Kpop DemTrend Hunter 8/25: Intel, Trump, Dean Cain, ICE, RFK Jr., Kilmar Garcia, 'Kpop Demon Hunter'
August 25, 2025 • 40 mins
In this edition of Kpop DemTrend Hunter, Jack and special guest co-host Mort Burke discuss... their respective weekends, the U.S. taking 10% of Intel, pathetic cop-gobbler Dean Cain's ICE obstacle course performance, RFK Jr. trying to get rid of the COVID vaccine?, newly released Kilmar Garcia getting re-arrested and re-deported, 'Kpop Demon Hunter' taking the box office and much more!
WATCH: Washed-up actor Dean Cain, 59, debasing himself for clout
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I saw weapons. Did you see weapons? No, but I
know Zach Craiger, Yeah, yeah, because he's like a comedy guy. Yeah,
I heard. It was good. It was really fun nice. Yeah.
Did you at my wife's song? And she's like, it's
funnier than you might think, Yes, much funnier and less
like scary than I thought it was going to be.
There is a shot in it that I'm very confused by, Brian.
(00:23):
The assault rifle in the dream. We know, oh, in
the sky? Right, yeah, the assault rifle in the sky.
I think people are talking about. Yeah, well that's the
main thing about which feels like almost on the two
on the nose symbolism or something, right. I mean it's like, yeah,
dream symbolism, but like really really on the nose. It's
(00:44):
not a metaphor. It's just a gun. It's about like
school shootings. It's like putting in there's like a school
in the sky and a gun. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't
like really get it in school. I guess it like
sends you down a path of possibly school shootings and
then it doesn't really do that. But it is a
metaphor in the sense that there are metaphorical weapons right
(01:06):
in the movie, and that is a weapon. Yeah, yeah,
and the children of the weapons. Right when you think
about it, Brian, a gun is a weapon, dude, Slow down? Wait,
do you do you have a word dress? Brian's making
noises like he hadn't thought about it till you don't.
Maybe the weapons were the friends we made alone. Yeah. See,
(01:28):
I knew you were going to say that, and that
was when the weapons were carrying you. When maybe it
was the weapon that was carrying that was the assault
rifle that was carrying me. So funny. It's like the
footpins in the sand picture, but instead of instead of
like like the imprint of the butt of a Hello
(01:55):
the Internet, and welcome to this week trends edition of Guys. Yeah,
it's weird to do that in person. I've been doing
it in a room by myself for for so long.
He became vaguely German. Yeah, I do. It doesn't it
doesn't translate over the zoom, but yeah, my attempt at
(02:18):
a German accent. My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled
to be joined in our second seat. Miles is away
on assignment overseas. Uh, it's thrilled to be joined by
a very funny. Comedian, actor, writer, improviser who's special Spiritually Filthy.
That was very funny. Gotta go check it out right now.
He co hosts the podcast Rebrand That's so fun. He's
(02:40):
our special skateboarding correspondent. It's more. What it's much watching
back is Martin Vicken. It is so easy to be
German when screaming. Yeah it is. Yeah, the only way
I know how to scream. They try not to scream
now to seem less German, but it doesn't work. They
just have a like keep your voices low just generally
(03:03):
yeah nation wide yep, just above a whisper at all time. Yeah, please,
well more. This is the episode where we uh talk
about what was trending over the weekend. Really a lot
of fun news. It's always fun here at Daily Jesus Christ.
But first we let the listeners and this is a
big favor that we do them. We let the listeners
(03:25):
get to know us a little bit better by telling
them some things that we are overrated? Have you ever
heard about this? And underrated? Thank you for whispering it
to and uh, yeah, you do you want to kick
us off with an overraty? Do you want me to
do it. Yeah, no, I'd love to. And what a
what a privilege this is for the listener to get
to know me, and it's all just a preemptive You're
(03:47):
welcome and then go ahead. Yeah you want me to
start overrated? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got an hardest one. Yeah,
I got an overrated talking to strangers totally overrated. I'm
from from the Midwest, where it's in cur In, LA.
There's very little stranger talking. No, no, there's a distant
distance kind of a dead eyed stare that we do
to each other when we pass. You know, it's not
(04:09):
an acknowledgment. You look through them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, exactly. Yeah.
You go, you're not Bill Maher and you don't care.
See you just keep walking. You just walking down the
street checking for mar It's just on the mar check
on the mar hunt. Yeah. So okay, So this involves
a story which is a buddy of mine. He and
I are both into cars. So he rented a Ferrari
(04:31):
three oh eight, which is the Ferrari from Magnum p I. Okay,
it's like a perfect like late seventies, like a real
uh real jerks sports car. Oh a fun way, it's
not very fast, but it's loud and it looks great.
Oh man, we're a couple of assholes turning around in
that thing. Real pricks turning around Los Angeles like a
(04:51):
Ferrari in the late seventies. Shout out to my friend
Jonathan Hollis, who picked me up at a hilarious comics.
So we're driving around. The other fun thing about these
cars is none of the years work. So at some
point where like or none of the gauges work, and
we're like, oh, we might be we're nearly out of gas.
I'm picturing like when a plane is crashing in a movie.
In the gage, they're all circling. Yeah, that's what's happening exactly,
(05:13):
the gas gauge. Yeah, there's like a cuckoo clock for
some reason. It's so we go to a gas station.
We pull over and this stranger comes up. Stranger danger,
and you could the vibe was weird. So this guy's
driving a car and on the side but it's like
a it's like a mini suv on the side our
golden astronaut statues and he leans out of his car
and he goes, yeah, weird, right, he goes MPV movie
(05:35):
A word MTV video music that would have made sense.
It was not the moon Man, okay, but it felt close.
Uh huh. And he goes, hey, I was on Magnum P.
I did sixty episodes. That's what he said. Hell, yes,
out of nowhere. How are we going to get from
here to this? Being overrated? This guy sounds amazing. This
sounds like an amazing thing that happened to you. I
told you I have a hard to have with overrated,
(05:55):
so I'll tell you how. Immediately he's the worst person alive.
Immediately he's talking about it. He's like, yeah, we're working
with the White House. We're building golden statues for Trump.
That's when this guy said. So I was like, all right, man,
uh yeah, and he goes and then he goes, he goes,
what do you guys do like liberals? I go yeah,
And then he goes, what do you guys do? And
(06:16):
we go comedy, which you never want to say to
some because he's going to ask you make me laugh.
I think he's in the biz, so he knows that
he actually didn't do that, but he goes, he goes,
what's your Instagram? He looks at my Instagram and he
goes he looks it up and he goes three thousand followers.
He's really disappointed in my follower account. Yeah, and then okay,
then this is where now this is a twist where
(06:37):
it becomes very it is actually underrated because then he goes,
I know that old guy from SNL and we go
the old guy from SNL and he goes, yeah, Louren Michaels,
and then he goes old guy from Yeah, that's what
you Yeah, and then he goes, you want his phone number?
So I now have either actually Lauren Michael's phone number
(06:57):
in my phone or just a weird number to a
stranger that a guy lied to me about. What a
great content. Just the feeling of power of having a
contacting your phone that says Lauren Michaels must feel great.
I feel more confident since that friend night. And yeah,
and Jonathan shouldn't have showed me that because I'm about
to put that ship on my phone. Well, we get
home and Jonathan's like, I'm gonna need a need that number, dude.
(07:19):
So I texted and we have a gentleman's agreement that
we won't use it without the other one's permission. That's good. Yeah, man,
we can both send pictures of our butt right now
if you want. If you want to just blow the
whole thing out, don't do it. Some hole post some
hole on main for Lauren. I know that old guy
from just don't send him any hole. I just promise
(07:41):
me won't send him whole trust me from experience doesn't
love it all right. My overrated is the Bennington chest
tool panel. I don't think I am No, this is
dumb thing I got advertised a tool belt that they've
turned into a like thing that makes you look like
you're on the team that is rating bin Laden's compound.
(08:04):
Like it's like a tactical vest that like has a
fucking screwdriver there, but like they want they want you
to feel like you're an operator. Yep, basically one of
the six yep. And I got it. And it's not
as good. It does make you feel as powerful. No,
I didn't get it, but I I just I don't know, man,
(08:25):
I feel I'm starting to feel bad about this country. Yeah,
there are some things that like, there's also Trump chocolate
all over New York, like at the bodegas and uh
at the at the airport. I was leaving and it
was like Donald Trump, forty seventh president chocolate. And I
asked the guy, I was like, this isn't popular, is it.
