The Daily Zeitgeist - Hold On The Zeits 5/2: WGA, Starbucks, Vice, Andrea Riseborough, Janet Yellen, NYPD, Adidas

Episode Date: May 2, 2023

In this edition of Hold On To The Zeits, Jack and Miles discuss the Writer's Guild strike, Starbucks charging for no ice, Vice heading for bankruptcy, the Andrea Riseborough/Oscars controversy, Janet Yellen's warning of US insolvency, the NYPD wanting people to bug their own cars, and Adidas getting sued over Kanye's BS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcasts just listen okay or lacy gets into it hello the internet and welcome to this episode of hold on to the zites hold on to the trendories. Hold on to the Trandories. That is courtesy of the Brew on Discord. And one Richard Marks. Was he related to Karl Marx? Yeah. His work is heavily informed by the theory and teachings of Karl Marx. I'm Jack.

That over there, well well that is Miles Gray I mean do you remember his sophomore album Das Kapital was a fucking hit very controversial I just remember that song when you sang that I was like I only know that part because it was always on those like

commercials at midnight that were like get all the greatest hits from the 80s and 70s on one album and you just get like one piece of the song and it's like hold on to the night in a black void playing the piano with just the greatest 80s hair of all time and what's the other one it's like

black bear be down that one is just fully that song doesn't exist outside of those commercials as far as I know oh my god now that That song doesn't exist outside of those commercials as far as I know. Oh my god. Now that, Miles, that is what I call music. Thank you so much. Superduser Victor came in with that one.

Alright. Should we tell the people what's trending? Obviously the WGA, the Writers Guild, is on strike. It's on straight, Ike. Getting fucked over by the corporations that are in charge that own the

content that we watch so uh you know show solidarity with them any way you can um don't scab and start writing for one of these shows listeners yeah um you know yeah we talk about it more on tomorrow's uh episode

oh yeah but uh another thing that might cause me to strike outside of Starbucks is they're going to start charging people for no ice. What? I've heard of charging people for ice. What the fuck is that? I don't know. Something an employee said. But I guess the idea is that that causes change in the workflow and it's less filler. So you get more of what you're after.

Like when I'll go to a place that has like lemonade and shit like that, they do a good. Whenever I see people putting half the like the 60% of the cup is ice that I'm like, no, no, no. I want no ice. I'll ice that shit at home. Yeah, that's how I get down. Oh, so they're trying to come after the people who, like us, know how to hack the volume. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

We're volume hacking. I mean, they see me coming from a mile away. I walk in with my pockets just packed with ice. Yeah. Just be like, no ice, sir. And take a big gulp and then just start dumping it in. Get some gum wrappers in there. But, you know, worth it.

That's fucked. Just, man, fuck that place forever. Just come on now. Ah, they're the best. just start dumping it in get some gum wrappers in there but yeah worth it that's fuck just man fuck that place forever just come on now uh they're the best uh hey speaking of they're the best vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy couldn't have a better company as we talked about their hiring philosophy revolved around the 22 rule hire Hire 22-year-olds, pay them $22,000, and work them 22 hours a day. Am I right, bro? Oh!

We are progressive and cutting edge. And not racist or misogynist at all. At all. Don't read any complaints you've heard. Our co-founder is literally Gavin McGinnis. No! I mean, yeah, but he left. Yeah.

Their whole thing was the fashion do's and don'ts. That was like they had the fashion do's and don'ts. Everybody loved that. We should have known he was an issue when like one of his like more viral videos wasn't he was talking about like Gavin McInnes was talking about why he needs a beard and he was just screaming about his weak chin. And I'm like, there it is, folks. There it is, y'all. This is the future of American masculinity right there. At least he's honest about that. Yeah. Drake-like honesty. Drake-like vulnerability.

