The Daily Zeitgeist - 2 ThousTrend 7/18: Nathan Fielder, Harlan Crow, Tree Trimming, Kim Kardashian, Jesse Watters, Boppenheimer Box Office Predictions

Episode Date: July 18, 2023

In this edition of 2 ThousTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Nathan Fielder & the Safdie Brothers’ new show The Curse, ProPublica published a story revealing that Harlan Crow cut his taxes via yacht trips with Clarence Thomas, Universal suspiciously trimmed several trees near their studio that provided shade for striking writers and actors amid the current heat wave in Los Angeles, Kim Kardashian is launching a new super-caffeinated energy drink, Jesse Watters’ new show debuted on Fox News and Boppenheimer (Barbie + Oppenheimer) is predicted to have a $260M combined opening weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay 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

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of 2000 trends 2000 trends it's going up folks i'm hearing it out of the windows of jeeps going up. Everyone's playing 2000. Oh, shit. Grand Puba. There you go. Ah,

still basking in my victory. Miles, you are miles. I am Jack. These are some of the things that are a trend in. Oh, yeah, something that we didn't even have on the dock,

but you just mentioned as we were about to start recording the safetiesfties fielder now you know you're in trouble they've got a nathan fielder and the safty brothers are gonna make a television program together is that right am i am i getting that correct they said it was first it's it's called the curse a half hour pilot was made and now it's actually being more described as a dramedy so oh yeah well now you know you're in trouble yeah just i don't know why i keep trying to force that here's the log line if you want to hold on to your butts because this is again very it's fielder ask me get up here hold on to it get a good grip on the meeks jack because here we go. A genre-bending scripted comedy

that explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no.

You had lost me for a while. Try and gpt yeah yeah exactly i mean it does seem like a crazy like word salad kind of thing going on but i can you can already imagine how like meta and surreal this is gonna be with that sounds wonderful yeah um shit i mean it's no big secret why uh nobody wants to work with van bot anymore so no no this is this is what which is wild too this is the kind of shit that like could be getting made but the studios don't want to fucking come to the table so now all we can do why van bot doesn't work anymore uh harlan crow is trending um there's more pro public reporting that suggests that harlan crow was getting the big the big breaks from all these

trips uh that he was showering clarence thomas with yeah like so basically he was writing off these trips by saying he was he was chartering his own yacht through his other company. So as if like a transaction was happening to be like, well, that's what that costs, because I had to charter my own yacht to do this stuff to get the money back. And immediately, like I think Senator Ron Wyden was like, this is like the most basic billionaire tax scam of all time. Right. Are you serious? Because they try and do this shit because you know if it works for business purposes that's one thing but like when they can say oh it's through a company and it's chartered

so i can also write this off to this amount etc etc you know the people that were like even asked who like work on the boat they're like to our knowledge this boat has never been chartered to anyone other than harlan crowe and his family like you know it's just it ain't that kind of boat baby it's a billionaire boat it's just for them like many billionaire schemes it puts me to sleep because it has a lot of details that i have to pay attention to but and it the bad thing they're doing is paying money which they have a lot of and here's it so the short of it is hey he was writing off those trips to clarence thomas through dodgy tax shit you lost me at writing off those trips to Clarence Thomas through dodgy tax shit.

You lost me at writing off, man. Yeah, never mind. Harlan Crowe, him bad. Okay, there we go. Barham. We say Barham. You might pronounce it Barham. Yeah, look, for the Valley folks,

we always call it Barham. Oh, really? I get when people move. Yeah, because we have our own fucked up ways. Oh, Miles my you simply must say we say los feliz you know the people who respect the spanish language who move here they're like well it's los feliz this is just this is the la like we call it i don't know anyone who calls it los feliz like other than me when i first moved here but then you get you get that drilled the fuck out of you you don't know people go los Feliz? I was told that you weren't allowed to say that,

that it's Los Feliz. What you trying to do? Respect the Spanish origin of that name? Come here, motherfucker. Let me tighten you up real quick. Think you're better than me? Yeah. But anyway, Barham Boulevard right there in Lancashire.

