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The Daily Zeitgeist

New Look CBS = TRASH? ANOTHER Stranger Things Finale? 01.07.26

The Daily Zeitgeist

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.64.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In episode 1985, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and producer of the monthly Facial Recognition Comedy show, Pallavi Gunalan, to discuss… The New And Improved CBS Evening News Was A Total Clusterfuck, Guess What Trump Is Talking About In This Speech, Machado Still Trying To Get That Trump Co-Sign, Speaking of OIL, Stranger Things Fans Are Going Full QAnon After Series Finale and more!

  1. Tony Dokoupil’s ‘CBS Evening News’ Debut Is an Inauspicious Sign of Where CBS News Is Headed
  2. New CBS Evening News Anchor Tony Dokoupil Says News Has ‘Put Too Much Weight’ on Academics and Elites: ‘The Press Has Missed the Story'
  3. The "new" CBS Evening News
  4. MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor Tony Dokoupil Ripped for Walter Cronkite Jab
  5. Bari Weiss names Tony Dokoupil, who defended Israel on-air in closely scrutinized interview, to top CBS News anchor job
  6. CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates
  7. CBS Mornings' Tony Dokoupil Says His Children in Israel Are Safe amid Hamas Attacks: 'Roller Coaster Weekend'
  8. CBS News staff grouse over ‘mediocre’ Tony Dokoupil getting ‘Evening News’ gig: ‘It’s an insult’
  9. MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor Falls Apart in Evening News Debut
  10. CBS’ new guy. I think we’re good here.
  11. Guess What Trump Is Talking About In This Speech
  12. Trump tells Republicans to be ‘flexible’ on abortion restriction demands in health care
  13. Machado Still Trying To Get That Trump Co-Sign
  14. Stranger Things ends with divisive finale – as ‘disappointed’ fans bemoan ‘stupidest’ plot decision
  15. What Is Conformity Gate? Explaining the Theory That ‘Stranger Things’ Pulled a Finale Fake-Out
  16. No, There’s No Secret ‘Stranger Things’ Episode 9 Tomorrow: Conformity Gate Isn’t Real
  17. Netflix Crashes Again as ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Finale Premieres
  18. ‘Stranger Things’ Finale Delivers $25M+ To Movie Theaters After New Year’s Play, More Than 60% Of That From AMC – Box Office Update
  19. All the convincing evidence that a secret Stranger Things episode is coming this week
  20. Over 750,000 disappointed fans sign petition to remake the final season of 'Game of Thrones'
  21. Inside the Real-Life Time-Travel Experiment That Inspired 'Stranger Things'
  22. The mysterious Montauk Project and its outlandish conspiracy theories
  23. Anatomy of a Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Fifty Years Later

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0:00.0

Yeah, I don't, I don't mind that.

0:06.7

If that was on, like, at the, you know, at the mall or something, I'd be like, all right.

0:12.6

If it was elevator music.

0:14.7

Yeah, I don't know, like Target or some shit.

0:17.0

Yeah.

0:18.6

You're doing that.

0:19.2

Was that most deaf who would say that about Drake? Yes. Like, he's's just like that's like that's target music Yeah Team Bay Target Bay I just heard him on some very weird overtly like world music track That I was not feeling He's look He's had his car He's still out here cooking he's not all of them are

0:37.8

gonna be hits no no look i'm i still hang on to black on both sides he he made that and you

0:42.6

could be done after that bro that's fucking goaded album are you my girlfriend because you seem

0:48.2

bay is that something that from the cold open that No, we're not doing that. In fact, we're never doing another cold open again. This is canceled all cold open. I don't need your all caps. Yikes. Okay. I knew it was bad when I said it. I mean, one note would have been like, are you looking at me? Because you're seeing Bay. Yeah. There you go. Because you're seeing Bay. Uh-huh. Okay. So I went deep. Well, we can workshop it a little bit. That'll be the cold open for the rest of this season. It feels like a lukewarm open. Like a kind of sitting in a hot tub that doesn't work open.

1:28.3

A hot tub that you're like, should we be in here?

1:31.3

Yeah.

1:32.3

Are the neighbors going to be mad?

1:34.3

Why is it green? I just realized everything is green in here.

1:38.3

You ever go underwater in a hot tub and then come out?

1:43.3

You're like, I feel like, yeah, I feel like everything if I didn't catch something before. Yeah. Right, exactly. I mean, I used to do that one. My eyes have chlamydia now. I need to go straight into a doctor's lab. No, no, you go, that's the thing. That's how you test your gangster. You go to a Vegas pool party and submerge eyes open.

2:01.4

You know what I mean?

2:03.6

What is wrong with men?

2:04.7

But I saw it all.

2:05.9

I saw it all.

2:07.2

I've seen it all.

2:08.6

I've seen everything but death.

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