The Daily Zeitgeist - I Will Zeit On This Hill 9/26: Dude Perfect, Neo-Fascism, Rihanna, 'Don't Worry Darling', Hurricane Ian, Newt Gingrich

Episode Date: September 26, 2022

In this edition of I Will Zeit On This Hill, Jack and Miles discuss the Dude Perfect HQ, Neo-Fascism in Italy, Rihanna being of service of the NFL in every way, 'Don't Worry Darling' drama being good for the box office, Hurricane Ian making landfall, and Newt Gingrich asking the important questions!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of I Will Zite on This Hill. Ooh. Because there are a lot of things. Diet Coke. Stand by them. We'll get to a couple of those things. Okay. That is courtesy of Johnny Davis. What's another hill you'll die on? A hill I'll die on? Like in general. What's it take? Like me with soggy fries. I don't give a fuck. Come at me. We'll both die here on this hill.

I'm trying to think of a controversial one. I guess, you know, you got your Baja Blast being good for you. So you would take that? Like if somebody was like, Baja Blast being good for you. So you would take that like if somebody was like, Baja Blast is fucking dumb, dude. Well, even if the Surgeon General informed Americans that they shouldn't be drinking Baja Blast and it should be illegal,

I would continue reporting on this podcast. Even the former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop? Yeah, even C. Everett Koop. Even if C. Everett Coop came through with a Coop bomb, I would still be like... What did you say? With a Coop bomb? A Coop bomb. I would still have to tell people that

it is a healthy part of a nutritional breakfast. For people who don't know, C. Everett Coop was a Surgeon General when for Reagan and George Bush I. And just very iconic, chin-strap beard. Right. And then later went into medical devices for the silent generation, like when they were being sold shit on TV.

Like, I'm C. Everett Koop. Remember me from the heyday? Yeah, I'm a doctor. You need this bracelet if you fall down. All right. Koop out. Koop out. The real Koop out. Coop out. The real coop out.

What? Yeah. Anyways, I'm Jack. That's Miles. Yes. And these are some things that are trending today on Monday afternoon. Yeah. Dude.

Perfect. This trend. Dude, dude, you're getting a dude. Perfect fucking facility. Yes, please. They basically announced plans to build this facility in North, I think Dallas, where they're going to have a fucking HQ, like the Dude Perfect HQ. They say a 330-foot trickshot tower, crazy mini golf, trickshot town, Dude Perfect museum, two acres of outdoor space merch store restaurants and more what would a 330 foot trickshot tower entail exactly because uh you could build a 330 foot

tower and i could try a trick shot off of it um i don't know make that shit it's like those videos that they you know eat off of are usually take number 392 of you know them trying that shot yeah it's weird right like because i get that they're they have appeal so people be like why not go to like the physical manifestation of my favorite youtube channel right but then like you're saying they're going to be hit with the reality wand which is just so you know man a lot of fucking time goes into these videos to make it look like shit is just casually flying off a fucking semi truck and then like nothing but net like 700 yards away um but i get it like fine you know dude i don't know if this is gonna is how are they is this too much i mean obviously some

investors like let's fucking do this well with this branding we can bring all the people through but dude perfect is what that investor said when they said uh we we got an idea he said i don't even need to hear it dude it's perfect and then the dude perfect guys like cringed because they're like oh fuck and the investor guy was like that was so good right and they're like yeah man thanks yeah yeah thanks for the is this a hundred mil in seed money and by the way when i'm doubting the 330 foot trickshot tower that's not to say like this is going to be my mecca this is uh you know you've completely neglect your personal life. Yeah.

This is, this is what I, this is what I do. I've never, so yeah, I'm not famous for my trick shots, uh, because again,

I've never gotten one to go in, but if I could, if I could, if I could just go there and kind of just drink up the glow off of all of the dude perfection that's happening trick shot town in trick shot town uh it's gonna be in the perfect museum where there's like the the ping pong ball from the guy who like made that amazing beer pong shot um that's what i'm here for man i sure i like the thing is like i just know like there's one dude with the beard

yeah dude perfect to me is just that one guy and he won't be there but there will be a mascot with a giant cartoon version of his head right that looks like an emoji version yeah yeah i mean they got 58 million subscribers like we'll see what the you know what they're doing but they said that there were a few candidate cities okay including la and atlanta but it turns out it's going to be oh in frisco texas frisco texas yeah what remember frisco texas was oh that's where they're based but they're willing to go anywhere got it right yeah because frisco texas had those videos that they were putting out to try to get the Amazon warehouse to come to them. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Frisco, Texas.

They're like, we're the good Frisco. We're the libertarian friendly Frisco. I don't know. Come hang with us. Yeah, well, shout out to anyone who wants to go to Midlife crisis for men discovery zone i feel like it's quarter life crisis discoveries yeah well i mean the way things are trending now like you know everything we're all late bloomers these days yeah so like also the way things are trending we'll all be dead by 50 so yeah 100 so like 25 is midlife crisis 23 is your you have your over

the hill party yeah i did they you just told me that the little basketball hoop we had in the office back in the before times, that's still hanging there. Dude, perfect. Although I feel like Doug is probably taking it down. He was like, you want this stuff? And I'm like, okay, yes, I do. But yeah, it was unavoidable. I remember you're like, I want a Nerf thing.

