The Daily Zeitgeist - Joe BidTrend's CPAP Machine 6/28: Cartier, Superman, CPAP, Malaria, IKEA Mascots

Episode Date: June 28, 2023

In this edition of Joe BidTrend's  CPAP Machine, Jack and Miles discuss Cartier's CEO not getting any sleep, the new Superman, Joe Biden's CPAP machine, the triumphant return of Malaria to the US, and IKEA mascots!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That is Miles. And these are some of the things that are trending. The head of Cartier, who has a 7.5 billion dollar fortune says that he's losing sleep we're going to talk about losing sleep a lot in this episode he's losing sleep because of the prospect of the poor rising up and consuming him presumably you sick son of a bitch this guy also has like a ton of hot takes he's like as a south african like jewelry overlord uh but i just magnet i just do love the the idea of like that his altruism is only coming from a place of self-preservation right he's like yeah man robots could create quote structural unemployment then they're Then they're going to blame us.

And then the poor people will kill us. Right. I mean, yeah. Right now we're at the energy where people are celebrating when billionaires die. Like the dude who recently passed away. And everyone's like, oh, time to post the crap memes. But yeah, I don't know. This must be scary for you to.

I just feel so bad for him. Yeah. Yeah. He's specifically worried about robots replacing workers and the poor rising up to bring down the rich and he said it all out loud all right because it's just they don't talk to anyone who is not also a billionaire or right paid by them to agree with them right and so they so we'll, we'll just continue to get a window into how they talk, how they think. And we salute you a multi-billionaire luxury jewelry company owner.

I wonder because that guy, the person I'm thinking of is James crown, who's the former director of JP Morgan. Um, and like when he died, like in a, like a motorcycle accident on his birthday or some shit in Aspen, people were like,

yeah, all right, whatever good riddance. And I wonder if that shook the billionaire world. They're like, he died on his birthday. And like the poor people were like, good.

Yeah. Oh no. Johan Rupert is this man's name. Is that a conference? I mean, maybe this is the only way to get through. He was speaking at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco, so he knew his audience.

Fucking Monaco. Monaco. You can get to Monaco, but do you have money to stay in Monaco? That's right. Is the question. Yeah, well. I like how he said, told his fellow elite. Yeah, true. He can't sleep.

Can't sleep at the thought of social upheaval he thinks is imminent. I mean, part of me is like, yeah, maybe they'll do something, but I'm guessing the other thing they'll do is invest in more police and surveillance technology. Those robots

will just make the robots kill them. Told the conference, bear in mind, when the poor rise up, the middle classes won't want to buy luxury goods for fear of exposing their wealth. So, I mean, he's thought this through at a deep level. Yeah. He said, how is society going to cope with it? The hatred, quote, we are destroying the middle classes and it will affect us. It's unfair. So that's what

keeps me awake the unfairness no no no the fact that it could eventually they're gonna blame me generations from now have a negative impact on people who are related to me yeah or at least the security guards i pay to protect me i just would feel sorry for them if they got hurt. Absolutely. Absolutely. And that would be unfair. And that would be unfair. So here is one billionaire, a person who still is afraid for their life. Whereas a lot,

a lot of them seem like they're just like for my birthday, I've decided to break the land speed record on a Harley. Right. All right. to break the land speed record on a harley um right all right so there is a bicycle designed it's kind of somewhere between a bit and uh the this person like he actually designed it it's a wheel less bicycle and it's being covered as it's breaking all the rules and turning heads and that is because it is stupid right like it's because you know bicycles are wonderful items because they are so um you know efficient in transferring our energy yes and this thing has like the wheels the size of little lego pieces

yeah and the way the chain set up you're like i don't know if this is actually going to return your investment of energetic output in terms of you being able to move forward yeah you look at the design and you're like oh okay so something i must be missing something and then you see it in action and you realize you are missing nothing it is exactly as inefficient as you expect it to be um there is a reason that it appears to be like what when he is displaying how it works he is operating on what appears to be the flattest piece of pavement ever constructed like it's just it's like fake grass and the flattest piece of pavement ever and yeah the way it works is so it's like two tank treads that are like meeting the ground at weird oblique angles.