He should have been crying about his weak chin. Yes. The Oscars have announced sweeping reforms of campaign rules in response to the Andrearea riceboro controversy i don't know yeah this movie was seen by so few people i don't even know if i'm pronouncing that correctly but she was nominated for an oscar for her work in a movie that i have definitely heard is good but nobody saw it which is usually a disqualifying factor when determining if something gets nominated for an oscar but she's like has a lot of big a-list friends who might you know have be repped by the same people as her yeah and they were throwing parties behind the scenes trying to get people

to vote for her uh it worked yeah so it's it again i think at the time i was likening it to arrested development when tobias is trying to get a job like on tv and he keeps pretending to get like get the buzz about his like you hear about this fume kid guy everyone's like what just to get the like the whisper buzz going it was that if gwyneth paltrow was the one doing the whisper buzz they fumed her way to a fucking Oscar nomination. So I like that now they're basically like, you can post on social media, but don't tell people how to vote. Don't start

ranking people's performances and saying this is better than that, or how many times you can host a fucking private screening for people for their consideration. So yeah, she got away with that one, but luckily she did not win. This is the rule about like not telling people how you voted i don't know maybe that

makes more sense when you know how like maybe people just copy off of other people's ballots or something but they do that that just seems like it's going to be hard to like work around or i don't know yeah well i think the biggest thing is they want to prevent celebrities from using their platform or like these bigger named actors and other people to just be like this person is amazing y'all need to consider them and right they're like yeah we're not doing that anymore like you can shout people out but not not as aggressive as this whole like campaign was. It was pretty, pretty aggressive. Pretty, pretty, pretty aggressive.

Treasury Chief Janet Yellen says U.S. risks default as soon as June 1st without debt ceiling increase. This is basically the Republicans holding the country hostage at this point. That way they can take away all kinds of fucking... They're like, we need less money for the va you're like what the fuck socialism yeah fuck the veterans i mean it's it's definitely you know this is this is what happens when they tell you they've been

saying they're gonna do this from the beginning so i don't know why people are fucking shocked when like they get there and they're like we'll fucking do it man we'll fuck the economy up so we can like you know cap this spending from joe byron which is only an issue when democrats are in office for oh one they don't talk again it's it's it's just what it is the debt ceiling will always be like a political football based on who's in power and this, that, and the other. So, I don't know. Meanwhile, all the normal people will have to suffer because then if the economy goes to shit and people start laying people off. Yeah.

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I mean, they can be helpful if you lose your wallet, but then when you see people use them so cynically, you're like, oh, you're tracking an X with that now. Yikes.com. But I guess this is all because this has been a thing right because it's all from that tiktok shit that went down where people were showing viewers how to fucking exploit like the

hyundais and kia so you could basically start the car with a usb cable and shit and it's had such an effect that apparently like some insurers are like kind of bristling at insuring kias and hyundais because they're stolen so fucking easily and so eric adams is like hey look i know these cars are fucked up and not easy to protect so we got free air tags y'all want one right and we can track you we'll track you just we won't track you unless i get stolen okay does that sound good deal car thefts are spiking, and I think the fun explanation that the local news wanted to use was that it was TikTok's fault. But it also probably has something to do with rising prices on cars, which makes it harder to buy. Let's not point out the fact that it's dumb as shit to have a car that's so fucking useless in terms of protection of it from being stolen.

That then the next thing is like, well, then we should surveil everyone. What about your dumb fucking car? a car that's so fucking useless in terms of like protection of it from being stolen. Yeah. Then the next thing is like, well then we should surveil everyone. Not what about your dumb fucking. Yeah. What about asking these corporations to not make it so easy to steal their cars? Let's blame the Kia boys.

Yeah. The at Kia boys are the problem. Yes. Superdiser Brian's pointing out his 20 year old truck does not have this problem. yes superducer brian's pointing out his 20 year old truck does not have this problem also another thing that people are doing is leaving their key fobs sitting in their cup holders one of my friends does that i was like what the fuck are you doing yes jesus christ i mean not on purpose it's more like casual it's like oh, I forget all the time. But it's fine. And I'm like, no, it's not because you can open.

What? Yeah. I don't know, man. I think people get things too easy. I'm over here clutching my keys. I'm like, you'll never fucking know. Yeah. You'll never know where I store these at night.

