The Daily Zeitgeist - Martin ScorTrende 6/29: R. Kelly, Games Done Quick, Radio Shack, Steven Breyer, Marlins, Baymax, Las Culturistas

Episode Date: June 29, 2022

In this edition of Martin ScorTrende, Jack and DJ Danl discuss R. Kelly's sentencing, the 'Games Done Quick' speedrunning stream, Radio Shack's twitter handle getting hi-jacked, Justice Breyer retiring tomorrow, the Marlins/Angels feud, the 'Baymax' controversy, and Las Culturistas on The View!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Martin Scorsese. Yes. Yes. Martin Scorsese. Yes. We got a suite of director short show titles from Johnny Davis. Great. I am Jack.

That right there, well, that is DJ Daniel Goodman. That is me. He's back. It is he. Heading to a trending episode. That is me. He's back. It is he. Heading to a trending episode. That's right. Bring the sinister energy that you always bring. The sinister six.

Yes, yes. All right. Here are some of the things that are trending. We got R. Kelly trending since the 30 years. I don't know where that falls in the range of what people were expecting. Yeah, I was looking it up it was kind of hard to tell that's good that that person will be gone for 30 years anytime someone is punished by the u.s justice system for harming women especially black women feels like a

small victory because our system repeatedly fails them so summer games done quick yes sir yes sir which i i had to explain to you but why don't you uh why don't you tell the people what i explained to you before we started recording and correct me if i get anything wrong because okay it was super complicated you did it uh games done quick is an organization that does a twice yearly charity event which is a week-long live stream of video game speed runs so for some of you you, you go, oh, nice. And some of you are like, don't know half those words. And I'm like, for sure. Video game speed runs are basically the act of beating a video game as fast as possible, whether it be just by being very good at it or using exploits, using little glitches in the game, anything to beat it a little bit faster.

And a week-long Twitch stream is basically literally 24 hours a day for seven days. People will be live streaming their speedruns. And this is actually the first Summer Games Done Quick happening in person since the pandemic. And so it's really nice to have the crowd there again to interact with the streamers as they are explaining what they're doing during their speedruns. And the whole reason for the season is donating to Doctors Without Borders. And so far, this event started on Sunday. So far, they've raised $662,000 at time of recording. And over the entire lifespan of Summer Game Stone Quick,

they have raised upwards of $36 million. So as a speedrunning event, as a video game event, but also as a charitable thing, it is a huge success and is a very warm, fun, inclusive event. And I always love to turn it on when it happens twice during the year and just have speedruns running in the background like I do right now. Just ambient speedruns. Just ambient nerds talking about their favorite things. What is your favorite game to watch people do a speed run in?

What a fantastic question. My favorite video game to watch people speed run is probably a game called GeoGuessr. And GeoGuessr is a game where you are plopped down in the Google Street View of a random place in the world, and on the right side, you're given a map. And you have to pinpoint on the map exactly where you are simply by walking around the area you're in Google Maps style. There's no names, there's

no titles, there's whatever. You just walk around an area and you're like, hmm, okay, where the hell am I? And the people who are good at GeoGuessr exhibit a level of knowledge about the world that is so mind-blowing to me. The kinds of things like where the sun is, what the shadows look like, what the road signs look like, what kind of trees there are, what the mountain ranges look like. People just take a look around and they go, okay, I'm in this part of the world, and then narrow it down so specifically, it is mind-blowing. So I highly recommend if you get a chance to watch a GeoGuessr speedrun from GameStone Quick. They're amazing. This definitely feels to me like it is being funded secretly by the CIA. get a chance to watch a geo guesser speed run from gamestone quick they're amazing this definitely

feels to me like it is uh being funded secretly by the cia and they're just like all the people who are really good at this are actually just like yep nailing some cia intel or like maybe yeah somebody that they just saw on the street oh yeah exactly we find this find this one person that's like hey where where do we happen to be at this intersection right here on what day? At 10 a.m. It's like, oh, right, yeah. No, that's a... So is it a live look-in?

Okay, got it. They're just like, you are here at 10 a.m. trying to figure out where you are? It's literally just Google Street View. It's just like they start to get to know the conditions of that area so much better that it's like, oh, I've seen this place before and the sun is like it's like the shadows are pointing a certain way or like the trees are at a certain condition or the hills are a certain way that it's like basically what i'm saying is instead of just being like i know that street name or like oh we're

in x town and i recognize that you know truck stop or. It's like looking at the natural world and being like, oh, I know what part of the world we're in because of these minute details. Yeah, like I have an encyclopedic knowledge of truck stops from my days as a fan of speed. But it's interesting. People can do that using other things. All right, Radio Shack, another great place to score speed. So Radio Shack, it's going viral because their Twitter handle at Radio Shack.

