Magic Zeit: The Last Trend 3/9: The Challenge, Mitch McConnell, Tucker Carlson, Mexican Cartel, Flight 370, Oscars

In this edition of Magic Zeit: The Last Trend, Jack and writer JM McNab discuss the first movie filmed in space "The Challenge", Mitch McConnell's concussion, Tucker Carlson wanting to invade Canada, an apology from a Mexican Cartel for the kidnapping of Americans, what ACTUALLY happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the incipient (and insipid) Oscars!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Magic Zeit.
The last trend short show title courtesy of Johnny Davis
and super producer Anna Hosni is current OBSESSI with the
Magic Mic Live show. Yeah, she has informed me that
I need to take my wife to it as soon

(00:22):
as possible to give her life. I'm told so. Yeah.
But but just a rave from super producer Ana Hosnie, like,
you know, multiple text messages, just like there's a story there,
and there's they really tie it all together. Channing Tatum

(00:42):
might be a genius. I think she talked about this
yesterday also, but um, it's the momentum has not flagged
in terms of her excitement about the live show. Anyways,
I'm thrilled to be joined by the co host for
today's trend writer were t d Easy it is Jim McNab. Hello,

(01:05):
Thanks for having me, Hi. I also think you should
take your wife to go see Magic Mike Live. Yeah. Yeah,
you were saying show or what a real man looks
like before we started recording, exactly what I said When
you said it has a story, I'm just imagine like
it brought me right back to like when Ninja Turtles
had that live show and like they had to defeat

(01:27):
Shredder with the power of key tars. Yeah, I imagine
I didn't catch that one, but I've caught the Paw
Patrol live show with my kids, and the storyline there
seems to have been conceived of in three minutes. A
perfunctory is what I screamed as I was watching it

(01:49):
in the theater. Theater, I said, this is not theater.
The story is perfunctory. The music number is our blah
drab uninspired. Skip yelled at Rubble, who was DJing the
set um for some reason, he was a DJ all
of a sudden. Yeah, give me a break, Rubble, Shit,

(02:13):
Come on, man, guys, guy's a construction worker. You think
he's all of a sudden a DJ. Uh no offense
to construction workers, But I don't think you can be DJs. Um,
All right, jam, let's get into the trends. Yeah. We
also shout out to Johnny Davis, still out here, given
us short show titles that are always great. Thank you

(02:33):
Johnny Davis. Um, No, thank you Russia is what I'm
saying on behalf of Tom Cruise. So there's a story
that Tom Cruise was planning to make a movie in
the International Space Station, aided by a ride from SpaceX.
Just all our favorite brands coming together, Scientology, whatever. Elon
Musk's cult is going to be called. Um. We talk

(02:56):
about his plan for a company town in Texas aka
Commune on tomorrow's episode. But the hope was he was
going to be the first person to film a movie
in space. I was not hopeful because my feeble brain
could not think of the right premise for a movie

(03:18):
filmed in space that Tom Cruise would be on board with,
like it just yeah, it's hard to run, yeah in
the space station. But so I watched the trailer. So
the none of the stories that Russia beat him to it.
They filmed a movie on the space station. They just
released a trailer, and I am fully on board with

(03:38):
the trailer. The trailer looks really good. I was wrong
to doubt this idea. It looks cool. It's called The Challenge,
and it is just an episode of MTVS. The Challenge
in space just recreated line for line Johnny Bananas. So
it's a great premise. This is what the premise should

(04:00):
have been. This is what the premise that my brain
should have come up with. But I think, I think
the presence of Tom Cruise stopped it. But it's basically
a astronaut on or a cosmonaut in this case, on
the space station, gets badly injured, can't be transported back
down to Earth without you know, harming him, needs emergency surgery,

(04:22):
and so they need to send a team of you know,
needle knows doctors up into space. It's like Armageddon if
Armageddon's plot made sense. Yeah, because like, yeah, that's the
thing they always say about Armageddon is like, why don't
they just train astronauts to drill instead of vice versa?
But like you think of an Affleck said to Michael

