The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 105 (Best of 12/9/19-12/13/19)

Episode Date: December 15, 2019

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Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? My search history includes this week Italian pizza guy sign. Oh. I was looking for it. Did you see? Italian pizza guy sign. Oh.

I was looking for it. Did you see? I tweeted it out. No. I was looking for a very specific piece of Chuck E. Cheese decor from, I would say, maybe the late 80s. I've seen pictures of it. It was in my Chuck E. Cheese growing up. I'm like, I wonder, because now they're taking all the old shit out old shit out yeah yeah it's a good time to be collecting stuff also shout out to

stuff as with my friend steve uh also someone in zeitgang i just want to shout out really quick uh the last time i was on and i talked about the animatronics and how i'm looking for one um someone in an undisclosed location who wishes to remain anonymous mailed me one of the guitars that appears on stage at Chuck E. Cheese. They were able to swipe it from a location. And now I have a cheese guitar hanging on the wall. But I was looking for an Italian pizza guy sign. And it does. I found one.

I have to drive to Michigan to get it, so I can't have it. But it says on it, it's Pasquale the Chef. And on it, it says, Italian pizza guy, I've got a pizza. Oh my God. And then there's four pizza chefs. It's supposed to be like an album cover, like a platinum album called I've got a pizza by Italian pizza guy. Where is it at? Is that like a play on Inna Gata da Vita?

Is that what it is? Yeah. I just know that it costs $350. No, it does not. Where? It costs so much money, and you can only pick it up in Michigan. Where in Michigan? Oh, I was going to guess Italy because it's so authentically Italian.

It very much is. Wait, where is it? It says local pickup only $350. Only for the low, low price of? In Shelbyville, Michigan. They refuse to ship. Shelbyville? Where's Shelbyville?

Like the Simpsons? Yeah. Wow. It's right next to Springfield. Yeah. Well, who knows? I mean, you know, the Zeitgang runs far and wide. Who wants to go on an errand to Shelbyville, Michigan?

We'll prepay for it, pick it up, just package it and ship it. $350, but there's only one. They've got the market corner. I'm sure a listener out there has access to something like this. If we, as a community, come together to locate some of these casted away items from the bygone old school Chuck E. Cheese, we can find these things. Avocado to pizza. Avocado to pizza.

There was a dude on Instagram, the homie Jacob hits me up and DMs me photos of Taco Bell drive-thru signs. No way! He's like, yo, you want these? I was like, bro, I would pick them shits up. The Zyking is a powerful force. Yeah. Force of nature. Do you think he went out and stole them to impress you?

Nah, nah nah they were like that guy who shot Reagan for Jodie Foster apparently like the signs were decommissioned and some kid who worked at Taco Bell like handed them off to his homie and he was like I don't know I got these signs I love it

real quick let's talk about Peloton so that ad that I was certain had been done intentionally to like go viral but be bad uh oh to get like more name recognition just i don't know it just seemed so like the performance was so weird and uncanny and the just the whole idea behind it was so strange uh but apparently they have lost over a billion dollars since that ad broke in response to that or because i know they've been in trouble it's unclear financially so they also lowered their prices right but that lowering of the prices is part of like also a

marketing push to like make it more of a broadly adopted thing so it's like part of the same strategy it's like well we won't charge as much and instead we'll reach everyone with our amazing messaging like this ad uh what a gamble yeah i mean again so many people were looking at that ad and being like this isn't real there's nothing real about like the ad not to say that all ads are reality based but like you're saying it really felt like this weird dream world where everything was perfect and i'm like that doesn't make sense like where's the where's the dude who's like 36 and like tried to play pickup basketball and just cardio was all fucked up and got mad he started looking at his old high school yearbook

and he's like, I used to have it. And then he gets on his Peloton and starts singing to all the people that have made fun of him in the past and by his ED

and his lack of hair, he's balding and he's trying to do it better by his life and become more healthy and fit. I think that would be something that would resonate with people. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

So the ad should have been about you. Who? What? No, not you. Jack, that was really mean. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, my God.

Well, yeah. Well, yeah, that would have been nice if it was about me. The thing that I've, like, the ad is so deeply sad. Like, that's, it's, like, one of the most upsetting things I've ever seen. Like, the woman, like, yes, she has, like, like a, like what would be considered a perfect life on Instagram, but it also is completely devoid of meaning. And it like, just seems like she's just finding these artificial ways to like give meaning to her life.

