The Daily Zeitgeist - James CorTrend 10/18: Rihanna, MySpace, Brittney Griner, Special Master, Student Debt Relief, Balthazr

Episode Date: October 18, 2022

In this edition of James CorTrend, Miles and super producer Becca discuss Rihanna's rumored song for the Black Panther 2 soundtrack, Instagram stealing from MySpace?, Brittney Griner spending her 32nd birthday in Russian prison, Trump's Special Master asking "where's the beef?", a student debt relief update,  and James Corden getting banned from Balthazar for being an asshole!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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in a second. I am Miles and I am here joined by Super Producer Becca Ramos. What's up, Becca? Hello, hello. Happy to be here. Happy to be here. Thank you so much for being here. We are both, look, truth be told, we are in the DMV area. Crazy.

DC, Maryland, Virginia, stand up. Beltway gangsters at the moment. Just doing our thing on the East Coast. Gotta say, just outside of DC is looking nice and clear and wonderful. It's a beautiful day a little chilly beautiful

day hey i don't mind that look i'm from the place where jackets are a fucking joke so i know you must be excited it like actually feels like fall right now i got this big ass down jacket you see all right look i got it in frame my big down coat i love it uh and everyone who like lives here is like what are you doing full no it was it's 55 i did not bring a down jacket uh from new york to be in dc this week and i was like i'm fucked like i woke up this morning so early because i had some errands i need to run and i had a like i mean i got to steal a north face from my partner and i love wearing his oversized coats so win for me a lose for him because he didn't have a jacket.

But I got to wear a puffer and I was perfectly warm. Exactly. Wear your big down jacket, smoke a blunt in the stairwell, and be a real New Yorker. Let's get into the trends because that's what this show is about, not our love affair with jackets. Although we could do another podcast like that if you were interested. Just let us know. First thing trending is, ooh, is rumor has it why is rumor has it trending becca rihanna uh apparently

according to vulture who knows uh but i'm like if vulture wrote it i feel like that means there's some strong contenders in history saying this is true right rihanna wrote a song for the new black panther movie it's gonna be the end credit song. Oh, shit. But it's just a rumor. Wait, but how does it, according to who? Do we know like what they say, like according to, or is it just like there's rumors? Oh, I see this tweet.

Rumors are flying and I can add to them. I've been hearing for weeks that Rihanna is recording the end credits song for Black Panther, Wakanda Forever. What was her? Wait, when was her last album? That's like fucking 900 years, right? Let's see. Officially, Rihanna's last album. Auntie.

She was. Auntie was. It was fucking Auntie. 2016. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Okay, Rihanna.

Yeah, I get it. People, look, in the interim, she became a fucking billionaire. So, you know, she's been doing her Billy thing, I guess. I mean, she's been telling us no album, no album, no album. But now, I mean, I feel like there's a lot of teasers. I was in the camp of the Super Bowl announcement to me meant this was her her final swan song she was gonna do her you know her final bow she didn't play the hits she's gonna be like this is all you get from me but now hearing about this from apparently new york times projectionist uh kyle

buchanan reported by vulture which to me a source. Maybe she's got more music up her sleeve. You're not gonna be a billionaire and then be like, and that's that. But that's been her attitude, you know? She's kind of like, I'm more than music. I'm doing all these things. I'm gonna be the best of the best in every place that I set my foot in. And she's been not wrong. Look, Rihanna, give your money away.

Don't do the Super Bowl halftime show. Don't play yourself because you were talking real. You say you were with Cap when they asked you the first time. You said, I will not be part of the foolishness. And now you are the front and center at the foolishness. But look, I get it, man. You're working with Roc Nation, Jay-Z. He's a capitalist.

You don't get to a billion dollars playing your cards right. That's very true. But yeah, it's been a minute for the album. So look, I will welcome new music anytime. Next thing that's trending is MySpace because for us geriatric millennials out here and young Zoomers, maybe y'all remember MySpace.

