The Daily Zeitgeist - Major AnnounceTrend 12/14: Trump, Grant Wahl, World Cup, Christina Bobb, Nintendo, Netflix

Episode Date: December 14, 2022

In this edition of Major AnnounceTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Trump's upcoming "Major Announcement", the passing of sports journalist Grant Wahl, a World Cupdate, Christina Bobb's analysis of the Kari Lake lawsuits, Super Nintendo World coming to the US, and 'Harry & Meghan' becoming Netflix's most viewed documentary!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 iHeart on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of major announce trend so there's one coming i'm jack that's miles and donald trump is supposedly making a major announcement tomorrow. Yeah. On Thursday, December 15th. Dude, there's even a fucking announcement video that he posted on Bumass Truth Social.

Let me play this for you because this is how the announcement was made. Get fucking ready. Hold on to your fucking assholes. America needs a superhero. Now, him as Superman with laser beams shooting out of his eyes in front of Trump tower, revealing his Superman chest major announcement Thursday,

December 15th. So that's the fucking superhero cut to a completely inaccurate depiction of him. What could this possibly be? I don't know. For me, it's desert thirst. Right. I don't care what's being announced. Whatever that video was, the announcement won't even come close to whatever that was.

The Washington Times, the conservative newspaper, they were so, like, bootlicky about it. They're like, wow, Donald Trump really just went bull Clark Kent. And people are like, oh, shit, really? Okay, so we'll see what the announcement is. I don't know. It could be Carrie Lake. I don't know what could even arise to a point that makes sense that you're like america needs a superhero you already announced that you're

running right what so yeah his major announcement might be that who he's running with or who but who who could he be running with i don't even even know. That would imply superheroism. It's just this guy is always true to his word. So if he says major announcement, it's got to be, right? It's going to be Robert Downey Jr. And I've got Iron Man. Yes, we're the revengers. We're back. I don't know.

I don't know what he's going to do. But I think a lot of people speculate, just like we were talking. Remember that poll that you were talking about where everyone was like, man, I'd rather not have Donald Trump run. And I'd rather have Ronnie. Must. Like, that is the only big news thing that feels like there would be some kind of response. And then there's this other dude, this, like, MAGA rapper dude who was, like, tagging, like, a Ron DeSantis thing because he's like, Ron DeSantis turned his back on my boy Trump!

Through a fucking weird defaced fucking trailer with Ron DeSantis' face on it. Clearly, Trump's telling his weird sycophants, hey, put something out there. You don't like that he went against the fan.

Declaring war. I don't know, maybe he has to me i cheated to get him elected whoops did i say that um that's it is basically what he said right he was like there was a recount i i got it a lot of you were like excuse you you did what during your like an election count and many people were like he's trying to connect like two stories that weren't anything and act like he was the one who you know stopped the voting when really it's a it's the alignment that he had with trump that helped him climb to the heights he's achieved all right grant wall the sports reporter who died in uh cutter during the world Cup. There's now an official cause of death. It seems like it is not

foul play. No, and I remember yesterday we were talking, they were pointing to this other journalist that died. A migrant worker who was working as a security guard had a terrible fall from a very high place at a stadium and passed away. But, yeah, with this, his brother brother i remember a few days ago had posted something of like we need to find out the truth

i'm sure just being in the shock of hearing that his brother had like suddenly passed away but his wife who like is a doctor was like he actually died of an aortic aneurysm um and just saying that it was slowly growing and had gone undetected so by the time it had ruptured it was too late and she's saying like there's at that point there's really nothing you can do and there's right and she was like i apps i'm here to say absolutely there was no foul play like this is just a terrible medical tragedy right so we'd think that the spouse of the deceased would probably not be carrying water so no and again and it's trending too because many people are like what's an aortic aneurysm because it's like you know this is the first time i've heard that word related to someone's death but again i'm not like a medical professional by any stretch of the meat

by any stretch of the imagination but that's the first time I heard that. And it sounds really like awful. And if they, you know, things get really out of control, like truly like these cardiologists, like it's really hard to survive an event like that. Overall though.

Um, yeah, just a cursed, a cursed, a cursed world cup. Uh, it feels like, yeah,

especially with our next trending topic, Morocco crashing out to France. Was it a close one? Was it a close match? It was. France scored in the fifth minute, and then the momentum was too much, and it was a 3-0.

3-0? Yeah, 3-0. Both of the semis were 3-0s, huh? Yeah, exactly. So now you have france and argentina in the final on sunday and i think for anybody who's a fan of football you probably want to root for lionel messi to finally win a world cup because that would i think most people would default to saying he is the greatest footballer um we've ever seen yeah and that's the thing you need

for them to be like what about maradona or pele or whatever like yeah they got world cups so maybe messi can get his and he had that pass and oh yeah i don't i don't catch a lot of uh football but uh that that pass was even like threading the needle just yeah it like he is the level of good that i can even notice you know yeah yeah you're like yeah you can't get the ball like that for the most part when someone's like man this guy's good i i'm but but messy is is at that level where i'm like that is he seems to have a superpower control over the yeah and he like you know he was smaller because of like health issues when he was younger so he just like the doctor's like he's gonna be kind of small and that just created like such an aggressive dribbling style

from him where like he's low to the ground so he gives people problems but also can handle a lot of physical contact while still carrying the ball and most people you know you see the flopping that happens in soccer and people like ah why'd he go down like messi doesn't play like that he does not he he's like focused that's why i really love his like the way he plays with the ball is that he's like no dude i'm trying to get past you like if you hit me fine but unless you really like fuck me up like i'm i'm out of here yeah um so you know i know there's a few argentina fans out there from the zeitgang but i've been like please yeah yeah root for messy so yeah we'll see yeah good luck to y'all all right let's take a quick break we will be right back

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we're back. And Carrie Lake is back. She won't go away. Go away, lady. No one wants to hear anything about you. She's trying to sue her way in the office like all these goons do in maga world and um this kind of ties to donald trump because christina bob who is one of trump's lawyers was on like oan to be like oh this lawsuit watch out like as if it's gonna pave pave the way for Donald Trump.

