September 2, 2020 • 16 mins
On this edition of Benioff and Geist Jack and DJ Danl discuss David Blaine's latest stunt, the lie being pushed by the Trump administration that Joe Biden plans to raise taxes on 82% of Americans, Carole Baskin is on the list of next season's Dancing with the Stars contestants, Adam Carolla had some dumbass things to say about COVID - and Kirk Cousins too!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Bennie
offen Geist that was courtesy Johnny Davis. Ye know, I
love that title. Benny offen geists my favorite TV show
showrunners for the best. Surely I think Dan, you heard
(00:21):
me uhuld say this yesterday. But I'm gonna underline I
think they're underrated at this point. I agree with you.
I think the way that they ran it all the
way with the material they had, we were all gripped.
It was incredible television. So to just like say that
none of that is a sign of their prowess as directors, showrunners,
whatever I think is just false. But them did they
(00:42):
definitely stumbled at the finish line? Who did they? Ever?
By the way, I might be very like sympathetic people
who stumble at the finish line because I used to
fall down at the end of cross country races. I
was famous for that. I would try, I would push
myself too hard and then fall down and trip like
a fool. Uh. Anyways, that is DJ Daniel, I'm Jack.
(01:09):
I'm d J Jack uh And this is what's trending.
David Blaine continues his combination of uh magic and being
bad at magic that makes it seem realistic. He had
to cancel the New Jersey to New York balloon trip
(01:34):
that he was going to take, uh and did it
in Arizona much less impressive because he doesn't have to
navigate a bunch of buildings. Which was the very first
thing that I, uh that came into my mind when
I heard he was going to do New York is
that would be very hard to steer and that is
a locale with a lot of pointy things up in
(01:56):
the air, and Arizona is just a big old flat
land right there, not not allow about. Yeah, but it
does lend to the illusion that he's actually doing this ship. Um.
I don't know if it's an illusion on this one,
but I do know that like there was one where
(02:16):
he stayed upside down for like weeks, I think, And
I do know somebody who was interviewing him at the
time and was told that they had to wrap the
interview up so that he could get right side up
again because so they needed to like turn their cameras
(02:39):
off so that he get the blood out of his head. Yeah, yeah, right,
the whole trip, the whole the whole idea behind the
trick is uh that you can't do that without dying,
and he was like, but I will force the blood,
but totally do it. I'll do it. And again that
is a that is a stunt that is is stupid
(03:01):
and would it's like not that impressive, but because it's
not that impressive, it's like, well, you wouldn't lie about
being able to do something so unimpressive. It's like some
space thing where he was inside the ice and people
are like, yeah, I guess that that would be that
would be hard, right, Like that would be bad for you, right,
(03:22):
And then it's like yeah, but he also doesn't do that,
Like the they're still magic tricks with uh, you know,
illusions involved. He just makes them slightly less impressive, so
nobody thinks he's actually doing It's funny how we went
from people like Evil Kinevil who were just like, I'm
just gonna throw my body at this thing and probably
(03:45):
break a lot of bones and you know, do whatever,
to like David Blaine flying balloons across a plane and
like I am the performer. It's very Yeah, it's it's
a weird line that that that goes from one thing
to the other, but it feels like that's where it
went as opposed to like like a crisis angel type
like David Blaine and Chris Angel I think are now
(04:06):
on doing different things, whereas David Blaine really feels like
he's trying to go into like stunts, where David Copperfield,
like David Copperfield did thin, like had these big specials.
