The Daily Zeitgeist - Don't Vandalize The Satanic Trendple 1/31: Oreo Space Dunk Cookies, Elmo Vs. Big Bird, The Satanic Temple Hate Crime, Jordan Drone Attack

Episode Date: January 31, 2024

In this edition of Don't Vandalize The Satanic Trendple, Jack and Miles discuss… the new Oreo 'Space Dunk' cookies, the eternal debate: Elmo vs. Big Bird, an update on the Satanic Temple display at the Iowa Capitol, more detail on the drone attack on US soldiers in Jordan, Mark Zuckerberg back on Capitol Hill (with a cool new laid-back human hairstyle) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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we're almost out of the fucking January bro you hate January no I don't know it just seemed long to me yeah it's just like it just feels like when you want it I guess it is like the Monday of months yeah yeah for sure it's like yeah fine I mean you know some

good cool shit happens in January but like also it also is like the it is the monday of months or it's like welcome back i feel like people like generally started work right after new year's this year and like like our kids school in years past had like started like six or seven days into january and this year was like the third year back to school so it just felt long to me. But you know what's making it feel a little bit shorter?

These new Oreo space dunk cookies, Miles Gray. No promo. No promo. So there was this article that I was highly suspicious of in something called thedailymeal.com

and it was, the headline was, we tried Oreo space dunk cookies and they're out of this world. Yeah. I was like, fuck. Get out of here with that shit. But you know I do enjoy a Oreo variant. Love an Oreo.

Especially one that others describe as too sweet i'm like and that is my sweet spot no such thing yeah yes uh so the first paragraphs of this review right lead me down the path of okay that so we are the internet is now just like a corporate like they just reprint corporate pr statements uh so the this opens in the world of chocolate sandwich cookies in 2024 a new flavor space dunk will boldly go where no oreo has gone before this limited edition oreo flavor also has an out of this world look um and proceeds thusly with with a neon pink and blue cosmic cream interior uh and then they say laced with popping candies and i don't know what that means um yeah but i mean it's pop rocks dude pop rocks yeah so that's well once you get to that part of the review

I'm in you pulled me back in they say take a full bite of the cookie the exterior tastes like any old Oreo and the inside like super sweet cotton candy icing with each munch also comes a surprisingly light pop rocks like

crunch and I mean that my question every time with an oreo variant what that cream do yeah like what what are we looking at you want to know what that cream do because i'm looking at another the takeout our beloved the takeout food yes even theirs i was like is everybody fucking all in on this like oreo space dunk fucking psyop but there's space dunk oreos are interstellar fun and theirs is you know like i mean i'm the i don't know how much promo is involved here but like they have a very interesting thing too they talk about the marshmallow and they say uh my first bite confirmed the marshmallow notes, which I've always thought tasted pleasant, even mildly artificial berry-ish.

It's more like a Lucky Charms marshmallow flavor than a Jet Puff one. I'm in. Lucky Charms marshmallow, that is the height of marshmallow flavor in my book. Like a little chalky, a little, yeah. It's just whatever it is about it you know what i mean it's it's more the flavor it's not really the texture but i i really like the flavor of the marsh the whatever the we even want to call those lucky charms marshmallows so that and they're saying shout out to the pop rocks too just a little

gotta try it marshmallows always reminded me of like astronaut marshmallow like because they're like so dried out they're like marshmallows from the future when we don't have water. Rehydrate them with your spit. Yeah and there's a hole in it so you can see the like Miami Vice icing a little bit

better like it's their first Oreo with a hole in it. I don't know this is this is the first one that like kind hole in it i don't know this is this is the first one that like kind of captured me attention you know who we gotta ask producer victor super producer victor i know you you go out of your way to get oreo variants and i know this one i think it's like limited time it goes on so today are you are you fucking with these uh he says i will time it goes on so today are you are you fucking with these uh he says i will damn emphatically in the chat i will yeah okay but i hate all right we got the co-sign of victor the cotton candy is

from the bad article we don't know oh he said i'm so i'm not excited because i hate cotton candy okay um in other more serious news psych we're just gonna keep doing dumb bullshit uh elmo versus big bird the debate rages on yeah um a few people hit us up on team big bird wood claw elmo's throat out yep this continues to make sense to me i feel like when we when we compare the two creatures big bird was designed in the shop of natural selection. Wow. His being a bird implies millions of years of murderous survival of the

