The Daily Zeitgeist - I Am Legend 2: Legendier, American Dystopia 02.17.23

Episode Date: February 17, 2023

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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American Shared Consciousness. And it is Friday, February 17th, 2023. Happy February 17th, 2023. It's a beautiful day. Gorgeous day. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Workin' Zite 2-5.

What a way to make a living. Barely fit these thighs in these pants that I've been given. They're so milky white. Ain't got no melanin in them. They're enough to blind you. Chime right through my denim denim that is courtesy of the blake rogers on the discord appreciate you appreciate the thank you thank you sorry

no that's demanded i i've actually nobody has done that before and yet it's the only appropriate right yeah okay i bet it's the work that people put into making those aka's and i i gotta say i'm like impressed with your fan base's ability to do it for you because yes i have to like uh every time i go on this podcast i'm like oh god i have to think of a parody song yeah i do that full weirdo. Yeah, it's too hard. Many weirds. Yeah, he also did like a whole first verse to it, but I didn't feel up to it. But I appreciate you, the Blake Rogers. Maybe we'll release the LP version of this, the long, unedited director's cut of this episode.

But thank you. Thank you, the Blake Rogers. I'm thrilled to be joined today by today's guest co-host you know him from pod yourself a gun pod yourself the wire it's matt lee here comes matt lee do do do do here comes matt lee and i say it's all white what's up i think that was a uh carver drop from the wire what's up guys i'm here there you go got my sound drill to have you thank you thank you for joining us yeah you do have your soundboard that's great we need soundboards in this i feel like let's be real if we're being honest about what this show is is it not a morning zoo type show?

The morning of zoos. Yeah, exactly. I feel like, you know, people listen to this on their drive over to wherever the nearest Zoom cafe is to telecommute to their jobs, you know? That's right. I assume that your listeners have jobs.

Yeah. I think most of them do. I mean, their number one job, being a fan. And writing parody songs. And writing parody songs of your name for the AKA. Yeah, it's a great job. Pays in content. That's right.

Matt, we're thrilled to be joined. It's a true dad cast today. We're joined in our third seat by a hilarious and talented comedian podcast host. You've seen him doing stand up on stages, something called TV, which I'm told is short for television. Yes. You've heard him on podcasts like the truly hilarious Get Rich Nicks. He is apparently one of the foremost experts on guessing who will win at the Oscars. Wow. The like sharp when it comes to oscar pools please welcome the brilliant the talented nick turner thank you very much i don't want to be known

as a dad okay i want to be known as the best dad number one now here's the thing i i have a parody song i actually found on the street walking to my house today. Found on the street? Wow. Like a piece of paper that flew near your person? Yeah, I don't know what happened. But apparently this piece of paper thought Miles would be here. So I'm going to do a quick edit.

And, okay, I edited it. Hey, so did everybody who showed up to listen. Guys, I mean, what a lovely surprise for all of us here's the song and i would talk to 500 mat leaves and i would talk to 500 more just to be the man who talked to a thousand mat leaves he's the guy that I adore. And a jack-jack, and a jack-jack, and a jack-jack, and a jack-jack, and a jack-jack-jack-jack-mack-a-ba-da-da-da-dee. Hey, very good. Wow, that was great.

There it is. Well deserved. Thank you. I spent a lot of time on that. That was awesome. You found that. You found a lot of time finding that. You found, it took a while for you,

I mean, you were looking for a parody song on the street, let's be honest. There's a little work went into it. Not a lot of people finding you found it took a while for you i mean you were looking for a parody song on the street let's be honest there's a little work went into it not a lot of people looking down no the uh angels in america says look up i say look down look at your shoes what are they doing that's great nick is it true i mean you you do have big oscars behind you in the Zoom. Yeah. You are an expert in who wins your Oscar pool. Sharp, is that correct? Sharp? Sharp,

I think, is the term in Vegas for the people who are ahead of the game and use analytics and figure shit out. I thought you were doing smarter than the house. I thought you were doing a malapropism. You meant shark, like,

like bull shark or card shark. No, I've heard sharp just on like sports podcasts. Okay. I like that. The smart people in Vegas. Look, I'm a shark.

I'm a shark. I frequently shark. And they're all true about it. I look, yes, I have, I true about it. I look, yes, I have, I have the goods. I think there's a lot of people in this space and,

uh, it's like a lot of, uh, betting prognosticators, you know, sports usually they never talk about their predictions afterwards. Right. Because,

you know, it's embarrassing. If you look at like the number of the ones they get right, you know it's embarrassing if you look at like the number of the ones they get right you know from even like the most famous sports bettors like it's about 53 percent right for like if you're doing great but i have much higher odds in my betting and it's not just about on the day anyone can get them right on oscar day right because you're picking them before they even announce yeah because you've had the visa coming out that year yeah that's crazy i have 1700 on avatar 4 in 2020 uh to lose so uh you got to get them early.

We started, it's a podcast called the Show Me the Money that I do with Pat Stango. One half of the BO Boys podcast where they look over box office every week. And so, you know, we've known each other through comedy for a long time, but we've together started a summer movie box office league together and we we participate in a very big oscars oscars pool

each year which i'm the only person to have won multiple times wow wow and that sounds like it's the oscar pool to compete like that's the top of the line it's not just like your you know your work friends os Oscar pool. That sounds like it is informed. Yeah, it's like experts. Are you guys members of the Academy? How much of is there a conflict of interest here?

