The Daily Zeitgeist - Kpop DemTrend Hunter 8/25: Intel, Trump, Dean Cain, ICE, RFK Jr., Kilmar Garcia, 'Kpop Demon Hunter'

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

In this edition of Kpop DemTrend Hunter, Jack and special guest co-host Mort Burke discuss... their respective weekends, the U.S. taking 10% of Intel, pathetic cop-gobbler Dean Cain's ICE obstacle course performance, RFK Jr. trying to get rid of the COVID vaccine?, newly released Kilmar Garcia getting re-arrested and re-deported, 'Kpop Demon Hunter' taking the box office and much more! WATCH: Washed-up actor Dean Cain, 59, debasing himself for cloutSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I saw weapons. Do you see weapons? No, but I know Zach Kregor. Do you? Yeah, because he's like a comedy guy. Yeah. I heard it was good. It was really fun.

Nice. Yeah. Did you, at my wife's on, she's like, it's funnier than you might think? Yes. Yeah. Much funnier and less, like, scary than I thought it was going to be. There is a shot in it that I'm very confused by Brian.

The assault rifle in the dream? Do we know? Oh, in the sky, right? Yeah. The assault rifle in the sky is that a thing people are talking about? Yeah, well, that's the main thing about which feels like almost on the two on the nose symbolism or something. Right, I mean. It's like, yeah, dream symbolism, but like really, really on the nose.

It's not, right, it's not a metaphor. It's just a fucking gun. It's about like school shootings. It's like putting it, there's like a school in the sky and a gun. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't like really get into school. I guess it like sends you down a path of possibly school shootings. And then it doesn't really do.

that but it is a metaphor uh in the sense that there are metaphorical weapons right in the movie and that is a weapon yeah yeah and the children of the weapons right when you think about it brian a gun is a weapon dude slow down wait do you do you have a word press brian's making noises like he hadn't thought about it till you told them too maybe the weapons were the friends we made alone yeah see i knew you were going to say that and that was when the weapons were carrying you when there was one maybe it was the weapon that was carrying that was that was the assault rifle that was carrying me funny it's like the the the footprints in the sand picture but instead of a instead of putpits it's like the like the imprint of the butt of a pay 45th hello it's daniel fisher

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Ashley Simpson-Ross joins us to talk about her upcoming sold-out Vegas residency. It's a full week of nostalgic interviews you don't want to miss. Listen to PodMeets World on the I-Hart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys, it's AZ Fud. You may know me as a gold medalist. You may know me as an NCAA national champion and recent most outstanding player.

You may even know me as a People's Princess, but now you're also going to know me as your favorite host. Every week on my new podcast, fud around and find out, I'll give you an inside look at everything happening in my crazy life as I try to balance it all. From my travels across the globe to preparing for another run at the Natty with my Yukon Huskies to just try to make it to my midterms on time. You'll get the inside scoop on everything. I'll be talking to some special guests about pop culture, basketball, and what it's like to be a professional athlete on and off the court. You'll even get to have some fun with the fud family. So if you follow me on social media or watch me on TV,

you may think you know me. But this show is the only place where you can really fud around and find out. Listen to Fud Around and Find Out, a production of IHart Women's Sports and partnership with unanimous media. On the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed.

There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal. Apparently, the explosion actually impelled metal glass. The injured were being loaded into ambival. ambulance is just a chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged, and it was here to stay. Terrorism. Law and Order Criminal Justice System is back. In season two, we're turning our focus to a threat that hides in plain sight.

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It's your personal guide for turning storylines and to live. lifelines every tuesday make sure you listen to pretty private from the black effect podcast network tune in on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows hello the internet and welcome to this week trends edition of durnaley's eyegais um yeah it's weird to do that in person i've been doing it in a room by myself for for so long you became vaguely German. Yeah. I do. It doesn't translate over the Zoom. But yeah, my attempt at a German accent. My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled to be joined in our second seat. Miles is away on assignment overseas. It's thrilled to be joined by a very funny comedian, actor, writer,

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They just have a like Keep your voices low Just generally Mission wide Yep Just above a whisper at all times Please. This is the episode where we talk about what was trending over the weekend.

Really, a lot of fun news. It's always fun here at Daily Zite, guys, isn't it? Jesus Christ. But first, we let the listeners, and this is a big favor that we do them, we let the listeners get to know us a little bit better by telling them some things that we think are overrated. Have you ever heard about this? Overrated and underrated. Thank you for whispering it to me.

