The Daily Zeitgeist - ElecTrend Day 11/8: Midterms, Rick Caruso, Powerball, Hurricane Nicole, Trump, Kari Lake, Grocery Store

Episode Date: November 8, 2022

In this edition of ElecTrend Day, Jack and Miles discuss the midterm elections, celebs for Caruso, the billion dollar Powerball winner, Hurricane Nicole, Trump running in 2024, Kari Lake priming voters with misinformation, and how not to be an asshole at the grocery store!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Electrend Day 2022. It's the mid-trends. I'm Jack. That's Miles. I didn't just come up with that on the spot. I've been working on it for hours. That slick wordplay that you've come to know and appreciate. Miles, how are you doing? I'm doing fantastic. I i voted twice so i got two i voted early and often baby exactly they can't they can't hold weed that how what's your strategy for media consumption tonight on election day yeah oh uh i'm more interested in to see how la stuff goes so i'll probably check it out for days nah but so like i know but there there may be some they may be able to call some stuff like some ballot measures and things like that maybe yeah those typically you can get those results but

i mean there's no there's no strategy right like it's like you're bracing yourself to be like, Emma, is it just going to be so fucked up and it's just going to be an all-out bet on voter suppression and the most vile shit you've ever seen? Or will it be nice? And will there... I don't know. I just... Look, at the end of the day, the Democrats are running on,

hey, we're not them. Yeah. So my hopes are about as far as that goes and then we can pick up the pieces after but overall i don't i don't like to go into shit like feeling all down and demure even if there's reason to just because for my own well-being i'd like to be optimistic i'm gonna try to not watch any of the results are coming in and all the arrows pointing towards this direction and any of this shit. I can take the New York Times boner meter.

That's what I thought it was for the longest time. The bonometer. What is it saying? But yeah, Karnacki MSNBC. He'll be at the board. There's gonna be so many segues. And who else has had a really busy night tonight? Our very own Steve Karnacki.

What's going on, Steve? I'm having a fucking mental breakdown, man. The returns are massive, mate. Wait, what? You turned into a football fan? Harry Kane! Okay, I'm sorry. What? Oh, sorry. Purple Wave.

Hey, well, sorry. Purple Wave. Hey, well, speaking of Purple Wave, not really that. Katy Perry, Chris Pratt, all the coolest celebs are coming out to let us know that they are fucking idiots. Yeah. They're backing Caruso.

Yeah. Katy Perry, like, you know, sure like we don't expect anything from like all the weird millionaire celebrities that suddenly were like i'm fucking with caruso i see you snoop dogg uh but people are just that's just how it is i'm sure for them they they don't even live in the same world as us and they want to hear what other wealthy people are saying is the solution to poor people uh so katie perry was like oh my i'm voting for caruso chris fucking pratt posted this on his stories i've lived in

la for over 20 years it's been great to me in that time i've seen what many residents here have seen the city's gradual decline into pain and utter disarray if you live here you know exactly what i'm talking about i don't normally support political candidates but in this election there's too much to lose if you're an la voter i urge you to go for rick blah blah blah blah he's a builder he knows how to get shit done he's the guy for our city rick caruso for la mayor take your l and go over there sir goodbye go back and go golfing with your pastor you dumb fuck um let's he's a normal guy he just likes to go golfing with your pastor you dumb fuck um let's he's a normal guy he just likes to go golfing with his pastor and uh yeah i mean look man you could fucking be with gwyneth paltrow kim kardashian joe coy who else have i seen uh fucking elon wolfgang puck uh aunt becky's

daughter who cheated to get into usc she was like yeah like what a fucking washed i mean fucking herbs and spices gonna win he's gonna win because he managed to define himself as like the non-status quo and i think that's where the energy is yeah i mean again and when we had my friend mike dennis on just talking about like considering how powerful the city council is, you know, the mayor's office is like its own thing with its limited set of powers. But it's interesting to see like all the people who are endorsing Karen Bass from the celebrity world where it's like Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Donald Glover, Steven Spielberg, Tracee Ellis Ross. Oh, man. So, yeah it's um what it is it would make me feel better if it wasn't you know yeah yeah the mayor's office is weak in la but he spent 100 million dollars of his own money on this election so clearly he saw some benefit coming to him and his rich friends oh yeah sure

i mean there's no limit to the self-enrichment you can engage in and guess what 100 million dollars could there's this tweet from first of all bitch uh the journalista on twitter it says i want la people to think about the fact that rick caruso spent 100 million dollars of his own money for this mayoral election. $100 million to run for mayor. Not president of the United States, mayor. He claims to care for the homeless. Guess what that $100 million could have done?