And then she's making a video about the fact that her life had no meaning until this Peloton bike was given to her by her husband, who apparently was like, your life is empty. I wonder if at the end... I love a good wife guy. I love my Peloton wife. I love my stationary bike wife.

Stationary bike wife. Yeah, he doesn't talk. I mean, it would have been fitting. it seemed like the momentum of that commercial like at the end where they're watching the video of her being like and it's like so great for my life he'd be like all right now get your ass back on that bike right right i gotta go do my nameless job somewhere right like a billion dollars i gotta go back to browsing ashley madison weren't they like saying though, they were trying to prove that people did like the commercial or something? Where they were like, yo, this commercial

is fucked up. And they're like, no, no, no. Yeah, they were like, people just misinterpreted it, and here's proof. And they sent a handful of emails they received from people being like, yes, that is my life. That's even sadder. What about this one from Shell Gasoline Sandwich?

And a single Facebook post. A single Facebook post. For the spend on that fucking ad and all you could dig up is one shitty receipt on Facebook? One supportive Facebook post.

What was it by supportive being like, well, I thought it was okay. It was from a woman who liked the ad. Oh, well, I mean, was okay. It was from a woman who liked the ad. Oh, well, I mean, if a woman says so, then they're off the hook. I mean, as a father to a woman, I believe this is fair. The whole thing, again.

This is new to me. I didn't know that this was a thing. The commercial? Yeah, I haven't seen the Peloton ad. Oh, hold on. Dan, let's pause one second. You have to see this. All right, we're going to pause for a moment.

Jamie's going to watch it, and then we'll start recording again. That is very... It's just like the... So she doesn't have a job? Well, I don't know. She came home from somewhere. Oh, she did come home from somewhere wearing high-heeled shoes. Are you surprised, Jamie?

I am. Oh, my God. Wow. And then at theheeled shoes. Are you surprised, Jamie? I am. Oh my god. Wow. And then at the end, does it imply that she has a son? She has a kid? Yeah, she has a kid. She has abandoned her kids who's starving. Her life is meaningless. If you look in the back, you can see the child slowly wither away.

There's one kid that's passed out from like... And then the husband just comes in at the end. Yeah. Just to be like, that's right, baby. That's right,

baby. Yeah. You get back on that bike. And then he like gets on the phone to brag to his friends. It's amazing, dude. I got her a bike and now she's like totally hot. She's off.

She looks like she's made out of granite and she's totally off my fucking back. Who wrote that? That, that wasn't't and then her like weird book report video at the end it's like that's the other part i don't understand like what was that yeah like where they're shitting down like it's a last project bring it to him well and she that's the i think that's the saddest part for me is they do a like when they first reveal that what we're watching is a vlog of her journey getting a peloton and using the peloton that she has made for her husband it cuts out and she's looking at her husband with like such like anxiety like is he gonna like it the video

that i made for him can i have our pin yeah have I have her pin number? Yeah, have I done good? Oh my God. Can I have her pin number? He changes the pin number every week. Oh my God. And if she bikes enough. Can I have financial autonomy in this relationship? Yeah, she gets the pin number if she bikes enough.

And she makes a good book report. I tell you, the pin number is going to be 1018 when your weight on that scale reads 101.8 pounds. My God. It's like the kind of shit. That is disturbing.

There's no point in history where that commercial would make sense. It's not like, oh, it's like they're making a commercial 40 years ago. No. It doesn't make any sense. She has a job. It's a completely new, like black mirror type yeah oh boy you know though i think if i got married i would give my spouse homework you know it seems like he just got he got her a bike and he gave her fucking homework i'm like does she get to give him

homework right no definitely not no she's just concerned that her honey is uh pleased with the video he's got he's got one of their kids locked in a panic room and he's like i will give you the combination once you hit 100 miles on the bike just a simmering level of like anxiety that exists in that household there's there's a kid in a panic room in that house guaranteed for certain right it's just so it a lot of people i mean some people are like it's not so bad because it's sexist well but they're saying it's bad because of the copywriting okay sure i don't know the copywriting is also bad but they're saying how it goes from like a present story of coming down the stairs but she's covering her own eyes

and then it's a scene switch when then she's like oh my god she's on the she's on the bike but filming herself and now it forces the audience to be like well then who are we right to this person with this perspective switch and then like well then that suggests that at the unveiling of the present she like set up a camera to be like, this is the big moment when I get my present. But she, she had to do all of the things that I would imagine. Right. Yeah.