Like his big stunts were like I'm gonna walk through
the Great Wall of China and then he would do it,
and even though you watched it on TV, you knew
(04:31):
that it was a trick somehow because like literally that's
physically impossible. So his evolution is to do things that
you don't you feel like, don't need to be a trick,
like flying around on some balloons. Um, but when you
see him do like his special on Netflix, I have
(04:52):
talked about never felt dumber than watching the David Blaine
special and just being like whoa, yeah, like happening like
a seal, Like just amazed at like the stuff he's doing. Um,
he's sticking up nail through his hands. Yeah, that ship
was dope. And like when Jamie Fox like thought that
(05:12):
he was feeling somebody brushed the back of his neck
even though he wasn't there's definitely there's there's there's there's
not I will say there's not nothing there, you know
what I mean. It's yeah, for sure's definitely something there,
and there's a respect I have for it. But at
the same time, it's like you're holding was like fifty
helium balloons and just like floating across the How was
(05:34):
that how he got down? I didn't watch it. Good
on you, bro, Good on you. Um. Anyways, this has
been David Blaine Daily, your daily check in with the
magic of David Blaine. Um. He is also, don't forget,
a member of Leonardo DiCaprio's pussy posse. In fact, was
(05:55):
a just part of Leonardo DiCaprio's entourage, like post Titanic,
before he was a famous magician, Like that's he got
about had a proximity to fame before he became famous.
Uh so you know, um, greatest magic trick you ever
pulled getting into exactly alright, eight two percent is trending
(06:23):
because there's a lie that Biden wants to raise taxes
on a two percent of Americans. Apparently he wants to
raise taxes on Americans who make more than four hundred
thousand dollars a year. Uh, that was that wonderful if
two percent of Americans more than four hundred thousand dollars
a year Americans, I think it's like maybe two Americans.
(06:45):
But I think it makes sense that Republicans are spraying
this because I do think like when you talk to
people who are Republicans, they do seem to be of
the impression that, yeah, well, everybody like should invest in
the stock mark. Why wouldn't they. Everybody's got an extra
ten K line around right, just get some apple stock?
What are you stupid? Where you putting your k? Come on? Duh?
(07:10):
Carol Baskin is trending um because she will be uh
the latest war criminal on Dancing with the Stars, following
in the footsteps of Sean Spicer. Yeah, getting onto Dancing
with the Stars. So super producer around Hosny, a our
local uh Carol Baskan correspondent is has noted that despite
(07:35):
you know, no matter how how you feel about Tiger
King and how she was portrayed Tiger King, outside of
the bounds of that documentary, a judge found that she
had um forged papers that um, you know, screwed her
uh deceased husband's first family out of his his their inheritance.
(08:01):
Um so that's not cool. Uh. We don't know if
she killed her husband, but I mean, come on, come on,
I mean we come no. You know, he might be
in Costa Rica somewhere. We don't know, but we we
kind of. Anyways, she is on Dancing with the Stars.
(08:25):
Last season it was uh the Spiceman and Sean Spicer,
Uh Spice Lord Funk Master Spice. Uh the fancy feet
gum swallower with the fancy feet, um he uh so yeah,
they are doing this. I'm just I think O J
(08:45):
is probably next, Like o J. Simpson is probably the
next evolution of who they are bringing on. You know,
the bar is literally on the floor, so yeah, what
step on over whom ever, So we'll we'll see people
who are famous for being bad. But I mean, I'm
(09:09):
still sticking to I'm sticking to Great British Bake Off
for my competition shows. All the other ones out the window.
Yeah yeah, Great British Big Off is Actually Scott Peterson
is going to be on that show this uh this season. Yeah,
so just keep that in mind. It's like the opposite
Scott Great British Bake Off is the most wholesome show.
(09:34):
The sponge is moist. Yes, the sponge is moist. Adam
Crowl is trending for you. Anytime you see this guy's
name trending, you know he said something smart. Adam Carolla said,
the only people who are dying from COVID are old
and sick. How many of you pussy's got played? Of
(09:55):
course he put an apostrophe pussy as uh. And also
if you are old and or sick, you deserve to
die by based on that account. Not a fan of
the immuno compromised, no hates him, thinks thinks they're losers.
(10:17):
And you know, he started out as a carpenter, So
which is the hardest thing that can happen to somebody
is starting out as a carpenter. So if you've ever
heard him talk, he believes that he came from the
hardest upbringing ever in the history of the world. And
therefore anybody who claims to have any sort of hardship
(10:39):
in their life UH is wrong and should be just
left to die. I guess is the new framing. Uh.
