The Daily Zeitgeist - Lieutenant Frank DrebTrend 3/6: Naked Gun, Super Tuesday, NYC Subway, Big Pharma, The Idea Of You

Episode Date: March 6, 2024

In this edition of Lieutenant Frank DrebTrend, Jack and Miles discuss the new 'Naked Gun' remake, the results from Super Tuesday, the NYC Subway turning into a subterranean militarized police state, Big Pharma losing its fight to avoid prescription drug price negotiations, the new Harry Styles-inspired rom-com 'The Idea of You' and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That always confused me. um i'm jack that over there is miles back when oj was funny that's right just by oj at his planet's race i don't know he's at a lot of moments he's he's hilarious all around oh man yeah the gift that keeps on giving i mean i guess we can talk about that that Obviously, we have Super Tuesday updates. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get to those. We'll get to those. We'll get to those.

Again, November, take your time. Take your time, November. That's right. But whenever the Naked Gun remake is coming out, please, you couldn't get here fast enough. No, no. So it's been announced Liam Neeson will be playing Frank Drebin, the Leslie nielsen

role well i just realized in that moment how similar their names are and how it almost feels like yeah they just associated them it's not determinism yeah yeah uh yeah i mean it like it started as a rumor a couple years ago, and now we're getting more details. It's Liam Neeson locked in. It's Akiva Schaefer from The Lonely Island, I think, writing and directing. Seth MacFarlane is producing. I think it could be good. Liam Neeson is good at deadpan comedy.

good at deadpan comedy but like but but like frank or you know leslie nielsen wasn't exactly doing full-on deadpan kind of shit it was still a little zany at the time so it was pretty straight-faced though like i feel it like and his pedigree up to the point where he started starring in those movies right or the tv show was just that he was a a straight-faced person obviously an airplane and stuff but like he was the reason they used him was because he was just like a straightforward yeah yeah it's i i'm i'm i love those naked gun movies so much that there's part of me can't be like this is gonna be to be bad because I really, I would want to see this be good. Um, right.

But we'll see. I mean, we'll see. But I guess the question I have is like, does this sensibility of comedy still make sense? Like the first naked guns seem pretty timeless to me, but, uh,

it'll, it'll be interesting because they, they haven't made something successfully with that sort of slapstick kind of surrealist sensibility in a long time. So I'm curious. I'm excited to see what they what it looks like. Yeah. I mean, look, he's he's apparently the Chippendales movie that he did. Rescue Rangers that people were like, oh, she was funny. funny and dude he did 11 episodes of i think you should leave so yeah

there's got to be a little bit of that if you're still overlapping with tim robinson you know so we will see but yeah i think it's over three seasons yeah we'll see we'll see we shall see um liam neeson like the main comedic work we've seen from him is the ricky gervais stephen merchant yeah life's too short life's too short yeah seeing some improvisational comedy let's do some improvisational comedy yeah um so google that yeah cool liam neeson improvisational comedy If you want a taste of what his comedic chops Might be like Alright

Pame Quent And it's time to pour one out for Nikki Haley She gone She gone I mean she didn't get swept So there's that She won Vermont.

Hey, there you go. Republican stronghold. Shout out Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. But yeah, and also Dean Phillips, I think, is also he finally he's like, yeah, all right, y'all. Time to time to fuck right off into the sunset, too. That's been my time. They've been giving me the light for the past seven months but nikki you know you did your darndest to unseat donald trump and you tried so hard and you got so far

but in the end it doesn't even matter because you did fuck all to actually differentiate yourself because you tried to be maga and not maga at the same time which is an impossible intellectual feat and yeah this is what happens um right but you did you did siphon a decent amount of voters away from trump but obviously not enough to change the momentum of the maga machine that thing is still rolling on yeah trump got 1,541 uh votes 1,000 1,541,000 votes hayley got 763,000 votes um so yeah it's uh not insignificant but how many of those people stick to their you know guns in november and be like i'm actually gonna vote third part no i don't think so i don't think so i can't see how many republicans would vote for joe biden but we we shall see um but yeah she did refuse to endorse donald trump so there's that um and said that he's gonna have to earn her supporters vote but again i think this just ends with her on like tv