And, yeah, do you want to kick us off with an overrated? You want me to do it? Yeah, no, I'd love to. And what a privilege this is for the listener to get to know me in the sweat. First of all, just a preemptive, you're welcome. And then go ahead. Yeah, you want me start overrated? Yeah, let's go overrated.

The hardest one. Yeah, I got an overrated talking to strangers. Totally overrated. I'm from the Midwest where it's encouraged. In L.A., there's very little stranger talking. No. No, there's a distant, distance kind of a dead-eyed stare that we do to each other when we pass.

You know, it's not an acknowledgement. You look through them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, exactly. Yeah, you go, you're not Bill Maher, and you don't care, so you just keep walking. You just walk down the street, check it for Mar? Yeah, it's just on the-quick-Mar check. Yeah, on the Mar-hunt.

So, okay, so this involves a story, which is a buddy of mine, he and I are both into cars. So he rented a Ferrari 308, which is the first. Ferrari from Magnum P.I. Okay. It's like a perfect like late 70s, like a real, real jerks sports car in a fun way. It's not very fast, but it's loud and it looks great. Oh, man. A couple of assholes tearing around to that thing. A couple of real pricks. Taring around Los Angeles and a Ferrari from the late 70s. Shout out to my friend Jonathan Hollis who picked me up in a hilarious comic. So we're driving

around. The other fun thing about these cars is none of the gears work. So at some point we're like, or none of the gauges work and we're like, oh, we might be, we're nearly out of gas. I'm picturing like when a plane is crashing in a movie in the gate they're all circling. Yeah. That's what's happening. Exactly. To the gas gauge. Yeah, there's like a cuckoo clock for some

reason. It's going to, whew! So, we go to a gas station, we pull over and this stranger comes up, stranger danger, and you could, the vibe was weird. So this guy's driving a car, and on the side, it's like a, it's like a mini SUV on the side our golden astronaut statues. And he leans out of his car and he goes,

Yeah, weird, right? He goes... MTV Movie Award? MTV Video Music Award? That would have made sense. It was not the Moon Man, but it felt close. Uh-huh. And he goes, hey, I was on Magnum P. I did 60 episodes. That's what he said. Hell yes.

Out of nowhere. How are we going to get from here to this being overrated? This guy sounds amazing. This sounds like an amazing thing that happened to you. I told you I have a hard time with overrated. So I'll tell you how. Immediately he's the worst person alive. Immediately he's talking about he's like, yeah, we're working with the White House. We're building golden statues for Trump.

That's what this guy said. So I was like, all right, man. Yeah. And he goes, and then he goes, he goes, what do you guys do? Like liberals, which is true. And I go, yeah. And then he goes, what do you guys do? And we go comedy, which you never want to say to somebody.

No, because he's going to ask you. Isn't he? Did he say, oh, make me laugh? I think he's in the biz, so he actually didn't do that. But he goes, he goes, what's your Instagram? He looks at my Instagram. He looks it up, and he goes, 3,000 followers. He's real disappointed in my follower account.

Damn. Yeah. And then, okay, then this is where, now this is a twist where it becomes very, it is actually underrated. Because then he goes, I know that old guy from SNL and we go, the old guy from S&L and he goes, yeah, Lauren Michaels. Uh-huh. And then he goes, the old guy from S&L.

Yeah, that's what you, right? Yeah, yeah. And then he goes, you want his phone number? So I now have either actually Lauren Michael's phone number in my phone or just a weird number to a stranger that a guy lied to me about. What a great content. Just the feeling of power of having a contacting your phone

that says Lauren Michaels must feel great. I feel more confidence since that Friday night. And yeah, and my Jonathan goes... You shouldn't have showed me that because I'm about to put that shit in my phone. Just for the feeling. Well, we get home and Jonathan's like, I'm going to need that number, dude.

