The Daily Zeitgeist - RecorTrend In Progress 5/3: Jimmy Fallon, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Pornhub, Cliffhanger, 007

Episode Date: May 3, 2023

In this edition of RecorTrend in Progress, Jack and Miles discuss Jimmy Fallon getting "internet shamed" into paying his writing staff, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Pornhub blocking all users in Utah, the return of Cliffhanger, and the new James Bond-style reality showSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that was the result of just a long brainstorm sesh it was a hard day's night let's just put it that way you might not be uh into it but i'm very proud of it my name is jack and that is miles hi my name hi it's one of the it's one of the more popular names, sadly. So I don't feel great right now. So both of our names, I think, are very popular now. But when you were a kid, was Miles a very popular name? No, my shit wasn't even the top 100 then. Yeah, I don't think mine was either.

Mine was the number one name in the 20s, I think. But then a bunch of... It was the number one name at old age homes. But when I was a kid, nobody had it. And now... So you're just influential, man. but then like right all a bunch of it was the number one name at like old age homes but when i was a kid nobody had it and now so we are you're just influential man you're that you're the jack that joe biden is talking about in that meme how do you open pdf jack uh but yeah right now though in 2021 i think it was the 60th or something most popular in 61st most popular name miles it's on the come up y'all because i'm like i'm not influencing people yeah i think derivations of my name are popular like jackson and jacks with an x um which i'm still still considering i feel like i give more jack's energy right like

don't you think what because i'm kind of like an extreme dude uh yeah you got metal arms in my name you got metal arms like jacks and mortal komb name. You got metal arms like Jax in Mortal Kombat. Yeah. That's what I think. Yeah, that black character. That's what I think of. You like that black guy in Mortal Kombat with the metal arms, Jax. All right. Well, another weird naming trend. All late night hosts have to be named Jimmy or James.

Jimmy Fallon was internet shamed into paying his staff during the writer's strike. Basically, he was not at the meeting where they were told that their writing staff would not be paid after a week. It all came to a head because he was asked on the fucking Met Gala red carpet about where

he's at. He's like, oh yeah, man. I'm with them. They need a good deal. Then a staffer pointed out they're like bro you don't give a fuck like and i think other people argue that like you know the host might not always be like that daily first daily production meeting or whatever but when a lot of people were like yeah people aren't going to get health insurance even and no one's clear on what their employment status is and eventually and then people started sharing

clips of con Conan from the 2007 strike when he was like, oh yeah, I'm paying my staff for the work they missed. And he was saying that, then people were like, what about you, Jimmy? And then he was like, oh, so NBC will do two weeks and then I'll pay for a week. That's okay. But what if it goes

longer than that? Are you just going to hope the story dies? And then be like, oh yeah, I'm not paying anymore. Did you see the clip of Conan during the writer's strike? But he still had to be on air, so he would just sit there and kill time. There was one clip where he was just spinning his

wedding ring on his desk and it was like, let's see how long I can spin this wedding ring for. Now I'm doing it. Shout out to everyone the rock and roll hall of fame has revealed their class of 2023 uh willie nelson bill nelson you know bill nelson oh bill oh bill just had his 90th birthday at the uh hollywood bowl um which is not a lawn ball your emphasis is real boomerific there.

The Hollywood Bowl. The Hollywood Bowl, yeah. Where you go to do lawn bowling, I presume, right? Good place for a 90th birthday party. No, well, no, it's fine. Yeah, yeah, no, it is. This class, though, is pretty good. Yeah, it is good.

We got Kate Bush, Willie Nelson nelson rage against the machine cheryl crowe george michael and the spinners oh there's all the spinners and also missy elliott finally missy i'm i'm loving it i'm loving it uh but yeah like apparently there's like six more inductees with the distinction of being selected by a select hall of fame committee to join the seven performers who are voted via general ballot those ones who are uh exalted by the hall of fame committee are gonna be shaka khan al cooper bernie tulpin link ray al cooper is that alice cooper or al just al yeah al cooper with a k and then dj cool herk oh okay and then don cornelius is gonna get the Ahmet Erdogan Award

from the former head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Erdogan. All right. Well, in other important news, people in Utah are going to have a harder time jacking off in the coming days. Pornhub has blocked all users in Utah from visiting the site to protest a new state law that requires age verification to protect minors from exposure to explicit adult content so when you're in utah

and go to porn hub they redirect you to a video with an adult film star basically being like this is not it this is not the way to address this is a privacy risk for you and your family don't buy the bullshit that they're protecting your kids this is a fucking really you know like the ACLU was saying when you cut off access to online information for adults and cause popular platforms to narrow their offerings to avoid triggering the rules

things get a little fucking bad yeah and the way they're doing it is like making you like photograph your id is that the idea yeah that's fucking crazy i mean that's like that's why like does any other are there other services like do gam do the gambling sites make you like the only time i uploaded my id to get some shit from the internet is when i'm buying that free ipad oh yeah um when i won that ipod congratulations you won an ipad congratulations

