The Daily Zeitgeist - The Freaks Come Out at Zeit 12/17: The Last Skywalker, Jason Derulo, Trump 2020 'Landside', Slanted Toilet

Episode Date: December 18, 2019

On this episode of The Freaks Come Out at Zeit Jack and Miles discuss the premier of The Last Skywalker, Jason Derulo having his penis "CGI'd out" of the new 'Cats' movie, the Trump campaign tweeting out "landside" not realizing it was misspelled, and a special toilet that makes it uncomfortable to sit on after 5 minutes. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That is courtesy of MFC Erickson, and I'm Jack O'Brien. That's Miles. Who? You. I am? You're Miles O'Brien. Oh, thank God. Yeah. Oh, I was worried. Real touch and go there for a second. And it is Tuesday, and we're talking about what is trending this afternoon.

Tuesday, December 17th. Yeah. How about that? Rise of Skywalker is trending. It's the number one most Googled thing because I guess last night that movie had its premiere. Premiere, yeah. Yes, in Hollywood. A little premiere. Premiere, yeah. Yes, in Hollywood. A little town called Hollywood, California.

Yes. We had to avoid the traffic here at the Daily Zeitgeist Studios. Yeah, we record from inside the Chinese theater. We do. That's right. A little bit of maneuvering we had to do. But it drops on Thursday, for the rest of you, please. For the real heads.

And for us also. Yeah. But it seems a little subdued, I was saying. For it to be the last of this latest trilogy. And the last of the whole of the trilogy of trilogies. Right, right, right. It does seem a little subdued. I honestly, and I was saying this earlier,

I feel like the Mandalorian is breathing up a lot of their oxygen right now. Yeah. For all the heads who are trying to go to a place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, you have the Mandalorian to kind of scratch that itch for the last couple months. Yeah. I think that makes sense to me.

Because that's all anyone talks about. Yeah. People were real horny for the last two oh yeah they came out and now everybody's horny as fuck for baby yoda yeah so you know they're just like i wonder if that'll i just had some of this yeah right exactly and i think that's why bob eiger's like the head of disney sort of like yeah i think we're gonna have to cool it on the star wars crap right it's a little too much something like that yeah he was saying yeah we are definitely concerned with fatigue like fan

fatigue right i mean i don't mind it because i'll watch it at my own pace but i know for damn certain my attention in terms of star wars has completely been on the mandalorian and also i don't i don't like to read much about any of the star wars films like i like to go in like the trailers the most i'll know yeah uh and people are already spoiling it on Twitter. There's a Deadline article that has it projected. So they say that Google interest and pre-sale ticket tracking has it on par with the eighth movie, I guess. Okay. Since this is the ninth. So the Rian Johnson one, Last Jedi.

Last Jetty. Last Jetty. Nowhere near The Force Awakens, which makes sense, because as we were saying, it seems like a lot of this is, a lot of Star Wars success is based on people being horny and deprived of other Star Wars content. Yeah, when it's been a few years in between them, you're like, yes.

Yeah. But the last one got really good reviews, like maybe the best reviews of any Star Wars movie to that point. Oh, The Last Jedi did? Yeah, The Last Jedi did, and people were not feeling it quite as much. I don't know.

I mean, it's just so hard. The Star Wars fan base is just too broad and complex that you'll ever satisfy the entirety of it with one film. Reviews drop at 12.01, so a minute past midnight tonight. So we'll see how this one is doing. Take those embargoes seriously. Yeah, man. I don't know.

I don't have high or low expectations. I just know I'm gonna see it yeah that's all at some point jason derulo is trending jason derulo uh and really uh jason derulo's dick is trending uh because he claims they had to cgi his dick out of the movie's patch wait that dick too lit yeah dick too lit for uh the movie cats so his penis uh on whose behalf as vice put it he pushed an aggressive promotional campaign over the past month uh so it started with a little instagram drama he had to take down or instagram took down a photograph of him where he was wearing some very uh tight boxer briefs where he had a half chub i guess you would say yeah pulled off to the side in the process of a state of arousal yeah like yeah, somewhere somewhere between fully and not at all.

