The Daily Zeitgeist - Taylor SheriTrend 6/21: Taylor Sheridan, Titanic, WFH Anna, Tom Cruise, Justice Alito

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

In this edition of Taylor SheriTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Taylor Sheridan doing things HIS way, the discourse around the Titanic expedition, WFH: it'll turn you into a goblin named Anna, Tom Cruise NOT kicking a woman in the stomach, and Justice Alito caught simping for billionaires!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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He's cool. He's the one guy for whom the current writing situation has worked out incredibly well. He writes his shows and solo like on his on his ranch by himself and he's got making all the money because his shows have like weird uh like the the story is like billionaire rancher actually the good guy and all these greedy tribal

communities want to like take away his God given right to his land. Billionaires balling indigenous people hating. I only made it like two episodes then. So if it, if it gets more complicated than that, sure. But he is coming out and being like, well,

leave this between the guild and the, and the studios. But if I have to check in with another with a room full of four writers then i'm gonna stop making tv shows because so he just has basically thrown the guild under the bus and basically be like god i do i do things on my own because i'm like a john wayne of tv writing right i like it goes it quote if they tell me you're going to have to write a check for $540,000 to four people to sit in a room that you never have to meet, then that's between the studio and the guild.

But if I have to check in creatively with others for a story I've wholly built in my brain, that would probably be the end of me telling TV stories. All right, man. Well, we're good over here, but I do think that would make a bunch of people sad.

You know, you could still do that and then completely ignore everybody, right? Yeah. That is a thing people do. Thank you for voicing your support for the powerful fucking billionaires who own these companies. Always down for the little guy.

Yeah. But he has used his immense success as hollywood's only successful writer uh in the modern era to turn himself into like a rancher who like so he we know what side his sympathies lay on he's become like a billionaire rancher with his money writing about billionaire ranchers. Um, the submarine story is still like, I was trying to think, is this the most obsessed we've been with a story since when?

Like, I mean, accepting January, the Thai cave kids, the Thai cave kids was similar. Thai cave kids. Yeah. Feel kids was similar thai cave kids yeah feels similar the missing malaysian flight is similar that's more of like a conspiracy theory like oh what the fuck happened like this has very specific parameters that was like all anybody was

talking about like the first couple days when they're like it just never landed like it never right where do we think so we're now at the part of the story where people are talking about how much we're talking about the story. And they're like, you know, I've heard theories that it's like, has something to do with the fact that the ocean is eating the rich at a time when there's a part of everyone who feels like we should all be doing the same.

Right. Like eating a billionaire. Yeah. Should we swallow them whole? Yeah. People are pointing to the fact that there are like it's got this weird combination of funny details mixed in with trad like a tragedy and so you know it contributes itself to shit posting and edgelordism. Yeah. Edgelordian behavior.

There's so many write-ups about like, they had, they asked this like psychology professor, like why would wealthy people go to take these high risk trips? There's apparently a documentary that's being thrown together. Like right now that, yeah, that many of you are like, this is going to be so sloppy

we don't even know what the fuck is happening you are already trying to capitalize on this in a form of a like a hasty local news or like the broadcast news like a documentary thrown together about a story that's happening currently is that just the nightly news we used to have that but i like that they're reinventing that so the owner of the company just going all the way out on a limb about how safety guidelines are too strict, and then he's on the thing. I think people are enjoying the irony in that, the fact that billionaire went to the bottom of the ocean in a windowless hydrogen tank. Hey, there's one window. There's one window. Right. But I do think that it really

goes back to just this particular genre of story where we know where the people left from. We know where they were supposed to show up. But they're not there. But we don't know what happened in between. It's like a Schrodinger's cat. Yeah, there's also just the morbid

element, though, though too of being so morbidly fascinated with the idea of being like essentially buried alive under the sea which is like super like a thing like i don't know like when anytime i see like some even like when i'll go on the submarine ride on fucking disneyland yeah i was like this shit is sketchy even though there was like it never actually goes under the water like you can just pop out the top if you had to i was always like i don't know about this so it plays on like that kind of sort of basic fear that we have too and i think just maybe because these people are so wealthy that it also adds like another layer of sort of distance between you and the subject matter because yeah because it's not

something that you could see anyone in your life doing yeah spending 250 000 i mean speak for yourself jack i mean i've got i've got you were you were scheduled to go on that next one yeah yeah but uh i i you you were right you're like you're too scared and i'm like you're right you're right yeah i have been trying to tease you into doing this for a long time yeah and we're gonna tease elon to do the same yeah that's right we'll talk about that more on tomorrow's episode i do think like so a lot of the stories that um you were seeing now where they're like oh we were actually flying over there and heard some banging in the ocean and like people who understand the scale of the ocean seem to all be of the same mind that like this is i think this is going to end in the same way that the malaysian flight one did where

