The Daily Zeitgeist - Jessica SimpsTrend 2/2: Beyonce, Jessica Simpson, Groundhog Day, Quavo, Arkansas, James Cameron, Mispronounced Words

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

In this edition of Jessica SimpsTrend, Jack and super producer Becca discuss the Beyonce/Ticketmaster debacle, Jessica Simpson’s new Amazon short story, Groundhog Day, Quavo performing a Takeoff tribute at the upcoming Grammys, Sarah Huckabee-Sander’s hateful legislation in Arkansas, James Cameron weighing in on whether or not Jack could have lived at the end of Titanic, and the most mispronounced words!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Jessica Simpson Trend. I am Jack, and that is super producer Becca Ramos. Hi, how are you doing? You know, I am a little stressed because Beyonce got me stressing, but you know, I'll survive. You can use the inspirational message from her new album to just get over the stress of the fact that you won't break my soul. Ticketmaster, who I just gave all of my money to buy a ticket are you comfortable talking about where you are in the process of yeah sure i mean we at

iheart maybe have perks i'm hoping it's not a scam uh but i did drop some monays uh but the reason i'm stressed is because a i spend a lot of money on these tickets but b if you're on the internet you know you're seeing the uk tickets drop and they're like nothing they're like 60 to 400 and i'm like huh uh not that i would go to europe to go see the show because i think you know beyonce is historically like an american black icon so i think the show because I think you know Beyonce is historically like an American black icon so I think the show dynamic is going to be a very different vibe here in the states especially I'm trying to go to the Houston show which I think will be the best show the tour because it is hometown and it's my hometown versus like the UK situation but it is crazy to see like the

regulations they have over there for their citizens versus here where it's like from my understanding from from the whispers i hear the sources i have starting prices are like 700 for the nosebleeds and for the pit is you know upwards of 10k in certain areas of the pits depending on the the venue but you go online and if you go to like vivid seats or seat geek or like all these resellers that aren't ticket master they're already selling tickets so i just hope that people aren't going on those sites like already trying to buy from there uh because it does to me i'm like i started panicking because i was like these are way under the market rate than what i've been hearing what what I've been seeing. So I hope people don't buy and then they

end up being a scam. It did make me feel like, did I get scammed? I don't know. I feel like we won't know until the pre-sale starts. We're all getting scammed. We're all universally getting scammed by the concept of tickets starting in the United States at $700. That's a scam?

But... Does Ticketmaster operate tickets starting in the united states at 700 that's a scam but is ticket master does ticket master operate in the uk i'm actually not familiar with like they do but i think they just have different regulations over there for their citizens like i think ticket master isn't allowed to do the dynamic pricing maybe that the united states does you know that's the reason that the taylor swift tickets went crazy is because they, I think, have a certain subset of tickets. Like they offer like 10 to 12 percent of the tickets to be dynamic pricing so they can basically with the demand go up. And then if people buy them, they're able to resell them. Whereas I think the Beyonce tickets are trying to curb some of that issue with the sectioned verified ticket selling

so it's like if you want to go to these cities you register in this one if you want to go to these cities you register in the second one so on and so forth for the third section and then also they do say on the website that they're not transferable tickets so i think that's how they're trying to curb the resale price hiking. But I just wonder how they're going to nail that, especially if it's like, are they going to require people to pay for the extra service fee for the refundable in case they can't go to the show and want to resell them just in that way where it's like, I got the flu. I can't show up anymore. Right.

I mean, I'm sure people with the flu are still going to go and give people the flu, but you know what give people the flu but you know what i'm saying and that's what's important and that's what's important yeah we dig into this a little bit more tomorrow and just in a couple ways because like the the uk having regulations in place that make it such that this is not the same madness is also kind of a theme of tomorrow's episode because there's a massive strike happening in the UK, not being covered that much in the US. But yeah. All right. Well, let's talk about why Jessica Simpson is trending. This mainly caught my eye because it's a...

