The Daily Zeitgeist - Unidentified Aerial Trendnomenon 12/17: NJ Drone Zone, Subway/Doritos, UnitedHealthcare CEO, Luigi Mangione Docs, Worst Movies of 2024

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

In this edition of Unidentified Aerial Trendnomenon, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss the NJ drone zone, Subway's Doritos Footlong Nachos, 41% of young voters saying UnitedHealthcare CEO killing is "acceptable", Luigi Mangione's incipient cavalcade of documentaries, the worst movies of 2024 and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Unidentified Ariel Trendnominon. Courtesy of the gross face killer on the Discord, I would have also accepted, Miles has a sinus trendfection, because Miles is out with a sinus Trench faction Anyways, I'm Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by mr. Blake Weckler

Aka osmosis drones Drone osmosis drone Jones and for some drones in bro. What else is there? What else? What else? Drone just plays on words. Blake, it's wonderful to have you. Thank you so much. It's great to be here. It's still drone city out there in the sky. You are in New Jersey, but you're in northern Jersey. And as we talk about on tomorrow's episode or maybe not I think was actually off Mike

It's it's a South Jersey phenomenon. Mostly. I think the drones are really Going going wild over the Jersey Shore the Philly Jersey area So it's it's a new ride I think on the Atlantic City boardwalk where it's just an unidentified just an unmanned drone You just hop in it and you'd probably be better off on that than in the Atlantic City, New Jersey Oh, man, the boardwalk t-shirts are gonna be having a fucking blast with the drone stuff next year They've really gotten with the times those two those t-shirts have

Really stopped using words that society stopped using 50 years ago. No, they still do. They still do. Don't blame me. I voted for the drones. Huh? What's that even mean? Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, I do feel like the drones have kind of left the very peak like headline, headline news. Drudge is no longer headlined by the drug or by drones that drone report down

that they're looking for something. Government urges state to calm down. Fed many reported objects include aircraft and stars. So it does feel like some of the myth debunking is kind of rising up, percolating up to the headlines when it comes to the drones. Although another headline, New Jersey residents suffering alarming symptoms after encounters with drones. So, yeah.

They were hit. They were hit by a drone. A drone flew into them. I've been hit. Yeah. This is going to be the new like fentanyl poisoning where like somebody walks by, uh, you know, a homeless encampment and then is, uh, suddenly taken down by fentanyl fumes. Now it's going to be just like near body contact with a drone,

a drone flew over my house and now I can no longer smell out of my left nostril. I can't go to work. Um, I have a Havana syndrome. Thank you. And that is why he still got it. That's why I still got it. I was in that in why a lot of people ask, why does Blake still got it? And that's why. And that's primarily that and exclusively that and that. But I was in exclusive exclusive but I was in exclusive, exclusive. I was in a liberty.

Find those exclusive. Sorry, I was in Liberty State Park, which is in North Jersey across from lower Manhattan, where you look at the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Islands there. And there was a sign and it said no campfires, no tents, no drones. And I'm like, did they put up a no drone sign? And I just realized it's always no drone. So no drones there ever. Yeah.

You just can't be flying them around. Yeah. Drones are, uh, they have existed and they've been annoying as fuck to a lot of people for a long time. Um, if you say so. Yeah, you don't believe it. All right, Blake, let's get into some non drone stories. Up first drone.

No, up first, we have Subway coming for Taco Bell with a new menu item that I'm not as mad at as I probably should be. They are foot long Doritos nachos. They are just, you know, it's basically one of those paper kind of bowl tray things that you would carry a foot long hot dog in like at a baseball game. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Filled with Doritos with some what I'm going to assume is subway American cheese, like triangles. You know how their American cheese comes in triangles.

