The Daily Zeitgeist - Chinese Zeit Balloon 2/3: Chinese Spy Balloon, Kyrie Irving, Apple Watch, John Waters, Austin Butler, George Santos

Episode Date: February 3, 2023

In this edition of Chinese Zeit Balloon, Jack and super producer Becca discuss a balloon for some reason, Kyrie Irving requesting a trade, Apple Watch inundating emergency services with false positive car crash alerts, John Waters getting cancelled by the Right?, Austin Butler finally dropping the Elvis voice for the new Dune movie, and more baffling lies from George Santos!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.

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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. 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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Chinese Zeitballoon. Instead of spy,

those have the same vowel sound-ish. I'm Jack, and that is super producer Becca Ramos! Hello! Happy Friday! Happy Friday. And a happy Friday to you. Unto you.

So, what's trending is a little bit of a slow news day. A little bit. Slow news day. I don't know. Some weeks feel like they pick up steam, and other weeks just feel like by the end of it, everyone's just like, I don't know some weeks feel like they pick up steam and other weeks just feel like by the end of it everyone's just like i don't know man i guess there's like a fucking balloon over montana um is that maybe that's something um and it's one of those days but we're gonna

talk about it we're gonna talk about this shit um the spy balloon i i highly recommend anybody watch a video of the balloon and we talk about it more on monday's full app but uh there's this guy who posted a video and it just appears to be just like a dot a fixed point in the sky which i didn't know that was possible with a balloon like I thought a balloon would be getting blown all over the place and it just looks like and that's what so here we'll just play a little bit of it

let me share my screen with you unto you I don't know what I have okay that's the moon it's a little fuzzy out here and it's a kind of a cruddy phone but it's slightly overcast but what the heck is that that's not the sun and according to my little planet guide it's not a planet what the heck is that so wait it's there's not really a reference point to tell like

if it's moving but the guy says it's completely stationary and it looks like it's just the moon so my bigger question is because i am not a monday show why do people think it's a chinese spy balloon because that's what the u.s military the u.s government has said it is and then china came out and was like it's actually not a spy it's um it's a passenger or like a civilian weather balloon but it seems like china's acknowledging that it does it is from china and oh they're saying it blew off course. It's, but I, like, it's very, it's very weird.

The video is kind of eerie. Yeah. But the response from various people online is funny to me because it's like, you can take this in any direction. Obviously, I'm going to take it in more of like a UFO direction. I don't, I don't think it's a UFO,

but I think it's interesting. It's giving nope. You know, I'm just out of sight. I don't think it's a UFO, but I think it's interesting. It's giving nope. You know, I'm just out of sight, out of mind. It's not over my city. Yeah, Monday's guest, Yedoye, is like this Jordan Peele, this is some Jordan Peele shit.

But Jack Posobiak said, just posted the video and said, we were bought and sold a long time ago. Welcome to new America. which i'm like how do you get there from a video of a a spy balloon like we said jack it's a slow news day and people it's a slow gotta get drummed up about something yeah but then they're also yeah anyways we we talk about it more on monday but i did have to acknowledge the we were bought and sold a long time ago. True.

It has nothing to do with China or this balloon. But yeah, we're owned by corporations and our society is not dictated by the things you think it's dictated by. I think it's dictated by whatever is going to make people the most money. Welcome to new America, motherfuckers. Kyrie Irving, this motherfucker. So we already know, like he said,

some anti-Semitic shit earlier in the season, half apologize, came back and has been bawling out of his mind for the Brooklyn Nets in a way that's like, I don't want to talk about that, you know, because he's a piece of shit. It almost seemed like he was like, you guys, I'm just going to play so well that, you know, I win you back, Nets fans. And this morning, he informed the Nets leadership that he wants to be traded by Thursday.

And they're just like, yo, we're like, they're also near the top of the Eastern Conference. It doesn't make, it just doesn't make any sense. Also, will somebody else take him? I don't know. Probably.

Probably enough teams are desperate. Also, will somebody else take him? I don't know. Probably. Probably enough teams are desperate that like, yeah, they would take him. But what a mess. I feel for Nets fans and Kevin Durant. Apple Watch is trending. Do you wear an Apple Watch, Becca? Actually, my Apple Watch just recently died. And my mother told me she was trying to get me one for my birthday and i said why what are you trying to tell me no i mean i used to but i only bought it for the selfish reason of i was single when i bought it

and i wanted someone to take pictures of me when I was by myself. And you can do the selfie button. Oh, right. The selfie button. That's right. So that is actually the only reason I bought it. And to work out in big quotes. But now I have built a healthy workout routine that I don't need the watch to motivate me to go to the gym. There you go. I can just do it.

