The Daily Zeitgeist - Aaron Rodger's Achilles Trendon 9/13: Aliens, NASA, Drew Barrymore, Biden, Apple

Episode Date: September 13, 2023

In this edition of Aaron Rodger's Achilles Trendon, Jack and Miles discuss ancient aliens in Mexico, NASA announcing they MAY have found biosignatures on an exoplanet, an update on the Drew Barrymore/WGA situ,  no one wanting Biden to run in 2024, and Apple's upcoming iPhone 15/15 Pro!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How do you feel about this, kids? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. It's right here in black and white in print.

It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Aaron Rodgers' Achilles Trendon. Nice. For Aaron Rodgers, for New York Jets fans, uh, New York jets fans. Um, ah, you hate to see, you hate to see it happen.

You hate to see it. But in the words of the great Joe Namath, I could care less about the team struggling. And in the words of, uh, OJ Simpson, did you see what his tweet? No.

Uh, shout out to, uh, my friend, Chris, who always keeps me up to date. I tweet no uh shout out to uh my friend Chris who always keeps me up to date to say shout out to my I thought you're gonna say shout out to my friend shout out to my friend OJ Simpson um who was on it is what it is I don't know what that is that a show uh and said 9-11 is just a bad day for New York this this is a new low um wow about aaron rogers snapping his achilles tendon on 9-11 that's the new that's the new low that's the new 9-11 yeah a new low okay um all right anyways is just a an amazing sense of tact what like he's oj simpson's next act is final the final act of his career is like being the most tactless human being maybe that we've ever had um i mean i would say that he has

about the appropriate amount of tact for a murderer like the appropriate level is like you go into hiding in the woods right oh yeah well i guess look with different styles different styles for different styles for different uh openly guilty murderers yeah it is what it is all right uh let's tell the people a couple of things that are trending shall we miles yeah so in mexico in front of congress a um journalist that word is being put in quotes uh by a lot of people came through um you know there was a lot of talk when the pentagon whistleblowers came came in front of the u.s congress and was like yeah we have a non-human but or non-bio non-human biologics um uh you know people were like we need extraordinary claims require

extraordinary proof and this motherfucker came through and was like voila how How about that? We good here. And unveiled glass, like wooden boxes with glass tops with a thousand year old alien corpses in them. And was like, there you go. Any

questions? Are we good here? I said. Unfortunately, we are not because this particular quote unquote journalist does have a history of pulling shit like this. That didn't turn out to be true. He's specifically really a big fan of the alien mummy genre of discovery. He's done this bit before. It's previously been associated with claims of quote

alien discoveries that have later been debunked including five mummies found in peru in 2017 that were later shown to be human children uh so yeah it's classy it is funny that he keeps coming back to the mummies he's like i i get the feeling he was like a big fan of mummies as a child like and it's like this is oh like you just can't quit the mummy shit you know yeah and everyone's like please honey quit the mummy shit i don't know if i feel like i keep if i keep hitting that button's going to, mummies are so cool. Like, don't you think people are going to be into them? Um,

there, there's also like, he's making claims about like DNA that was recovered from these alien mummies. Um, fossils. I think they're being called, which I don't want. Can you pull DNA from fossils?

I thought, I thought you needed to get like the mosquitoes that bit those things a long time ago and then get preserved in Amber. Um, according to Jurassic park, the only science book I've ever read. Uh, yeah,

I don't know any other way. It has to be in mosquito, but mosquito, mosquito, but it's gotta be mosquito, but, and it's gotta be inside Amber. Um,

and it's gotta be in Costa Rica or else it's got to be in costa rica or else it's not and that uh that like you can't even get uh usable dna from those so um i don't know we've learned you can't you can't even get usable dna from a subway tuna that's right okay so the bar is pretty fucking hot but it it is wild it's worth looking at the pictures of this unveiling because very very dramatic stuff happening it is it's i forget i think it was uh sean o'connor on twitter it's like screen cap the alien goes this isn't an alien i follow like 11 dudes that look like this on instagram i don't even know what that means but i like um uh by the way miles you are in the you're in the dark here to quote literally no yeah character from scent of a woman um thank you because your

your power's out so i just yeah my power went out um uh yeah really cool ending to tomorrow's episode yeah when i fucking literally get vanished from the earth with my power going out. We'll see how long it lasts. But anyway, you don't have to fucking humiliate me, Jack. I'm just letting people know this guy doesn't even fucking have power. You believe it?

