The Daily Zeitgeist - Crying @ the Trendrick Lamar Show 7/27: Stranger Things, Mountain Dew, Brittney Griner, Oven, Beyonce, Loch Ness, Kendrick Lamar

Episode Date: July 27, 2022

In this edition of Crying @ the Trendrick Lamar Show, Jack and Miles discuss The Duffer Bros. "George Lucasing" Stranger Things, Mountain Dew X Circle K's Purple Thunder, an update on Brittney Griner's imprisonment, our favorite method of cooking bacon, Beyonce's new album leaking, the Loch Ness monster being real?, and Kendrick Lamar moving a security guard to tears!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Crying at the Tendrick Lamar Show, which is, you know, definitely feeling loved. One of the, I think one of the most beautiful songs of the past like 10 years, truly a beauty.

And we'll get to the video that is going viral of a security guard crying while Kendrick performs that song. But up first. Oh, wait. I'm Jack. That's Miles. Big news in my world. I did score some Purple Thunder Mountain Dew, which is the. Why do you got to say?

I like how because you have a healthier lifestyle that you still say, I scored. I scored some. As if you hooked up in like a parking lot now i'm about to get my fix uh all right what do you got uh it's so purple thunder which is a circle k exclusive um i scored i managed to score by going to circle k and uh they had it there uh as and they asked you repeatedly like you sure you want this i've been smelling it for a little bit but i didn't want to taste it till we were live on air it has uh notes of purple

okay and uh nothing else it's just red purple just concentrated purple so up first we're talking stranger things um i'm gonna take a sip while you explain what's going on because i actually don't understand the story let Let it hit your palate. So Stranger Things is trending because the Duffer Bros, the people behind the show, they in a recent interview had basically admitted to George Lucas stuff, you know, retconning shit in their show, changing things after the fact. And this is something that I had heard before that as it related to like effects, like sometimes there are visual effects that they wanted to tweak because it wasn't quite paying off on their vision but in this case this the one of the specific examples was that there was like a discrepancy between like will's birthday that was stated in like an earlier season and then later on and they're like these aren't the same dates and they're like oh shit whoops and ended up changing it now you know a

lot of people are saying, like, in a larger context, what does this mean, like, as a trend for creators? Like, does it make sense to go back and just change things after the fact, or do you accept these, you know, these works as they are? And, you know, I'm not, it is a little odd. I'm not, like, the biggest, I don't quite see the point like that's i think in i was raised to be like well you know mistakes are learning are teachable moments and then they

help you prevent them down the road uh but going back and then sort of just changing like plots and things after the fact i think doesn't doesn't do anyone any good like aside from sure maybe the person who called out this detail change but like being like no that never happened is kind of fucking weird to me and sure we at the daily zeitgeist do you know if somebody sends a single comment that is critical of one of the points we go back and re-edit the episode to uh update it to uh not offend anyone's sensibilities, but that's each their own. Or we just delete the episode. Yeah, no, this is dumb.

This is weird. I remember it bothered me a lot. For some reason, I have Life of Pablo on the brain, but when Kanye did that with Life of Pablo, he dropped it and then kept changing songs as they went, and I think kind of making some of them worse, that was frustrating to me but just but yeah it does feel like something that surprised

more people don't do it just be like all right so we put it out there for a couple days like the way that video games are released where they'll like put it out there kind of broken and then yeah that's more like born out of just that absolute terrible like churn that occurs at these studios when they're like i don't care if it's shit we told them it's coming out this day and then we'll beg for forgiveness when we put out a terribly chaotic product but like i don't know i mean in this british gq article they're sort of also positing like you know because the duffer brothers arguably are huge figures in media because you know stranger things is such a huge show like what example is that setting for other people to be like no no

it's fine you can just do that shit i like how you're thinking about all this as teachable moments and setting examples for uh like the duffer brothers or children that you're trying to yeah you know because you gotta you gotta teach them young you gotta teach the duffer brothers young exactly that's that's what i've always been saying so i told netflix when they told me to leave before they quote unquote call security again so the duffer brothers that's just not a great name for like being taken seriously oh oh so you think they're what should... How would you be a brother duo and try and... The Coen brothers, maybe? I feel like that would work better