So I texted him, we have a gentleman's agreement that we won't use it without the other one's permission. That's good. Yeah. Man. We can both send pictures of our butt right now if you want that. If you were to just blow the whole thing up,

let's do it. some hole post some hole on Maine for Lauren I know that old guy from us just do me here don't send him any hole

yeah just promise me he won't send him hole trust me from experience doesn't love it all right my overrated is the Bennington

chest tool panel are you familiar I don't think I am this is dumb thing I got advertised a tool belt that they've turned into a

like thing that makes you look like you're on the team that is raiding bin Laden's compound it's like a tactical vest that like has a fucking screwdriver there but like they want they want you to feel

like you're an operator yep basically one of the six of the six yeah and I got it and it's not as good it doesn't make you feel as power no I didn't get it but I just I don't know man I feel I'm starting to feel bad about this country

yeah there's some things that like there's also Trump chocolate all over New York like at the bodegas and at the airport I was leaving and it was like Donald Trump 47th president chocolate and I asked the guy

I was like this isn't popular is it he was like brother this is so popular we can't keep it in stock we can't keep it in stock God well and the yeah the tactical the tactical vest thing we don't all need to look like we belong we're in militias right it's not a great look no yeah but it yeah that that feels like that's happening that we're just like moving in that direction like at least i i i've talked for a while

in the show about how i feel like the 80s and like just like a pervasive conservativeism is like coming back has come back but at least in the 80s like the conservative people like looked okay like now it just looks like shit it looks like everybody looks like they want to fucking be an operator. Well, this is, it's also, there's an element of this to me that is like stupid, ugly consumerism that ages really poorly. So this might actually be the like QVC of right now. Right.

Do you know what I mean? Where it's just like chinty, stupid bullshit that actually means nothing. Right. You know. They thought I was going to buy. They were like, we know, we know it's going to work for this guy. Does Trump chocolate taste like an old piss in a diaper? That would be.

That's a really good question. I did smell it. I didn't actually have the courage to purchase it. I wonder if it, like, gets you off watch lists. Like, all the things that have put me on watch lists. I wonder if it, like, checks one of them, erases one of the checks on that box. Yeah, you scan the QR code.

And it's like, you're no longer under observation. What's something you think's underrated? Jack, thank you. I'm going to go bidet's because my wife just got one. And I'm by now. And I thank God. Like, oh, this fuck, it's been such a stupid burden to have been straight for so long, you know. And so it really, yeah, it's, uh, it's the main weapon in the gay agenda.

And I, I thank them for it. Yeah? Yeah, totally. It's good. The bidet makes you, I mean, we've been pro bidet. I didn't know it made me buy for so long. Yeah. It's going to do you that service.

Finally, like, you'll be open-hearted enough to consider the sexual spectrum. There you go. Yeah. And I also just feel more hygienic, truly. Oh, it's so much better. Oh. It's so much better. We transferred our toilets out to do a low-flow toilet hero.

Living Saint, yes. Thank you. And we didn't have like the right-sized bidet for the new low-flow toilet. And I've been without the day for many months now. And I feel like I'm wandering a desert right now, you know? Yeah, man. I feel like I fucking went back in time. Yeah.

It's like fucking Joshua Tree. in July down there. It's fucking it's Burning Man right now. Right. Have you seen the footage of Burning Man? I think we can all stop and just take a moment to enjoy

what Burning Man, what's happening at Burning Man? What's going to? I have some friends there. Just nasty fucking dust storm. Yeah. The windiest it's ever been. I, in no way begrudge people

go into Burning Man. No, God bless. But I did a stand-up set for a group of people that I found out were Burning Man people while I was doing the set. They have this like little spot in kind of near.

Englewood and and they were the kindest people and they also the way they talked about it they were like yeah it is where privileged people go to pretend they're homeless and I was like

it's pretty strong yeah what we're here for yeah I like that they refer to it as burn like are you gonna burn this year? Yeah that kind of rules

I've I want to go but I don't have the courage or the you know fortitude it's just it looks too nasty for me it is more about doing amphetamines than I thought

was like it's extremely sexual also like there is yeah there's like a hookup tent that is just like like a friend a friend of mine was like he's like i saw two people having sex in between parked cars one time wow it's just a free for all over it's a good spot so you know that spot between the two cars that's the best very romantic yeah um in an oil slick yeah a gasoline oil rainbow uh so it's actually very beautiful yeah um all right my under I saw weapons I do think it's underrated to just start

running like the kids in weapons with your arms behind you like that I just think there's something very freeing about it if you just have to like catch up a few steps to something

you start running like that with your chest out you're making yourself aerodynamic too which feels great yeah so that's something that I've begun doing just long jogs

with my hands behind me like that running as fast as I can. It's both beautiful and troubling to picture an adult man doing that. Feel so free. And just in a straight line, but not like on a road. Like you're going to some unknown, like, location, just through people's yards. Yeah, as the crow flies.

