The Daily Zeitgeist - BBL Trendy 5/23: BBL Chuck, Humane AI, Laura Trump, Graceland, F*** The LAPD T-Shirts

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

In this edition of BBL Trendy, Jack and Miles discuss the round mound of rebound: BBL Chuck, the untimely death of the Humane AI pin, how weird it is that Laura Trump is the co-chair of the RNC, an update on the Graceland situation, "Fuck The LAPD" T-shirts selling out after the LAPD tries to stop the sale of "Fuck The LAPD" T-shirts and much more!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 capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of bbl trendy bbl trendy that is courtesy of Brian, the editor. And it is timely. No, there's a reason. It's timely. It's timely. Because we got BBL trending again, thanks to Inside the NBA. Always there for us in a pinch. Yeah.

Yeah. So BBL Chuck is trending because there's this moment, I think it was after the Minnesota game, where they were talking about Chuck's ass for some reason. And Shaq said, I didn't know you had all that ass back there, Chuck. He said, BBL Chuck. And then they all laughed as they faded to commercial break. Fortunately, the other piece of news about Inside the NBA

is that Chuck has said that if the show goes away, he might put the crew back together himself with his own production company. How does that work? Somebody was pointing out that Inside Stuff, that NBA show,

was on NBC in the 90s, ABC in the aughts, and NBA TV in the 2010s. Yeah, with Ahmad Rashad? Yeah. So, I mean, there's been shows where they're able to keep the crew together in different...

But wouldn't you still have to have some kind of licensing agreement with the league to play footage and do all that kind of stuff? Or I guess not. Well, I guess Inside Stuff was able to do it, right? stuff or i guess not i mean well i guess inside stuff was able to do it right yeah spread it around i mean if there's a good product that makes sense and is good marketing for the league and yeah it would be wild if they chose to like no longer have inside the nba like i feel like it's widely agreed that that's the one of the best things about the nba

like tv coverage yeah the best sports show on television it's one of the best shows on television but hey look i wouldn't count out a major network to to even though that may be true then be like nah we know better we actually know better we're going to put Stephen A. Smith, Reggie Miller, and Bob Costas in a room together and watch the Sparks fly. Yeah, AI Michael Jordan's dad. And I think we're really going to have a really interesting show that people are going to want to tune

into. I'm telling you. People know what Inside the NBA is, right? Even though this isn't our sports, our NBA podcast. Yeah, our sports podcast. Yeah no no i mean look it's if you're ever watching tnt and you see shack talking and charles barkley that's that show it's that show it's a lot of fun they're just it has the vibe of a podcast but it's a tv show for some reason they're the only people who have been able to pull that off.

I mean, credit to Charles Barkley. I mean, despite the fact that he hasn't answered for throwing a poor immigrant man through a window and nearly killing him. But he is very conscious of morale on the set, which I can only imagine for all the people, the talent will be fine. They're going to land on their feet.

But they've been doing the show so long it sounds like charles barkley's also concerned with like all the crew that make the show possible being in limbo yeah so it feels like he's trying to make do good by them to be like we're gonna find a way to keep this thing going um so you know we we shall see we shall see be a real blunder if somebody wasn't able to figure out a way to keep it going but anyways uh just another the the lasting impact of that was it metro who put out bbl drake yeah oh well bbl drizzy yeah yeah metro boom he made the beat and then said this is a free beat for everybody to make their own drake dish track the best one gets ten thousand dollars and a beat from me or something like that yeah but it all started with a ai comedian guy who made this like fake soul track that was the basis for the sample that metro boomin used yeah yeah

it's willowness it is probably the best thing ai has done yet to this point yeah next to the concept of what that willy wonka experience in glasgow that's a close second i would say is that one that one that one's a whole like concept art performance art just amazing clusterfuck of like meaning and human sadness and all these different layers um so many layers to this shit so many layers hey well speaking of ai let's move on to something that isn't the best thing that ai has done the wearable startup humane you might have heard of this this was like a pin that projected shit onto your hands and it had ai launched in yeah it was basically like a star trek you know chest communicator module that like used magnets to like kind of like attach to your clothes and you could do all kinds of voice prompts like you could you could have it interpret what you're

hearing into languages or what you're saying into other languages it could you know basically do anything chat gpt can do using voice prompts like you know give you a summary of like what are the best fucking exercise habits this is a long distance what you're describing is what it could do in the demonstrations it would do this stuff right but then like you start digging into the details and that's where it you know kind of this is where it kind of started falling apart because the second reviewers got their hands on it this shit was dead on arrival because they were like what the fuck is this it's like 700 dollars um you need a 24 a month subscription fee because it needs to be on wi-fi all the time so if you're not on a wi-fi network then you need to get this sim card uh and then if you leave the country that's an extra fee which for people who