(08:47):
I was like, brother, this is so popular, we can't
we can't keep it in stock. Yeah. Well and the yeah,
the tactical the tactical vest thing. We don't all need
to look like we belong are in militias. Right, it's
not a great look. No, Yeah, but yeah, that that
feels like that's happening, that we're just like moving in
that direction. Like at least I've talked for a while
(09:09):
on the show about how I feel like the eighties
and like just like a pervasive conservativism is like coming
back has come back, but at least in the eighties,
like the conservative people like looked okay, like it just
looks like shit, it looks like everybody looks like they
want to fucking be an operator. Well this is It's
(09:31):
also there's an element of this to me that is
like stupid, ugly consumerism. That age is really poorly. So
this might actually be the like QVC of right now,
do you know what I mean? Where it's just like chintzy,
stupid bullshit that actually means nothing. And you know, they
thought I was gonna be They thought I was gonna buy.
They're like, we know, we know what's going to work
for this guy. Does does trump chocolate taste like a
(09:56):
old piss and a diaper? That would be that's a
really good question. I did smell it, I didn't actually
have the courage to purchase it. I wonder if it
like gets you off watch lists, like all the things
that have put me on watch lists. I wonder if
it like checks one of them, erases one of the
checks on that point. Yeah, you scan the QR code
and like you're no longer under observation? What what's some
(10:18):
of these things? Underrated? Jack? Thank you? I'm gonna go
beidays because my wife just got one and I'm by now,
and I think that, like this, it's been such a
such a stupid burden to have been straight for so long,
you know, and so it really Yeah, it's it's the
main weapon in the gay agenda, and I thank them
(10:39):
for it. Yeah, yeah, totally. It's the day makes you.
I mean, we've been pro bidet. I didn't know what
made me buy for so long. Yeah, it's going to
do you that service finally, like you'll be open hearted
enough to consider the sexual spectrum. There you go. Yeah,
and I'd also just feel more hygienic truly. Oh it's
so much better. Oh, it's so much better. We transferred
(11:00):
our toilets out to do a low flow toilet Hero
Living Saint, Yes, thank you. Uh. And we didn't have
like the right size the day for the new low
flow toilet. And I have been without the day for
many months now, and I feel like I'm wandering a desert. Yeah,
(11:21):
now you know. Yeah, I feel like I've fucking went
back in time. Yeah, it's like a Joshua tree in July. Yeah,
it's fucking it's Burning Man right now? Right? Have you
seen the footage of Burning Man? I think we can
all stop and just take a moment to enjoy what
Burning Man? What's happening with burning friends? There? Nasty fucking
(11:42):
dust storm, Yeah, the windiest it's ever been. I I
in no way begrudge people going to burn, no God bless.
But I did a stand up set for a group
of people that I found out were Burning Man people
while I was doing the set. They had this like
little spot and kind of near Englewood and uh, and
they were the kindest people and they also the way
they the way they talked about it. They're like, yeah,
(12:02):
it is where privileged people go to pretend they're homeless,
And I was like, it's pretty strong. Yeah, yeah, I
like that. They refer to it as burn, like are
you gonna burn this year? Yeah? That kind of rules.
I've I want to go, but I don't have the
courage or the uh you know, fortitude. It's it's just
it looks too nasty for me. It is more about
(12:25):
doing amphetamines than I thought it was. Like it's extremely
sexual also, like there is yeah, there's like a hookup
tent that is uh huh. Just like like a friend,
a friend of mine, was like, he's like, I saw
two people having sex in between parked cars one time. Well,
I guess it's a free for all over. It's a
good spot. See you know that spot between the two
cars the best, very romantic. Yeah, need an oil slick, Yeah,
(12:50):
a gasoline oil rainbow. So it's actually very beautiful. Yeah,
all right, my underrated. I saw weapons. I do think
it's underrated to just start running like the kids and
weapons with your arms behind you like like that. I
just think there's something very freeing about it. If you
(13:11):
just have to like catch up a few steps to something. Yeah,
start running like that, your chest out, you're making yourself aerodynamic.
Yeah that feels great. Yeah. So that's something that I've
begun doing, just long jogs with my hands behind me
like that, running as fast as I can. It's both
beautiful and troubling to picture an adult man doing that.
(13:33):
Feel so free and just in a straight line, but
not like on a road, like you're going to some unknown,
destined like location, just through people's yards. Yeah, as the
crow flies. Yeah, exactly, You're running as the crow flies.
That's the move. And also I got it just I
(13:53):
was spent three weeks on the East Coast, which is
where I grew up, and they are like these little
ways that being where you grew up like just sets
you at ease the weather, like the way the weather works.
I noticed that, like the bugs makes sense anymore. I
(14:14):
like spotted a fly and I was like, oh, that
was easy because I remember how like bugs move out
of here. It wasn't even a fly. It was like
some mosquito like insect. Seltzer's everywhere, man, Yeah, have fucking Seltzers.
What kind of what flavor are we doing? I'm doing
anything like I mean, I do schweps just like some seltzer.
Like they just the fact that they always have it
(14:36):
on tap, no matter no matter what grocery store or
fucking bodega you're walking into, they're gonna have some seltzer
and sounds so wonderful. Twe you know what I mean,
not if you scream it. That's right, all right, you've
gotten to know us better. We've done them that song.
(14:58):
You feel great now, welcome. We're going to take a
quick break and we're going to come back and get
into some news. We'll be right back and we're back.
So you're you're from Saint Louis, You've got the Saint
(15:20):
Louis weather. Like when you go back, it feels ish. Yeah,
you kind of miss it. So it is like a
swamp where it's it gets so human. It feels like
you're were wearing a gross blanket in the summer. But
you do. I kind of miss it because it's evocative
of childhood, you know, like I missed that part of it.
(15:40):
And then you appreciate the fall and the winter too,
you know, because you it's like when I lived in Chicago,
the winter's a nightmare. But then spring, everybody is like
so happy. Oh my god, there's no more mental health issues.
They go away. Everybody's just everyone plays volleyball, right, you
all don't like volleyball. Yeah, no, I've never been sad
(16:01):
playing volleyball. It's impossible. I've invented a new volleyball in
New York that I hadn't seen before. It's really high nets,
really high nets. Have you ever seen that? We talked
like thirty feet. What are you saying? They're real high?
I mean, that's so higher than volleyball nets, which I
find to be plenty high personally. But I'm not getting
up and spike in at the normal one. You didn't
have to lean down to spika. This is such a
(16:23):
great idea because I would love to see, like if
there was just one NBA game a year where the
nets were forty feet right in the sky. Yeah, how fun?
Would that be so great? And a three pointer is
a ten pointer? Yeah, I think we need to have
more fun, Like there is a pitch too, because, like
people have said, too many threes in the NBA, Like
(16:44):
people are getting too good at the threes. The offense
has become a little bit predictable. I feel like the
offenses look great right now personally. But one of the
pitches that I heard that I do love is making
the three point lines in each arena different based on
where you are, that way that a baseball outfield has
like different shit. You're like, oh yeah, that one's like
only twenty feet out there. Like you can get so
(17:06):
many home runs if you hit in that direction. Like
if you just had like a weird little like gap
in Boston, We're like so good. Yeah, total, or we
got to go to actually, don't from the three over there,
but you're gonna stack your defense there and on that
side of the court. You have to shoot from the
logo to get a three pointer. Yeah, like if the
baskets moved just a little, or like in baseball, if
(17:29):
you had to you had to use a really long
bat sometimes, you know, just like some handicaps, Like one
time the bat just like goes a little wobbly, Uh,
just turnt noodle. There's like a button that, yeah that
let's say the announcers can push that turns your bat.
Announcers flascidad or looking for just a couple middle aged
(17:55):
guys talking about flicidity in order to not talk about
the news. Boo boo. So the big news story that
I kind of hate because it's like economically complicated is
that the US government has obtained a quote ten percent
stake in Intel after buying eight point nine billion dollars
(18:19):
worth of shares in the struggling company. The way that
it's being pitched, the way that I saw it in
headlines before I like actually read up on it, and
our writer Jam kind of dug in a little bit
on it, is that like Trump just got them to
give him ten percent of the company Intel, and like
it's and that's yours congratulations, which is interesting. So he
(18:45):
came in using the fact that the CEO of the
American manufacturer has quote ties to the Chinese Communist Party
and then like basically use that as leverage to like
do a thing that would be more familiar to like
in China, where like the government takes over the company.
