The Daily Zeitgeist - Dumbest Timeline: Taco Bell Metaverse Wedding, NTFs, etc. 03.17.23

Episode Date: March 17, 2023

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, aka, he's asked Twitter, and they said, aka, Kaysadilla Killa, aka, BB Cool J, aka, Dr. Awkward, aka, Mr. Bring the Bags, which I don't get, but I support. Mr. Bring the Bags. You always bring those bags of knowledge to people.

My AIM screen name in college and high school was OB Cool Jack. So shout out to my friend. Getting to know you. Getting to know you. Yeah, that was the creation of my friend Chris, the legendary Chris, who I talk about a lot on this show. Well, Ben, wonderful to have you co-hosting. You already dropped some knowledge on us that I want to talk about in a moment. But first, let's introduce our guest, shall we? Another consummate podcast professional, one of the best in the business, digital activist.

You can hear her on her brilliant podcast, There Are No Girls on the Internet, Internet Hate Machine with Cool Zone Media. It's Bridget Tull! Oh my god. I love it. Every time I come here, you all give me the best introductions. It fills my heart. I mean, and we do offer that because we're, as we're going to get into with Sesame Street, we are running into money difficulties. I will offer to do an intro for you that you can bring around with you that is an NFT for the low, low price of $5,000. So just let me know after the recording. But Bridget, so wonderful having you.

The intro is always more than well-deserved. How are you doing? You have new glasses that look fantastic. I just got new glasses, so I'm in that phase of getting a new item where you're just expecting compliments. And when you get them, you're like, thank you. I know. They're great. And that is correct. And that is appropriate. Yeah, I'm good. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, they're great. Yeah, I was saying I have five pieces of clothing that I wear on a regular basis because I need so many compliments to just have the confidence to wear anything. Otherwise, it's just a white T-shirt. Ben, you were saying before, because we were talking about the naming of dogs.

Yes. because we were talking about the naming of dogs. And you were saying that studies have been conducted that suggest that dogs respond better to names that end in S or Y. Yeah, or I-E. Yeah, it's a weird thing. And we talk about names pretty often, right? Because names do have power. If it apparently, I'll have to look up the study and send you all, but apparently, science shows that dogs will tend to be more receptive to their human roommates,

parents, whatever, however you want to answer, they'll be more receptive when their name ends in that I-E or Y sound or like a plural, which is nuts to me because it explains so much, right? It's like, why does every dog person we know, why do they inevitably have all these nicknames? Right? Yeah.

You got to find one that they respond to. My dog Finn was Finny. Finny boy. Finny. See? Yeah. Finny boy. Yeah.

He did not respond to Finn. He ignored the shit out of me. I was like, he can't hear very clearly. Yeah. There's nothing cuter than asking a pet owner, like, what is your pet's name? And then give me the laundry list of other names, like Dr. Finenstein, like the Fininator. Yeah.

For sure. Yeah. And then, yeah, and then, like, I was thinking about common dog names. It's like Max, which has an S on the end. Spot does not pass the test. Lassie, though, you know, these standard

names, and throwing a Y on the end, always a good idea. I had a kid growing up with me. I had a wonderful, wonderful guy living with him named Buster, and Buster was a golden retriever who always seemed like

very good energy, very affable, but didn't quite like, didn't quite get what was going on for Buster. And I think it's because naming malpractice. I think if this poor guy

spent, you know, over a decade not fucking knowing when people were talking to him. Yeah, that would be difficult, I think. In my experience, that's hard. All right. Well, Bridget, we're going to get to know you

a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners about the plate of just hot garbage news that we have for them today. Today's news cycle seems to have been it seems like all all the news outlets were just like turn it over to chat gpt we're just gonna and tell them about like all the all the buzzwords from the last year so we have we have the taco bell metaverse wedding Taco Bell Metaverse Wedding.

What? We have a review of the Taco Bell Metaverse Wedding, officiated by Cal Penn, of course. How did Cal Penn get mixed up in that? How did he get looped in? Poor guy. It's, you know, that sweet, sweet marketing money. The Tiger King is running for president from jail. There a sesame street nft that just got dropped

they're a little little behind the curve on that one i admire that they're sticking to it they're still just like now we think people are gonna want an nft of cookie monster leaning kind of seductively on an oven he like seems like he's it seems like a dating profile pic of cookie monster which is interesting choice he owns the means of production man he's yeah showing people that he can make his own that's power right yeah so we'll talk about that and also the history of why sesame street needs to resort to selling NFTs and Tickle Me's Elmo and all that shit. Before we get to any of that stuff, Bridget, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are?