So it's not like a funny Twitter handle that changed its name or whatever. It is at Radio Shack. name or whatever like it's official it is at radio shack and they are uh saying some wild shit right now on twitter and it's you know it it's interesting it like on the one hand feels like oh they've been hacked right on the other hand um i was like but is this just because radio shack no longer exists and so it's like the equivalent of one of those rogue nuclear weapons like after the fall of the soviet union in like 90s action movies where they would be like the world is now full of loose nukes like you know did somebody just buy this you know there's definitely a hint. Did somebody just buy this? There's definitely a hint of maybe somebody just bought this as RadioShack was selling

off assets. I know when they were closing down the stores, there was not enough left. There was not a lot of stuff left that they could sell and get rid of. Maybe the handle was one of them.

Right, because it seems like what has happened is there are still Radio Shacks in existence. You may cross paths with the Radio Shack in the wild. However, they are not in corporate. They're not all one nation of Radio Shacks under Radio Shack corporate conglomerate. I think the corporate owner of Radio Shack under RadioShack corporate conglomerate. I think the corporate like owner of RadioShack

basically just cut them loose and they're like independently operated and they also apparently cut loose their Twitter handle and now the person who has it is saying stuff like any interaction with this tweet will be considered

for a chance to win catching these motherfucking radio hands. Perfect. Yeah. Taking the second half of an edible after feeling nothing from the first half is always a bad idea. This chocolate bar got me out here fighting for my life.

And then various things let less appropriate. But anyways, that's why I do wonder, will we be seeing iconic brands of the 80s coming back and, you know, selling their core social media handle to the highest bidding shit poster

for a day of glory? A sweet day of glory. Yeah. Get that stock price up sweet day of glory. Yeah. Get that stock price up for two more seconds. Yeah. 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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We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself, in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Stephen Breyer is trending.

He's one of the Supreme Court justices, one of the three on the liberal side of the dying Supreme Court. And we knew he was retiring. I don't know. This is like a story that hit the phones of people I know who are like, oh my God, a Supreme Court justice is retiring? What does that mean? And yeah, so we knew he was retiring,

and we already have his replacement ready. It's just like he said, I am now retiring in the next 24 hours, essentially. Like now that Supreme Court on Thursday at noon. My work here is done. Taking a half day on the last day. Yes, this is the person who Ketanji Brown Jackson is replacing and

Stephen Breyer did the thing that we wish Ruth Bader Ginsburg had done during the Obama administration. Maybe so. He retired because he was getting up there. After years of being like i don't see any like ideological difference between like the conservatives and the liberals like that was literally how he was playing it for a while so as people were like bro um but but so for a while he

was like we're all just calling balls and strikes out here, and I don't need to retire because there's no difference than me and a conservative justice. And then sometime last year, he was like, oh, shit. Oh, oh, oh. Turns out things bad on that side of the court. And so, yeah, he retired. We have another better justice coming in. So shout out to Stephen Breyer for doing the right thing.

And there's a big fight in baseball. Not usually the sort of thing that we talk about on here. I haven't even really seen the fight part. Yeah. But Daniel, you showed me, you turned me on to Jomboi. Yes. J-O-M-B-O-I, which i feel like this is a little bit like me being like you turned me on to tiktok uh it's a john boy seems to have a a large following but hey sometimes people don't know about this stuff but yeah basically um he does breakdowns of sports videos so we watched a little bit of the lead up to the Angels Mariners fight.

And as you rightly pointed out, the key to these videos is the lip reading. Yes. Because I've always had the question since I was very young, watching baseball managers charge out and argue with umpires. What are they saying? Because they keep yelling and saying things very emphatically, but I can't imagine anything they're saying makes any sense.

And so he does like an accurate reading of like what this baseball manager for the Angels is saying to the baseball manager or i guess a player who pitched to inside to mike trout and it turns out uh the answer to what our baseball manager saying is not much not much no they're saying they're saying a lot of words um but it's kind of funny uh his reading is like hey this stuff up here with the throwing here, that's bullshit. That's bullshit. And you know it. That's bullshit. You know it. Truly saying it in

the least concise way possible. Instead of saying don't throw at his head. It was five sentences to accomplish that same sentiment, which is I've always suspected it is a special skill of the baseball manager to say the least with most amount of words. Um,

and that, that, that tradition seems to be alive and shout out to John boy. It looks like I've got some YouTube in ahead of me. Lots of really good YouTube and for, for, for John boy. But also,

you know, I think one thing that John boy does very well is contextualize. Because, you know, you could see a fight like this, and if you had not watched the entire series or had seen nine days earlier the Angels throw a pitch at the Mariners, it would all feel like a little bit curious. It'd be like, why is this happening? Or it'd be easy to blame one side or the other. But, you know, real grudge kind of stuff here.