as a couple of filmmakers. The Coen brothers. Kind of has a nice ring to it. Change their name to the Coen brothers. All right, real quick. Update. You might have heard when I first started talking that I had a

little something in my throat that's because my mouth is salivating all the way down to my stomach uh through my throat that's how good the uh purple thunder is uh oh it's good yeah it's really good it's like uh like perfectly rounded off the way the mountain dew tends to be no weird aftertaste i was expecting more of like the grape aftertaste. I was expecting more of the grape aftertaste that you get from a Welch's grape soda, which I am a big fan of grape soda. Or licking a scented marker.

Yeah, but it actually kind of just rounds off really nicely after you swallow. Not a lot of aftertaste. It's really good. They have done it again uh Mountain Dew I love by that I mean this is you know what one of I'd say they're batting you know in the 30s with their flavors or 40s and the the misses aren't like terrible yeah it ain't like major

melon I still will drink even though it does have a chapsticky vibe to it i still keep it around every once in a while because it is the most intense artificial watermelon experience that i think has been invented yeah artificial watermelon not a great flavor though yeah they should not have done the uh like baja blast spinoffs they should have kept that sacred but other than, I'm not mad at anything. But this is a they've nailed it. Purple Thunder.

Well done. Mountain Dew. Circle K. Not mad at Yum Brands. Not mad at Yum Brands on this end. Or I guess PepsiCo. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. Big fan of both corporations. I think there's probably not anything wrong

in either of their histories. Let's move on to Brittany Griner. We have a CNN exclusive. Biden admin has offered to exchange Victor Bout, a convicted Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year U.S. prison sentence in potential deal for release of detained Americans Brittany

Griner and Paul Whelan and then that's yeah he's been there for a minute too who's Paul Whelan he was some dude that they were accusing of being a spy like when it just like did not seem like that was the case it seemed like very much

to be like yeah we swooped this dude up right but yeah so we still need to see if the contracts if the money works out on the CNN trade machine but this is yeah right what why are they throwing in an extra person just get Brittany

Griner out of there I mean I don't I don't know anything about Paul Whelan I don't think he's detained justly either so right yeah okay that's that's fine you're like but how many we have what's paul wheelan i feel like they're gonna use the paul wheelan thing to you know blow it up it's just wild to me like that you know you have they're arresting britney griner she was saying like I was not read my rights. This has been, like, a complete just shitshow, naturally, because

this was all happening, like, with the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And just, like, that the trade is, like, here's someone who, you know, according to the Russians, maybe brought this vape cartridge in. According to her, maybe not. And then you're, like, okay, we want this arms trafficker instead.

Right. And that's kind of like how all of like, we'll kidnap this person. Now give us someone that's actually dangerous. Okay. It's wild how we have these, these prisoner swamps. But yeah,

I hope that Brittany Griner is able to get the fuck out of there as quickly as possible. Need to send the equalizer in there. That dude's good at killing Russians, if I know one thing. Extracting a hostage from a Russian. It's a fucking movie, dude.

That movie is wild. But what if it was true? I would if Home Alone was true and also had a body count of 40 Russians. you say that all the time you always say that right before i'm about to walk into your house when you invite me over and you're like hey before you come in dude what if home alone was true and i'm like oh shit i'm gonna eat it with

a paint can yeah yeah all right uh oven is trending and this is because padma lakshmi asked twitter what the best way to cook bacon is and she put it out there as microwave stovetop or oven yeah i'm assuming oven is trending because people were saying microwave oven right because that's clearly the why include my nobody nobody thinks people do people think microwaves are a good way to cook bacon. If you want to dry the fuck out of it and have it super crispy... Like bacon jerky? Yeah, but also the fucking grease everywhere. Fuck that.