Right. Oh, she's covering her own eyes. And then, but then they're saying like, are we the, the collective? We,

are we the husband in this? Because we're looking at the video. She's basically filming for him right i think that so it's all as they say in this thread all her work dot dot dot is for us right and we are the we're looking at her tormented eyes as the husband she does look like she's about to cry in every single shot yeah it seems like she's like on the verge of her eyebrows are very expressive. Yeah, and her eyes are kind of glassy, too. And then they go and they say, the story isn't a personal journey.

She does not change. She does not overcome. She does make a lot of facial expressions at us slash the husband stand-in. The quote star of the commercial who it's all for is the passive buyer of the product, not the user. I think that there's like a... Have you guys seen Parasite? Yes. who it's all for is the passive buyer of the product, not the user. Right. I think that there's like a,

have you guys seen Parasite? Yes. I think that's happening. Yes. That's happening. It's a very, this is on the level with that. Like it is as it gets at the same,

like pit in my stomach that that movie gave me. Yeah. You're like, now let's explore the house. Let's see what's going on. Yes. Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Parasite's so good. Yeah. I, you're like, now let's explore the house. Let's see what's going on. Yes. Hell yeah.

Parasite's so good, huh? Parasite, yeah. I got the screener, but I feel like I need to see it in the theater. You should see it in the theater. I'm going to see it today. Today, Junior?

Yeah, I just got stubs. Hell yeah. Did you get stubs? Uh-oh. Did Durante turn you? Durante turned me. I got stubs. You got bit by a radioactive Durante?

I got... RIP to Carol Spiney. Carol Spinney. You got bit by a radioactive Durante? I guess. RIP to Carol Spiney, who was the puppeteer inside of Big Bird. Yeah. He's 85. Yeah, passed away Sunday at the age of 85. Was the one and only, right? I feel like, I mean, I don't know if he had retired up until that point,

but I imagine possibly. Right. There's this one quote i just read where he said i used to sit from him he said i used to say i'd move on to something greater i wouldn't leave this for anything but i'd like to keep doing it until i can't hold that bird's head up big bird big bird you know one of the candidates or one of the uh characters one of the candidates for the democratic nomination who i support one of the uh sesame street characters who still holds up like grover has been fully replaced by elmo and like grover what do you mean like in children's hearts yeah in children's hearts like grover was like when you look back at like books from like the 80s yeah a lot of Grover

Grover was a Grover centric universe and I don't think Bert and Ernie too I don't think my three year old could pick Grover out of a line

well Tickle Me Elmo fucking vaporized all the other characters yeah they all all those other Sesame Street

those Muppets got drinking problems right Tickle Me Elmo they're like yo we ain't shitting the Big Bird is still front and center

is Oscar the Grouch still around yeah I really identify strongly with Oscar right they're like yo we ain't shitting the big bird is still front and center is is oscar the grouch still around yeah i really identify strongly i loved oscar yeah oscar is still there yeah still out here i loved yeah i mean but oscar is such a like iconic like such a clear representation of he's the only one who's allowed to be mean like it's like yeah like of course that's gonna be is he i guess bert not mean. Like, it's like, yeah, like, of course that's going to be, I guess, Bert, not mean, but like have negative feelings.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He expresses on a consistent basis and maybe Bert, but not really. So like, it makes sense that Oscar would still be kind of iconic,

but Big Bird is like trash can Big Bird. I guess Big Bird is sort of the protagonist. Yeah, I mean, he was always... I mean, from when I was watching in like the 80s and like a lot of those episodes from the late 70s and 80s I was watching as a kid was typically around him learning everything. Yeah. And then other people

began to get their shine. You know, I just want to say I always thought Big Bird was pretty chill. Yeah. You know, Bert and Ernie got a lot of shine too. Put down the ducky was a big moment. Some of us still remember when Big Bird went to Japan.

It was kind of culturally inaccurate, but he was there. What was culturally inaccurate? I felt like there was one part I was just sort of like as a kid even, I was like, this is an interesting take on Japan, but it's for kids, you know, they can't get complex. Yeah. I have to watch it again.

