The Daily Zeitgeist - Back At It ATrend 1/06: New Years Terror Attacks, Drones, Golden Globes, Jimmy Carter

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

In this episode, Jack and Miles discuss their respective holidays, and all the news they missed over the last couple of weeks! U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence Don’t Fly Drones In These 2 Essex County Towns, Feds Say – For Now Golden Globes: ‘Anora’ Shut Out as ‘Conclave,’ ‘Wicked’ Win One Each 'You can know the value of your worth' - Demi Moore's tear-jerking Golden Globes speech addresses decades of 'corroded' confidence Ozempic and Hollywood sex scandals lead off Nikki Glaser’s opening monologue at the Golden Globes All five living US presidents expected to come together to mourn Jimmy Carter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every day I was like, fuck, why is this crazy shit happening? And then I'm like, maybe it won't matter. And I'm like, yeah, it does. It all does. Like the Golden Globes. I watched it. If it were not for guys are killed over. Yeah, I was like the the fucking Timothy Shalome when she said,

do you have the shadow me? You have the most beautiful eyelashes on your upper lip. I was like, I feel see. I love I love the most creative ways to insult people in facial hair. I think it's facial hair. Yeah. Oh, man. I mean, as the disgraced, he said my money was thinner than Sean Paul goatee hair. That's from last call.

He's like, my money was thinner than Sean Paul goatee hair. Now, Jean Paul goatee air cologne filled the air. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's that sounds like a Kanye. They say he's stupid. He big headed. Yeah. That's that sounds like a Kanye. They say he's stupid. He big headed.

Would you please stop talking about how my dick head is? That was one of my least favorite lines from him. That sounded like a giant, like a fifth grader trying to brag about his dick for the first time. And I have a huge dick head Okay, I was once peeing like outdoors next to a friend and he was like a little peace stream little dick That's what that means He's like all right, man Also, what house did this person grow up like you?

Where do you pick that shit up? You know that history and his dad's like, hey, let's go to the local fucking toilets and go here that you hear that. What do you think he's got a little rules around here? Two rules, the golden rule and little peace stream, little dick, little dick. It's it's it's a fucking it should be accepted as new Tony in law. Jokes on him. It's mostly all your look like a sandworm down there, you know. Oh, you uncircumcised?

No, no. Oh, God. What a hat. Also, bro, why are you looking at me? Just enjoy your bro. We're just watching the Sixers dog. Get back out there. Get back out there.

He was never good. He was never good. He was just, well, I think he had like, it was like, I have some friends who are like that, who just like are constantly saying shit and like half of the time is really funny and half of the time is cringe. Yeah, you know crazy Yeah, he's definitely like a broken clock type rapper And then other times you're like that's a bar Wait, what if we fuck on the top of this dining table? What do we fuck in the middle of this Vogue party? What? And I get bleach on your asshole.

Yeah, I get bleach on my T-shirt. And you're like, what? What? I bleach your asshole. I'm like an ass. Why would that make you feel like an asshole of all the things? You should definitely feel like an asshole for so many things. Getting Pablo is one of those albums though that I think perfectly encapsulates that where you're half the time like what the fuck? And then other times like okay. Yeah. Yeah, okay. The music is good. The rapping is

Frequently terrible never I will never shade his him on the boards But his I will always shade him on his fucking terrible lyrics. Wait. So Cosdrop, I was the first one. Then late registration was the second. Yeah. He I remember like I was so excited for that. I was like reading magazine like paper magazine articles about the making of it and like what was happening.

And I remember one report from the making of it and like what was happening. And I remember one report from the making of late registration where they were like, he is, he has the whole album, but like 50% of the verses are just him being like, Oh, he's just got the shapes. Yeah, he has the shapes, but he didn't have the words yet. I was like having so much sense. I hear that a lot with like singer songwriters where it's like, yeah, the words are secondary. It's like, yeah, rapper that you like that should come first.

Yeah. Unless you're so percussive with your flow that like you said, I think I do. But he is like, then I'll figure it out. But it's like, no, not in that not in that old brain. Wait, when are we going to get a rapper that does only glossolalia glossolalia? It's like it's like cigarettes, which is fake words. Yeah. Wait, is cigarettes not speaking a language? No, they're singing, singing nonsense words.

Yeah. They got my bad. I got my Iceland, right? Yeah. Wow. Now, that's a language. No, they call it. Hopelandia or some shit like that, I think. Wow. That's like the there's this one tick tock I love. It's just these German dudes who are like in a car

spitting gibberish, like what they think American rap sounds like. Yeah. Phonetic. Yeah. And it's like kind of dope because you're like yeah phonetic yeah yeah and it's like kind of dope cuz you're like oh I don't actually don't like you know weird I'm like yeah that goes hard like I could listen to an album with it like a side when you get the prank, get the prank. You do got to vip the prank. You got to rip the frame, bro. West side. Get the prank. Get the prank.

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to this Monday morning week trend. A break trend edition of Der Daily Zankage. Yeah. Oh, Miles just stretched out like a little cartoon character waking up from a nap as he did that. I'm just a little news hungry bear. Sweet baby. Waiting to talk about all the good and the bad.

