The Daily Zeitgeist - Surviving Trendsmas 12/16: NJ Drones, ABC Trump Settlement, Trump

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

In this edition of Surviving Trendsmas, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the uproar over drones over New Jersey, ABC's $15m Trump settlement and billionaires basically pledging fealty to Trump and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. It's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the BlackFatFilm Podcast. A podcast where all I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity

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or whatever you get your podcast, girl. Ooh, I know that's right. Hey everyone, this is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Leighton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, and every single wig removal together. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Yeah, I'm expecting. I'm making preparations for mine from myself to just die in about

five days time. I always limp into the holiday party and then once it's over I just like go home and crawl into bed. I don't know what kind of cold open you want. You got a cold. We've got a cold open. So this is I'm usually we do a cold open. And this time we're just doing an open where we talk about miles this cold

because it's a. And I know they hear folks. That's why on on Friday when we recorded that other year end one, I was like, my I could feel it. I was like, I'm nasally. Something's happening. Yeah. Yeah. You always know before I get hit, but I'm like the guy in the tsunami video who just like walks towards it with a oh, yeah, yeah. Job look of just kind of like curiosity on his.

Wow. Look how far out you can walk. Where the Sherlock go? What's what's happening? Oh, wait, a wall of water. I've never seen one of those before. Am I doing? I mean, so what there's one version of it where he's just like so dumb and it's just like, wow, it's like the nature equivalent of like the rattling of keys. But the other version is just like, he knows what's happening and he's like,

well, I might as well just like fucking. Or are you trying to do that thing like when you're when you're like surfing you're trying to get like past the break yeah that would have been jump over it oh I ducked over right I ducked over right under the fucking tsunami wave yeah tsunami wave. Yeah. Hello, the Internet and welcome to this week trend edition of Dear Daily Night, guys. Yeah. Oh, buddy. Oh, my. Oh, yeah.

It happened. We always limp in into the holidays. At least one of us is usually sick. Yeah, fully flattened. But man, you you flattened on your you would be on your ass. This cold would have put you on your ass if you didn't have something going on with your back, which makes it which I'm really sit down. Yeah.

But you know what? I have to suffer for For the art for the art. Yeah, exactly. You know that's what we do the audience. I blame you the audience Oh, I don't I don't there. You know no they're the solution to all of my problems So please be kind and don't say I sound like shit. I'm trying this guy sounds like shit Yeah, dude, terrible fucking sign is cold like never had I'm trying folks guys sounds like shit. Yeah, dude terrible fucking sinus cold like Never had I've never had anything like this usually I don't get like sinus colds But this was like the really I felt like those commercials where the guy's head is in a vice. Oh, yeah Yeah, and then gotten to like arguments with like

Pharmacists to be like I just need the stuff with pseudo ephrin. They're like, we can't sell that to you right now. The pharmacy isn't technically open. Desperate, bro. I'm like, you are the pharmacy, but like, no, the actual pharmacy because it's a control. So I'm like, I'm not a smurf out here trying to fucking make Fring's blue. So just let me get the pseudo and fucking make my way. Is that a smurf? A word for people who do math or you just that was in blue.

Yeah, I mean, that's what they call them in Breaking Bad in the first season when they had to go send all the junkies to different pharmacies to get pseudoephedrine to make meth. They're like, just get some Smurfs to go. Nice. Yeah. Anyway. All right. Well, you are going to hopefully get some rests, get some sleep. We're going to do a quick check in with what was trending over the weekend. First, we like to let you get to know us a little bit better. Get to know each other a little bit better.

Yeah. By doing some trust falls and in this case, telling each other what's something we think is underrated, overrated. You want me to go first? Give you a break? I'll go first. You want to go? All right. Yeah. You want me to go first? Give you a little break? I'll go first. You wanna go? I'll go first. Yeah. What are you doing, under?

Under. Dude, the 2004 holiday movie Surviving Christmas starring Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, and Christina Applegate. Wow. Have you heard of this? You seen this, folks? I've heard of it.