Yeah, exactly. You're running as the crow flies. That's the move. And also, I got to just, I was spent three weeks on the East Coast. Which is where I grew up. And there are like these little ways that being where you grew up like just sets you at ease. The weather, like the way the weather works. I noticed that like the bugs make sense to me more.

I like spotted a fly and I was like, oh, that was easy because I remember how like bugs move out of gear. It wasn't even a fly. It was like some mosquito like insect. Seltzer is everywhere, man. Yeah. Just have fucking selters. What kind of what flavors are we doing? I'm doing anything like I mean I'd do Schweps just like some selter like they just the fact that they always have it yeah on

tap yeah no matter what grocery store or fucking bodega you're walking into they're gonna have some seltzer and Schweps sounds so wonderful Shweps too you know I mean it swips! Yeah it does not if you scream it like it's Schweps over here a pile of Schweps is gay that's right um all right you've gotten to know us better. We've done them that solid. You feel great now. We're welcome. Yeah, you're welcome. We're going to take a quick break, and we're going to come back and get into some news. We'll be right back.

Hello, it's Daniel Fischel. Writer Strong. And Will Ferdell from PodMeets World. And we're bringing you Viva Las Content. That's right. We are back in Las Vegas, the city of sin, and giving the people what they want. A full week of Y2K content. Wait, we're back in Vegas? Tell me why. Well, for the Backstreet Boys residency at Sphere, of course. We sat down with Kevin Richardson and A.J. McLean just minutes before they took the stage and our very own Wilfredel basically became the newest member of the band. Boy band, please. Plus, the man who has the longest running comedy show on the strip joins us and gets his

props. It's carrot top, baby. And finally, we all L-O-V-E-Hur, Ashley Simpson-Ross. joins us to talk about her upcoming sold-out Vegas residency. It's a full week of nostalgic interviews you don't want to miss. Listen to PodMeets World on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, it's AZ Fudd. You may know me as a gold medalist. You may know me as an NCAA national champion and recent most outstanding player. You may even know me as a People's Princess.

But now, you're also going to know me as your favorite host. Every week on my new podcast, Fud around and find out. find out, I'll give you an inside look at everything happening in my crazy life as I try to balance it all. From my travels across the globe to preparing for another run at the Natty with my Yukon Huskies to just try to make it to my midterms on time. You'll get the inside scoop on everything. I'll be talking to some special guests about pop culture, basketball, and what it's like to be a professional athlete on and off the court. You'll even get to have some fun with the Fudd family. So if you follow me on social media or watch me on TV, you may think you know me.

but this show is the only place where you can really fud around and find out. Listen to Fud Around and Find Out, a production of IHeart Women's Sports and partnership with unanimous media. On the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed. There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal.

Apparently, the explosion actually impelled metal, glass. The injured were being loaded into ambulances. Just a chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged, and it was here to stay. Terrorism. Law and order, criminal justice system is back. In season two, we're turning our focus to a threat that hides in plain sight. That's harder to predict and even harder to stop.

Listen to the new season of Law and Order Criminal Justice System on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney, and every time. Tuesday, I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all. Childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more, and found the shrimp to make it to the other side.

My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential format, but he wasn't shot on the street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house, unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. and we're back so you're from st louis you've got the st louis weather like when you go back it feels isish yeah you kind of miss it so it is like a swamp uh where it's it gets so humid it feels

like you're wearing a gross blanket right in the summer but you do i kind of miss it because it's evocative of childhood you know like i miss that part of it yeah and then you appreciate the fall and the winter too. Yeah. You know? It's like when I live to Chicago, the winter's a nightmare, but then spring, everybody is like so happy. Oh my God.

There's no more mental health issues. They go away. Everybody's just everyone plays volleyball. Right. You all don't like volleyball? Yeah. No. Right.

You've never been sad playing volleyball. It's impossible. They've invented a new volleyball in New York that I hadn't seen before. It's really high nets. Really high nets. Have you ever seen that? We talk like 30 feet? What are you saying?

