Full Frontal Trendity 10/21: Trump, Omar Nunez, Star Wars/Super Bowl, Vivek Ramaswampy, The Great Pokemon Heist

Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Full Frontal Trendity. Actually, it's more of a wah-wah. I mean, it's not a wah-wah. People are saying it's a good penis. I think it's a fine penis. People are saying it's a good penis. It's a fine penis. It's not a boing-oing-oing-oing penis. It's, you know, flaccid in the shower. But that short show title was courtesy of Donaghy Caraby. Donaghy Kirby.

Donaghy Kirby. And yes, of course, you can see everything. Literally everything.

Yeah, it wasn't just a clever name. Yeah.

It's a creepy title to say you can see everything. Like a certain way of saying it while looking into someone's eyes.

It definitely seems like an inappropriate choice from a lot of the.

it's a perfect title. The takes I'm seeing, uh, just sort of.

Examining that gap between what you can observe and what is actually true. Yeah.

And what is possible, but it's also like kind of a funny title because it's such a creepy, weird thing to say. Um, there, there are, uh, There are funny things at the margin that are never acknowledged in the movie, like Nathan's headphones are a funny thing that I'm sure you will appreciate the second you see the movie.

My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled to be joined by Brian, the editor.

This is the trending episode of The Daily Zeitgeist. Brian is in the process of suing us because we spoiled the movie. You know, we can tell you, hey, spoilers coming, stop listening. This guy has to edit the dang thing.

Edit the damn show. And they spoiled everything. We spoiled everything.

And you can spoil it. And it's too late.

And it's too late. I've seen everything. Anyways, his headphones. I was like, are those, is that like a design that is meant to look shitty, but it's actually like high tech? And no, it's people have looked. And as we'll talk about on tomorrow's episode, it is like $ 8 headphones. They look like the ones that they give away for free.

where they used to give away for free on airplanes. But, Brian, this is the episode where you tell people what is trending, and the number one thing that's trending at this moment, besides You Can See Everything, is, of course, that Donald Trump has doubled down on dabbling in gay erotica from the podium. We talked last week, I think, about how he was going in on just how muscular and full of ass The Republican senator.

Yeah, he was checking out the hindquarters.

Yeah. Yeah.

The haunches on this guy. The haunches, which is a weird, a.

Weird moment that people people seem it got a lot of uncomfortable laughter. And I think that that is probably a danger for any club comedian like the president to confuse nervous laughter with genuine laughter. And so he went back to the well last night, like not even I don't think he was even in Ohio at a Husted rally, but he just had to he had to go back in.

He said, I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But I looked at his ass and then I looked at his legs. I said, his ass.

Shit.

It's like it's like a pile of muscle. Then I looked at his legs and I said, man. His feet are big. I looked at his legs and then said, man, his feet are big.

And you know immediately where his mind goes when he looks at a man's shoes or feet.

Looking at his ass. He's made quite a big deal about it in the past. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, that is like one of his number one interests.

To the point where he just buys people overpriced shoes around the office.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're sliding around in those fuckers.

Just sloshing. Yeah, just sloshing around in their shoes because they know how important big feet are to him. And this confirms it, that there is a connection here. Man, his feet are big. Then I looked at his shoulders and I tapped him on the shoulder and it actually hurt my hand. He's like a piece of steel. His hands in a cast. His whole arms in a cast.

He should start doing prop comedy. It gets laughter in the room. I do think probably a good deal of it uncomfortable laughter. So I'm developing a loose theory. People have said, look, the guy loves Broadway. Tight theory. Tight little theory. So people have joked that he like has the mannerisms of a gay man, the interests of an elderly gay man, the kind of catty bitchiness.

So bitchy.