I had my watch programmed to be like, get out of bed, you piece of shit. Wow. And super producer Brian just said smartwatch biometrics don't work for brown skin people. Wow. Then fuck the whole watch. I'm not buying another one of those things. Well, another thing they're not working for is being able to tell

whether the people wearing them are dead or not. Yikes. As of September, Apple watches have come equipped with technology meant to detect car crashes and alert 911 dispatchers. And it's a more sensitive upgrade to software on Apple devices, now several years old, that can detect when a user falls and then dial for help. But the latest innovation appears to send the device into overdrive because it keeps mistaking skiers and some other fitness enthusiasts for car crash victims. So emergency call centers are just have been like rendered inoperable by this update. Yeah, because it's like they don't want to decline something that potentially is an accident.

But if it keeps happening, what the fuck are they going to do? Yeah. Oh, man. It's just, there's too much. During ski season. Shame, shame. These technology, capitalism, corporations are not capable of dealing with this shit.

They are only capable of making the decision that's going to make them the most money. They're not capable of like the power that technology has given them. Like Facebook, like it is not capable of moderating itself, moderating like its platform. These are, these should be public things. You can't run them profitably. You need to like have tax subsidized like i'm not a great fan of like so give it over to the government and just like allow big brother but like that this doesn't work this version where it's just capitalism and the market will determine it's like no it won't it's you're just gonna keep fucking up things that don't allow like society to function properly um so i don't

know yeah i think apple watches are some of the most useless things that they have created like i just truly i've tried and no like it's just the things that they seem to be supposedly making your life easier have come with more and more difficulty much like this very specific thing yeah for me like the one thing that i liked it for was the workout stuff and there are like so many cheaper better products the better versions of that product on the so like yeah i don't know i don't know. This is good to know, though. I don't know the argument for Apple Watches. Because my parents, as they're getting older, I think are looking into getting some to, like, monitor heart rate and stuff. So, now, no.

This is not it. They should go maybe for a more medical device. Yeah. Right. I just turn all my healthcare information over to Apple. John Waters is trending because John Waters, I believe, said that drag shows for children is funny. Like there's

a concept that is funny to him. John Waters famously you know, a director of movies that seem like they're designed to kill Fox News viewers. Like if kill Fox News viewers. My favorite one?

If a Fox News viewer came across it, they would die. What's your favorite one? Crybaby. I know Johnny Depp is canceled, but that was one of my first, where I was in love with Johnny Depp. That movie is absolute chaos. I don't know how it ever got made. Well, he independently financed i mean

not like personally but i think that they're i don't think he was like go working through the studio system on any of those because crybaby is is such a i saw clips going viral on tiktok a few days ago and i was like man that movie really is bad shit like i used to and i watched that as a kid i should not have been watching that as a kid yeah what but it's just funny to me that fox news just found out about him like that's gonna be what what an interesting like i i think they need to hire him like they should do waters and waters jesse and john waters uh like have a show together on fox news and just like inadvertently kill their entire viewing audience with his takes and personality. And then like he gets to control the clips that he cuts away to.

And yeah, I think we would we would see better things for the future of America. All right. Waters on waters. Use it. Fox News. I don't give you much, but I'm giving you a good idea here. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. and we're back and austin butler is apparently planning to stop speaking like elvis thank god america can heal i don't know i was listening i was watching the youtube videos it wasn't that convincing to me i was expecting him to be like well this is what i talk like now but like he's always kind of had a no jack you have not watched enough of his younger videos okay he's he did not have the elbows voice he sounded like like a a little whiny white teenage boy well so did all white boys when they were whiny white teenage boys like that's what he was but now he sounds like i almost right it's crazy all right i need to i

guess i need to see the better like compare contrast videos because the one that i was linked off to is not i was not like wow how does he even look at himself in the mirror my favorite thing has been his ex famously jennifer hudson his ex uh or not hudson wow vanessa hudgens not jennifer hudson that was super wrong vanessa hudgens they dated for like eight years you know the queen of high school musical she's been trolling the comments on all of this like reporting with his elvis voice just being like screaming lmao because he did not sound like that for the entirety of their relationship she was like i think you should be elvis i think you would do a really good job at it and then he tried to be like yeah my friend told me i should go for elvis not his ex-girlfriend

of eight years right uh so it's been very fun very fun to watch the demise of the rise and fall of Austin Butler as Elvis. Well, he's nominated for an Oscar, which is, I mean, he's good in the film, I think. And what I don't think is a good film, but I think his performance is definitely captivating. For sure. And that's a hard one to pull off because Elvis is pretty iconic. So it's interesting to see like how he, cause he's just like, I don't,

and maybe I'm just Austin Butler brained. I'm Austin Butler filled because I, I feel like I'm saying the same thing as him where he's like, huh? I didn't even, I didn't even notice I was talking like Elvis. Thank you. Thank you very much.