That you're trying to claim he's a podcaster who doesn't even have power. You don't even have fucking power. I am talking about, I'm trying to testify to what a professional you are you neither rain i'm using a hot spot nor sleet nor snow um no yeah all right uh nasa is talking about them uh finding possible signs of actual life on a distant planet uh this is the the more boring version of you know what what was what that journalist was trying was going for down in mexico yeah um because you're like what it's eight pictures of aliens

you guys got pictures of you guys just moved the james webb in like super you were like enhance enhance enhance and then there was an alien down there just like giving you the finger oh it's the super bowl i think um but it's so they found a planet a mere 120 light years away so they found a planet uh that around the 1900s early 1900s um you know because that's how long it has taken the light from that planet to reach our telescopes um wow that it contains rare water like a this is a thing that i hadn't heard outside of the context of this story. They keep talking about a water ocean, which I guess you do need to specify because there's probably oceans of mercury and other weird shit on other planets. Oh, right, right, right.

I thought it was like redundant, like in Philly you have water ice. Yeah, I'm like, oh, like water ice? Yeah, which is neither water. But yeah, this planet is much bigger than Earth, nine times the mass of Earth, with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a water ocean-covered surface.

It's got a water ocean-covered surface. Shit. Let's go. Let's go. And that is what NASA said. They said, let's go that and that is what nasa said they said let's go um they think it could house life because it could absolutely house life um because it seemingly contains uh dimethyl sulfide uh which is a molecule that on earth is only produced by life uh the the dimethyl sulfide has yet to be confirmed but they they're seeing they're saying that that place over there looks

awfully dimethyl sulfidey it's got that dms dms vibes uh the planet is giving dms vibes sir uh the planet is called k2 18b uh i'm sure i'm guessing we'll come up with a better name for that in the not too distant future um is it from new york is otherwise k2 18b i'm sorry i'm sorry um but as super producer so super producer brian our space expert and our resident space alien curmudgeon whenever i say they found life he's like jack send me the link jack you're going jack it's so this time he said uh okay so dimethyl sulfide is farts. And that is kind of what one of the things they made the James Webb telescope for was to scam for farts. So we've got a confirmation on farts. Let's go.

Hell yeah. To quote NASA, confirmation on farts. Let's go. Let's go. They got a water ocean. Got a water ocean. We got a confirmation on farts. Let's go. And then like 40 hours. Got a water ocean. We got a confirmation on farts. Let's go. I'm having a mentee bee. But you know what they say, you know, like you can't have farts without butts.

Miles. So there's butts for sure. The first thing I learned in intro to philosophy and it's why I majored in philosophy. That teacher blew your mind like those like those space yeeks were blowing out farts so algae farts we might have algae farts um all right ways away to it like one of the things in the article was like but dms is like mainly made by algae so chances are like it's just like there aren't and is an intelligent life there it's like how do you know that it's not both we got algae we got intelligent life i mean if you it could be intelligent and not counting the clowns of washington you know. Those aren't intelligent lives.

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they threw two audience members out for wearing WGA pins that they were given on the way in, uh, by people who were picketing. Uh, they also claimed that they, uh, the,

the people who were thrown out were claimed, uh, claimed that they were verbally assaulted by the crew of the drew barrymore show um if true what is that what is that like hey you fucking loser labor pinko commie mother fuck like are they just like hey you piece of shit get out of here we don't like that drew don't like that i have noticed a trend in hollywood where like if there's like a really nice famous person like they are they tend to be surrounded by people who are like well i've got to make up for that to protect them

and you know right right literal sharks they they just travel with a pack of literal shark um so i don't know i'm not saying that's true of drew barmore. She might be mean in reality when she's off air. Who knows? But yeah, the show's spokesperson later confirmed the story, claiming it was due to heightened security concerns. And they said they're in the process of reaching out to the affected audience members to offer them new tickets. Cool. I'm sure they really want to go back what is heightened

security concerns how does someone having a pin connect with this idea that there were heightened security concerns that these people were gonna fucking stab her you don't know what they can do with that pin that's true that's true they could have a very special set of skills um very particular set of skills uh yeah the next day with a union pin yeah the next day there was a story that audience members bags were being searched and wga buttons confiscated so you don't even have to like be wearing it you just have to like have it on your person and they will take that this is fucking peak weirdo loser behavior drew barrymore show like seriously you i thought you were i thought you were taking this uh decision with the utmost humility and understanding what would come with it now you're like suppress anything that makes me realize i'm on the completely wrong side of this shit we don't want true to see any wga pins because