So bitchy. So he loves gossip. He's like a sloppy, messy little bitch. I do wonder at this point, like he's getting, there's a chance that he's getting tired of fighting some urges that he might have, that he might've spent the majority of his life fighting. And now he's here at the end of his life. We've talked before about how like George H.W. Bush, when he got to this stage of life was more overtly a pervert. That was something that you always heard about him as a president was that he was like, you know, off with, uh, a mistress at all times. Uh, and you know, at the end of his life, he did the, uh, David Coppa feel that famously was, do you know the story, right?

We've talked about this.

He was taking a picture with a young woman and said, you know, my favorite, my favorite magician is David Coppa feel and, uh, assaulted her. It was a, you know, assault disguised as a joke. Uh, and you know, it, It reminds me of like, they say sleep deprivation is like having a couple of drinks. Um, and I feel like maybe old age and like brain degradation must function in the same way.

It's a combo because you do, you do see it with just generally with old people giving way fewer fucks and whatever it's like, whatever their, whatever personality they developed, um, Gets intensified almost in like a cocaine level. Like how cocaine just intensifies your personality.

You are yourself just more so. And then kind of what happens.

And then the illness that is being wealthy and powerful also degrades the mind.

Yeah.

Um, so it's like this double whammy of, it's like, it's like having double dementia and he also has dementia, uh, So it's, it's, it's real bad.

It's funny. No double dimension, no double dementia. Ah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

He hit the double dementia. Anyways, I, I'm tired of this motherfucker in so many ways. And yet I'm excited to see where the, this particular trend goes. If he, if he gets more comfortable, just like kind of being out and proud and, you know, uh, get, getting familiar with some feelings that he hasn't, been willing to acknowledge throughout his life um all right the california doj has announced a spectacular bust regarding non-citizen voters in california you're talking double d's here yeah the you know it's the it's the bust from the beginning of naked gun he says everywhere i look i see things something that reminds me of her and it's the two salt storage things on the drive between Los Angeles and San Diego. That

size bust because they made a whole show out of coming down and getting Omar Nunez 72. They had news choppers, TV crews, so many feds. You thought they were bringing in El Chapo. And the bust made headlines. Bustin makes them feel good. Clearly, it made headlines across right wing media. And Trump used it as another example to show that there is so much voter fraud. And Mike Johnson posted a statement claiming that the playbook for Democrats and their Marxist pals is clear. Reopen the border. Allow millions of illegals into America. Let them vote in our elections.

Mm hmm.

And so this is, I think, going to be how they react to... If there's a blue wave at the ballot boxes, it's going to be like, well... Look, I mean, we just busted this guy like there's so much voter fraud. One thing about the man that they arrested that they accused of voting in five elections at the same time is that he is a registered Republican.

Speaking of naked gun, cue the the forehead slap scene here, Brian.

What the fuck? It's always one of theirs every time.

Of the 28 people they arrested, more were registered Republicans than Democrats. How do you do, like, stage this giant media? I mean, I guess they just, like, don't give a fuck. They just, like, divorce everything from context. But it is kind of a staggering level of misdirect that they're, like, making a big deal being like, we got it. Ladies and gentlemen, we got them. I will also point out that A lot of the headlines say voter fraud arrests, and those should be taken with a grain of legal salt since. arrested is very different than being convicted. And it's very rare that people are found to have actually been intentionally committing voter fraud.

I mean, that's kind of their favorite thing is to arrest people and detain people and say that they've done so. And then you never hear follow up on what the hell is even happened. Like all this, I'll never forget like the people they were arresting for the, uh, the reflecting pool. And then nobody got prosecuted. It's just, um, they just like their asses though.

Yeah. Let's take a quick break.

We'll come back and, uh, we'll talk about star Wars and Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign.

We'll be right back.

Yeah.

And we're back. We're back.

And the line between the world of sports and the world of nerds is becoming even more blurry now that Disney has announced that the 2027 Super Bowl will also be available as a Star Wars branded cartoon.

Uh-huh.

