The Daily Zeitgeist - Avtrend Super Bowl Ticket Prices 2/8: Super Bowl Tickets, Usher, Trump's Ballot Eligibility, McDonald's, Airport Price Gouging & NYC Guardian Angels

Episode Date: February 9, 2024

In this edition of Trendz, Jack and Miles discuss... Super Bowl ticket prices, whether Usher has enough hits for the halftime show, the Supreme Court seems poised to restore Trump’s ballot eligibility, McDonald’s prices are too high and the right is blaming Joe Biden, airport price gouging, and a viral video of Guardian Angels members attacking a random heckler (who they falsely accuse of being a shoplifting migrant) on the streets of NYC during a live Sean Hannity interview.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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gotta get to this big game. The cost, man. This is wild. I thought you had misplaced an apostrophe. No. You said that earlier that people were talking about it being on average $11,000 per ticket. I thought you meant like $1,100.

I was like, oh, okay. No, no, no. The apostrophe was placed. Nope. Not even commas. Not even commas. I'm all fucked up, okay. No, no, no. The apostrophe was placed. My mouth doesn't know where apostrophes go. Nope. Not even commas. Not even commas. I'm all fucked up, man. I'm all fucked up. Hey, man. It's the end of the week, alright? I don't know.

Yeah, yeah. I got an apostrophe in my name. That's the only one of those things I can keep track of. But yeah, dude, right now, I think the cheapest ticket is like $7,000 to go. like the more expensive ones are like north of 14 grand for one game of the foosball yeah i don't for a game that is also way more fun to watch on tv this feels like not if you get the baller package where you can be in a box suite that mimics the exact same things you have at your house.

But you can look at the field from an even further distance, but also flick it up with all the homies and flex on the ground. It's just a flex. That's all it is. I mean, I get it. I mean, I get the idea of like having your team and you fucking you ride with them wherever they go but at a certain point it's like that cost is just fucking wild because apparently the last time these two teams met up that was like previously had like the most expensive tickets yeah as you're mentioning the teams and like what their fan base looks like it does make sense that like san francisco would have the largest population of rich assholes

who would be driving the driving the market up on this shit um hey but i mean but the thing is dude there are people who are like super working class and they'll they're waiting for their team to go like i just have this money set aside to go to the super bowl it's just wild what like these events do to people and then on top of that like the flights and shit are up exponentially like to go from kansas city to vegas it's like up almost 400 the hotels are on average 75 higher like this is gouge fest baby gouge fest Gouge Fest, $3,000. Don't even try and buy Chex Mix at the Las Vegas airport. No. Because they are $13. I think they have the record on...

That's for the snack pack. Yeah. If you want the full bag that you would buy to share with friends, $63. I'm just guessing. Straight up. I'm guessing. I think it has the record for checks mix with photographic evidence if people aren't aware that kylie brakeman the comedian um was like i just want

to do a little experiment i'm gonna start recording prizes of checks mix that i see in the airport and like put 9.99 down for la guardia um 9 $9.99? For like, yeah, it isn't the, it isn't like the largest bag of Jack Nick's. It's the bag that costs I think they said like $4.99 at a New York Duane Reade or CVS. Right, right. Like, and then since then

the data has come pouring in and yeah, Vegas has topped them all with $13 so 13 29 what happened to us we used to be a country of laws no no months we turned it over we turned it over that's actually another thing that's trending but before we get off the super bowl i feel like halftime show is going to be uh is gonna seems like it's sneaking up on some people the comment i have heard is like does does usher have that many hits and it it turns out comment you heard yes wow he does have he

does have who said who asked that question who asked? Where did you hear that? My friend, John. He was like, what? He has that. Isn't that your real name? Okay. My friend, John O'Brien. No, it's going to be, I mean, I don't know what songs you pick. Yeah. I'm just looking off the My Way album.