Some do not. But apparently, now this is based on rumors. Now, I don't know. I mean, it sounds like a lot of tech people are talking about this, now this is based on rumors. Now, I don't know. I mean, it sounds like a lot of tech people are talking about this, but this is what we're hearing. The rumor is, and we don't know if it's true, that Instagram is potentially working on a feature that will allow you to pick a profile song like MySpace. This makes me laugh because, I mean, Instagram notor notoriously people are annoyed that the sound is always playing like you scroll instagram without music so to be adding music makes me

feel some type of way but also i feel like everybody and their mom be posting lyrics on their instagram stories when they're in their feelings so right maybe this is a part of that moment i remember my myspace and i had some probably say anything song uh shout out to the emo girls um on my myspace uh but i i won't be obliging to this yeah i mean i think the thing is right it was when the songs played on your myspace page it was novel yeah like oh shit and then music comes out from this like static landing page it's like i'm not navigating to the youtube like thing to watch the music video it just plays passively but yeah now we're in the era of like every fucking thing is noisy like i get pissed off if like a website it's like a flash website

and it has like a fuck i'm like yo shut the fuck up i don't need a fucking background track to a bacon website absolutely oh my god that kind of feels like it'd be annoying look you worked in advertising you know about those dumb flash things with the stupid music oh absolutely the ads that automatically play it's like our biggest contentious thing when you're in advertising trying to sell ads it's 100 so i don't know for me i i like the nostalgia of it but i know that like most of the time my shit is on mute so i wouldn't even hear it or know but i do like the idea because when you could do it on myspace that was my way to like subtweet my feelings it was based on my profile song. Like I remember I got broken up with how my heart destroyed and I changed my shit to,

uh, going on by Gnarls Barkley. Cause I'm going on that shit to be like, I'm good right now. It was like, it was so fucking sad, but like, that's what,

that was my intention to be like, yo, when she sees it in the top eight is all switched up and going on his plan. Woo. I've seen it with my own eyes. How would look anyway? But like, I wonder if it's nostalgia or if it's like I know on Hinge and on Bumble for a minute there. I obviously have not been on the apps in quite a while, but you could link Spotify to it.

And you could put your own playlist and things like that. I personally was like, no one needs to know my music. At this point in my life, I don't pride myself on my music taste like I did when I was 17.

I'm like, I like the hits. My music taste maybe hasn't changed too much. I be a pop girly now that I never was. I used to be like an indie darling. Like, I love knowing the newest indie artist. Now I'm like, I love Ariana Grande. Shoe Gaze City or what?

I'm gonna be sitting here listening to Renaissance every day. There you go. Sorry. Play the hits, motherfucker. Move on. Play the hits. That's where I'm at in life. Yeah.

So we'll see. I mean, look, IG is... They just keep doing everything. The solution is simple. Just cut out the fucking ads. I get it. That's your whole business. But stop interrupting my scroll with ads. Put the shit in real time.

I want the shit as I'm scrolling to be posted two minutes ago. I'm like, oh, look at you at Kmart. Okay. Moving on. Or I'm going on, according to Dallas Barkley. Next thing trending is Brittany Griner. So, it's her 32nd birthday today. And she is no closer to getting out.

She has her appeal coming up. But that could go really bad. Really bad. Yeah, it could go, like, they said if it goes left at the appeal, they could just immediately send her to, like labor camp, which is really frightening considering this is a queer woman of color in a country that that's a combination of words. You might not want to be considering the kinds of, you know, violence that could await you or discrimination. But again, you're already in jail on some we caught you with weed vapes thing, which to this point, we're like, what what's the real story there? Biden, Joe Biden, has said that he wants to get her out.

According to Brittany Griner's wife, she's also feels heartened by like the administration saying, like, we see you like we get that, like we absolutely need to get you out of there. But according to like Russian spokespeople, they've made it pretty clear that her release is not, is nowhere close to being a priority. Yeah. Because given the invasion of Ukraine, basically completely causing all kinds of fucking chaos for, I mean, not only obviously the poor people of Ukraine, but like even within the country,

a fucking jet plane, like fucking crashed into an apartment building two days ago. So yeah, it's really, it's really tough. And like to hear, according to her wife, the words that Brittany is saying, like how she's just increasingly becoming more and

more despondent and not sure what is going to come of her life and trying to not, as she describes it, moving into this place where she kind of accepts her terrible situation. Yeah, but this might be the rest of her life. Yeah, that is fucking frightening.

And again, I think really if you're going to have a real conversation to around this, it's also about equal pay for athletes that are playing in the WNBA as well, because the only reason Brittany Griner was going to Russia is because she doesn't make enough money or doesn't make as much money as she could in the WNBA. So a lot of athletes supplement that income by playing abroad so

it's so disheartening it's so scary and last time I checked Baylor had not even made a statement either supporting Wow really? Which is super yeah super fucked up so you know are they trying to act like oh if she had weed then that's on

you yeah is that maybe the man that's fucked up um but yeah like according to her lawyer uh said that quote she is not yet absolutely convinced that america will be able to take her home she's very worried about what that what the price of that will be and she's afraid that she will have to serve the whole sentence here in Russia, which would be right now, I believe, nine years. Oh, my God. So, God, please, please, please. I hope there's a way for her to get out. All right. Let's take a break and we'll be right back to talk the rest of the trend. 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.