You hear me talk about being the Lord of Lancashire right there, the edge of North Hollywood, Universal City, where Universal Studios is housed. So right now, this has obviously been the location with a lot of striking a lot of picketing from writers and now actors universal studios decided to basically trim all the big ficus trees that were along barham boulevard like on the edge of the property that was that you know providing people shade basically during this like you know heat wave that we're mostly experiencing in this country uh to make it unbearable for striking the writers and uh actors and by trim we mean like dude the next step would be just cutting

them down like it was like yeah they were like man like you thought they put agent orange on this shit yes just all the leaves are gone. Gone. Yeah. So they look like basically twigs that just cast a gnarled, like, you know, version of a, of a, of shade onto the ground. So beautiful. Yeah. Uh, we're, you know, but they're like, we never intended for anything bad to happen. That wasn't, we're not trying to make them uncomfortable yeah but spoiler alert that sounds like they're they're resorting to now you know hoping that the climate crisis will

you know weaken their resolve we're actually finding efficiencies and synergies between the shit we're doing on the climate to make the world unbearably hot and this shit we're doing to suppress labor because they can't even protest because it's unbearably hot out somebody's like steal a fire truck and just like fucking just make it rain down on those people just to cool them off but anyway yeah this is just a quick update on what the studio rained down on me like my favorite adam sandler film wow isn't that the name of the 9-11 Sandler? I don't know, man. It rained down on me.

I got a lot of tables. Got a lot of tables. Kim Kardashian, latest celebrity to release a fucked up energy drink. Yes! She's wearing, in the promotional still, she's wearing underwear and skiing. And then the... It's a bikini jack she's wearing a bikini and uh ski a ski wear top and with a snowboard and the drink appears to be coming some sort of pink liquid out the top of it um yeah it like basic, basic tagging is the font too.

Yes. You know, I'm not trying to come for your hand styles, Kim, if you did put this out there, but it's called Alani new, which I'm like, okay,

what was the origin of that name? New as in new metal. And you, yeah, it's spelled like new metal. Oh yeah. West Borland from limp biscuit he has the next flavor uh in the lineup if people don't realize that but uh it's a strawberry

lemonade drink how much caffeine uh 200 grams 200 milligrams rather what so appears we might be on to something with that being like i feel like that you're able to get it over 200 milligrams but it like you need some sort of special like FDA relationship or lobbying or something to because that is as you mentioned that's the same as Logan Paul's prime as the same as Celsius

so that's double a Red Bull double give you perspective on that it ain't fucking pretty. I don't know if I'm going to drink that. Whatever. I'm going to try it all. I'm going to fucking get wild, man.

Yeah, Jack. Bro, you're too washed to get your hands on a bottle of Prime, bro. Yeah, I wish. You wish you could do that. I think one of the Paul brothers is on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. Yikes. Anyways, I was walking by my local news stand and i thought i saw that um her announcement came shortly after chuck schumer publicly called on the

fda to investigate the serious health concerns around prime um so you know not the best timing for kim becoming a beverage magnate. Yeah. Is Kim Kardashian like cool with the kids? I don't know. I think she's like, isn't she slowly going to become like Jamie Lee Curtis and can be like the yogurt lady. Oh, right.

This is the first one. This is the one that gives them the bowel problems. You know? Yeah. I don't, I don't know how the kids, I think she's just such a mainstay in culture. I don't know.

I don't know what level of cool or think she's just such a mainstay in culture. I don't know what level of cool or thirst the children have these days. But one side note, the company that is making this energy drink, the supplement company, in 2019, one of their products caused, quote, acute liver failure in an otherwise healthy

23-year-old woman. So I don't know which one that is, but cool. so it's not like she did it sounds like kim did her homework did her research oh yeah just like when she was selling fucking crypto when she was selling like what was it like ethereum max or whatever that like off-brand shit and guess what motherfucker you got got by the feds for that but hey she did her due diligence but the do was spelled d u so that's it was spelled d e w due diligence she did her diligence to the extreme

