The Daily Zeitgeist - Burn After Trending 3/13: Katie Britt, Neil Young, Nancy Pelosi, Ben Shapiro, Boeing, 'Don't Say Gay' Bill

Episode Date: March 13, 2024

In this edition of Burn After Trending, Jack and Miles discuss Katie Britt looking to capitalize on her SOTU debacle, Neil Young returning to Spotify, Nancy Pelosi lying about sending arms to Israel, Ben Shapiro's thoughts on retirement… and weekends... and vacation, a Boeing Door-Buster update, the 'Don't Say Gay' bill getting thrown out and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 iHeartRad the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this episode of burn after trending aka trending arizona aka

oh brother where aren't trend uh aka no country for old trends which we have done before we've done that aka a serious trend the ballot of buster trends the trend who wasn't there do you see a theme in these brothers corn corn i believe yeah man i see that i see that that is courtesy of the one the only panoramic view on the discord wow uh welcome back welcome back um here we are the coens are you fan yeah yeah we've talked about that before i don't know i mean like i'm not like i'm not like man i'm a fucking coen brothers fan but i i enjoy their i enjoy them thing you have to understand about the coen brothers yeah that's how i open all my conversations. Oh, boy. I'm Jack. That is Miles. I'm Ethan.

I'm Joel. That's Ethan. And the thing you got to understand about these trends is Katie Britt wants people to pay her for that speech that she gave, that performance. while others may have simply changed their name moved to a new town where they wouldn't be recognized and taken a job at a local shopping mall cinnabon saul goodman style uh following her god-awful state of the union rebuttal senator katie britt is trying to turn the debacle into a fundraising op oh that's what you mean i thought i was hoping that she's like doing like cameo or something i know she's like it's only a matter of time yeah i'm yeah no truly um it's just wild that like tommy tuberville is the other senator and you're like what a what a great great representative for

that stage um yeah man it's sure i mean the other thing too is like she's there the people now like i think in the gop are realizing like all right we can't we gotta kind of defend her because we can't also go like you know just all in on bashing that they're like they're making her the new sarah palin basically that's what they're trying to do and it's really unfair what the media is doing yeah by like being like oh look at this lady that tried she doesn't know books from magazines oh okay sort of like pointing the finger and being haha at this terrible acting job um but yeah i get i get it she's a martyr she's a martyr for community theater but sarah palin at least had an authentically folksy vibe every once in a while. Right. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

She could pull it off. No, that was her. She was that ill-informed and ignorant. But she did it in a charismatic way. This was the strangest. It was just an out-of-body experience. I don't see the connective tissue to Sarah Palin. I get why they would like her to be the next sarah

palin yeah but they're more like you're the one you're just making fun of her that's the it's a new thing saying she's out of her depth or whatever and i mean like when you think when you actually look at speeches and how she's spoken in public prior to that you're like this is the worst acting job ever is is that how she speaks normally i haven't done the research to look at her other performance that was so turned up like that whole thing like when you see her you know like address the senate and stuff it's not i mean she that's her voice but the way in which she is it's never like that it just just seems like, have you ever seen... So this actually happened to me one time. I made the finals of a speech contest in, I think it was fourth grade.

And I practiced the speech. It was about Kleenex. You're lying. What a cool thing to lie about. My speech was about the invention of Kleenex. It was boring as fuck. And I practiced it so much that I didn't know where the pauses went by the end. It was just like my words stopped cohering.

And I remember giving the speech and people were like, you did a good job with the pauses, I guess. It was just a weird out of body. I didn't know where which syllables oh like to emphasize for drama that's what it felt like felt like she was being micromanaged on that speech by like gene kusno like you know it felt like she had an acting teacher who was like i just i don't believe it yeah yeah um there there's uh yeah brian the editor just dropped in there's there's a few comparison videos this is one from al.com

about just like hearing what she was talking about before this is this was prior to her delivering uh that amazing monologue the republican response to the state of the union so tune in president biden's border policies it's just like hey so tune in no difference detected she seems to be good luck she seemed to be like fundraising in some distress uh yeah but yeah instead of toning down the vibe that creeped people the fuck out she's doubling down trying to use the backlash to raise money and the tone of the email still has like i don't know i don't know if you can necessarily write that way like i can't tell if she's written it in the way that her speech was delivered or if the way her

speech was delivered makes it impossible for me to ever read anything again without hearing that voice in my head. Um, but it's, uh, because I didn't prepare a 20 minute speech and stand up to Biden in front of millions of Americans for me. I did it for them, you wow and for your children

friend oh friend friend exclamation point with a capitalization don't get familiar with me senator don't give we're not friends i mean okay friendo yeah that does feel like you're being called friend by anton's sugar sugar yeah for sure senator sugar and that would have you dude imagine that fucking if anton if anton sugar gave us that 20 minute monologue the fucking people would people would listen people would listen call it um at the end of the email she asked supporters to send a message to the radical left that we won't be laughed off.

