The Daily Zeitgeist - AuTrendticity 11/21: Matt Gaetz, Netflix, Trump's Authenticity, 'Wickadiator 2', Ellen Degeneres

Episode Date: November 21, 2024

In this edition of AuTrendticity, Jack and Miles discuss Matt Gaetz withdrawing his candidacy to be attorney general, Netflix getting sued over their glitchy Tyson/Paul bout, the power of Trump's "authenticity", 'Wickadiator 2' box office predictions, Ellen leaving the U.S. for reasons no one even remotely cares about and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What a film. Those early movies where they just had kind of heard of computers and still were figuring it out are a real blast. But he could regenerate his body by touching glass. I remember that was a thing, Sid 6.7. And that's pretty neat. And that's pretty cool. And they were at an early UFC fight.

That was the other thing I remember there. There's like a, like the climactic scene like revolves around them. Damn, they got a lot of the future right. Yeah, they did. Now that you mention it. I remember there was one of those, I remember there's one of those where they keep talking about like,

Jack me in, I gotta get jacked into the mainframe. That just always cracks me up. Anyways, we're gonna talk about authenticity in a moment. I'm Jack, that's Miles. This is the episode where we just tell you some of the stuff that's trending this afternoon, Thursday, November 21st. But first, Matt Gaetz.

Yeah. Guilty as hell, huh? I guess is what we can tell. Yeah, pour a bottle of piss out for this one. Another one, or the first, this is I guess, technically the first Trump-L so far of this future administration, the attack, Matt Gaetz. To withdraw one of these nominees

at a time when absolutely nobody can tell him shit. Like he just spent a whole year just being like, I don't give a fuck what anyone tells me, I'm going to keep doubling and tripling down. And he believes he's right about everything that has he could possibly do. Like there's no scenario in his mind where he does something wrong now or in the future. Absolutely. For Matt Gates to like the evidence on this motherfucker must be so damning. I mean, it to be like, all right, except for that one.

I was bad, my bad on that one. It was damning the second you heard it and you knew there was evidence of all of it. They're like, we have payments, we have witnesses. We are talking about trafficking minors, statutory rape, it's all there. I think for me, I think, you know, the biggest thing was when he resigned to say like, oh, I'm

actually doing that because I'm going to be nominated to be attorney general. The thing that his resignation did was effectively end the jurisdiction the House Ethics Committee had over him in terms of investigating this behavior, this misconduct, these crimes. So by doing that, he basically made that investigation toothless. And then there was this whole thing about, well, will they release the report? There was enough pressure that apparently they're like, yeah, we're not going to release the report. And then now I just don't think this is the end of Matt Gaetz. I mean, there's already talk of him replacing Marco Rubio as a Senator. So it could just be this, like,

you know, they were looking one move to sort of stop the ethics report coming out, but then he gets to hop on Marco Rubio's Senate seat and he still gets to be a basically, of just a firebrand in the Senate to do Trump's. One way or another, we're getting this pedophile in a position of power. Yeah, yeah, either way, either way is what that looks like.

And so, yeah, I think it was the is what that looks like. And so yeah, I think it was the evidence. I think also just generally, because some people were like, is he doing it? Like people were speculating, like, is Trump doing this just to humiliate Matt Gates during the confirmation? Because Democrats do get to ask questions, unless he went for like the recess appointment thing, which sounds like some Republicans in the House are pushing back on that idea. So this is the one thing is that like, although Trump does have control over the Republican Party and people are bowing to him, there's still other elements that are trying to do some things slightly different. So it's

at the moment slowing things down a little bit. But all that to say Pete Hegseth is still in the running to be Secretary of Defense, even though the police report around the like the rape allegations are have surfaced and it's terrible. And yeah, he's now like he was caught, I think, on Capitol Hill. People ask him like, hey, what the fuck is this, man? Like, we're seeing, hearing a lot about this and the police report was released He said quote as far as the media is concerned. It's very simple The matter was fully investigated and I was completely cleared and that's where I'm gonna leave it But that's not true. No, he settled out of work, right? Yes, exactly

So I think yeah, sure there were no charges were filed, but there's still a police report that's out. So you know, as far as the media is concerned, no, we're talking about this very, this police report right here that details all the sex crimes that you committed as far as the media is concerned. Well, what about as far as reality is concerned? Yeah. Why don't you ask CNN anytime I do something wrong, I'm just going to blame blame the media because they do suck in a lot of ways.

