The Daily Zeitgeist - A Few Good Trends 3/12: Kobe Bryant Statue, AirBNB, Biden Effigy, Trump, Exercise By State

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

In this edition of A Few Good Trends, Jack and Miles discuss the typos on the Kobe Bryant Statue, AirBNB banning indoor security cameras, the GOP fundraiser with a Biden effigy, Trump getting saved (financially) by Evan Greenberg, the states who get the most/least exercise and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the internet and welcome to this episode of a few good trends hey guys you can't handle these that's what it was i was like what was the fucking the main line that I just without seeing myself clear you want the true crystal can't handle the fucking truth well you can't trend all the truth hey I'm Jack that's my old yep

and we're still in Austin Texas in a United flight as the news is full of stories so of just shit falling off of united planes we're like fucking fluids spraying out of a plane when they do that anyway i feel like i'm sorry you've never had diarrhea oh okay so oh but you don't but but a plane can't okay i see see i see hopefully because the news is so bad anyone who has boeing aircraft like dude fucking check everything 70 times and then

then people are like dude look i got a lot of fucking tables man and yeah i'm pretty sure this plane is made out of like rubber bands and cork. Yeah. Anyways. That's about our anxieties. Maybe the last episode. And if it is, it's been a pleasure serving with you, sir. It's been an honor playing with you gentlemen tonight.

You guys fucking need us on that wall. Another Fugit Trends thing. Oh, it is. I'm just killing it with with my few good ben references i am carrying a baseball or a baseball bat around for no reason as tom cruz does in that to like make himself seem sporty um all right uh hey speaking of sporty uh there the recently unveiled kobe bryant statue contains typos uh and yeah i feel like statue typos are the worst kind dude they're literally set in stone i guess it's not a mural typos are the worst kind

but you maybe you can remove those there's such thing as tattoo removal you know what i mean but like etching something in marble now again i like i don't know if it's masonry or what you have to be an expert in to know how this works i don't know how you remedy this but basically on the on the kobe statue there's like the box score of when he scored 81 points against the raptors and they're like all these names are completely misspelled on there like they handle this shit with AI? Because these are some AI-esque typos. These are some Van Vought-esque typos. Yeah, I mean, there's

Von Wafer, former Laker guard. He's spelled Vom Wafer. Vom Wafer. My favorite is Jose Calderon's name is spelled Jose Calderson. Hey, Calderson, get in my office.

That's violent to change your whole lineage, too. You ain't Calderon. You're Calderson. You're Joe Calderson, not Jose Calderon. We did him a favor, all right? That's what he should have done when he came to Ellis Island. Yeah, then also there's a part that says coach's decision. The word

decision is spelled D-E-C-I-C-I-O-N Dechichion. Dechichion. It's wild because the Athletic reached out to the people who fucking made the sculpture. They weren't available for a comment. But the Lakers said they were aware

and they are going to fix it. Masonry, Zeitgang, how do you fix etched in marble graphics? Do you have to buff it down? Do you have to build a whole new statue? That sucks, man. That'd be so fucked up.

That's pretty funny. Spell check, y'all. And it's just a sign of the fact that this country's going to shit under biden yep can't even get our dang statues right you know can't even this country can't even make the right to chichions when it comes to our leaders um all right uh big news for people who use airbnb um they're banning indoor security cameras that they somehow were allowing up to this point? Yeah.

They were like, you can have them in a common area. But now they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, actually, no. And just let people know. But so many people have... We've seen all these articles and people sharing shit on social media about them, like discovering fucking weird hidden cameras or just other weird surveillance tools, like sound monitors,

like sound meters to make sure you ain't having a fucking party. But yeah, now that people have until April 30th to, to make their rental homes less fucking creepy and not like the movie Sliver. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah. So they've had these policies in place, right?

Like they've said like no noise decibel monitors, no like indoor cameras. And then now they've like given given up on being able to enforce those and now they're like you just gotta tell people if you're taking video of them. Please let them know. Let them know. And I guess also outdoor security cameras also have to be limited and

the noise decibel stuff. It is just weird. Because so many of the complaints recently have been, it's like the houses, sometimes people are fucking scamming you. Other times they're running some pervert operation. Or they're like triple book,

and then you're ass out. But they've already got your money. Yeah. So, yeah. I don't know. Will this help the brand, the ailing brand of Airbnb? We don't know.

