The Daily Zeitgeist - The AcciTrendt 8/28: Deadpool, 'The Accident', Trump, Arlington National Cemetery, Jack Smith, Aubrey Plaza, MAX

Episode Date: August 28, 2024

In this edition of The AcciTrendt, Jack and Miles discuss Deadpool's California Adventure,  Netflix's new tragic bouncy castle drama, the Trump/Arlington Cemetery controversy, Jack Smith issuing a revised indictment in Trump's election case, Aubrey Plaza's streaming troubles and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and welcome to this episode of The Accident. Ah, that's supposed to be The Accident, but it doesn't really roll. Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the accident trend. Ah, that's supposed to be the accident, but it doesn't really roll off the tongue. Yeah, as much as I was hoping it's the number one show. What number one non-english speaking show on Netflix right now? And we're going to talk about how it went viral in the most fucked up way possible. But first I am Jack that is miles. Yes. this is the episode where we tell you what is trending it's wednesday october 20th wednesday august 28th all right and hey another guy who's going viral is a deadpool this guy oh hell yeah

hell yeah man he just says whatever um so deadpool is now a character in disney california adventure which oh in the marvel area in the marvel area yeah and he apparently just dropped a reference to how disney tried to use their streaming terms and conditions to wriggle out of a wrongful death lawsuit uh during the quote story time with deadpool routine deadpool remarked that wolverine was late because he uh quote had to read every single page in the terms and conditions when he signed up for disney plus and there is video and he does get a pretty good laugh so people are up on the up on their news right and then the guy playing wolverine is like i don't get it and deadpool's like they do they do about the audience anyway am i right folks

that's like such a funny role because clearly for that deadpool character is so witty like you you have to have someone who has like decent comedy chops to like pull it off and then yeah too many chops too much chops ah oh sorry that was that was too current huh all right too timely all right uh i mean you were late because you were longing after that photo of gene gray uh in your bed like the meme yeah i'm not sure yeah i don't know what a deadpool dis Disney character could possibly be like, you know, right.

His normal routine is like just jacking off in front of a crowd and being like, uh, yeah. So that just happened. It's like, I don't, I don't know how it fits in the Disney canon.

Canon. I think, you know, you just gotta get, cause that Marvel section, I went, I i when i went like last year it it was pretty underwhelming i gotta say oh really yeah i didn't i didn't make it over to california venture when i went yeah i i it's i just went because they had wine over there

and uh then i saw like the just very low effort spider-man walking around. And I was like, all right, well, I, I get this is for the fans, but it was, it was, but yeah, um, I love a low effort Spider-Man. Um, it was more like,

I felt like the way the dude was walking around in the costume didn't like, it looked like a guy just like walking. Like, yeah, he wasn't like in character at all. It was just like, bro, it looked like this dude was like, his shift in character at all it was just like bro it looked like this dude was like his shift was about to end he's like bro i'm trying to get the fuck out of here uh while he was like currently trying to entertain kids yeah um but hey i told you about

the time for uh our youngest birthday party that we had like superheroes come to the party and like captain america fucking ripped was just like awesome like doing like flips and like somersaults and all that yeah just like yeah was like you know a good athlete and really good with the kids and spider-man was hung over off of some chemical and was just so depressed oh no we like i i caught him multiple times sitting down like just looking at his feet oh like a keanu reeves meme or some shit yeah he had a watch he had a watch on over his spider-man costume so he knew when to wrap it up check it yeah to make sure everybody knew that he was like over this shit yeah yeah oh brian the editor came as

like you showed us the pic this now and now i now remember this yes yes yeah yeah we caught him in the background just being like god damn it somebody kill me man you know no it's not i mean of all the jobs that you can do hungover being a children's birthday party entertainer it has to be near the bottom of the list yeah don't do a ton of molly the day before you have to entertain children as i would say just as a rule of thumb um all right uh speaking of children's birthday parties netflix is here to remind us that if you're to have a bouncy castle at your birthday party you might you might want to make sure that shit is uh locked down down and uh tied to a nearby pole if possible is another thing that uh they're suggesting uh so this is uh the number one non-english show on netflix right now is a mexican production called the accident uh it is a heart-wrenching drama about a devastating

tragedy uh that is going viral because a lot of people find it hilariously funny like specifically the scene of the devastating tragedy you may have seen it so the show's description just says a birthday party turns into a tragedy and 15 minutes into the first episode, you find out that the tragedy is a flying bouncy castle. Yeah. That like blows away. Takes off into the sky. Which is a thing that has happened. People have been killed this way.

