The Daily Zeitgeist - Owner Of A Trending Heart 2/25: Trump Bruise, 'Conclave', Bernie Sanders, Hot Air Balloon Mile-High Club, StroidWatch, Barney The Dinosaur

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

In this edition of Owner Of A Trending Heart, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss the President's new bruise, the Pope being in a 'Conclave' type situation, Bernie's 'Fighting Oligarchy' Tour, the hot air balloon mile-high club, a StroidWatch update, an update on Daniel Kaluuya's new Barney the Dinosaur movie and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the Internet and welcome to this episode of owner of a trending heart, courtesy of Hanaramic View on the Discord. Owner of a lonely heart is the original way that that one goes. But I did not know what they were saying in that song. It's hard to tell. It's one of those it's it's opaque. Anyways my name is Jack O'Brien I'm thrilled to be joined by Blake Wexler! This is Blake Wexler aka It's Wexual Yeah. And that's what I got for you.

Oh no. I said it was gross before it even got fully disgusting. The way, it was just the way your voice turned. Can I tell you something sad? No, no, God. My legs are small. They got small. That's so sad.

They got small. I got small on your ass. They got really small because I didn't work them out for a few days. Oh, my God. Just a few days. They're so small, buddy. But I'm going to get a lot of new outfits that make them look bigger, and then I'm going burst through my pants you wait you wait. It's just your it's just your thighs are small your thighs look like

Yes, but your calves look like Popeyes forearms. They do they do they do it's a clarify They're doing most of the work right now. I I'm walking as if like, like a horse on its hind legs, basically with that agility. But if you come see me at that, you can't, you see them when they like, yeah, when they rear back, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of like that, but walking. Yeah. God, I love horses. Makes sense. Philadelphia Eagles fan, we've seen your special relationship to horses

as a fan base. It's very complicated. It's incredibly complicated. How much time do you have? Like international relations, it's that complicated. Blake, thank you so much for joining, filling in four miles. Well, he is a traveling.

Should we tell the people some of the stuff that is trending? I think this is the right time to do that and I would appreciate it if you did it because I don't want to. Okay. Yeah. I don't have it in front of me.

It's like just trying to stretch as well as long as possible before we have to talk about the news. And especially today, because we have bad news, there's a large bruise on our president's hand. And people think it might be a bruise from an IV port. And we're just worried about him. You know, mysterious bruising is how we lost Mitch McConnell, you know, like first bruise start appearing then Mitch McConnell powered down in the middle of a sentence for 90 seconds and has to be escorted off stage and then a mere Two years later. He's resigned. So we just don't wanna see this sort of thing

from our dear leader. This is different because the bruises for Mitchell were on his brain primarily. And I think- They were closer to his brain for sure. It was like his neck and face. Yeah. Right. Well, those are the ones visible to the human eye.

Yeah, yeah. Got it. And President Well, those are the ones visible to the human eye. Yeah. Got it. And President Trump, I can't imagine, it couldn't have been an IV like to harm that man, that strong beefy strong man. He must have been shot in the hand for something like that. It's not an IV. We see how quickly he heals from a bullet wound to the ear. Jesus. Yes. Man's got elephant skin, to quote Brian, the editor. He he claims that he has a bruise on his hand from shaking hands all day every day. Is that true? Yeah, that's what they're saying. I just say something else.

Yeah. Now, fuck it. We'll just go with the like that. The point is, and I wish it hadn't taken me eight years to ten years to get that. This is the point. The point is to say something that makes us say, what does he think we're stupid? Or, you know, like that that's an insult to our intelligence. That is the point. It is his point is to insult your intelligence, and then you talk about it, and then all of his supporters are like,

look at the fucking triggered libs. And then in the meantime, he's done 75 of the most fucked up things you could imagine, and you can't catch up, and then he has a little bruise again, and says something weird about it. And then a new bruise appears. He says, sorry, I have elephant titus,

and it's like, did he mean elephant skin? What is he talking about? And then he's shut down. On to the next one. Yeah. Elephant tusks. Did you get the ones that I sent you in the mail? By the way.

