The Daily Zeitgeist - Don't Want No Short Trend Show 9/8: iPhone 14, Louis DeJoy, 'Don't Look Up', Derek Jeter, John Mulaney, Britney Spears, Mu Variant

Episode Date: September 8, 2021

In this edition of Don't Want No Short Trend Show, Jack and Miles discuss the iPhone 14(?), calls for removal of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the new trailer for 'Don't Look Up', Derek Jeter being inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, John Mulaney and Olivia Munn expecting a child, Britney Spears' conservatorship coming to an end, and the Mu variant of COVID Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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never said my name in this episode you've never said your name in trend you yeah you always introduce me oh okay i'm jack you're miles oh thank god yeah i couldn't i didn't want to break tradition transition transition transition right that's for our Bush-themed series. There you go. All right. Well, let's tell the people what's trending. iPhone 14 is trending. I can't imagine why.

I mean, there's not even a 13. So what's going on? Because apparently, what, the next week there's going to be that big you know streaming event and they say you know that's probably we're going to see the iphone 13 but people are already talking about the iphone 14 because there's like rumors about its new design uh i don't know this is just like one of those things too where like most of the people were not like excited about it but me like why the fuck is this trending when I just bought the 12 twice 14 training? We haven't even seen 13.

What are we doing here? My most recent upgrade was from the last one with a button. Yeah. I think you went eight, eight to 12. Wow. And you know, that was a pretty significant jump,

but now they're talking all right guys i think we're gonna get one that has no notch and no camera bump and at that point i don't give a fuck i don't even know what you're talking about with the notch really yeah they're like well jack what would you say if i told you that this would actually have more of a notchless design uh my mind would be fucking blown dude it's like i don't know what that even means yeah i have no idea it's because it's just this part you know how like the screen isn't complete right and like that part where you're the the sound comes out for your ear that's that is now oh my god it's not giving me a full screen. That does make me very angry. Yeah, that's true.

That's actually very true. The fuck is this? This frame isn't titanium? Like, you're putting a case on it anyway. Right. But you know, we need things to distract. But God, like, I honestly hope at a certain point, point like even the biggest apple fans have had enough right like really like unless this thing is gonna summon like a tupac hologram at will

right i don't know i don't know what else you could do for me to give a fuck more because i couldn't give a fuck less what do i think a success sucks too much stress um but yeah it's just the bars you know from the master of the 313 but yeah i don't know the good iphone 14 i'm like i'm fine with the 11 i got i was like i'm pretty sure we peaked with this motherfucker yeah so i'm pretty sure that that's been that's been it and we're good but i mean forced obsolescence will uh lead to us having to replace our phones every couple years so right yeah that was the other dominating joke on twitter was just like iphone 14 they're like my iphone 12 finna be like and it's just like all this like weird glitch shit people posting weird videos and things fucking up yep um de joy is trending um so louis it's a weird trend because what happened is the biden

administration they told okay so there's a military academy board that uh like the trump administration had put people on so that's like people like kellyanne conway sean spicer uh fucking hr mcmaster and so what the biden administration said look y'all need to resign or we're just gonna remove you either way it's a wrap for y'all um so figure out what you want to do you can either clear your shit out or we'll clear clear the shit out for you and then so a lot of people like uh what about lewis the joy what about the postmaster general who was very transparently fucking up the postal service at a very critical time and a lot of people were concerned about you know mail-in ballots and shit maybe what about him why don't you give him the old pack your shit or i'll pack it for you but i don't know that's i feel like is he on the military

board or they're just saying this no just, just saying it's still hanging around. Cause he's still the postmaster general. And they're like, you couldn't replace him. Right. So what's going on here? I don't know. Whatever.

Just there's, there's too much going on. There's too much going on, I guess. But yeah, that's a valid point. Thought about Kellyanne Conway in, uh,

months. And yes, not glad that I just did. Yeah. So Don't Look Up is trending. The trailer for the new Adam McKay movie in which people. So scientists realize that a giant comet is headed toward the earth. They go contact Bruce Willis, who's on an oil rig.

He's one of the best oil drillers. And then, unfortunately, Ben Affleck is Bruce Willis' daughter's girlfriend. And then they arrive at the space station at the launching pad and they say, talk about the wrong stuff. No, so Don't Look Up is basically the plot of Armageddon, So don't look up is basically the plot of Armageddon kind of using what we have learned about how humans deal with those sorts of cataclysmic prospects, which is they're just like kind of tired of being stressed out by stuff. So we're going to just kind of move, move, move along. We're not, not interested, not buying what you're selling uh because it's not gonna test well with uh focus groups so it's a long uh satire on that i was uh worried when i read the premise that it would be a little bit one jokey and they seem to have

combated that with uh just a an incredible cast and yeah what the fuck ariana grande leonardo caprio chalamet jennifer lawrence chris evans i mean leo and jennifer lawrence playing the two like lead roles is like okay that's uh tyler perry kid cuddy i'm not joking people that are in this film yeah yeah gina gershon i mean it's got everything it's got everything yeah i don't uh okay i mean i hope it has a has an effect i mean that's that seems to be so the thing that excited me the most is so it starts off you know showing a uh some scenes from the movie and then it's like from the director of vice and um the big short and then it shows like kind of a silly scene and then it's like and step brothers and anchorman and yeah let him know uh bring some of that stepbrothers flavor to our apocalyptic

works of satire my favorite part of stepbrothers i don't know why it's like one of the most morbid parts is when they're showing the house and they pretend that will like will ferrell isn't it will ferrell who's dead they're pretending he's dead and like, he just passed away last night. You're like, oh my God. I don't know why of all the scenes, I'm like, this shit is ridiculous. I love a fake corpse to thwart a house showing in a real estate context. Yeah, that is a true classic. Adam McKay is a super smart, interesting dude. I don't know if you've ever listened to him on podcasts.