People are like, oh, have you seen it now? I'm like, oh, this is all wrong. Shout out to them for not overthinking his name also. Because everybody else has. Well, it was developed by like all child learning development experts, wasn't it? But every other character has uh yeah has a name and they're just like nah that's that's big bird that's just a big ass bird right there ah yeah wait snuffleupagus that's a oh it sounds to me street character right or is that something

that's big bird's homie yeah they're what happened to snuffleupagus he's still out here but partying with yeah on the street he's still on the block yeah he's still on the block thank god, he's still on the block. Thank God. You've seen Snuffleupagus recently like in latter day productions? But not, he's not like a hugely significant character. See, he's being phased out. Right.

All because he had a drug habit. As Dave Chappelle said. Come on, bird. Sick bird. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Hey, fam.

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Yeah. Or this year. This year. Or next year. Right now. Yeah, let's say it all. Let's say it. Right now, this moment, past, present, and future, it will forever be 35. Yeah. Or this year. This year. Or next year. Right now. Yeah. Let's say it all. Let's say it. Right now, this moment, past, present, and future, it will forever be 35.

Yes. So he's probably going to move back in with his parents. Yeah. He's got no health care. Struggling financially. They have to. So anyways, I mean, it's a quick thing. We were talking about Pee Wee's Big Adventure earlier because we were talking about Mr.

Francis is taking a bath in the bathtub scene how we always wanted oh yeah yeah and chew gum that will make our mouth black and have a servant who is odd job from it makes it look like you have an oil slick coming out of your mouth yeah that's so evocative and uh the truck driver large marge or yeah that that was like probably the scariest character of my childhood when they they did the claymation part where her eyes bugged out and shit? Yeah. That fucked me up. I got a real bad temper. That's one of my favorite lines, too.

It's like, oh, no, what'd you do? You know one of those, you know the tags that they put on the mattress? Yeah, well, I cut one of them off. I got a real bad temper. Anyway, the movie's classic. Oh, shit, that movie is classic. And also, don't forget, that movie is the directorial debut of Tim Burton. Yeah.

And Danny Elfman coming together to make Magique. But did Tim Burton do some of the TV show also? He must have. I think he did, right? Yeah, but I think this is the first film, the feature film. That TV show was like the first TV show I remember watching. That and Key Man. I would watch them at the same time.

Before I started going to school, I would like stay home and watch that shit. What do you mean before you just didn't go to school? I think it was when I was a kid. Oh, you're saying before you were of school age. Yeah, before I was of school age. And they're like, nah, ma, I ain't going to school. Right, yeah.

Pee-wee's on. This is all the education I need. Mecca, lecca, hiney, ho, leave me alone. I gotta watch this motherfucking show. Yeah, so now they're doing a huge celebratory tour like major cities from valentine's day to like the end of march uh where you can go there's like you'll see the movie there's like a q a you can meet him you can get a photo i i just want to i loved pb Herman I remember my mom got a picture with him and

I had that photo of my mom and Pee Wee Herman like it's a cherished memento for me as a child and I would show my friends it was my mom and Pee Wee Herman

back the fuck up and then what was the thing he was sort of fake cancelled in the 90s right yeah this is what we

he was masturbating masturbating in a pool. Masturbating in an adult theater in 1991. That is a building that is constructed specifically for men to masturbate in general. A masturbatorium? Like men with too much facial hair. Yeah. So he got in trouble for being too human. Right.

Is what it was. Yeah. He was too perfectly in. He wasn't masturbating in like when I heard the story in the 90s, I like the way it registered in my brain was he was masturbating like at a children's movie basically because I associated him with children's culture. I was like, oh, Pee Wee Herman masturbating at a movie theater. Like, was he masturbating in one of his own movies?

Like, you know. Yeah. Because I was dumb. Can you imagine being an adult and being mad at that? Because, like, I get that his show is for kids. But he's such a weirdo. Like, you would never watch that and be like, oh, this is 100% nothing but silly, fun, wholesome for my children.

Like, you put your kids in front of that because you want your kids to have, like, a cool weirdo edge to them. Like, it was wholesome for my children. Like you put your kids in front of that because you want your kids to have like a cool weirdo edge to them. Like it was a weird psychedelic show that was like challenging and scary and dumb. Yeah. It's like that like avant-garde eighties art, like eighties, early nineties art style. Like I don't even know what the movement is called,

but it was like the peak of that. Yeah. Around that time, one of the people who defended him, Bill Cosby saying, whatever Rubens has done, this is being blown all out of proportion. Yeah. Not to mention people like Cyndi Lauper and like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Annette Funicello. No, it wasn't blown out of proportion. But the thing was, yeah, like he was at a theater in Sarasota, Florida, and I guess

people were doing, like the cops cops were doing a pervert bust, and they arrested three people. And then I guess when he got to the station, he was saying, I can do a charity event. Can we not fucking go through with this? Right. My career. Yeah.