Yeah. Yeah. Look, and that's why I say, that's why I like Michael Bloomberg. He spent a half billion on himself. Yeah. So. So he really means it. But that's how you know that these powerful positions

and the halls of power are still insular and work. And he knows something we don't about what he can do in the mayor's office. I think the shorthand in our late stage capitalist hellscape is if a company or a wealthy individual is spending an exorbitant amount of money to like do something that you're like you shouldn't be spending that much like to run for mayor or like bust a union yeah that chances are that they stand to make at least that much back

yeah yeah yeah oh that's kind of that's sort of the most like it's like he's looking at this like whatever it is this shit is worth over 100 million dollars to him he did like i think sometimes people are like he's a billionaire so he has enough money so he can just spend it but people don't get to be billionaires by not having a pathological obsession with money that prevents them from like even tipping 10 on a dinner bill you know that's like they're fucked up people who like money more than the rest of us. They have a plan in place of how that money is going to come back to them. Um, bad times.

I'm, I, I do feel like just what, when in doubt, the energy is going to be behind whoever the non-status quo is. And that's going to lead to, um, people like Rick Caruso winning

and also pain elsewhere. We'll see. Powerball is trending. Speaking of billionaires. Someone won $2 billion in Los Angeles. Yeah. Altadena, California. Altadena.

Really odd. Really interesting part of california where like redlining prevented a lot of black people from owning like land in that part of like the city and like altadena was one of the like few places that could like allow for like a middle class black neighborhood to sort of prop up and i think i want to john brown's sons like settled in all time so it's kind of weird it's got a lot of uh energy so now a would-be billionaire has come from there what would you do with 1.9 billion dollars 1.9 well miles they take half of it with taxes i hear it's only 900 something million so it's like why it's not even a bill i don't even know if i would pick it up you know

yeah at that point um i might just light my cigar by burning the ticket you know yeah just like a true baller yeah straight baller shit and put it on tiktok so people like knew that i was cool and on that grind mentality. Nicole is trending because that is what they've named the hurricane that's preparing to strike Florida. Wow. Is it, we know what category it's strengthening to?

We don't. Just that it's going to be a hurricane. I think it's still somewhat early. A lot of the pictures you see that look like giant ocean waves are actually commentary on there's a red wave coming um so yeah all just new stories that are happening while everybody frantically speculates about what could happen yeah and i mean a lot of people are you know very intentionally talking about red wave red wave red wave red wave, red wave. Because if there's not, if it doesn't come, then they get to be like, they cheated.

Anything else? They cheated. Pretty grim. Pretty grim. Pretty dark times. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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And we're back. And so is Donald Trump. Coming 2024. Seems like we had heard that he might announce the day before, like last night. Yeah. Because he just couldn't help himself. But somebody apparently convinced him not to do that. the day before like last night yeah because he just like couldn't help himself but somebody apparently convinced him not to do that and so now we are looking at november 15th a week from today uh he's gonna announce that he's running in 2024 yeah and very exciting he's already telling uh i

think i think he like basically told ron desantisantis, I have dirt on you. Stay in your fucking lane, basically. Yeah. What he said was, quote, I don't know if he's running. I think if he runs, he could hurt himself very badly. I really believe he could hurt himself badly. Wow.

I think he would be making a mistake. I think the base would not like it. I don't think it would be good for the party. Any of this stuff is not good. You have other people that possibly will run, I guess. I don't know if he runs. If he runs if he runs he runs by the way jd dance is a bitch i'm out if he did run i will tell you things about

him that won't be very flattering wow i know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife who is really running his campaign you are shook daddy wow he threatened to like reveal compromise like coming coming strong come on the two of y'all let your egos burn this fucking party down I'll reveal something that possibly only his wife knows like that's

