The Daily Zeitgeist - Love Is Blind ReunTrend Special 4/17: Love Is Blind, Gun Crime, Coachella, Andi Owen, Fox, Cocaine Shark

Episode Date: April 17, 2023

In this edition of Love Is Blind ReunTrend Special, Jack and Miles discuss the disastrous Love Is Blind live special, this week's round-up of senseless gun crimes, Coachella 2023, Andi Owen's shitty advice to MillerKnoll employees, the Fox/Dominion lawsuit, and the story of Cocaine Shark!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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15 minutes at most we're going to need you to hang out I'm setting a tight schedule for the love is blind reunion trend special so please is it now yeah just one minute it keeps saying it's having trouble loading this content fast forward three hours and uh it'll be up tomorrow morning oh thanks everyone for

bearing with us live tv ladies and germs am i right that was a recreation thank you thank you thank you thank you of the netflix love is blind reunion um it was netflix's second live event people were hype uh according to the internet everybody was very excited i mean i started watching the show because i was like maybe i'll get it done in time and then i i realized how much no there was no way to do it but yeah So Love is Blind, if you don't watch, is a dating show where couples don't get to see each other for a long time because they're

stuck in a Black Mirror episode. They're in these pods. The first season was designed in a way that made it seem futuristic, but now it looks terrifying. This one looks like, I don't know,

it's very angular and red. It's pretty similar, I think. Well, I mean, the pods always existed. It was one of those things where the first season felt pure, like they were trying to actually get people to fall in love just through a wall, and now it's like, who can we just like... You're in the Borg.

We're running a fucking psyop on you're in the borg we're running a fucking psyop on you on tv or maybe you're running a psyop on yourself on tv uh but yeah i just got into the first episode because i can't miss the reality trash discourse uh yeah yeah of course i you missed a chunk of it last

night and the discourse was all about where the fuck is my episode yeah well it was supposed to drop at 8 o'clock eastern sunday night and viewers only got error messages from the streamer and they just kept it real vague

I just like that Netflix catching strays like from blockbuster like in their tweets though like yeah when they're like hey love is ellipsis late it's like it's going to be on in 15 minutes it was not going to then blockbuster hopped in reply says remember renting vhs is from us you could start it on time no problem this is what we got or this is what we get this is what we get for turning our back on blockbuster also hey blockbuster you had the chance to fucking buy netflix and you laughed

at them so for like 20 million dollars or something yeah like in the dynamic of it all i'm like hold on y'all really had an opportunity to to keep you know to keep the blue polo shirts on lock but nope nope nope yeah but part of the reason people were annoyed is that netflix kept promising that the show would still happen at first they, they were like, 15 minutes. It's just going to be 15 minutes. And then, you know, 90 minutes into the wait, they tweeted that people could catch it the next morning, I guess. Yeah. I love just adding 15 minutes.

About 15 more minutes. That's like me the first time I tried to cook a dinner for my parents. And I thought I had it timed out. And it was like, fucking. They were like, you know what? We can try again tomorrow. It's going to be worth the wait. cook a dinner for my parents and i thought it had it timed out and it was like fucking they were like you know what we can just we can just we can try again tomorrow it's gonna be worth the wait it'll be worth it don't worry i'm not up on it people who did see it said it was uh a reality show reunion episode uh with all all that that entails all the trimmings all the trim yeah

shootings are trending uh for multiple reasons there's a shooting in alabama at a sweet 16 party and a 16 year old black child was shot in the head through a door when he rang the doorbell at the wrong house when he went to pick up his siblings yeah at the house we're just like it's well my god like even the governor in alabama like they like not mentioning guns right in their statement it's like we are gonna we abhor violent crime in our state and i don't know man it's like it it is like one of those things like we're like on the show we've talked like how many have to happen in a row where it'll be consistent enough? That was almost

170 shootings already this year now, mass shootings. You're like, how many are going to have to happen in a row where there's even going to be some kind of actual discussion about this? Because now all we have is Biden being like, Congress has to do something

about this. I don't know what you want me to do uh but yeah i don't it's it's and then the responsibility in congress is like spread out enough that they can all just kind of they're like well we're trying for votes yeah right we're trying and then them and then you know diane feinstein like you know she's like not even around right now because she's so elderly that they can't even confirm judges right now it's a whole fucking thing uh but yeah it's so grim man like two of the kids that died at the sweet 16 like they're about to graduate and it's my god like these are it's like fucking the like the purest form of tragedy of young people's lives being fucking ended in this preventable way and then you have the absurdity and the fucking the nonsense come out of politicians like i mean this is what

