The Daily Zeitgeist - JG Trendtworth 9/12: Captain America, Trump, Russia, The Little Mermaid, King Charles, Plymouth Rock

Episode Date: September 12, 2022

In this edition of JG Trendtworth, Jack and Miles discuss Captain America: New World Order, Trump in D.C., the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the new 'The Little Mermaid' teaser, King Charles getting angry at a pen tray, and how dumb Plymouth Rock actually looks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of JG Trendworth. 877-GOTCH-TRADE. Yeah. by Diet Coke. shape little divot in there. So I've heard it before. I just don't. I couldn't pull the ad that you were talking about. What the fuck? I feel like this is so... That jingle has existed for years, but it's always like these weird versions of people doing a musical somewhere. Right. Whatever.

It sounds like you're making that shit up. And I don't fully believe. I think you're trying to get me to be like, yeah, i've seen it two miles obviously i get it and then they're so fucking proud of them that they are even like check out our award-winning fucking commercials from the jg wentworth uh academy of advertising 100 academy award dude they're they're really Academy of Advertising. 100%. Academy Award. Dude, they're really feeling this. It's 877-CASH-NOW. How many times has that been stuck in your head over the years?

Yeah, we shot your ass, didn't we? They've become cult classics. Our iconic Wagnerian opera. Wow, isn't that guy a Nazi? Anyway, moving on. Moving on to Isn't That Guy a Nazi? Captain America, NWO. Yeah. anyway yeah moving on moving on to isn't that guy a nazi captain america nwo yeah so the next captain america movie has the subtitle of new world order which is an anti-semitic conspiracy

theory wow they cast a jewish actor as archvillain of the film. So even the old-timey comic books where Captain America was fighting something called the New World Order, the head of the New World Order was a Nazi scientist goblin named Red Skull. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Just switch that up? Yeah, just switch that up a little bit, real quick.

It's the actor who played the guy with the mirror helmet in The Watchmen. The kind of thin dude in Watchmen. Rorschach? The HBO show. Did he play Rorschach? Who's the mirror head dude?

What are you talking about mirror head? I don't even know which actor we're talking about. He was one of the cops on the 4th in the local town that they followed. Oh, the dude who put the fucking weird mask on in that big ass disco ball thing. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Looking Glass. That was his name. Looking Glass, not Mirror Head. Looking Glass. That was his name. Looking Glass, not Mirrorhead. Mirrorhead should have been his name. I don't know if they couldn't get... If that was trademarked or something. But it should have been Mirrorhead. Anyways, they've added a protagonist superhero,

I think, from comic books. But that character is Israeli. So it could just get all... I mean, nobody's seen the film yet, but it seems like it's setting up to be pretty tone-deaf at a time where tone-deafness is probably not what we need. It sounds like it's going to be a fucking interesting one with

many kinds of analysis that we might need and much that we don't um wow well good luck with that film guys good luck over there with that as we found you can't judge a book by its cover or a movie by its trailer according to the reviews of Don't Worry Darling. I was on board fucking with that movie heavy based on the trailer. And yeah, the reviews are pretty rough.

Not kind. I'll watch it eventually on an airplane. I will promise you that, Olivia. Wow. And I will watch it on that same airplane. Yeah, probably. It's the last thing I do. Trump in D.C.

Speaking of airplanes, our former president took a little airplane trip up to Washington, D.C., our nation's capital. Yeah. In his golf outfit. Yeah, he's rocking his golf outfit, went out to his golf course, not partaking in golf,

but just driving his little golf cart around the golf course and presumably making little vroom-vroom and choo-choo sounds with his mouth. Everyone's like, okay, what are you turning yourself in? What are you sick? You're going to Walter Reed?

What are you? A tough guy? Oh, a real tough guy. Oh, okay, so you're a tough guy. Okay, you want to come to your own golf course okay tough guy let me see what i got for you real quick um yeah i don't i think the fantasy version is like he's finally gonna be arrested it's like no he's not that's not what that's not he's if anything as he says it's a working trip and i'm like yeah what do you are you trying to like lean in on jenny thomas and shit and be like hey i gotta

it's getting bad y'all like i don't know what the fuck i'm gonna do i'm gonna need you guys to fucking do some shit or it's a wrap for me but then i feel like i don't know we'll see we'll see what it's all about but this man is not known for his working so it feels like more of a panicked trip than if anything i will say the mar-a-Lago Sweatfest continues. I just don't know what the reason for the sweats are with this. Yeah. Hard to know in the moment. It's interesting. Remember when he fired,

like the guy was basically running his campaign for him? Corey Lewandowski? No, not Lewandowski. Brad Parscale? Not 2016. Parscale. Yeah, Parscale got fired. And now there's rumors

that that was part of an attempted takeover to get Kushner out and bring in Bannon. There's a new book coming out from one of his little henchmen from the

