The Daily Zeitgeist - The SuccessTrend Finale 5/26: Succession, Lighthouses, Mar-A-Lago, Ron DeSantis, John Wick 5, Great White Shark

Episode Date: May 26, 2023

In this edition of , Jack and Miles discuss the final episode of Succession, the great American lighthouse sell-off, Trump workers at Mar-a-Lago moving classified documents ahead of the FBI's raid, DeSantis' bill to grant immunity to reckless spaceflight companies, John Wick 5 being in development, and the Great White Shark population bouncing back!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I am Jack. That is Miles. Thanks for having me. These are some things that are trending. So the Succession finale is this weekend. Do you have predictions? Do you have hopes? No. I don't watch Succession to be like, this is what's going to happen. I'm just more like, oh, fuck. Oh, man.

I know a lot of people have... I've seen so many headlines that are like a theory as to why Mattson's Gojo deal... I'm like, what the hell lot of people have, so I've read some, I've seen so many headlines that are like a theory as to why Matt sins go, Joe D I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah. It's not that sort of, it's not like a mystery box show where you're like,

well, how are they going to explain the polar bears from season two? It's not the leftovers. It's like Damon Lindelof succession or something like that. But yeah, I don't know. I hope, I guess at the very least because

of the last episode where you know the real world began to intersect with the the roy family i hope that maybe it's like i don't know becomes like a morality tale and they're they lose it all something fucked up happens because like this is what happens when you fuck with normal people all the time in pursuit of your media empire i don't know there's something like that i'd be like yo that's wild yeah i feel like a lot of the takes like people were like anybody who is sad that bad things are happening to these people is like a capitalist piece of shit um like i don't i by the way there there are no takes that are that strong but like you know like i don't know i don't i feel like i don't i by the way there there are no takes that are that strong but like you know like i don't know i don't i feel like i don't have to hate like i i can feel sorry for these characters

at the same time as like recognizing that they are part of a system that is completely corrupt and like that this is so you know by that logic you'd be like the sopranos is disgusting they're murderers yeah exactly i'm just like no that's what drama is it like shows us bad people doing bad things but like you get to see their humanity and like fall for them a little bit yeah that's the part that fucks with you is when you begin to side with the capitalist shit bag who's a fascist wannabe who's trying to bring about the demise of American democracy. Yeah. And you can also feel bad that he's a shook one who has no ability to deal with his father's death.

What a what a penultimate episode for Roman. Yeah. But yeah, you know, I've got a lot of I got a lot of wagers on the final episode. I think it's going to be Kendall coming through. Got some prop bets. Miles, who won this one? I'm going to say winners and losers. Winners, Chivalry's right hand.

Yeah. Because I feel like this is as big of a final episode as we've seen since Game of Thrones, probably. Right? Oh, yeah. Hated it. Yeah, that was a disaster. I don't know. final episode as we've seen since game of thrones probably right oh yeah hated it which was yeah that was a disaster i don't know breaking bad was one that felt it didn't feel like it was huge and people felt like it stuck the landing i wasn't as big a fan um i wasn't like oh that's i don't know how many i'm like oh that was the best one even like sopranos like i was like i think i think it's good in that it elegantly wrapped up the show and left people thinking and you can talk a lot about it but i don't know like i'm one of those people who like won't like i've never seen the seinfeld finale

because i just refused to watch it because a i heard it was bad and b i don't want to like be like and that's the end of it because this feels like a show that can exist those are your friends and you don't want them to go away because you also watch exactly because method right because Kramer is my favorite guy ever on and off camera yeah I think Sopranos and

Seinfeld are like one side of it where it's like kind of a fuck you final episode where it's like yeah we're actually giving you not what you want, but they do it artfully. I think Sopranos is one of the best to ever do it, if not the best.

Six Feet Under kind of just gave you all... They were just like, alright, we're going to show you how everyone dies. Right. It was like fan service in the best way possible. I feel like if i had to guess which direction succession would go it would probably be more in the sopranos

seinfeld yeah direction i think maybe i don't know again in my mind i'd be like yo i hope they get got that's just me just taken out yeah fuck it i would be like yo yes yeah what if it's by orcas and they just like knew that this shit was going to happen that would be yeah i mean the last time we saw jeremy strong's character he was swimming in the ocean i'm just saying it's not true out of the realm of shark bites his whole shit yeah yeah it's wild and then shark bites his whole shit whole shit wait what the whole entire shit his whole shit bro just wow gets his ass man he's floating with his head back he doesn't see this shit coming yeah this whole shit gets too busy thinking about gojo yeah um there's also a little piece of news being made by uh

las culturistas on big money players network uh super produced by our same super producer anahosnia and becca too and super producer becca ramos so bowen was talking about how when he was on the aquafina show yeah North from Queens, yeah. Yeah. They were shooting in the same studio in Queens, I think, as Succession, and Jeremy Strong came into their set. Production office? Yeah, and asked where the bathroom was and was told. And then, so I'll just read directly from Bowen's quote.