Makes me so mad. Yeah. Give me the whole damn American cheese. Like give me the square. You son of a bitch. That's what I say to the person working across. And I spit. You see my spit hitting the splash guard as I say. Give me the square. you son of a bitch

I could yeah, that's what any other way you talking. I couldn't picture it any other way then then a layer of Chili which I don't know is that a thing you can get at subway like this feels like they are just Yeah, pulling a Taco Bell in the sense that they're just mixing and matching You don't like their subway Italian chili that they have there. Italian chili, some slices of jalapeno. And then the only thing that I really object to here is that they appear to be doing a zigzag drizzle of Chipotle mayonnaise on top of this, which absolutely

unnecessary. But the rest is necessary mayonnaise on my nachos. Yeah, I do. I am personally somebody who thinks the rest is necessary. I am I've long written for Doritos as, you know, just treating Doritos like normal tortilla chips. Eating salsa with Doritos, eating guacamole with Doritos. They're great, you know, in combination with other things. Doritos nachos sounds like a great idea. And I do love the Doritos Locos tacos from Taco Bell.

So maybe it's coasting a bit off of that reputation, but I'm kind of on board for this. As a friend, as your as your friend Blake, I do want to give you a cautionary piece of advice and with your using Doritos because you're leveling up a chip. Obviously it's like why deny yourself something with already with deliciousness on it and then adding more deliciousness. I understand that. Sure. When I was at a senior, a senior in college, I weighed 30 pounds heavier than I

am now. And here's why. Okay. Because I would, I tried to revamp the whole nacho thing myself. And instead of using tortilla chips, I used kettle chips. And instead of nacho stuff, I would make pizza nachos on kettle chips and I would put pizza sauce on it, a five blend cheese from trader Joe does. And then I would put chicken nuggets that I would cut up frozen chicken nuggets on there.

And believe it or not, I gained a lot of weight from that. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I think I think your point is well taken that the reason that people don't use Doritos as a base in anything is not because they don't think it will taste good. It's because it's a Ridiculous health risk and it will taste good. That's the problem. It'll taste great So I figured out I figured this thing out guys where you can like have nachos and then like four or five cigarettes and it's really satisfying.

It's a really satisfying way to just like, uh, you know, punch up your taco bell nacho experience and handle a gin, drink a whole handle of gin too. The cigarettes taste, take the bite out of the gin and you know. Um, all right. Point taken. Blake, once again, once again, I do. I do run all of my health ideas through Blake. So which is a great idea.

And that's and that's how we got to the perch we're on today. Looking down. That's right. The rest of this country. All right. Forty one percent of young voters are saying that they believe the UnitedHealthcare CEO killing is acceptable, which based on the internet, I would have said seems low because it seems that shit seems the popular. 84% at the lowest.

So people are reporting this like, wow, the young people have lost their mind. But this seemed very low to me. So I have people reporting this like, wow, the young people have lost their mind, but I, the, this seemed very low to me. This is actually kind of a learning moment for me that the internet and I say this all the time. Like I say, go out and touch grass because the internet is not real life. Okay. The internet is not real life. So that's my ring tone. You saying that on my phone and people think you're in the room, actually my grandmother, who's also a listener of the podcast, thinks you're in the room and then she rings her bell. But no, I, you, you, you did say something, uh, apparently you've said it before no bit that I'd been laughing about all day where with the Luigi Mangione thing,

where you were like, all right, listen, I know everybody's psyched about this guy right now, but we're going to learn more about him and he's, they're never perfect. You know, like these guys here, yeah. These assassins that we lionize these hot smoking assassins. There's always something a little bit off about them and no, I've been laughing all day about it, but yeah, 41%. But what's acceptable mean? I think that's a tricky term. Two is both lower than I would have expected based on what we've seen on the

internet and probably the highest approval rating that any assassin has ever had with any group of people. Yeah, that is true. that any assassin has ever had with any group of people. Yeah, that is true. With the possible exception of the bin Laden guy who turned out to, you know, not be that cool. Oh, the seal who attacked the seal who attacked bin Laden. Who broke into that man's home.