We're members of the betting Academy. Oh, okay. It's a ragtag group. There's less controversy and we don't hurt each other. No slaps there. So, yeah. Gambling gambling famously violence averse there's never been any violence in well not anymore i mean it was when there was otbs but now everyone's in their own home right it's just they punch a wall yeah that's right so some of my big bets that have come to fruition, I had the Daniels at plus 900 to win best director.

They are now currently in the lead. That's nine times your bet. That's what plus 900 means. Wow. Okay. And I had everything everywhere all at once for plus 700 to win best picture. Coming into the whole awards season. Did you just place that bet right after you saw it?

December, January bets that I've made. And I've got a bunch of plus 700 for Wakanda Forever's Angela Bassett, who is now in the super first place for best supporting actress. Wow. I didn't realize that. I was the only prognosticator,

as far as i know on any podcast to think andrea risborough was going to get a nomination for best actress i don't know if you're familiar with the controversy is this the one where she um like yeah she got nominated and then people were like i heard that she had people like vying for her and everyone got mad because she wasn't famous enough to have people were you nick one of the dozen people who saw the movie and that's where your confidence came from no and this is a big part of our podcast it's not about watching the movies oh good you don't need to watch the movies i love that caught up watching all movies, they lose sight of the big picture. Yeah, which is the awards.

Which is the awards. Yeah, 100% agree. 100% agree. And, you know, it's looking at trends. It's looking at past award shows, looking at which ones predict the Oscars the best. Yeah. And a big, big, big one is this weekend at the Baptist. is this weekend at the BAFTAs.

And in terms of betting, if you watch an award show and then watch somebody win, you'll see it before the lines change on whatever betting site. And so it's like, the BAFTAs are such a good predictor. And so if you just watch the BAFTAs and then like whoever wins,

pick that person, that line is going to change the next day and you're here. Wow, look at you. That's like, what are the flash boys? The Wall Street traders who were making money by having a faster... Ticker? Yeah, essentially they had a faster ticker.

They even invested in having like... This was in some Michael Lewis book. They invested in having the kate like ethernet k or you know the internet what what's it called the the one with the is like fiber optic fiber optic cables like going from like where information was that they like made sure the line was straight so that like the fiber optics didn't have to like go around any curves down like microscopic second like fractions of a second and that's they're making a lot of money that way so that's kind of like what you're doing by watching the BAFTAs which is actually like that's a level of commitment that nobody

has gone to yeah the award show so much that you watch the BAFTAs is like, you're in it for the love of the game. Yeah. Yeah, I've actually got a show in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday, so I won't be watching it for a second. Just have to write some code. Yeah, unfortunately, I don't have code for that. You already know who's going to win. That's the thing.

Yeah, I already know. That is the thing. So, you know, it doesn't matter. Best picture, by the way, in terms of BAFTA and Oscars, almost no crossover in the last decade. that's the thing i already know that that is the thing so you know it doesn't matter best picture by the way in terms of bafta and oscars almost no crossover in the last decade one interesting one movie so i've been saying since it was a massive hit that i thought everything everywhere all once was gonna win i'm an amateur bo boy myself and uh oscar per day i'm usually pretty good at the uh at the os Oscar poll stuff

I'm terrible at it but only because I never know what movies come out and I see movies years later so I go like well did Old Brother or Otto is that going to win this year? and people are like no that was from a long time ago I'm like well then I'm fucked

yeah last year our big prediction was was coda months early and troy kotzer early wait what did win i forgot coda yeah yeah coda won best picture was the late surge yeah i don't know i didn't even see it is it good yeah it's no it's good it's cute it's a family movie it's um it hits all the right you know marks but um you know i wouldn't say it's good. It's cute. It's a family movie. It hits all the right marks. But I wouldn't say it's my favorite movie of all time, but I certainly thought, whatever. I rode that horse all the way to the end. I won $10,000, so I'm good.

And you were saying, so you don't have to watch the movies to, you don't have to make yourself like Green Book. It's not about quality. Yeah, it's not quality it's just narrative and yeah for sure yeah okay so you know it could be anything but uh one thing that makes betting on these incredibly difficult and why it's almost impossible to win ten thousand dollars is because these lines are not available on american regulated sports books yeah i feel like it's always in england Draft King will not be there. It's only offshore betting sites

like your Bovadas, your BetUSs, your EveryGames. These are where we're going. Amazing. Yeah. And so they don't have like super high maxes. The highest they go is you can bet

like a couple hundred dollars on stuff. But like I maxed out Andrea Risborough to win Best Actress at plus 3,700. Whoa. So I stand to make a good amount if this con rides all the way to the end. I hope for your sake and for your children's sake that it does. Yeah, I do too. Now I'm pulling. Now I have a horse in that.