This is a form of toxic masculinity that we're seeing
on the rise. Uh. Kirk cousins. Uh yeah, the NFL
QB for the Minnesota by Kings who like you don't
(11:02):
need to look too hard for a reason to dislike
this guy. He's also the guy who, after a win
where he did his job and lived up to the
absurd amount of money that he has paid to do
his job, came into the locker room saying, you like that.
You like that? Um, just uh to your team of
(11:25):
like fifty people that are all making sure that you
have the ten crucial seconds you need to do one thing.
It's ridiculous. I will say the second a lot of time,
but it is a lot of time. But this this well,
you know, God bless the offensive line, but this uh,
this this quote. I just don't understand why this is
like the way that people want to say it. But
it's it's part of you know. An interviewer is talking
(11:48):
to him and asking him about how he feels about
all this stuff, and he just says and just to say,
if it knocks me out, it knocks me out, I'm
gonna be okay. You know even if I die. If
I die, I die, I kind of have peace about
at Yeah. What so I'm convinced I don't care if
he dies. I'm on his side now, but you are
(12:08):
That's not how it works. You are killing. First of all,
you are very privileged to be like, you know, prime age,
prime health, like genetically very privileged. I'm sure, like very
very healthy human beings. So probably among the most likely
people to have COVID and not realize it, and also
(12:32):
probably one of the people who would be the best
at spreading COVID since he's famous and has people coming
up to him all the time, does not give a fuck.
He only wears a mask because he thinks you want
him to. But this is the way he said it.
The person was like, Uh, if one is the person
(12:54):
who says masks are stupid, you're all a bunch of lemmings.
And ten is I'm not leaving my master bathroom for
the next ten years. I don't know why the master
bathroom is there. They having digestive issues. After after a chuckle,
Cousins responded, I'm not going to call anybody stupid for
the trouble it would get me, and not because I
(13:14):
you know, because he really knows everybody's stupid except for him. Uh.
And then he says, but I'm about a point zero
zero zero zero zero one, and the interviewers like, huh
out what and then when he gave off the response
about like it takes me out, takes me out, bro,
I'm just if I die die, I kind of have
(13:35):
peace about that. Uh so cool. Great, thank you friend,
thank you for your thank you for your opinion on
that one. Yes, thank you for your service, you ass
whole um. I suspect lots of sacks will be coming
his way, oh my god. Or maybe not. Maybe that
was the ultimate strategy to not get COVID or to
(13:56):
not get tackled, was to be like, oh, I'm happy
to spread COVID. Oh don't tackle me. Yeah that matters
right now anyway. I mean, this feels like this underlying
mentality slash like toxic masculinity slash toxic American individualism where
(14:17):
it's the yeah, Americans are just so incapable of thinking
of other people around them as anything other than things
to be polite towards. But otherwise it's just he he
just doesn't give a ship Like. It's the thing that
(14:37):
we talked about with the flu shot, uh, where people
are like, I don't get a flu shot because I
haven't had the flu for years, which it's probably not true.
You've probably had it and just like not been that
profoundly sick. But also, um, yeah, you aren't just protecting yourself,
(14:58):
you're protecting people around you. But we are unbelievably incapable
of as a society thinking about the best interests of
the group. Um and who better than an NFL quarterback
just the most overrated, over put on a pedestal people
(15:19):
in America. Yep. So anyways, Kirk Cousins, Adam Curla, go
funk yourselves. That's that'll sum it up for today. David Blaine,
God bless you, sir, God bless service. Uh. I didn't.
I didn't see him fly across my sky in those balloons,
(15:42):
but I did stand up when I knew he was
flying and salute in the direction of Arizona because he's
a hero looking at eastward and saluting that sky. Yeah yeah,
um that is going to do it for today. Dana.
Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
(16:03):
You know, I'm on the internet. You can follow me
on Twitter, DJ Underscore d A n I'll you want
my wild video game takes and they are wild. Alright, guys,
that's gonna do it for this afternoon. We'll be back
tomorrow with the whole episode of the show. Until then,
wash your hands, stay inside, wear a mask, be kind
(16:26):
to each other, be kind to yourselves, and don't do
nothing about white supremacy, and we'll be back tomorrow. We'll
talk to you all down by
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Bennie
offen Geist that was courtesy Johnny Davis. Ye know, I
love that title. Benny offen geists my favorite TV show
showrunners for the best. Surely I think Dan, you heard
(00:21):
me uhuld say this yesterday. But I'm gonna underline I
think they're underrated at this point. I agree with you.
I think the way that they ran it all the
way with the material they had, we were all gripped.
It was incredible television. So to just like say that
none of that is a sign of their prowess as directors, showrunners,
whatever I think is just false. But them did they
(00:42):
definitely stumbled at the finish line? Who did they? Ever?
By the way, I might be very like sympathetic people
who stumble at the finish line because I used to
fall down at the end of cross country races. I
was famous for that. I would try, I would push
myself too hard and then fall down and trip like
a fool. Uh. Anyways, that is DJ Daniel, I'm Jack.
(01:09):
I'm d J Jack uh And this is what's trending.
David Blaine continues his combination of uh magic and being
bad at magic that makes it seem realistic. He had
to cancel the New Jersey to New York balloon trip
(01:34):
that he was going to take, uh and did it
in Arizona much less impressive because he doesn't have to
navigate a bunch of buildings. Which was the very first
thing that I, uh that came into my mind when
I heard he was going to do New York is
that would be very hard to steer and that is
a locale with a lot of pointy things up in
(01:56):
the air, and Arizona is just a big old flat
land right there, not not allow about. Yeah, but it
does lend to the illusion that he's actually doing this ship. Um.
I don't know if it's an illusion on this one,
but I do know that like there was one where
(02:16):
he stayed upside down for like weeks, I think, And
I do know somebody who was interviewing him at the
time and was told that they had to wrap the
interview up so that he could get right side up
again because so they needed to like turn their cameras
(02:39):
off so that he get the blood out of his head. Yeah, yeah, right,
the whole trip, the whole the whole idea behind the
trick is uh that you can't do that without dying,
and he was like, but I will force the blood,
but totally do it. I'll do it. And again that
is a that is a stunt that is is stupid
(03:01):
and would it's like not that impressive, but because it's
not that impressive, it's like, well, you wouldn't lie about
being able to do something so unimpressive. It's like some
space thing where he was inside the ice and people
are like, yeah, I guess that that would be that
would be hard, right, Like that would be bad for you, right,
(03:22):
And then it's like yeah, but he also doesn't do that,
Like the they're still magic tricks with uh, you know,
illusions involved. He just makes them slightly less impressive, so
nobody thinks he's actually doing It's funny how we went
from people like Evil Kinevil who were just like, I'm
just gonna throw my body at this thing and probably
(03:45):
break a lot of bones and you know, do whatever,
to like David Blaine flying balloons across a plane and
like I am the performer. It's very Yeah, it's it's
a weird line that that that goes from one thing
to the other, but it feels like that's where it
went as opposed to like like a crisis angel type
like David Blaine and Chris Angel I think are now
(04:06):
on doing different things, whereas David Blaine really feels like
he's trying to go into like stunts, where David Copperfield,
like David Copperfield did thin, like had these big specials.
Like his big stunts were like I'm gonna walk through
the Great Wall of China and then he would do it,
and even though you watched it on TV, you knew
(04:31):
that it was a trick somehow because like literally that's
physically impossible. So his evolution is to do things that
you don't you feel like, don't need to be a trick,
like flying around on some balloons. Um, but when you
see him do like his special on Netflix, I have
(04:52):
talked about never felt dumber than watching the David Blaine
special and just being like whoa, yeah, like happening like
a seal, Like just amazed at like the stuff he's doing. Um,
he's sticking up nail through his hands. Yeah, that ship
was dope. And like when Jamie Fox like thought that
(05:12):
he was feeling somebody brushed the back of his neck
even though he wasn't there's definitely there's there's there's there's
not I will say there's not nothing there, you know
what I mean. It's yeah, for sure's definitely something there,
and there's a respect I have for it. But at
the same time, it's like you're holding was like fifty
helium balloons and just like floating across the How was
(05:34):
that how he got down? I didn't watch it. Good
on you, bro, Good on you. Um. Anyways, this has
been David Blaine Daily, your daily check in with the
magic of David Blaine. Um. He is also, don't forget,
a member of Leonardo DiCaprio's pussy posse. In fact, was
(05:55):
a just part of Leonardo DiCaprio's entourage, like post Titanic,
before he was a famous magician, Like that's he got
about had a proximity to fame before he became famous.
