The Daily Zeitgeist - Big Pimpin', Trendin' G's 8/1:Nichelle Nichols, Bill Russell, Pat Carroll, Mexican Pizza, Music Midtown Festival, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Mirror City, Elon Musk

Episode Date: August 1, 2022

In this edition of Trendin' G's, Miles and super producer Becca discuss the passings of Pat Carroll, Nichelle Nichols and Bill Russell, the return of the Mexican Pizza, the Music Midtown Festival being cancelled because guns are more important, Zahara Jolie-Pitt heading off to Spelman, the Saudi 'Mirror City' concept, and Elon Musks' shitty, disapproving dad!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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry.

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Even though we are celebrating Beyonce's musical contributions the last few days, and probably for the foreseeable future as somehow the album does better than all subsequent albums, which means sounds like the momentum will not stop anyway uh thank you for joining me i am miles gray and i'm joined by super producer becca ramos hi hello hello i will say this we won't go deep into beyonce but something i love about her is that everything she puts out she is constantly always evolving into like newer, better, crazier skin. And it's so cool. I remember how I felt when

Beyonce self-titled dropped. I don't even remember where I was. I was on my way to Disney World with my family. And then I remember when Lemonade dropped. I was like, so, you know, I just and that's why I stan. i mean i learned a lot of the

words to the beyonce self-titled album uh as i was courting somebody because i was like oh this is their love language and i'm like and i i like music enough that i should not be this ignorant about beyonce and then it it was a wrap and i didn't even need that person anymore because then I had Beyonce. Anyway, it's Monday. It's August 1st. We got to tell you what is trending. Over the weekend, kind of some sad news. We had a trifecta of passings. Pat Carroll, who you may know as the voice of Ursula from The Little Mermaid.

I certainly do. Look, because I'm one of those poor, unfortunate souls. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in Star Trek, obviously iconic performer. TV history. Yeah. And also, I think, she's part of one of the first black and white on-screen kisses, right?

Yes, that's what I mean. Actual TV history. She is the first like interracial kiss interracial that was the word i was looking for you i was like oh i was gonna say when it's not a white person i don't know why my you'll hear in tomorrow's episode i think it's fucking october right now uh so bear with me as i get through all those and then also bill russell legendary basketball player for the Celtics, fantastic player and coach,

also passed away. Very, very unfortunate. So rest in peace to them. Let's see. Which is so funny. I'm like, basketball, Star Trek,

and Little Mermaid. But very big things for, I think. Those were big, iconic pieces of entertainment history. But how about some good news? but very big things for i think those were those were big iconic oh yeah yeah yeah yeah uh but how about some good news the mexican pizza is trending why well guess the fuck what we've been talking about how the return of the king as or as what i call the mexican pizza um came back recently

wasn't sure if it's going to be permanent well now we do have it on good authority that it will be on a permanent return this September. So shout out to all the cardiologists out there who will be trying to convince people to stop eating like that. But the way I look at it, I haven't had it in a long time. So yeah, maybe I can eat it for three straight months. Yeah, absolutely. And then relax a bit. Thank God. I don't know.

You know, you need a drunken food and the Mexican pizza's back and has your back. You have a favorite drunken food you eat? Ooh, hard question. I feel like— Or name a handful of things. No, I do have one. Oh, you do have one. In particular.

Okay. And it is very embarrassing. It is— Stouffer's frozen tuna noodle casserole that's mine not that gross okay sorry i'm disgusting it is colloquially used to be known as when i was in high school the mcgangbang which is when you take a mcchicken and a mcdouble and you put them together yep uh that is my drunk food i always feel horrible after wait but in the moment... That is so wild that you go for it. Like, that is

just nailed on. You're like, today is McDonald's. Let's go to McDonald's. Absolutely. Every time. Get McDonald's. Take a sandwich. He's like, I hate you, and I hate this. This is the grossest thing I've ever seen you eat in my life, and I will eat the whole thing. And if I'm really hungry, I'll add on some nuggets.

There you go. No nuggets. There you go. No fries. There you go. I don't need them. Shout out to true Americans. You ever do the McSurfin' Turf? No. No, I'm too afraid.

