it's just that again the
media just hasn't been covering it because as we've seen,
like there was the People's March on Inauguration Day and
they're like it wasn't even as big as the Woman's
(35:27):
March in twenty seventeen. The resistance is dyed. But again
research shown there have been more than twice as many
street protests in February of twenty twenty five then February
of twenty twenty four. These are these things are increasing,
like they are increasing in number, but again they're just
not being talked about. It's weird because maybe the billionaires
(35:48):
on the newspapers. Right, let's take a quick break. We'll
come right back and talk about good news for people
with receiving hairlines like me, because Walton Goggins, We'll be
right back and we're back. Uh, you were talking about it.
(36:10):
The White Lotus season finale occurred last night on while
I am very I think I'm only halfway through the season,
and I think I'm only halfway through the season because
I'm not excited to start the next episode. I'm like,
all right, get talk. Why did you leave that blamer
out full? Dang, Like That's why I'm right now. Anyway,
all that to say, the finale happened, I have texture
(36:33):
as where people were like, what the f like mixed reviews.
I'm seeing people be like, whoa, that was fucking wild
or some people like that was fucking full of plot holes,
and I do not like it. One thing, regardless of
what you think is the New York Post is like
they posted some shit they said receding hairlines are suddenly
sexy thanks to White Lotus hunk Walton Goggins, and then
(36:56):
like said by a bunch.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Of New York Posts, fucking old crust journalists too like
got famous doing upskirt shots and.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Right yeah, are like, yeah, we're back.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Baby, We're back, Baby Goggins core. That's the new fucking
way I dress just big linen shirts, button opened up,
some kind of weird amulet necklace. But I guess they're
pointing to the fact that social media has so many
people just posting how horny they are for Walton Goggins.
So then they're like, yeah, okay, therefore ipso facto receiving
(37:28):
hairlines are hot. This is the Walton Goggins effect and
you can't do anything about it. Yeah. I just once
said quote, I love Walton so much. He's half forehead,
half teeth, and yet it all works. The man is hot.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
She's got a lot of a lot of Steven Tyler energy, Like.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Oh shit, yo, yes, that big ass mouth.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
It feels like just the big ass mouth.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
First of all, I think it's important to understand that
it's not the receding hairline. It's everything else that you
just said it is. He's looking very good for however
old he is. His body's right, it's the button down,
it's the amulets, it's the you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
They like the confidence of a Hollywood star.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
The confidence of a Hollywood star.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
It is his little like you know, dimples, he is
an attractive man y, but but he's definitely.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I don't know. I look, I got daddy issues, and
I was not into him.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I thought he just looked crusty, like he looked hellicicrusty, yeah, tired.
If they had given him like, you know, if his
storyline had been different and he wasn't just sort of
an anxious wreck the whole time, I might have been like,
you know, hot, hot.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Hot, But yeah, yeah, yeah. I think a lot of
people are just look they Walton Goggins is just big
right now. The people are really all in on that.
Someone said, scientifically speaking, Walton Goggins is the hottest weird
looking guy or the weirdest looking hot guy that ever lived.
Uh yeah, I don't know. Again neither.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
He's just he's just an attract He decided to not
shave his head and grow and grow like a you know,
go tee the way a lot of men with receiving
hairlines do. But you can pull this gets pulled off
in Italy. I lived in Argentina, gets pulled off there
a lot. Just grow it a little bit long again,
the amulet, let.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
It wave around. I think exactly a lot of people
later on the article are just like, no, it's because
he has charisma and he's confident exactly. That makes no
matter how you cut it, cut it or slice it,
that works. And I think that's one thing I was
always told when I be like, like, I remember asking
my grandpa. He's like, he's like, how many girlfriends you got?
And I'm like, I don't have any girlfriends. He's like oh,
(39:38):
And I was like, what do I do? He's like,
just be you. He's like, just be you. He's like,
that's that's the secret. And I was like, just be me.
He's like, but I'm not tall like the other kids.
He's like, you're funny. Do that and ye and my
ticket to the bottom. Y'all just being funny. Yeah know
what you.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Look like, Miles. You can't just be like, oh, then
I was funny to make up for how.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
He No, not even that, No, not even that, not
even that. Well, you know I'm saying. When I was younger,
I was you know what I mean, Like I had
a very awkward stage and I had braces and my
Shiit didn't really start popping off to like my twenties.
I feel like, you know what I mean, I had
this like I was like this little kind of rat kid.
I love my inn rat kid though, I honor you.
(40:22):
But yeah, Walton Goggins, I think the secret there is
just he's a he's a good actor, and he's funny
and he's look y'all should watch the early episodes of
the Shield and tell me if you're fucking with that
Walton Goggins. That's how we'll really know, because that's pre
that's pre veneers and pre plugs. Walton Goggins, Okay, let
me know where my day was at, you know what
I mean. Yeah, he's just yes, yes, yeah, yeah yeah,
(40:47):
different time, and that's when he was just a very
interesting kind of character actor. And then over time I
think he's just become this heart throb. Oh yeah, Brian
that saying he's like, I guess people forgot how muffkers
were thirsting over Tony Soprano. That was an era too,
when people were really feeling the Tony Soprano. Look.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Yeah, I mean it was the tender moments with Carmela
for me.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
But also he's just like a he's an Italian womanizer, right,
It's just it's all it's nothing but confidence.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Oh yeah, nothing but confidence and unleashed horniness. Uh that's
I think what people are responding.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
To Woggins is sorry, last things. He's just an attractive guy.
Stopped trying to He's not ugly.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
It's just the I know, it is just weird. That's
already written in this like the con the perspective has
already fucked up where they're like, yeah, who could who
could love someone with their receiving hairline? Unless you're Walton Goggins. Sure,
I guess. But anyway, good news for the news the
guys at the New York Post or the receiving hairlines
(41:48):
who gained just a little bit more confidence from Walton Goggins.
So in that way you've done a service, although we
don't need more people with more confidence at the New York.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Posts and the Hoggins.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Uh gog my dog. Good to see. Uh all right, well,
those are the things that we're trending over the weekend.
We will be back tomorrow with a new episode and
even more news and analysis and screaming and laughing, all
of it together in one package. It's the daily Zeitgeist.
We will see you then, but until then, take care of yourselves,
take care of each other. Get your vaccines, don't do
(42:19):
nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you then.
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