The Daily Zeitgeist - NFTrump, Moviepass Wants Your Eyeballs 2.22.22

Episode Date: February 22, 2022

In episode 1089, Miles and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by comedian and host of The Bitchuation Room, Francesca Fiorentini, to discuss Kim Potter sentenced to 2 YEARS?, The Trump grift continues…NFT EDITION, Moviepass is Going Full Black Mirror and more! Kim Potter sentenced to 2 YEARS? The Trump grift continues…NFT EDITION Moviepass is Going Full Black Mirror MoviePass Is Coming Back, Let Chaos Reign The cofounder of MoviePass recounts what led to his firing from the company he'd built from the ground up LISTEN: Les Fleur by Minnie Riperton 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.

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let's see my name is miles gray that's right aka i'm a husband her majesty's my bride i wanted I wanted, wanted to call her my wife. Okay, shout out to The Brew on the Discord for that Dead or Alive by Yamba Yobi. Shout out to Yamba Yobi, obviously. And I'm thrilled to be joined by my guest co-host today. Fantastic comedian, improviser, actor, voice actor, producer. I could just name anything and he does it. And he does it fucking well. Chicago's

very own. Jacky Sneal, welcome! You'll never find as long as you live someone who loves you like Jacky's do. i said you'll never find someone who cares about you like the deadly zeitgeist it's what we do oh what up negroes oh my goodness he's back he's oh we back oh third time it must be black history

month y'all they got me here third time in a month we got miles thank you so much miles for having me oh anytime we've always good to have you always good to see you we kicked jack out we was like get on out of here man last week of february we need to get the we need to get the brown folks take a break take a break folks in here today. Take a break. Take a break real quick. Take a break. Take a break. That's what I do when he comes back.

Every time I'm going to be like, Jack, you really didn't make space for a black co-host this week? You're like, oh, okay. That's the look. That's the energy you made last week? That's the energy you made? All right, Jack. All right.

That's what you're trying to do, Jack? Oh, yeah. I think he was holding it down uh him while i was gone for so long you know yes like he's like why don't you why don't you take a break man why don't you finish that outside okay yeah yeah yeah yo congratulations motherfucking miles gray i don't know if we're talking about it not if we know we can cut it no i did that's why i started out with that i'm'm a husband. Yeah. Congratulations, my man. Appreciate it. Jumped the broom.

You did it. Jumped the broom onto the glasses. Had to combine many different traditions in the wedding. And I almost died during the horror. That's all right. Did y'all do the electric slide? The horror. No, but we did have a gigantic fucking dance off to back that ass up where a lot of elderly people joined.

The dance floor was a little bit small for electric slide and then i had a whole argument i was like i need to play outstanding by the gap band right now oh yeah and but you know it's one of those things when you when you're when you're like in charge of music you got to keep the energy up throwing on outstanding like at the as the energy is going up it it can go one of two ways and i couldn't take that gamble. So we doubled down and did Where the Party At by Jackie Ditch. Love it. Anyway.

We should bring our guest on. Thank you. See, Jaquese, this is why you're here to help me stay focused and on track. Today's guest. Sorry. Oh, I was almost at the guest. Please introduce the guest. Please.

Please let me. Will you please? Our guest today is an outstanding comedian, outstanding host, outstanding producer. Maybe you heard of her from her work on Newsbroke at AJ+. Maybe you know the Young Turks because you're like, wait, I know her from there. Maybe you know her from Red, White, and Who on MSNBC. Maybe you know her on The Bituation Room, one of my favorite podcasts and should be yours too. If you like this show, I mean, don't sleep on The Bituation Room because

our guest has fantastic comedians on, fantastic activists on, experts. It's everything this show isn't. I would call that, The Bituation Room, a first-rate podcast. But welcome to this second-rate podcast, the brilliantly talented, hilarious, and just overall wonderful human being, Francesca Fiorentini! Oh, hi! Thank you so much. Francesca Fiorentini, a.k.a. I'm going to be in Brooklyn on March 10th at the Bell House. If you guys want to come out and see me live, I'll be with Sam Cedar, Council Member Tiffany Caban and Matt Lieb, who's been a regular here. Also, MyBetrothed. So, obituationroom.com. I'm getting