And you just like are cranking on a treadmill. You're basically like powering a treadmill. Yeah. I mean, I get it. I think because this person designs, it looks like always designing weird wonky bike designs, like square wheels and shit. So I get where you're coming from. But yeah, it's just like one of those things when you look at it you're like come on buddy i get i mean i know what you're doing here but in a universe where people are like deathly allergic to circles i feel like this makes sense but here i don't i don't see the

need for it other than uh that's turning heads. It feels like it would be the purview of people who go to the beach with a parrot or a snake around their neck. Oh, like the most histrionic person in your town? Yeah. They don't have anything to say, but they would like you to

look at them and engage with them. And be like, hey, what's this? This is the world's shittiest bicycle. bike for lizard people like to walk around with their their pets in public on their shoulders do you think if you're one of those people and like you're not if miles okay i'm sorry jack when you're out there do you always charge people to take pictures with your boa constrictor oh yeah or do you see it as a community service that's why you're out there to bring joy and you wouldn't dare take a penny of your fellow citizens give this away for free man that's what i keep telling you man i'm like you're gonna

get more goodwill if you just did it for free rather than charging people 15 bucks nah then they don't value you as much as they should and also jack i don't know if that's a boa constrictor. It looks like a garden snake. It's really tiny, and it hasn't moved in 24 hours. Ooh, don't get too close to this boa constrictor. It's starting to smell, man. It's a dead garden snake. It's all floppy.

We have a new Superman, Miles. Uh-oh, really? Uh-oh. I don't even know why I said it like that. I think because we've been talking about LumiD too much. Who is it? Jack, who is the new Superman? You know who it is. It's David

Kornswet. Kornswet? Wow. Who's that? So you might suspect he is British from that name, but he is from Philly and okay did you watch we own the city first uh two episodes okay so do you remember there was a sting operation like kind of a slow burn investigation happening with a guy who had a beard oh yeah i'm looking at this oh yes yes yeah yeah a little a little too handsome to be a baltimore cop but they like put them in baggy t-shirts and sweatpants to be like oh that's a

cop yeah um that guy okay and when you see him without a beard he is basically indistinguishable from henry cavill so the idea of like we make these movies until the stars get too expensive or bored with it and then replace them this is the most like one-to-one where they're just like yeah this this is we just found a a replica there's like yeah he's god i mean it's so funny how no one can get past the christopher reeves aesthetic of superman Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, because even when they talk about Nick Cage, like I know that's been his passion project since he was like born,

because it has been to play Superman. But I can just look at him like, it ain't going to be you, bro. Cause you ain't Reeves enough. And now you're just getting clones. They got to like down the road on that, or at least enough to take those pictures that everyone got everyone's hopes

up. But like the idea of a Superman who is interesting, the road on that or at least enough to take those pictures that everyone got everyone's hopes up but like the idea of a superman who is interesting or like has a personality or has like human defects and like challenges like right people have had that idea it seems to be what makes superhero movies interesting and yet there's just something about superman where they're just like that's not what people are looking for and they always come back to just the most handsomest guy with brown hair and blue eyes that you can find right um so yeah i don't know i mean it's just try something different man like superman's so fucking dry

as like a superhero where it's like man he don't got problems he's an orphan yeah and i mean he like was a misfit his whole life but he's great now nothing to see here and he's invincible i'm like then that's not interesting like give him like a debilitating porn addiction or something yeah yeah there was like at one point i think like towards the end of mad men people were like talking about john ham maybe getting cast as superman and it's like kind of over the hill superman who okay presumably suffers from like a drinking problem or like a sex addiction i feel like that's implied by the john hamness of it all oh yeah but then yeah that never went anywhere um there is actually supposedly a black superman movie in the works written by

ta-nehisi coates and produced by jj abrams that according to james gunn the new like co-ceo of dc is like still in the air, still in development, and if it happens, it would be an elsewhere tale, separate from the DC continuity like Joker. So it would be one of the good ones that we allow to happen. Fucking so stupid. Black Superman

would blow the fuck up. Anything not Christopher Reeves looking Superman would blow up. Yeah up would do really well I would just I'm like yeah I'm for that great but they're like no what if we got a guy who was a photocopy of

Brandon Routh or whoever that first Superman steel guy was back in the aughts well he is from Philadelphia so what if like the one piece of texture they allow is just Superman has a thick Philly accent? That would be kind of fun.

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He's got apnea. CPAP machine. He's got apnea and the White House says after indentations from straps were seen on both sides of his face Wednesday morning that he has recently begun using the CPAP machine. Since 2008, the president has disclosed his history with sleep apnea

in thorough medical reports. It is kind of wild that they're just like, so yeah, he used a fucking CPAP machine last night, guys. Like, what do you what do you want? What do you want? It means he's dying.

