The Daily Zeitgeist - ATLieTrends 11/3: Kyrie Irving, Rihanna, Jeff Bezos, Mariah Carey, Milwaukee, LAPD/CBS

Episode Date: November 3, 2022

In this edition of ATLieTrends, Miles and super producer Becca discuss Kyrie being Kyrie, Johnny Depp appearing in Rihanna's upcoming fashion show?, Jeff Bezos and Jay-Z possibly buying the Washington Commanders, Mariah Carey vs. Vince Vance, a Milwaukee official demonstrating how easy it is to commit election fraud... getting fired, and LAPD giving Les Moonves a friendly heads-up!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Love a picture of a nice duck. Quack, quack, indeed. My name is Miles, and I'm here with Becca Ramos. Ramos, what's up? Pramosa Famosa, what's new with you nothing much it's another beautiful day here in new york city hey i gotta say it was 40 48 degrees when i went out this morning to walk the dog that's chilly oh yeah that's why i got this fleece hat on that i'm sweating through right now uh but anyway that's neither here nor there let's tell these people what is trending today october nope fuck it november 3rd yep it's hard i i can't believe

it's fucking november already i can't either i went to a dios muertos uh celebration yesterday and i was like wow it is really november like we are oh the year is flying by. I can't believe. We're there. I'm going to a wedding next week. I'm like, this wedding I've been thinking about for a year now. I'm like,

the year is flying by. I thought you were like, the mere idea of a November wedding. I'm like, I know about those November weddings. No, it's just like, I've been. But I get that event you've had

on your calendar. Yes. Like all my friends are like, that wedding hasn't happened yet. And I'm like, no. It's like, it's coming up right now.

You excited? You excited for it? I am. I'm very excited. It's my best friend from growing up. We've known each other for 15 plus years and I'm the best man. Okay. So yeah.

So that's a good. Highly. Oh, wow. Yeah. Wow. Look at you. Okay. Well, much, much, much love and bliss to the Julie Weds.

What's trending? Let's take it to Brooklyn. Shall we, Becca, since you're there? Specifically the Brooklyn Nets, sadly. Kyrie Irving. Look, he posted this link to this anti-Semitic documentary last week. There's been all this backlash. He's not really said anything that remotely resembles an apology.

And then he sent his parents to go speak to the anti-defamation league and then from that meeting they're like he's gonna donate uh him and the nets will donate five hundred thousand dollars each to quote causes and organizations that work to eradicate hate and intolerance in our communities adam silver the commissioner also came out and said that was not an apology yeah it's like nowhere did you say i'm sorry and i should not be saying hate speech yeah it's just sort of like what when we even asked by the press he's like they're like are you gonna say other anti-semitic stuff he's like i know who i am and i can't be anti-semitic and you're like oh my god stop speaking in fucking code and just i mean this

is the thing we don't know what he actually thinks or believes or if he's you know how people get so wrong they're like fuck bro i gotta fucking stay locked into this position because i'm not gonna back down even if i burn up upon re-entry to earth um or he's just you know a anti-semite you never know these days you gotta fucking parse through it all. So we'll see what happens there. Let's move on to another big yikes. Riri.

Rihanna. Rihanna Fenty. Okay. Wait, what's her full legal name? Robin? It's Robin Rihanna? I think Robin. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Robin, we have to talk. I'm looking at a headline that says Johnny Depp, he's going to appear in the Savage Fenty fashion show and be the first man to have his own spotlight segment in the lingerie show. I have so many questions because A, did Bad Bunny not count when he performed last year?