(04:44):
Bay on the set of Armageddon. He said, Michael Bay,
real quick, que just a quick question, why wouldn't they
teach astronauts who are notoriously quick learners how to how
to drill? And Michael Bay said, Ben, shut the fuck
up up, And that was that was the entirety of
the conversation. And then Ben Affleck got drunk and did

(05:05):
the DVD commentary and told that story to be fair,
like on the set, like wearing a space suit is
not the time to bring up that complaint. That's a
good point, Um but anyways, uh, yeah, this this makes sense.
This is like you couldn't probably teach an astronaut to
be a like expert surgeon in the space of a

(05:26):
couple days, right or you know how quickly they need
to get them up there. Um, and the space footage
looks really cool, Like it looks great, it looks super cool.
I mean I didn't understand what anyone was saying. Uh
so maybe I did not either. It might just be nonsense.
I don't know, but uh but it looked cool. Yeah,

(05:48):
Like I mean you can actually see like you have
that visceral feeling when they look out like the window
and you see earthy and and yes, it's cool. I
mean yeah, to the bar has been raised for Tom
Cruise to do something crazy in space, even crazier than this. Yeah.
And also, Russia is apparently going to leave the International

(06:10):
Space Station project in twenty twenty four, so a farewell letter.
Maybe that's also why it's going to be good, because
it's not going to be like propaganda. It's gonna be like, well,
we did you know we're leaving anyway, Let's just we're
not fans of this, ye, but yeah, probably not. It'll
be interesting to see how they treat any astronauts that
are aboard if they're just like funk these guys, they're

(06:33):
just like shotgunning beers and space. And did the other
astronauts even know it's a movie? Like are they just
kind of making it like borat or something? He just
went up there with a camera. That's a good point, um.
Miss McConnell was concustant. A fall is in hospital, as
they would say in the UK, and not really much

(06:55):
to say about that was it. The USA Today was like,
what is a concussion? Yeah? That was their headline, which interesting.
Who is reading USA Today checking in the news about
Mitch McConnell and doesn't know what a concussion? I don't
understand who this headline is for. Amazing. All right, We
wanted to talk about Tucker Carlson's continued obsession with your country,

(07:20):
your homeland, Canada. Yeah, because he recently suggested in his
fun Way where he's like joking, not joking, that America
should invade Canada. Yeah, which was the premise of a
John Candy movie. Yes, doesn't seem like, yeah the best idea.

(07:42):
It's based on a viral video, like because he's just
like racist tosh point. Oh, I guess you know, some
bigoted piece of shit in a goofy hat came to
disrupt a drag Queen's story hour at a Calgary public
library and was escorted out because he refused to stop

(08:02):
screaming and refused to leave, and you know, was screaming
about the homosexual agenda, which talk about things that aren't
appropriate for children to be around. You know that he
just made it horrifying situation for everyone and was escorted out.

(08:23):
And Tucker Carlson thought the treatment of him was rough
enough that he should suggest starting a war. Your thoughts
Jams as the official spokesperson for Canada, Ya, Well, I
mean it's just so stupid. It's extra stupid because it's like, yeah,

(08:43):
he had this like Chiron on the how you say Chiron,
I've never said saying, you know, like Canada has become
this authoritarian like atheists state, because I guess this guy's
like the pastor of some you know, right wing ridiculous
sect of whatever. But anyway, so saying like, yeah, like

(09:06):
he framed it as like in Canada, if you believe
in Jesus, they will throw you out of a library
and rough you up you know, it's like, well, no,
this fucking guy like is going in, you know, screaming
about the homosexual agenda, yelling at kids are just trying
to have a story right to them, I mean, and
even like putting aside all of the bigoted shit he said,

(09:29):
and how like obviously repulsive. This guy is, Like, you
can't go in and just start yelling in a library,
like even to be treated. If I yell in a
library about anything, it's not like, yeah, it's not this
authoritarian state. Yell about anything else in a library. They
will probably ask you not to, like yeah, and they