All right. Nick, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to talk about how the FBI will investigate the Harris County Jail. Just the realities inside that jail. There's a quote in the article from one of the lawyers who's going to be, I guess, or who's involved in the investigation about how, like, you wouldn't believe it unless you like had the evidence in front of you and it just feels like that sentiment is something we're hearing more and more of is like this this doesn't happen here you know i can't you can't believe that this is happening here so we're going to talk about that uh we're going to talk about the uh there's an i am legend sequel coming oh and they are making it they're making the sequel to the original ending not the ending

that we all saw in movie theaters but the ending to the movie that was the ending to the book that is like the whole point of the movie that they then changed because it didn't test well so we'll talk about that they changed it from like the whole all i remember is there's some zombie dogs in that movie and there's zombie dogs in that there was definitely a zombie dog i'm like his dog right yeah yeah and then doesn't he die at the end well yeah but not in the ending that they're making the sequel to i'll tell you that damn much what so anyway this is i just wanted to bring this up because it's an early you know tip for nick for the oscar betting poll for uh two years for sure all my money's going into this all of that plenty more but first nick we do like to ask our guest what is something from

your search history well all my search history I was looking up is mostly gambling related. And so it was actually top 24 users, Gold Derby, BAFTAs. Because if you want one single place to go to get the good info, Gold Derby. They have four categories of prognosticators. And All-Star, Top 24, Top 24 of the Year, Critics, and Groundhog.

And some other... It seems it's shadow that everything, everywhere, all at once wins. Yes. Andrea Risborough's PR team pops up out of a hole and uh if they are kicked out by the academy and it's another 24 months okay so uh so anyway yeah that's like you have to like filter through the 24 who are critics and experts don't know anything and this is what i'm talking about. This is not about knowing your shit.

This is about gambling. And the people who are the most in tune are the people who are this year's number one or top 24, top 24 users. It's every time. It's how I got Anthony Hopkins over Chadwick Boseman two years ago when everybody thought Chadwick Boseman was getting the award for having a guy. You won some money on that?

Oh, yeah. I went big on that. Yeah. And that's how I won the whole pool. Did you win money on Green Book too? I did not. Oh, okay. I did win one year.

So you got all the problematic faves. One year I did win the big pot when La La Land won. Oh, and then lost. Then year I did win the big pot when La La Land won. Oh, and then lost. Then I did not win. The pot was then taken from you. Yeah. Lyra and I, my wife, we were watching and we were looking up the menu

for this really expensive restaurant that we've always wanted to go to. And we were like, this is how we're spending the money. And we were like, I'm going to get this and I'm going to get this. And then we did it and we never went to that restaurant. Warren Benny was like, this is how we're spending the money. And we were like, I'm going to get this, and I'm going to get this. And then we did it. And we never went to that restaurant. Warren Betty was like, lol, psych. Fuck you, Nick. That's amazing.

Yeah, I do some of that. I do go to Gold Derby just throughout the year. I like to see what they're saying is going to hit even before I've seen the movies. But I also do that sort of thing with like fantasy sports sometimes it's like you you are sorting through this like massive list of quote-unquote experts and yeah you just like find one person who's really smart about it you know and it's are you on can somebody go see the the nick turner pics on gold derby are you a user um that's a great idea information i i have filled it out uh for oscars but i i do not i do not go there and i

guess it's not something i'm willing to do yeah good it's not what it's about also it's like it's about like what picks are this week. What are the best picks this week? Yeah. And so, you know, Gold Derby is not really for me to give. It's for me to take. That's right. You're damn right.

Yeah. It's a feeder. Yeah. It's a Nick Turner feeder, not a Nick Turner giver. What is something you think is overrated? Thank you for asking, Jack. Hey, Nick. What's something you think is overrated?

Now, this question is out of left field, but I think I have an answer. Chubby Checker. Chubby Checker is overrated. That is a hot take that I think is correct. Okay. Now, it might not be the most timely take, but the best take is where we are. Well, I just heard of him. I'm tired of these damn kids telling me about Chubby Checker, man.

Shut the fuck up. Forget it. We need to talk about Chubby Checker. If you see, he's probably 90, but if you see him, he has an impeccable hairline and hair color. Does he? It is. Still here. He's still alive.

A team. The same team that did makeup and hair on the whale fair so chubby checker we all love him he's the twist guy he brought a picture of him in 2005 he looks amazing yeah he looks amazing wait was he like 12 when he was famous because he's only 81 now uh no okay i don't know but i feel like he was maybe a person who like looked a little like looked older when he was younger because he was born in 41 wasn't he famous in like the early 60s so in uh yeah 1960 is when his big song came out so he was 19 he looked like a middle-aged i guess everyone looked like a middle-aged, I guess everyone looked like a middle-aged person back then.

Yeah. They were all drinking lead. Also, he's probably, you know, the heft helps. Yeah. And he's very tall. It's crazy that he's still chubby. Yeah, well, you can't lose your,

I mean, you know, at this point, if he comes out skinny, who's going to see that concert? No one wants to fuck with skinny checkers. Yeah. Skinny chess? No thanks. Yeah. Skinny chess. he comes out skinny who's going to see that concert no one wants to fuck with skinny checkers yeah skinny chess no thanks yeah skinny so okay everybody thinks they love the twist it's a dance that you know you you anyone can do because it's literally moving right to left yeah almost not a dance so in 1960 chubby checker yeah at 19 releases let's the Twist. And it's number one hit. It does great.

He's a genius. So then in 1961, the label comes back and they say, Chubby, you did it. And you got to do it again. Okay, you got to give us something else. Yeah. So then Chubby's like, you know what, guys? I'm not full of ideas. I'm going to be honest. gonna be honest think of another chance so in 1961 he's eventually saying i got it i figured it out he releases let's twist

again like we did last summer which incredible move to reference a previous song in a song yeah and a song that has staying power like people, people still play Twist again. Like, I've heard that song all these years later. No, another hit. So, he's a genius. Okay? So, then, 60, 61, those are his years. 1962, label comes back. They say, Chubby!

