The Daily Zeitgeist - No ReasTrend To Get ExZeited 10/25: Mike Johnson, Magic Mushroom Pilot, Concert Movies, Richard Roundtree, Chucky

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

In this edition of No ReasTrend To Get ExZeited, Jack and Miles discuss the new Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, the off-duty pilot who tried to turn off plane engines mid-flight ruining mushrooms for everyone, the incipient Concert Film boom, the passing of Richard Roundtree, and the REAL origins of Chucky!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's courtesy of Max R on the Discord. Wow. A little all along the watchtower. Yeah. No Reez Trends to get ex-cited. Max R. Who did it better? Who did it better?

Yeah. Me or Jimmy. Who do you think? Wait, wasn't it... Wait, Bob Dylan wrote it, right? Bob Dylan wrote it. Jimmy performed it. And so did Dave Matthews Band, which I have to admit, Wait, Bob Dylan wrote it, right? Bob Dylan wrote it. Jimmy performed it.

And so did Dave Matthews Band, which I have to admit, I'm a little more familiar with the Dave Matthews Band live performance of it from Live at the Red Rock. Did he really be like, there must be some way out of here? Like, is that like the Dave Matthews version? Exactly. There must be somewhere out of here. Out of here. Said the Joker to the thief. Wow. Alright.

Don't worry, he's trying to get excited. Yeah. He likes to go high-low. The man has vocal range. They're not having any vocal range. He's got funny high-low. The man has vocal range. They're not having any vocal range. He's got funny voice vocal range. He's doing Muppet voices up there.

And God bless, you know? Yep. 40,000 drunk teenagers can't be wrong. Nope. They never can be. Never. Did we say who we are? No, I think we were just...

I mean, I'm Bob Dylan. And you're Jimimmy hendrix i'm david matthews and these well these miles are some things that are uh trending um they got them they got a speaker baby they did it folks they settled on someone who had all of the requisite qualities to be the republican speaker of the house. Insurrectionist. Check. Uh, Islamophobe.

Check. Uh, homophobe. Oh yeah. Xenophobe. Oh yeah. Uh, weed hater. Check. This guy.

Weed hater even. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's the typical thing of like marijuana will make you... The first puff is marijuana, the second one is heroin! Mike Johnson from Louisiana who some people describe as just Jim Jordan in a suit.

He wears glasses. He looks boring. It really feels like they have... That is the calculation. He's far right extremist but he looks like he's not maybe he looks like just a lawyer which he is a lawyer um and in fact was like one of the big proponents of getting republicans behind trump's uh attempt to overturn the 2020 election so So this guy, again, he's got the requisite qualities. Again, his character,

check, lower than snake nipples. Lower than snake nipples, that boy from Louisiana. We'll see what this guy does. Oh, it's not going to be good miles. It's just going to be fucking chaos. But hey, they came together. And who knows how long he will last?

Yeah. It feels like it's just pure exhaustion, embarrassment. They heard people repeatedly saying, wow, they really seem like their party might be on the verge of collapse. They can't even vote for someone. And they were like, why don't we get behind the worst, the worst one who kind of looks like he's not a crazy person. So,

yeah, I mean, it's, this is like, he was also, remember the time of like expunging Donald Trump's like record and shit. He was like one of the people pushing for that. So,

yep. Uh, there it is. So we'll see what's, what's what we'll see how little is done and who knows if there's a shutdown coming up but hey uh the republicans speaker they said you want some coke there it is there it is and threw a handful of coke on the ground um that's a reference to the departed just so people the pilot uh who turned off the engine the fuel uh supply to the engine off-duty pilot off-duty off-duty pilot he was not the pilot of the plane he was off-duty

he was sitting in the jump seat trying to turn off fuel to the engine he was having a mental health crisis um but the thing people are focusing on is that he had taken what is being described by cnn as magic mushrooms these things are magic yeah i mean yeah it's every headline cnn off-duty pilot accused of trying to shut off airliners engine mid-flight he took quote magic mushrooms 48 hours before nbc off-duty alaska airlines plane pilot said he took magic mushrooms 48 hours before allegedly trying to shut down the plane pilot who allegedly tried to shut off engines hadn't this is a better one from ABC News, which is, I think, a little more important. Pilot who allegedly tried to shut off engines hadn't slept in 40 hours.