They're real high. I mean, higher than volleyball on that switch, I find to be plenty high, personally. I'm not getting up and spiking at the normal one. You didn't have to lean down to spike up. This is such a great idea, because I would love to see

like if there was just one NBA game a year where the nets were 40 feet in the sky. Yeah. How fun would that be? So great. And a three-pointers, a 10-pointer yeah. I think we need to have more fun. Like, there is a pitch to, because like, people have

too many threes in the NBA. Like people are getting too good at the threes. The offense has become a little bit predictable. I feel like the offenses look great right now personally. But one of the pitches that I heard that I do love is making the three point lines in each arena different based on where you are. Like the way that a baseball outfield has like different shit. You're like, oh yeah, that one's like only 20 feet out there. Like you get so many home runs if you hit in that direction.

like if you just had like a weird little like gap in Boston we're like so good yeah yeah totally we gotta go to Detroit now from the three over there but you're gonna stack your defense there and on that side of the court you have to shoot from the logo to get a three pointer yeah or like if the basket's moved just a little or like in baseball if you had to you had to use a really long bat sometimes you know

just like some handicaps I think it's fun or like one time the bat just like goes a little wobbly on you. It just turns into a pool noodle. There's like a button that, yeah, that let's say the announcers can push that turns your bat. The announcers.

Flacid. Yeah, thank you. Flacid is the word we're looking for. Just a couple middle-aged guys talking about flicity. In order to not talk about the news, but, boo.

So the big news story that I kind of hate because it's like, economically complicated is that the U.S. government has obtained a quote 10% stake in Intel after buying $8.9 billion worth of

shares in the struggling company. The way that it's being pitched, the way that I saw it in headlines before I actually read up on it and our writer, JM, kind of dug in a little bit on it, is that like Trump just got them to give

him 10% of the company Intel and like it's and that's yours congratulations which is interesting so he came in using the fact that the CEO of the American manufacturer has quote ties to the Chinese Communist Party and then like basically use that as leverage to like do a thing that would be more familiar to like people in China where like the government takes over the company it's not quite that though they like people are pointing out they don't have a the government doesn't have a controlling interest so it's just like it's almost like he's like floating this idea as like what if we did something that's like kind of close to approximating socialism um Obama did it to bail out general motors I think in like during that economic

crisis I think the government had like a 61% share I think it was controlling um this is a 10% share of the company and like it's the thing that you would offer a dumb guy like doesn't and he was like yeah hell yeah like the the version of the stock that he got is not controlling like it doesn't give them any leverage which even if it had been that kind 10% isn't that much it's not that kind it's like common stock which is like not that valuable so he had the opportunity to do that and he didn't because maybe he just like got tricked, who knows, he's not, he's not that sharp, he's not, he's not president deals, like he likes to think he is. It is interesting, it's like opening an interesting door, right? Because I think this goes back to this idea we talk

about a lot on the show where people are fucking done with the, well, the world is just dictated by this like market economy that like just tells us what to do based on the logic of the market and the market is always right. People are waking up to the fact that's like arbitrary and strange. Yeah. People don't like that. That's like one, the one thing that it feels like everybody has agreed to, like voters have agreed to. The mainstream media doesn't really write about it in this way, but like that does seem to be the lesson is that they're, you know, the whole hyper-normalization of it all. Yeah. If you've seen that documentary where it's like, we're all being controlled by

these big multinational companies and like the government is, you know, You know, there was a moment in the Biden administration where he was like, well, I don't know what to do. It's like, you're the president. But in this system where it is just these big companies dictating everything, that's true. Like, the president can't do shit, essentially, unless things change. And it feels like gambling. Yeah. Everyone feels like a slot machine you could go to and try your luck at it.

But that's not how, like, the government and the market should operate. Yeah. And it's also like gambling in the sense that it has the illusion that everybody can, like, make money. actually just funneling money upwards like in a broad sense it's just funneling money upward that's something that shine bomb in mexico is like very clear about is that like neoliberalism which is like one word for that version of things is just a machine to redistribute money upward right which is which is the like that to me that is the evolution of capitalism like that is what is going to happen to in unfettered capitalism ultimately is that power begets more power money begets more

money right and that was a thing that everybody knew was bad right and to be guarded against yep for the entirety of the like first you know 60 years of the 20th century and then there's been a massive like slow very successful deregulation to just deregulate yeah get all that shit out make regulation a bad word yep and so we're at this point where it's just like this version of capitalism where everything gets filtered upwards and people are tired of it. And in other countries, like in Mexico, they have the possibility of like doing a more socialist version of how to operate a country at this time. Obviously, China, like the government controls what these multinational corporations are doing. And I think it's like people