You did it, Twist man! You know, he's got a new nickname at this point. And they're like, you're the Twist guy. And he's like, I know I'm the Twist guy. Let's fucking hit it. Everybody get in the basement because the twister's coming. That's what I would have said to him. For sure.

When he was coming into my office as an A&R executive back then. Yes. 1962, he thinks, let's do it. He releases Twisting USA. That's right. Which I assume he thought there was going to be a twist in for every country. But this song was not a hit. And so I think at that point, he starts to lose it a little bit.

And a couple months later, he comes out with Slow Twistin' and La Paloma Twist, which are sexy twist songs. Yeah. Because the twist is not sexy you're bound to knee your partner in the groin yeah so he got some slow versions not hits and then let's say summer of 1962 he's at the end of his rope and uh he's he's lost his mind he doesn't even know why he got into the twist game. And he releases, teach me to twist. Which, you know, he's lost his mind. We're like, Chubby, you taught us to twist. I forgot to twist.

It's like some set. You know, the way to really like learn something is by teaching it. So maybe he's just like, you guys have clearly lost your love and passion for the twist. How about this? I'm going to play a fucking mind game with you. You teach me to twist. What if,

what if we tried that? But just, yeah, sheer desperation, like a panic idea. It's like a sad, like attempt to get, you know, like people talking, you know, just to get some engagement.

Sounds like a degenerative neurological disorder where he's slowly like, teach me to twist. And then it's just like, where are car keys? And it just keeps going down. So not a hit, folks. So then that same year in 1962, he pivots and he thinks maybe I'm just Like he was twisting Yes He says maybe I'm the dance guy For dances that aren't really dances

And he releases Limbo Rock Oh But I'll tell you what the song was A fucking hit Yeah a huge hit He's back so then in 1963 you got to do it again he comes back with let's limbo some more yeah did he really yes this is this psychopath's journey i mean he's only 23. He's a child. He's a child. So then, not a hit.

And then he's like, you know, he's starting to rethink everything. And he's like, maybe I am the twist guy. And then also in 1963, he releases Twisted Up. Back to Twisted. Not a hit. 1964, nothing. He doesn't release anything. He goes insane.

He gets an Airbnb in Big Bear. He takes a gun and a dog, and he waits a year just thinking there's got to be something else. And then in 1965, bam, he's back with Let's Do the Freddy. The Freddy? Yeah, that's a left turn you didn't expect. Where'd that song come from? His name's Chubby. Well, Freddy and the Dreamers released the song that same year. Yeah, that's a left turn you didn't expect. Where'd that song come from? His name's Chubby.

Well, Freddie and the Dreamers released the song that same year. And so he was just listening to the radio and he was like, They're doing a dance song. Chubby's the dance guy. I'm releasing the song. Did he steal their dance? He stole it. Also, the dance is basically lifting your arms above your head and sticking out one leg it's the daniel son oh okay that's all it's a dumb fucking day why couldn't he be like ray put your arms to

the side it's the chubby just yeah your name anyway not a hit he's gone he's done that's it that's the chubby checker everybody loves so much you're right he apparently appeared in a film called don't knock the twist in 1962 nobody's gonna watch your fucking mouth about the twist imagine if he had had like a tiktok and he just like comes out every week with like why are people ruining my twist a new york times op-ed in defense of the twist yeah wow dude that is uh he's your journey you just took us on yeah so overrated i don't know if he's overrated i don't know if that's what i took from that but wow what a what a run let's take a quick break and we'll come back and find out what you think is underrated.

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the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County rebels will stay the Boone County rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in the prints. They lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch.

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Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and man what a what a wikipedia page on chubby checkers yeah there were some other songs but none of them were dance related related. It is a singular checker. It's not the Game Checkers. It's not Chubby Checkers. Oh, it's Chubby Checker. Yeah, I said Chubby Checkers.

I thought it was Chubby Checkers this whole time. My dad, who famously on this show, famous, maybe not famous at all, refers to Brad Pitt as Brad Pitts. Yeah. Well, that's close enough. Well, he's done some bad stuff. Yeah. There we go. He's the Pitts. He's the Pitts. Yeah. Well, that's close enough. Well, he's done some bad stuff. Yeah. There we go. He's the Pitts. He's the Pitts.

What is something you think is underrated, Nick? Great question. I think expensive gardeners are underrated. Expensive gardeners? Yeah. When I was on the East Coast,

I dreamed of having a gardener. I didn't know. If you told me I'd have a gardener one Coast, I dreamed of having a gardener. I didn't know. If you told me I'd have a gardener one day, I'd be like, in my gold house? You're sick. I thought gardeners mostly just like trimmed hedges into the shape of animals. Yeah. I didn't know everyone had a gardener here. Yeah.

So now I have a gardener, and it sucks because cheap gardeners aren't good. Right. You can pay more to have them come at a reasonable time. You can pay more to get them to stop using gas powered everything. Yeah. Wake you up. Yeah. But most people don't have those.

And I've actually asked my gardener to stop working on my half of the garden. Because all they do is just like blow shit around. Yeah. Right. They don't weed. That's what I need them for. That's an expensive gardener job. Yeah.