I've totally missed it. It just falls into the same category as Christmas with the Cranks. Yeah, the family stone. You know, there's like those ensemble Christmas movies that I think there's a Vince Vaughn one like five Christmas or something. Yeah, with Reese Witherspoon. Sorry to give him an extra Christmas. This is I mean, it's no secret why van Vought only made it to three Christmas

It's no secret But this movie like it was one of those 2004 is an interesting time because this is like my what sophomore year of college So I'm like deep into being off Mainstream media like I'm only watching like deep cut foreign movies, you know, thinking you're deep and shit. So when this movie came out, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go fucking see this nonsense. I still haven't seen every Ingmar Bergman movie.

OK, exactly, exactly. And this weekend, we were looking for a movie, like a holiday movie. And I was like, and there are I go into every holiday movie. I mean, like, it's going to be bad. So fuck it. Let's watch this one. This thing is so fucking bad. It I thought I was so good No like it's underrated in that like I'm telling everyone to see it because it's gonna fuck your head up because James

Gandolfini is basically playing Tony soprano and he's married to Catherine O'Hara and Like it's such a bad that duo in your mind, that was already fucking me up. I'm like, dude, Gandalfini is doing Tony and Catherine O'Hara is just Catherine O'Hara-ing it up. Ben Affleck's, it's about a millionaire who wants to like recapture his like, you know, lack of love, childhood Christmas.

So he just goes to his childhood home and pays this family like a quarter million dollars just to play pretend for a few days and Ben Affleck's character like his performance is yeah, it's manic I've never seen Ben Affleck perform like this and it's cartoonish The script is so bad. You're like, how could this have been greenlit? is so bad you're like how could this have been greenlit but it's like a treat because I'm like everyone like I like individually Catherine O'Hara and James Gandolfini so it's really fun to watch them in this thing with a script that

has gone completely off the rails so can't recommend it enough because it just seems like it's just so obscure but has the payoff of being really a fucking head scratcher in terms of how bad it is. Well we now have we always do our year-end holiday party with a bad Christmas movie. Oh throw that on the background. I think this is gonna be our background Christmas movie, Surviving Christmas, which the like horror genre

has to be pissed that they got to the movie title Surviving Christmas, which the like horror genre has to be pissed that they got to the movie title Surviving Christmas. Are you are you looking it up right now? You check out that Rotten Tomatoes score? I didn't look at the Rotten Tomatoes. I just looked at the Wikipedia. Check out just Google it so you can see what the baseline like critical reception was of this film. It, I got a drum roll. We're at 8 percent, my man. We're at a solid eight. Wow. Yeah. A wealthy executive, Drew Latham, has no close relations and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home.

So it's just like he just goes to his home. He goes to his home. And I don't even want to reveal stuff because you're like what the from the B You're just like what the fuck is this movie? Like what is happening is what I kept saying to myself, right as I watched it. So yeah, check it out It's not it will like it's it will not disappoint because you're gonna go into it expecting to see like a fever dream of like this era I think that like expecting to see like a fever dream of like this era. I think that like 2000, like that right after 9-11 to 2005,

like era of movies, there's just a lot of weird shit. We'd all lost our minds. Yeah. The nation had lost its mind. Exactly. Yeah. Check it out. I'm going to.

And you're sure this is, yeah, I did look up the Wikipedia at first just to make sure it wasn't a fever dream That no you had you had been having because you have a fever Steven Rood is in it Brian the editor points out so it can't be all bad Alright, I got two underrated one just shit that lasts First of all still wearing my tuxedo. I got married in 16 years ago It's been tailored. I wear it every day. Yeah. I was going to say, in case people are wondering what. Yeah. Yeah. We spend a lot of money in posts to digitally take the tuxedo off for the video episodes.

