The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend Body Problem 3/28: 3 Body Problem, MAGA L's, Harvard's Special Leather Book, Unfrosted, DoorDash Drones

Episode Date: March 28, 2024

In this edItion of Trend Body Problem, Jack and Bryan the Editor discuss Netflix's '3 Body Problem' adaptation, another MAGA candidate loses in a special election, Harvard FINALLY getting rid of their book bound in human leather, Jerry Seinfeld's new film… about Pop Tarts, DoorDash's delivery drones coming to Australia and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Trend Body Problem. Or just trend. Is there a

the on the front of it? Not on the TV show, no. No, it's just Trend Body Problem. Trend Body Problem is the name of the show on Netflix. I feel like it would have been on HBO in a previous lifetime. I feel like it should have been,

but, you know, reasons. Reasons. My name is Jack. That over there is Brian, the editor. Hello, it's me. His last name is The Editor. And these are some of the things that are trending i mean the three body problem three body problem is trending uh that show is now out uh it's i think it was at least briefly number one on the netflix uh what can laughingly be referred to as charts, the charts. Um, but briefly,

number one does not a hit make, uh, they've definitely been canceling some shows that were briefly number one. Um, so honestly, yeah, it kind of love doing that shit. They love canceling a popular show after the first season.

I have not seen it yet. I have read the first two and a half books of the trilogy. I've gotten into the third one and just lost moment. The yeah. Momentum. I'll say the whole word. I lost the whole damn word of momentum. Have you read?

Did you read the whole trilogy? I read the whole trilogy i read i read the whole series and um part of that part of that fanfic that came out after but um yeah yeah it's um it's a doozy i have opinions it's not it's not not perfect series but man the uh the high concept sci-fi is top-notch characters not so much but um yeah good stuff if you like sci-fi the show it follows through on your expectations the show is a so i started watching the tencent version the china they made a chinese tv adaptation um and it's like the season is like 30 episodes and it's just covering the first book and i have almost no patience for that like something that's so drawn out and i'm like i might as well watch

fucking anime if i'm gonna do that but um right this this is a little more you know palatable as far as like length it's eight, which is difficult to adapt. It's already difficult to adapt a book or a series, but, um, yeah, I think, um, they made some smart choices and, you know, in adapting it for a Western audience who probably hasn't read the books or is even into like hard sci-fi, you know they added a little bit of character to it they presented all the elements that you need to be aware of going forward they set up the stuff they needed to set up and i think it was pretty smartly done smartly handled yeah yeah it's like you know i feel like it could have done with a little more budget or time, but a little less Netflix.

It looks like a Netflix show, Netflix in this current era where they don't really actually have the money to be dumping like a shit zillion dollars into each project like like they did five six years ago but um it's it's effective that that's all i'll i'll say it's effective at getting the uh the concepts across um but it's obviously not a book you know there's going to be some some simplifications and some some things left out but it's definitely worth a watch i burned through it over the weekend it's pretty good nice all right well that's a pre i will probably eventually watch and cover it on the show um but it's a cool show definitely as somebody who's interested in like you know possibilities of first contact it has an interesting um some interesting ideas on like what that could look like some yeah some pants shittingly interesting

ideas sometimes yeah yeah yeah they're not nice they're not nice it turns out um all right uh other things that are trending another mega candidate or republican candidate I guess I don't know if they were explicitly mega but a republican candidate lost a special election in Alabama to quote Forrest Gump in Bama

yeah so some people are concerned about that and think maybe this is a sign of things to come. The Democrats successfully made the election about abortion, although one could argue the Republicans successfully made the election about abortion by overturning

Roe. The Republicans continue to have that problem of their values being wildly unpopular you know as we talked about with sarah marshall the pro-life movement uh is pretty young and it rests on a foundation of dust there's not a whole lot there they have a real boner for taking the same l over and over and over again and it's the only thing that gives them a boner weirdly yeah unfortunately for them which is another part

of the problem uh weird boners yeah they can only get weird boners they can't get normal ones that makes him mad makes makes a old guy angry um all right uh harvard is getting rid of its book bound in human skin this is one of those stories that wow just uh they've gone woke huh they've gone woke man this is one of those stories that just pisses me off you can't even find a book in human skin anymore without these fucking dei initiatives yeah this they probably shouldn't have announced this they probably should have just done it uh maybe a century ago this is a streisand effect type thing where i'm like i didn't even know you guys had books bound in skin, but well, they had to put it in the most like corporate speak possible by being like, what did they say? Let me,

after careful study, stakeholder engagement and consideration, Harvard library and the Harvard museum collections returns committee concluded that the human remains used in the books binding no longer belong in the Harvard library collections. that is inhuman. All you have to say is, is yo what the fuck is this book this is weird what the fuck what is this special leather exists yeah you mean special leather origin story of the book is that uh somebody wrote a book about souls uh a doctor friend of theirs then quote bound the book with

skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes who knows what the their definition of a female patient dying of natural causes was at that time um but his reasoning was a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering. Alternate perspective on that might be that a book about the human soul might deserve a covering that isn't an affront to all laws of the human soul

and horror movie logic and ethics and humanity. I don't know know or you could say well a book about human soul so you got to have human skin on it um just a weird weird perspective from somebody it's yeah it's it's particularly ghoulish and um i don'm, I'm guessing this person didn't have a whole lot of, um, like friends or anybody around him to tell him that that's weird.