So Jeremy leaves, 10 minutes pass, and a production assistant from succession comes into the office and goes, hi, was Jeremy just in here? And they were like, yeah, he was, he went to the bathroom. And then this PA goes, did he ask where it was? Did he come here to ask you where the bathroom was? And they were like, yeah, why? And the PA says, ah, he has a scene today where he has to ask someone where the bathroom was and they were like yeah why and the pa says ah he has a scene today where he has to ask someone where the bathroom is and then boeing was saying i think

that his method to such a ridiculous degree that he must be in on the joke is his theory right like to the point if there's like an exasperated pa like he's like he's been doing it's because it sounds like the same thing of like was my dad doing this stupid bit where he's asking where the bathroom is right because he knows where it is oh my god and then it's fun for that person because when they go finally find jeremy go you had to ask where the bathroom was like i didn't know where it was uh yeah so uh let's i don't know i can't i can't do it but i respect the hell out of anybody who can do a kendall roy impression somebody just did one on twitter and i love it so much I don't know. I can't do it, but I respect the hell out of anybody who can do a Kendall Roy impression. Somebody just did one on Twitter, and I love it so much.

They're so specific and so annoying. Because it's also like a total lack of soul and charisma too, but with just a little bit. It's a really hard needle to thread. Yeah, just devoured. No soul,

no confidence, but somehow propped up by circumstance. But then also just has this entire Bible of tech bro speak. Right, right, right. He's just drawing on it all the time. It's so wild. Anyways, enjoy your Succession finale,

Succession Watchers. We're going to take a break and we'll come back and talk about news that doesn't have to do with my friends from Waystar Royco. But maybe sharks. Maybe sharks. Not baby sharks.

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but when I talk sharks, you think the sea, you think lighthouses. And seamless transition, 10 lighthouses that for generations have stood along American shorelines, protecting mariners from peril, uh, are being sold at auction by the federal government. Ah, yeah. Cause we don't need them no more.

Huh? I guess we don't need them no more. I feel like, right. Yeah. That's what they're saying. We don't need them no more. Cause GPS.

Yeah. We don't need them no more. Yeah. We don't, we don't need the, but the lights where the cliffs are and shit,'re gonna hit you're gonna run a run aground um i don't know i mean isn't there something romantic about a lighthouse oh love it love it so much i've said that as someone who's never even been in a fucking lighthouse like i've seen

one miles but aren't the idea of them it's the lighting so dramatic i think the first lighthouse i ever saw it was like on a bag of cape cod chips or something and that's all you need to see you get it that's what's good about lighthouses they are not subtle yeah they are just standing there being dramatic narcissists giant sea dicks see look at my land dick see dominating the land seafaring folk so you can how much do we know how much uh like a lighthouse is going for is it even worth it or is it just like for someone who's so obsessed with lighthouses like that's who it's going to appeal to about 150 lighthouses have been transferred 80 or so given away and another 70 auctioned raising more than 10 million dollars so that's not that much i guess i'm sorry giving away okay so only 70 are sold and all of that is totaling up to 10 million

dollars i'm no math wizard but i think that's less than a million dollars each. So they seem like you can get them pretty cheap since any of them were given away for free. I did have an opportunity, Miles, to talk to some people who have been to lighthouses in person. And they say they're boring. The plotting is predictable. The light just goes around in a circle the whole time. And they're smaller than you expect them to be. Oh, okay.

Like Tom Cruise. Yeah, exactly. Predictable and small. But without the magnetic charisma that distracts you from that. They just stand there. And eye contact. And don't do shit. Anyways, shout out to the lighthouse keepers out there.

Some Trump workers at Mar-a-Lago moved boxes of papers the day before the FBI visit, according to a report that I feel like I read six months ago. Right. Everything sounds like the same thing over and over again. It's like, yeah, I think that went from being a rumor to now isn't that person like cooperating yeah yeah isn't that why this happened so yeah okay um so maybe we'll get him this time folks yeah who knows maybe this is it yeah like on john oliver you hit the button you're like we've got him bring out the band yeah nah yeah maybe not this turns out not turns out he will be our next president even if he's in jail um yeah somehow or ron desantis can or i'm sorry rob desantis can pardon

him yeah as he said that's been his new thing he's like you know and i'd pardon the president you're like oh my god dude you you're already losing yeah By saying shit like this. He is just a professional kiss ass. Like that's all he does is kiss people's ass. And like it now he's moved on to Elon Musk from Trump. But like his first deal with Trump where like when he first became a politician was just being a trump guy like more than anybody else dressed his baby up in like maga outfits in the campaign ads and he's like and donald trump saved our country babe that's my favorite part like dude come on um yeah we're moving on to uh rob which i i'm not above taking a nickname that Trump gives someone and using it

