January 4, 2019 • 60 mins
In episode 302, Jack and special guest host Jamie Loftus is joined by comedian Caitlin Durante in this Bechdal Cast take over to discuss the Bird Box challenge, the Masked Singer television show, the video of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez that has offended conservatives, all the women who were sworn in to Congress this week, the government shut down, Trump's press briefing, the 2019 Coachella line up, Apple stock going down, a frozen remnant in the Solar System, the hacking of Migos, and more!
FOOTNOTES:
1. Netflix warns against Bird Box challenge as dangerous trend goes viral
2. Who Are The Masked Singer Celebrity Contestants? These Are Our Best Guesses
3. Introducing 'The Masked Singer,' Featuring Television's Hottest Peacock-Hippo Battle
4. Conservatives Have Exposed AOC’s Incredibly Wholesome Past
6. New members sworn in to most diverse Congress ever – in pictures
7. Dirty parks, closed museums: The government shutdown grinds on
8. Mitt Romney Says Trump ‘Has Not Risen to the Mantle of the Office’
9. Poll: Iowa Republicans Would Reelect Trump, But They’d Also Welcome a Primary
10. President Trump makes surprise statement in White House briefing room
11. Coachella 2019 lineup: Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino and Tame Impala to headline
12. ‘Idris Elba Performing at Coachella?’ The Story Behind His DJing Career
13. Apple and Samsung feel the sting of plateauing smartphones
15. The Most Distant Place We’ve Visited
16. Did a Brockton man hack the Twitter page of Migos rapper Takeoff?
17. WATCH: Megapuss - Theme From Hollywood
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season sixty three, Episode
three of J Daly's Eight Guys, the podcast where we
take a deep dive into America's share consciousness using the headlines,
box office reports, TV ratings, what's trending on googs and
social meds? Is Friday, January fourth. My name's Jack O'Brien,
a K one, two, three, four, five, six seven O'Brian,
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it's the Ten Jacks Commandments. What Okay, I nailed it is?
What is the answer to your question? Jamie? That is
courtesy of Randy Travis Scott formerly Christie Yamagucci may uh
and he is at Christie Beam Donut. And I'm thrilled
to be joined uh inner second seat by my special
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guest co host. A guest co host. She is the
original j lo Lil Zam, the first face on Mountains
Light More Jamie Lofto, Jess to loft Us and so
Jack O'Brien just too loved us and Caitlin. That's also
(01:06):
from Randy Travis Scott. Yeah, I guess we should Uh, yes,
I guess we should introduce our guest in the third seed.
It's a real takeover you guys. Jamie's co host of
Bechdel Cast and one of the funniest comedians out there.
She is on this Caitlin Drante Hi A ka Latin
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dancer U T I a K A unclean pit raid
That is courtesy of at Noah g Underscore at twelve.
Caitlin Superpower is anagrams for people who aren't familiar with her,
The perfect plants and I have one more of my
own that I that I concocted. Hit it a k
A ruined Latin Cats. I'm a last dancer U T
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I and I'm a brained Latin cat. Wow, Caitlin, Jamie,
it's so good to have you here. Miles is still
in overseas in overseas, but he will be back soon,
probably next episode or the episode after that. Anyways, Caitlin,
we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
(02:15):
in a moment, but first we're gonna tell our listeners
a couple of things we're talking about today. We're talking
the bur Box Challenge and just bar Box and Gen
bar Box. We're gonna talk. It's late, guys. This is
later than we usually record, so we're a little punchy
over here in the Zai Studios. We're gonna talk about
(02:36):
the masked Singer Uh, which Jamie has watched. Both of
those are things Jamie has watched and neither of us have.
So we're gonna get the inside scoop. We're gonna maybe
look at the Coach Hella lineup. We're gonna look at
the hubbub over AOC's college dancing video that the controversy.
(02:59):
It's very I'm have you seen the video? There's so
much to unpack. I know it's crazy. She appears to
be enjoying herself, dare she. I know she's having a
good time, and it's just I find it upsetting. And
we will talk about Nancy Pelosi's Yes Gavel moment. But first, Caitlin,
(03:22):
we like to ask our guest, what is something from
your search history that's really about who you are? Well?
I just recently googled songs with jump in the title
because I have made it a new part of my
personality that my Instagram stories, which I don't know if
maybe you know devotes of the podcast will remember that
(03:46):
on an earlier episode, I talked about how Instagram stories
were overrated and I don't like them, but now you're
good at them and doing them all the time. Correct.
So well, I spent the past couple of weeks over
the holidays looking after a bunch of people's cats, and
I took many, many videos, and I've been laying music
(04:10):
over those videos and then adding them to my Instagram stories.
So two early favorites of mine in the rap genre
jump Jump by Criss Cross and jump Around for my
recent cat video. Yeah, did you use Jump by Van Halen?
I did not know? Well, get ready to because that
(04:33):
that is basically the number one song that people edit
jump videos together. I like Jump from My Love by
the Point, great one. I used that one. That's a
great one. Yeah. Classic, Well that's a lot of fun. Congratulations,
like found us calling? Is it a calling or like
a more of a profession? Um? You know what, I
(04:54):
Am going to start a Patreon for it, my profession.
What is something you think was underrated? Okay? So this
thing it's gotten great reviews, so it's not underrated in
that sense, but I feel like not enough people are
seeing it or talking about it. But Spider Man into
the Spider Verse. I knew it, you know. I Actually
(05:18):
I had one day to go to the movies over
over my break and I was choosing between Spider Man
into the Spider Verse and the Favorite, and I just
chose the favorite because it was the one that was
starting next. But I thought of you, and I was like,
it's going to break her heart if I don't see
Spiderman into Spider Verse upset. So tell us about this movie,
(05:41):
what what is so unique about it? Well, I and
this is coming from someone who has not read any
of the comics, so I don't have that background for it.
But like I saw it for the first time by myself,
like Thursday night of like the opening weekend, and I
was sitting by myself in the theater, and it's getting
very sad. You're emphasizing your loneliness quite a bit, true
(06:04):
to true um, But I feel that way because I
just was so invigorated by watching it, Like within the
first five minutes, I was like, this is the best
movie I've ever seen. Like I loved it. It's an
animated Spider Man, correct, and I think that's one of
the reasons a lot of people are not taking it
as seriously or kind of dismissing it because it's animated,
(06:25):
or like people like that it's a cartoon. The animation
is absolutely incredible. The story is amazing, the characterization is great. Um,
it's funny, It's so fucking funny. The soundtrack is awesome.
The it has like a nice balance between like humor
and like earnest emotional beats. Um, It's just everything about
(06:46):
it is great. It's like a very it's like diverse casting,
diverse characters. It's beautiful and I love it so much.
I've seen it four times and that's frankly not enough.
Oh I'm surprised it's not. I thought even more by
this time. Yeah, I've been slacking. I do still have
to see it. I do really want to see it.
I mean, it has made over a hundred million dollars.
Perhaps it's not underrated. I just wanted the next year
(07:07):
to talk about it or seeing it. And is it
like a multiverse type thing where there's like, I guess
we'll have to see you just don't have to get
into the uh physics of the Spider Man universe. Seeing
superhero movies just like it just seems I don't know.
I'm like, I'm I'm thirty behind. I'm never going to
catch up, And whenever I try to watch one, someone's
(07:29):
like you have to watch it in four K I
was like, well, what if I'm stealing it off the internet?
What about that? What I is something you think is overrated? Well,
people as it is newly two thousand nineteen, people were
talking about I know, wow, breaking money what uh? People
(07:51):
were talking about Blade Runner because this is now the
year that Blade Runner the first one kind of hacks
talked about we did yesterday. That's right. So I think
the film Blade Runner is overrated? Oh for sure? Yeah,
I mean so much alright, bitness. Uh. It has cool
(08:11):
world building, and it has great production design, um and
everything else about it is bad And I don't know
I think that. I mean, I'm sure it looks great.
I can't wait for the defer, the people to get in.
People straight into my mission, get in there. There's but
sometimes I'm like, you got you had a lot of
blue lightbulbs and they can't take that away from you.
(08:34):
But Harrison Ford for the billionth time is like a
creepy predator in that movie we're talking or original Blade
Run Original. I think the other one is also overrated. Again,
visually nice, but light bulbs sometimes orange lightbulbs depending on
the scene. I know, my god, I like the synths
(08:58):
the synthesizers run, but very influential. But I agree, it's
not the great. It's a bad story. It's boring and
just not good anyway. Story anyways, let's talk about I'm sorry, guys,
I didn't sorry, man, I didn't mean to criticize Blade
(09:22):
Runner back after six pm is just wearing a bathrobe
smoking a uh tiny cigar. What's a myth? What's something
people think is true you know to be false? Well,
people think that bird Box is about a box that
(09:44):
was bitten by a radio active bird, and it is not. Yes,
she's not the best in the business for nothing, folks. Uh, well, guys,
that brings us to our first story. The bird Box
challenge is a thing Netflix had to say, Guy, don't
do the bird box challenge. Stop doing the bird box
So it involves just doing something really anything with a
(10:08):
blindfold on is what the bird box challenges um. One
guy in one bird Box challenge walks out of his
house barefoot, in shorts and a T shirt and a
snowstorm while holding his dog, uh and begins walking around
in random directions. But he's got a blindfold on. Another
person does various workouts that require absolutely no visual awareness
(10:30):
while blindfolded. Another family pelt one of their family members
with ping pong balls while that person is blindfolded and
gropes around and uh eventually starts throwing punches at everyone. Anyways,
Jamie and Caitlin, have you seen bird Box? And is
that why you're wearing blindfolds right now? We are, no,
We that's just kind of our thing, right That's the
(10:55):
movie is a genuine phenomenon in terms of raw number
of people who have seen it. It's Netflix bragged that
it's been seen by forty five million people, although who
knows what those people that could just be making it up.
They don't release their damn numbers. I did see Burt Box.
(11:15):
You did, you were one of the million. I think
that everyone who saw it, from what I could gather,
watched it on Christmas Eve or Christmas Well, so many
people watched with their families. Yeah, this happened I think
two years ago, whenever Making a Murder came out, because
it came out right ahead of Christmas break and everybody
watched it. Like it just needs something to do with
(11:38):
what's wrong with us that we're only watching movies about,
like creepy ship over Christmas Box Box. Thing you gotta
understand about bar Box did a past a backal test there, yes,
but it's or I thought it was like the dumbest movie.
But for am I allowed to do spoilers. Okay, spoiler
(12:00):
alerts comings. So there is a scene bird Box or
bird Box canonically it is called burt Box, and it
has me for like the first forty five minutes, You're like, sure,
Sandy Bullock, we're here, there's kids, it's there, it's the
end of the world. Whatever. There's a really hot man
(12:22):
in the house. We like that. You know he's going
to kill Sandy at some point. There's a lot going on.
I like it. Uh. And then in one scene the
whole movie falls apart, where okay, so Sandy is very pregnant.
Another woman comes in the house because if you go
out of the house, you die because bird Box, right,
(12:44):
So another pregnant lady comes in the house. Now we've
got two pregnant women sick, right, but the other pregnant yeah,
discussed horrible. So the second pregnant women I've not I
don't remember anyone's name in this movie, but the second
pregnant woman who she's like, I've lived a sheltered life.