the plugs in up top. Which is smart. You're using the AKAs for the right reasons. We have to do the same shit. You're like, AKA, come give me this money. Yeah like i need this aka i buy my health care on the marketplace yeah aka i have to cover the cost of my flight to new york please can i can i also just say can i also just say you know look i've been on daily psych guys more times

than i can count now as a guest and a host francesca was the first person that jumped on had the fire as background it was like what color you want what color you want to see in this and I can count now as a guest and a host. Francesca was the first person that jumped on, had the fire ass background and was like, what color you want? What color you want to see in this background? And she changed it up. It's looking right. So I'm just saying for any future,

for the Jamie Loftus's of the world, for all the guests of the world that's coming on the Daily Zeitgeist, get your background game up. Get your background game up because Francesca's shutting it down. The challenge has been issued. Damn. Yeah, Room Raiders

only gave me a seven because I had chord mismanagement in the back, so I'm really trying to, I'm trying to change that. Did you actually pop up on Room Raiders?

I did. I did, and it wasn't my chords. It was Matt Lieb's, like, PS5. Yes, he did get his hands on one. It was his stupid-ass chords,

so I was, I was very upset about that. Hey, what happened with the ring ring y'all sort that ring out oh we got a new ring yeah we got a new ring good we got a wedding date things are moving we never speak of the other ring again it's like uh what happened you lose it or somebody lost it oh it was a saga well it should be lost well i am again i am gonna drop it into the ocean like, you know, the old lady in Titanic. It looks like that. It's basically hard at the sea level. If anyone's grandma is looking for a nice piece, hit us up at FreddyFio.

I feel like it'd be a really good, like, 70th birthday gift for, or 80th or 90th, honestly. It might even be good to be buried in. Yeah. I don't know. This sounded like the ring was ugly you didn't like the you didn't like the ring is that what is that what's going on here the story okay part was i think it was like days after matt proposed he came on the show and he talked he said yo the proposal went well but the ring was such an l like i'm so embarrassed to talk about it and then then Francesca, I think, was the guest the next day or the day, like one day between. And so we got it from both sides. And you were just disheartened.

It's a long saga. But now I've got my, yes, sustainably mined white sapphire to avoid the diamond industrial complex. Yeah. Hey, man, I'm about to have a whole grill made out of lab-grown diamonds, you know? Yeah? Okay. I love hearing the take from the diamond industry being made out of lab-grown diamonds. Hell yeah. Okay. I love hearing the take from the diamond industry being like,

these lab-grown diamonds are not even that good. They're chemically the same fucking thing. You're just mad that they're not ripping them out of the earth like y'all do. Well, you know, I rip all my diamonds out the earth because I'm a real one. No, I'm joking. Just with your teeth? Just with my teeth, you you know not with my hands yeah when i'm looking for picking up loose mushrooms that grow in the park and try them out see if any of them get me even a little bit fucked up and of course by diamonds i'm talking about all my diamond albums i got you know my diamond certified albums

y'all you know what's dope is if you ever like edit a wikipedia page like if for your own just add random shit like you have the highest selling album of all time right jessica i think i'm gonna do that on your wikipedia page yo i can't edit my wikipedia page i don't think they let women do that oh okay yeah women are not allowed to edit their own wikipedia page that was canceled you're too hysterical. No, yeah, there's something about it where it's like, you're a public figure. You have no say over your public persona.

You can't verify. They're like, this is wildly inaccurate. Okay, then. But before we get into learning more about you, Francesca, let's talk a little bit about what we are going to talk about. I'm going to check in with Kim Potter, the cop who killed Dante Wright. The sentencing outcome has been released as of this recording,

and we are shocked that the empathy went completely in the wrong direction in this court case. Then we're going to talk about the Trump grift continuing, but now with NFTs, motherfuckers. If you thought they were lacking with their fucking scam game, well, here they are. Now they got NFTs you can buy and they're totally full of shit. And then we're going to talk about MoviePass. They're back and their ideas are creepier than ever. That's exactly what we like to see.