are like oh that interpretation interpreter thing would be cool if i travel it's like well then there's like a roaming fee yeah actually you can't do that sorry and the second you don't pay for a subscription the basically you basically brick the thing and it's useless um so i mean like there was a lot of hype because like again it was it was promising really interesting things um but yeah like again once people started using it they're like yo this shit is so heavy like i can't wear a t-shirt and like have this heavy ass thing on it's like pulling my collar down what if an apple watch just had to be pinned to your t-shirt shut the fuck up don't fucking bring up because that's the thing they're like well what's the display there was like a 720p sort of like you know a projector that you would project onto your hand and you would use gestures to like select things and it looked pretty intuitive but again

this shit did not work well in daylight so you're like oh i need to go to a shadowy corner so i can see the projection on my hand and again a lot a lot of people are like, How often are you going to use this thing in daylight? Come on. I feel like most of the time. No, I just, I feel like you're looking for reasons to criticize it where other people are calling it a dead on arrival. You know, it's like they nailed the arrival so hard. It's dead on.

It's dead. And that is what that means. You're just looking for negative they're referring to i don't know if you remember the film by denny villeneuve arrival remember how like that one dude was like babbling and shaking because he was so thrown off by being near the aliens that's what this shit is you're going to be dead on arrival because you've never you can't even fucking fathom what this thing does so anyway cut to this being like a total l the company is now the people who are behind the company who are like former apple guys they're trying to flog the company now for a sale price between 750 million

and 1 billion dollars but okay this is their only idea we all know miles we all know that uh you know like if you don't succeed at first that doesn't mean like that your next product that you have in the shop that you're kind of tinkering away at right right right you know the just because um the apple atom didn't work didn't mean that like the iphone wasn't good so like obviously you got a price point of like close to a billion dollars they have something in the lab that like um is gonna blow our mind there's a thing that was kind of like our one big idea so oh they have no other ideas except this shitty one they were all in on this fucking that was all they had and they're like, alright, fine, you twisted our

arm, we'll give it to you for a billion. Yeah. Do you have any other ideas except for the shitty one? Nah. Can you guys make it work for a billion? No. Why would we do that? You're up, you're down, you're up, you're down.

You're up, you're down. You're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. The other AI gadget gadget the rabbit r1 uh was part of an nft scam some people are saying brian the editor is stop stop shining light on this stuff man you know just let's just be happy we got these cool like a transponder device from when will you guys be happy they're saying it's a dead on this thing dead on all right dead on no like it doesn't even work selectively quote dead on asterisk arrival at the bottom and find um all right there's this new i think reuters or ap story about yes the fact yes but it's from Reuters or AP story about the fact... Yeah, it's from the AP.

They're talking about the fact that Laura Trump is basically the second in charge of the RNC, or the top person. The co-chair. Depending on who you ask. And I think I knew that. But I just hadn't... It just hit me again like eric trump's wife yeah like yeah yeah yeah a television producer uh-huh uh-huh not of like peabody award-winning tech like not a just like somebody who worked in media is now the head of the republican party co-chair you know but yeah yeah second i'm number

two after michael watley but yeah it just like hit drove home again like how much you know what hold on dude you know what she was you know the show she produced right inside edition so like she's got a fucking head on you know what i mean you remember that story about the lady who says she could that cheerleader who couldn't walk who couldn't walk normal after she got a flu shot yeah i mean i don't know if that was actually the one she worked on but that's the that's the level of journalism uh that she was working on if you want to call it that but yeah she's a coach it really feels like nothing like what would he have to do at this point for everybody to stop and be like wait what the fuck is happening yeah you know

like it's that i always talk about like you know the german people in media were all about talking about the nazis when they first came to power and then 10 years later when they actually like came to power and like took over like everyone was like yeah no we get it we know no we know about these guys yeah we know they're crazy and weird like so like if trump had tried to make eric trump's wife the head of the republican party during his first administration that would have been a major scandal like there would have been think it's like all anyone would talk about. Yeah. And you know, we freaked out when he fired James Comey for not being loyal,

but he didn't like try to replace him with Eric Trump. Well, you know, those aren't political appointees. So maybe the, the weight is a little bit different, but yeah, it's so cynical,

right? Because the head of the head of the head of the rnc the chairman is michael whatley who used to run the the north carolina republican party and he's like a huge stop to steal guy so like it makes sense he's a flunky like he'll do what he's told but the co-chair specifically like the chair person is the one who's like doing all the day-to-day operations like actually making sure it semi functions but the co-chair is like the rah-rah let me get get the checkbooks out person which is where laura trump comes in and you know the whole thing was i'm i'm in there because now i can direct all of the funds that the rnc generates just to donald trump and to offset all these legal

