The Daily Zeitgeist - SomeTrend In The Way 4/27: The Batman, NBA, Fauci, #LiberalMeltdown, Aliens

Episode Date: April 27, 2022

In this edition of SomeTrend In The Way, Jack and Miles discuss The Batman and other box office news, NBA news, Fauci saying we're out of the 'pandemic phase', #LiberalMeltdown over Elon buying Twitter, and a Harvard scientists search for alien technology.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of some trend in the way the batman i saw it they really like that song by nirvana um nirvana i'm uh i'm jack that is miles yeah um what'd you think of the Batman? Look, it could have been darker. Definitely could have been darker. That's my biggest thing.

I want Neuer. Okay, let's go. Yeah, you always say that. Film Neuer is one of my favorite Jenries. And I just wish they really honored that. Again, like I told you, there are parts that I really dug. I just like that it felt like a more humanized version of what batman would actually be yeah yeah just creeping out the police the police are like fucking freak yeah i kept assuming that like there was gonna be something

where that like he made them all realize like he actually cool, but nah, they just went to the end. They're just like, now fuck this guy. I'm like, yo, why do you keep letting this asshole in the crime scenes, man? What the fuck is he doing here? I really liked those elements of realism,

but yeah, I'm not going to put myself through that shit again, though. That shit was too many hours. It was long. Very long. Watched it all in one sitting uh for the most part had to take a break to yeah find brown bunny um my kids uh favorite stuffed animal so he could go to sleep

but uh for the most part uh took it all down so i could have used more penguin i thought uh colin farrell as penguin uh was the most watchable like when he's on i liked watching that character you know it's not it's not ledger as the joker but it's like in that in that family it's like tom cruise in tropic thunder it does i mean but i'm like i like this version of colin farrell he's like you can't recognize him and he's kind of this creaky little penguin yeah um and i don't know dano i i feel like that was they they didn't give him much like i that wasn't my favorite uh batman villain performance by by a long shot um but you know you know it is what are you gonna do like i said take time with the new batman because it's three hours i would have appreciated

some stp in that fucking soundtrack but hey and the the big conceit that like nobody told me heading in was well first of all batman's not that great at his heading in was, well, first of all, Batman's not that great at his job in the thing. He's good at riddles, and that's kind of his main thing. But yeah, he doesn't add that much. And there's a part at the end where he's like, and then it made me realize I wasn't helping that much.

I was like, yeah, man, we were all on that page, bro. Fuck out of here. The thing that i wasn't ready for was that this was just would have gotham was in the uk and nobody spoke with a british accent but it was it was london or you know england essentially um the the whole thing just looks like england like i i think they shot most of it around England and it feels like it, which was interesting. Yeah, since your daddy's Gotham.

Yeah, yeah. Let's put a fan theory together. This new Batman takes place in an alternate universe where the British won the Revolutionary War. Oh, so it's like Man in the High Tower, but Batman. But for the Revolutionary War. But it's just specific. What if Batman existed where we lost the Revolutionary War?

Other movie news, Justin Lin will not be directing The Last Fast and Furious. Are we definitely, we're calling it The Last Fast and Furious? I guess so. Who's making that decision? I don't believe that to be true for a moment they say yes and it will be called fast x the good news is that not one but two more fast movies have been confirmed the bad news that these will be the final entries in the main series uh though the door remains open for more spinoffs in the vein of hobson shaw damn okay i don't know can

they really put that pipe down no no way hell way. Hell no. I don't think so. Look, it's going to take one more video of Tyrese crying on Facebook Live, and they'll make another one. In whose interest is it for them to stop making those movies? Not the fans. None of the actors. Like, not a single one of those actors is like, I got to move on to my other thing that is more lucrative and popular

than right like ludicrous this has given you so much ability to produce things that you're like you're out here now you're big time producer ludicrous keep this going yeah and i don't even really fuck with the series like that but i'm like i've never been like oh they gotta make another one i'm like yeah i'm gonna make a fucking another one. It's honestly, I think they have to. Every time you think, oh, that surely was the scene that was, they jumped the shark. It's like, nah, nah. No, this whole series, this whole franchise is jump, is shark jumping.

