The Daily Zeitgeist - JC Trendy 3/20: Trump, Shazam 2, Ted Lasso, Rupert Murdoch, Frozen Strawberries

Episode Date: March 20, 2023

In this edition of JC Trendy, Jack and super producer Becca discuss Trump possibly getting arrested this week?, Shazam 2's terrible reviews, Ted Lasso's baffling White House address, Rupert Murdoch constantly getting married, and the frozen strawberry recall!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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.

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Davis. Johnny actually wrote JC Trendies, and Johnny, it appears you and I are suffering from a similar Mandela effect, where I always it was JCPenney's plural. It is apparently JCPenney singular. Only one penny, JC? Come on. I feel like... Not my JC. When you refer to it, you have to do JCPenney's.

But if you look at the sign, it definitely doesn't have an S. We're going to JCPenney penny yeah i would i don't think i ever called it jc penny but that's i it's funny i like made fun of my dad at one point calling brad pitt red pits and our listeners have repeatedly pointed out that i do this shit all the time i put s's on the end of names that... No one's safe. No one's safe from the pluralization situation. I am Jack, and I'm thrilled to be joined by today's guest co-host, super producer, Becca Ramos!

Hello! Happy first day of spring. Happy first day of spring. It is the first day of spring. My children were responding to the fact that it was a little overcast today. And they were like, when is it going to be spring? And asked Alexa, what is the first day of spring? And wouldn't you know it?

It is today. It's today. Yeah. Anyways, here's the latest. I think as we all know by now, Trump has claimed that he's going to be arrested tomorrow on Tuesday. So tomorrow as we record this, he has called for his supporters to protest. Just putting a lot of Trumpian insults out about the people who are trying to arrest him. This is in connection with the hush money scheme involving Stormy Daniels.

And so that's that's wild. The wheels of justice do indeed turn slowly. So slow. But also his team said after his post that it had not received any notifications from prosecutors. So unclear if this is just like a vibe he's getting. Yeah. That's what I was going to ask you.

I was like, I saw it kind of bustling on Tik TOK and like Twitter. And I was like, but where is this information coming from? Like, it just feels like a rumor mill. Like someone said it. And then they were playing telephone as to like,

why is he getting arrested? And I'm like, I feel like there would be more coverage from like mainstream news that like they're out to get him to get arrested. And I feel like there's been way bigger charges and reason to get arrested. Why now? Yeah. So yeah.

And then some people, yeah, that was my initial reaction was like, everybody knows about this one. So is it going to do anything other than motivate his base but people are like actually the stormy daniels bribe it was a big deal if you'll remember when it actually happened it was pretty outrageous a million years ago straight up doing a bribe to win the election um just like real cartoon bad guy shit but yeah it does feel like we just don't know. We don't know when it comes to

Trump. And this gives me a flashback to the days when he was president and everybody had to respond to things he said like they were true, or at least as though a lot of people were going to take them to be true and it was going to cause chaos. So reportedly New York is ready to batten down the hatches and mobilize 700 riot cops if people do protest. But then other people are pointing out that the energy doesn't seem to be there for a big January 6th style protest, uh,

storming of New York city's courthouse. Um, uh, Kevin McCarthy, not that like Kevin McCarthy and, uh, Marjorie Taylor green are like the voice of any buddy, but they have both been like,

don't protest. Uh, because yeah, this is just Marjorie taylor green was like this is playing right into our own our hands democrats are sealing their own fate in the 2024 election if trump is indicted but even online they're like people who were specifically involved in the january 6th planning and organizing who are specifically coming out and being like you will not see my ass there um they're like we can't fool me once yeah you fool me twice can't get fooled again

i think that is in my brain has replaced the yeah absolutely original saying i don't think i even know the original saying anymore i think i just know fool me one shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me three times can't get fooled again um no i think you're right i think that's it the thing you just said is the whole saying but i just think jay called too you know it's like it's that's right uh so i don't know this is a direct quote uh ali alexander who was an organizer at the stop the steel movement tweeted or made this statement i don't know exactly where we've both talking about himself and another organizer who were heavily implicated in the storming of the capital uh He said, we've both got enough going on fighting the government.

No billionaires covering our bills, which sounds a little salty. Sounds a little bit like. Like, damn it, the billionaires are liberals. Yeah, that's right. Which arguably, but you know. Yeah, I mean, they're centrist, which. Yeah. Center right, aka know. Yeah. I mean, they're centrist, which. Yeah. Center right.