Something from my search history that is revealing about who I am is the phrase sexy boy. I was recording a podcast about the rivalry between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. And in the script, they were like, oh, Shawn Michaels, his walk on song at the time was a song called Sexy Boy. And so I was like, oh, I have to hear this song. So that was one of the last things I Googled was to hear uh sean michaels's walk-on song sexy boy which by the way if you if you i i recommend googling it and listening to it because it is pretty good but yeah so that was what he walked out onto the stage to is it boi or boy no this was the 90s this was boy we didn't know. Only Big Boy from OutKast knew that you could spell your name,

spell the word boy that way. Yeah, Big Boy and Avril Lavigne. Yeah, that's right. Wow. So Sexy Boy, the first Google result when you just put the words Sexy Boy into Google is the Shawn Michaels intro music, but it's not the first image result. I'll tell you that much, folks. Is it a Sexy Boy? sexy boy it's a lot of sexy boys a lot of ripped six-pack abs one in which yeah i don't even want to describe what's happening in that one since we're an audio show i think it's i think it's necessary to tell the zeit gang that bridget and i can see jack's furrowed brow what are you doing are you like trying to count abs what's going on how many abs are supposed to be on a sexy boy yeah a lot it's a lot to take in this this uh search history but that thank you so much for

sharing with us i actually don't know that song i never got into the whole wwfw like i was super into it for a couple months when i was like five when like hulk hogan andre the giant and then just like fell out of love with it i think i discovered like playing guns instead of playing wrestling and like, right. Just moved on to some other toxic little boy bullshit. I think ramp, my dad saw Rambo and described it to me. And I was like,

well, this is my new personality. Yeah. This is my new thing. I was so influenced by Sylvester Stallone. And his whole thing is haunted, scarred, damaged, can barely communicate because he's holding in so much pain. And just so thoroughly toxic with his inability to talk about his pain to access his own pain as you identified with this as a child as a child because rocky and rambo like for whatever reason i was like yes

feed me more boys yeah yeah like i fantasized about getting beat up instead of beating people up because rocky that was like the majority of what rocky was was him just getting the shit beat out of him i was like man that guy can take a punch i wish i could take a punch like that i thought uh like bridget when you said sexy boy i immediately thought of the song by the french air musicians air yeah i was like that's it i'm still relevant i got my finger on a pulse or whatever. How weird would it be if a wrestler in the 90s his walk-on song was Sexy Boy by Air. He's a real

highbrow. He's cultivating a vibe here. Playing Moon Safari. That's a great idea. Somebody should just be avant-garde wrestler. The most hated. They really wanted to create a villain that America would hate.

Make him super metrosexual. Yeah, just arty, just arty, you know. What is something, Bridget, that you think is overrated? Something that I think is overrated is it's very specific and perhaps a little bit niche. I was in Vegas. I just came back from Vegasgas for podcast movement evolutions and while i was there i learned that i didn't know this i don't know how i didn't know this but did you know that elon musk's boring company has hollowed out part of the ground under las vegas to make what is called the vegas loop

what like hyperloop so this is this is where the confusion came from on my part. I was thinking Hyperloop, like that super fast underground thing, which like, you know, like I'm no expert, but it sounded, I was interested to see it. So we've been sold on Hyperloop, which does sound kind of cool. This, what actually exists is Vegas Loop, which is so much fucking worse. It is whatever you're thinking. which is so much fucking worse. It is whatever you're thinking. It is so much less cool. And it's underground. And it's just this underground road under part of Las Vegas where Teslas drive. And so it's essentially just like a fleet of Teslas driven

by humans that drives underground. It goes about 30 to 40 miles an hour. It doesn't go wildly fast. And that's the whole thing. When you go down, you think it's going to be cool because it's kind of like when you used to board those Virgin America flights where they'd have the lights.

Oh, they have the lights? They have cool lights? They've got some lights. They've got some music. So you think like, oh, I'm back to be whisked away on this futuristic loop. It's just a dude driving a Tesla.

That's the whole thing. It's just an underground Tesla. It's just a subway system with Teslas instead of trains? Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. And the whole time I was just like, this is the whole thing? It's essentially the same thing that happens above ground,

but underground for some reason. I can't understand why it's supposed to be better to be underground i can't i can't get it anyway yeah i'm confused too very overrated it was it just was really whack like it just wasn't cool because they talked about this a lot i remember him talking a big game and then i had lumped this into yet another one of the things that he talked a lot about and it sucked and it turns out that he did or or actually didn't happen and it turns out it did happen and it sucked so that that is actually news to me wait do a lot of people use it i don't think so everybody who i saw was like interested in the novelty as i was like i don't

think it's something that people are using for their general transportation needs in vegas i could be wrong i also don't trust it like i don't trust that he is doing the work to make sure it is safe and not going to collapse in on itself personally. Yeah, I did have a couple of questions because like, if you were if you had a disability and you had a wheelchair or a mobility device, it's not clear to me, like, like you can't really stop. The people are really the people driving are very invested in like keeping keeping it going. So if you had a luggage or something, it wasn't clear to me what would happen. So certainly, I'll just say it worked about as well as an underground driving system designed by Elon Musk. Exactly what you think it would be, it is.

It's designed about as well as Elon Musk, as you would imagine Elon Musk would make it. It's got that 4.30 p.m. on a Friday energy, right? Yes. Exactly. got that 4 30 p.m on a friday energy right yes exactly what is something you think is underrated something i think it's underrated is this is gonna be controversial checking your luggage when you're flying i usually carry on i checked i had a bunch of bags so i checked them all and i don't know what i've been avoiding this whole time like it was it went fine it was nice to not have to i had a connection so it was nice to not have to schlep bags from here to there this whole time i've been crapping on people who aren't able to get their stuff into a carry-on i think i'm i think i'm check bags for life now it's it's really hit or miss it's when when it doesn't go well that's like they lose the the bag

the bag takes an hour to arrive as it did on my last flight that i took where we checked a bag it's it's a bummer it's it's really tough to just be like kind of waiting there with everybody that you were just on the plane with and never wanted to see again. Yeah. Right, right, right. You're like, I'm standing next to this guy who is way too open with his feet. He's like, while we're waiting here, I might as well take my shoes off again. Yeah. Let me learn more about you, bro.