But it's been tailored like three times and it's still hanging around. I also have this Christmas lights necklace that we got at a drive in movie theater. Like during the pandemic, remember when like that was just the thing to do was like go to drive in movie theaters. Yeah. So they were selling Christmas ways of the ancients Christmas light necklaces. I got one. The sort of thing that you would expect to be broken by the end of the movie. We're five years later. That shit is still lighting up a stab. Bring it out every Christmas.

It's but I think I just want to recommend Christmas light. Necklaces are that they're just the easiest way to be like, and I'm going to a holiday. I'm dressed normally and now I'm going to a holiday party and I have a holiday cheer People people really seem to enjoy this human sacrifice graphic t-shirt doesn't feel Christmas enough. What about now? What about now, baby? Oh, I love the Christmas light Wow Everybody says that word for word is someone setting a manger on fire on your t-shirt. No Hey, but the manger is there. Yeah.

I also want to shout out the historic significance of Limp Bizkit's Just One of Those Days. I encountered this song over the weekend and it started like playing in my brain. What's that? That's that guitar. It's just one of those days. That's that guitar. Oh, no, it's just one of those days. And I was just thinking about it like Limp Bizkit as it relates to rage, like rage against the machine, dropped killing in the name in 92.

Limp Bizkit's first album came out in 97. And I feel like they just filtered out the class consciousness of rage and like just for like in this song, Fred Durst is mad because well, as you might remember, it's just one of those days where like it's like a song about being grumpy and waking up on the wrong side of the bed. He does specifically says like in case you're hoping to get any sort of articulate analysis of where the anger is coming from in his generation, he specifically says, you don't really know why, but you want to justify ripping someone's head off.

Like specifically removing any explanation, any cause. um, there's also like the refrain. It's all about the, he said, she said bullshit. So it's just like any attempt to analyze why people are angry is just, he said, she said bullshit. It's just all meaningless, you know? Um, so yeah, it just like taps into this dissatisfaction that was made fashionable and potent by Rage Against the Machine and then is like, hey, white guys, you can feel it too. And just try it on without any sort of meaning.

It feels like this is the, like you say, it's like Rage's Down Rodeo with no class consciousness at all. Generally it's like, down Rodeo, we know what's going on with Down Rodeo. This one, I just love, I'm just looking at genius at the lyrics. And again, Limp Bizkit doesn't need a gene.

They don't need no genius analysis. It says and especially that chorus. Look it up. Limp Bizkit lyrics on genius is just a funny thing in of itself. It's just actually should break the website. This is way more entertaining because again, that chorus about the he said, she said, bullshit, I think you better quit letting shit slip or you'll be leaving with a fat lip that fat lip. All right. Here's the annotation. He suggests the person he's talking about should basically keep their mouth

shut and quit gossiping or talking shit, or he's going to punch you in the face. Okay. Thank you. Didn't, didn't figure that out. So shout out to Olympus. I feel like maybe in the, you know, trajectory of America's dissent into fascism, like they will be an early kind of symbol that people could have been like, oh yeah, that's because that is like, you know, fascism's playbook is take the you know, aesthetics of leftist and like progressive policy and politics and you know take the anger and then just remove any of the content any of the Meaning and just like put it in the name of

reactionary bullshit so Hell yeah, dog. And that's kind of cool. And that's kind of cool. I'm I'm off that ephedrine. Yeah, I didn't watch the documentary about Woodstock 99, but I'm assuming I'm assuming they talk about some of this stuff.

Dude, it's it's vile. Yeah, the whole thing front to to back, from just the capitalist gouging to the lack of safety, all of it. Yeah. Pretty interesting though. Right. It does feel like half the artists they talked to just seemed deeply traumatized

by even from performing there. Damn. Yeah. Even Fred? I'm sure they talked to Fred, right? Yeah, I can't remember. They must have. But I just remember Fatboy Slim was like shook.