You make me want to leave the one I'm with. Plus, Nice and Slow, My Way, Slow Jim. Yeah. Yeah. you make me wanna leave the one i'm with plus uh nice and slow my way slow jam yeah yeah unless you're gonna have like even the latter day stuff like omg oh my god those feel more like super bowl songs probably yeah yeah and also he is like one of the great performers even if you're not like even if you're not buying the usher greatest hits album like he's somebody that you would still pay to see live so i feel like a lot of people are gonna be surprised at how good this show is gonna be i can't wait to go to his live show hopefully calls me on stage and i get grinded on he does do you think he's gonna do that during

the super bowl just hey hey where's roger goodell at get up here roger get up here roger oh you're in trouble roger takes his shirt off starts body rolling in front of him he's like i guess i'll lean into this watch this um it's gonna i hope he just does that for for the whole halftime show it's just a half hour yeah and then the band just grooving behind him and he's like all right folks thank you so much let's have a great second half football thank you i'm usher raymond i'm not gonna do my fucking songs because you can pay to see me up the street at my vegas residency all right for

a brief moment this morning everybody was wondering is trump really gonna get disqualified from this election by the supreme court is is this happening said that some people really wanted that yeah i don't know it felt look anytime you see the supreme it it is a moment where you're like i don't know man maybe the supreme court isn't full of shit. Maybe they will potentially look at things like, you know, maybe Clarence Thomas, his own wife involved in this supposed insurrection, and maybe he could recuse himself. No.

Once that happened, I was like, nah, man, the fix is in. The fix is fucking in. The other detail that I found out about, yeah, because like part of me, I was like, well, why are they even hearing it? Like the Supreme Court, you know, as much as they like to say it's like balls and strikes they can justify doing anything like they're smart enough about the law that they can find anything well they have to hear

it in order to swat it down that's why they do okay yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah because because colorado was successful in getting him off the ballot so they're there to be like uh-uh we define an insurrection not the word not the constitution yeah there's a lot of weird arguments i mean even like the liberal justices were sort of arguing just sort of like uh like there is there's some murky stuff here like how can one state really determine if like you know just because this one state made this determination how does that affect every other states there was also a lot of like from the conservative justices talking about like well you know i just don't believe a state has that kind of power to do something like that except if it comes to denying people body

autonomy or having wildly inconsistent voter registration or voter id laws that could you know potentially sway an election so it it's definitely frustrating but i don't think you know obviously this was never going to be the thing that saved this country from trump like yeah it's it it's just going to have to happen in november that's the only way the detail that blew my mind though was they were like you know the only of the only one of these justices who's on the supreme court the last time that the supreme court determined a presidential election bush v gore right where they stopped the recount in florida stop the count was clarence thomas and but they also pointed out three other justices including roberts were young lawyers bush campaign in florida yeah yeah yeah so yeah it's uh it's just that is a wild story if i we

talked about it before but like the brooks brothers riot or whatever yeah yeah exactly i think there's just so much too when a lot of people are just even like talking about the definition of insurrection. Like it's been agreed upon, like what the definition definition is since the 19th century. Like persons engage in an insurrection by knowingly playing any role in an assemblage assemblage. Resisting by force the implementation of any law for public reasons was there an assemblage yeah was there a resistance to federal law yes was it where the was their purpose public yes yes yes yes but hey that's just like your opinion man it is just like your opinion man so they're

just a group of unserious people in black robes. And but it's even funny because like even look at Texas or like, yeah, whatever, Supreme Court. So I don't know where we're at with these with this body. Exactly. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about airport price gouging. We'll be right back. 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.

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And we're back. We're back. And so there's a story that is going nuts on the right and center-right media, which is McDonald's prices are too high, and it's... Which check mark? Yes.

Yeah. And it's Joe Biden's fault. All right, fine. Yeah. First of all, the backlash to the prices has been so severe that the CEO of McDonald's just told investors that the restaurant's new focus is affordability. Yeah. Which is different than last year's shareholder meeting where he said, the emphasis is going to be on just turning on the money holes, baby.

