The Daily Zeitgeist - Magic Zeit: The Last Trend 3/9: The Challenge, Mitch McConnell, Tucker Carlson, Mexican Cartel, Flight 370, Oscars

Episode Date: March 10, 2023

In this edition of Magic Zeit: The Last Trend, Jack and writer JM McNab discuss the first movie filmed in space "The Challenge", Mitch McConnell's concussion, Tucker Carlson wanting to invade Canada, an apology from a Mexican Cartel for the kidnapping of Americans, what ACTUALLY happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the incipient (and insipid) Oscars!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Magic Zeit, the last trend short show title courtesy of Johnny Davis and super producer Anna Hosnia's current obsession with the Magic Mike live show. Yeah, she has informed me that I need to take my wife to it as soon as possible to give her life, I'm told. So, yeah, but just a rave from super producer Ana Hosnia. Like, you know,

multiple text messages, just like there's a story there and there's, they really tie it all together. Channing Tatum might be a genius. I think she talked about this yesterday also, but, um, it's the momentum has not flagged,

uh, in terms of her excitement about the live show. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined by the co-host for today's trend, writer for TDZ. It is J.M. McNabb. Hello. Thanks for having me. Hi. I also think you should take your wife to go see Magic Mike live for the record.

Yeah. You were saying were saying sure what a real man looks like before we started recording that's exactly what i said when you said it has a story i'm just imagining like it brought me right back to like when ninja turtles had that live show and like they had to defeat shredder with the power of keytars yeah i imagine i didn't catch that one uh but i've caught uh the paw patrol live show with my kids and the the storyline there seems to have been conceived of in three minutes um a perfunctory is what i screamed as i was watching it in the theater theater i said this is not theater the story is perfunctory the music numbers are blah drab uninspired skip uh i yelled at uh rubble who was djing the the set um for some reason he

was a dj all of a sudden yeah really give me a break oh's bullshit come on man this guy's a construction worker you think he's all of a sudden a DJ no offense to construction workers but I don't think you can be DJs alright JM let's get into the trends shall we also shout out to Johnny Davis still out

here giving us short show titles that are always great thank you Johnny Davis no thank you russia is what i'm saying on behalf of tom cruise so there's a story that tom cruise is planning to make a movie in the international space station uh aided by a ride from spacex uh just all our favorite brands coming together scientology uh whatever elon Elon Musk's cult is going to be called. We talk about his plan for a company town in Texas, aka Commune, on tomorrow's episode.

But the hope was he was going to be the first person to film a movie in space. I was not hopeful because my feeble brain could not think of the right premise for a movie filmed in space that tom cruise would be on board with like it just yeah it's hard to run and yeah in the space station but so i watched the trail so the none of the stories that russia beat him to it they filmed a movie on the space station. Um, they just released a trailer and I am fully on board with the trail. The trailer looks really good.

I was wrong to doubt this idea. Um, it looks cool. Uh, it's called the challenge. Um, and it is just an episode of MTV is the challenge in space. Yeah.

Just recreated line for line johnny bananas um so it's a great premise this is what the premise should have been this is what the premise that my brain should have come up with but i think i think the presence of tom cruise stopped it but it's basically a astronaut on or a cosmonaut in this case on the space station gets badly injured can't be transported back down to earth without you know harming him needs emergency surgery and so they need to send a team of you know needle nose doctors up into space it's like armageddon if armageddon's plot made sense yeah because like yeah that's the thing they always say about armageddon it's like why don't they just train astronauts to to drill

instead of vice versa but like you're not gonna ben affleck said to michael bay on the set of armageddon he said uh michael bay real quick just a quick question why wouldn't they teach astronauts who are notoriously quick learners how to how to drill um and michael bay said ben shut the fuck up and that was that was the entirety of the conversation and then ben affleck got drunk and did the dvd commentary and told that story to be fair like on the set like wearing a space suit is not the time to bring up that complaint that's a good point um but anyways uh yeah this this makes sense this is like you couldn't probably teach an astronaut to be a like expert surgeon in the space of a couple days right or you know however quickly they need

to get them up there um and the space footage looks really cool like it looks great it looks super cool uh i mean i didn't understand what anyone was saying uh so maybe i did not either it might just be nonsense i don't know but uh but it looked cool yeah like i mean you can actually see like you have that visceral feeling when they look at like the the window and you see earth and and yes it's cool i mean yeah the bar has been raised for tom cruise to do something crazy in space even crazier than this yeah and also russia is apparently going to leave the international space station project in 2024. So a farewell letter. Maybe that's also why it's going to be good.

