The Daily Zeitgeist - Don't Zeit the Hand That Feeds 4/16: Brian Dennehy, Britney and Justin, Angelyne, 2-3%,

Episode Date: April 16, 2020

On this edition of Don't Zeit the Hand That Feeds Jack and Miles discuss the passing of Brian Dennehy, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake broke up 18 years ago today, Emmy Rossum is playing Angelyne in a bio-series on Peacock, and Doctor OZ has been rightfully lambasted for suggesting kids can go back to school even if "it costs us 2-3%" of children's lives. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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only on Apple Podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Don't Zite the Hand That Feeds You. That is courtesy of Johnny Davis. I'm Jack O'Brien. That over there is Miles Gray in my phone. Hi. Hi, Miles. In your phone?

Whoa. Yeah. You didn't dare get me a more robust camera to view me and to give your image across the internet to me? Ugh.

Just straight up phone shit. I bought a whole new camera setup just for these Zooms because I don't want to disappoint you. Got a ring light. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Your lighting is beautiful and it's time to tell the people what is trending right now on Thursday, April the 16th. Brian Dennehy is trending because he passed away. Yeah. One of the great character actors of my childhood. I mean, I don't know. Just because of Tommy Boy, Brian dennehy is forever uh someone

in my heart i don't know really anything about him aside from that but that just to see his name trending i was like no come on big tom callahan big tom callahan he was also the evil sheriff in rambo one uh oh and very good in that uh he was also rambo yeah rambo you mean i'm old because i'm old no no that's just like one of your films like you there's a very specific era of films that you love and like especially the stallone there's a stallone factor as well you know it's an r starting factor uh stallone film whether it's rocky or rambo my dad told me about rambo like the day after he saw it like he like over breakfast he was like and then stallone like comes in and the sheriff messes with him man and i was just like whoa like my dad told me the story of r-rated movies before i uh

could see them yeah the audiobook version yeah version. Yeah, exactly. It was pretty cool, though. It was pretty cool. Anyways, Dennehy, really good character actor. He also played bad guys very well. At one point, I think he played a bad guy who could beat up Sylvester Stallone, or maybe he was in Gladiator. It was Gladiator, the boxing movie. I'm like, Dennehy suddenly could beat up the good guy. Not necessarily buying him in that role, but overall just a classic, an American classic. And I think the original Willie Loman.

No, it can't be the original Willie Loman. No, he definitely did a stage of Death of a Salesman and played willie loman on states that was the only other thing i do know about brian dennehy rest in peace died of natural causes by the way yeah uh britney and justin uh what why are they trending they back together oh yeah um or also just if you want to carbon date your spirit and cut your body open and count the rings to see how old you are well guess what they broke up 18 years ago today i never really healed from it no no not at all i sob every night uncontrollably directly into my pillow my partner her majesty asked what's going

wrong and i just keep saying it's just you know no no more sports but she doesn't know my name no more uh it's just this dang sports without lakers or arsenal i don't know what's going on uh but yeah that really it's always these sort of pop culture moment like touchstones that really like open your eyes to really give you some sense of how quickly time has how old you are yeah a blanket jackson that really blew me away when i saw her i think that's who i saw who's like him a blanket the boy like it's the youngest son yeah got it but then he's very grown up yeah he's uh 33 now yeah that's wild wait really no no it's feasible that's i mean like even yeah we can stealth those answers in and they're still feasible yeah kim from the good day video who he like brags about how he puts her butt to sleep uh that that then gave birth to uh his son who played him

in the nwa movie so wow that's how old we are it's all a cycle uh and then angeline is trending i did not know anything about angeline prior to this trend so let's tell the people. Wait, you, okay. So how long have you lived in Los Angeles? Since 2010. Since 2010. So 10 years, have you ever seen an Angeline billboard in the city? No. Okay. So they used to be a lot more, I think pre, pre great recess, they were way more popping, especially like in the eighties and nineties like i grew up you know growing up in los angeles anyone who grew up in los angeles saw these billboards of this woman in pink with her gigantic cleavage and blonde hair and the billboards just would say angeline and that was it there was no phone number there was no anything else for the longest time i remember being a kid

and asking my dad i'm like what is this what this? What is this? Is this a store? Somebody goes, no, it's just someone who buys billboards. And Angelina is just this like sort of some people say like in a way like a original influencer in the sense that she was generating notoriety simply for having billboards up just sort of drawing attention to her mere existence. Famous for being famous crossed with like an andy warhol art project yeah yeah yeah exactly and she's had like little cameos here and there like she's been like spoofed in the simpsons or other things like that but she's just kind of like this figure who you know just like this local they're like part of the local los angeles lore uh but there's they're making a new series on peacock which is know, buckle up your wallet

for 900 more streaming platforms. But this is Emmy Rossum is playing Angeline in this sort of like seasonal, like, I don't know, biopic. What do you call it? A biographical series. Yeah, yeah. Biopic was right. Yeah.