or some revolving door job where she just makes a ton of money um hey so you built a brand you definitely built a brand nikki haley you built a brand what are you doing i'm joining the private equity industry um yeah oh shit um then also we got kirsten cinema she's officially also fucking right off into the Arizona sunset. What started as a Democrat and turned into some weirdo obstructionist independent has finally called time on her Senate career. And look, let's be real. Like she was her and Joe Manchin did a lot to fuck around with the Senate agenda. The beginning of the biden administration

she did she did do some good work on gun control we have to give her that um okay was working on closing like the boyfriend loophole where that said like you know if someone who's like a domestic abuser uh could keep their guns if they weren't married to their partner um so there was work done there but again she took a dump on minimum wage hikes and you know carried interest loopholes for millionaires she you know she just watered down the inflation reduction act we were all there for it so she's off and that means now it won't be a three horse race for the senate seat in arizona it'll just be ruben gallego and carrie lake and i believe i don't i think carrie lake is is i don't she says she's the governor of arizona and that election was stolen from her right so are we even having the reality differs on that one but yeah hey i don't

know no that's why the the incumbent kristin cinema couldn't couldn't even get enough to like be in the final race i think she knew just because dude she became so unlikable you know and they're like she didn't have money and no one was really fucking with but her like speech or she's like you know like i just need to get out of here like it's so like toxic like i just kind of like can't do this and it was like a very i don't know what's going on with you guys self-righteous changed yeah exactly like get the fuck out we're the ones who are fucked up another thing that may be a little bit so also north carolina their uh their candidate for governor on the republican side is a homophobic holocaust denier um but he is black and donald trump said you're martin luther king

times two um because yes martin luther king famous holocaust denier um so there's that going on uh there was also adam schiff in his pursuit of di-fi's senate seat um getting a lot of criticism because he basically elevated former dodger steve garvey um uh as the like you know republican candidate to crowd out like barbara lee and katie porter so he could just have like an easy run at a republican one yeah the downside to that is you're gonna you're gonna motivate all these republicans to come vote down ballot also with him on there in the Senate race, which means that could put the house, uh,

majority at risk for, I mean, potentially they're rather damp in the chances of the Democrats taking back the house because if Republicans overperform in like California, that could sway things in a wrong way. So a lot of people were like, nice, cynical fucking tactic loser. Um, so it was like millions he was running it was like an open election and then the top two vote getters

would yeah it's about a jungle primary in california yeah the top two no matter what so it could be two democrats whatever but yeah so he's like no no let me pay a ton of money to get steve garvey like had a vaporware campaign um so steve harvey's a republican former dodger pitcher is a yeah yeah yeah yeah cool i know first baseman first base first baseman that's right yeah one of the greats um one of the greats you are wearing your dodgers hat and to i am just to just to celebrate big garves you know what i mean that that is pretty crazy um all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary series dancing for the devil the 7m TikTok cult.

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point plan to quote increase safety and rider confidence in the subway system which has fallen victim to high profile crimes in recent months um and i think this is like after the conductor's neck was slashed in brooklyn uh and they're saying like if it were not for a doctor being on that train that person may have lost their life um so yes i guess the as the crime may be increasing uh we all know that the more police and militarized police is not the solution. Wait, what? Yeah. Just remind some reading I've been doing. You just need good

guy with knife. Yeah. You need you. Okay. You know, it's better than one bad guy with a knife. Forty five soldiers

with guns. Right. Shaking people down with a knife. Bag. Posing as just a chef. But then he comes through and is like,

you know, I'm going. I'm just on my way to my shift over a chef but then exactly through and is like yeah no i'm going i'm just on my on my way to my shift over a chef just a chef man leave me alone and then he cuts you with a credit card like in the glimmer man um but yeah this is i i don't know from what from just from the stuff i've read it sounds like maybe social services is probably a better thing to pour into when we're talking about like crime and things like that oh social services yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um but yeah this is just yeah many people uh are obviously rightly horrified uh by this because what an escalation when you now have like national guard uh and being like bag checks so that's's, yeah, it's a slippery slope. We'll see if that