Okay. Okay. Cool. I mean, you kind of are being laughed off. Yeah, yeah. And look, you hate to see it. You hate to see it. You hate to see it. But again, that was the... That's on... Look, that's on

your team right there. That is her team. The more I think about it, seeing her, hearing that comparison between her being herself, throwing to the clip, and then her being like... Like just quivering

with false, faux emotion. Too many yes people in that corner being like, oh my yeah, that was too many. Yes. Too many. Yes. People in that corner being like, Oh my God,

the drama, Katie, the drama was all drama. Um, Neil Young is coming back to Spotify. Uh, this is good news for everybody's dads. Um,

his music will soon be back on Spotify. He'll remember, uh, if you've listened to every single episode of this podcast and uh remember he pulled his music from the platform in 2022 to protest misinformation spread by uh joe rogan on his newly spotify exclusive podcast at that time now he's bringing his catalog back to spotify which he calls the quote number one streamer of low res music in the world i like how it's backhanded too yeah and then it's just like it's like oh okay you good with them

it's like nah to be honest like every platform does it like apple amazon i don't know what the fuck you want me to do man like or else i'll be fucking nowhere so here i am back yeah i guess like the only neil young songs you can hear hear on Spotify are like the ones he licensed for the Eat, Pray, Love soundtrack. Right. At this point. So. Man. But yeah, it hasn't hurt Joe Rogan.

That's what we do know. Yeah. Joe Rogan, you know, his podcast has become unexclusive to Spotify and and spotify is paying him a reported 250 million dollars over yeah in his new deal yikes jack we gotta get into having more freaks on i know we're we're blowing it man yeah gotta gotta smoke a j with elon man gotta smoke a j with Elon, man. Gotta smoke a J with Jamie. Jamie, pull that up. All right. And the White House. So back in February, Nancy Pelosi told journalists the U.S. has not sent arms to the Israeli government since October.

That's straight from her mouth in an interview. Yeah. I mean, listen, this is her in an interview saying, I don't know what they're saying, man. Like, we're not arming them here. This is what she said. Israel is very well equipped with weaponry. There's nothing that we have sent since October 7th that has has contributed to this brutality. Oh, yeah. Wow. That's's i mean here's the thing most people who are observing they're like well we know them bombs didn't come out of fucking thin air right um but there were

only like two publicly announced sort of transfers of arms that we had heard about from the biden white house and it was done under like an emergency declaration and you know there's also a claim that many like apologists for the administration or the israeli government like they hung on to that in order to sort of mitigate america's role in the slaughter of innocent people in gaza and like i said most people were like that's not no like i i just i can't even wrap my mind around the fact that that's what it would be a lot of people have now talked about this new revelation that we are now hearing because in a classified briefing to members of Congress, we have found out that there weren't just those two little itty bitty transfers, but a bunch of transfers. In fact,

over 100 separate weapons sales to Israel in the 150 days after october 7th quote amounting to thousands of precision guided munitions small diameter bombs bunker busters small arms and other lethal aid that averages out to about one shipment of arms every 36 hours that's a lot that's a lot that's a lot that's a lot that's a lot and oh but how come they got how did this happen how come they were able to just be like no no we didn't do anything maybe those two times well it's because biden is also exploiting uh the same loophole that trump did um under section 36 of the arms export control act which requires the president to notify congress when a proposed arms sale exceeds a certain value oh well what if you just sell a bunch of bombs at a value that's

just under that threshold that you don't have to report it oh you don't have to notify anyone great yeah so you just do it every 36 hours So it's never a big enough shipment to like, you know, go over that limit and just allow them to put up like Amazon prime numbers in terms of like how often they're ordering weapons from you. Right, right. Exactly. asked me and my friend to mule cash for them on an airplane flight because if he got caught with all of it, it would have exceeded the value. But if you spreaded it out over two kids who were under the age of