if I don't like that person. So Rob DeSantis has signed a bill that would basically protect Elon Musk from lawsuits if his rockets blow up and kill workers. Yep, that easy, folks. That's all it takes was to completely just jet fuck your campaign announcement on twitter uh and then you can get a bill that i don't know this is really wild it's a it's more than that it says the bill expands the

definition of spaceflight entity to include any entity authorized to conduct spaceflight activities beyond one solely associated with the united states federal aviation administration opening up which entities in the broader industry will qualify for the expanded immunity. And the bill also cuts out language ascribing liability to spaceflight entities for damage caused from, quote, inherent risks. Instead, the bill broadens the scope of

liability immunity to include all spaceflight activities. So go ahead, get reckless, let this shit fucking do, I don't know, you know, we see stuff like this all the time, but it feels very convenient for Elon Musk. And I, God,

I hope fucking nothing happens with a bill like this where like it's necessary, but Holy shit, that's not, that's not the kind of, there's like a regulation you want to see. That was the question that popped in my mind. The last time he had a rocket launch and

the whole shit blew up and there were giant chunks of rocket that were like falling on like what one just like completely obliterated a minivan that was like parked nearby i was like well they're gonna like be killing people like they're lucky this didn't kill anybody even though it was an unmanned launch they're lucky that the giant chunks of shrapnel falling out of the sky didn't kill anyone so like how is that going to be continue to be profitable and uh they work together all that did was basically give elon the imagination like how do i get ron desantis to make it legal for chunks of rocket to hit people. Right. Also people from his campaign,

or at least like his supporters, uh, seem to be admitting that the launch was an L, uh, no, uh, radio host, Eric Erickson emailed supporters of DeSantis about the mishap and said,

it was bold. It turned out to be a mistake. Oh, but worry not uh so so we'll see uh john wick five is in early development oh for the gun fu crew yeah i've only seen the first one yeah and even then i was probably all right i've heard the third one is really good i watched the fourth one it had some cool shit. I get the appeal of just watching people like, while out,

like, in an ultra-violent way. I just, I think it's one of those things where like, when there's five of a movie, I start going, no, no,

you're going too fast for me, and I'm not gonna catch up. Yeah. I get it. You were salty that someone fucked up your dog. I'll be with you on that. And then there's like, now there's gonna be a fifth one?

Mm-hmm. This is like the Marvel Cinematic Universe like which is especially surprising to people who saw john wick for i will just say that oh really yeah not no i just that's enough yeah that's enough to be like interesting interesting yeah uh and finally let's wrap it all back around. Yep. They're saying the great white shark population is booming. Great news because it was that, you know, they're in danger. They're being hunted after an irresponsible movie that we never advocate for on this show called Jaws came out and suddenly everyone was like, they're killing machines. We've got to protect our beaches. And, you know, it was very bad. The writer of the novel, Jaws, like ended up spending the last decades of his life, like lobbying and working on behalf of the sharks. Yeah.

Keep sharks from being killed. It seems like, you know, they have been able to get their population levels back up to normal or like something approaching normal. Not like the horrifying low levels they were at before. And the mainstream media might also give you two guesses as to how they're approaching this story. They're just like me. They're saying, watch out. They're going to bite your whole shit. You're going to bite your whole shit, America. Yeah, I already yeah i already know because i've already seen one like i've already seen an article that's like you're not gonna get your whole shit bit by a shark relax the chances are

very low of you getting your whole shit bit yeah i i think this is this is also good news for mainstream media publications because they can just recycle the content that everyone forgets from uh the summer of 2001 uh because the time magazine issue that was on the newsstand when 9-11 happened was a summer of the shark with a picture of a great white shark coming at you on the on the cover so maybe they'll maybe they'll just be able to kind of recycle some of that um it's wild though how like there was like a shark attack question mark that's what they'll put out there's like one story of this uh like connecticut woman who had her who got her her not her whole shit but her lower shit bit by a shark. And it's like every news site just has to get on it because it says bites off

leg. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I am regrettably going to be reading that article, but, uh, and you're so jealous,

jealous. Oh, lucky. Oh, bite my whole shit. I want to get my whole shit bit. Um, anyways, uh, bite my whole shit. I don't want to get my whole shit bit.

Anyways, those are some of the things that are trending on this Friday, May 26th. We are off on Monday for Memorial Day. We are back on Tuesday with a whole ass episode of the show. Remembering the orcas.

Remembering all the orcas. Remembering all the fine orcas. A reminder that we are changing our publication schedule, not next week, but the following week, where we will have one Friday episode, one Monday episode. We'll be doing new things with format. We will be taking submissions,

talking with listeners, a bunch of fun shit. So yeah, look forward to that. Coming at you. All right. Back Tuesday, whole last episode. 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 y'all on Tuesday. Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

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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 Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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