Uh so you know, um, greatest magic trick you ever
pulled getting into exactly alright, eight two percent is trending
(06:23):
because there's a lie that Biden wants to raise taxes
on a two percent of Americans. Apparently he wants to
raise taxes on Americans who make more than four hundred
thousand dollars a year. Uh, that was that wonderful if
two percent of Americans more than four hundred thousand dollars
a year Americans, I think it's like maybe two Americans.
(06:45):
But I think it makes sense that Republicans are spraying
this because I do think like when you talk to
people who are Republicans, they do seem to be of
the impression that, yeah, well, everybody like should invest in
the stock mark. Why wouldn't they. Everybody's got an extra
ten K line around right, just get some apple stock?
What are you stupid? Where you putting your k? Come on? Duh?
(07:10):
Carol Baskin is trending um because she will be uh
the latest war criminal on Dancing with the Stars, following
in the footsteps of Sean Spicer. Yeah, getting onto Dancing
with the Stars. So super producer around Hosny, a our
local uh Carol Baskan correspondent is has noted that despite
(07:35):
you know, no matter how how you feel about Tiger
King and how she was portrayed Tiger King, outside of
the bounds of that documentary, a judge found that she
had um forged papers that um, you know, screwed her
uh deceased husband's first family out of his his their inheritance.
(08:01):
Um so that's not cool. Uh. We don't know if
she killed her husband, but I mean, come on, come on,
I mean we come no. You know, he might be
in Costa Rica somewhere. We don't know, but we we
kind of. Anyways, she is on Dancing with the Stars.
(08:25):
Last season it was uh the Spiceman and Sean Spicer,
Uh Spice Lord Funk Master Spice. Uh the fancy feet
gum swallower with the fancy feet, um he uh so yeah,
they are doing this. I'm just I think O J
(08:45):
is probably next, Like o J. Simpson is probably the
next evolution of who they are bringing on. You know,
the bar is literally on the floor, so yeah, what
step on over whom ever, So we'll we'll see people
who are famous for being bad. But I mean, I'm
(09:09):
still sticking to I'm sticking to Great British Bake Off
for my competition shows. All the other ones out the window.
Yeah yeah, Great British Big Off is Actually Scott Peterson
is going to be on that show this uh this season. Yeah,
so just keep that in mind. It's like the opposite
Scott Great British Bake Off is the most wholesome show.
(09:34):
The sponge is moist. Yes, the sponge is moist. Adam
Crowl is trending for you. Anytime you see this guy's
name trending, you know he said something smart. Adam Carolla said,
the only people who are dying from COVID are old
and sick. How many of you pussy's got played? Of
(09:55):
course he put an apostrophe pussy as uh. And also
if you are old and or sick, you deserve to
die by based on that account. Not a fan of
the immuno compromised, no hates him, thinks thinks they're losers.
(10:17):
And you know, he started out as a carpenter, So
which is the hardest thing that can happen to somebody
is starting out as a carpenter. So if you've ever
heard him talk, he believes that he came from the
hardest upbringing ever in the history of the world. And
therefore anybody who claims to have any sort of hardship
(10:39):
in their life UH is wrong and should be just
left to die. I guess is the new framing. Uh.
This is a form of toxic masculinity that we're seeing
on the rise. Uh. Kirk cousins. Uh yeah, the NFL
QB for the Minnesota by Kings who like you don't
(11:02):
need to look too hard for a reason to dislike
this guy. He's also the guy who, after a win
where he did his job and lived up to the
absurd amount of money that he has paid to do
his job, came into the locker room saying, you like that.
