The Daily Zeitgeist - Star Zeit Express 10\21: Soh Cah Toa, Jim Jordan, Brian Laundrie, Michael Bay, China, Home Alone

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

In this edition of Star Zeit Express, Jack and Miles discuss the North HS teacher placed on leave for racial insensitivity, Jim Jordan struggling to answer questions at Jan. 6 committee, Brian Laundrie being remains possibly being found, Michael Bay's new film 'Ambulance', China news, and the new 'Home Alone' lego set. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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to see why it was trending it's like a math mnemonic and then i found out why it's really trending. A math teacher. I don't know. Yeah. Look, maybe you've seen it, maybe you haven't. And it's this teacher in Riverside, California. The sort of text around the video that first went viral says that, yes, quote, this is from the video that first sort of posted this video or the tweet that first posted the video saying, quote, yesterday, a Native American student filmed this video in his math class. After several minutes of the teacher war-hooping and tomahawk chopping,

the student began filming because he, quote, felt that violence was being committed against him and he had the right to record. I don't even, it's not even, I mean, this woman is wearing a construction paper headdress and is doing like some like just some fucking bizarro version of whatever she thinks the uh i don't even i don't even know what she's trying to pretend to be but apparently it has some kind of native american nonsense uh And just going around saying, So-ka-to-wa, and doing all kinds of just weird shit.

Yeah. It starts bad, and then it gets worse. Gets worse and worse and worse. I think her strategy was, I'll be the teacher who does something silly and gets people to remember the thing. and gets people to remember the thing um but you know just obliviousness on a uh on a pretty wild scale for somebody who's supposed to be interacting with young people yeah and there's people who are like saying like it's funny that when you just see the people trying to cape for this woman being like well it's good to see somebody is actually uh trying to put some

energy into educating the kids i mean that's the first thing i see and you're like okay this student was like this feels like straight racist trash being directed at me and i don't like it um and trust me i've had a lot of creative teachers a lot of them didn't have to dabble in this bullshit to get me to give a fuck about something yeah no that's pretty awful yeah um jim jordan is trending speaking of awful uh oh one thing i just found out they said she's been doing this since at least 2012 so yeah this definitely had the had the vibe of like this is her her move when it comes to teaching this um and here i was thinking she was talking about soaking and it wasn't soaking a toe um hey man soak a toe there you go there you go uh jim jordan acting like a fool talking to the january 6th committee yeah he he's been you know jim jordan has a big old uh you know big spotlight on him because they're like you know you've been really you were really vocal

that day and then you're saying stuff like you spoke to the president let's let's have you sit down and answer some questions and you know it was just a lot of predictable histrionics and yelling and table pounding and things like that but there were a couple moments, it was just a lot of predictable histrionics and yelling and table pounding and things like that. But there were a couple of moments where it's just funny to read back someone like basically saying, like, can you again really get specific on like when you spoke to the president on January 6th and just someone reading a transcript fact of one of his answers. So this is from the committee hearing just a quick sliver of Jim Jordan being pressed about what he knew on January 6th. You were asked by Brett Baier on Fox News if you talked to the former president on January 6th, and you didn't give a clear answer. You said, and I quote, I've talked to the president so many, I can't remember all the days I've talked to him, but I've certainly talked to the president, end quote.

Well, it's not clear about that. On July 28th, you confirmed to Spectrum News that you spoke with the former president on January 6th. When asked by a Spectrum News reporter, Taylor Poplars, whether you spoke to the president before, during, or after the Capitol was attacked, you said, and I quote, I spoke with him that day after, I think after, I don't know if I spoke with him in the morning or not. I just don't know. I have to get back to you. I don't know when those conversations happened, end quote. So my question is, you've had 84 days since that interview to go back and check the records. So when did you speak with the former president on January 6th? Did you talk to the former president before, during, or after the attack on the Capitol?

Of course I've talked to the president. Or was it all three? Of course I've talked to the president. I've been clear about that. I talk to him all the time. This is not about me, Mr. Chairman. I'm sorry. Individuals, other individuals.

But this is about the lack of a proper security presence that day that's what this committee if this committee is going to do something that's worthwhile that's what they should be investigating of course i talked to the president i talked to him that day i've been clear about that i don't recall the number of times but it's not about me i know you want to make it about that but this is about the why was it how about this why wasn't the national guard anyway so that's him again trying to dodge an L and then turning his body into a big old L. We'll see what happens, but...

