Magic Zeit: The Last Trend 3/9: The Challenge, Mitch McConnell, Tucker Carlson, Mexican Cartel, Flight 370, Oscars

might be a genius. I think she talked about this yesterday also, but um, it's the momentum has not flagged in terms of her excitement about the live show. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined by the co host for today's trend writer were t d Easy it is Jim McNab. Hello, Thanks for having me, Hi. I also think you should

take your wife to go see Magic Mike Live. Yeah. Yeah, you were saying show or what a real man looks like before we started recording, exactly what I said When you said it has a story, I'm just imagine like it brought me right back to like when Ninja Turtles had that live show and like they had to defeat Shredder with the power of key tars. Yeah, I imagine I didn't catch that one, but I've caught the Paw Patrol live show with my kids, and the storyline there

seems to have been conceived of in three minutes. A perfunctory is what I screamed as I was watching it in the theater. Theater, I said, this is not theater. The story is perfunctory. The music number is our blah drab uninspired. Skip yelled at Rubble, who was DJing the set um for some reason, he was a DJ all of a sudden. Yeah, give me a break, Rubble, Shit, Come on, man, guys, guy's a construction worker. You think he's all of a sudden a DJ. Uh no offense

to construction workers, But I don't think you can be DJs. Um, All right, jam, let's get into the trends. Yeah. We also shout out to Johnny Davis, still out here, given us short show titles that are always great. Thank you Johnny Davis. Um, No, thank you Russia is what I'm saying on behalf of Tom Cruise. So there's a story that Tom Cruise was planning to make a movie in the International Space Station, aided by a ride from SpaceX.

Just all our favorite brands coming together, Scientology, whatever. Elon Musk's cult is going to be called. Um. We talk about his plan for a company town in Texas aka Commune on tomorrow's episode. But the hope was he was going to be the first person to film a movie in space. I was not hopeful because my feeble brain could not think of the right premise for a movie filmed in space that Tom Cruise would be on board with, like it just yeah, it's hard to run, yeah in

the space station. But so I watched the trailer. So the none of the stories that Russia beat him to it. They filmed a movie on the space station. They just released a trailer, and I am fully on board with the trailer. The trailer looks really good. I was wrong to doubt this idea. It looks cool. It's called The Challenge, and it is just an episode of MTVS. The Challenge in space just recreated line for line Johnny Bananas. So it's a great premise. This is what the premise should

have been. This is what the premise that my brain should have come up with. But I think, I think the presence of Tom Cruise stopped it. But it's basically a astronaut on or a cosmonaut in this case, on the space station, gets badly injured, can't be transported back down to Earth without you know, harming him, needs emergency surgery, and so they need to send a team of you know, needle knows doctors up into space. It's like Armageddon if

Armageddon's plot made sense. Yeah, because like, yeah, that's the thing they always say about Armageddon is like, why don't they just train astronauts to drill instead of vice versa? But like you think of an Affleck said to Michael Bay on the set of Armageddon. He said, Michael Bay, real quick, que just a quick question, why wouldn't they teach astronauts who are notoriously quick learners how to how to drill? And Michael Bay said, Ben, shut the fuck up up, And that was that was the entirety of

the conversation. And then Ben Affleck got drunk and did the DVD commentary and told that story to be fair, like on the set, like wearing a space suit is not the time to bring up that complaint. That's a good point, Um but anyways, uh, yeah, this this makes sense. This is like you couldn't probably teach an astronaut to be a like expert surgeon in the space of a couple days, right or you know how quickly they need

to get them up there. Um, and the space footage looks really cool, Like it looks great, it looks super cool. I mean I didn't understand what anyone was saying. Uh so maybe I did not either. It might just be nonsense. I don't know, but uh but it looked cool. Yeah, Like I mean you can actually see like you have that visceral feeling when they look out like the window and you see earthy and and yes, it's cool. I mean yeah, to the bar has been raised for Tom

Cruise to do something crazy in space, even crazier than this. Yeah. And also, Russia is apparently going to leave the International Space Station project in twenty twenty four, so a farewell letter. Maybe that's also why it's going to be good, because it's not going to be like propaganda. It's gonna be like, well, we did you know we're leaving anyway, Let's just we're

not fans of this, ye, but yeah, probably not. It'll be interesting to see how they treat any astronauts that are aboard if they're just like funk these guys, they're just like shotgunning beers and space. And did the other astronauts even know it's a movie? Like are they just kind of making it like borat or something? He just went up there with a camera. That's a good point, um. Miss McConnell was concustant. A fall is in hospital, as they would say in the UK, and not really much

