The Daily Zeitgeist - Another Trend Zeits The Dust 3/2: State of the Union, Bullet Train, Target, Girl Scouts, Ron DeSantis, Nitro Pepsi, Coca Cola Starlight

Episode Date: March 2, 2022

In this edition of Another Trend Zeits The Dust, Jack and Miles discuss the State of the Union address, the 'Bullet Train' trailer, Target raising employee wages, Girl Scouts being harrassed, Ron DeSantis telling Tampa high school students masks are "COVID theater", and Nitro Pepsi v. Coca Cola Starlight! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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as courtesy of no clue but who did it no clue oh wow got us again no clue on the discord i like that you gave up on i just feel like who's on first works better if after the second time forget Who's on first? Who? Forget it. I know what you're talking about. Never mind. Oh, okay.

Oh, damn. It's two lines long. Just a great series of videos. Very well-known bits, but you just bail on them so early. Like realistic versions where the person's like, oh, who? Oh, damn. Right. I was confused there for a second.

The family comes in and they say they're auditioning for the show and it's called the aristocrats all right uh state of the union it's all anyone's talking about right now or not talking about or talking about what wasn't talked about i might just be on this uh try not to be swayed by my own take ahead of the state of the union that nobody gives a shit about state states of the union anymore. Uh, but in the aftermath of the state of the union, it does feel like it didn't happen. Like there, there's stuff on the front page of the New York times, I guess, but it's not like, I don't know. It just just feels like i did i didn't could have easily missed it yeah yeah and and who can blame you when there's like an actual conflict happening like real shit happening on the other side of the planet and you're like this guy's lakers oh yeah exactly don't blame me though um yeah i mean like i feel like that's there there's that and also because he didn't say look like we were saying if you're gonna announce something actually uh you know

interest they say something that's gonna help people especially working people then yeah maybe that would have been something but a lot of it was him just sort of clarifying the u.s's position on ukraine then being like what if we gave you little bits and bobs of build back better huh do it like that the bbb bits and bobs of build back better exactly got to keep it alliterative well i know my girl mtg and lauren bobert were uh trying to bring some of that world wrestling entertainment energy to the to the show yeah surprised they didn't have fucking signs like they were actually at a wwe like fucking show yeah because they were standing up and heckling and turning around and um yeah that was what's wild to me is that like it does feel like the sort of thing you like see trending and

everybody's talking about when you know the the open white supremacist in congress starts shouting at the president during the state of the union like in the past the most we got was somebody saying you lie and everybody being like what shut the fuck up man right um this time she was you know heckling throughout she she was doing director's commentary and was booed you know pretty quickly even like republicans are like yo shut the fuck up like so on some level the olds of the congress uh still believe in you know decorum on some level especially when you're like talking about like your your son who died and you're talking about like their service like in the military and like being your burn pits and then like

like yo shut up shut up really quick sorry about that joe go on we'll slam you after this is over like polite republicans yeah i still can't get anytime i think too long about marjorie taylor green i can't not think of what she thinks a pull-up looks like um yeah but that's you know that's a distraction i shouldn't care that much about that but uh i'm just i feel for the bulging discs in her back it it but you know her pull-up form is kind of like it sums up the mentality of like right-wing conservative like you know super right-wing people which is like yeah maybe everyone else says this is absolutely the incorrect way of doing something even experts but it's how i do it and therefore it's right and i don't mind putting it on the internet because i am the main character yeah like if somebody were to create a interpretive dance wherein the thesis was

fuck your science i think uh marjorie taylor green's pull-ups would be the that uh the human body in motion version of that sentiment right and in that context it would have been like a cirque du soleil dance performance that might have like moved people like in a different setting. And like the way she convulses shows like the absolute pushback. So violent. Yeah, when she's just out here being like, and this is why I'm strong.