But they're saying there was a misconception that his show was canceled as a result of this, and he had actually ended the show himself because he's like, it's going to get bad. he's like we're running out of creative steam you know that's hilarious so this happened in 91 yeah and the police showed up and but because in my mind i can't imagine that the only way that plays out in my mind is like the current lens of like someone saw him and filmed him on the phone right this was like old school he got arrested by by cops, like speech style. You have to be really fucking up to get canceled in the early 90s, I guess. Yeah. Also, like, you know, this show, it was out there and it was diverse, too, like back then. Larry Fishburne, man.

Yeah. Fuck yeah. Anyway. He was like an underutilized character actor in movies. People should put him in stuff more. Paul Reubens? Yeah. Yeah, dude.

He was so good in Buffy. He was great in,'t i didn't see buffy i'm sure he was great it was like a big part he had like a reoccurring he was like the main henchman oh so he was in it a lot but he had the funniest scene because he like died for like five minutes oh the movie the original movie oh i gotta rewatch it yeah i never saw the show oh yeah that's cool i'm sure he's great he's really good in like home alone 2 or something where he plays the weird... Oh, that's Joe Pesci you're thinking of. No, no, no, no. Disney, the company that now...

Are they the only company that makes movies anymore? I'm pretty sure. They own everything? All of them? They own me. Yeah. I got a back tattoo. They own this show.

Just up on the shoulder? They own me. Yeah. I got a back tattoo. They own this show. Just up on the shoulder? Yeah, yeah. I got a little Disney back tattoo. Oh, yeah. An announcement. Next week, the show will be

Walt Disney's The Daily Zeitgeist. The Disney Zeitgeist. So, they want to make an Aladdin spinoff. Off the movie that just came out?

Off the live action Aladdin. So, it came out, seems like it came out a few years ago, but it came out this year, 2019. It did well, right? It made over a billion dollars at the box office. That's right. So they're like, okay, this means we can, let's start spinning this off into as many things as we can.

Right, so you think maybe it's the titular character, Aladdin, played by Amin al-Masad. Nope. And in fact, that dude, he just did an interview. He said people think, ah, he must have made millions. He must be getting all these offers. It's none of those things. I haven't had a single audition since Aladdin came out.

I'm sitting here being like, okay, Aladdin just hit one billion. Can I at least get an audition? Damn. Will Smith weighed in with his version of Scientology, personal, spirituality, religion mixture, saying the show business is hard quote by design like the universe god whatever you believe so wow what a way to cleverly describe a like oppression within an industry you gotta oh it's by design i mean that's true though this racism is by design no that's for sure that's what show business is right so yeah in the most poorly timed announcement in history uh the hollywood the

hollywood reporter published an article that disney was working on an aladdin spinoff for disney plus all about prince anders who the fuck is prince anders i already know that name that's a scandinavian person that is a scandinavian person he's a very white man. If you watched The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, there's that plot with the hot dude. He basically plays a hot dude. This dude always plays a hot dude. He is a funny performer. But anyways, he just plays a hapless dummy prince who's Jasmine. This photo, I've not seen the film, but just this image to know that they go,

this character needs his own show. Right. It's like a fucking joke. He's in the movie briefly. He's added. He's not in the cartoon. He's added to the live action as just a foil for Aladdin because Aladdin needs somebody to compete for Jasmine's affection

and there needs to be the traditional prince that her father's trying to marry her off to. Who will she fuck? The actor is Billy Magnuson. And he just basically, they were like, we want to be in the Billy Magnuson business, brother. You tell us. What do you want? And he said, I don't know.

That Andrew's character was fun. Like maybe there's something there. And Disney was like, greenlit. So they're focusing on the one white character from aladdin for the future of of that where will it take place like in wherever they're from that's all they got yeah wow the power of those being in those spaces and being a handsome white man where they literally you became a development executive by just saying hey hey, that would be cool. Right. Oh, yeah. Okay, great, man.