Yeah, that'll do you. Because it's funny, too. In that CNN article where they're like, hey, man, the magic mushrooms. They talked to a fucking like like a substance expert who's like, yeah, they the psilocybin probably wouldn't have been in his system like that. Forty 48 hours later right like anything it's it's not like you know it's like alcohol it's like your body processes it and then you're not drunk anymore but yeah maybe things can linger along with the fact that he said he was like i think having some kind of like panic attack too but everyone's going all

in on the shrooms well yeah and it's not great but it's not great to do psilocybin when you're going through a mental health crisis which it seems like this person did um so yeah all around uh scary story but i don't don't don't blame the psilocybin yeah it feels like that this could be used to like kind of throw water on a lot of exciting research being done into clinical uses for psilocybin i'm guessing he did not do it uh clinically would be no no probably a macro dose yes as well but yeah like oh here's one big pharma news.com psilocybin almost killed a plane full of airline passengers seeing that that sounds like that sounds like a headline they would write that's right uh all right should we be getting ready

for a concert film boom miles are oh should we people are people are telling me uh that's what i'm hearing from the hollywood reporter okay first news source that i check every morning every morning um but yeah following the success of the Aris tour movie, industry analysts are expecting there will be a boom in concert films. We also have Beyonce's Renaissance tour movie, which was already scheduled to come out in December. I think a big part of what we're seeing here is that the artists are working directly with AMC and

theater chains and are in turn receiving in excess of 50% of box office grosses. Yo, that's good for them. That's a deal. And shout out. I love that AMC is like, Oh yeah,

yeah, yeah. We can just split that. I mean, yeah, we'll do 60, 40, 40.

Cause we know what we're not doing anything except distribution. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. just split that. We'll do 60-40. We're not doing anything except distribution. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dolly Parton is going to be releasing her album. She's having a first listen event with a couple behind-the-scenes video film things

for an upcoming album. So it's a listening party in video form? In movie theaters wow i don't know like seeing people dancing down in front of the screen at the eras tour like just being like this is not like we shouldn't be having a conversation about movie etiquette because this is not a movie going experience in any traditional sense this is like using a movie theater for a different thing yeah it's kind of cool like it hey look there's a dance floor down right in front of the screen um i do feel like the i've had this thought before and now it seems like it's like kind of happening that like the

movie theater is an underutilized space like for sure. To only use this big public viewing thing with wildly expensive projection and sound systems only to show movies that just came out. of the movies that are available for people to watch, uh, which itself like movies are a tiny fraction of the audio visual entertainment that's available for people to watch and enjoy and experience. Like, you know, there are obviously like the anniversary re-releases and revival theaters

that show old movies, but it feels like that could be something that would be used more mainstream. Like it, I could see a world in like 10 years. We're looking back and being like, why did most theaters only show a tiny like sliver of like three movies that had just come out?

Like that feels weird to me. Why not like have people who are great curators have like proven themselves to be great curators, like programming your theater on a regular basis. Yeah. And I think like, and not just like to the point where it doesn't have to be just film like i'm always like yeah if when there's like a big like you know like a like world cup or something like that happening was like why don't you just open up like why don't you could pack that theater out if people want to just watch a game in there because look it's basically a giant fucking tv

so if you look at it that way you could do all kinds of different shit in there because look it's basically a giant fucking tv so if you look at it that way you could do all kinds of different shit in there not just being like hey come watch yeah you know i think we've like toyed with that before but now seems to be now that like all of these you know different uh economic like structures that have ruled uh how entertainment works for the past six decades are like breaking down and you know not not always for the better it feels like this could be a way for people to just like work directly with theaters and you know use the natural abilities of movie theaters to like right things cool or like what if you went and you could watch like the first three episodes of like watchmen you know like in a theater and just kind of take it in that i mean like i feel like there's so many

ways you could just like revive things that a ton of people liked and be like hey hey you want to see that except in a theater yeah as like victor's super super producer victor's playing what about super smash bros tournament in a movie theater yeah you know people come out for shit like that i'd go and fucking play fifa probably in a movie the problem is i can't really. tournament in a movie theater? Yeah. You know, people come out for shit like that. I'd go and fucking play FIFA probably in a movie. The problem is I can't really turn up in a movie theater. That's the other thing. That would be, you know, nice if they made it, like, truly, like, an all-purpose venue. It's like, yeah, you can drink in there.

You can eat in there. Yeah. Do whatever you want to do. That was one, like, we sometimes will rent out a theater and watch a movie like as a team you know hang hang and like it the big thing that is fun about that is like you can just talk out out loud you know and be and be obnoxious you're in the living room yeah with your friend because you know that your friends are as obnoxious as you are yeah and then you're like wait did you guys hear that what i just said about elvis everybody shut the fuck up i just said a funny thing about elvis yeah um it's nicole nicole

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Yeah, my battery's going down. Switch his batteries out. I could care less about the podcast. I know, Joe. I just want to kiss you. Yeah, I know. You just want to kiss me. Let's get you to your bed. So you I know. You just want to kiss me. I know. I know.