(13:05):
I love Hello Kitty. So she lets a British guy
in the house, and the British guys like, I'm dangerous,
and and then there and then everyone's like, pregnant lady,
you dummy, he looks dangerous. And then he's like, I'm
not dangerous, and they're like, all right, he's not dangerous.
And then he has this sketchbook, and the sketch book
(13:26):
is full of freaky little drawings that he made, and
you're like, oh no, he is dangerous. Then both of
the pregnant ladies go into labor at the same time
for no reason. Has nothing to do with the earth
quick didn't like dislodge there. From from what I can tell,
they just go into labor at the same time to
(13:46):
get all the characters in the room. What you have
to understand. But when two women are close together, they
same time. So I think that the writers made them
go into labor at the same time for a number
of reasons, but logistically to get everyone out of the
room and away from the British guy. So then the
British guy is like bird box. And then and then
(14:09):
it's still like another hour and a half. It seems
like one of those things where my understanding of it
is that like your visions are like your fears come real.
So it's like the part and Ghostbusters, the where the
stay Puff marshmallow Man comes. It's I don't know, there's anyways.
I think I just nailed it pretty much. Bird Box
(14:30):
just out of here. There's been so much such a
weird trend of like sensory deprivation in movies between like
A Quiet Place and bird Box, Like there there is
this weird and the one that I'm writing where don't oh,
don't breathe breathe. Yeah, yeah, it's like I don't know,
it's already a different movie called No No Touching, No
(14:55):
No Touching. That's a good one. But about the me
too movement alright one. Uh, but just in terms of
how widespread like this movie's influence is, like, if you
translate that number of people watching the movie on Netflix
(15:17):
to box office, it would have had the eighth best
week ever. It would have been like on par with
Star Wars, Last Jedi, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hellos,
Jurassic World. Yeah, and it's just it's such a random movie.
So I mean, obviously it's not the same as a
(15:38):
movie coming out and doing that because people weren't all
buying individual tickets for burr Box. But it's still like
in terms of the amount of like national mental real
estate that it's taking up, that's where it is. It's
like in the world of Your Furious Sevens, It's great
(15:58):
bur Box would fully make seven dollars if it was
really a theatrical Everyone it was like it seemed like
a timing thing. And also I think that there is
you can still really get a lot of eyes on
something by putting Sandy Bullock in a movie. People love
her Sandy bull gold Box sand Box. She's credited in
(16:21):
the movie as Sandy burn Box. Uh. Well, speaking of
people who know that, who have learned that lesson The
Masked Singer, because I'm assuming Sandy Bullock is one of
the Masked Singers, it's same to say every working person
right now is on the Masked Singer. So The Masked
Singer is a new TV show that is getting good ratings.
(16:46):
It's a lot of people are watching it. Jamie is
watching it at a bar. Uh. I have not watched it.
I have seen it really appears to it looks a
lot like a TV show from another country. To me,
it's adopted from a South Korean series called King of Masks.
Singer that Ryan Reynolds was on that show and he
(17:07):
sang somewhere over the Rainbow in a multicolored unicorn mask,
which sounds a very deadpool of him, and I don't
necessarily love it, but uh, the Mass Singer, Listen, I
just think for January second, if we as a nation
have agreed we're just going to lean into dystopia. The
Mass Singer is the show to watch because we've got
(17:30):
for judges, we've got Jenny Anti vax Or McCarthy, we've
got leader Nicole Schlertslinger Lead Pussycat Doll I butchered her
last name, Robin blurred lines thick making some wild color commentary,
and Ken John who is the only good judge and
(17:54):
has to do a lot of heavy lifting. And it's
also hosted by Nick Cannon, who for years now has
been wearing a urban as a fashion thing and his
hair is wild. Now he's got like the long straight hair. Yeah,
I don't know he's I don't know what to make
of Nick Cannon any longer. But there I really I
laughed a lot. The guy hippo got kicked off, okay,
(18:18):
and who was hippo? So the premises that there's a
bunch of people who are in masks and they're singing,
and then they get kicked off, and then you find
out what they're celebrities, right right, they're all allegedly celebrities.
My prediction is that probably not many people will know
who many of them are. So who was the first celebrity?
The first celebrity was wearing hip hop hippo and up
(18:44):
to the concord yes, basically uh, and it was Pittsburgh
Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown. That is as like, if
you're a football fan, that's a big deal. He's one
of the three best players in the league. Basically he was,
he was booted. He wasn't very good. But there's but
(19:04):
the so part of the appeal is it's all allegedly celebrities.
Serena Williams is there somewhere. People seem sure of that,
but most of the people you just have no idea,
including apparently the judges. Serena Williams is there because I
guess that there. It's been a rumor since I think
(19:27):
it might have just been like the one contestant that
maybe didn't keep the secret as well, because because when
I first read about the series, I read like Serena
Williams is probably on it, I don't know, So that's
like the one celebrity has been weirdly tied to it
the whole time. But there's it's all these The way
that the judges describe and like, guess who was in
(19:48):
the costume as they're performing is truly wild, Like the
Robin Thick called a unicorn slim and pretty. He also,
I mean they should have known that was coming from
Robin Thicks known perv. But he also said of Hippo,
(20:08):
who we now know is uh Antonio Brown, Hippo's moving
his legs like he's under thirty. Like it's just the
un like how the movement of your legs changes at thirty.
I mean, if anyone does, it's Robin Thick. He spends
a lot of time watching people move their legs. He
(20:31):
also Hippo performed my Prerogative a classic. The peacock did
perform the Greatest show from the Greatest Showman. I think
this appeals to me because I've given up. I think
this appeals to me because I love fanom of the
opera and it's very fog heavy and very loud, like
(20:54):
it just does not seem like it should exist. Someone
on Twitter, I forget who it was, but someone was
just like, what if Louis c K is on the
mass next, Well, there is one person who it's not
Louis c K but the monster. The way they were
introducing the monster was it sounded like they're like, I've
(21:16):
been forced into the shadows, but now I'm back. I
was like, this does not sound good anyways, monster saying
don't stop me now and kept thrusting. So who knows
who d gosh, something very funked up is going to
happen on this show, probably early on, and it'll lose everyone.
(21:37):
That's my prediction. Did you guys watch that Frank video,
the Kevin Spacey as Frank word video. It was really
upsetting and I don't know what what the thought process
was turned into, like a performance art. I don't like that.
That's not gonna work. Yeah, it bothered me. Anyways, it
sounds like he's on this show that you like, Jamie,
(22:00):
so good luck with that. I mean Robin Thick and
Jaime McCarthy on the same panel is troubling. Yeah, it
is troubling. But also this is on the Fox network,
so all bets are off. Are the singers are like
the contestants being eliminated based on how well they sing
and perform? Is that okay? Yeah? Alright? One review says,
(22:23):
how can you not be even a little entertained when
Robin Thicke listens to the peacocks obviously professionally trained singing
voice and guesses that he might be Jimmy Kimmel. I mean,
I'm I'm in. It reminds me of it. It definitely.
I wasn't surprised it was adapted from a South Koreatian
game show, because I don't know like game shows in
(22:47):
Asia or and like reality shows are historically so heightened
and like my favorite reality show in high school, I
had to look up the name of it. But I
used to love this show called Silent Library, where they
would in teenagers and they would have to basically like
torture each other. There was one episode where but they're
in a library and if you make noise, you are out.
(23:10):
But there was one I remember watching an episode with
my cousin and she I just remember her being like, oh, Jamie, Jamie,
that's what waterboarding, just like dnagers waterboarding each other in
a But it's hard not to make a noise when
you're being waterboarded. So that's just how you win the game,
a losing game. My favorite show for a while was
(23:31):
MXC Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. Do you remember this? I
don't think it would hold up very well now because
it's very I think, but ma'am, when I was a
freshman in college that that was my ship. Yeah. Also,
when you think about it, um Spider Man into the
Spider Roo, she's kind of like masked Singer because like,
(23:52):
we didn't know that Nicholas Cage was in that movie
until much later on we know John mulaney was in
that movie. Is what does he play? Ye? Spider Ham?
Wait what Spider Ham? Is the thing? Anyway to see it?
I think the Lion Okay, I think the lion on
Mass singer is possibly Tracy Ellis Ross. That's my prediction
(24:16):
because everyone keeps being like, there's a few famous people,
Lyon is one of them, and who are these people
who are dropping little secrets like that? Well, when the
when the contestants come out. They're given like a description
and you get a brief backstory of the character, and
they're like, and this one actually famous. Well, they're just
(24:40):
like lying and a lister like that would be such
a shitty feeling if you were one of the other ones.
They're like, and we actually got a famous one for
this one. Well, you and Nicorn they're they're like, I
was born in Beverly Hills. And people are saying, it's
like Tori Spelling. Maybe, Okay, that's the level of family
we're dealing with, real solid sea list with some exception.
(25:02):
I thought I was assuming Dancing with the Stars level fame,
but then it's like, Serena Williams is too famous to
be on Dancing with the Stars. So if I do
wonder if they just dropped the one of these people
at Serena Williams like hilt as a plant to be like,
you're you'll never guess like the people that we got.
(25:22):
Even though anyways, this is what we're gonna be talking
about the whole show, and we'll be back after these messages.
Some people are saying Peacock is Donny OsmAnd Okay, I
know what I get, and we're back and now we're
(25:46):
going to talk about real news. Apparently were talking about
as Peacock Jack. It wasn't huge as the modern Zapruder
film that the conservative community broke on all of our
heads earlier today on Twitter because they found a video
of Alexandria Ocazio Cortez dancing in college and who she
(26:13):
looks like. According to one conservative tweeter, she looks like
the nit wit she really is. It's sickest, yeah, and
she just looks adorable and like beautiful based on like
the moment and like she's having the best time ever.
She's wearing a BU shirt. Caitlin, I know it to
(26:34):
Boston University. I mean, it's such a wholesome I don't
under I just would love to know what was going
through that person's head when they were like, god her
because of all the things people almost everyone does in
college at some point, like when you see like like
a Kazio Cortes college video, you're like, oh, this could
(26:54):
be literally anything, because people do like crazy things in college.
But this was the curious thing I've ever seen. I mean,
I don't know. I would just get like really drunk
on this thing called Mr Boston and go to school. Wait,
what is Mr Boston? It's basically rubbing alcohol. They selling
like gallon jugs. Did you ever have Mr Boston? No?
(27:16):
I didn't. I haven't. Oh there was Mr Boston and
then there was there. It wasn't Sailor Jerry, it was
it was called Sailor Ricks rum. I drink a lot
of Vladdie vodka. Vladimir vodka. Yeah, tax bracket an anyone
try to pop off ka. Anyways, she just looks like
(27:38):
she's having a great time. It makes her way more likable.
And the conservatives were like, gotcha, and it was the
response to their tweet was so obvious that literally footloose
was the third trending topic for the down because people
were like, wait, are you in the footloose town? Why
do you think this is bad? Anyways, it's a good video.