And so, yeah. So we shall see. Yeah. I mean, he has control over the government and the Republican Party and a lot of people who are preemptively just being like, I don't want to be in trouble with the fascists, but he doesn't have control over the fabric of reality. And I think that's going to come as a surprise to him and some of his supporters. He's like, I've just nominated Sid 6.7 to be the arbiter of accepted reality.

You might remember him as the bad guy from Virtuosity. That's right. And we all do. And I did even before we just had that conversation four minutes ago. Netflix is being sued over the glitchy Tyson-Paul fight. I always love a good lawsuit that's like, this thing that was inconvenient happened to me and I am seeking damages of at least $50 million.

Wait, wait, someone's suing because he was glitchy the shit was glitchy, dude Yeah, we're so litigious for the worst reasons If I was so glitchy man 50 million yeah 50 million I don't know if that's like a if they're seeking class action damage. It does look like 50 million dollars Yeah, so across you can't say they want to get to you Yo, I had 50 million dollars land I was going to the casino on that night, and I would have made 50 million dollars but yeah, I guess their idea is

That a lot of people were inconvenienced by the glitchy ass presentation and I respect it. I bet this dude bet on Tyson to win lost the bet and now he's trying to recoup his money somehow by being like damn it. If it hadn't been glitchy then maybe he would have won just as a very bad understanding of how reality works. What does that even mean? But the fight still happened and the result remains. I don't know man who knows. Mike's legs looked shaky because the feed was shaky. Yeah, Schrodinger's boxing match. That's right. And then authenticity, just this idea, I just want to keep talking about it

because it feels like it's going to be the big thing. My takeaway from this past election It's it's my takeaway from like this past election is it was the determining factor in in many ways like it's the one thing that people seem to believe Trump has is Like he has this appearance of authenticity not because he has any Deeply held authentic human beliefs about what he can do and like how to benefit people But he's the most willing to say fuck you to the mainstream media. And not for good reasons. Not for good. It's really just saying fuck you for describing what I'm doing.

But he will keep saying it and he will say it even louder. If as they point out him being wrong, I do think it's really the only unique thing about him as a politician, his willingness to say whatever benefits him, regardless of what the media, what like the, you know, democratic party establishment and, you know, in 2016, the Republican party establishment said he would, he was just had an unshakable belief in himself and the way he saw things that was fueled by pathological narcissism, but it ended up working out for him.

And I think on the other hand, like the Democratic Party seems to have the opposite of this. They seem to be worried about what the mainstream media will say about them at all times. Kamala Harris changed her positions, went to the right in a bunch of ways that felt completely out of line with what we knew of her from before.

But I think also, like, just remember, I think we've also lost sight of, like, who the most unpopular politician in the presidential election was. It actually wasn't Kamala Harris. It was JD Vance. And like, he was the person who is the most opportunistic, position changing, inauthentic, sellout piece of shit that like that that is just the one thing that everybody knew about him from the start is he a few years ago was calling Trump Hitler and then became, you know, a sniveling boot throater and people despise him.

And I just, I don't think people are wrong to value this necessarily because like we were talking about, like with the, the idea of people having like an allergic reaction to these, like super complex bureaucratic solutions that are like neoliberalism does hide behind complexity and it does end up fucking you over in a lot of ways, like whether it be, you know, health insurance or, you know, government programs that end up, you know, getting taken over by corporations. And I think like authenticity, like we exist in a world where like from our youngest days, we are being sent

manipulative messages via marketing that like are trying to control you and dissuade you. And I think it's like one of the ways that people are very sophisticated now and politicians and like big mainstream political parties just still seem to be like a generation behind. They're like talking to people who aren't aware that that is happening. Right. Yeah. I mean, I think it's fucking them. A lot of the DNC ideas feel like they came from like your divorced 60 year old uncle who like just realized you can wear a hat backwards. And it's like, hey, you know, it'd be cool. And you're like, no, no, no. Exactly, we just saw you walk in with a fanny pack,

take it off and turn your hat around backwards and turn the chair around backwards. Like we saw that. You can't make us not see that, but I just, I'm raising it now because like you talked about, like the way that the Democratic Party is responding to the election is guys, we need to shift. We need to keep changing our position, keep adopting new positions now that,