she's gonna feel bad uh so let's just keep them out do you see how she do you see how she leaves the studio no she wears like one of those like helmets that they put on hawks so they can't and they just rush her straight out because they can't even have her casting her gaze the blinders people she's fucking over yeah i mean i say they need to everyone needs to spam the fuck out of the ticket site because it's very easy to search for how to get like these you don't buy tickets yeah shit they give them because by the way i'm going to being a studio audience member for one of these shows sucks it's awful you're there for a lot longer than you think you need to be um and why not just get a bunch of people that are in there and like just disrupt the

fucking taping it's a great question like have plants in there every consistently and then the second she starts talking yo support the w and then like you kind of have enough people that like every five minutes someone speaks up and like shit shit, now we're going to throw this fucker out to fuckers. I don't know. Come out of the walls. Keep popping on the fucking walls and having a WGA shot on me. There's some good there's some good picket signs out in front. Of the Drew Barrymore show, there's a lot of a lot of good picketing going on.

One of the picket signs said do you like breaking strikes and has a picture of ghost face um which is from from scream jack coming from coming yeah people think feels like talking while my lobster kicks uh no no what ghost face from scream um that that one's a lot that one's a lot i like it but it does seem like you're threatening to murder drew barrymore um yeah it's not that clear no i think can somebody give me one with penis breath in there i feel like we we could get uh for me t the the line that made us all fall in love with drew barrymore where she calls elliot penis breath i believe um yeah what what what rampant uh violent homophobia coming out of such a truly but that is like that line fucking blew my mind it was one of the first insults i ever heard and i was like what anybody else

and she's a kid um yeah anyways uh let's see what else is trending miles i do love your idea spam the shadow ticket sites uh let's go let's go like it's such a such a vulnerable yeah water ocean let's go it's such a vulnerability in like trying to do these things where you need an audience but you really have no way to select who those people are so you really just kick that very they are desperate for you to come to those tapings um oh yeah but tourists i mean there's no better thing for like a tourist to do like when you go to a big city like when you think about like back at television city on fairfax where the cbs studios are and people are just like dying in the sun because they want to see drew carey on the prices right like go ahead yeah to go to the craig

kilbourne i used to line up i went to two tapings of the Craig Kilbourne show, extremely high and not fun. Not fun. Yeah. It was a very, very weird experience. Anyways, what else is trending? More people calling for Biden not to run. Washington Post's David Ignatius,

a columnist who I'm not familiar with, but see, it seems like a big deal. People are treating it like a big deal. Calling on both. This is the quote. But I don't think Biden and Vice President Harris should run for reelection. It's painful to say that, given my admiration for much of what they've accomplished. He's very like gentle and kind, but like it truly seems like he's being like,

Hey man, you did it. You did a great job. Don't, don't fuck this one up. Are you seeing the polls though? Just like where you're saying like the polls are like your own, your own voters are

like come on yeah let him take a break we don't want to see him die on the walmart floor but he still has the best chance of beating trump according to vegas so who the fuck knows yeah no he's he's got a lead over uh over trump but but like that's what's so weird about the math like the logic of the dnc it's like, but he's doing better than Trump. I'd posit that a lot of people could poll better than Trump if you do the whole put the weight of the machine behind it. Political strategists are surprisingly bad at their jobs. For that being their whole job, it can't tell you shit usually when it comes to polling.

Yeah. Ignatius is like whatever like not the the most forward-thinking guy like he's definitely he's like loved the invasion of iraq and like oh nice loves the cia so so many of them did that just shows you so many of them did it's really crazy but even that kind of guy a cia bootlicker is like i don't know byron yeah seems bad seems like he's old joe scarborough was like every democrat off air admits he's too old to run but y'all gotta get your shit together and figure out who it's gonna be if it's not gonna be biden um so bad like they're just they don't realize how much how much power and appeal there is in a

progressive platform and like they just can't fucking dare to look that way at all to the point where they're like i don't know man just fucking get the mummy out run the mummy out one yeah that's uh people love mummies that's we said it once on this show we'll say it again people love fucking mummies um is that guy this is that guy also running the dnc that journalist but what if the aliens were mummies i'm just saying what if the president was a mummy what if the mummy was alien that's uh the ah the pitch for the next alien movie or the next uh mummy movie um right finally apple a couple things trending in the world of apple they announced the iphone 15 yesterday uh where