Let's fire it up. That's like if the next Black Panther, they were like, oh, let's make this movie about that one white cop who was in the movie. Well, yeah. That bounty hunter. Like, what's up with Andy Serkis? So our writer- Wasn't it Andy Serkis? Yeah, and we're still going to call it Black Panther, but it will be about this white man.

Right. It'll be Tim from the British office, like the CIA character. Let's make it about his travels through Africa. That's who people really resonated with. I think that was really one of the driving forces about the film. What the movie was about?

I think that really resonated. JM, our writer, pointed out that this is something that's happening with female-centric movies. There was that Snow White movie, and then they spun it off to be Snow White and the Huntsman. Oh, right. With Chris Hemsworth. The star of Sicario was Emily Blunt,

but the sequel, Sicario Day of the Soldado, starred her two male co-stars, and they were talking about kicking Kate Beckinsale out of the Underworld franchise. Oh, my God. I at least want them to be more on the nose with the titles. Like, in the Huntsman, Snow White, I want it to be more on the nose with the titles like in the huntsman snow white i wanted to be snow white man yeah snow white man snow white's man she's a

bit by a radio man uh bad mom spinoff uh bad dads is supposedly getting tossed around this town what do you mean that's just dads yeah right exactly that's just gonna. Yeah. Right. Exactly. That's just going to be the hangover. Right. Right. There's so many movies about bad dance. Right. There's so much advertising. Do you see advertisement in California that's like, take time to be a dad today? All the time. I've seen those ads so many times that I was like, damn, men are so trash that we have

to do advertisements and tell y'all to love y'all's children. I get kind of in my feelings when I drive down Crenshaw and i see one and i'm like okay like who they got them in franklin village too though they have in the white spots too yeah the white dads are also bad they're also they're not doing too well yeah that's a really uh there was another one that was just so simple that just like like speaking to your kid can even help. Like, even if it's a baby, right. What y'all didn't know? Like, okay.

I was thinking about like an episode of 90 day fiance. This dude, this Russian guy has a baby and his wife keeps begging him to talk to the baby. But he's just like, he's always watching an iPad and the baby's just like in a chair and like not being stimulated. And he's like, what am I going to do? The baby's too dumb to learn stuff. Basically was his take. He's like, the baby doesn't, it wasn't, doesn't know enough. It's like, what am I going to do? The baby's too dumb to learn stuff. Basically was his take. He's like, the baby

doesn't know enough, but you can still talk to your child. I just need society to do better. I don't want to drive on Sunset Boulevard and see an ad that's like, dads, come home tonight. Try not to be too drunk.

Just two beers. You got your pack of cigarettes, didn't you? Right. So now it's time to head back. Time to go back. Dad. Oh no.

You got the milk. Come back. Come on back. Come on back. Come on home, Come home, daddy. What's something from your search history

that's revealing about who you are? Okay. And my search history is the movie, Acrimony. It's a Tyler Perry movie. And it's very, very bad. And I recommend that everybody watch it. When did it come out?

It came out in 2018. And it actually came out in movie theaters. And I think, you know, we spend so much time, like, talking about, you know, prolific cinema and things that are, you know, titillating and interesting in film. But, like, there's something wonderful about watching a movie that you know is bad. You know it's going to be bad. The editing is going to be very... Wow, editing. You're coming for the editing?

I'm coming for everything. Literally, there's four scenes in this movie that are shot on a green screen where they're walking. They're walking and then nothing's moving in the back. And it's like a boat and somebody in the boat but the boat don't move are they doing like fake walking

like just lifting your feet or not even on a treadmill to get the motion right they're doing fake walking really I'm watching this this has Taraji P. Henson yes

that's the star of the movie it was the first time that Taraji P. Henson like got paid like over $500,000 and she was nominated for an Oscar so Tyler Perry

like gave her the bag he said he wrote this movie I think in like a week or something like that but and it shows made it in a week like over $500,000 and she was nominated for an Oscar so Tyler Perry like gave her the bag. He said he wrote this movie I think in like a week or something like that but it shows. Made it in a week. It shows. The movie makes no sense.

The plot points make no sense. There's a point where Taraji I won't spoil anything but she ends up on a boat but you don't know how she got on the boat and it is very funny. It's just confusing?

No, it's just so it's like she's very far away at a house and then these people get on a boat and leave, and the boat has sailed off in the middle of the ocean, and then all of a sudden, Taraji on the boat. Huh.