you know he likes to know weird perverted like he likes to know about bedroom shit about people so he probably does ask around I was assuming he was keeping those cards close to the vest that he's like yeah i'm a real pervert i like to listen in and like know information about people's weird sexual stuff um i was gonna say what's the word but he wouldn't i was gonna say proclivities and i think he wouldn't say he wouldn't say proclivities or pegadillas but anyways i i like that he's just out in the open like yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know real freak shit about this guy. It'd be great. That's such a weird fucking, what an energy to just start off with. Like, at that point, if you're Rhonda Sands, it's just like, That's truly incredible. I don't, I guess, like, are you really going to, I mean, it seems like he's, he said, you know, he's fine not running. But there's clearly, you don't say shit like that

unless you're hearing from people that he's really considering running. Oh, yeah. He's doing this shit already to strengthen his brand nationally. You see him pop up more and more and more. Oh, yeah. If he does not run for 2024 presidential primary, it will be against his own will desantis is not like good on the debate stage either he has um jared uh kushner and uh robert moeller vibes when you hear

him speak you're like what the fuck happened to that voice that is not the voice i heard in my head when i was reading about this guy right he just has a totally different voice yeah well yeah i think i think you'd be very i think he could get he could hurt himself badly is truly some pay less mobster shit like that would be like in any other era in any other timeline i feel like that would be big news like former president threatens potential like opponent yeah in the republican prime himself in what way yeah all right whatever he could hurt himself i didn't say i'd hurt him i said he might hurt himself like i'm like my impersonation has been slipping because i haven't had to hear this fucking guy talk and now we're gonna be right back in it well mine is uh fortunately flawless so you know there it is

all boats rise in the end might hurt himself might slip out a window i don't know i said but i don't know he might get defenestrated just learn that or you get thrown out of a window big word big word trump vocabulary how about maybe defenestred huh what uh carrie Lake is trending. The Arizona gubernatorial candidate is doing the pre-misinformation, pre-gaming the election with some misinformation. Yeah, it's a wild state of things over there. You already have your gubernatorial candidate just outwardly being like i don't know what's going on there might be some something going on with the voting machines because apparently like maricopa county some of the voting machines are down like 20 of the voting machines are down i remember that like from 2004 that being a thing you know when like bush carry like hearing oh all these voting machines are down and

i don't know it's there's problems all over the place i won't say that no election has ever been fucked in that way but i am pretty sure it's not happening uh against republicans would be my guess yeah i mean she's like this is something she said about like an hour and a half, two hours ago about the election. Just about just more theories abound. We don't have to have elections run this way. We switched from a Republican area to vote. We came right down to the heart of liberal Phoenix to vote because we wanted to make sure that we had good machines. And guess what? They've had zero problems with their machines today. Not one machine spit out

a ballot here today not one in a very liberal area so we were right and then just casting aspersions so she managed to use the fact that she saw the election running smoothly as evidence that there was a conspiracy against her yeah that or maybe if maybe in that area where a conspiracy theorist isn't running things maybe the election by virtue of that runs smoother um but again everything is there's nothing you can do or say to these people at this point that is going to change their minds like you know we talk about it in tomorrow's episode though everything that's been said to them for weeks now has been red wave red wave get your fucking life jackets on folks because the red waves coming through yeah and meanwhile there's been a lot of other analysts who are like people need to be really careful about this when most pollsters

like we have no fucking clue realistically what's going to happen what we can see is increased energy for democrats and like these really vital metrics but we no one's out there to be like, this red wave stuff is totally bullshit. Literally nobody knows. The polls are broken now. We talked about it on this morning's episode that Nate Cohn was like, yeah, so one little piece of context as I talk about these polling results that we got. It took me two hours to conduct a single interview to find one person willing to answer poll questions when i was polling nobody

answers us anymore so we're having to use very scant evidence to like extrapolate all these you know hypotheses and it's a plus it's all these like very out of nowhere like republican polling operations pop up and adding more polls to the averages and stuff and a lot of you're like who the fuck is this group it's like it's another republican like consultant doing a poll and also because then they get to go around and show them like look folks we're ahead we're ahead but then you also read like stories too where there're um people like within the party the republican party saying like i don't know if like we went too hard on like all this like freaky election shit and i'm not sure if that's going to suppress voting and i'm not sure if that

quote comes out because they're kind of like i don't know well yeah we're dealing with people who are just they're like fuck voting you know like we'll just get violent or not or complain who knows everything's up in the air we just don't yeah no just be on the lookout if you're a conservative neighbors are freaking out about sharpies that's apparently a thing that they're concerning themselves over they're like uh if they ask you to vote for a sharpie or vote with a sharpie that's actually fraud um you have to use a blue pen a blue pen equals freedom equals braveheart um okay sovereign citizen yeah and finally uh just some good information for how not to be a monster at the grocery store um some of the stuff's pretty straightforward. This all stems from

there was a meme about put your fucking grocery carts away when you're in the parking lot. Don't just fucking push them off into the parking lot to cause accidents. Wait, people just blindly casting them the fuck out?

