The Daily Zeitgeist - Charcutrendy Board 8/6: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ashley Babbitt, $72 Fried Rice, Angela Bassett, Hilsong Church, Apple

Episode Date: August 6, 2021

In this edition of Charcutrendy Board, Miles and Super Producer Joelle Monique discuss Jake Gyllenhaal not bathing, Ashley Babbit's family claiming that she was ambushed, $72 fried rice?, Angela Bassett becoming the highest paid BLACK actress on TV (but still making WAY less than white actors), Hilsong pastor Brian Houston being charged over concealing child sex abuse, and Apple announcing that it will be scanning US iPhones for images of child sexual abuse Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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we don't know any better we don't know any better what can we do um well i think we know someone who can do better speaking of friends jillian hall not another white man yeah and here we go this is like the new thing like rich white people like to do is be like i don't fucking bathe um this is a quote that has been lighting the internets a light uh it says quote i find bathing to be less necessary good manners and bad breath gets you nowhere. So I do that. But I do think there's a whole world of not bathing that is really helpful for skin maintenance. And we naturally clean ourselves.

That's not true, sir. Your skin does not naturally clean itself. I understand that a lot of folks haven't discovered the magic of lotion. But I just want to take this a second to introduce you. After you wash, sometimes your skin is a little little dry but that's why they make this great stuff you get some shea butter you get that almond lotion whatever is good for you try a couple different things figure out what it is maybe you just lather your whole body now here's something interesting my friend told me she had a white boyfriend she said he just put it on his skin

and then this assumed it soaks in that's not how it works you have to rub it all the way in so just imagine it's like a magic trick you put it on and you rub it in until you can't see anything else and then you're moisturized and you're clean and you have dewy skin and it's brilliant a system is already there and it works and you can use it and it's not that much lotion is not too expensive but you know look this is what he does that's what he but he did but the but the bathing that the bathing that he finds to be less necessary what does it even mean the other thing is okay i get it but never like how how dirty is dirty is it when you can see the scales because that's gross i don't like that it's all relative i guess for him i'm curious because the rumors have always been that jake gyllenhaal is a stinky celebrity

and now with the light of this you're like oh this makes sense i'm mad because like as a black child i was told like you have to be extra clean because if you're dirty they're gonna they're gonna be like that is the state of all black peoples and so and even yeah yeah yeah and if you listen to old blackheads talk about it like parents would like scrub a layer of skin off trying to make sure that you didn't fit the stereotype of being a dirty n-word and now i'm just learning that rich white people are just like oh no we don't even try we just all of us are walking around here stinky as hell if you want to be if

you want shock and awe look at the inside of my the collar of this white shirt i'm wearing what the fuck is this they're like how's the inside of your mask look like that the fuck i don't know jake please you know yourself and your children white celebrities unfortunately too you know not everyone has the access to you know to regular bathing either and be like no this is cool man just fucking stick it up anyway it is what it is we won't give him any more time than that just to say um next up the word ambushed is trending because ashley babbitt uh the woman who was shot and killed at the capitol insurrection on january 6th her family is filing a 10 10 million dollar wrongful death suit against the u.s capital police um saying that

she was ambushed by the officer who shot her and was given no warning or verbal command haven't the capital police been through enough isn't it enough yeah leave them alone i'm so sorry that you were missing a loved one i get it but she made a dumb decision and i'm sorry but the video was there we could clearly officer two hands on the gun pointing they've boarded the door up so no one can come in it's not a surprise this she didn't get shot in the back as she was walking away she wasn't shot while she was still handcuffed these are things we should be charging the police for these are things the police have actually done okay these are murders the police have actually committed but in defending literally the nation's capital get out of here yeah it's i mean this this is i think this is not going to end because people love you know they're trying

to like especially in conservative media want to make a martyr out of her and try and get people to rally around that. A lot of the people who monitor extremists, they're saying, yeah, it's been quiet since January 6th. But they're all just talking right now, trying to figure out what is possible, what isn't possible. What they believe in is still the same. But they're still very much on the same diet of the election was stolen. Things need to be righted. And many of them don't see what they did as being wrong at all and in fact many are confused when

they're actually uh you know put and brought to court and they're like i didn't but it's i'm just doing my country though because again it's that entitlement this belief that they were not only in the right but that everyone should have also been on their side the confusion when they would look at a white police officer and that guy was like i'm not on your side and you need to actually follow my directions or it's going to be a problem they're like i don't know look at our flag what are you talking about so of course they don't understand of course they're not educating themselves but i read the other day that like some guy's father a guy who survived the uh sandy hook shooting i think it was or was it a kid

survived a school shooting and now his father is convinced it doesn't believe yeah right doesn't believe that their own kid who was at sandy or no i think it was it on parkland i think parkland yes yeah it was parkland and was like no that didn't happen this stuff is insidious and it takes over and the more we hear about people who are like very legitimately losing family members to this kind of thinking um it's i mean we're just gonna have to keep like taking them through the systems and essentially having to abandon them because the damage that they're doing to their immediate loved ones it's too much so yeah i hope the family is able to find peace but uh she was not ambushed yeah that's yeah that's where we're at uh next up we talked about this the other day and i'm

