The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 56 (Best of 12/31/18-1/4/19)

Episode Date: January 6, 2019

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Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one non-stop infotainment laugh stravaganza. So, without further ado, here is

the weekly Zeitgeist. Let's talk once again about... I've been missing him because I didn't... i chose not to pay attention to the news as much as possible over uh while we took some time off uh but he's back our president better than ever yeah he's still doing it he's still at it you guys president donald trump uh had a sort of half press conference, like televised meeting yesterday full of just a lot of comedic highlights. He was surrounded by people who I didn't recognize.

And then producer Nick Stumpf pointed out that that was his cabinet. And it's just you don't recognize any of them because he's like fired all of them or they've all quit in the past. It's all like their subordinates. Yeah, it's all just people,'ve all quit in the past. So it's all like they're subordinates or something? Yeah. It's all just people who are in the hallway who are willing to come in. Did he finally hire that kid mowing the lawn? Yeah, I think he did. So here, just a quick highlight reel.

He boasted he would have been a great general. He insisted his generals were better looking than Tom Cruise and stronger. You mean our five-star general, Tom Cruise? Right. He complained that he spent Christmas all alone at the White House, quote, except for all the guys out on the lawn with machine guns, which sounds like a crazy, like I get what he was saying because there are snipers everywhere

but it sounds like a confused old man who just like was looking out the window of the White House Sounds like the start of a Sinbad movie Right Sinbad home for Christmas at the White House Old man president's not having a good time

What? Super producer Nick Stumpf just pointed out that he did specify that they were the nicest machine guns he'd ever seen. And I think that he waved to a couple of the guys with the machine guns. So there was a particularly confused moment. The Tom Cruise kind of ramble was particularly weird. So he said, I had a meeting at the Pentagon with lots of generals. They were like from a movie. Better looking than Tom Cruise and stronger.

Good. Laughs alone. Nobody else is laughing. Everyone's like, huh. And I had more generals than I've ever seen. Good. And we were at the bottom of this incredible room. Is this a dream he had?

Doesn't it sound like it? It's fucking our military, Ginny. Have some fucking respect. Yeah, exactly. I said, this is- And then my dad was there, but it really wasn't my dad. It was actually a gun. Right.

Doesn't it sound like it? Okay, I'm continuing to read his quote. I said, this is greatest room I've ever seen with more computer boards than they make today that's great our military should be ahead of its time computer boards

more computer boards than they make today what the fuck does that mean they don't even make them that's how many we have yeah we have one computer board he's got a great collection. Our military is strong, powerful, and technical. A bunch of those iPhone chargers just lined up.

And it's almost as if they're just intending to make great comedic videos. And maybe that's what's happening. Everybody around him have just decided we're going to make this presidency as funny as possible because at the end of the press conference, they panned out to reveal that Game of Thrones-inspired meme where it was like Trump looking and it said, sanctions are coming, and he retweeted it. He just had a poster-sized version of that meme

on the table in front of him. No, he didn't. Yeah. He didn't. Our tax dollars paid for this. All of this. He's just... All of this.

I'm getting fucked on taxes so our president can print a meme. Can print out a meme. Yeah. Was it... I really hope it was a meme that was just regular printer but tile. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Get me a printout of that.

Imagine being like the fucking intern or like his son. And he's like, what? He had to go to FedEx and print that out on cardboard. And someone's going to be like, what is this? It's like, this is for your president. Like, oh, is this for your 14-year-old? They'd be like, no, this is for the president. This is for the president of our country.

It does make it hard to take seriously, I feel like. Maybe that's the goal. It's so depressing. But the people who this resonates with, it makes total sense. Right. It does. But especially a lot of uneducated people or like older people. Right.

And then also weird rich people that are educated and smart. Yeah, but they're also like isolated. It does sound like an elderly person without any context walking into a modern workplace. Just being like, there are computer boards. I'm the boss. And this guy, he's as handsome as Tom Cruise. This is almost like when you work for a streaming service in production, and it's so easy. You just upload something to like Content Hub or Google Doc,

and then you have older executives who don't know how to use a computer, so you have to print out a DVD and slide it under the door, and they don't even watch it. You can hear. Anyways, I have just some work stuff coming up. Just some shade at old producers. You know who you are. Old ass fucks.

