The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP DavTrend Lynch 1/16: Trump's Inauguration, Carrie Underwood, The Village People, PornHub, Drake/UMG

Episode Date: January 16, 2025

In this edition of RIP DavTrend Lynch, Jack and special guest co-host Caitlin Durante discuss Trump's Inauguration entertainment (feat. Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock and The Village People), the PornHub 'ban', Drake AKA Lawsuit Papi suing UMG for defamation and much more! DONATE: Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory - Google Drive FUNDRAISER: Zeitgang Lightsaber Auction and FundraiserSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled to be joined by Caitlin Durante. Wee woo. Wee woo. Wee woo. And it is our last trending episode before inauguration week as we're all, we're all talking about it. Um, you know, Trump's inauguration happened in Tuesday. Have you made your plans yet or are you the type of person who just like kind of leaves your house and just kind of finds yourself floating between inauguration parties like whichever one pulls you in? Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna just like get blackout drunk and try to disassociate. I don't know if I'm just going to sort of lie down for several hours.

I don't know. Maybe I'll, maybe I'll go see the brutalist since it's a thousand hours long. Yeah. It's so long. That's a good idea. Like some combination word mashup of brutalist and inauguration, like Oppenheimer, like Boppinheimer or Barber. The inaugurationist. Yeah. Pretty good.

It's going to be a brutal inauguration for some of us. For the libs who got owned. Our writer, Mr. J.M. McNabb, we were on an editorial call yesterday and he was asking, what is the age at which it's too late to the village your children, to take your children and just like pull them out of society and pretend that you live in a different era? I mean, well, they start forming memories around age three or like memories that they'll actually like store store.

So my memories are like really started like three or four. Then it's like a glimmer of like, I remember standing on my, my driveway this time, you know, so exactly like a glimpse of something. I feel like I could find village. My kids just get them out of this shit and how old are they again? We live in the 1800s

They are six and eight. So the eight-year-old we would have to do a lot of work. I think worth it but But yes, there's a great question from JM McNabb Brian had a really good note. Brian, what was your note about they should do robot wars? Oh, I was just saying it would be kind of tight if like after they inaugurate them, like Elon is they like they do like a robot wars type thing because they have the money to build really cool robots and their tech guys and stuff. So I'm like, that would be like a nice little, little fun way to kick off the next horrible four years.

Yeah, let's have fun with it, guys. And then we, of course, started talking about real steel and. A movie we all definitely remember foundational film the way I thought it was. I thought this was like a movie everybody remembered and knew it's huge Jackman young child and then boxing robots. So it's like Rocky mixed with rock them, sock them robots, rocky them, sock, him robots. I mean, a winning premise.

I don't know how it didn't, why it wasn't a smash hit at the box office earning $3 billion. Yeah, I was like, Caitlin, how do you not remember this? And you pointed out that it was a flop. It made 130 million on like a eighty million budget plus. But like me taking marketing, not not great, not baffo as I had remembered it. I usually have a pretty good memory for baffo B.O. But this is how my brain feels right now, is I just like want to grasp onto anything that is not the approaching Trump administration.

You know, just what about real steel? We can talk about that. Um, this is why entertainment exists for escapism. Hey, well, speaking of some entertainment, uh, Trump's inauguration will have a real racist dentist's office radio vibe to it. I feel like I don't know. That's a very specific vibe to be putting out. But among the performers, Billy Ray Cyrus, not Miley. They couldn't get the good Cyrus, but they got her dad, uh, kid rock, not the rock they got the His son is small kid His child kid rock. Uh-huh. And then Carrie Underwood

Which if I knew anything about Carrie Underwood, I would be so disappointed right now She's a mainstream country singer who sings the Monday Night Football song I think is the mainly what I know about her. She has that song that's a pretty good... So I'm not a country music listener generally, but she has a song that makes for a great karaoke song. Because this is how I evaluate music these days. I'm like, can I sing this at karaoke? Yes or no. Or does this generally make a good karaoke song? That song of hers, oh God, I hope this is her song or else I'm going to be humiliated. But the one that's like, This is so humiliating! I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up four wheel drive.