We don't know. We don't know. I mean, like Airbnb could, if it was a, like a company that didn't do the scale thing that we talk about, where it's just like growth over everything. And they, it's just, it's the same problem that every single one of these companies have that is never cited as the main problem but scale is exactly their problem you have too many people renting the houses out to monitor

you would need to staff the fuck up Facebook to exist without being a risk to start a fucking race war like around the world you know in various places at any given time would need to staff the fuck up with

like a army of monitors you know who are just like constantly you know it there should be something at Facebook that looks like the fucking NORAD decision room with like hundreds and hundreds of people who are just watching and monitoring and being like, holy shit, this

is an incredibly powerful tool that we have. Instead, they have people who are... Can you report it? If something gets flagged, they have horrified people who aren't paid enough in dark rooms who have to watch

just the worst videos and get PTSD. And it's just like all of these things could be functioning companies that would like, you know, it's a nice idea to be like, Oh, we could like swap houses with these people.

They're like, we could get to stay in this really nice house. Like that one also, like it needs regulation because look what it's regulation, but just look what it did to just like, aside from how Airbnb, the app itself works, the model for how people engage with it

who say, oh, this is lucrative. Let me buy up houses for the sole purpose of Airbnb-ing it. That's the other fucking dark side of the whole thing because it's just adding to more housing scarcity. Right. Right.

In a properly regulated uh you know government where like everything hasn't been deregulated and all bureaucrats in charge of regulation hadn't been captured by the forces of capital like this is an idea that could work um social media isn't also an idea that could work but we just don't have the right system for it. And until we do, they'll continue to exist, and then you'll get these shocking reports where it's like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, that teddy bear? That thing's eyes are cameras, man.

Oh, yeah, you should check what the radiation level is on that thing. What? What? Oh, nothing, never oh nothing never mind never mind oh yeah that thing's irradiating the shit anyway man anyway mr senator we need a free market for my business to thrive of uh uranium enriched plushies for kids you gotta always wonder when you're at an airbnb like when there's that locked closet is that just like a media center with like server room it's like thousands of discs of like past guests like right right oh god freaky sex couple 2019 couple three yeah all right uh let's take a quick break and we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And a GOP fundraiser in Kansas is making headlines for encouraging guests to beat the shit out of Joe Biden. Like, they just put a Biden mask on

one of those self-defense kind of body... Torso training things. Like a karate gym. They basically had people kick the shit out of a Biden thing. Did you see the actual

kicks and things that were delivered because they like joe biden actually probably could have the actual joe biden probably could have withstood like some of these people are so inflexible like they're like i'm gonna kick this thing and like they're tearing their hamstrings because their like ankle went above knee height to try and fucking roundhouse it um yeah so a lot of people were like what the fuck is this and like you know even like some republicans are like this is fucking dumb but i'd imagine mostly yeah it's kind of cool because let's be real democrats also like doing this kind of shit um but the head of the johnson county republican party said it's part of a quote

interactive self-defense exhibit ah oh okay okay. We're good here. It's just an activation. Yeah, because exactly. It's a nice self-defense activation specifically for an octogenarian who likes ice cream. You never know when Joe Biden himself is going to physically attack you.

Exactly. And they said the mask was regrettable and removed and no donations were collected in exchange for hitting the training device which was part of a booth hosted by a karate school so funny dude this like karate guys like hey man come by dude fucking whack Joe Byron give him a good old kick but yeah I can live like just spend an episode of some

documentary reality series inside that office like putting that fucking thing yeah exactly hey we got a karate school who's coming through hey and we're on the right side if you know what I mean. Come on down and kick this old guy.

That's what we teach you at our karate school. How to viciously attack the elderly. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, Democrats have been... Bernie's border has once held an event featuring a Trump-shaped piñata. Yeah, it's America, y'all.

That's what we do. we like to beat the shit out of our politicians i mean effigies has been a thing for a while since time immemorial since time immemorial since who knows when um yeah so well speaking of donald trump uh wanted to check him with his finances i think the last time it came up on the episode or at least last time it came up on an episode and my memory was working. Um, he was facing like a big payment that was coming up. I don't know how the fuck he's going to do this. He's going to sell his buildings.

Um, he actually got bonded out by the CEO of Chubb. Um, you might know them as the insurance company, uh, CHUBB, um, Evan Greenberg, who in 2018 was appointed by Trump to the U.S. Trade Representative's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

Holy shit. That's just, I mean, I guess it's not surprising, but it should be, right? Right. Like it's another one of these things where it's just the, we've grown accustomed to how this shit works, but he, he just got like a friend who's a billionaire to bail him out completely. Yeah.

And it sounds like that maybe they're going to come through on the $450 million civil fraud case too. Yeah. That's a big swing y'all. That's a bit, I mean, I get why, you know, you're like,

this is the kind of access, like you can't fucking, I mean, I guess you literally can buy this kind of access for this amount, but it's like, it does he get in office? And even then do you, is he just going to fucking chew your ass up and discard you?