They come at 430 in the morning. Yeah. And they just mostly are focused on blowing next to my window. Yeah, yeah. The job of the gardener is to slowly gas you to death every Tuesday at 3 a.m. Yeah. It is, yeah. And also, if you're renting, your gardener is just part of the deal.

Right. A lot of the times. And which is puts you in a shitty position when the gardener, let's say randomly keeps hitting on your wife in front of you and, uh, keeps offering her vodka in the morning. Listen, I'm all for, you know, drinking with a gardener,

but, uh, you know, this, uh, feel like you should be able to be like i don't like that i don't like that i've got a lot of follow-up questions my wife left me for the gardener

i didn't want to hear it but i wanted to yeah i had a feeling all right well expensive gardeners the sequel to the Constant Gardener. I think that might be the worst movie title of all time. Oh, it's awful. Could you imagine a constant gardener? A constant gardener. It just sounds... It was like...

That and A Very Long Engagement are my two worst movie titles. Because that's too... I don't want to see... They just sound like they sound long put together they sound so long they sound way too long and boring it sounds like a chubby checker like thing that is coming up with on the spot like in a panic the constant twist the constant twist that so we did we did twist again but that that so what the let's twist again presumes is that they stopped twisting and started again. What if they were constantly twisting?

Forever. What if it was a constant twist? Let's twist forever. Yes. Let's twist constantly and forever. Anyways, the FBI is going to investigate Harris County Jail. This is something that families of victims have been asking for because 32 detainees have died in the jail within a 14 month period. Oof. It's it's monster.

It's unbelievable. It's like hard to fathom that this is happening, was happening. People are like, this is happening was happening people were like this is happening and then it kept happening one of the more recent victims jacoby pillow died from compression asphyxia from being restrained similar to george floyd and there's this quote so the fbi is opening the investigation because the sheriff was finally like hey like yeah this doesn't this is not good like and the sheriff finally asked the fbi was like we need to get to the bottom of this but there's this like one of the attorneys ben crump and paul grinky made a statement you know while requesting the department

of justice open an investigation said it's appalling that you could have 32 detainees die in the harris county jail in a 14 month period i mean nobody would really believe it unless you have these bodies that showed you it was really happening and i feel like i keep running into this sentiment where it's you know like the the bleakness of like florida schools have banned all books and are selectively like we talked about this on yesterday's episode. They have selected 350 books total that are OK for the entire K through 12 public school system in one of their places. So like but you you kind of like you hear that and you're like, but that can't be true. Right. you hear that and you're like but that can't be true right and so like i needed to actually see

somebody on twitter whose name is like brian uh jags fan brian just taking a video of his kid's school library with all the shelves being completely empty for me to be like oh it's really the end this is like it's really the dystopia the ohio trained around like again like people are just like this is just there's like true american chernobyl in the middle of the country and the mainstream media is completely ignoring it and letting pete budaj who's like department it is who who's the only person who's supposed to be able to actually punish these people, is going on the Sunday shows and answering questions about the State of the Union? The worst thing about it is the—well, maybe not the worst thing about it, but one of the most insane things about that is the amount of like peat defenders there are out there yeah they think we're all mad about the iowa caucuses right yeah they think we're still

mad about iowa i don't give a fuck about iowa no i'm still mad about it that's true but no i'm mad about south carolina but that's a different story yeah. I'm mad about a lot of things, but yeah, with the, with the Pete stuff, the new line of the Pete defender is, um, actually there's like, there's usually about on average a thousand trail, a thousand train derailments a year. So we're good here. So we're good. And I'm just like, you understand how insane that sounds, right? Like the idea that like oh, no, it's okay. As Department of Transportation head, he should continue the status quo of trains derailing and causing many Chernobyls around the world. That's fine. Right.

There's, in our Discord, VerucaAssault in the Discord shared this Medium post. Veruca Assault in the Discord shared this Medium post. They were like, I keep thinking of this post by Indrahit Samarajiva, or Samarajiva. Indrahit Samarajiva, who lived through the Sri Lankan collapse and said that this sort of dissonance is what it feels like to live through a society that is crumbling. And it's really like, it's an interesting Medium post. We'll link off to the Medium post in the footnotes.

Footnotes! There we go. That's a little early, but I had to do it. Like the author like posts like pictures from their, you know, photo roll at the time. And it's like a game of scrabble they're playing and then like a burning body left out in front of their workplace and then like uh you know a live show that they went to and then like a mall that got bombed that they were just like driving driving past and they're just like they're like you don't there's not this moment where suddenly the news is like, okay,

things are officially bad. There's no launch party for decay is a direct quote. It's just a pileup of outrages and atrocities in between friendships and weddings and perhaps an unusual amount of alcohol. Perhaps you're waiting for some moment when the adrenaline kicks in and you're fighting the virus or fascism all the time, but it's not like that. Life is not a movie. And if it were, you're certainly not the star. You're just an extra. If something good or bad happens to you, it'll be random and no one will care. That's actually how I've always viewed myself.

Yeah. Like you ever seen War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise? Yeah. There's a scene where like of the Worlds with Tom Cruise? Yeah. There's a scene where, like, the aliens show up and they're just, like, dissolving people into ash. And he's, like, running through, like, ash piles and stuff. Yeah. I've always looked at myself as, like, yeah, I'd be the ash. Yeah. I'm the ash that, like, he wipes off.