Yeah, just put them back. I don't know. I try, I try and do that. I've had to go grocery shopping with children quite a bit and babies. And like, I still find a way to like take the time to put the fucking grocery cart away because you don't like, don't you just see all these abandoned grocery carts in the parking lot and

like wonder who the fuck is just being like, yeah, sorry, asshole. That's why when I'm also, when I see like the person working and like wonder who the fuck is just being like yeah yeah sorry asshole that's why when i'm also when i see like the person working and like they got a fucking just like they're going three blocks away or whatever all over the fucking shopping center to get carts that's why there's like that one dude on youtube who like antagonizes people who don't put their carts away yeah yeah so i think this is based on that and saying here's some other like asshole-ish behaviors.

Don't talk on the phone. I feel like that's pretty straightforward. Hold on. What's wrong with talking on the phone? Sometimes I'm like, which one do you need? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. That one I didn't really fuck with. The don't touch the food has a picture of somebody holding an

apple in the produce line. It's like, I need to feel the produce sometimes to make sure it's good. If I somebody holding an apple in the produce line is like, I need to feel the produce sometimes to make sure it's good. If I pick up an apple and half of it is falling apart in my hand, I'm going to put it back. But they're talking about people reaching into the

deli case and shit. Like in a salad bar? Yeah. Or picking up a donut with their bare hands instead of a little tissue paper. I don't know if i've ever seen that but i certainly didn't need to be told that um have you ever had to run out like do the thing where you're like oh shit oh my god i need one more it's right there i need one more thing yeah yeah all the time and i run motherfucker i'm you'll see like i got heart when i say please one second for this thing that they'll never think i'm fucking with them.

They're like, okay, he knows what he needs. Come back, breathe in real heavy. They didn't have it. One that I thought was useful that I hadn't really done, try to unload heavy to light on the conveyor belt. That way,

the person doing the bagging, if it's not you, or you doing the bagging uh if it's not you or you doing the bagging can do it more quickly because you're putting the heavy items at the bottom of the bag um but then that would mean i mean i'm not that that makes complete logical sense is efficient and i you know commend the engineers that would say that's that's that's actually a good efficiency in the system i just don't the way i put shit in my cart is a heavier shit just at the bottom because i can't have it crush the other shit you know and then i have a light shit on top yeah um well you're gonna have to make some difficult decision you know yeah you

know what i might just and if someone gave me a weird look looking at my cart i might be a coward and just leave my cart there and run sobbing to my car because i don't want to i don't have to explain anything i'm sorry i don't need to make your job or forget it have you ever gone food shopping and forgot your wallet i have done that uh oh yeah more i did that shit once and it was a fucking devastating man i remember the moment yo i even had to come up. I remember sweating and being like, yo, do I fucking just take the L and put all this shit back? And then like slowly

like deconstruct my shopping cart. But then when I looked, I only had like cereal and like shit that didn't have to be refrigerated or was produce. And I took that shit to like the corner where like the manager's special shit was. And I acted like I got on my phone.

I walked out of there tears running down my face. It was it was awful. Like it's the most panicked I've ever been. It was so humiliating. So humiliating. Anyways. Yeah. Just try and be a good trying to use common sense.

Yeah. At the end of the day, just be considerate. But you know when you see people who would be just fucked up and reach into the fucking bakery case with their bare hand? Yeah. And be like, I just touched the one I'm eating. What's your problem? It's like the kind of answer you'd get from somebody like that. Karen-ass, Karen-son type shit.

Yeah. She'd be surprised, man. It's everybody. Ain't shit people are. Yeah. She'd be surprised, man. It's everybody. Ain't shit people are all over. That's true. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending.

We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves by maybe not watching all the results come in and just wait. I don't know. You do you. Or check out Mike Lindell's election watch police coverage that he's doing on his live stream from his fucking RV or whatever. Go get a flu shot. Get the COVID booster.

Get that by mail-in. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil,

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Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career.

That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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.

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.