It's, it's the, the art of shark jumping. And they have made it into a fine high art. Right. And can you, can you raise the shark jumping stakes exponentially every subsequent film right they seem to sad day that uh justin lynn's not directing but you know he he did write the film and i'm sure it'll be good it does it does feel like i don't know at the at this point you know his second unit director could probably come through and put together a fine Fast and the Furious movie. Wow.

Okay. Although maybe a bad sign. Maybe he's like, ooh, this one's not working out quite as well as the others. They're like, why are they all on bicycles? I just thought we'd do something different. You fucking idiot. Yo, it's Fast and the Furious X. It's the X games.

They're all just using BMX bikes. Rollerblades. Rollerblades. So what? What do you want from us? The original elements of the X games. Rollerblading, BMX biking, skateboarding, street street luge who remembers that early playstation game yeah that was what a time to be alive when when we first heard the words street luge

all right uh not more movie news this is a movie news heavy episode uh and that's okay because that's really all i care about um movie news, NBA, when people are actually talking about how good the games are and how good the players are. That jaw game that happened last night. He had been sort of quietly disappointing thus far in his first round series. And then in the third quarter, you've probably seen it right now. I don't know.

I don't know how the algorithm works. Maybe I've just seen it a hundred times because the algorithm knows me with regards to everything except the Johnny Depp defamation trial, which it seems to think I'm fascinated by. But like most of my feed is the jaw dunk. And rightly so,

it's maybe one of the best dunks that's ever happened in human history. I mean, I told you, man, the second he took off from the top of the key, I was like, oh, he's going for this. And he, my God, that vertical. I was like, how, how? And it's like, oh, he's not stopped.

The elevation is not ceasing. Whatever, just continue to watch someone And it's like, oh, he's not stopped. The elevation is not ceasing. Whatever. Just continue to watch someone disrespect gravity in front of our eyes on television. And then it was significant because it turned the tide of the game and the series. The series is 2-2. They're down 11, I think, when he dunks it.

And then he is just on one after that. 16 points in the fourth on one after that 16 points in the fourth quarter yeah 16 points in the fourth quarter game winning acrobatic amazing shot and this is a series that features anthony edwards who is my other favorite player who's like let's hope this thing goes to seven you know i know that's all we got although i i find myself like when i watch the games i can't root against the grizzlies but so like i'll watch game six and i'll be like okay game seven but i will be rooting for the grizzlies because they're just at that point you're gonna love them yeah i look i'll take i love i love all god's children yeah the people of the nba also what is happening in that series where the

people keep like running on has anybody done a story about like the underground crime ring that is focused like it's like a batman villain who is like this specific nba playoff series is my theme we're gonna send people onto the court to do wild shit well yeah that one clip with the security guard i was like yo put that person on fucking secret service detail for the president like i'm on the bench for the grizzlies and just playing transition defense uh if you haven't seen it you have to go look up this clip but so far they've had somebody like go onto the court and try and glue their hand to the court somebody chained themselves to the basket and then there was a moment in the game where somebody sitting behind the bench

who appeared to be you know just like couldn't have looked less suspicious to me um was just sitting there having a fun time smiling talking to the person they were with front row seats and then like as if they were activated by a brain chip leaps the seats in front of them sprints onto the court and before they can take a full second step on the court a security guard just tackles them who was sitting in the same row and like when you see the whole thing come together it's amazing reflexes it was like he he got the signal too they were all animal rights activists oh got it that are protesting the owner wolves and grizzlies those being animals animals yes in a death match uh but they're saying glenn taylor uh like running factory farm businesses

and the the harm that it's doing to and i'm like yeah respect it yeah that's i get that but you know you're gonna have to compete with an arena where they're already on high alert for this because clearly like now that you think about that the owner's like these people are gonna try and fuck or fuck up this game or know, begin to protest at the games. And then you see the security people coming out. And then there is Fauci saying the U.S. is no longer in full blown pandemic phase. Okay. All right. The story of OJ.