the big news is you're gonna have to change your charger again um at least it's yeah at least it's usbc like so this is actually in response to uh eu legislation that was like everything needs to be usbc just like stop fucking with people stop changing like what the chargers are just everything usbc now um so they're doing that which annoying but like good in the long run probably um they also did a video about how all their products uh will be carbon neutral by 2030 um and it's real real corporate cringe shit real it's it's it's a yeah it's a green wash extravagant yeah with a high budget oh yeah there's that presentation i watched a little bit of it because i was curious to see like because i haven't i haven't gotten an iphone

like five years and i kind of do that thing where i'm like nah it doesn't seem different enough than the one i've got we're rolling it now that mine gets like fucking hot when it charges i'm like okay maybe i can maybe i can uh test oh is that bad for it to get hot when it charges mine i mean like not warm but like to the to the I'm like, yo, this shit is getting hot. It's not a great, not a great pants and my underwear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Uh, but yeah, but then like this, it's the look of it is truly like, it feels like what the mainstream is, is like an Apple presentation where it's like so manicured and like, like the, like image conscious about like how it's presenting itself. Um, like when you watch it, you're like, areured and like like the like image conscious about like how it's presenting itself

um like when you watch you're like are these people like is there a gun pointed at them like off camera when they're like you're going to love the new innovations of the apple watch series 9 to tell us more here's blah blah blah on a random field and it's like cuts to someone being like okay i'm the design anyway all that to say is there's there was a very weird sketch, I guess. Skit Octavia Spencer Octavius plays Mother Nature. And Tim Cook is talking to. Mother Nature, like Mother Nature, has kidnapped his children and is like going to murder them they are they are so scared shook but you did what you asked us like like mother nature is

like a vengeful god that yeah yeah she's like she's dressed in all black and her vibe is like angry auntie which that's not what i feel mother nature should represent but it is weird i don't that might just be their own guilt as like being such a like like bad with carbon emissions company like manifesting in the fact that like they feel that they're about to get their fucking like a have a reckoning their version of nature is a sleep paralysis demon that comes and haunts them in the night as they're like trying to go to sleep tim cook is like fucking menaced by mother nature he's it starts off where he's like you don't i remember i didn't know what the fuck was going on there's like this really

weird comedic sketch where they're like chris she's coming she's coming they're like what oh my god and like they're prepping the thing and tim cook's like rehearsing lines like how is the weather when you can't like, no, not that Tim. He's the worst. Fuck up, Tim. Yeah. He gives himself. So this is like classic.

He like was overseeing this production and totally not taking into account that he is not an actor who can pull off any of his lines. But like because he's in charge, like nobody can tell him that. So it's it's a mess. Um, somebody, somebody pull the plug on that guy. And then it opens with her, like looking out a window and they're like, we, we did what you asked us to master. And, um, and then she takes a slow walk around the conference table with a baseball bat in her hand. And they're all scared.

Now, that's actually the untouchables. But that feels like the energy. Breaks a pool cue in half and throws it at another table and says, all right, last one out of here. Gets to join the crew. Yeah, just a truly sane person's vision of nature and why we need to stop destroying the planet um anyways uh what a mess but uh the products are going to be carbon neutral and who the fuck knows what that means yeah okay they're like and as a company we're gonna be uh completely carbon nudie by 2023 harby nooch okay we'll see we'll see but yeah like uh like this when you look at all the materials used

like where where do we like but does it mean are the products will use less energy like is that part of it they're like no no no no man no we're just gonna put up a bunch of solar arrays and shit yeah anyways thanks for the carby carby nuchos uh apple you guys killing it uh what a company someone in the discord was saying that uh like menti b and the kazi lives so they're like that's like aussie slang okay wow about time that some aussie slang went global because they've had some good stuff um not here to fuck spiders hasn't taken off like the way i'd like it to when i say it at interviews remind people what that was not not here to fuck spiders means you're not here to fuck around what do you say yeah we're not here to fuck spiders

mate doesn't make it like i'm not here to fuck around nothing about that makes any sense i love it so much and trying to introduce that into a casual conversation please please do uh please do try that at a preschool interview see how it goes over i did and having to double back and explain it to someone, I realized, okay, it might not be the most efficient turn of phrase. What's your problem? Kids fucking love spiders. What is that, a Brooklyn nose? I'm not on trial here.

All right. Well, that's going to do it for us on this Wednesday, September 13th. We are back tomorrow With our 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

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