You're like, okay, we get it. Also, no mention as AOC pointed out too, no mention of student debt relief. We're just kicking that can down the road until May 1st and then we'll see what happens again but like my god were you not talking out loud about that on your way to the white house and you're not even like oh yeah about that i think i will we'll get to it later haven't they made like reverse progress on that didn't they say that they were gonna

not relieve the student debt? I mean, so far, I mean, yeah, the most was like, okay, they said we weren't. They're like, okay, actually, we'll extend the moratorium until May 1st. We'll pause it till then. And then we'll see. Will there be developments? Will they realize that you can't just keep, I don't know. Like when you look at the significant amount of people who would benefit from it, it's

like, this is this wins but whatever bullet train just dropped for anybody needing a distraction uh this which i think is everyone a new actioner starring uh brad pitt brad pitt brad pitt's my bad. Sorry, dad. And a bunch of other like Bad Bunny, Paperboy, I think is in there. A couple other people. It has all the trappings of a movie. I would be like, yeah, okay. But it also feels like it needs something like a vision behind it. Like the, you know, the, this is the sort of thing that you usually see come with, like from the director that brought you this like exciting movie.

Right. Um, and it's from the director of a Deadpool two, which is not, I don't know. I guess I didn't think that that was, I was expecting a, a respected auteur like mick g or something like

that you know well i mean yeah also did uh did he direct atomic blonde too oh okay he's like he's like the john that's why the stunts are very john wick stunt guy turn director yeah yeah yeah all right now i'm back on board i're back baby i was like they should have given it to somebody like the stunt guy from john wick yeah i mean just from like the little fight choreography the first john wick right i think so and then i know he did like the second one and that's how like after atomic blonde they're like yeah okay this they they do good action stuff we like that yeah yeah and there's like uh sanada hiroyuki's in it um like a few other you know japanese actors too i was like okay look at them again uh it looks fun looks fun yeah i don't know

makes me miss the fuck out of japan though i can't like i just want to go back but it's hard it's hard right now uncredited director of John Wick, then Atomic Blonde, then Deadpool 2, then Fast and Furious presents Hobbs and Shaw. Oh, Hobbs and Shaw. This man's out here putting together a career of action movies that I hear very mixed things on.

But the people who like Atomic Blonde or Hobbs and Shaw really seem to like it. Um, and vice versa. Well, I'm, I'm going to keep an eye on that one. Target is trending because, uh,

they, I mean, this is like some good news. Target said this week it would lift hourly wages for workers in distribution centers and stores, uh, uh, to a range of 15 to 24 an hour depending on location position uh the total investment will amount to 300 million dollars um that's yeah that's you that's it only i believe didn't they do something like a hundred and hundred billion and like they did they did something great like really out ridiculous in the last few years but their revenues keep growing and

you're like yo 300 million ain't shit right compared to what you fucking make and i was like i was interesting to see that number put in you know what i mean because typically you just say you'll hear headlines or read headlines or it says oh yeah they're going to be raising wages and not actually quantifying that it's an investment of this x amount of dollars because that really helps put into perspective that you're like you have all this leftover fucking money on the side to go to everybody else but you can't even chip off a little bit there 300 million to keep the people that are making you the fucking money uh putting them in a place of somewhat prosperity the thing that really shocked me about this news uh is that their stock price actually seems to have gone up which usually the stock market is like what is this hippie

bullshit they got no they got hit when they said they wouldn't raise prices already i think that's when the real scummy like i mean anybody who's like you know a shareholder there and demanding answers is scummy but it seemed like there was more upset when like more upset feelings when they said they're like i don't know if we need to be raising prices right now and they're like what the fuck everyone else is you guys are doomed but like we don't need to but you can but everyone else is and you can and you can squeeze people from for every cent they got until they're completely destitute and then they'll but then they'll go to our competitors actually no that's an interesting

idea okay maybe the um the inflation thing that we've kind of talked about over the past six months that like the the conventional wisdom was like inflation is happening because uh democrat and uh too many giveaways and it turned oh i told you i was in trouble miles there it is had an almond had an almond and that's that's always a dangerous game before i start recording. Anyways, it turns out all the CEOs just decided they could raise prices and are like just soaking up any, uh, excess money that people have.

And then reporting record profits and saying, fuck everything. So anyways, cool. Shout out to target that targets like what if a corporation decided to like be the good guy i mean they're they're smart in that they're they're getting in front of it you know like i don't know how many real benevolent benevolent uh gigantic retail outfits are out there in this country that are truly motivated to be like no man we got to

really rethink how this whole thing works right we gotta we gotta really we really got to show the workers that uh that they're part of this and they should share in the spoils of it all but i don't know it just seems like because even their press release around it was like you know these are the people like who who help us achieve our. It only makes sense to reinvest in them. Um, so yeah, I don't know, but I believe the stock market didn't just go,

fuck you target, uh, which I'm sure some people did, but yeah, uh, great. You know, you love to see it.