This will be an alternative stream of the big game that will recreate the real game, like, almost in real time with, like, a slight delay, with animated versions of the players plus Star Wars characters subbing in for key plays, which they did. I watched a version of this that they did with The Simpsons, and it just feels so.

Random. Who is this for?

This is genuinely one of the most confusing things I've seen in a while.

It's so baffling. Who wants this? Right.

This is the question. I keep brushing up. Every day I brush up against this. I was just talking with my partner. She works in advertising. In advertising, they have this thing called a persona where they create a fake person who an idealized person to sell their product to. And I keep asking her, I was like, why do you do this? There's actual people, like there's real people, there's real people. And then I keep seeing this trend of companies and organizations selling shit that nobody wants.

And I'm like, this has got to be the personas.

Like you've created an idealized person who's into this. And I'm just like, well, if you like sports, You want to watch the sport.

Ball, right? Yeah. And not cartoon representations of.

And if you're a video game person, this is completely passive.

So I'm like, what are they getting out of it? Right.

You're not getting, like, fun commentary or you're not seeing, like, somebody play through a game that actually exists that you can play through.

And it's also just kind of half-assed. It's just, I can't imagine it looking that great either. No.

So, like, the game that I was watching, they bring... Homer in as the quarterback for the, uh, Dallas Cowboys, like in the middle of the game. And he like throws a touchdown pass and there's like, wow, Homer threw a great pass when it was actually like the Cowboys quarterback, but like they only do it for one play. So it's like, like there's no real rhyme or reason. It's like a special thing that they do once in a while.

Um, so it seems like they've just sort of found a way to put advertising in into the actual fabric of the game, not just the, uh, the hoardings, uh, you know, around the side of the field, they managed to, they're trying to do this with everything.

It seems as just put advertising in.

Every single molecule of, uh, I'll just use their word.

And it's just it's so depressing. We're wasting a lot of pixels here, guys. Yes, there's three advertisements on the screen during any given shot of an NFL football game. But think about all the pixels that don't have advertising on it.

That's ridiculous.

A disaster. Every screen needs to be treated like a NASCAR. Like it's on the jerseys, it's on the helmets, it's on the hoardings. It's on the literal stadium. There isn't a single stadium that isn't branded. And now they're putting it in the physical game. Are you a Star Wars guy? Are you?

I am familiar. I'm very familiar. I wouldn't call myself a fan. I feel like Star Wars. I'm of the opinion that Star Wars is creatively bankrupt at this point.

Yeah.

Well, it's just I mean, really, it's whole run is kind of they keep telling the same story of this magical family. And I'm tired of it because they've created a whole universe. And I feel like they're wasting it.

Right.

You can tell any story in a universe. They keep telling the Skywalker Imperial. And I'm never clear on what the fuck is happening or how the war is going.

They never get into that part. So, yeah, it's just a little weird.

But I like I like some goofy space shit from time to time. I've seen most, if not all of the Star Wars mainline movies.

So it just feels like they're kind of missing. Like they keep.

Doubling down on like adding sort of low budget versions of star war. Like they, they'll announce a movie project, get everybody excited about that. That will not come out, but then they'll do something like this. Like now Darth Vader as, as a like run up to this, uh, you know, simulcast of the super bowl where like Darth Vader can sub in for the, quarterback for one play.

They're having Darth Vader interview players during the game.

Something I've noticed about Star Wars is that they are kind of in a bind because Star Wars fans I'm going to generalize here. Star Wars fans seem to not want anything new.

And that's tricky.

Or they want something new, but not whatever they're going to make, basically.

They want the same sort of substance that they're used to, but wrapped up in, you know, sort of new stuff. They're in a weird spot creatively where it's like, I don't know if they want to branch out, but they kind of can't because people like lightsabers and the people who like lightsabers really like them. And if you don't put them in there, they're gonna complain. Uh, they're not going to engage with whatever you're putting out there. Like I remember there was, what was it? The acolyte or some shit. One of their TV shows, like people didn't like that because they were people of color in it and there weren't enough, uh, lightsabers and stuff. And sure they want the same, but slightly different. And, that's probably

tricky to contend with, but I don't know. I genuinely don't know who this is for.