(09:49):
might if you continue doing so. After they tell you
to stop screaming about ice cream, like, they will probably
you know, forcibly remove you from the premises. It's just
so stupid. But it does seem like because yeah, he
also he likes straight up and another show said that
Tucker Carlson, I mean, suggested invading Canada because it's become Cuba,

(10:13):
and uh, like I think one of the NDP MP's
here like wanted like a formal condemnation. Uh the NDPS
like the sort of left leaning political party here, so
it's being noticed. I think it does seem like it's
the the trucker Convoy is kind of like broke in

(10:35):
his brain. Yeah, yeah, and he's trying to like keep
that keep that vibe going. It was the trucker Convoy
officially a vibe, right exactly. But it's like, yeah, let's
like trying trying to have that, you know, apply the
misconceptions he had about that story to you know, a

(10:57):
guy being thrown out of a small librarian Calgary. Yeah,
this is this is a direct quote, why are we
not sending an armed force north deliberate Canada? From Trudeau?
And I mean it, but that's how you know, funny
people are joking as they say and I mean it. Yeah,
but he just generally, I mean, I don't. It'll be

(11:19):
interesting to see how his show continues on as like
these leaks of him being like, yeah, Trump is worthless
and bad for the Republican Party and I don't believe
in any of this are revealed, and then every night
on a show he's like, we should start a civil war.
The election was rigged. After more and more evidence comes

(11:44):
out that he privately does not believe that. What it
feels like, he'll just he'll find a way. Anyways, let's
take a quick break, we'll come back to talk about
important things like the oscars. And we're back. And there

(12:08):
was the American tourists. Two Americans were killed in Mexico,
and this has apparently been a big story on Fox.
They were killed by cartel. It's a horrible, horrific tragedy.
But the latest update on this is that the cartel

(12:29):
left people like from their cartel in the car that
the police were looking for in connection with a kidnapping,
left them like tied up in the car with an
letter being like our bad. Actually these guys as bad.
We didn't mean to do this a direct quote from
the letter. We have decided to turn over those who
were directly involved and responsible in the events, who had

(12:51):
all times acted under their own decision making a lack
of discipline, and you know, those individuals had gone against
the cartel's rules, which include respecting the life and well
being of the innocent. So some major league ass covering
coming from this drug cartel. But it's just wild that
they have like a pr strategy. I guess yeah. Do

(13:12):
you think they have like their own stationary an apology?
You know it's from them because at the stationary heading
it's a wild story, obviously a tragic one. There is
a new Netflix docuse series about Malaysia Flight MH three seventy,
which is the plan that vanished almost a decade ago,

(13:35):
so it's a documentary. It seems to be be coming
from the thesis that nobody knows what happened here. I,
for my money, I feel like we do know what
happened here because of that evidence, Like we cover this
back a long time ago on TDZ, but they found
evidence like the pilot of the flight had a flight

(13:58):
simulator in his home and he had done the exact
flight that he like that the plane that they suspected
the plane based on like transponders and everything like, that
was the last flight simulation he flew. So the theory
is that he was suicidal and decided to take an

(14:19):
entire plane full of people with him and had planned
to do it, had flown the flight simulation, and then
because he had turned off the transponders and depressurise the plane,
which would have knocked all the passengers out. That's why
I was like so silent and so mysterious, and then

(14:41):
you know, you crash it and like most of the
earth is ocean, and so the fact that like nobody
found the plane's wreckage is not all that strange, But
it seems like they are, Like the Washington Post article
about this like could be a piece of you know,
sponsored content from the documentary, because it's like there's a

(15:02):
lot of like I did a search for the word
like flight simulator, because that seems to be the key
piece of evidence that like it answers the mystery. Like
it's pretty it's a pretty big smoking gun that he
had flown the exact flight as his last, not like
at one point over the course as his last simulation.

(15:23):
But that like they don't talk about that because I
guess it takes away from the mystery, and you know,
you don't want to spoil your big docuseries. Well I
found one. There's one review I found that says, I
guess there's like three episodes and then in the first
episode they address that theory that it was like a

(15:44):
murder suicide, but then it says an episode two they
go into the ill supported theory involving the Russian government. Sure,
and then it says an episode three they present a
conspiracy that the plane was destroyed by the American government
so that the Chinese wouldn't get their hands on certain technology.

