The Daily Zeitgeist - Beyonce InflayshTrend 6/15: Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Jokic, The Beatles, Choo Choo, Amazon, Twitter

Episode Date: June 15, 2023

In this edition of Beyonce InflayschTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Beyonce-related inflation, Lady Gaga's wild Nurtec Instagram ad, Jokic loving the parade after all, the new AI created Beatles song, how many 'Chugga Chuggas' are appropriate before a 'Choo Choo', the Amazon workers strike, and Twitter: the worst platform for the LGBTQ+ communitySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or i don't know how you say it i so i always see it written like that in the you don't call it sweden what such a cool name but like yeah she kicked off the renaissance tour in sweden and i'm pretty sure super producer becca said she knew someone who flew to sweden for the show because they could get better seats for the cost of going to sweden than they could in a like a u.s show um so and i've a lot of people like apparently went there because it was like the first show so it wasn't just like only people in sweden so i guess they said beyonce started her world tour uh wait okay how much the inflation went up but probably 0.2 to 0.3 of a percentage point that hotels and slash restaurants have added and they're basically saying like the

increase is caused to quote an increase in a broad set of goods and services for instance hotel and restaurant visits and recreational service services which include concert tickets so like the sheer volume of money and shit being spent was just like okay had a little bump in the inflation but yeah and just yeah is it people can just charge more like that's what inflation is it's like everyone's like oh shit we can charge people more money they're spending that much money on this bullshit not that it's bullshit beyonce tickets great you know seeing her sweden or beyonce tickets sweden you would be able to she'd be able to hear everything you shouted because i like i'm just picturing a lot of polite like blonde haired people no they went up oh yeah they were throwing meatballs they went up like the

price meatballs yo wild man lingam berries flying uh i'm sorry all i know is ikea and freddie jungberg uh but anyway yeah i mean it just shows the power of the gravitational pull of an artist like that and And, you know, a lot of people like to lean into, you know, co-opting the gravitational pull of artists. Yeah. Which probably brings us to our next trend. Yeah. We do love our divas

on this show. We talked pink on yesterday's trending. We were talking Beyonce, and now we're talking Lady Gaga. Oh, yeah. Because, well, the real thing that's trending. I mean, Lady Gaga is always quietly simmering in the background on all social media platforms. But out of nowhere, NerdTechODT is trending because of a Lady Gaga ad that people are objecting to. I didn't know it was an ad i thought she was just speaking truth

just kind of turning her proverbial chair around backwards and leveling with her fans i mean i saw the pfizer branding on her images was first i was like wait no this can't be it because the the caption on this instagram post was was written exactly in her voice i think most of you come to know and i'll read this uh in the image is lady god oh yeah there is a logo you know what i've said i have that permanently burned into my retinas the way that like people who leave fox news on their tv have that permanently burned yeah when i'm close my eyes i have the nerd tech odt logo burned into uh my retinas so that's probably why I didn't notice that. Okay.

Also by its drug name, Remigapant. What? Yeah, just so you know, just so this caption makes sense from this lady on Instagram, still image post. Who is Remigapant? They come up with that name first and they're like, we'll let the marketing people come up with a better

one. But is that really their rough draft? is that like the those are all just like chemical compounds yeah yeah exactly i think it's yeah it's remigapant it's remigapant jack come on what a wise visor on trial of course i know it is remigapant right uh but here's what you wrote ever since childhood i've dealt with migraine pain when i tried nerd tech odt puts the parenthetical 75 milligrams for the first time i'll never forget wishing i had found it sooner that's why i'm proud to partner with nerd tech odt purple heart we're in this together if you're ready to speak to a doctor ask about nerd tech odt today sounds like one of our ads intended for u.s audiences only individual results prescription only nerd tech odt is for the acute treatment of migraine and

the preventive of treatment of episodic migraine in adults it goes on like and then yeah the subsequent it's like a carousel like post the subsequent two slides are just like all the legal shit that you have to put because you're you know you're doing a cool pharma i add but the tell your health care provider about all your medical conditions including if you have liver problems have kidney problems yeah are pregnant or plan to become pregnant um i like yeah one post just a comment on here so many people like no one is just no just know what the hell is this uh another one oh rent is due uh rent is due due okay yeah but i guess you know look even the obscenely wealthy they they would like to add

a little bit more to the bag unless maybe she's like i need look she's telling her manager's like i wish i could just get remigapant for free. That would help me out for a really long time if I could just get my Remigapant for free. The photo of the performance, she does have like one hand to her temple as if to suggest either this is like she's doing like a dramatic, performative, like, aye-aye, captain,