What kind of bag do you store your socks in because i think you just have the one pair but also like i i gotta say i'm with bridget on this i'm team bridget on on the checking bags when it works out because i'm uh i'm a sucker and i love that moment for me it always feels like the climactic moment of a rom-com, you know, when I see my bag again. And I'm like, oh, we've been, you know, we've been hundreds of miles away, and here you are coming toward me,

and I know it's you I knew from the first, you know what I mean? Like, you know, I'm like hugging the bag, and yeah, yeah, i don't know anthropomorphizing maybe i don't think my bag cares about me the way i care about no don't be so hard on yourself don't say that ben your bag love you do you get do you guys tie a little ribbon do you what's your how do you know it at first sight? Because bags are, I do feel like bags have evolved, like the way that nature keeps evolving into crabs, like animals keep evolving into crabs. I feel like all bags have evolved into the same like black, gray, hard bodied, rectangular suitcase that looks like it could have been made by, you know, one of the three internet bag companies. Do you guys have a little piece of spirit,

little piece of jazz on there? I do. I have very distinctive stickers. So I usually travel with two bags. One is like very distinctive, no one would ever mistake it for theirs. It's like bright orange, definitely mine. The other is the classic Black Away bag,

which I think I did get for free for like making a podcast ad. Like everybody has it. We all did. Everybody who had a podcast got that bag. We all had podcasts. So everybody has that bag now. And it's a good bag.

It's durable. I've had it for years. And like truly it is like the day you start a podcast, it shows up at your house with your microphone. But so I have to have all kinds of distinctive stickers on it. Right. Because there are so many of those bags. And I also, to that question, I like to have, like, I have no stickers on a car because I feel like that's presumptuous somehow. People are already driving. They don't want to have to learn more about me i'll just use my turn signals and be quiet but but like like with the bag especially because they're

relatively ubiquitous and i'm partially colorblind i have a bunch of like just travel stickers the ones they do from when you check a bag and i just haven't cleaned it. So I'm always thinking, oh yeah, there's the one, the beat up shitty one. I knew you from the first. Welcome back, bud. But I think it is smart when people have, sometimes people make a statement. Everybody makes a statement at different times.

And I kind of love seeing weird bags in the baggage claim. You know, I'm like, oh, this guy either is super into snowboarding or maybe it's a cello. Right. Right. One thing I do know is he has very specific views on, you know, Tibet back in the 90s. Sure. From is like free Tibet thing. I think that's cool. I think that's cool. you know, Tibet back in the nineties. Sure. From is like free to bet thing. Um,

I think that's cool. I think that's cool. And if you check a bag, like to your point, Bridget, you can, especially if you have a connecting flight, it's like the logistics is just sort of magical.

I can never do that. I could never figure out how to follow every, you know, watch every falling sparrow from like one airplane to the next. But it's impressive. Yeah. Ben, to your point about like you don't put stickers on your cars, do you ever see one of those cars that just has way too many stickers on it? Where it's like you are trying to tell us way too many things, even if they're things that I like or agree with.

many things, even if they're things that I like or agree with. At a certain point, it's like it makes you're advertising too much to the world, even if it's things that I am aligned with is too much. Yeah. Yeah, it's too much. And they're always like usually include get off my ass. And it's like, well, you clearly want me somewhere close to you so that I can read the dissertation that you've put together. There are those stickers. The bumper stickers are like so, I don't know.

They do not have a fact, industry-wide fact checker, I will say. Because there are quotes attributed to Einstein that I'm pretty sure are like Van Halen lyrics or something. What do you guys think about vanity plates? Oh, I used to have one. What did you say? It said love. This is so cheesy. It said love to teach because I was a teacher at the time

and I really did love to teach. That's great. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. I like the ones where, you know, I'm never going to condone being high in traffic. So for the purposes of this story, I was riding shotgun. And I got to the point where I thought regular license plates

were vanity plates that I just wasn't smart enough to understand. I was like, H4, no, no, no, keep following that guy. I got to write this down. Follow that man. Decode. Also, there was a study that I don't know if it's been replicated widely, but it's an interesting thought. There was a study that the people who are most likely to engage in road rage incidents were, it had nothing to do with like you know so some of the things that you might like whether they were in a pickup truck or like a different kind of truck which

would have been my first guess but it was actually people who had bumper stickers were like that was the only statistically significant differentiator between like how likely they were to get into a road rage incident and like i think the theory was that if you have bumper stickers you view your car as like an extension of your personhood more than anything else and so like you view it as a personal insult if you're cut off as opposed to just a thing that happens to everyone you know wow this is like one of the reasons why i don't drive is because i feel like i would be a road rage person like i drive a little bit but i really don't drive a lot uh i when i'm behind the wheel like if somebody is trying to merge like kind of box me out to merge, I will kill us both. Like,

we will die in this car. Yeah, I get I believe that I believe the bumper sticker to road rage correlation. Like you probably feel much more like this is my this car is my property and an extension of me and I will protect it, which I hate to say is like an instinct that I get. an extension of me and I will protect it, which I hate to say is like an instinct that I get. And I wonder if they, I've never had a bumper sticker, but I do wonder if when you have a bumper sticker, you start assuming people are driving a certain way around you based on your bumper stickers, like your defensive, you're like, oh, you don't like Einstein. You don't believe that I ran a half marathon. Well, we're like, I'm going to take this to the death. You're like laying on your horn and to yourself, you're just muttering, well, this guy doesn't fucking coexist.