18, then you wouldn't have to get caught. You were under the age of 18? Yes. I know which friend's dad it is too based on our past conversations. How come I got to hold this cash? Oh, because if there's more than that, I got to report it. like wait i know which friends that is too based on our past conversations how come i gotta hold this cash oh because if i can count if there's more than that i gotta report it yeah okay well i'll let you hold on to five dollars if you do it for me yeah yeah i was like all right cool cool

cool but again this is such an underhanded way of arming israel and it's made it really easy for the administration to act like they're exercising restraint, which is something we've seen, like, you know, and paint the Joe Biden as sort of like some kind of peacemaker. And also when people are like, well, he's not giving them arms like he just doesn't have the leverage to really do anything. But this deliberate policy of materially supporting this genocide makes it clear that he absolutely does, because consider just the amount of bombs that have been dropped that were provided by this administration from october 7th to mid-february biden had delivered 21 000 bombs to israel and israel had already dropped half of them and there are people now online who are saying like oh it's actually just like they're defensive munitions for the iron dome in this report from the washington post i have not seen anything that is suggesting that they're saying lethal aid these aren't these aren't defensive

munitions for the iron dome these are bunker busters these are art these are this is stuff for like artillery these are exactly the kinds of things that are be using that they are using to launch this assault on gaza um and again like the munitions weren't gonna like israel doesn't have the production capacity for a campaign like this without the explicit help and aid of the american government um so yeah i mean again a majority of americans are opposed to this like non-stop arming of the regime and that number is even higher for you know people who biden is counting on voting for him in november when you look at democrats or registered democrats it's like 62 percent of democrats are like that we should we need to stop this like why are we

set like oh we're giving them the bombs yes yeah um all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about ben shapiro he He's got some interesting things about how we should all be spending our elderly years. We'll be right back. Great. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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united states should be retiring at 65 years old frankly i think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem also vacations and weekends what what are you doing you're making yourself less optimal as a producer of work yeah i like how he really did that too to basically like if we like if we haven't raised the retirement age he said it's totally crazy joe biden if that were the case joe biden should not be running for president okay joe biden is 81 years old the retirement age in the united states at which you start to receive social security if you're eligible for medicare is 65 joe biden has technically been eligible for social security medicare for 16 years um yeah we get it so his argument is basically like we shouldn't like

people should have to work uh until they're dead uh they shouldn't get any free government handout after the age of 65 yeah um no matter what exactly my my parents are at that age my parents are not retired and they shouldn't retire it'd be very bad for them to retire that's what he said and then he this is the other argument this is i love i love the rhetoric here by the way it's disrespectful to people who are 67 68 69 years old to suggest that they are in the's disrespectful to people who are 67, 68, 69 years old to suggest that they are in the same shape as people who are 65. As they were in 1940. It's not true at all.

Have you met a 65-year-old lately? 65-year-olds are not in the United States. We get it. So he's doing it as like a... And this position is actually a compliment to people. I'm actually impressed by how many push-ups you can do. And I just think you should be pushing yourself up the corporate ladder

at this age. Exactly. I mean, 65, you still have a lot of time. If Joe Biden can be president in 80, imagine what you can do at 65. But sure, this is again because Trump is now floating the thing about social security, like, this is all part of the right-wing attack on these

kinds of social programs and also being like man we can we can shift a lot more you know wealth around if we keep keep people working even longer um no people already have to fucking toil for their whole lives anyway there's anything you can do to help people and lessen the fucking soul-crushing churn of working in under especially america this american form of capitalism where there's absolutely zero safety nets yeah that's the least that can be done oh do your parents work in an amazon factory ben shapiro um yeah exactly yeah do they work a grinding labor job that like is hard on the body probably not and probably he doesn't know

very many of those people well actually my mother she basically oversees a few rental properties and then does uh knitting on the side in her day-to-day uh and my father uh also just has a bunch of passive income yeah his his mother was a tv company executive was was according to wikipedia so i'm presuming not just a landlord and his father worked worked worked not working as a composer you know any like i have an aunt and uncle who just retired recently and they're having so much fun like they're just they they got like the pension thing and they're just yeah so happy it's it's really nice to see there's my one friend whose dad was a firefighter that pension that they get it makes my the combination made my eyes bleed i could not believe like how it's what and now i see like i

met this kid yesterday who, who gave me a ride to the airport. He's like trying to be a firefighter and like precise because like, bro, it's, it's the fucking job security is the benefits and things like that. Yeah. For some,

some jobs, those pensions can be fantastic, but unfortunately that's not a thing that's widely available to people. So to try and be like, uh, no one should be retiring at 65 is fucking violence. Yeah. All right. Uh, so to try and be like no one should be retiring 65 is fucking violence yeah all right uh we have some new updates in the case of the alaska airlines uh door blowout oh boy um it's a door buster let's say we want to make this sound fun we don't want to make it sound bleak uh we get