or she's just like has a mig a migraine right now she's just like oh no she's like my migraine pain before taking nerd tech odt remigapan 75 milligrams was up to here right but i think uh yeah it's just hey man i i really want to know what that costs right because it's see this all all the time celebrities and artists have the they have a price to do things like that you wouldn't expect them to and there there's a there's a whole industry of underground performances and appearances by like artists to be like yeah i was uh in azerbaijan like fucking performing for this like death spot for three million dollars but you'll never hear about it i really want to know what lady gaga got for this yeah i got for that yeah celebrities should not be viewed as individual people they are like

corporations disguised as human beings and you know i'm sure this is just like one of 5 000 financial decisions that were made by the lady gaga like boardroom um yeah it's uh it's dark all right uh yokich has betrayed those of us who are loving his energy his uh not here for it-ness yeah his i've got a parade are you fucking kidding me yeah he is behaving as though he just had the first alcoholic beverage of his life yeah and i know that's not true he was as uh i believe anna said like when he was first complaining about going to the uh parade relatable king King, you know, we thought of him about he had enough as a worker. But turns out when you win a national championship and you're the MVP, maybe it is nice to hear thousands, hundreds of tens of thousands or however many thousands of people just scream at you. But here was him at the parade saying that he liked it.

Thank you. Thank you, though. You know that I told that I don't want to stay on parade, but I fucking want to stay on parade. Hey. Fucking life. Fucking life. This is amazing. This is, we're all going to remember this our whole lives.

And when we see you guys that came out on the streets, and actually this one is for you. We love you, Denver. This one is for you. Thank you, guys. Short and to the point. There he is. I am...

This does, for me, this is my Lady Gaga posting NerdTag OD. Yeah. Yeah. Because we were rooting for you, Nicole. We were all rooting for you all rooting for you to be joker yeah um i get it but he's like the joker when you know when we all go one direction he's a he goes the other direction yeah you know so i was following that's right there's a story that made the rounds this week about there's a new beetle song coming out thanks to ai uh paul mccartney announced that a new final beetle song uh is going to be coming

later this year uh and the it's it's all thanks to the fifth beetle artificial intelligence all right um and all the resulting headlines made it sound like... Don't disrespect Billy Preston now. That's the real fifth Beatle, but we'll call AI the sixth Beatle. Yeah, they all made it... All the headlines made it sound like it was like Lennonbot 3000

will be singing on this song. The computers. Yes, but it's actually not as creepy as it sounds uh the song is just a one of a series of recordings that john lennon made for paul mccartney back in 1980 um and like it was just a very rough demo tape uh and then you know he was paul uh john lennon was assassinated and so they are using the ai tech to basically isolate the audio on the tape oh so just clean it up yeah the background sound so it feels like you have a clean vocal track yeah apparently he saw what they did

on the peter jackson's get back movie with the audio on that which for for decades had been i guess unusable and then suddenly it sounded like you were in the room with them and you know he was like let's let's give it another go then in terms of like people who are who have high hopes for this latest final Beatles song. Paul had already been trying to use this when George was alive in the 90s. The idea was bandied about that they were going to release this song. And George thought the song was, quote, fucking rubbish. And, quote, refused to work on it.

All right, George. There you go. Keeping it real. Always. Always. He had young Nikola Jokic energy. Pre-parade Jokic. Nerd tech Jokic.

Is that just a term we're going to use now when people turn heel? You went nerd tech on them? Are we going to start like is the concept of selling out going to start being a thing again for a while? It was secure that bag. Oh, yeah. My Godhead Lady Gaga.

But now it does feel like people are like what the fuck? I think yeah, I think selling out would maybe just it all. Yeah, I think coming back... I think we can use it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It helps class consciousness.

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We're so excited for you to hear our brand new podcast senora sex ed listen to senora sex ed on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast and we're back and choo-choo is trending. Yeah. Because I was not aware this was a controversy. It's like a thing on the internet all the time. Or recently, it's come up a few times.

So the question is, how many chuggas do you put in front of a choo-choo? Yeah. I feel like it's fully contextual, right? In my mind, I'm a four chugga type guy. Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, choo, choo. That feels like the proper buildup. Adding more. Okay.