Hey, well, speaking of old ass fucks. Old ass fucks. It's been a long time off, guys. Yeah. So, twinning. Have you guys done the twinning yet? No. No. No. I thought it was like a bad tweet that everybody

was trying to mimic. You know, everybody tries to do a meme. I didn't realize it was an app. I just thought my friends were making bad memes. It's not even an app. It's a webpage. I'm just mad because they said I looked most like a bachelor, a former bachelor. Cool. I look like a former bachelor when not smiling. When I have glasses on, I look like Rich Sommer from Mad Men.

Notably, we have the exact same glasses. So that was, I think, the only similarity. Was he the one that that became like a harakrishna for like a minute did he no he was the one he was hairy he was just always like a sour dick i can't remember all those angry yeah angry white guys in the 60s yeah yeah they all tend to bleed into one guys but, none of the three people that I supposedly look like look like each other. So I don't know. Just objectively, as an online experience, the Google app is that told you what piece of art or character from a work of art you looked like is just a better experience objectively. Like it seems like it actually found someone who looked

like you. Whereas this is just like looks for superficial similarities. Wow, are you okay about this? He's having a real hard time over there. I'm fine! We just have matching glasses! I'm not a former bachelor!

Okay. The other thing that is not great about this app is that they leaked people's, like there was just zero security from the start and so there was just a folder anyone could get to that was holding all of the

images that people were uploading to the webpage. It's pretty horny. Yeah. She said it's pretty horny. Yeah. Just some developer just clicking through photos. Right.

Yeah, yeah. What about them? Oh, this is my new avatar. Hello. I'll be friends with you. The grossest sound ever. Yeah, that is such a gross sound. Well, I'm glad I didn't do it.

I'm glad I didn't fall into the trap. I know. We were like, oh, have you done it? No, you should check it out. And then explain to you what the problem was. And this was a pop sugar dot com thing? It was a pop sugar dot com. Did they close it down now?

The most trusted name in news. Yeah, pop sugar dot com. I think they did not because after the whole story about them leaking things broke, I then uploaded my own picture. Do you think that was a conspiracy thing? Like users are starting to dip. So PopSugar was like, now tell them it's not secure. And then people went to it again. Probably.

Like, you know, one of those like marketing, like we'll create a disaster and people will want to see the car wreck. No, I'm sure it was a disaster. I'm sure there were a bunch of dummies or just like, whatever. IDs, who cares? I mean, I feel like pop sugar.com and I need to have a great talk. You know what it feels like? Do you ever see the John Oliver? He had that show a long time ago that was really horrible about like, I'm going to stop

fat people from existing. What? And yeah, it was like he went to like the fattest city in America and was like, I'm going to stop fat people from existing. Wait, what? He went to like the fattest city in America and was like, I'm going to stop everyone from being fat. And it was gross. But he did do this thing with like a bunch of kids where he showed them how chicken nuggets were made where like he stripped down a carcass,

grinded the bones up, then like just showed them how awful it was. And at the end he's like, now who wants one? And they're all like, me. I love chicken nuggets. Right, because they're delicious. You just can't, as bad as stuff is, people are like, not John Oliver. Wait, Jamie Oliver.

Oh, okay. That makes a lot more sense. I wish it was John Oliver. I was so sad. He'd be so awkward. What? That John Oliver was. No, it was jamie oliver sorry everyone celebrity chef jamie oliver yeah okay not to be confused with celebrity anxiety written human

john oliver but i feel like this is uh you know one of those examples of the fun face that we're putting on the dystopian nightmare that we're sort of being slowly lowered into. What do you mean slowly? Right. Well, it's, yeah, but it's something that it's not like, oh my God. And then Skynet became self-aware and like launched all the nukes at the same time. It's like, we're slowly just walking down the steps into the dystopia, but because they're like fun things like, ah, you look like Tom Cruise. That it's just like,

I do look like Tom Cruise. Yeah. Tom Cruise was on there when I smiled. We'll tell you what celebrity you smell like. If you give us your last four digits of your soul. I gotta know. I gotta know. I gotta know. That's a goop.

I know I shouldn't do it. Gwyneth. But yeah, I mean, so like the facial recognition thing is London's police force just. Hey. What? All right. So, oh, we're joined by one of the Bobbies. London's police force just... Hey! What are you doing? All right. So, oh, we're joined by one of the Bobbies himself. Hey, Officer Crumbleton.

