The Daily Zeitgeist - Jeremy Altrend White 1/9: RFK Jr., Trump, Bass Pro Shop, Everyday Items, Star Wars

Episode Date: January 9, 2024

In this edition of Jeremy Altrend White, Jack and Miles discuss… RFK's sad birthday bash, Trump's appeals hearing on presidential immunity claims, the man who cannonballed into a Bass Pro Shop aquarium butt-naked, everyday items that have become too expensive, and the new Star Wars movie 'The Mandalorian & Grogu'!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Jeremy Altrend White. Ooh. From the bear. From Caltrend Klein.

From Caltrend Zite. I'm Jack and he's back. It's my all. I'm back. What time is it? Where am I? Who am I?

It took me like my family a week and a half to get over the three hour time difference from east coast to west coast. That was a three hour get over the three hour time difference from east coast to west coast. That was a three hour problem. The three hour problem. I'm up 18 hours.

I'm trying to do 18. Next level shit. Dude, I'm fine for now until I completely fall asleep in the next recording and then we will see what the limits are of my nearly 40 year old body but so far i'm feeling good yeah yeah yeah cool anyway shout out to everybody i hope everybody

had a good break i had a good break i was it was so fantastic to take uh the geist child to japan and also i am weeping because of just the exorbitant food costs that we experience here as americans i'm i think that is by far one of the most radicalizing experiences a person can have, uh, is to go somewhere where food like a head of lettuce isn't like $4. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Like a cucumber is like 60 cents for like five. Um, it's worth it. You can possibly travel to another country. If you're from america and you spent your whole life in america it's worth traveling to another country and and then coming back yeah noticing how fucked the vibes are yeah yeah yeah i just remember coming back and re-entry like waiting in a line at the airport for something and just being like, man, everybody's

so fucking mad. And so little patience. Yeah, well, it's not easy. It's not easy being greasy. It's not easy in this country. Alright, I'm Jack, that's Miles.

These are some things that are trending. And RFK's birthday is coming up yeah and is it even is it what is his birthday who's rfk like who even like plan his birthday it's like kind of some like whack birthday it sounds like yeah i don't know this is i mean i i sympathize a lot this is how birthday planning goes for me too like every time i try and plan a birthday i claim that mike tyson is gonna be there mike tyson contradicts that claim through a spokesperson i pretend i didn't even want to have a birthday party and didn't even know it was my birthday coming up and then i run out of the room crying uh yeah he's been he's been making

headlines for basically everything that isn't having a successful presidential campaign it's like oh you're on you're on epstein's jet he's like yeah like twice okay yeah so what so what and i and i get it and it's kind of a flex. I mean, Hawking was on there. That guy fucking tight. Have you ever read The Invention of Time? Or what is it? Time and what's the Hawking book that everybody, every stoner read and was like, dude, I'm actually basically a fucking physicist. Being in time?

No, that's Heidegger. A brief history of time. A brief history of time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Were those pictures real of him? Like on that submarine? I believe so. Because it was wild. I remember right after that shit

dropped, the amount of like AI generated pics that came out were wild. It was interesting to see people be like, I know y'all want to believe this, but this pic is not fucking real. That's how good fucking Mid Journey is right now. Oh, really?

They looked like shit. That was the thing that made me think they were real, is the pictures looked absolutely like shit. Because now, people are like, I saw there's a whole subreddit where people are showing shit they make on Midjourney, and one was just showing it looked like if you were on a date with Putin, and you were taking cell phone pictures of him throughout the night, and it's just like of that quality but somewhat like believable it's really it's really wild um but anyway uh yeah so this is interesting though too because the other

thing is this birthday party like you said jack mike tyson will not be there be there uh and we heard the likes of mike tyson dion warwick uh andrea bocelli martin sheen would all be in attendance for his 70th birthday bash in indian wells california later this month then all of those people who i just mentioned said i have no fucking clue what you're talking about please stop calling me about this i think dion warwick said like if you're gonna lie on my name please use it for something better than this so this absolute embarrassment and then like first like it was we're like okay this is his birthday party that's being thrown then we find out it was like a pack organized like a pac organized event and now it's like no it definitely has nothing to do with him like this pack organized it and it's actually a fundraiser so like were they just chumming the waters to attract donors

because they thought someone who was actually had a better chance of being president in the form of martin sheen would be there then rfk jr or is rfk some kind of fucking loser and he's using like the pack to be like nah i didn't know l's taking here because i had nothing to do with this fantasy birthday party with my fantasy guest list um or is it just purely like a cynical tactic to like align these celebrities with the campaign and just make fake news it's all weird yeah um and now it sounds like rfk won't even be there yeah that's so i love that reversal he's like i don't even be there. Yeah. I love that reversal. He's like, I don't even know about this.

