The Daily Zeitgeist - InTrend Miami FC 6/7: Lionel Messi, Air Quality, CNN, Martha Stewart, Boffo Box Office

Episode Date: June 7, 2023

In this edition of InTrend Miami FC, Jack and Miles discuss Lionel Messi coming to Inter Miami FC, the terrible air quality in the eastern US, Chris Licht's very brief run as CEO at CNN coming to an end, Martha Stewart thinking people should "go back to work", and a quick look at the box office!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of InTrend Miami FC. Oh, boy. For, of course, I don't have to say that. Obviously. Explain this. You didn't have to explain this to me right before we started recording. No, I didn't, and I did it. Of course, it's InTrend Miami FC. Yes. obviously explain this you didn't have to explain this to me right before we started recording it and i did it inter miami fc yes being the club that we're about to start talking about right now because yeah i'm sorry i think it's inter miami cf whoops oh oh you oh shit sam

bagged me fuck burned you my bad bad. Mine's okay. Thank you. What do those stand for? Football club or club football? Yeah, I think they're doing like, I don't know if they're doing it the exact way they would. Like in Spain, they'll do CF instead of FC. So, I mean, like you, and obviously, you know, you've studied. I mean, you were in Madrid. Obviously, I do know.

Obviously, you do know. I was in Madrid. But yeah, it's, it's, but i think what they're doing is club internacional de fútbol miami there we go yeah so lionel messi is the greatest to ever do it and i knew that is coming to the mls reportedly this is this is like when pele came to the us yeah this is like this feels much different than anything that we've experienced in our lifetime. Because, like, we've had, the only one that, like, I remember crossing into my, like, non-football, you know, following radar was Beckham. And he was, like, first of all all he was never as good as messi was

right and then he was also like 30 of his former self he was 7 000 years old when he came to the la galaxy his hair was still good which was what was important his hair's still good man i can't front his hair's still good shit shit's still going strong uh but yeah this is like i mean Shit's still going strong. But yeah, this is like, I mean, Lionel Messi just won the fucking World Cup. He just won the World Cup. Captain Argentina to the World Cup.

He's now leaving Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain to move to the MLS. And apparently, there was a couple offers on the table. One was for him to go back to Barcelona, where it all started, and he made all the fantastic memories as a footballer. there was like a couple offers on the table. One was for him to go back to Barcelona where he, it all started. And he was,

you know, made all the fantastic memories as a footballer. Um, and another was from a Saudi club. Oh, Al Hillal, which we know about their attempts at sport washing. They wanted,

cause they have Cristiano Ronaldo playing in Saudi Arabia right now. And they, what their idea was, if we can get Ronaldo and Messi playing in our league, that's some wonderful sports washing. Reportedly, this Saudi club was going to offer him one and a half billion dollars. What?

Yeah, that's what the deal was going to look like, all told, with everything. It was one and a half billion dollars. Messi was like, nah, I don't know, for whatever reason. I think he probably just wanted a fun new challenge, come to the U S and the, this deal is wild because it's being funded by Apple and Adidas basically. Because the thing is like, um, Apple has like the, I don't know if you have Apple TV, you've seen that they're like, they have all the MLS games. So they own all the

MLS coverage. And then Adidas makes all the uniforms for MLS. And so what the deal looks like is they're like, you're going to get a cut of the TV profits and any cut of like if the profits in general of like MLS go up, you're going to get a taste of that too. Yeah. anybody who is watching who knows anything or even just a little bit about soccer and you have all these you're like now people who live in you know the midwest or whatever will have lionel messi coming to play in their town and that's gonna bring fucking like i feel like every game's gonna be a sellout so that's big money big money players right there big deal for me finally i i will be able to convince myself to start watching mls i have been to a couple games and they're they're a lot of fun yeah lafc though all day over here lafc all day