(28:01):
She looks like she's a lot of fun to hang
out with. It's cute. It's cute. Let's talk Nancy. Nancy Pelosi.
She's back, baby, she's back. She's got the gavel. She
had her gavel gift moment, because every time a politician
does anything it has to now be easily turned into
(28:21):
a gift and used for months to come, but I
don't know. I mean, she's she's back, she's still the
first female Speaker of the House. I don't. I mean,
she's when stuff like this happens. I'm thrilled that Nancy
Pelosi was sworn in, and it was like a great
moment and she was clearly the best option. But I
(28:43):
just I don't know, with the way democrats are right
now any like history, like any establishment democrat, I'm just
always leary of and concerned that. You know, it's like, yes,
it's really exciting in the historical context, and I think
she's perfectly capable of doing the job, but I also
(29:04):
am just like establishment democrats are currently freaking me out. Yes, yeah,
I think that is a fair place to be. Well, yes, Gavil.
But you know, it was also a big day for
non establishment congress women, yes, because a bunch of new
(29:25):
Congress women were sworn in and a kid dabbed, kid dabbed. Yes,
it was that was I was really thrilled about the
dabbing picture. And I just complained about Gavel Meme. Uh
so I'm a hypocrite. I did like when the sun dabbed, Yeah,
it was Rashida Tayeb's son. Highly recommend looking up the pick.
(29:51):
But yeah, for the first two Native American women to
be elected to Congress ever, the first Muslim women in
Congress ever a Kasier Cretesa's youngest woman to ever be
elected into Congress, just like and the most women in Congress.
I got a hot stat here, jack hot stat, hot
stat drop, hot stat alert. Total women in the US
(30:18):
House in nineteen eighty nine, sixteen Democrats and thirteen Republicans.
Uh two thousand, nineteen. Oh, you have the updated numbers. Two? Yeah, wow,
you're welcome. Uh so, I guess for a shorthand, this
is in the span of Acacio Cortez's life. So and
now in eighty nine Democrats and thirteen Republican women. So
(30:43):
so still thirteen. So the Republicans are holding steadies. They
were like, we got this exactly right back in nine.
That was peak humanity, and Democrats have moved forward. There
are just so many. I don't know if you, if
you need something to be in a good mood about today,
recommend checking out the pictures of women getting sworn into Congress.
(31:04):
It made me happy. I personally love iann op Pressy
because she's from Massachusetts since she's been the greatest forever. Yeah,
she rules. Well, the government shut down drags on. It's
causing gross garbage to pile up. There was apparently a
bunch of garbage all over the National Parks over the holidays.
(31:26):
People were pooping on the side of the road rather
than in restrooms because the restrooms were not being cleaned,
so they closed them, so people just started pooping outside.
I just feel like there's a McDonald's nearby. I don't.
There's not a National Parks. There was rarely a McDonald's nearby.
(31:47):
Speaking of college videos, though, pooping outside that was your
color Caitlin's first day in Congress. So when the Republicans
get ahold of that video for me and we've got
a super scoop from super producer on a hose n A.
(32:08):
I was just going to say, a friend of mine
went to Yosemite over the holiday season and because the
government shut down, there was like one hotel and there
was like a hundred person line for the bathroom for
that hotel. Oh my god. And yeah, and there was
nothing else. That's crazy. I resend my McDonald's. Yeah, I mean,
when you're out there in nature, that's apparently, you know,
(32:31):
things just broke down completely when they shut the federal
government down Utah. Apparently, I know, somebody went to a
national park in Utah, and Utah took it upon themselves
to make their state employees work over or the state
government paid the federal employees, so they kept their parks clean.
Because their Utah they're going to start putting out like
(32:54):
like they have doggy bags out. They could be like,
well this is it's a larger bag for a human
poop poo. Right there, you go woop outside and then
just toss your back right. So an update on a
story we were talking about yesterday. We talked about Mitt
Romney's just total anarchist statement, total badass. Mit rom what
(33:14):
a fucking cool guy him. Um, we're speculating that he
might primary Trump in and he specifically addressed our statement
because he is zeit gang and he said that he
(33:35):
does not plan on primary the president. But that's a
very easy thing to say. And then the second Trump
you know, starts a war, you know, uh, sexually assaults
more people in office on the White House lawn. Uh,
you know, then he can just be like, oh, well
(33:55):
now I've changed my mind. Did you see Jonathan van
Ness like tweeted a weird endorsement of Mitt Romney when
that whole thing happened. Yeah, I mean, and then also
then the next day he's like, he was like, my
boyfriend and I broke up. I was like, hopefully that.
I mean that it's a breakup if you're suddenly like
go Mitt Romney. But he tweeted just in response to
(34:18):
that op ed he said like mits op ed is
like for sure primary challenger coming, and then a Pride
flag and then a heart And I was like, Jonathan,
please look up history. So this is just a general
problem that I think we have as sane human beings
in this current iteration of the world, is that anybody
(34:41):
who challenges Trump and actually poses like an actual, you know,
material danger to his presidency and to his you know,
mental health and just safety as a human being, we
inherently like there is an instinct where I'm like, yes,
like you are our savior, and that that's the case
with Mueller at various points, that's been the case with
(35:04):
you know, Romney, in the case of Jonathan van Ness, uh,
And yeah, it's just we I don't blame people for
having that initial instinct that like, it's just anything to
get us out of this fucking nightmare that we're living through.
But at the same time, we obviously should not lionize
Mitt Romney or even I mean Mueller is is just
(35:28):
as conservative and Republican as Mitt Romney is, but people are.
You know, he has his own reddit sub thread subreddit
where people worship him. Listen, Jonathan is going through a
breakup and I just hope that that is that caused
this severe judgment. Yeah, we've all become Republicans for a
(35:48):
moment experiencing heartbreak up. I mean, my biggest problem with
Trump is that he's just so rude, you know, just
do it secretly, Yeah, been boring, and then do horrible
things outside of a camera's eye. That's what we need.
But there is reason to believe that Trump might still
(36:11):
get primaried because in Iowa, even though one percent of
Republicans in the state approve, he has an eighty one
percent approval rating among Iowan Republicans. Also, two thirds of
Republicans in the state think that he should be challenged
in a primary, which seems like a crazy thing, Like
(36:32):
you would think that if you approved of someone you
wouldn't want them challenge into primary. But I think it
kind of speaks to that sense of, you know, anybody
who's still supporting Trump for the most part, still has
a sense that he's really fucking bad at his job
and they're just doing it despite themselves. How often has
it happened where like current president who's up for re
(36:56):
election will get challenge to I didn't think so. Yeah,
you know, lb J knew he was going to get
primaried by I think it was Kennedy and a couple
other people, and so he dropped out. Really yeah he quit.
Yeah he announced that. Yeah, because the Vietnam War was
(37:17):
going not t well. I find that very confusing as well.
And then I'm just like, do people just need to
be entertained? Like is that is that the thing? Like
that you would support him and also want a primary
to take place anyways, Like I don't. I don't know there.
I wonder if it's just they support him because they
like to, you know, trigger us the Libs. But at
(37:41):
the same time they probably the rational part of their
brain recognizes that he's not good and that there's got
to be someone who's better at this job. Even by
their standards, you know, Yeah, I don't know. It's silly,
those hateful people falls goose. And on the Democratic side
(38:02):
of the ticket, Diane Finstein has announced that she supports
Joe Biden for surprising no one. Uh yeah, like the
two most the two oldest established. Yeah, the two oldest
people period. Here's the thing about Diane, she's old as fuck.
She also noted that Senator Kamala Harris is brand new
(38:26):
around here. She said, so, yeah, it's all about experience.
That's the most important thing. You want as much experience
as possible, because then you'll just keep doing the same
thing forever and ever. And it's worked up to this point, right,
Dianne Feinstein is old. Personally, I didn't vote for I
(38:49):
don't remember what I've done, but I personally feel that
the um Unicorn and the Lion from Masked Singer should
take it nice ticket. And then you know, that's the
future election is you don't know that, that's Charlie Are
you listening, mr? Mr Mirror? Are you out there? Are
(39:11):
you hearing? And then they get elected Mr Mirror whoever
writes Charlier Charlier or something broker Charlie Mirror, And then
they take their masks off and then you're like, oh
my god, Louis e k is the president. This is
a mess, but you can't get out of Did you
guys do that bandersnatch? I did bandersnatch. I gave them
(39:35):
my data like a fucking idiot. So you you have
a theory you were saying that this is all just
them stealing our precious intellectual like d n A. I
don't know. I mean, I think it's like at least
a beta test for something like that. Because Netflix is
so shady about everything. They never release any of their statistics,
which I don't think should be legal to hold on to,
(39:56):
like all that data and you know, distributed god knows where,
because we know that they're already working with Facebook and
they could have read our like millions of Facebook users
private messages that was released in late late December. I
just anytime someone asked for your opinion on any streaming
platform or social media platform, I'm like, oh, this probably
(40:17):
doesn't bode well for the future. I fully recognize that,
based on the number of hours I've just recorded my
thoughts and opinions on this podcast, that I could just
be completely replicated and replaced by a robot. Oh, Jack,
I think you're really into deep fakes. Yeah, I've been
making a few. I'll make one of you and send
(40:40):
it to you and you won't talk to me every again.
Sounds terrible. Don't do that. I keep making one of
my dog and sending them my boyfriend saying that our
dog is a brexitter being. I think Brexit's a good idea,
and it's like, oh no, it's bad. Uh, that's so deep.
(41:00):
Fix is the thing where you actually make people say
things that they didn't actually say via video right exactly,
or make put them in porn that they weren't actually in. Yeah,
the technology is still so primitive and weird that like
if you're making The most famous one was the one
that Jordan Peel did of Obama last year. But yeah,
(41:21):
the technology is still weird. If if a face is
moving too much, it takes a while for the deep
pig face to catch up with the body. Um it's scary,
but um it's it's you know, if you love the
Uncanny Valley, highly recommend making some deep fakes, and you
highly recommend bander snatch as well, or trying to recommend
it was it was fun, Yeah, it was like Black Mirror. Generally,
(41:43):
I like Black Mirror, and I don't love myself for it,
but I always watch it. But like, what if computers
as good as we thought? It's not good. Alright, We're
going to take another quick break to just think about that,
and we'll be back soon. And we're back and breaking
(42:16):
news yesterday as you listen to this. But the Democrats
apparently past legislation that Trump says he's going to veto,
but they're passing legislation to put the government back in business,
to open it back up, and basically they're making Trump
owned the government shutdown because he's going to veto it
and keep it closed because he wants his border wall funding.
(42:39):
And he had a weird little appearance they it was
really weird there. It was like a w w E
event where Sarah Handers, suckerb Handers, Sanders, Huckaby Sanders, that's
the one. Uh she came up. Anyways, she came up
(43:02):
and was like ladies and gentlemen, the President of the
United stays and he just like came out for five
minutes and like didn't say anything we didn't already know,
and then refused to take questions. But they hyped it
as a press briefing and like it came out of nowhere.