curious because people have been talking about this 72 fried rice yeah so i owe uh this chef and the entire restaurant an apology because i read a headline it was like look at san francisco assholes making 72 fried rice like the hell it was actually like a very kind of like a hilarious joke so let me get the chef lamb uh-huh decided he was like listen you know we've been talking about all this bougie food that's happening in san francisco there's like a lot of takeover for like it's a lot of gentrification happening i'm gonna do a fun play on that and i'm gonna get the most deluxe extreme ingredients and i'm gonna make a fried rice that has like a4 miyazaki weigu sirloin topped like beef we're gonna get some rock shrimp we're gonna get the cows were fed with olives so that they would have that rich delicious fat like really

went over the top to sort of sell this joke of like, look at what they're doing to what should essentially be like a non-expensive, like fast food kind of situation. Staple comfort food. But it backfired because of course it's San Francisco when influencers started showing up and people, some people there have a lot of disposable money and they were buying, like coming in just to buy the specific fried rice which wasn't netting the restaurant any kind of money and the owners and the chef started getting this feeling of like we're sending out the wrong message because now certain people are going to think this is a restaurant that does quote-unquote 72 fried rice and things that that's all good people right exactly so they killed it they were like we're not doing this anymore so you can no

longer get this over the top fried rice but i just think it's interesting how in trying to make a commentary and statement about the direction of food specifically in that culture like in san francisco uh you know they sort of proved a point but the joke also didn't quite land because nobody laughed they took it seriously truth and comedy sometimes it's just so true it you're like fuck of course people are really here now i'm trying to make a statement about something and people really go i need that i need to flex rice i want to flex the fried rice uh with trout roe sea urchin and a4 miyazaki wagyu i mean it should if it's if it's popping it should be a5 but look what do i know i'm just a with Trout Row, Sea Urchin, and A4 Miyazaki Wagyu. I mean, if it's popping, it should be A5.

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I got multiple reasons why. The $450,000 is a lot of money. Like, let's not lose perspective and sight of what it is we're talking about. Yeah. But when we talk about leads in extremely popular television series, which Angela's show is not that popular. But like we look at Friends by the end of the ninth season, the Friends cast is making a million dollars an episode. Yeah. Kerry Washington on Scandal is making two hundred thousand dollars an episode.

But at one time, absolutely the most popular show. Right. People were watching. Everyone was murder with. But at one time, absolutely the most popular show. Right. People were watching. Everyone was murder with award nominee Viola Davis max out of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. At one point, I believe the most watched drama for the network. So not of all time, but of its runtime. It is preposterous that despite,

you know, that we can even go deeper. I'll do you one deeper. Tracy Ellis, Ross of blackish, easily one of the like highest lauded comedies. She's won multiple Emmys. I believe she capped out at a hundred thousand an episode.

That's not even following like the traditional thing of like how uh black women make 37 percent less than no uh their white male counterparts like you're not even going with the national trends on that shit because like what charlie sheen almost made 2 million at one point making less than tim the tool man taylor was making on his newest show, the Republican Dad Show that I don't know the name of. But he was making more than her. With, I think, a quarter of the viewership of Black-ish. And none of the awards?

What? The lack of equity in this stupid fucking town is bonkers to me. It is. Because Tracee Ellis Ross is not nobody. Her mother is literally diana ross she's been modeling since she was 19 she's had multiple successful tv shows what is the problem why can we not get her paid in the same way that we pay white people i understand this is like an astronomical amount and some people are upset that i mentioned it because they're

like no then they're good like what's the problem well the problem is that there's still a deep lack of equity in hollywood which makes it impossible for these people to be able to turn around and spread their wealth, which is the only way other Black folks are going to be able to bust in the door. Ava DuVernay seems to be one of like three people. Denzel Washington does it on the low. He's like, goes to college and is like, that kid's next. Here's some money and some connections. Ava DuVernay created her own distribution company company was able to do a lot of good through that and then she literally created an entire tv show just to get black women to direct so that they can become part of the dga she did

that with queen sugar support it if you can but it's like but the doors are so closed and there's there's so few of us working consistently enough to stay here and have to continue to prosper enough to get like second and third chances which are required in art it can take a long time to figure out your voice and stuff and so it just gets me heated because angela bassett has also been around the block she should have won an oscar in 88 for her portrayal of tina turner uh like she's just she's go already she's done enough and for her to hear she's only making 450 an episode and is leading the pack of black women like that's it's so disheartening yeah and for all the talk you know of like people saying i remember there was a whole thing with ben stiller and uh saying like it's a meritocracy

