The Last Trendtation of Geist 4/7: Trump T-Shirt, Martin Zamani, Starbucks, Mehdi Hasan, Laura Loomer, Star Wars

forgot the purpose a good Friday? What do you mean that's the day he was crucified? Okay, that is right, because he has three days and then he rises on Sunday. Okay, I was just Palm Sunday. Last Sunday's Palm Sunday. Yeah, and then you got good Friday. And then he popped up out the cave on or they opened it up like he gone, and then he came out like this, So yeah, I guess I was confused. I mean, you obviously made the joke in the last episode, but yeah,

I'm like, what is good about Friday? Then? No? Yeah? That sweet was just like yeah, I mean I don't know whatever because like for other people, it's like for us, for us or like you know, like Monday Tuesday and all that shit that's fat Tuesday is actually called Monday Tuesday, if you really anyway, I'm not anymore or not anymore. I was indoctrinated as a child, but it wasn't for me because them prayers did not render gifts that I

thought they wouldn't. Oh, I agree. Let's get into some news, some trending topics which are like little gifts of you know, they're they're high calorie info snacks, as they say, the people who run the hundred from succession. Anyway, first trend is, uh Trump T shirt because right now, uh, you know, there's there's t shirts being sold by the Donald Trump campaign.

And the thing is and like just many people this all has to do with because like before he was going to be arrested or arraigned, you know, people were saying, like, oh man, there he's gonna get a mug shot. They're like that fucking picture, as they said, was quote fuel for a fundraising drive. Other people said it's going to be the most manly, most masculine, most handsome mug shot of all Time and on Fox, they're like, he's gonna be the new check Evada with that face, it's gonna

be iconic. And you're like, please get the fuck out of here. Anyway, they're so delusional of like what Donald Trump looks like. Like objectively, he's ugly. You know what I'm saying, it's you know, the swag of any of these people. Yeah, like outside of all the evil he's done and like the horrid person he is, like he truly is rancid looking like he's never been hot and rancid. The boys of time Bomb shout out the band rancid look,

but he is. There was no mug shot. They didn't take a mug shot because they're like, we're not gonna let you let you have that. Although I think it did come out though that there's now disputes about that his actual height is maybe closer to six one than the six three that he claims, although he told them he was six two when he pulled up. Anyway, despite that, there is no mug shot. Um there's already like mug shot merch popping around, and then the campaign itself had

their own shirt. There's a shirt that's thirty six dollars or it's free if you donate forty seven dollars. And what's so sad is like they just took one of his like official portraits and then just made it black and white. They're not even like, y'all, don't even deep fake a mug shot like a little like placard. Yeah, and in that it says this my man is six foot five. Okay, all right, Okay, don't worry. We're not

gonna ask, we won't tell. Don't worry. I want to know what it's like to like be that delusional, you know, like I would love that type of like to see exact it was for me. It was called being nineteen. Yeah, I guess it wasn't. I think it's just you don't really get that sometimes, Oh man, nineteen country, I don't know if you get the fantasy. Yeah, I mean, look at nineteen, I fucking knew it all. I knew it all, and I was infallible, and I think it was more

to do with my youth than anything else. But I knew fuck all, and I still continue to know fuck all. I'm just trying to add little bits here and there. Okay, next thing that's trending something more fun, something more lighthearted, especially for those of us that know the power of cannabis. Martin Zamani is trending because he entered a fifty thousand dollar poker tournament and he won, and he got the six hundred and sixty six thousand dollar jackpot. That's some

demon shit. But you know what go on and I just want to play this like whole thing. There's like a sideline reporter who was saying, like I just spoke with him about like what's going on, Like, hows why he's doing so on the tournament. I just want you to hear this thing, because this is I he reveals what his secret is to winning a fucking fifty thousand

dollars buy in tournament. I talked to Martin Zamani during the break about the success that he's had at these high roller tournaments against polished opponents and maybe the different approach that he takes. His answer for me was very simple, two words. I'm high, king shitpatiate it. What's it like? He's like, Man, I'm high. That's I don't know. They can't really read my eyes at that point because I'm