Oh yeah. Wow. What a slumber I had. I missed a lot of stories turns out. I told you I'm coming into this thing dry, Jack. I don't know what the fuck happened. That's what January is about, right? Dry January.

Avoid all contact with human civilization. That's right. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Miles Gray. Yes. We hope everybody had a wonderful holiday. Wonderful. Yeah. You know, if you celebrate that, if not, we hope you just had a good couple of weeks

taking a break from hearing our voices live. But now we're back. But we're back. You can't avoid us as holes. We hope you enjoyed that extended cold open as we we just like ease ourselves back into the cold pool of the zeitgeist. Yeah. Or maybe it's like a hot tub. What is it? Too hot? The hot tub is a little subjective. It is all subjective. Thank you for that, Miles.

Broken hot tub, says Brian, the editor. Broken hot tub, says Brian, the editor. Broken hot tub time machine. All right, so let's just like blast through a handful of stories that happened over the break. Well, what did you come completely forget the form of the show here? Oh, shit. That's right. You don't even want to get to know me a little bit better. That's right.

They get to know us a little bit. We tell you some of the things that happened over the weekend. Do I do I have that right? Yes, you have that over the past two and a half weeks. And that's due to 45 minutes plus 15 minutes of nonsense. Yep. But first, we do like to let you guys get to know us a little bit better by telling you some things we think are overrated and underrated. We often do overrated and underrated with the guests.

I'm going to over explain everything because I need to be reminded. And you're Jack. And I am Jack. And I'm Jack. Look at your underwear. Look at your underwear. Look at the label. And I'm Haynes.

I'm Calvin Klein. Oh, Calvin. Oh, Calvin. He back. All right. But first, Miles, we tell the people what we think is underrated, what we think is overrated. What you got? You got anything you think is underrated? Underrated a few things. I think like you, with many observations hit us and we kept them for this moment. I will start off with the convenience of watching movies that are out in theaters on your couch. It's a slippery slope y'all. I love going to the movies. I always will,

but the ease at which you can summon a new movie and watch it on the couch almost had me thinking, why do I bother going to the theater? But then you want to go and rent that shit on your couch. And I still can't grab my head around renting of a temporary stream from like Apple TV or whatever for $20. It's like somehow I can't even fathom that it's cheaper than actually going to the movies. I'm like, no, no, no. $20 to rent. I go, Brian, is this on the server?

Yeah. Plus you always get mad that I'm laughing at inappropriate moments when I'm taking the video of the movie that I watch and then send to you. I mean, thank you for sending me that Nosferatu screen cap, but did you just, did you just film that off your TV there or in the theater? Um, but yeah, that's one, I'm just going to get through all of these. The next one, LA weather and how I perceive winter. We all know I am obsessed with the cold and not and basically getting my whole shit frost bit. Okay, reference to Jack getting his whole shit bit by a shark.

But yeah, all I could talk about this break with people who weren't from LA was, what is your winter like in the land where you come from? And then I went to Colorado, the thing, basically what I noticed was a lot of places that get snow weren't getting snow as like sort of around the typical time. Thanks climate change. I was also reading about how snow days are like becoming less and less of a frequent occurrence. And now that's a problem. I never knew about that. I didn't even know that was a fucking thing. But I know that from movies, which has shaped my entire idea of what winter is, because I thought basically when December hits everywhere is a winter wonderland.

Turns out that's not true. Earth has different patterns. But anyway, I just I just have to say I was just I went to skate on a frozen lake. And that was so whimsical. I had to skate it in a minute. Wait, where were you? I went to Colorado for a frozen lake and that shit was so whimsical. I hadn't skated in a minute. Wait, where were you? I went to Colorado for a couple days. Shout out Ian.

Shout out Kelly. You know, shout out the whole crew out there. And we skated on a frozen lake. That shit was so fun. But then I was also talking to someone else who's from the East Coast and like I used to do this all the time, but the lakes don't freeze over with the same frequency they did as a kid. And like the kids in my town, like my town growing up, don't kind of know the same way we used to do winter. And then I had like this like weird Blade Runner moment where

I'm like just like shedding a tear for like everything and everyone I'd been through. It got kind of grim as I skated on this lake. I thought a lot about climate change. Lakes are out here gobbling people up. Yeah, yeah, they are. I'm just saying like maybe, maybe it would help with the climate catastrophe if we had ways to dramatize it. No snow days and lakes are gobbling people up who try and I think it also makes it a little bit different because like I'm so used to the one note climate that I'm not realizing

how wacky the variations. I mean, I obviously know that intellectually that Earth death is happening in real time. But there's something about living in L.A. where you're just kind of like, oh, it's not as cold in December. And then you go a little bit further up, like where there's usually like Big Bear where their ski season is like getting destroyed like year after year because of the lack of snowfall. All that to say, my next underrated, beef tallow. Get in folks. I made a, roasted a lot of holiday meat, rendered the fat

and I've used it to make frozen hash browns tastier. Okay. Grilled cheese sandos from hell. Okay. Cause they're so fucking beef fatty. OK, the way I grill them and the vibe of steak and eggs with just eggs and using the beef tallow to fry the eggs anyway. So you're rendering the fat just by like cooking a steak on a grill on a. No, like if I made like a I made a prime rib roast like for Christmas.