But he likened it to when somebody lives in another country for a long time because he spent three years making elvis yes which is crazy it's crazy but it also i don't know i also am susceptible to shit like this like where when i lived in ireland like i would catch myself on a word or two and be like, no, no, don't do it. Don't do it. I mean, every kid who studies abroad does this. Like, I feel like that's the running joke of study abroad kids.

It's like, oh, I'm sorry. I just like, I speak like the Italians. I spent the whole summer in Italy. Well, yeah, the people who like lean into it, which seems like is what's going on here is he's leaning into the Elvis-ness of it. I bought it with everything that I had. But I also think I picked up a Southern accent after three years of living in Kentucky. But I was able to drop that shit real quick.

But apparently, like there are reports from the set of his next big movie, Dune Part 2. Like there are reports from the set of his next big movie, Dune Part 2. His co-star Dave Bautista recently confirmed that Butler dropped the Elvis voice for his performance as Fade Rautha. Which, yeah, of course he did. Like, that's such a wild question to ask about an actor. Is he still talking like Elvis in Dune? There was a lot of memes of people pretending to be his manager or publicist being like, yeah, so can Austin Butler

pitch the role, but maybe he's a 1950s singer. Maybe Elvis. What if this role... What if you brought some rockabilly to this Dune role? Yeah, what if we just took the role and then we just like made it an elvis character and right because he just like wouldn't drop it but good to know he's healing he's healing uh and the world can move forward not me though i will continue to deny that he ever sounded like elvis

we'll see at the academy awards on the red carpet that's true what if he just comes with a wild british accent like just well even when he did snl he was doing it oh he did snl wow yes and he's saying like an elvis song at the end to sing off cecily strong who was uh leaving snl that was like her last episode. And so the closing act was him singing an Elvis song to her. And it was like, come on. That's very strange. Alright, and

finally, George Santos continues to be my favorite liar. I think it's probably part of his lie strategy that he picks lies that everyone's like, well, why the fuck would you lie strategy that he picks lies that everyone was like well why the fuck would you lie about that like cause

the other one that made me suspect this was that he was on like a championship volleyball team at Baruch College in Manhattan like which is just I haven't even been able to like look up if Baruch has a volleyball team because like there's just something about that claim that is like so just stultifying and like boring that like I can't even bring myself to Google it.

But yeah, so this one, this lie that he was apparently going with is that he was one of the producers of a very famous Broadway play. Okay? Now that's something somebody would lie about, like a con artist would lie about. Which Broadway play? The worst. The biggest failure in the history of Broadway. Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. It's like, fine.

Lie that you're a producer for Broadway. Which, like, for someone who is claiming to hate so many things i don't know why you would go into the arts but be to lie about literally the like broadway's biggest hole like like broadway's like ashamed more than anything in the world than this broadway play spider-man like like killed people died almost killed people so much money like no one is proud about spider-man on broadway people didn't like you too after this they were like man fuck you too before this for for our younger listeners people really liked you too people

loved you too and then they like did this and put an album on everyone's iphone and everyone was like what go fuck yourself the edge um but i don't know it's it's great there's also a sort of genius to it that i like the the article in bloomberg like the lead producer michael cole denied santos's involvement saying to an assistant that he wasn't a producer on the musical. Something so Google-able, you know? Right. But I don't know. Maybe they were like, it's harder to check with that who produced it because everyone has just buried it.

That's true. You know, like there's just like no known producers other than this one person. And then George Santos is like, hey, I'm here for it. Like actually I did it. you know like there's just like no known producers other than this one person and then george santo's like hey i i'm here like actually i did it because no one else wants to claim that they were producing that show i guess that is smart in that sense then yeah pick a show no one likes because he has like other lies that are famous like common lies like that what didn't he have a lie that his like mom died in 9-11 like people love to claim that like they were there for 9-11 or they were in one of the buildings when the

planes hit or like they had a family member who died on 9-11 and like that's a very mainstream lie that is a classic lie um but in this case he kind of swerved on us. And I think it's pretty interesting. Baruch does have a men's volleyball team. But he definitely was not on it. No, no, no, no, not at all. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this slow ass news day.

We are back on Monday with a whole ass episode of the show. slow ass news day. We are back on Monday with a whole ass episode of the show. More questions about the spy balloon and, you know, theories as to why this story captivated us at this end of last week.

Becca, thank you so much for joining. Where can people find you and follow you? You can find me and follow me at xbeccsramos on all platforms. Amazing. All right. Back on Monday.

Till 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 y'all on Monday. 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 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. 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.