costs and you know it's a double-edged sword because everyone anyone who isn't donald trump who would rely on funding from the rnc is like uh like we're also running for office as republicans and could use cash like yeah more on that later dickhead uh we gotta pay for his fucking lawyers fucking lunch call so many people poindexter while bouncing things off their forehead when she's talking to them yeah flicking a corner i don't know it just it feels like this is working like as his behavior gets more flagrant it's just because we have more flagrant behavior in the rear view it gets harder for people to be like wait what the fuck is going on? You know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. The insurrection, like a straight up impeachable offense that he like got impeached for. And then like nothing really happened. Uh, the successful overturning of Roe v. Wade, like, uh,

like we have all that in the rear view. So now it's just, um, by the way, I'm not, I'm not proud to, I was like, we might need to come up with a new word

for what he has here. Like a neptocracy? A nepotocracy? Where someone tries to use past power just via familial ties? And then I realized that's called a monarchy. That's just...

Or all the people. Look at the Bushes, the Kennedys, the fucking, you know, who is Darth Vader? Yeah, Clinton. Yeah, I guess it's not that abnormal. Who the fuck? Who is the... Cheney, you know what I mean?

Like, everybody's... It all goes downstream. Look at, you know, Ronna McDaniel was Mitt romney's niece that's who you used to on the rnc that's true it's a neptocracy wrapped in a monarchy wrapped in a kleptocracy and all it's everything it's everything it's everything but yeah it's wild when you go to the rnc page and you hit you click donate it goes to trump's website yeah they're like you're giving me yeah why shouldn't it you got a problem with that, man? Nine out of 10, you know, it's 90% goes to Trump. 10% goes to whatever the RNC needs. More on that later. Let's take

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it earlier today in the episode uh but yeah that the whole thing between uh riley keogh the granddaughter of uh elvis and this like weird ass company like nasoni holdings or whatever the fuck that company was called who claimed that like we gave a 3.8 million dollar loan to lisa marie presley and basically she owes us money so now we own graceland um and to obviously when we're talking about the episode like the documents stunk of a forgery especially when the notary was like that's i was never here for that and this is i've never met mary presley i don't know i don't recognize these documents yeah exactly plus these documents are made of crackers hey there's no such team as the spongos

hey those are tickets um yeah so apparently you know the the judge ruled in riley keogh's favor surprise surprise and then nasani now said in an email to the associated press that it would be quote withdrawing all claims with prejudice and told the ap that it was dropping the case because both the loan and a critical document had been filed in another state, meaning the company would have to take legal action in multiple states. Like rather than just taking the L and being like, yeah,

yeah, we, we swung and that was a big old fake. Actually, we decided we're actually withdrawing it for other reasons that have nothing to do with the fact that it's fraud. So, uh,

I don't know what you guys are freaking out about but everybody needs to shut the fuck up well the court said there were no validity to your claims is that maybe the reason why that's probably why no it's because the documents are like in other states and so like i'm gonna have to like talk to my other friend in like mississippi like florida let's just do something i'm sorry you just trailed off we are you saying no i just said i'm gonna own it do you walk away from your phone for a second no hold on dude my mom's calling me what mom dude i'm sorry dude she's old dude i gotta go i gotta go but at least we learned that elvis presley enterprises exists and gets tax money from the city of, from the very poor city of Memphis for upkeep

and eventually building a stadium and a warehouse and factory for building all this Chia Pets. Oh man, shout out to Chias. Fuck the LAPD t-shirts have sold out thanks to police threats.

So this is the latest, um, example of Streisand effect. Yeah. A leftist t-shirt company called the Cola Corporation recently started selling shirts that read, fuck the LAPD, but in the style of the Lakers logo.

Hell yeah. Um, very cool shirt. Uh, highly recommend people check it out um the shirt led to the company receiving a legal threat from img worldwide the entertainment company representing uh the popular entertainment brand the los angeles police foundation who claimed to hold the rights to the LAPD IP. A?

The LAPD is the LAPD's secretive, multi-million dollar private funding arm, which has purchased surveillance tech, robots, drones, Palantir licenses, all sorts of nice little gifts for the LAPD. And the way that they get all that money that they can fund that shit with is partly through the sale of merchandise. Yeah. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah. That's what it's all about, dude. You know, my $105 LAPD ashtray. That thing is obscene. That's a real thing for sale that you can get. What about for those of us who celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ? How about a bullet ornament? It's like a pyramid

of six bullets stacked on top of each other with LAPD like a little LAPD tag on it for some reason. It's a little grim because these are spent shell casings. They're not full bullets. They're like spent shell casings.