you know, throw everybody under the bus. Like that is the hardening consensus around what this election is. And like, I don't really feel any panic about it because I didn't think that the mainstream Democratic Party or the mainstream media was going to be the solution. I just, but we need to like recognize that's what it's going to be. It's not coming. Whatever is next is not coming from the mainstream media. It's not coming from the Democratic Party. It's going to be something that they make fun of. And that thing needs to target them and like have that be a part of what they're saying from the start. They have to like have five, you know, very specific messages. And one of them

needs to be fucked the mainstream media and the, you know, Biden administration. Yeah. Or not just doing it like in the sort of MAGA way of like, fuck the mainstream media is like you talk about the corporate capture of media and how it doesn't serve you to actually talk. But again, depending on, you know, what level of DNC strategist you're talking about, like, no, dude, maybe it is good to like adopt that language. I think, you know, we're currently just experiencing an Omni crisis in the United States. So it's the, it's the authenticity, it's the misogyny, it's the racism, all of these things are sort

of coming together to create a fucking ball rug of disaster, political disaster that, you know, the Democrats had to face off with. But yeah, I think the thing though, truly like, which the reason it's trending to this idea of authenticity, there's a Pew research study that came out this week that was just talking about how like, 20% of American adults are like, they're not getting it from the mainstream media at all. Like they're getting their news from quote, news influencers or what the study defines as a person who consistently posts news related content with more than 100,000 followers on

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X or YouTube. That's there again, this is more than 50 million people getting their news this way. When Pew asked adults from the age of 1829, that number increases to 37%. So this is like a, this is again, part of the shifting media diet of like that people are consuming. And we also, this is why we're hearing so much now too, because clearly the right has an advantage in this department of their own like talkosphere,

blogosphere, influencers, spheres of influences. And the Democrats are constantly like, whoa, what are we gonna do? Like we need our own Joe Rogan. That doesn't mean they need to be pumping more money into like Pod Save America or things like that. Although that's probably exactly what they're thinking because these people have been stalwarts

for the establishment Democratic Party. But there's this, in this Wired article, they spoke with this woman, Amelia Montuth, who's like a creator, a progressive creator. And this was her take. She said, quote, what the right does really well is having a funnel that I believe starts with bar stool sports that reaches mass audiences. The left is missing the top and middle of these funnels. Rather than working with individual influencers, they should focus on building

that piece of the ecosystem, that funnel. Because it is true. Like it's, if you're not, most people are not explicitly looking for political content, like on the internet, they want entertainment. So if they're, if they're even trying to replicate that, I don't know. I mean, like you, you already have huge funnels for content. Now are they going to start platforming people that are more, I don't know. It's, it's just hard to kind of figure out, but I do see that part of the puzzle of like,

you capture people with a larger sort of, you know, again, just general sort of entertainment. And then from there, they begin to infuse a lot of like political talkers or things and platform them and normalize them via that route. But I just don't think like most of the people present like there's the ringer, right? That's a very popular sports network, like probably comparable to Barstool, maybe not as big as Barstool, but it's big and popular and influential.

But it has like no political stance because it's just sort of a mainstream media aligned, you know, like it's just probably center left. I actually don't know what the politics of the people involved in the ring are, but like, I don't think there's any there there in the same way that there, you know, whereas like barstool, I guess it just feels like it's like a lot of the answers that are coming from people are like, okay, and then we need a 40 slide PowerPoint to explain like the many different steps of addressing this. And it's just like, yeah, because like nobody, everybody has just been like, well, the Democrats

like are kind of the standard and like as a mainstream media institution, we just like kind of trickle down to that. And people have rejected that because they've rejected like this neoliberal order. And so, I don't know, there's like a lot of like, I think people are going to try to make the Joe Rogan of the left and it's just going to be the same thing we've already had, which there's a lot of. Yeah. Right. I think, again, the Joe Rogan of the left avoids the are the policies the problem, you know what I mean? That's really, I think what we're getting at in the end is that while that

can help and you can maybe try and like balance the scales in terms of like the number of visitors, consumers of this content to sort of like lean more to the left, the bigger issue is the policies. And if that's not the first point of interrogation in any kind of post-mortem on this election, it's going to be an absolute failure. But again, I think that's why there is so much emphasis on talking about like, is it this, is it this, is it this, rather than are we like completely