so faded. There's nothing I'm not giving you anything with my face, and I'm sure you're not thinking as maybe stress induced, you know, you're like, you're kind of like or like, that's just like his that's just the way he has to be as a person. And he's just like, I don't even know if it's necessarily helping. He's like, but I'm not about to sit and sit at that

table not fucking high. Yeah, that's just that's my secret. Um. So yeah, you know, I guess it's a maybe it'll be a performance enhancing drug for poker, um, but definitely not the NBA anymore to change that. Um. And then if you're talking about those Starbucks drinks, the what the fuck is it called old oil of ol? A couldn't tell.

Apparently there's some team members as they're called, or workers of Starbucks who have been telling tale out of school on Reddit and basically being like, uh, just to let y'all know that this is one post from someone who worked at a starbuckstore. Quote, have you tried them? I'm wondering how many people are going to have happened to them? What happened to our team? Half the team tried it yesterday? And if you ended up needing to use the restroom,

if you know what I mean. I'm honestly scared to try it because I already have stomach and battle problems. And other people were like, yeah, we had a similar thing too. Some people had some butt excitement with the drink. It's leaky gut. Yeah, I don't know the I don't know if it's like how real it is, because I mean, I get it, you know, wouldn't who was it? Oh?

Producer Bay was on and saying that, like, you know, oat milk has a bunch of fucking oil in theo, so it's not like you're actually avoiding in other places. But I guess it's like when you think of how they're like just doing pumps of it into the drink, it, yeah, has a different quality to it, and maybe the quality of the oil, you know, I don't know. Yeah, but you know, as there were people who said, oh, yeah,

it was literally a very shitty drink for me. Other people like I love it, so you know, do what you do. Someone other person tweeted, it's a legit laxative, so I guess it's uh, it still has some appeal, zeke gang, can you can y'all go have it? And just let me know if y'all are around, if you've had it, because I'm not about to try and have you know Howard Schultz induced diarrhea. Yeah, I'm for sure not going to try that stuff, but no, but I will implore you to do it so I may live

vicariously through you, as a brave person would. All right, let's take another break. Not even an. I said that again. I did that two days when Jack. When Jack comes back, things will be a little more stable unless chaotic. Let's take our break and come back where we will talk about some more trends right after this, and we're back. Medie Hassan is trending on Twitter because he man. He gobbled up Matt Taiebee in an interview. If you don't

remember Matt Taiebee, he is. He was once a journalist that people were like, oh, yeah, like you're kind of reporting on some interesting stuff like about you know, like like occupy Wall Street kind of stuff and like the banking sector. Then like he's slowly gone more and more to the right and eventually just had been like recently, you might know him from all the Twitter files. When Elon was like, wait for this next drop it's gonna

blow your fucking mind. And Matt Taiebee was like using his whatever credibility at as a journalist to try and prop up these these allegations from the Twitter files, which felt like a big pilot nothing to people. But apparently Medi Hassan like talked about him on his show, and then Matt Tybee's like, you know what, dude, have me on your show. Don't just put words in my mouth. Why don't you actually hear what I have to say?

So Maddy said, okay, bet come through man, Matt Taiebe, he's clearly he's not around people that are pressing him because he was so horribly prepared. I'll play a little bit of an interaction here just so you get an idea. Like the entire thirty minute clip is pretty fascinating because

my god, like we were talking about shitty journalists. Mattie Hassan, he pressed his ass like olive oil, first press, cold press, and this Matt Taiebee was leakin after one specific thing, was talking about how he has completely He made this allegation about how this organization like said they flagged twenty two million tweets is misinformation and like many a sounds like no, that's not true, Like you actually you didn't even read the actual like numbers and the order in

which the information was released that would indicate to you it wasn't this timeline. I'll just play a little bit of you so you can hear this part where Matt Taiebee is clearly like sweating like a kid who has been caught by the fucking teacher to make that false claim. It's just Era off to Era mout I'm just this one. He said, that's an error, but the other ones aren't. No, twenty two million number came from their own report, yeah, where it came from a report in March. Twitter, do

you know what the twenty two million number is? Mat? Can you tell me? Because we checked. Twenty two million is the number of tweets about election misinformation that were just that they just mapped. How many tweets were they the ones they actually flagged to Twitter before the election? Twenty two million came off to the election. It wasn't in the run up. They flagged three thousand, So you were off by twenty one million. I stand by my story.