It's not quite that though, they, like people are pointing out,
(19:08):
they don't have a the government doesn't have a controlling interest.
So it's just like it's almost like he's like floating
this idea as like what if we did something that's
like kind of close to approximating socialism. Obama did it
to bail out General Motors. I think in like during
that economic crisis, I think the government had like a
(19:28):
sixty one percent share. I think it was controlling. This
is a ten percent share of the company, and like
it's the thing that you would offer a dumb guy
like doesn't And he was like yeah, hell yeah, Like
the version of the stock that he got is not controlling,
Like it doesn't give them any leverage, which even if
(19:50):
it had been that kind, ten percent isn't that much.
It's not that kind. It's like common stock, which is
like not that valuable. So he had the opportunity to
do that and he didn't because maybe he just like
got tricked. Who knows, he's not that sharp, he's not
president deals like he likes to think he is. It
(20:11):
is interesting, it's like opening an interesting door, right, because
I think this goes back to this idea we talk
about a lot on the show where people are fucking
done with the well, the world is just dictated by
this like market economy that like just tells us what
to do based on the logic of the market, and
(20:32):
the market is always right. People are waking up to
the fact that's like arbitrary and strange. Yeah, yeah, people
don't like that. That's like the one thing that it
feels like everybody is agreed to, like voters have agreed to.
The mainstream media doesn't really write about it in this way,
but like that does seem to be. The lesson is
that they're you know, the whole hypernormalization of it all.
You've seen that documentary where it's like we're all being
(20:55):
controlled by these big multinational companies and like the government
is you know, there's a moment in the Biden administration
where he was like, well, I don't know what to do.
It's like you're the president, but in this system where
it is just these big companies dictating everything. That's true,
like the president can do shit essentially if unless things change.
(21:17):
And it feels like gambling. Yeah, everyone feels like a
slot machine you could go to and try your luck out.
But that's not how like the government in the market
should operate. Ye. Yes, And it's also like gambling in
the sense that it has the illusion that everybody can
like make money, but it's actually just funneling money upwards.
Like in a broad sense, it's just funneling money upward.
That's something that Scheinbaum in Mexico is like very clear about,
(21:41):
is that like neoliberalism, which is like one word for
that version of things, is just a machine to redistribute
money upward, right, which is which is the like that
to me, that is the evolution of capitalism. Like, that's
just what is going to happen to in unfettered capitalism ultimately,
is that power begets more power, money begets more money. Right,
And that was a thing that everybody knew was bad,
(22:02):
right and to be guarded against yep, for the entirety
of the like first, you know, sixty years of the
twentieth century, and then there's been a massive, like slow,
very successful deregulation to just deregulate, Yeah, get all that
shit out. Make regulation a bad word, yep. And so
we're at this point where it's just like this version
(22:25):
of capitalism where everything gets filtered upwards and people are
tired of it. And in other countries, like in Mexico,
they have the possibility of like doing a more socialist
version of how to operate a country. At this time.
Obviously China, like the government controls what these multinational corporations
(22:47):
are doing and I think it's like people want anything,
but that people want anything but the neoliberal, market based
version of things. And in America the only options we
have are the neoliberal version or fascism. It's like what
we've been given mm hmm, and anything else is like
you got damn hippie still like sixty years, can we Yeah?
(23:07):
And then like a tiny little spark of hope with
Zoron Zon Mamdani in NYC. But like that's really all.
Like nobody else is like really making a case, I
don't think, because it's presumably they benefit from that system, right,
So the Democratic Party is like, so you know, it
is the party of that status quo system. And like
(23:31):
the way they're reacting to this Trump move is to
be like, that's socialism, dude, that's bad. We hate socialism, right,
which is so bad because it makes Trump see like
I think the thing that people would like to try
is socialism, but like you can't try it in America,
but Democrats are pretending that Trump is trying it, yeah
(23:53):
right now. And then that's how it's like kind of
being covered in the mainstream media. So I don't know,
it's it's not socialism in any way because they're not
actually seizing any functional control of the means of production
for Intel. But it's annoying that the Democrats are basically
pretending it is the thing that people would want Trump
(24:15):
to do. Well it is. Yeah, And it's so bizarre
the thing that Democrats do where they like it almost
seems like there are sections where they're trying to eke
out where they could possibly be more right wing. Like everyone,
they'll become like, we're the patriotic ones, and it's like, yeah, sure,
we can love America, but we're the party of saying
like and also we can do better, right, do you know?
(24:35):
It's this very strange thing that Democrats do. Yeah, they're like,
we've we don't know how to push back against this
like fascist, anti immigrant hellscape because that polls well. It's
like it doesn't pull that well. And like just be
on the right side of his not the right side,
the you know, correct side of history. That's that's one
way to do it. Yeah, right, yeah, and then all right,
(24:58):
we are pro cop all of a sudden some stuff
like that, you know what I mean, We're like, hold
on a second, aren't we in direct opposition to this
authoritarian armed so authoritarian armed ship is one of the options,
and the other is uh the Democrats being pro cop
and pro big business. Yeah, and we don't got anything else, no,
(25:19):
which is what? And like to me, if you follow,
you just follow your follow your heart, just like follow
your morality, right, which the demograph you know what I mean? Like,
didn't you get it? Right? Don't you see the obviousness
of this anti brown fear, immigrant fear propagandist that's not
(25:40):
true and speak against it? How hard is that? Seems
seems pretty straightforward. It is tough to push back against
some of the stuff that Trump's doing, Like, for instance,
he delivered pizza to uh, to the cops to the
like race cops in Washington, d c. Into the National Guard.
He uh deliver some pizza like it was a fucking
(26:02):
t ball party to think about. Like everybody talks about
how funny Trump is, but I think he gets a
ton of leverage by doing shit that is so stupid
that it's funny that someone in his position is doing
it right, you know, Like it's not like that's not
actually funny, but it's funny that this guy who's five
to nine claims to be six too, and talks like
a cartoon bear and it's just for somehow the president
(26:24):
to live in pizza. That's funny, Yeah it is. And
like it's like when he did the party for the
championship football team, I forget who it was, Clemson maybe
and like just had like McDonald's burgers. Like he's just
like throwing parties for fucking like middle school volleyball teams.
Like his level of understanding. It's like if your dumbest
(26:45):
uncle won the lottery, he would do some funny things
with him. But that's not because he's funny, right, Yeah, yeah,
he would get a monster truck with the word butthole
on the side because he thinks that's hilarious. Yeah. I
want to talk in our episode, in tomorrow's episode about
like what the movie Dystopia is like that this approximates
because it's so weird. It's not like anything really in
(27:08):
particular because it's so dumb and so like no movie
would have the fucking fascist dictator like ordering pizza parties
for people. You know, we also have some great footage
that made me feel just a little bit better of
Dean Kane. If you're familiar our Worst Superman My Generations yes, exactly.
(27:32):
Uh yeah, there was there a Superman like I guess
there was in like between Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh.
Was that his name? Uh huh, sure, it was Dean Kane,
the only one. I think so, because because this is
this is before they were bringing everything back, So it
was kind of a new weird thing because Dean There
was a TV show that Dean Kane was Superman. Yeah right, yeah,
(27:53):
I think the first time. Yeah, I think that was
the first time maybe Superman to comebacks. It's the reason
so a lot of with great power comes great responsibility,
and he is fucking it up. He is a descendant
of Japanese relatives who were interned during World War Two,
and now he's actively recruiting for the agency that is
(28:14):
literally imprisoning immigrants in former Japanese internment camps. That's a
new line that they crossed, is they are taking a
Japanese internment camp in Texas and reopening it for the
purposes of this version of you know, white supremacist imprisonment.
For those keeping track at home, that's a new line
(28:35):
that we've crossed. But so Dean Kane is trying to
be like the face of an organization that, as we've
talked about, doesn't have a face because everyone's so ashamed
what they're doing. Their face is a sche mask. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
they are. They have the same desire to be seen
doing what they do for a living as bank robbers,
(28:58):
but they don't like have like bags of money with
like money pouring out of it. They're just doing horrible
shit and then going home and trying to sleep at night. Yep.
And so here comes Hollywood failure Dean Cage, which is
always with the guy, and they got some great footage
of him like running through did you see this footage?