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It became a theme in my life, the underdog syndrome of being questioned, of the, would they say this to a man? No, they would not. Like, why? That was one of those moments where you're just like, oh, wow, it was a bit shocking, but it didn't take any steam away or anything like that. If anything, it was more of the, okay, I'll show you, no worries.

Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back special master is trending uh because that is in reference to judge raymond j deary of the federal district court in brooklyn so this has to do with the Trump documents thing if you remember he wanted a special master because he was saying like hey I need somebody to look through these documents that they see is to make sure there's no privileged stuff that I actually

own because really what I'm trying to say is most of that shit is mine so there's really no case here so Judge Deary has now been going through the documents and he's basically Going through it and he's like man There's no real like

Tangible or sufficient Information here that says like Whether or not you actually have a valid argument And to like claim any kind of privilege Or ownership of these documents that say Property of the United States Government when you yourself At this point are no longer president you

are just some loser with you know that's it you're just a loser what what do you want us to do uh and the way he said he was on a call with the lawyers and because he was like damn like y'all really y'all really filed this shit like seriously as if you had a claim to this this is a quote from the call he said to lawyers quote it's a little perplexing as i go through the log of documents uh what's the expression where's the beef i need some beef so he's talking about an old ass 80s blur 70 whatever the fuck wendy's commercial oh no wendy's ad yeah the old ladies where's the beef i feel like we covered in one of my marketing classes in college yeah where's the beef? I feel like we covered it in one of my marketing classes in college. Yeah, where's the beef is significant

because that was like, I feel like ushering in this new era of marketing that was kind of more humor centric. Anyway, Judge Deary wants to know, where's the beef at? I don't know. Ask 50 Cent. What's beef? He might be able to tell you. I don't know. I don't know

what to say. I mean, aside from the fact that it was very cynical uh move from donald trump to just say like uh actually special master to delay the inevitable but we will see what happens student loan apps are live just want to say that if you go to student aid.gov you'll be able to get to a landing page but if you want to get real specific you can go to student aid.gov, you'll be able to get to a landing page. But if you want to get real specific, you can go to studentaid.gov slash debt hyphen relief slash application. But you can get there from studentaid.gov. The applications are open. It seems like, from what I can understand, at least to submit your application for debt relief, it does not seem like it's crashing and burning. And according to the White House,

they're saying that it's possible that they can start paying out in November and December. Yeah, you have to apply by December 31st, 2022. So keep that in mind. The application really takes like 30 seconds. I did it last week when it went live. I feel like they've rolled out the press for this really poorly.

I signed up, they asked me to for the government aid emails, like the official like U.S. government Department of Education email newsletter. And like the application went live last week and it didn't, it took like 48 hours before I got an email about it. So I was like, what's up with that? I don't know. But the application itself was very quick. Don't get lost on the studentaid.gov

website because that website is crashing if you log into it and you do not need to log in to apply. You just need to go to the debt relief application. Don't need to log in. The login will slow you down. Just do it right there. Landing page, it'll be like, hey, phase one of the application. Here's phase two. And also, if you want to make sure that you get the debt relief prior to the resumption of loan repayments that's happening in January, they say you should apply before November 15th. Yes. Because it's going to take a few weeks to process. So get on that, get that free money, you know, relieve yourself.

And also, one more thing, TikTok education, TikTok University has taught me, doesn't apply to me because I have more than $20,000 in student loans. But if you have under $20,000 in student loans or at least $20,000 and you paid any loans off during COVID, so starting March, 2020, you should be able to automatically get money, that money back for your loans. So like when you are applying for the debt relief, it should be if you have under 20,000 and you only qualify for say the 10K, it'll be the 10K plus whatever loans you paid off

during March, 2020 to now. So look into that more. It should be like in the deeps of the website. But just keep in mind if you did pay any loans starting March 2020 and you have as of right now under 20K of debt, I would look into the additional forgiveness you could get because of that. Boom. There it is. TikTok University. And guess what? That university, you don't need to take student loans. So who's the asshole now? Even though all I get from,

man, like right now I get like a lot of bachata instructional videos. I think it knows, I think it knows like deep down. I want to be like a salsero. So they want to like, be like, Hey bro,

start here. We see you watching those salsa videos. Just start, just start getting in there like here's the smooth hips yo that's what i'm saying like when i uh one day i will be a saltero but that's gonna be like my retirement gig they're like man what do you do after this he's like a saltero bro out here havana nights and shit okay uh. Let's move on. Finally, Balthazar Corden trending because, oh boy, James Corden, you baddie, you bad man.