What do you mean? Oh, I guess it is my birthday. That's weird. Doesn't bother me. Doesn't matter to me because I'm too worried about being president. And even those numbers are starting to fizzle out, too. His spoiler numbers aren't that great. Not helping either side, really, at this point.

Not even himself trump's appeals hearing on presidential immunity claims happened seems like the three judges on the u.s court of appeals for uh dc were basically not having it or their their line of questioning was like wait what no you? No, you used the proper legal parlance for that. They were not having it. Yeah, they were basically saying that what they were arguing, what Trump's lawyers

were arguing would allow presidents to sell pardons or even assassinate political opponents. Trump's lawyers are like yeah so yeah that's what we're saying what's your fucking problem right and they're also being like the only way he could do something is illegal is like is he's fully impeached first right and then that this that and the other and it's like wow uh again skeptical was a very charitable use of of the phrase for how these judges looked at it which leads to the next

question that the courts are supposed to be determining which is like so we're like should this guy be running for president like i feel like that's our last best chance. Probably not going to happen, but the Supreme Court just being like, we're old school Republicans. We're quietly racist, but we don't think that this guy should be president. Stepping in, doing the... We're extremely bad one day, and then do the thing that people are asking us to do the other day

um but I don't know I don't know how likely that is just feels like a this supreme court move to do that but like yeah keep you guessing yeah it'll be interesting what even dimensions of the case they

are going to actually rule on because like you know in the in the olden days when something got up there they ruled on like every like principle like every sort of dimension of a case and now they might just pick out one thing so they can avoid being like we either took them off the ballot or we're yeah we're sending this thing into a further death spiral we actually just noticed that you used the wrong form of there in the 15th sentence so that's what we're rolling on we're just uh doing a quick proofread so that's it just saying sounds like y'all have bad grammar in colorado and that's my ruling knock knock bye um big news did you see the

guy jump into a yes i saw look i might have been in asia but that that traveled all around that that story traveled man and connor in the urn yeah connor in the urn little little yamaguchi may had him on his podcast did he really yeah it was so wild i was reading the fucking daily beast and they're like he appeared on a podcaster who goes by the name Christy Yamaguchi Mains, George Center. And I was like, look at the young man rise. Cannot stop him. But yeah, he had the guy on. Talk about it.

That video was incredible. His attitude. Again, I'm sorry. The attitude of that man to do some dumb shit, like in like a fucking vase or urn or whatever fucking you know you want to argue the linguistics here but then he was like can you just fucking help me he was so mad that he couldn't get out it's like bro you literally went in there yeah like some fucking dumb ass four-year-old and now you have the anger of a of a grown person but hey hey everyone's nice in theory until they get stuck in an urn.

And then the real shit comes out. I got stuck in an elevator for like a minute and a half. And I was full panic mode. Sweating from every part of my body. And you said you ate the other occupants that were in the elevator.

Yeah. I have one son now. Because it worked up an appetite with all that nervous energy yeah for real yeah plus you don't know when you're gonna get out but uh yeah the bass pro shop guy was was he just drunk we don't know and he might be they're saying he might be suffering from some mental health issues but it's the the only reason i want to bring it up is because this is not all that uncommon people are jumping into those bath pro shop tanks all the time um which i i have not been in a bath pro shop but i've been by aquariums like that and all you want to do is jump in there and swim around

with the fish you know like yeah i guess it looks like a blast anytime like the one time i've seen it i was like yo they got a whole fucking lake in here what the fuck is this so there's it seems like there's people who are pulling it out like jumping in in to the tank and then running out. It's like the Bass Pro Shop challenge. Getting away with it. In one case in 2020, once again in Florida, a video shows

a man walk up the stairs, dive into the tank at the store at the Gulf Coast town center, and then run off. A manager followed the man out of the store and saw him leave in a silver sedan. So he got away with it. Um, and then,

but just in case anyone thinks it's a good idea, 2017, a teenager recorded himself jumping into the tank, but accidentally, uh, cracked his head on a rock. Oh, fuck.