You stand by watch story. You stand by twenty two million were flagged in the run up to the election, even though that number came in March twenty twenty one, which was after the election. Okay, Maddie, please please, we've already seen enough destruction on this website already. My god, it's his whole face. To Matt Tabe, he's like like kind of like okay, whatever, like just like something so

brazzled because he like truly does not have anything to say. Yeah, and then he also talked about He's like, look, bro, because he's talking about, oh, you know, how On Musk is good for free speech, and he's like, well, what about what's going on in India? Emodi makes basically tell him, you know, Musk like I'm gonna censor the funk out of this website. And Elon was like yeah, yeah, cool, cool cool. And when he comes on, he's like, you said you could be critical of Elon Musk. Why don't

you do that right now. I'll give you the moment to do that right now. He's like, um, I don't feel like that right now. It's like brush shut up anyway. Nice to see journalists pressing people like properly and using like you know, their own words to hold them to account in this case, Matt Tybee played himself to I

guess be one of Elon's favorites. Um. Speaking of actually terrible people, Laura Lumer, who's just a notorious islamophobe, Really someone you don't need to really know about, just know that this person is an absolute disgrace to humanity and one of the most hateful people we've seen anyway. Donald Trump apparently has told his team that he wants her

to be hired for his campaign. She can't even like, she can't even get on most social media sites for the nonsense and like hate speech that she says, like and he's like, yeah, that's perfect, I want that on the team. So I think we're getting an idea of what what Donald is, what is what he's thinking. I think they're gonna go pedal to the metal with the fucking hate speech because this woman just think of any terrible thing you could say, um, and she's probably said it.

So yeah, I don't know. I don't know what exactly her role is going to be, but they said they want her to help just with some kind of campaign role that helps in support of his candidacy. That's so bizarre to hire someone for campaign work. If they're not really able to tweet much or you know, yea on social media because of how hateful their speeches. Yeah, or that He's just like, I need her takes. I need her hot takes about I get it. But I'm like, it's not going to give you much press, you know

what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't think you can't literally say anything. It's I think he just sees like that these like really hate field people, I guess to him, appear very enthusiastic and he thinks that's the thing he wants to capture. But I'm like, bro, you already have all the races. You don't you got to do money? Yeah, like we saw what we saw what you did, Like we were there, you know where you are. You proved

your cred. Don't worry. The only thing people are worried about is they think you're pro vaccine and you need to you need to set that record straight. Donald Trump. UM, so that'll be man twenty twenty four looks like a fucking cool maybe. Um. And then finally, the Star Wars celebration is happening right now and they have announced Okay, look, I know I just heard you go there, but look I'm gonna be real. I love Star Wars. I like

the original trilogy. I'll watch I watched all the films, I could only get into some of the shows because that's when shit started coming too fast, like the just to show after show, movie after movie. It's why I basically exited the MCU because once it was like nineteen films to be able to make sense of another one. I was like, I come on, now, I can't do

all this right now right. So at this thing they have, They've announced three new movies and you know, a bunch of new shows and stuff too, and I'm exhausted a little bit, and I need some time to ingest each thing as it happens. But I'm a feeling they just see the money and they're like, yeah, yeah, we're going for sure. And I saw somewhere on Twitter the take of they're taking the MCU route. You know, obviously they're

on by Disney now. Yeah, so it doesn't surprise me that whoever's on those teams is also like, well, we have just as much ip clout in Star Wars as we do MCU, So like, why don't we just push this as hard as we can spit it out. So you know, I am not a big star Wars person obviously by my girl, and you could tell. I just I it's the type of sci fi that is just like so beyond me. Like it's just I've never been able to get into it. I don't know what it

