The Daily Zeitgeist - The Beatles Group MasterbaTrend 2/21: Alex Jones, Trump, Beyonce, Malia Obama, The Beatles

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

In this edition of The Beatles Group MasterbaTrend, Jack and Miles discuss… Alex Jones getting his estate liquidated to pay Sandy Hook families, Trump: The Debt King, Beyonce's #1 country hit, Malia Obama's directorial debut… not going over well,  the FOUR upcoming Beatles movies and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Something I didn't know about until this morning. Still don't really know about it, but Miles can explain it to me um my name is jack that over there is miles yeah um and it's it's wednesday afternoon you know we're just getting over that hump we're just right there we're just it's about to by the end of this episode we're gonna be going downhill hands in the air pooping and hollering um but uh until then we do of course have to talk about just a couple of our faves who are getting we're getting fucking railroaded man yeah man okay now i'm gonna have to i guess boycott the state of texas for what they're doing to alex jones this is bullshit so last we checked in with alex jones last time previously checking alex jones um he had been sued successfully for a

cool 1.5 billy a billy a billy a billy and then he declared bankruptcy and we were like nothing's fair in the world he's gonna like get away with it um but it turns out judges hate this motherfucker like yeah for good reason because he's flagrantly still doing the crime that he's being tried for he's still just like flaunting reality and uh being glib and being cynical in the face of judgment. And so last year, bankruptcy judge Christopher Lopez ruled that Alex Jones can't discharge the defamation awards because those debts stemmed from intentional and malicious conduct.

So he can't just be like, sorry guys, bankrupt over here. I declare bankruptcy! And no, that wasn't enough, sir. Yeah. Yeah. Now the group of his general unsecured creditors, which is basically mostly made up of Sandy Hook families, they basically, they had a decision to make. There was Alex Jones' offer to them that said, okay, how about I give you $5.5 million a year, at least, for 10 years?

And then we'll call it even for the fact that I completely destroyed your lives and called you guys crisis actors, despite the horrific loss that you experienced? The lowest point that a human being could possibly be at. The other option, and I don't think it's that good. That's probably what Alex Jones is like. This is probably not that great, which is to, you know know methodically liquidate and redistribute my property and cash the family is pretty much unanimously voted for the latter and said yeah that one's yeah let's uh open-ended let's liquidate this shit and let's take it let's see what's going on and this also preserves potential legal actions against parties affiliated with jones his InfoWars program.

So, yeah, we will see. I think the next step here is to actually see how this will all happen mechanically. Like, what could be turned into what? But yeah, not a great time for Alex Jones. Unfortunately.

Yeah, they're just going to carve his ass up. You hate to see it, folks. Yeah. Really? No, this is great. Fuck that guy.

I hope he just spends the rest of his life agonizing over, you know, how he's going to pay for his next meal, which I doubt is going to be that, but it sounds stressful, deservedly so. Fuck it. I would love to see that like his,

he resorts to only being able to eat his nutraceuticals for sustenance yeah like was that on the table must eat nutraceuticals you gotta take care you gotta take a whole bottle of your nutraceuticals every hour on the hour yeah let's see what happens leticia james the new york attorney general said uh there was some question like how's it how's trump supposed to pay all this money that they're asking for what if he doesn't have the guys made of money he's the debt king okay even though he said he had 400 million dollars which okay he's the debt king he's lever. For the purposes of this conversation, don't forget what I said three and a half minutes ago.

For the purposes of this conversation, over leverage, please. What's he going to do? Yeah. I left my wallet at home, first of all. So what am I supposed to do? He has to go post the money of what is 30 days.

Ah, shit. What, Mr. Trump? You wouldn't believe it i lost i forgot my fucking wallet back in the plane or actually i think back in florida so i guess i'm gonna go that's really oh man i feel really shitty about this i really do i think is what the kids say yeah so she was like well here's one thing there are a number of buildings that i can just like walk to right now that have your name on them um so maybe why don't we put them on the table in order to collect on this little fine yeah the quote being quote if he does not have funds to pay off the judgment then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court and we will ask the judge to seize his assets.

We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers. And yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day, meaning his his grand goose, the Trump Tower. So, I mean, we shall see. I mean, he definitely has a right to appeal. It doesn't seem like that would really go anywhere aside from just delaying the inevitable um but yeah I think I think the the financial squirm fest is well and truly on at this point unless you know obviously there could be a you know just a very generous benefactor who who swoops in yeah and uh you know as they have swooped in and like bought half of professional

golf and yes yes yeah other thing and uh united football club yeah it is kind of wonderful that like the thing that he his like cheat code to this point of just like people are dumb just put your name on everything and they won't be able to not think of you as rich. Like actually as fucking him here. Yeah. You're labeling shit for them. It looks like that building right there. You see the one that has your name in it

and like big golden letters? No, I don't know what that is. It's not me. Must be somebody else. I didn't do shit. I'm poor. I suck at... I kind of suck.

