The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend'SYNC's Back! 9/14: N'SYNC, Hunter Biden, Trump, iPhone 12

Episode Date: September 14, 2023

In this edition of Trend'Sync's Back!, Jack and Miles discuss the return of N'Sync, Hunter Biden getting indicted, Trump turning his mugshot to a money phone (illegally, of course), and the iPhone 12 getting banned in France!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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back all right that's fine though that is what was happening in my brain when i saw nsync was back i was like oh just like that song that's by a different band by them um by kind of them backstreet was first and then ns sync is that correct yes that is correct okay i'm jack that's miles uh this is elderly people as you hear elderly man you hear his final synapses firing off um welcome welcome welcome you got a front row seat y'all to this one you're jack nicholson front row at the Lake Show. This is welcome to Sundowning with Jack O'Brien. All right, NSYNC reunited, and it feels so good.

So good. For some of us. As long as you don't look at the people on the ends of the picture of them reuniting. They got back together. We first saw this at whatever mt whatever mtv award show just happened that i had zero interest in had record low ratings the vmas did it yeah i probably did this we're we're we already hit peak vm like when the when the jamiroquai dude hit the fucking conveyor belt on stage that was peak vmas like it was all downhill from there

that was a moment where i realized that my values had changed like overnight is all summer i was like chris rock was hosting the vmas i was like chris rocks hosting the vmas this is gonna be cool and then i got to college and like i found out that the VMAs had happened three months ago. I was like, wow, that was not a thing. Even register it. I just totally forgot about that. Amazing what academia does to you. You lose sight of what's important.

I was just so focused on my studies. Completely lost track. I didn't even see him do virtual insanity live. They were back there they're they're apparently they got like a a single coming out from the new troll soundtrack but off mic we were trying to determine what the impetus was for them getting back together because they have not been seen together since 2018 like when they were they got like a walk of fame star and then they've all been doing their own thing but now they're all back together and i just went through here and i was trying to figure out who needs money and why and why um we all need it's still hard to know do you want to make more

money sure we all do do you remember that infomercial who i think it's sally's brothers Do you remember that infomercial? Who? I think it was Sally's Brothers. Oh. Do you want to make more money? Sure. We all do.

It was like late 80s, early 90s. Anyway. Yeah, yeah. So Joey Fatone looks like he has aged a generation, like has lapped them by a generation. He looks like he is their dad now generation he looks like he is their dad now um he dresses like he is their dad now yeah he dresses like he was styled by the person who styled lebron james for his nba draft night and then went into a coma and then came out and immediately was asked to style joey fatone before this um also his suit is big but but jack correct me if i'm wrong and i'm no stylist here does he still have

the sleeve tag on his brand new suit he does he does miles or i don't know unless that's like a thing like a little he would say that embellishment style that's it's like leaving your sticker on your new era bevel yeah uh but that looks like baby i mean that suit is jack everyone really he looks like a he doesn't just look like a cop he looks like a retired cop a disgrace yeah he looks like a disgraced police captain right right yeah like a like the most corrupt like precinct in the nypd was like under his command he was the watch commander uh shout out lance bass who looks the best out of all yeah lance bass looks better jc yeah not younger but just like better he looks like he's like just more fully himself and is having a great time

good for him um jc chazay looks like like jc chazay george like George Young. He's the main character from Blow. He's got... Oh, J.C. Chazet is the one next to Justin Timberlake in this picture? Yeah, with the Tinted Aviators. Yeah, he's gone full Blow. He saw the movie Blow and it changed his whole ass personality.