I can't fathom the concept of it. Well, it's a new unit of media that I wasn't familiar with. So Jessica Simpson is trending because she released an Amazon original short story titled Movie Star, They Always Say They're Single, which is, it seems like it's a magazine article penned by Jessica Simpson, not affiliated with a magazine, just like being sold like the way somebody would sell

an Amazon independent book, you know? But it was an effective hook sell an Amazon independent like book, you know? Um, but it was an effective hook because it's basically about a near relationship that Jessica Simpson had with a movie star who is referred to only as movie star and is trying to get Jessica Simpson to sleep with him, even though he is publicly in a relationship. And he's like, no, no, no, no. We actually broke up. It's just for the for the paparazzi that we pretend we're together, but then was like trying to hide her and like have her stay in like separate floors of the hotel and stuff.

So this is a real story. This is a real story. This is a real story. So it's almost like a memoir excerpt. Yeah. Yeah. But why go through all the trouble of, yeah. Why,

why go through all the trouble of having a memo, writing an entire memoir when you just like do a short story. She does have a memoir. Yeah. That is crazy. Yeah. So I don't know. People, people are now guessing. It seems pretty smart so i don't know people people are now guessing seems pretty smart i don't have any guesses as to who it is but uh she said she eventually realized that he was attempting to

hide her from his chick and so she she bailed but not without stealing the pillowcase that he slept on as a piece of proof that this happened, in fact, which I admire. Just open creepiness. But yeah, I also, I mean, anything you can do to give Amazon a little bit of shine, because I'm just a big fan of their media empire. No, but it is always interesting to me if people are creating content in a new unit. Like, I've never heard of individual short stories being sold anywhere, really. Right? Yeah, I guess I really, unless it's a zine. But even then, I feel like it would have to be typically a little animated zine, something that would be more of a comic style, but not just a random short story, unless it's in a magazine or something like that.

So, I don't know. Kudos to you, Jessica Simpson. Keep your name in those newspapers. What if this becomes a new thing? Well, they're like, we can't get people to pay for articles, so Simpson. Keep your name in those newspapers. What if this becomes like a new thing? Well, they're like, we can't get people to pay for articles. So I guess we're going to do this now. Right. This new trend in writing and authorship started by Jessica Simpson. All right. It is Groundhog Day and we are being forced to ask the question, what does it mean? How many more weeks of winter if the groundhog dies?

Because that's what happened in Quebec. Oh, man. Is this where normally we see our groundhog? I thought it was in like somewhere Pennsylvania or something. I think it's any. Yeah, no, there is Punxsutawney, Phil.

I think that is one of the main hubs. But this is, there are small communities around the world that have big Groundhog Day celebrations that they've built up a reputation for and have a brand around. And that brand has to be protected, which is what we're about to get into. It gets a little strange. So this is apparently not the first. we're about to get into it can gets a little strange so this is apparently not the first so this one they went down to find the groundhog and they think he died sometime earlier in the year and it was just down there or did they already know that it passed when it passed

no i think i think it was just down there and dead they discovered a dead groundhog i don't like that i don't think all the cameras were on like i don't think it was like a that that's the way i pictured at first like they had the balloons ready to release and then they like go down and pull out yeah but um it's i yeah they they realized it was dead when they like weren't seeing signs of it and then went down and, uh, bad news. But so this is not the first groundhog to die recently. Ontario's Wharton Willie, sorry, wire ton Willie died in 2020. Uh,

but because of the pandemic, uh, everything was online and the town tried to cover up the death in order to protect the wire ton Willie brand. Um, yeah. So he was replaced this year by some other groundhog, Hover up the death in order to protect the Wyrton Willie brand. Oh my God. Yeah. So he was replaced this year by some other groundhog. But at the time, they were just like, what?