it's just like we we don't know i think they have a better shot of finding it because at least they know like where they were generally it's not gonna be like on the other side i mean i don't know i don't know shit about ocean yeah the malaysian one the thing that happened there is the pilot intentionally like took it off course and yeah so it might be more like a doomed everest expedition but you know those happen all the time and people don't go this crazy over that so i really do think the thing that has caught people's attention is just the schrodinger's cat of like they're down there or they could be down there and just running out of oxygen or maybe they're dead or maybe they're like bobbing on the surface somewhere because then they just like cut off comms and the ocean's so big nobody's been able to find them um and like

we we just don't know and then like if they are alive like do they know that they are the most famous people on the planet right now yeah um the wild shit is just like everything around it like people check in for that one billionaire's like stepson going to the blink 182 concert and then like thirsting after only fans models on twitter like hours later and then cardi b like giving commentary on that and then this kid being like leave me alone cardi b you're like what the fuck this all happened in two days yeah or that post anna shared with us from dumois the fucking blind item gossip site like on their instagram stories yeah someone sent them a tip that was like i hear they're alive and everything's cool anon please yeah it says hey

anon please but i have it on good authority that the submarine has been found and all the crew are alive a trustworthy source who knows passengers aboard says that rescue efforts are underway that's like not this i don't know this is all fucking very strange that's so fucked up because you know the people who have family members on board are looking for any fucking glimmer of hope that they can possibly find like that's like chasing clicks but also you're probably catching the clicks of the people who actually like have people in that in that sub yeah because this is the only good news i've seen about this story um is on so sadly but it's sad the stepson seems to be a real piece of shit like the stories

that are coming out he seems like he's getting uh cinnamon toast crunch shrimp tailed a little bit here yeah and milkshake duct uh but i do not in theory uh condemn his ability to go to a concert to take his mind off the fact that someone in his life, you know, if blink 182 is your favorite band, apparently like it's in his handle. Yeah.

Look, I don't have a billionaire fucking dad who like, I don't have, I don't know how y'all move, but whatever. Yeah. But I think everybody should feel fine about doing what they need to get through difficult situations using music or, you know.

Or thirsting after the OnlyFans models. His behavior with the Grozoli film models is probably, yeah. But hey, again, post through it. Post through it, man. That's right. Just keep going. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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as part of My Cultura Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts and we're back and there's a there's an interesting piece of propaganda that came out where it says future shock are remote workers doomed to have claw-like hands and hunched backs? And it's this computer-generated creature that they've like, you know, they're like puffy eyes, swollen limbs. This is what working from home is going to make us all look like in the future, which I don't know if it was specifically funded by a you know i mean it is a real estate well i mean it is a company that makes office furniture so that's why you know what i mean

like they're they're they're also like hey man we this also affects our business if motherfuckers are working from home too yeah uh so a good bit of uh get back to work propaganda uh that absolutely i don't know but it's like so far off. Like it's it's hard to look at that and be like, oh, yeah, for sure. Like I'm going to have I'm going to turn into like a bowling pin shaped human with like terrible posture. The character that they've created looks a lot like Danny DeVito as the penguin in Batman Returns. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oswald Cobblepot.

Oswald Cobblepot. I was going to say that, but I couldn't imagine that I had that still stuck in my brain. But yeah, Oswald Cobblepot, not to be confused with Chester Copperpot, who is the explorer from Goonies who went missing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Fair point. My question on this is just like for the propagandist, what do they think people are doing at work other than hunching over the laptop like right you've just changed the venue do they think the work from

home movement is like affecting lumberjacks like i don't know it could no it can't look i'm trying to put myself in their shoes yeah this is the most low energy propaganda yeah i mean it's the kind of logic you'd use to like you know scare a five-year-old into brushing their teeth yeah exactly you're like you want to see a little boy who didn't brush their teeth for two days look at this and it's not a hypothetical in my case. Yeah. You get the Google, those nasty images, big book of British smiles from the Simpsons. You're like, check it out. I don't know.

Maybe I want these braces. Uh, but yeah, I, it's, I don't know. It's just, it's just super funny to see that because you,

we just read constantly about the panic in the commercial real estate sector around what the fuck are we doing with all these like business buildings we're doing and downtown's dying. And while i totally understand that affects all the other businesses around it's like i don't know you could also do something revolutionary with these buildings that are just sitting there with people needing to occupy them but hey here we are they'd rather just make propaganda to be like you're gonna be a worm person right okay all right mission trend possible the other possible uh title for this episode yeah um the just stories coming out from the set that are all now actually for for once this is the first time that a story from mission impossible set has come out that does not

go with the grain of tom cruise being super intense and wanting to die. Yeah, in a way. Yeah, it's true. The first one that caught my eye is that one of his co-stars, Pom Clemente, was saying that she was there doing a fight scene in the movie, and there was some action where she was getting kicked in the stomach. She says, quote, I kept telling him to just kick me here, like pointing to her stomach and saying, quote, I was squeezing my abs.

