The Daily Zeitgeist - Foucault's Trendulum 10/21: The Pope, Amtrak, Odell, Quibi, Giuliani

Episode Date: October 21, 2020

On this edition of Foucault's Trendulum Jack and Miles discuss the Pope says "homosexuals have a right to be part of the family", Joe Biden's Amtrak train, Odell thinking he's immune from COVID, Quibi shut down, and Rudy tried to pull his lil Rudy out in the new Borat movie??? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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let's tell the people what is a trend. Yeah, quite a bit today, quite a bit going on in the old news cycle. So we got the pope uh when is the pope not trending in our hearts uh yeah always as someone who was raised catholic always trending in my heart uh but he's trending among the uh did you have a pope john paul like little card i had the i had the uh outfit like most people have like jerseys. I had the Pope outfit with like the Pope hat. The flu game Pope outfit? And you remember the flu mask? Man, when Pope John Paul hit that mask with the flu, bro.

Hell yeah, man. Hell yeah. We did not have the Pope card. I had neighbors who were very Catholic, and that's how I got my glimpse into like what that was like and i remember being like oh like here's our blessed trading card of the pope yeah um what uh let's tell the people why the pope is trending because i actually he's you know he's this motherfucker antifa at this point you know he's saying capitalism

fucking y'all up y'all should be fucking more god likes it and now he's saying i'm i pontifex i'm here to pontiflex on the ignorant and say that same-sex civil unions shall be something that god is down with now saying that quote they are children of god and have a right to a family nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable because of it that seems uh like a real 180 uh coming from the catholic church yeah he said homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family huh that's well yeah somebody tweeted like amazingly uh that was like yo amy coney barrett is like uh who is it oh at the real horse h-o-a-r-s-e says amy coney barrett is farther right than the actual pope yeah i know some popes or i know some catholics who are further right than the pope like that is uh this dude rules uh he's always been about social justice. I'm

here for it. I guess there's a new documentary out about him that is by the guy who directed that super dark documentary about the Crimean Revolution and the Syrian Civil War

documentary that came out, I think, a couple years ago. And then he's like the only person who can unite us all is the pope but he's like not catholic he's like a jewish guy from russia but he's big fan this guy's this pope guy's really uh you know a four quadrant pope uh he's done he's doing it all i mean next thing you know wait till he drops his mixtape on soundcloud he's just straight spitting straight bars bars but the thing with him is like he's saying it as the pope like publicly doing it it's not like from a lower position within the papal sea or the the you know the organization of the roman cath Church. He's out here being like, I'm the fucking Pope,

and I'm saying not just we're tolerating this shit, but that y'all need to embrace your family no matter what. And wow, it's like he... I think someone did say that in the Bible, maybe by the name of Christ, but I'll have to double check on that, what his message was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I think he might have also just hated taxes.

I think that's what I got from the Bible. I think that's mainly what it was. It was like, render to Caesar what's his, but none of that stuff. I don't remember if you remember, he was like, he was wiling out in the temple, you know, because he hated all that money flying around. You know what I mean? Yeah. He was like, he was the jim cramer of mad money he was just wiling out um uh amtrak is trending because uh they finally the republicans have

done it they have uncovered uh the lavish surprise yeah the lavish uh corruption of of biden uh chartering an amtrak the the saddest flex uh that anybody could possibly do um he charted an amtrak there are four gop rep representatives who signed a letter basically just saying like what's going on here uh this it's really interesting that uh you're like you're taking this money when your primary objective should be that it's like really fucking lame and then like a lot of people were like you know you can anyone can charter a train with amtrak just so you know that's not we weren't given any special fucking treatment uh so this is just another fucking lame attempt the other thing was saying that they want the information about him taking these trains no later than what date do you think no when does this information need to come out yep no later than november 2nd so boom um so they

should just sit on it and be like do some motherfucker i dare you watch this shit never come out the fuck you're gonna do it for you yeah that is typically amtrak is really typically just strong-arming motherfuckers right and left uh yeah yeah um and i mean like a lot of journalists also point out it's like uh george bush like fucking got the surf liner in california to go to like l you know dude like san diego to santa barbara in 2000 and he wrote on top of it like teen wolf like he was right high on cocaine i mean it was something you should have seen it ripping his shirt off but yeah i don't know it's just fucking so fucking desperate they're like you know we talk about how you know what the all kinds of tactics that are being used to try and motivate the Trump supporters or people who might vote against him.

And yeah, it's yeah, it's interesting. It's another one of these attacks that also kind of highlights like something that's likable about Joe Biden. also kind of highlights like something that's likable about joe biden like the the hunter biden thing where they were like look at this email where he tells his son he loves him unconditionally uh and then the amtrak thing is like yeah he like used to take the fucking train like to and from like that's uh used to be his like whole claim to fame was that he was like so right modest that he would take amtrak the most famous train users in politics yeah you know what i mean so it's like okay right and also why don't y'all shut the fuck up and investigate the president for the shit that's three billion how about all the people that have died did right almost damn near 250

however many people have died from covid died as a result of people using Amtrak trains or the fucking the new stuff we're hearing about the bank accounts that the president has in China. Yeah. What? Whatever. But again, this is the hypocrisy. Paid more taxes to China than America. Shout out to that guy. That's his whole beef.