(29:20):
He's running through like what appears to be a McDonald's
play place, like in a post apocalyptic landscape. Like it's
like a bunch of training things that seem to be
designed for children. Like there's a concrete tube that he's
like crawling through. There's multiple like walls that he has
(29:41):
to like climb over on one of them, he just
like it has like three bars that are clearly meant
for you to like climb up, and he just like
goes through it. He's sneaking into a fucking through a
window like he's robbing a pie. And then Immediately after that,
they show him dragging like a life sized, like mannequin body.
(30:02):
That's that's part of the training, which just seems I
don't know, I feel like we're at the part where
they like turn to each other and they'll be like, wait,
are we the batties the bad guys? My training is
sneaking through a window and then dragging a lifeless body
across the fucking earth. I don't know why, but it
just feels like it speaks so directly to whoever posts
(30:24):
on Facebook marketplace. I don't know why those two things
make perfect sense together, but they do. Anyways, he does
not look good doing these No. No, he's not not
impressive physically, or it's not flying. He's not really moving
at the speed of He's moving at the speed of
like a person who walks for recreation in the mall.
(30:45):
You know. Yeah, Like it's like that level, Like he's
the upper bodies showing like I'm jogging, but the lower
body is like just kind of going along it. Yeah,
he is locked. It's clear they had to edit at
the sounds that old men make when they get up.
Oh my god, I was making by the way I
was making those sounds so much. Last week I went
(31:07):
into the Atlantic Ocean and got the ship beat out
of me by some some big waves. Not that big actually,
but I was like whoa those waves and like wait,
were you surfing or just a body surfing? And I
was trying to, you know, get my bearings and using
muscles that I guess I hadn't used in a long time.
(31:30):
Oh yeah, so I don't just stand somewhere and like
have people like push me in various directions. Yeah, mother nature,
push you down. Yeah. And I kept doing it because
it was so fun. But I kept having like soreness
in places where I'm like, I have a muscle over
my knee, Like what the fuck is that? And was
making the most old man just like oh boy, chemny
(31:54):
help felt horrible. Hey, somebody helps surfing Grandpa, get out
of the water man. Now I'll bring it in. Kept
doing these hang loose hang loose guys. You're like drowning.
Hang loose comes up out of the guy, all right, yeah,
(32:16):
just just sad. Hang loose comes out and then slowly
sinks below the surface. Yeah all right, Uh that's about
all I can take of the dystopian stuff. Let's take
a quick break and we're gonna come back and we're
gonna talk K pop Demon Hunters. Are you ready? I'm
so ready? Hell yeah, And we're back. And I fucking lied.
(32:43):
Uh a little bit more dystopia. That's a good tagline
for the Daily I mugging lie to you guys. We
are going to get to K pop Demon Hunters, but
real quick. RFK Junior wants to pull the COVID vaccine
from the market within months. I will say, you know,
there's this is being reported by a British cardiologist anti
(33:07):
vaxxer who is like one of his closest associates, but
like it's not I don't doubt it, but it will be.
It will be a fucking disaster of like epic proportions.
And we only have this one source on it, so
there's a chance that he's floating that to like his crazy,
crazy anti vaxxer buddy, and it's still going to like
(33:30):
face some breaks, like but you know, institutional breaks have
not been holding up too well lately, so we don't
know exactly how serious to take this yet, but he
is very anti mRNA vaccines and yeah, no, the whole
position seems to be, Hey, what if we try to
(33:51):
kill a bunch of more old people. I'm not saying
the only people that die of it, but it is like,
it seems like he's the vulnerable, and then kill Abrego.
Garcia was re abducted by ICE during Monday check ins.
He was freed by a judge who was like, he
does not pose a flight risk or a danger to
(34:14):
the community, and then ICE was like, cool, just check
back in with us on Monday, and then re abducted
him and said that they're planning to deport him to Uganda.
So yeah, that's happening. Yeah, what a nightmare, dude, fuck
true true nightmare. Shit. But on the other hand, number
(34:34):
one of the box office this weekend. K Pop Demon Hunters,
Demon Hunters. This is a movie that I particularly like
my kids. I have a seven nine year old. They
love this movie. Two boys just singing K Pop Demon
Hunters songs all day. I feel like they are driving
(34:57):
the fact that two of the songs are a the
Billboard Top ten right now yea from this movie. This
movie's been on Netflix since June. They put it in
theaters this weekend and it was the number one movie
in movie theaters this weekend. Wow. Yeah, it was like
a sing along event. Yeah, like little Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
(35:19):
my first Rocky Horror Picture show. Yeah, it'd be great,
Like somebody shows up in their Rocky Horror Picture Show
gear for that. Fuck this feels wrong, but I love
this for a couple of reasons. One, Netflix had no
fucking idea that this is gonna be it. They didn't
put any marketing behind it. It just like totally blew
(35:41):
up on like social media, fan word of mouth. They
keep being blindsided by the success of like the stuff
they make with Korean filmmakers Squid Game. They're like, I
don't know, I guess we'll try this, yeah, and like
paid didn't pay shit for it. This one they just
bought off Sony, didn't really mark it, and then it
like exploded and they're like, oh okay. And then I
(36:04):
like the idea of being able to like get movies
that have unorthodox like paths to the theater, which I
think we're I think is probably going to continue to
be more and more of a thing. Where like I
was noticing that in New York like you were, as
I was like looking for a time to see weapons.
There's like all these other like old movies that are
(36:24):
just like showing across the city, like just having a
second run. Like I feel like I don't know that
that's a path to like keep theaters relevant, which I
think is important, Yeah, important to me because I'm old.
No totally saying we just went. I just went and
saw a marathon man at the new Beverly Oh you
that like Dustin Hoffman Pace, which I've never seen before,
and it was Yeah, there's no reason that keep people
(36:47):
keep saying cinema is dying, but we continue to make great,
really interesting things. Yeah, it hasn't stopped. Yeah, you know,
and yeah, in La I feel like it's like there
are these theaters that show old or movies and then
like every once in a while there will be like
a re like there's a cool thing that like Miyazaki
movies like come out every year, like just are re released.
(37:11):
I just I think we should be using amcas and like, yeah,
regal cinemas as show signed Feld for two hours straight
or whatever. All right, you know, I think so many
people would go see Friends for three out just like
the best episodes of whatever. Their favorite text to me
on the plane sure would would have been there he
was blas friends. Yeah yeah, real CEO energy being like
(37:35):
but like really a lot of energy, a lot of
positive energy. Yeah. God, he wanted to talk to me
so bad. Yea, I gave him nothing. That's the well,
that's like La and East Coast of Like, it's like
how a bartender knows to never make eye content, right,
there's this beautiful way to protect your energy from Yeah,
I feel bad. Maybe that guy would have like given
(37:56):
me Lorne Michael's phone number or something, if I'd just
like given a And it was really crazy because he
was like so nice and was talking to like everybody around,
like was going over me to talk to the person
next to him, just like having great little back and forth.
I was like, I'm trying to fucking watch Starship Troopers again, man,
I'm trying to find trying to find the movie that
represents our dystopia. What are you doing? Why are you
(38:18):
talking to me? And then my wife came up, like
we weren't seated next to each other because we like
kind of refused to sit there. Yeah, what are you doing?
Why are you talking to me in public? What did
we say? We We had like messy travel plans, so
we were like, you know, and she came up and
was talking to me, and he was like, oh my god,
(38:39):
you guys are together, dude, why didn't you tell me,
like we're old friends. He was like, take my seat,
like we had like a little extra leg room too.
It's like she was like, no, it's it's okay, Like
my seat doesn't have much, Like I don't care. I
was like, so giving this guy zero it's so nice. Yeah,
(39:02):
that's the thing about these people, man, It's like, yeah,
this is wild. What a theme. I think it's I
think it's my fault. Like I just think I didn't
have any energy from like being in New York for
a week or something. I was just like not not
willing to do it, and I probably missed a great adventure. Yeah,
well that I'm scared of strangers. I'll admit, I don't
know what they're gonna do. They're capable of anything. Yeah,
(39:23):
you know, so, but I am. I am getting a
lot better at like just having it because you do
get into really weird interesting conversations ye stuff. Yeah, anyway,
i'd probably be kite surfing right now with the CEO
if I like fucking him and Richard Branson the greatest dream.
All right, mort we've done it. We've told the people.