policy reverses at all, but apparently this is part of a five-point plan, man, which is basically, all five of them mean just scare the fuck out of everybody. And maybe they'll do less crime? I don't know what the research says on that. Fortunately, New York doesn't have a history

of doing street level crime uh initiatives that harm people's civil rights they all go they all go well yeah they usually go pretty well we can we usually trust the nypd oh yeah yeah love a soldier love a soldier being dispatched to do things in our cities to stop crime. But yeah, hey, that's where we're at right now. Yeah. Also, pharma may be taking some else. Big pharma. Big pharma. So they've been basically trying to because of the In reduction act, like,

and saying that like, Hey man, like pharmaceutical makers have to come to the table to renegotiate prices. They've been in on a fucking legal campaign to try and have like these negotiations be ruled as unconstitutional. Um, and they faced another L now when they're like, nah, dude, we're not, we're not buying that. So because of that, they have come to the table, apparently, according to Xavier Becerra, Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had received first counter offers from pharmaceutical makers for all 10 of the drugs that are up for price negotiation. So we will see where that goes. But apparently they're like the fact that they're losing in their effort to not negotiate is, I guess, slowly bringing them to the negotiating table.

So that is that is news that can be seen as positive. It feels all feels very un-American, Miles. I don't I don't like it there. Yeah, these corporations are not getting a fair shake. I know. It feels anti-corporationist i know and they're losing kirsten cinema to a champion of the millies and billionaires so um yeah i guess this is just something you're gonna have you're just gonna have to charge normal prices rather than making

billions and billions of dollars yeah um because yeah that yeah that's a thing that deserves billions and billions of dollars in profit rather than just being like, I think we should be making drugs that help people for the good of humanity. But whatever. I'm sorry. I'm like, I'm on some hippie shit, dude. I lost my mind, bro, from the vaccine. Again, un-American.

We're going to have you looked into by the House Un-American. Activities Committee or whatever. What was that? What was house un-american activities committee was that communist was that like the red scare uh yeah un-american activities committee was yes uh from 1938 uh yeah until exactly i forget where the 60s or something like that all right um and finally we got some new Harry Styles fanfic just dropped a trailer for a new romcom

starring Anne Hathaway it's called The Idea of You which is basically like Notting Hill but with Anne Hathaway as Hugh Grant and a thinly veiled Harry Styles surrogate instead of Julia Roberts so it's like what if

ordinary everyday schlub fucked famous person but the ordinary everyday schlub is Anne Hathaway um so oh right yeah oh cause Julia Roberts is a celebrity in Notting Hill

yeah and Hugh Grant's a regular guy Hugh Grant is just a befuddled doofus and in Notting Hill? Yeah. And Hugh Grant's the regular guy. Hugh Grant is just a befuddled doofus. Up in Notting Hill. Got it. Then Julia Roberts accidentally fucks him and is like, whoa, actually I'm kind of into you. What a pleasant accident.

I actually really liked Notting Hill when I saw it. I haven't seen it since I was a teenager. I feel like that's one of those rom-coms people always say they love still. Yeah. Anne Hathaway plays a mom who takes her teenager to see a One Direction style band

and ends up hooking up with the lead singer. This is like this premise. I'm like, yeah, no. Absolutely, this movie. It's one of those premises where I'm like, how absolutely this movie um it's one of those premises where i'm like how does this movie not exist yet right yeah yeah i guess they tried it with owen wilson recently oh was that wilson and j-lo j-lo marry me marry me say yes dude that shit was so painful

you saw it i remember yeah i watched it i'm surprised i haven't watched that j-lo art house film yet i can't bring myself to do it after reading like this Vanity Fair piece about how all of her friends are like, don't make it, Jennifer. Are you talking about the Dunkin Donuts commercial with Ben Affleck? Is that the J-Lo art house film that you're talking about? No, dude. Were you there when we talked about it? How she's like, it looks like a gigantic Gucci ad, but it's like about like in her like love life. And it's like this like like fucking

um what's his face neil degrasse tyson is in it like sad guru the youtube fucking spiritual guy there's a bunch of weird ass cameos in it weird it's not yeah yeah yeah it's not many people are talking about it so don't think it had quite the effect but she's like i have to do this for me this is an expression of my experience in an artistic way and you're like dude you have too much money and too many people but apparently i guess not enough people telling you no because it sounded like a lot of her people around her like you probably shouldn't do this probably shouldn't do this don't do it did she direct it is that like the idea i mean she wrote it for sure. Like it's all entirely from her mind. Oh man.