Wow. And he it went wild. There were a lot of likes on that on that particular photograph. And Instagram was like, sorry, we can like see the veins of your dick. That's a little too much. Like, what's he hiding an anaconda in there? Right. And he chose to uh interpret it as dick too lit once again yep uh so now that uh he is in cats coming out uh fairly soon right which

we have our own inside information on but we've been embargoed so we can't talk about when the film comes out i yeah there are some there- There's some great takes. Some great commentary I've heard from film critics. Yeah. But he is saying that they had to spend a lot of time photoshopping his penis out of cats because it was so just- Because the suit was so tight. Couldn't he just recut the suit

to give him a little more bagginess in the front? You'd think so. Yeah. But the director's vision might have been for- To see Jason Derulo's bulge. Yeah. I mean, if they're being real, I mean, because like a cat's dick is sort of like inside them, right?

Right. Like it comes out. Yeah. So, you know, that seems accurate scientifically. Yeah. No, I think they made the right decision with Jason Derulo's dick. I mean, look, if they have titties, they can have dicks. Right.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I think that's how God decision. I mean, look, if they have titties, they can have dicks. Right. You know what I mean? I think that's how God intended these cats to look. He's playing Rum Tum Tugger. Is that correct? I have no idea. That's the name of a fucking character. I believe so. I believe the cats from Cats have some of the funnier names.

Well, they were named by T.S. Elliott in his poem, short story about cats, his neighborhood cats, I believe. Oh, wow. Rum Tum Tugger. And Grizabella? Mm-hmm. And Mr. Mistoffelees? Oh, wait.

I've heard somebody had a character name like that, like Mr. Mistoffelees, and I didn't know he was. That's a cat's reference. I think that was like a Simpsons thing. Maybe. Yeah. Anyways. Oh, man. Did you ever see itpsons thing. Maybe. Yeah. Anyways. Oh, man.

Did you ever see it live on stage? No. Yeah. I didn't either. Not for me. What do you mean? Not a Cats person. Oh, yeah.

The idea of a cat is not your favorite. I've heard that it's not, you know, it's just, it's musical theater that is very musical theater-ish. Like there's no, there's no plot. There's no story. It's just some cats hanging out, singing songs, dancing around. What are these names, dude? There's a track called Mungo Jerry and Rumpelteaser. I mean, I know Mungo Jerry is an artist that wasn't a cat, but then there's Monka Strap?

Monka Strap? Monka Strap. What the fuck? See, this is- I'm actually an expert on the names of cats' characters, but I've never seen the- Jelly Loram and Jemima. Of course. And Griddlebone.

Who could forget? Oh, Griddlebone. Trump 2020 Land side is trending. Yeah. Land side. Land side? I think it's like a nautical term. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Land side, aho! Right. Or like that's how you know he's taking shots at seafaring cultures. Right. He's like, nah, we land side, homie. Right. Land side! This is a trending, something that the trump campaign and his followers tried to get

trending uh totally missing that they had not spelled landslide correctly oh is it because like the original tweet from the campaign was spelled like that so all the sheeple somebody influential might must have tweeted in the first place. This reminds me of just like no one reading and just retweeting. It's like on the Daily Show, they're sending, what's that guy's name? Jordan Klepler? Klepper? Yeah. Whatever.

Kepler. Klepler or Klepper? I don't know. I don't know. But that dude, because he's done dispatches from the road or whatever during the elections. He was at this Trump rally thing, and they were talking about impeachment. about impeachment and this one dude's like yeah you got to read the transcript you know because like you know that's what the president's been saying he's like read the transcript read the transcript so he's talked to all these people like you got to read the

transcript he's like oh okay so have you read the transcript nah nah don't need to read it he's like but people need to read it for themselves think for yourself have your own ideas and like and he just kept going he's like but the record, you have not read it. Nah, you know, there's too many sheeple out here who just take people's word for it on what it says. Right. And the guy was not connecting what he was trying to say to him. Yeah.

He's like, but for the record, you have not read it. No, no, no. It's Jordan Klepper. Klepper. Another win for Miles. Yep. Oh, man, I'll never get invited on his show now. Yeah.