Yeah. Or biopic, if you're like my brother-in-law and pronounce it incorrectly. No. Wait, really? On brother-in-law and pronounce it incorrect no um wait really on purpose a lot of people pronounce it that way like that is a very uh common mispronunciation well i guess well because you don't say like biography you say biography so in a way i just sound but do say, what's their bio? Yeah. All right.

You're not asking what their biology is when you ask that. OK. Usually. All right, well, listeners, please weigh in. I am, but most people aren't. Right. And Emmy Rossum, one of Super Producer Anna Hosniak's favorite actresses. I love her from Shameless. She's going to be playing Angeline.

And Peacock, actually, they dropped a trailer for Brave New World, which is based on the book by Aldous Huxley about a post-apocalyptic future where you're not allowed to be monogamous. So, I mean, it's basically the liberal media's future world they want. Didn't realize they have a movie out already about May 2020. Am I right? Protect the family. And finally, Dr. Oz is trending because he is just on a full capitalist

IV drip. Yeah. I mean, for someone who's a doctor and we're here, the doctors are the few people in this whole situation who are saying things like, hey, it's very important that people don't get ill and they stay safe. And let's not, you know, let's people's lives are at stake. There's no, there's no amount of money that's worth losing a family member. Well, Dr. Oz has come to the rescue of the corporations because now he's out here like floating little weather balloons about like, is it cool if maybe some people succumb to COVID-19 if we reopen the country very quickly. So he said in a Hannity interview segment, we need our mojo back. Let's start with things that are really critical to the nation where we

think we might be able to open without getting into a lot of trouble. I tell you, schools are very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice place, a nice piece in the Lancet arguing that the opening of schools may only cost us two-3% in terms of total mortality. Any life is a life lost, but to get every child back into a school where they're safely being educated, being fed, and making the most out of their lives with a theoretical risk on the backside might be a trade-off some folks may consider. Wow. Wow. That's 2-3%? I mean, what? Those are great numbers. Let's get those kids back,

man. Yeah, two to three. What is that? Just two to three people? Yeah, yeah. That's the thing people don't understand. We were talking about this demographer who's arguing that we shouldn't necessarily be enforcing strict isolation in our homes. People don't necessarily need to isolate in their homes. But the one thing that he is even saying is that you should not open the schools. Schools would be a very bad idea. Right. Because kids are constantly kissing.

You know kids. It's just... Well, you think also too, like kids will come back to, it might be a nuclear family. There might be a multi-generational household. There could be... There are people who don't have comorbidities too that would make the virus particularly fatal to them. It's just there's so much risk involved still. and it's to see people like so irresponsibly say like you know two to three

percent like you're just saying you know what's thousands of lives that's just a number to him yeah just number no get in touch with your humanity dr oz yeah he's been on, I think he is, he spends most of his time these days on Fox, like just live streaming to Fox. It's wild. Yeah. He's the iJustine of Fox. Well, I guess it makes sense. If he can't do his normal TV show, because production, obviously, it's really hard to produce an actual TV show with social distancing in these lockdowns, TV show with social distancing and these lockdowns that, you know, the next place that's willing to hear him say his like weird brand of half truths would be Fox, especially if he's going

to argue on behalf of like, get the economy going, get these people into work. Hydroxychloroquine might be a cure. I don't know. Ignore that French study that said it's probably completely useless, but whatever. Well, all right, guys, that is what's trending this afternoon. We hope you are having a safe day, a safe Thursday. Be kind to each other. Wash your hands.

Wear a mask. And we'll be back tomorrow with another episode of our podcast. We'll talk to you then. Bye. Bye. Bye. for our podcast. We'll talk to you then.

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The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeartTrue Crime Plus, only on Apple Podcasts.