I'm not good at money could you imagine that's his defense he's like he has to lean into that like his ego he's like fuck my only way to survive like your honor i kind of suck and i'm broke so like don't don't fucking do this to me i suck shit at this okay i'm fucking terrible it's fine like fucking whatever just fucking take everything from me okay like fucking everyone i know like whatever i don't even fucking care fucking do it then fucking bullshit yeah we're going to yeah yeah no no no for sure for sure all those things are true and we are going to um beyonce yes um you don't say country you don't say beyonce a famous country artist yeah now

scored her first number one hit on the billboard hot country songs chart with texas hold'em making her the first black female artist to top the chart uh which is wild. Yeah. I didn't know that she's topped nine genre-specific billboard charts. Yeah. Latin, rap, gospel. This is nine. This is the ninth. She's just collecting billboard charts. Is there

an EGOT for hitting every single genre-specific billboard chart? I mean, there might as well be one. We just gotta figure out what word it spells. We're gonna need some vowels in here. yeah like you know l r g c she did a hip hopera too um but that's an h so that's gonna make it so chlurg um okay let's sure okay we can we'll work with this I guess what's it what is the

music genre adult pop christian country dance electronic holiday internet jazz latin r&b hip hop rock alternative world music international international is it possible for her to do international

like world rhythms like she would have to yeah that would be a little bit carpet baggery though if you're just like yeah I switch nationalities just like hit that chart I'm top of the Peruvian charts

but yeah I have a feeling I wonder if I think it could just mean it's just that like in some of these world charts that like you were top of the country's specific charts yeah but there are so many there's so I'm looking for some valves here that she could that would make it so that we could create a word that's fun to say like you got you know yeah adult is like the closest vowel one you get and then it's really it's slim pickings from there grouch gospel rap latin uh is adult as adult christian country dance holiday internet jazz latin r&b rock okay so i think we're gonna hit the akadahizler

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As promised. And this one, I don't like this story. I don't like hearing that Malia Obama put it on the line, made a short film, and people aren't liking it. No, it's not getting love. She has, it debuted at Sundance. This is her directorial debut. It's called The Heart,

and apparently it's about a son grieving the loss of a parent. And she's credited as Malia ann i have i don't know why she i mean her last name is like the coolest part like she's such a cool last name i don't know why it is a cool like hide that but i guess that i guess it's something to do with her dad or something who's like the president was the president um and yeah a lot of like the reviews it's so funny like i still think of her as like a child from when her dad was in office and i'm like oh man she's like 20 she is that's too young to be debuting a film at sundance for the most part unless you're like a generational genius yeah

cut your teeth a little bit you know what i mean get your get your get your reps in and some writers rooms film festivals i don't know yeah yeah and so oh dude then people are just being like me i haven't seen it so i can't say like i'm like leave her alone like this it was okay like it i don't know people are not holding back though or not holding back but it seems consistent that people one review said this is a fucked up quote honoring her father's legacy by dropping a giant bomb and not receiving any criticism for it. Wow. Oh my God.

I mean, it's not fully, it's not a bomb. I'm sure it didn't cost that much money. You could say it bombed. No, but like other people are like looking at some of the thanks in the credits. Like one said, thanks to Steven and Kate. Like we're thanked in the closing credits and they're like so steven spielberg i'm sorry and kate capshaw is that is that who oh well i don't

know that's fine let's just leave let's leave last names out of this let's leave last names out that is okay um by the way if you're not using the last name obama like would it be cool if uh you know yeah just let we could just use just lean into it yeah it and the thing is no one is i'm sorry this is just the shitty part about being a first kid or whatever the real title is is you're you will never escape the legacy of the of the parent who was at one point one of the most powerful people on the planet yeah it just is what it is and it's funny because she was working like with donald glover and like was in like a writer's room and a couple of projects and apparently like i think his production company uh put out the the short or part of like the production of the short and apparently he like in a gq article last year

he said that he said to her quote you're obama's daughter so if you make a bad film it will follow you around i think it's just sort of like here's some advice like maybe he was saying like maybe pump the brakes because like don't like if you're gonna come out with something it has to be fucking fever or else she released a bad film and then like told everybody about that advice yeah oh buddy buddy buddy buddy uh whatever anyways what happened you're just 25 everyone's you know the nepo baby thing everybody loves to to jump on that so it's just a tough time to be the child of a president and just trying to make some art i made so much shitty stuff in my like 20s like yeah by all means like this is not but just you have to be like super thick-skinned and like not yeah be

like paying any attention to what people are saying and all the undue attention or you know you should just hide that shit yeah use a fucking pseudonym or whatever and just put a bunch of work out and just be like you know yeah whatever this is the shit i made but that's the shitty part of the scrutiny and like yeah to the like being creative it's like turn like those good ideas they're in there but sometimes the shittier ones have to come out first before you get to the good ones you know it's like a shitty ones yeah almost always come out first but because if you don't but if you don't open up your creative tap and let the shitty ones flow the good ones aren't going to

come either so in a way i'm like don't hey keep your head up malia and you know there's whoever you are you mysterious person who i've never heard of before malia and whoever you are. Shout out to Steven and Kate. Hey, can you say Beatle Cinematic Universe? The B-C-U? No. No, I can't. Oh, shit. Are you okay? Is there something going on with the

