The Daily Zeitgeist - New Mexico: The Land of Enchantrend 11/30: Rihanna, Christmas Movies, Mark Meadows, Santa, Parag Agrawal, Amazon

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

Rihanna being made a national hero in Barbados, the top 10 Christmas movies, Mark Meadows agreeing to co-operate with the Jan. 6th investigation, the Santa shortage, the new 'Jack Dorsey' Parag Agrawal, and Amazon's union woes. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese

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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. 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 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 Mori 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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of new mexico the land of entrenchment nope enchantment that's better nope nope much better whatever you want much i got that one wrong and it requires scientific precision that is courtesy of johnny davis the short show title God. Lord of the short show.

Yeah. Well, I am Jack, you are Miles. That is yet another in the series of short show titles that are based on license plates. That's pretty I kind of like New Mexico, having that sort of energy. Land of Enchantment.

I love it. Yeah, good for them. It is enchanted. Someone invited me to be the officiant at their wedding in New Mexico in like two years. In two years? Damn. Yeah. Someone was like, hey, you want to come out to New Mexico to do a wedding real quick? I was like, tell me what the food is.

Yeah. Yeah. If you're listening, can I bring Jack and Anna and Justin? Please. And Chris Proctor. All right, well, I am Jack. You are Miles. Yes, I know. And here are some things that are trending.

Okay. Rihanna is trending because the Republic of Barbados announced that she is the new national hero. She is officially a national hero. The Republic of Barbados has dropped one queen and gained a much better one. There it is. Is how a newsperson

would say that. No longer the head of state. Queen Elizabeth, not the head of state anymore. they got their own president they even saluted the flag one last time they said take that fucking colonizer shit down putting up our own shit now

but yeah is the new flag designed or like have anything to do with Rihanna any album covers Fenty X Puma is the designer of the flag really dope though really dope uh but yeah it's just wild especially when you think of barbados is like entire history with the trans atlantic slave trade and the british empire's role and all of that and prince charles like in

his like speech at the center like hey man slaver was pretty fucked up y'all that's on us sorry but hey it's not often you'll hear people say that out loud when they're a world leader uh cnn entertainment has uh i'm just gonna read a couple quotes from their report on this rihanna's homeland wants her to continue to shine bright like a diamond oh fuck off um but then the prime minister also in their speech said, on behalf of a grateful nation, but an even prouder people, we therefore present to you the designee for national hero of Barbados. And then may you continue to shine like a diamond

and bring honor to your nation by your works, by your actions, and to do credit wherever you shall go, acting as our umbrella, Ella. Ella. Now, come on, rude boy. Can you get it hard enough? Anyways, they're trading up in many ways. Yeah.

I mean, look, Queen Elizabeth, i mean nobody's heard from her i feel like it's only only only drama headlines these days coming out of there is uh she dead no queen elizabeth no i know not officially but it would be full of crab memes and crab emojis if if uh queen elizabeth went down right i just feel like but she had like a few like health scares too and then like i feel like everything's like she's against her doctor's orders going off wheel like off-roading in her land rover oh okay so she's back out in the public eye because she had a couple health scares and then wasn't seen for a while and people uh suspected that they were gonna try and like weekend at bernie's her for a couple months until

whatever they had all the press and ceremony in alignment but you know just waiting for the right news day yeah um i guess so all right uh top 10 christmas movies uh I'll tell you the one way to ensure that you get talked about is put out a definitive list that makes no fucking sense whatsoever. And that is what let's see. This is the Bend, Oregon Film Alliance. Bend, Oregon, famous for being, Oregon. Famous for being the location of the last blockbuster. I think. Wasn't that them?

Oh, yeah. Wait, but why is it being put out by Barstool? Barstool just made the... Oh, they just did a graphic. A knockout collab between Barstool and the Alliance for Bend, Oregon Film Alliance. What the what is this

uh so their top 10 christmas movies of all time number one wonderful life uh all right we'll go 10 to 1 uh so bad santa at number 10 uh it belongs in the top 10 probably not that low number nine home alone 2 yep okay belongs in the top ten i'm satisfied those are my two movies i literally talked about yesterday uh number eight miracle on 34th street um number seven a christmas story number six drum roll please home alone three what home alone three is a better christmas movie than home alone 2 first of all no better than a christmas story uh better than miracle on 34th street i mean i don't really care about miracle on 34th street yeah i don't either but it seems to be a but not home alone 2 or bad santa fuck no uh number five elf which i would agree belongs in the top, you know, five, four.