That's for sure. I'll tell you one thing. I see it. And this is just further cementing my no bumper stickers on my car situation you know it's great you're right though it's it's a lot i i think people always want to sort of tell a story right because we are the stories we tell ourselves but to your point how many should there be a limit should somebody like write write to our local representatives and say, hey, I know there's a lot of stuff going on, but three bumper stickers max. Let's bring people together.

I don't know. I don't know. I believe there should be a limit on bumper stickers and also signs in your yard. Again, even if it's signs of things that I agree with, it's like, we get it. Three is plenty. You don't need agree with, it's like, we get it. Three is plenty. You don't need to like, let's keep it reasonable. It's a diminishing return. Exactly.

And some people like try to build community. Like there's houses that are like, we do this this week and we're going to like, I don't know. It reminds me of like those like mini library things that I think are cool, but I think a lot of people are like, this is how we build community. And it's like, well, you're not really interacting with anyone, it feels like. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I'm glad those exist.

I just don't know that they're the answer. This just did Jack O'Brien, library hater. I told you that was an offline thought. I'm still workshopping. I mean, Jack, it's not like you ever see crowds of people hanging around a free little library talking about the book.

We have one right next, in between our neighbor's house and our house, and it's, yeah, you don't see people hang out there, but you see people walk up by themselves. It gets a lot more traffic than I would have expected. It's pretty popular.

It's definitely useful. It's just, yeah, people don't hang together at the free yard library. At the free yard library. I do want to give a quick shout out to Nata Durellis. not to derail us here in atlanta an activist artist friend of mine named aileen loy has uh created on the heels of the book banning stuff that's happening around the country has created a what what she's calling a little contentious free library which is all banned books oh i like that yeah yeah She's way cooler than me. But yeah, it's like, you know, it's a real problem.

If you're preventing people from being able to encounter knowledge, you know, at a formative age, then I don't know. In the future, that might be like, we'll all have to have little libraries where we give out books that are banned elsewhere because yeah their schools aren't doing it in some states so all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and get into the taco bell metaverse wedding 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. 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

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I don't know. So Taco Bell held a contest where the winner, yes, the winner, got to have their wedding in a digital taco bell in the metaverse that was what you won that feels like a punishment to me but the the ceremony happened at the end of last march but people who attended just i don't, broke their media embargo. I don't know. And it's just truly, I don't know, this story made me feel as empty as any story we've covered in a long time. But I did have to talk about it. across a sacred fire. So the wedding was a traditional Indian ceremony, other than the fact that it was in a Taco Bell in the metaverse. It was hosted by Cal Penn.

The bride and groom's avatars faced each other across a sacred, sacred fire made of Taco Bell's signature fire sauce. See, okay. Okay. All right. You're on board. No, I look, I'm going to wait a second i feel like yeah i'm like oh okay now i'm back in i didn't know it was signature fire sauce but i i gotta be honest

this um is gross uh and i wish everybody like marriage is tough you know what i mean like i i wish everybody the the best of success finding your person. You know, it's like even better than that rom-com moment with your bag at baggage claim. Right. It's like that forever. And that's really noble and cool. And that is for most people, the height of romantic love. So you're saying this is even more than seeing your bag. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Yeah. OK. I mean, OK. We're we're very statement. But OK. saying this is even more than seeing your bag yes yeah yeah wow okay yeah okay i mean okay we're we're very statement but okay bridget and i are being paid by big checked bag i guess call me tfa but okay there's like again you know good friend of mine, actually my best friend, he's getting married pretty soon.

And he was telling me all like how stressful it is and how messed up and crazy planning this thing gets. And so he and his partner, they have decided to elope, which I think is cool, you know, cut past the nonsense and then make it their own. So maybe for this couple, it's their dream thing. which I think is cool, you know, cut past the nonsense and then make it their own. So maybe for this couple, it's their dream thing. Maybe they were like, hey, we met at Taco Bell or like, you know, quesadillas. In the metaverse. Yeah. Yeah.

Gordita Crunchwraps are really the glue of our partnership. My problem here is not the Taco Bell theming. I will say that. Okay. But the official Taco Bell theming. I will say that. Okay. But the official Taco Bell theming, the fact that it is, I don't know. I just feel bad for, like, if you want to diminish the amount of stress associated with an event, adding a corporate sponsor who has notes on everything. Oh, no. Oh, you're right. Like, it just seems like not the way to go.

I mean, I think like the idealized version that like they pitched when Taco Bell, you know, signed on to this idea and contest is probably that. It's like, yeah, they just start expressing their love and they're to a couple weirdos who just love taco bell but in practice for anyone who has been involved with sponsored content and uh trying to get any amount of art through uh past past corporate sponsors who have notes i just like i don't know it seems it seems difficult i also like the fact that they keep saying that they want a contest to become the first people married at a taco bell in the metaverse as though this is going to be an ongoing thing that we'll be looking back on them as the fucking george washingtonons of this thing that we all then went on to do as a people. High in years, yeah.