fittest guess and check that propelled him to still exist at this time. This is poetic. I'm just saying, anything that is an animal, there is the implication that it survived the food chain somehow so like don't fuck with it like right and especially at that size like there it's got some hidden powers

that uh you know we're not seeing when it's like you know doing a fun roll bounce uh roller skating routine but right i don't know so where are you at with uh i mean i'm i still feel in my heart of hearts that it's a big bird world you know what i mean yeah uh and elmo will get stomped the fuck out um without question i mean even the stomping power i believe like fuck the claws you know a rip in the throat i feel like elmo will get mushed under those feet um but i dug a little deeper and there are things that i'm i'm now that i'm wobbling a bit um the biggest thing like big bird would be top heavy ass motherfucker now well guess what that is victor's argument by the way so yeah two top heavy heavy. Too top heavy. Flip that motherfucker over.

Yeah. How's he going to get up with them weird ass arms? He can't. He's looking like Josh Brolin with feathers. What if you knocked him over and he just like jumped like you know how

karate people could like jump from their back like onto the Yeah. Oh, that would freak the fuck out of me. Karate people.

Jack, we're called Japanese Americans. Okay? I really appreciate you. If appreciate you stop doing that shit called a sushi gang earlier but the thing i found out about elmo he's categorized as a fucking monster okay that's a good point that's something you i have to put a couple stones on that side of the scale knowing that elmo is not some cuddly they're like this motherfucker a monster yeah so i'm like okay i'm willing to give that another thing i saw is a conspiracy theory

that big bird is actually um a what an extinct bird called the moa. And they point to this because he interacts a lot with, like, in one of the movies, he was adopted by a family of dodos, famously extinct. Oh. So he's just on the precipice. He's just begging to be taken out. Some kind of mammoth. That motherfucker is extinct too.

And what is he, like, surviving out here all that time? The other part is, let's be real, this motherfucker is 8'5 be real. This motherfucker is eight foot five. Yeah. That's also fucking freaky. So I feel like eight foot five, eight foot five with those thighs. Cause I looked at the skeletal structure of a Moa dude.

These femurs are fucking they're grotesque. Yeah. They're like oil drums. That's how thick these femur bones are. Imagine the musculature around that. You're getting fucking stomped to bits, Elmo. Even though you're a monster, I think I'm coming around to that. The fact that this guy survived.

He's the last of his kind. Yeah, that's right. I also eyes facing forward implies predation. In the design shop of natural selection, your also eyes facing forward implies predation, you know, in the design shop of natural selection, your eyes are facing forward because you're a killer. You're not worried about what's coming from behind.

You're, you're just out there on the prowl. But doesn't that also put some stock in the Elmo? This fucking, this motherfucker's eyes couldn't be more in front. Yeah. His eyes are touching. Yeah.

And they have like, I think he has no peripheral vision because he's like yeah elmo it doesn't matter yeah if you touch me out you're dead i don't know why he turned into mike tyson suddenly but anyway that's there's something i don't know so the debate rages on the debate rages on yeah and that is all right those are the two important stories of the day we're going to take a quick break we'll be back to talk about things that are news elsewhere not just on this podcast we'll be right back i'm jess casaveto 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.

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Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And Miles, the wordanism is trending right now on social media show sponsors yeah shout out our hashtag promo that's right uh thanks to a new development and a story involving christmas decorations in iowa state house so last december the government building was home to the satic Temple's festive statue of the goat-headed Baphomet.

After the group, the Satanic Temple simply filled out the same application as anybody who wanted to put up a nativity scene. uh what so it featured a ram's head covered with mirrors on a mannequin cloaked in red clothing um lucian greaves co-founder of the satanic temple uh says his satanic display is a symbol of their right to religious freedom um i gotta give a shout out to lucian greaves being you know that is the slytherin assass name. Well done all around by the parents. Is he Lucian or Lucian? Lucian or Lucian. Either way. That motherfucker, at five years old,

they were like, and he's gonna be part of the Satanic Temple. Do you know any kids named Lucian? I don't. I feel like I heard that name recently. I was like, yo, that shit recently i was like yo that's just fucking all right dude kind of goes i like illusion yeah especially if you're gonna like do some ill shit like put a baphomet up and like next to the activity scene i like to i like to class up baphomet and

pronounce it like timothy baphomet you know the t is an invitation to class it up a bit. So shut up. Baphomet. Baphomet. Um, so the satanic temple, uh, puts up their own monuments and government buildings, uh, all the time. Yeah.