Yeah, that he just wipes off. Hey, still in the movies. I'm still in the movies. Yeah. It's a role. My parents would be so proud. Yeah. But yeah, it's just, I don't know. People keep having this.

And my brain keeps having this where it's like, you almost like can't believe how bad it's gotten overnight like we we don't have the level of oversight and consequence and accountability that we had under george w bush when like katrina happened and like that brownie got fired like instead of that we've just got people just like not even being asked questions yeah the fucking on like meet the press or whatever yeah it's just everything's you know like it's a consequence of a lot of things that include shit that was going on during george w bush's time so it's like yeah for sure it's it's all uh it's all led up to this moment accumulation for sure i'm not saying it used to be good and bad it's just like the accumulation has gotten to a point where everything is like so many things are falling apart and people are just kind of like, I don't know.

guys are it's like everyone's dug in so if you're told like oh all the bad guys hate pete budaj so you have to love pete budaj in order to you know fight the bad guys and it's just like or you could just like you know you could live with an actual opinion on things that doesn't have anything to do with your particular content choices. I don't know. It's all, it's all insane. Yeah. There's too, like there's too much of a, this side or that side to it all.

But, and I definitely used to be like more guilty of that. Like just being like, well, Democrats are better than Republicans. So like stop saying things that are damaging to Democrats. But like, I don't know.

Yeah. As things have gotten worse and more just evident it feels like there is i don't know how sophisticated it is but it definitely is kind of enveloping and just like everywhere the like whatever the opposite of agit prop is like right zanny prop like what like just just whatever the propaganda is, it's like, calm down, move along. This isn't out of the ordinary. Train derailments happen all the time.

Yeah. That black cloud and, like, chickens dying and everybody having to move out of the city is not that abnormal. Go read White Noise. I love a move along, folks. Nothing to see here, but with, with like a lady painting nail emoji next to it yes and clap signs in between you're like cool right now you're speaking my language

pete buddha judge is like barely a person he you're not he's the most robotic human being i've ever seen like there's not a person who's like that prepared for everything while giving you absolutely nothing um he's just trying to be like the democratic party yes he's well he's also the highest form of capital like this capitalist system which is mckinsey and the consulting arm that is like everything can just be explained by like improving how this does in the market right like everything is the market of free ideas but it's not it's it's all tilted in the direction of you know capital and whatever it's going to take to allow people to make the most money and accumulate the most property or sales or whatever the fuck.

And just irrespective of human life. You know who my favorite, uh, Democrat is. Oh, whoever runs against Biden. Yeah. Yeah.

I can't fucking wait. The balls, they won't even be able to walk. Yeah. He or she's balls are going to be so big. Yeah. That can't fucking wait. The balls. They won't even be able to walk. Yeah. He or she's balls are going to be so big. Yeah, that'll be a lot of fun, too, especially watching the same Pete defenders go try to use the same arguments with Biden. Because everything with Pete is just, you know, like, you just hate that he is the future of the Democratic Party and blah, blah, blah. And with Biden, it's just like, you know, they're now going to have to go back to like, wow, ageism much.

And you're like, no, motherfucker. He's he truly is an old, useless man. Right. It's oh, God. useless man right it's oh god oh i hope the person who runs against him is not like just some even further centrist like i hope it's somebody that's true that there is a chance that it'll be just be like this guy's a communist klobuchar's ready yeah i don't. Blagojevich. Blagojevich. Read my lips. Blagojevich.

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yeah they're they're like we yeah they're we, they're a studio. They're a studio. And they just announced that two projects coming that are very fun and very much Warners, the sequel to, I am legend, uh, with Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan.

Wait, hold on, but they're bringing Will. He died though. I know. So this is what's, this is what's interesting. So the, the first movie the the whole point of the book that this movie is based on yeah it's called

i am legend and these are spoilers for anyone who doesn't have hasn't seen the alternate 2008 ending but that that is what this this is a sequel to the alternate ending that they shot and then had to change because it tested so badly because Americans are like no we're not bad guys it tested worse than Will Smith dying at the end so here

it's called I Am Legend because it turns out in the end he like confronts the vampires and the vampires are like we're just trying to get our child who you have captive and are like performing medical experiments on you sick fuck like give us that back and then it turns out he like there's this like voiceover where he's like and that's when i realized i am the monster of their world. Like I am the legend. Like I am legend refers to him being a legendary monster.

He is Dracula. And they are, even though the, the entire film is spent with you thinking, or the entire novel that this is like a bunch of vampires. They are the monsters. It's like, no,

I am the legendary monster i am legend they shot that that makes so much more sense i just realized you watch a whole movie that's just called i rule and you're like yeah he is cool that guy yeah so they shot that they like it's just called this guy and you're like, yeah, he does! Yeah, it turns it into a lazy rap brag. Instead of the very cool point of self-implication and stuff like that. So they cut that, turned it into him blowing himself up, but now people are ready for the original ending where he's a monster it takes place like 20 30 years after the original alternate ending and

like presupposes that or maybe they'll just like cram that ending onto the beginning of this movie i don't know why they need to fall all over themselves trying to justify why this movie is. That's what movie making is now. It's like, didn't that guy die? And then the response is, fuck you. The movie's playing. Do you want to see it? You do?

