The Daily Zeitgeist - Good & Trendy 4/21: Supreme Court, NFL, Coke Bear, Rust, Polling, Havana Syndrome

Episode Date: April 21, 2023

In this edition of Good & Trendy, Jack and super producer Becca discuss the Supreme Courts ruling on abortion pill access, the Detroit Lions gambling scandal, the real life "Coke Bear", Alec Baldwin getting his manslaughter charges dropped, WSJ polling indicating that Republicans care more about fighting "wokeness" than anything ele, and the Pentagon getting a bigger budget to investigate Havana Syndrome!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just

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

Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. 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 Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Good and Trendy, courtesy of Johnny Davis on the Discord. I am Jack, and I'm thrilled to be joined by today's special guest, trending co-host, Becca Romo! Hello, hello! I'm back! What's up? You're back! Woo! You're a year older. A year older, a year not so wiser.

Yeah, a year wiser. How are you feeling? You know, I learned the age-old trick that when you get older, you cannot party as hard. And I probably partied as hard as I have since pre-covid them hangovers go harder i am sick i literally caught a cold yeah i'm farting too hard so we've had an aged week you and i you from the hangover me from just waking up and my back no longer working i've been recording standing up standing it's a blast i get to like rock back and forth on my feet it's fun anyways becca um i don't know why i said it like

accusatory like that uh becca the supreme court is trending um it's never good news uh they're expected to rule today uh may have ruled by the time you hear this, on whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone, the abortion drug, to go into effect. This is based on a lawsuit brought by an anti-abortion group, anti-choice group targeting the

pill. Our boy, Justice Samuel Alito, extended an administrative stay on a lower court ruling that reimposes pre-2016 restrictions on the drug. Just, I don't know. I don't know what it is about this story that gives me a bad feeling with the Supreme Court. What is it? It's, I don't know, maybe the fact that we already overturned Roe v. Wade. It's just, I think, a further implication of what happened post Roe v. Wade. I feel like if you're not a woman and after the news kind of scurried over, you're like,

okay, whatever. And maybe you, if you aren't dating women, if you don't have, you know, like female reproductive organs, you're not really keeping abreast to like how these things have changed since Roe v. Wayne got overturned last year. And it's rough. It's really sad. Like abortion care is women's healthcare and to make abortion pills illegal,

which is like the bare minimum first step to even before the eight week mark that you can take is scary. And I do wonder if this will have implications on plan B, you know, like is plan B next? I'm sure. Um, this article from the guardian says it could mean the biggest blow to

reproductive rights in the U S since Roe v. Wade was overturned, which last year. Um, so it's a bad bad time for american human rights um yikes uh nfl gambling scandal is i'm sure it's all you can think about it's all i've been thinking about all Jack, how'd you know? This is, uh, I guess a bunch of people on the Detroit lions have been suspended to were suspended indefinitely for gambling on football games.

And then a couple of players, including one that I guess people are familiar with, uh, players including one that i guess people are familiar with uh were suspended for six games for mobile betting on non-nfl games from a team facility i've been kind of assuming something like this would happen because the culture went from you know for all of the history of sports in the u.s being like gambling and sports need to stay separate. And there's this like sacred thing that can't be touched.

Um, Pete Rose was like one of the best baseball players of all time. I don't know why every time you guest host, I ended up talking about baseball. I don't even like baseball, but, um, he was one of the best baseball players of all time.

And then like, he's been like excommunicated, like erased from the history of major league baseball because he gambled on baseball games in the, in the eighties at a time when that was like the worst thing that you could do. Understandably, I would say.

But then recently, because America has gone in the direction of like whatever rich people already rich people can make the most money off of will happen um it has turned into like the biff is king of the world future from uh back to the future too where gambling is legal everywhere and like I was watching a NBA game and they had like a former NBA player gambling gambling on nba games and it is just like wow we really came a long way i don't really give that much of a shit it's sports who cares but um it's still like i i had a feeling that like somebody was going to violate some code of

ethics and then they would go like really super hard on that person because they want to make an example of them but if you're going like if the whole sports like industry is being funded by gambling and then you're gonna make it so the players like aren't allowed to even like gamble like do mobile betting on sports that like they have no influence over feels, feels weird. Yeah. That's the part I didn't understand.

Cause it says here that, yeah, it was for mobile betting on non NFL games done from a team facility. So is it the fact that it was from a team facility? Yeah. Or are they just as, as players in any, you know,

like what's the word I'm looking for? Professional sport. Yeah. Are they not allowed to gamble on any professional sport, even if it's not their own professional sport? Yeah.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It feels somewhat arbitrary at this point, especially when the owners are making billions of dollars off of gambling.

Yeah, none play. Yeah. But the people who risk their health, their long-term ability to just lead a healthy life, those people are not allowed to gamble and make money off any of this shit. All right, and Coke Bear is trending. A Canadian woman was storing 72 cans of pop in her truck.

Are you a pop? Are you a pop person or a soda person? What is it in Texas? In Texas, I think it is generally soda. Because I know that there's some places where they just say Coke and they mean any soda. Yeah, a lot of the South is like that. But I don't feel like Texas like that because my sweet darling best friend who is from Texas who came and visited me for my birthday this past weekend, we were at a restaurant and

she's like, can I get a Dr. Pepper? And I feel like the waiter literally like laughed at her. I was like, what are you in fucking Texas? We don't serve Dr. Pepper here. Yeah. And she's like, I'll just get a Coke. That's fine. So I do feel like in Texas specifically,

Dr. Pepper's way more important than like Coke or any other soda. So you would just say the soda you want, like a Sprite, an orange soda, Dr. Pepper. But yeah, you call it orange soda, not orange pop.

