The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit Court 12/13: Friday the 13th, Danny Aiello, Urechis Unicinctus, Home Alone 3

Episode Date: December 14, 2019

On this episode of Zeit Court Jack and Miles discuss today being Friday the 13th (spooky!), the passing of Danny Aiello, the 'Penis Fish' washing up on California shores, and which Home Alone is best? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hope you guys are having a good end to your week. Let's get right into it, Miles. Oh, yeah, I'm Jack O'Brien. And I'm Miles O'Brien from Star Trek. Whoa. Hey, man. That's that. It's really great to have you here.

Yeah, I'm going beam up uh in a second uh back to like smoke crack well tbd okay easy as they say friday the 13th is trending yeah it is friday the 13th it is uh of all days of all all the days for Friday the 13th to be trending. It's trending today on this Friday the 13th. Is there any reason other than that? Or has anything happened that makes it particularly spooky? I don't know. Maybe it's just people looking at other spooky shit.

Spooky. Did you ever... I fucked with that film series. Which one? Friday the 13th? Yeah. Do you think this is a weird day? Friday the 13th?

I think things like this can easily manifest themselves because the human mind is so open to, or so susceptible to the power of suggestion. Right. Did that ever affect you? No. Did you ever think, oh, it's Friday the 13th? I mean, I snuck into somebody's

house and like... Murdered them? Yeah, but that was... I think that was random. I don't know. Might have been. Yeah. I was wearing a hockey mask. That's weird. Is that what that bowling pin with the tooth lodged in it is? I keep saying it's a trophy from a wild night

when I was a teen. When I was back in my Satan cult. When I was a kid, I remember thinking it was spooky. I remember the one time as a kid, I think I had to fly on a plane on a Friday the 13th. I was like, oh shit.

When nothing happened, I was like, alright man, fuck Friday the 13th? And I was like, oh, shit. And then when nothing happened, I was like, all right, man, fuck Friday the 13th, man. Yeah. I don't think, I think I've always thought it was somehow bullshit. Yeah. And I think I was into slasher movies because I was at a weird point in my psychosexual development. Right, right, right. I was like eight and thought it was really dope that people were getting killed. Just ripped up. Yeah. Chopped up. Chopped up. chopped up chopped and screwed as they say in houston they do uh danny aiello rest

in peace he passed at age 86 yeah uh pretty you know he's this man has had a fucking career he really has i can't from papa don't preach to the do the Right Thing video. I just know. I mean, yeah. The Do the Right Thing video. All those films nowadays. Yeah. Yeah, I remember. I think I didn't see Moonstruck till later in life,

but I know that was out at the time. My first real, real interaction with him as an actor was probably in Leon the Professional. When he was Tony, the dude who was holding on to his money. Because at the time I was like, what, like 10 or 11 or something. And like Natalie Portman was like also a kid in it. I have a crush on girls who wear chokers, knit beanies, and smoke cigarettes with bomber jackets on as they dangle their feet off the ledge of their apartment building. Very specific.

But yeah, you know, storied career. Yeah. Do the right thing. I think one of the, what will be in history books will be in museums for its cultural importance and for being a towering cinematic achievement. Yeah. I think it's a classic. Wait, so he was Papa?

He was the- He was Papa? The Papa don't preach. And Papa don't preach. cinematic achievement yeah i think it's a classic wait he so he was papa he was the he was papa the papa don't preach and papa don't preach he was right and do the right thing uh he was the thing uh no he yeah he was he's good at playing like a problematic dude yeah i think it's like kind of what he's just got that energy and that face. He's kind of like, fuck you. Yeah. Fuck you. Fuck you and for old world reasons

that are probably somewhat problematic. They're based in racist ideas. Sure. Let's talk about the Eurychus Unicinctus. Yeah. Unicinctus. Nailed it. Or theictus. Nailed it. They're the penis fish.

Fucking nailed it. Have you seen the photos of this? Okay. You guys seen this? You guys seen this? This, a bunch of 10-inch fucking just weird-ass worms popped up. This is what they look like. Yeah.

Yeah, they look like dicks. 10-inchers, bro. All up on the shore. And people were like, what happened? we had some storms here in california and that basically washed away some of the sand because these they're they're basically worms yeah that were chilling underneath the sand but because of the storms it washed the shit away oh those are underneath the sand at all times on the beach yes fuck yeah they're called innkeeper worms or something like that. That's like their name. Yo, I'm never going to the beach again.

Dude, just every time you wiggle your toes under the sand, you might just hit some dick fish. Just might hit a dick. Just a disembodied dick. It's a, yeah, they. And I don't, if they were disembodied dicks, that would not bother me any more than if they were these things. I'm not.

Oh, either one? Equally weirded out? Equally weirded out equally weirded out so nerves of steel i have no problem with penises guys you see a disembodied penis you go that's just a fish well i don't want it to seem like i'm you're being homophobic homophobic no no it's not that it's just these are real freaky the well it's just if you saw a bunch of this shit on the like you know we already have weird shit that washes ashore and sometimes it's like it'll be tragically a whale with like three tons of plastic in its stomach or something yeah but like the sight of this is really odd yeah i'd be like what the fuck is this and also i'm like how did i just why am i just finding out that

this exists they are normally underneath underneath my feet i guess they're underneath my back when i'm just lying down on the beach yeah like it's yeah it's if you told me if you told me that a ufo had landed and these were on board that's what was flying the ufo like i yeah sure i mean yeah you want to talk trans-dimensional attacks right have a bunch of these penis fish rain out the sky yeah me that would and again they're not fish okay just to be completely as scientifically accurate as possible they're cocks yeah uh no they're a type of non-segmented marine worm yeah matt oswalt said why name them penis fish when they could be called cock-ta-puss, which is very true. Cock-ta-pie. Cock-ta-pie. Yeah,

apparently a lot of sharks and otters and seals and stuff enjoy them. But it's weird. I feel like for someone as a kid, I used to dig fucking deep on the beaches. I would just try and almost freak my parents out to be like, he dug his own grave right now. Right.