and shit it's like please sir please sit down um because for all the talk of it you like to your point about second and third chances most uh you know black people getting into hollywood especially in like roles of like directing or writing or things like that if you if it's not a hit immediately you typically will not get any more chances we're talking a hit y'all not not it did well and it earned its money back you have to bust down the door and be exceptional uh in order to do anything here and it's you hear people be like oh well you know their status as my kid doesn't mean anything or my dad's not helping me just by virtual being their kid i know you can't

understand it because you can't see beyond your own window and that's that's fair everybody has the challenge doing that uh you don't have to be loud and wrong about it. You could just be like, oh, I wonder if that's the case or not, and move on with your very wealthy, successful lifestyle. But your dad being Steven Spielberg absolutely titillates some agent or executive or manager's ear. And they're like, oh, I could probably do something with that. I can make something of that because that name is getting you in the door.

Yeah, exactly. And I can market that because of the name recognition i can't mark some unknown person of color because i don't they don't have any name record that's the reason got a deadline right up yeah exactly i don't have to say anything else your short fucking film anyway anyone who's uh worked in indie anything knows that that doesn't happen at all it does not next thing that's trending is hillsong because the founder of the sydney-based you know mega church has been charged with concealing child sex offenses uh is what the police say detectives uh served his lawyers on thursday with a notice for him to appear in sydney court on

october 5th for allegedly concealing a serious indictable offense quote, police alleging court that the man Houston new information relating to the sexual abuse of a young male in the 1970s and failed to bring that information to the attention of police. I believe it was his father who was the person being accused. So that, wow,

that's a lot to digest uh get it my guess yeah i mean this is it's interesting the how um i mean it's not interesting i don't know i think i use that euphemistically but there's so much covering up uh that happens in many places that claim to be bastions of of morality and goodwill and safe. Oh yeah. You know, uh, if somebody is claiming to be more holy or, uh,

pure or closer to God, then you maybe take a second, look around. Yeah, exactly. And then lastly, a sort of tangentially connected Apple is trending because they have said that,

um, they are going to be introducing technology that will be able to scan iPhones for potential child abuse images. Now they say the way this technology is going to be introducing technology that will be able to scan iPhones for potential child abuse images. Now they say the way this technology is going to work that before an image is uploaded to iCloud, a detection tool called neural match will quote conduct an on-device matching process using a database of sexual abuse imagery already known to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. And then the company goes on to say that they designed it with user privacy in mind, explaining that it doesn't view a device's images, but instead uses a digital fingerprint linked

to the content that enables it to check for a match. So if it's like, I don't know. Well, we understand what that means. Yeah. I mean, look, for anyone who's an advocate of, you know, protecting children like this is a win because on some level you want to make it easier to try and bring people to justice who are you know dealing in kinds in this kind of shit then a lot of people are like this is interesting a lot of

privacy people are like this is a very slippery slope um one person said regardless of what apple's long-term plans are they've sent a very clear signal in their very influential opinion that it's safe to build systems that can scan users' phone for prohibited content. That's the message they're sending to governments, competing services, China, you. They go on to say, quote, whether they turn out to be right or wrong on that point hardly matters. This will break the dam. Governments will demand it from everyone and by the time we find out it was a mistake it will be way too late yeah this is messy for a number of reasons uh i'm trying i'm still trying to wrap my mind around like we can't

see your images but we're looking at a digital fingerprint which sort of to me a very layman person when it comes to this like they're like where did the image come from and we're tracking it through like servers and systems and things which could absolutely be helpful but if there is any like we already know technology has a bent of racism to it uh because it could only be as bright as the people designing it and we know that specifically for things like recognition like if looking at facial recognition black people are screwed like nine out of ten times that shit like you're not properly scanning faces they're pointing the wrong people out of being like oh hey this is a match like i'm not that person in that picture please open your eyes so i mean listen anything we can do to end the torture of a child a plus like let's not have any of that um but i do wonder what the ramifications and consequences

of something like this could be this one cryptography research matthew green at johns hopkins said what's stopping somebody to just send someone that they have a vendetta against some kind of compromising image so now that's on their phone and bing it comes up and it registers as a hit and because the way it's going to work is it'll be flagged and then they'll decide whether or not to escalate it. But potentially that's when law enforcement is going to get involved. So you could potentially

just smear somebody by sending them this kind of shit and then just triggering this response within a phone. I mean, not to say like, I'm sure there'll be them. This could be also the defense of people who may have

this kind of imagery on their phone. Be like, no, someone sent this to me or whatever. But it seems, again, a slippery a slippery slope so yeah those those are the many trends uh for this week it's been quite a wild one uh joel thank you for joining me again it's always a pleasure maybe monday you know maybe we'll do it i'm gonna be here why not ready to go perfect let's do it all right well everybody else have a great weekend. Please protect yourselves.

Be safe. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated. Don't not do anything in the face of any kind of discrimination, misogyny, racism, homophobia, whatever that is. White supremacy. Just fucking signal to the world that you're not with it because we need more people like that. All right.

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