Was training over the weekend, was trending this Monday morning.
(39:43):
We are going to be back tomorrow with a very special,
whole ass episode of the show with a couple podcast
hosts that are very very excited to have on. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, Get
your vaccines while you still can. Literally it's they're going away.
Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
(40:05):
and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. The Daily
Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law, co produced by
Bee Wang, co produced by Victor Wright, co written by
j M McNabb, and edited and engineered by Brian Jefferies.
I saw weapons. Did you see weapons? No, but I
know Zach Craiger, Yeah, yeah, because he's like a comedy guy. Yeah,
I heard. It was good. It was really fun nice. Yeah.
Did you at my wife's song? And she's like, it's
funnier than you might think, Yes, much funnier and less
like scary than I thought it was going to be.
There is a shot in it that I'm very confused by, Brian.
(00:23):
The assault rifle in the dream. We know, oh, in
the sky? Right, yeah, the assault rifle in the sky.
I think people are talking about. Yeah, well that's the
main thing about which feels like almost on the two
on the nose symbolism or something, right. I mean it's like, yeah,
dream symbolism, but like really really on the nose. It's
(00:44):
not a metaphor. It's just a gun. It's about like
school shootings. It's like putting in there's like a school
in the sky and a gun. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't
like really get it in school. I guess it like
sends you down a path of possibly school shootings and
then it doesn't really do that. But it is a
metaphor in the sense that there are metaphorical weapons right
(01:06):
in the movie, and that is a weapon. Yeah, yeah,
and the children of the weapons. Right when you think
about it, Brian, a gun is a weapon, dude, Slow down? Wait,
do you do you have a word dress? Brian's making
noises like he hadn't thought about it till you don't.
Maybe the weapons were the friends we made alone. Yeah. See,
(01:28):
I knew you were going to say that, and that
was when the weapons were carrying you. When maybe it
was the weapon that was carrying that was the assault
rifle that was carrying me. So funny. It's like the
footpins in the sand picture, but instead of instead of
like like the imprint of the butt of a Hello
(01:55):
the Internet, and welcome to this week trends edition of Guys. Yeah,
it's weird to do that in person. I've been doing
it in a room by myself for for so long.
He became vaguely German. Yeah, I do. It doesn't it
doesn't translate over the zoom, but yeah, my attempt at
(02:18):
a German accent. My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled
to be joined in our second seat. Miles is away
on assignment overseas. Uh, it's thrilled to be joined by
a very funny. Comedian, actor, writer, improviser who's special Spiritually Filthy.
That was very funny. Gotta go check it out right now.
He co hosts the podcast Rebrand That's so fun. He's
(02:40):
our special skateboarding correspondent. It's more. What it's much watching
back is Martin Vicken. It is so easy to be
German when screaming. Yeah it is. Yeah, the only way
I know how to scream. They try not to scream
now to seem less German, but it doesn't work. They
just have a like keep your voices low just generally
(03:03):
yeah nation wide yep, just above a whisper at all time. Yeah, please,
well more. This is the episode where we uh talk
about what was trending over the weekend. Really a lot
of fun news. It's always fun here at Daily Jesus Christ.
But first we let the listeners and this is a
big favor that we do them. We let the listeners
(03:25):
get to know us a little bit better by telling
them some things that we are overrated? Have you ever
heard about this? And underrated? Thank you for whispering it
to and uh, yeah, you do you want to kick
us off with an overraty? Do you want me to
do it. Yeah, no, I'd love to. And what a
what a privilege this is for the listener to get
to know me, and it's all just a preemptive You're
(03:47):
welcome and then go ahead. Yeah you want me to
start overrated? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got an hardest one. Yeah,
I got an overrated talking to strangers totally overrated. I'm
from from the Midwest, where it's in cur In, LA.
There's very little stranger talking. No, no, there's a distant
distance kind of a dead eyed stare that we do
to each other when we pass. You know, it's not
(04:09):
an acknowledgment. You look through them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, exactly. Yeah.
You go, you're not Bill Maher and you don't care.
See you just keep walking. You just walking down the
street checking for mar It's just on the mar check
on the mar hunt. Yeah. So okay, So this involves
a story which is a buddy of mine. He and
I are both into cars. So he rented a Ferrari
(04:31):
three oh eight, which is the Ferrari from Magnum p I. Okay,
it's like a perfect like late seventies, like a real
uh real jerks sports car. Oh a fun way, it's
not very fast, but it's loud and it looks great.
Oh man, we're a couple of assholes turning around in
that thing. Real pricks turning around Los Angeles like a
(04:51):
Ferrari in the late seventies. Shout out to my friend
Jonathan Hollis, who picked me up at a hilarious comics.
So we're driving around. The other fun thing about these
cars is none of the years work. So at some
point where like or none of the gauges work, and
we're like, oh, we might be we're nearly out of gas.
I'm picturing like when a plane is crashing in a movie.
In the gage, they're all circling. Yeah, that's what's happening exactly,
(05:13):
the gas gauge. Yeah, there's like a cuckoo clock for
some reason. It's so we go to a gas station.
We pull over and this stranger comes up. Stranger danger,
and you could the vibe was weird. So this guy's
driving a car and on the side but it's like
a it's like a mini suv on the side our
golden astronaut statues and he leans out of his car
and he goes, yeah, weird, right, he goes MPV movie
(05:35):
A word MTV video music that would have made sense.
It was not the moon Man, okay, but it felt close.
Uh huh. And he goes, hey, I was on Magnum P.
I did sixty episodes. That's what he said. Hell, yes,
out of nowhere. How are we going to get from
here to this? Being overrated? This guy sounds amazing. This
sounds like an amazing thing that happened to you. I
told you I have a hard to have with overrated,
(05:55):
so I'll tell you how. Immediately he's the worst person alive.
Immediately he's talking about it. He's like, yeah, we're working
with the White House. We're building golden statues for Trump.
That's when this guy said. So I was like, all right, man,
uh yeah, and he goes and then he goes, he goes,
what do you guys do like liberals? I go yeah,
And then he goes, what do you guys do? And
(06:16):
we go comedy, which you never want to say to
some because he's going to ask you make me laugh.
I think he's in the biz, so he knows that
he actually didn't do that, but he goes, he goes,
what's your Instagram? He looks at my Instagram and he
goes he looks it up and he goes three thousand followers.
He's really disappointed in my follower account. Yeah, and then okay,
then this is where now this is a twist where
(06:37):
it becomes very it is actually underrated because then he goes,
I know that old guy from SNL and we go
the old guy from SNL and he goes, yeah, Louren Michaels,
and then he goes old guy from Yeah, that's what
you Yeah, and then he goes, you want his phone number?
So I now have either actually Lauren Michael's phone number
(06:57):
in my phone or just a weird number to a
stranger that a guy lied to me about. What a
great content. Just the feeling of power of having a
contacting your phone that says Lauren Michaels must feel great.
I feel more confident since that friend night. And yeah,
and Jonathan shouldn't have showed me that because I'm about
to put that ship on my phone. Well, we get
home and Jonathan's like, I'm gonna need a need that number, dude.
(07:19):
So I texted and we have a gentleman's agreement that
we won't use it without the other one's permission. That's good. Yeah, man,
we can both send pictures of our butt right now
if you want. If you want to just blow the
whole thing out, don't do it. Some hole post some
hole on main for Lauren. I know that old guy
from just don't send him any hole. I just promise
(07:41):
me won't send him whole trust me from experience doesn't
love it all right. My overrated is the Bennington chest
tool panel. I don't think I am No, this is
dumb thing I got advertised a tool belt that they've
turned into a like thing that makes you look like
you're on the team that is rating bin Laden's compound.
(08:04):
Like it's like a tactical vest that like has a
fucking screwdriver there, but like they want they want you
to feel like you're an operator. Yep, basically one of
the six yep. And I got it. And it's not
as good. It does make you feel as powerful. No,
I didn't get it, but I I just I don't know, man,
(08:25):
I feel I'm starting to feel bad about this country. Yeah,
there are some things that like, there's also Trump chocolate
all over New York, like at the bodegas and uh
at the at the airport. I was leaving and it
was like Donald Trump, forty seventh president chocolate. And I
asked the guy, I was like, this isn't popular, is it.