Yeah. Just like the the most evil like that. That was an early sign that we just ignored. Yeah. Brian points out it. It is kind of in the same family as like Fight Club Matrix office space where it like taps into this dissatisfied white guy energy of the late 90s. But yeah, and in Office Space, remember that opens with a white guy listening to gangster rap, listening to rap music that has the energy and is actually coming from a place of that has like the energy and is like actually coming from a place of like, you know, suffering and you know, class consciousness and he's just like appropriating it and he and he's

like using the anger to get mad at fucking photocopy machines. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That was so fucking good, dude. What a time to be alive. Yeah. What's something miles you think is overrated? The way fathers abandon their families in the modern era.

Now, stick with me here. Again, in watching Surviving Christmas, there's a trope I forgot that they don't really use in TV and film anymore, which is Ben Affleck's talking about his sad child and goes, and my dad walked out on our family Christmas morning. And I just like set me in a time machine. I'm like, what happened to that?

That used to be so standard in like fucked up backstories. Like I remember it was Thanksgiving. My dad went out for turkey or cranberry sauce and never came back. Like that whole thing of just fully phantom ghosting. Now there are people, now I think most men just do it very gradually by us, gradually emotionally detaching from their families

in a way that they're physically there, but maybe emotionally gone. But this, I've just like laughed so hard thinking about like, that was so normal to like whatever that like I don't know like the few times that came out as like a trope in a film it just sort of became this way to always be like yeah dad went out for cigarettes like that whole thing we've yeah we've we've moved on we've evolved past that.

Christmas or Thanksgiving is definitely them getting out there like inner dramatic queen. Like, why? Why do it on such a such a such an important day to the family? It's like, really make a point. I gotta get out of here. Fuck you then. I should maybe I could have done it last night or I don't know the moment I realized I could

have, you know, spoke to my partner. But yeah, I just love the walk. We don't walk out on our families on Christmas anymore. I know. Speak for yourself. But the the Gremlins story where her dad leaves because he like she thinks he's left the family and then they start smelling something coming out of the chimney that is.

Oh, yeah. Like just permanently forgot about in my brain. Yeah, that that scar had healed for me, but you reopened it. That's what I'm here for. Also the. The other two, the way their dad died. Oh wait, how did their dad die? Another two.

He like got drunk on the roof during Christmas and like it froze to death. I think Mr. Do back. Yeah. Rough, rough one. Yeah. You hate that. All right.

My overrated like kind of the bloodless, begrudging treatment of progressive ideas in mainstream culture. I was watching this NFL game and there was Lions Bills. Oh, that Josh Allen, man. What is he from a different planet? This guy's incredible. What happened? What's that? Is that, is that the game where the guy fucking fumbled the ball at the goal line again?

I just saw a clip of another, like, I don't know how NFL players keep dropping the ball before it breaks the plane for a touchdown. Yeah, they do it for a sorry because they're doing it. It's the NFL player. It's that NFL player equivalent of leaving on Christmas, you know, just wait for the automatic moment. And that was just fun. Yeah, I love the bag on Christmas morning. But so I was watching the game and at one point they get back from commercials, which

still the only thing my six year old wants to watch. He comes over and watches the commercials because and like I get it, like seeing it through his eyes, they're like these $3 million, like short films, like, you know, no expense spared on the commercials. They're like, you know, getting filmmakers to tell stories. They are analyzed and poured over. And then a lot of instances paid, like actors are paid better to be in a commercial than they are in a movie. Yeah. Yes.

So and then we get back and we have the announcer just like read through this copy chunk with zero intonation. I actually like I was so struck by it, but I actually went back and like wrote it down word for word. You transcribe it. OK. Yeah. He's like talking about this wide receivers having a great game.

He was like on the lions and now he's come back to haunt them cause he's now on the bills and the bills are kicking the shit out of the lions. And he's like, and I'm gonna tell you about it right after this. Well, the NFL family advances social justice and reduces barriers to opportunity through work in police community relations

criminal justice reform and economic advancement the inspire change change maker award recognizes community members who work to advance social justice to learn more about the change change maker visit and then read the URL and Back to the game and like the the energy of like back to the game is like, oh, all right, we got that bullshit over. Oh, fuck. You know, like just like reading through the unpleasant side effects at the end of the medicine commercial is like the energy that they give to this. They don't even say the person's name like they they show a quick cut away to a woman holding an oversized like ceremonial check for $10,000 made out to like Detroit public schools, but they don't even like tell the story or anything. It's just fucking boilerplate copy that they're reading to get it out of the way.