2020 campaign basically saying that everybody was trying to maneuver to get bannon in so it's it's like the the true story behind all the what what was bubbling to the surface of the mainstream media but it it hilariously sounds like it came down to he was too afraid to fire jared because he thought his daughter would be mad at him so he just like avoided jesus avoided it you know you fire him you you should do it i don't do that yeah can you which is so funny to someone who like like it's so to everyone else so transparently insecure and frightened as a man right and just has to overcompensate with all

this like bluster and shit like watching him panicked like being like watch this bull's gonna say he doesn't want to do it but he's not gonna say he doesn't want to do it and he's gonna lose his shit about some other thing insisting that we have to fire him he's like god there's no point in me to do that i can't do that doesn't make sense for me why I do that? Something you should do probably. I'm like, damn, I thought you were about it. Nope. Nope. Not about it. Nope. Would rather lose the presidency than face

a confrontation with Ivanka. His daughter. And finally, Russian soldiers are trending because they are apparently running for their lives that's as one yeah journalist puts it i mean i think a lot of the news has been focused on this like counteroffensive that ukraine has launched and just reclaimed just untold amounts of territory since this invasion

began uh in late february and to the point where a lot of people are pointing to the fact that like the chain of command is just breaking down because they were so caught off guard by this counter offensive that you know people are pointing to the just sort of one of the biggest differences with the ukrainian army and the russian army is just how the culture of how like how autonomous the soldiers can be the russian army is still very much you know like they just everything has to go through like the highest echelon of people to make decisions and they wait on the ground. I've seen Rambo 3. Yeah. Okay. You know, you've seen, you've heard, you

know, whereas Ukrainians like in the field there, they're given a little bit more autonomy to be flexible in the battlefield. And they're saying because of that, it's the bottleneck of lack of orders plus the potential for these Russian soldiers to be captured or whatever. They're just ditching tanks and rivers and dressing as civilians and trying to flee.

I mean, a lot of people say this is a pretty huge turning point in this conflict. And it started over the weekend, or this has kind of been going on for a while? It started about the end of last week, basically. They took one of the major cities, right? Yeah, in main regions. And then I think the Russians were trying to tell the UN, they're like, this isn't fair, what they're doing. And it's like, what?

Are you serious? What the fuck are you talking about? You invaded a fucking country. So, yeah. I mean, there's definitely images of these people who are so relieved to see other Ukrainian like in their town after being occupied. But that this is an ongoing story. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk Little Mermaid. We'll talk our new king. Yeah. And Elon.

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people are like she is embarrassing the original ariel oh my god it's night and day i mean obviously as vocal they're just they're not even comparable as vocalists but if this is late 80s disney or whatever i think like because they were just pointing at the fact that people were like holy shit like they're like hallie bailey is gonna fucking eat with this role and people are like well what are you trying to say about jodie bentz like nobody's saying shit about her yeah people said that hallie bailey is fucking fantastic some people were like you know putting putting side by side clips and people like oh that's shady i'm like no no no tmz why don't you focus on the tons of people like on social media who are like finding other weird things to critique it because it's a not white Ariel.

Rather than being like, are black people shading the white woman who sang? They're excited that this woman can sing? I don't think so. So I had the thought and that it looks unnatural. It just doesn't seem like that should be the mermaid. She does not

look like Ariel. Like a mermaid does. And what does a mermaid look like? We've all pictured a mermaid in our mind. Blonde hair, blue eyes, you know the type. No, I had the thought that it does look like it is taking place in

the ocean in a Zack Snyder Justice League movie. It looked dark. But people have pointed out that the scene where she is singing a part of that world. Yeah, it's dark. It happens at night. Yeah.

So they're just lighting it. She's singing in a sea cave that's being lit by fireworks that are above at nighttime on the surface um so i stand corrected the rest of the internet does not stand corrected they stand fuck you this is bad people like shouldn't like even look like that underwater what dude all i could think about when i saw it was the my skin turning into that of a chickens because of all the goosebumps or i guess that of a goose if i'm going to be you know accurate here with how good her fucking voice is and to hear someone sing like these like iconic melodies with just that little bit more artistic swag on it that little bit more of you know being a powerhouse vocalist

it just like elevated it immediately i'm yeah i'm very excited this is being made by uh the premier um filmmaker of musicals the person who brought chicago to the big screen and blew us all away. I have not seen any of his movies, but that is because I... Man, I remember when Chicago won all those Academy Awards. I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Chicago was great. Didn't see that shit.

Didn't see that shit. Yeah. Rob Marshall. Love his work. Have not seen a single one of them. Oh, you know what? I saw the new mary poppin there you go okay okay so get off my back people okay it's also funny every time i read uh hallie

bailey's name that my mind your brain is so conditioned to go well i know hallie and if there's a b it's only one other name yeah rather than like every even though every single letter that follows it is like i'm like okay to the point that my brain makes me think i have seen the name hally berry like i i can close my my eyes after seeing it be like okay that was hally berry nope no my brain there are more nerves going from your brain to your eyes than from your eyes to your brain uh your your brain is using your memory to fill in most of what you think you are seeing fyi okay oh now and it just came through with the fact that uh the director mr rob marshall also tony nominated choreographer so we'll see let's see if he's on choreo with someone with one leg in the form of a mermaid. Yeah, exactly.