we have an opportunity to have more armed cops places when like we were saying in the last episode just everywhere yeah or a few episodes before no it was the one today more guns equal more gun death that's like right the one thing you can guarantee there's not like more guns equal more gun death that's like the one thing you can guarantee there's not like more guns equal fucking power rangers show up and stop the shootings yeah i think it has the same effect of salt like on your food essentially it's the same logic it's like you don't add more salt to make something less salty you know what i mean you don't know the secret of salt i was actually like you do add more salt and then it becomes cigarettes because i would give you that because i know cigarette smokers

the taste buds are fucking gone sometimes yeah just fried oh yeah the homies who smoke who've like made food for me i'm like okay like i just don't understand why tabasco puts that little dropper thing on the lid like you gotta dump that stuff on you need a bottle and a half to even taste your food what's the war comedy movie with john belushi is in 1944 is that what it's called yeah one of those years yeah and like there's a scene where he's like trying to open a bottle of coke like in the cockpit and he's like bottle opener and he just breaks the neck off of the fucking coke bottle and then like drinks it like that that's how i picture you putting tabasco and like why do that just break the fucking neck off and just pour it just empty it out onto my one egg onto my one remaining taste all that to say is there are enough bodies piled up to do something

but we're unable to break our fucking obsession with this shit and it like freaks me it just freaks me out more and more especially now like being a parent too like before i'm like i don't know man like she could go down like oh my god fuck like it is what it is but yeah the more you like have those kinds of responsibilities you really think like what the fuck am i doing like what the fuck can i even do i'm gonna send my kids to school and then like when they talked about like the bulletproof uh room in the classroom i like that, like turned into a corner. Yeah. Like part of me was like, damn, we need to get those in our classroom because that's where we're at.

It's to the point where we, like the debate is truly like, we've become so nihilistic at the, at the thought of doing something that like to our point is like, Oh, is that bulletproof? Okay. That might work because from what I've seen,

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and we're back and frank ocean was the headliner at coachella third night um had a feeling it was going to be controversial it was first of all the thing that pissed me off and it's similar to the netflix thing is that they didn't post until the afternoon of that there wasn't going to be a live stream. That's not Frank Ocean's fault. I'm sure that was a longstanding, like there's contracts and shit involved. I'm pretty sure he didn't just like spring it on them that there wouldn't be a YouTube live stream. But I wanted to see it. You couldn't live stream it.

So you just get like these minute and a half chunks of the performance on social media. Everything I saw or that was like described sounded like exactly what I would expect and hope for. But like the mainstream media is like, was it the worst concert ever? Friends, you know, people were booing at the end because he just had to abruptly cut it off. Because like the curfew time. because like the curfew times yeah the curfew rule and he was like yes sorry i'm being told like the curfew rule means that we have to cut the concert off so that that's the show and i mean we get it we're upset about that but i don't know man i don't like being right about stuff like this but remember i was like coachella's gonna be a disaster yeah what i said

you did say that and it it like the even like the grumblings of what happened like there was supposed to be an ice rink that like motherfuckers were gonna skate on and then like one of the sides of the story is that like an hour before frank was like no i don't want this shit take it down right and they're like we've been like this is the thing we've been setting up for months and it's like nah nah nah i don't want it it's like you're you're supposed to go on in 10 minutes yeah and then that caused him to be delayed it just sounds fucking awful i think alongside the fact that you know unless i don't know i it just he he just seems like one of those people that he's not always giving you the best live performances like he's just kind of like an

artist that i think just he just needs to make his art outside of like the spectacle of live performances because like when you listen to his music you're like this shit is fucking fantastic yeah but i've seen live performances of his song it's not like dynamic he's just wandering around stage yeah yeah but they sound great and like the energy is there and it's not like dynamic he's just wandering around stage yeah yeah but they sound great and like the energy is there and it's just like cool to see him do it live which is like kind of what i would expect as a fan of frank ocean like i'm not expecting him to like go up and like be dancing around you know like that's not the energy i expect and like it definitely delivers something is it something that is in line with like the public's expectation of like a coachella headliner like where black pink and

bad bunny are the other headliners like definitely not um but yeah i don't know wow he started playing shortly after 11 p. opening abruptly with Novocaine. Oh no. Vocally, the rendition was pitch perfect. Though Ocean sat in the middle of the stage with his face hidden in a blue hoodie, his back partially turned toward the crowd. Most of the stage was covered by a massive screen, and fans only got a glimpse of the singer through camera angles of him performing behind it.

There were long, silent pauses between songs like crack rock and white ferrari with ocean barely saying anything and keeping his interaction with the audience to a minimum yeah okay well um well i'll tell you where i'm not going even though i didn't get to see this i'm not taking a trip miles to pity city which is trending turn it on us because one of my spiritual advisors the ceo of miller noel had some things to say yeah her employee like miller noel i didn't know like what did they're just like they make office furniture that's like their thing. And I was like, oh, okay. And the CEO is getting just served handfuls of smoke because she went on a Zoom call, basically yelling at her employees. They're like, yo, what happened to our annual bonuses? Like, that's kind of like factors into my income.

