The Daily Zeitgeist - ElecTrend Recap 11/8: Election Day, 007: Road To A Million, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Episode Date: November 8, 2023

In this edition of ElecTrend Recap, Jack and Miles discuss Election Day 2023, Brian Cox's Murrayesque '007: Road To A Million' revelation, and the new Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah. All right. Well, that is Miles. I'm Jack. That's Jack. And and here's a couple things that's trending it is the election recap episode where we get to uh just give you a snapshot uh an overview of what happened in these united states um all right i've been stolen i don't know what happened man i didn't i haven't looked at the news all damn day. I've just been watching that damn Sprite video. All I'm saying is the GOP should change their name to Vanessa because it was a red grave.

Okay, you feel me? And that's a little bit of freestyling from me. But yeah, the Republicans continue to do the thing that everyone from the outside is like that's not gonna win you anything yeah but they can't stop they just can't stop they are so horny to roll back rights and think that that is a like a majority like that is a popular opinion or that's a popular policy every election no matter where it is no matter how red the state is people are like nah man like body autonomy reproductive rights that's actually essential what the fuck are you guys talking basically a complete continuation of the trends

we saw in the 2022 midterm with people rejecting republicans anywhere that reproductive rights were at stake or like mentioned in in camp in the campaigns um or running on that shit too and be like yeah i'm you know i'm all about pro-life like okay well yeah you can pro see yourself out of this place yeah um but so it's just wild to see so that was fairly predictable by us from the outside uh by them on the inside they seem to once again be uh taken completely blindsided by this and having a tough time like reading the tea leaves on this one miles they're like wait what so wait what because like okay because what else happened so what it wasn't just like the like referendum like in ohio that was enshrining abortion access like it was also you know like in virginia they the democrats took control of the state how they

like they've they have the other chambers except for the governor's mansion at this point uh and we just been in kentucky andy beshear won uh re-election there in a very you know red kentucky um which brought the people at news max as they were like doing the results as they came in to really do some soul searching and i think it's really interesting to hear how they're processing the fact that the the platform has been a loser for the last couple years now this is newsmax just processing it all as far as you know it does seem like the the republican party generally has a real problem with uh with winning uh you know midterms here and now in this one as well um and you wonder do we have the right people in place to be putting the messaging together to the people that are supposed to be there to get the early vote out to do these jobs you wonder about the rn yeah we have the right

people running the show because we we we're not doing something right i think that's very obvious it's like is it do we have the wrong staffers election staffers mom you know how i started that company of of snacks that are made of horse shit nobody's buying them and it's like have the right staff in place i know that's what i'm saying like is maybe my marketing bad like do they know that they're eating horse shit maybe i need to make that more explicit or less explicit should they be investing more in tiktok well maybe this is the question that i that i screaming at all of us um those algorithms man yeah uh yeah it's it's it's they continue to scratch their heads over this like yeah you'll hear more about in tomorrow's

episode too there are numerous quotes where they were doing anything but looking at their own platform and assessing that that is the fundamental issue here yeah and even like cut again so like glenn yunkin is the person like who is probably the hottest name in gop politics outside of donald trump um he was being mentioned as maybe like somebody who might enter the presidential race and challenge trump because he's so popular in uh virginia and so people were like all right so we'll see how these local virginia like state house elections go right whether he's able to marshal enough enthusiasm and translate his popularity into a broad sweeping Republican win in the state house because

they were hoping to start attacking people's reproductive rights. That was something that was important to the GOP nationally. And the Democrats took full control of the Virginia State House. So just straight up going against trends, going against popularity of popular politicians, which seems to work at the local level, that we do have evidence of that. Whether it would work, I'm still not willing to be like biden's got this one in the bag um you know i mean a lot of people said well if people are abandoning the democratic party we definitely didn't see that tonight yes and i think i don't think that's what even the polling so the really bad poll that everyone is referencing where biden like lost a shitload of support and is now getting beaten like getting

beaten so bad by trump in the polling that were these polls to actually be like the first polls that were actually right ever but like you know if they were when the polls closed they'd be like and we can call it for donald trump like that's how much he's winning by he's like smoking him according to these polls like even those polls didn't say like and everybody just like really likes trump now they people don't like biden like they have they're abandoning biden and like they asked in those polls uh whether you would vote for an unnamed Democratic candidate or Donald Trump. So in a hypothetical world where Biden drops out and a different Democratic candidate steps in, who do you vote for?

And that shifted the race by 12 points towards the Democrats. So generic Democrat is 12 points more popular than joe biden a literal straw man yeah now granted i think in this case like that people are probably picturing their ideal generic democratic candidate right for sure like not just like dude i'll literally take a fucking package of turkey sliced turkey turkey. Yeah. No, not quite. But again, I think this is something that is going to this is going to play out over the next year. And we'll see what happens. I think the one thing, though, that Democrats are absolutely loving is that their continued strategy of merely gesturing at Republicans is working.