Counterpoint to Christian ones. And it's kind of like a lot of the time when I hear people from the, uh, church of Satan or the satanic temples talk, they're, they're kind of making sense more than the knee-jerk reaction might lead you to believe. So they're calling attention to the loophole in the First Amendment

that allows for religious displays despite the no establishment of religion clause. So basically, the Supreme Court created a loophole in the First Amendment to allow religious displays by arguing that as long as every group gets to have one, it doesn't violate the no establishment of religion cause. Yeah. Got their ass. They're like truly just being like, yeah, it's no problem, right? they're baphomet and this fucking they're fuck this fucking state representative some weird dude who had a failed congressional campaign just fucking ripped it down and now what are we

looking at here what kind of charges uh so at first it was fourth degree criminal mischief which makes him sound like a real scamp uh but now they got bumped up to hate crime charges which that's uh i mean kind of is what it is right like way to keep it consistent i mean yeah if we're talking about these are these are like the freedoms of religious expression then yeah to tear down someone else's yeah religious expression should be considered a hate crime yeah so prosecutors what you mad at uh ramped them up to third degree criminal mischief with uh a note that the crime actions were committed in violation of individual rights under iowa's hate crime statute so somebody's like behind the scenes doing doing the good work of being like yeah we gotta gotta defend these yeah these satanic temple people doing the doing the lord's work obviously this

has caused a lot of conservatives to flip their shit just all the way they're they're just like how could you be charged with a hate crime when he was fighting hate by beating up a mannequin it was clearly a manifestation of pure evil right pure evil that, as Brian, the editor, points out, that abortion is a sacred religious right. You know? Yeah, that's what the Church of Satan. Pure evil,

pure evil, pure evil. But yeah, it's really just a foil to the Christo-fascism that we're seeing just ramp up by every decade,

just a little bit more. Yeah. I mean, the Satanic Temple has been designated as a church by the irs in 2022 a guy tried to burn down a satanic temple building in salem massachusetts um literally telling police it's a hate crime he was charged with a civil rights violation destroying a place of worship and arson so i'm great i'm i'm doing a hate crime pal hey buddy i'm doing a hate crime over here because you get those blinking lights off me yeah okay get your blinkers off me i'm

trying to do a hate crime here brian the editor points out the church of satan and the satanic temple different churches with similar ideals so uh in case i fucked that up don't get them don't get them fucked up yeah you don't want to get big birded out here big bird that definitely an icon of the of the church no i'm saying they'll stomp you out yeah yeah um 2017 the satanic temple's decorative tree topper was stolen from a holiday celebration the police asked them if they wanted to file the incident as a hate crime, but they declined. So the cops are like, you know, here to... Satan is a kind God.

Satan is a kind God. I will say that. I will say that. All right. So there was a drone attack that we talked about on our, I think it was the Monday Morning Trends episode. Yeah. Just to update that story,

there's new reporting about how the drone was able to attack American soldiers on the Syrian border. It turns out that the drone was mistaken for an American drone. It was heading back to base. So not, not great, not great. There a sound avoidable,

but unfortunately that has led, you know, uh, just thought leader, Maria Bartiromo over on Fox to just to really identify the true culprit. And I'm sure it's predictable, but you kind of have to hear how quickly she like in light of this report, just pivots to some culture warship. Maria, take it away. It's the weakness that invites that aggression.

Well, maybe they're focused too much on dei there's a concern at the fbi because they're dropping the fbi special agent requirements in the name of dei i'm just wondering if that has anything to do with missing an important drone that just killed three of our heroes congressman and by the way the national security issues go way beyond just this look at your backyard at the southern yeah how is she a real person that's wild i don't know man i mean i guess she's not she's a character for tv but yeah um that's wild but they love that i mean like i just love the logic they it's like something bad happened they got dei yeah that's what it was that's what it was man

not gross negligence not oversight not being overworked not corporate greed yeah that's what it was that's what it was man not gross negligence not oversight not being overworked not corporate greed yeah it's that it's that they're trying to give uh marginalized people a fair shake yeah the um as we talked about before that they blamed dei initiatives at american airlines for uh boeing planes falling apart and boeing too i feel like too probably did that yeah i don't know i feel like anything that's i wonder do any police departments have dei initiatives because would they would they keep it a you know a buck if they're like seeing these cops they're doing such a terrible job they're hurting innocent people because of the dei stuff oh really the are too woke.