I mean, people do have, like, really strong feelings about Taco Bell. Like, I have no trouble believing that this couple maybe met in a Taco Bell and Taco Bell was a big part of their relationship. I didn't have Taco Bell for the first time until, like, five years ago, so I am not in that particular group.

But, yeah, we weren't allowed to eat it when I was growing up. Like a weird rule my mom had. No Taco Bell, no Mountain Dew. But all the other stuff was fine? Yeah, all fine. I don't know why she just like had a thing. Well, for Mountain Dew, she said it was because, this is her words, not mine. It was, quote, for white trash.

So we weren't allowed to drink it. Oh, yeah. No, no, confirmed. I think Taco Bell might have been in the mix as well. her words not mine it was quote for white trash so we weren't allowed to drink oh yeah no no confirmed i think taco bell might have been in the mix as well my family didn't encourage it i will say that they i never went out to dinner with my family to taco bell necessarily but you know i i got it like after you know a game or something like if i you know we we just it was the thing that was open that we could like scarf down in the 15 minutes we had and yeah it's such perfect point just like so delicious i don't know it lit up something in my brain that i have been unable to uncrease from there. And the same is true of Mountain Dew.

When I lived in Kentucky, I became addicted to Mountain Dew and have never been able to fully. Like, I don't go frequently because of or like drink Mountain Dew frequently because for self-care reasons. Because like if I have a 12-pack of Mountain Dew in my house, I'm not going to be able to not drink at all but what if you could do it in the metaverse bro now now we're talking ben thank you no that's mountain dew was originally slang for moonshine that's the etymology of it yeah i haven't tried it um but i do agree with your mom brid Bridget. Oh my god! Wait, she was actually onto something with that, like, wow! There's no way my mom knows that. You've never tried it? I've never tried it. I've tried the red kind, but I've

never had regular Mountain Dew. Regular Mountain Dew. I mean, the red kind is you get the overall. Yeah. Wait, Ben, did you say you've never tried it? Mm-mm. You've never tried Mountain Dew? I probably, this is like asking someone if they've always been vegan.

There was probably something in the drinks, but anytime there was a Mountain Dew situation available, there was some other soda or something to drink. So I would end up going with that. And also growing up, some of my relatives I didn't care for. Were into Mountain Dew. They were super into Mountain Dew. And I would look at them and I would be like, ha ha, better you than me, my friend.

You know? So like, okay. But Taco Bell though, the appeal, the late night appeal back in the day, you know got like 12 18 bucks you're high in a car following another car because you think it's a vanity license plate they roll it to a taco bell yeah and then you're like i'm living like i am the fucking emperor of bad decisions you know what two quesadillas yeah throw in the churros yo you know yeah oh man cheesy gordita crunch i just discussed like miles i think turned me on to like i loved taco bell and i wasn't even getting the best stuff growing up what's the good order i mean cheesy gordita crunch with a case of quesadilla i've

always had and then i like to get a grilled stuffed chicken burrito with, that's the healthy part of my order. Grilled stuffed chicken burrito, extra grill. Like put it on the grill for a little extra time, if they don't mind. You can ask for that? Yeah, well done. Yeah, grilled stuffed chicken burrito, well done. But then I'll freelance. And then, of course, with the biggest Baja blast that they will allow me to carry out.

You're in deep water, my friend. Like, I had no idea this was a thing. So wait, though. I get it like once a year at this point. And I don't tell my kids or my wife. It's a secret. Yeah. It's just like a dark trip to Undercover of Night.

I turn my headlights off. Dark night of the soul oh my god bridget he's got like a fake mustache on it's like so wait though wait though a wedding in the metaverse you gotta tell us these uh these folks get married they were in person right this wasn't like a remote like no yeah they were together they kissed they kissed each other's faces like real people in love and all that stuff which is all like that almost makes it because then you're like oh so they are really like married now like this was really their wedding. Cause like the, the picture that you see of it is like two people deeply in love kissing one another.

And then they're like weird avatars in a purple, like on a purple throne, like kissing each other above. But so the vows were written by chat GPT. No, like this story seems like it's being written by chat gpt because of just like all the stupidest buzzwords coming together here the vows were written by chat gpt it was within a video game so it wasn't even really the metaverse but like i don't know how

to feel about that like i'm not i'm no metaverse snob so if they want to do it in decentra land the video game it just seems like it was a poorly orchestrated publicity stunt by Taco Bell, which has to hurt a little bit when the big viral marketing campaign that is sponsoring your wedding doesn't even put it in the real metaverse. But I don't give a shit.

If they pay for the wedding, though, I mean, at that point, it's just like... Yeah, absolutely. Like, that's great. However... But, like, they paid for the wedding in the metaverse. So it's just like yeah absolutely like that's that's great however but like paid for the wedding in the metaverse so like not really sure good point did they i guess this is my like i'm sort of it's sort of breaking my brain did they pay for a ceremony irl or only within the metaverse also does a taco bell within the metaverse have employees what like i just have a lot of questions so many yeah yeah i think they have

employees uh one thing that we do know for sure is that and this is my favorite point because it's like you suspect okay the corporate brand is going to have some notes and ideas that they're going to want implemented the one place we got to see this is that in addition to having cal pen host their wedding they also had a twitch streamer like he who was narrating the whole thing to the point that the guests of the wedding couldn't hear what was happening a play-by-play yes like a play-by-play but not even like he was just a twitch streamer they were like here do your thing like had no relation to the couple so he was just a Twitch streamer. They were like, here, do your thing. Like had no relation to the couple. So he's just like over the top keeps singing.