Yeah.

That's it.

That's what I'm trying to like figure out is why, why are they going in this direction? Like, it feels like the stuff that has been generally not well received from the star Wars universe is like the holiday special and like low and like, you know, TV shows that aren't made by like filmmakers that are like intent on making it like, prestige level, you know.

Another thing I've noticed is that a lot of the people, like whenever star Wars does something that star Wars fans don't like, it's always like weirdy beardy 40 year old dudes on YouTube complaining about it. Yeah.

And they do seem like the kind of people who like football, uh.

This seems like a satire of them getting their audience wrong.

Yeah, it's just so weird. Kind of missed here and there.

And then here they're like, all right, well, here here's what they actually want is Darth Vader to sub into the Super Bowl and throw it.

I feel like they can see that there is like some interconnectedness between football fandom and Star Wars fandom, but they can't quite make it happen.

Who's our audience? Boys.

What do boys like? Football Star Wars. And then they turn all the S's in Star Wars and footballs into dollar signs on the whiteboard. All right.

So that is happening. Congrats.

Congratulations to all involved. Congratulations to the happy couple. You guys have truly won an iPad. Uh, back to the world of politics real quick. Um, I do want to talk about Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign because, uh, so it's almost impressive that almost dropping that kid wasn't the low point of his campaign. Like that, that was bad when he was like, I'm going to pick you up. And the kid went and then he was like, Whoa, big boy, big guy. Um, but on Tuesday, uh, Right wing social media accounts started sharing a mysterious new ad in which the Democratic candidate in Ohio's gubernatorial race, Amy Acton, is shit on by her own mother. Donna Arthur starts blasting Acton for lying about her past, countering the claim that

she lived in a tent for a winter as a child. She says Amy has a serious problem. She's a liar. And like if you if that's all you know, is that her mom came out guns blazing. You'd be like, I mean, that that looks kind of bad. If you take 10 seconds to look into this ad, you would discover that acting is a strange phenomenon. her mother due to allegations that her husband sexually abused her daughter. Then her mother stood by the husband in court and allegedly abandoned Acton and her brother. And they haven't talked to each other since 1978 when her husband was indicted by a grand jury and fled the state before trial.

Ah. Vivek, what the fuck are you doing, bro?

Also, not a great look in this political moment to be fooled by pedophile apologists, because that's going to be part of your job if you're in a position of power in this government. Yeah, he's getting pulled all over.

He is a pedophile apologist, and he's also failed to pick up a small child.

Can't pick up a small child.

That, unfortunately, being able to sniff out somebody who is a pedophile or pedophile apologist is relevant to the job he's applying for. And so the ad backfired so hard that even some Republicans were shamed into posting apologies on social media for sharing the video in the first place. And, uh, Ramaswamy's campaign won't admit that they made the ad because it was posted online and it didn't have the, like, you know, you don't have to do the legal disclosures on something.

Oh, is that what we're doing now? It's like, if I don't put my name on it, then it's not a political ad.

Yeah.

So at first they were like, we don't know who posted that, which is always a good sign. And then eventually they were like, all right, it was us. And we are going to double down and start blasting it across the uh, actual media. And so he had to acknowledge what, once he decided to double down on the ad and spent $ 4 million promoting it on TV, he had to admit it was him, which, uh, By the way, so back to our previous point about how relevant job training for being a Republican politician is like knowing when you're dealing with a pedophile or a pedophile apologist. This is actually the second campaign ad that has blown up in his face this month for that very reason. It's only been like a week since he posted an ad

in which he chats with a farmer and her husband and the husband turned out to be You guessed it. A registered sex offender.

Wow.