to say about that was it. The USA Today was like, what is a concussion? Yeah? That was their headline, which interesting. Who is reading USA Today checking in the news about Mitch McConnell and doesn't know what a concussion? I don't understand who this headline is for. Amazing. All right, We wanted to talk about Tucker Carlson's continued obsession with your country, your homeland, Canada. Yeah, because he recently suggested in his fun Way where he's like joking, not joking, that America

should invade Canada. Yeah, which was the premise of a John Candy movie. Yes, doesn't seem like, yeah the best idea. It's based on a viral video, like because he's just like racist tosh point. Oh, I guess you know, some bigoted piece of shit in a goofy hat came to disrupt a drag Queen's story hour at a Calgary public library and was escorted out because he refused to stop screaming and refused to leave, and you know, was screaming about the homosexual agenda, which talk about things that aren't

appropriate for children to be around. You know that he just made it horrifying situation for everyone and was escorted out. And Tucker Carlson thought the treatment of him was rough enough that he should suggest starting a war. Your thoughts Jams as the official spokesperson for Canada, Ya, Well, I

mean it's just so stupid. It's extra stupid because it's like, yeah, he had this like Chiron on the how you say Chiron, I've never said saying, you know, like Canada has become this authoritarian like atheists state, because I guess this guy's like the pastor of some you know, right wing ridiculous

sect of whatever. But anyway, so saying like, yeah, like he framed it as like in Canada, if you believe in Jesus, they will throw you out of a library and rough you up you know, it's like, well, no, this fucking guy like is going in, you know, screaming about the homosexual agenda, yelling at kids are just trying to have a story right to them, I mean, and even like putting aside all of the bigoted shit he said,

and how like obviously repulsive. This guy is, Like, you can't go in and just start yelling in a library, like even to be treated. If I yell in a library about anything, it's not like, yeah, it's not this authoritarian state. Yell about anything else in a library. They will probably ask you not to, like yeah, and they might if you continue doing so. After they tell you to stop screaming about ice cream, like, they will probably you know, forcibly remove you from the premises. It's just

so stupid. But it does seem like because yeah, he also he likes straight up and another show said that Tucker Carlson, I mean, suggested invading Canada because it's become Cuba, and uh, like I think one of the NDP MP's here like wanted like a formal condemnation. Uh the NDPS like the sort of left leaning political party here, so it's being noticed. I think it does seem like it's the the trucker Convoy is kind of like broke in his brain. Yeah, yeah, and he's trying to like keep

that keep that vibe going. It was the trucker Convoy officially a vibe, right exactly. But it's like, yeah, let's like trying trying to have that, you know, apply the misconceptions he had about that story to you know, a guy being thrown out of a small librarian Calgary. Yeah, this is this is a direct quote, why are we not sending an armed force north deliberate Canada? From Trudeau? And I mean it, but that's how you know, funny people are joking as they say and I mean it. Yeah,

but he just generally, I mean, I don't. It'll be interesting to see how his show continues on as like these leaks of him being like, yeah, Trump is worthless and bad for the Republican Party and I don't believe in any of this are revealed, and then every night on a show he's like, we should start a civil war. The election was rigged. After more and more evidence comes out that he privately does not believe that. What it

feels like, he'll just he'll find a way. Anyways, let's take a quick break, we'll come back to talk about important things like the oscars. And we're back. And there was the American tourists. Two Americans were killed in Mexico, and this has apparently been a big story on Fox. They were killed by cartel. It's a horrible, horrific tragedy.

But the latest update on this is that the cartel left people like from their cartel in the car that the police were looking for in connection with a kidnapping, left them like tied up in the car with an letter being like our bad. Actually these guys as bad. We didn't mean to do this a direct quote from

the letter. We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who had all times acted under their own decision making a lack of discipline, and you know, those individuals had gone against the cartel's rules, which include respecting the life and well being of the innocent. So some major league ass covering coming from this drug cartel. But it's just wild that

they have like a pr strategy. I guess yeah. Do you think they have like their own stationary an apology? You know it's from them because at the stationary heading it's a wild story, obviously a tragic one. There is a new Netflix docuse series about Malaysia Flight MH three seventy, which is the plan that vanished almost a decade ago, so it's a documentary. It seems to be be coming

from the thesis that nobody knows what happened here. I, for my money, I feel like we do know what happened here because of that evidence, Like we cover this back a long time ago on TDZ, but they found evidence like the pilot of the flight had a flight simulator in his home and he had done the exact flight that he like that the plane that they suspected the plane based on like transponders and everything like, that