That's amazing. This isn't about me. Sir, you were subpoenaed. You were asked to come here and testify. It very much is about you. He basically might as well have been saying you've had three months to come up with a uh better lie than that um would you care to give us that lie he's like this isn't about me yeah that's the best he could do not even like if you know some real slimy shit is like you

know actually i was looking at my records and it seems like it was just uh this other time right very briefly i get the january 6th and uh bad timing but june 1st combined because i'm a little uh you know with dates and i'm a little euro i'm a little euro when it comes to how i look at dates sometimes i like to put the day before the month sometimes a month before the day. It just depends on my mood, you know? So, yeah, that's why I have more squirming and nonsense. And that's why you're like, fuck, man, what are they going to do? Because they did vote to refer Bannon to the Department of Justice for their complaint. Yeah. Yeah.

But now it's like, truly, what the fuck is Merrick Garland going to do? Because I think a lot of you know there are many people who believe that he will do what's right as he said in this other hearing that he was a part of today he said I will you know apply the laws it normally would be but what a fucking failure that would be if they let this creep just they they don't actually bring any kind of justice and what was it all for I mean it seems like the only time we ever get to uh you know the the actual like some some sort of justice is if there's a recording like is there any chance that there's a recording of him talking to the president no but i have a feeling i mean i

think the most they can do is probably look at, you know, phone records that say, actually, you called that dude like 900 times. I mean, he still was. Yeah. He still was the president. Like, don't we have, don't we tend to keep records of who he's talking to? Yeah. No, they do. And they have that stuff.

So I don't, I'm, that's what I'm saying. Like, I don't know where this all goes and what comes of it. And I think that's why a lot of people, I think most people were hoping that day one of this committee people are just like okay and here's your orange jumpsuit right um and here's your first class ticket to leavenworth uh but you know i that's not how this works and so presumably he knows that there's not a lot of evidence or else he wouldn't just be blatantly like wagging his deep in the face. And it's not like questioning him. Another criminal.

It's not like a Matt Gates type situation where like someone else can put you on the hook and then make you cooperate. You know, there's the dynamics are a little bit different here, especially as you can tell from his just outward hostility and be like, this isn't about me. Right. I want to know how good the Gates entertainment.

Exactly. Oh shit. Okay, me. Right. It's about how good the gates were. Entertain that. Exactly. Oh, shit. Okay, sir. Yeah, so Bannon, the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress, mostly along party lines, but they did get, I think, eight, nine Republicans, still over 200, voted to, well, let it slide. Let's see where he's going with this. Let's let sleeping dogs lie you

know that basically sends it to the u.s attorney's office in washington where it will be up to the prosecutors to decide whether to present the case to grand jury for possible criminal charges it does you know merrick garland uh came with the very quippy burn when he said we will make a decision consistent with the principles of prosecution dope cool i mean i get it you don't want to be like oh hell yeah i'm gonna get his ass burn this motherfucker then you're gonna look like bill barr like a version of bill barr but that's where you that's why it's like what the fuck is this dude thinking yeah because he looks very calm and brian laundry is trending that was the van guy who yeah whose girlfriend was found uh strangled and then he went missing uh right before they found her and then uh they they think his body's been found in the woods where he went to

do a little perma camping um so about where that story seemed like it was going to end up. And that's where it ended up. And then we'll see how many fucking TV movies. Yeah. After this. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hello, everyone.

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that wasn't that a michael bay movie where it was like about the pandemic that he released like mid pandemic and that shit is out you can apparently watch it on hulu yeah uh directed by adam mason okay it was just produced by Michael Bay. Oh, okay. Got it. I love the, the logline immune to the COVID 23 virus.

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the auteur, director. Yeah. And he just dropped the trailer for a new film called Ambulance. Yep. That, I don't know, looks like a Michael Bay movie. Looks like a Michael Bay movie. Yahya Abdul-Matein from uh you know whatever wherever you want to take it from everywhere maybe watchmen if it's probably the first time people got really

familiar with him as uh dr manhattan um he's in it he played it sounds it looks like a kind of plot where he's like sort of this down and out guy who's trying to do right by his family has like these huge bills he needs like a loan so he goes to his old buddy jake gyllenhaal who seems kind of wily and he's like hey man i need like 231 000 and he's like what if we could get more and then it looks like they're trying to knock off the federal reserve in la um and then i don't know what i'm trying to figure out is because the ambulance is most of the the trailer like oh shit this is like this bank heist this shit looks like heat because they're just clapping guns in downtown and shit and then there's like all i like he's an ambulance driver i think also ex-military also like there's a lot a lot of

things going on for the main character right and then they i guess they hijack a ambulance and then i don't know if how much what is like the second and third act play out in that ambulance i don't know what it's hard to tell but a one of the police officers that they uh accidentally shot during the bank robbery is in the ambulance so they have to now keep this police officer alive as their... I mean, it seems like a pretty tight script. I'm not going to lie to you. I get why this dude... This is all tracks.

