The Daily Zeitgeist - TrendPon Tim 8/13: JD Vance, Boeing Astronauts, A Post-Olympic Update, Coca-Cola X Oreos, The Creature From The Black Lagoon

Episode Date: August 13, 2024

In this edition of TrendPon Tim, Jack and special guest host Pallavi Gunalan discuss JD Vance in "drag", Boeing astronauts STILL being stuck in space (until 2025!?), a post-Olympics update, Oreo and Coca-Cola trying to kill us, the new 'Creature From The Black Lagoon' remake and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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everybody it's the same like covid but i think they're just trying to say that he was yeah just find like one story that you can use to make it line up with people's preconceived notions about democrats um that he's stolen valor he's not he's not a real war hero unlike our president uh donald never mind never mind my name is jack o'brien that is my special guest co-host paul vavi Gunali! Hello! It's me! It's Pallavi! We are... The internet is currently abuzz about some

JD Vance drag pictures. It appears to have been... Yeah. Dishonor to drag. This man is in a wig. He man is in a wig he's in a wig and like a wig maybe eyeliner i don't know but very poor drag yes not tweeny for sure yeah yeah it's like a halloween costume or like i i think that is the origin story is a Halloween costume he wore at Yale law school. Um,

I personally don't give a shit, uh, other than, you know, that he is bad at this, but, uh, that he makes it look the least fun drag has ever looked.

Um, but I guess the theory is that this is the sort of thing that the people who would vote for him would not be okay with or like just the inconsistency of trying to delineate gender roles and what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman that's coming from his camp and how he doesn't even align with those so right yeah and that the personality he has constructed and tried on for uh political power uh also like wouldn't wouldn't be the sort of person who who does this um but yeah the person who initially posted the photo put it well when asked if uh they thought it was ironic that so many politicians who are publicly so anti-drag and anti-LGBTQ

plus would keep having these types of images turn up. They said, I don't think it's ironic because drag is fun. I grew up entirely around straight men, and I can tell you that if they have a few drinks and are in a safe environment, they'll happily throw on a wig. There's nothing more natural than the joy that comes from exploring those roots of self-expression that's a human impulse what's unnatural is the push to limit and ban drag because you think voters will respond well to anti-queer rhetoric that is a political impulse um so yeah his team has thus far refused to acknowledge the photos. It's really great encapsulation of that, of the problem.

Yeah. But anyways, this is hitting at a time when, according to that New York times article, Trump is being pressured to drop Vance and pick a different running mate, uh, and has thus far resisted that. And it's like,

JD is an attack dog. He rules. Uh, but then when they're like they're calling you weird he's like they're not saying that about me they're saying about jd jd's the weird one not me he said over and over again that the vice president doesn't matter and then reporters have had to approach jd vance and been like why do you even matter i don't know if you saw there was like an interview where a reporter kind of like helped held him to difficult questions um but but trump has said over and over again like they're

voting for me they're not voting for this bitch and then jd vance has had to be like i am that bitch you know that they're not voting for um and so it's kind of i really think that the reason trump doesn't care is because he doesn't give a shit. He's like, this is the me show. This is, they're voting for me and it doesn't matter whether he fucks his couch or not, or if he's in drag while he's doing it. But like, yeah, they're voting for me.

Yeah. I wonder how much of the choice, like it does feel like sometimes these sorts of politicians will choose somebody that they like, don't want to like an insecure politician will choose like George H.W. Bush who you know everyone was

like very skeptical of and they like the mainstream media was like this guy's a fucking wimp even though he was like a fighter pilot and the head of the CIA and like an actual like monster you know that that was for some reason because I guess he was

thin and reedy voiced they were like the main problem with him is he's a wimp and like he chose Dan Quayle which I don't know if I don't know how much like insecurity ties into it but it does feel like that would make sense

with Trump. It definitely is like the stand-up comic who's headlining who gets an opener that's really bad in order to make him look good. Yeah. They don't want to have to rise to a higher level. They just want to like coast. Yeah. He was, I mean Pence was definitely

like a complete empty suit. Just like the most baseline definition of a stuffed suit it's like he has that's why they were trying to hang him it was a pinata right exactly um i want to check in with boeing uh briefly uh palavi this was i want want to say I love Boeing and I would never say anything bad about them. And I love my life and I don't want to lose it. That's right. Um, so I think the last time we checked in with this story and maybe,

maybe miles covered it when I was out for a couple of weeks, but I remember like Boeing was having its run of shit news and had to keep delaying the launch of the starliner uh which was their like spacecraft that they were launching to die with the international space station yes it does and since that time so the last it was like they kept having to delay it because they were having malfunctions and like Boeing was like, we can just do it. Just do the fucking thing. Like, and NASA was like,

we're kind of skeptical. We're a little worried about the, the fact that this is malfunctioning before we're about to just like fire it up into space. Um, and so they shot it up into space, uh, a week delayed.

