The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendyth Paltrow's Ski Crash Musical 11/15: Gwenyth Paltrow, Madame Web, Supreme Court, Alaska, Markwayne Mullin, Clay Higgins

Episode Date: November 16, 2023

In this edition of Trendyth Paltrow's Ski Crash Musical, Miles and Bryan the Editor discuss the new Gwenyth Paltrow skiing accident musical, the new Madame Web movie, the new Supreme Court code of ethics, Americans thinking Alaska is an island, Markwayne Mullin literally asking for it, and Clay Higgins' weird "ghost bus" rant!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 iHeartRad the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hey everybody welcome one and all to this afternoon edition of trended paltrow's ski crash musical uh because that that thing about gwyneth Paltrow and the ski that's a musical now that is one of the things trending we will get to that but that doesn't excuse the fact that I have not introduced myself and my co-host I am Miles and that is Brian hello Brian okay uh you doing okay oh I'm doing great it's it's nice and stormy and gloomy and spooky outside. Just how I like it. Okay, yeah. We're on the same coast.

We got a bit of the spooky waters tonight. Look, good time to bundle up, you know, put a gas log on. A nice big tartan poncho on. Yeah, wow, that looks cozy. Like an Irish Mexican or something. Yeah, that is a combination of fabrics and styles but yeah yeah wow you've threaded the needle culturally with that garment uh let's tell the people what's trending today up first gwyneth paltrow it's called gwyneth goes skiing you said what the

fuck is that well this december in london town in jolly old eng, you can see the debut of a new stage musical, which is all about that Gwyneth Paltrow trial about when she slammed into the optometrist who couldn't enjoy wine anymore. Remember he was so fucked up from that collision that he no longer could, could be enjoying the wine like he used to life just isn't the same. Um, but yeah, it's done by the same people.

This group, awkward productions. That sounds, it's done by the same people, this group Awkward Productions, who describe themselves as, quote, harbingers of queer chaos. And it'll seemingly involve some audience participation by making audience members the jury in the trial. These are the same people that

did the Diana, the untold and untrue story that one reviewer called, quote quote the most unhinged piece of theater in existence that actually sounds kind of appealing yeah exactly that's that that that sounds about right i just wish like i just don't care about guinness paltrow but i guess you can make it work because it is so absurd i do like the audience participation aspect like you know you can maybe have fun with that if you're getting super lit in the fucking theater. Yeah, man.

Love improv. Love improv from untrained. Love improv from drunk people from the audience. Yeah, I love it. Did you ever see Point Break Live in LA? Actually, yeah. Yeah, I did. Yeah.

That was fun. That's the one time you can drag someone up from the crowd and it works. Yeah. That was huge. Yeah. For, you know, a small theater thing. Exactly. People don't know there's like this show where like they would, they would do point break,

basically act out the entire movie point break, but someone from the audience would be pulled up to be Johnny Utah. And the whole thing was like, yeah, they can't have chops. Like we just like you're Johnny Utah tonight. So maybe they but this is probably not gonna be that but hey what we need is the fucking musical about the fucking the the boat brawl in alabama yeah you could definitely you definitely build that story out a little bit this man it has all kinds of layers to it man white supremacy that could be a beautiful

ballet actually uh wow oh you don't want to go lowbrow with it you want it to be like someone This man, it has all kinds of layers to it, man. White supremacy. That could be a beautiful ballet, actually. Wow. Oh, you don't want to go lowbrow with it. You want it to be like someone's seminal work of modern dance. Oh, yeah. Which, by the way, the charges are, I'm pretty sure the black man who was defending himself got charged with assault while some of the white defendants skated, I think. Yeah, it sounds about on brand. Yeah, it sounds about on brand yeah it sounds about on

brand for this place we call america um the next thing that's trending there's a new spider-man adjacent film i guess is what we're calling it because it's a sony movie spider-man it's called madame web so no what the fuck is it called madame webb yeah i was right madame webb i'd look i'm i'm struggling madame webb so but madame webb so's wax web museum but yeah because sony like this is a sony movie and they're trying to make Spider-Man movies without the Spider-Man, as we saw with Venom and obviously the fantastic Morbius. Because it is Morbin time. In this house, we do believe that it is Morbin time. It is Morbin time. But this one stars Dakota Johnson as the titular Madam Web, who's a paramedic who can see into the future after having a near-death

experience and then there's like a trio of these young women including sydney sweeney who are all being terrorized by this dude that i'm like yo that's spider-man and like no don't that's not spider-man that's a that's an evil guy that's ezekiel sims pretending to being evil spider-man i don't know enough about the lore to fully wrap my head around this but it turns out like the the three younger people that he's trying to go after are all people that are destined to become spider people of their own in the future this is them that's ps for them pre-spider i guess i think it's like terminator where it's like you know this dude came in to try and eliminate john connor or some shit trying to get these spider

people before they get it popping the impression i get from the trailer is that this is uh another in a long line of not necessarily time travel movies but like time loop movies, I'll lie. Your groundhogs days, your edge of tomorrow. Yeah. Your, uh, source code, uh, all that stuff.