Not better than Home Alone 3, obviously, but still a pretty good one. Number four, Christmas Vacation. You know, how can you vote against the charm of Chevy Chase? Yeah. Number three. Hold on to your butts one more time for me. Okay. Fred Claus. The fucking Vince Vaughn movie.

Yes. Fred Claus. Number three, uh, on the, on the list beating, uh, national Christmas vacation and elf. Um, look what they did to us. Look how they massacred my list. What a fucking Travis. Uh, and then number two, home alone. Number one, it's wonderful life uh you know high for home alone

probably but um yeah like but it it does seem like they just did a very straightforward list of the top 10 christmas movies and we're like wait we gotta we gotta put so we gotta fuck with people's shit in here so so let's drop that home alone three at number six and fred claus at number three oh that should be i think we should dabble in that like and start putting out our own just inflammatory meme lists because this guy used to work with that playboy he does that a lot with those like fake maps that you see yeah yeah and it's like he's just found a niche of just like upsetting people with his fake demographic research. Yeah. No, that's I mean, it's the easiest thing in the world to do.

The smart thing they did here is do a 80 percent pretty straightforward list. That it feels. Yeah. And then so it feels like, oh, OK. OK, what? What the fuck? Yeah. But hold on they put dances with wolves in the forest can't forget titanic snow yeah hey it came out during christmas time okay so deal with it all

right well speaking of home alone too uh donald Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has agreed to cooperate with the House panel investigation into the January 6th Capitol riot, which, of course, means that he'll probably just stonewall them or whatever. But it is, according to The New York Times, a stunning reversal for a crucial witness in the inquiry because they got to get excited about something over there at the New York Times yeah I mean

sure I mean it is something that he didn't go the he didn't go the you're going to have to put me under the jail type shit like Steve Bannon is currently on course to do that but I don't know yeah I'm curious I'm very curious to know what the

atmospheric forces around him are like like whether it's his family being like please don't just end this like don't put us through a trial and shit and trying to be a lightning rod for the political discourse

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And we're back. Santas are trending because we got a Santa's shortage. Yep. It's not just the supply chain, folks. Everything is conspiring to make this the worst Christmas ever. Exactly. You're looking at the stats right now, and you're crying because Christmas is going to be ruined. When I say they, I mean HireSanta.com is telling us that the number of available Santas for hire is down 10 while the demand for santas is up 121 what are we going to do damn i mean it's still still seems like santas were probably very much over uh supplied last year

like this seems like if you if you actually look at the numbers there was probably very little demand for santa's last year mid-pandemic since no stores were open and then so yeah of course demand for santa's would be up by uh you know at least double uh maybe i'm a little surprised it's not more than that and then the number of Santas available for hire being down 10% seems like a small number when you think about the number of Santas normally available this is stupid

fuck Fox News but also fuck Santa you heard it right here he shit he didn't get me man that duped me once that's all it took it's all fortunately uh the daily zeitgeist is the one place uh that santa draws the line in terms of watching and listening uh yeah it's the one thing he doesn't listen to like sorry guys can't do it not a fan

it's too far left for him ever since they got woke can't handle it anymore could you imagine though like it sounds like a movie too where like in a pandemic like elderly men who play santa like are at it like a you're like a rare you know kind of character actor and then like they sit and all like have all these sick children sit in their laps and then like we lose and then we lose all of our santas yeah like could you imagine what that would do they're all catching covet yeah like that would be wild not to say i'm interested in that but like if that would alter santa culture and then like no man remember the christmas of 22 yeah i mean it's hard to i i remember when i was younger so now there's this late this more recent trend of people whose life's goal it is to play santa like they're they they view it as a calling and they are old jolly rotund men with big white beards and i used to get santas i used to sit on the lap of santas that were clearly 30 something

uh you know people with drinking problems uh right who you know had did not have white hair uh their their masks were not sticking to their face because they had the sweat and i yeah you know the kids these days don't know how good they have a mild yeah so what you're describing sounds like bad santa i think that's what i was i i do get most of my memories from uh but then you know they were kind of a good guy even though they were a little complicated like i was getting bullied at school at the time and santa stuck up for me and kind of made sure i got home safe and i was living with my grandma at the time and she was kind of as always said i have trouble distinguishing uh my memories and billy bob thornton movies so i have right i remember when you you said the whole uh plot of that movie

bandits as if it were something that happened in college and I was like, bro, this is amazing. And then I have this shitbag brother who, uh, always trying to rob banks. Also Sling Blade. Just doing all the hits. Mm-hmm. Like, you know, did he ask you for French fried potatoes right now? Potatoes, yeah. Yeah. French fried potatoes.

