The Daily Zeitgeist - Died In Your Arms Tozeit 1/14: Vince Vaughn, Billie Eilish, Build a Bear, Catcher in the Rye

Episode Date: January 15, 2020

On this edition of Died in your Arms Tozeit Miles and Blake Wexler discuss Vince Vaughn shaking hands with Trump, Billy Eilish making the new Bond song, Build a Bear stocks skyrocket thanks to Baby Yoda, and Catcher in the Rye: Cancelled? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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because I... must have been something in trends. Thank you so much. I don't know who I'm thanking. I'm in an empty room with Blake Wexler. You're a creator. Yeah, you can thank me. Yeah, I'm Miles Gray. And this is where we're just going to take a quick look at what's trending immediately

right now in our reality in the United States. Hey, no rush. Take your time. Thank you. However long it takes, Miles. Thank you so much. I have all day. I have all night.

Okay. You don't have to rush. Nah, see, now you're getting passive aggressive. No, I'm not. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I knew this was going to be. I knew this was going to be. No, no, no, no, no.

I have nothing to do. Okay. I don't have to feed a starving dog. Oh, you have no, no, no, no, no. I knew this was going to be. I knew this was going to be. No, no, no, no, no. I have nothing to do. Okay. I don't have to feed a starving dog. Oh, you have a starving dog? Why are you starving it? He's well fed. He's well fed. Oh, so you were lying.

It's intermittent fasting for my dog. The ASPCA would like to disagree with you. Those are just letters to me. Yeah, right. ASPCA, CPS, FBI. My God. What does it all mean? Okay, what's trending right now people are still talking about the fact that vince vaughn is not a i guess democrat and was hanging out with donald trump at

the national championship college football game right right uh okay is this news to people that he i'm not surprised i knew he was not liberal progressive by any stretch of the well he's he's a libertarian he's a libertarian liberal terrier right he's a liberal terrier yeah i don't know i mean like they showed him basically like in some box with uh the president of united and his wife and melania his lovely first lady it was weird the image of like him just talking like she was in between them and she was like oh Jesus

Donald's gonna start saying lines from Wedding Crashers again he's like oh patato patato I need to draw you let's play tummy sticks that was nice

thank you that was nice you know I hear that all the time so must be a lot of Wedding Crashers fans out there he did the the handshake or Trump did when he does he grabs the hand That was nice. You know, I hear that all the time. Must be a lot of Wedding Crashers fans out there.

He did the handshake, or Trump did, when he grabs the hand and gives the two slaps on top, you know, that handshake that he has. Like you shake with your right and then use your left to go. He shakes, just goes bang, bang. Yeah, yeah, a little double spank. Is that an honorable handshake? If someone gives you a little pop-pop? I mean, it's all relative with him, but yeah.

I would imagine it's... Okay, let's remove Donald Trump from this equation. Of course. Objectively clean slate, it's, you know, let's say... I'm just trying to think of someone... Mort Sahl. Sorry? Mort Sahl?

Mort Sahl? Yes. Who's that? I believe he's a political comedian. Oh, okay. Is that someone you would want a handshake from? I don't know. That was the first name I thought of.

I was trying to make someone more like philly relevant maybe carrie kittles oh great villanova play yes i've been talking about carrie kittles at least once a week oh my god he was great did you used to wear one sock up one sock down like of course um now i do it because i'm riding a bike go on oh right uh if he gave you took your right hand yeah hey blake good to meet you uh villanova star carrie kittles if he did that to me i would actually uh take that as um i would believe he was condescending to me wow to be honest like he's already taller i believe that's a moment where it's hand in hand and then to bring in a foreign third party hand to dominate me further because his hands already enveloping my right

right you know what i mean also he almost does it to disappear your hand yes maybe that's why trump does it because he has famously small hands so he brings in a second hand to create the aura of one normal sized man hand wow how would you take it how do you shake by the way do you go uh i don't shake people's hands everyone's disgusting and that's germs and they'll get me sick right right i don't hug i don't kiss i don't do nothing you give a wink a quick a brisk wink oh yeah yeah give a brisk wink keep it moving but i'm wearing dark glasses so you don't even know it's true it's true i just think something's going on my eyebrow um yeah i also remember like a few golden globes awards ago like maybe three i remember he

was some i don't know what film he was in, but he was in the lower levels and people were doing jokes about Trump and he was just sort of unimpressed. Stone face, great. And I think most people, if you didn't know then, you know now.