That just logic is so wild to me. Like, it's especially with like that UN, you know, the welfare organization that got all their funding pulled after like Israeli intelligence was like 12 people of this like 13,000 member organization may have been involved in the October 7th attacks. And they're like, defund it all and it's like I thought the American government was such a fan of don't let a couple bad apples ruin the bunch right you know like because even if you do

game that out and like it was in fact some people did infiltrate then does is that reason to defund the entire thing but again it shows you the lack of consistency and thought there yeah finally Mark Zuckerberg But again, it shows you the lack of consistency and thought there. Finally, Mark Zuckerberg back on Capitol Hill testifying at a contentious Senate hearing.

There's plenty of research evidence that social media is very bad for uh young people um that they are just focused on making money and just drastically underfunded when it comes to making sure that their platforms are like safe places for humans to right communicate and exist with one another and so noah holly i think it was holly i think isn't that his first name no josh josh josh yeah yeah so josh holly made him get up and apologize to the families and he did it and it was very uncomfortable and then the snapchat ceo like apologized to families because somebody bought a fentanyl pill on snap and uh you can buy a whole lot more than that on fucking snapchat right and then yeah they're uh wildly irresponsible companies that make these people a shitload of money but i don't know that a public shaming is is quite enough

it seems like maybe instead of having them get up there and like stand in the stockades of you know on cnn and be like pelted with disapproving looks from families who've like lost people maybe we should actually like pass some legislation that requires these things to be fucking monitored and like staffed appropriately yeah it. It's just, uh, it was just a, it was just a chance for people to windmill on Mark Zuckerberg. And like, I'm not defending him at all,

but it's, it's wild when you see all of these people just come at him from, from on. I was like, oh, that sucks. And then you're like, wait,

this fucking guy's the destroyer. Yeah. That's how hard they were going on him. But yeah, the real question is, okay, what kind of substantive legislation are you going to introduce? What kind of laws are you going to draft?

Any? Or is this just going to be, again, so Ted Cruz can go on. He's like, did you hear when I said, what were you thinking? What the hell were you thinking? Like, it's just a bunch of people grandstanding like that. And I'm like, again, to point it's it god don't make it for nothing like i love seeing this guy with he did he did change his hair like he's getting wavy yeah he's got a little because who's the roman emperor that he like idolizes that he was

doing his uh hair like you know with the with bringing it all to the front, I mean, call it a Caesar. Uh, yeah. In the black, Justinian, maybe. I don't know. I just made that up, but, uh, I don't know who Mark Zuckerberg likes from the Roman empire.

Uh, God, no, there was someone it's, it's so specific. Augustus. That's who it was. He's so into fucking Augustus.

Like everything is about that anyway so and now he's like it's growing out i guess look dude just being in hawaii man chill laid back zuckerberg man exactly hey that that guy that guy was sucker nerd all right this this is mark man that's your buddy mark i grow my own beer to like eat my get my cattle drunk grow grow my own cow to feed my beer or something my bunco I don't know man look I'm surfing the surfing the waves buddy yeah you're out there surfing the web and it is my web that is killing you I'm out here surfing waves brother yeah god it just it's fucking this is like the worst part of hill politics. It's just like bringing out your poster boards and being like, what do you have to say?

And it's like, except for will you keep donating to my campaign? And then maybe we will do something about this. Because, yeah, when you look at the face of it, and we talk about this all the time the harm that's been done not just to younger people but to like marginalized people like the actual violence that has played out because of the lack of moderation on these platforms

what like what that's the fucking tragedy now do something other than just being like you see what I fucking said to him dude fucking nailed it sweat dudeat, dude. Alright. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this January 31st. We are back

tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until 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 tomorrow. 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 Women's Sports. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn 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.