No one. So this is, no one could hear what was going on because the Twitch streamer Taco Bell hired kept singing about Taco Bell throughout the ceremony. Legion, except the O in, in Legion is a Q for probably Q andon reasons, but I have no idea, spoke through every minute of the ceremony. He shouted out his followers and made up little songs proclaiming his love for Taco Bell as

he showed off his avatar's various outfits during the wedding. Wow. He sounds like a rowdy wedding guest that you have to throw out of your wedding because they've had one too many. But like during the ceremony. It's like, how can I make at the ceremony? How can I make this wedding about me?

You know, which that happens. I've heard war stories. You know what? I don't want to. I've never met these folks. Wish them the best again. Yeah. As we said at the top.

Nothing against them. It's just we live in hell, all of us. And this is amazing. And hell is a combination Taco Bell metaverse. Wedding chapel. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. What other things are going to happen in the metaverse?

Is Taco Bell going to happen in the metaverse? What other is Taco Bell going to have a funeral contest next? Like, uh, are they going to have a quinceanera? Like what's, what's going on? Who would,

who would think this is a good idea? I want to meet the couple that steps up and has their divorce in the metaverse. Like, like if you're really going to be about that life. Yeah. Like they didn't look at the bylaws in the entirety of their wedding, including like the consummation. Everything has to happen in the metaverse.

Oh my God. What if they go bell present present being narrating all the whole thing? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, last,

last, last question. What if, what if there is something, I think you're onto something with the fine print what if there is something where they cannot get divorced unless taco bell signs off right talk about like we don't love this for our yeah i i wouldn't be surprised if it was in the contract i'd be surprised if they upheld it if like i'm sure they put it in the contract being like because now this is going to be america's sweethearts everyone's going to be

paying attention to the the first couple to get married in a metaverse taco bell and then now that it has happened and everyone's just like oh my god we live in hell they're probably like never mind you guys do your thing but yeah i'm sure the contract gives gives them rights to the first two offspring from the children you know or from the way from the marriage all right so let's take a quick break and then we'll talk about more insane news news. 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 L.A.-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. All right. Big news. We're back. Big news. Tiger King, Joe Exotic guy is running for president from jail to remind you, if you didn't watch the whole thing or managed to strategically forget that you watched it, that part of the pandemic. Currently serving a 21-year federal sentence for taking out a hit on his rival and also for unlawfully killing at least five tigers because he's a bad person person yeah i don't know this story is just that we talked about fractals yesterday with uh our guest baratunde thurston and like the idea of like small patterns that like explode and like turn your whole society into the thing that is happening at the smaller level and like this way in which i and i don't know which came first but like toxic narcissism like debilitating

narcissism like people who just have have their mind and life taken over by a narcissistic personality disorder being the cheat code to get famous. This just seems to be like another example of that replicating itself. And I don't know if it's just the overall conditions of social media and the attention economy and all of that just leading to that. But it does seem like this overall sickness we have as a civilization results in a world where Joe Exotic is still a celebrity. Hey, George Santos is running too. You know what I mean?

The look at me casino of social media is in full effect. I imagine, Jack, that you are very divided on which of these two candidates most deserves your vote. Wait, George Santos is running for president? Well, I mean, unless he's lying about it.

Yeah. I mean, this is such a non sequitur, but the weirdest lie that he told is that he was one of the producers on the broadway adaptation of spider-man turn out the dark yeah it's a complete disaster and also it's like what like yeah that production was like a disaster people got hurt i think somebody got like one of the actors got very hurt why would you want to why would you want to be like oh yeah i was part

of that production i produced it actually like what, what a weird thing to lie about. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. That's his genius. Yeah, I'm sorry. He picks very specific things that nobody else would lie about. Like, he didn't say he was on, he said he was on Baruch College's volleyball team, which they don't even have a volleyball team. And, like, New York is not known for its volleyball. So he like gets in these like little like, you know, corners where nobody would even think to look and lies about that. I apologize.

Accuracy is important. He has he's running for reelection. I don't know if he's quite president yet. Just get elected. Well, you know, he's quite president yet just get elected he's well you know he knows how to stay in the news campaign right yeah but i i mean but he's no he's no tiger king i i saw tiger king like most of us during the pandemic right and uh and i don't understand a lot of quote-unquote reality television but i fucking love tigers you know i love animals like that so i'm like oh let's see what's happening i was thoroughly unprepared

it was like a later season of walking dead where zombies occasionally show up and it's mostly just regular people who are bad at communicating and i'm like why don't you change the title of this to like a guy there are also hey ben there are also some tigers in here occasionally right like yeah tiger content severely lacking and he's still locked up for how long this guy joe uh 20 something years, 21 years. So well past the end of his first term, I will say. Yeah. He's planning to ask Liz Cheney to be his running mate. He's also like running on the, like he's saying that like one of his big platforms is corruption in the Department of Justice, which is real.