Lots of holding on to this for several days at a time and being like, okay, well, next time we play you in two weeks, we're going to fuck you up. And it's just, without that context, it can feel a little bit more like, what's going on here? Why are they so mad? And it's like, oh, wow, they're really baby about it holding these grudges yeah baseball baseball seems chippier this season um and i don't watch enough baseball to know if that's because like the media is just

covering it more but it seems like there are more fights more disagreement um which i think generally professional athletes being more online, more is demanded of them. It's a harder life to live now than it was before the advent of social media. And so I think we see NBA players being just generally like less happy. And I would argue rightfully so with just the amount of public interaction that they have to deal with but baseball seems to have uh channeled it in a very baseball way which is uh saying hey man not cool up here that's bullshit we don't forget that shit man very viscerally not in the not uh not here what? And just like fight each other in dumb

ways. Okay. Baymax is trending. I have seen a movie called Big Hero 6. Yes. It is a good animated film. I did not know it was a series now.

An original series on Disney Plus baby. And there's a episode that is making the rounds because the big hero in question, the inflatable robot, buys tampons? Is that? Indeed it is. Yeah, a big hubbub. And I mean, you know,

it's one of those things that wouldn't matter if someone didn't get angry about it for absolutely no reason. But, you know, longtime Twitter idiot Christopher Ruffo decided to have a shit fit because they're talking about pads and one person happens to be wearing a trans flag on their shirt. Which, you know what? What message could you possibly be sending to the children? Right. But yeah, it's just a scene of Baymax buying tampons.

The scene is actually really funny and it's very cute, but alas, someone had to get mad about it and now it's trending. And hopefully, I can only hope that this is great advertising

for Baymax because while I wasn't aware that the show was out, I certainly am now and I want to go watch it. It looks fun. It has nothing to do with Baywatch.

No, no, no. Yeah. Did I say Baywatch? No, no, no, no. Yeah. And I say Baywatch. No, no, no, no. It's just another TV show with Bay in it. I totally would have believed myself having a Baywatch Freudian slip out my mouth. Yeah. No, it's just that I'm an idiot. It's the moral of that question.

We've talked about this. None of that talk. talked about this none of that talk uh the big like thing in big hero six uh is that the robot is an inflatable lovely soft kind of harmless friendly thing and i i've been hearing some takes lately from people who are like the whole fear of ai is actually just sublimated toxic masculinity and fears by white men of being toppled, having the order of things toppled, which really made sense to me. When you think about the fact that the first robot movies

were made in the 80s when it was still, you know, just only white men were allowed to write and make movies. And like their take was like robots are dangerous. They're our servants, but we have to keep them down or else they'll kill us. And now I do like the I find myself vibing more with, with movies where it's like, why would they be mean? Look, they're nice. It's a very specific,

it's the same, my same thing with aliens and you know, the idea that aliens want to kill us. Like, well, they've been here for now, like close to a hundred years, it would appear.

And they, it seems like maybe this idea that like, well, if you don't know what something is, you must kill it and conquer it is a very particular problem of white men. And it's like an outlier that it's not like the inevitable way things are. It's just for a while there, that was the dominant point of view because it makes rich people continue to make a lot of money. As I've said in the past,

I subscribe to the Star Trek theory that those aliens are just waiting for us to be smart enough to get ourselves off the rock and then they're going to bring the walls down, the curtain's going to open, and they'll go, congratulations, you did it. Kill your civilization before you made it into space

and now we've got to tell you a lot of extra stuff so put your pants on that'd be nice that would be nice i would appreciate that a lot interesting to see how those aliens are uh watching right now and like oh who we were really rooting for you guys but it seems like you kind of fucked this thing up. And finally, we just have a little piece of audio from our good friend Whoopi Goldberg introducing sister podcast Las Culturistas. Las what? They appeared on The View in the Bahamas. You probably know Bo and Yang from a little show called SNL

and his best friend Matt Rogers from the Showtime series I love that for you they're also the duo behind hit podcast Las Culturistas Las Culturistas well I was hoping you would say it Las Culturistas

Las Culturistas Gracias Gracias thanks puppy Gracias. Good. Thanks, Whoopi. Wow. Wow. And then they nail their kind of intro.

It cuts away to them and they're just having drinks casually backstage. Just enjoying themselves. And they're very gracious and don't yell at Whoopi for mispronouncing the name, which is gracious of them. They're pros. Bowen Yang says, think about all the words you have pronounced correctly. Which I thought was a nice

point of view. What a good save. That's really funny. Alright, well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. 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. We will talk to y'all tomorrow. All right. 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 four 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.