Yeah. I like the oven. I'm oven gang. You're oven gang. You can do fucking amounts in an oven. Yes. You know what I mean? Oven is efficient and it's harder to fuck up in the oven than it is

on stovetop it's exactly and like i like to put it you could put a big sheet out you can season your bacon yeah it's when you do it in a sheet tray like a sheet pan in the oven like i'll put like cayenne and like other shit just give a little like some maybe brown sugar some just put a lot of salt on it oh you gotta you gotta salty enough for me man i like to butter it and salt it it's like the video i saw someone putting sugar and gatorade and downing it i was like what the fuck is this um but yeah like look 450 you put that shit on 450 15 minutes or so 12 minutes like depending on how you like it it's great too because if you're making breakfast, you can

focus on other things like cooking bacon in the stovetop. There's grease. There's a tension that has to be paid. I would say really perfectly done on the stovetop bacon is better than the best oven bacon I've ever had.

Oven bacon is probably, if I had to say the best way to cook bacon, is probably in the oven because it's just, you're going to get good bacon and you're not going to have to be on top of it constantly. Yo, how sick is

bacon though? Bacon, top three things. Bacon, ninjas, and what was another thing from that era of the internet uh oh yeah you're either a pirate or you're a ninja right it was the era of your bacon are you a pirate or are you a ninja and teddy roosevelt well okay fine two out of three ain't bad i guess wasn't that a thing with then people like like teddy roosevelt because the night at the museum. No I maybe that was like very specific

crack. But I do feel like everybody was and cracked. How about crack. There you go. And crack. What a time.

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And Beyonce fans are so loyal that it's just not getting passed around there's like you better someone in france on that shit someone in france was like you're not gonna believe what i saw at my record store two days early renaissance on cd i'm buying it uh and then people are starting songs like Church Girl and Cuff It, I guess, are leaking on the internet, but the fan accounts, the way

they're trying to be like, hold the line and be loyal to Beyonce. Hold! It's fucking inspiring in a way that I'm like, I've never seen humanity coordinate in such a way. We will beep out, you sing the names of the songs because that acknowledges

too much. We can't tell people that. Well, the track lists have been out. So even the most devoted fans know. Yeah, thank you. But there's like the Beehive fan club, they said on their IG it said, Beehive, now mass report the accounts

who spread the Renaissance leaks. Don't share the leaks. Just report on social media, Instagram, on Twitter. Report to Parkwood and Block. Don't worry about sales or anything. That would be fine. Let's do this. Respect our queen.

It's been six years, two more days, and only 30 hours left to wait, and y'all can't do it? You're telling me you can wait six years, but not 30 damn hours. It's disrespectful to Beyonce and her hard, hard work. So, and people are like, yeah, no,

we agree. We agree. So that's wild. That is a new level of fandom that I don't feel like I get. I guess that happens with like Marvel movies too, right? Where people are like, I mean,

buying 20 tickets to make sure it opens big and shit would you i'm just trying to think of a lot of albums like if because sometimes leaks the quality shitty and i've in the past like i remember when kanye albums used to leak i'd be like oh shit look i got the leak like two weeks early and i listened to it and i'm like oh okay fine and then i didn't really care about it because i was more interested in the leak than the actual material itself and then uh i don't know part of me feels like i could wait if i'm a real fan of something i think there is just like the excitement of being like here's the album as it was meant to be released and i'm clicking play now right but yeah i guess it was more the voice of it. It felt like they were fusing with Beyonce. It's like what the artists themselves would say,

and they just are another mouthpiece for the artist. I just love hearing this one line. We can experience a renaissance together. You won't break our souls, but we will break yours. Stop this disgusting shit you leakers are doing we will break yours all right uh loch ness the loch ness monster is trending uh nessie we found her yeah they found her so the likeness monster was a real thing all along. Moving on, Kendrick is... No. So people, there's like articles being like,

Loch Ness Monster existence plausible, scientists say. And that is because they discovered a dinosaur that most closely resembles the Loch Ness Monster was able to survive in uh fresh water they found a the fossil of a small plesiosaur in a former river system and the clickbait industrial complex has taken that and run with it all the way to uh yeah, scientists say basically like Loch Ness Monster is real, y'all. That's all they got is that like a dinosaur that looked like the Loch Ness Monster once existed in freshwater.