So let's see, let's see more now. I mean, it should, they should just be like our minimum wage is now $24. Yeah. Hi. All right. Let's take more now. I mean, they should just be like, our minimum wage is now $24. Yeah. High. All right, let's take a quick break.

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So parents and girl scout leaders are reporting that girl scouts are being harassed while selling cookies. Yeah. It's not, not shocking to me just based on like where we find ourselves the it seems like america collectively is going through some shit just generally based on those videos of people who have to be like you know tied up on planes and shit um right but it's yeah it's scary and weird and uh a scary place to be as a

civilization when you sell girl scout cookies you kind of have to be in a place where everybody is you can't just be like i'm gonna be at this thing that specifically appeals to one certain political idea like ideology it's like it's a supermarket right like most of the time. And everybody goes to the supermarket. And I think that's when they're seeing more things where people are either coming up to them. They said, girls as young as five have been lectured for selling unhealthy food or getting upset over the cookies high prices. Why are you haggling with a child overpriced this is not you're not in some like bizarre uh in another country and you're like i don't want to pay that much for a maraca that's just too much it's a fucking this is a charitable endeavor and also training for them to be salespeople

but the other thing is they've also quote been berated over a conspiracy theory falsely linking girl scouts to planned parenthood so you got it all you got the woo woo high fructose corn corn syrup poison set that's like this y'all should be ashamed or how much they cost you know how much they used to cost when i was your age group of people and then the straight up conspiracy theorists too so yeah tough tough times for girl scouts i think humans of all time all it says it says a lot though when you have adults pulling up to five-year-olds yeah like you you really don't know how anything works like i don't even know when i would ever be like hold on man i need this five-year-old to be held accountable. Yeah. I feel like it's just, um,

they have all this anger being held down and it's coming out on the thing that doesn't scare them, but they feel like they can, uh, let it unleash it on. Yeah. Yeah. And what better than a shift,

a shivering in fear child who's just trying to sell you tagalongs, uh, DeSantis. We just, we always got to check in with this man uh one potentially the future president of these united states uh speaking at university of south florida uh asked some students to take their darn masks off yeah this is i mean i think we'll talk about it on the show there's we're currently like in a moment where the rhetoric really not matching the data at all um and in this instance it's clear that ron

desantis like absolutely just wants uh like people to forget that there's a pandemic so this is him right before he takes like a lectern in front of some university students. You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it's not doing anything. And we got to stop with this COVID theater. So if you want to wear it, fine. But this is ridiculous.

Damn, he was pissed too. Tell the black students, take those masks off. COVID rates haven't disproportionately affected your community take those stupid things then he turns around like they were dr fauci or some shit like ha right god golly i mean this is just more right-wing assholes punching down they just yeah this is how they this is who they bully the bullyable you know yeah young kids it's a fucking asshole truly interesting yeah people need to check that clip out if you don't see it because his body language is everything yeah he really looks like they're trying to fuck it like fuck his whole life up by wearing masks because they're because

they're they're like i don't know i i've i'm. I don't feel comfortable without wearing it in this situation also, bro. You're so reckless with your life. I don't know where you've been. But it's interesting that he said the COVID theater, right? Because I feel like there's this thing. There's always like this... I don't know where exactly it came from, but I felt like I would see more mainstream media outlets that aren't necessarily like fox news but more like slate or the daily beast or things like that say like right up right on the topic of covid theater right of like why are we disinfecting all this stuff like when it doesn't need to be like it's just all theatrical for us to feel safer and and

makes like decent points of like if it if if it's actually not needed then what's the point right um but then that gets co-opted where republicans like really have you heard they say this thing covid theater when they talk about that like okay let's use that but apply that now to people just trying to protect themselves not about how it's about over using cleaners and things like that when they're not necessary to just say you're wearing a mask that's COVID theater. They do nothing. Even though the science does, it absolutely says they do a lot.