Who broke and entered into Mr. Lotton's home. All right. We're just telling we're just saying facts here, folks. By the way, speaking of the man, Gione, the so within hours of his arrest, the Internet was already fan casting Dave Franco in the lead role of the inevitable Ryan Murphy Netflix series. But that that has yet to come to fruition. Ryan Murphy's dragging his feet on this one. We are getting a documentary or three about the case. Alec Gibney, who made Taxi the Dark Side,

as well as which I don't I don't know taxi the dark side. I do know Scientology the Scientology documentary going clear which was pretty solid. Although did you read the book going clear? This is just my way of The book it was better than the documentary I will say the documentary, like documentary, like left out the whole Shelley Miscavige thing. Or like it didn't really run with that one as much, which is like one of the wildest aspects of the book, which is the head of Scientology's wife has been, had been like missing for years at that point. God. But anyways, his documentary is being described as an investigative deep dive that will ask how killers are created, what this killing says about our society and the values we place

on who lives and who dies, which is what I would exactly what I would expect it to be. I don't know. Did they write that blurb with chat GPT? No way to know. No way to know. That's going clear to me. It seems like they're going clear into this, this murder and clear eyed. That's right.

Clear full hearts. There's also clear. The person who made the Amanda Knox Netflix series is making a documentary which raises important questions about vigilantism, the devastating cost of a privatized healthcare system and the inevitability of violence when peaceful change is seen as impossible. So that one feels a little bit more on the side of the people of Luigi Mangione. And then there's also one that they're rushing out for February, this coming February, produced by the Quiet on the Set people, the people who

made that Quiet on the Set series, the people who made that Quiet on the Set series about abuses behind the scenes of like Nickelodeon and other children's programming. My least favorite thing in a documentary is having any clarity whatsoever. So as if we can get this out tonight, if we can get any of this out, please. I like a documentary that just summarizes the things that we all know. Like it's like just it's like an extended nightly news teaser where they're like not saying anything. Anyone doesn't already know.

But it's like built in the world of like, but people need their nightly news. It's like, no, it turns out they get information. It's the only way. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some movies. We want to speak out. We want to raise awareness and we want this to stop. Wow. Very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn and I'm an investigative journalist. When a group of models from the UK wanted my help,

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Yeah, critiques. I don't know how to fucking say it. If you hate Chris Pine's directorial co-writer debut, star in Vehicle, Pullman so much, maybe make a movie about how much you hate Pullman. Instead of just writing a list. Owen Gleibman of Variety. Do not say the name. Yeah, make a documentary about that.

Yeah. Do not say his name. It is interesting because these are all movies that I was just like, I had like clocked on, you know, Netflix or Amazon Prime or, you know, like something going by and being like, Oh, Pullman with Chris Pine. I wonder why I haven't heard about that. This one's called Rumors. And it was like this arthouse film where like the, you know, leaders at the G7

summit get lost in the woods and like there's all sorts of like trippy Things happening and I was like that looks like an interesting thing and then I never heard about it And it's because they are apparently not good according to Angliman Why are they in the woods? They could just meet what why are the g7? Why aren't they meeting one of our wonderful cities? Is it drones? I think it might be drones. Fuck. All right. I think it might be like there's there's more going on here than you might expect. The eye.

Thank you. Thank you. Reagan is in the top three because of the woke mind virus. She's on Gleedman also has a movie called The End. I didn't know existed or Lisa Frankenstein did not existed the movie the mousetrap So this was a film that we had highlighted because it's the one where they like well to the parent trap where they're trying To get to mice to fall in love Trying to get to mice to fuck each other to fucking mice. Yeah. Yeah

interesting the mousetrap is a Movie, it's not a Mattel movie. Brian, the editor, asked a great question that is I believe there is a Mouse Trap, the game movie that has been in development for many years. This is a follow up to the public domain of Steamboat Willie. Is that the name of it? Yeah, so the original, the character that Mickey Mouse is based on, Steamboat Willie, just went public domain

and people were like, oh, now watch what happens. Now watch the stuff that people are able to do now that you can put a Mickey Mouse mask in a movie. And the first thing that they did was make a horror movie on a boat in which a guy and a Mickey Mouse mask just like goes around killing people. Um, and it is number two on only Fleabman or no, I another variety directors worst movie of the year list

It's a tugboat by the way the movie is three and a half minutes because everybody gets killed pretty quickly. There's no separate rooms Yeah, one open floor plan. Yeah, like I he's definitely coming this way. We're fun shit purple crayon our boy What's that guy's name? Zach Lee Zachary Levi who was going through some stuff this year She seemed like he was having you I think he was openly like kind of a mega guy At various interesting seems like kind of an Purple crown