James Corden is already hated by the internet, like no matter what. So like, it's funny how the internet is just waiting for just something like untoward about him to come out something negative and they hop all over it it's wild it's just really wild to me how like people are waiting for it and i don't really necessarily get it like i get how people are like man he's annoying or whatever i'm like sure but like the energy of people like yo get this motherfucker off the fucking airwaves whole other energy but fine i like to watch the internet do its thing yesterday we got this story like evolved in like four fucking hours it was crazy um the first thing we heard was that the dude who owns balthazar in new york hey i really like their fries i gotta say i do

like the fries they're not soggy but the fries are good he basically said yo James Gordon you are banned my guy from Balthazar let me tell you a little bit about how much of an

asshole this guy is he yelled at our staff he demanded free drinks because something like an order was wrong etc. and they're like

we don't stand for this we don't stand for him talking shit to my employees fuck this guy he said he might be a huge talent but he's a tiny cretin of a man then that line yo he was being shady too because he capitalized huge he was like a huge he may be a huge talent we're like okay calm down but he's a tiny cretin of a man uh so after that post, then we find out a couple hours later,

he updates it and he said, James Corden just called me and apologized profusely, having fucked up myself more than most people I strongly believe in second chances. Wow. Okay. That was crazy because this post,

the manager, the owner of the restaurant he incites like two incidences where like james corden has like eaten at the restaurant and like detailed like bullied staff and things like that so for so quickly to like go back on your word publicly after this post is like so aggressive with like this horrible zoomed in screenshot pulled from google of like james corden's face from his show right i don't know like he's look it's i don't know like maybe good for him it's a good ad for balthazar because in the end he's just like was saying they're like no you know what like look anyone magnanimous enough to apologize to a deadbeat layabout like me and my staff doesn't deserve to be banned from anywhere, especially Balthazar.

All is forgiven. Okay. All is forgiven. But it's like he does. I don't know. Yeah. I just like that. It was like he got mad because he said one of the stories was about egg white omelet or like he want an egg yolk omelette but there was traces

of egg white in the omelette and he's like you can't do your job like maybe i should go in the kitchen and cook the shit myself wow um okay so it is what it is can you imagine like getting so like just like the dude it was funny there are other people who like pil so like, just like the dude, it was funny. There are other people who like piled in. They're like, Oh, I also have a story from my small restaurant. He was terrible.

Let the, like, let the downward spiral to take down of court and begin. And it's like, look, the one CBS off the restaurant. Like, I want to know,

like, what did he do to get that man to change up so quick? Right. I mean, I wonder if he really did just go hat in hand. It look man i'm sorry i i was behaving so poorly that is just not reflective of who i am as a person as i've done it multiple times attending your restaurant to behave poorly it's wild though because you like people who you know like work on the show they're like i don't know he's just like he's normal but. But everyone else has like, yo,

he fucking screamed at these people. Full disclosure, Her Majesty works on Late Late Show. I hear a lot. It's never bad. And I'm always like, yo, what's up? What's up? And it's always like at the pandemic, it's like, oh, here's some meal kits for

people to have some fun food during the pandemic or paid for the crew who like wasn't when the show stopped their wages stopped for like the crew but not like the writers and producers and things and he like paid their wages through it so it's like i'm like damn like aside from people just being like yo i don't this fuck this dude he's annoying i'm like huh he seems okay you don't want to be at a restaurant and acting on ass like that because fuck that. Like,

you got to be kind to people, man. Like, especially if they're helping you out by serving. Come on now. Yeah. Anyway,

that's that. Please call in with your James Corden stories. I love to hear them. I want to hear more. Was he rude to you? Where were you? Were you at a restaurant?

Was this a bar? A Taco Bell? Please let me know. And I guess that's that for today. Until then, I've been me, was he rude to you where were you were you at a restaurant was this a bar a taco bell please let me know and i guess that's that for today until then i've been me becca's been becca and we will see you tomorrow with a whole new episode until then hey don't forget be kind to yourself really be kind to yourself really be kind to one another i'm telling you something there might be something you actually need to forgive yourself about like some stress you have sometimes the shit you're like oh i can't believe this or that happened put your hand on your chest and say hey i forgive you that's my quick tip mental health tip for today uh also

make sure you get the vaccine get that new shit too because i'm already starting to see the homies starting to get covet again so you know please keep that in mind wear a mask hey don't do nothing about any kind of hateful shit and until until then, we will see you guys next time. Bye. Bye. 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 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 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 Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. 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. 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.