Uh, the two astronauts who were set to travel to the ISS did overcome the malfunctioning thrusters to dock with the ISS just a week behind schedule. And they were supposed to return a week later. That's how my losing my virginity story came to pass. Hey, am I right? Malfunctioning thrusters.

We've all dealt with malfunctioning thrusters. But they were supposed to return a week later and they're still fucking there and most recently nasa has announced that they might be there till 2025 i think it's just an excuse for them to get out of plan you know i think they're in on it with nasa they're like i don't want to go to my mother-in-law's house yeah I'm gonna stay in space yeah I don't want to be back for the holidays so yeah they named it the Starliner

which I think is meant to like evoke commercial air flight and the idea that like Boeing's so trustworthy not only will you be like taking our planes to other cities you'll be taking it to the moon and instead they have created the biggest flight delay of all time taking our planes to other cities, you'll be taking it to the moon. Instead, they have created the biggest flight delay

of all time. Stranded there until 2025 is next level shit. I saw a video on Twitter of someone talking about how a flight from Puerto Rico to the US was

changed to go and land in the Bahamas which is a different country and no one had their passports and they were all stranded so it was like they were kidnapped and this is getting like same vibes but in space you know no extra personal belongings for them there is food

but it will eventually run out just kind of hanging out no passports they right they were asked to forego like toiletries on the initial trip so they could like bring extra equipment under the i like flawed assumption that they would be back in eight days. And then they got up there and they were like, God, no, this plane is too fucked to turn around. And so they were up there.

Now they have sent some supplies up to them. They do have their toiletries, so their teeth aren't rotting out of their head, fortunately. Oh, yeah. The plan currently may be for them to return on a spacecraft flown by spacex which is their like main competitor the whole reason

that they were like so eager to fly this thing to space and like nasa despite nasa caring about you know things like the spacecraft breaking apart upon reentry was to like win this space race with SpaceX and now they're like basically they're like now your spacecraft is too fucked up you have to come back on the SpaceX dragon crew capsule so you're saying Elon Musk did this he stranded these people exactly he's

he's a master manipulator folks spaces and space that's right uh but yeah it's just such a such a bad look a consistent string of bad looks from boeing um and well yeah who knows when these people are going to get back but they're yeah like you said they have enough food they have enough toiletries and like they're basically going to be adopted by the crew that's up there like so um they're going to just be part of the international space station crew is kind of the loose plan as of right now which is fully a job they did not apply for they're not official staff of the international space station and people are just like we're just going to give them little tasks to do and it's like this is slave labor if you kidnap them this is this is like serfdom what are you doing right um all

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And we're back. And we've got some good Olympic updates, some good photos of people partying. Rose Lavelle, the Olympic soccer player for the u.s team uh is apparently just like an amazing partier can drink everyone in the world under the table the u.s men's basketball team was partying on a yacht uh and kevin durant was seen not knowing exactly how to ride a water slide or like i mean i guess it was the correct he was sitting up and like had his hands in the air. Like he was on a roller coaster, but his face is just so nonchalant.

I know his face was like kind of just like, what am I doing? He's like, I am writing a slide. I think that's so fun, though. I love when athletes are just completely themselves and aren't putting on anything. Like, this is what I love about Jokic. I always don't know if i'm saying that right but i love that he hates his job and i love that kevin durant is like i'm just me i'm just chilling this doesn't excite me yeah yogic was yeah his his same i don't know he i think there's some good yogic uh oic Olympic footage as well with him like drinking and partying with his friends from Serbia, his non horse friends from Serbia. But Jordan Childs does not appear to be getting her bronze medal back.

That's insane. I don't know if they're going to keep appealing. Didn't they say that they wanted to share it with her? And then the IOC was like, no. Maybe. Yeah. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. like no maybe yeah yeah i don't understand about stuff but the u.s is challenging it because they're saying because originally they said okay the

appeal went through at the time and then later they were going to take bronze metal back because they said it was four seconds after the one minute interval in which you're allowed to appeal but then the u.s was like we just got video and it was like actually a few or it was so many seconds after the minute and then the U.S. said it was like seconds before. And so we are again, we were again pushing. So if this means that she's not

getting it, it just seems like a judge's issue in the first place for not scoring her at the correct difficulty level. You know, it's kind of like the IRS. Why do I need to tell you how much I should pay in taxes? You should already know this. Why am I getting punished?

It's your fuck up. And they're like, yeah, but you told us about our fuck up too late. And so, yeah. It feels weird and arbitrary. The Raygun fallout there, there's a bunch of like new stories where it's like, Ray gun actually was like Kaiser.

So is a like behind the scenes manipulating everything. And, um, you know, is like this godfather power behind the scenes of Australian breakdancing. And, uh, I have seen some of those stories debunked.

Um, behind the scenes of Australian breakdancing. And I have seen some of those stories debunked. So Raygun may not be this Machiavellian figure and may just be a terrible breakdancer. We don't know for sure as of yet. She did win something, but not my heart. And that's all that counts. So, and among Kalief is filing a complaint against cyber harassment for maybe JK rallying, maybe.