Actually, it's not even about trade. He's like, you should see I'm getting ripped off of my taxes in China. I gotta go to a trade war. They're ripping us off. Amtrak, do you have much experience on Amtrak? I guess we rode Amtrak together, right? From New York down to D.C. Down to D.C., yep. Amtrak always smells

like Band-Aids to me. I mean, I love train travel, but I'm kind of spoiled because in japan like train travel is like fucking next level and it's super quick and efficient and wonderful uh but i i've always liked getting you know taking a train trip because it's just i don't know there's something i i like regressed to a child when i fucking was train obsessed yeah and were you a big train kid train kid is like the is the boy equivalent of horse girl uh or yeah irrespective of genders it's like a sure it's the terrible yeah sort

of stereotypes of what like children uh are like are obsessed vibing with but yeah because you know like i'm sure you are a parent you live in los angeles we got a little place called travel town yeah yeah i mean but by griffith park i used to fucking go there so much like my parents Cause you know, like I'm sure you are a parent. You live in Los Angeles. We've got a little place called travel town. Yeah. You know what I mean? But by Griffith park, I used to fucking go there so much. Like my parents thought someone was wrong with me. Cause they were like, this fool could go here every day. And he doesn't notice like we've, this is all we've been doing.

Yeah. I have many a train trips in my future. Cause once we get out of this pandemic, my, my, uh, four-year-old is in like a, in a heavy, heavy train period right now damn um so we're gonna yeah yeah train yeah exactly drops of jupiter uh so we're gonna go see drops of jupiter and we're actually gonna travel with train um to multiple different shows yeah it's really wild he he became really good friends with pat monahan and hector maldonado odell is trending odell beckham jr a couple couple things this guy's got going on

what a spectrum of controversies yeah one go so uh one thing he's got going is he got suspended from lsu from going to LSU football games for two years because I guess he was just handing out money to players. If you watched the game when LSU won the national title, he goes to the field and he pulls out the fucking just stack and he's just peeling off hundreds. And he's like balling it up in his hands high-fiving the players you're like you're seeing hand-to-hand

monetary transactions involving cash to the point where you can see you could actually carry like 100 200 okay so that was five bills right there to that player and you have their name very clear so they're like yeah dude you're you're wilding out. And I remember later, remember he got in trouble that game. Didn't he get detained or arrested? Cause he smacked a sheriff on the ass. Yeah. He was on one that night.

So yes, they're like, dude, you're, you're completely fucking it all up. But a lot of people were saying there's a lot of huge booster problems. Uh, like,

like along with this article at LSU, it's just that right now Odell is like the most famous one. I'm assuming there isn't a, a, a huge culture of fearing the NCAA. If he thought that was an okay thing to do on national TV, uh, at LSU.

I mean, you know how strict you, we know how famously strict that NCAA is when it comes to not, not letting money get into, to the sports or at least or just can't have it paying people who knows what it is i don't even know it's such a sordid sordid association yeah but uh he is also responsible for a breakthrough in uh our battle against against COVID-19. Yeah. Yeah. So Field Yates from ESPN tweeted that Odell Beckham Jr. was asked if he was worried when he was sick last week that he had COVID-19. And Odell Beckham Jr. said,

no, not in an arrogant way. I don't think COVID can get to me. I don't think it's going to enter this body. I don't want no parts of it. It don't want no parts of it it don't want no parts of me it's a mutual respect so right that's that's new that we did not know that uh it was like a you know that you could scare covid away from your body it's all a state of mind bro you know that's like how like ignorant college dudes talk about stds where they they're like, dude, if you think like that, then you're going to get them or like they'll get pregnant if you're thinking like that. There's so many times I've never heard that. Oh, my God. I'm around some ignorant motherfuckers, man.

I'll tell you, even my own family, my younger cousins. And I'm like, yo, hold on. I need to sit you the fuck down. That's not how this is not a confidence thing. It's not like in that early episode of South Park Season 1 where the lava was gonna come out the volcano and they're like, hurry, duck and cover! And like the educational tape showed the

magma just going over people because they were ducking and covering. And then you cut to the reality where it's just a bunch of skeletons because the magma was fucking hot and it will burn you. It doesn't give a fuck about your attitude or your position. Yeah, it's big confidence. confidence i mean really that that is some like white man confidence to say to say some shit like that so you know i commend him for that terrible terrible take shout out to him uh quibi is trending because quibi is going out of business. This is, you hate to see it.

Yeah, I hate to see it. That's all I can say. It just seemed like there have been a number of platforms where people invested a ton of money in content before anything was released, before a single person had downloaded or watched a single piece of content. Verizon had one. Verizon had one. Sony had one. Go90. Milk was one at a certain point. Samsung.