You like that? Um, just uh to your team of
(11:25):
like fifty people that are all making sure that you
have the ten crucial seconds you need to do one thing.
It's ridiculous. I will say the second a lot of time,
but it is a lot of time. But this this well,
you know, God bless the offensive line, but this uh,
this this quote. I just don't understand why this is
like the way that people want to say it. But
it's it's part of you know. An interviewer is talking
(11:48):
to him and asking him about how he feels about
all this stuff, and he just says and just to say,
if it knocks me out, it knocks me out, I'm
gonna be okay. You know even if I die. If
I die, I die, I kind of have peace about
at Yeah. What so I'm convinced I don't care if
he dies. I'm on his side now, but you are
(12:08):
That's not how it works. You are killing. First of all,
you are very privileged to be like, you know, prime age,
prime health, like genetically very privileged. I'm sure, like very
very healthy human beings. So probably among the most likely
people to have COVID and not realize it, and also
(12:32):
probably one of the people who would be the best
at spreading COVID since he's famous and has people coming
up to him all the time, does not give a fuck.
He only wears a mask because he thinks you want
him to. But this is the way he said it.
The person was like, Uh, if one is the person
(12:54):
who says masks are stupid, you're all a bunch of lemmings.
And ten is I'm not leaving my master bathroom for
the next ten years. I don't know why the master
bathroom is there. They having digestive issues. After after a chuckle,
Cousins responded, I'm not going to call anybody stupid for
the trouble it would get me, and not because I
(13:14):
you know, because he really knows everybody's stupid except for him. Uh.
And then he says, but I'm about a point zero
zero zero zero zero one, and the interviewers like, huh
out what and then when he gave off the response
about like it takes me out, takes me out, bro,
I'm just if I die die, I kind of have
(13:35):
peace about that. Uh so cool. Great, thank you friend,
thank you for your thank you for your opinion on
that one. Yes, thank you for your service, you ass
whole um. I suspect lots of sacks will be coming
his way, oh my god. Or maybe not. Maybe that
was the ultimate strategy to not get COVID or to
(13:56):
not get tackled, was to be like, oh, I'm happy
to spread COVID. Oh don't tackle me. Yeah that matters
right now anyway. I mean, this feels like this underlying
mentality slash like toxic masculinity slash toxic American individualism where
(14:17):
it's the yeah, Americans are just so incapable of thinking
of other people around them as anything other than things
to be polite towards. But otherwise it's just he he
just doesn't give a ship Like. It's the thing that
(14:37):
we talked about with the flu shot, uh, where people
are like, I don't get a flu shot because I
haven't had the flu for years, which it's probably not true.
You've probably had it and just like not been that
profoundly sick. But also, um, yeah, you aren't just protecting yourself,
(14:58):
you're protecting people around you. But we are unbelievably incapable
of as a society thinking about the best interests of
the group. Um and who better than an NFL quarterback
just the most overrated, over put on a pedestal people
(15:19):
in America. Yep. So anyways, Kirk Cousins, Adam Curla, go
funk yourselves. That's that'll sum it up for today. David Blaine,
God bless you, sir, God bless service. Uh. I didn't.
I didn't see him fly across my sky in those balloons,
(15:42):
but I did stand up when I knew he was
flying and salute in the direction of Arizona because he's
a hero looking at eastward and saluting that sky. Yeah yeah,
um that is going to do it for today. Dana.
Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
(16:03):
You know, I'm on the internet. You can follow me
on Twitter, DJ Underscore d A n I'll you want
my wild video game takes and they are wild. Alright, guys,
that's gonna do it for this afternoon. We'll be back
tomorrow with the whole episode of the show. Until then,
wash your hands, stay inside, wear a mask, be kind
(16:26):
to each other, be kind to yourselves, and don't do
nothing about white supremacy, and we'll be back tomorrow. We'll
talk to you all down by
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