(08:47):
I was like, brother, this is so popular, we can't
we can't keep it in stock. Yeah. Well and the yeah,
the tactical the tactical vest thing. We don't all need
to look like we belong are in militias. Right, it's
not a great look. No, Yeah, but yeah, that that
feels like that's happening, that we're just like moving in
that direction. Like at least I've talked for a while
(09:09):
on the show about how I feel like the eighties
and like just like a pervasive conservativism is like coming
back has come back, but at least in the eighties,
like the conservative people like looked okay, like it just
looks like shit, it looks like everybody looks like they
want to fucking be an operator. Well this is It's
(09:31):
also there's an element of this to me that is
like stupid, ugly consumerism. That age is really poorly. So
this might actually be the like QVC of right now,
do you know what I mean? Where it's just like chintzy,
stupid bullshit that actually means nothing. And you know, they
thought I was gonna be They thought I was gonna buy.
They're like, we know, we know what's going to work
for this guy. Does does trump chocolate taste like a
(09:56):
old piss and a diaper? That would be that's a
really good question. I did smell it, I didn't actually
have the courage to purchase it. I wonder if it
like gets you off watch lists, like all the things
that have put me on watch lists. I wonder if
it like checks one of them, erases one of the
checks on that point. Yeah, you scan the QR code
and like you're no longer under observation? What what's some
(10:18):
of these things? Underrated? Jack? Thank you? I'm gonna go
beidays because my wife just got one and I'm by now,
and I think that, like this, it's been such a
such a stupid burden to have been straight for so long,
you know, and so it really Yeah, it's it's the
main weapon in the gay agenda, and I thank them
(10:39):
for it. Yeah, yeah, totally. It's the day makes you.
I mean, we've been pro bidet. I didn't know what
made me buy for so long. Yeah, it's going to
do you that service finally, like you'll be open hearted
enough to consider the sexual spectrum. There you go. Yeah,
and I'd also just feel more hygienic truly. Oh it's
so much better. Oh, it's so much better. We transferred
(11:00):
our toilets out to do a low flow toilet Hero
Living Saint, Yes, thank you. Uh. And we didn't have
like the right size the day for the new low
flow toilet. And I have been without the day for
many months now, and I feel like I'm wandering a desert. Yeah,
(11:21):
now you know. Yeah, I feel like I've fucking went
back in time. Yeah, it's like a Joshua tree in July. Yeah,
it's fucking it's Burning Man right now? Right? Have you
seen the footage of Burning Man? I think we can
all stop and just take a moment to enjoy what
Burning Man? What's happening with burning friends? There? Nasty fucking
(11:42):
dust storm, Yeah, the windiest it's ever been. I I
in no way begrudge people going to burn, no God bless.
But I did a stand up set for a group
of people that I found out were Burning Man people
while I was doing the set. They had this like
little spot and kind of near Englewood and uh, and
they were the kindest people and they also the way
they the way they talked about it. They're like, yeah,
(12:02):
it is where privileged people go to pretend they're homeless,
And I was like, it's pretty strong. Yeah, yeah, I
like that. They refer to it as burn, like are
you gonna burn this year? Yeah? That kind of rules.
I've I want to go, but I don't have the
courage or the uh you know, fortitude. It's it's just
it looks too nasty for me. It is more about
(12:25):
doing amphetamines than I thought it was. Like it's extremely
sexual also, like there is yeah, there's like a hookup
tent that is uh huh. Just like like a friend,
a friend of mine, was like, he's like, I saw
two people having sex in between parked cars one time. Well,
I guess it's a free for all over. It's a
good spot. See you know that spot between the two
cars the best, very romantic. Yeah, need an oil slick, Yeah,
(12:50):
a gasoline oil rainbow. So it's actually very beautiful. Yeah,
all right, my underrated. I saw weapons. I do think
it's underrated to just start running like the kids and
weapons with your arms behind you like like that. I
just think there's something very freeing about it. If you
(13:11):
just have to like catch up a few steps to something. Yeah,
start running like that, your chest out, you're making yourself aerodynamic.
Yeah that feels great. Yeah. So that's something that I've
begun doing, just long jogs with my hands behind me
like that, running as fast as I can. It's both
beautiful and troubling to picture an adult man doing that.
(13:33):
Feel so free and just in a straight line, but
not like on a road, like you're going to some unknown,
destined like location, just through people's yards. Yeah, as the
crow flies. Yeah, exactly, You're running as the crow flies.
That's the move. And also I got it just I
(13:53):
was spent three weeks on the East Coast, which is
where I grew up, and they are like these little
ways that being where you grew up like just sets
you at ease the weather, like the way the weather works.
I noticed that, like the bugs makes sense anymore. I
(14:14):
like spotted a fly and I was like, oh, that
was easy because I remember how like bugs move out
of here. It wasn't even a fly. It was like
some mosquito like insect. Seltzer's everywhere, man, Yeah, have fucking Seltzers.
What kind of what flavor are we doing? I'm doing
anything like I mean, I do schweps just like some seltzer.
Like they just the fact that they always have it
(14:36):
on tap, no matter no matter what grocery store or
fucking bodega you're walking into, they're gonna have some seltzer
and sounds so wonderful. Twe you know what I mean,
not if you scream it. That's right, all right, you've
gotten to know us better. We've done them that song.
(14:58):
You feel great now, welcome. We're going to take a
quick break and we're going to come back and get
into some news. We'll be right back and we're back.
So you're you're from Saint Louis, You've got the Saint
(15:20):
Louis weather. Like when you go back, it feels ish. Yeah,
you kind of miss it. So it is like a
swamp where it's it gets so human. It feels like
you're were wearing a gross blanket in the summer. But
you do. I kind of miss it because it's evocative
of childhood, you know, like I missed that part of it.
(15:40):
And then you appreciate the fall and the winter too,
you know, because you it's like when I lived in Chicago,
the winter's a nightmare. But then spring, everybody is like
so happy. Oh my god, there's no more mental health issues.
They go away. Everybody's just everyone plays volleyball, right, you
all don't like volleyball. Yeah, no, I've never been sad
(16:01):
playing volleyball. It's impossible. I've invented a new volleyball in
New York that I hadn't seen before. It's really high nets,
really high nets. Have you ever seen that? We talked
like thirty feet. What are you saying? They're real high?
I mean, that's so higher than volleyball nets, which I
find to be plenty high personally. But I'm not getting
up and spike in at the normal one. You didn't
have to lean down to spika. This is such a
(16:23):
great idea because I would love to see, like if
there was just one NBA game a year where the
nets were forty feet right in the sky. Yeah, how fun?
Would that be so great? And a three pointer is
a ten pointer? Yeah, I think we need to have
more fun, Like there is a pitch too, because, like
people have said, too many threes in the NBA, Like
(16:44):
people are getting too good at the threes. The offense
has become a little bit predictable. I feel like the
offenses look great right now personally. But one of the
pitches that I heard that I do love is making
the three point lines in each arena different based on
where you are, that way that a baseball outfield has
like different shit. You're like, oh yeah, that one's like
only twenty feet out there. Like you can get so
(17:06):
many home runs if you hit in that direction. Like
if you just had like a weird little like gap
in Boston, We're like so good. Yeah, total, or we
got to go to actually, don't from the three over there,
but you're gonna stack your defense there and on that
side of the court. You have to shoot from the
logo to get a three pointer. Yeah, like if the
baskets moved just a little, or like in baseball, if
(17:29):
you had to you had to use a really long
bat sometimes, you know, just like some handicaps, Like one
time the bat just like goes a little wobbly, Uh,
just turnt noodle. There's like a button that, yeah that
let's say the announcers can push that turns your bat.
Announcers flascidad or looking for just a couple middle aged
(17:55):
guys talking about flicidity in order to not talk about
the news. Boo boo. So the big news story that
I kind of hate because it's like economically complicated is
that the US government has obtained a quote ten percent
stake in Intel after buying eight point nine billion dollars
(18:19):
worth of shares in the struggling company. The way that
it's being pitched, the way that I saw it in
headlines before I like actually read up on it, and
our writer Jam kind of dug in a little bit
on it, is that like Trump just got them to
give him ten percent of the company Intel, and like
it's and that's yours congratulations, which is interesting. So he
(18:45):
came in using the fact that the CEO of the
American manufacturer has quote ties to the Chinese Communist Party
and then like basically use that as leverage to like
do a thing that would be more familiar to like
in China, where like the government takes over the company.
It's not quite that though, they, like people are pointing out,
(19:08):
they don't have a the government doesn't have a controlling interest.