Like 99% of other people who have thought like nah this will be different dude when i when i help this guy out this time yeah uh i like dark horse candidate for vp i feel like this guy i know right you know dude how much access are you buying at that point? Oh, wait, his name's not Chubb. I'm like, Trump Chubb, 24, Trump Greenberg. Yeah. But knowing him, he'd be like, actually, let's do Chubb. It'll just be better name checking for my company. I remember at Davos, it was Soros' grandson or son, I think it's a son, was saying that when you listen

and talk to the elite at Davos, they're all like, it's 100% nailed on that. Trump's going to beat Biden, which he pointed out, like they're always wrong about this shit. But so this dude is probably hanging out with only billionaires as billionaires are want to do.

And it's just like, yeah, fuck yeah, dude, I'm going to be like inside the oval office. I'm going to have a desk at his desk. A little one. Yeah, just on the side.

Just a little desk. Like a kid's table. Yeah. But then also, this comes off the heels that E.G. Carroll's lawyer says they maybe could have a third defamation lawsuit because he's opened up his mouth again and denied the rape and defamation claims. So then it's like, does the guy, does Evan Green was like, bro, I just fucking gave you 90.

What the fuck are you doing? Yeah. But hey, man, they got billions. I mean, that's the thing about billions of dollars. You know what's cooler than a million dollars? What? Billions of dollars. So I also, there's been reports

that he's not going to have enough money on hand to like for his campaign to stage like as many rallies as he wants. Uh, each of those rallies apparently cost $400,000. Um, Oh, because they look great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Money well spent. Yeah. great yeah yeah yeah wow money well spent yeah so they're going to not be able to pay for all of that if uh things keep going the way they're going um well that's like absolutely hemorrhaging cash

miles well that's like the lifeblood of the trump campaign is to go in person and do your mini clan rallies and get everybody fired up yeah so what are they gonna have to do go like watch him live stream on fucking x or some shit to get their yeah their racist jollies off yeah i mean it's it is a question and another thing that he's always prided himself on is like that he paid for all this shit i don't need i don't need i don't have any special interests controlling me dude um which that clearly not the case at this point and you know i mean clearly was never the case when you look at the relationship to saudi money and then the other news point about his finances is that he asked el Musk last summer whether he would be interested in buying Truth Social. Oh.

Like, hey man, this thing's pretty lit over here. I don't know if you want to... Is that right? Because I got Twitter. But what's this now? What are you telling me about truth? So, okay, that's cool. Because I know there's like this headline too

where like they had met and Musk was like, I'm not giving money to biden or trump explicitly i'll figure out another way to do it but i guess even elon musk isn't dense enough to fall down that trap to be like okay as of right now but we'll see yeah he's exactly fucking wants to go against whatever the woke policy is yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I mean, I guess the conversations between them are more extensive than previously thought. And they were about politics and business.

So to be a fly on the wall. Oh, God. Yeah, what the fucking idea sessions between those two losers. It's like, gives me anxiety i can't even i actually can't even like you know some pretty cool ideas you know like what do they do like does he do they show you their youtube videos when they hang out how much they love hitler you know oh yeah yeah yeah that's just that's all it is they're like oh we're supposed to talk about money. Okay.

Look at this picture of him. Doesn't he look good here? I wish I could grow a mustache like that. Mine only grows in the corners. God, what would Trump look like with a mustache? I mean, I guess it's pretty easy to imagine. That's my version of John Lennon's Imagine. It's not hard if you try little mustache on the

corners doesn't look as much as hitler as he'd like um so there's a new report on the states to get the most and least exercise i'm a little i don't know these these always make me a little bit nervous because it just feels like shitting on people in the middle of the country well it's it's interesting because it's like it's a study from apple and brigham women's hospital uh and they found that broadly only 54 percent of americans were hitting the aerobic minimum which is say they say about 150 minutes a week of aerobic exercise which is like a brisk walk counts is that like if you took like 30 minute walks like for five times a week you could do it um so the states with the highest percentage of people getting 150 minutes were Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and California in that order.

And then the bottom states that were underperforming were West Virginia, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi. But the deal here is that it included adults who were using fitness trackers with an Apple Watch. Right. So that's already skewing to a very specific kind of person yeah so i'm like oh okay sure the but i mean for me more than anything i was like oh that's the minimum i was like oh okay hold on what do i need to be doing to be as healthy as possible yeah um and then strength training i feel like the other thing you i've read like multiple things about how like people are living longer from strength training, I feel like the other thing, I've read multiple things about how people are living longer from strength training than anything.