fucking ourselves over because we are unwilling to grapple these problems that are being caused by our biggest donors. And we are so to grapple these problems that are being caused by our biggest donors. Right. And we are so locked in with them that we've been rendered inert in terms of addressing those problems because we're just kind of, we like to pick a part at the margins. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough. But yeah, I think again, like the point about authenticity, it's the same thing

of like, are you being consistent with who you think is vulnerable and who are you protecting? Because if that's sliding all over the place, that's hard to be taken seriously. Right. But it's nobody has really tried this. That's the thing to like, nobody is currently like in the last election, like they're going to tell you, well, the Democrats tried to like, be progressive and it failed. They, they didn't. And also like if the best tool that you can have when it comes to like being authentic is like actually having the truth and like kindness on your side and no, no mainstream party has tried that. Yeah. Cause what you're not going to hear fucking Rachel Maddow get out there and really talk about how, you know, certain lobbying interests are the reason why the Democratic party is unable to really pursue these policies that would, you know, help a morality of

American people. It's not going to happen. Although she did, we just did find out she's willing, she's taking, she said a $5 million pay cut because MSbc is in such dire straits right now. Is she okay? Yeah, I don't know man. I mean five million pay cut. What is she gonna make? What was she getting in dollars? Yeah I'm sick. Oh No, no, no, okay. So she went from 30 million to 25 million. Okay Worth it guys. We're msnbc. I'm here. INBC, I'm here. I'll do it for fucking, I'll do it for one million. But I won't say that shit that, you know, I'll get kicked off pretty quickly, but it'll be fun.

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And we're back. We're back. All right. Glickid is currently tracking for a combined North American debut in the $165 million range. That is the Gladiator 2 Wicked box office debuts coming this weekend. We talked about that. I think should be wick haddiator or waddiator. Or just wicked too. Yeah. Wicked too. They get confusing as fuck. Wicked too. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. So I,

I think that's about the range that people were thinking for Barbenheimer and it both of those overperformed seemed like seems like Wicked did extremely well with critics. They're giving it like really good reviews. And gladiator two is like, you know, standard Ridley Scott over the past decade or two, where, you know, we'll see. It seems like a lot of fun. Because what Barbie did, $155,000 and Oppenheimer did $80,000 opening. So they did $235,000 opening weekend. And then it kind of just kept going. So I think the forecast heading in was around like, yeah,

Barbie could do about a million and Oppenheimer could do like 65. OK, cool, cool, cool. And they both overperformed. So we'll see. Don't sleep on baby Ratu, which is a baby girl and Nosferatu both dropping on Christmas. and Nosferatu both dropping on Christmas. Baby, Ratu is so baby. You're right.

That's more fun to say. Yeah, baby, baby, right? There's no baby girl. Yeah, it's funny, like the article that the AP News did an article is like Glick Barbenheimer, like, is it going to be the new Barbenheimer? And like the first two paragraphs are just taken up by people being like, we actually think Glickit is the better way over Wiccadiator. No.

Yeah, they recognize that their name sucks shit. They're like, we just need to like get on board with Glickit and move on because having five different names is not helpful for the movement. This is like a cause. This is like the Democrats obsessing over. We can't hear like Glick-Id. Dude, it's so much bigger than this. You fucking wikiator, wadiator, Gladwick and even the eyebrow raising glad dick.

It glad dick. It glad. I mean, that one's kind of fun. Glad. Yeah. and even the eyebrow raising gladdicket gladdicket gladdicket gladdicket yeah gladdicus yeah whatever I know not of wicked enough to for that to interest me but I do know about running my fingers through you know fields of wheat and hearing you vaguely ethnic vocals I don't know if I, I may have a moment to see it, like do a solo movie thing because I know her majesty is just like, I miss me with the gladiator. Really? So my wife is on board for the gladiator. Like she was like, I want to see that. I really do think it's because of Paul Mescal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, she's her message is like, no, no.

Paul. OK, Paul. Paul. And isn't that Mescal like a drink? No. But I'm like, that's a that's disqualifying to you. Yeah. But anyways, but we are traveling this weekend, so I don't know if it'll I'll probably end up seeing it over Thanksgiving. But we Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving we, ciao. Thanksgiving Day? See, Thanksgiving Day, baby.

Thanksgiving morning solo. Have you ever seen a movie on Thanksgiving Day? I think so. We usually go see movies when we're home for the holidays. Like a Christmas Day movie? We always do Christmas Day movies for sure. At the theater? At the theater?

