The Daily Zeitgeist - "Who Do You Trend You Are!? I Am!" 2/28: Steven Seagal, Fox News, Mark Wahlberg, Tom Sizemore, FUBAR

Episode Date: February 28, 2023

In this edition of "Who Do You Trend You Are!? I Am!", Jack and writer JM McNab discuss Putin honoring Steven Seagal with the the State Order of Friendship, the Dominion Voting Machines lawsuit getting real messy for Fox News, Mark Wahlberg (of all people) presenting the cast of 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' with an award, Tom Sizemore's family "preparing end-of-life matters", and the "teaser trailer" for the new Netflix show 'FUBAR'!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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of all time the guy who shouts that's right I did it god damn damn it right I think he says at one point he just like forgets how to swear and then at one point he shouts who do you think you are I am

and it's glorious He just like forgets how to swear. And then at one point he shouts, who do you think you are? I am. And it's glorious. Anyways, I'm Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined by the writer on The Daily Zeitgeist. It is Mr. J.M. McNabb. Hey, thanks for having me. Coming to us all the way from the great white north, Toronto. Toronto.

It's very white. There was like a blizzard yesterday. It's like the blizzard yesterday. It's like the shining over here. Nice. Not the murder party. Your psychological makeup is also the shining. I feel like Toronto is one of the cities like Louisville, Kentucky, where there is an insisted upon pronunciation that is not the way that most people pronounce

it. Is that correct? Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Most people here kind of call it Toronto. Toronto. They don't, they don't emphasize the T's as much as you would think. It's like a nickname for your friend Tron.

Yeah. Toronto. Hey, it's Toronto, baby. If the game Tron was one of the Marx Brothers, that's what I would call it. All right. Well, these are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday afternoon. So Vladimir Putin has signed a decree, not the most impactful decree for most people that he has signed, but one that we we're gonna sure as shit pay attention to on the daily zeitgeist uh he signed a decree honoring u.s actor and russian citizen steven seagal

the decree cited what it called seagal's great contribution to the development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation um yeah it's also like a friendship thing, isn't it? I saw headlines being like it's like an official friend honor. That feels right. I mean, it feels like the sort of thing that would be given to Steven Seagal.

That he can put with an entire trophy case full of national friend awards from dictators and like international villains um yeah from the start he's been very certain that he is like a global like spiritual leader like just from from the time he was an action star, that seemed to be the direction his brain wanted to take. It is just like, I'm basically like the Dalai Lama, like the Dalai Lama actually looks up to me.

Um, and the only place he could get confirmation that he was correct about that was with places that had a very, um, specific twisted relationship to the truth. I feel like, which is how he ended up where he is. Right. Places that would believe that he could beat Tommy Lee Jones in a knife fight for real. Not a chance. Literally nobody can beat Tommy Lee Jones in a knife fight. That is a fact that physicists at MIT did a lot of experiments to try

and figure out and they've come to that conclusion well i feel like what that kind of like this weird coddling of steven seagal that's happening in russia like they tried it for a while here like do you remember they had that show where he uh it was like a reality show where he was on like a sheriff's police force kind of the foundational myth of this podcast i would say yes yeah and it would be like he'd you know be like he's out there on the streets and like he's putting his life on the line and it would be like you know they roll up to like a house and they're like okay we're going in and then it would cut to like the inside of the house with everyone in handcuffs and then he would walk in yeah exactly and at one point drove a military vehicle through a wall of a house of somebody who

like they weren't right about whatever they claimed in the show they were they suspected this person of and it killed his pet i think oh my god my God. And yeah, he did speak, as Super Producer Brian pointed out, he did speak with a black scent during that show, like in spots, not consistently, but he has always kind of viewed himself as black. He's Native American. He's whatever you need him to be. It's a mess.

It's a mess up there in that head of his, both on the outside where his black hair dye can be seen leaking off of his hairline down into his eyes. He's not huge on physical exertion, so it is rare to see that, but sometimes it gets a little hot under those lights when he's doing an international press hit on behalf of Vladimir Putin. If you've ever seen him be interviewed about that, he pronounces that in a very specific way.