Trump supporters, they're really feeling confident about this because, you know, they pulled off a narrow victory last time when they were supposedly going to lose in a landslide. And so now that the media thinks that they have a narrow path to victory, they're assuming it's going to be a landslide. Landslide. Yes. It might be a landfill. And who knows? Maybe it will be. Better not.

Better not. Really, really better not, America. Better not. And then finally, a slanted toilet is trending. What the fuck is that? Or I've seen this picture flying all about the social media. It is a toilet that is tilted downward in order to make it basically unbearably uncomfortable to be sitting on the toilet after five minutes because you have to like kind of push back and-

Oh, like use your legs? Yeah, you have to use your legs. And as somebody who is sedentary, I can say I for one do not like to use those. An angled toilet? No, just my legs. Oh, wow. Don't like using- Didn't even connect that one.

Inconveniently sloped at 13 degrees. Wow. Downwards. Because they found that people were on average spending 28 minutes sloped at 13 degrees. Wow. Because they found that people were on average spending 28 minutes on the toilet at work. Yeah. Oh, okay. Wow. What a fucking dystopian, capitalistic device. Love it.

What are they, shitting? Yeah. Make it unbearable. Sometimes you legit have to take a dump. That takes a bit of an endeavor. it's a bit of a project it's not a one and done yeah this is fucking hilarious i mean it's like so dark but hilarious but wow yeah it's pretty terrible but i mean like going taking a shit at work is the time-honored tradition of everyone who hates their fucking job yes that's like the one place you can

escape to go on your phone whatever yeah even, shit, I was playing Bejeweled. Get away from your coworkers. But I only took a shit once at work. Really? To be honest. Once a day? If I didn't, like, you know, what I did, no, just once ever.

The only time you've ever taken a shit at work? At one of the jobs I hated, right? Okay. Where I was like, man, fucking doing this dumb shit. Right. I just can't take shits outside of my house. You know what I mean? Yeah. Is that true? You can't? Not that just can't take shits outside of my house. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Is that true? You can't? Not that I can't, but my body- You don't like to do it? It's like a smart car. It knows when it's on a track, and it can now take the governance chip off. Right. And it can be like, okay, fool, now let's go to 200.

Yeah. When you get home, do you just suddenly feel like- Shit my pants right at the door. As soon as I've crossed the threshold. That's why I got to be careful. I put on a pair of different pants before I enter my house. Look, it's a struggle. shit my pants right at the door as soon as i cross the threshold that's why i gotta be careful i i put on a pair of uh like different pants before i enter my house look it's a it's a struggle but you know what that doesn't have to be my pain that everybody has to feel yeah well shit uh

shout out to the dystopia makers of this product who are having to go around and market it to bosses you know go office office. Be like, these guys out here are wasting your money, your productivity. That's what they're saying. These extended employee breaks cost industry and commerce an estimated four billion pounds sterling per year. Yes. But they do say there is, I guess, some benefits to it. Like, yo, just use a squatty potty or just get a bunch of phone books. Right.

They say it's for posture. Yeah, okay. Bullshit. Not when I'm looking at that $4 billion lost income. Yeah, fuck out of here. Yeah, yeah. And as a side benefit. Yeah.

Anyways, that's it. Those are the four things that are trending this Tuesday evening, afternoon, things that are trending this Tuesday evening, afternoon, as we in the dying embers of 2019 and this decade of ours. What a decade.

I think good for everyone without thinking too much about it. I'm sure everybody had a great decade. Everyone. Not one person had a bad decade. All nailing it. All wonderful. Also, just quick shout out to anybody in the Bay Area. We will be having

a live show January 25th. Us? Yes. Wow. You and I and maybe a guest. Maybe more. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. January 25th 8 o'clock. Gateway Theater. It's for SF Sketch Fest. Just like last year. They put us in a bigger theater. They're like, oh man, Zyke Gang came through. So we they put us in a bigger theater. They're like, oh man, Zeitgang came through.

So we got to put them in a bigger theater. So we really need y'all to pull up. Please. We would love to see you and I would love to see y'all after the show. And you know, let's just all embrace Zeitgang together. Group hug. Team hug. Alright guys, that's going to do it for today. Guys and gals

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