The Daily Zeitgeist - Daily Nightgeist 11/14: Unicorn Puppy, Santa Clarita Shooting, XO19, Trump's Tax Returns, the Masked Singer

Episode Date: November 14, 2019

Today on the Daily Nightgeist Jack and Miles discuss Unicorn Puppy, the shooting at Saugus Highschool in Santa Clarita, the Xbox conference XO19, Trump's Tax Returns, and the Masked Singer! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, the internet, and welcome to the Daily Night Geist. Oh, shout out to Redditor. Look at me. Redditor. Redditor. Alien vs. Redditor. Yeah, great movie. My name is Jack O'Brien.

Who are you? Well, actually, I'm thinking about what a movie called Alien vs. Redditor looks like. And I think it's actually amazing but i don't know if it's a bunch of racist people on reddit being xenophobic towards someone who's an alien right you know in that sense in the immigration context anyway uh yeah me miles gray you guys know you know what it is hi you were just listening to us that could also be a like new york post headline probably right exactly at some point it would be about an alien that sued Reddit for like slander or something.

Miles, what are we talking about? None of this is trending. Yeah. And that's what this episode's about, dog. Yes, fine. The Daily Night Geist, where we tell you what is trending today. Just literally at this moment we record.

At this moment. Try and give you an idea. What's going on? And the important stuff is trending at the end of the day. People are like, okay, but really what went on that matters in this world? And the number one thing that we're all kind of mulling is Unicorn Puppy. Is Unicorn Puppy real?

I think is everyone's first instinct. So what is Unicorn Puppy, Miles? Unicorn Puppy is a 10 a 10 week old golden retriever named narwhal very clever name um who has a literally a tiny tail growing between its eyes and it's so cute it somehow i've never seen if you describe to me a dog that had a tail growing out of its fucking head i'd be like yeah but it's like a little furry unicorn horn. Yeah. It's very endearing.

It's pretty cute, and it does seem like the sort of thing that the internet would Photoshop into existence. Right, because puppies win on the internet, cats win too, but then you add something cute and freaky, then you really get bonus. But thanks to Snopes, the protectors of truth on the internet, they say that, yes, this is the genuine article. How are they still hanging around, Snopes? Shout out to them. It was started by a guy and then his wife.

And then they have, like, a kind of a small team still. And it's funny how many people, like, journalists even now are, like, according to Snopes. Right. So shout out to y'all at Snopes. The last true bastion of truth. Because didn't it start off be like debunking like stupid internet offers?

I'm like, yeah, there's a lot of fucking Snopes. Check it out on Snopes if I really won that free iPod. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You didn't. It was just debunking stuff that your aunt sent you

in a chain email. For people who are interested in the Jackson, Missouri, Jackson, Missouri, Jackson, Missouri puppy, you can't adopt this little puppy quite yet because they want to make sure that the horn is not going to have a growth spurt at some point and then really present some kind of issue. Right, become a problem. For now, we're monitoring the situation. They should just find a way to breed it, make it like the X-Men of puppies, of adorable puppies. Would you want,

I mean, to me, it just kind of looked like a dreadlock, like a real dreadlock. It's covered in fur. It's not just like a bony mass. It is kind of a perfect little tail. Like it wouldn't be as cute if it weren't such a perfect little tail.

It's like if you drew like how Clark Kent has that perfect curl as Superman. Yeah, exactly. Like if there was a dog version, it's just like, who knows if it's a longer fur there, but it looks right.

What else is trending, Miles? We've got- There was a shooting. Unfortunately. In Santa Clarita at Saugus High School, which- America is still dealing with this. Yeah. It's wild because my high school used to play Saugus High School in sports a lot.

Had some great football teams and it's just another shows you man no matter where you live in this country yep this is a ongoing problem yeah and on top of that actually massacre mitch has been trending on instagram uh because he's had a few bills just you know sitting on his desk as he so proudly likes to tell people it's in his like legislative graveyard and mitch is addicted to instagram so like that's gonna that's gonna hit him hard yes uh his finsta is kind of wild though he pretends to be this like teen dude right uh who's really into vaping and black mirror yeah fan theories longboard yeah and yeah i'm just again it's this is an ongoing issue, especially with gun control in this country.

And you figure this, again, of all the things, the themes of this next election, this will probably be front and center, too, amongst all the other existential threats we're facing as a planet and as a country. Yeah, it's brutal. Another thing that's trending that I didn't know what it was, XO19. This is apparently Microsoft is doing their own E3, dropping, I think, a Halo update or Halo Reach, something along those lines. Yeah, go on. Go off, gamer. Go off, gamer. Flight simulator?

A flight simulator. Wait, when you said that, I didn't actually read it. They have flightulator coming out? Like the old school one? Kind of a cool looking Flight Simulator. An updated version of the old school game that I remember I begged my parents to get it. Man, because look, I wanted to play it. It looks photorealistic, actually.

It does? Yeah. Okay. See, I'm not mad at that. I'm still playing Roller Coaster Tycoon. Like it's going out of style. And Carmen Sandiego on my Apple IIc. I've almost collected all the stars for mario 64 so i'm feeling really good uh yeah well i think uh dj

danil our in-house otaku gamer uh was telling us that this is more of like a trend of because e3 like sony didn't have a full-on presentation at e3 which is unheard of because typically e3 is the place where these huge gaming companies go to talk about new hardware or new game titles and so it didn't have a full-on presentation at E3, which is unheard of because typically E3 is the place where these huge gaming companies go to talk about new hardware or new game titles. And so with Sony leaving, that made things shaky. And now between Microsoft and Nintendo, who are the two biggest console manufacturers, if one of them starts doing stuff independent of E3 in terms of announcing new tech, new products, that could be a bad sign for E3.