No, he's fine. Everything's good. And celebrity groundhog. We can have Bernie's. Yeah, exactly. It's a tough racket. Celebrity groundhog deaths are... I don't know how long groundhogs usually live, but one year, Wyreton Willie's two understudy animals were killed,

and they believe it was by Wyreton Willie, the grown-up groundhog that they were meant to replace. And I think that was covered up. I did Google. It says groundhogs live four to five years and i don't know why i was so traumatized when you said they found the dead groundhog because i you know i don't know why i thought they lived forever or something i was like i guess it never occurred to me that there'd have to be new groundhogs this cycle yeah but they really just like blast through these things in 2014 2014, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio fucking dropped their groundhog and the Staten Island Zoo tried to sweep it under the rug. But he dropped the groundhog on like on camera when they were posing for a photo op.

And then the groundhog was, quote unquote, found dead in its cell on february 9th oh my god a week later but it's like an autopsy identified the cause of death as acute internal injury so um i don't know why an autopsy oh man so many things so much drama for groundhogs. Yeah. The first Willie appeared on the scene in the 1980s. He lived to 22 and was found dead only two days before the Groundhog Day in 1999. A funeral was held shocking a crowd of children who had not known Willie was dead. So I guess, wait, that does spark the question. How many more weeks of winter if the groundhog dies? What do you think, Jack?

I think it's nuclear winter, I think is what we're seeing here. Yeah, I think it's bad news would be my guess. But I don't know. I guess they die all the time. And we've just been having it covered up, kept from us. And yeah, I think that's probably a good metaphor for something. Let us know. All right, let's take a good metaphor for something. Let us know. All right, let's take a quick break.

We'll be right back. 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine.

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and post covid it's oh it says sunday so it is this february this sunday okay yeah so that makes sense because i think at one point during covid they ended up being in like may or something you know with everything that was happening and trying to do virtual and all that stuff but seems like they're back to their regularly scheduled programming of february so yeah this sunday we'll see who wins um bad bunny better win that's all i'm gonna say wow that's an ultimatum from back it's an ultimatum to the academy there you go um arkansas is trending uh so sarah huckabee sanders uh is barely a month into office but it looks like she's coming for the desantis culture war crown and doing just horrible dehumanizing things uh she's issued an executive order that would prohibit critical race theory

in arkansas schools love that another executive order order bans the term Latinx in official documents. And as soon as this week, she could also sign a separate bill that would impose restrictions on drag shows, which could obviously have really harmful effects for the LGBTQ community. There's also a Trump campaign video where he's like claiming that his platform is going to be to revoke gender affirming care. And it just feels like there's a real like race to the bottom going on in the right with how badly they can treat trans people and the LGBTQ community. It is very sad and very disturbing to see like how quickly things can become reversed because I would say only in the past, what, 20, 30 years have like LGBTQ rights really

accelerated and like become way more, you know, open, less taboo. Like there's more, you know, help in the Supreme Court. I mean, I remember when it was like during Obama's first administration, way more you know open less taboo like there's more you know helping the supreme court i mean i remember when it was like during obama's first administration when uh gay rights were you know affirmed by the supreme court so that was not long ago so it is really crazy and sad and scary to see how quickly things like the term latinx just got put into the dictionary in 2016. That was not that long ago. So, yikes. James Cameron has finally... So there's some Titanic hype coming.

The 25-year anniversary of Titanic is in the offing. It's coming soon. And so we're going to be seeing some Titanic stories. I think Titanic is going to be re-released at movie theaters. Yep. And James Cameron has weighed in on the 25-year-old debate about whether Jack's life could have been saved. The answer is yes. He could have lived.

