The Daily Zeitgeist - I AM A SURGETREND 5/9: The Good Doctor, FDA, Phrogging, Trump, Whopper, Tom Hanks, Beetlejuice 2, Robert DeNiro

Episode Date: May 9, 2023

In this edition of I AM A SURGETREND, Jack and Miles discuss the very strange clips from  "The Good Doctor", the FDA potentially approving an over the counter birth control pill, Lifehacker's guide to Phrogging, Donald Trump being found guilty in his rape case, the Spiderman Whopper, Tom Hanks' new book, the announcement of Beetlejuice 2 and Robert DeNiro staying laid!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Miles, what's going on, man? Thanks for having me, man. Great to be here. Welcome to the show. Real touch and go. Almost didn't make it. But yeah, I'm here. I'm here.

Yeah, it goes good. I didn't know. I didn't make it. But yeah, I'm here. I'm here. Yeah, it goes good. I didn't know what The Good Doctor was. I saw commercials for it. And now that it's become like Twitter meme stuff, I'm like, oh, okay. Good Doctor's in the building. It is the subject of Twitter meme stuff. TMS. Yeah, there's just like a bunch of scenes of the show that are truly amazing out of context.

I'm so glad that I never accidentally watched an episode so i could just come in completely fresh to this young man screaming i am a surgeon like conservatively 17 times yeah and daniel day kim uh acting opposite that guy just delivering a powerhouse reaction. Yeah. But anyway, it's like really going for it, man. Really, man, it really makes me realize why I don't watch network television. Right. Anyway, there's another scene where he

just goes full Tom Wamsgat on his girlfriend. Wamsgat. And just, yeah. He says a lot of... You said Wamsgat. Wamsgat. Wams get. And just, yeah. It says a lot. You said wams get. Wams get. Wams gams.

Wams gams. Wams gams. Wams bats. Yeah. Just truly compelling stuff. Anyways. Not even what we're talking about. The FDA is considering the first birth control pill without a prescription.

This would be the first time great that yeah now what else now what else you're gonna do yeah now what else you're gonna do what else you're gonna do government what else you got for us that's good that's a good first step anything about anything about the Supreme Court anything about codifying Roe or that's just gonna be a campaign thing that is one of my key platforms man uh i'm just not gonna actually do it because i need it to be a key platform it's like a thing i run on it's not a thing i actually do anyways people are saying very exciting historic moment for contraceptive access yeah uh which is good because we just had a very horrifying historic moment for lack of birth control right so yeah and despite even like some of the most harrowing testimonies from people uh it's wild to see how much like how unmoved uh legislators are but again it's not about

them having a heart just about causing it and inflicting as much damage as possible. Life Hacker has released a guide to living secretly in a stranger's home. Frogging? Oh, you know? I know somebody who got frogged. For real? Yeah.

It's about people who break into people's houses when they're at work And shit and like kind of live in your crib When you're not there Or hide in your crib while you are there and live there But I knew somebody who They have like one of those dog callers Has GPS on it

So when they get outside of like the property Like it alerts your phone It's mostly like track your animal And this person realized someone was walking his dog what yeah and like the first time he's like what the fuck is this and then the next time he asked the neighbor he said oh yeah your dog walker came and he's like i don't have a dog walker and then they looked at like other like security shit and this dude was just like kind of kicking it in the house and like walking it was i don't have a dog walker. And then they looked at other security shit and this dude was just kind of kicking it in the house.

It was, I don't know, very strange. That is wild. I feel like I always hear one-off anecdotes about this. Or there was a viral video that I chased down because I was so fascinated by it where you see a nighttime camera. They're like, we kept noticing our cereal would go missing and they're like it would be lower than when we went to bed at night so we kept a camera on then you see this

person just like crawl out of like a crawl space above the refrigerator and it's like super freaky but that video was a hoax yeah is what i found so i've always been interested in this was never sure that it was going on but apparently there's been a couple i wouldn't see that it's like a real i mean i'm not gonna say that because this person had who knows because they also suspected that this person had the keys to the apartment and the locks weren't changed and that's how they had access and we're just like kind of doing weird stuff but i'm not i'm not here to say it's a fucking epidemic but i've heard of yeah um but i mean there was recently a knoxville man found half naked living in a crawl space cooking meth in the house which i think it goes against the the rules as prescribed by life hacker

uh and then somebody else uh in cedar rapids was found breaking into people's homes to use residence computers to watch porn. So they're pointing out like we actually don't know how frequently this sort of thing is happening. Also, that like porn guy is the dream of every like high school boy just being like, yeah, no, I guess somebody's like, I don't know. I'm doing it on the computer. They bought a bunch of stuff on your credit card on OnlyFans.