B, how can you go from having Bad Bunny to having a predator like Johnny Depp? C, how can you go from having bad bunny to having a predator like johnny depp c how can you as a victim of domestic violence choose out of your way to put johnny depp on a platform d he's white e i guess we really do gotta take rihanna down when we eat the rich wow she got billionaire brain like that first i was like man you're really doing the halftime show okay yeah but then you're like and johnny depp which doesn't make any sense i've not seen like i know like that it like those the fashion shows are an event but like the idea that if it's like savage fenty and it's like you know the boudoir wear lingerie the fuck does he got to do with that

it's like i guess he's a model for fucking dior but like the savage line is problematic in itself we've talked about that too like yeah i don't understand okay so yeah i think like people on twitter one person quote rihanna really saw a man that hasn't used shampoo in months and put him in a fashion show. Literally. He looks so bad. Like, it's like Johnny Depp had his heyday.

We're not saying Johnny Depp wasn't attractive at some point, but is it today? His alcoholic, like skin that is dried up, like look, and just like in light of all you hear about the Amber and with Amber heard, you're like, what,

what? But I guess I think that and with Amber heard, you're like, what? What? But I guess I think that's the thing is right is like because clearly the industry didn't turn their back on him. No. You know what I mean? And that's really all. I think that's really all. Maybe that was the calculus Rihanna's making is like, well, he like technically won the case in theory. Right.

But it's like you, know like yeah and also well anyway so uh confusion abounds right now with anyone looking at rihanna's team and thinking this is not a good this doesn't seem this seems like anti rihanna if any if i may use and i am straight up dystermia uh about it so we'll see. I'm not sure if there's going to be much clarification or it's just going to be like a deal with it type thing. Let's move on to another billionaire or I guess. So Jeff Bezos is trending first up because him and Jay-Z might buy the Washington commanders. Think more cynical people looking at the situation is like clearly because of Dannyder's just like vile just existence of the person they're like maybe you know black ownership might be a good

way to go nfl with this and then it's like bezos and jay-z and it's like is bezos just being like hey i got this brother with me yeah um so can we get that yeah yeah i'm right here with this black guy yeah yeah yeah yeah oh me yeah i'm gonna pay, yeah, I'm going to pay some of it too. But he's also here. So can we get that team? But then it's also like more black icons in bed with billionaires. Yikes. Not that we didn't already know that.

When you're a billionaire, when you're a billionaire, you're. And first of all, look, I've always said this. Jay-Z always said he was a capitalist. You know, we knew that in his rhymes. He was. It just only gets disappointing when he's like, I like malcolm x like you are not that then another part of this story is there are allegations from his housekeepers jeff bezos in his like multiple mansions apparently that quote housekeepers were forced to regularly climb out a laundry room window running along an

exterior path and through a mechanical room to access a bathroom used by groundskeepers because they weren't allowed to enter the main home when the Bezos family was there, except to clean. What is this? Slate times? That is crazy.

Yeah. It's giving sharecropping. Like, huh? Yeah. I mean, it seems consistent like you work amazon like you can't go to the bathroom yeah i don't know what the fuck is going on with all that it's just really uh so that's going on there too wow you get you get two bezos for the price of one okay let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm back. We're back. We back. She back. And so is Mariah Carey. I didn't know this some guy some dude was suing mariah carey

for 20 million dollars for copyright infringement over the song all i want for christmas is you which already is charting on the top 200 apparently of course from halloween because why not i mean did you see her tiktok when she's like i'm back yeah but it was fun because she was like um what that witch uh bewitched um she was like pretending to be like the witch from bewitched and she was like on a little like a peloton bike and like biking and then it like is that what wasn't some isn't that on a bike too that's the wizard of oz right oh maybe it was wizard of oz yeah and then it was like and then it was all i want i know and she was like like hitting all those whistle tones yeah you're like yes go we're all collectively on my phone i'm like we've lost

our minds everybody embrace it just fucking hit a whistle tone on a stationary bike mariah well anyway this guy was suing he's like just so you know i wrote all i want for christmas is you under my moniker vince vance and the valiance in 1989 and he's basically he was suing them for saying that they had made a derivative version of his song and basically profiting off of that so he's like y'all owe me 20 million and he also said he was claiming that the songwriters knew about his 1989 song because it got a lot of airplay in 1993 so it's just kind of mostly the the biggest thing is that it's like the title's the same. Yeah.