And I remember Sophie was like, the only one that they have is this Dude Perfect one. You're like, fuck. What happened? So they got merch. They've already expanded the brand. Oh, the brand is strong, as a former duo once said. Well, we'll see if the same fate befalls Dude Perfect. Yeah.

Neofascism is on the march. We have the early results in from the Italian election. This is from the AP, by the way, I'll just use the words of the straight down the middle AP, the brothers of Italy party, which won the most votes in Italy's national election has its roots in the post-World War II neo-fascist Italian social movement.

So that's, yeah. Isn't Mussolini's granddaughter part of that party yeah century after benito mussolini's 1922 march on rome which brought the fascist dictator to power maloney who's the head of the party is poised to lead italy's first far-right-led government since world war ii and italy's first woman premier. Yeah. I mean, again, Hillary Clinton with her take, quote, the election of the first woman

prime minister in a country always represents a break with the past and that is certainly a good thing. Bring on the fascism. That's wild. That is a wild take. Identity thing identity politics man you know what i mean yeah just but like turned meaningless so 100 the like the valid parts of it become you know get

dragged down with just this sort of bullshit take from hillary clinton yeah oof come on now i'm the same the same progress but But yeah, good for them in Italy. I like how Katie Golden, who lives in Italy, she's like, as an American who had to learn a lot about Italian politics in three minutes, ask me anything. Right. When the system isn't working

as is, we either need to help people and have leftist reform. The other option that always comes up is fascism. That's always going to be a popular one. It seems like increasingly around the world

and at home. It's so weird because at the end of the day, it's the scarier one too. It's like, yo, you got the scary version where people are busting down your door and shit? Or how about one where it's like what about it's like yo you got the scary version where people busting down your door and shit or how about one where it's like yo rich people need to take a l so we could all do fucking real good how about that how about that rich people take the noisier and angrier one i maybe we just need to really just have just bluntly name a party rich people

taking l's yeah and yeah with like an asterisk that's like if you're making above fucking three million dollars a year like look we even got space for a little mini millionaires okay we get it right but after that bro you're taking fucking l's i'm sorry yeah and then people hey i can okay i get that i'm yeah just give me someone to get angry at i don't know policy i need to get angry at someone like okay your boss your boss. Right. How about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, great. I used to vote for Trump, but I like this now. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with a handful of things I was wrong about. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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because multiple sources had confirmed that Taylor Swift was going to be the Super Bowl halftime show performer. And it has broken today uh that rihanna is the super bowl halftime show performer really i remember this quote from you in 2018 when they asked you to fucking perform at the super bowl and you told vogue quote i couldn't dare do that for what who gains from that not my people i just couldn't be a sellout i couldn't be an enabler there's things within that organization that i do i do not agree with at all and i was not about to go and be

of service to them in any way um and then she signed with rock nation and Jay-Z controls all the NFL halftime shows and then you are now in the NFL halftime show. So I'm curious if she has anything to say on it or she's going to try and do the thing. I was like, you know, we were all saying shit a couple years ago. Right. A lot of people said a lot of things.

Come on, you know, I'm a billionaire now. You know what I mean? Right. Keep that low. Also keep that low. But I am a billionaire. Yeah, I don't. I was, when i saw that i my first thing was like i thought rihanna basically let it be known that she wasn't fucking with the nfl but yeah things change again jay-z man yeah oh i'm

still gonna stand by taylor swift is actually going to be the super bowl halftime okay so you're you take his rihanna news i I'll believe it when I see it. Yeah, exactly. Okay. It's going to be Taylor Swift. Okay, you might be wrong about that, but we'll put that in the column of hills you're going to die on. Don't worry, darling.

We talked on Friday about how I was skeptical about its box office promise because it had such bad reviews. It really felt like a movie that was pitching itself as like this if this one has great reviews you are everyone's going to want to go see it and the reviews came in mixed too bad it's wild they said it made like it's just like it like it showed out with 19 million i was like we really are in the after times huh yeah i'm like 19 milli is a was a l in 2019 i mean it's a 35 million dollar movie probably at

least double that with the marketing budget it's just it's interesting to like even other things like well because then the avatar shit get re-released this weekend and fucking did numbers again 10 million dollars yeah was it i mean i see the benefit of that like that i want to take my kids to see avatar for the first time like oh my god your kids weren't even born with avatar i know you believe that it's the biggest regret i have as a father uh they weren't i tried to have you i tried to have you sooner. Trust me. I told your mother, this boy needs to see Avatar. The New York Times review made me, now I am officially rooting for it and want to go see it. Because we talked about how the New York Times was writing about the movie and Olivia Wilde, the director.