want anything but that. People want anything but the neoliberal market based version of things. And in America, the only options we have are the neoliberal version or fascism. right now it's like what we've been given and anything else is like you get a damn hippie still you're like dude it's been 60 years can we uh huh yeah and then like a tiny little spark of hope with Zoran umdani

in NYC but like that's really all like nobody else is like really making a case I don't think because presumably they benefit from that system right so the Democratic Party is like so you know it is the party of that status quo system and like the way they're reacting to this Trump move is to be like that's socialism

dude that's bad we hate socialism right um which is so bad because it makes Trump see like I think the the thing that people would like to try is socialism but like you can't try it in America but Democrats are pretending that Trump is trying it right now yeah and then that's how it's like kind of being covered in the mainstream media. So, I don't know. It's, it's not socialism in any way because they're not actually seizing any functional control of the means of production for Intel, but it's annoying that the Democrats are basically pretending it is the thing that people would want Trump to do.

Well, it is, yeah, and it's so bizarre the thing that Democrats do, where they, like, it almost seems like there are sections where they're trying to eke out where they could possibly be more right wing. they'll become like we're the patriotic ones and it's like yeah sure we can love america but we're the party of saying like and also we can do better right do you know it's this very strange thing that democrats do yeah they're like we've we don't know how to push back against this like fascist anti-immigrant hellscape because that pulls well it's like it doesn't pull that well and like just be on the right side of his not the right side the you know

correct side of history that's that's one way to do it yeah and right yeah and then all right we are pro cop all of a sudden or some some stuff like that you know what i mean we're like hold on a second aren't we in direct opposition to this authoritarian armed so authoritarian armed shit is one of the options and the other is uh the democrats being pro cop and pro big business yeah um and we don't got anything else no which is why and like to me if you follow you just follow your follow your heart. Just like follow your morality, right? Your heart is great.

We should just tell the Democrats and follow your fucking heart. You know what I mean? Like, didn't you get it right? Don't you see the obviousness of this anti-brown fear, immigrant fear, propaganda? Just knowing your heart that's not true and speak against it. How hard is that? Yeah. Seems pretty straightforward.

Yeah. It is tough to push back against some of the stuff that Trump's doing. Like, for instance, he delivered pizza to the cops. to the, like, race cops in Washington, D.C. into the National Guard, he, uh, delivered some pizza. Like, it was a fucking T-ball party. Well, that's the thing about, like, everybody talks about how funny Trump is, but I think he gets a ton of leverage by doing shit that is so stupid that it's funny

that someone in his position is doing it. Right. You know, like, it's not, like, that's not actually funny. No. But it's funny that this guy who's 5-9 claims to be 6-2 and talks like a cartoon bear. And is for somehow the president delivering pizza. That's funny. Yeah, it is.

And, like, it's, like, when he did the party for the championship football team, I forget who it was, Clemson maybe, and, like, just had, like, McDonald's burgers and, like, for, like, Burr King's. Totally. He's just, like, throwing parties for fucking, like, middle school volleyball teams. It's, like, his level of understanding. It's like, if your dumbest uncle won the lottery, he would do some funny things with it, but that's not because he's funny.

Right. Yeah, yeah. It's like, he would get a monster truck with the word, butthole on the side because he thinks that's hilarious. Yeah. I want to talk in our episode, in tomorrow's episode, about, like, what the movie dystopia is, like, that this approximates because it's so weird. It's not like anything really in particular, because it's so dumb.

And so, like, no movie would have the fucking fascist dictator, like, ordering pizza parties for people, you know. We also have some great footage that made me feel just a little bit better. of Dean Cain. If you're familiar, our worst Superman. My generation Superman. Yes, exactly.

Yeah, was there a Superman? I guess there was in, like between Christopher Reeve and Brandon Ralph, was that his name? Uh-huh, sure. Was Dean Kane the only one? I think so, because this is before they were bringing everything back.