Yeah. That's my response to that. We're really in a transitional phase for a deceleration of the numbers into hopefully a more controlled phase. I hope so. And endemicity. I do too. I would love to not look funny

at people who are coughing in close proximity to me with a mask off in a newly mask off business. But sure. Yeah. Okay. mask off uh in a newly mask off business um but sure yeah okay um all right just just okay i'm gonna believe you fauci but if that fucking line goes up motherfucker what then don't give us yeah this is just an interesting time because it does seem to be the week that numbers started going back up at least anecdotally you know we're in the 50 000 new cases in the usa seven day

average but you know maybe maybe we're not seeing as many hospitalizations i don't know yeah cool i look please hey you know this is all we ever wanted but it's just so hard again we've been put in such a weird position where you have masks off you got masks on you got fucking you got you got benefits you don't have benefits there's child tax credits and there's not it's like it's it's just so much like whiplash yeah yeah that i'm like i'm like dude i'll believe the car wreck is over when the car has completely skidded to a stop on the freeway i feel like they described it as the the hammer and the dance early on they're like yeah it'll be this like elegant process of like we'll close it down but then we'll have this like little dance where we like go back and forth in and out and it's not very elegant like i somebody should have probably assumed but fauci is not a good dancer um he's hell of a hell of a point

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windmilling on themselves i don't know who they're they're like oh my gosh look at them so scared elon's gonna actually do what's right for free speech they're shooketh um and then like inevitably it's like one of those things where there's not enough conservatives on twitter to get the like for the entire hashtag to be dominated by that, that eventually just becomes like libs. Then being like, actually the real meltdown was from all the people who wanted it. It's like,

okay. I just lost consciousness there for a second. Um, but you did go to a higher level of consciousness. Yeah. Yeah. It was actually ignoring that. Yeah.

Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie. We have our first look. Barbie. And Margot Robbie looks great. Margot Robbie looking like a Barbie. Yeah, yeah. I am not surprised by this news that she looks great as Barbie. The cast seems pretty well.

Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon uh america ferreira will ferrell hey will hey will we see you avatar 2 uh in other news other news got its official title avatar the way of water oh do you see the pictures the pictures look like a trapper keeper um i know my god yeah that's exactly this is not like show me a screen cap from the first one and it looks yeah it looks like a like some early 90s like i don't know is old jimmy cameron pump faking us right now is he pump faking with the avatar too because everything you heard about titanic everything you heard about avatar until people actually saw the movies was they fucked this one up like this is one of the great disasters of all time so he doesn't give a fuck what people say about a movie heading for release he just like you know so i'm not i'm not holding any of this against the movie.

I'm sure it will be an enjoyable thing to put your eyes on at movie theaters like the first one, which is my only expectation of Avatar 1. Completely evaporated. The most a movie has ever delighted me while

watching and evaporated from my mind in the history of movies but the fact that it's Avatar the way of water is interesting because the Avatar cartoon that is like the other famous Avatar

is also about like airbenders waterbenders like it's obviously Avatar the last airbender but like to bring that in which feels like a stretch for the first movie right like the first movie didn't have like well this is like about mysticism and stuff like that right i think this was more focused on like the you know the under the sea culture of Pandora or some shit. Wow. That's interesting. That's exciting. Cause he,

he does, he likes that underwater shit. He does do well underwater. I mean, he's developed like he, I'm pretty sure what, for the abyss, he had to develop some kind of like breathing shit when he made the abyss in

the eighties. Nearly kill Ed Harris. Huh? Nearly kill Ed Harris. Yeah, right. Like multiple times um and then obviously the submarine shit with titanic i don't know i mean i'm i'm in let me see the fucking trailer man yeah i just wanted the trailer but i even then like if you look at the best scene from the first avatar on your computer screen like on your phone screen like is that gonna is that gonna