Anyone? Is that the song? Yeah, yeah. I know of that song, even though I've never heard it. You've heard it. I've sang it to you. I have karaoke No, we've I've never even touched the color pink Like I know of that song but I've actually never heard Carrie Underwood's voice every time it comes on I mute it cuz that's How I am I only listened a man country singers Yeah, she was like I'm honored to answer country singers. Yeah. She was like, I'm honored to answer the call.

I thought we agreed last time that like we don't fuck with, with Trump, but it just, it seems like everybody endorsed Trump now everyone's just like, this is who we are. Yeah. It's, uh, it's the eighties all over again. are. Yeah, it's, uh, it's the eighties all over again. We're going back to a time when like people thought it was cool to be culturally signing off on a conservative president, the president.

They were like, I think it's cool to trust and like the president in the eighties. I feel like mainstream culture. I feel like we're about to wander into the island of Kokomo, you know, the beach boy song Kokomo, just soulless. Everything's flat. Everything sucks shit. Maybe I'm overreacting to one country singer agreeing to play at his inauguration, but I, uh, I don't know. I've been, I've been feeling this like the, the 80, cause I grew up in the 80s. I was like, my first memories are, yeah, I'm old. My first memories are this, you know, the first movie I saw at a theater was Rocky four, a movie where like he beats communism with boxing, with punching. And then the communists are like, yes, thank you. Thank you for doing that.

We actually like you better. Anyways, I feel like that's where we're headed. It will be entertaining because we have people like the lead singer of the Village People, who will also be performing at the inauguration because of Trump's little jack-off hand motion dance that he does like to YMCA has become a meme so much so that YMCA was like topped the charts for dance music like over the holidays that's concerning and then is so that is that how what's his face from the village people?

What this is yeah, what I'm asking what his name? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I have no idea We have it here in this story. His last name is Willis. Oh, yeah Yeah, Victor Willis, of course People's Victor Willis. Well, he's the village person I guess the village person because he is the last remaining member of the original village people. And we've talked about this before that he threatened to sue anybody who calls the song YMCA, a gay anthem in the media, and not just threatened to sue them himself, but said, my wife will sue you.

Thus, re-underlining the fact that he is straight, has a wife and she will sue your ass. Anyways, you can look out for them because they did change their tune. They said they weren't going to perform at Trump's inauguration. And then they went back on their word while also being like, and if you accuse us of being gay, so help me God. So just be cool, watch the village people at Trump's inauguration and appreciate like how masculine and not gay they've ever been, ever. Yeah. Nobody's actually ever said that there. And masculinity is like so awesome.

It's so good. Like that's what we're all like realizing. Like it's so good. Like all around. It's not. It's rarely has the wrong impulse. Yeah. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about the Supreme Court. And, you know, they're questioning around

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Listen on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Snakes. Zombies. Sharks. Heights. Speaking in public. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And while you might think a great white shark is scary, what's really terrifying and even deadly is distracted driving Eyes forward don't drive distracted brought to you by NHTSA and the ad council And we're back and Earlier in the week the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case known as Free Speech Coalition versus Paxton, which is the one involving a porn industry group challenging Texas's age verification law, which that law very similar to a law that the Supreme

Court struck down in 2004, but of course, this is the new right-wing Christian nationalist Supreme Court. So things done changed around these parts. And the problems with it include privacy risks, you know, having to scan all of your information into the internet to view pornography. And it could also be used as a pretext to censor information related to abortion, gender affirming care, safe sex, LGBTQ identity. Once we're giving these people this version of the federal government, the ability to say,

we're going to hide this behind a thing that you have to show your ID to, and also not be capable enough of keeping your information private, it certainly limits the sort of information that people are able to find on the internet. The information we were able to find, based on the questioning, was that Amy Coney Barrett's family can't stop jacking off. That was one glimmer of entertainment that came out of this. Because Amy Coney Barrett complained about content filters, the way that many people deal with the issue of pornography being readily available to young people anywhere on the internet.