So it was kind of a new weird thing because Dean, there was a TV show that Dean Kane was Superman. right? Yeah, I think that was maybe the first time. Yeah, I think that was the first time maybe Superman had come back since the re- So a lot of power, with great power comes great responsibility

and he is fucking it up. He is a descendant of Japanese relatives who were interned during World War II and now he's actively recruiting for the agency that is literally imprisoning immigrants in former Japanese internment camps. That's a new line that they crossed is they are taking a Japanese internment camp

in Texas and reopening it for the purposes of this version of white supremacist imprisonment for those keeping track at home that's a new line that we've crossed but so Dean Kane is trying to be

like the face of an organization that as we've talked about doesn't have a face because everyone's so ashamed what they're doing their face is a ski mask yeah yeah exactly they are they have the same desire to be seen doing what they do for a living as bank robbers, but they don't have like bags of money with like money pouring out of it. They're just doing horrible shit and

then going home and trying to sleep at night. Yep. And so here comes Hollywood failure Dean Kane, which is always what happened. And they they got some great footage of him like running through. Did you see this footage? He's running through. like what appears to be a McDonald's play place, like in a post-apocalyptic landscape. Like, it's like a bunch of training things that seem to be designed for children. Like there's a concrete tube that he's like crawling through. There's multiple like walls that he has to like climb over. Uh-huh.

On one of them, he just like it has like three bars that are clearly meant for you to like climb up. And he just like goes through it. like he's sneaking into a fucking through a window like he's robbing a pie and then immediately after that they show him dragging like a life-sized like mannequin body that's that's part of the training

which just seems I don't know I feel like we're at the part where they like turn to each other and they'd be like wait are we the bad guys my training is sneaking through a window and then dragging a lifeless body across the fucking earth I don't know why, but it just feels like it speaks so directly to whoever posts on Facebook Marketplace.

I don't know why those two things make perfect sense to get me, but they do. Anyways, he does not look good doing these. No? No, he's not impressive physically or so. He's not flying. He's not really moving at the speed of, he's moving at the speed of like a person who walks for recreation in a mall, you know? Yeah. Like, it's like that level.

Like, he's, he's the upper body. he's showing like I'm jogging but the lower body is like just kind of going along it yeah knees locked it's clear they had to edit out the sounds that old men make when they get up oh my god

I was making by the way I was making those sounds so much last week I went into the Atlantic Ocean and got the ship beat out of me by some big waves not that big actually but I I was like whoa in those waves and like wait were you surfing or just I was body surfing

Body serving, okay, uh-huh. And I, uh, was trying to, you know, get my bearings and using muscles that I guess I hadn't used in a long time. Oh, yeah. Because I don't just stand somewhere and, like, have people, like, push me in various directions. Yeah, Mother Nature push you down. Yeah. And I kept doing it because it was so fun. But I kept having, like, soreness in places where I'm like, I have a muscle over my knee.

Like, what the fuck is that? Um, and was making the most old man. just like, oh boy. Yeah, yay. Somebody help. Help. Felt horrible. Hey, somebody helps surfing grandpa.

Get out of water, man. No, bring it in. Kept doing these. Yeah. We got to hang loose. Bad hang loose. Oh, my God. Because you're like drowning.

The hang loose comes up out of the water. Is that guy all right? Yeah, just a sad hang loose comes out and then slowly sinks below the surface. Yeah. All right. That's about all I can take of the dystopian stuff. Let's take a quick break. And we're going to come back and we're going to talk K-pop Demon Hunters. You ready? I'm so ready. Hell yeah. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel. Writer Strong and Wilfredel from PodMeets World. And we're bringing you Viva Las Content.

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that's a good tagline for the daily side and i lied i fucking lied i fucking lied to you guys we are going to get to k-pop demon hunters but real quick r fk jrgin wants to pull the covid vaccine from the market within months uh i will say you know there's this is being reported by a British cardiologist anti-vaxxer who is like one of his closest associates. But like it's not, I don't doubt it. But it will be a fucking disaster of like epic proportions.

And we only have this one source on it. So there's a chance that he's floating that to like his crazy anti-vaxxer buddy. And it's still going to like face some breaks. But, you know, institutional breaks have not been holding up too well lately. So we don't know exactly how serious to take this yet. But he is very anti-MRNA vaccines. Yeah.

No, the whole position seems to be, hey, what if we had tried to kill a bunch more old people? How would that sound? I'm not saying the only people that die of it, but it is like... It seems like he's... It's vulnerable. And then Kilmar-Bregor-Gargo-Garcia was a... re-abducted by ICE during Monday check-ins. He

was freed by a judge who was like he does not pose a flight risk or a danger to the community and then ICE was like, cool, just check back in with us on Monday and then re-abducted him and said that they're planning to deport him to Uganda.