So I'll just play this clip where you can hear someone who is way out of their depth as a lawyer. What message would you have to give to those people who are concerned? I would say stand by and watch because we have got so much information and Carrie Lake's legal team has done a fantastic job of getting to the bottom of what actually happened. And I anticipate that her legal challenge will be one for the history books.

I mean, it's pretty remarkable what her team has come up with. And it's interesting that it's so closely timed with the Twitter files release. I don't think that was intentional, but it seems that everything of this government apparatus for manipulating elections, it seems like it's starting to unravel.

So hang in there. It like it's starting to unravel so hang in there it's it's only just starting to get good and let's wait and see how her yeah so all that to be like you know maybe this opens the door for donald trump right so that's why they're trying to get as much energy into this meanwhile like i'm sorry christina bob but you can't if you're gonna lie lie that hard, like you're trying to get people to throw their lives away for election denialism, you need to come with a little bit more energy than someone in the 3 o'clock hour of QVC. Right.

And we are running out of truth here. You must tune in now. The way she said, this one one's gonna be for the history books yeah no it won't and i can tell because you don't even believe it when you say it yeah um so just i don't know i don't know if maybe that has something to do with the major announcement i'm sure maybe it's his return to twitter maybe it it's that he's... Yeah. I don't know. Probably something to do with... He'll find a way to bring Elon Musk in. I mean, that would be... Since Elon Musk was like Iron Man

in people's mind, maybe there's something there. Although Elon Musk has publicly said that he doesn't fuck with Trump. Listeners might be able to hear it in my voice, but I'm pressing my right eye. You look like you're having a fucking cluster headache. Super Nintendo World is trending because

they announced that they're opening in February of next year, of this coming year. And gave a little teaser trailer of what it's gonna look like and kind of looks like lego land but for nintendo stuff yeah hey look i uh i was i've been on that been on that nintendo tip kids i know what's i know what's what uh but yeah i mean it looks if if you love that n life, it definitely looks like it pays off. It doesn't look as good as the one in Japan, obviously.

So there's one already in Japan? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's dope. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's kind of a similar premise with all this very attention to detail to try and recreate the aesthetic of Nintendo. So yeah. detail to try and recreate like the aesthetic of nintendo um so yeah i mean look i i grew up wanting to jump down green pipes into the netherworld you know so i would love to do that real in real life real life every every version of this that i've ever had in my mind involves trampolines and i can't imagine that they're they're letting people just bounce freely around

uh you know maybe they'll do the aggro craig thing or whatever that nickelodeon show was where yeah that they're letting people just bounce freely around. Maybe they'll do the aggro Craig thing or whatever that Nickelodeon show was. Yeah, Guts. Yeah, Guts, where you had the bungee cords on either side of you. Oh, yeah. You could bounce, but it didn't really let you bounce very far.

I just want to have cute mushroom-based cuisine and just go up to the Mario character and just talk about Chris Pratt all day and bother the person in that suit. What do you think about Chris Pratt, man? Oh, I got a lot of tables. Hey, I know,

I know, but you haven't said anything, bro. What do you think? Yeah, it's bad, right? I don't know.

I'm kind of a fan. What dude? Are you fucking serious? Fuck this guy. I'm like, sir, can you leave? Um, and finally, Harry and megan is trending because harry megan netflix's biggest ever documentary debut

yeah hell yeah my boy harry hours of any documentary series in a premiere week is what Netflix is reporting. 81.55 million viewing hours globally in its first week of release. So they dropped the first three episodes. It's a six episode series. They dropped the next three. My understanding is you have to be kind of already invested to really be on board with it and that you're not learning that much more right it's like if you already believe that shit was fucked for them right and uh i mean whatever i i see all the headlines that come

out and i just remember being put off by watching it because the like headline war had began between the royal family and harry and megan's like publicists where like the the thing dropped and then suddenly you're hearing like king charles sends his first christmas card to try and like take up the fucking oxygen and then there was another one that was like oh uh the mansion where they were like they shot the netflix doc allegedly isn't even their home i'm like who's that information useful to people who are planning on stalking them i think so from a tactical perspective this is not don't get fooled they haven't really revealed anything um well wills is apparently telling his friends that his relationship with his brother is over so um i don't know do with that what you will i wish y'all peace

you know that's all leave your corny ass family alone right yo you want to hang out with me harry come through you can tell that there's nothing in there because the episodes dropped and no one was like, oh my God, they said this. It's just like, oh wow, a lot of people were tricked into watching this

thinking something was going to happen. Yeah, there's no Negroni Spogliato of this piece of content. You know what I mean? Everyone's obsessed with like what harry's like drinking in the scenes or like what about this phrase that they yeah yeah it's not like content related as of yet but we'll see i mean it does it does tend to take a little while for the memes to percolate up so maybe maybe it's gonna be fire and just define our lives uh over the next

major announcement. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, December 14th. We are back tomorrow with a 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. 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 Jess Costavetto, 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. of 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, Caitlin 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.