Yeah, because it's an exercise that doesn't really require you to do that much high-impact stuff that's going to fuck up your joints. Yeah, exactly. It's something you can kind of keep doing. Right, yeah. And you can accomplish that in many ways. Yeah, yeah. You get 150 minutes? The 150 minutes of aerobic i mean sometimes when yeah when things

are going well uh you know i try and have phone calls with friends while walking around right right right that's usually like my way to keep things keep the blood pumping hey chasing a toddler around does that count am i right i'm bending i'm bending and scooping constantly then that's strength train dude my left arm i was so right hand dominant that like my left arm looked like i was in outer space like it was atrophying or something and since having a baby because i'm so right hand dominant i've just been carrying the guy's child in my left arm like in like uh you know just like a high tension position and like now my shit's kind of evened out so shout out to shout out to the baby shout out to baby you know

growing and making and being my homemade kettlebell i will say that i think the worst shape i've ever been in in my life was when you know a few years back when my kids were super young because it's just it's really hard to exercise or it was for me like yeah yeah because you have to find a like you have to find a moment to do it yeah and you're always like just sitting around with them you know so rather than lifting weights come on like come on dude let's go lift some weights you know i forgot you can't even yeah i mean that's that is like the hard part is like trying to balance all of that and now that you know like i mean i guess that's like the part where everyone's like man once they get to school man yeah it gets a lot easier gets a lot

easier yeah but then i miss him i know it's i wonder if like i can't imagine that my parents missed me when I was at school. Like I think truly something has shifted. Like, I don't know if it's healthy or not. Like we're just soft? We just like love our kids so much. I feel like in the modern world, like it just, that does feel like a generational shift that has happened. Not that like our parents didn't love us, but like, I don't know. There's just.

It's a different way of showing it, right? Because you look like our grandparents that were like in the depression and world wars. It was straight up survival. It was like, y'all, I toil so y'all can survive. And then our parents are like, damn, maybe I could have used a little bit more than merely just being kept alive. So then they pour into us and try and be like,

oh, we love you guys so much. And then we're like, damn, man, I think I could pour a little bit more into my kid now. Just times are different, man. Times are different. But Zayt Gang, if you've got young kids and you don't love them we'd love to hear a contravening opinion here yeah you excited when they go to school i don't

think i don't think they missed me oh i do feel like a lot of the i feel like a lot of how much i love my kids is like um not probably not like overly healthy you know oh okay i don't know it's just like you think it's you have an unhealthy love for your children i don't know is it's just i don't know to be honest i'm still interrogating that the fact that like i've missed them so much when i'm away for a single day uh yeah is yeah you know yeah i don't know maybe it could just be also like the mortality aspect of it too like you you see yourself living because like longer because you have children you know what i mean in that sense and like in like oh no i'm purely just jealous of them i'm like dude you're gonna get you can get live you get to live so long not even so fucking lucky switch with me

ultimate goal body switching using my kids as a blood bag like that one billionaire that one dude but you're trying to do it better you're like nah dude i'm trying to straight up hop in that body hop in that body soul switching you know what i mean use my kid as a blood bag so my dick looks younger was that wasn't that like his strategy he's like i got a really young looking dick who said that that billionaire guy who is like i'm trying to cure my aging or maybe he was just like bragging about how he gets boners or something he's that guy's all over the map pretty interesting oh oh he i guess this is what he started penis rejuvenation therapy is that what you're talking about yeah i think so i didn't look too deeply into what that meant but i just

assumed it was like he wanted a young looking penis that's not what he's that wasn't quite what it was. But, oh, you know, he did, I guess, de-aging. So, yeah, there you go. But there's also parts where he said he wanted his penis and rectum to function youthfully. What's this guy's name? We're going to have to do a deeper dive on this. Brian Johnson. All right. Well, you got the TDC expose coming, Johnson.

Dude, it's crazy, though, too. This guy's only 46. I know, and he looks old. He's got that translucent look about him. Yeah, he looks exactly. Somebody in their 50s who's trying to cure aging. Oh, yeah, 100%. And he kind of has that sort of Loki having a crisis vibe.

Right. Yeah, he definitely... He's got some Loki in him. What's that guy's name? Tom Hiddleston? Tom Hiddlesticks. Tom Hiddlesticks. Hiddleston looks older than him even though he is numerically

younger than this guy, but still looks way better. Yeah. This guy looks straight than this guy, but still looks way better. Yeah. This guy looks straight up like Loki, but again, who really wants a young rectum? This guy looks like Loki. And that's been our time, folks.

This dude looks like Loki, and the rectum is elderly. Alright, we're going to go get on an airplane. And hopefully none of the things are going to fall off of it. Nope. It's been our time. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the things are going to fall off of it. Nope. In our time, we are back tomorrow with a whole ass, a whole ass episode of the show.

An unhinged one with Blake Wexler. We will talk to you then. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jamee 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 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports.

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