Well, he's a trained actor. Yeah. You have to enunciate. That's right. All right. Fox News, this Dominion voting systems lawsuit is really revealed we're getting to see some interesting things about how they operate behind the scenes i mean it's about what we would expect but it's interesting to see it on the on the record like there are some transcripts of statements made by

rupert murdoch under oath where he's just like yeah we immediately knew that the idea that the 2020 election was stolen was bullshit. And there's one text exchange where Paul Ryan, former US Speaker of the House, who I guess is on Fox's board of directors, sent Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch a text message saying, we are entering a truly bizarre phase of this where Trump has actually convinced himself of this farce and will do more bizarre things to delegitimize the election. And Rupert was like, call me later, read Trump and Paul. Trump on Saturday sounded really crazy. So he's like sitting there owning this thing and having the same reactions that I think a lot of us were was just like well this is clearly not true right we all know that and then yeah uh helped trigger the capital riots and he said at that at the time

i guess uh told a fox executive fox news is very busy pivoting we want to make trump a non-person they have not exactly succeeded in that. But it also reveals that, like, Murdoch says that Sean Hannity was privately disgusted with Trump's actions following his loss in the 2020 election. Despite showing steadfast support on air, he did not believe any of this shit. You dumb dumbs. So, yeah. Yeah. It's about what we expected, but it's still interesting to just see

it in broad daylight that they are openly lying and just saying whatever they think is going to get ratings i am surprised like in this lawsuit so far we haven't had the defense of like that all the fox news anchors are like characters again, like the Alex Jones thing. I think that's always there. I think they always say like, they always say that they program like the later block that is also called Fox News and is no way advertised as such, but they say that it's the entertainment portion and yeah,

exactly. But it's clearly performance artists. Yeah. Yeah, of course. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right

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available on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And it seems like everyone just remembered that Mark Wahlberg is a piece of shit all at the same time. After the cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once won the SAG Award for Best Cast,

people were like, wait, Mark Wahlberg is presenting them with that that's weird since yeah he was arrested for anti-Asian hate crimes as a teenager um including the severe beating of a Vietnamese man yeah it seems well it's you know I think it's weird for a few reasons one is because he he committed these hate crimes and the other is because it was an award for acting it wasn't for best greasy beef salesman yeah like he did his time he's proven time and again that he's learned his lesson. And you were pointing out in your research on this that he got off extremely lightly. He was originally charged with attempted murder.

And then that was reduced to criminal contempt, which is always interesting. Just makes me picture a criminal folding their arms and being like, I show contempt for you. Plead guilty, was sentenced to two years, ended up serving a total of 45 days. And part of his guilty plea was that he was going to, I think, do some sort of work or official apologies and never did any of that shit. Is that right yeah he's but when he like became famous and was doing like the calvin klein ads uh you know a lot of people uh were not happy with that and and sort of uh because of protests he uh agreed to do like this

anti-racism series of psas um so he was going to do that, but they never actually happened because he then got in trouble for attacking someone else, uh, inspired by his homophobia. So, uh, so he never actually made restitution, uh,

with the PSAs, uh, because he did something else shitty. So yeah, he never really, uh, I, I would argue he didn't really like learn his lesson in any way whatsoever.

No. And there's the whole other thing where like he was trying to get pardoned for a long time, like maybe like 10 years ago or it wasn't that long ago. He was trying to like seek a pardon and he went on interviews like, oh, I've turned my life around. I've done so much. But then it turned out it was like he was trying to do it seemingly because he was applying for like a new wall burgers liquor license or something and they in some states that was getting

in the way yeah exactly so it was less to do about like absolving himself from sins in his past and more to do with like selling beer at yeah at his burger franchise the unprofitability of being a admitted felon in the united states or whatever right but you know he didn't he didn't say that like he went out and was like oh i'm you know i'm a church person this is all about like turning my life around and then it's like well it might also be about wall burgers which i've never eaten that but uh i'm sure it's awful it's there super producer justin shared with me the fact that one of the most expensive Jordan shoes in existence is a pair of Mark Wahlberg designed.