It is a very surreal thing that can go wrong. One of the most surreal things that can go wrong is like all of a sudden a bouncy castle like it doesn't even need that much wind i think they said is like it doesn't get airborne yeah to get airborne it'll just like take off on you because there's so much surface area to one of those things right okay it's fairly lightweight um so this is a horrible thing that has happened i think a big this isn't based on a true story though right they're just using this one is not based specifically on a true story but it's a thing that has happened at children's birthday parties before um the clip is pretty i don't know like

the special effects are weird like they keep showing the same shot over and over again of the thing like kind of lifting off but then like it'll be like close on the kids and they look like they're like you know pretending like a thing is shaking that isn't actually shaking uh and then they just like keep tumbling off and then cut to a bounce castle just flying through the sky like a kite right and like a dad doing like a spit take yeah dad doing like dropping a bottle and shit dad going from checking something funny on his phone to looking over and seeing his children uh you know it has that feeling of like telenovela scenes that are super dramatic that go viral because it's just so over the top and like yeah all the people that have commented on it it just it in a way because it's

so over the top it does do a disservice to the narrative because you're just kind of like yo this is shot a little bit weird and it's so melodramatic and doesn't feel realistic we're like parents i don't think would just be like putting their like hands on their cheeks like oh no like you might want to get my motherfucking kid out of there yeah so then watching it very slowly just like lean up and then go like a t-bicycle into the air you're like oh shit like poochie when they write poochie off of that episode of the simpsons uh yeah and you're asking a lot of the actors to go from uh distracted at a children's birthday party to like the worst thing that has ever happened like that's a big task that's that's year three of acting class.

I have to say. Right, right, right, right. And yeah, they're not all pulling it off. And then the special effects are not flawless,

but it is a real problem. And Netflix has posted this. Uh, they posted on the website, netflix.com, uh, do bouncy houses actually fly away in real life? Yes.

As unbelievable as it may seem, bouncy houses can and very much have flown away before much to the horror of the parents involved. The kids party staple is apt to lift off the ground with as little as 15 miles per hour winds. Um, yeah. According to the American meteorological society,

wind related bouncy house accidents have caused at least 28 deaths and 479 injuries between 2000 and 2021 and it's actually getting worse because i think uh i've actually noticed that bouncy houses are like the at home bouncy house is now a thing that like people just have just buy one yeah you can just buy a bouncy target or whatever yeah just have that shit fun for the kids yeah fun for the kids uh and also apparently during the pandemic you know when the uh not not the economy not the the wall street didn't take a shit but the economy for everybody else took a shit, and people had to figure out a way to make money. A lot of people just bought bouncy houses and started renting them out, which is not the most highly regulated thing in the world.

Right, if at all. It's regulated by states, and only a handful of states have actual laws on the books. Hey, states' rights, man. States' rights. a handful of states have actual laws on the books states rights man if we like airborne bouncy castles that's our fucking right dude as a state to look the other way yeah i see them all the time uh and like yeah like i i totally get it they're fun as fuck i remember as a kid just loving the fuck out of being in a bouncy castle as a kid just come on i'm in there now yeah you just fucking just bodying kids in there like yeah you're just fucking you're just

bodying kids in there like get the fuck out my way it's adult time in here that's what they say though in the thing they're like by the way it's not always like there are so many bouncy castle injuries that have nothing to do with the wind like there's like 95 of them have nothing to do with the wind they're just people wrecking each other in there people are like okay this two-year-old go in there with the 11-year-old and yo exactly yeah oh i think everyone probably has a formative memory of like being like at an 11-year-old or something like you know in elementary school playing in a bouncy castle and someone's like baby brother or sister's like i'm getting in and nobody notices and next thing you know like this kid is getting fucking

thrown up in the air like it's wrestlemania and shit but anyways it's just yet another way that the united states is cool with our uh regulation of deadly technology via states rights um sorry be careful with the bouncy castles yeah yeah it is like make sure they're weighted down yeah all the all the playground equipment like all the fun playground equipment has been taken away in the united states for the most part or all the dangerous stuff but bouncy castles survive what do you mean like that shit from like the 40s and shit when it was like 30 foot high 80s and 90s like the i don't think they have merry-go-rounds anymore, right? Oh, right.

You know the photos from the old school playgrounds where they're like, yo, this is broken neck city. The reason these monkey bars are fun is because they go over a pit of stakes. Yeah, right, right. Wait, what? Yeah. All right, let's take a quick break.