Hey. What are you doing? Go ahead. So they were using facial recognition and facial scanning technology to scan the faces of Christmas shoppers in London. Catch those thievery boogers. I think they were worried about, you know, terrorism, but also shoplifting, I'm sure, was at the top of their list.

They saw Home Alone and were like, God, not on my watch. Yeah, it's Christmas time. Right. But, you know, it's... China's really good at it because they have like all of their citizens' faces in a database. And so they've been able to algorithmically just figure out how to match facial technology. in the West, we're still not great at it because a whopping 98% of the matches used by the technology were mistakes

in the case of the London Police Force. Oh, yeah, remember David Schwimmer? What happened with David Schwimmer? Well, it was fake David Schwimmer. It's not a facial recognition thing, but the dude got caught on the security camera like stealing beer. Oh, right.

Yeah, he looked like David Schwimmer. Yeah. Ross, David Schwimmer. Yeah, I know. You keep saying his name. Yes, I know David Schwimmer. Wait, who was it? David Schwimmer.

Oh, Schwimmer. If you say it enough, is he going to appear? Is that why you're doing it? Rachel. Hey, guys. We were on a break. Still holds up. He does have like a vague Texas accent, too.

Yeah. I will say towards the end of the season, because my roommate and I were like watching it. Yeah. And he started getting kind of buff. Oh, yeah. Well, once they're like. It's like Ross.

What are you doing? Yeah, I feel like that happens sometimes because they see themselves on camera. And so as they're becoming more seen by more people, they're also having less touch with reality. And fewer and fewer people tell them, like, no, your job is not to look awesome on camera. It's to play the role of this insecure paleontologist.

Yeah. Wait, he was a paleontologist? Yeah. Or like a paleontology. What the fuck? Yeah. You know, handsome buff paleontology professor. I don't know.

That's probably, I'm sure I'm fucking up some detail. I'm so happy I never watched Friends ever. But yeah, and then once you get to the peak of your fame, you stop changing everything about yourself, which is why Michael Jordan still dresses like it's 1996. Yeah, well, it caught up eventually. Yeah, well. Now he's the pinnacle of style.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it did come back around, didn't it? Yeah, just keep dressing the way you're dressing. It'll show up again eventually. Romney, baby. Yeah, that hair. The new leader of the resistance. Imagine him going down.

Imagine him going down. You met Romney. You met Romney going down on me? Because I was going to comment about it. Is he going to scratch my back? I'm fine with that. Mitt Romney has never. If Mitt Romney scratch my back? I'm fine with that. Mitt Romney has never. If Mitt Romney scratches my back, literally he could do anything.

Mitt Romney clips his fingernails every morning. That's dope. Every morning? I'm going to make some Mitt Romney. Maybe he's like superhuman. Fan erotica for you guys. Romney fan erotica. I would look at that.

I don't think I would look at Trump fan erotica. I want to make me erotica of Romney fighting Joe Biden. Oh, and then as they're rolling on the ground. Gentle kiss. Sounds like you're writing one of your own. So Mitt Romney announced that he would be the new leader of the resistance with an op-ed in the Washington Post where he criticized Trump on manners, basically, it seems like, which is something you see a lot with people who oppose Trump, who are still sort of part of the mainstream political elite and the mainstream media even,

is that their complaint with Trump seems to be more based on, you know, the fact that he doesn't show respect for these institutions. And it's, you know, because the things that mainstream Republicans are for are still pretty monstrous. Like the places that they differentiate themselves from Trump are just, you know, that he makes it sound as bad as it is in a lot of cases. He's like, doesn't try to sugarcoat things that much. I mean, I think there is some validity to the complaint that like the whole he's not politically correct thing is bad because, you know, racism has continued to become more public and acceptable among racists and hate crimes are more common.

And, you know, there's something to be said for that. And he also pointed out that in 2016, Pew Research polled 84 percent of people in Germany and Britain and France and Canada saying they believe the American president would do the right thing. And one year later, that number had fallen to 16%. So that's not great because we're at a time in history where you kind of need somebody to be a leader, have like some... Merkel is the leader now. Right. Germany is the world leader.

Right. Whatever. And she's on her way out. Came back onto this podcast huh reading these quotes germany is the leader right welcome to the daily zeitgeist yeah this will be in german i don't know he still like structures his entire critique like on the subject of civility and like that trump shows poor character and that,

you know, we need a leader who has, who is a man of character. And some people are speculating that this is the first step in Romney's plan to primary Trump in 2020. I'm going to have to use that. Yeah. You're going to primary Trump in 2020?