Cause it's not going to be like propaganda. It's just going to be like, well, we did, you know, we're leaving anyway. Let's just, we're not fans of this,

but yeah, probably not. It'll be interesting to see how they treat any astronauts that are aboard. If they're just like, fuck these guys, they're just like shotgunning beers and space and do the other astronauts even know it's a movie like are they just kind of making it like borat or something he just went up there with a camera that's a good point

um mitch mcconnell uh was concussed in a fall uh is in hospital as they would say in the uk to fall, is in hospital, as they would say in the UK. And there's not really much to say about that. Was it the USA Today was like, what is a concussion? Yeah. That was their headline, which is interesting. Who is reading USA Today, checking in the news about Mitch McConnell and doesn't know what a concussion is? I don't understand who this headline is for.

Amazing. All right. We wanted to talk about, uh, Tucker Carlson's continued obsession with your country, your homeland, Canada. Yeah.

Because he recently suggested in his fun way where he's like joking, not joking that America should invade Canada. Yeah yeah which was the premise of a john candy movie yeah it doesn't seem like yeah the best idea it's based on a viral video like because he's just like racist tosh.0 i guess you know uh some bigoted piece of shit in a goofy hat came to disrupt a drag queen story hour at a Calgary public library and was escorted out because he refused to stop screaming and refused to leave and, you know, was screaming about the homosexual agenda, which talk about things that aren't appropriate for children to be around um you know he just made it a horrifying situation for everyone and was escorted out and tucker carlson thought the treatment of him was rough enough that he should suggest starting a war your thoughts jam as as the official spokesperson for canada yes uh well i mean it's just so stupid it's extra stupid because it's like yeah he had this like chiron on the say chiron i've never said that right uh saying you know like canada's become this uh authoritarian like atheist uh state because i

guess this guy's like the pastor of some you know right-wing ridiculous sect of whatever but anyway so saying like yeah like he he framed it as like in canada if you believe in jesus they will throw you out of a library and rough you up you know it's like well no this fucking guy like is going in you know screaming about the homosexual agenda yelling at kids who are just trying to have a story right to them i mean and even like putting aside all of the bigoted shit he said and how like obviously repulsive this guy is like you can't go in and just start yelling in a library right like even if this is how i expect to be treated if i yell in a library about anything it's not like yeah it's not this authoritarian state yell about anything else in a library

they'll probably ask you not to like yeah and they might if you continue doing so after they tell you to stop screaming about ice cream, like they will probably, you know, forcibly remove you from the premises. It's just so stupid, but it does seem like, cause yeah, he also, he like straight up in another show said that Tucker Carlson, I mean, suggested invading Canada because it's become Cuba. It suggested invading Canada because it's become Cuba. And I think one of the NDP MPs here wanted a formal condemnation. The NDP is the sort of left-leaning political party here.

Sure. So it's being noticed. I think it does seem like it's the trucker convoy has kind of like broken his brain attention yeah yeah and he's trying to like keep that keep that uh vibe going it was the trucker convoy officially a vibe for sure right exactly but it's like yeah it's like trying trying to have that you know apply the uh the misconceptions he had to have that, you know, apply the, uh, the misconceptions he had about that story to, you know, a guy being thrown out of a small library in Calgary. Yeah.

This is, uh, this is a direct quote. Why are we not sending an armed force North to liberate Canada from Trudeau? And I mean it. Um, but that's how, you know, funny people are joking as they say and i mean it um yeah but he just generally i mean i don't it'll be interesting to see how his show continues on as like these leaks of him being like yeah trump is worthless and bad for the republican party and i don't believe in any of this are revealed. And then every night on a show, he's like, we should start a civil war. The election was rigged after more

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We didn't mean to do this. A direct quote from the letter. We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events who at all times acted under their own decision making and lack of discipline and you know those individuals had gone against the cartel's rules which include respecting the life and well-being of the innocent so some major league ass covering coming from this drug cartel but it's just wild that they have like a pr strategy i guess yeah do you think they have like their own stationary to pen apology no it's from them because look at the stationary heading it's a wild story uh obviously a tragic one um there is a new net Netflix docuseries about Malaysia flight MH370,

which is the plane that vanished almost a decade ago. So it's a documentary. It seems to be coming from the thesis that nobody knows what happened here. I, for my money, I feel like we do know what happened here because of that evident. we covered this back a long time ago um on tdz but they found evidence like the pilot of the flight had a flight simulator in his home and he had done the exact flight that he like that the plane that they suspected the plane based on like transponders and everything. That was the last flight simulation he flew.