That's a double quarter pounder with fish filet. Yeah, I know. I'm too afraid of the filet. Guess who's nasty enough for that? Look, if it's fast food fish, I love Triple F. Fast food fish? I if it's fast food tuna so i love triple f fast food fish i think it's my japanese-ness i can't say no to fish even it even if it's the most

disrespectful version of it possible i'm like i don't know because you know why my mom went in the 80s she didn't like like she didn't want me eating the mcdonald's beef so i could only eat fish because in her mind she's like see japanese people live long because they eat fish and beef She didn't want me eating the McDonald's beef. So I could only eat the filet of fish. Because in her mind, she's like, see, Japanese people live long because they eat fish. And beef didn't really come until the Second World War. So why don't you get on that diet? And I'm like, this is deep fried shit. But man, when it used to come in the blue styrofoam box, I have such nostalgic memories for that fucking thing.

Because it was different than everybody else when they had their meat-based sandwiches anyway oh i love that though that is like endearing and comical because it's just not how simply america works no not at all uh but you know that's that's where we find ourselves uh and then next thing trending is music Midtown. So Atlanta has this festival, the Music Midtown Festival, and it's been canceled for like the most fucked up Republican controlled reasons ever. Because of Georgia's gun laws, right? The festival said, we don't want weapons at the festival. We want to ban people from entering. Right.

We want to bar people from entering a music festival with them bangs on them and but unfortunately the courts have basically said they do not have the standing to supersede the law and enforce its own ban because there's like other stuff where you don't even need a permit to like carry shit anymore it's it's really fucked up so a lot of people are looking at this and saying like what the fuck is this like you're you're actually you're we're now looking at a situation with these gun laws like in states like georgia where you can't even say hey to be safe like leave the fucking blammers at the door um unfortunately it's so crazy that like it is so republican that they can't just chill about it.

You know, it's like, it's like some things it's like, yeah, that's the law, but like, we're going to do our thing. And like,

you know, we're going to respect you doing your thing for this event. But it's like the Republicans were like, no, we will bring our guns to this festival. So watch out. And it's like good on the festival for canceling instead of just like, you know,

caving. But damn, that's scary and sad. Because it's, like, so many places, so many mass, like, concert events we have had major shootings at in the past. You know, I mean, we constantly have a rolling mass shooting population issue. But, you know, I can think of, like, three or four that are, like, on the top list of, like, these are in memoriams for, for like mass shootings in this country that are festivals that are concerts we yeah public safety is secondary to the fucking gum humping um yeah it's it's it's really wild uh and it really shows you again just like how how just the many ways that these kinds of policies just like affect so many people because that's that's money to work an event you know what i mean the the all-star game was supposed to be in georgia and it wasn't because of the politics like whatever this is uh this is our

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part of the HBCUs. They have a new admission. They have a, they've admitted a new student this fall they will be welcoming none other than angelina jolie's daughter zahara wow this is so wild to me on so many levels i'm like good on you for like i'm sure i'm i'm i don't know how you were raised but i'm sure being adopted you have many questions about who you are and the cultures and communities that you're a part of uh that you

hopefully will find that uh but also i never felt more fucking old in my life because we saw baby pictures of her and now she's in college what the fuck i don't yo this is so fucking wild to me that's how i feel about hearing about any of the angelina jolie kids because or i should say the bradgelina kids because i distinctly remember and i know i am younger than you miles but i do remember that era of like when they adopted all of them oh yeah this is all the odds this was yeah and i you know i was young but it was like very much part of cultural commentary and now i'm like oh they're all like adults like they're all like coming of age teenagers and adults like starting their lives that's crazy fucking shiloh motherfucking zahara zahara uh maddox got a fucking receding hairline yeah that's how old he is now

he's balder than me how what is going on with time but i guess that makes it she was it's wild because i remember when they adopted her or I don't know if it was together, if they, you know, because everyone's saying like Angelina Jolie, not talking about Brad Pitt in this case. Yeah. Like I was just getting out of college. And now she's going into college. Now you're going in.