And so all the fat trimming and leftover fat from that meal, I just cut up into small pieces and just put that on low heat all the fat just to get all that fat out then you strain it and now you have just the essence of beef flavor that you can use to do anything with so anyway I think I'm raising a couple miles is in the in the sense of like really I took I drove just me and my boys went up to Sequoia National Park. I was really excited about the big trees. I was like, damn, look how big those trees are. Those trees are huge. And she was kids and she was guys get a load of these trees. They were into

that. But like really what they were, they just like, there was a, a field with snow in it. And they just like went and lost wanted to play in the snow the whole time and just like pick up chunks of ice and hit, hit piles of snow with sticks. The guys child, every time we saw snow, he go Santa. That's Santa is Santa, because like a couple of like the weird, you know, Santa things that we saw always have like these very winter depictions and he and me is like Santa. I'm like, no, son, that's just snow. That's snow. We don't know. We know not of snow.

All right. My underrated leg day. So this is a weird run, but I guess I listened to the flagrant ones hosted by a friend of the show, Carl Tart, a friend of the show, Hayes Davenport, the third host who we should have on at some point, but have not. Yeah. Sean Clements. So Sean Clements was talking about this tennis movie he wrote and that just wrapped that he was shooting and they had as like

a tennis consultant, the number one tennis coach in America, like in pros there to consult. And he was like, is really where he's like, great guy. But he kept talking about men's legs and he was just obsessed with legs and like and they like had a professional tennis player come in and they were like talking about how the coaches about all about legs and the professional tennis players like guys let me stop you right there I would love to join and make fun of him but like I'm also obsessed with men's legs and then apparently like just having real

some plump strong down there is what actually like makes you a great tennis player, which isn't what I would do. I would assume you just go out there looking like Popeye, big arms, tiny, tiny legs and just whack in that thing around. But apparently it's all about like, so it got me checking, checking some legs. And then I went and saw Nosferatu. And I really enjoyed Nosferatu. Bobby eggs, I think has officially Robert Eggers has officially entered the canon of like directors who like just will open them like enough people will go see the movie, like whatever, whatever he does.

It's like a weird vampire origin story, but it feels like you're hermetically sealed in like a different time. Like it just feels so completely engrossing. Hermetically or hermetically? Hermetically. Hermetically is from her inside Herman's head my oh yeah I was gonna say with her medic you're Lee Smith. Yes, but anyways It's it's real horny. This is real horny dark vampire Origin story a lot of people went and saw it was like I'm not that into this shit

But I'm gonna go see it and really enjoyed it. The Dracula, Count Orlok, he's, there's this one shot of him, and I feel like they were on the verge of launching a sex symbol with this Count Orlok guy, and then they show him, and he is walking around on some flats, like after I get done with some chicken wing flats like they are just

Just bare bones just bare bones down there. Just like skin over bones What this picture you put in for reference it is fucking you're so dude walking around like this the whole movie Or just like towards so all right here's the problem is this spoilers or no? Yeah, it's kind of spoilers So I can't tell you exactly you know what I do a spoiler free I'm not gonna say exactly what you're looking at But he is revealed at the very end to you know you get to see the whole body. Yeah. Yeah, yeah I love it. He's he's not working with much down there He's been he's been floating around too much like just two inches off the ground

I guess that's all you if you know, if you're just don't walk. Yeah. If you're just in a spike Lee tracking shot anytime you want to move around, you know, that's, I feel like that, uh, that's, that's where you end up. His legs are just so tiny. So anyways, that was, you know, I think ultimately Nosferatu is a good movie and a cautionary tale about like the vampiric nature of like capitalism and sex and but the cautionary tale I took away is don't skip leg day. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's a those are my two big ones. And you've been working your your life. Yeah. I started doing legs started lifting legs Yeah, so do it legs. So doing start using my legs the first time

You go too hard. You're like, oh man, I tore my hamstring. Yeah Go easy go easy on those legs Jack. That's right. Take care of them. I do my best what uh miles What's something you think is over it? Is it the same as me? You have the same. Yeah, first is the easy one, though, just the amount of college bowl games. Fucking wait, it's freaky. There's a Snoop Dogg Bowl. I was like, well, get this shit off my. There's a Snoop Dogg Bowl.

Yeah. What? I was like, this is the dumbish like now that nothing matters. If there's a I love Snoop. OK, it's West Side all day here. But like the Snoop Dogg Bowl, I get it. He's become like a brand now. that nothing matters if there's a snow I love snoop okay it's west side all day here but like the snoop dog bowl I get it he's become like a brand now and he's actually I feel like one of those people who's beloved by so many but when I saw that I was like this is okay whatever but I think really we share the same one which is just American New Year's celebrations it's the fucking

ball drop the ball drop man we did uh yeah we we did a kids and like families New Year's party. So like a 9pm ball drop. And that's like... Oh, I did that last year. I love that. Played for my kids. Yeah, it's fun. It's a great like just easy, no pressure.