No, the Internet was joking that she should get like 51 percent of Harry Potter now. But but I think Iman Khalif is like following up against the cyber harassment. But I think Iman Khalifa is like following up against the cyber harassment. It seems to be that the complaint is being filed in a Paris office. So I'm not sure what the what is going to happen to individuals who were indicating that she's trans or that she didn't deserve to be competing in the Olympics. But it does seem like she's not going to take it lying down and i hope that the other olympians um also do that and that this really kind of solidifies that the international boxing association or the iba or whatever it's called who kind of called into question their eligibility like i hope it it disqualifies those organizations from being

allowed to determine that their their eligibility yeah the boxing association that had disqualified her in previous years and was like just arbitrary like just going arbitrarily off of like wanting her disqualified so that somebody in that they were it was run by russians and they had like a russian boxer that they wanted to win all right oreo and coca-cola speaking of the olympics coca-cola the ultimate olympic sponsor the olympic uh you know also olympic uh life hack because people who swam in the sand were disinfecting their insides by chugging a can of coke coca-cola is now teaming up with oreo the other rings of our heart no i don't know i don't that sucks um but uh they oreo and coca-cola are teaming up

to create chocolate soda and fizzy cookies people magazine tried them and said they are good uh i believe people magazine is full of shit because these look not good um i will try them i will yeah i'm too much of an oreos fan to not try them but yeah i don't know what's your favorite off what's your favorite like uh off brand or not off brand what's your favorite like oreo flavor i mean i like i i always do the like mega stuff um with like the most cream in the middle but if it's a different flavor i'm very like cautious i go with like mint or something like close to like what an ice cream flavor would be.

You know what I mean? Right. Don't go crazy. Um, but like mixing fruit with chocolate. No. Oreos are like a staple in my diet. So I think like I would,

yeah, I think I would try it if it was up for grabs. And then I think it's kind of like, have you ever done that thing where you have your animals have sparkling water and then you see their reaction? Yeah. Like, I think that's like, we're just doing that to ourselves. You know, we're just like, how are we going to react to this? Let's just test it. But it's at such a large level.

I'm like, how does Oreo benefit from it? Makes my mouth feel fucking weird is essentially the energy my one dog my big normal dog was like okay this is weird and then my little one went crazy for the for the seltzer water i was like you're insane and there are gonna be those people with the fizzy oreos who are like this is my new favorite flavor and we're gonna sustain it yeah it's a great hack for getting kids to just think that they're having a treat when all they're doing is drinking water it's like fizzy water they're like wow it's something that's not just normal plain water um so they're doing a oreo coca-cola cookie Oreo Coca-Cola cookie that has like fizz fizzy candy in the

cream and then they're also doing a Coca-Cola Oreo zero sugar soda so it's like a Coke that's like flavored Oreo cookie chocolate and also zero sugar like why start with the zero

sugar you know like it feels like that you could introduce as well chocolate and also zero sugar. Like, why start with the zero sugar? Why? You know? Like, it feels like that's something you could introduce as well. The people who are having that mixed drink know what they're getting into and they expect it to be diabetes. You know what I mean? Yeah. This feels like a weird...

It feels like they don't know their audience in this case. Finally, Creature from the black lagoon is being remade by james wan uh the aquaman director is returning to the sea for his next feature film um they're describing it as a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror whilst paying respect to the original classic. Isn't that just the shape of water? I literally was thinking that.

Are they going to fuck the creature from the Black Lagoon? I feel like it has to be fucked, right? There has to be some sexual energy. Our culture is too horny to not fuck creatures in a horror movie. Yeah. It's either like Godzilla where it's based on a cat

and we're like, oh, that's like our cat. Or it's like, this is a horny creature that everybody wants to fuck. Wait, Godzilla's based on a cat? Like the reboot? So two different directors, because there's the one that's like the more US-centric one and then there's the one that's more like Japan-centric.

Those two different like aspects of the franchise have based um they were talking to each other and they were like yeah the inspiration for like godzilla like curls up in the coliseum or whatever or you know there are certain mannerisms of godzilla they like watch their cats and check out their mannerisms and are inspired by it. So that's like a cross-cultural influence in Godzilla. Yeah, if cats were just like giant, they wouldn't be nice, I feel like. They got those paws, you know? Yeah.

But they would be very cute. Fuck their shit right up. All the way. Yeah. But anyways, Universal continues to try to make their old-timey horror monsters happen. And I don't know. We'll see.

I guess they should do crossovers with like current day, like real creatures from the Black Lagoon, like Real Housewives. But just completely bastardize it. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I like it. so like faux reality show black lagoon yeah you get like wine thrown in your face by a creature from the black lagoon yeah what do you housewives of the black lagoon and just have them picked off one by one um yeah

yeah i like it uh all right well those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, August 13th. 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.

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