A.K.A. The Democratic Party. I think that somebody just tweeted something about how Biden vetoed a bill. And I haven't had time to read up on what the bill is. Siding with woke Wall Street. So Wall Street is. Love Wall Street being woke. Yes.

Can't. We can't have phrases that mean anything without them being immediately co-opted and destroyed. Shazam 2 did not do very well at the box office. Shocker. So people are responding like it came out of nowhere. I would say this one did not seem like a good movie based on trailers. Like that seemed to be the big problem with it. But people are like looking at,

you know, Zachary Levi's politics and, um, which are atrocious by the way. But, um he he went on joe rogan and talked about jordan peterson being one of the deepest thinkers that he knows um and just is an outspoken anti-vaxxer so but i don't i don't know that that's what killed it so much as the fact that it just seemed to be a CGI lightning fest.

Yeah. I mean, I did not see the first Shazam, but I would argue that Shazam in totality is definitely not the superhero people want or need. So I just never anticipated this movie being good. I don't know if the first one did very well or not, but it always felt more cartoony than the rest of, I would say, superheroes are portrayed in the modern day when you're giving even DC versus Marvel in totality.

So never anticipated doing well, but of course it got a big budget because what superhero movie doesn't get a big budget i don't know i don't know why anyone's shocked the first one was fun because it was like what if big the movie big with tom hanks was a superhero movie like that that's basically what it was and they just like took that genre and like dropped a superhero movie in the middle of it and there were some very fun moments. And it had really good reviews and good word of mouth.

And yeah, so it did really well. And then they were like, okay, well, so people clearly like Shazam and are ready for Shazam 2, which looks like it's all just about going, you know, teleporting to different places and shooting lightning out of your hands at one another. And I think people are generally pretty lightning portaled out at this point by from the Marvel movies would be my guess. I would keep that lightning, the CGI lightning as far away from your movie as possible over the next. Because that's what I got out of Quantumania too. This just feels...

And also that was what I got from The Eternals. It just seemed like it was a bunch of that. Which always feels not just kind of arbitrary from a having any physics to it you know it's just like i can shoot lightning you can shoot lightning our lightning meets in the middle and we have a lightning battle that we decide who wins but also yeah it just seems yeah i guess just arbitrary um so yeah well very anti-shazam here on this podcast sitting here first uh i'm anti-shazam too i mean i was down with shazam one when zachary levi had great politics i'm sure we knew yes he's a good man uh all right let's

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Like, I think the quote that he got up there and said is, I truly believe that we should all do our best to help take care of each other. Which is true. True. Also, I don't know. General. Just a mess that this is what we're doing. I just feel like, I don't know general just uh just a mess that this is what we're doing i just feel like i don't know as of late the appearances at the white house trying to do good have been

distasteful at best it's just been off the wall like i remember post hamilton they brought lin moe miranda recently i think to do something. And it was like. Yeah, for the Democratic Party. Yeah. Yeah. I forget what it was exactly. Like, that was weird. You know, we have here at the doc about how, you know, Tom Hanks came and helped with COVID because he, that one was like, at least the line, the through line was like kind of there because he was like our first major documented case of COVID here.

Like people were like, as celebrities getting covid america's dad tom hanks got covid but then like olivia rodrigo came right at the height of her viral fame where she didn't really have a fan base yet she just had viral hits and they were like you're young speak to the young people who are getting vaccinated she showed up and just slayed and that's all anyone talked about slay queen her outfit was amazing had no recollection that it was in relation to the vaccines but exactly people were like huh and they were like didn't she just get famous why is she at the white house but they were like she's famous to the gen z years we must get her on the stages it was wild it was she is famous to the gen Zers, right?

Yeah, but it was a weird... No, that's not made up. She is Gen Z. Yeah. But I feel like that was more of it. It was like, she is Gen Z. Gen Z made her viral. Yeah. Make her make vaccines go viral.

Yeah. I guess. And in this case, yeah, they made the calculation that Americans, like as Super Producer Brian pointed out, like the Americans will not listen to a real mental health professional. But Ted Lasso was a show that like when people were suffering from pandemic related or just not just general anxiety and, you know, a really horrible time in the country, Ted Lasso was something that made them feel optimistic and happy.

And so they're like, let's commodify that and turn that into something. So I don't know. I'm sure there's great messages. The Lasso heads don't come for me. But I just I felt like I was reading some piece of dystopian sci-fi written like five years ago that I would not have believed. Rupert Murdoch stays married. Murdoch stays married. This 92 year old has revealed he's engaged to Mary and Leslie Smith, who I read almost the whole article and could not figure out what she's like.

Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman, worked for local papers, developed radio and TV stations and helped promote Spanish language TV network Univision. So I speak Rupert's language. We share the same beliefs. Um,

but yeah, he just, he is not comfortable unless he's married. He recently got divorced from Jerry Hall. It was a famous model, I think. and you know, wouldn't, you know,

it engaged again. So is she young is she like what is the 60s relatively young okay yeah yeah yeah but she's trying to get that giant diamond that has like a name i've never heard before like the cut of the diamond or i don't know if it's the name of the diamond if it's like a such a big diamond that they have a specific name for it from like centuries ago when they fought a war over it. But it's just, we were trying to figure out like what this comes from. Like I was thinking back to the movie,

The Untouchables where Kevin Costner as elliot ness keeps just being like man it's cool to be married huh i like being married is the greatest i love my wife but and it's like weird he like does it multiple times and it's brian de palma made the movie so and he's like a weird you know subversive filmmaker and I'm like wondering if it was like, that was what people like the acceptable way to be like, Hey, Hey buddy, I'm getting laid. How about you? Like type thing at the time. Probably.

Yeah. And Rupert Murdoch is, you know, contemporaries with Elliot Ness. So maybe that's where this is coming from. Just as many marriage, as many marriages as he can get under his belt. I mean, I think he is an old man who's afraid to die alone and he got to figure it out. He's getting up there. He was like, my wife recently divorced me. Can't say divorce. I'm moving along. Keep it moving folks. Who's next? And. And then finally, frozen strawberries. There is a recall on a number of different types of frozen strawberries. You and I both frozen strawberries collectors.

Absolutely. Yeah. This is something that I just always feel like I can't have enough of. And that is not true, by the way. You can have enough of frozen strawberries, but I buy too many of them. And then you forget about them. And then what not true, by the way. You can have enough of frozen strawberries, but I buy too many of them. And then they. And then you forget about them. And then what really is, is that labor of making a smoothie in theory is easy because like the ingredients are easy.

Just right there. It is kind of a pain in the ass. Personally, I don't know. I don't like cleaning the blender. It is like, if you want to make more than one smoothie a week, you have to clean the blender. It is like, if you want to make more than one smoothie a week, you have to clean the blender every day. And that is just a chore that I personally don't like to do. So, you know, we have a lot of frozen strawberries in our house. Specifically,

my partner really loves him some frozen strawberries. Every time I go to the store, he's buying a frozen strawberry. Will he make more smoothies? No. So I am personally worried that I have to go through my freezer and check if my strawberries have hepatitis A. If you go to the FDA's website, they have the full list, but they do say that stores like Costco, Trader Joe's, and Aldi have been affected. So if you have bought strawberries from any of those places and they have best buy dates by April 25th, 2024.

It's a whole range. Yeah, it's a bunch of 2024 dates. And that's the thing with this recall that I feel like it's, you know, a lot of times the recall will come out and it's like, well, I would have already eaten that shit by the time y'all are telling me

about this recall. But with frozen food, it's like, i would have already eaten that shit by the time y'all are telling me about this recall but with frozen food it's like you know i have frozen strawberries from the the year 2003 in my freezer so i'm probably like i i will right when we're done recording go double check that i haven't given my children what is that? Um, happy because happy notoriously lives through frozen, I guess when I was reading up on this. So yeah, that is why I think this is such a big recall, but yeah, they are dates ranging between April and June,

2024. It seems, but definitely check on this, uh, FDA website for the full list of stuff. Yeah. Simply nature, vital choice,

Kirkland signature. How dare you Kirkland signature? You've betrayed us. Anything made with organic strawberries, best before 11, 20, 2024 PCC community markets, Trader Joe's organicic Tropical Fruit Blend.

So it's not even just, if you have the Tropical Fruit Blend, which I am fond of, yeah, you gotta throw it out or go get your money back or whatever, however these recalls work. Becca Ramos, as always, such a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist uh

where can people find you and follow you you can find me and follow me at becs ramos on all platforms and at mil mundos every other saturday but also tonight at mil mundos we have an event so come through if you're in the brooklyn bushwick area uh till mil mundos so yeah or even if you're in the Brooklyn Bushwick area, uh, to Mundo's. So, or even if you're not drive hours, yeah. Drive hours to come to our tiny little bookshop and get money to,

you know, a woman owned Latin a business. There you go. Uh, that is going to do it for us this afternoon. 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. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay 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 Jess Costavetto, 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark vs. 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 vs. 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.