So it's clearly like just some weird neurons firing off
real briefly, in his Vince McMahon had to have had
(43:25):
a hand in, well, Vince McMahon has had a hand
in just shaping how his mind works. Well because Sarah
Hugabye Sanders looks like, uh, you know, Stephanie McMahon was
left out in the rain for six weeks. So that's
my take. Anyways, it's a mess the government. I mean,
you believe these clowns. I'm Washington, you guys. Uh But
(43:50):
uh So some big news that I care about because
I'm young and hip is that Coachella announced their lineup
for the Man. You know it. I got to be there.
I love Coachella. I love like those hats that have
the brim all the way. Do you like like bad
(44:10):
vanity trugs and appropriation in your outfit? Yeah, speaking of
pooping outside, right, have either of you been to like
a big music festival. I've actually been to Coachella the
last eight years. No, I'm just just went once. Uh
and it was fine, but I would not go now
(44:30):
that I don't do drugs anymore. I went to Bonary
once so far alone. No, it is bad. That sounds terrible,
I know. I went as some act of rebellion towards
no one. I have never heard a great story about
bar Everyone's always like it's very uncomfortable and hot and wet.
Bonnaroo smells like eggs. I don't know why the whole
festival smells like eggs, but it does. Yeah, that's actually
(44:53):
why they started the festival. Like, if they've got four
fields the creek of eggs, what should we do? Um.
The headliners for the three nights Childish Gambi in a
one night Taman Paula and Ariana Grande. That's pretty cool.
Hey man, that's cool. Uh And then it makes me laugh.
They're just gonna play every festival every summer until someone dies.
(45:18):
Like this is the first time I'm hearing about Taman Paula.
I've seen Taman Paula by accident at least three times.
They're everywhere. I like them. Their songs that don't sound
the same, Like my favorite of their songs is that
elephant song, and then none of their other songs sound
like that. Anyways. There's also Kid Cuddy. Yeah, probably Kid
(45:45):
Cutty is going to be there, and that is the
one memorable performance from the year that I went. He's
incredible and also Janelle Money, so check that out. But
we also learned from Cruce Arounds that in thank you
for inviting me on the show that you didn't really
can I talk about it? Yeah? Perfect? Haven't you already
(46:08):
been on? No? I don't remember. Okay, sorry, I really
really just came back from a Bachelor draft and is
just on You thought I was on One Guy? So
tell us about Idris Elba as a DJ, which is
the most upsetting British Indris Elba. You're not doing by
(46:33):
I address alba um So, No, he's actually used to
be a DJ before he was an actor. So before
you saw him on the wire, before you saw him
on luth like, he was out here, he was a producer,
he was on the scene. He's actually worked with a
lot of really cool musicians really, so one was this
(46:55):
because he's kind of like an older guy. Is was
his music in true at the Eyja full teen as
a DJ and so like his last time when he
was last djaying, it was another era. No, I mean,
he's just going to roll up to Coachella with like
(47:16):
a bunch of like records from like two years ago. No, no,
he dropped an album. It's an EP titled High Class
Problems Volume one, so, which garnered a Billboard Music Awards nomination.
I can't tell if this is going to like it's
gonna do and he opened from Madonna's German tour. It's
(47:36):
gonna do one thing that I previously thought was impossible,
either make Indri's elbow seem lame to me or make
actors who are DJ is not seem lame one or
the other. He came out and said he realizes how
corny it is, but he just really likes himself, which
is so he's still not there a man of hotness.
(48:01):
You've received. It's like a Hogwarts letter for you just
have to have to be a DJ. Also, the best
part is he's also going to play a DJ on
a Netflix comedy show coming soon, so it's called Turn
Up Cholly. Does anyone know his DJ name? Yes? Actually
I think it's just DJ Damn. What is it? I
(48:26):
completely have forgotten about his DJ dj J. I think
it just goes by Indris Elba. But I feel like
before he was hell Stringer, All, yeah, okay, spend ten
minutes speculating what it might be. DJ Driss He's he's
um on the coach, Hell of Fire. It's just Indris Elba.
(48:49):
So I think he's just gonna be like, well, I
guess you gotta don't mean interroll DJ. He's probably gonna
be so slight and keep it is. She's very like,
they don't mean, I'm just gonna follow Salange. I don't know.
All right, Nick is telling me to stop talking. Hey guys,
(49:12):
the markets. I know you've been dying to talk about
the markets. Uh. And it was a bad day at
the markets yesterday for you know, all us capitalists, my markets. Yeah.
So Apple came out and did something they haven't done
in the last sixteen years. Uh. And it was to
(49:35):
say they weren't doing that well or something like that.
They basically cut their forecast of how many iPhones they
were going to sell, and people apparently that's not good
because it both tanked their stock and all the stocks. Well,
it serves them right, because I got my face. I
d doesn't recognize me when I'm tired, and it makes
(49:55):
me feel bad. So me, it's like, you're too ugly
to connected to others right now. Um. And they're saying
that it also might have something to do with Trump's
trade policies, that that's the reason the markets are tanking.
But they're actually blaming the fact that they started changing
people's batteries out last year, you know, when they had that,
(50:19):
Like people got mad that they were forcing their phones
to like have battery problems and wouldn't fix them, and
so Apple was like, fine, we'll stop breaking your phone
intentionally and start replacing the battery. They're actually saying that
is what's fucking up their sales because their phones last
longer now, so people don't need to buy new ones.
(50:39):
So that's what you're supposed to have been doing. Yeah,
it's just interesting that like they'res like we've we've always
been like, yeah, they have this like four stops a
lescence thing where they break your phone and you just
have to get a new one. But that was their
entire business strategy, and like it doesn't capitalism doesn't work
(51:01):
anymore if you don't just like break stuff on purpose.
Now we have to be a good product, damn it. Um.
And in science News, have you guys heard about this
ultimate fuel mu Okay, so it's the furthest thing that
(51:21):
we've ever photographed. It's way past it's like billions of
miles away from Earth. It's a you know, some sort
of spacecraft we sent out there a long time ago
and they saw it. They wanted to get a better
look at it. They sent this roving spacecraft to photograph it.
(51:43):
And was it a planet? No, it's not a planet,
but it's like it's weird. It's almost like hour glass shaped.
It's like two planets that are like connected by like
an umbilical cords type thing. It's very it's very yeah,
(52:03):
the planet. Basically, they they're saying that everything out beyond
our Solar system is remnants from when our Solar system
started forming and stuff just like didn't it just like
froze because it didn't get close enough to the Sun.
So they're able to kind of look at this stuff
and be like, oh, this is exactly what a planet
looked like when it was forming, Like this is probably
(52:25):
what our planet looked like. A fetus, Right, it's a
fetus planet and that's exactly right. It is really cool.
And another cool thing that I hadn't really thought about
is that it takes I think they said six hours
for the information of the picture to be beamed back
and then it's only like being back part of the information,
(52:47):
so we just like still have a fairly blurry pictures
and it may take up to twenty months to download
all of the probes data. So like that, that also
means that like in the future when we have first contact,
will like get a blurry picture of the aliens and
it'll be like, over the course of months will be like, oh,
that's what they look like, just like Tinder, right, exactly
(53:11):
like Tinder. So relevant, And finally, we wanted to talk
about some hacker news. It wouldn't be a Jamie Loftus
appearance if we didn't give you a hacking update, major
hacker news from the hacking capital of America, Brockton, Massachusetts,
(53:31):
a k a. My hometown. So all you twitterheads may
be aware that am goes Rapper take Off was hacked
this week on Twitter dot com. What you may not
know is that he was allegedly hacked by some kid
from my hometown, which is was I was genuinely thrilled,
(53:53):
but there's a lot of there's a lot of questions
surrounding the hack, so the account description because I I
saw a bunch of people from my hometown tweeting like,
oh my god, Brockton in the news for hacking Takeoff,
which is huge, and some some kid from Brockton named
Andy Gomes that's where they traced where where the hack happened.
(54:14):
And also Takeoffs Avatar changed to a picture of some
kid named Andy Gums. Anyways, some kid named Andy Gums
is saying he was framed and he didn't actually hack it,
which you know, even if that is true, I think.
I mean, if someone's like you hacked take Off, I
say run with that. That's a great I mean for
(54:38):
young Andy Gums, this could be a real This could
be a real get got a young Elliott Alderson right
in Brockton, Massachusetts. I just wanted to tip my hat
to the Takeoff hacks of the cat well tip of
the cat handy Gums from Brockton. Yeah, hacked in Massachusetts.
Uh and who is your tip of the cap? Two kids?
(55:01):
That's not actually a segment on the show. Uh. Well, guys,
this has been so much fun to have the Bechdel
Cast takeover of Der Daily Zeitgeist. Caitlin, where can people
find you? Well? You can follow me on Instagram and
watch my stories at Caitlin Durante c A I T
L I N and um, yeah, check out my You know,
(55:24):
I've got a Twitter also, and you know, usual stuff.
And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying? Yes,
let me pull it up. It's from Demi. I did
you a bay? And he yes, he said for the Oscars.
I bet it would be fun if they got Jack
Black and Gwyneth Paltrow to present an award and sing
(55:47):
We're far from the Shallow how And then he says,
all right, just change my password to something I don't
know and logging off indefinitely by everyone. Bad joke humor Jamie, Yes,
where can people find you if I enter dot com
(56:07):
at Jamie Lofts help or Instagram Jamie christ superstar? They
bravely don't have brand unity. That is brave, Thank you
so much. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah?
This one was was a wild viral from a user
named Rory Turnbull said, Hello, I'm a professor in a movie.
(56:32):
I only reached the main point of my lecture right
as class is ending. Then I yell at students about
the reading slash homework as they leave. Yes, that was
one of mine. No, it was such a fun one.
But my favorite part of it is that because he
he has like less than two thousand followers, but this
one tweet has a hundred forty thou likes, which is
(56:55):
just like this. Every Twitter user has one viral tweet
and then below it they're like, UM, I don't have anything,
but thanks for caring. I live, and then that's that's
what Roy turn Roll did. I also like that the
thread turned into other profession based like movie tropes. There's
other good ones. Yeah, so check it out, find that
(57:16):
Rory Turnbull, follow him, and then look at the entire threat.
A couple other tweets that I've been enjoying. Jerry Duggan
tweeted a picture of Trump with his the sanctions are
Coming poster because you know, we we talked about on
yesterday's episode how he had the Game of Thrones meme
printed out at poster size on the table in front
(57:37):
of him at his press conference yesterday, and Jerry Duggan said,
maybe don't beg for a wall with a poster inspired
by a show where a wall doesn't work, which is
a very good point and then oh yeah, Trump at
his fake press conference today was backed by a four
completely bald men, like bald white guys, and Sarah Baty tweeted, Hey,
(58:01):
I think I figured out where Trump collects his hair from.
But it really is weird. I don't know why he
has like a team of lex Luthor's just standing behind uh.
And then, in the tradition of Caitlin Darante's tweet that
she shared, Max Silvestri tweeted, did you guys like the
grizzlies exhibit at the Natural History Museum? I thought it
(58:24):
was pretty bare bones? And then in parentheses, this is
the only sort of thing I planned a tweet tweet. Anyways,
you can follow me on Twitter a check under Squirrel O'Brien.