is it i mean this completely changes the power balance of the league i'm assuming right well yeah i know my aim i think they're like bottom of the league right now so you know maybe they'll put some pieces around him to make it a competing club or you know he can just i think even messy like a 20 of like using 20 of his brain is still going to be lighting it up so yeah be fun to see um the air quality on the eastern u.s uh seaboard uh just every everywhere in the eastern u.s is really like you go you can go to the front page of the new york times they have like some time lapse photographs of like what the sky looked like this morning late morning afternoon and then it just goes full hellscape like some of the stuff

that we were seeing in san francisco last year right and in la like it's like the sky is bright orange orange as my neighbor would say it is orange uh yeah it looks like i don't know like a like a move i don't know yeah it's just unreal to to see and all because look at all the terrible catastrophic forest fires happening up north in Canada. Which is what, like, it's just so stupid, man. I didn't, I honestly, I knew that there were some wildfires. But then when I saw this store and actually looked at the amount of wildfires that are happening in Canada, I was like, oh my fucking God. I hope y'all are okay up there.

Because this shit sounds ridiculous. And apparently the reason why the smoke travels this far is because these forest fires are able to send so much smoke into the atmosphere that like it's traveling in like atmospheric winds that'll carry it thousands of miles. So now you're seeing it in places like Minnesota and fucking everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. And this will just get more and more common because climate change is not a thing in the future. It's happening now. Yeah.

And look outside New York. It's not Blade Runner. It's climate change. Yeah. What that looks look outside New York. It's not Blade Runner. It's climate change. Yeah. That's what that looks like. It does look a lot like Blade Runner. That is a movie that keeps popping into my head for sure. Very Villeneuve-ian.

Yeah. But yeah, get, get some face masks that'll protect you. Like, obviously we're a little more familiar with face masks these days than we were four years ago, but,

uh, the K95 masks can work. Yeah. And 95 should work. So hopefully you have some of those laying around um we're actually out here being like hey y'all the air is so fucked up here are your masks that you wear like we're there like we're we're there man like to take a line from dumb and dumber when they finally get aspen but yeah we're there an update to a story that we covered in our uh weekend roundup uh because we were talking about how there was this new uh profile unprecedented access uh in the atlantic i believe uh to cnn's CNN's new CEO, Chris Licht, where he was just, you know, he was like,

yeah, you can just hang with me, unfettered access, 24 hours a day, I got nothing to hide. And it turns out he had some things he should have hidden, because just 13 months into his tenure, he is

no longer CNN's new CEO. He is now CNN's old CEO. Uh, he, he will be moving on. Um, so I mean, yeah,

he was there to go, you know, fucking sniff out the libs. Yeah. And yeah, it just apparently like when that piece came out in the Atlantic, like it, it was just like,

like to your point, the piece came out and it's like, okay, you're fired by a couple of days later. So that fucking bad. It was a bang, bang play as they say in baseball. Yeah.

But yeah, despite their like strategy to like improve ratings or profits, none of that happened. Yeah. And it, so he, I didn't realize he was like the guy who took over colbert and like turned that program around and you know the insight seemed to be like go

really hard on trump um which i'm not sure if colbert needed to be told that but um and then his insight at cnn seemed to be like go really hard with Trump. Like his whole thing seems to be, man, people seem to really respond to this Trump guy. Right. Which genius. I mean, I don't see how you fail when you have that level of, you know, observation. Yeah. There's just, there's so many that I was just reading a little bit to that tim alberta piece in the atlantic about him it's just so fucking everything is bad like there's not a single thing

you're reading like oh maybe he knew what he was doing or like oh he's so self-absorbed he's so obsessed with zucker and like like he like moved like zucker's old office used to be on the 17th floor apparently like you know like where everybody like just up in it. Right. Like, you know, sort of connected to the room. Then he went up to,

you know, a few like flights up to the 22nd or something where they said, quote, most staffers didn't know how to find him. Yeah. Yeah. Well, smart up there,

