Daily ZeitBites 11/13: Jim Jordan, Apple+, Disney+, World Kindness Day, Netflix x Nickelodeon

Today on the Daily ZeitBite Jack and Miles talk about Jim Jordan, Disney+ vs Apple+, World Kindness Day, and Netflix working with Nickelodeon.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to the Daily Zight Fight
ose of Zack van Nuss. Are we this we're committing
to that name or uh for today today? Yeah, I
think this is very fluid as people will realize, you know,
we're feeling it out. Baby it works. We might burn out.
We might do only two of these and be like, yo,
we're already giving too much. But yeah, it's it's not

(00:24):
a professional play. It's a third rate podcast, not even
the second rate dream we are. Yeah. Uh, this is
where time moves very slow. Uh. This is my name
is Jack O'Brien, and I'm Miles Gray. And this is
uh the quick afternoon episode where we tell you about

(00:44):
stuff that was trending that we didn't get to on
today's episode. Uh, we're gonna start off with impeachment. Oh boy,
Jim Jordan's and g Y M Jordans, we're both trending. Yeah.
I don't know is that intentional? That's like a role
move wrestling coach. Ye. So basically I think he kind

(01:06):
of stole the captured people's attention imagination by being really indignant,
uh and bad faith right as news was coming out
that from his shadowy past. Yeah, well I mean, look,
he used to work as like, I think an assistant
coach on the Ohio State wrestling team. UM. And last

(01:28):
year this came up because the team doctor Dr strauss Um,
was accused of like assaulting like something like over a
hundred seventy athletes, while Jim Jordan's it was alleged that
he knew of this kind of ship that was going on.
And yeah, it came back out again because a referee
who was like refing a tournament or match with the

(01:50):
wrestling team caught the doctor, you know, masturbating the shower
recorded at him. Yeah, reported it to Jim Jordan's and
the head coach, and they were both just like, yeah, yeah,
we are yeah, yeah, old jerk off in the shower McGhee.
They're like, jerks, I'm gonna be a I became a
jerky boy there. Yeah, he's I think he was too

(02:11):
focused on his career as being like a tea party
troll man UM. And yeah, so I think that's one
of the reasons that it comes up. But you know,
at the same time, his whole impeachment performance was basically
like I'm gonna be sniveling the whole time, and when
I don't like an answer, I'm just gonna give you
a real patronizing smirk and then hope that people just

(02:32):
interpret my energy as I won the debate right the
and I mean Fox News was happy to go along
with that. Everybody at Fox News besides Chris Wallace was
happy to go along with the idea that well, I mean,
they so, yeah, we're on board. The Republicans said it
like this, So I guess I saw it even a

(02:53):
Republican come out after after Taylor like told the story
of how one of his aids legitimately overheard the president
on the phone right talking about something and they used
air quotes around one of his aids, and so yeah,
that's where we're a It was a little sadly, I

(03:16):
don't know why I was cringing on their behalf, because
I think because as being a young kid who was
very argumentative, there would be moments where you realize you're like, oh,
I'm in an indefensible position, and you're like, fuck, maybe
I'll just rage out to get out of this. And
that's pretty much where they're ended right now. Yeah, Chris
Wallace did say the testimony was very damaging and that

(03:37):
Taylor came off as well. I mean he's a deep
state uh plant, So yeah, I don't know what something
must have changed in his heart. Uh. One story that
is coming out is sort of the difference between how
the Disney Plus launch went and how the Apple Plus
launch went. So the guy who was in charge of

(04:00):
scripted at Apple Plus is leaving two days after the launch. Well, no,
it started technically November one, So I think because there
are two main shows in terms of their original content
that they were really trying to hang their hats on.
Was The Morning Show where Steve Correll, Jennifer Aniston, and
Reese Witherspoon. I saw the first episode and I was like,

(04:21):
it's a note for me, dog, It's just really it's
tone deaf or not toned. It's like there's no tone.
I'm not sure what the tone is, but it will
trying to describe it to me, and it just seems
very strange. It was like, yeah, it was an odd
way to sort of look at a you know, clearly
Steve Correll is like an analog for Matt Lauer Roum,

(04:43):
but in this one he's like, I didn't I because
I'm not a rapist. It's chill why am I in trouble?
This is so unfair. It the whole thing basically just
really kind of fell flat, regardless of you know, the
inner workings of it. Um. But you know, they spent
a lot of money. They spent a lot. They spent

(05:04):
a lot of the other show they spent a lot
of money on with c which was Kyle Drago, Uh
Jason Momoa in a post apocalyptic future where humans have
stopped being able to see, and then somebody is born
who can see. And I just I I hadn't seen anything.
I saw the trailer and I was like, all right, well,

(05:25):
that looks like it cost a lot of money. I
remember when we first saw that trailer though, because it's
like Warriors Ship, were like, you know, how are a
bunch of people who can't see each other going to
really get down enough? Right? The fights are just gonna
be comically just like wind milling in an open field
and be like, I'm gonna suck you up rank. So, uh,
I hadn't heard anything about how that show was. So
I looked up on a metacritic. It's in the thirties,

(05:47):
which is not good, and uh I got off one
hundred yes out of one hundred and Time Magazines critic
had this to say. The execution, particularly in scripts by
Stephen Knight, who apparently wrote Serenity, the January Inexplicable Book
movie with Matthew McConaughey. Uh So, the the execution is

(06:09):
an unmitigated disaster. Not to put too fine a point
on it, see is one of the worst TV series
I've seen in years. So that's that's not good. Okay, Oh,
that's that's not good at Yeah. So Disney Plus meanwhile,
has ten million subscribers right away, their stock is way up.