You can follow us on Twitter at daily zeit Geist.
We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram, we have Facebook, campage,
and website daily ze geist dot com, where we post
our episodes and our footnotes were link off to the
(58:46):
information that we talked about in today's episode, as well
as the song right out on Super Producers. You're sort
of the interrosus elbow of this showy, Thank you very much.
I am the most attractive, spinning real quick. I'm gonna
(59:07):
recommend a song. Do you guys remember when old Devandra
Banhart had that band Megapus. Yeah, a great band, great band.
So I'm gonna recommend because I've been listening to this
song a lot recently. It is called theme from Hollywood.
It is a great song by Mega Pus Hirack A
lot of fun. Uh yeah, isn't that a sci fi
(59:30):
Megapus seems like one of those like Octor Shark type things. Anyways, Um,
that's it. Shut up, Jack, We're gonna ride out on that.
We won't be back tomorrow because it's only a week
daily podcast, not a daily. We don't published on the weekend,
so we will be back on Monday. Have a great
(59:53):
weekend everyone, We'll talk to you then bye by over
the way station and everything you might delvation, but don't
wait to get to well what it is it is
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like it is what it what it is When it
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season sixty three, Episode
three of J Daly's Eight Guys, the podcast where we
take a deep dive into America's share consciousness using the headlines,
box office reports, TV ratings, what's trending on googs and
social meds? Is Friday, January fourth. My name's Jack O'Brien,
a K one, two, three, four, five, six seven O'Brian,
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it's the Ten Jacks Commandments. What Okay, I nailed it is?
What is the answer to your question? Jamie? That is
courtesy of Randy Travis Scott formerly Christie Yamagucci may uh
and he is at Christie Beam Donut. And I'm thrilled
to be joined uh inner second seat by my special
(00:45):
guest co host. A guest co host. She is the
original j lo Lil Zam, the first face on Mountains
Light More Jamie Lofto, Jess to loft Us and so
Jack O'Brien just too loved us and Caitlin. That's also
(01:06):
from Randy Travis Scott. Yeah, I guess we should Uh, yes,
I guess we should introduce our guest in the third seed.
It's a real takeover you guys. Jamie's co host of
Bechdel Cast and one of the funniest comedians out there.
She is on this Caitlin Drante Hi A ka Latin
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dancer U T I a K A unclean pit raid
That is courtesy of at Noah g Underscore at twelve.
Caitlin Superpower is anagrams for people who aren't familiar with her,
The perfect plants and I have one more of my
own that I that I concocted. Hit it a k
A ruined Latin Cats. I'm a last dancer U T
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I and I'm a brained Latin cat. Wow, Caitlin, Jamie,
it's so good to have you here. Miles is still
in overseas in overseas, but he will be back soon,
probably next episode or the episode after that. Anyways, Caitlin,
we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
(02:15):
in a moment, but first we're gonna tell our listeners
a couple of things we're talking about today. We're talking
the bur Box Challenge and just bar Box and Gen
bar Box. We're gonna talk. It's late, guys. This is
later than we usually record, so we're a little punchy
over here in the Zai Studios. We're gonna talk about
(02:36):
the masked Singer Uh, which Jamie has watched. Both of
those are things Jamie has watched and neither of us have.
So we're gonna get the inside scoop. We're gonna maybe
look at the Coach Hella lineup. We're gonna look at
the hubbub over AOC's college dancing video that the controversy.
(02:59):
It's very I'm have you seen the video? There's so
much to unpack. I know it's crazy. She appears to
be enjoying herself, dare she. I know she's having a
good time, and it's just I find it upsetting. And
we will talk about Nancy Pelosi's Yes Gavel moment. But first, Caitlin,
(03:22):
we like to ask our guest, what is something from
your search history that's really about who you are? Well?
I just recently googled songs with jump in the title
because I have made it a new part of my
personality that my Instagram stories, which I don't know if
maybe you know devotes of the podcast will remember that
(03:46):
on an earlier episode, I talked about how Instagram stories
were overrated and I don't like them, but now you're
good at them and doing them all the time. Correct.
So well, I spent the past couple of weeks over
the holidays looking after a bunch of people's cats, and
I took many, many videos, and I've been laying music
(04:10):
over those videos and then adding them to my Instagram stories.
So two early favorites of mine in the rap genre
jump Jump by Criss Cross and jump Around for my
recent cat video. Yeah, did you use Jump by Van Halen?
I did not know? Well, get ready to because that
(04:33):
that is basically the number one song that people edit
jump videos together. I like Jump from My Love by
the Point, great one. I used that one. That's a
great one. Yeah. Classic, Well that's a lot of fun. Congratulations,
like found us calling? Is it a calling or like
a more of a profession? Um? You know what, I
(04:54):
Am going to start a Patreon for it, my profession.
What is something you think was underrated? Okay? So this
thing it's gotten great reviews, so it's not underrated in
that sense, but I feel like not enough people are
seeing it or talking about it. But Spider Man into
the Spider Verse. I knew it, you know. I Actually
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I had one day to go to the movies over
over my break and I was choosing between Spider Man
into the Spider Verse and the Favorite, and I just
chose the favorite because it was the one that was
starting next. But I thought of you, and I was like,
it's going to break her heart if I don't see
Spiderman into Spider Verse upset. So tell us about this movie,
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what what is so unique about it? Well, I and
this is coming from someone who has not read any
of the comics, so I don't have that background for it.
But like I saw it for the first time by myself,
like Thursday night of like the opening weekend, and I
was sitting by myself in the theater, and it's getting
very sad. You're emphasizing your loneliness quite a bit, true
(06:04):
to true um, But I feel that way because I
just was so invigorated by watching it, Like within the
first five minutes, I was like, this is the best
movie I've ever seen. Like I loved it. It's an
animated Spider Man, correct, and I think that's one of
the reasons a lot of people are not taking it
as seriously or kind of dismissing it because it's animated,
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or like people like that it's a cartoon. The animation
is absolutely incredible. The story is amazing, the characterization is great. Um,
it's funny, It's so fucking funny. The soundtrack is awesome.
The it has like a nice balance between like humor
and like earnest emotional beats. Um, It's just everything about
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it is great. It's like a very it's like diverse casting,
diverse characters. It's beautiful and I love it so much.
I've seen it four times and that's frankly not enough.
Oh I'm surprised it's not. I thought even more by
this time. Yeah, I've been slacking. I do still have
to see it. I do really want to see it.
I mean, it has made over a hundred million dollars.
Perhaps it's not underrated. I just wanted the next year
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to talk about it or seeing it. And is it
like a multiverse type thing where there's like, I guess
we'll have to see you just don't have to get
into the uh physics of the Spider Man universe. Seeing
superhero movies just like it just seems I don't know.
I'm like, I'm I'm thirty behind. I'm never going to
catch up, And whenever I try to watch one, someone's
(07:29):
like you have to watch it in four K I
was like, well, what if I'm stealing it off the internet?
What about that? What I is something you think is overrated? Well,
people as it is newly two thousand nineteen, people were
talking about I know, wow, breaking money what uh? People
(07:51):
were talking about Blade Runner because this is now the
year that Blade Runner the first one kind of hacks
talked about we did yesterday. That's right. So I think
the film Blade Runner is overrated? Oh for sure? Yeah,
I mean so much alright, bitness. Uh. It has cool
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world building, and it has great production design, um and
everything else about it is bad And I don't know
I think that. I mean, I'm sure it looks great.
I can't wait for the defer, the people to get in.
People straight into my mission, get in there. There's but
sometimes I'm like, you got you had a lot of
blue lightbulbs and they can't take that away from you.
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But Harrison Ford for the billionth time is like a
creepy predator in that movie we're talking or original Blade
Run Original. I think the other one is also overrated. Again,
visually nice, but light bulbs sometimes orange lightbulbs depending on
the scene. I know, my god, I like the synths
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the synthesizers run, but very influential. But I agree, it's
not the great. It's a bad story. It's boring and
just not good anyway. Story anyways, let's talk about I'm sorry, guys,
I didn't sorry, man, I didn't mean to criticize Blade
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Runner back after six pm is just wearing a bathrobe
smoking a uh tiny cigar. What's a myth? What's something
people think is true you know to be false? Well,
people think that bird Box is about a box that
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was bitten by a radio active bird, and it is not. Yes,
she's not the best in the business for nothing, folks. Uh, well, guys,
that brings us to our first story. The bird Box
challenge is a thing Netflix had to say, Guy, don't
do the bird box challenge. Stop doing the bird box
So it involves just doing something really anything with a
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blindfold on is what the bird box challenges um. One
guy in one bird Box challenge walks out of his
house barefoot, in shorts and a T shirt and a
snowstorm while holding his dog, uh and begins walking around
in random directions. But he's got a blindfold on. Another
person does various workouts that require absolutely no visual awareness
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while blindfolded. Another family pelt one of their family members
with ping pong balls while that person is blindfolded and
gropes around and uh eventually starts throwing punches at everyone. Anyways,
Jamie and Caitlin, have you seen bird Box? And is
that why you're wearing blindfolds right now? We are, no,
We that's just kind of our thing, right That's the
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movie is a genuine phenomenon in terms of raw number
of people who have seen it. It's Netflix bragged that
it's been seen by forty five million people, although who
knows what those people that could just be making it up.
They don't release their damn numbers. I did see Burt Box.
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You did, you were one of the million. I think
that everyone who saw it, from what I could gather,
watched it on Christmas Eve or Christmas Well, so many
people watched with their families. Yeah, this happened I think
two years ago, whenever Making a Murder came out, because
it came out right ahead of Christmas break and everybody
watched it. Like it just needs something to do with
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what's wrong with us that we're only watching movies about,
like creepy ship over Christmas Box Box. Thing you gotta
understand about bar Box did a past a backal test there, yes,
but it's or I thought it was like the dumbest movie.
But for am I allowed to do spoilers. Okay, spoiler
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alerts comings. So there is a scene bird Box or
bird Box canonically it is called burt Box, and it
has me for like the first forty five minutes, You're like, sure,
Sandy Bullock, we're here, there's kids, it's there, it's the
end of the world. Whatever. There's a really hot man
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in the house. We like that. You know he's going
to kill Sandy at some point. There's a lot going on.
I like it. Uh. And then in one scene the
whole movie falls apart, where okay, so Sandy is very pregnant.
Another woman comes in the house because if you go
out of the house, you die because bird Box, right,
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So another pregnant lady comes in the house. Now we've
got two pregnant women sick, right, but the other pregnant yeah,
discussed horrible. So the second pregnant women I've not I
don't remember anyone's name in this movie, but the second
pregnant woman who she's like, I've lived a sheltered life.
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I love Hello Kitty. So she lets a British guy
in the house, and the British guys like, I'm dangerous,
and and then there and then everyone's like, pregnant lady,
you dummy, he looks dangerous. And then he's like, I'm
not dangerous, and they're like, all right, he's not dangerous.