That book by the way much better Oh Anti-vaxxer is the one yeah Victor So none of the other things that you said not mega not any of the other things just dance just regular ordinary run of red blooded red blooded American anti-vaxxer And the reason his blood is still red is because he didn't get the vaccine. He didn't let Fauci turn his blood fucking pink. OK, I don't know what what they what they believe. There's also this movie Rebel Moon, which is like

I remember hearing the pitch. People were like, this is a Star Wars movie. It was a Star Wars script. And the last second, they were like, you can't make the Star Wars is too fucked up, dude. It's too violent, too bloody. And so Zack Snyder took it over. He was like, I'm going to make this a two part series, six hours long. And it's going to be the most violent shit you've ever seen in a Star Wars universe.

And then you never heard about it again once it came out because it is apparently a piece of shit Wait, have you seen any of these? No, no, no. No, I'm just now me neither I just saw that they were coming out at the time that they were coming out and then they just Disappear everyone's like oh They just don't Don's like, Oh, Oh, they just don't, don't exist. You know, the crisp pine one is I've been looking at these up as you've been speaking and the crisp pine one does have a cool movie poster. Yeah.

But I can see if I was like, just thinking about my parents or someone who just goes on Amazon prime and searches movie. You know what I mean? Like not a genre, not anything. It's like, Oh, this is this. It does masquerade quite well as a movie. Like it doesn't look like he's a noticeable guy. That would be funny if he just wasn't in the movie that he directed. Pool man, pool man was what he was just, no, I just want to be behind the camera. I'm Chris Pine. People don't need to see my perfect face on camera. No. And for anybody who has Chris blindness where they can't tell the difference between which Chris we're talking about, Chris Pine is the one with blue eyes and blonde hair who was Captain

Kirk in the J.J. Abrams Star Star Trek's, uh, Star's track. If you must know. Yeah. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending right now on this Tuesday afternoon, Blake, thank you so much for joining. Uh, where can people find you and follow you and do all that good stuff? Well, Jack, I was told this was going to be an hour, so I don't think, I think

we've been only going for 20 minutes. Uh, people can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media. I'm on blue sky and it's it's now my favorite app To use so I don't know why that would ever be considered interesting what I just said But I am on blue sky and also you can come see me live on January 4th I'm in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at Steel Stacks, which have you ever been there, Jack? I never talked to you about that, where it's where Bethlehem Steel was located, which was like the number, which was, I believe the biggest steel company in the country for a while. And they shut it down,

obviously, because everything got exported over fucking seats. No, they, they, they shut it It was shut down for whatever reason and they turned it into like an arts Entertainment venue so like you perform and then like in the back use they like There's like now cool like purple and like blue lights on the old stacks and the fact it's a really cool spot So I have to assume that there's a big pool of Molten hot melted metal. Is that correct? There is. And you, you need to bring your own hard hat. Yeah. You have to wear

a hard hat. It's hard. Uh, one hard hat minimum for the show. So, and I do sell them after I'll sign them, whatever you need. Sign your hard hat. So anyway, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, January 4th, March 15th, I'm headlining the ice house in Los Angeles. And that was March 15th and April 4th through 5th. I will be in Minneapolis. So that's where you can find me. That's where you can find the same question your way in person, live and in person. I'm at Jack underscore around on Twitter, Jack OB one on blue sky.

Thank you so much for asking, Blake, by the way. Anytime. And that's going to do it for us on this Tuesday afternoon. Back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines, get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow.

Bye. about white supremacy and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye! We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist, and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a playerboy, my doll. He was like, I'll take you to the top. I'll make you a star. To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated.

We're an army in comparison to him. From Novel, listen to the bunny trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid. Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy

WTF and me, Mandy B. As we dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often taboo topics surrounding dating, sex and love. Every Monday and Wednesday, we both invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional

patriarchal norms. Tune in and join the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. Tune in and join the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the BlackFatFilm Podcast.

A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Oh, chat. This year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show, Angelica Ross and more. Make sure you listen to the BlackFatFilm Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Have a, or whatever you get your podcast girl. Ooh, I know fixing your mess on Carefully Reckless on the Black Effect Podcast Network.

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