We did that this year. And by the time our New Year's hit, everybody's like, I kind of really gave it up for the New Year's one. I'm going to be honest. Oh yeah, we were done. We were, everybody was in bed by, uh, by the hour. New years. For sure. Oh, good for you. But yeah, so everybody at 9 PM gather around a TV and cast, you know, the, the ball drop from a phone. And it's,

it was like a feed that didn't have like the like Andy's Andy Cohen, Anderson Cooper. And so it was just like kind of B roll. Like, you know, it was just footage of Times Square and the ball was the star of the show. And it it does not have it baby. It lacks the star power needed for its position at the center of our national New Year's festivities. Yeah. Also, I had never heard of barely any of the people that performed. Oh, I didn't.

Did you see some of the. No, I didn't watch any of that shit. I was like, just came around for the ball drop. The Jonas Brothers were there, but then there's someone called like Kapo. Again, I'm old. I'm like, who the fuck is this? Who the fuck is Mickey Guy? I'm just so out of the loop with some, some music and shit. That's when I felt like, are, am I just totally washed or is this like New Year's washed? And it certainly couldn't be me. So it had to be the New Year's Eve ball

drop. I was reminded, like, so I watching it again with my kids, I was reminded of the first time I saw it and how like you hear about a ball drop and like I'm expecting every time I've seen a ball drop in reality, it drops with some speed, some kinetic energy, some excitement. Like this ball just goes like it ticks downwards in a way that like until I rewatched it a second time for this overrated I didn't even realize it was moving like it's just it's so slow it's just like slowly like ticking down did you see the okay so it's a happy new year i was like what the fuck is this this year this year they had a jumbotron at the bottom with like a sub PowerPoint display

quality graphic saying happy new year 2025 presented by a real font. Yeah. And Eric, it was such shit. Yeah, it was bad. The ball is too small. It's like, I feel like, I don't know if it's like they're trying it, like trying to take a picture of the moon or something Like, you know how the moon looks big and then you try and take a picture and you're like, oh that looks like shit

Yeah, I don't know the picture like now. Never mind. Never never mind I think look at this picture of the moon. I just took but yeah, I don't know. It's not impressive It doesn't work. It just feels it feels like probably the same It doesn't work. It just feels like probably the same people have been in charge of the ball drop for like since the seventies or something. And they have like their own internal rules about like the integrity of the ball. Well, this is what I'm saying. I've been saying this. Yeah. I've been saying this for a long time. We need an outsider to come shake up Times Square. Yes. You know what I mean? And drain the swamp. We need to know that idea is brainstorm session to really just be like the,

the shit is over. You know, it's funny. We, we checked the Boise Idaho where they drop a potato. That's fun. And I was like, that's stupid and fun. Yeah. We'll potato. I'm like, all right, cool. Whatever. I think either way, I think it's just sort of the anticipation of it all. Like it all hinges on like this one moment. I'd like as I watched the New Year's New Year's Eve thing, I'm like, do you really want to be there?

You just want to say you were there for the Times Square New Year's Eve thing because it just feels like with all those people, like whatever. Yeah. I don't know if that's the most fun way to do it. I think it all depends on your personality. I prefer like at this point, like I'm barely even drinking anymore. So like all like the revelry around it Yeah, less like stoked for and like yeah, yeah fucking do ears. Yeah Shift to like a Japanese version where it's like, yeah

I don't know like maybe the sunrise for the first sunrise of 2025 is the most important thing you can Celebrate in Japan. That's a huge thing is to watch the sun, the first sunrise and like looking forward where a lot of American stuff's like, let's take a look back. Like there were so many retrospectives on like this shitty year that we had. And I'm like, yeah. And while that's all important, I think there's a time to say like, let's renew ourselves for the new year and then really just emphasize like the actual new year's day. But hey, that's just me.

Let's renew our vows, that's just me. I'm washed. Let's renew our vows with this world of ours. I mean, Brian the editor has a pitch that already destroys the ball drop, which is the ball should be replaced with the Rube Goldberg machine. Oh my God. Could you imagine one that you set off like 12 hours before

like in another part of the country and it makes its way to fucking prime square. Yeah Like yeah, I don't know. This is what we this is what America fucking needs right now. Thank you Thank I mean we also need health care and we also need a more, you know, we need to do some body inequality But this feels like a very Democrat idea that they fucked up Yeah, they could like, you know what we need is something that unites the country by creating a giant Rube Goldberg machine for good years. Yeah, and if the fans were fucked, Brian said. Like, one domino doesn't fall.