So it's just like it's almost like he's like floating
this idea as like what if we did something that's
like kind of close to approximating socialism. Obama did it
to bail out General Motors. I think in like during
that economic crisis, I think the government had like a
(19:28):
sixty one percent share. I think it was controlling. This
is a ten percent share of the company, and like
it's the thing that you would offer a dumb guy
like doesn't And he was like yeah, hell yeah, Like
the version of the stock that he got is not controlling,
Like it doesn't give them any leverage, which even if
(19:50):
it had been that kind, ten percent isn't that much.
It's not that kind. It's like common stock, which is
like not that valuable. So he had the opportunity to
do that and he didn't because maybe he just like
got tricked. Who knows, he's not that sharp, he's not
president deals like he likes to think he is. It
(20:11):
is interesting, it's like opening an interesting door, right, because
I think this goes back to this idea we talk
about a lot on the show where people are fucking
done with the well, the world is just dictated by
this like market economy that like just tells us what
to do based on the logic of the market, and
(20:32):
the market is always right. People are waking up to
the fact that's like arbitrary and strange. Yeah, yeah, people
don't like that. That's like the one thing that it
feels like everybody is agreed to, like voters have agreed to.
The mainstream media doesn't really write about it in this way,
but like that does seem to be. The lesson is
that they're you know, the whole hypernormalization of it all.
You've seen that documentary where it's like we're all being
(20:55):
controlled by these big multinational companies and like the government
is you know, there's a moment in the Biden administration
where he was like, well, I don't know what to do.
It's like you're the president, but in this system where
it is just these big companies dictating everything. That's true,
like the president can do shit essentially if unless things change.
(21:17):
And it feels like gambling. Yeah, everyone feels like a
slot machine you could go to and try your luck out.
But that's not how like the government in the market
should operate. Ye. Yes, And it's also like gambling in
the sense that it has the illusion that everybody can
like make money, but it's actually just funneling money upwards.
Like in a broad sense, it's just funneling money upward.
That's something that Scheinbaum in Mexico is like very clear about,
(21:41):
is that like neoliberalism, which is like one word for
that version of things, is just a machine to redistribute
money upward, right, which is which is the like that
to me, that is the evolution of capitalism. Like, that's
just what is going to happen to in unfettered capitalism ultimately,
is that power begets more power, money begets more money. Right,
And that was a thing that everybody knew was bad,
(22:02):
right and to be guarded against yep, for the entirety
of the like first, you know, sixty years of the
twentieth century, and then there's been a massive, like slow,
very successful deregulation to just deregulate, Yeah, get all that
shit out. Make regulation a bad word, yep. And so
we're at this point where it's just like this version
(22:25):
of capitalism where everything gets filtered upwards and people are
tired of it. And in other countries, like in Mexico,
they have the possibility of like doing a more socialist
version of how to operate a country. At this time.
Obviously China, like the government controls what these multinational corporations
(22:47):
are doing and I think it's like people want anything,
but that people want anything but the neoliberal, market based
version of things. And in America the only options we
have are the neoliberal version or fascism. It's like what
we've been given mm hmm, and anything else is like
you got damn hippie still like sixty years, can we Yeah?
(23:07):
And then like a tiny little spark of hope with
Zoron Zon Mamdani in NYC. But like that's really all.
Like nobody else is like really making a case, I
don't think, because it's presumably they benefit from that system, right,
So the Democratic Party is like, so you know, it
is the party of that status quo system. And like
(23:31):
the way they're reacting to this Trump move is to
be like, that's socialism, dude, that's bad. We hate socialism, right,
which is so bad because it makes Trump see like
I think the thing that people would like to try
is socialism, but like you can't try it in America,
but Democrats are pretending that Trump is trying it, yeah
(23:53):
right now. And then that's how it's like kind of
being covered in the mainstream media. So I don't know,
it's it's not socialism in any way because they're not
actually seizing any functional control of the means of production
for Intel. But it's annoying that the Democrats are basically
pretending it is the thing that people would want Trump
(24:15):
to do. Well it is. Yeah, And it's so bizarre
the thing that Democrats do where they like it almost
seems like there are sections where they're trying to eke
out where they could possibly be more right wing. Like everyone,
they'll become like, we're the patriotic ones, and it's like, yeah, sure,
we can love America, but we're the party of saying
like and also we can do better, right, do you know?
(24:35):
It's this very strange thing that Democrats do. Yeah, they're like,
we've we don't know how to push back against this
like fascist, anti immigrant hellscape because that polls well. It's
like it doesn't pull that well. And like just be
on the right side of his not the right side,
the you know, correct side of history. That's that's one
way to do it. Yeah, right, yeah, and then all right,
(24:58):
we are pro cop all of a sudden some stuff
like that, you know what I mean, We're like, hold
on a second, aren't we in direct opposition to this
authoritarian armed so authoritarian armed ship is one of the options,
and the other is uh the Democrats being pro cop
and pro big business. Yeah, and we don't got anything else, no,
(25:19):
which is what? And like to me, if you follow,
you just follow your follow your heart, just like follow
your morality, right, which the demograph you know what I mean? Like,
didn't you get it? Right? Don't you see the obviousness
of this anti brown fear, immigrant fear propagandist that's not
(25:40):
true and speak against it? How hard is that? Seems
seems pretty straightforward. It is tough to push back against
some of the stuff that Trump's doing, Like, for instance,
he delivered pizza to uh, to the cops to the
like race cops in Washington, d c. Into the National Guard.
He uh deliver some pizza like it was a fucking
(26:02):
t ball party to think about. Like everybody talks about
how funny Trump is, but I think he gets a
ton of leverage by doing shit that is so stupid
that it's funny that someone in his position is doing
it right, you know, Like it's not like that's not
actually funny, but it's funny that this guy who's five
to nine claims to be six too, and talks like
a cartoon bear and it's just for somehow the president
(26:24):
to live in pizza. That's funny, Yeah it is. And
like it's like when he did the party for the
championship football team, I forget who it was, Clemson maybe
and like just had like McDonald's burgers. Like he's just
like throwing parties for fucking like middle school volleyball teams.
Like his level of understanding. It's like if your dumbest
(26:45):
uncle won the lottery, he would do some funny things
with him. But that's not because he's funny, right, Yeah, yeah,
he would get a monster truck with the word butthole
on the side because he thinks that's hilarious. Yeah. I
want to talk in our episode, in tomorrow's episode about
like what the movie Dystopia is like that this approximates
because it's so weird. It's not like anything really in
(27:08):
particular because it's so dumb and so like no movie
would have the fucking fascist dictator like ordering pizza parties
for people. You know, we also have some great footage
that made me feel just a little bit better of
Dean Kane. If you're familiar our Worst Superman My Generations yes, exactly.
(27:32):
Uh yeah, there was there a Superman like I guess
there was in like between Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh.
Was that his name? Uh huh, sure, it was Dean Kane,
the only one. I think so, because because this is
this is before they were bringing everything back, So it
was kind of a new weird thing because Dean There
was a TV show that Dean Kane was Superman. Yeah right, yeah,
(27:53):
I think the first time. Yeah, I think that was
the first time maybe Superman to comebacks. It's the reason
so a lot of with great power comes great responsibility,
and he is fucking it up. He is a descendant
of Japanese relatives who were interned during World War Two,
and now he's actively recruiting for the agency that is
(28:14):
literally imprisoning immigrants in former Japanese internment camps. That's a
new line that they crossed, is they are taking a
Japanese internment camp in Texas and reopening it for the
purposes of this version of you know, white supremacist imprisonment.
For those keeping track at home, that's a new line
(28:35):
that we've crossed. But so Dean Kane is trying to
be like the face of an organization that, as we've
talked about, doesn't have a face because everyone's so ashamed
what they're doing. Their face is a sche mask. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
they are. They have the same desire to be seen
doing what they do for a living as bank robbers,
(28:58):
but they don't like have like bags of money with
like money pouring out of it. They're just doing horrible
shit and then going home and trying to sleep at night. Yep.
And so here comes Hollywood failure Dean Cage, which is
always with the guy, and they got some great footage
of him like running through did you see this footage?