And, um, yeah, they're pulling from a lot of influences and it just, it kind of just feels like a product looking for an audience. Yeah. If that makes sense. Yeah.

It doesn't feel very organic. They're like, it's 50 shades of gray mixed with sydney sweeney uh we got this billy eilish track spider-man adjacent lore um is that enough folks will that you buy a ticket i don't know the aesthetically too it looks it looks dated like like as filmmaking it just feels as one uh critic who knows how long they've been working on this how long it's been sitting on the shelf yeah they said someone described as a run-of-the-mill 2000s thriller is what it reminded them of um but hey there you go uh

okay next up the supreme court you know they've they've put out a new code of ethics, obviously because Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, just many, like even everybody, even Sotomayor, they're people who are like, y'all are kind of making a lot of money off of this. Is this the most appropriate thing when you are sitting on the highest court of the land? So they're like, hey, we need a code of ethics to maybe try and dampen those stories or fix the reputation of the land uh so they're like hey we need a code of ethics to maybe try and dampen those

stories or or fix the reputation of the court um and it turns out like it does fuck all like basically it just codifies the the rules that existed uh now into this code of ethics that clarence thomas was following when he did all that shit anyway. So it's like very toothless. Like even in the beginning of the document about this new code of ethics, it states that, quote, for the most part, these rules and principles are not new. Who wrote this? This is coming from the court.

Okay, so they let the Supreme Court write their own rules. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to go home. And then here's the other cool part. You know how a lot of times you'll be like, a local judge can be disbarred and shit or whatever, unseated or impeached or whatever, for egregious conflicts of interest kind of thing.

It's because those rules actually have teeth like they're enforceable with a lower court the thing that they get into this philosophical conundrum with the supreme court they're like but like there's no higher court to appeal to than us so what's so i guess it is what it is like it's so bad it's so it's a it's it's nonsense um yeah but hey they can make their own rules now hey it's a good great country great country uh 100 i mean like we have people taking millions in gifts like shady property deals lavish vacations and they're like well my company like directly didn't have any business in front of the court. It's like, but your industries do. And that's, that's where your

influence, that's how you, you turn that influence into, you know, tangible results for your industry or business. Look, look, folks, this isn't going to stop until you run up in their houses. That's the long and short of it. Run up, up yeah that's what they'll say i just have to put it plainly like i mean like you know think about how like how terrified they were when people were actually going outside of supreme court justices houses like they were getting protections we had never seen before imagine how shook they'll be when it's like 10 000 people pulling up to their house and not for a party. I mean, I think that's where,

I think that's why they want to begin to help, you know, enact more laws that make it much more difficult for people to like gather, protest, et cetera, because those are the kinds of, those are the kinds of cases that these sort of conservative, wealthy activist types want to get to their country.

This is, Oh yeah, yeah, for sure. This shit is trash, but this is. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. This shit is trash. But this is the way, this is the mechanisms in which we see it all come together.

They just, they hang out at their weird little theme parks with Hitler statues and figure out how to just stack the deck. And on boats and international waters and shit. Yeah, exactly. All right, let's take a quick break uh and we'll be right back after this i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary

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And we're back. And I know you're like, because this is what kind of country this is you were saying that in relation to how there's really there's no justice just us uh as many people will say or d'angelo and devil's pie ash to ashes dust to dust um but we're truly also just we're a really uninformed and not smart group of people in the united states unfortunately there was of this viral thing that went off it's like video where this woman was talking about how she went to alaska and she was absolutely gobsmacked surprised her wig flew when she found out that alaska is not an island and is actually part of the north American landmass that you could drive to on land?

Miss, in the right time of year, you can drive to Russia, technically. Wait until she finds that shit out. It's wild because Canadian people were looking at them like, are y'all for fucking real? Because they obviously share a border with Alaska. But other people, Americans in the comments were saying they're like oh shit dude i thought that shit too it's not an island because like on a map it's an island and you're like that's not what that means oh god please it's not a fucking island okay and in rand mcnally hamburgers eat people yeah right right right right it's like but it's always in the lower left like next to hawaii i thought it was next to hawaii

yeah yeah this place that has that gets all kinds of snow that we know is one of the coldest places uh in america is it's right next to hawaii because it's on the because it's not part of the contiguous united states it's just just wait until they find out what the fuck a mercator projection is and that the sizes of countries are not what you think they are for real wait till they hear about the annexation of these places too actually they probably wouldn't care they'd be like oh boy yeah how we got these fucking places yeah yeah far flung uh never mind never mind never mind never mind never mind we didn't we didn't kidnap anyone and be like oh you want your queen to come up off these lands real quick um anyway so that's that was just so wild like i couldn't yeah like it was it's hard to hear

when other people were like but on a map it's an island and you're we're like jesus it's it's the kind of stupid where you have to as a normal person you have to take a second and recalibrate your whole brain to be on that level of like wait what do you even oh right you mean you mean the thing on a oh so you oh so you're all the way not smart. Okay. Okay. Like, holy shit. Yeah, it's a little sad. Sad, as Donald Trump would put it. And then lastly, let's check in with some really, really cool American people. Let's start off.