Yes. But you hate to see it. You hate to see it. I don't know. Everyone just says it too much now. Let's also check in with Billie Eilish. You love Billie, right? Yeah, how's he doing?

Great, great. Lord of the dance, Billie Eilish. You love Billie, right? Yeah. How's he doing? Great. Great. Lord of the Dance, Billie Eilish. Fresh off his tour. That's the dumbest fucking joke. But I still laugh. I don't know why. It doesn't get old.

No. Billie's a man's name. So she is trending right now because she is writing and performing the song for the next Bond film cool which I think is called No Time to Die

am I right am I making that up that sounds right get a verification spoiler alert sorry spoiler alert for what the title

of the film is yeah yeah she is she will be the youngest artist in history to write and record a song for the franchise. There was a great, one of my favorite ones was a Limp Bizkit one. There was a Limp Bizkit one where Now I Know Why You Want to Hate Me, I believe it was called.

Is that from Mission Impossible? Yep. Yeah, dude. Wait a minute. Completely, I remember that one. Yeah, that's the same same they happen in the same world the same canon right remember in the trailer it was the limp biscuit song going yes like with that fucking limp biscuit whatever the fuck effect they love that pedal board oh

they love they can't get enough of it it's single-handedly destroyed their now do you actually want to give me a topic or a memory that's related to James Bond? Yeah, I'm trying. So, what was the band, not Savage, like Audio Slave I think had one, or is that a Mission Impossible one as well? I believe Audio Slave with Chris Corn... Is it Chris Cornell? Was he the lead singer? It was pretty

cool. That was for Casino Royale. It was just Chris Cornell. Oh, thank God. You know my name. Yes, yeah, that was kind of cool. Rest in peace to Chris Cornell Oh thank god You know my name Yes Yeah that was kinda cool Rest in peace To Chris Cornell Yeah Jesus Christ Man I loved

Fucking Soundgarden Yeah Fucking man Do you remember those days man That's all I think about You know When are we gonna go back To those times

Man I gotta We'll find a way Blasting Soundgarden Blasting Black Hole Sun You know what I mean Also Spoonman right Spoonman Isn't that Soundgarden blasting Black Hole Sun you know what I mean also Spoonman right Spoonman isn't that

Soundgarden as well Spoonman Spoonman okay right yeah that's Soundgarden don't make me second guess that I would

I would never ever do that thank you feel the rhythm with your hands steal the rhythm while you can Spoonman I remember in one of the Eastbound and Downs,

there was a throwaway line where Danny McBride says, he goes, yeah, man, fucking Seattle partying with the fucking spoon man. He says it. It's a throwaway line, but that's a funny shit that he referenced the spoon man as being a real dude he partied with. The throwaway line. I would say Danny McBride's shows and Jody Hill and the people that he works with have the best throwaway lines of almost any. Well, Righteous Gemstones was rife with them.

I saw Walton Goggins on Sunday out in public. I almost fucking fainted. He's amazing. Those veneers, though. Oh, teeth that'll blind you. He's got Robert Firmino teeth. Roberto Firmino. Wow. Like a real scouser, you,'ll blind you. He's got Robert Firmino teeth. Roberto Firmino.

Like a real scouser of you, huh? Yeah. Like Robert Firmino. Old Merseyside boy. Robert Firmino. Robert Furman. Bobby Firmino. Bob Furman. Man, Liverpool might run away with the league.