excite you well i think more just to get an idea because these look like renderings you know what i mean like yeah like at least give me something that's from the thing i'm going to see like give me give me some imagination because like you said i'm like i've already seen these images because i was you know in elementary school in the early 90s and this was on all of my notebooks and shit like this kind of trippy aqua vibe but whatever what if the trailer is just like dolphins swimming through like crystal purple waves and shit yeah and there's the whole thing looks exactly like a kitten raises its paw and then the pads on the paw are rainbow colored and you're like is this a lisa frank trapper keeper collab so anyways i'm excited about it uh and i think they you know

compare compared to when the prequels uh the star wars prequels and sequels titles were coming out and they were pretty bad for the most part the way of water actually like at least tells you something about the plot and i think sounds cool um so i'm i'm into it the phantom menace didn't give you okay all right the phantom menace and uh attack of the clones and what was the third one revenge of the sith revenge of the sith like those suck it was just unequivocally i don't i know there are people who ride for the movies themselves. Those titles are bad. They're terrible.

But honestly, Attack of the Clones is great because at least in Talib's Get By, he had that great rhyme. We go through episodes too. Like Attack of the Clones. And finally, in something that seems like it could be in a James Cameron movie,

you know, I call him Jim when we're talking, but I'll call him James. I'll just read, there's a astronomer, a Harvard astronomer, going looking for alien technology in the South Pacific, which this is one of those stories that I kind of would have ignored before I had my starting to pay more attention to aliens thing happen in the last like five years. But so in 2014, something entered our atmosphere moving so fast and exploding so late that scientists can say with 99.9% certainty that it came from outside our solar system. I don't know the math that told them that, but they seemed pretty confident at the time they published a 2019 article.

And then last week they got access to these like secret government sensors that are like watching the sky all the time and were able to confirm their hypothesis of how fast this thing was moving, all the details that made them like, so this can't have come from inside our solar system. Which means it would be the first body that we've ever gotten our hands on that came from outside our solar system.

Oh, like some actual tangible object? That we can be like, this is from outside. Yeah. And so they're going to the South Pacific where it crashed. It exploded and then fell into the sea. But this is also the guy who published the paper about the like giant cigar shaped football field length thing that came into our solar system and started speeding up.

Everyone was like, that's, that's weird. And then, you know, some scientists had theories on like what it could be made of that would make it possible, like space ice of like frozen hydrogen or something. Um he was like yeah i mean i guess that's a possibility

the other possibility is that it is some sort of technology and that's what that's what we're seeing um and basically he just like takes the position that, uh, I'll read a direct quote from him. My tendency is to assume that we are not unique or special. Others created spacefaring technology a billion years ago. And by now those pieces of equipment may have reached our shore. We can check if they're out there, which is cool. That's sick. So this is just some,

like, like we're getting like a fucked up space vehicle that just like hit the ocean yeah i mean it could it could be that somebody just like drunk drove their space thing on into into earth um it could be so that i do think it's an underrated detail and possibility that like our first contact is going to be with a civilization that has been dead for like millions or billions of years right and their trash is just hitting us right we're so so we've been here for such a small portion of our you know yeah we're solar systems as they say yeah we're new to our solar system which is new compared to most of the stars that we've ever seen because they're coming to us from light years away so like but first contact may be with like an intelligence

that lived a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away ergo this might just be shrapnel from the death star is what i like that yeah hey go find that shrapnel man that'll help you win a bet because i told i told people star wars is for real i mean one of the one of the things that made them think that it's not from our solar system is first of all how fast it was moving but second of all how long it took like traveling through our atmosphere before it like exploded break apart right yeah they were like it has to be like turn not really getting through yeah they say it has to be tougher and like more dense than iron um so they're like maybe it's a some new material that we don't know about um unobtainium for

instance thank you bringing it back to avatar and we, you know, diving to the bottom of the ocean to look for it. So bring James Cameron along. Come on. Ed Harris, bring your funny hat. Yeah. So I foresee a cool movie about this at some point in the future. Just to bring it back around since all we're talking about this episode is movies. Anyways, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon.

We are back tomorrow with the whole ass 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.

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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's

basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four 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.

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