They're in both those posters too. That was such a kind gift that you gave. Of course, you were going through a tough time and I sent you both. Yeah. Anyways, we're just, you know, thoughts and prayers go out to the big man and also to Il Papa because the Pope is in critical condition. The world waits on the edge of its seat because he had double pneumonia and

People were like I didn't know that was a thing he's currently in critical condition and I This is an incredible tie-in to the Oscar campaign for conclave I don't know if you guys watched conclave. Did you watch conclave of course and I wanted we'll finish your thought I want I want to come back just that like this is an amazing Well, I I thought conclave was a great time of the movies But now I'm thinking about it regularly because it's actually happening, you know

It's actually about to happen and I do think that there are like there've been some good long read articles about like the internal battle for the Catholic Church and like how You know, this is the liberal pope, you know, right this guy Yeah, and like the the other pope was Like the previous pope was conservative Nazi pope, Nazi youth pope, I should say. And like, I think there's a lot of people just waiting in the wings like, oh yeah, we're going to take this shit back to the dark ages, homie. That is a brutal thing I haven't thought about, but now am.

And my wife and I did see Conclave. And I think you might be able to relate to this where your partner knows you so fucking well at this point Yeah, even a slightly different Diction or manner of speaking they're like what the fuck is going on with you where I was thinking in my head that exact Thing of like there might be another conclave soon is what I wanted to say to her because she hadn't heard about the pope yet but the way it came out where I was like, it was in the morning and I just go, the Pope is very sick, he might not make it.

Which is not how I would ever talk to her about a Pope. The Pope is quite sick, he might not make it. It's just like, okay, fucking weirdo. But the way I would talk about that is like, oh, there might be another conclave because, you know, the pope is going through something right now is how I talk. Remember, we saw conclave. Well, that might be. Yeah. Yeah.

But instead, I put my hand on her shoulder and I said, that hope is quite sick. You spoke like a telenovela. Right. You spoke like a like a eighth grade Spanish language translation. The pope is very sick. Do you know where the bookstore is? Yes. Yeah. Bernie Sanders is on a coast to coast tour of town hall events dubbed fighting oligarchy. This appears, you know, this is as other Democrats are busy doing, uh, unclear.

Nothing. Yeah. Um, yeah. So he, he is, you know, we, I think we were like, all right, so now it's time to see who's going to step up. Can't be Bernie because he's 97 and just like, you know, burned a lot of goodwill by being pro Israel and pro Biden. It's gonna be Bernie guys. There's nobody else. It turns out it's a that's that's the only one who's like seeing this and being like, this is bad. As of right now, maybe maybe he will show the Democratic Party that there's a lot of energy there.

What he seems to be doing is going to particularly conservative areas and having town halls and where he talks about how oligarchy, bad, kind of un-American, kind of against the thing that you guys seem to be so into here in these red areas of the country. And when he does that, thousands of people are turning out, like they're, you know, having to turn people away because there's so many people. And yeah, he just seems to be the only person who's actually being able to like fight through the demoralization and frustration actually being able to like fight through the demoralization and frustration among you know, the people who actually are affiliated with the Democratic Party.

The guy, you know, he puts his money where his mouth is, you know, or unfortunately, it manifested with the pro Israel stuff recently. But unfortunately, you know, like eight. I did say unfortunately. Right. Yeah. Yeah. OK, good. Yeah, I seconded that. Okay, thank God. So, but then, you know, 85% of the time, 90% of the time, you know, the guy, he's the workhorse that no one wants to ride.

Yeah. You know? So I was like, all right, he's not running for anything. It's not like, oh, you know, if I, if I go to Nebraska, some conservative part of Nebraska, I will get a 80th term in Vermont. You know, like there's, he really is just doing it because nobody fucking else, nobody else seems to be willing to do it. Yeah.

There's no presidential run coming. He's just chugging along. Yeah. I, so, uh, you know, Jacobin went to one of these rallies and spoke to some of the attendees who? Seem to be and this is gonna surprise you fed up with the Democrats quote pathetic non-response to Trump there it is I don't what if what's those people's problem? Yeah, I do think if I had to guess if I know my

I do think if I had to guess, if I know my Democratic party, they are going to respond to this by being like, the challenge has been set. Let's go out there and fight. No, they're going to be like, Bernie Sanders can go fuck himself. How do we fight this? How do we undermine this? How do we fight Bernie Sanders? Yes. How do we fight this movement that he is showing us how to build? Would be my guess. I don't know. But what the fuck do I know? All right, here's a fun one, Blake.