Like, and Trump is hitting on that too. The Department of Justice is a complete shit show and like one of the most toxic, like just all the FBI, like all these things that Trump gets to be the person who like points out. It's very frustrating, but he, he at least knows how to imitate the parts of, I think he kind of got forced into focusing on department of justice because he is in jail and convicted of attempted murder but can you do that can you can you become potent when you're yeah when you're locked up yeah i believe it's constitutionally permitted

i'm gonna write that down in my notes good to know good to know wasn't he angling to get a pardon from trump like he was like yeah he was like waiting waiting on the call before trump left office i think that was like a big part of season two or for some reason i have like some memory of him like waiting on a pardon from trump i don't think i watched season two if i did i'm very disappointed in myself but yeah i remember there being like a big thing where he was like putting all his chips on Trump was going to pardon him. And then it didn't happen. Yeah. The Tiger King part of the pandemic was really weird when we were all just like glued to it.

Yeah. Our collective fever dream, you know, when everybody was incredibly afraid with with good reason but then also yeah you're right because you're right i i remember these conversations i would have with strangers you know we're all like we're all like masked up so everything has like this tension because you're looking at each other's eyes you know yeah and Yeah. And then you would have these covers, and Tiger King got mentioned in these just very short, well, I mean, I'm from Atlanta. We all talk to each other constantly, you know,

in any line or elevator. But yeah, Tiger King, and you had pointed out off-air, Jack, he's running as a libertarian? Yeah, libertarian, with a campaign of shutting down the IRS, assassinating Putin, and making undocumented migrants pay $50 a month to avoid deportation, which is an idea he says he got from Belize. Real winner, this guy. Assassinating Putin. It's funny. But you're saying you're going to kill him. He's like, so, but you're saying you're going to kill,

he's like, yep, you quote that wherever you want. What, does he think the CIA is going to read that and go,

oh shit, light bulb moment. There's an idea. Wow. We could kill him. All right, let's talk about Sesame Street NFTs

because the NFT market is exploding right now and we, this is another edition of stock corner, Jack stock corner. So the NFT market is, I, I'm shocked that there are still NFTs,

but you know, I guess these things take a while to develop and there is a new $60 cookie monster NFT. The first of a series of official Sesame Street themed NFTs brought to you by the letters W, T, and F. These are just shitty JPEGs. Like, they are just, yeah, I don't know. I don't even know what to say about this. Did they just announce this?

Yeah, they just announced this. I feel like if they had announced this last year, I might be like, okay. It makes perfect sense. We wouldn't have had to talk about it at all. I would say that, but I would be at least like, okay, it's kind of in the zeitgeist, sure. Yeah. So people are disappointed in this, and're they're like but sesame street is the educational show for everyone why would you be charging money for a jpeg like so why would you be making a product that is the equivalent of like 70 bottled you know, it's just like dumb. Nobody needs it. And what, what are you

doing? So, uh, our writer jam was, did kind of a deep dive into the history of funding Sesame street because when it was created, it was that this idea that like, we will publicly fund PBS Sesame street will air on PBS and be like like get half of its budget from public funding. And then Nixon came into the White House and was immediate. He was like, I love Sesame Street, but I can't stomach the government funding a single dollar of this. And, you know, just attacked public pbs essentially and they've just been having to like struggle and grind to just get fun enough money to keep the show afloat all of these years you know they've had to like lobby they've had to like do door dash commercials there was a sesame street door dash commercial in the super bowl a couple years ago that people were like guys door dash is not a good company for you to be hanging out with not watching watching your kids hang out with like bad i

don't know like smoke cigarettes or something it's like why is big bird doing hanging out with doordash executives but it's been yeah it's just been violating its ethical ideals for since the start because the republican party like starting with nixon just has had its cross hairs on sesame street because not just because like it's not you know the when it started the show's budget was eight million dollars so it's not like this massive government expenditure but I think what it represents to the Republican Party is like something great that was openly created from public funding and like a great work of art that was like openly you know it's just like too much of a success and so ever since nixon like newt gingrich also like got in

on it and like in the 90s was like we shouldn't be giving them any money because they sold tickle me elmo's so they can fund their budget as much as they want, which just, yeah, it's completely misguided. And, but, but I think they're afraid of what Sesame street represents. And in this country, like just any beacon of socialism is, you know,

the country is allergic to coming for libraries. Yeah. These have been, yeah. Libraries and Sesame sesame street the number one evils that are the threat to america yeah sure somebody called the tiger king let them know the real enemy right uh but i like okay so this is the thing sesame street is a wholesome kind of connecting point for a lot of people.

It's difficult to look at something like that and vilify it. And I will say, this is an opportunity for me to reference a weird Nixon fact. Bridget, Jack, Zeitgang, I recently learned that Richard Nixon genuinely said, I have often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics. What? Yes. He was a rap fan?

He said that, you know, he almost he heavily implies that he would have gone into music instead of politics. I don't know what he was listening to, but this was found in a 1997 tour through the Nixon Presidential Library. So was it like something he said at the end when, like like just random neurons were firing off in his dying brain? Because it feels like he lasted longer. Like we just kind of decided that he wasn't going to be an ex-president that people paid attention to. But like there's a photograph that always blows my mind of Nixon and RoboCop like at the same. Yeah, because they were at like some boys and girls club event together like it just somebody dressed as RoboCop not not the real RoboCop everyone not from the documentary but like it seems like well that can't be because those like RoboCop is from a different

time period than Nixon but he was still around and out there and just being like i didn't do anything wrong i got screwed yeah yeah it was definitely it had big former president energy to say you know i've oh yeah well i could have also been awesome at music but you know just didn't you know it's not my fault it's the world's fault. So I am not a fan of Nixon to be absolutely transparent about it. It does not surprise me that he and his ilk object to free education in an equitable, wholesome way. But also, NFTs are stupid. Can I say that on the show? Oh, yeah.