It's just like, if you want to- Where can I stream it? I hope that you can stream it on Netflix. I don't know if you can. You know what? I'll just, I'll give Tyler Perry some iTunes money. Oh, it's Lionsgate. Do you have the Lionsgate app?

Is that an app? Lionsgate streaming app? Stop. I don't know. Don't give them any ideas. Yeah, that's Lionsgate. Do you have the Lionsgate app? Is that an app? Lionsgate streaming app? Stop. I don't know. Don't give them any ideas. That's probably where we're headed. But no, I think that people should spend more time enjoying watching B-movies.

You know what I mean? Get on Netflix, watch some of those B-movies. Damn. This right up from, I'm assuming, not a person of color, Variety Magazine, kind of sums it up as, a ludicrously scattershot drama in which overwrote feminine rage,

diary of a madwoman craziness, and inept filmmaking are all but inseparable. The movie costs, I think, $7 million. No, let me see. It says $20. $20 million. It made $46. I'm shocked that it cost $20 million.

I'm sure most of that was Tarasha's sound. Are you doing the books for them? Is that why? Oh, yeah. This is going to cost... That scene where they're walking statically in front of a green screen? In front of a green screen? Yeah, that's going to cost $12 million.

Okay, one can of chroma key green paint. That's about $42 grand right there. I'm painting the green screen. I'm not even buying one. I'm charging my labor. It looks like a lot of the money went into the movie poster because the movie poster makes me want to watch this movie yeah no it's tragic he hits him with her legs crossed sitting in a chair just like giving you if you ever want to

watch just like such a bad movie no i'm what this is i mean it is chef's kiss horrible movie chef's kiss horrible uh all right we're gonna to take another quick break and we'll be right back. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the daily podcast from Hello Sunshine that is guaranteed to light up your day. Every weekday, we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us. Like a recent episode with Latin

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We've got new and exciting guests like Michael Beach. That's my husband. Daphne Spring. Daniel Thrasher, Peppermint, Morgan J. and more. You got to watch us. No, you mean you have to listen to us. I mean, you can still watch us, but you got to listen. Like if you're watching us, you have to tell us like if you're out the window, you have to say, hey, I'm watching you outside of the window. Just just you know what? Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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with the culture makers who inspire us. Like a recent episode with Latin Grammy winner, podcast host, and TV personality, Chiquis, about making a name for herself as the eldest daughter of beloved singer, Jenny Rivera. I'm not afraid. And I think that that's why I've been able to kind of do my own thing

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apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back uh what's something you think is overrated i think is overrated is releasing a podcast it's hard did you know i i've been so the last time i was here i also was like hey my mensa podcast is coming out very soon guess what it's not out yet you know why because releasing a podcast is really hard. Yeah, I've been so frustrated this past week and a half because I have it done. And then you have to go on all that. You have to submit it, get it accepted. You have to go to pray to Steve Jobs' ghost.

It's crazy. Well, how much blood did you offer at the altar of Steve Jobs? I don't have a lot of blood left. I'm almost completely dry. I'm like, this time of year is a bad time to need my blood. And you're team dry scabs? I'm team dry scabs. That makes sense. I'm a clotter.

I'm a clotter through and through. So I don't like to bleed out. And so I didn't offer that much. And so it's just been taking a long ass time. It's weird in the instructions that they say you have to offer a human baby's worth of blood. Yeah. But they say don't actually kill a human baby, but just that's the measurement. But that's what you should be picturing in terms of volume.

Well, depending on which Necronomicon you learned off of. Whoa. Yeah. That's a lot of syllables. Yeah. Well, the third edition began to define what a baby's worth of blood is. It's about two liters. Oh, of. Whoa. Yeah. That's a lot of syllables. Yeah. Well, the third edition began to define what a baby's worth of blood is. It's about two liters.

Oh, okay. Okay. See, I could, I mean, I could spare, but I should have offered installments or something. You gotta fill up a big old Shasta

two liter bottle. Pour it in Steve Jobs' grave. Imagine human baby's worth and then parentheses Shasta bottle. Or Shasta bottle. One Shasta bottle. If you ring a baby out over a Shasta bottle. Or Shasta bottle. One Shasta bottle. If you wring a baby out over a Shasta bottle, you will fill it.