smart up there, lifting the bar. They can't fire you. If Zucker couldn't find you. Yeah. Lifting a bar and saying, bet zucker couldn't do this is right such a strong move has there been a profile that was this impactful like this like they'll do a profile of like a politician and you'll be like man that should be the end of their career but it never like actually happens right yeah i don't know yeah like i mean this is bad there are times like that have been like laughable ones like i think of like the beto o'rourke vanity fair cover like yeah but that

one that certainly wasn't what they were going for no no exactly like yeah i'm not sure because this is truly like it was like pride comes before the fall here yeah um so i don't know maybe maybe that'll happen with like harlan crowe and maybe the atlantic will maybe do some more damage there or maybe they'll just carry water from i don't know but i can't i certainly can't think of something where like a profile like this came out and taken down like within a week within a week of publication you're gone but i think it was a losing battle trying to run cnn however the fuck those creeps up in the c-suite wanted it ran right because he wasn't the he wasn't the guy who like came in and was like i'm a conservative we need to make it more conservative that was like

a pre-existing idea that he then was working with right yeah that was that was from like one of their over like this guy i think we talked about like robert malone um who was like we talked about how he was like saying he said shit like i would like to see cnn evolve back to the kind of journal like that was the beginning of seeing right the right word creep yeah yeah uh all right let's take a quick break we'll come back and talk martha stewart and other shit their shit. 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.

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And we're back. And Martha Stewart had some good political capital going after her Sports Illustrated cover. Yeah, I was just saying okay martha we were all rooting for you we're rooting for you make making me you get i'm becoming tyra banks suddenly uh but now she's opening her mouth talking about she's on she said she's on a rampage to get the

people in the united states to go back into offices um because she hates like work from home shit she says that people cannot quote possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely oh then she went on to say she would know because i mean she's famously has worked lots of office jobs correct oh or oh i'm sorry no she she's like when I was doing work, when I was like, you know, behind the walls, you know, I would make at least 80 license plates a day. And I was doing that with my bare hands. I don't know. She goes on to say she compared the state of in-person work in the United States to France, calling France a, quote, not a very thriving country.

Quote, look at the success of France with their stupid, you know, off for August, blah, blah, blah. That's not a very thriving country. Should America go down the drain because people don't want to go back to work please leave please go back i mean look we're not here to you know advocate for prison but maybe let me just shut up and go back there like are all your friends these like goldman sachs people who are like god you know the corporate fucking real like that's all they're talking about because she's only talking to like these business owner like property owning maniacs and that's the thing that all they all are obsessed with right now is like what are we going to do with all this fucking like corporate real estate yeah she just hasn't had a conversation with anyone who is worth below 50 million dollars in probably, or at least not a conversation where she was actually respecting the other person and taking in what they have to say.

So that's where we get these things where they come out with their chest out and are like, and I mean, we all agree, right? France is the pits and we just need to get back to work. What? Yeah. Look at how they're all, look at how they're turning up, trying to fight the, you know, raising of the retirement age and going all out. Like, anyway,

it's not a very thriving country. Yeah. Uh, it's like, it reminds me of like when that, that Willow and Jaden Smith article came out a few years ago. And like, they were talking to people like,

what the fuck are y'all talking about? Right. And, and clearly like when i read i was like oh so he's around some trippy ass adults who are just saying this shit all the time and they're just regurgitating this nonsense thinking that it's their own thoughts and like that feels like how martha's like look you're she's around these takes i'm sure uh so yeah it's gonna be a mirror for them yeah Yeah. Alright. Just checking with the box office.

I do just want to comment on Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse is a genuine phenomenon. Oh yeah. It is crushing. It's doing incredibly.

Bafo? Miles, I'm going to do it. Ring the bell. It's time to declare the box office for Spider-Man across the spider verse. Boppo, the Boppo bell. Oh shit. He's ringing it.