linguistic part of your brain? Just difficult for me to wrap my head around that as a concept. Sam Mendes, director of 1917 and american beauty uh has announced that he's making four feature films each one of them told from a different band members perspective pour one out for p best who's uh he's never gonna get his movie made but uh or billy preston or billy preston, yeah. I feel like his would be way more interesting than, I mean, I'm not trying to talk shit about Ringo,

but, you know. I mean, Ringo's, if Ringo's isn't like an animated children's movie, I'm going to be confused as to what the fuck's going on. It's just a bunch of Muppets. It's a Muppet movie. Welcome, Liverpool. That would be cool if like, they just went wildly different genres for each of them right paul and rango in the states of lennon and harrison have all granted permission for the

films meaning they will actually feature beatles songs uh so this is not like that hendrix movie wasn't there that hendrix movie that had fucking no licensed music and it's like you don't need that it's all about just the vibes but it's uh this makes a lot of sense to me based on what we're seeing with like they need to create big projects that somehow replace like comic book

movies and this makes sense like we're seeing you know Oppenheimer massive biopic uh you know the One Love the Bob Mar massive biopic, uh, you know, the one love the Bob Marley biopic, as we recently talked about, did much better than they were expecting. This,

this is an interesting project that makes sense to me, uh, also could suck, but, um, I don't know. I, I think they're going to make all four at once and then like them with a kind of experimental cadence that they've never done before.

The only thing... Okay, what would that be? It's either all four at once or one every week. Or one every month, like four months in a row. Yeah. They'll come out in 2027. Sam Mendes, he made made american beauty which doesn't hold up but he also made 1917 which was uh pretty fun to watch and i don't know i could

i could see it being interesting i like road to perdition i believe was also him um yeah we'll see sam i mean this is the thing we were talking about i mean we were talking off mic yesterday after we were done talking about the the uh marley thing is like some things are just too cool to try and capture with actors like it's like a documentary is the only thing that will like do certain figures justice and not that i'm like and the beatles are the coolest but I just think because of their popularity, too many people have their own version of what

they want them to be that I don't know if you're going to be able to thread the needle there. Yeah. Big question. Sir Sam, shout out to you. By the way, Super Producer Brian is saying Road to Perdition and 1917 don't hold up. I would not know because

i only saw those movies when they came out but um what about jarhead does that hold up was that him he was jarhead i think he had something to do with it yeah he directed jarhead jarhead uh i never even saw it in the first place because oh man, it's like a meditation on war and not like an actual war movie. Yeah. No, thanks. I'll just watch Rambo three again. I read it because at the time I was just like into reading all kinds of like

military shit. But yeah, the, the, the book, the film was not, nothing holds up anymore yeah so all right well it'll be maybe a good watch once through a good once through we'll give this uh speaking of giving

something a good once over um apparently the beatles used to masturbate together um while screaming out celebrities names for some reason wait just feels very like just forge rich white people shit like it feels like something that like skull and bones the yale fraternity would do oh wow what wow someone someone wrote this article come together paul mccartney recalls beatles group masturbation session that's amazing he said he apparently he uh mccartney said it didn't happen that often and they quote didn't think much of the moments at that time what it was was over at john's house and it was just a group of us and instead of just getting roaring drunk and partying i don't even

know if we were staying over anything we were all just in these chairs and the lights were out and somebody started masturbating so we all did part of the fun was shouting the name of someone who might assist with fantasies we were just Bridget Bardot

woo and everyone would thrash a bit more that was until Lennon added That was until Lennon added Winston Churchill and stopped the movements in their tracks. I think it was a one-off, McCartney continued, or maybe it was like a two-off. It wasn't a big thing.

It was just the kind of thing you didn't think much of. Yeah, it's quite raunchy when you think about it. There's so many things like that from when you're a kid that you look back and you're like, did we do that? is this when they're like 10 or 11 or how i feel like this is uh maybe when they were like younger and like playing all through europe before they became like the big band like in that pre the era or whatever but hey man they were just they were just making space bagels you know for each other good for them

um but yeah so everybody's like will the upcoming beatles movie include the group jerk off session uh the four beatles movies will all include the bit where they jerk off together but from four different perspectives oh wow that i mean it sounds like they were children so maybe not a good idea um yeah let's let's let's get all, let's get all the details ironed out before we were demanding the group J-O sesh. Yeah. But anyways, you know, I'm here for this. I don't think it'll... It's at least interesting, you know?

It's one of the, like, a lot of people have been like, the movies are fucked. How are they ever going to replace the brilliance of the marvel cinematic universe that's right i don't know there's a lot of things to make movies about it turns out yeah stop thinking that that was a fucking be all end all of cinema that's your first fucking well what are they gonna do yeah talk about movies that i'm not gonna say it i'm not gonna say they don't hold up but uh the others people are saying folks i don't know it's not it's not me saying it it's not me i'm just hearing it my good friend marty uh who was thanked by my good friend malia ann in her thanks session marty scorsese um anyways those are some of the things

that are trending on this wednesday febru 21st. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you 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.

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