Yeah. Just fucking them directly in the wallet. Yeah. Right. Our mandate this year, folks, is to fuck your wallet. Okay? And now they're like, oh boy. Because because i mean we've talked about this all the time fast food was like the thing in america that you could be like whatever man i could get i can

get like my stomach torn up uh just for a couple bucks eating a fast food and now it's like aspirational yeah so the big detail that i think this whole story underlines is that businesses don't just charge what they need to like meet expenses because their argument is like Biden gave workers too much power and now that is like driving costs up it's just like not the way business works the way business works is that businesses charge what they can get or what they think they can get that they will charge as much as they possibly can yeah without completely putting you off that's all and as evidence of this people were also pointing out so the the big detail that got people upset especially on the right

is mcdonald's is charging 18 for a Mac. And it's actually the Big Mac combo deal. Still way too much. But they were doing it at an airport. Like these are airport prices. Oh, I didn't even realize. I'm like, where is it? 18? Yeah.

In airports, which yeah. Yeah, they've got you by the throat at the airport. But that also underlines the main point right which is that it's not like oh and now this specific item upline is forcing our hands like we just have these automated machines that raise the price they charge you more at the airport not because airport labor is more but because they can right because you are captive you are desperado in there and they're like you can't go anywhere they're like they're like actually the the cost of this vibe magazine on the upc thing says five yeah fuck you it's 76 bucks asshole

welcome to hudson news you fuck wit now give me your baby or get lost this is actually going viral elsewhere because this kind of feels like a story where they like some part of them recognized oh wait we got this wrong this is a story about high prices at airports right then they made this other thing go viral because kylie brakeman, uh, as mentioned, started the spreadsheet with the price of airport checks mix. And so now people are like talking about that, the same company, like wall street journals writing about like the $10 checks mix bag. Right.

And yeah. And why this is a great time to buy stock in Hudson news. Yes. Cause they can fucking do whatever they want. Yeah. It's, it's, it's it's i mean i'm telling you as much as i love burbank airport oh burbank airport is unbelievable the bottle

the most expensive bottle of water i've ever seen oh yeah a fucking naked juice it requires a credit check to even look at them that's how fucked up it is and i don't understand whatever that's i i get it i get it and i know and i realize too as my parents would always be like no we're just like eat before eat before you go i remember we'd always eat before we went to the airport yeah i'm not fucking buying that shit over there but this is it's just wild because so the system we've entrusted to run our civilization is like a market economy with fewer and fewer checks on the people in charge. And that means that it is a system that will charge as much as they possibly can get away with charging you at any given moment in any situation.

And if we're in a water crisis in the future like more of a water crisis in the future that's not guess what their problem that's their opportunity you know yeah and we are instead like finding just bending ourselves into pretzels as a mainstream media to shift the blame to the worker making too much money yeah i mean it's it's a tale as old as time you know it can't be like the stories can't suddenly be like we need to rein in corporate greed and it's not because we're paying living actually people are being paid sub subsistence wages despite all of that. It's going to be some form because it's their friends. It's like, hey, man,

my friend who owns a bunch of franchises is saying they're getting killed because the poor people want to get paid more. Okay, I'll write that. I can write that up. This minimum wage increase is actually abusive to us, the business owners. Yeah, no.

You look at the money, I don't see anything that suggests this is like, you guys are doing absolutely everything you can. We're like, we're on razor thin margins. Okay. Right. Even though we just, you don't look at the CEO pay. Okay. Just don't look at the CEO pay.