Because, like, there's all kinds of hearings happening right now. One of the big ones to touch on. Obviously, yesterday we were talking about Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.ullen uh talking you know how he wanted to fucking throw hands in the senate he was on sean hannity show and you know kind of defended what he said or tried to explain uh he was definitely on a very sympathetic friendly show to be able to do this. But here, let's just take a quick look at what Mark Wayne Mullen was thinking when he decided that, you know what, maybe

I will fucking try and fight Sean O'Brien of the Teamsters Union. I mean, I think any other response kind of would have been a little gutless. I would agree with that. I mean, what do people want me to do? If I didn't do that, people in Oklahoma would be pretty upset upset at me that's not how we raise i'm supposed to represent oklahoma values yeah i don't know maybe actually do things that like are tangible benefits for

your constituents they're both like lame white dudes doing mma and i know they both do mma they both do mma they were probably chopping it, putting each other in chokeholds and shit before the... Vaping. They're like, yo, what vaping you got? You seen this chokehold? Oh, yeah, dude. Watch this, dude. Oh, do the gi choke.

Show them how you just do the gi choke. Just use the gi to choke them up. They're just blowing clouds, chopping it up. The best is then they go on to bro down on the art of toxic masculinity and violence is this next part where he's like what the heck happened to this country when i grew up it was a little bit of a different time well me and my friends when we played football when we played basketball i played hockey you know i don't think there was a single day that we were playing sports where we

didn't drop the gloves or you know have a brief a brief interlude of, you know, throwing fists and it'd all be over. You pick up and you start playing again. You know, when all of a sudden did we become that woke that the thought of two people, one responding to a threat directly saying, OK, you threatened me. Here's your opportunity. Take me up on it. Yeah, well, it's political correctness it's it's all of a sudden you got to worry about somebody's feelings but oh by the way the left can say whatever they want wow it's so i love that i love how that guy called him a clown and you're a joke and a fraud and he's like that's a threat that's a threat and i'm gonna have to throw down now uh because how dare you read me ego i swear it's i mean but it's funny he's like yeah there would also like how is he saying there

wasn't a day that went by that they weren't like fist fighting i'm like was it all that lead you were exposed to or some shit the fuck was wrong bro yeah i'm writing off that whole let's not get into it but but these motherfuckers, these nevermind. What happened to us? When do we become so woke that unchained violence? Wasn't the solution to every single thing that we encountered. What the fuck happened? They're ill.

Um, then we have, uh, Christopher Ray, the head of the FBI is on Capitol Hill and he's getting absolutely grilled by Congressman Clay Higgins, Republican, who has been so like he is so horny for January 6th conspiracies like inside job, false flag shit. And this was during the worldwide threats hearing. OK, this is when they have the FBI to talk about worldwide threats. Of course, Republicans are like, what about January 6th?

And I just want to play this part where he's like hitting him with this really interesting conspiracy theory that I had not known up until now. If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and or agents, the answer is emphatically not. You're saying no? No. You're saying no? Not violence orchestrated by FBI sources or agents. Are you familiar with, you know what a ghost vehicle is? Director, you're the director of the FBI, you certainly should.

You know what a ghost bus is? Sounds spooky. Ghost bus? Ghost bus. I'm not sure I've used that term before. Okay. Okay. Pretty common in law enforcement.

It's a vehicle that's used for secret purposes. Is he okay? He's painted over. These two buses in the middle here, they were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6th. Zero five hundred. I have all this evidence. I'm showing you a tip of this iceberg. Mr. Chairman.

These two buses are painted completely white. Point of order. This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman. And these buses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters. Deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th. Your day is coming. Okay, okay.

So that's your brain on right-wing extremism and 4chan posts. When he said ghost, I thought he was going to say ghostbusters. Director Ray, have you heard of Ghostbuster? You know what Ghostbuster is? You mean Ecto-1, sir? Yeah. I don't understand. And do you believe that those buses were filled with FBI informants armed with proton packs dressed as Trump supporters?

What? Huh? What the fuck are you talking about, man? Sorry, he just left the new Ghostbusters movies and he's excited. I know. Ghostbusters feels like some kind of civil rights

movie with Ghost Dog with Forrest Whitaker. I just think it's funny that he admits that there's secret police just very casually yeah yeah yeah very common they have secret purposes

like wait what secret purposes you know I mean you know but we know uh huh uh huh so yeah really good times being spent on the Capitol Hill over there.

Anyway, that is going to do it for us today. We're back tomorrow with a whole new episode. So, yeah, until then, take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Get your vaccines. Don't do nothing about white supremacy, hatred, none of that. Okay? And we will talk to you tomorrow.

Bye. Bye. Bye. 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 Elf Beauty, 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.