It is. Because Republicans are so Republican, so fucking bad that, yeah, it's unfortunately that that is the situation that voters in the United States are in. Because meanwhile, the Democrats in the house are, you know, joining Republicans. 22 of them joined Republicans to censureure rashida talib yes that's i

mean and that made the whole like they did that on election night and so like the whole oh a win for the democratic party was pretty fucking bittersweet because yeah yeah like she's the one person who seems like she's speaking the truth about what's fucking happening in gaza and she's being censured and yeah like you know she clarified that like what her understanding of the phrase from the rivers to the sea are which is what the censure was over and she was like no this for me means that i want freedom yeah people that people have been moving the goalposts on from the river to the sea constantly no last month this is an aspirational call for freedom human rights and peaceful coexistence not death destruction or hate and she repeatedly like her her speech after like in response to the censure would like just continues to focus on can we all agree that like we shouldn't be killing

innocent children whether they be israeli or palestinian like that's been very consistent that's been her response consistently i think that's been our response consistently on this show and it seems like the answer is no we can't't. We can't agree on that. Shut the fuck up. Like seems to be their response. Well, especially when you have actual people on the on that Republican side of things like like on the House floor saying things like, oh, yeah, the Gaza is going to be turned into a quote, a parking lot or that, you know, Lindsey Graham. Or that, you know, Lindsey Graham, we heard him. He said there's no amount of dead children that should deter or dead civilians that should deter Israel. Or another person being like comparing Palestinian civilians to Nazis.

Yes. And the pure genocidal language that is being used by these people and the dehumanizing language they're using. And they want to go for the one Palestinian American who is speaking truth to power. It's like the white supremacy of it all, too. It's wild. You know, it's so wild because this is such a multifaceted moment right now. It's not as simple as like, there's so many dimensions to this that are just blowing my mind every day.

And meanwhile, you have children gaza doing a press conference in front of a children's hospital pleading with the world to be like we would like to not be just indiscriminately killed yeah uh and that's like these are the stakes right now and to to censure it's like what a group of utterly despicable disgraceful unserious people yes also it was interesting to me that the motion to censure rashida talib in the first place was originally raised by marjorie taylor green um and they were like actually it might be better if it wasn't you since you blamed jewish space lasers for forest fires a couple years back so like i stand by we're going to accuse someone who's actually not being antisemitic of antisemitism it would be weird if that official motion was coming from an actual

anti-semi it's just like too much uh, it cancels out. Oh, yeah. Is that what it is, Marjorie? Cross that out. Yeah. So it's just interesting that they were like, not this one. We'll go with this other person doing it. You can vote for it, but we can't have your name on it because

well, you are literally an anti-Semite. Yeah, and we're still hearing the mealy-aly mouth plea from Democrats to be like, what about a humanitarian pause? Yeah. Y'all are some it's just so it's just so disgusting because I try to not be online so much because whenever there's a lot of upheaval in the world you're gonna see some things that are disturbing that are distressing and to consistently see how like terror is being rained upon like the the experience of the people of palestine right now is so fucked up and to think that you have people who could look at that and still be like yeah man they just need

to pause that shit yeah or i'm so in i live in such perpetual fear of lobbyists that i can't even say what i actually want to say that is such a failure of character and again i don't know i'm not acting surprised because like 99.9 of the people who are pursuing office are not there for the right reasons um it's it's the only the few who are pursuing office are not there for the right reasons. Um, it's, it's the only the few who are actually there because they want to change the, like the material outcomes for the people they represent.

But it's just really grim to watch video after video report after report of just unchecked killing of innocent people. And you're the, the people who are supposedly leading this country just have their arms crossed and acting like nothing's going on. It's despicable. And they're censuring the person who's asking for it to stop. It's like, don't be out here humanizing

them. That's when they uncross their arms. Exactly that. The line was humanizing Palestinians. That was the line. Because anytime somebody dehumanizes them, it's all good. It's all good. Yeah, that doesn't get anything. But don't bring my help.

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And we're back. And these stories, I always like these stories. We got one when Bill Murray starred in the garfield movie and it was revealed that he suffered under the same mistake that i did when i saw it first saw the trailer for the garfield movie and they were like from ethan cohen and i was like one of the cohen brothers broke off from their filmmaking duo right to make the fucking garfield movie and you know smartly they did not put in the trailer no not that ethan coen um but he so after the fact bill murray was like yeah i thought it was the fucking coen brother man i thought like

one of the coen brothers was making a garfield movie and i was like well that doesn't make sense but i gotta see what he has in mind so yeah i'm on board and then like shows up on set and is like wait a fucking second yeah that's just i mean hey bill that's why sometimes i get the whole thing like you represent yourself and you have like a voicemail or whatever that people can get to you at. But like that's that's where you fell on your own sword there. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't bother me, you know.