was the last flight simulation he flew. So the theory is that he was suicidal and decided to take an entire plane full of people with him and had planned to do it, had flown the flight simulation, and then because he had turned off the transponders and depressurise the plane,

which would have knocked all the passengers out. That's why I was like so silent and so mysterious, and then you know, you crash it and like most of the earth is ocean, and so the fact that like nobody found the plane's wreckage is not all that strange, But it seems like they are, Like the Washington Post article about this like could be a piece of you know, sponsored content from the documentary, because it's like there's a lot of like I did a search for the word

like flight simulator, because that seems to be the key piece of evidence that like it answers the mystery. Like it's pretty it's a pretty big smoking gun that he had flown the exact flight as his last, not like at one point over the course as his last simulation. But that like they don't talk about that because I guess it takes away from the mystery, and you know, you don't want to spoil your big docuseries. Well I

found one. There's one review I found that says, I guess there's like three episodes and then in the first episode they address that theory that it was like a murder suicide, but then it says an episode two they go into the ill supported theory involving the Russian government. Sure, and then it says an episode three they present a conspiracy that the plane was destroyed by the American government so that the Chinese wouldn't get their hands on certain technology.

So I guess it's like a different premise in each and they get less and less plausible as it goes on for some reason. Well at least they open with the one that actually makes sense. But yeah, it is a favored conspiracy theory area. I am not anti conspiracy theories. I'm just I don't think people should waste their time on conspiracy theories. That seemed to be pretty clear cut. But yeah. Oh, and it says they do to a fourth episode, and the fourth episode is just the whole

show of Lost. They just start playing Lost. Yeah, it turns out they were in purgatory the whole time, all right, And then the oscars are happening this weekend. There's a weird story about how like Zelinski wanted to come and wasn't allowed to come. I guess, yeah, I guess he wanted to like zoom in Magan appearance, and they were like, no, thank you, sir, We've We've had plenty. She apparently was the case last year as well, but I don't remember

hearing that at the time. That he asked to be a part of the telecast and they said no, yeah, which seems like it seems like the kind of weird,

tone deaf thing that the Oscars would do. So it's kind of I don't know why um encounter to their nature to do something that suggests that they're like, we're not the center of the world, We're not important enough to like because I remember there was a story in the early days of the war that like Robert de Niro was trying to get Lensky to like come to his Tribeca Film Festival because like this is like when as he is at the height of trying to like

marshal an actual war like day to day, they were like, what if we if you came through and like introduced this docuseries. Well he did, they said, he just did, Like he just did a similar thing at the Berlin Film Festival. So he's making he's doing this making room. Yeah, he's I don't think he's like has a short or anything. I think he's just you know, uh talking about the war,

I guess. But it is weird this like, yeah, it's all kind of entertainment venues that like when what would he do with the Oscars, Like he's going to come and winning. Yeah, he's a huge tar head. Uh and yeah, he um. I don't know. Well, we'll talk more about like what's expected to win and stuff like that on Tomorrow's trending. But do you have a personal pick? Who

are a personal favorite? I mean I think, like I was telling you before, like I do love everything everywhere all at once, Like it's it's in another world, it would be the underdog, and like it would be nominated to be like, oh, how did this weird movie that came out last March get nominated? Like we're rooting for that, but it's it's in this weird position where it's kind of the favorite to win it as the most nominations, and there's you know, there's a sense I think about,

like the Oscars nominate movies that aren't cool. It's not cool to win the Oscars. It's usually like the lame movie wins and the cool movie doesn't win. Yeah, or it was neglected and or not nominated. But now I just love that movie and I actually do hope it hope it will. Yeah. It feels like my experience with the Oscars is not letting my brain except that it will, because it does feel like the right movie to win.

It's definitely the movie of the year in terms of like being this breakthrough hit, like critically beloved, like audiences loved it. And in the same way that my brain is not letting me believe that there's not going to be like a twenty minute interview between Sean Penn and Zelinsky in the middle of it, like it's like, wait, what, why are they making the right decision here? So I don't I don't want to give them too much credit.

So there's just just like it's a false story to like set you up right exactly, and then we surprise them because putin read deadline, so you know, and then Best Pictures like, oh, it was a right end for they gave it to Green Book again. Yeah, like too many Green Books for me to fully trust that they're going to give it to the to the right movie here. But we'll see, all right, jam Well, we will let you get back to defending your Nation from invasion by

Tucker Carlson. Thank you. I'm fashioning a bayonet out of pipe cleaners just in case you go, where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff? You can find me on Twitter at jam McNabb again. Amazing well that's gonna do it for us this afternoon. 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, and we'll talk to you all tomorrow by