It's important to note, first of all, the same outlet that is posting those articles published an article about how the most convincing Loch Ness monster photos were really a fiberglass hump made for a Loch Ness monster movie and there's also the fact that the most famous photograph of Nessie the one that you're picturing your head right now from 1934 was revealed to be a toy submarine with a plastic thing stuck on top oh and the hoaxer who did that and his friend who was a surgeon weirdly that's it takes takes again my point surgeons can be very dumb they're gonna fucking believe it because i'm a fucking surgeon exactly perfect um but they like have admitted to it and people just ignored it because uh being like this

is not a real picture it doesn't sell as many newspapers as this is a real picture um and also because people didn't believe that a respected doctor could it's like a party to such a deception that famous one where we see like the head breaching the water and like it's like a cropped photo where you could see someone's like or from like a canoe next to it and it's way bigger and you're like what the fuck that thing must only be like 10 inches big right yeah uh but yeah cool there are no other plesiosaur bones in loch ness uh loch ness is way too small to sustain even one creature that size. The water is too cold for a reptile and was covered in ice as recently as

18,000 years ago. The first sighting happened in I guess the most famous photo was taken in 1934 which was just one year after the release of King Kong. So basically it's just an old timey meme and any

anything you hear to the contrary is stupid. As opposed to alien sightings. Let's focus on the alien sightings folks. Yep. That's what I'm saying. Not just made up by a surgeon but from the guy from Blink-182. I think I'm going to believe him.

I think I'm going to believe him. I would also let him do surgery on me before a real surgeon. Oh, yeah. I thought Enema of the State was like a medical diagram. Oh, yeah, for sure. And finally, Kendrick trending because of this clip of a security guard at the Houston Mr. Morale show just crying openly while Hendrick performs Love. It's beautiful. It really is beautiful.

It's just... Because anybody who's gone to a concert, and Super Producer Brian was bringing this up before, you see people, you see security guards who try and pretend like they're not a total fan of the thing that they're at. Sometimes it's at a sporting event and people are breaking their necks to see like what's happening on the field or

whatever or at a concert like nodding their head just real like yep i'm in this fucking concert for fucking free and i'm working uh but in this moment it's just it's just so amazing to see this person who is so close to the stage basically has this front row seat to the kendrick show and overcome with emotion because they are just appreciating a piece of music and i think it's a hopefully a universal experience i know some people like i know people who don't like music that much and they're like i've never cried to a piece of music and i'm like that's i feel bad for you um do you cry at all they're like no that's a sign of weakness. And I'm like, oh, okay. Well, as I told you to keep that conversation off, Mike, but.

I'm not going to let you lie about this anymore. Jack doesn't cry to music. Yeah, it is like a truly beautiful moment. And, you know, I'd fire his ass because he's not giving off the right vibe of like, I want people to be afraid to storm the stage. So I'd fire his ass uh because he's not giving off the right vibe of like i want people to be afraid to storm the stage so i'd fire his ass but um you know you can't look like a fan of the music you need to look like you will protect the artist thank you but kendrick like yeah he someone asked him about the clip because it's blowing up and he was just like shout out to him he's like because we said because i he said he saw him when

he was performing and he said i was like man i wonder what he's going through but at the end of the day that's how you want everybody to perceive your music and i feel like he wasn't necessarily going through anything like it it's a it's tears of you know like it could be tears of joy or it could be like this is my song with a with an ex but yeah i didn't feel like it was like a damn i am watching somebody who is on the edge right well and i think that's also maybe too that's a little bit of kendrick's toxic masculinity peeking out again too where it's like this man has to be crying because he has to be going through something where you could just be like i don't know you could be this dude who likes the song and yeah are you so happy that you were crying but look kendrick step by step man yeah i just

when i go to a concert i just ugly cry the whole time people i just distracting everybody around me just they're like oh man this, are you going through something? This was our song. You say that with your wife next to you. Like, what? With who? Never mind. You'll never understand me. Alright. Well, those are some of the

things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. 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.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Cle 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Caitlin 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, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese.

People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball is just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.