enough bleak stuff so yeah whimsical door blowimsical door blowouts. It's a total blowout door buster on these Alaska Airlines flights, unfortunately, because one of the doors blew out. And so the National Transportation Safety Board has been trying to investigate this. Like, who worked on that door? Because it had apparently just been repaired right before it shot out the side of the plane jamie pull up the tape really quick jamie pull up the tape of the boeing uh the repairs that were done on that boeing and what did they say oh boeing overwrote surveillance footage from the repair facility where the plug was reinstalled ahead of the flight that's right yeah huh huh huh yeah huh there's just it's not it's not been a good week of news for bone no no yeah between the tires blowing falling off a plane the fucking

plane like turning off in midair or whatever that like launched a ton of people like in the fuselage like up into the ceiling like it was an onyx video uh was not the was not the look and then we talked about the whistleblower who yeah you know who i think now the his law i mean his lawyer said alleged self-inflicted like gunshot wound yeah murky man yeah there was a recent thing with like a fuel leak um we were talking about on our flight from los angeles to austin uh i don't know that this was a boeing one but it was just uh did you hear weird stuff on a plane well yeah you hear weird stuff i was like hey sorry about that uh you may have noticed a bit of a delay there. We were actually pouring the fuel into the wrong compartment.

Yeah. And please, someone with aviation background, please tell me that's fine, right? Yeah, yeah. But they were like, it went in the wrong tank. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, maybe that's fine. We're pouring it in the toilet, and then we put a bunch of you guys' piss and shit into the fuel tank. Yeah.

Brian, the editor. Yeah. Balancing the fuel. So maybe we were going to be leaning to the left or something by putting it into the wrong part. Anyway, so we got that taken care of. Does anybody have a screwdriver? Oh, we're just going to be riding dirty? Yeah.

That's fine. That would have been fun. Yeah. I'll let my shoulder lean on my flight to Austin. Why not? That's right and finally uh two years after it was signed a courtroom settlement has determined that students and teachers are allowed to talk about sexual orientation and gender identity after all uh

in florida yeah another don't say gay bill that ronSantis kind of jammed through. Well, and hinged his whole fucking identity on. You know what I mean? He's like, I'm here to fight the fucking, the woke wars. And this, okay, so courtroom L, because the people, you know, the advocates involved in the suit say, quote, this has successfully dismantled the most harmful impacts of the law. What did the DeSantis campaign say? Successfully dismantled the most harmful impacts of the law.

What did the DeSantis campaign say? Oh, this is actually a win for us because the law in its entirety wasn't struck down. You're like, OK, but like that was like that whole that was the actual meat of the entire bill. That was the thing that was the most fucked up because the settlement basically says that only formal instruction of gender and sexuality has been restricted, as if that's part of the curriculum versus like a teacher being able to discuss these kinds of things with students. And I mean, it's like there's a few articles talking about how the sort of anti-LGBTQ sort of wing of Florida Republicans is taking a few hits, because when their session in the state legislature closed last week 21 of the 22 anti-lgbtq bills they had proposed were effectively dead and is this the 22nd or this is the that those numbers are include this being no no this is different because these

are just bills that were on the docket to be like hey how much further can we brutalize people and dehumanize them uh and so 21 out of 22 basically bit the dust um but i mean did this the implementation of this bill you know set off a bunch of other copycat bills in different states so it's not necessarily like the the end of this story but at least it's a bit of good news for for florida uh for the moment until whatever desantis realizes that the culture war is actually you know it's it doesn't it's not effect it doesn't doesn't do much for you it's not working politically yeah yeah it's like your your jean shorts on the beach or i guess it's not jean shorts but he had those like long shorts on the beach where he's it's not jean shorts but he had those like long shorts on the beach where he's walking but there's no footprints behind him because jesus had carried

him no weren't they like weren't they like linen pants but they he he like cuffed him oh i thought he was wearing like long shorts hold on oh like like culottes oh no no he is wearing shorts but they're are they long what are we these? I guess as someone who grew up in the 90s, I'm like, those aren't that long. This one. They're pretty long. Yeah, I mean, they're standard conservative

length, that's for sure. I think men who aren't completely consumed by toxic masculinity down to show a little bit more thigh. Yeah. You know what I mean? Get that little bit of quad in there.

In case you're wondering what we're talking about, it's the image of he and his wife walking on the beach where they haven't made any footprints because Jesus has carried them through the air and just dropped them right there on the beach. And their message of hate. And they've flown away. Yeah.

Right there, pose and cheese. Okay, of hate. And then flown away. Yeah. Right there. Pose and cheese. Okay. And let me whisk you away to Ruby Tuesdays. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, March 13th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.

Be kind to yourself. 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. 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. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio 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-Gadson. 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.