And then he has this sketchbook, and the sketch book
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is full of freaky little drawings that he made, and
you're like, oh no, he is dangerous. Then both of
the pregnant ladies go into labor at the same time
for no reason. Has nothing to do with the earth
quick didn't like dislodge there. From from what I can tell,
they just go into labor at the same time to
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get all the characters in the room. What you have
to understand. But when two women are close together, they
same time. So I think that the writers made them
go into labor at the same time for a number
of reasons, but logistically to get everyone out of the
room and away from the British guy. So then the
British guy is like bird box. And then and then
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it's still like another hour and a half. It seems
like one of those things where my understanding of it
is that like your visions are like your fears come real.
So it's like the part and Ghostbusters, the where the
stay Puff marshmallow Man comes. It's I don't know, there's anyways.
I think I just nailed it pretty much. Bird Box
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just out of here. There's been so much such a
weird trend of like sensory deprivation in movies between like
A Quiet Place and bird Box, Like there there is
this weird and the one that I'm writing where don't oh,
don't breathe breathe. Yeah, yeah, it's like I don't know,
it's already a different movie called No No Touching, No
(14:55):
No Touching. That's a good one. But about the me
too movement alright one. Uh, but just in terms of
how widespread like this movie's influence is, like, if you
translate that number of people watching the movie on Netflix
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to box office, it would have had the eighth best
week ever. It would have been like on par with
Star Wars, Last Jedi, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hellos,
Jurassic World. Yeah, and it's just it's such a random movie.
So I mean, obviously it's not the same as a
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movie coming out and doing that because people weren't all
buying individual tickets for burr Box. But it's still like
in terms of the amount of like national mental real
estate that it's taking up, that's where it is. It's
like in the world of Your Furious Sevens, It's great
(15:58):
bur Box would fully make seven dollars if it was
really a theatrical Everyone it was like it seemed like
a timing thing. And also I think that there is
you can still really get a lot of eyes on
something by putting Sandy Bullock in a movie. People love
her Sandy bull gold Box sand Box. She's credited in
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the movie as Sandy burn Box. Uh. Well, speaking of
people who know that, who have learned that lesson The
Masked Singer, because I'm assuming Sandy Bullock is one of
the Masked Singers, it's same to say every working person
right now is on the Masked Singer. So The Masked
Singer is a new TV show that is getting good ratings.
(16:46):
It's a lot of people are watching it. Jamie is
watching it at a bar. Uh. I have not watched it.
I have seen it really appears to it looks a
lot like a TV show from another country. To me,
it's adopted from a South Korean series called King of Masks.
Singer that Ryan Reynolds was on that show and he
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sang somewhere over the Rainbow in a multicolored unicorn mask,
which sounds a very deadpool of him, and I don't
necessarily love it, but uh, the Mass Singer, Listen, I
just think for January second, if we as a nation
have agreed we're just going to lean into dystopia. The
Mass Singer is the show to watch because we've got
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for judges, we've got Jenny Anti vax Or McCarthy, we've
got leader Nicole Schlertslinger Lead Pussycat Doll I butchered her
last name, Robin blurred lines thick making some wild color commentary,
and Ken John who is the only good judge and
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has to do a lot of heavy lifting. And it's
also hosted by Nick Cannon, who for years now has
been wearing a urban as a fashion thing and his
hair is wild. Now he's got like the long straight hair. Yeah,
I don't know he's I don't know what to make
of Nick Cannon any longer. But there I really I
laughed a lot. The guy hippo got kicked off, okay,
(18:18):
and who was hippo? So the premises that there's a
bunch of people who are in masks and they're singing,
and then they get kicked off, and then you find
out what they're celebrities, right right, they're all allegedly celebrities.
My prediction is that probably not many people will know
who many of them are. So who was the first celebrity?
The first celebrity was wearing hip hop hippo and up
(18:44):
to the concord yes, basically uh, and it was Pittsburgh
Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown. That is as like, if
you're a football fan, that's a big deal. He's one
of the three best players in the league. Basically he was,
he was booted. He wasn't very good. But there's but
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the so part of the appeal is it's all allegedly celebrities.
Serena Williams is there somewhere. People seem sure of that,
but most of the people you just have no idea,
including apparently the judges. Serena Williams is there because I
guess that there. It's been a rumor since I think
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it might have just been like the one contestant that
maybe didn't keep the secret as well, because because when
I first read about the series, I read like Serena
Williams is probably on it, I don't know, So that's
like the one celebrity has been weirdly tied to it
the whole time. But there's it's all these The way
that the judges describe and like, guess who was in
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the costume as they're performing is truly wild, Like the
Robin Thick called a unicorn slim and pretty. He also,
I mean they should have known that was coming from
Robin Thicks known perv. But he also said of Hippo,
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who we now know is uh Antonio Brown, Hippo's moving
his legs like he's under thirty. Like it's just the
un like how the movement of your legs changes at thirty.
I mean, if anyone does, it's Robin Thick. He spends
a lot of time watching people move their legs. He
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also Hippo performed my Prerogative a classic. The peacock did
perform the Greatest show from the Greatest Showman. I think
this appeals to me because I've given up. I think
this appeals to me because I love fanom of the
opera and it's very fog heavy and very loud, like
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it just does not seem like it should exist. Someone
on Twitter, I forget who it was, but someone was
just like, what if Louis c K is on the
mass next, Well, there is one person who it's not
Louis c K but the monster. The way they were
introducing the monster was it sounded like they're like, I've
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been forced into the shadows, but now I'm back. I
was like, this does not sound good anyways, monster saying
don't stop me now and kept thrusting. So who knows
who d gosh, something very funked up is going to
happen on this show, probably early on, and it'll lose everyone.
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That's my prediction. Did you guys watch that Frank video,
the Kevin Spacey as Frank word video. It was really
upsetting and I don't know what what the thought process
was turned into, like a performance art. I don't like that.
That's not gonna work. Yeah, it bothered me. Anyways, it
sounds like he's on this show that you like, Jamie,
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so good luck with that. I mean Robin Thick and
Jaime McCarthy on the same panel is troubling. Yeah, it
is troubling. But also this is on the Fox network,
so all bets are off. Are the singers are like
the contestants being eliminated based on how well they sing
and perform? Is that okay? Yeah? Alright? One review says,
(22:23):
how can you not be even a little entertained when
Robin Thicke listens to the peacocks obviously professionally trained singing
voice and guesses that he might be Jimmy Kimmel. I mean,
I'm I'm in. It reminds me of it. It definitely.
I wasn't surprised it was adapted from a South Koreatian
game show, because I don't know like game shows in
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Asia or and like reality shows are historically so heightened
and like my favorite reality show in high school, I
had to look up the name of it. But I
used to love this show called Silent Library, where they
would in teenagers and they would have to basically like
torture each other. There was one episode where but they're
in a library and if you make noise, you are out.
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But there was one I remember watching an episode with
my cousin and she I just remember her being like, oh, Jamie, Jamie,
that's what waterboarding, just like dnagers waterboarding each other in
a But it's hard not to make a noise when
you're being waterboarded. So that's just how you win the game,
a losing game. My favorite show for a while was
(23:31):
MXC Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. Do you remember this? I
don't think it would hold up very well now because
it's very I think, but ma'am, when I was a
freshman in college that that was my ship. Yeah. Also,
when you think about it, um Spider Man into the
Spider Roo, she's kind of like masked Singer because like,
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we didn't know that Nicholas Cage was in that movie
until much later on we know John mulaney was in
that movie. Is what does he play? Ye? Spider Ham?
Wait what Spider Ham? Is the thing? Anyway to see it?
I think the Lion Okay, I think the lion on
Mass singer is possibly Tracy Ellis Ross. That's my prediction
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because everyone keeps being like, there's a few famous people,
Lyon is one of them, and who are these people
who are dropping little secrets like that? Well, when the
when the contestants come out. They're given like a description
and you get a brief backstory of the character, and
they're like, and this one actually famous. Well, they're just
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like lying and a lister like that would be such
a shitty feeling if you were one of the other ones.
They're like, and we actually got a famous one for
this one. Well, you and Nicorn they're they're like, I
was born in Beverly Hills. And people are saying, it's
like Tori Spelling. Maybe, Okay, that's the level of family
we're dealing with, real solid sea list with some exception.
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I thought I was assuming Dancing with the Stars level fame,
but then it's like, Serena Williams is too famous to
be on Dancing with the Stars. So if I do
wonder if they just dropped the one of these people
at Serena Williams like hilt as a plant to be like,
you're you'll never guess like the people that we got.
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Even though anyways, this is what we're gonna be talking
about the whole show, and we'll be back after these messages.
Some people are saying Peacock is Donny OsmAnd Okay, I
know what I get, and we're back and now we're
(25:46):
going to talk about real news. Apparently were talking about
as Peacock Jack. It wasn't huge as the modern Zapruder
film that the conservative community broke on all of our
heads earlier today on Twitter because they found a video
of Alexandria Ocazio Cortez dancing in college and who she
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looks like. According to one conservative tweeter, she looks like
the nit wit she really is. It's sickest, yeah, and
she just looks adorable and like beautiful based on like
the moment and like she's having the best time ever.
She's wearing a BU shirt. Caitlin, I know it to
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Boston University. I mean, it's such a wholesome I don't
under I just would love to know what was going
through that person's head when they were like, god her
because of all the things people almost everyone does in
college at some point, like when you see like like
a Kazio Cortes college video, you're like, oh, this could
(26:54):
be literally anything, because people do like crazy things in college.
But this was the curious thing I've ever seen. I mean,
I don't know. I would just get like really drunk
on this thing called Mr Boston and go to school. Wait,
what is Mr Boston? It's basically rubbing alcohol. They selling
like gallon jugs. Did you ever have Mr Boston? No?
(27:16):
I didn't. I haven't. Oh there was Mr Boston and
then there was there. It wasn't Sailor Jerry, it was
it was called Sailor Ricks rum. I drink a lot
of Vladdie vodka. Vladimir vodka. Yeah, tax bracket an anyone
try to pop off ka. Anyways, she just looks like
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she's having a great time. It makes her way more likable.
And the conservatives were like, gotcha, and it was the
response to their tweet was so obvious that literally footloose
was the third trending topic for the down because people
were like, wait, are you in the footloose town? Why
do you think this is bad? Anyways, it's a good video.
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She looks like she's a lot of fun to hang
out with. It's cute. It's cute. Let's talk Nancy. Nancy Pelosi.
She's back, baby, she's back. She's got the gavel. She
had her gavel gift moment, because every time a politician
does anything it has to now be easily turned into
(28:21):
a gift and used for months to come, but I
don't know. I mean, she's she's back, she's still the
first female Speaker of the House. I don't. I mean,
she's when stuff like this happens. I'm thrilled that Nancy
Pelosi was sworn in, and it was like a great
moment and she was clearly the best option. But I
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just I don't know, with the way democrats are right
now any like history, like any establishment democrat, I'm just
always leary of and concerned that. You know, it's like, yes,
it's really exciting in the historical context, and I think
she's perfectly capable of doing the job, but I also
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am just like establishment democrats are currently freaking me out. Yes, yeah,
I think that is a fair place to be. Well, yes, Gavil.