No, I just of course you're going to fuck up and be like, oh, really? All right. Well, I guess I'll do this movie then. In a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Brian Cox revealed that he signed up to appear on 007 Road to a Million, which is like the secret agent-flavored takeoff of The Amazing Race. It's just a 007-sponsored reality show. He signed up for that because he thought it was an actual bond movie oh my god well well you see it was called 007 road to a million i thought it was the new james

bond film so i said oh finally they're getting me in a james bond movie so i thought yes of course hell yeah man the title sounds like a fucking sweeps like a mcdonald's promotion it sounds like a scratch bond road to a million yeah yeah okay a million turns out it was a scratch ticket that i had signed on to be a part of um i'm playing his daddy oh fuck off james bond yeah how many times a day do you think he fires his agent like it's gotta be just yeah brian like it's probably just firing his agent and then you know it's like ah yeah he always says that or is it one of those things where like he's so volatile where like the agent's like well brian here's the thing about just shut the fuck up okay fuck off and get me

that role and you're like yeah but this double it's not exactly you know and then they come back and he's like what the fuck is this like i tried to tell you bro brian bc i tried to tell you my man my guy um cox but cox there's a new ghostbusters movie trailer where it's like the the bad guy is winter weather basically dude that trailer kind of fucked up it's kind of cool it's uh could have been whatever so yeah and the thing like it's like coney island suddenly like like freezes over and like icicles are shooting up from the ground like fucking knives I was surprised nobody like got

by one of those oh they did but they do specifically say like for the first time people are like freezing to death in right in July in July in New York City in New York City so it's like hot time someone in the city and then it's like whoa frozen powers

put your coat on it's about to get chilly they saw the movie Frozen it's like whoa frozen powers they basically saw the movie they saw the movie frozen and were like whoa what if that happened in ghostbusters um and that's that's frozen yeah there's a part where oh have you not seen frozen miles do they smash in frozen do they smash do people smash the characters smash they have sex with each other yeah no oh i don't think so i'm thinking of a different what is it what are we talking about yeah elsa is a nice princess uh and like once her powers go out of control she like turns the whole place into frozen land where ice everywhere and they were like why she gotta let it go that's why she gotta let it well when she's singing let it go as she's letting her powers

just rip and uh oh so that's her fucking shit up when she's saying that's her fucking shit up and a lot of people are dying they don't show it but a lot of people are dying like she's killing crops she's killing like famine is occurring across her nation this is for kids yeah man that's bad and the characters don't smash in it though what is wrong with you man nothing nothing nothing nothing never mind never mind but anyways people are saying that it seems like the villain here is an unsubtle allegory for climate change. Right. Um, and that this might be a make good for the first Ghostbusters. Oh yeah,

we talked about this. Yeah. So we had pointed this out before that, like, you know, the, the bad guy in the first Ghostbusters is the environment, environmental protection agency.

Right. And they're, the movie is basically being like the government is burdening businesses with like pesky environmental regulations and that is what will lead to catastrophe um when you know the past 40 years has has shown the exact opposite to be true i didn't realize though that that was like specifically ivan reitman's real actual politics yeah he was like yeah well you know i'm a uh conservative slash libertarian who wanted to tell an anti-epa story criticizing too much government regulation um yeah i mean i love how he was like yeah so this is the interview did you ever imagine the national review would name ghostbusters one of the best conservative movies and reitman says i

never knew that i've always been something of a conservative slash libertarian the first movie deals with going into business for yourself and it it's anti-EPA, too much government regulation. It does have a very interesting point of view that really resonates. Yeah, that's what resonates about the movie. Not the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Bill Murray's dry wit. No, yeah, it's not fucking ghost, the concept of Ghostbusters. I didn't even know that's what the movie was about. I was here for the anti-bureaucracy

bit. Yeah. See, I thought the ghost they were busting was the ghost of taxes. Taxation. Yeah, exactly. Maybe it is a make good.

To all the wokebusters that we've seen over the past, you know, the reboots of Ghostbusters. Maybe that's them trying to make make good on it. Maybe Dan Aykroyd's like, hey, we did a lot of damage with that. There's a whole generation of people who like hear EPA and think, yes, your honor. That is true. This man has no penis.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a. I haven't. I haven't. I haven't. I haven't. Bro. honor that is true this man has no penis yeah it's Ivan Reitman killing it bro alright well those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday November 8th we are back tomorrow

with the whole ass 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. And we'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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