I hide them all over town. Sometimes I don't even know. I have a hundred different holes dug in my backyard. And you'll never guess which one the keys are buried in. Okay, well we need to go to the store. I don't even know which hole it's buried in. That's how good this system is.

So NYPD's handing out 500 free air tags to help residents track their cars in case they've been stolen. They specifically said, help us help you. Because have you seen this movie this new movie jerry mcguire there oh yeah i loved it a hot new movie hey my grandparents are in that they are that blew my mind if y'all want to see my grandparents watch the scene where uh

fucking cuba gooding jr gets hurt in the big game and then my grandparents watching the game yeah my grandmother grandfather or like like Regina King's parents. They're like, oh, girl, don't worry. It's going to be all right. Yeah. So watch that. It didn't blow my mind because, you know, I fully expect you have the most interesting family,

but I just didn't realize that those weren't real people. I didn't know. I guess that's when I found out about actors and the magic of them. Right, right. It's like, wow, Regina King's parents are there they really care they're not two people who are retired with nothing to do and one of their sons got really worried they'd be bored so then got them into doing background work this is a way to stay out of trouble they were really good though

class a they're iconic they were like the old black couple like if you need an old black couple they were they were in deep impact they were blair underwood's like family too yeah man shit was good we probably don't need to say voluntarily helping the nypd to surveil you seems like a bad idea right they're also a for the for the cars that inexplicably don't take them up on this they've also just announced uh that they have developed a pneumatic gun that can fire a sticky GPS tracker at a moving vehicle. Yeah, this comes in a few different forms. There's this gun that looks like a fucking grenade launcher, and it's like obscene. The whole point is you just need something to launch this dart at a car.

And then they have another one that's built into the grill of cop cars like james bond and you can like activate and like launch the thing to like track the car like if you're close enough behind it and it just like shoots it out right at the fucking back of the car but is that being used properly are there are there less chases i don't know because like with like la right now we're having this same conversation where like the lapd's policy like people like you should not be chasing after like stolen cars and shit it's just dangerous right and like well we're gonna we'll look at our policies i know like on paper it's caused a lot of fucking problems and accidents but you know it's that property that's stolen getting gets our cop

boners going so yeah yeah that's That's the worst thing that can happen is damaging property in this country. Absolutely. And finally, Adidas is getting sued from investors who claim that Adidas executives knew about the problematic behavior of Ye before they dropped him, which them dropping him

had massive impacts on their sales. Apparently, his gear accounted for 10 of adidas annual revenue which has a big company yeah a 10 fucking deficit i don't know who yeah i don't know maybe you can sign drake's little son or something or push it to you i don't know i don't know how you do this but it's also so funny that they're like they knew about the like yeah everybody everybody fucking like that's how wild you're talking about they also like made the decision super late right like they were the last brand they were holding on for dear life yeah please don't make us do this i mean you know it is what it is and i think you know people know that the roots of the company were you know card carrying Nazis so

it is interesting that they took so long to wait after he was like Hitler was great and you know just saying all sorts of wild anti-semitic shit. The board is like I mean the founder would agree with that if it is in the spirit of this company

Adi Dassler loved the viewer yeah it's named after adi dosler who adolf dosler adolf dosler uh who was a card-carrying nazi yeah people are like but he wasn't as bad as his brother who founded puma it's just like okay it's just like two people who like created half of the shoes in the world. Uh, and they were both Nazis, but not anymore. They moved on.

They don't, they don't run the company anymore, but we do like to keep this, their spirit alive when we kind of turn a blind eye to people's Nazi rhetoric. But it's just wild now because they have so much stock that they're trying to figure out what to do with. And like, does it unbranded or whatever?

And I think that one of the first unbranded like Yeezy shoes is going to come out. And it looks like a shoe you'd buy like, oh, that's like a knockoff without the branding on it. You're like, oh, man, fucking Adidas is in for a wild ride here. Yeah. So, hey. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, May 2nd. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,

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