Yeah, yeah, always at the theater. Yeah, we're a big movie going family. I've never seen a movie on Christmas Day. I think because like at the time as a kid, all I wanted to do was just play whatever video like the one video game I got for the year and be like, yeah, you do whatever the fuck you want. Like I'm going to like have my eyes roll back in front of the TV for eight hours. Maybe I'll try that this year.

You didn't even go see Titanic? That shit didn't that shit came out before Christmas though. Yeah, it did. So I saw before I saw before like I saw it. I'm pretty sure I saw Titanic opening weekend Did you see Avatar in theaters on? But I saw the first Avatar in Tokyo actually oh shit, which may have probably my fondest Christmas Day moviegoing experience Yeah, oh, you know, it's so? Every time I've been in Japan for Christmas, I've gone to see a movie almost. Like I saw the episode seven Star Wars when that came out, The Force Awakens.

I saw that. I think that was on Christmas Day in Japan and then I saw Avatar, no, I think it's the day after. Anyway, not in America, and that's the only one that counts. We live in America. I know. All right. Hey, speaking of a fond farewell to people who no longer live in America. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are leaving the US and saying, we're not coming back.

I, you know, Ellen, a true hero. I just, we haven't really brought Ellen up in a while because I get emotional when I'm talking about what she. Everyone was really terrible to her. Yeah, when she went through. Yeah, so she just had a standup special that is basically that that is the tone. It's called for your approval, Yes. Very like, okay, here we go. Passive aggressive. Here you go. I hope you're happy.

The premise is like this woman has been wronged more than anybody. And just to refresh, she was canceled for doing like cruel and sadistic things to people who worked for her, such as like hiding a toothpicks around her house and seeing if the cleaning lady would find them. And if not, they're fired. Like just like setting little traps for the people who work for them to like find out. Yeah. And then also any person who has worked on the Ellen

DeGeneres show just anecdotally in LA you meet people they will always be like this is the worst fucking thing I've ever. And that's when it all came out because first it was the people who worked on the Ellen show being like this workplace is toxic. And then the pylon began to like, oh, y'all don't know about the toothpick hiding and you're like, what? Yeah, it was hiding. It was just a thing you heard around L.A. the entire time I've lived, you know, from like really 2010s was that like, oh, the the worst boss in L.A.

You know, and so I just want to talk about the special though. I was only able to make it a minute and a half in. She opens the thing with like a montage of like people attacking Ellen DeGeneres. And she comes out and she gets a standing oh, like she was Malala, right. She comes out and she gets a standing. Oh, like she was Malala, man. She is like, they are just. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They're you know, her place in television history, I think that's, and like in terms of coming out on national television, coming out on national television, that's definitely a seminal moment. I think, but the vibe of this special was sort of like using the goodwill of her, you know, taking, you know, being open with the world and who she is on Ellen to then be like, and because of that, ignore all the other terrible things I have done after that.

And I am actually a martyr. Cause I got through maybe the first 10 minutes and when I realized I'm like, oh, this is just a hagiography of like Ellen DeGeneres in the form of a standup thing. I was like, I get it. Your ego couldn't handle it. You get to be the only voice on a stage

and just kind of like tell your side of things and whatever. She said I was kicked out of show business. Dude, you have so much, like you live in Montecito. Okay. Well, I guess not anymore. Because you didn't list the Montecito, okay. Well, I guess not anymore, Miles, not anymore. You didn't list the Montecito estate, so you are no longer in the same neighborhood as Oprah.

Now she lives in a castle next to the queen, okay? Next to Prince Andrew. I hope you're happy, America. Yeah. Her and Prince Andrew. Is Portia de Rossi also, does Portia de Rossi also suck too, or is she just catching strays because she's without- I don't know, man. Yeah.

I got nothing, no problem with Portia de Rossi. Hey, Portia, my beef ain't with you, okay? Great, great performances in Rasta development. Oh yeah, and who could forget Ali McBeal? Yeah. She first hit the stage. All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, November 21st.

We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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Mike Tyson's journey to recovery reminds us that no fight is easy. With every bumpy start, each setback and moments that could have broken him, he kept pushing forward. I never knew what the spiral was coming up in my life. I never knew I was going to go in there deep. There's hopelessness in how so many millions of people feel like they have no help. Listen to the CINO Show on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search the CINO Show and start

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