And you probably shouldn't bind books, uh, in, in human leather. No, it's, what do you think human leather feels like? I,

I, I'm guessing it's like, Hmm. Waxy is what i is how i've been imagining it since i've been reading about this story like waxy and dry and um you think they have to like moisturize it periodically yeah like a lot of the cerave yeah neutrogena it's like hey go lube up the special yeah we gotta lotion this bitch down yeah it's just such a so harvard's been sitting on this one for a while they in 2014 they confirmed that the book was bound in human skin uh and have now decided it no longer belongs the library um it's it's just so like i have a question so is this is this a book that you can go to the library um it's it's just so like i have a question so is this is this a book that

you can go to the library and and take out as a like a student or whatever the fuck like now is this one of their private this is this in the private collection private stock yeah you know like like the library that they have at the vatican it's like, oh, we have all these books, but no one can fucking see them. No, this is just for people coming to the Harvard Museum Collections. And also for people presumably in the secret Harvard fraternities that do summoning spells and jack off into the skull of geronimo or whatever you know whatever the harvard equivalent i think that was yale or princeton that jacks off in like next to the dead body of geronimo but i you know harvard probably has their own analog analog uh of thing to jack off into to just make sure that you're you're completely untethered by the bounds of good taste that the rest of us uh concern ourselves with um so that

you know you're a real harvard man anyways harvard said that their handling of the book was often inappropriate employing a sensationalistic morbid and humorous tone so we don't we don't have the details on that just yet but if they're coming out and being like um not only do we have this book bound in human skin but we were like kind of like dicks about it the way we referred to it and like talked about it so our bad um and we can move on correct the way they talk about this the words they have chosen to use are soap it's like we're now we're going to try and give the binding a respectful disposition yes you mean regular binding you're gonna bind it like a regular just like speak normal yeah everything is written like it is uh you know being written

by somebody by harvard if harvard became a sentient ai yeah yeah the human remains will be given a respectful disposition that seeks to restore dignity to the woman whose skin was used used um yeah harvard harvard's got secrets uh that i'm sure we'll just you know we'll hear about in the coming centuries uh and be like good god yeah after the siege we should just see harvard yeah yeah you're right uh all right yeah we'll be right back we're going to go siege Harvard. We'll be back after these messages. 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for

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your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. And I think we mentioned at one point that Jerry Seinfeld is making his directorial debut with a movie about Pop-Tarts. And I didn't quite know what that could mean. Like, what was that going to be?

And then the trailer dropped for it. And I still don't know if my brain can quite wrap itself around what he's going for here. Like what this movie is. It's like part one of those like movies like The Founder. But then it's also part like a Zuckerucker brothers like fantastical like slapstick comedy but also it has like vibes of a ron howard dr seuss movie like there's like this element of like uh whimsy and staginess to it that is really really i can't overstate how off-putting the tone of this film is to me it's

upsetting to me this also feels related to me his origin story for this was I was stuck at home watching endless sad faces on TV I thought this would be a good time to make something based on pure

silliness. And so we took my Pop-Tart stand-up bit from my last Netflix special, which we all loved and adored and watched. And saw. I totally knew it existed, yes. And exploded it into a giant crazy comedy

movie. I think I have seen his Pop-Tart stand-up bit and it's like the shape is the same as the box it's square like the the fact that pop-tarts are like rectangular is seen as like weird by him i don't i don't quite understand it but anyways it does feel like him being like tired of looking all these sad faces on tv just feels like it's coming from the same place as that imagine video that was literally just about to say that i'm like bro you're so fucking out of touch with reality um that yeah look i mean i guess i will give him just the like the modicum of grace here and say like it does seem like it's coming from like a genuine place but this is also a man who is

completely out of touch with reality it looks completely unhinged in the like and i mean that in the best way possible like it's got baz lurman levels of unhingedness yeah but it's it's jerry seinfeld who despite being an actor for decades has never gotten any better at it and this is his directorial debut yeah so yeah i think he is a fine comedic act i've been watching re like signed re-watching old episodes of seinfeld i love seinfeld the show but he's not a good actor no he's not a good actor but he's exactly as good as he needs to be for like some of the stuff that he's written with Larry David. So in this world, food mascots like the Quaker Oats guy and Snap, Crackle, and Pop are real somehow.