A lot of people use content filters where they say, okay, internet at our house is not able to access these sites and, you know, there's a preset group of sites similar to how workplaces have like adult content filters that like will make it hard for you to go to Pornhub while you're at work. complaining about how the content filters. She's like, as a mother of seven, I can say from personal experience that filters are difficult to keep up with. So just dry snitching on her family for like being at the cutting edge of like accessing internet pornography, hacking We're perverted hackers. As the mother of seven perverted hackers, I can tell you that it's pretty hard. But this is basically a user experience complaint from somebody who's probably really bad at

computers. And she's like, this is so confusing. I don't know how to do. And that, which is where where this should be handled, you know, at the level of like make a better product, people, but it's then she's like, and therefore the federal government should be in charge of banning what people can see.

And we should get access to the private information of anybody who looks at porn, which seems good. She seems good and right because whenever, as the old saying goes, whenever the federal government is asking for information or taking new powers over you, you should not be suspicious. You should just go with it. Just go with it. Just let it happen. They it always been good and known what they were doing. All right. Couple quick stories. Drake is so before I think Drake was suing Kendrick Lamar and

no, Spotify. No, no, no, no, no. Before he was right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, Jack. No. OK. So what's the Ken before Drake was suing somebody for like pay No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, He dropped the New York one and he is going forward with the defamation case in Texas. He's accusing Universal Music Group, his label, of defaming him, which Universal is kind of like a clap at like they publicly responded in a way that was like, that seems a little spicy for a company that's trying to where this is like one of their main clients. Like I kind of almost respected it because they were they were like throughout his career, Drake has intentionally and successfully used Universal Music Group

to distribute his music and poetry and poetry to engage in conventionally outrageous back and forth rap battles to express his feelings about other artists. He now seeks to weaponize the legal process to silence an artist's creative expression and to seek damages from Universal for distributing that artist's music. And can I say I love this clap back because it is it is straight to the point and it is factual. It is based entirely in reality. When he went back to back on Meek Mill. Yeah, there was no talk of this when he got bodied by Pusha T.

He didn't think about filing a lawsuit because he just stopped hiding his like a lower tier artist and it didn't get the reach that Kendrick Lamar did. I'm not going to lie. I get why his feelings are hurt. Yes. This just does not seem to be the way to deal with it. Is being like, I'm telling you, Jack, the capacity of it all is so wild. Yeah, it feels like a playground feud where like two kids are just like, or however many are together, like, you know, scrapping and then the one loser kid is like, I'm telling, I'm telling the teacher on you.

Also speaking of very generic names, Universal Music Group. Universal Music Group. Generic ass name. Yeah. Welcome to universal music group. Yeah, it's does not seem to be going well for him that he's resorting to this. It is like, I don't know. I don't think anyone's taken a bigger L like maybe ever in the history, like somebody who's so famous, like what has

happened to Drake in the last year is kind of staggering that there's going to be a Super Bowl halftime show that is essentially based around the theme of him getting completely ethered in a way that's like way worse than ether. Also, he's beefing with LeBron right now because LeBron went to the pop out, I guess. And yeah, yeah. And now he's saying wild shit about a truly beloved figure. Yeah.

Another battle that he's not going to win. Beloved by many. But I feel like a lot of speaking of the caucasity, a lot of white basketball fans for some reason don't love LeBron. I don't know what it is. Um, so, uh, okay, Drake. All right, man.

And who, yeah, cause he's also like, he was beefing with, uh, various NBA players who showed up to the thing, to, uh, the pop out. So I don't know. You know, it's an embarrassing person. It's a very embarrassing with me. Exactly. Not fair. What the fuck? All right.

Well, those are some of the things that are trending. Caitlin, thank you so much for for joining us this week. Thanks for having me. Well, Miles is out. Miles continues to appreciate everybody's support as they're trying to put everything back together and he'll be back. He will be back.

