The Daily Zeitgeist - The Jackoff Trend Motion 5/15: King Charles Painting, TikTok Testicles, Chuck-E-Cheese Band, The Watchers, Longlegs

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

In this edition of The Jackoff Trend Motion, Jack and Bryan the Editor discuss King Charles' freaky-ass portrait, the TikTok soy sauce testicle taste test challenge, the death of Chuck-E-Cheese's animatronic band… again, some interesting looking horror movie trailers from horror nepobabies and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the jack off trend motion or we would have also accepted uh jack off no that was that's it um that one's courtesy of many i thought he'd give me three options but he just wrote the same one over and over again uh that was courtesy of my niche on the discord my name is jack and i'm thrilled to be joined by super producer brian the editor. Well, that was, that was long. That was a long yell. Uh, yes, it's me, Brian, the editor. I'm here because miles is not in my mic.

Sounds nice. Welcome back to the show. It's great to have you. Um, as always, thank you for having me. Thank you. Manish for the short show title. Sorry to have butchered it. Let's see.

Yes, Miles is out on assignment. And we are here checking out the trends. And what a batch of trends we have for the listeners today, Brian. We got King Charles' first official portrait since the coronation. We've all been waiting on the edge of our seats uh what what's the first official portrait gonna be like it's gonna give heavy ghostbusters two vibes uh which i was not expecting i wonder was this like a big event back in the day they were like all somebody was coronated they were like oh oh, somebody was coronated. They were like, oh, man, you see the new coronation portrait just dropped.

Wow. Yeah, it had to be like a big deal back then when, you know, there was no like TV or tick tock or that stuff. Yeah. So the the painting is bathed, swathed in. Come here. Right. Cut that. Cut that. bathed, swathed in either cut that Brian cut that so it's either

extremely pink or extremely red and we honestly couldn't determine which like you you producer Justin both thought it was bathed in red, um, which would be very sinister, right? For a, you know, the head of an empire that has been built on, uh, bones and blood.

And also funny for somebody who, uh, was, you know, flirtatiously telling his mistress, uh, that he wanted to be her tampon. But I see pink for some reason. I mean, it is a lighter shade of like, okay. Like if I'm not saying the painting was actually painted in blood,

because obviously it would have like a much, you know, when blood dries, it has a much darker hue. It's more Brown. Um, but I'm, I'm thinking like this is this is like 70s horror movie blood yes 70s like the wild bunch blood or like day of the day of the dead or dawn of the dead where it's like the blood is just a little too vibrant of a hue.

Which I thought of that. Yeah, it's like a... Or the ooze from Ghostbusters, because... Well, so the ooze from Ghostbusters... But it has this iridescent quality to it. Yeah, right. That is very... Look, there's no way to look at this painting without thinking of Viggo the Carpathian.

It's just impossible. If you've seen that movie and you look at this painting, you're going to get chills. The eyes are going to follow you around the room. Right. It's a choice, man. I don't know what the fuck this is. It is definitely

a choice. I do wonder what if the artist, Jonathan Yeo, comes out and is like, I'm a big GB2 fan. I've just always loved that. I thought this guy gives off Ghostbusters 2. I doubt that's where it's coming from. But yes, that is the sinister connotation that you can detect,

even if you think of it as pink. But it's interesting. Even the media accounts of the painting are like, some headlines are like pretty in pink and others are like, it is like, you know, covered in blood red. And I don't know.

It's like the new dress, you know, like different colors. Yeah. Um, but anyways, it's like getting sound off in the comments. What do you see in here?

You see in pink, you see in red. Um comments what are you seeing here you seeing pink you seeing red um but even you are saying it's giving you light red uh which i have uh frequently referred to as a pink okay look smart guy there's you know what let's move on it does totally change the meaning of the painting because like if if you ever read the, uh, letters that he has written to people, he thinks of himself as like, uh, I'm like the eco monarch.

And like, I'm all about, uh, gardens and beauty and nature. He's got a little, uh, butterfly on his shoulder. He does have a little butterfly on his shoulder.

Uh, which is kind of hard to really parse that because of all the blood um but there is a monarch butterfly on his shoulder yeah uh his big sausage fingers are front and center like because everything is uh red or pink except for his head and his fingies and his fingies are plump they did not hide that i mean they probably slimmed them down quite a bit but they still you know are notably pretty pretty sausage they're giving a full serving of sausage yeah they really captured his uh his dead eyes and his palate complexion yeah perfectly anyways uh who gives a shit i don't but people are

talking about it and that's what this show's about oh eyes keep following me man they just keep following me the eyes well they're big they're like deep set inside his head maybe they made it like right on the edge of red and like sinister on purpose. I don't know. It'd be interesting. Uh, tick tock users are dipping their testicles in soy sauce to taste it. Um,

so that's what's going on on tick tock. Uh, there, there are apparently taste receptors in the testicles, but Brian, wouldn't you know it? And now I look like a fool there aren't taste buds so um i you know here i am uh like i think we all have been doing this for