And she's like, you guys need to get off this fucking bonus shit. Listen to her just come after her employees who are asking what happened to their bonuses. When keep in mind, her ass got a $1.2 million bonus in the year before. But anyway, let's just check this little slice of what it's like to work at Miller & Noll. Well, talk to them, be kind, and get after it. Don't ask about what are we going to do if you don't get a bonus. Get the damn $26 million. Spend your time and your effort thinking about the $26 million we need and not thinking about what you're going to do if we don't get a bonus. All right. Can I get some

commitment for that? I would appreciate that. I had an old boss who said to me one time, you can visit pity city, but you can't live there so people leave pity city let's get it done thank you have a great day whoa have a great day i love like when you see people continue these like patterns of terrible management like where she's like i had a boss tell me i don't fucking matter okay and that's why i'm gonna tell y'all y'all don't fucking matter focus on this 26 million that we're trying to hit so i can get my motherfucking bonus and then maybe we could talk about y'all bonus yeah anyway i'm gonna take the bonus first and then you could maybe get we'll see what's left

we'll see what's fucking left i don't know what left. Maybe if y'all hit that 26 million, we won't have to worry about it. But right now, y'all look like the mayors of Pity City. And you know I hate that. And Pity City, as we all know, everybody's blowing their money on avocado toast and the rent is too high.

If you just move to a more reasonable neighborhood. Stop drinking coffee. Make your own coffee. Make your own coffee, guys. Thank you. Grow your own avocados. Mill your stop drinking coffee make your own coffee make your own coffee guys thank you grow your own avocados mill your own grain bake your own bread what the fuck is going on i can't fucking do this all the time have a great day fox is also trending the dominion lawsuit which has given us so much good kind of behind the scenes details from these leaks of tucker carlson being like trump is a disaster what are we gonna do he everybody everything he touches turns to shit um and

all the powers that be at fox just admitting like they didn't buy the like trump stop the steel bullshit for a second but then it was like that night they would still have a an episode where they were hyping it up um it's like we don't we can't what are we supposed to do we just make the content we don't have anything to do with what is in the content we just make it we just decide what it is okay what the fuck what's the problem so people were looking forward to this lawsuit. Everybody except Fox was looking forward to it. And the judge just delayed the opening of the trial by a day. And people suspect that Fox is going hard for a settlement. And, you know, Dominion is the other side.

It's not like this is Fox v. ProPublica. This is Fox v. another corporation. It's not like this is Fox V ProPublica. This is Fox V another corporation. And so there, there is a dollar figure that will make them say, yes, yes, please.

Daddy, give me more, but it's just such a juicy opportunity. Like, I would love to, Oh, to have fucking Rupert Murdoch there. I have to say like,

yeah, man, we lie. You know what I mean? Right. That's a lie. Yeah. And we didn't believe that. That's a lie. I'm going to say like yeah man we lie you know what i mean right that's a lie yeah and we didn't believe that that's a lie i'm gonna say that because i'm under oath like like what the fuck i don't think i think that's the thing that they are absolutely trying to avoid by settling because like they love to settle over at fox yeah they love a settlement so yeah i don't know well we'll see we'll see what happens there i'm

hoping like you would think dominion knows how painful this would be for them and therefore are holding out for a like crippling settlement you know like something that would just put fox out of business uh because a trial could put them out of business 100 yeah if you're If you're like, well, here, if we keep going, y'all looking like you pay this much anyway. So what the fuck? Because I know they're suing for 1.6 billion. Yeah. So I wonder what that, how close that settlement gets to.

I mean, it's not going to be a bill, but I don't know. Maybe it was. Who knows? It'll definitely speak to how much Fox News, especially Rupert Murdoch, wants to avoid things coming to light in court testimony regarding the business practices of Fox News, especially Rupert Murdoch, wants to avoid things coming to light in court testimony regarding the business practices of Fox News and how they look at quote-unquote news. So yeah, we'll see.

We'll see. And finally, the CIA has done their work to make the cocaine shark, the sequel to Cocaine Bear possible. There's a news story of a two-ton load of cocaine that was scooped up by italian police in the sea off eastern sicily so there was apparently just enough plastic wrapping to keep the cocaine from getting wet without weighing it down and possibly sinking oh good good good that is good news but i mean we have what we need here folks oh like this yeah the cocaine shark movie is coming

or cocaine dolphin like I don't know cocaine dolphin sounds more fun than cocaine see where like the whole like an entire sea is just oh my god revved up just real heat up yeah just talking Talking about crypto all day. Nonstop. All right. Well, as we do every trending episode, we're just going to close this episode by thanking the CIA for doing their good work. Thank you for the good folks at Langley in Langley, Virginia. We love y'all. We love y'all. That's going to do it for us this 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. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine 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. I'm Jess Costavetto, 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 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.