But you know, it was also a big day for
non establishment congress women, yes, because a bunch of new
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Congress women were sworn in and a kid dabbed, kid dabbed. Yes,
it was that was I was really thrilled about the
dabbing picture. And I just complained about Gavel Meme. Uh
so I'm a hypocrite. I did like when the sun dabbed, Yeah,
it was Rashida Tayeb's son. Highly recommend looking up the pick.
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But yeah, for the first two Native American women to
be elected to Congress ever, the first Muslim women in
Congress ever a Kasier Cretesa's youngest woman to ever be
elected into Congress, just like and the most women in Congress.
I got a hot stat here, jack hot stat, hot
stat drop, hot stat alert. Total women in the US
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House in nineteen eighty nine, sixteen Democrats and thirteen Republicans.
Uh two thousand, nineteen. Oh, you have the updated numbers. Two? Yeah, wow,
you're welcome. Uh so, I guess for a shorthand, this
is in the span of Acacio Cortez's life. So and
now in eighty nine Democrats and thirteen Republican women. So
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so still thirteen. So the Republicans are holding steadies. They
were like, we got this exactly right back in nine.
That was peak humanity, and Democrats have moved forward. There
are just so many. I don't know if you, if
you need something to be in a good mood about today,
recommend checking out the pictures of women getting sworn into Congress.
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It made me happy. I personally love iann op Pressy
because she's from Massachusetts since she's been the greatest forever. Yeah,
she rules. Well, the government shut down drags on. It's
causing gross garbage to pile up. There was apparently a
bunch of garbage all over the National Parks over the holidays.
(31:26):
People were pooping on the side of the road rather
than in restrooms because the restrooms were not being cleaned,
so they closed them, so people just started pooping outside.
I just feel like there's a McDonald's nearby. I don't.
There's not a National Parks. There was rarely a McDonald's nearby.
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Speaking of college videos, though, pooping outside that was your
color Caitlin's first day in Congress. So when the Republicans
get ahold of that video for me and we've got
a super scoop from super producer on a hose n A.
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I was just going to say, a friend of mine
went to Yosemite over the holiday season and because the
government shut down, there was like one hotel and there
was like a hundred person line for the bathroom for
that hotel. Oh my god. And yeah, and there was
nothing else. That's crazy. I resend my McDonald's. Yeah, I mean,
when you're out there in nature, that's apparently, you know,
(32:31):
things just broke down completely when they shut the federal
government down Utah. Apparently, I know, somebody went to a
national park in Utah, and Utah took it upon themselves
to make their state employees work over or the state
government paid the federal employees, so they kept their parks clean.
Because their Utah they're going to start putting out like
(32:54):
like they have doggy bags out. They could be like,
well this is it's a larger bag for a human
poop poo. Right there, you go woop outside and then
just toss your back right. So an update on a
story we were talking about yesterday. We talked about Mitt
Romney's just total anarchist statement, total badass. Mit rom what
(33:14):
a fucking cool guy him. Um, we're speculating that he
might primary Trump in and he specifically addressed our statement
because he is zeit gang and he said that he
(33:35):
does not plan on primary the president. But that's a
very easy thing to say. And then the second Trump
you know, starts a war, you know, uh, sexually assaults
more people in office on the White House lawn. Uh,
you know, then he can just be like, oh, well
(33:55):
now I've changed my mind. Did you see Jonathan van
Ness like tweeted a weird endorsement of Mitt Romney when
that whole thing happened. Yeah, I mean, and then also
then the next day he's like, he was like, my
boyfriend and I broke up. I was like, hopefully that.
I mean that it's a breakup if you're suddenly like
go Mitt Romney. But he tweeted just in response to
(34:18):
that op ed he said like mits op ed is
like for sure primary challenger coming, and then a Pride
flag and then a heart And I was like, Jonathan,
please look up history. So this is just a general
problem that I think we have as sane human beings
in this current iteration of the world, is that anybody
(34:41):
who challenges Trump and actually poses like an actual, you know,
material danger to his presidency and to his you know,
mental health and just safety as a human being, we
inherently like there is an instinct where I'm like, yes,
like you are our savior, and that that's the case
with Mueller at various points, that's been the case with
(35:04):
you know, Romney, in the case of Jonathan van Ness, uh,
And yeah, it's just we I don't blame people for
having that initial instinct that like, it's just anything to
get us out of this fucking nightmare that we're living through.
But at the same time, we obviously should not lionize
Mitt Romney or even I mean Mueller is is just
(35:28):
as conservative and Republican as Mitt Romney is, but people are.
You know, he has his own reddit sub thread subreddit
where people worship him. Listen, Jonathan is going through a
breakup and I just hope that that is that caused
this severe judgment. Yeah, we've all become Republicans for a
(35:48):
moment experiencing heartbreak up. I mean, my biggest problem with
Trump is that he's just so rude, you know, just
do it secretly, Yeah, been boring, and then do horrible
things outside of a camera's eye. That's what we need.
But there is reason to believe that Trump might still
(36:11):
get primaried because in Iowa, even though one percent of
Republicans in the state approve, he has an eighty one
percent approval rating among Iowan Republicans. Also, two thirds of
Republicans in the state think that he should be challenged
in a primary, which seems like a crazy thing, Like
(36:32):
you would think that if you approved of someone you
wouldn't want them challenge into primary. But I think it
kind of speaks to that sense of, you know, anybody
who's still supporting Trump for the most part, still has
a sense that he's really fucking bad at his job
and they're just doing it despite themselves. How often has
it happened where like current president who's up for re
(36:56):
election will get challenge to I didn't think so. Yeah,
you know, lb J knew he was going to get
primaried by I think it was Kennedy and a couple
other people, and so he dropped out. Really yeah he quit.
Yeah he announced that. Yeah, because the Vietnam War was
(37:17):
going not t well. I find that very confusing as well.
And then I'm just like, do people just need to
be entertained? Like is that is that the thing? Like
that you would support him and also want a primary
to take place anyways, Like I don't. I don't know there.
I wonder if it's just they support him because they
like to, you know, trigger us the Libs. But at
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the same time they probably the rational part of their
brain recognizes that he's not good and that there's got
to be someone who's better at this job. Even by
their standards, you know, Yeah, I don't know. It's silly,
those hateful people falls goose. And on the Democratic side
(38:02):
of the ticket, Diane Finstein has announced that she supports
Joe Biden for surprising no one. Uh yeah, like the
two most the two oldest established. Yeah, the two oldest
people period. Here's the thing about Diane, she's old as fuck.
She also noted that Senator Kamala Harris is brand new
(38:26):
around here. She said, so, yeah, it's all about experience.
That's the most important thing. You want as much experience
as possible, because then you'll just keep doing the same
thing forever and ever. And it's worked up to this point, right,
Dianne Feinstein is old. Personally, I didn't vote for I
(38:49):
don't remember what I've done, but I personally feel that
the um Unicorn and the Lion from Masked Singer should
take it nice ticket. And then you know, that's the
future election is you don't know that, that's Charlie Are
you listening, mr? Mr Mirror? Are you out there? Are
(39:11):
you hearing? And then they get elected Mr Mirror whoever
writes Charlier Charlier or something broker Charlie Mirror, And then
they take their masks off and then you're like, oh
my god, Louis e k is the president. This is
a mess, but you can't get out of Did you
guys do that bandersnatch? I did bandersnatch. I gave them
(39:35):
my data like a fucking idiot. So you you have
a theory you were saying that this is all just
them stealing our precious intellectual like d n A. I
don't know. I mean, I think it's like at least
a beta test for something like that. Because Netflix is
so shady about everything. They never release any of their statistics,
which I don't think should be legal to hold on to,
(39:56):
like all that data and you know, distributed god knows where,
because we know that they're already working with Facebook and
they could have read our like millions of Facebook users
private messages that was released in late late December. I
just anytime someone asked for your opinion on any streaming
platform or social media platform, I'm like, oh, this probably
(40:17):
doesn't bode well for the future. I fully recognize that,
based on the number of hours I've just recorded my
thoughts and opinions on this podcast, that I could just
be completely replicated and replaced by a robot. Oh, Jack,
I think you're really into deep fakes. Yeah, I've been
making a few. I'll make one of you and send
(40:40):
it to you and you won't talk to me every again.
Sounds terrible. Don't do that. I keep making one of
my dog and sending them my boyfriend saying that our
dog is a brexitter being. I think Brexit's a good idea,
and it's like, oh no, it's bad. Uh, that's so deep.
(41:00):
Fix is the thing where you actually make people say
things that they didn't actually say via video right exactly,
or make put them in porn that they weren't actually in. Yeah,
the technology is still so primitive and weird that like
if you're making The most famous one was the one
that Jordan Peel did of Obama last year. But yeah,
(41:21):
the technology is still weird. If if a face is
moving too much, it takes a while for the deep
pig face to catch up with the body. Um it's scary,
but um it's it's you know, if you love the
Uncanny Valley, highly recommend making some deep fakes, and you
highly recommend bander snatch as well, or trying to recommend
it was it was fun, Yeah, it was like Black Mirror. Generally,
(41:43):
I like Black Mirror, and I don't love myself for it,
but I always watch it. But like, what if computers
as good as we thought? It's not good. Alright, We're
going to take another quick break to just think about that,
and we'll be back soon. And we're back and breaking
(42:16):
news yesterday as you listen to this. But the Democrats
apparently past legislation that Trump says he's going to veto,
but they're passing legislation to put the government back in business,
to open it back up, and basically they're making Trump
owned the government shutdown because he's going to veto it
and keep it closed because he wants his border wall funding.
(42:39):
And he had a weird little appearance they it was
really weird there. It was like a w w E
event where Sarah Handers, suckerb Handers, Sanders, Huckaby Sanders, that's
the one. Uh she came up. Anyways, she came up
(43:02):
and was like ladies and gentlemen, the President of the
United stays and he just like came out for five
minutes and like didn't say anything we didn't already know,
and then refused to take questions. But they hyped it
as a press briefing and like it came out of nowhere.
So it's clearly like just some weird neurons firing off
real briefly, in his Vince McMahon had to have had
(43:25):
a hand in, well, Vince McMahon has had a hand
in just shaping how his mind works. Well because Sarah
Hugabye Sanders looks like, uh, you know, Stephanie McMahon was
left out in the rain for six weeks. So that's
my take. Anyways, it's a mess the government. I mean,
you believe these clowns. I'm Washington, you guys. Uh But
(43:50):
uh So some big news that I care about because
I'm young and hip is that Coachella announced their lineup
for the Man. You know it. I got to be there.
I love Coachella. I love like those hats that have
the brim all the way. Do you like like bad
(44:10):
vanity trugs and appropriation in your outfit? Yeah, speaking of
pooping outside, right, have either of you been to like
a big music festival. I've actually been to Coachella the
last eight years. No, I'm just just went once. Uh
and it was fine, but I would not go now
(44:30):
that I don't do drugs anymore. I went to Bonary
once so far alone. No, it is bad. That sounds terrible,
I know. I went as some act of rebellion towards
no one. I have never heard a great story about
bar Everyone's always like it's very uncomfortable and hot and wet.