And it's just like, of course, social justice is going to like to like fucking teenagers and adolescents and shit like that. Like they're all like, this is actually bullshit, dude. Like they they're just forced to read this shit because of course it's like treated by the people who make the shit they watch as like bad vegetables, they need to like force down our throat before we can have fun again. And what it's like, yeah, it feels like such transparent, like they have to generate moral cover because the NFL is already, you know, questionable league in terms of how like players end up and it's treatment of players and all that kind of

stuff. So they're probably like, all right, do the oversized check thing and we can go to sleep one more night. Yeah. And I get like they don't like, I feel I don't, I don't know how conscious it is or if it's just like B because it's not profitable. It just gets so much less attention and they're just like, we have to like fucking say this thing in this era of such like backlash to anything quote woke, I'm surprised they're still even doing it. You know, because it feels like so many institutions and companies have completely

abandoned any idea or any notion that they, like it was something that they should be doing as like a major force in culture. But yeah. Well, they're certainly like, I'm surprised. Giving it less and less energy because, yeah, and it's just like, this is of course why social justice movements fizzle in America. Like in a market driven world, like the people who make the decision of what's profitable will just pay lip service to it in a way that basically

has an implied jacking off hand motion, like the whole time they're doing it. I feel like it's more damaging to do what they're doing than nothing at all. When you do what you're doing, it implies that it's a thing that they're in on, which they suck. So like everybody, everybody like thinks that nobody is thinking this is cool. Like, everybody's like, uh, like they, they're like trying to brainwash us because they sound like they're fucking

brainwashed as they're reading it because they're giving it absolutely nothing. So, yeah, I was, I really believed in the NFL too. Well, like I heard it on like a radio like spot where like somebody like gave just a brief nod to events that had happened in black history that day, but like just such a cursory like mention moving on. And I'm just like noticing it everywhere that they feel like they have to do it, but they're doing it like begrudgingly. And so the whole thing just feels like, yeah, I just can see the adolescent boy mind being like, this is actually not cool. Like they're just trying to fucking trick me.

Yeah, it sounds like the community service project for like a teenager who was caught graffitiing like racist stuff on a wall. Yeah, it's like and now you got to read this like it's got their energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fucking dare. I guess I have to because I'm fucking up. Right. Yeah.

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And actually, I do want to, Brian, do you have your mic on? Yeah, I'm here. All right. So I just want like, I don't need you to weigh in any specific moment, but I am just curious to hear your thoughts on this because I am hearing from a lot of people. Like, I gave my take on this last week that there are a ton of drones out there now. Brian Editor is the proud owner of a drone. You know, I talked about seeing this like drone display at a ski resort that was like mind boggling.

And but also like it did. What kind was it? Was it an array? Yeah, it was an array, but they were like doing like they like turned into a dragon at one part. Like they do that a lot in China. They have like huge ones. But like this was not like this was Big Bear, which is like, you know, just a, you know,

very normal like ski area. They're not it's not like a high tech like energy at all. But like they were able to like program this kind of impressive show. Yeah, I've seen like really impressive like drone stuff. And so I'm just trying to like get my head around what are people seeing that is so much more impressive? They're like, well, it couldn't be like what, you know, people, because there's so many of them. It's like I've seen like 50 drones like operating together as one like that.