He's kind of an interesting guy to hear talk. So high hopes. Hey, maybe we can get him on this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he keeps asking to come on, and I'm just like, we've got a fully booked schedule. We're like, do a Taco Bell movie, and then we can talk, asshole.

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he's in the hall of fame is that so he got inducted like he i thought he got nominated or voted in a long time ago, didn't he? Yeah, but I think this is the ceremony. Like what's the timeline on that? Like, is it do they just like go and do the induction whenever they are ready? Because I feel like he got voted in a long time ago. Yeah, well, I think because it was at the beginning of 2020 when he was elected to be in the hall of fame because and then i think something happened in 2020

yeah and then that oh right um and then that uh that had uh delayed things i'd imagine i don't know but maybe there was an induction in 2020 but either way um anyways jeter's actually a really good guy uh my wife keeps showing up with gift baskets from him that like i don't know like it's so nice i think something she's getting derrick jeter gift baskets just keep sending them to the house it's kind of nice i don't know he must really like our family or something yeah they're great and he keeps sending her she you know that he keeps sending her on these cool trips she gets to go on i've been seeing her about three months but she's a loving it uh john mulaney is uh he made an appearance

on the seth meyers show last night i believe uh and announced that he and olivia munn are expecting a baby you know this is right after uh he announced that he was getting a divorce from his wife like not right after but right like people on tiktok and other social media sites said that this was the case like right after the divorce was announced and it seems like they kind of kept a lid on it for a little while for you know

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that was like another dimension i think of it that was tweeting where he was like, you know, expressing his gratitude to him for looking out for him. Because he was writing on the Seth Meyers show for a little while, right before he went into rehab. So, well, all right. Yeah, he said he thanked him for saving his life you go britney spears is trending because her dad was like all right fine fine okay that's a wrap you think you can do this without me oh so i okay oh okay you're so you just want to let britney decide

what to have fucking agency over everything in her life i was trying to be a good dad so he's a few he's filed the paperwork to end the conservatorship um yeah um right that was the last thing that's happened so meaning that we are well and truly moving into a freer britney era um but like yeah his his tone around it was very much like not copying to that it was bad so i was trying to do what i thought was right not this was a terrible legal quagmire and fucked up you know glass menagerie that i put my own child in uh with no ability to think or decide things for herself it's more right um even as she was asking for the right to think and act for herself yeah uh and he compared her to a racehorse uh so all you know how

broads are your honor they're like racehorses okay sir that's not a please at least file that in legal paperwork don't just scream it at me in the courtroom and finally just to check in with that uh ongoing story that is most famous for delaying derrick jeter's uh induction into the cooperstown hall of fame uh the covid 19 pandemic i think it's called that uh cases are currently 300 higher uh than this time last year um and uh the mu variant has been found in every state um so the mu variant because i i saw this and i was just like okay so it's going to be like another variant that's worse than delta like and we're just going to keep getting worse and worse. Also,

how do you pronounce that? It is mu, not ma or mu. Hey, you see the ma variant. Hey man, I got the ma variant. Um,

but. Hey, don't take ma variants. It is currently not a variation of concern. It's a variation of interest. They're still like figuring out how it compares to other variations but the delta variant was uh absolutely right and it's twice as contagious as as previous uh variants so that's the yeah right and there's a lot of number like aside from the mu variant there's a

lot of other things trending around covid today because the like they say more children are making up more than a quarter of the weekly covid cases um and on top of that you have and the other thing with the mu variant a lot of you know the the epidemiologists and doctors are like, yeah, here's the thing, like, it's a variant, but the guidance is going to be the same no matter what. So rather than getting all freaked out about the mu variant, just know that we have to continue doing the things we were doing, which is to get people vaccinated, because then it won't be as transmissible

and allow for more variants to emerge, which is the real sticky problem there is if you just let that fucking incubator run wild eventually a fucking monster is going to come out um and that's the absolute nightmare scenario where we start from fucking scratch but yeah uh you know that we have to just keep doing the same things and then there's still a lot of people who don't want to so this is going to be a long long old thing and a lot of experts are now like this is we're going to have covid forever you know like but now it's going to be about how we figure out like how we're able to maneuver it and have shots like you would for the flu, but this is being something more serious.

Yeah. We'll see. It's just a sticky time. Put it in the air. I'm just waiting. Do not put COVID in the air. Just the sticky icky. 95 plus 4 pennies.

The most sticky icky of them. Yeah. Anyways, that is going to do it for today's episode. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

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