And that's about it. Because, you know, there are currently apparently 177 copyrighted songs that are called All I Want for Christmas Is You. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm sure there's many others. Yeah. So he had to drop that lawsuit. So Mariah, keep on going. Keep being the Queen of Christmas. How many times

do you think you can listen to that song I could probably listen to it in a row in a row in a row on a loop if you had to set your shit

to loop one song on your audio player how long could you go with that song on the loop before you're like I could probably go like an hour you could do an hour

I could probably do an hour and then what do you think would happen it just starts becoming meaningless or it would become annoying i think it would or you're worried it wouldn't have any magic anymore maybe it wouldn't have magic anymore yeah because i do listen to like the same five songs so yeah you mean in general yeah well in general a and then b for christmas i feel like i have like one playlist i go to

yeah yeah just listen to those songs so yeah i don't know if i'm i've completely just lost touch with everything but i think i could go a solid two hours straight yeah and just do stuff yeah do it but then i don't know Maybe I have to go live on Instagram and just have people witness me slowly spiral into chaos. My partner has a tendency to play songs on loop where I do too. He will like one song and then we'll just and then I'll probably hear like at the sixth

time I'll be like, can we play a new song? It's like the same song has been playing. That's what happened last weekend when I wouldn't stop playing Poland by Lil Yachty. And Her Majesty was like, shut the fuck up. I'm like, why? Because I took the walk to Poland.

I just think the fucking hook is so stupid. He's talking about taking lean to Poland. That's it. He took the walk to Poland. Took the walk hards, lean, the cough syrup to Poland. And that's it he took the walk to poland took the walk hards lean the cough syrup to poland and that's your hook and it's blowing up i feel like it's in so many like videos now um okay well anyway shouts to mariah let's move on to another m name milwaukee uh a milwaukee wisconsin election official fired after she admitted she she admitted to fraudulently fraudulently requesting mail-in ballots,

like by requesting like military mail-in ballots. And apparently she was like, she's like one of these election deniers and was just trying to be like, see this, how easy it is. You give a fake name and say you're in the military and then they give you a ballot and the mayor was like yo you're there you're fired the fuck are you talking about um but i mean it just i think goes to show that there are still so i mean there's still so many people who are just bought into that lie of like fraudulent voting information and they're all the

ones dabbling in it now yeah they're like, I did that to prove you could do it. And? Just prove that you did it. And you prove that you can, because you got fired. So... What are you talking about? Just whatever. So that's what they're dealing with in Milwaukee. And something

we're dealing with, so we just went to Brooklyn. Let's go to LA, specifically. LAPD. Boo, CBS. Apparently, a captain at the LAPD we're dealing with so we just went to brooklyn let's go to la uh specifically lapd boo cbs um apparently a captain at the lapd warned les moonves and his office at cbs at the time when he was there at the head of cbs that allegations were being made against him of sexual assault and like in their talking they're like hey we got your back like apparently they would do their best to keep it under wraps as long as they could this is like revealed in this investigation um this allowed him to dump like a bunch of his cbs stock before the news came out which is what they call insider trading yeah

so him and cbs are now paying a 30 million dollar fine for that and also like my god look at the look at what proximity to power does like the lapd is literally out here having your back when you're and allowing insider trading being a predator too i mean they probably even see that part they're probably hey man thanks so much can i get uh do you think i could get tickets for me and my wife to go see a taping of Big Bang Theory. Literally. I would love to sit in the front row. They're like, that shit's free. Yeah, yeah. Just fucking gross.

And again, shows you how different the legal system, quote unquote, operates for people. Like this guy literally got a heads up call to say, hey, hey, hey, hey, this shit could be bad. I don't know what's going on, but I'm just letting you know. So, yeah, the state of things at the moment. Anyway, so that's what's trending on this day, on this diet Friday, I call it Thursday. Enjoy the rest of your diet Friday. We will see you tomorrow on real Friday with a fantastic new episode. You're going to really, really love it.

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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.

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