Right. That's the other. So they're focusing on worker pay. Meanwhile, the CEO of McDonald's paid himself $10 million in 2020 while they were missing big performance targets. And then in 2021, he doubled that. He made $20 million in 2021. All right. And then he took a pay cut and went back down 17.8 so you know people throw the word that's wild to go from hey look we we kind of weren't hitting a lot of the the kpis here

in 2020 all right just give me 10 million then 2021 all right yeah baby give me fucking 20 you know i'm gonna take a pay cut just not shave 3 million off of that. During the pandemic. Yeah. I will be paid. All three. Yeah. 1,200 times higher than the median McDonald's employee. Yeah.

Wild. Anyway. So, yeah. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.

Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. But it's actually, it's because they're paying the workers too much. Good Biden. Thanks a lot, Biden. Thanks, Byron.

Keep talking to the ghosts too much. Good Biden. Thanks a lot, Biden. Thanks Byron. Keep caught. Keep talking to the ghosts, homie. Yeah. And the, yeah, McDonald's charges more money for the one reason that they want to, and they think they can.

And then, you know, when it turned out when they found out, Oh shit, we're not Disneyland. Yeah. We can't be there. There are other games in town.

Nobody has any brand loyalty to us. Yeah. Got put back in check. All right. And then I wanted to talk about this video that was going viral where Sean Hannity decided to interview Curtis Sliwa, who's the head of the Guardian Angels. That's Jojo Siwa's uncle. A lot of people don't know that.

A lot of people don't know that. Jojo Siwa's both. A lot of people don't know that. A lot of people don't know that. Jojo Siwa's both with very iconic headwear. So the Guardian Angels were around in the late 70s, early 80s. They wear like a red jacket and a red beret. Yeah. And they are basically like vigilantes who fight crime in new york city they got a lot of positive press in the mainstream media at the time um and then they kind of disappeared and quietly it was revealed that like a lot of the stories that this guy was telling

were lies like he had kidnapped himself at one point i think he said he was kidnapped by three off-duty transit cops yeah i think was a thing that happened yeah and also making up tales of how they saved people yeah it didn't happen didn't happen yeah it was all just you know the guys does not seem to be telling the truth about anything ever but anyways mayor eric adams just started to distribute prepaid credit cards to migrants and he was pissed uh hannity was pissed and so they interview him on the streets standing with like his crew of vigilantes. And like, as he's being interviewed, the guys in the red jackets behind him run off camera. And then the camera pans to show him beating like them,

beating the shit out of somebody. Yeah. You can hear it. It was, it was all live on wax for reviewers here. Here's the moment where he like, he's like, yeah,

hold on, Sean, let me show you this. This is us. This is justice in action in fact our guys have just taken down one of the migrant guys right here on the corner 42nd and 7th while all this is in the camera they've taken over they've taken over like the camera over there if at all possible um they can't They pan the camera around. Audio goes out.

But they've got somebody in a chokehold. Just roughing him up. And then put him on the ground. Roughing him up. He goes on to brag about how much they beat him up. He had been shoplifting. The guardian angels spotted him, stopped him.

He resisted. And let's just say we gave him a little pain compliance his mother back in venezuela felt that felt the vibrations he's sucking concrete the cops scraped him off the asphalt he's on his way to jail but they'll cut him loose right i wonder why because we come to find out you fucking creep that this dude was not a migrant it was some guy from the bronx who was just like heckling them who's like man fuck out of your fox news and the guardian angels and so they decided to fuck this guy up and immediately curtis lee was like oh yeah this guy's from venezuela he's a shoplifter the nypd they even gave a comment they're like as far as we know this is just some guy from the

bronx who like they they put their hands on we have no evidence that there was a shoplifting or he was involved in any shoplifting but somehow sliwa just from off camera he immediately that's what's so wild those people leave off camera they go behind camera and he's just like, yeah, so they got one of these migrants from Venezuela just now. I'm sorry. What? So you saw him shoplifting from across? Yeah. There's a lot of logic going on here.