And they were like, she bailed on an interview with us right before it was supposed to happen. And then just were really dropping some catty comments on her in the run-up to the movie. The New York Times has the story that it did well at the box office. And they say, women and Gen Z drive Don't Worry darling box office uh which is you know good but then the first sentence of the review or of the article is never underestimate the interest in ogling a cute guy on a big screen it's like yeah okay yes this is the new york yes it is well reducing a film to basically being like a tiger beat cut out. Yeah, there's like, yeah, okay.

I guess this is written by someone's uncle in 93. Right? Yeah, they'll do anything. Just want to ogle some young guy. I remember when I was that age. Well, I guess we're gonna see Jack date. Yeah, I'm in. Let's do

it. Let me just get a sitter. Uh, Ian is trending. Uh, hurricane Ian is about to pass over Cuba heading towards, uh, Florida and people are expecting it to hit Florida as a category for, um,

another thing I was wrong about. I, I said that no way. No, I'm just joking. I did not make a prognostication about that not a chance this

tropical depression becomes anything the name's gonna be Iago watch watch fucking Ian fuck Ian Ian's a pretty Ian doesn't feel like no shade I have a homie named Ianan no shade to the name ian

it's not scary though like i'll fuck with ian yeah like hurricane ian i'd be like okay sounds smart ian always sounds smart to me i think i like must have known a bunch of smart ians in my life yeah just give me something really out of the box right you know like fuck it just do like a just garbledy gook and letters and shit i don't care Yago would be good have they gone with Yago before I'll start trying to hurricane Yago cause then you could be like oh he's a shady motherfucker it's a shady fucking hurricane

be talking shit behind your back about the beast with two backs um no there isn't so come on the weather channel just go with like the names of the kids in your child's seventh grade class. Where's Hurricane Zod? You know what I mean?

Let's just fucking go there. Why not? They do go in alphabetical order every hurricane season, and so you rarely get to the Zs, but I feel like they're, they're saving up all the later, all the later names for, um, well, what's the Nate? Cause what's it going to be? It's,

it's like, depends on what part of the, uh, C it comes out of determines of whether it's male or female names and shit. And then I remember, was that right? Like, yeah.

Like hurricane naming convention is I'll tell you right now. Um, if they are occurring in the atlantic they're based upon six alphabetized 21 name lists q u x y and z are all skipped and the list cycles every six years oh okay so i was wrong oh and then oh it used to just be all that's what it was because of fucking misogyny it's like all of these are named after women and then like in 1978 they're like we need to stop this shit right but anyway more more fucking fantasy names please like hurricane right uh newt is trending as in gingrich yep because he is they're they're they're grasping

at this point it feels feels bad. Yeah. They are fucking. Newt Gingrich is now because John Fetterman is putting the smash on Dr. Oz. Now, like all the right wing things like what about his tattoos? Like fucking Tucker Carlson was like, what about his fake tattoos and his fake blah, blah, blah. Like trying to make it seem like this guy's a phony or whatever. Newt Gingrich.

is fake blah blah blah like trying to make it seem like this guy's a phony or whatever newt gringer he tweeted why would pennsylvania democrat senate candidate john fetterman have a tattoo saying quote i will make you hurt uh-huh um for me look i'm a big nine inch nails fan i know what that's from for john fetterman i think he's talking about the johnny cash cover from the the early aughts um but then like apparently like fetterman's talked about the Johnny Cash cover from the early aughts. But then, like, apparently, like, Fetterman's talked about his tattoos before. And, like, people are like, yeah, like, all these weird. He's got all these dates on his arms. Like, what's going on with that? Apparently, he has dates from, like, these people that were the dates of murders that were committed in Braddock, Pennsylvania, when he was the mayor.

Because, like, he just takes them very personally. he was the mayor because like he just takes them very personally and it's just like a weird moment where like nothing is like first of all clearly the conservatives don't even understand tattoos because nuke ingrich is stuck in like satanic panic 80s right and he's like those are the marks of the beast right you heard it mothers don't trust him meanwhile like most young people have fucking tattoos um but yeah it's like you said they nothing about policy it's fucking why would he have a tattoo that says i will make you hurt he's telling he's giving us all the clues mr policeman he you know he put the dates of these murders and said i will make you hurt uh has anybody looked into whether he was the one who's doing it? Look at this snowman drawing I got.

Stay tuned for an investigative report from the Daily Wire. Yeah, right. Oh, my God. And then a lot of people just started clapping back at Newt Gingrich on Twitter. They're like, you divorced your first wife because you said she wasn't pretty enough to be the first lady. Wow. Don't talk about real shitheadery. It's there.

Because then they're like, didn't you step down as speaker because of infidelities? And then didn't this next guy do that too? It is funny though. Somebody who acknowledges pain and actually feels pain and copes with it in a way like they can't deal with that. Or they can't understand it because

he's just out here treating his pain with TV appearances. Right. You know. Yeah. Well, again, because these people don't have false ideas about policy anymore. It's just attack the people who are trying to even try anything. But.

All right. See you, Newt. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, September 26th. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine.

Get the flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. tomorrow. Bye. Bye. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti.

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