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And especially people from the military who he famously does not give a fuck about. you know military who he famously does not give a fuck about and he's been like in a ton of fucking shit with how dismissive he's been by being like congressional medal of honor winners like don't got shit on the people who i've gave the freedom medal to and everyone's like this guy's a joke and he's really tried to clean up his act because obviously he's counting on a lot of like people who are supporting the military to also join the Trump camp. But recently he went to like a wreath laying ceremony. I think at the, for the, I usually it's for the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington national

cemetery. And after that, they tried, they took a photo with some family members in this area called section 60, which is the, basically it's where recent us casualties are buried. So Trump went there with some of the families of these like fallen soldiers to take like for a nice photo op i think for him

to be like look how much i care about the fallen soldiers disregard everything i've said on record or making fun of john mccain's arms recently like this is what the fuck i'm about and so they were reprimanded because one of the the the rules of arlington national cemetery are that only cemetery staff are authorized to take pictures or film video in this area because it's like a very sensitive place and trump was like well the people that some of the people that have died said they want me here so essentially when this official from the cemetery was like you can't film here. Campaign staff like quote,

verbally abused and pushed the official to the side and kicked off this whole fucking thing. And now they're doing damage control. And JD Vance, like we were invited to push this woman around. She actually told us to, she said she liked it. Yeah.

It's like kind of weird. She's like weird. She came up to me and she's like, Hey, can you push me around for like a couple bucks or free like whatever weird yeah this lady's like so fucking off for rocker you know uh but yeah just added just just you know self-owns from the trump campaign as they just figure out like they're like oh way to solve our rhetorical issue take a photo with people and that erases all memories and then uh jack smith has tweaked the charging documents um to call president trump a candidate trump when it when it comes to the things that he did that were illegal

that the supreme court was like yeah but he president he can do whatever the fuck he wants those are official acts and he's like fuck all right let me change the first sentence to say uh as a candidate for office donald j trump uh was interfering with the election outcomes and yeah there's like a few other things they took out because again they're like okay fine we'll play your little game of like what's official or not uh but the bulk of the charges are the same so now they hope with a cleaned up version uh something can go through but yeah it's just like a very lightly edited second draft but right it's it's quite a bit of hand holding that this implies that the supreme court requires right exactly uh it all it almost feels like they're

like are you sure about that decision that decision was like wild you basically said the president can do whatever the fuck they want is that you're gonna stick with that um yeah yeah they're gonna yeah they are they are and they are it turns out i got i mean again this is all this is trump's life is on the line in this election. That's right. So he needs to. Yeah, he needs all this shit to go away. Aubrey Plaza has said that she never watched White Lotus season two because, quote, I had

trouble opening my Max account and couldn't figure out the password. I'd love a DVD. Wow. Wow. She I think she got an Emmy nomination for her performance as Harper on season two of white Lotus and just didn't, didn't watch a single episode, which I always,

I'm always fascinated by that. Like I remember learning that Dan Aykroyd, who a major actor for me as a child, you know, like that he had never once watched a movie that he was in which blew my mind like you haven't seen ghostbusters no i want to don't care bro i just want my crystal vodka skull that i drink that's it that's the one thing i do know about i mean that's wild you think this is some like eminem only has porn on dvd kind of shit because

like you got famous i mean because what parks and rec came out 2009 and that was sort of the beginning of the aubrey plaza universe sure but it's it does feel a little odd like i couldn't get my max account to work like it is i mean is it more her dry wit you know what i mean because she's also so deadpan that she would just say something like that as a joke. And then people like, dude, she couldn't even watch it because she doesn't even know how to use Max. Yeah, it feels a little bit like that. I guess she said shit like this before. Like she said, I was trying to watch Top Chef season 20.

Couldn't figure out how to fucking get Hulu Plus live. I give up. I can't. I just can't. Hulu Plus Live I give up I can't I just can't and so what I like to do is go on iTunes and buy movies that are old or I'll go on iTunes and just like buy the whole Soprano series and then my husband will be like you literally can watch that for free on HBO Max. Okay so yeah I think she's stuck in 2009. Right. This is like shit I remember being so like having being so excited for box sets to come out like at best buy and shit like and that was 2009 behavior so I get it Aubrey look things things have gone well uh for

the Delaware native and you don't know how to use a streaming service and you know what in a way you're free from the scourge of having to use streaming services yeah I mean Brian the editor makes a good point he says why would an actor want to watch their own show anyway would you guys ever watch an old zoom meeting of tdz now why are you attacking me because i shared that with you why am i on trial man man look i like to look at how my mouth moves because i'm worried that like my left side of my mouth goes up a little bit more than my right i've been trying to just balance my face out yeah um and that's why i look but yeah this also could just be like viral marketing uh because the season three is coming out in the not too distant future yeah which but is she in it no but you know doing doing a solid solid for mike white i get that i

get that i mean walton goggins is in it That's all I need to hear. But that's like the one, there's not a lot of streaming shit left that I can get excited about. Right. But season three of White Lotus, I mean, they're two for two in a pretty good way. Yeah, exactly. And then what, Natasha Rothwell is back for this season. And Natasha Rothwell from season one. Yeah. That is the common thread. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, August 28th.

We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. Oh, no. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.

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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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports.

Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before.

Tried to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current.