(16:06):
So I guess it's like a different premise in each
and they get less and less plausible as it goes
on for some reason. Well at least they open with
the one that actually makes sense. But yeah, it is
a favored conspiracy theory area. I am not anti conspiracy theories.
I'm just I don't think people should waste their time
on conspiracy theories. That seemed to be pretty clear cut.

(16:28):
But yeah. Oh, and it says they do to a
fourth episode, and the fourth episode is just the whole
show of Lost. They just start playing Lost. Yeah, it
turns out they were in purgatory the whole time, all right,
And then the oscars are happening this weekend. There's a
weird story about how like Zelinski wanted to come and
wasn't allowed to come. I guess, yeah, I guess he

(16:52):
wanted to like zoom in Magan appearance, and they were like, no,
thank you, sir, We've We've had plenty. She apparently was
the case last year as well, but I don't remember
hearing that at the time. That he asked to be
a part of the telecast and they said no, yeah,
which seems like it seems like the kind of weird,

(17:15):
tone deaf thing that the Oscars would do. So it's
kind of I don't know why um encounter to their
nature to do something that suggests that they're like, we're
not the center of the world, We're not important enough
to like because I remember there was a story in
the early days of the war that like Robert de

(17:36):
Niro was trying to get Lensky to like come to
his Tribeca Film Festival because like this is like when
as he is at the height of trying to like
marshal an actual war like day to day, they were like,
what if we if you came through and like introduced
this docuseries. Well he did, they said, he just did,
Like he just did a similar thing at the Berlin

(17:57):
Film Festival. So he's making he's doing this making room. Yeah,
he's I don't think he's like has a short or anything.
I think he's just you know, uh talking about the war,
I guess. But it is weird this like, yeah, it's
all kind of entertainment venues that like when what would
he do with the Oscars, Like he's going to come

(18:18):
and winning. Yeah, he's a huge tar head. Uh and yeah,
he um. I don't know. Well, we'll talk more about
like what's expected to win and stuff like that on
Tomorrow's trending. But do you have a personal pick? Who
are a personal favorite? I mean I think, like I
was telling you before, like I do love everything everywhere

(18:41):
all at once, Like it's it's in another world, it
would be the underdog, and like it would be nominated
to be like, oh, how did this weird movie that
came out last March get nominated? Like we're rooting for that,
but it's it's in this weird position where it's kind
of the favorite to win it as the most nominations,
and there's you know, there's a sense I think about,
like the Oscars nominate movies that aren't cool. It's not

(19:04):
cool to win the Oscars. It's usually like the lame
movie wins and the cool movie doesn't win. Yeah, or
it was neglected and or not nominated. But now I
just love that movie and I actually do hope it
hope it will. Yeah. It feels like my experience with
the Oscars is not letting my brain except that it will,

(19:25):
because it does feel like the right movie to win.
It's definitely the movie of the year in terms of
like being this breakthrough hit, like critically beloved, like audiences
loved it. And in the same way that my brain
is not letting me believe that there's not going to
be like a twenty minute interview between Sean Penn and
Zelinsky in the middle of it, like it's like, wait, what,

(19:46):
why are they making the right decision here? So I
don't I don't want to give them too much credit.
So there's just just like it's a false story to
like set you up right exactly, and then we surprise
them because putin read deadline, so you know, and then
Best Pictures like, oh, it was a right end for
they gave it to Green Book again. Yeah, like too

(20:09):
many Green Books for me to fully trust that they're
going to give it to the to the right movie here.
But we'll see, all right, jam Well, we will let
you get back to defending your Nation from invasion by
Tucker Carlson. Thank you. I'm fashioning a bayonet out of
pipe cleaners just in case you go, where can people
find you? Follow you all that good stuff? You can

(20:31):
find me on Twitter at jam McNabb again. Amazing well
that's gonna do it for us this afternoon. We are
back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
we'll talk to you all tomorrow by