These all represent a life of a person who was needlessly killed by the police. Yeah. But I don't know. It only costs $20 so it might be. But yeah, it is just wild to be like, why does the LAPD have a brand division?

You know what I mean? So that they can sell more LAPD-branded surfboard coins with guns for fins, which is somehow... I'm sorry, that's a word? That's a real product that I couldn't find, but that is in the description of their branding offerings. An LAPD-branded surfboard with guns for fins. Okay, cool.

Very cool, Miles. Yeah, I'm glad you agree. Yeah, I like that. In New York, the NYPD logo's been branded on officially licensed T-shirts sold in stores like Nordstrom and a graphic apparel brand tea and cake who uh there's a great instagram post that our writer jam found uh where the nypd

hoodie uh was being sold on instagram with the message freeze you are arrested for loving our nypd sweat so much oh fuck off freeze and it just it's like the doofiest looking hoodie it just says nypd on it yeah like i mean the internet is just full of like you know yeah fake like weird merch that just appears with letters on it but yeah i guess this i didn't realize that this was kind of a new thing like of like turning a police department into a commercial entity to yeah generate revenue yeah so the formal commercialization of police departments is a relatively uh started with the lapd um when they registered their name badge and motto with the LAPD when they registered their name, badge, and motto with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 98.

And that city was inspired by the fact that the FBI and NSA both already held trademark registrations for their logos, which sparked the question in my mind, are those female body inspector t-shirts

making money for the actual fbi maybe i'd imagine there's parody law that would apply there because you're not okay you're explicitly saying this fbi is not the federal bureau of investigation you're saying it's female i don't know who knows maybe it's a fucking op and we're all just being like dude you're fucking you're giving money to the feds with that female body inspector shirt you put on the boardwalk like i tried to google it and i couldn't find anything other than a web page for very stupid people asking is that really what fbi stand for and being like no fbi doesn't stand for female body inspector it might in a new trump term though you never know you never know you never know but yeah so i don't know so i mean the

like these are taxpayer funded organizations they don't have like you're not supposed to be able to sell uh branded products for anything that like has no competitors yeah it's just not a business like yeah exactly there's no yeah yeah doesn't know what do they need the copyright protection for yeah the one place that we've seen this be used very lucratively was the new york city fire department who registered with the patent and trademark office in you're never gonna guess uh let me guess um so if lapd did in 98 in 98, I don't know, like 99? November 2001. What happened?

Well, it was right after the Summer of the Shark models. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, right after 9-11, they realized they could cash in. So that holiday season, they were a gear, just like manufacturing and selling gear, FYPD, NYFD gear all over the place. FDNY, actually. FDNY, yeah. Yeah, respect, respect. That's just so funny how, like, I mean, it makes total sense, too.

They're like, oh, we can cash in on this. Because apparently, I get it, too. Like, they were probably seeing other people. They're like, like yo other people are selling fucking shit with our fucking name on it now we need to fucking elbow them out the market yeah that's exactly what happened so the fdmy was like we're seeing so many people like so their official merch only comprised like one quarter of the market so the government started sending out cease and desist letters and then the vendors like kind of were like what the fuck are you talking about and in this case in the lapd thing the like it's not even in the font of the lapd right so like they're

claiming ownership of the letters LAPD. Right, right, right. You can't copyright four letters. Like that's, um, the lawyer for the t-shirt company,

by the way, responded with a letter that simply read LOL. No. Um, LOL comma. No. No. Your cease and desist letter.

Well, ah, fuck. And then now I think they called our bluff shit what do we do now oh no tom morello retweeted the guy who owns the company's tweet about the lapd cease and desist letter is that good uh it's good for them because uh not only was the threat from the lawyer's total bullshit it completely backfired and the fuck the lapd shirt got way more clicks than it ever would have otherwise totally sold out uh the site is now struggling to keep items in stock as a result chalking the success up to the streisand effect so oh man love love a good story that's your weekly I guess Gina Reinhardt effect.

Yeah, the Gina Reinhardt effect. We're trying hard. We're trying hard to take it back. We're trying hard. I don't think it's going to happen because I couldn't even. I'm the one who raised the idea of changing it to the Reinhardt effect. I couldn't even pull that name. It's going to be the Streisand effect, folks. Yeah, you're like, it's the Earnhardt effect.

DE3. Alright. Those are some of the things that effect. DE3. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday 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. 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 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 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. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese

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