for a long time taste testing our food with our testicles uh and lo and behold uh turns out no taste buds just taste receptors now i've heard i've heard this this before in regards to feet where if you like rub garlic on your foot like an hour later it'll like it'll like somehow go into your bloodstream and then you'll be able to taste it in your mouth and i just like why garlic is amazing it's an amazing whatever kind of uh vegetable or fruit it is uh and why would you waste it rubbing on your foot or or your testicles don't rub garlic on your testicles everybody yeah i wouldn't do that anything spicy uh i would not rubbing your testicles. This is like, what is compelling slash confusing about social media is that like things get flattened out. So your news is right next to a,

what, what seems like a trick that people are playing on their little brother made its way online. A lot of what tick tock seems to be, or like weird, like household hacks where that require you to have like a whole machine shop and all this goofy stuff and it serves no purpose and it's weird and off-putting uh and just the kitchen hacks where it's like i don't person

making spaghetti and meatballs on a countertop and it's like oh no you're just like being mean to gullible people are you just dumping a bunch of shit into a sheet pan and it's like oh no you're just like being mean to gullible people are you just dumping a bunch of shit into a sheet pan and putting it in the oven i'm like what no like this is this is clearly a prank yeah yeah and as has been canonically established by marcel argueo on this show if anyone was gonna know whether your balls could taste and sense anything it would be uh old smelly balls, O'Brien. And,

uh, I'm not getting anything. Maybe I'm just super used to the, uh, whatever is, is happening down there. But, um,

yeah, no, I think the lights are off down there in terms of, uh, taste buds. Oh God, people, please stop trying things you see on TikTok.

Yeah. Right. All right. Let's take a quick break. And then we're going to come back and talk about why the news cycle is broken. We'll be right back. 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.

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all right do my job what else what else oh god let me tell you folks you don't want you don't want jack's job he has to like pay attention and know what's happening next and stuff and then say what else what else yeah yeah it's it's hard all right so chucky cheese's animatronic band this is a little quiz for uh tdz listeners i'm gonna start the story you tell me if you notice anything chucky cheese's animatronic band is dead. There are a lot of headlines this week about how Chuck E. Cheese is axing its animatronic band, including a write-up and billboard in the music news category, as if this is like a real group that's being euthanized.

Yeah, guys, this isn't the banana split. Like, come on. putting yeah guys this isn't the banana splits like come on um it all stems from a new york times report that outlines how chucky cheese is getting rid of uh munch's make-believe band at all but two of their 400 u.s locations instead they're going to focus on more screens digital dance floors and trampoline gyms digital dance floors um isn't that just like the dance dance revolution games i'm sorry there's still 400 chucky cheeses in the united states yeah this is the thing that wild to me this is like a thing that you you see the world again with new eyes when you become a parent and in some cases that is a good thing and you're like like, Oh, well, I see like the wonder of nature. I'm like seeing everything again,

like through their eyes. And the other thing you realize is that Chuck E. Cheese is thriving. I would have thought that public equity, private equity would have, uh, would have come through and fuck them up. Yeah.

It just seems like one of those legacy kind of brands that, so what happened with Chuck E. Cheese is as, as uh arcades were dying everywhere chucky cheese was still left over and had some arcade games and just like slowly expanded out until now they are just like basically the most common arcade yes them and dave and busters yeah the upscale discerning uh man child yes exactly so no more ball pits it's all just a video game arcade essentially with like the rotting husks of the munch's make-believe band up there in like most locations the animatronic band is still up there uh i have had uh some of our kids birthday parties

at a chucky cheese um on at one of them at least i think they tried to like make the band like still happen be like all right everybody get your hands together like get excited because it's about to go down holy shit like hype manning up this animatronic band. And then it's just like, it's just three animatronics. Yeah. Yeah. Just like dying a slow death, like up, up on stage anyways.

Uh, now, uh, no more bands, just screens, digital dance floors, trampoline gyms, which presumably it's just easier to clean puke off of those things than a 40

year old rat robot. Yeah. Or a ball pit. Like how do you, I've never understood how you clean puke out of a ball pit. They didn't either. That's why there are no more ball pits. Those are gone.

Yeah. That was, they were like, we get these the fuck out of here. However, so this is where it gets a little weird. We've like covered this story every two years like since this show has been in existence it's true like last fall we got this exact same story only then the band was

only only being left in one location and then back in 2017 when the show first started it was reported that chucky cheese was ditching the band like it's just maybe they get a bump every time they say that a bump like getting rid of the band people pull up to pay respects and they get a little more life and i know it worked for jamie loftus right like wasn't she kind of like she's like wait what she so she had jamie has been trying to manage the band uh for a long time and uh it hasn't quite worked out unfortunately but it's just like i've always suspected that like part of the news cycle is like fueled by marketing companies just being like this this will i'm sorry actually so actually be good for your bottom line um and yeah they're just like hey we're gonna we're gonna

reissue the they're killing the band thing like no downside for them on the one hand they get to be like now we're doubling down on these fun things and like getting rid of this thing you're nostalgic for so hurry up and like come out and see it before it goes away or maybe they just like keep tearfully changing their minds at the last minute because they really do believe it's a real band it's hard to tell what's happening here whichever it is we're suckers because we just keep covering it yeah it's it's woefully effective drac yeah there's no other way to describe it is woefully effective yeah all right and then we want to talk about there's some good horror coming our way maybe just a couple of

trailers that from um horror nepo babies that i i'm always the first to you know admit sometimes nepotism works. And there's just I don't know. These two trailers, one from M. Night Shyamalan's daughter Ishana and another from Osgood Perkins, Anthony Perkins' son.