Yeah. He's like, call me El Magico from now on. You're like, what the fuck is that have you seen blow yeah in my country they call me a magico anyway that was a monologue i used to say really annoyingly when i was 20 years old um and chris kirkpatrick i'm the techno dreadlocks are gone he looks all right still the chin beard still fully there intact fully intact like has he stuck with that continuously he may have i don't know that is impressive yeah like of all the bad styles that they were rocking that we all were rocking but they in particular were rocking a lot of bad

shit uh in the early 90s like that was maybe the worst the least advisable to stick with and he's just still still got it i wonder that's what he said when he saw them for the first time pointed to his chin and said still got it see it boys i'm here read them i never left never left it's like it's like we're back in 97 boys yeah uh but also credits i mean how does how is nobody bald no i mean i think i i think uh there's a lot going on with the uh hair plug technology from what i understand you think or do you think they genetically test these people like before they enter the band to be like yeah they'll be all right 15 years yeah you don't have to no plugs needed that whoever that creepy like manager was like lou perlman lou perlman i wanted to say ron perlman uh no don't cast dispersions on the yeah on hell boy

like i wonder if they're like yeah kid can sing and dance let me see a picture of your mom's father yeah uh at around 40 okay yeah they're in they're in they're in um but yeah the question like are they coming back together because somebody needs money are they coming back together because justin timberlake needed a win but my guess is it's because justin timberlake needed a win because he's like you know we all we didn't find anything out new about him necessarily we just had a re-evaluation re-evaluation of this man's role with uh janet jackson with britney spears and we're like maybe not yeah in fact maybe not that is like woodsman phase you can forget about that shit either man of the woods

yeah that wasn't yeah there's just like black and white pictures of him like wading through a pond in all denim yeah no thank you we don't need that we don't need that but yeah i don't know i'm sure part of it too is they're probably like how much is this fucking guy making for a trolls movie yeah yeah and they're probably like hold on bro cut us back into this shit please like we're doing okay help out i believe the plot of the latest troll movie is that justin timberlake's character in the trolls movie uh is revealed to have been like part of a boy band in the past and so wait are you for real i think so or that could have been the of a boy band in the past. Wait, are you for real? I think so. Or that could have been the plot of the last Trolls movie or every Trolls

movie. But that's what I... And I think the song that they performed at the VMAs was a Trolls song. Like a song for the movie Trolls. I'm just wondering if... No, you're right.

Poppy discovers that Branch and his four brothers were once part of her favorite boy brand boy boy boy boy i say that fast nine times or just once i did so so many times i said it fast nine times throughout the early 90s but that is interesting because that means that the impetus and the energy the money behind this reunion was in in fact, coming from Justin Timberlake. Like, you know, all these other dudes are making money. Like, they're probably, you know, they have full time jobs like flipping houses or whatever you do as a former member of NSYNC. Like being a club promoter. And we're probably like, yeah.

All right, man. Yeah yeah okay justin needs us i guess i feel like part of them are nostalgic enough that i don't think it was probably hard to make it happen nah yeah he's doing all right there's a fuck you hear that you hear that beeping bro that's a brinks truck backing up into your fucking driveway to drop my cash yeah justin timberlake's call to them probably doesn't even reach a full ring before they pick yeah yeah dude i'll do it i'll do it what i was gonna say dude remember my uncle that you really liked he passed away i figured you'd want to know oh oh okay okay well but you got any like business opportunities i don't remember him

oh really i thought i thought you said you liked him that one time. Anyways. Named his dog after you. Hunter Biden. Who looks like he could be a former member of NSYNC. Yeah. Pretty handsome guy. He's been

indicted on firearms charges, folks. He's in trouble. Biden indicted. WLP world excited um or maybe just fox the fox news set but yeah because what he was just he was lying to get a gun yeah he's buying a gun while high on drugs and uh just everything about what he does is so cool um sorry that's not that's not true it's not cool guns aren't cool drugs lead bad places but yeah it does jack just all sound like shit from a like behind the music or you know like so like all of the stories about him are like out of a touring documentary about the rolling stones yeah right it It's like Keith got really messed up that night.

He went out and bought a Colt Cobra revolver and lied on the application just so he could shoot a beer can out of the air. Right. But anyways, yeah. So they got him on a technicality that was illegal to buy a gun while high on drugs and he like lied about that on a form and so he's probably he could go to jail for 10 years and you know what a fucking

world this guy like what please look into the i know they gotta be looking into jared kushner they have to be the amount of money this guy. Was siphoning off. During the administration. Whatever. Anyway. Cool. Cool.

Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. But hey. You know Hunter. It's what happens. I remember he had his plea deal fall apart too.

So who knows. Who knows what went on there. But I'm sure uh they're gonna really seize on that one yeah a drug bust on uh donald trump jr like that that would be bad for the world right if there was just if it seemed like there was like a tit for tat thing happening but like you could probably get him for cocaine right he? He seems like he's, you know, I feel like glazed and barely open on cocaine. Most of the time.

Now, I bet like a tick tock prankster could fucking entrap this dude. It's not going to take DOJ or the feds fucking anybody. I'm just low a low-hanging fucking fruit just uh this is for a youtube prank show we just asked this guy if he wanted to buy drugs yeah he gave us he gives a briefcase hey you want to buy a little coke and he gave me his money and then i gave him a miniature coke bottle and he that's like that's what i do on my channel uh but yeah he really went for it anyways uh let's take a quick break and we'll be right back this summer the nation watched as the republican nominee for president was the target of two

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like they photoshopped his mugshot to resemble obama's hope poster but it just looks like shit like it does yeah it's not recognizable as the mugshot necessarily it does it like it you need a very specific image of a person for that to scan as like hopeful and so he just looks well like a villain yeah because no one understood like i guess they're doing their version of what they think shepherd fairy was doing with that obama portrait and they're like you just got to do like fucking wild ass highlights and red white and blue all over the face even if it completely obscures that fucking shape of the face yeah um according to the campaign the strategy worked they raised more than seven million dollars in the wake of the mugshot merch push um it's all over etsy also will soon become a bobblehead um it

don't like the mugshot just like the like a mugshot bobblehead yeah i guess they're gonna that one i'm kind of intrigued to see what it's gonna look like because that like never surrender shepherd fairy ripoff like it makes donald trump look like an ultimate warrior toy that was microwaved for 15 seconds yeah it really he looks like he's melting he looks like but like with that specific face paint design that ultimate warrior had back in the wwf days yeah yeah like a melted crayon sculpture of the ultimate warrior um bad job bad jobs all around yeah um and particularly uh because that shit's illegal oh they uh oh wait oh sorry what was that part yeah you don't own that like it i guess there's like fair use arguments but that fair use is does not count when you're raising money explicitly off of it yeah he says

he can't claim fair use like what i took the image directly and i put it on a consumer good i'm now selling and keeping all the money yeah legal experts seem to back up a claim made by the fulton county sheriff's office that uh the county owns that uh they say the rights to the image likely belong to the sheriff's office or the state so wow uh-oh um i mean will they do something about it? But it's just like that real standard. So I guess if this had been a federal booking photo, then it would have been free to use. But it's like that Trump version of legal understanding where it's just, well, what? It's just like what he heard from a lawyer he golfs with.

You know? Right. And that drives his understanding of what's legal i just who owns it it feels like that scene in boogie nights when they're trying to get the tapes from their hit song they recorded yeah when he's like you yeah sure granted the tapes themselves are um you own them, but the magic that is on those tapes, that fucking heart and soul that we put in the, that's ours. And you don't know that.

It feels like that's the logic. That's the logic. Exactly. Also the ultra right beer guy. Um, yeah. Yeah. So that's still somehow a thing.

Uh, and he announced a new limited edition beer with Trump's mugshot on the can. naturally this was announced in a video in which that guy the ceo uh wades into a swimming pool while wearing a suit like somebody who has lost their actual mind set to the to dido's thank you was the dido thank you video like really like is that a reference to that? Is that what happened? No, in my mind, that could be the only thing. I mean, without me knowing anything, because I'm looking at this picture,

and it's confusing to see a guy just in a half waist high in a pool, and like, you want to buy a beer? Yeah. It's very strange. A real tonal shift from where he was just like this cocksure guy coming out of restrooms where he was drinking beer. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember that?