completely crashes my shit no like that's the only time i've done id verification which makes sense because you're buying cannabis like and it's being delivered that they obviously don't want to be like and is your dad home yeah okay here's 900 blunts um but yeah they're they're pointing out like there are other ways to do this with like device related things as opposed to you know website like giving webs the website access to your fucking private information so basically what this is going to cause and is already causing is just a massive rocket ship explosion growth of vpns vpns are loving it have been skyrocketing since the law went into effect yeah and this is like the same thing too when people talk about like on social media that like people should upload their id and like know who's saying what and then like again it's like always a slippery

slope right because you start doing that like there's a lot of there's a lot of issues there with with that kind of like id verification yeah and just i mean it like i know south korea had something like that where everybody like like when you were online, you were connected to who you actually were, like to your personality. There just was like a lot less anonymity. But in America, that is going to be directly converted into corporations preying on you,

like in various ways, selling your information, just doing whatever to make your life miserable and make marketing to you easier like that's yeah so it doesn't matter even if it's been used successfully other places like not here that we've proven time and time again that uh private people versus corporations does not end well for us could you imagine how targeted those fucking ads would be if your fucking id was tied to your like Internet activity? Yeah.

They'd be like, hey, dude, we know about your dad and your mom. They split up. So you're probably into this kind of like, what the fuck? Why is it so direct now? Yeah. We got all your info from your posts and stuff. And we're going to actually talk back to you as the inner voice, the inner voice that you hear in your head throughout the day. We hope that's okay.

But we just kind of figured out what it was. You're fucking it all up. You're fucking it all up, asshole. It's all going to go. You know how your inner monologue is always saying this. Speaking of terrifying invasions of privacy. So we talked about this story a while back that a woman was at Madison Square Garden for the Rockettes show and was asked to leave. And it was revealed that it was because she had served as opposing counsel to James Dolan and MSG in some case a while back. Yeah, it had nothing to do with the Rockettes or anything.

Very, like, a tertiary character in this legal drama. Yes, but he had, because he is a petty bitch who loves drama, had put her on a list and had uploaded her facial recognition data so that when she showed up, it triggered and she was banned from from being there i think she was going like with her daughter and like it was like her kids and

stuff and they're like sorry sorry you're gonna have to wait outside miss um so new york city is considering facial recognition bans for businesses and landlords yeah yeah good consider it hard uh but don't consider it too much and then just realize that they do yeah is it bad is that is that another slippery slope if we're just tracking everyone's yeah i don't know i don't know we'll see i think we're good but we if we can't trust james dolan who can we trust yeah and obviously the mayor of new york i mean with the robot dogs and the fucking guns that'll shoot a gps tracker at your asshole and you can get a bunch of free air tags to narc on yourself yeah yeah hey wait a second we we already like passed the rock and roll hall of fame uh story but it just uh circling back real quick did was jd and or the straight shot i can't i couldn't help but notice he wasn't mentioned uh no no not yet not yet it ain't happening this year maybe next year yeah i know i know all right let's take a quick break and we'll

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just like a stress dream come to life is like how that opens uh it's a hell of a like you know it's like renny harlan peak harlan it's a lot of fun as a child my favorite genre of movies was sylvester stallone movies supplanted eventually by bruce willis movies when i became smarter die hard but um yeah this is what one of the goodies at the end also it has a a fight between him and john lithgow that yeah right he's the main guy boys found that funny when they just have to like make the main bad guy like somehow good at fighting even though it's like right and it's like john lithgow who's physically yeah he ain't built for that i mean i know he's imposing as a figure in his face but he's not but he not throwing down like that.

Anyways, they're making a sequel. The director of the film's Angel Has Fallen and Greenland stated that it's going to be a great challenge and blast taking this franchise to new heights, a responsibility I don't take lightly.

That statement sounds sarcastic. Yeah. It sounds like yeah are you up on barry have you been watching barry this season no no i haven't watched i haven't watched barry no not yet there's a good there's a good scene with like a really like respected great director who's like now working on like some marvel shit and she's just like yeah no i think this is great this is this is awesome i'm so glad to be doing this um and i take it seriously i take it seriously yeah with the lore of a thousand yard stare right right right is cliffhanger that kind of like exalted content where people like yo man you don't be careful with that be careful with that no no i don't think so

yeah um it was like kind of the under siege of under siege i don't know why with that be careful with that now no i don't think so yeah um it was like kind of the under siege of under siege i don't know why i said it like it's a classy film the under siege of uh late era stallone it was like amidst a bunch of movies that were kind of clunkers it was like indistinguishable from all of them in terms of like, but it randomly was just very good. And the first shoot apparently also basically put the company Carolco out of business. It was

such a mess. So hopefully this one goes better. Well, do we know who else is in it? Who's the John Lithgow character? We don't know at this point, as far as I can tell. But yeah, there was also a point during the first shoot where they couldn't pay the crew, who was on this film shoot up a mountain.