is about it. I'm just like these monsters and this story and it's just like space Western and I just it's just, oh my god, I'm getting eaten alive in the chat. It's not sci fi? Then what is it? Superbrushers O Brian. But yeah, I mean the thing like one thing that is interesting, Like there's three new films, but Charmine Obeyed Chenoy is going to also be directing one of the films. That's the one that's gonna be

starring Daisy Ridley and Or is coming back. I like and Or, So I'm like, okay, I could funk with that. But then like these other ones, like I don't The Acolyte is another thing. They said it's Frozen meets kill Bill, and I'm like, the fuck like that so much? Look, people clearly want they're there for everything. I'm just I think maybe I'm just getting old. Baby. I'm happy for the people that aren't burned out by watching so many things.

I personally I have learned about myself that I have leaned more into reality TV as of late, because it doesn't make me feel burnt out. It's all bullshit. It all so you know, superficial. It's like whatever if you miss an episode, like it's like all stupid. Yeah, And I just like can't ingest this much. Like there's content, there's not a lore. There's not a lot of lore that you have to familiarize yourself with when you watch Mills Manner. You know what I mean exactly? You know so.

And let's not to say I don't love a high quality movie. I'm into movies more than TV because there is only three hours, you know, like it's like three hours, that's it. I don't you're watching three hour movie movie. Movies are not like three hours, let's be real. Movies are like two to three hours. Now, not that I love a three hour movie. I love a good hour and a half movie like ninety minutes in and out band, But I just like that it's like start to finish

the whole story. One moment you leave, you've seen it all. You're in the know. Yeah, exactly, like you say, power to the people that have the attention spans and energy to like get through it. But like even now, even if I put my Star Wars fandom aside, I'm like, I haven't even seen this season of Yellow Jackets yet, you know, I haven't seen the rest of the last of Us. I don't have like so many half baked things. I'm trying to get through it. Just it's a lot.

Is there like a term for this, like streaming anxiety, like content off overloaming anxiety. I don't know if there's like a medical like psychological term for it nowadays. I'm sure there is like some study going on, but I have hello, streaming anxiety, Like I can't seem to start anything that's like really hyped, really right, like intense. I like basically watch like comedy shit like specials, because those are kind of like movies, you know, they're just like

one bit, it's over. I mean it catch up, Black Lady Sketch. Oh love that. But it's also you know, lightweight comedy bits thirty minutes you're and you're out, or I'm watching reality TV because the goss is fun or like that's or documentaries like I'm like into the docuseries stuff, but outside of that, I'm like, right, I can't. I can't. Like my friends want to start beef yesterday, I was like, beat, what is that? Right? Yeah, it looks really great. I

don't know. I feeling anxious starting it. Like I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna get like that Marie Aoki thing where like the people go to poop in the bookstore because there's too many things on offer. As I feel like I'll open up a streaming up, I'm like, oh my god, there's no all these new shows. Now, i gotta take a shit. I don't know what's going on. And that's how I feel so anxious. Help us that gang, please, yeah, help me. I guess I just have to like really

be more intentional or whatever. But whatever. Instead, I've just been reading more. I'm like, I'm so because like I'm also addicted to TikTok, and I know that about myself. I try to fit get back on, you know. So I'm like, Okay, no more like screen activity, Like I just gotta like read the written works. That's why I said, Hey, Becca, That's why I keep telling you, especially on this good Friday, just open up the good Book, you know, open up

that Bible, you know what I mean. May go read some verses sixteen if you need reminding, If you need reminding, what he did for about like the eagle, lift up your wings, No, John through sixteen is for God love the world so much, he gave him a gun son that's eagles wings is that song? And he will raise you up on Google's wings. All right, So this is an evangelical podcast, but so we're gonna cut that off right there. I hope all of y'all have a great weekend.

Take care of yourself, take care of each other, be kind to yourself, to get the vaccine, and don't do nothing about any kind of hate around you. Be a fucking beacon for good. Okay, we'll see y'all later and have a great weekend. All right. We'll be back Monday. Don't work by Hi.