I don't know. That's I think we got frog got frog man yeah or someone who like is eating while they like sleepwalk and then it's like yeah we're getting that's where the cereal went yeah we're getting frogged but they're saying choose the right house look for somebody who like doesn't isn't actively living there aim for the garage or guest house it is kind of a cool article and it just straight up is like alright so you've decided to live secretly yeah I think about that all the time when like Airbnb door codes I'm like I wonder if they change that shit like I always think like

in the apocalypse could I go through old emails and like try like a door code in a random house and find refuge or some shit like that one of the rules that uh apparently the frog or your friend's house didn't take into account dogs are not your best friend uh stay away from apparently any house with the sign of a dog uh it's not just rip you apart style canines you have to worry about a tiny friendly dog will whine at the closet door if

you're hiding in there hey man come on down to my frogs and dogs hang out right it's gonna be great what if you're on the other is this only for the frogs or is this also is this article also relevant to the frogged i feel like this article is entrapment because it opens with like 20 rules for like how to best frog and then what to do if you think you have a frog contact the police hurry up call the cops wait then it says wait what are these tips what do you what to do if you think you have a frog in your house uh one contact the police two consider whether you have mental health problems this is a very strange article the signs of having a frog things being out of place in subtle ways doors left open unexplained sounds mob chicksics move mirror symptoms like bipolar wait what the

fuck is this like is this for real this is a very strange article check for carbon monoxide poisoning I like that they did call the police then consider whether you have mental health problems or are being carbon monoxide poisoned they're gaslighting

the frog now yeah this is this maybe this whole article is pro frog yeah except for the call the police one which you just get you because one of the rules is like make sure the house you're frogging and doesn't have guns which good advice but then how do you know okay then you just turned around and told the people who are being frogged to fucking call the police who are going to come in and fucking shoot you. Yeah. Alright, well. Hey, frog tips.

Hey, Zeitgang, let us know if you know about any froggy behavior that you know of. Donald Trump found guilty of sexually abusing Eugene Carroll. Look at that! Wow. I mean, as if that video deposition couldn't be more fucked up and

egregious but yeah five million dollars in damages now uh that eugene carroll will be receiving i wonder how he's gonna grift that oh right yeah i'm sure he's gonna like you know like when oh man i'm so glad i stopped getting alerts from that campaign. But you know they've already been like, help him fight the woke mafia of New York. They're coming after your president and God King. Yes. Help him. Please ignore what exactly the outcome of that trial was. But he has been found liable for sexual abuse, forcible touching, injury of aging, Carol willful and wanton negligence,

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And dyed the Seeds black Or just black sesame seeds Did you know everybody's allergic to sesame now? Really? That's like a new thing? Yeah I heard about it Sesame allergies are like fucking on the come up right now

I had no idea Congratulations to sesame I mean like as an Asian person i was like how could you not eat sesame seeds or sesame oil and shit like that but anyway uh i look at this it does look i don't know if it looks like spider-man but it's got the right color way yeah it was a spider-man burger they nailed it like they they truly uh according to the concept art they nailed it um june 2nd oh we gotta go group outing we're gonna go see spider-man movie together well so burger king it's just a weird move for burger king for two reasons first of all they keep dying their buns weird colors uh and the most famous incident of this was when burger king did this uh and everybody's

poop turned a weird green color do you remember that it was like a halloween whopper uh that had a black bun oh but it was just really dark green really really dark right yeah yeah and everybody's poop turned like bright, bright green. I was just, look, I'm no, I like, I like a little food dye induced fecal discoloration.