I'll put in quotes, air Jordan fours that are Wahlberger. They're called the Wahlbergers and they're green Jordan fours. The colorway is actually cool. So whoever he hired to do the colorway, it is cool and i think the thing that is like fun about them is that they have the wall burger logo on the tongue instead of the air jordan logo and i think obviously because they are so hard to cut the scarcity of them is probably the main contributor to the price, but it's disappointing. I'm disappointed

in the shoe market. Yeah. Allowed this to be the most expensive Jordan. That's the only tongue I would want coming into contact with a Wahlberg. Hey, thank you. Thanks. Thanks folks. That's good. Got to end the show right there on that one. Um, but surely that, that you know being one of the most famous people in the world for the last 30 years has showed him the errors of his way and never coming into contact with anyone who's given him an honest opinion of uh who he is or you know his behavior has has showed him the errors of his ways uh and also his ability to just get away with a racist hate crime in broad daylight. I'm sure he's a pretty good guy at this point. So, yeah. But maybe if you're the SAG Awards,

give it a think before you're having Mark Wahlberg do anything at your Actors Award. It's like the highest honor of the Acting Awards ceremony. Let's get the Daddy's home to guy to come out this guy is like specifically like doesn't have range like what is charming about him as an actor is not acting and just being the same kind of proudly dumb yeah in every movie we need a guy who can get really mad at like some trees and a plant. I've loved Mark Wahlberg in a handful of movies. So I'm not, I'm not here to don't,

don't think I'm telling you you're wrong for enjoying a Mark Wahlberg performance here and there. I think his performance in I Heart Huckabees is very funny. He's solid in Boogie Nights. Yeah. And Three Kings. He had a really good run there for a little while speaking of good runs there for a little while and around the same time tom sizemore

is apparently nearing the end he had a stroke that caused an aneurysm and the doctors informed his family that it's time to start making end of life care decisions for him which is very sad but tom says more from like saving private ryan heat like he uh natural born killers just he was really on one there for a while before things kind of i think addiction really cut his career short but yeah and there have been a lot of like serious allegations against him and stuff too yeah yeah yeah and i've known people that have worked with him and just said he was yeah generally very not great yeah but uh i mean still obviously a tragic situation for his family yeah for sure all right uh speaking of the nineties and movies, uh,

there is, uh, a new teaser, I guess for a new Arnold Schwarzenegger TV show called foobar. It is a trailer that suggests to me that they haven't even figured out what it's about yet. It's like Arnold Schwarzenegger looking somewhat old but still being action hero e uh running around like shooting things driving a car in footage that looks like it is like what

one of those commercials where it starts out like and it's supposed to be an action movie and then the person like turns to the camera and is like, I saved a bunch of money on my car insurance. Like that, that seems to be the level of imagination that, and, uh, originality that is going into, into this. But I don't know. Did you watch Tulsa King? Uh, no, I haven't.

That's the Stallone one, right? Yeah. That's a good TV show. I haven't seen it, but i've heard people whose opinions i respect saying it's fun and very dumb well you know it's weird because it's i don't know i grew up watching arnold schwarzenegger action movies i would love to get another one it's just it seems weird this like a tv show like i've never watched i never watched commando and think i need eight more hours of commando after this right yeah but i don't know it was shot in toronto actually i i didn't realize that until i was watching this i was like oh yeah that's what

he was here doing because like there was like a few months where people would just see arnold schwarzenegger like riding around on a bicycle smoking a cigar that is kind of what he does just generally that's like how you see him in public there's that and then there's like him having his pet ponies in restaurants with him he has a pony he brings to a restaurant belief i mean i know he had them around his house then he would take a lot of videos but i'm pretty sure there's been like sightings where it's like yeah he was down here with whiskey i think was one of their names or something oh weird i was at a restaurant once and randy quaid came in with a dog that's pretty it's not a pony yeah yeah um it is not a pony a dog is not a pony that's true oh but you

were saying it is funny that like this like a 30 second teaser and most of it's like him driving a car but then a not unsubstantial amount of the uh teaser is taken up by him getting hit in the balls at the end yeah it's like a then there's like a comedian who bag taps him and says bag tap or bag tag or whatever and then he's like ow jay baruchel is in it whose work i always enjoy from um what's he from where do i know a 40 year old no knocked up he's one yeah he's in a lot of those i mean when i was a kid he was in popular mechanics for kids uh which was a science show for canadian youth um so yeah he is canadian right he's yeah yeah he's great i'm hoping like his involvement makes me think it's going to be

an action comedy that seems to be what all the press is the other option is that like jay baruchel just comes in and is like yoked every once in a while these comedians take that turn where they're like you've all laughed at me for the last time. And now I'm going to be incredibly strong. Yeah, that's true. They just like tear off their hoodie like Hulk Hogan. Exactly. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, February 28.

We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. JM, where can people find you, follow you? You can find me on Twitter at JM McNabb again. All right. Back tomorrow. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. 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. 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. or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 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 Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.