I kind of have to see this now. No, like it's incredible. Yeah. It's pretty wild. Like, I mean, I don't think people are like fully tearing it down.

It's just like one of those things people aren't talking about at all. Yeah. Yeah. So this movie with Anne Hathaway kind of has like gone away a little bit, like hasn't been in stuff for a little while and now is returning playing a mother of a

teenage daughter whoa but it's based on a book that was rumored to have originated as Harry Styles fanfic

so somebody like wrote a book that was like and then I go to a Harry Styles concert and just like fuck Harry Styles wow Harry Styles sees and just like, fuck Harry Styles.

Wow. Harry Styles sees me in the crowd and it's on from that point forward. Yeah. It's funny because all the One Direction fans are just analyzing it forensically. And they're like, oh, yeah. These are all nods to 1D. Yep. Yep.

Got it all here. Look at the tattoos look at the looks that they're doing the costumes so yeah I appreciate that the Harry Styles fans like turned it into a best seller which just like shows support amongst

them you know they're like rather than being like this is exploiting Harry and like our fandom they're like nah than being like this is exploiting harry and like our fandom they're like nah we all want to fuck him and like thank you for doing this book where we get to live out the fantasy yeah so because what anne hathaway she's 41 okay so now that hollywood has deemed her mother now mother yeah and not in the fun way but uh maybe maybe in the phone yeah i've i've heard on a film podcast that i listened to blank check they were saying that they have like one of one of them is a film critic and has got to like screen an upcoming anne hathaway

picture that they're like that's anne hathaway is going to have a big 2024 so watch out you heard it here first do you they didn't get Harry Styles to play Harry Styles in this yeah would have been the thing that would have made this a massive hit could you imagine he's like trying to have a serious career like fuck it dude

let me just let me just kind of change the creative momentum here and just do a very like tongue-in-cheek. Like, yeah. To me, Harry Styles. That's Harry Styles. I mean, Hayes Campbell. Hayes Campbell.

That's the character's name. That's a fuckboy name for sure. Hayes Campbell. Hayes Campbell fucks. You got to watch out for that guy. Yeah, watch out, dude. He'll fucking take your mom. And halfway, watch out.

Guard your moms. He's Campbell. He's coming to town. He's playing three nights at SoFi. Shit is sold out. Well, good luck. Good luck to the fanfic. I hope it renders many fans happy.

I mean, Fifty Shades of Grey started as fanfic as a twilight fanfic so oh oh someone wanted to be tied up by edward or some shit yeah so like somebody was writing the thing about twilight that's it's very approachable you read that shit and you're like well i could certainly write this because uh yeah there's some wild wild passages in that but um yeah and so somebody wrote a like steamier more uh sexually explicit uh twilight and then it was so popular they just like changed the characters names and it became 50 shades well so there you go fanfic yeah zeitgang please write the fan ship jack and i together about two podcast co-hosts who fall in

love and leave their families to go on their their one thing they realize they want to do is sail around the world yes oh man just on the ss four and a half hours um four and a half hours four and a half hour long film lots of just three hours of exposition on uh i want to be played by chris hemsworth or like you know someone similarly built i want to be played by lil yadi hemsworth yeah hemsworth yadi Yachty. Hemsworth. Yeah. Hemsworth. Yachty. Also named Miles, I found out. So I think it'll work. And also named after a boat, which is where all the fucking takes place.

Hey, when the boat is a rocking, just look the other way, folks. Two podcasters doing them. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this wednesday afternoon we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other yep be kind to yourself get the vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy get it 200 times we will talk to y'all tomorrow bye bye Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. 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.

I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career.

That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.