Yeah. Careful, careful. Yeah. It's not built for you to jump into, you know, exactly. exactly look get fully nude but wear a helmet that's right and that's really the way to protect yourself oh you weren't here for that episode where we talked about sleeping with socks on are you what what is your opinion

on people who sleep with shit but don't fucking touch me with your damn sock feet in the bed fuck that your sock feet interesting because the cold feet the bare cold feet are i have look i'm somebody who in a corp corporeal do we say corporal or corporeal corporeal okay then wait the what's corporal punishment corporal punishment is uh i mean it i think it's just people mispronouncing corporeal. No, I don't know. I think they probably have the same derivation. Right.

Anyway. It could be either. I was raised by people who only know things from military films, and so we mispronounce things based on how things are said in movies. But for me, my body runs warm, hot. So I've always been the warmer of cold extremities for people i've shared a bed with so i've always been like let me put my feet on you i'm cold like warm me up yeah i've you know i'm like yeah whatever it's not it's not that uh you know it's not that horrific of an

experience but there is something distressing about i'm used to just feeling like skin like just someone skin like just someone's like just you know you're in a bed you're not wearing socks so when i felt socks i'm like ah so that is like that seems wrong to you the idea of socks no i don't care like i get well here's the thing i have definitely worn socks in a bed right because i know it's very difficult to fall asleep if you're keep if your feet are cold that's just a fact so from that i don't give a like i'm not one of these people who are like if you wear socks you need help kind of person like if it's fucking because i've had like for

example like if you have like a flu or some shit and you can't get your fucking temperature right or whatever and you're and you're trying to fall asleep and your feet just don't fucking warm up then yeah i'm gonna fucking wear some socks like what the fuck yeah but i don't know i i definitely i i can see why because i've heard people be like it's disgusting or you shouldn't do it right um i mean but you should have like don't be wearing your socks don't wear the whole day yeah yeah have some bed socks fine yeah it does remind me y'all i really wish i had some more support for my ill-fated musical bed socks and broomsticks y'all did not show up for that and that's fine that's fine but we had a moment mr great show we missed it yeah we missed it all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades.

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I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them.

Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game?

And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. And BuzzFeed's still out here doing it with an article. There's just a list of things people have said they had to stop buying because they became too expensive.

And it's a combination of so the title is, this was a breaking point for me. People are revealing the everyday items they had to stop buying because they became too expensive. And it goes concert tickets, number one. Two, a strange one strange one but bowling a few years ago my girlfriend and i went bowling at a local bolero and it was maybe 60 for shoe rental yo bolero yeah yeah i've been there i've been got by bolero number three medication number four uh as wait i'm sorry medication we just said we did concert tickets, medication, insulin. And then also just my Amazon Prime.

They added ads now. What was number three again? Jesus Christ. Are these... I mean, that's kind of a weird... I'm sorry. Concert tickets are not an everyday item. Maybe not for you.

But I am at a concert every night every night in a full panic being like who's this band who's this band who's this band what is this can't miss like medication i totally understand things that you can buy at a grocery store that are part of your day-to-day for sure i'm like and like like i think other things like airbnb is just too damn expensive i don't know if that's necessarily like saying like that's an everyday item or whatever. I mean, it was something that was affordable based on a very flawed model,

but like, I think this, this would maybe have some more teeth if we were talking about medication, if we're talking about like food stuffs and things of the like. Yeah. I think, I mean, so there's food stuff in here,

like beef jerky. People are apparently, I've never been a beef jerky purchase regular purchaser of beef jerky but people are saying it's too costly lower quality meat and the bag is half empty uh ordering pizza i have noticed the pizza like just ordering food in general like there's a lot of fees that get tacked on no more you know i'm going to put anybody on blast, but you know that pizza place we like to go to that we have a lot for our group gatherings? Uh-huh.