Well, then didn't he also call it the he said Putin's losing the Iraq war. Yeah. So he keeps doing this like multiple times in the past 24 hours has confused Iraq with Ukraine, which is not... I mean, it's a great comparison to make for some deep trenchant analysis of America's culpability in the current world order

and the double standard of Russia. Everyone's like, we shouldn't even allow Russians in the country, shouldn't allow the Russians to compete in the Olympics because they unilaterally invaded Ukraine on false evidence and false pretenses. But nobody's bringing up the Iraq war except Joe Biden. He's like, there's something stewing down down there. Gorbachev is really fucking up in iraq i'll tell you that what i was talking to mikhail i said buddy oh man come off it jack yeah i don't

know i mean look this is i don't know y'all this is what happens when you you discourage people from trying to primary the president and you got old time traveler mcgee over here so our only options would be like if he isn't medically up for it not saying that this is disqualifying sure of course not if he wasn't the options would be or it would basically be kamala versus rfk jr if you're looking purely just at the democratic primary and who's i mean marianne williamson right that's i mean that's why i think i think more i mean we're i don't think we're going to see much mainstream media attention on cornell west campaign right like that's i think that's what that's what scares so many big d democrats is when progressives are like well wait hold on

a second this guy just dangles progressive politics in front of people until election day. And another person is like living it. And it's funny to see on Twitter, like when people start talking about Cornel West, like you're going to make Trump win. And it's like, you actually need to understand what the stakes are for different people. Maybe for the life that you live, you're very comfortable with the status quo for other people. The status quo is killing them. So there might not be much of a difference. And the only alternative is to try and seek someone out who is actually trying to address these like existential threats,

you know, in real time, rather than like, I mean, that's for something later on. And by that, I mean, when I'm out of office and then you ask me why I didn't do it,

I say, I didn't have enough time. Yeah. But yeah, it's a say I didn't have enough time. Yeah. But yeah, it's where we're at. And then malaria is trending. Malaria is circulating again in the U.S. this summer. Five local cases have been diagnosed in Florida and Texas. It is fairly easy to prevent and treat. But it also, you know, that's assuming there's not a huge widespread outbreak

right and it's not typically on the radar of doctors in the u.s so they're issuing this as like a thing to the doctors being like hey this is now something you have to take into account if you're seeing an outbreak of fevers in the u.s unexplained fevers? Sorry, it's not 1950, the year before the U.S. declared malaria no more. It could be malaria. Yeah, it was declared eradicated from the U.S. shores in 1951. There was a small outbreak, I think, in the 90s in one example, but it seems like it's now possible again. Yeah, which just weird. Like,

all right, folks, be on the lookout for malaria. So Ikea mascots are like the Ikea mascots were trending in a couple of places over the past couple of weeks. Um, there's a new mascot. Canada has an Ikea mascot,

which looks like a cross between like a playmobil toy and slender man. Yeah. It's got play, play, I said, playboy, bill a playmobil toy and slender man yeah it's it's got playboy playmo i said playboy beal playmobil hair playboy beal with the slender man face yeah yeah for sure playmobil cardi is that anything uh all right let's write it down um and then they're asking people to like name the character and it's fun it's just what it's like very minimalist smiley face on a weird kind of vague humanoid shape i also noticed people were like it's cursed monstrosity they're also describing it as reminiscent of a sleep paralysis demon oh yeah which is a phrase i've just been seeing pop up all over the place.

So, you know, just in our mission to chart the national shared unconsciousness, it seems like a lot of people are suffering from sleep paralysis and referencing sleep paralysis demons of late. Yeah. I mean, it's like funny. You just search Twitter for just sleep paralysis demon and just see it come up in so many different ways. Yeah.

The new shorthand for. I always associated that with like a dark shadowy figure like sleep paralysis demon. Yeah. But I guess it's all. Look, it's it's whatever appears in your room when you can't move and you're actually asleep, but feel like you're not. One person sleep paralysis demon is another multinational furniture company's mascot in canada that's right um and then there's also the blahage uh which is oh the shark yeah the shark uh very popular shark stuffy toy in japan and a full-sized blahage appears in commercials wearing a suit it's sort of like jack and jack in the box

but much cooler and apparently blahage is a lgbtq icon and is huge in the trans community thanks to years worth of memes it's like etymology it's like no one knows exactly how this happened you can't trace it to the first like photograph but the character isn't like overtly marketed with a gendered backstory like tito ball the swedish testicle meatball that other yeah they do just have a what looks like a deep fried testicle yeah i guess is a reference to their meatball um but also his coloring is similar to that of the trans flag so gotta find them everywhere yeah got our icons all around tito ball blah haj sleep paralysis demon take your pick lufzig a big bad wolf toy um that people it's like an ikea character it's just like a stuffy that they sold near the register

and because so many people shop at ikea, it became like somewhat iconic, but, um, it became a symbol of the Hong Kong protest movement a decade ago after one was, uh, thrown at the chief executive CY lung, um,

during a town hall meeting. And suddenly it like blew up in popularity. Yeah. Ikea mascots folks. Yeah. Like that's who the billionaires need to be watching out popularity. Yeah. Ikea mascots, folks. Yeah, that's who the billionaires need to be watching out for. Yeah, Ikea mascots,

because they will rally the people around radical causes. We're all going to rally around the Canadian sleep paralysis demon and take down the billionaires. Yeah. All right. Well, those are some of the things

that are trending on this Wednesday 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-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. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.

I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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