Let's get you to your bed. So you did a little dive into where this comes from. I mean, more so, I just came across a headline about the origin story of the Chucky movies. And I guess at first, a lot of fans thought the Chucky doll was based on this story about someone called Robert the Haunted Doll, and a boy named robert was given a doll by like one of his like like maids that like worked for his family and obviously this doll was cursed with voodoo because the maid wanted to get payback against the family for mistreating her i'm like hold on that might be the story more so than blaming the doll like y'all y'all were mistreating mistreating your domestic workers yeah um and yeah but apparently like this doll was like haunted would move and yell and shit and do

all kinds of freaky shit however that is not the reason we have the chucky movies apparently the guy who came up with the film don mancini which is not like a made-up mob character um he came up for the idea because of like the cabbage patch kids boom that was going on yeah and like in 19 i didn't realize i knew they were they were like popular but did you know there was like then like they called they called it the cabbage patch kid riots yeah because parents were so like so turnt up trying to get their hands on cabbage patch kids one of my first pop culture memories is my older sister being like it being a huge deal when she finally got her Cabbage Patch Kids. Yo, this is what I just want to play a clip from 1983, like a local news clip in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where they talk about how like it's the fucking it's just turn up city at the toy store.

This Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvanialvania store the pushing and shoving began one woman was knocked to the floor and suffered a broken leg this guy's like yelling he's got a stick and he's like fighting customers back this scene has been repeated in hundreds of stores across the country that advertise the cabbage patch kids the cabbage patch anyway it's just funny these dolls look like shit they cut to a close-up of the doll the doll looks like absolute shit listen how this reporter actually describes how like whack the cabbage doll is our dolls about 16 inches high they don't walk talk wet their pants or grow hair they don't do much of anything okay they don't go peepee or sleep thing that was cool about them is they

give you adoption papers when you get the cabbage patch doll right right right yeah exactly so that was like cool that's that's the backdrop against which this guy came up with the idea so and his whole thing was like he wanted to be sort of like a tale about how consumerism and advertising it can like lead to bad things because in the movie right it's about getting like one of these good guys dolls but the mom is so desperate in getting it she got to like just buy like a janky one from a dude on the street which ends up being the murderous chucky doll yeah so yeah it turns out his dad was in advertising so from like a very young age he always like looked at these like commercials and the way things were marketed and was like this is

fucked up. There's a soullessness to it. What if you build that soullessness with the soul of a serial killer? Boom. Boom. Yeah. Tale as old as time, you know? Yeah, absolutely.

But truly, the clip that we just showed or that we just watched, the person working at this store during the cabbage patch kid craze was having a complete like he's screaming at the top of his lungs yeah he's like left his body and is just it looks like he's like he's trying to protect his family from like a wolf pack attack yeah like with like a with like a stick he's like get the fuck back it's a close on it's a close-up on his face if they had pulled back and he was swinging a torch

around at people like that that would have felt like it covered covered off on like the energy he was giving there's one more clip i just want to play like towards the end of that report where they're asking like how it's just become like it's set off a collectible boom and they ask like this one older woman who's like in her 70s like about it and she's like i hate it i don't like them i don't like them i don't like their faces but i want one i don't like their faces, but I want one. I don't like them. So I always assumed it was a comment on the My Buddy dolls.

Do you remember those? Yeah. My Buddy. That song is fully burnt into the neuropathways of my brain. And that's kind of who chucky looks like right like yeah yeah yeah it's like it's all yeah yeah yeah there's like like all of those things kind of swirl together to to create the the chucky as we know it yeah i mean i think there's also like

something about the nature of consumerism and that instead of having friends, you have a toy that is a friend that fills in for this human connection that we used to have and for something unnatural to slip in there and that unnatural thing to be the soul of a dead serial killer who got shot on top of a doll.

Exactly. Is that what happens? He gets shot in a doll factory or something and then yeah he like and he uses voodoo to put his soul in the doll after like a cop gets him yeah yeah so he can avoid it can avoid accountability but yeah it's uh but it's true i mean like you think about the 80s man like this we were just doing that shit no but i mean like we were bombarded with commercials and ads that made you feel like a total dick if you didn't have a teddy ruxpin or a fucking glow worm or some shit so i you know i i see i see that part and i didn't have a fucking glow worm or a fucking teddy ruxpin that's why

i'm all fucked in the head now that's right you're twisted man i'm real twisted freak man I never had no glow worm I'm sick gonna kill bad temper those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday October 25th 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 will talk to y'all tomorrow bye bye k hasn't heard from her sister in seven years i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do what was that that was live audio of a woman's nightmare.

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