Oh, shit. Fuck. I mean, we are fucked, so at least to be honest. I also, like, why not drone? Maybe this is a way to Acclimate the people who aren't familiar with drones To the like possibilities of drones like that and not thinking they're UFOs Yeah, so that people could stop freaking the fuck out every time they see it. Yeah, I don't know just ideas here

Time square hit us up Is it put on seriously who in time in Time Square do you think is it? Is it Eric Adams? Do we think it's it's definitely coasting off credit card company? I feel like the reason it has survived this long in its current state is because it has been viewed by like 98 percent people with like beer goggles, you know, like nobody is sober looking at that shit except for the West Coast. And even then. So like that's

it's coasting off of that. But like, you know how easy it is to like impress drunk people? Like, let's get a little something extra. Whoa guys, the balls dropping the sober person It's like creeping in it's more creeping. It's been falling for the last 10 minutes, man Yeah, did you see so Brian just added some giant like drone displays the biggest drone display Guinness World Record holder biggest drone display into the chat and it's incredible. It looks awesome It looks like you're watching Like the movie Avatar come to life in front of you like I have a massive scale. I go go home avatar. Oh

Shit yeah, this is like too much man we couldn't handle America doesn't deserve this they need like something you can't really handle on psychedelics I think it was like yeah but then Americans just go it's alien fucking killer yeah yeah there's also the Halloween display from Dubai from like a few years back that is so wild, so dope. Yeah. A lot of people after we talked about the New Jersey drone scare, a lot of people were sending that our way. Yeah, that shit is. And that was even scarier and I still think it's aliens. Yeah, Miles has not changed. It's so literal. They're trying to tell us something, Jack. They're going to kill us.

All right. Let's, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hey, y'all. I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of therapy for black girls. And I'm thrilled to invite you to our January Jumpstart series for the third year running all January. And I'm thrilled to invite you to our January Jumpstart series for the third year running. All January, I'll be joined by inspiring guests who will help you kickstart your personal growth with actionable ideas and real conversations. We're talking about topics like building community and creating an inner and outer glow.

I always tell people that when you buy a handbag, it doesn't cover a childhood scar. When you buy a jacket, it doesn't reaffirm what you love about the hair you were told not to love. So when I think about beauty, it's so emotional because it starts to go back into the archives of who we were, how we want to see ourselves, and who we know ourselves to be and who we can be. So a little bit of past, present, and future,

all in one idea, soothing something from the past. And it doesn't have to be always an insecurity. It can be something that you love. All to help you start 2025 feeling empowered and ready. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls starting on January 1st on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jason Alexander. And I'm Peter Tilden.

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If you feel different you drive different don't drive high. It's dangerous and illegal everywhere a message from nitsa and the ad council And we are back we're back so big stories that we missed big stories there were on New Year's Day to terror attacks Yeah, that were initially greeted as Basically right-wing talking points

there was the one in New Orleans where a truck drove into a crowd of people. And then a person who rented a cyber truck and detonated in front of Trump's hotel. People were immediately like that. The New Orleans one was actually crossed the border two days ago. Turns out it was two weeks ago. Turns out it was a rented car. So it was not the person who ultimately committed the terror attack was not the person who was in it at that time. But they were just so, so quick to jump on the open borders.

That's what's happening. This person came in through the border. Yeah. Did this spoiler alert. It was an American born army veteran, Texas native. Yes. Who was, who did declare said that he had recently joined ISIS. Yeah. But again, the idea that it's like this person came over the words like, no, no, no, man, like we're pretty good at creating people like this in the United States. Yeah.

For whatever reason, because of the, you know, access to all kinds of terrible things. And also the Army veteran thing too, I was just reading this like thing in The Intercept about how US military service is like one of the strongest predictors for being a perpetrator in a mass casualty event. So in both of those instances, we had people who had been in the military. I think the other guy in Vegas was like struggling with PTSD and a lot of people turned that one into like, that was an attack on MAGA. It's clear what was supposed to happen there.

And again, this is what happens when the media doesn't fucking tell people what's going on. If they bothered to talk about this guy's own manifesto, which I haven't seen published in many places. But in that, he's very clearly talking about how this was meant to be some kind of like MAGA wake up call with the explosion. And that's why he did it in a cyber truck in front of a Trump Tower with fireworks, because he said that was the way to capture people's attention.

And he railed against DEI, but was also like, also had those like, sort of like working class grievances too, like we're not supporting people, but then also, you know, the Dems need to be fucking purred, like culled from society. So yeah, we got a lot of interesting takes out of those stories for sure. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that one like fell,

was like a cyber truck in front of Trump Tower. Like that seems like a pretty clear message, but it's just again, it's just, uh, yeah. In fact, it wasn't a clear message. It was not the thing that you, uh, thought it was. And in fact, uh, it is basically a lot of the right wing and you you know warmongering ideologies of America kind of coming home to metastasize. Alright moving along obviously there's stories that are gonna like kind of continue to resonate but just checking in with Oh don't forget Matt Gaetz that Gaetz report came out when we were on break and it confirms everything we already knew.