Is it possible for this guy to make an ad that doesn't in some way involve literal sex criminals? Is the question on everyone's mind. I mean, he seems sort of inundated with them. He can't throw a stone without hitting one. Guy's got a type, I guess. Anyways, it's still a very close match. Election like the or the polling is very close range contest. And this is part of Ramaswamy's one hundred and one million dollar ad campaign.

Thirty six million of which came directly from him. So one of those ones got you got to hope this guy doesn't. Doesn't pull it out.

Close race. Ohio, quick question. What the fuck's wrong with y'all? Let's go, Ohio.

And the fact that he's doubling down on that campaign is really.

Get your head in the game. All right. And finally, we do have to.

There's a troubling crime wave, and it involves Pokemon Go cards. Nearly $ 1 million worth of Pokemon and other trading cards were stolen from a FedEx truck in Santa Ana this week, which may go down as one of the biggest heists in trading card history.

How did they know?

I mean, I think we've got to have a person on the inside would be my guess. It's like some Pokemon fence told them.

Right.

It's like heat, but Pokemon.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, I got to say, I've been spending some time in these card shops lately. They do not seem to be properly secured. They have like jewelry store level merchandise in terms of like the value and the ease of like getting away with the property. Like these are small cards that are worth thousands of dollars and they just like you know, they just have like card shop guys there. Yeah.

It's really in the States. Like those stores are just like little retail. Just, it looks like, you know, a GameStop or something. And yeah, you can just waltz on in.

And strong.

It's like, what the fuck are they supposed to do? These people don't get paid enough to, you know, contend with. It's just such a weird situation where it's like literally the diamond market has crashed. Diamonds are not worth very much these days, but Pokemons are hitting diamond prices.

It's nuts.

But diamond stores still have like armed security outside of them. But Pokemon stores. No.

No.

It should be any criminals listening to this. Don't listen. Don't, don't go rob the Pokemon stores. They're, they're nice people there. Um, but like literally kids. Yeah.

Don't, don't, don't rob places where kids go.

Yeah.

There is like a New York, uh, a New York city, uh, pokemon store was hit and like it just looked like a professional jewel thief robbery um like they used hammers to break the glass just cleaned it out knew exactly what they were going for i wonder.

If the new gta game is gonna have a like a pokemon he's in it like a heist mission but.

It's for really smart bullshit cards right The reason for this is the Pokemon cards have gotten more and more expensive. So this blew me away from 2004 to 2020 card prices rose 282%, which is, you know, bonkers. That's like, no, anything else you could be invested in is probably not that good of an investment. Uh, since 2020, uh, they've risen by 1,350% driven by people who have made money on crypto and are just plowing crypto money into Pokemon cards.

And then you have like Logan Paul and, selling a rare Pikachu illustrator card for more than $ 16 million after buying it for $ 5 million. Like, and I feel like we got to look into who, who paid the $ 16 million. I'm sure it was somebody who had some concerted interest in making it seem like Pokemon cards are a good investment.

Well, I mean, it's that same thing rich people do with art.

Yeah.

They just, they pump up some weird niche market to hide their wealth.

Seems like, and now this is the new thing. Like watches, stuff like that. Right, right.

Anyways, I'm in the wrong business over here, man.

You start hawking your kids' Pokemon cards on the side.

I don't know what happened to them.

All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, October 21st.

Anything to recommend?

Anywhere they can find you, Ryan the Editor?

You can't find me anywhere because I'm hiding. I'm in hiding. And let's see. Let me throw out a random thing.

Check out Bobby Fingers on YouTube. He's a sculptor, a musician. He's a multi-hyphenate, and he makes very interesting content.

Check them out. Check them out. All right.

Those are some of the things that are trending. We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines while you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow.

Bye.

The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law.

Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb. And edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries.

Full Frontal Trendity 10/21: Trump, Omar Nunez, Star Wars/Super Bowl, Vivek Ramaswampy, The Great Pokemon Heist

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