Trendcydides Trap 5/18: UofA Commencement Speech, Alligator Alcatraz, Trump In China, Chudthebuilder
The Daily Zeitgeist
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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In this edition of Trendcydides Trap, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, another bad commencement speech, Alligator Alcatraz closing, Trump's China trip, Chudthebuilder finally getting to the "find out" phase and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | So you were just texting Drake bars miscellaneous? No, he texts. This is what I get. What was this? Saturday when you texting me that? Yeah, Saturday he texts me. This is just, no, it was like four in the afternoon. He just texted me. AC is broken in my hotel as hot as hell. I'm running out of sodas. I might walk to Circle K by myself. And I was just like, okay, I thought Brian, |
| 0:21.4 | I thought he was talking to his partner trying to get, sorry, some show mundane. |
| 0:27.6 | It's too mundane for a text message. But it's also not relatable. |
| 0:32.6 | Coming from Drake. Like, yeah. That's a drink clear. You're running out of sodas, Drake? That just already feels like, bro, that's, that somehow feels like the worst self-owned as like a rapper who talks about how pop in there. Running out of sodas. I'm running out of sodas. I'm like, yo, bro. At least he didn't say wine coolers, bro. You know how he loves wine coolers. Running out of Zimas. Running out of Zimas. I might work to circle K by myself. You know how he loves wine coolest. Running out of Zimas. |
| 0:55.0 | I might work to circle K by myself. |
| 0:57.7 | Running out of all these Zimas, |
| 1:00.2 | I'm my bike to Pasadena. |
| 1:02.9 | So Drake dropped a triple, |
| 1:05.0 | triple on us, right? |
| 1:05.9 | Three fucking ass. |
| 1:07.0 | Three album. |
| 1:09.9 | Three pack of ass on everybody's heads. |
| 1:13.6 | I haven't even gotten to the second. I'm only like maybe two thirds of the way through Ice Man. |
| 1:18.1 | You're just working through the Ice Man? |
| 1:19.9 | Working right now working with Iceman. |
| 1:22.1 | Do we think he's doing intentional like pedo joke? |
| 1:25.9 | Because he's got his hand doing the a okay sign with a Michael |
| 1:29.4 | Jackson glove on the cover I don't know what the fuck he was thinking with that I don't know |
| 1:32.9 | that's just a whole bag of fucking snakes I don't know that whole cover is a bag of snakes |
| 1:37.6 | what and then like when then like the White House also just like AI spoofed that thing |
| 1:43.9 | with it was holding a MAGA chain. |
| 1:46.6 | Maybe he's coming out as a white supremacist and he's like that wasn't a okay. |
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