Bonnaroo smells like eggs. I don't know why the whole
festival smells like eggs, but it does. Yeah, that's actually
(44:53):
why they started the festival. Like, if they've got four
fields the creek of eggs, what should we do? Um.
The headliners for the three nights Childish Gambi in a
one night Taman Paula and Ariana Grande. That's pretty cool.
Hey man, that's cool. Uh And then it makes me laugh.
They're just gonna play every festival every summer until someone dies.
(45:18):
Like this is the first time I'm hearing about Taman Paula.
I've seen Taman Paula by accident at least three times.
They're everywhere. I like them. Their songs that don't sound
the same, Like my favorite of their songs is that
elephant song, and then none of their other songs sound
like that. Anyways. There's also Kid Cuddy. Yeah, probably Kid
(45:45):
Cutty is going to be there, and that is the
one memorable performance from the year that I went. He's
incredible and also Janelle Money, so check that out. But
we also learned from Cruce Arounds that in thank you
for inviting me on the show that you didn't really
can I talk about it? Yeah? Perfect? Haven't you already
(46:08):
been on? No? I don't remember. Okay, sorry, I really
really just came back from a Bachelor draft and is
just on You thought I was on One Guy? So
tell us about Idris Elba as a DJ, which is
the most upsetting British Indris Elba. You're not doing by
(46:33):
I address alba um So, No, he's actually used to
be a DJ before he was an actor. So before
you saw him on the wire, before you saw him
on luth like, he was out here, he was a producer,
he was on the scene. He's actually worked with a
lot of really cool musicians really, so one was this
(46:55):
because he's kind of like an older guy. Is was
his music in true at the Eyja full teen as
a DJ and so like his last time when he
was last djaying, it was another era. No, I mean,
he's just going to roll up to Coachella with like
(47:16):
a bunch of like records from like two years ago. No, no,
he dropped an album. It's an EP titled High Class
Problems Volume one, so, which garnered a Billboard Music Awards nomination.
I can't tell if this is going to like it's
gonna do and he opened from Madonna's German tour. It's
(47:36):
gonna do one thing that I previously thought was impossible,
either make Indri's elbow seem lame to me or make
actors who are DJ is not seem lame one or
the other. He came out and said he realizes how
corny it is, but he just really likes himself, which
is so he's still not there a man of hotness.
(48:01):
You've received. It's like a Hogwarts letter for you just
have to have to be a DJ. Also, the best
part is he's also going to play a DJ on
a Netflix comedy show coming soon, so it's called Turn
Up Cholly. Does anyone know his DJ name? Yes? Actually
I think it's just DJ Damn. What is it? I
(48:26):
completely have forgotten about his DJ dj J. I think
it just goes by Indris Elba. But I feel like
before he was hell Stringer, All, yeah, okay, spend ten
minutes speculating what it might be. DJ Driss He's he's
um on the coach, Hell of Fire. It's just Indris Elba.
(48:49):
So I think he's just gonna be like, well, I
guess you gotta don't mean interroll DJ. He's probably gonna
be so slight and keep it is. She's very like,
they don't mean, I'm just gonna follow Salange. I don't know.
All right, Nick is telling me to stop talking. Hey guys,
(49:12):
the markets. I know you've been dying to talk about
the markets. Uh. And it was a bad day at
the markets yesterday for you know, all us capitalists, my markets. Yeah.
So Apple came out and did something they haven't done
in the last sixteen years. Uh. And it was to
(49:35):
say they weren't doing that well or something like that.
They basically cut their forecast of how many iPhones they
were going to sell, and people apparently that's not good
because it both tanked their stock and all the stocks. Well,
it serves them right, because I got my face. I
d doesn't recognize me when I'm tired, and it makes
(49:55):
me feel bad. So me, it's like, you're too ugly
to connected to others right now. Um. And they're saying
that it also might have something to do with Trump's
trade policies, that that's the reason the markets are tanking.
But they're actually blaming the fact that they started changing
people's batteries out last year, you know, when they had that,
(50:19):
Like people got mad that they were forcing their phones
to like have battery problems and wouldn't fix them, and
so Apple was like, fine, we'll stop breaking your phone
intentionally and start replacing the battery. They're actually saying that
is what's fucking up their sales because their phones last
longer now, so people don't need to buy new ones.
(50:39):
So that's what you're supposed to have been doing. Yeah,
it's just interesting that like they'res like we've we've always
been like, yeah, they have this like four stops a
lescence thing where they break your phone and you just
have to get a new one. But that was their
entire business strategy, and like it doesn't capitalism doesn't work
(51:01):
anymore if you don't just like break stuff on purpose.
Now we have to be a good product, damn it. Um.
And in science News, have you guys heard about this
ultimate fuel mu Okay, so it's the furthest thing that
(51:21):
we've ever photographed. It's way past it's like billions of
miles away from Earth. It's a you know, some sort
of spacecraft we sent out there a long time ago
and they saw it. They wanted to get a better
look at it. They sent this roving spacecraft to photograph it.
(51:43):
And was it a planet? No, it's not a planet,
but it's like it's weird. It's almost like hour glass shaped.
It's like two planets that are like connected by like
an umbilical cords type thing. It's very it's very yeah,
(52:03):
the planet. Basically, they they're saying that everything out beyond
our Solar system is remnants from when our Solar system
started forming and stuff just like didn't it just like
froze because it didn't get close enough to the Sun.
So they're able to kind of look at this stuff
and be like, oh, this is exactly what a planet
looked like when it was forming, Like this is probably
(52:25):
what our planet looked like. A fetus, Right, it's a
fetus planet and that's exactly right. It is really cool.
And another cool thing that I hadn't really thought about
is that it takes I think they said six hours
for the information of the picture to be beamed back
and then it's only like being back part of the information,
(52:47):
so we just like still have a fairly blurry pictures
and it may take up to twenty months to download
all of the probes data. So like that, that also
means that like in the future when we have first contact,
will like get a blurry picture of the aliens and
it'll be like, over the course of months will be like, oh,
that's what they look like, just like Tinder, right, exactly
(53:11):
like Tinder. So relevant, And finally, we wanted to talk
about some hacker news. It wouldn't be a Jamie Loftus
appearance if we didn't give you a hacking update, major
hacker news from the hacking capital of America, Brockton, Massachusetts,
(53:31):
a k a. My hometown. So all you twitterheads may
be aware that am goes Rapper take Off was hacked
this week on Twitter dot com. What you may not
know is that he was allegedly hacked by some kid
from my hometown, which is was I was genuinely thrilled,
(53:53):
but there's a lot of there's a lot of questions
surrounding the hack, so the account description because I I
saw a bunch of people from my hometown tweeting like,
oh my god, Brockton in the news for hacking Takeoff,
which is huge, and some some kid from Brockton named
Andy Gomes that's where they traced where where the hack happened.
(54:14):
And also Takeoffs Avatar changed to a picture of some
kid named Andy Gums. Anyways, some kid named Andy Gums
is saying he was framed and he didn't actually hack it,
which you know, even if that is true, I think.
I mean, if someone's like you hacked take Off, I
say run with that. That's a great I mean for
(54:38):
young Andy Gums, this could be a real This could
be a real get got a young Elliott Alderson right
in Brockton, Massachusetts. I just wanted to tip my hat
to the Takeoff hacks of the cat well tip of
the cat handy Gums from Brockton. Yeah, hacked in Massachusetts.
Uh and who is your tip of the cap? Two kids?
(55:01):
That's not actually a segment on the show. Uh. Well, guys,
this has been so much fun to have the Bechdel
Cast takeover of Der Daily Zeitgeist. Caitlin, where can people
find you? Well? You can follow me on Instagram and
watch my stories at Caitlin Durante c A I T
L I N and um, yeah, check out my You know,
(55:24):
I've got a Twitter also, and you know, usual stuff.
And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying? Yes,
let me pull it up. It's from Demi. I did
you a bay? And he yes, he said for the Oscars.
I bet it would be fun if they got Jack
Black and Gwyneth Paltrow to present an award and sing
(55:47):
We're far from the Shallow how And then he says,
all right, just change my password to something I don't
know and logging off indefinitely by everyone. Bad joke humor Jamie, Yes,
where can people find you if I enter dot com
(56:07):
at Jamie Lofts help or Instagram Jamie christ superstar? They
bravely don't have brand unity. That is brave, Thank you
so much. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah?
This one was was a wild viral from a user
named Rory Turnbull said, Hello, I'm a professor in a movie.
(56:32):
I only reached the main point of my lecture right
as class is ending. Then I yell at students about
the reading slash homework as they leave. Yes, that was
one of mine. No, it was such a fun one.
But my favorite part of it is that because he
he has like less than two thousand followers, but this
one tweet has a hundred forty thou likes, which is
(56:55):
just like this. Every Twitter user has one viral tweet
and then below it they're like, UM, I don't have anything,
but thanks for caring. I live, and then that's that's
what Roy turn Roll did. I also like that the
thread turned into other profession based like movie tropes. There's
other good ones. Yeah, so check it out, find that
(57:16):
Rory Turnbull, follow him, and then look at the entire threat.
A couple other tweets that I've been enjoying. Jerry Duggan
tweeted a picture of Trump with his the sanctions are
Coming poster because you know, we we talked about on
yesterday's episode how he had the Game of Thrones meme
printed out at poster size on the table in front
(57:37):
of him at his press conference yesterday, and Jerry Duggan said,
maybe don't beg for a wall with a poster inspired
by a show where a wall doesn't work, which is
a very good point and then oh yeah, Trump at
his fake press conference today was backed by a four
completely bald men, like bald white guys, and Sarah Baty tweeted, Hey,
(58:01):
I think I figured out where Trump collects his hair from.
But it really is weird. I don't know why he
has like a team of lex Luthor's just standing behind uh.
And then, in the tradition of Caitlin Darante's tweet that
she shared, Max Silvestri tweeted, did you guys like the
grizzlies exhibit at the Natural History Museum? I thought it
(58:24):
was pretty bare bones? And then in parentheses, this is
the only sort of thing I planned a tweet tweet. Anyways,
you can follow me on Twitter a check under Squirrel O'Brien.
You can follow us on Twitter at daily zeit Geist.
We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram, we have Facebook, campage,
and website daily ze geist dot com, where we post
our episodes and our footnotes were link off to the
(58:46):
information that we talked about in today's episode, as well
as the song right out on Super Producers. You're sort
of the interrosus elbow of this showy, Thank you very much.
I am the most attractive, spinning real quick. I'm gonna
(59:07):
recommend a song. Do you guys remember when old Devandra
Banhart had that band Megapus. Yeah, a great band, great band.
So I'm gonna recommend because I've been listening to this
song a lot recently. It is called theme from Hollywood.
It is a great song by Mega Pus Hirack A
lot of fun. Uh yeah, isn't that a sci fi
(59:30):
Megapus seems like one of those like Octor Shark type things. Anyways, Um,
that's it. Shut up, Jack, We're gonna ride out on that.
We won't be back tomorrow because it's only a week
daily podcast, not a daily. We don't published on the weekend,
so we will be back on Monday. Have a great
(59:53):
weekend everyone, We'll talk to you then bye by over
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