So, yeah, that's happening. Yeah, what a nightmare, dude. Fuck. True nightmare shit. but on the other hand number one to the box office this weekend K-pop demon hunters

We're back baby Demon Hunters This is a movie That I particularly like my kids I have a 7 and 9 year old They love this movie Two boys just singing K-pop demon hunters

songs all day I feel like they are driving The fact that two of the songs are in the billboard top 10 right now from this movie this movie's been on netflix since june they put it in theaters this weekend and it was the number one movie in movie theaters this weekend wow yeah it was like a sing-along event yeah like little rocky horror picture show yeah yeah exactly my first rocky horror fiction show yeah um it'd be great like somebody shows up in their rocky horror picture show gear

for that fuck this this feels wrong um but I love this for a couple reasons. One, Netflix had no fucking idea that this is going to be a hit. They didn't put any marketing behind it. It just, like, totally blew up on, like, social media, fan word of mouth. They keep being blindsided by the success of, like, the stuff they make with Korean filmmakers. Squig game, they're like, I don't know, I guess we'll try this. And, like, paid, didn't pay shit for it.

This one, they just bought off Sony, didn't really market it. it like exploded and they're like oh okay um and then i like the idea of being able to like movies that have unorthodox like paths to the theater which i think we're i think is probably going to continue to be more and more of a thing where like i was noticing that in new york like you were as i was like looking for a time to see weapons there's like all these other like old movies that are just like showing across the city like just having a second run like i feel like i don't know that that's a path to like keep theaters relevant which I think is important yeah important to me because I'm old no totally same we just went I just went and saw a marathon

man at the new Beverly oh did you that like Dustin Hoffman piece which I've never seen before and it was yeah there's no reason that keep people people keep saying cinema is dying but we continue to make great really interesting things yeah it hasn't stopped yeah you know and yeah in in LA I feel like it's like there are these theaters that show older movies and then, like, every once in a while there'll be, like, a re-re... Like, there's a cool thing that, like, Miyazaki movies, like, come out every year,

like, just are re-released. I just, I think we should be using AMCs and, like, regal cinemas as... To, like, show Seinfeld for two hours straight or whatever. Yeah, fuck it, what? Right? You know? I think so many people would go see friends

for three out, just, like, the best episodes of whatever their favorite sitcom was? The guy sitting next to me on the plane, sure, would have been there. Was he blasted? He was blasted with some friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real CEO energy.

But, like, really, a lot of energy, a lot of positive energy. Yeah. God, he wanted to talk to me so bad. Yeah? What are you Stonewall? I gave him nothing. That's the, well, that's like L.A. and East Coast of, like, it's like how a bartender knows to never make eye contact.

Right. There's this beautiful way to protect your energy from people. I feel bad. Maybe that guy would have, like, given me Lorne Michael's phone number or something if I had just, like, given him. It was really crazy because he was, like, so nice and was talking to, like, everybody around, like, was going over me to talk to the person next to him, just, like, having a great little backing for us. I was like, I'm trying to fucking watch Starship Troopers again, man. I'm trying to find, trying to find the movie that represents our dystopia. What are you doing?

Why are you talking to me? And then my wife came up, like, we weren't seated next to each other because we, like, kind of had half-hazard. You refuse to sit next to it. Yeah, yeah, we don't. I said, what are you doing? Why are you talking to me in public? Like, what did we say? We had, like, messy travel plans.

So we were like, you know, and she came up and was talking to me. And he was like, oh, my God, you guys are together? Dude, why didn't you tell me? Like, we're old friends. He was like, take my seat. I'm like, we had like a little extra leg room too. She was like, no, it's okay. Like, my seat doesn't have much.

It's like, I don't care. I was like so giving this guy zero. He's so nice. They trade seats. Yeah. That's the thing about these people, man. These fucking strangers. Yeah, this is, wow, what a theme.

I think it's my fault. Like, I just think I didn't have any energy from, like, being in New York for a week or something. I was just, like, not willing to do it. And I probably missed a great adventure. Yeah. Well, I'm scared of strangers. I'll admit, I don't know what they're going to do. They're capable of anything.

Yeah. You know? So, but I am getting a lot better at, like, just having it. Because you do get into really weird, interesting conversations and stuff. Yeah. Anyway, I'd probably be kite surfing right now with the CEO if I, like, fucking him and Richard Branson. Ah, the greatest dream. All right, Mort, we've done it.

We've told the people what was training over the weekend was trending this Monday morning. We are going to be back tomorrow with a very special whole-ass episode of the show with a couple podcast hosts that I'm very, very excited to have on. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. get your vaccines way you still can like literally they're going away get your flu shots

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