(29:20):
He's running through like what appears to be a McDonald's
play place, like in a post apocalyptic landscape. Like it's
like a bunch of training things that seem to be
designed for children. Like there's a concrete tube that he's
like crawling through. There's multiple like walls that he has
(29:41):
to like climb over on one of them, he just
like it has like three bars that are clearly meant
for you to like climb up, and he just like
goes through it. He's sneaking into a fucking through a
window like he's robbing a pie. And then Immediately after that,
they show him dragging like a life sized, like mannequin body.
(30:02):
That's that's part of the training, which just seems I
don't know, I feel like we're at the part where
they like turn to each other and they'll be like, wait,
are we the batties the bad guys? My training is
sneaking through a window and then dragging a lifeless body
across the fucking earth. I don't know why, but it
just feels like it speaks so directly to whoever posts
(30:24):
on Facebook marketplace. I don't know why those two things
make perfect sense together, but they do. Anyways, he does
not look good doing these No. No, he's not not
impressive physically, or it's not flying. He's not really moving
at the speed of He's moving at the speed of
like a person who walks for recreation in the mall.
(30:45):
You know. Yeah, Like it's like that level, Like he's
the upper bodies showing like I'm jogging, but the lower
body is like just kind of going along it. Yeah,
he is locked. It's clear they had to edit at
the sounds that old men make when they get up.
Oh my god, I was making by the way I
was making those sounds so much. Last week I went
(31:07):
into the Atlantic Ocean and got the ship beat out
of me by some some big waves. Not that big actually,
but I was like whoa those waves and like wait,
were you surfing or just a body surfing? And I
was trying to, you know, get my bearings and using
muscles that I guess I hadn't used in a long time.
(31:30):
Oh yeah, so I don't just stand somewhere and like
have people like push me in various directions. Yeah, mother nature,
push you down. Yeah. And I kept doing it because
it was so fun. But I kept having like soreness
in places where I'm like, I have a muscle over
my knee, Like what the fuck is that? And was
making the most old man just like oh boy, chemny
(31:54):
help felt horrible. Hey, somebody helps surfing Grandpa, get out
of the water man. Now I'll bring it in. Kept
doing these hang loose hang loose guys. You're like drowning.
Hang loose comes up out of the guy, all right, yeah,
(32:16):
just just sad. Hang loose comes out and then slowly
sinks below the surface. Yeah all right, Uh that's about
all I can take of the dystopian stuff. Let's take
a quick break and we're gonna come back and we're
gonna talk K pop Demon Hunters. Are you ready? I'm
so ready? Hell yeah, And we're back. And I fucking lied.
(32:43):
Uh a little bit more dystopia. That's a good tagline
for the Daily I mugging lie to you guys. We
are going to get to K pop Demon Hunters, but
real quick. RFK Junior wants to pull the COVID vaccine
from the market within months. I will say, you know,
there's this is being reported by a British cardiologist anti
(33:07):
vaxxer who is like one of his closest associates, but
like it's not I don't doubt it, but it will be.
It will be a fucking disaster of like epic proportions.
And we only have this one source on it, so
there's a chance that he's floating that to like his crazy,
crazy anti vaxxer buddy, and it's still going to like
(33:30):
face some breaks, like but you know, institutional breaks have
not been holding up too well lately, so we don't
know exactly how serious to take this yet, but he
is very anti mRNA vaccines and yeah, no, the whole
position seems to be, Hey, what if we try to
(33:51):
kill a bunch of more old people. I'm not saying
the only people that die of it, but it is like,
it seems like he's the vulnerable, and then kill Abrego.
Garcia was re abducted by ICE during Monday check ins.
He was freed by a judge who was like, he
does not pose a flight risk or a danger to
(34:14):
the community, and then ICE was like, cool, just check
back in with us on Monday, and then re abducted
him and said that they're planning to deport him to Uganda.
So yeah, that's happening. Yeah, what a nightmare, dude, fuck
true true nightmare. Shit. But on the other hand, number
(34:34):
one of the box office this weekend. K Pop Demon Hunters,
Demon Hunters. This is a movie that I particularly like
my kids. I have a seven nine year old. They
love this movie. Two boys just singing K Pop Demon
Hunters songs all day. I feel like they are driving
(34:57):
the fact that two of the songs are a the
Billboard Top ten right now yea from this movie. This
movie's been on Netflix since June. They put it in
theaters this weekend and it was the number one movie
in movie theaters this weekend. Wow. Yeah, it was like
a sing along event. Yeah, like little Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
(35:19):
my first Rocky Horror Picture show. Yeah, it'd be great,
Like somebody shows up in their Rocky Horror Picture Show
gear for that. Fuck this feels wrong, but I love
this for a couple of reasons. One, Netflix had no
fucking idea that this is gonna be it. They didn't
put any marketing behind it. It just like totally blew
(35:41):
up on like social media, fan word of mouth. They
keep being blindsided by the success of like the stuff
they make with Korean filmmakers Squid Game. They're like, I
don't know, I guess we'll try this, yeah, and like
paid didn't pay shit for it. This one they just
bought off Sony, didn't really mark it, and then it
like exploded and they're like, oh okay. And then I
(36:04):
like the idea of being able to like get movies
that have unorthodox like paths to the theater, which I
think we're I think is probably going to continue to
be more and more of a thing. Where like I
was noticing that in New York like you were, as
I was like looking for a time to see weapons.
There's like all these other like old movies that are
(36:24):
just like showing across the city, like just having a
second run. Like I feel like I don't know that
that's a path to like keep theaters relevant, which I
think is important, Yeah, important to me because I'm old.
No totally saying we just went. I just went and
saw a marathon man at the new Beverly Oh you
that like Dustin Hoffman Pace, which I've never seen before,
and it was Yeah, there's no reason that keep people
(36:47):
keep saying cinema is dying, but we continue to make great,
really interesting things. Yeah, it hasn't stopped. Yeah, you know,
and yeah, in La I feel like it's like there
are these theaters that show old or movies and then
like every once in a while there will be like
a re like there's a cool thing that like Miyazaki
movies like come out every year, like just are re released.
(37:11):
I just I think we should be using amcas and like, yeah,
regal cinemas as show signed Feld for two hours straight
or whatever. All right, you know, I think so many
people would go see Friends for three out just like
the best episodes of whatever. Their favorite text to me
on the plane sure would would have been there he
was blas friends. Yeah yeah, real CEO energy being like
(37:35):
but like really a lot of energy, a lot of
positive energy. Yeah. God, he wanted to talk to me
so bad. Yea, I gave him nothing. That's the well,
that's like La and East Coast of Like, it's like
how a bartender knows to never make eye content, right,
there's this beautiful way to protect your energy from Yeah,
I feel bad. Maybe that guy would have like given
(37:56):
me Lorne Michael's phone number or something, if I'd just
like given a And it was really crazy because he
was like so nice and was talking to like everybody around,
like was going over me to talk to the person
next to him, just like having great little back and forth.
I was like, I'm trying to fucking watch Starship Troopers again, man,
I'm trying to find trying to find the movie that
represents our dystopia. What are you doing? Why are you
(38:18):
talking to me? And then my wife came up, like
we weren't seated next to each other because we like
kind of refused to sit there. Yeah, what are you doing?
Why are you talking to me in public? What did
we say? We We had like messy travel plans, so
we were like, you know, and she came up and
was talking to me, and he was like, oh my god,
(38:39):
you guys are together, dude, why didn't you tell me,
like we're old friends. He was like, take my seat,
like we had like a little extra leg room too.
It's like she was like, no, it's it's okay, Like
my seat doesn't have much, Like I don't care. I
was like, so giving this guy zero it's so nice. Yeah,
(39:02):
that's the thing about these people, man, It's like, yeah,
this is wild. What a theme. I think it's I
think it's my fault. Like I just think I didn't
have any energy from like being in New York for
a week or something. I was just like not not
willing to do it, and I probably missed a great adventure. Yeah,
well that I'm scared of strangers. I'll admit, I don't
know what they're gonna do. They're capable of anything. Yeah,
(39:23):
you know, so, but I am. I am getting a
lot better at like just having it because you do
get into really weird interesting conversations ye stuff. Yeah, anyway,
i'd probably be kite surfing right now with the CEO
if I like fucking him and Richard Branson the greatest dream.
All right, mort we've done it. We've told the people.
Was training over the weekend, was trending this Monday morning.
(39:43):
We are going to be back tomorrow with a very special,
whole ass episode of the show with a couple podcast
hosts that are very very excited to have on. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, Get
your vaccines while you still can. Literally it's they're going away.
Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
(40:05):
and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. The Daily
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