Anthony Perkins of Psycho fame. His son has like a, you know, this is not his first film. seen you've seen some of his past films right yeah the the black coat's daughter was like a sort of gothic horror slow burn kind of kind of film he did a few years ago he's got a few films under his belt and um they've been received well and he's got like he's got a style he's got a style um he seems like he's a talented writer uh and director and yeah this trailer was this trailer his film is called long

legs and yeah i just suggest people go check it out it's um i don't know there's just there's some good writing like it keeps cutting to just like text with like really creepy sound design in the middle of these like brief glimpses of horrifying images uh there's a neutral mask which i'm always a sucker for some nooch mask and uh there's just horrifying things happening in all corners of the universe of this movie. And it's it's also it's I'm not a fan of trailers because I find that they tend to give too much away. Just the cycle that they have to keep. You know, you get a teaser and then you get like five fucking four minute trailers after that. And it kind of like ruins the movie.

But this, this is a trailer I would recommend people watch because it doesn't really, it gives you just enough to be intrigued. Cause I'm like, I have no idea what this is about, but I, the vibes are palpable and I want to, I want to see what happens next.

So that is, that is an effective what happens next. So that is, that is an effective trailer to me. Yeah. Uh, the, this one Twitter person who got to see it said absolutely rancid, cursed vibes that had me scared to enter my dark hotel room. Um,

they also said it's a contemporary silence of the lambs. So, okay. Yeah. I saw some FBI jackets in the trailer, and I was like, I wonder what that's about. With some FBI looking at a corkboard with a bunch of imagery up that looks like Zodiac symbols.

Anyways, the other one is The Watchers from M. Night Shyamalan's daughter. And this one is, as you termed it, a human menagerie. I'm a sucker for a human menagerie. Stick some people in a fucking weird box where they don't know where they are. Person zoo? Yeah, dude. I love a human zoo movie.

Yeah. What are your top, like, old boy, I'm assuming? I just love it's to be frank there's not that many movies that are like that i just love that as a concept of yeah being trans it was i think i know i'm more familiar with it from like old sci-fi like short stories or like yeah weird things where it's like, or like, um, you know,

there's a few twilight zone episodes. There's one, I can't remember the name, but there's this couple who are in this deserted town and they can't get out of this town and they keep, they get on a train and the train just takes them in a loop and all this stuff. And at the end you find out that they are in, you know, basically a playset for some large alien creature or something.

And they're just sort of stuck there as playthings. And I just find that concept equal parts amusing. And it can be horrifying, but usually i find it amusing yeah it's just it's just a fun fun concept that you don't really see much these days and that's exactly the kind of thing i expect from uh an m night production because he loves him some twilight zone high concept i mean the village is kind of human menagerie like nobody's really observing but it like spoiler alert the village like kind of has that sort of like we've captured these people and put them there also the that uh don't worry darling movie has some of that going on again

spoiler never saw it but yeah 68 and 69 big for this. The end of 2001, Space Odyssey and Slaughterhouse-Five has passages where they kind of play with that idea. Yeah. 2001, I can definitely... I never thought of it that way, but yeah, it's definitely... That ending is... He's kind of being kept. Yeah. Yeah.

Which is a little follow our siren song and we're just gonna uh let you die in a weird hotel room from the year 2009 yeah it's it's um interesting but yeah like the trailer this trailer had i i saw the trailer in the theater this past weekend i was seeing um the fall guy which was not great um but this trailer stuck with me uh because it had really good sound design uh like sort of creature type sounds and uh both of them have good sound design for sure. Yeah. It,

it just, it stuck with me and I'm like, okay, I'm definitely going to check this out when, uh, when it drops. So producer Justin saw the long legs trailer in the theater and he was shaken.

So a couple interesting horrors. Uh, we are over one in our look at this horror movie trailer. I bet the movie is good. Uh, we, we did that with backwater, I think is what it was called.

It was like a, it was a, um, like desert horror, cosmic horror thing. And low budget found footage type movie. Yeah. And it had its moments,

but it did not pay off in the end um it made me think of that movie back country where uh it's a horror movie except it's like a slasher movie but the slasher is a bear oh that's fun yeah like country bear yeah it's it was great you kind of got to see an abusive partner get uh torn apart by a bear. So that's hell. Yeah. All right. Well,

those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, May 15th. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.

Bye. 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. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour.

If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One. Founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.