Yeah. Um, but I don't know. It's, it's very exciting. Uh, the, the,

so there's also a new transformers movie coming and also the Flash DC movie coming. It feels like none of them are going to do like what Spider-Verse is doing. They thought they could cross swords with the animated Spider-Man. I mean, I don't think anybody knew it was going to be this good. But you knew how good everyone knew how good the first one was. Yeah. You know what I mean I don't think anybody knew it was going to be this good But you knew how good Everyone knew how good the first one was You know what I mean You can't be like hey man You know our fucking terribly cursed

Flash movie with the lead Performer who's an absolute Piece of trash Let's go toe to toe with the beloved Spider-Man animated version Okay Go ahead I will say beloved Spider-Man animated version. Okay. Go ahead.

I will say I think the Flash movie is going to eat shit a little bit because there were some early things. I think they must have had a marketing campaign where they're paying I think Stephen King came out on Twitter and was like, just saw the new Flash movie. It's the great

this isn't a superhero film. This is, like, one of the greatest. I think they, like, had some people that they were working with to try and get the word out that, like, this one's special, folks. But it seems like, you know, the reviews have dropped and they're pretty kind of middling. They're not the sort of thing that you would need

to get past all the problems that this movie has. Also like the last DC movies, like really a box office, like Shazam fury of the gods, um, has grossed 133.4 million worldwide, like to date,

which is the lowest DC cinematic universe movie in history. Um, even with like inflation and all that shit, it cinematic universe movie in history um even with like inflation and all that shit it's the worst in history and then like black adam like you know that that was the hardest the rock has ever like worked to promote a movie and like that one went well under like what people were expecting and like people think it was probably under profitability so like the foot the flash and and like box office trackers are saying that like these sorts of movies like that have a shared cinematic universe like this kind of influence each other and so if the past couple haven't done well it's pretty damning um wasn't zachary levi like in some controversy too yeah isn't he like a scumbag on some bad horses man jesus zachary levi was yeah he's just like no i'm just like a libertarian and

like oh is that what it was came through with some really spicy takes um i will say that this new transformers movie which seems completely baffling to me like i don't know why the robots need to be animals and vice versa no no i don't either but for all its uh logical problems in my brain uh it makes the hell out of some sense to uh my kids brains yeah that is i'm like trying to get them we we just watched the first spider verse they loved it i'm like we can see the next one in theaters and yet every time we pass a transformers movie poster they're just like oh transformers are there other transformers movies like why is that big damn robot animal like so pissed is he a bad guy like wait there

and now i'm gonna like maybe have to show them the michael bay transformers why don't you just go to spider-man and see if they figure it out because it's so good you can be like y'all you know this is good i mean my bad we walked in the, we walked in the wrong theater. My bad, what would you transform us next time? What are we doing Spider-Man today? Yeah, I don't know. I know what you mean, because you want to be like, well, they started, you don't understand, because they started off as Autobots,

and their whole thing was they transformed from these things that were among us into these robots, but that's just a fucking gorilla robot. Yeah, what does that transform into i don't even know i don't even know i don't even care but again but these films aren't even for the u.s anyway yeah they make all their money overseas especially in china yeah in the 50s domestic but like huge numbers overseas so yeah and i get it like one of the cooler things like just when we were at the

beginning of like cg and like cool special effects like one of the movies that seemed to me like would have the most promise was a transformers movie and like watching the robots like transform on screen like that five seconds is cool as fuck like that's like yeah man like that's that's cool as hell like yeah that's that's what like that's that's cool as hell like yeah that's that's what movies that's why i would go to hell yeah man hell yeah brother that's a bit all right a little bit of all right right there man yeah i am a very vocal film viewer yeah transformers film just go to everyone and kind of give give a lot of high fives. Elbowing people next to you. Huh? Huh? Huh?

But yeah, they fucked up and gave it to Michael Bay. So anyways, Spider-Verse seems to be the big winner, which is good. Seems like a case of art actually resonating and winning out. It's so good. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, June 7th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the things that are trending on this wednesday june 7th we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get the vaccine get your shots get your blue shots don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to y'all 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.

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