The Daily Zeitgeist - Jacinda ArTrend 1/19: Jacinda Ardern, Alec Baldwin, Florida, Carol Baskin, Nikki Haley, Supreme Court

Episode Date: January 19, 2023

In this edition of Jacinda ArTrend, Miles and super producer Becca discuss Jacinda Ardern stepping down, Alec Baldwin getting charged with manslaughter, Florida banning AP African American studies (for Florida reasons), Carol Baskin's husband being... alive?, Nikki Haley's plotting and scheming, and the Supreme Court's investigation of the Dobbs leak resulting in a big fat "Ionno"!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello what's going on the internet and welcome to this thursday edition of the trending what what do we call this anyways the trending episode uh this one today is called jacinda art trend because that is our first trend we're going to speak about but first who am i i'm miles and i am joined by super producer becca what's up becca hello how are you look we had to we had to do a couple re-ups on the intro i don't know where i am and i'm not aware of a chaotic thursday it's a chaotic thursday indeed let's tell the people what's trending first is jacinda ardern the prime minister of new zealand that many i feel like many americans during the pandemic were like why can't that lady run our country oh yeah they were

like they have no covet over there how do we have no covet i mean much easier in an island nation and a smaller population but still it was like the she's relatable and i remember whenever guy montgomery would come on we're like yeah it's pretty cool to have uh jacinda right now but uh she's announced that she is going to be resigning um so she's going to be leaving office by february 7th and a new labor prime minister will be sworn in uh until they have an election in october and get a load of this why is she resigning why because she has fucking classified documents or she was she was hiding hunter biden's laptop no she said quote i just don't have enough in the tank to do the job justice honestly that is so respect respect like so much respect to know when it's time to resign when it's time to leave a job

because god forbid anybody in our government system isn't so fucking hungry for power that they like actually just let a job go because they're senile and cannot do the job anymore diane feinstein uh yeah that happens all over the place and yeah to go further she said look you know i just i don't have it in me and like some weirdo i want to spend more time with my family and marry my partner because i had to cancel a wedding because of pandemic wow that's beautiful so respect to our queen here there was already some dude tucker carlson like already was like was she a chinese op oh my god please stop uh and then i think he called her the lady with big teeth because yeah misogyny cells it's because his wife doesn't have sex with him you know it's fine yeah does

he even have a wife like is she a is she like a projection like i haven't even bothered to even search that as a human. I'm so disinterested. But you know what? Let's see. Tucker Carlson wife. Susan Andrews. Is there not a lot of pictures of her?

Oh, wow. Okay, cool. It's because he gives incel behavior, and I understand. Yeah, and good for him. He got him a partner that Hitler would be proud of. All right, moving on. Got to talk about... Oh, but also Sam Ne neill who i didn't

realize was a kiwi of jurassic park fame he was saying like the just the treatment of her in the past has been vile and disgraceful and embarrassing i'm like yeah man all right sam neill let him know um alec baldwin is also trending uh because he has been formally charged officially been charged with involuntary manslaughter for the shooting on the set of rust that took ended up uh taking the life of helena hutchins who is the cinematographer dp and then the armor the person who was responsible like the gun wrangler is like yeah more colloquially said on. The person who's in charge of the bang-bangs and shit has also been charged. So the first AD, the assistant director, who handed Baldwin the gun, pleaded guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon as part of a plea deal that came with a suspended sentence. Baldwin's lawyer's like, we're going to fight this case, man, because he had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun.

And I'm sure they will figure out how to you know masterfully argue that so there's nothing to do with anything but um there's also this thing i didn't realize that baldwin's like initial defense was that he didn't pull the trigger oh he's like it went off or something he was trying to say i wasn't i didn't pull the trigger and the gun i was holding yeah and then the fbi once they were doing their investigation they found that the weapon that was meant to be a prop could not be fired unless the trigger was pulled yeah and then the lawyers are saying if the gun was in poor condition etc but i think we knew about this so he baldwin settled a wrongful death suit with helena hutchins family yeah and like i didn't realize that part of that was adding

the widower as an executive producer to the movie which is a little grim was like hey sorry you're the movie you're an ep now yeah like anyone wants to see this movie i don't know right i look i get it i mean i'm sure in a way that's probably a way to ensure that there's like back-end money if the film does come, that there is funds flowing to the family. Yeah. I didn't even realize that the movie is reportedly about a character who goes on the run after being sentenced to death for an accidental killing. Oh, my God. A little too method.