Yes. Like real. Truly. You're like, uh, yeah. Yeah. I like how that's just when we glossed over. I mean, I get it. It happened weeks ago, but I think for anyone who was curious, like, what happened to the Gates report? It came out. They're like, yeah, we believe he was having sex with underaged kids, uh, trafficking people, sending money, everything, sending money to doing drugs. Yeah. uh, trafficking people, sending money, everything, sending money to doing drugs. Yeah. Yes. But that one gets swept under the rug and everything about the, you know, this

guy has a manifesto about how Democrats, demon crats need to be called from the planet. Um, yeah. Yeah. Yass for art to instead of nose for, I don. Wow. It's just a thing that I'm trying. That movie did incredibly well, which is having seen it. Did you see it, Miles? So yeah, I don't know. I just I someone with just very large legs. That image that you shared was jarring. And I don't know if I can handle it.

I can't. I simply can't. My calves looked like just Tib and fib. I would I think it'd be very sad. But I do feel like this guy, this director, he's the maker of the the Vich, the Viva or the witch. The Northmen, the lighthouse. Right. And yeah, yeah. And this like, I don't know.

It's wild to me that this blew up as much as it did. Do I had so many people hitting me up saying, let's go, let's go watch Nosferatu on shrooms. It's and I was like, absolutely not. That it feels like you're on shrooms a little bit watching it. Like, yeah, I don't know why I need to augment like certain filmmakers. I'm like, I don't need to augment this with my perception of it I'd in fact would rather see it quite clear-eyed Yeah, but no I did not get to see it. But now that you know, I don't know

I'm walking back and forth zeitgang if you say I must see it and you think I would like it despite what Jack revealed To me and I will give it a shot. I definitely recommend it this is one scene where he just like one of the characters enters this town and everyone is like dancing and playing an instrument for him while like making unblinking eye contact. And it's just it feels like so weird and surreal, but also like it feels like a thing that would happen Olden times and olden times like there's like a traveler. Ah

Let's serenade him with our mood and tambourine play. Yeah, just like the weird texture of life like there There were some big articles written about like the how he researches and you know gets, the details of everyday life. But definitely worth checking out if you haven't already. And a lot of people did check it out. Drone fever over New Jersey. Yeah. To have gotten quieter. At least the, the manifesto from the guy in Vegas did, I think, mention the drones. It was like, those are about to be revealed to be a Chinese military operation. But other than that, not many, I just, like I Googled New Jersey drones and on like the news tab of Google and it went from two weeks ago, mystery drone sightings continue in New Jersey and across the U.S.

Here's what we know to two days ago. And it's just a list of towns in New Jersey where the feds have said, you can't fly drones anymore. So it's just they put a ban in place and suddenly it stopped being a story. It feels like what happened. But what happened? But so the aliens. So I think the transdimensional aliens are our federal bands.

So they're fucking. So they're bootlickers, bro. Fuck these aliens, bro. Oh, just because the feds told you now you're going to stop. These aren't the aliens I want. Yeah. Nope. Nope.

I read one of the articles from two days ago about the Bands and it's citing it as a mystery It's like the you know, the strong mystery that nobody can explain But like the only videos they have are like from well before the band So right it's it's like so whatever was happening when they put an FAA ban in place the whatever nefarious element Transdimensional it was a lot of people's theory like

Respected the ban and decided to stop flying the drones almost as if it was just people flying drones for fun Because that's a thing you can do. No, it could be that too. It could be that too. Yeah. I feel like it fits with like Havana syndrome and like the Chinese spy balloon where they tell you just enough of the details to convince you there's something weird. And then it like goes away and nobody really, like with the Chinese spy balloon and like the drones, I feel like people are less likely to follow up on it. I know because this becomes one of those things like you kind of don't care like what the truth

is. Like it's just like fun to be like, what about some of those drones? It's probably just drones and then like it could be cool. And then once the truth comes out, you're like, yeah, whatever. Turns out it's not cool. But yeah, it's just the Internet like writing fan fiction into the news, into reality, like coming up with the most exciting, interesting interpretation and just like willing it to be so. And yeah, we'll see. We'll see where this store we're going to stay on top of it, though. Yeah, we'll see if there's any more like proletarian sort of violence happening. And then the drones come back or something.

Look at this one. So the shape of big skeleton there, I was reading an article about how they're like in her on the internet. There's just so much pro Luigi Mangione content places like YouTube, like, like I don't even, we didn't know what to fucking do. Like how do we moderate all this shit? So what do we do? Who we do you guys? What reality do these people live in? Surely not the one I live in with. Yeah.

I messed up stuff. It's messed up. The visas, H1B visas. This was one that like real big mainstream news story. Yeah. Where Trump and Musk got, were they, were they mad at each other? Are you mad? It was like Trump stayed silent, right?

So Trump and Musk basically spent the whole summer and fall screaming about how immigrants bad. Sure. But then Musk had to show his capitalist ass when he was like, well, let me reverse course here. I'm like, well, except for the immigrants that helped me make money. Sure. Like I need talented people like engineers to do this shit because obviously all Americans are so stupid. I can't even hire y'all. And so when he was backing the H-1B visas, so many people were like, what happened? I thought we were shutting

it down. No immigration anymore. This is taking jobs away for white people. And that created a whole internal war where he was shitting on these MAGA people for like being too stupid to understand like why you need these kinds of workers for your companies. And then Trump acted like Fash Daddy on the road trip in the fucking station wagon. He was like, hey, don't make me come back there. And just said, hey, calm down MAGA.