So the theory is that he was suicidal and decided to take an entire plane full of people with him and had planned to do it, had flown the flight simulation, and then because he had turned off the transponders and depressurized the plane which would have knocked all the uh passengers out that's why it was like so silent and so mysterious um and then you know you crash it and like most of the earth is ocean and so the fact that like nobody found the plane's wreckage is not all that strange,

but it seems like they are like the, the Washington post article about this, like could be a piece of, you know, sponsored content from the documentary. Cause it's like, there's a lot of like, I did a search for the word like flight simulator,

because that seems to be the key piece of evidence that like answers the mystery. Like it's pretty, it's a pretty big smoking gun that he had flown the exact flight as his last, not like at one point over the course as his last simulation. But like, they don't talk about that because I guess it takes away from the mystery

and you know, you don't want to spoil your big docuseries. Well, I found one, there's one review I found that says, I guess there's like three episodes. Okay. In the first episode,

they addressed that theory that it was like a, a murder suicide. But then it says in episode two, they go into the ill supportedsupported theory involving the russian government sure and then it says in episode three they uh present a conspiracy that the plane was destroyed by the american government so that the chinese wouldn't get their hands on certain technology so i guess it's like a different premise in each and they get less and less plausible as it goes on for some reason well at least they open with the one that actually makes sense but yeah it is a

favored conspiracy theory area i am not anti-conspiracy theories i'm just i don't think people should waste their time on conspiracy theories that seem to be pretty clear cut but yeah oh and it says they do a fourth episode and the fourth episode is just the the whole show of lost they just start playing lost yeah it turns out they were in purgatory the whole time um all right and then the oscars are happening this weekend there's a weird story about how like zelinski wanted to come and wasn't allowed to come i guess yeah i guess he wanted to like zoom in make an appearance and they were like no thank you sir we've we've had plenty which is apparently was the case last year as well but i don't remember hearing that at the time that he asked

to be a part of the telecast and they said no yeah um which seems like it seems like the kind of weird tone-deaf thing that the oscars would yeah do so it's kind of i don't know why um it was counter to their nature to do something that suggests that they're like we're not the center of the world we're not uh important enough to like. We're not, uh, important enough to like, cause I, I remember there was a story in the early days of the war that like Robert De Niro was trying to get the Linsky to like come to his Tribeca film festival.

It was like, this is like when, as he is at the height of trying to like Marshall, uh, an actual war like day to day, they were like, what if we, what if you came through and

like introduced this docu-series well he did they said he just did like he just did a similar thing at the berlin film festival so he's making he's doing he's making the festival right yeah he's i don't think he's like has a short or anything i think he's just uh you know uh talking about the war i guess but it is weird this like yeah it's all kind of entertainment venues that like what would he do with the oscars like he's gonna come and he's really invested in tar winning yeah he's a huge tar head uh and yeah he um i don't know we'll talk more about like what's expected to win and stuff like that on Tomorrow's Trending. Do you have a personal pick?

Or a personal favorite? I mean, I think, like I was telling you before, I do love everything everywhere all at once. In another world, it would be the underdog. It would be nominated and be like, how did this weird movie that came out

last March get nominated? We're rooting for that be like oh how did this weird movie that came out last march get nominated like we're rooting for that but it's it's in this weird position where it's kind of the favorite to win it has the most nominations and there's you know there's a sense i think about like the oscars nominate movies that aren't cool it's not cool to win the oscars it's usually like the lame movie wins and the cool movie doesn't win uh or it's neglected and and or not nominated but i know i just love that movie and i i actually do hope it hope it wins yeah it feels like my experience with the oscars is not letting my brain accept that it will because it does feel like the right movie to win it's definitely the movie of the year in terms of like being this breakthrough hit like critically beloved like audiences loved it and in the same

way that my brain is not letting me believe that there's not going to be like a 20 minute interview between sean penn and zielinski in the middle of it like it's like wait what why are they making the right decision here um so i don't want to give them too much credit. So it's like it's a false story to set you up. Right, exactly. And then we surprise them because Putin reads Deadline. And then Best Picture is like, oh, it was a write-in for, they gave it to Green Book again.

Yeah, like too many Green Books for me to fully trust that they're going to give it to the right movie here. But we'll see. All right, JM. Well, we will let you get back to defending your nation from invasion by Tucker Carlson. Thank you. I'm fashioning a bayonet out of pipe cleaners, just in case.

There you go. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me on Twitter at JMMcNab again. Amazing. Well, that's going to do it for us this afternoon. 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. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll talk to you all tomorrow.

Bye. white supremacy, and we'll talk 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 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-Gadson.

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