I am. Y'all are hearing someone who is not quite 40 yet like just deal with the passage of time and in real time right now on a microphone and it's fucking them up right now I don't know what else to say I mean I feel you I went you know to my alma mater this weekend and I was like I feel old in this city this doesn't feel like it was when i went you still look like you could be a narc you know i mean you still look young enough that you could narc it up on a college campus so let's keep it you know uh i thought you're gonna say like i was there and uh the keynote speaker was northwest i feel like northwest is about to be in college or some shit too

i mean every time i look at a picture of her, I'm like, oh, she's like a preteen. Like that to me is shocking. Blue Ivy is like 17 looking now. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? I'm like, they got their hair done, nails done, everything done. They're like, you know, growing up to be women. Oh, they're fancy, huh? Yeah.

They're a kid. It's just, again, the passage of time, something to behold. I don't know why. I'm like, Sahara's Jolie Pitt just got into Spelman. It feels like a, I don't know, like a Simpsons line where they're predicting the future. Yeah. But it was very accurate. But we would have been making this joke like 15 years ago.

Anyway, cool. Neom is also trending. You may have seen this picture of the line, which is this emission-free smart city that Saudi Arabia is trying to build. A lot of their recent stuff is revolving around this, like the line and mega city project. But this thing looked like a big-ass mirror

laid on its side uh that is supposed to be ran solely on renewable energy and if built according to plan will measure 105 miles long so um so check that out i don't know these photos are kind of jarring. They look very much like, what's the movie? Inception. You know? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because it is trippy to see, like, a reflective building just sort of, like, dumped in the middle of, like, a very, like, minimal-looking landscape. Yeah.

It's, I don't know. I mean, like, a lot of the articles are just like, I mean, yeah, like, they're trying to say't know i mean like a lot of the articles just like i mean yeah like they're trying to say they're gonna do a lot but you know uh like most things in this in this world i'll believe it when i see it yeah and i just wonder when it comes to uh smart cities and you know the renewable energy and all those things which is like obviously the direction we want to go like every day we're talking something about climate change um i just wonder what they're doing to actually help the unhoused like those that oh like it's like this seems like this is for the privilege right this is a a utopia that excludes you know people who are in marginalized capacities and need help in totality like it's very like uh

uncanny valley looking to me yeah i i mean this this looks like the like elysium kind of shit like but on earth it's like who will make it on the mirror blade building that it will save you from terrible climate change um i don't know i know. I'm not sure what MBS's charitable giving streak is like, but I will bet money that this is not for broke boys. No. Only the ballers.

Okay? Okay. But it looks like that kind of shit like when I was a kid. Whoa, sci-fi. It does. It looks like sci-fi on Earth, which is also scary.

It's like, no. We're already here. Sci-fi on earth, which is also scary. It's like, no, we're already here. Sci-fi on earth. The last thing that's trending, got to check in with Elon Musk, just because his dad, Errol, went on some show and just started talking shit about his own son.

Like, I'm starting to be like, oh, no wonder you're like this. So Errol Musk, he was asked, you know, just very simply, hey, like, you know, are you proud of your son asked you know just very simply hey like you know are you proud

of your son you know for all his you know his businesses and his achievements and being like you know a billionaire and he just straight up said no and then he then he clarified goes you know we're a family that have been doing a lot of things for a long time it's not as if we suddenly started doing something which i like love that shit like where he's like oh so he forgot i was running an apartheid era fucking emerald mine that paid for all this shit okay and now you want to talk about money okay okay no i'm not proud of him because he did not do that shit on his own like that is i just love the fucking pettiness of being like i resent my son for having the advantages i gave to him literally made for him but you know what that's a lot of rich people i feel like it's

like so confusing like i know a few people that it's like their parents still very much financially support them but then talk down to them and it's like well you're not letting them be financially independent either it's almost like a cuck that you have over them to be financially beholden like they're like it's like oh well like i'm just gonna give them a job and i'm gonna fund their lifestyle and i'm gonna do this and that but i'm gonna be mad that they're like not doing x y and z and it's right because also they feel like they have to make these decisions because you're paying for their life also it's like because also they feel like they have to make these decisions because you're paying for their life also it's like this cycle that's like i i can't feel bad for you

because like wow what it's like to grow up with money but i can sympathize that your parents are also emotionally damaged in different ways yeah i mean i i'm like oh shit you fit in with like you know i grew up with a lot of kids who had like wealthy parents but especially like if the if the dad was like super successful it it made for a weird situation for like this son yeah and in that context too where like they are kind of being like hey you know like i'll foot the bill for stuff but then i'll be like how come you're not doing all this stuff it's like because you you coddled this person to the point that they you're like my son's not going to work and cut to now your son is an adult with no work ethic yeah or like any

concept of value and in this case whatever he's like their own person because they're like a shell of a person based on the decisions that you force them to make because you were paying for everything we're talking and you know what we're talking about other people. We're not talking about motherfucking Elon Musk. No. Elon Musk is crazy. You deserve your dad, sir. He said also, then this man goes on to start body shaming his own son. He says, Elon is very well built.