I too think H1B visas are the shit as well. So no more arguments. And that kind of simmered off. And that worked for that. I mean, there's still that there's still plenty of people who disagree, but that sort of like the flashpoint has subsided a bit. But I think all this does is reveal, we're starting to just see how all there's all these like, in these warring factions within mag the MAGA movement that are just not on the same page at fucking all in terms of how to like what to do with their power. And like I did the thing where I like to go comb them, you know, message boards and comment sections on conservative news and shit like that.

And it's interesting to see like the people be like, they're like in disbelief, like, but Trump said he was going to stop immigration and he's not. It's like he doesn't mean what he says. What he likes it with. Yeah. And then some people were like, look, exactly. He's all about making... Then it's interesting to see this a little bit of awareness come out too. It's like, of course he's going to side with Elon

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And we're back. We're back. The Golden Globes happened last night. The brutalist one for drama, that is, I was disappointed to hear a three and a half hour long movie. So I will not be seeing that. Yeah. I was criminally out of the loop this year from on the, on these. I saw, I haven't seen an or yet. I want to see an aura. I saw an aura.

How'd you see that? Was that server? No, no. Well, it is. It's on the server. It's on the server now, but I, I couldn't wait. And I, and I actually did, I ended up renting that one. But yeah, that was so when the brutalist kept winning, I go, what is this? This is a movie. Yeah, all time. I just I had it on with some friends over and I was like, wow, OK. Shout out the brutalist cleaning up about an architect.

And it's not written by Ayn Rand. So, OK, I only read architectural stories that are written by Ayn Rand. So, okay I only read architectural stories that are written in my favorite author but Demi Moore won for the substance. Did you see that? No, I told you that I've all heavy body horror like that. Oh, is it? Yeah. Yeah Oh, is it about something about like turning into like a younger person? Yeah, yeah.

It's like, yeah, people are saying is kind of Cronenberg. Yeah, it's definitely it's got the the Berg. It's Cronenberg Ian. But yeah, David Moore one described in detail the moment that a producer branded her a quote popcorn actress and how that one comment just like ate at her self-esteem for like decades. It was just, I don't know. I just, I feel like we all have those things where like someone says something judgy, maybe like offhandedly, or maybe they're just like a, you know, a sociopath and like just some part of our brain

just like traps it, like the idea and inception inception and like you just can't get it out. Right, right, right. Yeah, like getting to exercise that demon, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, she finally won, you know, she's she's had such a career, you know, I'm glad I'm glad she won. Man, man. Also, I want to see that Pamela Anderson movie. Everyone said was pretty. The last show girl. The last show girl.

Love the Anders Andersons that we're seeing. But yeah, this, the weird, those side angle stage things were a little like even as a viewer on TV, there were these moments where the people would come out to present and they were nearly like chest to chest. Yeah. Like for how close they were. I was like, this is a little bit odd in terms of the, you know, you guys shoot this in a closet.

Like those places are always smaller than you think they are. Like when you actually see them in person, like have you ever been to like a late night studio? I'm sure you have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like those things. Or even like Saturday Night Live, you're like, whoa, this is tiny in here. Yeah, yeah. It's like you could fit the entire set on your desk. Right.

But yeah, Seth Rogen, I got called out the weird camera work. Like the presenters were shot facing the sides of the stage. So the audience, it's a thing that like a lot of awards shows do where they'll like have these like little interstitials where people are like kind of, it's usually reserved for like the people like coming back for break. They're like, and we have Mario Lopez over here.

He's like, Hey guys, I'm back. I'm out here in the crowd. Um, but in this case, it was like most of the presenters were just like standing there to the side, not facing the audience. And then the audience was like at a diagonal angle behind them. And so Seth Rogan was like, what the fuck are you guys doing? He said, hello, I want to start by saying this whole angled camera thing is very weird. It's inelegant It's strange this whole half of the room can see my bald spot I would have filled that in I said no and I regret that now completely. Oh man. Yeah, Nikki Glazer Hosted killed it killed it did pretty great. Good job

I think really brought the fun element back to the award show good job, I think really brought the fun element back to the award show. Did a really good job of that. That one bit where she was about to do like the musical thing with the pope thing and then got interrupted by a phone call. She's like, what is oh, this bit sucks. Oh, shit. Well, what about like all these? There is some really good comedic moments. And yeah, the I don't know, just tell you what wouldn't happen on Ricky Gervais's watch. Oh that fucking guy just shut up already What is he like? He's like live tweeting his bruise live tweeting and he was like, I'll tell you what I would have said What as she was like killing it like everybody was just like this is great. She's doing a great job

This is a lot of fun. He was live tweeting it being like Yeah, if they had asked me to host, they didn't. Yeah. I would have said a little something like this. Hello and welcome to the 82nd golden globe awards. What a year it's been. Hundreds of entertainers jumped at the chance to go to the Vatican to meet the Pope. Many from Hollywood.