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. And Jesse Waters had his debut last night. You know, this is the first. So this is the first so this is the tucker carlson replacement this is the guy who did what probably the most racist thing i've ever seen on fox news like the most overtly racist yeah the most like like non-dog whistle just like hi this is racist hey this is me jesse what like he was bill o'reilly's intern at the time and he just went to

chinatown and like made racist jokes yeah yeah yeah but anyways uh now he's big boy he's replacing tucker carlson uh he opened his new show by pledging to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and quote continue the tradition of excellence that was set by two guys who were fined for sexual harassment and spreading conspiracy theories that cost the network nearly 1 billion dollars respectively so you know big shoes to fill yeah can he can he perpetrate a lie so damaging that it does open the company to a billion dollar lawsuit i don't know that's something to strive for though yeah so i'm gonna strive for but then the rest was just like a bunch it's just jesse waters drivel yeah he just trotted out like the normal fox news talking points um it was what one

reviewer called it a carlson tribute act um he did a segment all about hunter Biden and the baggie of cocaine that like no one cared enough to remember was a thing. He attacked Fauci and trans people. He complained about woke ice cream and woke hiking trails. Yep. The fuck is a woke hiking trail? Is it because they like deigned to acknowledge like the land or something like that or that there was like some historical placard sure i don't even who cares probably yeah they like renamed it or something

so stupid woke hiking trails it's like it's like not even like an object you know what i mean yeah it's like the ground you're walking on nobody has ever known the actual official name of the hiking trail that they're on maybe that's wrong i don't know some of the birders when i mentioned i was open to birding the official birders came out and were like i don't want to ruin it for you but i'm like really tempted to ruin it for you with like all these official guides. And,

uh, somebody gave it, put me onto a good bird call app. But anyways, I don't want to fuck with any of the professional outdoorsman and say that nobody knows the names of the hiking trails, but I certainly have not. Yes.

You're right. Me. An idiot has never known the name of the trail that I was hiking. Hey, at least he had his mom on the show, at least. Or at least like a voicemail or text messages, I think, from his mom. And his mom is like, I don't know. Mom's a Democrat. I will say it is effective for him because his mom both is a Democrat

who says the things that you would say, like a rational person watching this would say, but then she also loves him. Yeah, so it softens it. It's disarming. But then he just stands there and smiles smugly. But yeah, a thing that he usually does on his show is reads critical text messages from his mom.

That's part of his shtick. And so this time they actually had her call up and she was like, you know, don't be, don't be such a fucking idiot. Uh, but like what, in the most loving mom way possible. Um,

yeah, here's, here's two seconds of it before we do our heads in. Hello there, Jesse. Hello there, mom. How have you enjoyed the show so far? I have enjoyed the show.

I want to say congratulations, Honey Bun. We are so proud of you and your accomplishments. And you've worked so hard. Your accomplishments. This is not a real day. Now I'm going to have you

keep your job. No, she's... Jack, she's still a mother at to have you keep your job no she's jack she's still a mother at the end of the day and her son can do no wrong even if that is going into offensive asian racist jokes but it it also reeks of somebody who's like okay how do we talk to this fucking monster who we like love but we have to so she's like okay this is my strategy i'm gonna say we love you we want you to keep your job and so we're looking out for you but she was kind of like yo stop being into conspiracy theory shit stop talking about other people's bodies like referencing all the anti-trans shit you know kind of saying very normal like things that you would like you said

you would be aghast watching the show and be like don't represent the family with that shit but again it's making money also fuck it um did you feel like that maybe there's a tension like a tension there between him and his mom he's like hello yeah no i mean no not like that yeah yeah no they definitely want it they they've definitely no not that donald trump i'm talking about like it felt like almost like his mom like he's scared of her a little bit like he all like maybe that he wasn't like he was always trying to be good enough for some he seemed to me like he has never been scared enough of his mom like that he he just was there smiling smugly and his mom was like i know that humility is never being your strong suit honey and he was like well you got me shut up you old broad oh honey bun yeah come on

but it's definitely like the most endearing thing like it's well well angled like look i'm related to people who like are who we call demons who have sex with kids that's my mother that's my mom y'all holy shit have you noticed the there's like a lot of media i've noticed a lot of headlines about the sound of freedom where like the mainstream media outlets are like getting on board with it they have no idea what's fucking surprise hit like they're treating it like it's the fucking hangover like no one yo another thing i saw on tiktok fucking conspiracy theories where people are stringing together how like the movie theaters were like blacking out and shit and making it like untenable for a movie like a film viewing yeah and so there's