And this was just a... Quibi saw that and was like, the problem is they didn't invest enough money before anybody had seen anything. Right. And so they went big. And it's just, this is not how content, how technology, how entertainment usually works. Unless it's a James Cameron movie where you invest a bunch of money without, well, everybody

says you're an idiot and then you actually show them what you got and it is next level groundbreaking. Yeah. Where you get like two people who are way in over their skis, as it were, when it comes to thinking about content, but have the confidence of white billionaires. Yeah. They're like, yeah, well, trust me again. And I'll always say this. Jeffrey Katzenberg.

I worked on a Jeffrey Katzenberg digital joint where his notes completely fucked up the content um and was just a fucking mess where we're like no this could be good he's like i'm old and don't understand humor so make this show dry um it's just it's a fucking just an absolute shit show but i mean credit to everybody who got their quibi check you know yeah'm very happy for everybody who did that. And full disclosure, I, oh God, I'm so, I believe I still might be paying for Quibi. Oh no. I thought I had to double check because I know. You had like a deal.

Massive stock. Yeah. I'm not gonna lie. I have a deal in development that I just sold them my big idea. I mean, they hit me up. They're like, hey, we'd love for you to host a daily uh like uh like hip-hop news show and i said i'm sorry guys i can't do that to my brand i'm already it's already it's already tanking with the daily zeitgeist so i can't equate to that that's true uh and finally giuliani is trending uh because so the new borat movie uh critics have gotten a look at it uh it's you know it's

been generally like the handful of reviews i've seen have been like this is satire in a world where satire is no longer necessary because uh all the horrible behavior it exposes is done out in the open on social media um i don't know but this there the final scene of the movie uh does sound pretty intriguing to me okay let's because we don't want to have a borat spoilers on this podcast if you don't want borat spoilers yeah skip ahead but just so you know to warn people this is a borat spoiler yeah and by the way also i don't fully believe that borat like the the first borat like reached also based on that's a guy i don't think borat's a real guy uh i'm a borat truther i think that's actually sasha baron cohen uh i know i like the idea that like this is not like this might not be hitting for people who are like movie critics and uh have been like

paying attention to all this wild shit but like based on the people who are saying it's nice and my wife like for a decade after the first borat yeah us and also like a lot and like the michael real world michael scott's like i i just feel like it's not it's not just reaching a bunch of liberals so i i don't know i'm not i'm not out on it i still have hopes for it uh so this this juliani scene that closes it out um and again spoiler coming borat uh borat spoiler uh so rudy is filmed uh attempting to and this is from a review from showbiz411.com rudy is filmed uh attempting to seduce a beautiful young quote russian reporter in a hotel bedroom uh it's the russian reporter's actually borat's daughter uh from the movie

and he thinks he's being filmed for a real interview alone with her in the hotel room he accepts the reporter's invite into her bedroom for a drink lies down on the bed and like unzips his pants is like has his hand down his pants uh what yeah yeah it's um like to the point that they're like you think it's acting because it's just so transparent but like it's like a script right yeah oh my he's been totally duped sasha baron cohen comes in playing a sound guy at one point and is like you should stick to marrying your cousin because giul's first wife was his cousin. Right, that's right. But he doesn't even let that push him off his grind. He's still just all eyes on.

He also is drinking a scotch while all this happens, which is confirmation for those of us who have speculated for years that he's drunk every time he goes on TV. But she says she's nervous. He says, I'll relax you. And then coughs and tells her Trump saved at least a million lives from the virus. Oh my God.

And then in the bedroom, yeah, he starts unbuckling, or I guess she starts unbuckling or I guess she starts unbuckling his pants to remove the microphone it's clear at that point what his intentions are he thinks he's

gonna get laid and then Sasha Baron Cohen jumps in and ruins it and says she's too old for you she's 15 but yeah holy shit it's and then other people are saying other critics are saying that it seems pretty clear that he reaches into his pants and starts touching his dick so um that's something i had to imagine um

um that's something i had to imagine um so that's like i mean i feel like yeah in 2006 you'd be like oh fuck dude look at rude this motherfucker's scum now we're just gonna watch it and like dry heave and cry you know i'm just like oh fuck what happened what the fuck is where are we This is what happened. What the fuck is... Where are we? Yeah. This is where we are. We're here. We are here.

It's unbelievable. I look forward to watching the movie. I am proud of Rudy Giuliani. Well done, sir. You complete creep. You completely made a mockery of yourself. Have you seen... Have any interest in watching Totally Under Control?

What is Totally Under Control? Oh, that's the COVID documentary. No, I haven't seen it. Where is it? It's going to be on Hulu. I started watching, we may have to do that for a rewatch. Yeah.

Because it's just the first 45 minutes that I saw, I could not. It's like another, again, a thing where you know how bad things were handled but you can also see how easily things could have been um and that's what's really infuriating about it but anyway let's just stick to the boys the borat spoilers both boys uh all guys, that is going to do it. Those are the things that are trending this afternoon. We're going to be back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.

Be kind to yourselves. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay inside. Don't do nothing about what you're trying to do. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. your hands stay inside don't do nothing about what you're trying to do we'll talk to y'all tomorrow bye bye k hasn't heard from her sister in seven years i have a proposal for you come up here and document

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