So it's kind of not fair. It's a tough time to be like, hey, sorry, guys. Hard to advocate for yourself when you're on the top of a freezing cold mountain with nothing to do. Like, hey, man, we can't pay you guys, but I don't know if you guys want to hang around here for a little bit if you guys have a ride back down to the bottom

or whatever but we can kick it up here it's weird because this movie's been in like development for a long time cliffhanger 2.0 and there was a point where it was going to be a Stallone-less remake starring a female lead directed by

Anna Lily Amapour who made a girl walks home alone at night like one of the great films of the past 30 years they're like all right so what but like all right we get it you're a great filmmaker but like ip wise what am i um so anyways that's how they do people that's so funny how like they go from making one like you make a great film or like an indie darling type thing and then they throw you on a blockbuster to completely make you the fall person if it goes belly up or something how they do you well speaking of how they do another thing they do these days is uh they turn fictional films or tv shows into reality show competitions um you know we talked about how squid game was like immediately like before they greenlit season two of squid game

they were like but the the game inside the show where they like all kill each other and like show how desperate they are for health care um that's what we should greenlight. They greenlit a real reality competition version of Squid Game. Now they're doing that with James Bond. It's basically the amazing race with more excessive drinking and unprotected sex would

presumably be the pitch behind this. 007's Road to a Million. It's a reality competition show in which teams of two will travel throughout the world to locations made famous in james bond movies and compete in various challenges okay i and then are one of the challenges to like be responsible for the death of an innocent woman and then just keep it moving yeah exactly, exactly. How quickly can you compartmentalize, fam? Right.

My thought is all the cool shit from James Bond is destructive and dangerous and hopefully is not being done to these contestants. Yeah, I feel like every other woman who gets in bed with James Bond ends up dying. Yeah. That's the wrong kind of body count that you want, sir.

Yes. But hey. It will launch exclusively on Prime Video. So the show will essentially not exist in the same way that like the most expensive TV show of all times from like a beloved franchise, the Lord of the Rings,

like came out and people were like, yeah, all right. I don't like super fans were like, eh, alright. Superfans were like, I don't know, something about it. I just, I'm not sure it actually came out. I can't remember if I watched it. A false memory of it. Also, Brian Cox will play

the controller in the show. An enigmatic character who controls the fate of the contestants, who is both villainous and cultured. It's good to see he's having a post-succession afterlife. But it does make me... And we've had this story on the dock

for a while, and I had the hypothetical question, like, what is a fictional show or movie franchise you would like to see turned into a reality competition? My brain has not come up with one. Do you, do you have one,

a film that could be a reality show competition? Yeah. Like a fast and furious. Yeah. Yeah. Like driving reckless as fuck. I don't care if the contestants die. Go ahead.

Try that shit with this is like the, all the stuff that he does. It's like, well, no way a real person would survive that. It's like, can you drive a slammed would survive that right it's like can you drive a slammed honda civic underneath an 18 wheeler right exactly like and yo if you get run over hey it is what it is man but you lived fast and furious i mean like it could be that or like

brian is in the chat saying foreign identity put a really dumb person in like or the position of jason or like medically induced memory fog yeah and then you drop them off somewhere and then like they gotta figure out what the fuck's going on like jason bourne we'll see where they land yeah we'll see where they land there was like a survival show on netflix that kind of had a really fucked up arc where they felt like they had all these survivalists go and like the whole challenge was like flex your survivalist skills but it turned into lord of the flies shit real quick and like people were sabotaging each other to win and like some contestants are like i honestly i'm out of this like i can't participate this in good faith

knowing like my kids would see this and see this is how i'm behaving to win a show that you could see something devolving like that if you put enough money on the line my aren't we sadistic my my eldest had his birthday at ultra zone place that you used to work yo hey shout out the

game masters you know me I'm out here and I I don't like who I became when we got in that laser tag arena. Like just taking out every little kid that walked around a corner. Yeah, all good. Ruth. If they have the same setup, there's a place you could just snipe people the whole time.

Yeah, yeah. One of the dads asked me if I played a lot of first person shooters. I was like, what? You know how you look like a real asshole? There's a way you hold the gun that shows you you don't fuck around like everyone goes like this yeah but if you turn your shit like that oh yeah you have this whole range of motion also also what it does it helps like block the sensors on your chest pack so they can't hit you wow anyway that's that's how i get down and i used to keep this thing when you're the game master you'd have this

controller on you called the termininator and you could just pull up you could just power someone's shit down like really like oh yeah like you're like have admin it's like a remote control of admin privileges basically oh my sometimes I would like getting games with like 12 year olds who are talking shit they're like oh I bet I could beat you I'm like yeah yeah for sure

and I would just cheat I'd be like watch this your shit don't work deactivate deactivate deactivate, deactivate. Anyway, I'm a very healthy adult now. Yeah, you turned out great. Thanks, Dad.

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