And we also see the Pop-Tart testing process involves fatal explosions. There's at least one CGI anthropomorphic Pop-Tart, although who knows, that could be a dream sequence as we've seen in snow dogs and other films that promise a rapping kangaroo say kangaroo jack and then you know uh don't deliver on that uh but this this one seems uh completely unhinged and uh completely unhinged and strange. This smacks of private equity.

Like, fuck every single one of these movies going forward. I'm not going to engage with this. Oh, any product origin story? They're just taking... They've literally run through every other actual narrative-based properties.

They've made every fucking comic book a movie and now they're doing fucking bob dylan and the beatles and pop tarts and i'm not here for it at all i'm here for the beatles one but um no yeah look i know you can't help yourself i can't i'm going to not i mean it's going to pretend all this stuff doesn't exist because yeah like this is just i like i'm i'm from la i've known many filmmakers and writers who are struggling oh you think you're better than me bro to get to get their their actual original stories yeah and um and this is what they've decided to do uh instead because it has like cultural cachet or something

like people have heard of it so it's woefully effective i'll give them that it works i've heard of pop-tarts so i'll go see this pop pop tarts movie i'm not blaming the people i'm just like this is gross by go see it you will walk to your laptop and press play for the first 15 minutes this isn't even going on the server i'm not wow no i'm not i'm not entertaining this one iota um yeah have but everybody else have fun with the pop-tart movie all right everybody else have fun with uh drones doordash has added drones to uh drone delivery to its menu in some places so i haven't seen this anywhere i feel like it's gonna really be a, an upsetting experience. The first time I see a drone,

hear a drone, cause you'll hear them before you see them, uh, is what I'm told, uh, by people who've been attacked by them. Uh, then you,

uh, the first time I hear a drone roaring through the sky to drop off like a basket of wings and fries uh it's gonna be like even more upsetting than seeing a like fucking cyber truck on the street it's just like what this sucks right like this is gonna suck the the thing about like drone delivery in certain circumstances makes perfect sense uh especially depending on the drone like rural areas you know like you need like an insulin drop in the middle of fucking nowhere drone can be really effective like medical related things but i'm like this is just to like i'm the logistics of flying this you know it's not it's not a little dji thing like it has to carry stuff so it's going to be pretty decently sized um it's going to be loud and it's going to be

buzzing around like the faa doesn't allow you to fly these things over 400 feet so it's going to be loud and it's going to be buzzing around like the faa doesn't allow you to fly these things over 400 feet so it's going to be relatively low to the ground and i just don't swarms of these coming down fifth avenue works in a city yeah like yeah maybe it won't maybe i don't know it just it has anybody seen these like we have these like little wheelie guys that, uh, are like delivery bots that are, you know, always rolling around the streets of Los Angeles.

You see them like probably once or twice a day. I've only passed them in my car. I haven't like had to walk past them. I feel like I, they just look so easy to kick over, you know, but I'd be curious to hear from anybody who has seen a drone delivery and just like what the experience is like what what's the what's your impressionistic take of like you

know seeing a door dash delivery drone like buzzing through the the sky like i'm just trying to picture it because i've worked at like restaurants before and i'm like okay let me picture myself working at chipotle and it's like okay i'm there i'm making the fucking burrito and then i go out to like the helipad in the parking lot and look it like i'm just like how what are the the nuts and bolts of this how does this work in you know a major city for something as trivial as like food like it makes a lot more sense for medical applications for like other things but i'm just like people just flippantly ordering like onion rings and a milkshake i'm like yes this i don't know this seems like uh a lot when uh probably a scooter would suffice but then you have to pay people that's that's what this is all for is they don't want to pay people um to deliver this stuff

because they have to like live yeah but they're trying they. Yeah. And it'll just be flying through the sky, taking out birds, you know, like accidentally dropping it. Like you'll just be walking down the street and a fry will like drop on your head. Like I'm sure it's going to be a very weird future. Honestly,

I would, I would get inordinately excited for like a half a second. If food started falling from the sky, I'm like, wait, it's happening. It's just, it's happening. excited for like a half a second if food started falling from the sky I'm like wait it's happening it's happening the cloudy with a chance of meatballs

yeah I'm like yo cinematic universe it's going down for real well that is what is trending on this Thursday afternoon thank you Brian where can people find you follow you you, all that good stuff? I'm on Twitter. I'm Brian the Editor.

And just go away. Okay. Yeah, everybody just go away. Stop asking. That's going to do it until tomorrow. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.