You know, what do you call a mermaid? That's not a, I guess. Cause they aren't ped. They don't, it's not bipedal or they're not a quadruped. I guess they just are a fish.

They're not a humanoid. They don't have feet. Yeah. They're pods. They're something pods. Oh, okay. Merma pod.

Yeah, exactly. We'll go with that. Thank you. Uh, King. Mermapod. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. King Charles III, I think there was just that one three-second clip that went viral over the weekend that was just the reminder I

needed. Well, first of all, there are the pictures of his hands. Pen tray off my desk! His little dusting that pen tray the fuck out of his way uh telling telling his servant was just like uh yeah you are born to it aren't you you are just the snootiest little bitch in all of england uh and like that that is your gift he's just like move it move it now yeah did you feel did you empathize with uh william though did i empathize with william scrolling with that left hand what i didn't

there was one it looked like he was struggling being left-handed and signing like these like very inky proclamations oh really yeah yeah yeah and i was like that's a left-hander if i've ever seen one yeah did he have to like curl it up to the oh yeah yeah yeah yeah and i was like that's a left hander if i've ever seen one yeah did he have to like curl it up to the oh yeah yeah yeah you thought he was putting a ghost in a headlock the way the lefty curl yeah that's how i write it's the worst yeah it looks like i have something very wrong with me but it is actually all just you don't want to smear that in and smear get an ink in here anyways um oh yo did you there's another thing too over like so they canceled all the premier league games you know

and to say like yo we're obviously this still like to mourn the queen and on top of the obvious like police issues because police resources like all over the uk they're like yo like we got to kind of put we got to put our resources in different places what can you explain that a little further so the games so because of like all of these these things these events that are happening across the UK with the death of the monarch like it's just

strained the policing like the ability for the police to be present for these large scale events and have them properly secured so to add like huge soccer games on top of that like further sort of strains like like local police departments so they felt that you know it might not they might not have the adequate amount of people there to ensure the safety of the matches which makes sense and all that but then more journalists were kind of saying like there was also a dimension to this argument that they didn't want to cause scenes at halftime with fans not respecting the moment of silence. And it just being a terrible look that they're like, yo, you know what?

Don't even give him a fucking shot at just dragging this shit down. Like just castle football forever. Yeah, it's over. But I was like, that'll win him over. Yeah. forever yeah it's over but i was like that'll win them over yeah um but just all you know still got to maintain the the prestige even after the fact by saying like the reason we can't play games is if we do celebrate it we're not going to have 100 adoption of you know being quiet or not howling or whatever soft power that's how they i mean it's why it's why it's so, it's so interesting that Jeff Bezos was team queen,

you know, like the, this guy who counts on us not deciding to. There was someone who tweeted something very interesting about that too. It's like the reason those people are so aghast at that is they are like, Oh shit. Like when you're dead, they will,

they'll just bring up all the realities of who you are yeah and and reckon with that and that's very frightening for people who pay lots of money to like obscure the media or elections or things to keep themselves in like out of the eye that to see that you're like wait they flame you in death? Yeah, motherfuckers. They're spit roast. And finally, Plymouth Rock. Somebody took a picture of Plymouth Rock. And man, this thing, to quote the great Jamie Loftus, looks like shit.

Yeah, looks like shit. This person, I think it was lawrence right just tweeted here let me just show you the picture because it it's just so dumb looking like what the fuck are we doing i've never been there to plymouth rock yeah it's in the dock now yeah where you know as as uh this twitter you lawrence right he said plymouth rock has to be one of the most unremarkable artifacts of american history and i'm like yeah i think so but then people are like debating it like a lot of people are like i believe malcolm x said it best when he said uh we didn't land on plymouth rock plymouth rock landed on us or like people talking about well this is. I don't give a fuck about Plymouth Rock. Then other people were like, my parents came over on the Mayflower.

And I think it's shut the fuck up. Anyway. So it's where they, yeah. It's where the Mayflower, right? Isn't that where they got off the fucking boat? I guess. Yeah, I think that's right. Plymouth was like the town they got off on

and took it over and you know the entire population of that town had just been wiped out by plague and so they just moved into the empty houses dead native americans houses used their cookware their like dishes um took all their stuff basically um they just it was it's like a post-apocalyptic movie that that where they just like got to come move in what do you i mean it's and it's also like the dumbest fucking thing like what it symbolizes right it's not you know like the brian over here's all says the liberty bell gets a shout too for the dumbest thing i'm like yeah but at least that looks like a bell and i've seen like that the iconography of the liberty bell is like in my head plymouth rock not so much a fucking rock where that's like and

this is when it all started getting fucking weird for everybody who lived here but anyway shout out to that rock shout out to that rock what date does it have written on it 16 they founded Plymouth Colony in December of 1620 1620 good times man good times in 1620

thank you thank you Columbus came over 14 I could talk about this for hours I can talk about it I can throw out dates what else you want to know 1066 the battle of Hastings what else you guys got 33 AD most important date

thank you I want to talk to you about that sometime oh what about 733 in Lindisfarne ending up upright on miracle status. There you go. Crash your side

on DC going under. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday afternoon. 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 y'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 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 Elf Beauty, 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. 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. 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.