I said, you can just go for it. He was like, no, no, no, no, no.

I was like, but it's going to help me, but he wouldn't do it. Yeah. So gentlemen, uh, also just a complete masochist and not into say, doesn't he just wants,

no, no, no, he's like, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, but, uh, I do, it is in your rider that you have to, uh, just beat the shit out of me before we even get to set that's kind of my thing drag this soldering iron across my back real quick

it's like that's not in the script she's like i know but it will help me and you're like okay and then the other one is about like a lot of people talk about this stunt that you see where he's like riding a fucking motorcycle off a cliff and then she looks like the bike and is on a parachute and shit i mean that's the first thing they showed from the movie that is like the like the first thing you see in the trailer to this day like it's like because every movie has that seminal stunt but this one's got the most seminal oh yeah this was fucking wild of what it did to me yeah and it could go so wrong so yeah this happened in norway apparently they shot that stunt that was the very first thing they shot when they went into production because tom cruise is like we're either gonna figure it out or it's gonna be a total fuck up and we're

gonna have to do a rewrite so let's just get around my death yeah or or they're like saying like maybe it doesn't look as good and then at least we can figure out how it works and he said if it goes right now we got to figure out how to work it into the film so like it was kind of done just be like we got to get this in the movie i don't know how but let's just get it out the way and we got something and apparently like this is from this article it says to train for it he did 500 skydives and over 13 000 motocross jumps yeah and that wasn't just for him to be like all right with it that was just also because their director and like the dp and stuff had to figure out all the camera angles and shit like that so this they spent a lot of fucking time so yeah a lot of work goes into these missions there was that period where he kept doing like these videos that had

kind of vague reasons to exist but i think i think they were mostly like him thanking people for going to see top gun but like they couldn't catch him during a moment where he wasn't skydiving yeah okay yeah okay like that i can see it like planes is the movie that everyone went and saw but i think based on this it was actually just incidentally there wasn't a point during that like eight month period where he wasn't jumping out of a plane so they were just like hey can we get the can we grab this real quick man you do you think he just has like the fucking like i guess he does i'm sure he has the resources to be like let's practice this by like you take me up in the c-130 and i'm just gonna ride a motorcycle out the back

and just try it a bunch of times and then i'll just let the bike drop and but just do it in a big ass area that we know won't hit anybody or we'll evacuate like a 10 mile area so i can just do the my practice i'm always yeah like when you jump out of a plane or like do those stunts and like fast and furious where they drive a fucking car out of the back where that should go the amount of work that must go into just clearing an entire city's worth of space in the middle of the desert. Right. Or it can't be over

a national park desert in case there's hikers. I don't know what the fuck. But hey, this is what we gotta do to get our Tom Cruise stunts. Yeah. A lot of work. And then finally, Samuel Alito is the latest Supreme court justice to be uh simping for the billies yeah for the billionaires he's like it's not just clearance y'all another

pro publica report just coming out saying this is just an a reference to an image of him where he was like holding a like a salmon like as he was fishing in alaska it's a quote in early july 2008 samuel alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on a vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day.

And after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg, Alito posted for a picture. To his left, a man stood beaming. Paul Singer, a hedge fund billionaire

who has repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to rule in his favor in high-stakes business disputes. Singer was more than a fellow angler he flew alito to alaska on a private jet if the justice chartered the plane himself the cost would have exceeded 100 000 one way one way yeah one way and then they go on to talk about how this guy has contributed over 80 million dollars to republican think tanks and you

know obviously leonard leo like the fucking Jews, like the federalists, everybody. He's just making it rain on this group. And also, he's given millions to the Manhattan Institute, which is another think tank that regularly files like amicus briefs with the Supreme Court, at least 15 this term, including one asking the court to block student

loan relief. Yeah. So, you know, nothing to see here. So I guess... They they're just they are philosopher kings calling balls and strikes and these sick fucks at pro publica need to get off is wrong with it okay fucking haters man he's just fishing them any anybody who's what was it like the tone of those like graham whatever the guy who spells graham graham like the tone of his articles just being like these people are so crazy who think that this is any problem whatsoever these are just rich people unburdening themselves of their wealth by doing nice things for people they admire oh ballers can't kick it with ballers sorry

yeah um okay that's a loser mindset there's also the only thing alito has said about this was just saying quote i had no obligation to recuse in any of the cases that pro publica cites cool he said he's unaware of singer's connection to the entities involved in the cases brought never came up never came up. And even if he had, even if he had, recusal would not have been required or appropriate. So, fuck off. Now, look at this big-ass salmon I caught. It's the

size of my fucking leg, bro. Now watch this drive. Exactly. Yeah, holy shit. Now watch this drive. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Alright, well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Yeah.

Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. No, no. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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