I don't know. Let's move on to some good news for the Build-A-Bear company. Oh, yeah. Their shares skyrocketed 15 i know we talked about how this stock market doesn't mean shit to most people who make regular people money right or not who don't have a like a like a condo to meet people you don't know in separate from your house like as a buffer zone right um but they the But the shit went up 15% on Tuesday, which is, who would have thought, today,

because they increased their new forecast, I guess, for 2019, but they also said that they would be releasing a Baby Yoda plush in the coming months. Is there any other kind than a plush? Baby Yoda? Are you a Gund guy? Were you a Gund? Did you like Gund? What's a Gund? Oh, it? Are you a Gund guy? Were you a Gund? Did you like Gund?

What's a Gund? Oh, it's a brand of stuffed animal. Gotta get a Gund. G-U-N-D. Is that like some German brand, I'm guessing? I hope not. No, it's Canadian. Is it?

Wow. Yeah. But they're based in Edison, New Jersey. Correct. Correct. I didn't know that. Gotta get a Gund was a thing? Yeah.

Yeah. They were like a huge stuffed animal company and then ty came along with their fucking bag of beans bag of beans yeah what was that yeah i know i collect them do you collect them or do you just like them do you just have a lot of them or do you collect them do you collect them are you pissing away your kids college fund exactly things there was that guy who and i remember like in the early days of vice or you know when people are doing like like you'll never believe this story type internet content right there was like a dude who had so many beanie babies that at its peak would he would have been a millionaire and right now he's he basically has trash he can't get rid of jesus and it's just like a sad portrait

of someone who's like no man i have a feeling i could come back i could come back it's like a sad portrait of someone who's like, no, man, I have a feeling I could come back. I could come back. It's like a high school athlete just being like, oh, man, if I could just get back out there one more time. One more time. Get these beady babies. Did you appreciate The Mandalorian? Did you watch The Mandalorian? Fuck, no. I'm actually going to watch it.

Wow. Fuck, oh, no. Oh, okay. Fuck, no. I'm not going to watch that shit. But no, you said fuck, oh, no. I know. Yeah, that's what it was.

It was a fuck of regret. It was a regretful fuck. We've had a few of those. Oh, my brother. C-O-L-L-E-G-E. Am I right, brother? What does that spell? Call my ass.

I think I'm going to watch it tonight, actually. Just so you can get in on all this baby Yoda hubbub? Yeah, just so I can be more informed. So you know what the heck's going on. Did you watch it? Yeah, I watched it. Did you love it? I was not disappointed by it.

Excellent. I want to say I loved, I mean, I like it because I like the Mandalorian vibe. You know what I mean? The aesthetic. Yeah. And I just like the whole thing.

I like Pedro Pascal. Then it got to a point where you'll see each episode almost became this self-contained genre rip-off where it's like, oh, here we go. It's this very specific plot that's either been in a samurai film and then a cowboy movie.

Still, they do it right. Enjoyable. Werner Herzog, I'll always laugh when this guy is wearing a costume and like trying to be serious is he in it dude buckle your fucking safety belt i gotta go because you're headed to the hills yeah it's fun yes yes 100 he's in it paul f tompkins does the greatest not that he needs my plug but the greatest vernerner Herzog impression. Oh yeah. Whenever he does it on CBB. Yes.

I'm like, genius. It's so funny. Um, okay. And then lastly, I was looking on Twitter and catcher in the rye is trending. Uh,

I'm like, what the fuck is going on? And it's like one of those moments. That's like when home alone too was trending like a couple of weeks ago or before, like the, before Christmas, it was because there was like a whole swath of younger people who were like home alone two or no home alone three they thought that

the non-macaulay i don't know i'm fucking this up but anyway it was a split between young and old people yeah now we're back and i think people are taking shots at their old required reading from school and being like nah dude catcher i was fucking whack i wish i remembered catcher in the rye because i look i'm oh god i don't want to reveal truths like this not in this way but i didn't read the book i spark noted it spark noted up yep and you know what else because you know what i was sparking up too many doobies my man should have it. Because you know who else was holding? Who? Your boy right here. Oh, my God. Let him know.