I feel like if somebody put that array above New Jersey right now, everybody would fucking lose their minds. Like, because, you know, like it's I don't quite understand how this has like, it's only growing. And I don't know if it's just if I'm missing something or if the country just like badly needs something to like have a little hysteria about. But is that allows them to be like distracted from Reality well there is something special about drones drones are in my experience there are certain types of people who are

just triggered by the sight of a drone and they immediately get upset like Yeah, I remember. What's that neighborhood app? Kill it. What's that app for like neighborhoods where you can like, you know, narc on people and stuff? Citizen next door citizen next door. So I remember arguing with someone on next door

who was convinced that a drone was spying on her in her house. Yeah. And I had to carefully explain to her how cameras work and how that's the there's that's not a thing looking right through my roof. Like that, like she said that like there was a drone spying on her kids in her backyard and I'm like, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure no one cares about your dumb kids in your backyard. I mean, yeah, there's just like something about a drone that upsets certain types of people when they see it.

And I don't know what that is. Yeah. OK. So people don't like seeing drones. They're suddenly seeing a lot more of them. This has continued to grow over the weekend. Marjorie Taylor Green has continued to grow over the weekend. Marjorie Taylor Greene has continued to make public statements claiming that the government is in control of the drones.

Donald Trump suggested the government needs to admit that they're behind the drones or shoot them down. I just love the energy of this guy who's about to be the president. Yeah, like the government controls the drones. I haven't been following this story. What kind of drones are people seeing? Are they seeing like predator drones?

Are they seeing the kind you get it? They're saying that they're seeing drones that are as big as an SUV flying through the air. Brian, for someone who's on Reddit as much as you are, I'm surprised you haven't seen all this drone shit. Because I don't follow American news. No, but it's in like it's on. I've seen it in so many subreddits right now. People post. I'm also I'm also weaning myself off of Reddit. Good for you. Congratulations.

Because it's mostly bots. What do you better than me? What's that? Yeah. So what do you better than me after he leaves this episode? Miles will have a discussion of why it seems like Brian thinks he's better than us. I feel like I don't know, man. I just know Brian's always been against me. Oh, am I on the Ops list?

You're on the Ops list. Just made the Ops list when he told us that he's weeding himself. But it's like it's so many videos of like just like sometimes it has like the like green and red lights that I feel like don't a lot of drones have these lights on them. Yeah, so those are just for for the pilot so that you know which orientation your drone is in. So usually I think the I think the red lights on the left. I can't remember, but it's just so you know which way your drone is pointing when you're flying it. Sure. Yeah, their SUV size, that sounds

like some government shit. I'm like, I don't even know what that is. But like, how good are people at judging the size of a drone? That's the other thing. It's like, it's really hard. Like if you've ever seen, you know, you guys live in L.A., you've seen helicopters strafing your house, I'm sure. It's hard to tell how many hundred feet they are in the air. Supposed to be a 400, but you can swear sometimes they're different.

This is my argument. Yeah. That like you think they're either closer or further away. You think they're a different size than they are. Yeah. If you don't know what it is you're looking at, it's really hard to tell. Yeah. I think there's three potential things happening.

One, it's just fucking drones. People are tripping and it's now causing other people to fly their drones to sort of like cash in on like the sort of excitement around seeing this shit in the sky. Two, it's aliens and they're not telling us. Or three, this is an op so people stop talking about Luigi Mangione. Interesting. Yeah, yeah. I mean, and look at us. We've opened our Monday Morning Trends episodes for the past two weeks talking about Man G1. Just look at this Google search curve right here. The droves are blue. Luigi Mangione is red. Yeah.

It shot up. December 10th is the same. It's weird. The December 10th, there was a simultaneous huge drop off in interest, maybe because he was caught. And then that's like began like a very sort of sharp rise in drone searches. So I don't know. I'm just saying Luigi Mangione searches before he was caught. No, no, no. I think on the day, like on like when the name came out, like when the name came out again, this this is but what I do see is like I think there's so much talk of the

drones too that I don't know. This is me with my tin foil gum wrapper hat on. People just like don't want to think about the incoming administration. Like so they're looking for a big story to like distract themselves with. But I also, yeah, I don't know. Like one of the big videos that ABC News came through and was like, ABC News camera crew investigate the drone UAP UFO phenomenon. We have no idea what it is. And they're showing this like, like, I don't know, it looks like a crystal in the sky.