Right. The answer is yes, he could have lived. But there's a lot of variables, James Cameron says, based on an interview he did for the National Geographic special, Titanic, 25 years later with James Cameron, to celebrate the anniversary. He said, in theory, yes, he 100% could have lived, but it's going to jeopardize the character of Jack. Jack might have lived, but there's going to jeopardize the character of Jack. Jack might have lived, but there's a lot of variables. I think his thought process was, I'm not going to do one

thing that jeopardizes her. And that's 100% in character. He is an all self-sacrificing being Jack. So he could not risk the life of Rose if it meant that he was going to live. Her getting one toe frostbitten was not worth his life. Not worth his life. Right. Because the idea is that there was room for him on the chest of... There for sure was.

Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, I haven't seen that movie since I was in high school. You know, not the biggest Titanic fan. I think it's a little long for me, but... Some of the best dialogue of in film history um and finally as a public service there's a new article that talks about like 10 of the most mispronounced words and five of them are foods um that you probably

come into contact with so we'll just go one through five here acai which i think is sometimes pronounced akai i definitely used to pronounce this is like i feel like an attack on me this article as someone who frequently reads phonetically and can't say anything right so i definitely was Akai at one point. And then I learned, I was like, huh? We all are. We all were. Yeah.

I mean, I'm a complete idiot. I mispronounce things all the time. And that's what we do. We share this information and love and usefulness. The Greek soft bread sandwich. I've been mispronouncing this one up until this moment uh i always pronounced it the hero but apparently it's either the zero or the euro i did know it was a euro euro i do feel like a lot of people do not pronounce it as hero they pronounce it as gyro yeah and hero i think yeah i don't know why i was mispronouncing it that way well g's can sometimes People do not pronounce it as hero. They pronounce it as gyro. Yeah. And hero, I think.

Yeah. I don't know why I was mispronouncing it that way. Well, G's can sometimes have H sounds if you're doing a Spanish pronunciation. Like gente. Charcuterie is not the way to pronounce that and is definitely how I've been pronouncing it. It's charcuterie. It's the thing to remember. Charcuterie isn't it's uh the thing to remember charcuterie isn't cute so mind that uh it also reminds me of i think i've told this story before but when my first

job out of college we were at the uh abc news like cafeteria and i was with a person who had graduated from like an ivy school. And I was like, crew diet. What is that? And they were like, you must be, you must be joking. Um,

and I pretended I was, uh, but, um, gnocchi, uh, which I think when I'm feeling lazy, I pronounce as gnocchi,

but gnocchi is the way to pronounce that. Gnocchi is such a weird, I was thinking, I don't know why pronounce it as gnocchi, but gnocchi is the way to pronounce that. Gnocchi is such a weird... I was thinking, I don't know why, when I read gnocchi, I thought it was going to be the word ganache because I'm dyslexic. So I feel like ganache is also one that needs to be on this list. Ganache? Okay. I'm not even sure how I've been pronouncing that word.

And then finally, Worcestershire sauce is not pronounced that way. You never pronounce the first R apparently. It's either Worcestershire or Worcestershire. Okay, this. That last one seems like they're just fucking with us, doesn't it? Worcestershire.

Because neither of these pronunciations are at all how I pronounce this. Yeah. It's not Worcestershire? Yeah. No, it's Worcestershire. That is crazy. I feel dumb.

Yeah. Well, I think the correct pronunciations in this case are dumb. Worcestershire seems like, yes, somebody decided to make fun of. And I'm going to make everyone feel bad. I'm going to be like, you don't know that it's Worcestershire?

That's crazy. Worcester. Yeah, that feels like a thing that was done to make fun of whoever was writing this article. They were like, yeah, yeah. Worcestershire sauce is Worcestershire. There you go, buddy.

Enjoy pronouncing it that way. Anyways, those are some of the things that have been trending on this February 2nd, 2023. Happy Groundhog Day to all. Becca Ramos, thank you for joining me. Where can people find you and follow you? You can find me and follow me at Bex Ramos, B-E-C-C-S, Ramos on all platforms. Yeah, yeah. That's going to do it. We are back tomorrow with the whole last 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 you all tomorrow. 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 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. 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 rivalryivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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