It's interesting because it's also like the clip really illustrates the difference between like the modern Republican and like what a politician used to be. Like I could see a politician like a republican early 2000s in the same scenario like turning it into a joke but like saying it jokingly but meaning it but like being able to pull it off but he like gets all huffy with the kids and it's like yeah like he's yeah like dude your fucking stepdad ron sucks man what the fuck was that about man why is he stressed out when he gets home from work and just like takes it out on you

i mean i wanted to push right past this and get to the thing everybody's really talking about but uh you know can't you you have to watch this clip uh but we do want to talk about uh the thing on everyone's mind uh coca-cola starlight versus pepsi nitro yeah i think pepsi nitro i think sorry nitro pepsi i i miss nitro pepsi whoops sorry nitro pepsi um yeah the everyone's got new things out i think with the pepsi one i'm i'm more interested in starlight because i have no idea what the fuck those words mean when connected with coca-cola but nitro pepsi is basically nitrogen-infused Pepsi, you know, like Guinness or

you see like Nitro-infused cold brew and shit like that. But the rating or the reviews seem to be beyond lackless. Yeah. Yeah, the takeout. Nitro Pepsi undermines the purpose of soda.

So there's just no fizz you know that's it like guinness is its own like uh separate beverage almost because it is yeah tastes like a flat beer but it also tastes like you're drinking a loaf of uh very um very filling bread when you drink it so it's like there there's something there it's to the experience that's why it's been around for over a century but like this is not what people i don't think want from soda no but possibly and i just get that out of the way because i just need you to tell me about starlight coca-cola now this on the other hand friends is what not just we want from a soda but what we want from humankind uh coca-cola has released a product called starlight it sounds like it seems like

these came out of similar marketing meetings where they're like, we got to like come up with a future of soda because people are realizing that it's bad for you. Coca-Cola starlight, uh, described thusly. It's taste includes additional notes reminiscent of stargazing around a campfire, as well as a cooling sensation that evokes the feeling of a cold journey to

space. I added the question question mark um so what it tastes like wood ash it's very very interesting like i you know it seems like they're trying to be impressionistic and like poetic let's be real you're selling a product that you don't need to do all this with i bought fucking gallons of surge uh that that green soda from the 90s just because you had a commercial with a bunch of teenagers out in the streets being like surge and i was like okay good enough for me they used to know what they were doing but um yeah so they the person from the takeout who reviewed it said it just tastes like cotton candy coke like that's kind of the vibe uh it's like got a reddish color to it um has you know cotton candy when you eat it doesn't taste like this but cotton candy flavoring is usually like a less tart berry

flavoring you know and i don't know he's like it's not it's not good yeah certainly not the future of soda nay the human race and can't we like accept in certain arenas, like we're, we've hit peak this thing. Yeah, no, we can't. We're not going to go past soda. We cannot friend. Uh, the, I guess that's the, that's the cool part of capitalism. Yeah. I mean, like what's the future of bottled water?

The Pepsi logo redesign is a great example. The, like this, these products that keep coming out that are like trying to invent the next thing like the the number of iq points that are being not iq points because iq test is fucking bullshit and problematic but you know people who believe in the iq test and think they have a huge iq uh probably and people like the number of ivy, uh, tuition dollars that are being pointed, uh, poured into just like trying to sell people Pepsi and Coca-Cola products and just complete absence of any value to society.

I like this. This always is just such a great example of, uh, you know, where, where we went wrong, how you're going wrong yeah we're fucked we're fucked anyway this episode brought to you by nitro pepsi yeah it's actually really good you guys check it out it's actually really good and the starlight too pretty cool it

reminds me of uh summer camp yeah it's a i don't know if you've ever like had the experience of drinking the actual fucking cosmos but it's a little bit like that i have i was uh on psilocybin though right that's where i feel like that's the only way you can go with shit like this right like most people drink because they're thirsty and all you give them is a flavor i wonder if coca-cola starlight marks the sorry did i interrupt you no i'm just saying add psilocybin to this shit and then i'm'm like, this might be the future of drinks. I wonder if Coca-Cola Starlight marks the like advent of psychedelics. Because like now there's a bunch of articles and like magazines that, you know, people who like have, you know, top 10 percent percenters read that are about like how all the rich and like cool

people are doing psychedelics now i wonder if this is like we're starting to see the extremely whack result of that is like just shitty watered down like brands of soda so like all those tech people who are micro dosing in like 2014, 15, like we're on the other side of that. And I'm like, and now this is what they're coming up with. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Quirtle. All right. Well, those are the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon.

We are back tomorrow with a whole ass 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 will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden.

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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. 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. I'm Carrie Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore The Making of a Rivalry,

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