Oh, yeah. Fucking wild. You know, fact is stranger than fiction, it seems sometimes. And then before we go to the break, Florida is back in the news because I didn't even know there was an AP African American Studies class. Yeah, I didn't know this either. They did not offer that in my school. I don't know if this is like a newer thing based on this new york times article it seems like it is a new ap course being offered uh throughout the you know ap program for schools right okay so schools can

elect i think to offer it because i mean from my understanding my mother is a teacher she has taught ap spanish in the past but the only way that you can get certain ap electives because it's an elected course because some of them are upgrades from regular courses like you can take you know regular use history or you can take ap use history but you have to have teachers that are certified in teaching those courses so right i'm sure a class like ap african-american studies you have to have a teacher who is a certified oh yeah who's on it like that right and be like enough staff to even and like people who've elected to take the course to even offer the class like that's why certain languages aren't taught in certain schools like there's just not enough kids signed up for german to be teaching ap german right right right um so i'm sure this is

almost like silly that it's a new story in the sense that like i'm sure there's a lot of schools not offering to teach this but it's you know but the reasons in florida though are very different uh they said that the course content was quote inexplicably contrary to florida law and significantly lacks educational value the study of enslaved people in the in this country has no educational value which is i mean i think anybody who's used to this kind of racism all you can do is roll your fucking eyes again because this is another denial of humanity or that anything that has been experienced by african-american people has no significance or educational value aside from maybe explaining a

lot of uh our societal ills today but yeah and again they just go on to say that it's just not historically accurate which is crazy because a they're not teaching the course to be able to tell you if it's historically accurate or not and And it says, B, it violates state law, which is crazy. What law? Well, because that's an anti-woke act. It's that other regressive shit that DeSantis signed into law. Oh, yeah, where you can't teach racial... Don't say race.

I hope you say Rachel Green from Friends. I hope you didn't say racial right now. Or racial dolish. But we don't use those words in this school. But yeah, I mean, this is precisely how you raise an electorate that is completely ignorant of, you know, the oppressive forces at work. So when they are old enough to go to the ballot box, they might just take hook, line and sinker the nonsense that is historically inaccurate that you're peddling as fact. that is historically inaccurate that you're peddling as fact. Because, yeah,

again, they're projecting because what their whole curriculum, their ideal curriculum in that state would be to be like, oh, yeah, the slaves were, they were chill, man. They loved it.

They had all those songs and stuff. They got jobs. They had properties. You know, shipwrecking. How many of you guys have unemployed family members right now that you know about? Think about it, folks.

If you had it now, everyone could have a job. I'm just saying. All right. This is the last class I'm ever teaching because I've just been fired. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back to talk some more news right after this. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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Was everyone so hell bent on just saying that she's a fucking like cat lady murderer that this blew by? Hell yeah. Were you not there during the craze that was Tiger King? By the end of it, everyone was like, that woman murdered her husband. Yeah, it's this it's this white guy who is somewhat not not somewhat, predatory and loved shooting things. That's the guy I'm going to back, who also loves Trump. That whole, like, Tiger King was such a, like, a fever dream, right? Like, the moment of Tiger King, I just remember, you know, it was like we just got into the pandemic. Like, everyone is, like, you know, having whatever, cabin fever from being home and like haven't ever

been home this long it was also winter yeah and everyone is on their little corporate zoom jobs talking about tiger king because it's the only thing we've been doing just such a fever dream of time like the content of it it was like like the last i feel like crazy thing netflix released like it was like no rules like everyone's just like, we're just watching Netflix record these absolutely predatory, insane people. Not only did this woman apparently, you know, murder her husband, as everyone assumed, but also this man definitely was a predator

and, like, preying on young men. And the other guy, too. Remember the other, like, cat dude? And they found out, they're like, yo, this guy's got like a cult or some shit. Yeah, a cult of male lovers. Let's just skim over that completely. But anyway,