Shout out to all the parents out there who this is bumming out. The idea of someone walking around with a Shasta bottle, two liter Shasta bottle full of blood, but with the Shasta label still on it, I get a big kick out of it. It's not what you think.

It's not Shasta. It's not. No,. It's not Shasta. It's not. No, yes. Ew, Shasta. It's blood. It's my blood. It's clotted cow blood.

Oh, a bottle of clotted blood. You mean black pudding? Mmm. Yumma, yumma, yumma. Well, from really great culture to really, really great culture, Sophie Lichterman, super producer, shared with us. So Ion TV, that channel, Ion. She said that she uses it primarily to watch SVU reruns. Right. Yeah.

But they make their own original Christmas movies. SVU reruns. Right. Yeah. But they make their own original Christmas movies. And she drew our attention to two that are among the most wonderful trailers for anything I've ever seen. They're so exciting. Yeah. So one is called A Christmas Beauty and the Beast.

Beauty and the Beast. So the cast is Leah Pipes, Ryan Kelly, Rob Rocco, who I thought was from like a 90s movie, but it turns out he is just the boyfriend with mysterious eyes from the TJ Tuggers episode of I Think You Should Leave. Listen, he's getting work. The man's getting work. Hi, I'm you should leave. Listen, he's getting work. The man's getting work. Hi, I'm Ginger Holliday. She's the internet's trendiest Christmas princess.

Not a thing. We are making homemade hair dye with peppermint and holly berries. But when an irritating accident occurs. Irritating accident. Her head is on fire. It's going to take maybe eight weeks to heal. This bummed out. Okay, so yeah, she puts hair dye in, her hair gets pink, and then there's a crackling sound,

and it burns a little part of her scalp right next to her hair. Like so little that her hair covers it to the naked eye. Yes, easily covers it. Signs offline, and her popularity plummets. Will people still love me when they know how I look? I know this isn't easy. Her agent thinks he has the answer. You haven't posted in over a month, so we're going to show them the real reason why.

My face. Not your face. Hashtag Christmas fairy tale. Wait, what's with all the hearts? You're in love. I'm in love? Wait, who am I in love with? Whoa.

Who is this person telling her she's in love? I think I'm the new boyfriend. Whoa. Sorry, that was her agent and also TJ Tugger's guy. Oh, got it, got it, got it. Who looks like an agent. Sorry, this is so complex. It's really.

So yeah, sorry to catch you guys up. So she, because of her hideous disfigurement, aka tiny little burn under her hairline, she stopped posting for a month. Oh no. Her agent was like, we gotta come up with a reason you haven't stopped posting for a month. Her agent was like, we gotta come up with a reason you haven't been posting for a month. And in walks

some guy. I guess I'm the boyfriend. Let's say you have a boyfriend. And... It's just an allergic reaction to some hair dye. It's not that bad. Will this fictional fairy tale become a romantic reality

an all-new holiday movie a beauty and the beast christmas i love this uh it is yeah the fact that he says what happened and it's like not even a noticeable thing no it's like not even a noticeable thing. No. It's like the smallest, like it could just be a slight like blemish. Right. And he goes, oh my God. What happened to you? I honestly couldn't figure out what was going on for a solid minute. I think we are to believe that in this movie, she, because of this small accident, is the beast. He is the beauty because he's the other one yes right and that

he that the lesson of the movie is that he'll learn to love her in spite of her temporary burn yes yes that's brave but it's not gonna heal for like eight weeks oh my god wait but then that there isn't time uh just in time for a valentine's day sequel right yeah but she's not a valentine's day influencer jamie she's a christmas but she's not a Valentine's Day influencer, Jamie. She's a Christmas influencer. She's the internet's most trendy Christmas influencer. I mean, relatable. Right.

Relatable. That's a thing? Yes. Maybe? Yes. Yeah, probably. It's gotta be. It's gotta be.

That was the conversation that went on in the writer's room for this. That's a thing? Yeah. Christmas influencer? A hundred percent. A hundred percent. International stranger.

And her name is Ginger Holiday? Yeah. I mean, if that's your name, then you kind of have, I mean, what choice do you have? Right. Her name's Ginger Holiday. First of all, cruel parents. Second of all, manifest destiny. Right.

Exactly. Yeah. And then the other one is called Best Christmas Ball Ever. And we don't have time to go into it. But let's just say that Christmas ball is... It's going to be good. It's going to be real good. It's going to be good.

All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday. Bye. Thank you. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project.

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