Yeah, good, good, good, good. You ever seen this mile high club? You ever heard about this? You seen this? Fucking in the old airplane. Yes, the old airplane. this? You see this? Ah, fucking in the old airplane. Yes. The old airplane. So there's apparently a hot air balloon that is allowing you to join the mile high club because I guess the airline industry is too scared. That's right. And so this hot air balloon company will take you up so you can make sure is the don't ask don't tell policy of American Airlines not good enough for you. Thank you. Permission.

Oh my God. It is such a weird like I want an official ticket on an official certificate that I did this. I this sounds way more unnerving to me than the airplane. It's like they took a problem nobody was having with the idea of like, you know, joining the mile high club. It's just like a dumb thing that I think appeals to like, I guess, like teenagers before they've had sex is what I feel like it is.

Yeah, like, oh, that would be sick. And then feel like it is Yeah, like oh that would be sick and then you have sex and like no that would be very Uncomfortable I prefer a bed right This yeah, they're like, alright, so everybody wants to join the mile high club But it doesn't like swing around enough and it's not freezing cold when you do it. How do we fix that? Um, and also I had never really thought about, I've never been in a hot air balloon. Have you ever been? No, no. When I think about it all, it makes me sad. It makes me so horny. Yeah. Yeah.

But Brian, the editor was talking about how the idea of being in a hot air balloon and looking up into the hot air balloon and seeing nothing and you're like a mile high would be terrifying. I've never really thought about that, but that, that would freak me the fuck out. The scariest thing to me is that I'd try to fuck the balloon. Yeah. It's just see this big billowy pillowy. Yeah. I have to stop talking about it. We're gonna that was

That was also my concern with you when I asked if you'd been up in a hot air balloon It was mostly out of concern for you and the other people on the hot air. Well, you said have you been all up in it? And no God willing God willing Yeah Yeah Also, you'd be in there with a hot air balloon pilot whose job it is to like take you up there and like not look over at you, which also might be part of it. That license. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would have to be. Yeah. It's also like six dollars. Like, it's not that expensive guess I have it in my pocket. We don't have to do it. We can just go up in the thing. Can I just go up and like, jack off while you turn around?

Or is that what's allowed here? Sorry, my lovely lady couldn't make it. Oh, no. I've just been informed the show's canceled. Let's take a quick break. Sorry about that. We'll figure out how to put things back together. We'll be right back. I've just been informed the show's canceled. Let's take a quick break. Sorry about that. We'll figure out how to put things back together.

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what you're talking about? No, I think you did. I did. I did. Right. I succeeded. I have Lloyd. Anyways, the, the, the scientists went up to an asteroid, got a sample and flew back The had to like enter through our atmosphere, catch on fire, burnt up. It's a mess, they're messy as fuck

by the time they land on the planet. So they had to go out there, land on an asteroid, take some soil samples, come back. This happened last year, they're just now kind of publishing what they found and they think that this asteroid was a piece of one of the planets that existed in the early formation of the solar system, where there was just like too many planets.

It was like a pool table right after you like break the billiard balls. It was just like these fucking planets were just like crashing into each other. So this is the one that got crashed into and is now just, you know, millions of different chunks of rock out there. So they decided to go up, see what these early planets looked like. And they found like exactly what they were looking for, which is like a lot of organic compounds and a lot of the ingredients, amino acids, nucleotide bases, basically all the things that are necessary for life on earth. And so they're just like, oh, life is probably everywhere is what we're discovering.

My theory is always like, we're going to discover life and maybe advance civilization, but it just won't still be alive. It'll be like evidence of like a past one because, but I think like this indicates that there's just the possibility for life everywhere. It's just, you know, this planet crashed and was like, uh, smashed into smithereens, uh, scientific term, uh, you know, millions of years ago or however many years ago. So metric smithereens that it was smashed into. Exactly. But yeah, so I don't know. I find this really intriguing, that all the ingredients

were there in our solar system, on other planets that just crashed out a number of years ago. And I still hold out hope that we'll encounter intelligent life. Yeah, I find this new story intriguing. It is intriguing. I think that's just so what we would deserve as a human race to is not be able to meet any of these things, you know, any of the intelligent life. It's like, listen, we found a frozen dead cat on an asteroid and it had a virus and we're all gonna get that virus. You don't get to pet the cat.