Wow, really making this about yourself, aren't you? Again, it's up to the user. Yeah, no, I'm saying anybody who gives it a fifth chugga it's like okay man like what are you what are we doing here someone there are a lot of people who like all these comments around like a post that kicked off another debate like on facebook about it like one thing that does seem clear is two seems too little and odd numbers are just kind of weird like you do a seven chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga choo choo yeah no that came out of nowhere what the fuck was that um yeah that that could harm your children by doing chugga chugga chugga choo choo i guess i

can see yeah it does need to be even for for some reason chugga-chugga-choo-choo feels right. Chugga-chugga-chugga-choo-choo. But chugga-chugga-chugga-choo-choo feels like we've been interrupted. And what are we even doing here? Well, Super Producer Brian's saying the choo-choo got to come first. You do a choo-choo. Chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-choo-choo. Yeah, that makes sense. Oh, yeah, you got to choo-choo again.

Look, you know, again, my child is still very young, so we're not quite there yet where I will be able to determine how many is appropriate, but I just know in the culture I was raised in, it is an even number, but at minimum four. Ask your doctor what's right for you and your family

with the number of chuggas that go before choo-choo. I suffered from an odd number of chuggas of choo-choo. Thanks to Nurtek Remigapant, 75 milligrams. I'm chugging away like it was yesteryear. Super Cruiser Brian is correct that first of all, the thing you're going to hear first when a train is approaching is the choo-choo. That is the point of the choo-choo.

It's not... Okay, don't get all fucking trainologists on me here now. I'm just saying, it makes sense that you would do a choo-choo, then there would be a very quiet build of chuggas. But yeah, just in terms of, you know, conversationally, like I do use this phrase pretty frequently when I'm talking to people. And I think just a chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-choo-choo is right. I think I'm a four also, and I don't think I'm just influenced by you. That's fine. Again, whatever you want.

We don't mean to chug someone's chew. Yeah, that's right. Amazon drivers are on strike for the first time yeah 84 drivers in southern california um yeah because again they're you know we know how these things work it it happens in small numbers and then hopefully we'll build to something else we've seen people at warehouses go on strike but this is the first time drivers have um and you know they're basically guess what they are advocating for you know not fucking dying of heat in southern california at a minimum and better wages uh and amazon is doing the predictable thing about being like well

we like contract this out to our delivery service partners or dsps so this really isn't got nothing to do with us um although many people like that's bullshit uh this is this you absolutely need to come to the table to bargain over this um i don't i we'll see we'll see where we see we'll see where they go because amazon has a amazing track record for union busting um and doing everything they can to avoid sitting at the table uh to negotiate with workers but yeah yeah we're not really a company we're just like a group of people who like working together and hanging out with each other and that's really and then we just take all the money of every transaction it's wild one of the drivers has

basically like they talk about anyone who's lived in Southern California and been through a heat wave. You've had the experience of entering a car that's been in the sun all day, you know, just cooking and how like it's it's disorienting how hot it can be. These vans are like convection ovens. They're talking about like in the extreme heat, it can get up to 135 degrees inside the van. And a few drivers are saying, I'll go through 12 bottles of water in a day and pee once. Right. Be hydrated. I am not because of the draconian don't pee pee rules of Amazon, but that's how much fucking hydration I'm losing.

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global town square for communication that's not an empty promise that's our lap that's our reality when you start by wrapping your arms around this powerful vision, literally everything is possible. You have to, you have to genuinely believe and work hard for that belief. What? Yeah, no, that definitely needed a,

well, I guess it's official at the beginning of it. Yeah. And then, yeah, yeah. That's big. Garth Brooks announcing he's on Facebook for the first time energy.

Um, which fucking fog. I believe it's, I thought i was cool stuff cool stuff the success of twitter 2.0 is all of our responsibility we need to think big we need to transform we need to do it all together shut up i'm leaving my body i'm physically yeah holy shit yeah you obi-waned your whole outfit i just hope you want no there's just a blue force ghost next to my dead body uh finishing this episode up rubbing temples because they have a migraine because you didn't take yeah mega pant so i remember mega pant 75 milligrams i love I love throwing the milligrams into the conversational part.

Like, you know, that was a big legal conversation that had to happen, right? Yeah. You know, I wonder how much, like, was there any pushback? Which is like, I know this is the part where I'm just addressing them in my voice. Yeah, yeah. But we need the 75 milligrams. And actually, that's kind of how people talk about it. I mean, I get that dosage matters when you're taking it,

but again, it's so heavy-handed that that's what's so funny. These things will never come off as sincere. No branded post is going to come off as sincere unless you fully let Lady Gaga be like, yeah, man, I fuck with Remigapant, and that was it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, oh, okay. Alright. Well, okay. All right. No. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode and then we are off on Monday for Juneteenth. Happy Juneteenth to everyone.

Yeah. Um, and then back on Tuesday with the big long weekend trending updates. And then Wednesday with a whole ass episode. And we will talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.

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