(06:29):
So I mean this probably shouldn't surprise us because Disney
does this for like they do what they do. Disney
does this, and Apple makes phones. Yeah, that's the problem,
I think. And we were saying the second this started
because remember we were hearing stories of like the nightmare
development process where like writers and stuff, we're like, we're
getting notes back from Apple that don't make sense or

(06:51):
like are actually would make the show actively worse. And
that's yeah, when you go from making hardware to like
content that like needs a point of view, like you
can't like kind of be vague and you know, lean
into one and to either do it all the way
wrong or all the way right. They're kind of like
half fucking up. Yeah, I kind of put it in perspective.
When they were talking about this, they were like, Kim
Rosenfeld is the guy's name who left. Uh. They were

(07:14):
saying he was like one of their first hires a
couple of years ago, and I was like, Oh, they
were building this entire division from scratch. They were trying
to build an entire studio essentially. And I think also
I get having like a big show like that was
Jason Momoa and like Reese Weatherspoon and like Aniston to
draw people in. That will get you a certain amount,

(07:34):
but it's just pales in comparison of what Disney Plus
was offering people. It's like, you know, your whole fucking childhood,
we got that, and now like this is also permanent
valume for your kids. Eyes that a month for Yeah,
and ten million subscribers in a single day, Yeah, that'll
do that. World Kindness Day was today. Yeah, there was

(07:58):
a profile of Tom Hanks, not in honor of this,
but just kind of all coalesced around Tom Hanks playing
Mr Rogers. Just a big kindness orgy. Yeah, and so
many anecdotes in there. Yeah, it was pretty wild. He's
like if Bill Murray was a like serially kind person, right,
It's like he's not really doing it for the shine,

(08:19):
Like he does it because he's you know, he does
it because he wants to be nice and is this
a very good uh you know, gentle human. Yeah, there
was an anecdote about him buying NPR a new carpet
when he showed up in their carpet was kind of messy,
paying for the person behind him in it and out.
Once in two thousand and eight, when he was shooting

(08:40):
Angels and Demons in Rome, a bride and her father
couldn't get to the chapel because of you know, they
were shooting him the production, so tom So Tom Hanks
stopped filming to escort them to the altar. Once in
two thou fifteen, he stopped by a table of Girl
Scout cookies and bought some boxes, donated an additional twenty,

(09:01):
then sat around doing selfies with passers by if they
would buy more cookies. Uh. That same year, he found
a young woman's student idea and like stopped everything on
his Twitter feed to make sure he could get it
to her and the only bad part is he accidentally
docks her. Yes, that didn't worked well. She was actually

(09:21):
caught for murder. The whole thing, it's he acts like
a person where you feel like, man, if I really
just got to make like the acting films I like to,
if I was an actor and getting paid millions of dollars,
I really have nothing to be pissed about shitty about it,
and I would probably at some point maybe feel a
little bit guilty that my life is so blessed and

(09:42):
easy that the least I can do is pay forward.
And that's like, it seems like if you were writing,
like that's his motivation of like, what do I gotta
what I gotta feel bad about? Tom Hicks. I don't know, man,
I'm I'm thinking it's this is bringing me back to
Bill Gates doing all that good ship. And then we
find out that he had some Epstein stuff, some lowly
to express my literal club hands, some karm attacks. Tom

(10:04):
Hanks is six six. There's another thing. There's another anecdote
about how um he would buy these like two thousand
dollar espresso machines for the White House Press Corps. Because
when Clinton was in office, he did a tour and
saw the press room and he just saw like how
all these like journalists were in there twenty four hours
a day, like really committed to this whole thing. And

(10:26):
he um this. Apparently he has donated I think at
least three of these machines. Um. And he wrote this
note on his typewriter to the Press Court that that says,
quote to the White House Press Corps, keep up the
good fight for truth, justice and the American way, especially
the truth part. Like here's your two thousand dollar Lydia
espresso machine. Yeah. It's basically like people compare him to

(10:48):
Jimmy Stewart, like being over Jimmy Stewart. It's basically like
the moment after uh and it's a wonderful life when
he comes back and it's like, oh, I'm so thankful
for my life. I'm gonna change everything. But then the
rest of us would get tired of that after like
four hours. Yeah, yeah, then we get it. Yeah, it's exhausting. Yeah.
Tom Hanks is just coming back to his life after

(11:11):
a near death experience just all the time every day, Like,
was Jimmy Stewart a nice guy in person? I don't know,
I don't know. I don't like there's a lot of
that is all I know about Jimmy. I feel like
there was don't here like there's already race named after him.
There's a lot of stories about a lot of people
from that era that are just very depraved, and you
could get away with a lot of depraved behavior. Yeah,

(11:34):
with no social media. It's like, yeah, yeah, that's STI
will come out in six years. Once you're able to
even identify people from this anecdote, you write, ah, well,
that's that's the trends of the day. Trends of the day. Oh.
I think one last thing we should just add because
we're talking about how you know, well, Disney Plus is
doing Netflix how to also announced that Netflix and Nickelodeon

(11:59):
have created an other alliance in the Streaming Wars, multi
year deal to produce original animated features and television series
based on their existing ip and new ones. So I
think a lot of it too is being like, oh,
is it the Battle for Children's Eyes? Also, we can
play that game. Eighties had Cola Wars and we have

(12:20):
the stream Wars. Stream Wars are pretty cool, Like they're
just gonna be like, hey man, these stream Wars are
pretty cool. And that's a pretty pretty cool. I've been
Jack O'Brien, I've been mouth that's it for the daily zitebites.
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Keep good luck, U,