Well, then shut it and say thank you. That's right. Yeah, it's because it has to be attached to some sort of IP that they're like, oh, we got to make sure whatever it is is canon. That's right. Yeah, it's because it has to be attached to some sort of IP that they're like, oh, we got to make sure whatever it is is canon. That's right. But you can just make another movie and just be about whatever. And they're like, no, not if we want that sweet IP. Gotta get that P. Like everything that happens in The Last of Us, there's like, you know, articles about how it relates to the video game.

I'm like, I don't care. I don't care that it was a video game. Guess what? This is a TV show. That's what I'm doing. Nothing has to be anything. It's a great idea. Shut up about it. But when I do a video game, it does different things.

So how am I supposed to play a video game? I did a whole thread on Twitter that started off with uh talking about how i was really pissed that it uh it wasn't faithful to the you know to the original game and then every point in the thread is like um he has a knife when he is supposed to be meticulously searching through drawers in order to craft a shiv uh there should be at least two episodes spent on him just trying to find rolls of tape and half cut out pieces of uh plastic bottles right and just because people are literally in insane about the amount of like uh they're they're fucking up my memories of a game from just a few years ago. Right. It should be real time. My childhood.

Yeah. Because I'm 14 now. Right. Exactly. That's right. So anyways, I don't know. I'm all for Michael B. Jordan being added to any film. Yeah, literally.

Put him in anything. Like between the two options of them just being like, and we're going to stay with the thing where it's about somebody who is so cool that we had to call the movie i am legend or them being like all right we can admit we fucked that up and we're gonna make a sequel that unfucks it up a little bit i'm good with i'm good with this especially if you're gonna add michael b jordan to it because he's great and if you really love michael b jordan you should see him in the wire the greatest show of all time yeah and you you might have a podcast about that i may or may not have a the wire we i watch podcast doesn't matter the point is watch there's a lot of people i haven't seen the wires fucking bullshit yeah season four the education season oh so good

yeah i think that's the best season of television. Although I do also really like season two. Oh, you know what else is good? One, three, and five. Yeah, those are great. Yeah, I like those ones too. Five's a slow burn. It's a little patty on the backy.

Yeah, definitely patty on the backy. But five becomes more and more genius the more times you watch it because does it really you can get past the like press the part of it oh once you get past the press part of it and realize especially in the moment we're living in now in which print media is all but dead and you go like yeah i guess like you know even though they are patting themselves on a back on the back they did have they do have a very crucial role in society you know newspapers local local journalists people who uh actually go to state courthouses or local city you know uh council meetings and say what's happening now that that I think about it, I think my complaint was that it was like

the journalistic malpractice was like too blatant and silly. And now I'm like, oh, wait, no. Yeah, rewatch it now. Yeah, I think I just have to rewatch it. Yeah, rewatch it now and realize that it's like, oh, no, no, no, no. This is pretty real. It's funny to think about the water cooler on the soprano or on uh the wire set and now everyone around the water cooler has an english accent yeah yeah

that it just they also you know let's be real some of them still have an english accent when they're trying to do an american accent m McNulty slips every once in a while. And that is me, McNulty from Baltimore. Close enough. But I am legend. Great. You know what? Make more.

Make more of it. More legends, please. That movie rules. I watched it, I think last year, I made Lyra watch it for the first time. Because it was one of those movies where I wanted to re-watch it, but she would just you know you get like i don't want to see that in your head no matter what it is but yeah yeah

that's a good movie it's a good movie it's hard to make a good movie with one actor yeah that's right yeah it is it's um i'm trying to remember what the plot was i know i remember he's looking for a cure still that's his yeah he's got like his wife right like yeah his wife and kid are i think no i think was that a do that movie i'm completely i thought they like flew to oh they tried a helicopter yeah yeah he watches him blow up in a helicopter he's like playing golf you know uh he's hitting balls off the end of a big square yeah off the end of a big ship oh the big thing i remember from i am legend is my feelings about it were like god damn it i wish i was me because i would just just be raiding pharmacies this back of i saw it back when i used to do a lot of drugs but it was

like yeah just like i would go to all the pharmacies and be like, hook it up. And just, yeah, that's how I'd live my life alone. I feel like so much of our desire for a post-apocalyptic world. And I say desire because it is like it's fantasy wish fulfillment. Like people are like, oh, it's scary. And like, I don't want all my loved ones to die. But I think it's all about having a walkable city like it's just a city that you can like walk through and not be worried that a car is going to run you down like yeah there's something

so beautiful about that like yeah just banned all cars tomorrow the world would be a beautiful place it would be so fun for the wish fulfillment for me is just a little bit of alone time away from the nagging wife am i right fellas i mean it is it is dad cast so i was looking at the wiki i think it's just a woman he has in the basement that he's trying to cure well I don't know who she is it's a little weird that he's just got a woman in his basement but he's the only person alive you know what no rules I thought he had a rat he has a rat

he's trying to save her whatever and he's like doing experiments and like Nick has a hard time he has a strange dysphoria where he can't determine the difference between a human and a rat I should have mentioned that to you that explains the uh the pete buddhist comments earlier this fucking rat all right well this has been a this has been a successful dad cast i think absolutely yeah we

didn't talk about kids at all so no big yeah i'm just getting god that's all i do all day is talk about fucking baby stuff man when i tell you this is my kids 100th uh day of kindergarten and they they're celebrating that oh the first 100 days like exactly and i i'm very excited it's been it's, it's had me in a happy mood all day that they made it to 100. Wait, you, your wife is Korean? Yes, my wife is Korean. So that, the 100 days is a Korean thing. That is a, there is also.