Hey, man, we don't want to compound our legal jeopardy by having this police officer die. Get to work on him while I drive recklessly and drive through fucking blockades and shit and we'll have militarized tanks chasing us. But I don't know. It looks like a ridiculous Michael Bay film. I don't understand what's happening.

But there were some, I don't know if they were drone shots or full-on computer-generated shots, but there were some interesting little camera moves in there. Oh, yeah. He's nothing if not aggressive when it comes to getting every single idea for a shot that he

can possibly put in like you ever seen the underneath the car when it blows up that's tight but yeah a lot of the footage reminded me of like when you look at um like drone racing and like the court like the like the sort of paths that these these vehicles that these drones take in the competition where like you're going like going straight nose diving, then flattening out, and then suddenly you're right next to a cop car. So, you know. Yeah. No.

Cool. Michael Bay can get wild with a drone shot, I'm imagining. I think it's also meant to be in the tradition of your heat, your drives, by being like a very la crime movie it's got ambulance the la in the title is a different color oh it is yeah so i didn't notice that and the theme song that's playing over the trailer is california dreaming but it's like a spooky version yeah spooky artistic um somebody's dreaming cover they're so fucking spooky uh china's trending for a couple different uh reasons uh you know basically just reasons. Basically just hypersonic missiles.

Just wielding that power over corporations. Tim Cook is removing a Yahoo app from the App Store, China's request because it was one of the last places that Chinese people could get news from sources banned by China.

The Celtics have been pulled from all like nba coverage in china because enos canter took a pro-tibetan stance or made a pro-tibetan statement and just disappeared they don't exist anymore as far as uh fans of the nba in are concerned. That storied basketball franchise that has, you know, tied for the most titles. Well, tied. Tied, right. Tied. Tied for the most NBA titles, you know.

They don't exist anymore. Yeah, sorry. I think people might notice, but that sounds like a Laker fan's dream. Oh, the Celtics are gone? That's cool. That ain't no problem. does feel like the nba could take a little strong like i know that they are very focused on the audience in china but this does feel like i don't know uh you gotta be able to stand up to them at a certain point when you have like an unrivaled i guess both of

these companies have unrivaled like products like that the population would fucking miss if the government was just like yeah i guess we uh we're gonna start our own nba and so yeah that's not gonna go very well well right? I just don't know descent isn't very easily done in places like that I don't know what would happen I'm sure people figure

ways out people have ways of accessing things behind that great firewall that they have but yeah not not great for the NBA fans behind that great firewall that they have. Yeah. Not great for the NBA fans. And then of course, Home Alone

is trending because Lego is dropping a new set that is the entire McAllister home. Dude, the whole thing chock full of Easter eggs and like things from the movie. This Lego set is over 3000 pieces. It's going to cost 250 bucks.

But just looking at like some of the pictures, I'm like, this looks fucking so cool. They even got the little train set where you put the Michael Jordan cut out. They even have like a weird rather than said bulls. It says bricks, you know, they don't want to fuck around copyrights i mean um and a lot of stuff like even uh marv has like the the iron fucking scar on his face and shit wow yeah that's it's uh it's pretty cool it's not as big as the mcallister home, it would appear. In real life? Yeah, in real life. It's not a one-to-one replica, therefore I'm disappointed. I thought you would think that.

Miles, you can't live inside of this. I know what you're thinking. Fuck, I really wanted that part to be true. I guess not. But it is pretty cool. Do you fuck with big Lego set things like this? Man, one of my nephews really loves Legos. So when I'm babysitting and shit, half the time, I'm just vibing out on Legos with him.

I'm like, yo, dude, what about this shit? Look at this shit I just made. And I recapture my imagination so quickly around legos um but i yeah i used to love having huge sets but the thing was like i wasn't i have like like kids who are really fucked with legos would build them and then like leave them there yeah what i built yeah i would be like well man i'm man i want to turn this like sea laboratory into some new shit so i just start fucking it up and making my own things um but i would like this it's very therapeutic i've put together a few things for my kids uh and they're like let me help and i'm like no get away get away you're not gonna put the sticker on

right and then they tear it apart uh you're like this was the whole death star you fucking ingrates but yeah this this looks like a great like soothing i don't know like a geriatric millennial toy to have is a 3 000 piece mcallister home to build like yeah yeah fuck your bro just that's a good day right there eating leftovers making that all right well those are some of the things that are trending on this thursday afternoon we're 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 you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. How do you feel about biscuits?

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