french fried potatoes right now potatoes yeah french fried potatoes parag agrawal uh who is the new jack dorsey and whose name i will eventually uh presumably pronounce correctly um is has drawn the ire of conservatives um because uh he once tweeted uh and i quote if they're not going to make a distinction between Muslims or extremists then why should I distinguish between white people and racists and people are outraged there

and then the sort of mainstream take seems to be okay guys he was quoting a satirical show called the daily show okay and that was just a quote. But, like, I don't understand how that's a controversial statement. Yeah, no, that's the same, very, very similar comparisons there. What the fuck is...

Yeah. If anyone who's Muslim is an extremist, but then you have a problem with even saying that like that white people who are racist do do everything in your power to not describe it as racist yeah okay parag at parag a i feel bad that he couldn't even get his first name without the last initial as a handle as the fucking cto of twitter yeah or now ceo but he was probably he was clearly a ringer who they brought in uh he wasn't like got late there on board yeah got there late because um but yeah this is this is classic uh you know uh conservative and just generally white people uh in modern america where they think being called racist

is worse than anything that they could call someone who's accusing them of racism. Like, I think that's... That's worse than being a terrorist. Yeah, that's worse than being called a terrorist, right? Just being called racist. Or, okay, we'll make a distinction between white people and white extremists.

Mm-hmm. I don't know. Whichever way you need to go with that, please do. But I guess, again, even like we'll talk about in tomorrow's show, there's just an inability to just be like, yeah, there's racism that's rampant. It's a problem. Chances are you know many people or some people that are racist,

and yet we're here to say everything's fine and dandy yeah okay okay uh and amazon is trending uh because of the great deals uh that were happening yesterday now uh they're they're trending because so we had covered the union boat people were People were hopeful because a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, had a union vote coming up and the conditions were shitty there. And it was just like a blatant example of like, this is a place where unionization could really help all of the people who are voting on this. And then it went down by a two to one margin. It was like a, a wipe out, uh, and you know, of people voting, uh, no on unionization. Um, and then like the reporting started to come through, uh, you know, saying that they would make people like spend long hours at like anti-union uh education you know sessions and then like would watch them

as they filled out like the vote and you had to vote on the amazon campus and you know people got the sense okay i would get fired if i voted against amazon's wishes and like over the ballot you're about to take yes or no and they're like yeah you're about to put the penny and you're like oh and you move it back to the no and they're like yeah good good good good uh and anyways uh a local judge has ruled that, yeah, this is bullshit, and they need to redo the election. All right. Because all that shit is illegal, what Amazon was doing. Will that stop them from meddling in this next one?

Only time will tell. Well, funny you should ask, because Amazon and the RWDSU, which is the union, have already restarted their campaigns in anticipation of a second election the company has forced thousands of employees to attend meetings about unions and posted signs critical of unions in bathrooms so okay you know that they're gonna make you pay dues right right you'll have to pay dues that's like an it's another bill never mind that through collective bargaining you'll have

a way better outcomes but the fee the dues that's why there are all these fat cat union heads who are billionaires that you always hear about uh yeah just uh take it off in their private jets pay paydays yeah and not uh fat cat Amazon CEOs who are inventing new forms of space travel and saying that you your work directly paid for that yeah

new forms of slavery too innovators some of the best to ever do predatory capitalism. Um, all right. Well, those are the things that are trending, uh, on this Tuesday. Uh, the last day of November, our last recording of November, this is the last you will hear

from me, uh, with a mustache looming over my mouth. Uh, it's been a pleasure hosting this show with this mustache but i'm um it's it's going to be behind us the next time you hear uh hey we're a good cause man men's health that's right prostate cancer that shit is fucking whack uh all right well those are the things that are trending on this tuesday 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. We will talk to you all tomorrow. 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. 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.

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.