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I, I feel like a kid. Cause I'll go to the bathroom. I look in the toilet. I'm like, Whoa. Is it blue? Or does it like combine with some internal color that uh it can come out pretty blue like the dye is pretty powerful man that's that's impressive anyway so i'm so good to good to see them back to their

dying ways but they are also like they made a big announcement in 2021 that they're permanently banning 120 artificial ingredients from their food menus as part of the brand's commitment to deliver real food to their customers but then they're also you know doing this they're like we're all natural unless there's a spider-man movie coming out which on this is a great marketing thing going on in which case you will eat the most unnatural looking shit we can come up with yeah anyways we will we will uh eat this and report back no we won't i wouldn't i would not eat burger king i'm sorry yeah i guess it's a bridge too far for an adult you're a parent in college i used to i see burger king sometimes like just to kind of like you know just get give myself some calories yeah yeah the only thing i could

really get like that i liked consistently was the chicken sandwich. The long chicken sandwich? Yeah, because it was just so long. I'm like, what the fuck is this thing? I'm like, alright, let's go. What the fuck? What kind of chicken is this? Yeah. Tom Hanks wrote a novel. I don't really. I don't know. It's a novel

in which it's about someone on a movie set. Then he's just talking about stuff he's seen on movie sets uh apparently his first like book of short stories was pretty popular in the uk so the bbc is primarily covering this and they said that critics are not impressed oh so i don't know but yeah i feel like that i've seen that headline about like so i don't know but yeah i feel like that i've seen that headline about like so one was just like tom hanks has a new book out and houston we have a problem okay i was like okay thank you and beetlejuice 2 has been announced michael keaton jenna ortega

oh sure let's do it why not i mean i've i've fucked with beetlejuice yeah beetlejuice was great i love that That got me into Harry Belafonte's music, Rest in Peace. You know what I mean? I was like, that was my favorite scene in Beetlejuice. One of the best needle drop, like one of the best uses of a popular song, but like one that probably was

underexposed to the generation that was going to be watching this. Yeah. Man, yeah. Yeah. Brian just came up, okay, I just came okay i believe you yeah that was all oh my god that was such a good oh shout out to that shout out to that scene but yeah beetlejuice it was also like also show really flexed uh keaton's like comedic abilities for sure yeah yeah one of one of the best comedic performances of the 80s. So this is coming out in September 2024.

They're hoping for Oscars here, I guess. Yeah, yeah, why not? So the original Beetlejuice was 88. As we talked about yesterday, this year is 89. So maybe next year is going to be 88, and we're just going to kind of steadily move back through the years. I'm with that. Yeah.

Anything, anything good happened in 1988? Probably a lot. Everything was pretty chill in the eighties from what I understand in our limited perspective. Yeah. There's that Jordan dunk contest. That was pretty cool. Yeah. That was pretty cool.

Hey man, that was pretty cool, man. Um, Robert De Niro stays, that was pretty cool, man. Robert De Niro stays fucking. Speaking of pretty cool, man, an interviewer mentioned his six children, and he corrected them. Seven, actually. I just had a baby. Oh, my God.

He admitted. Sorry, I had to use that. Brian had been cooking that one up for me. I was like, yep. He admitted. Oh, wow. So he has seven. Yeah. Is he

okay? Sure. You know, like, I mean, I'm not trying to cast aspersions on somebody who's choosing to be a parent whenever, especially if you've got the resources, but like that, 79, fam? Yeah. He has six kids from past relationships. Kids might be

stretching. His oldest daughter's 51 and okay so yeah you know spreading it out that's got to be so wild is like you're the 51 year old you know son or daughter of deniro and then you're like wait dude what he's having another kid well my half brother is coming over uh yeah i gotta babysit my half brother he's literally an infant truly zero years old also like this was also the turn this is why his career took a turn like when he remember he did that rocky and bullwinkle movie oh yeah that's because of these young ass kids he started having i remember everyone's like what the fuck is bobby de niro doing in this like hacky rocky and bullwinkle role and it was because they had them young little

babies I want to be able to watch something that appeals to both my 3 year old son and my 43 year old daughter right and yeah because I can't really show them casino yet so yeah who's this guy

who's this guy anyways the internet Carrierie whitmer on twitter uh said sending this to robert de niro and it's a sweatshirt that's a world's sluttiest dad check him out oh yeah sweatshirt um all right those are some of the things that are trending on this tuesday may 9th yeah we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get your flu shot.

Get all your shots. Don't be afraid of needles. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. 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.

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