I was just there this year for my first time. It's quite enjoyable. I think the same thing's happening with like Comic-Con. You know, Disney is now has its own sort of con. I think it makes sense, right? Because Star Wars has May the 4th. Right. These things, well, they have their entirely own con, too.

But they start off as niche things. Whether it's comics, it's like, well, we can get everybody under one roof. But as these things just become gigantic industries, independent, that are no longer niche, they're mainstream things. It's like, oh, yeah, shit, we can do our own fucking thing. Right. And that's just the way it is now, baby. Right. And that's just the way it is now, baby.

Trump is suing to keep his tax returns private, which we've known. But now I think he specifically is asking the Supreme Court, don't make me show my tax returns. I don't have enough money. So they're going to see it. They're going to have enough money. Why do his supporters think he's fighting so hard to keep his tax returns quiet? It's the same shit, right? The cognitive dissonance tactic. You're a hater.

They're haters. They just want to embarrass him because they don't think he's a billionaire. Right. Without even looking at like, no, but what about like actual conflicts of interest he might have? Right. And it's like, well, that's a term that the left uses to describe things on the right. But he's also such a braggart. That's right.

I said it. He's a braggart. You think he want all the receipts out. Yeah, you'd think he wants all. This is just so out of character for him. And he's going to such great heights to keep this quiet. Yeah. To keep this quiet.

It's just, as a Trump supporter, I think this is one of those moments where I would be confused. Really? Yeah. Of all the things? I think this is the first time where a crack would start to appear. I'm starting to question what's going on with our commander-in-chief. With this guy. Why is he hiding that? I'm finding the other stuff, the gross stuff.

A little chip in the veneer. Why is he hiding that? I'm fond of the other stuff, the gross stuff. A little chip in the veneer. I think, you know, and we've said this in the past, that it could be a thing that make people at least a little bit wary of him if you support him. You found out, like, dude, this guy's playing a shell game. Right.

But as we've seen, 62% of his base says, bro, he could come here right now and blow my grandma's back out in front of the whole family on the Thanksgiving dinner table, and I will vote for three terms. That was a question on the survey. It was very specific. There is a recent survey saying that this is a drudge headline. Love him or hate him, voters say hearings will not change their views. Well, that's fine as long as you can get those independents to keep moving the other

way right then you'll reach a threshold but again i think they're saying like there's almost no independence left yeah well definitely not amongst the politicians yes that's really because they're they've verbally said out loud articulated the point i'm not gonna watch this stuff or hear about it because i think it's all just a bunch of hater shit. Right. Yeah. And finally, we have glimpsed what hell looks like, Miles. It wasn't just this country. Yeah. We just watched a clip from Masked Singer on your computer that I thought was... It is like a fever dream and a dolllly painting and a bad acid trip and a

terrible. I feel like it's a, it's the vision that flashed through Hitler's brain right before the bullet hit. Wow. So, I mean, what we're talking about,

all that to say is on the mask singer, the whatever show that is. The only thing I know about the mass singers, T-Pain one, I think last year, the lady bug was revealed the other night. And apparently that was Kelly Osbourne. Yeah.

Okay. And people were like, the weird take is that people were like more amazed that she had hidden her accent. They said since she'd adopted an American Southern accent. Sure as in her guess, she was Jamie Lynn Spears. Oh, so I guess when she was talking through the mask, was doing a southern accent acting who would have thought um but when you look at the video like there's a youtube video called the lady bug is revealed as kelly osborne go watch this video you guys there's fucking like triumph the insult comic dog fucking who was the other guy was that the blurred linesurred Lines dude? Yeah. Robin Thicke. Yeah, Robin Thicke.

I think Jenna Jameson. Or was that Jenny McCarthy? I think Jenny McCarthy. It looked like Jenna Jameson. It's Jenny McCarthy. For all my old porn ads out there. Robin Thicke. I think Ken Jeong is.

Yeah, Ken Jeong. And then I guess Nicole Scherzinger. And then Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. It's so many smash cuts, push-ins, pull-outs, camera whips. It's right. It will make you nauseous. Like if you have motion sickness and it's like,

they're all screaming like, who is it? Reveal it. And then like, yeah. And Nick Cannon is the one taking the helmet off. Yeah, exactly.

Helping to reveal this lady bug. But then they're like having trouble getting it off. She has a speed skater uniform on for some reason. Or like she looks like maybe like a daft punk backup dancer. Yeah. But it truly does mirror like those Vic Berger edits. Like when he's like showing like just how out of this world like Jim Baker's shit.

Yeah, because Vic edited a lot of the Tim and Eric stuff. It almost seems like a parody of itself, and I can really only urge you so much. You know what? I'm just going to tweet it right now. Yeah. We'll see. Go check it out.

Yeah. All right. That is what's trending right now, among other things. Yeah. Miles, where can people hear your voice? On the Daily Zeitgeist. Elsewhere. Oh, 420 Day Fiance.

Yeah! Thank you so much. Miles has a new show dropped in. Damn, dude. This is a Brian Shaw to Shaq right there. The Shawshank Redemption. Thanks for that, Ali. Yes, I got a new show with Sophia Alexandra.

Our show is about the wonderful TLC series 90 Day Fiance, except this show is called 420 Day Fiance, baby. I think you can put it together. We're high. And we talk about our favorite trash reality show, 90 Day Fiance except this show is called 420 Day Fiance baby I think you can put it together we're high and we talk about our favorite trash reality show 90 Day and it's a hoot alright we'll be back tomorrow with more podcasts we'll talk to you guys then

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