Just enjoying a beer in the men's room, as one does. Just having a beer in the men's room. Yep. At a public park. Anyways. Well, I'm glad it's at a competitive price. Six pack for 40 bucks. Yeah, six pack for 40 bucks.

Supposedly a portion of the proceeds from the beer whopping 10 will be going to gop legal defense funds in georgia to quote fight the communists running the fulton district attorney's office yep yep yep real communists um what the fuck man words mean nothing anymore and it's like i was reading a little bit more about how like the sort of parallel conservative economy that's starting to emerge of like people being like why doing target no more so i'll use like some weird website where i buy like overpriced crap uh they're i don't know they they try it every couple years but man a 40 six pack good luck to those who have it yeah and finally we have a bit of news um miles

what number iphone do you have 12 me as well got mine in 2019 for three years okay i got mine right before the pandemic hasn't been far from me the entire three years that i've had it because i'm you know a modern western american keep it on a neck lanyard i do keep it on a neck lanyard when i'm showering yeah like like soap on a rope keep my iphone on a rope um anyways apple has been ordered to stop selling the iphone 12 in particular in france France due to tests that reveal that it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above EU standards for

exposure. Apple disputed the findings, but I don't know. You know our rule about how you should always kind of look to the EU for stuff that is not legal there be wary because they are you know governments that still seem to be run by human beings as opposed to

corporations uh so this is bad news for my thighs i think think. Oh, wait. Do I even have a 12? Wait, that phone came out in 2020? Oh, then maybe I have 11. Oh, I'm good, bro. I think I'm good, then. Good for you, man. Damn, Jack. Wow, fool.

Oh, yeah, I got an 11. Woo! See, your boy likes it. He moves slow with the upgrades. I missed the radioactive one wait do i not are you checking yours i'm checking right now wow we're fucking wild where you find it go to you go to your settings miles general iphone 12 pro max okay well hey it's even bigger prayers up for you jack even more radiation delivered directly to your upper legs and reproductive area i like how they said when the phone the phone passed a test when kept in a jacket or bag but not when held in hand or carried in a pocket oh good i've

never carried it in my pocket or held it in my hand good the two places i've never put my phone in the palm of my hand or my pocket um luckily though it's they say that amount of radiation isn't necessarily going to cause damage to a person um but it's just they set those levels for a reason yeah i think they set those levels for a reason you know know, maybe not tomorrow, but it could be bad news long run for, you know. But it's not an, like you can always have that part of your body cut off, like your upper leg and like the joint, you know, your hip joint.

That's the most easy stuff to just trim off. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Very easy part of the body that when you're elderly and something happens to your hip, very, very simple thing to solve. Yeah. Yeah, because you can just, like, by the time we're older, I'll probably just be able to, like, be a crang and, like, be in some other larger, like, being's body that I control with my brain.

So... What's, yeah, or what was um what was the dude called in total recall quado yeah quado you can quado it up or you're gonna have a quado no you might have a quado from this phone oh what if i pop a quado yeah oh man cool i pop a quado and then i quado onto something bigger once i can't use my hips anymore pop a quaddo i'm sweating uh yeah thanks for that reference miles um but yeah i think by that time we'll probably just be a wally type chair situations yeah so we'll be good yeah yeah yeah yeah but uh it's wild that they said that they could probably fix it in an update. Yeah, that's the thing that kind of bothers me.

Because I was like, well, wait, why hasn't this been an issue to this point? And it sounds like it is based on updates, which kind of fucks me up even more. Yeah, yeah. Where it's almost like, so then could you, I mean, if I i'm being cynical update a phone to put out more electromagnetic radiation they say it's not clear why this particular model appears to throw off higher radiation but it may be i do love the casual it's just tossing off yeah additional higher radiation but it may be associated with the initial stage of connection when the phone is looking for a transmit receive signal um cool so i'll just be be sure to look out for that yeah jack you know how to you know how that goes yeah i have a sense of i'm very in touch with my phone and it's, uh, what it's looking for at any given moment.

So anyways, uh, that that's going to do it for this Thursday. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode. Oh yeah. Um, heck yeah. Until then,

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