conspiracy they're trying to silence they're trying to silence the movie but then like some people were like yeah they're like electricity's out some shit and like the whole theater like not just this one but hey you know confirmation bias y'all said it yeah it does feel like people are trying to they're like it's actually like really good and uh surprise hit uh anyways yeah there's conspiracy theories saying like that they're trying to hold it back and there's conspiracy theories saying that like nobody's actually going to the movie and it's just like you go to a sold-out showing and nobody's there i'm like i'm starting to worry that like it is our journalistic duties to go see this movie um at a theater and just like deep like i'm gonna go to the inland empire and go to san bernardino and shit or like i know

motherfuckers are gonna pull up i know how to hey i know how to go undercover how do you go undercover you don't want to know bro if you saw me you wouldn't recognize me you think i lost the plot but i can i'll blend in yeah i'll just wear my surfer stuff nar flat brim cap i got it right here basketball baggy basketball shorts socks with sandals you're good yeah a slick back hair uh boppenheimer is now so people are predicting a 260 million dollar opening combined for bob and for barbie and oppenheimer when do when have we ever seen anything like that i've never seen this like yeah where they're just combining the they're like this is gonna be a big week for these two movies at the same damn time i mean one of them is gonna triumph over the other and I have a

feeling is gonna be Barbie yeah is that what is that I think it's it's miles I think Oppenheimer is gonna have legs at the I think they're I just think like psychologically I'm like all right I gotta

like Oppenheimer isn't gonna be like a walk in the park it's a three-hour movie talking about the fucking development of the atomic bomb. Versus Barbie and shit. I'd rather dissociate to that than Oppenheimer. Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning.

I was seeing like, I'm a BO tracker. I like to track the box office. And people are like, it's coming very soft. The BO for Mission Impossible made $80 million at the domestic box office over the weekend. It's pulled in $235 million in a single week

across five days. That's fine. And it's getting good reviews. It is? Yeah and it's like getting good reviews and good it is yeah it's getting like oh really solid reviews i've not heard good reviews from people who went no this is something i'm also noticing is that there seems to be like more of an opportunity for something to get good reviews and just completely stink jack these days we're gonna have to just damage our brains and go see boppenheimer sound of freedom and wow possible and when we make gangbang of like movies doing the whole thing just come out completely

fucked up oh you thought you're fucking hard we saw the sound of freedom before we did we did the mcbox office bang yeah oh my god i don't know we might have to do it i might just ask i might just you know i'm not gonna say it out loud but maybe i'll just have to pirate the movie and watch it on the old grainy cell phone i don't know we'll see but yeah i got it i'm definitely i'm gonna see it is that 81 on uh metacritic i I've heard from people whose opinions I respect, one being JM. He was like, yeah, it was alright.

That was kind of his thing. And then he kind of put us on to some of the things and I was like, oh yeah, that seems a little peculiar. Another person was just like, another review was, yeah, there's some good action in it. It wasn't like, yo, she was good. It was just like, yeah, there's some good action in it yeah i mean it wasn't like yo she was good it was just like yeah there's some good action in it not like yo it's actually this one was good

like other ones i remember people being like sound of freedom actually is a good example of like somebody was saying the rotten tomato score because it's at 73 percent like they were saying that that's a little fishy um that like a lot of the Rotten Tomatoes reviews are from like blogs that just started a month ago. My friend John is like really on this like conspiracy theory that this is all bullshit. Rotten Tomatoes is game is much more gameable because you, you can like put in a rotten or a fresh review,

even though it's like, yeah, it's like two stars. You can review bomb in either direction on there yeah and sound of freedom on metacritic is at 43 which is like that's a bad movie right on rotten tomatoes it's in the 70s so yeah um anyways we will be watching it and giving you our opinion the the people i've heard of who actually watched that one are like it's just really boring there's no like someone wild q anon shit it's just a like liam neeson movie with jim caviezel

like the a complete void at the center of it so wow yeah okay so we'll see how it pairs with barbie i think you just need something that like gives you a sensational underlining of like the central myth of your conspiracy theory because if there are like kids at risk and there are people who haven't go to the jungles and like fight people but also like are you know no powerful americans then you keep it alive do you hear that miles the feds that's the sound of freedom oh that's. That's from one of the trailers that I forced myself to watch. I really thought you were... Alright, that's gonna do it for us. That's it. That's it, folks.

That's it. That's the last episode. I'm not doing this shit. That's it. That's the podcast. 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.

Stay cool. Stay alive out there. The weather, you know, people living through a bunch of awful weather disasters. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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.

Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. 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 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 Elf Beauty. Founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.