Like the persistence of calling it pop in places that call it pop is really, I just feel like this is, this is one where we can just be like, all right. Like, I've lived in a bunch of different states growing up and like, I've lived in both soda and pop places. And I think the pop people should just be like, all right, we were wrong. Okay. Literally. It just sounds funny. It's like,

are you in 1952? Yeah. You want a can of pop? Yeah. Um, anyways, uh, and pop is like a type of music or a type of art.

It's, it's just weird. Soda is specific and what it is, but I don't know. It's fine. If you, if your team pop, let me know your reasoning i guess or

don't that would be fine as well or don't anyways so this canadian person had 72 cans of pop in her truck that she planned to break out at an upcoming company soiree and her plans for a soda filled shindig uh so interchangeable i guess uh is how we're using it soon fizzled out the new york post is just so horny for like puns and double entendres and so they soon fizzled out after a bear decided to uh sate his sugar craving um broke into her car and drank 69 cans of soda. Love that. So people are like, it's like cocaine bear, but on sugar. The Coke in cocaine bear. Yeah, exactly.

The Coke bear. Apparently, the bear started with Orange Crush. Eventually, the last thing he got was the Diet Pop, in quotes, according to the person whose soda it was. And so immediately, I was like, how is the bear drinking this? Like, I would imagine a bear would just try and eat the can and then it would like break apart in their mouth and then they'd spit out the metal.

But apparently the bear was using his teeth to open the cans and then like drinking it there there's a part where they're like you could hear the slurping so it was actually like a chugging situation chugging the sodas yeah which is kind of gross probably uh but but also kind of impressive i like i always thought that that was one of the least believable parts of the co-Cola polar bear ads was that the polar bear didn't just bite the top off, but actually like popped the top and drank it like a human would. But apparently I'm wrong. I'm underestimating. They're smarter than we think they are.

And just more dainty when it comes to how they drink soda. They will just guzzle that shit. Anyways, great story. Shout out to the New drink soda. They will just guzzle that shit. Anyways, great story. Shout out to the New York Post. Love that. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente.

And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job?

Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote.

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executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine.

Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling, firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. 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 four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry,

Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on.

From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained?

This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back and alec baldwin's manslaughter charges were dropped according to prosecutors this is because new facts were revealed just this week apparently the gun was modified before being delivered to the low budget western which increased the odds that the gun might have misfired um and they're i guess assuming that it was not modified by Alec Baldwin.

I didn't know that was ever on the table. I thought the manslaughter was purely because he was the one holding fire. Yeah. So it would seem like this is putting more of the blame on the prop master, but the prop master is like, no, this actually clears me as well so we'll we'll see but there's some republican polling that is saying that most republican primary voters say fighting woke ideology in schools and businesses is more important to them than protecting medicare and social security from cuts wall street journal poll um cool cool cool cool cool

we're seeing a lot of this um polling suggesting that like the right is really focused on culture worship but then none of that bore out in how they voted in the midterms so i'm just wondering if this is i don't know we we talk about this a little bit on monday's episode too that um like there are these polling like rasmussen and shit like that that have very slanted polling results and just polling in general is slanted towards people who are willing to answer polls. Yeah. So in the longterm,

it's probably good for the democratic party. If the Republicans think that the way to electoral success is more beer ads about how like woke everything has become. And because people actually don't seem to give enough of a shit about that stuff to vote, to support like candidates who their main thing is being anti-trans. Yep. So it sucks. It sucks.

Uh, and then Havana syndrome just won't quit um they just included a bunch of shit in the pentagon budget for uh investigating havana syndrome symptoms even though all of the evidence seems to suggest that i don't know they've done reports that suggest that it was not caused by enemy weaponry. So it's an increase of $2.1 million over the previous fiscal year. I think this is more a story about how wild Pentagon budgets are and how there's just so much shit hidden in there that doesn't make sense. Especially with the whole conversation we're having in general about like america's hitting its debt ceiling right yeah where's the money going yes the pentagon to explore havana syndrome yes when they looked at the pentagon's budget one time

there were like four billion dollars missing and they were like yeah we don't we don't really know what happened sorry i don't know like when you wonder where all these rich people, all these like billionaires who back right-wing policies come from, they've been pumping just like billions and billions of dollars of military budget into private military contractors for decades now. It's been like the most consistent, efficient way to get rich

is just getting hooked up with some sort of military manufacturing contract. So it's bullshit, it seems like. And it seems like their internal reporting suggests that it's psychogenic in nature. And yet they... And yet we're putting more money. Increased the amount they're putting towards like investigating it by $2.1 million. So maybe it's a situation where they're like, keep looking.

They come back, they're like, yeah, we looked, there's nothing there. And they're like, all right, here's $36 million to keep looking. So we'll see if anything ever comes of this i can already foresee the future where they eventually have spent enough money on reporting that they're like we found it it actually was russia and everyone's like oh no they'll find a way they'll find a way to make it about russia you know with enough money and resources, you can make anything happen. Gotta spend money to make money.

So you make Russia into a sci-fi futuristic weapon having enemy. You're going to be able to spend more money on other defense department budgetary things. Well, Becca Ramos, such a pleasure having you back on Trends. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me and follow me at Bex, B-E-C-C-S, Ramos on all platforms. All right. That is going to do it for us this afternoon. We are back on Monday 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. We will talk to you all on Monday. Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation

expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. I'm Carrie 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 Elf Beauty. Founding partner of iHeartWomenSports.