Kind of kind of dope looking. And basically everyone who looked at it and has some manner of expertise is like that's Venus. That's the planet that is the first thing you see. Not the razor. I know that was my first thought too. But yeah, there's apparently the razor is named after a planet. OK, I'll buy that.

And that's Earth's biggest, brightest planet. Currently, you like I feel like it's the first thing you see at night once once the sun starts to go down like it's this is the thing. Well, if it's a regular drone, like there's a story about how like an air force base would like shut down for a second to, like, monitor the airspace. Not like how do you? I'd imagine if you were fucking around with a commercial drone, like, they'd probably like there's probably a way to hold that person to account. But if it isn't, does that indicate that even the Air Force is like, what the fuck is this? Well, here's the confusing thing to me about this is that commercial drones have to be registered.

Like with that information just spitting out of them constantly. And you can find out what the drone is, especially if you're like a military base, you can find out what it is and possibly who it belongs to. So I don't understand the confusion. Like if the government wants to know what's flying around in its airspace, they can find out. There shouldn't be any mystery. Yeah. So that's what's that's I think that's the weird part. That is like why tending like they don't know. Yeah. Or they're just doing the government thing of like,

we don't care to disclose that information at this time. And then, you know, letting them ask hysteria and like all the pictures I can find are either lights in the sky or they are clearly, you know, like a DJI matrice or something like that, just like a big fucking commercial drone. OK, that and I know what a DJI matrice is, but I'm glad you clarified that for it's like what they use on like movies. If you've ever seen like a Netflix documentary,

the opening shot is always a drone shot. Yeah, right. It's one of those swoops out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I don't know. Like I. I feel like the people being like, they're just seeing radio towers and the planet Venus is like that. I don't think there's got to be more going on. Yeah, exactly.

That feels like it's just a weather balloon type excuses like we can't. And we know what we do the way we dismissive the drone hobby is suddenly catching drone fever because like the like national and international news is suddenly all about drones and like they get to be a part of like this massive freak out like feels more logical to me but I don't know. I just think people really want to believe right now. And also like law enforcement has been using drones for, uh, you know, surveillance and in kind of like what, uh, helicopters used to do.

I don't know what they're doing in New Jersey, but I know that, you know, police departments have a shit ton of money that we give them and they spend it on goofy ass toys. So if anyone were to have a fleet of large drones, I would say it's the police or firefighters or something. Yeah, that makes that also makes more sense. I just like the like last week were like, that's radio towers and now it's just, you know what? Something's up. Yes, the radio tower is flying around.

Like, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah, no, it's definitely it's it's it's taken up a lot of energy and attention. And now, like, I feel wasn't I think Larry Hogan or one of the may are governors of a state was like, I saw him, too. I've seen it. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Larry Hogan or one of the may or governors of a state was like, I saw him too. I seen it. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Larry Hogan. So I don't know. Well, we'll keep an eye on it.

As it seems like everybody will. It. I am curious. This makes me want to like go back and look at the Chinese weather balloon story, because that was like everyone was like, oh, shit, what's happening? And then I feel like we never really got closure on that. There's probably like a bunch of details on that that people just stopped paying attention to. We need this close. No longer served them.

Also, there's like six military bases in New Jersey, which is not a very big state, and it's just, yeah, really should know what this is. Right. Maybe it's just, yeah, really should know what this is. Right. Maybe it's some sort of a inter agency miscommunication where one is doing a bunch of testing and the other ones don't know about it. Right. Entirely possible. I mean, that might be like, that is one of the more popular skeptic explanations for what's going on with UAPs, right?

It's just like, it's just drones aren't rare. They're like you can get them at Best Buy. Like this isn't I don't know why people are freaked out. Anyone can get one. This is this is my point, Brian. And you can and somebody with a reasonable with a fireworks display budget can do wild shit like light up the sky and like, it's your brain.