No, in the erotic fiction. Oh yeah. yeah you're gonna primary trump in 2020 no in the erotic fiction oh yeah he's just so robotic and in like when asked what his favorite meat was he said hot dog and when asked what his second favorite meat was he said hamburger um like i just i would he know how to nibble like what i don't know that tim and eric he probably eats people that's the thing he's so rich he probably eats people and that's his favorite have you guys talked about that rich guy in florida he didn't eat people but he was a

child pedophile and did we talk about this we have yeah the the guy who's a billionaire who was recruiting child sex workers from mar-a-lago yeah yeah what uh-huh yeah a lot of people don't know that yeah it got kind of got hushed but the miami herald had this huge expose about it a lot of people were like whoops but the guy who he's friends with this guy but a lot of people that he serviced were so powerful that they just shut it down oh so they would he would go to mar-a-lago and be like hey everybody well he also had a private island and a private jet where a lot of these things yeah real monster yeah it's like straight up the stuff you see in a Hollywood movie with a Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise, who's trying to save him? Like Kevin Spacey.

The guy's name is Jeffrey Epstein, and people should check out the Miami Herald shit about him. But anyways, it seems like- Now I know what I'm doing with my evening. I think there was a poll that said that a large portion of Iowans would approve of somebody trying to challenge Trump in the primary. And Iowa is obviously randomly important when it comes to presidential primaries. I feel like people are getting tired of him. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like that might be happening.

The government shutdown doesn't seem like it's playing well with his base according to the 538 Trump popularity o-meter things. See, I think his base would still be like, it's the Democrats. Right. Yeah. They're the reason because they won't give our leader his money. That's what I assume, but I always

assume they just would be that on all things and for whatever reason, his approval rating is going down and his disapproval rating is going up over the past like five days and that seems to be the thing that changed like usually it takes a week for the news cycle to filter down into opinion polls and that seems like it's the thing that people are reacting to. But who knows? Maybe it was the fact that he clearly has no concept of Christmas, hates Christmas, and is a Christmas movie villain. There are so many things.

It's very hard to figure out. Actually, literally, he's not really villain. Best machine guns. Yes. Just the best you've ever seen. All right. Well, guys, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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So it involves just doing something, really anything with a blindfold on is what the Bird Box Challenge is. One guy in one Bird Box Challenge walks out of his house barefoot in shorts and a t-shirt in a snowstorm while holding his dog and begins walking around in random directions, but he's got a blindfold on. Another person does various workouts that require absolutely no visual awareness while blindfolded. Another family pelt one of their family members

with ping pong balls while that person is blindfolded and gropes around and eventually starts throwing punches at everyone. Anyways, Jamie and Caitlin, have you seen Burr Box? And is that why you're wearing blindfolds right now? We are. No, that's just kind of our thing right now.

That's just an aesthetic choice. Okay. Yeah. The movie is a genuine phenomenon in terms of raw number of people who have seen it. It's Netflix bragged that it's been seen by 45 million people. Although who knows what those people, they could just be making it up. They don't release their damn numbers. I did see Burbox.

You did. You are one of the 45 million. I think that everyone who saw it, from what I gather, watched it on Christmas Eve or Christmas. So many people watch it with their families. Yeah. This happened, I think, two years ago whenever Making a Murderer came out because it came out right ahead of Christmas break and everybody watched it. And you just need something to do with your family.

But what's wrong with us that we're only watching movies about like creepy shit over Christmas? Bird Box? So Bird Box, the thing you gotta understand about Bird Box. Did it pass the Bechdel test? There, yes,

but it's a horror. I thought it was like the dumbest movie, but I, for, am I allowed to do spoilers? Yes. Okay.

Spoiler alerts coming. Spoiler alert for right now. So there is a scene, Bird Box or Burr Box. Burr Box. Canonically it is called Burr Box. Burr Box. And it has me for like the first 45 minutes. You're like, sure, Sandy Bullock, we're here.

There's kids. It's the end of the world, whatever. There's a really hot man in the house. We like that. Oh, yeah. And we know he's going to kiss Sandy at some point. There's a lot going on. I like it.