I didn't know this, but people have been playing this clip where she's saying like, yeah, you know, Department of Homeland Security, they located him in Costa Rica. And I'm like, hold on now. We're talking about the absolute wrong person now like where is this don whatever don bat was he was his last name baskin too whatever his name is

what's his backstory i want to nail this story about he's like why i gotta fake my own death to get up out of cat world no probably he was like this shit like after the netflix documentary he was like this shit's wild i gotta go and i'm not even sure like i'm having trouble because i'm so like tiger king brained from the pandemic i'm like there's no way that guy's alive no that's how i felt too yeah so he is alive we're saying that i guess so yeah he's alive oh my god she was like thanks to homeland security because because of tiger king homeland security God. She was like, thanks to Homeland Security because of Tiger King, Homeland Security got involved and was like,

okay, let's find this man. And then they found him. So she was like, thanks to Tiger King and Homeland Security for clearing my name. Oh boy. Well,

but in the court of public opinion, I don't think she'll ever recover. No. Oh God. The brand tarnished. Yeah. And it's not the outfit choices either carol uh let's see what else is trending oh nikki haley she's trending uh the

former governor of south carolina i believe she is in the i guess some pages of mike pompeo's new book called hey hey remember me i might run for please. But in it, there is an excerpt that people are pointing out that says, according to, you know, Pompezi, that Nikki Haley and Javonker were scheming behind the scenes about secretly going. They were going to not secretly. It's secretly scheming to replace her or replace Mike Pence with her as VP. How would you even do that how do you oust the vp i have no idea i mean i've never even heard of anything like this so yeah it'd be a resignation is there like a 27th amendment like vote of no confidence for the the vice president too yeah it feels very hard it feels like that is something where the checks and balances i guess

somewhat work in a little bit you can't just like oust the VP because you don't like them. But I mean, look, in that world, they do are like, well, why can't I? They're like, there's no legal way of doing it. They're like, well, let's do it. Yeah. Overturn the election. Yeah. Oh, shit.

But anyway, that's the level of strategic thinking we're dealing with over there. But hey, Nikki, you still got a chance. You can run for president, too, and get absolutely vaporized by Trump's hate speech. And then finally, the Supreme Court is trending because, OK, remember the whole, you know, Dobbs decision leak? Disgraceful. And also people like, what the fuck is going on? Who leaked it? Is it was it clarence thomas was it some was it one of the like liberal justices staff supreme court came out and they're like look y'all well we don't know what the fuck happened is apparently their official stance they

said you know they followed all their leads and conducted a forensic analysis to no avail and they said all 97 employees of the court they denied leaking the draft the official statement said quote the team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of evidence uh i wonder if they have a good idea though yeah maybe but i don't know or do they think it was a hacker i don't know not that i want to like getting into like the weeds i know but getting into like the weeds of it at this point is like i don't know i'm like i want to like getting into like the weeds i know but getting into like the weeds of it at this point is like i don't know how useful it is because the fact is they fucking overruled it about them releasing this info i'm like how useful is it for you guys to tell us that you did a whole investigation as to who released the document saying women are

going to lose their rights to tell us that you found nothing right right right yeah i don't know i look i have no clue what that means but we'll see uh at the end of the day the fact remains that uh you know the justices in the supreme court don't believe that abortion is health care uh so it's up to the everyday citizen to be extra vigilant locally uh and to provide assistance if you're able to so yeah we'll see what happens with them over there. I mean, there's already stuff about Jenny Thomas this week. Yeah, I get it. She's a fucking vile creature.

Please, like, if you're not going to do anything, don't stop. It feels like you're going to be like, ha ha. Yeah. What you going to do now? You still can't do anything about this. This is even worse.

So, we... You're like, I'm tired. I know. I'm tired, y'all. All right, folks. Thank you so much for listening to us Becca thanks so much for stopping through and joining me on this trending episode

we'll see you tomorrow got a whole episode before the weekend please come along and I'll be here cause I'm yet to be daddy but the countdown still continues so until then man take care of each other. Take care of yourself. Get the vaccine.

If you're a parent-to-be, get that Tdap shot like I did a couple weeks ago. You know what I mean? So you can protect them kids from pertussis and all them things. And also, what else? Oh yeah, don't do nothing about like hate speech or any kind of hate rhetoric too. Be a good person. Alright, we'll talk to you later. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. 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

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