They celebrate 100 days rather than years. Yeah. And also everyone in the country that's born in one year is the exact same birthday or whatever. And everyone's a year. Although I think they're changing that. Yeah. I mean, it's not like that Although I think they're changing that. Yeah. I mean, it's not like that.

We, we just celebrate the first year actually like that. That's a big celebration. A hundred days is a big deal. And then the one year birthday is when, you know, they've really made it. And that's a,

yeah. Yeah. I've got a Korean nephew, so I'm up on the hundred, 200 days. Yeah. Yeah. i thought it was just a president thing president well we look back at the first 100 days and we see if the kid actually accomplished anything that's right or if they need to go to a trade kindergarten there is like a fun thing the dull the first year birthday where like you lay out different things for them to like then

crawl towards and supposedly it like determines what their career is going to be really very much reminds me of the beginning of liquid swords that you know where like they quote is that how they pick the dolly llama yeah it's kind of it's kind of like that. It's pretty cool. So my son is going to be either a judge or a carpenter because he crawled toward a hammer. Black smoke or white smoke. Yeah, exactly. Nick, truly a pleasure having you on the show. Oh, thanks so much. Where can people find you, follow you? I'm going to be in Denver this weekend at the Denver Comedy Lounge. And in March, I'm going to be in denver this weekend at the denver comedy lounge and uh in march i'm gonna

be in santa cruz i'm gonna be in salem oregon uh i'm gonna be in seattle washington i'm adding some san francisco but i've i've got an album to prepare for so i'm forcing myself out at the house and it's more work than i enjoy but the comedy is fun the comedy is fun your albums are very funny so I'm at Nick's Turners on Twitter I'll have stuff up there also I write a podcast called

Fraudsters on the Last Podcast Network it's a deep dive into the greatest fraudsters of our time deeper than the other shows that's what sets us apart. We just did three episodes on Lou Pearlman. Wow. Oh, wow.

Real POS of the highest order. You know, he had the longest running Ponzi scheme in American history when it was discovered. It was discovered, I think, a year before Madoff's. Lou Pearlman. Is he not the manager of NSYNC and Backstreet Boys? Also that. That's just one of his many crimes.

Oh, okay. He had a blimp business before boy bands, and he crashed, for insurance money, five blimps. Damn. He's just like, we can't get these dang things right. It's insane how long people wait so the helium goes inside the now you tell me i light it on fire then put it in there amazing yeah is there a tweet or some work of media you've been enjoying no all right uh matt All right. Matt, where can people find you?

Oh, you can find me on Twitter at Matt Lieb or on Instagram, Matt Lieb Jokes. Also, the third Thursday of every month in Los Angeles over at the Silver Lake Independent JCC, I do a show called Mishigas in which the comedians go on stage and they basically act as therapists to the audience. You know, they ask, hey, what's going on with you? And then you as an audience member can say, hey, I got a problem with my roommate. And then some, you know, degenerate comedian will try to help you out with that. It's a lot of fun. So yeah, you can follow that.

That sounds insane. I love that. It's super fun. Well, if you ever need a Jewish-looking comedian. Oh, we accept all comedians of all races and religions. So, yeah, we'd love to have you. But, yeah, go, you know, fucking check out Mishigas. It's hella fun.

Amazing. And, yeah, you can find that on my on my instagram and stuff is there media you've been enjoying there is well there is a a tweet that i really liked so some right-wing fucking grifter wrote something uh during the super bowl imagine the outrage if someone performed a white national anthem at the super bowl. And then this Twitter user replied, at Thought Slime wrote, imagine if Dracula ran on stage and did the monster mash and then imagine it was a graveyard smash.

And I was, that's, I love that tweet very much. Oh, and listen to Pot Yourself a Gun. We're talking about The Wire. It's a great podcast. It is one of the best. Let's see. Some tweets. I've been enjoying cricket.

Harrison tweeted. This meeting could have been an email. Well, guess what? This email could have been a kiss. It's a good, good response. I enjoyed just a good old fashioned. Dave Itzkoff tweeted the part from the smoochy episode of the simpsons where and it's it's homer reading his notes and it says whenever elon's tweets

aren't on screen the algorithm should be asking where's elon's tweets yeah because yeah that really feels like what we're dealing with yeah at this point uh you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website daily zeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnote No. Footnote! Oh shit, sorry, my baby's sleeping. In this episode, oh no, God, I shouldn't wake up your baby for that. Oh, they're just going to be mad at me. Anyways, it's where we link off to the information we talked about in this episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.

Hey, Super Producer Justin, what's a song that you think people might enjoy? This is a fantastic song from an all-black psychedelic rock group out of Rockaway Beach near the Queens area in New York. This is a band called Black Rabbit with a track called The Way The Wind Whips. It's got a lot of Tame Impala vibes to it. Some of their other tracks, they sound very much like The Beatles. But yeah, they're just a young black rock group that I heard of years and years ago when they were a lot more obscure and they've kind of blown up since then. So yeah, check them out in the footnotes.

They used to busk Beatles songs like perfectly. And then they started releasing original music and it is amazing. It's very psychedelic and very fun yeah uh so you guys can check that out in the footnotes the way the wind whips is a fucking great name for a song the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit

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