Obviously they weren't content with only being part of the second biggest pet o ring in the world. Um, what? Uh huh. Great. Yeah, for sure. Obviously, they weren't content with only being part of the second biggest pet o-ring in the world What great yeah for sure there's like that's definitely like There's a lot of fucking creepy people in Hollywood. What is the hook? Oh, he did it two days before okay that makes sense. It wasn't live He he was preemptively being like allow me to get ahead of this thing with my musings. With my fake premise that did a lot of entertainers visit the Pope this year? Like a lot of movie stars. What the fuck is he talking about?

I feel like we're pretty up on papal events. Oh yeah man. Pope watchers? I mean you don't think I would have come up in the Pope watch segment of our show? No the Pope watch segment of our show Pope watch watch You yeah, I'm the Pope zone. I Just said I think another way just for him to do like his fucking weird like not funny anymore Ricky Gervais shit Yeah, God. He's like, oh my god. Can he say that?

Yeah, no, no, like she made jokes about there being a room full of sexual abusers the whole time, but just like did it without having to make up a premise that they all went and visited the Pope that year. There's so much like weird homophobic shit. Like he talked about Justin Timberlake. He said, Justin Timberlake was convicted of drink driving. If he'd have gone to jail, he'd have heard the words sexy back a lot more often. Uh huh. Oh, and then he would have taken a sip of his beer because he like doesn't he doesn't

big ol sip of that dude. Dude, he doesn't give a fuck. Yeah. Well, Ricky, shut up, Nikki. Thanks. And Jimmy, a fond farewell. Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. Keeping it 100. Am I right, folks? I'm young. Yeah, precisely. There's, as a writer, J.M. McNabb pointed out, there's old and then there's outliving your own obituary writers old because

news outlets keep an obit for major world figures on ice at all times and a number of the people who had written his obituary back in like the 80s and 90s and even early 2000s are now deceased themselves so yeah that's Wow you did it Jimmy you did. You did he he did it He said just to spite them. He said them writing that obituary about him. He took that personally Yeah, like MJ. Shut up Michael Jordan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but what is something like I feel like Trump? We get so mad if you knew that they were writing his obituary Someone's just Ike. Yeah, someone weather balloon that story. Yeah. Yeah, just like, yeah, someone weather ballooned that story.

Yeah. Yeah. Just to be like, oh, wow. We've seen a few of the Trump obituaries and they are not nice. And it's like a Scrooge situation is like, I want my obituary to be nice. What must I do? Yeah. I mean, we should try it. We need to try everything, folks. We need to try everything except, you know, coordinated, organized action. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything but that.

Let's do fun punks on him. So state funerals are basically like the Coachella of funerals. It will stretch on for days. It kicked off in Georgia over the weekend. And this week, all five living presidents, including Trump, are expected to come to the big funeral service at Washington National Cathedral. And Biden had preemptively bragged that Carter had asked him to eulogize him, which would be really weird if that wasn't true.

And he was just lying about that. But he's like, I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have said that. But yeah, he wants to say a few words. That sounds like the kind of lie like a sociopath would say, like at a funeral. They're like, I don't know if you guys know this, but Jimmy actually wanted me to give the eulogy today. I don't know if he told you guys that, but that was one of the last things he said to

me. So is it cool if I go up there? Yeah. Uh, Siri play Fiend by Travis Scott featuring Playboy Cardi. I do want that playing at my funeral, please. Trump also found a way, of course, to make Jimmy Carter's death all about him. He's been complaining on true social that all the flags will be at half mast during his inauguration, which traditionally they're flown at half mass for 30 days during a period

of national mourning. And Trump said, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter the flags may for the first time ever during Inauguration of a future president be at half-mast Nobody wants to see this and no America. No American can be happy about it. Let's see how it plays out Make America great Nobody gives a shit, man. Yeah. Oh, well, I mean, he probably sees it as some kind of metaphor for his like penis or something.

Yeah. And he's like, they have to be fully erect at their highest levels when I take office or else they'll know. They'll know. It is just the sort of dumb shit that would obviously destroy like did really. This is like, like from what you said in the cold open, like loud, loud pee, thick pee stream equals big pee pee. Oh yeah. For Trump. I bet you could really get him with that shit.

Flags at half mast means mushroom. The mushroom rumors are true. The mushroom rumors are true. Uh, I also like, The mushroom rumors are true. The mushroom rumors are true. Also, like he also criticized Democrats for feeling giddy over the prospect of the flags being at half mast. It's just like nobody's like thinking about it at all but him. This is a quote, which I love. They think it's so great and are so happy about it because in actuality, they don't love our country. That's the equivalent of like when I say...

They think it's so great and are so happy. Yeah, he should have just said, they were always against me. Yeah, exactly. That's basically what you're saying. They were always against me. I get it. And that's what you think. Yeah, sure, man.

We're all against you though, bro. Spoiler alert. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending that happened over the break. We are back to our regularly scheduled program. We'll be back tomorrow with a couple episodes of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself.

Get your vaccines. Get your food shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. Hey y'all. I'm Dr.

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