He is very, very strongly built. But he's been eating badly. I've been telling him to take a sort of supplement i saw something called garcinia cambogia that does a lot to bring your weight down it certainly did mine so would you hawk in weird fucking diet shit now on your interview sounds like a narcissist to me narcissist bread narcissist that is crazy and then the second half of that quote, or yeah, he states that owning an entire fleet of luxury cars, he doesn't own a single Tesla.

That is some dark shit. That's letting you know. He's like, that's not a luxury car. That's a toy y'all got. You have to plug it in? What is it, a PlayStation? No. I will get in my Maybach

and fucking be gone. Throw deuces at the at the peasants. But yeah, wow. A guy who will never be good enough for dad is fucking in the driver's seat of billions of dollars. That'll go well. Oh, yeah. Dad, you can wait till I own Twitter. No, no.

Well, just give your money away. Want to piss your dad off? If you really want to be enough. Yeah. If you really want to piss your dad off, you really want to be enough yeah if you really want to piss your dad off maybe you need to be a class traitor homie you know what i mean think about that hop on in bro although i'm low-key if you did we would still clown your ass till then we're not gonna forget all that because the damage has been done you know damage has been done but the thing is at least you will be on the protected scrolls yes you know that's the one thing but you can't eat the rich if you're not rich exactly we'll be like oh no not you you're broke now

but where's your dad at all right uh well thanks so much becca for joining me also a quick we'll have an update from you from your teacher just to let you know just a quick update zeit gang you came through and fulfilled everything on that list. I'm retweeting some stuff and I'm going to try and find a way to keep potentially, because a few of you have reached out with your own wish list. Look at my Twitter or Daily Zyte Guy's Twitter. I'm going to keep retweeting those things

and we'll try and, I don't know, I feel like there's a way to make this more organized. Absolutely. Yeah, I want to say personally, thank you so much for y'all are zagging is incredible i literally was speechless when miss ortega texted me about everything she wants to give a formal thank you so look out for that on our socials this coming week but uh yeah like thank you so much it means the world to me meant the world to her to get those bookshelves so whoever

did that thank you so much it's. An English teacher doesn't have books, a bookshelf for her books for her classroom. So you really made a huge difference in a teacher's life. And I and her could not thank you enough.

So thank you. Yeah. Oh, see, on a positive note, ignore that toxic daddy stuff we were just talking about. Eat the rich and do a nice thing

for a teacher today yeah for real please do uh because i said chances are we owe a lot to a teacher i know i fucking owe pretty much everything uh you know outside of my family but teachers played such a pivotal role look i know my mom listens she'll be something like oh so i did nothing excuse me oh so you're oh so your teachers taught you japanese So you could read and write Japanese because you're teachers? Or because... Okay, just making sure. All right.

Anyway, thanks so much for listening, y'all. We will be back tomorrow with a whole new episode. Until then, take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Get the mask. Get the vaccine. And when I say get the mask, I mean the mask from the movie The Mask. So you can be like Stanley Ipkiss and cause a scene in new york city uh and also yeah take care of yourself and please don't do anything

no don't do nothing in the face of white supremacy or homophobia misogyny transphobia nothing like that because we pretty much need to live in a world where we fuck with everybody uh and that's that actually actually will create the biggest team on earth see when you start saying i only fuck with people that do this isn't this then your team is this big but if you say i fuck with everybody. And that's, that actually, actually will create the biggest team on earth. See, when you start saying, I only fuck with people that do this, this, and this, then your team is this big. But if you say,

I fuck with everybody if they're just trying to, you know, live happy. Now you got to fuck. Now you got to squad. Okay. Until then, we'll talk to you then.

I always say that shit. All right, bye. 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 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 Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine 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.

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