If you if you aren't familiar with how drones can be like programmed with like to to dance together. So, yeah, I'm still highly skeptical of this. Yeah, I mean, I'm more skeptical, skeptical because I want the aliens to do cooler shit than this. Like if they're like, come on, bro, you got red and green lights. What the fuck is this? Yeah, it's like the people are so unimaginative when it comes to alien shit.

It's like, oh, they're going to be humanoid shaped and they're going to fly drones around it. It just it's so stupid. Like have some imagination, everybody. Aliens can be a lot cooler than than what you could think. Then us. They could be hosting this podcast right now. Whoa. You didn't just do that drop, dude.

That was no, that's just I yawned. I just yawned. That's how your yawns. There's also like I feel like the media is buying into it and like trying to select the information that is going to make this the most like intriguing, like viral story. Like there's a Newsweek article that is being linked as like one of the top drone or top drudge stories over the weekend. And like their primary source is just somebody in the drone industry

Who's like I don't know what it is, but I bet it's really important and cool Like that's legit what he says. All right important and cool Yeah, so I don't know Mention at the end like and they changed like the FAA rules so that drones could fly at night back in September 2023. So this might just be the result of people realizing that all at once and flying a bunch of drones at night. For years, you weren't able to, there were a lot of restrictions and you needed like a license, a special license to fly at night. But now it's just like open season and.

Yeah, so that's probably what's happening. Like that's you could you weren't able to fly over people. You weren't able to fly at night. You weren't able to fly over traffic and now like drones are flying over people and people are like, what the fuck? Oh, they just changed the law and the media instead. And it might be a new line of sight rule because you used to have to have a clear line of sight to your drone.

But now with all these companies trying to do like deliveries, it could be a company to of testing their fleet. I don't know. But like, yeah, companies have a lobby to be able to fly without being able to see your drone physically so you can make deliveries and stuff. So it could be something like that, too. Yeah. There's like a Twitter thread that's going viral where a guy's like, let me explain what this is. I've like worked in this.

It's there to measure like nuclear activity or something along those lines. The aliens sure radiation. And I mean, people use it in industry. They're everywhere. Like there's no need for alarm. But he yeah, like the thing that he's pointing, he makes it sound somewhat nefarious and then is also like, you know, referencing. He's like, and the big thing that you see that people keep referencing is like, you know, referencing he's like in the big thing that you see that people keep referencing

is like, take, I need to see a picture of like this drone that is or like a video of this drone that is like of a type that we've never seen before, because otherwise it's just like, I don't know, man. Sounds like drones. Yeah, like you're looking at a thing that is just an SUV sized drone. Yeah. Anywhere. All right.

Well, thank you for joining us, Brian, to as our resident drone expert. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some other news. We'll be right back. We want to speak out. We want to raise awareness and we want this to stop. Wow. Very powerful. I'm Ellie awareness, and we want this to stop. Wow. Very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn and I'm an investigative journalist.

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And that's like, I remember at the time he's like, I'm gonna sue you for saying that blah, blah, blah. Like you shouldn't use that word. This like, and at the time it felt like a thing where people were like ABC would probably win this case all said and done. Like, I mean, I the you know, we obviously understand this is Trump's like go to fucking lawsuit move all the time.

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Back in July, he was already starting to get on board. He said that Trump's reaction of raising his fist in the air after the assassination attempt was one of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life. It would be the most badass thing you've ever seen in your life. For sure. So tight, dude. And then Jeff Bezos, you know, we saw what he did with the endorsement of the Washington Post. He's planning to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago next week, or I think maybe this week, and at the New York Times Dealbook Summit.

God, how did I miss that? Once again, not invited to the Dealbook Summit. We were banned. Yeah, well, that's wasn't an official ban. It's just like they have my pictures at the entrance. Yeah. And they said they said I'm banned because I kept using the bathroom too much. It's freaking everybody out. Yeah. Well, I had to pee a lot of coffee. But they said he appeared optimistic about the new administration

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