I had... I ordered a pizza and a meatball hoagie. That shit came out to damn near $50. Yeah, man. Everything comes out to fucking $50 now. It's unbelievable. In my mind, I feel like we're in this era where twenty dollars is what everything costs now at a minimum like you shouldn't be surprised if

anything costs twenty dollars like toothpaste i don't know i guess it's twenty dollars a new toothbrush i don't know it's a fucking twenty dollars twenty dollars i guess yeah no it's true like so the article i think the overall idea the article is getting at is just like we everybody's feeling this thing where just everything got more expensive and like there's definitely been headlines it's like inflation slowed down folks we can all go but i feel like it feels it maybe i just wasn't noticing it as much like but it's it's still seems like everything's way too fucking expensive right now yeah uh what else is on here new video games i mean look not an everyday item but we yeah this shit is like fucking we're talking about like if you get anything if you just

they'll be like oh you want the new character skin along with it that's 99 dollars right what i remember when shit was like 40 and we were obviously that was that was it now we're every fucking new system everything goes up like 10 bucks sounds like you're not grinding hard enough dude that's what i'm hearing i'm not dude i'm not i'm not i'm not grinding hard enough and thank you for reminding me i'm not grinding hard enough for my child's medications thank you um there's a new star wars movie that's been announced uh which you know getting excited about a new star Wars movie can feel a little bit like being Charlie Brown and running up to that football with Lucy holding it.

But, um, you know, they just announced that there's going to be one called the Mandalorian and Grogu because like baby Yoda's the only Star Wars character anybody seems to care about right now. It's going to be directed by Jon Favreau, who made The Mandalorian,

the season that everybody liked. And it's going to be the first Star Wars movie to go into production since 2019's Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker. And my seven-year-old is going to be super excited about this. But I feel like I'm going to try not to let him know about it for now, because... Well, he's going to find out about it from the other kids.

Nah. I'm going to dog-tooth them. Shut the fuck up about that real quick. Did you see the trailer for Y'all Better Not Be... Okay, whisper into my ear what you're going to say to my son real quick. Okay, yeah, tell him about that, tell him about that, tell him about that. But don't talk about that one thing, or it's ugly. I told y'all already.

But they've announced a ton of movies. So there was supposed to be a Rian Johnson trilogy that they never officially canceled. They were just like, yeah, we're probably going to do that. He's just real busy with the Knives Out movies. So it's just a thing we announced. There's a Rogue Squadron movie that was going to be directed by Patty Jenkins that's been shelved indefinitely. They're like, I don't know,

it just seems like Patty's real busy with the Wonder Woman franchise. They just throw everything, gets thrown back to like, I don't know, they seem real busy. It's like, you're Star Wars. You could probably... Hey, you're Star Wars. You could probably...

Hey, you're Star Wars. Hey, you're Joe Biden. Come on now. My hands are damn tied. Ah! I love this cook all over him. Don't even know what to do. Penny Offenweiss had I think a trilogy. And then they

got too busy with this dang Netflix deal. Kevin Feige from the Marvel Universe supposedly had one coming, and then he has officially been like, that shit's not happening. Right. Taika Waititi still officially in development on one, but he doesn't want to rush it.

So, I don't know. It feels like they're announcing a lot of projects. Yeah. This feels so, of all of them this is such a blatant cash grab hey what about mando and the grogu yeah oh really is that the title bj and the bear you guys gonna love this one it's mando and the grogu man and for that reason i feel like it's the one that's actually gonna happen but. Oh, yeah. I mean, when I went to Disneyland and saw the amount of kids who were just there for the Grogu of it all, I was like, yeah.

I don't know. I mean, in my mind, as an old crotchety fucking OG trilogy fan, I'm like, y'all aren't in there for the fucking real shit. With my fucking backpack on. Well, we'll see. We'll see how cutesy or funsy or dark it will be. Maybe it'll be dark as fuck, and then that'll teach them. That'll teach the damn kids.

That'll learn you. Oh, yeah? You think he's cute? Look at all this blood. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, January 9th. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself.

Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine 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.