Is he unless the guy was like, I am from Venezuela and I'm shoplifting and I am a migrant and i have received one of eric adams's debit card like the guy just presumed all of it which is so weird because this guy is such an opportunist right like when when the guardian angels first started out there was this guy one of the guardian angel was like killed by a police officer in buffalo and slio was so fucking bad faith about it that he suddenly was like oh the the guy who was killed by the police was an african-american guy he's like this just shows you what's the problem with the police it's racist and it's this a white officer being protected by the police and then you come back around to just being like yeah we're basically like brown shirts right that's really what it feels like yeah it

feels like they're just this is the rise of fascism you know yeah like crime has gone so people are like they're back because crime is out of control now like he he ran for mayor and was the republican nominee uh against eric adams but you know and the way it's covered is like in response to the migrant crisis in new york actually crime has gone way down since the late 70s and early 80s and the only reason they're making a comeback now is because america is getting way more you know fash friendly fash fashionable you know oh oh trademark trademark fash hey write that down on a piece of paper and mail it to yourself it's trademarked copywritten yeah yeah so just more bad faith i mean because it's wild

too like that organization started off as predominantly like black hispanic latino like members too and now it's just like yeah we're just here to kind of uphold nativist fucking you know fear-mongering and we got these berets though yeah we got an out we got a uniform though and then ypd eventually was like hey you guys are good yeah yeah even but like this whole thing used to start off being like the cops suck and they don't do enough and people are like oh yeah maybe you got a point here yeah and now he's just become just basically like a cosplayer with his jacket on i didn't realize that that the John Gotti's son put a hit out on him. Did you know this?

Is that true? That's true. Something that he said. No. And he was legitimately kidnapped and shot by two hit men. And he jumped out of the moving car. He was shot in the groin and legs. They said.

Who said? that's actually happened to curtis leeward that's like not that's not okay yeah like he actually john goddard's son was like he's like i didn't like what he said about my dad apparently so um yeah yeah and then but then in 92 admitted to faking a half dozen acts of heroism to gain publicity in the group's early years. He is just kind of like an open book, I guess. Yeah, he's just a grifter. I was lying about that. But he gets shot in my groin.

That offsets anything. He was like, I got to tell you, I was lying about these ones because now bad stuff is really happening to me. I'm getting roughed up yeah wow curtis curtis curtis yeah it's just i mean it's just wild though too that you know on hannity you're just seeing this kind of horrific racial prof profiling just happen and they're like wow oh yeah his mother back home in Venezuela felt that. Cool. Cool. That was a cool line, man. Wow. Sucking concrete. Yeah.

I like to say that sucking concrete. It's real. Just kind of, it's evocative, you know, don't suck concrete. Y'all just, you know,

keep your mouth off the concrete, I guess. Yeah, please, please. And also if you work at an airport, if you have any insight, can I,

I really do. i'm just so fascinated because i'm going to be traveling in a couple of days i'm gonna have to go and look at what what the fuck's going on at the check yeah yeah just the most outrageous uh prices that are happening yeah if anybody works at an airport and like knows the process for setting prices like i i'm very curious because there's a broad range like there has to be a logic right that the industry applies that it's like i mean the the rent the overhead it's the they're probably going to say it's the overhead that's always the thing that they say to be able to do business in an airport requires a tremendous amount of capital already so why you're not flying the fucking planes

i'm that's just what i'm that's what i've been told to say by my industry trade group salt lake city check next 379 st louis 929 damn what is it just like the the people's ability like are they just really pure of heart in utah and they're like we can't do that that's come on come on now let's not go let's not get too greedy here and then st louis doesn't really make any economic sense to me other than they're just making the shit up as they yeah yeah i wonder if they have like a spreadsheet and they're like all right see what happened when we made the the fucking smart water 8.99 for a 20 ounce bottle okay the sales went down by this many percent. All right, knock it down like 50 cents. Let's see where we're at.

It's probably some wild shit like that. Yeah. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, February 8th. 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. 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. 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 starting your career.

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