The cat is so fucked looking. You don't even get to imagine what the cat looked like. We don't wanna show it because it'll give you the virus is transmitted visually. Visually, visually. So we have it, I have it. You'll get it. And yeah, it's just, that's so interesting where I think everybody holds out the hope

if they want this, but for, ah, we'll see the man will come in their ship or whatever. And it's like, no, I think we might at best see a clam. Like a clam, you know, a dead clam. I think that's what it's going to be. Yeah, dead clam that existed a billion years ago On some other planet that has since been destroyed with that excite you Seeing that like I know that's a silly question But I mean I think it's similar to what this is which is like right this is kind of a set like

Probabilistically like this is like oh life definitely there are dead clams on space rocks floating around out there everywhere. Probably this has all the ingredients. They just like, haven't been put together properly yet on this very specific one that exists in our very specific solar system. Love that. Yeah. But I mean more that like, we're going to find out that a star Wars is that, uh, happened a long, long time ago. Far, far away. No further questions, Blake. Okay. All right. Uh, Hey, speaking of star Wars, uh, that's a movie. And, uh,

so this is, this is a movie we've had our eye on from Daniel Kaluuya, uh, who one of our, one of our great actors, great actors has been talking about this movie he's producing about Barney the dinosaur. Weird, you know? He's like, he had won the Academy Award or was he nominated or won for Judas and the Black Messiah. And this was like kind of the thing that came out that he was like, this is what I really want to work on. Uh, and specifically this quote, uh, he said, Barney taught us, I love you. You love me. Won't you say you love me too? That's one of the first songs I remember and what happens when that isn't true.

I thought that was really heartbreaking. I have no idea why, but it feels like that makes sense. It feels like there's something unexpected that can be poignant, but optimistic, especially at this time now. I think that's really, really neat. It was like, there's a, there's a Barney movie coming about what if Barney didn't actually love you? What if Barney like negate? It's just like such a weird combination of idea and like subject matter. And then, you know, there were reports that Mattel Films was like making it and that the Barney movie

would be inspired by the works of Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze, focus on millennial angst, that it would be a A24 type art house film. And so all very exciting. And then the CEO of Mattel was like wait a second no don't get any ideas this will not be an odd movie specifically said this isn't gonna be one of those weirdo movies for weirdos it's what if what if mr. Rogers was a Dallas cowboy fan like I don't know why we have to

ruin these nice this is not the right time to ruin a sweet thing. We need sweet things. We need more Paddingtons is what we need. We need eight more Paddingtons during this presidency. It's- Paddington week. Yeah, we need one Paddington, one full feature length Paddington per week to get through this shit. The Popeye movie that you showed me on this show was traumatizing enough. I don't think they're doing that with Barney personally.

I think I think this is sad. I think it's going to be like sad, but hopeful and heartbreaking. I mean, his statement that it's like in times like these, we need that sort of heartbreaking sweetness. Like that makes me think it's that. And not like what if Barney had an AR 14? Barney was the last of his species and fighting for his life. Yeah. But, uh, so, but it won't be a weird little bit of it. It's not going to be an odd movie. It might be odd, but I don't, I don't expect it to be depressing, uh, necessarily. It is now being reported

that a O a debris, uh, from the bear and you know, comedy, all things comedy. Uh, one of the greats, is going to write and possibly star in the Barney movie. Exciting enough. And it's not just a A24 type movie. It's actually being made with A24 now. So I think that's fun. I think that is a good piece of a little good piece of news, a little more so of good news.

We can all put in our little pipes and smoke them. I agree. I trust, I trust AO. Yeah, me too. I think that would be cool. So just an update on a, on an old story, uh, for some old friends. Blake, where can they find you? You son of a bitch. They can find me, uh, at like what you say that about on all social media, you bastard. And then you can also see me doing standup live in Fort Collins,

Colorado, March 13th, March 15th. Uh, this is a big show. It's going to be in Los Angeles at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena. Would love to see you there. And then April 4th through 5th, Sisyphus in Minneapolis. And please grab those tickets while you can in my bio on social media and wherever you get comedy tickets. When is it again? In March 14th in Los Angeles, Pasadena? March 15th, Saturday, March 15th, 7pm, the Ice House, Pasadena. March 15th, Saturday, March 15th, 7 p.m. The Ice House in Pasadena.

The Ice House. The Ice House. It's an amazing club. That was March 14th? No, I'm just saying that's March 15th, Saturday, 7 p.m. Ice House, Pasadena. March 15th. Everybody get out there.

Thanks, Jen. Show them Zeit Gang cares. And also just go because it's really gonna be very funny. That's gonna 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 your vaccines while you still can. Get your flu shots, it's particularly bad this year.

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