Nice. And then in one scene, the whole movie falls apart. Okay. Okay, so Sandy is very pregnant. Another woman comes in the house because if you go out of the house, you die because bird box. Right? Okay. So another pregnant lady comes in the house. Now we've got two pregnant women.

Sick. Right? Gross. But the other pregnant... Yeah. Disgusting. Horrible. So the second pregnant woman... I have not... I don't remember anyone's name in this movie. Yeah. But the second pregnant woman who she's like, I've lived a sheltered life. I love Hello Kitty.

So she lets a British guy in the house. And the British guy's like, I'm not dangerous. And then everyone's like, pregnant lady, you dummy. He looks dangerous. And then he's like, I'm not dangerous. And they're like, all right, he's not dangerous. And then he has like, I'm not dangerous. And they're like, all right, he's not dangerous. And then he has this sketchbook and the sketchbook is full of freaky little drawings that he made. And you're like, oh no, he is dangerous.

Then both of the pregnant ladies go into labor at the same time for no reason. Oh, it has nothing to do with the plot? Has nothing to do with it. Like an earthquake didn't like dislodge their pregnancies. From what I can tell, they just go into labor at the same time to get all the characters

out of the room. What you have to understand, Jamie, is that when two women are close together, they sync up and their water will break at the same time.

So I think that the writers made them go into labor at the same time for a number of reasons, but logistically to get everyone out of the room and away from the British guy.

So then the British guy is like, bird box! And then it's still like another hour and a half. It seems like one of those things where my understanding of it is that your visions or your fears come real. So it's like the part in ghostbusters the where the stay puff marshmallow man comes it's i don't know anyways i think i just nailed it uh pretty much bird box

just out of here yeah there's been so much such a weird trend of like sensory deprivation uh in movies between like a quiet place and uh burr box like there there is this weird... What was the other one? And the one that I'm writing. Breathe or something? Oh, Don't Breathe, maybe? Don't Breathe. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a... I don't know.

Was that the one you were writing? No, I'm writing a different movie called No Touching. No Touching. That's a good one. Is it about the Me Too movement? Am I right? All right, sorry.

Jacques On one. Okay. I apologize. But just in terms of how widespread this movie's influence is, if you translate that number of people watching the movie on Netflix to box office, it would have had the eighth best best week ever it would have been like on par with star wars last jedi harry potter and the deathly hallows jurassic world that's insane yeah and it's just such a random movie so i mean obviously it's not the same as a movie coming out

and doing that because people weren't all buying individual tickets for Burr Box. But it's still, in terms of the amount of national mental real estate that it's taking up, that's where it is. It's in the world of your furious sevens. It's great. Burr Box would fully make $7 if it was released the actual day.

It seemed like a timing thing. And also I think that there is you can still really get a lot of eyes on something by putting Sandy Bullock in a movie. People love her. I love her. Sandy Bull Box? Sandy Burr Box. She's credited in the movie as

Sandy Burr Box. Hey guys, the Bull box? Sandy Burr box. Yes. She's credited in the movie as Sandy Burr box. Hey, guys. The markets. I know you've been dying to talk about the markets. Oh, yeah. And it was a bad day at the markets yesterday for all us capitalists. It's not my markets. Yeah.

So Apple came out and did something they haven't done in the last 16 years. And it was to say they weren't doing that well or something like that. They basically cut their forecast of how many iPhones they were going to sell. And people, apparently that's not good because it both tanked their stock and all the stocks. Well, it serves them right because I got my face ID doesn't recognize me when I'm tired and it makes me feel bad. That's so mean. It's like you're too ugly to be connected to others right now.

And they're saying that it also might have something to do with Trump's trade policies. That's the reason the markets are tanking. But they're actually blaming the fact that they started changing people's batteries out last year. You know, when they had that, like people got mad that they were forcing their phones to like have battery problems and wouldn't fix them. And so Apple was like, fine,

we'll stop breaking your phone intentionally and start replacing the battery they're actually saying that is what's fucking up their sales because their phones last longer now so people don't need to buy new ones so well tough shit that's what you were supposed to have been doing yeah it's just interesting that like there's like we've we've always been like, they have this like forced obsolescence thing where they break your phone and you just have to get a new one. Uh, but that was their entire business strategy.

And like, it doesn't capitalism doesn't work anymore. If you don't just like break stuff on purpose. Now we have to be a good product. Right. God damn it. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.

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