It's seven feet deep. And I've never seen this. I think I'm just maybe in the wrong part of our coast. But yeah, they caught them. Because it's apparently they're native to the Pacific coast from southern Oregon down to Baja, California. So I feel a little. Are you sure they're not just under the sand, under the water? No, no, no.

Okay. Why? Because I think they're saying that Strong Storm uncovers thousands of fat innkeeper worms, colloquially known as penis fish, leaving them stranded on beach. Oh, then there's another one people are saying, like, these are normally just underneath the sand. Either way, I don't like it. It says next time, like, another person from Bay Nature magazine. They don't like it it says next time like another person from Bay Nature magazine they don't know shit that magazine

Bay Nature magazine funny takes on dab rigs I go to Bay Nature magazine but it says next time you go to the beach just think about the hundreds of 10 inch pink sausages wiggling around just a few feet under the sand a few feet yeah fuck you guys man I mean I wonder what they taste like

because i think they eat them in korea oh really yeah they said there's another post you being j leno here no i'm not being jay okay you guys seen this i hear the asian people eat their own dogs no he was saying the this other person on instagram said the korean name for this curious creature is guy will which translates as dog dick oh really yeah and therefore i don't know i but i but i guess it people will eat them i don't know people eat all kinds of shit well i mean when i hear that they're called dog dick of course that suggests to me that you would want to eat it definitely Definitely. They don't look like dog dicks, they look like person dicks to me. They look fucking, yeah see,

because this is definitely a Korean market because I see some Hangul written in the background. They got them, look if you're trying to get your guy bull. I guess it's just one picture that looks like dicks, the rest of them look like weird wormy things. And also they kind of look like weird newborn puppies or kittens, like in this one, because they kind of have this flesh tone, but they don't have their fur. But they look, I don't know.

We're spending way too much time trying to figure out the mystery of the penis fish. Just, again, for the record, love dicks, guys. I'm out here, super woke. Home Alone 3, people on Twitter are... I would argue that you having to say that is less woke, to be honest. That was the joke, bro. Oh, yes. Humor joke.

Home Alone 3 is trending because people just found out that... What? When I looked... That Scarlett Joe there are some people some people started ranking home alone three above the other home alone films and that just had people losing their minds that's a non-macaulay caulkin home alone am i correct yeah i'm pretty sure it's with uh fuck what's his name he was like a really big kid actor at the time. It was... It was the kid from Liar Liar.

Oh, really? Yeah. And I heard his parents don't even leave in this one. No. No, I think this one, Alex D. Lins, that's the name of the kid. Yes, who is... And also, Scarlett Johansson is in this too. Yeah, that's what I was saying. Scar Jo... Alex D. Lins. That's the name of the kid. Yes. Who is, and also, you know, Scarlett Johansson is in this too. Yeah.

That's what I was saying. Scar Jo. I saw, I saw people talking about the fact that she was the sister in Home Alone 3. She, she's like essentially the buzz. Is that right? I guess so. Yeah. Wait, no, she was in, he was in One Fine Day.

That's what it was. Okay. Yeah. But she was the sister in Home Alone 3, correct? Yes. Okay. Yes. That is, that is correct a young scario scario uh but yeah i don't know why the fuck i mean it's trend but most of the tweets i see are people getting upset that someone had said that home alone 3 is better than the two i've not i've yet to actually read a tweet that explains why yeah so i don't know if it's like one of those things where people just see other people's responses to something trending. It doesn't matter because Home Alone 3.

Is not a Home Alone movie. It's not even a Home Alone movie. So maybe it's better, but it's better in a way that is not a Home Alone movie. Yeah. So fuck off, guys. Who the fuck? It just has a vaguely similar premise. So fuck off, guys.

Who the fuck? Just has a vaguely similar premise. It could easily be a movie that was made completely independently of the Home Alone franchise and then they were like, oh, you know what? We could call this Home Alone 3. I think he has a magical game gear or something. I don't even know. What? This whole thing's a fucking mess.

I don't know if what... That could be a generational thing, right? Where kids who only saw Home Alone 3 first are like, yo, I just watched those other Home Alone and they're not good. And then we're like, that's my childhood, dick. Come on. Hey, child, that's my childhood. You know, there's like one black person in the Home Alone movie and it's the Michael Jordan cutout. Oh, shit. Are you for real?

Yeah. That's... Representation. Representation. The one that's on that fucking go around like train so you can have like the silhouette go through the window. Exactly. And he's fooling Joe Pesci who's never seen a party before. Yeah. And they're like that man with his hands on his hips

sure can glide. Oh they're gliding at this party? Yeah. They got a DJ? Yeah, like every single thing I hear or everything I'm reading is saying, I like Home Alone 3, but say it's better than the first two is nonsense. Yes. There are folks walking the earth that think Home Alone 3 was better than 1 and 2.

We're the robbers in Home Alone 3. I can't imagine it's an Oscar winner. No, I feel like. No, there... I feel like... Wait, there is someone actually pretty significant in this. In the universe. Robert De Niro. Yep, Gary Oldman.

No. No. Oh. Actually, no. Alex Killner, Oleg Krupa. These are the people who were first billed. Lenny Von Dolan, David Thornton. Yeah, all the best.

Nothing against those actors. I'm sure they're great. All right, guys. That's going to do it for today and this week. And we're going to be back Monday with more podcasts. We'll talk to you guys then. Have a great weekend. Be safe.

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