No, absolutely not. Because Zytecoin is still still coming we're still developing it it will be released uh we're we're targeting a spring 2026 launch for zeitcoin it just takes a lot we just have a lot of notes on the design of the jpeg the pixel placements uh yeah no of course i mean bridget you know more about this than i do. So like, what's our NFTs? Are they a grift? Is this something? Total scam.

Total scam. Yeah. Complete scam. It's funny. I was at South by Southwest this time last year and everything was NFT this crypto that like that was the thing. And I'm not at South by right now, but I have lots of friends who are. And I'm hearing that this is like now, but I have lots of friends who are, and I'm hearing that that this is like, and FTS who we don't know her like that.

How quickly everybody was like, maybe not. And how like it was, people had like gone all in on it just a year ago. And today it's like not a thing anymore. Total scam. It breaks my heart that Sesame street has to resort to and also resort to it and get there

kind of late. Like, again, like if this had been announced last year, I might have been like, all right. But yeah, Ben, to your point about the way that public television, particularly for children, has been like scrutinized and attacked, you know, you were like, oh, it's very wholesome. You know, they really, what could they find to be upset about? The way that folks on the right are trying to politicize Sesame Street to target it, to be like, this is why we need to defund it. I remember when Big Bird got, quote unquote, got the COVID shot and they were like, oh, like, this is so political. And I have to say, I respected Sesame Street's stance of being like, nope, we're just, you

know, amplifying what the American Association of Pediatrics has said is good for kids. And so that's what we're going to do. The way that Republicans continue to try to target and scrutinize and weaponize Sesame Street, precisely because it is a source of kind of wholesome, often like identity-based education for children, I think is really disgusting. And it's sad then that they have to resort to what is just a scam. NFTs are not a good investment. It is not a good use of anyone's money. It just makes me, it breaks my heart. And I think it really is a testament to the fact that we do live in this new tech hell, I guess, like a tech hellscape where

even Sesame Street has to go the NFT route, you know? Yeah. But Cookie Monster does look like he wants to fuck me, right? Like that's what's happening in that like that's clearly they're like, maybe you're interested in NFTs now? By unbuttoning

this button? Is it like an NFT of Cookie Monster's Hinge profile? Exactly. Either way, Jack, you're not going to get all the way through. You're not even going to get through the first 30 minutes of whatever you guys watch on Netflix because

Cookie Monster's got a vibe there. Oh, yeah. Netflix is not going to be very chill. That's a cool, timely reference, right? Yeah. Very finger on the pulse. Bridget, such a pleasure having you as always. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Oh, well, it's always a pleasure to join the Zeitgang.

People can find me on Instagram at Bridget Marie in D.C., on Twitter at Bridget Marie, on TikTok at BridgetPodMakesPods. I think that's what it is. I just started it, so forgive me for how bad it is. You can listen to my podcast, There Are No Girls on the Internet, or you can listen to my brand new podcast with Next Chapter Podcast called Beef,

where we are getting into the juiciest rivalries you've never heard of. Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme had a very interesting rivalry. If you're interested in historical rivalries, check us out. Hold on. Jean-Claude Van Damme and who? Steven Seagal. Wait, no, I'm sorry. Wait, is it Steven Seagal? Yeah, I think that's right.

Steven Seagal. Makes sense. Yeah. They hated each other. Oh, that's right. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? There is a work of, I guess I'll call it a work of media. It's a little niche, but I had never seen this video of Azalea Banks doing an impression of T.I. It's so mean, but it's also the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Please look it up. Like, I was dying laughing at Azalea Banks doing an impression of T.I. Ben, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, you can find me at Ben Bullen, B-O-W-L-I-N, on Instagram. You can find me at Ben Bullen HSW on Twitter. Work of media, unrelated, that I've been really enjoying. I got super into just very lo-fi, POV, walking, chill music tours on YouTube.

So my YouTube history is probably quite boring right now because it's just the perfect eye bleach of someone walking with very chill music late at night to very nice cities. That was delightful. I'll send it. I'll send it. I'll send it to you guys.

Yeah. Yeah. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Tweet I've been enjoying. Sana at Fruit Lover tweeted, I'm watching Nathan for you with my mom and she keeps asking me, what's wrong with this guy? I'm watching Nathan for you with my mom, and she keeps asking me, what's wrong with this guy?

Which just feels like the exact right parent response to Nathan. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. So it's a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Super Producer Justin,

is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah, the only way I can describe this song is that it sounds like if someone smoked angel dust and then freestyled over the Rugrats or Sesame Street, I guess, theme song in a trap house basement. Okay. You get in situations. Yeah.

Yeah. It's very specific, but I'm just calling it how I see it, folks. I think you'll agree with me. So this song is called Jig a Dame by Max O'Cream, and you can find that song in the footnotes. Footnotes. The Daily Zeke is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you list your favorite shows.

That is going to do it for us this morning. Back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we'll talk to you all then. 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. 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,

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