But Caitlin, where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can follow me on Instagram at Caitlin Durante. You can check out the Bechtel cast and Check out our upcoming live shows. We've got one in San Francisco on January 23rd as a part of sketch fest. It's a show about Titanic So you're gonna need to see that Considering the Jamie and I have never talked about Titanic before. I don't think so.

Where it's kind of a new fresh thing. I wonder where you guys fall on that one. I don't know. We'll find out. Where are you guys on other, uh, stepping out of that, uh, fake, that fake idea that we don't know that you love Titanic. Where are you guys on other Cameron stuff? Are you generally pro? Terminator and especially Terminator 2. I was just describing Terminator 2. Like there are a handful of movies like knowing my six and eight year olds like pretty well at this point. I'm like, there are a hand. Yeah, like, we hang out a lot. Nice.

I'm kind of a good dad. We've hung out like a number of times, like hours every month. And then you're going to put them into the village. Right. You know? We're going to the village then. I won't be there as much as I'd like to be because I'm mainly going to be dressed as a wolf running through the woods.

But the like there are movies that when I think of that, I'm like, once they like they're going to like those movies so much, it's going to change their whole personality. And the time the movie I had that thought about before was Avatar two. And then I started talking Terminator 2 with them over breakfast this morning. Okay. And they were like fucking wrapped. They were like, what? Wait. Even your six year old?

Yeah. Specifically my eight year old. But like my six year old, like the fucking liquid metal of it all was, he was just like, Oh my God. I just, I think I started doing it because I, I think I was talking to you about how, how like one of the first ways I experienced movies was my dad going to see like Rambo and like describing it to me. Like, Oh no. Uh. Like what a fun way to experience a movie that was. Someone just describing it to you. Describing a movie to you. Yeah. But anyways, I'm glad to hear you also enjoy Terminator too.

Oh yeah. Big Terminator head. Aliens is a lot of fun. I need to rewatch the Abyss, but all this to say it is true. I have seen Titanic before, not only once before, but maybe a hundred times before. It may, maybe, and there's no way to say. Hard to say. But anyway, the show in San Francisco on January 23rd is on Titanic. We have a show in Portland on January 26 on Shrek. So both of these are part of our Shrektanek tour, you know, copyrighted, trademarked Shrektanek, of course. And then our LA show has been rescheduled to March 2nd, and that's a live in-person show as well as a live stream show.

The Portland show is also being live streamed, so you can get live stream tickets. So that's the main thing I wanna plug. All of these upcoming Bechtelcast shows, you can get tickets at linktree slash bechtelcast. Have you thought about having robo wars at your Bechtelcast show? Oh, you mean like real steel? Real right. And now, see, I'm helping you out.

And these are references you can use in your day-to- day life. I appreciate it All right. Those are the things that are trending today on Thursday afternoon We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves Get the vaccine get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Joel, the holidays are a blast, but the financial hangover, that can be a huge bummer. If you are out there and you're dreading the new statement email that reveals the massive

balance that you may have racked up, well, you could use our help. That's right. I'm Joel and I am Matt and we're from the How to Money Podcast. Our show is all about helping you make sense of your personal finances so you can ditch your pesky credit card debt once and for all, make real progress on other crucial financial goals that you've got, and just feel more in control of your money in general. You know it. For money advice without the judgment and jargon. Listen to how to money on the I heart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Dr. Lari Santos, and to welcome the new year, my podcast, The Happiness Lab, is releasing a series of happiness how-to guides to help you in 2025. I'll distill the wisdom of world-class experts into easy to digest, actionable tips. Struggling with tough emotions? We have a how-to guide. Worried that you're not enough?

We got you. Self-obsessed and want to get over yourself? There's a guide for that too. The Happiness Labs how-to season starts January 1st. Listen on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Snakes, zombies, sharks, heights. Speaking in public, the list of fears is endless. But while you're clutching your blanket in the dark, wondering if that sound in the hall was actually a footstep, the real danger is in your hand, when you're behind the wheel.

And while you might think a great white shark is scary, what's really terrifying and even deadly is distracted driving. Eyes forward, don't drive distracted. Brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.