Oh, my God. Well done. But I did remember, I remember Nectar and a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya. I read that. Henry Gibson's Welcome to the Dollhouse. What else did I have to read? I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. You like that one.

What's that guy's name? Max Doobies? I don't want to even say it. Tucker Max. Yeah. That's what it was. A lot of guys named Tucker, generally an issue. Not a lot of stars named Tucker. Who's a good Tucker?

Tucker. Can't think of one. I can't think of one either. It's a bummer. It's a shame. Yeah, I think there's a funny thing that happens in stand-up when it's clear if a comedian had written a joke like decades you know like a decade ago and they had to retire it because it wasn't current anymore it was just too old and then something in the news

comes up that's tangentially related to the bit and then you present it as if it's a new thought but the rep like you know when oj uh like had his twitter account right it was like all these oj jokes like people started doing them it's like this isn't about his twitter account like you're still talking about the trial with the white bronco yeah yeah yeah so i feel like people like even before uh twitter had these thoughts about um catcher in the rye and now they're like oh finally i have a fucking forum you know to hop on and bring it down did you ever read books uh have i ever once yeah there was this one time um it's called the holy bible right and it was and it was great and uh i prefer the newer of the two testaments i feel like it's more current but um i have an encyclopedic uh almost like an encyclopedia uh in terms of the amount of sports

books that i have i read like very specific like have you read if i had a hammer the hank aaron no no is that great pretty good um i'm reading one on like the 1992 philadelphia eagles right now by mark boden who oh yeah yeah um i read one on the like the 1992 philadelphia eagles right now by mark bowden who oh yeah yeah um i read one on the like seven seconds or less phoenix suns wait how good is wait why is mark bowden writing about the what's interesting about that team that he's writing about it he wrote for the philadelphia inquire for a while which i believe is why it was a more natural thing for him to do got it and that team like they were all special forces operatives. No, right, right.

Going to Mogadishu. Well, I haven't finished it yet. Yeah. But it was a really interesting team where there was a coach, Buddy Ryan, who's a famous coach, was kind of a racist. Was that when Randall Cunningham was a quarterback? Yes, Randall was a quarterback, Reggie White, and then Jerome Brown had actually died in a tragic car accident.

He was their all- pro defensive lineman. And so they were playing the season essentially for this guy. But it's really interesting. Like they talk about just like how they would cheat and like their wives reactions and how sometimes they would have a mistress show up at the game. And then the crew of wives would have to make a judgment whether or not they let her stay or like forcibly like confront her and kick her out of the stadium it's more of i mean there is sports heavy but it is like kind of a soap opera as well which is right because it's yeah i mean he's a good storyteller so i'm sure yeah just like oh man cunt randall was fucking sick that's yeah he threw for 3200 yards scrambling you know what i mean like he scrambled for whatever

yeah it's not it's not that heavy. The human cost of being with a professional athlete. Exactly. And you strike me as a big reader. I like books. It's funny. I only read nonfiction. Interesting.

Yeah, same. I can't. It's weird. I have this. I like to read because I feel like I'm gaining knowledge. Right. And that's the pleasure for me for reading. Other people very much getting their creativity

stimulated by a fiction book is the pleasure they get, but I think it's just like being a nerd kid where it's like you read to know more than the other kids. Yeah, yeah, I'll watch TV if I want. What are the two categories? It's nonfiction and lies? Yeah. Yeah, okay.

It's nonfiction and just straight-up horseshit. Yeah. Don't waste your fucking time. Absolutely Yeah. Yeah, okay. It's non-fiction and just straight up horseshit. Yeah. Don't waste your fucking time. Absolutely not. Oh my God. Anyway, Blake, thank you for joining us on this very quick edition. Just dating your aunt is eight.

And, you know, we'll see you tomorrow morning. Okay, bye. Say bye. Oh, oh, goodbye. Thank you. Yeah. Say bye. Oh, goodbye.

Thank you. Yes. In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest. Because the company had promised $150,000 in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Swordquest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Swordquest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.

I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister, or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm.

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