The Daily Zeitgeist

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 388 (5/12/25-5/16/25) See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

In episode 1865, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian behind the comedy special Recommended Based On Your Search History [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rOLGbrD0uI], Joe Kwaczala [https://www.instagram.com/joekwa/?hl=en], to discuss… Oh Grok Is Now Feeding Into The White Genocide Conspiracy, You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?! Wrestling Childcare Away From Private Equity Is The Winning Issue Democrats Keep Ignoring and more! 1. Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide] 2. Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted Jews are ‘dangerous’ [https://forward.com/fast-forward/720109/charl-kleinhaus-south-africa-refugee-trump-antisemitism/] 3. You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?! [https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-new-popes-trading-card-is-already-outselling-lebrons/] 4. What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care [https://jacobin.com/2025/04/private-equity-day-care-childcare] 5. U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households [https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-children-more-likely-than-children-in-other-countries-to-live-with-just-one-parent/] 6. Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here? [https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-22/affordable-child-care-under-harris-trump] 7. New Polling on Child Care and the 2024 Election [https://www.ffyf.org/2024/05/16/new-polling-on-child-care-and-the-2024-election/] 8. Harris wants to limit child care costs to 7% of family income [https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/politics/child-care-harris-7-percent-cap/index.html] 9. Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here? [https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-22/affordable-child-care-under-harris-trump] 10. The “Affordability” Hustle [https://jacobin.com/2019/02/affordability-health-care-booker-harris-democrats] 11. New Mexico Started Offering Free Childcare and Reduced the State’s Poverty Rate [https://mymodernmet.com/new-mexico-free-childcare/] 12. Transforming the Child Care Landscape [https://pn3policy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PN3PIC_TransformingChildCare-ACaseStudyofNewMexico.pdf] 13. New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/childcare-new-mexico-poverty] 14. Project 2025 plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home care [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/08/project-2025-trump-vance-childcare] 15. Project 2025 Proposes Defunding Daycare [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/project-2025-proposes-defunding-daycare-trump-vance-1235097858/] 16. Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/republicans-parents-babies-home.html] 17. Private Equity Has Its Eyes on the Child-Care Industry [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/private-equity-childcare/677511/] 18. Can Child Care Be a Big Business? Private Equity Thinks So. [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/us/child-care-centers-private-equity.html] 19. For-Profit Childcare Chains Showered Manchin in Cash After He Blocked Universal Care [https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/16/profit-childcare-chains-showered-manchin-cash-after-he-blocked-universal-care] LISTEN: Let's Ride (Soul Supreme Version) By Q-Tip [https://open.spotify.com/track/1k8pniFqN9BtIGeuqlOjzH] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

In this edition of Zeit Trendocide, Jack and Miles discuss Netflix using AI to "marry products with content", the long awaited sequel to 'Passion of the Christ' (and America's 2004 torture boner), Walmart: Everyday Raised Prices, how most Americans are broke af, a cure for the 'Sunday Scaries' and much more! See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

In episode 1864, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Shanna Christmas [https://www.shannachristmas.com/], to discuss… America Just Got Whiter By 59 People…, Max Shall Now Be Known As… HBO Max, So That Whole VR Revolution Never Happened and more! 1. As a white Afrikaner, I can now claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration] 2. Trump administration faces criticism for prioritizing white South African refugees [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-faces-criticism-prioritizing-white-south-african/story?id=121755687] 3. Max Shall Now Be Known As… HBO Max [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/max-name-change-hbo-max-upfronts-1236216616/] 4. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max Streamer Ripped as a Terrible Brand Strategy: ‘Insanely Bad Decision’ [https://www.thewrap.com/hbo-max-new-name-warner-bros-discovery-reactions-twitter/] 5. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2024 Pay Rises 4% to Nearly $52 Million [https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-david-zaslav-pay-52-million-1236367163/] 6. Max's confusing launch saw Warner Bros lose nearly two million subscribers [https://www.techradar.com/streaming/hbo-max/maxs-confusing-launch-saw-warner-bros-lose-nearly-two-million-subscribers] 7. Max Loses HBO Title as Rebranded Service Launches: What to Know [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/max-streaming-1235498747/] 8. Returning the HBO to Max Is Latest Sign of Potential Warner Bros. Discovery Split [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/why-hbo-max-is-back-a-wbd-split-spinoff-1236216684/] 9. This is what happens when the Vision Pro shows up on The Price Is Right. (Clip) [https://x.com/justinryanio/status/1922456345015705726] 10. 5 Ways in Which Apple Vision Pro Will Change How We Work [https://www.flexos.work/learn/ways-apple-vision-pro-will-change-how-we-work] 11. A Game Changer in Immersive Learning - Five Ways Apple’s Vision Pro Could Transform Education and Training [https://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/five-ways-apples-vision-pro-could-transform-education-and-training] 12. Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say [https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-u-s-sales-2000469302] 13. Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro [https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-sharply-scales-back-production-of-vision-pro] 14. Apple plans cheaper Vision Pro as tariffs threaten costs [https://mashable.com/article/apple-vision-pro-2-in-development] 15. Report: Cheaper ‘Apple Vision’ headset to cost around $2000; drop EyeSight [https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/13/cheaper-apple-vision-price-specs/] 16. Minecraft’s VR support is now gone [https://www.theverge.com/news/662128/minecraft-vr-mixed-reality-support-bedrock-update-1-21-80] 17. 56% Of VR Devs Say VR ‘Declining Or Stagnating’ [https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/01/56-of-vr-devs-say-vr-declining-or-stagnating/] 18. What actually happened to Mark Zuckerberg's $47 billion Metaverse? [https://www.indy100.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-what-happened#] 19. The Metaverse’s Dark Side: Here Come Harassment and Assaults [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/technology/metaverse-harassment-assaults.html] 20. Meta's Money Pit: Metaverse Bet Bleeds Billions [https://www.statista.com/chart/29236/operating-loss-of-metas-reality-labs-division/] 21. Remember Zuckerberg's Cherished Metaverse? Now He's Firing the People He Hired to Build It [https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-zuckerbergs-cherished-metaverse-now-160000653.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMTS4EbcgsZ9IeTAcp52ZluJ7aaN-24jiRMDcNpZRfuFzvMVswlAB8fYMCddbFel5O6Frsy1_ghdG_uTgGUwFvRgdogw1Eape1cO1qewmy3HusXJeJWyem3Uh1ROoId9pfqqZdm53kxMCzTEgI5sATBlj5ot3qi3IQUS97q7vKG5] 22. The metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure,' Meta executive says, if Reality Labs doesn't turn things around in 2025 [https://www.pcgamer.com/games/vr/the-metaverse-could-be-a-legendary-misadventure-meta-executive-says-if-reality-labs-doesnt-turn-things-around-in-2025/] 23. How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-11/mark-zuckerberg-pivots-to-ai-from-metaverse-to-further-his-legacy?embedded-checkout=true] 24. The Metaverse Flopped, So Mark Zuckerberg Is Pivoting to Empty AI Hype [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-metaverse-1234950139/] LISTEN: Nightrider (feat. Freddie Gibbs) by Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImllpvDwbQ8] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

In this edition of McTrendald's Truck, Jack and Miles discuss Trump vs. Medicaid, the first images from Nicholas Cage's new John Madden movie, Hasan Piker getting detained at the airport, Jesse Watters swimming in poop water, Cannes cracking down on red carpet nudity or "excessively voluminous clothing", the Oklahoma Education System is mandating students identify 2020 election discrepancies and much more! See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.