But before we talk about any of that, Francesca, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay. I was trying to do a bad tweet, meaning, like, it's just a bad—it's just—it wasn't a good, well-crafted tweet. I was trying to look up the top hunters and predators in the animal kingdom. Mm-hmm. But every time you, like, use an animal reference in a tweet, it's just born like, like a great white shark or like a,

a wolf. And it's always like a wolf in sheep's clothing. And then there's like crocodile. And then there's like Kimono dragon or one of those, which I didn't know. I think so. Kimono dragons. Yeah.

Kimono. Yeah. Not Kimono. Because they're like, bite is like ridiculous. Aren't there like. Not Komodo. Because their bite is ridiculous. Aren't their mouths so fucking dirty? Your wound will just necrotize upon bite or something like that. Komodo dragon.

That's crazy. They're fucking stacked. But the reason I was trying to do that is because Axios released a really terrible article that was like, the squad has, their politics have backfired. Oh, red alert, red alert emoji. The red alert. Oh, no. I saw that shit.

And you read the article and it's like, squad politics have backfired, according to top leading Democrats who hate the squad. Like, you can ask corporate Democrats about how the squad is doing. It is like asking a komodo dragon about how your neck is doing as it bleeds out i'm trying to make it work i'm trying to track this well i'm trying to track it with you right the komodo dragon i do they bite your neck no i did it's like it's like asking asking i wrote like elk strategy has failed according to wolves

i get it i get it i get it yeah they're out to get them anyway why the fuck are you gonna ask them how they're doing and again i get you so fucking lazy it's like wild how journalism is completely just full like fully gone into free fall where you're like you look at stuff you're like this you're you're asking cops about crime like you're taking cops words they're just as the gospel truth based on what they think about crime rates and things like that uh or you're asking the corporate democrat take on the wing of the party that's saying y'all not doing enough you're fucking up this is how we lose the midterms like oh god the hateration needs the wing of the party they're actively fundraising right now to tank straight up in the midterms they're funneling money into some new corporate pack that is going in deep blue

districts these are already secured districts against anyone who's primary incumbents. So it's clear if we lose in the midterms, the Democrats lose. It's not on progressives at all. It's on all the fucking focus being on progressives when the real enemy, you know, the real ones are the fascists. But anyway, that's how fascism thrives. Yeah, fascists on both sides of the aisle, too, you know. Indeed. Sooner people come to that realization.

Well, I don't know what will happen the sooner they come to that realization because at the end of the day, I mean, that sort of traditional party power is just so entrenched. It's hard to know how it evolves past it without real massive organization with just regular people.

But yeah, it is wild because it's the same tired-ass take of like, well, progressives are motherfucker. The most popular shit that it pulls through the roof with like both sides is progressive policies. But if you just take out the language or whatever, the spin on how you want to present it, you really have no one except yourself to play. So yeah.

Meanwhile, child poverty increases right now. It's like, oh, yeah, because the child tax credits weren't extended you dumb shits can actually thank biden for that one you know yeah how about that or joe mansion depending if you just want to say it's actually just it's just actually this one guy you can blame the democrats the ones who don't give a shit about anything but staying in office and making money yeah like. Anyway. And all these, and all they, they, they actually,

the Axios article talks to this guy, Josh Gottheimer, and I believe he's a Congress person. And he, he's not been in the news, meaning he's not a mansion cinema character, but he's mansion and cinema are people who are like running cover for people like Josh Gottheimer,

who does not want, let's say Medicare to be able to negotiate drug prices. Yeah, exactly. The most popular and most no brain. Conservatives are on board with that. Yeah. But and so Josh Gottheimer is to the right of a lot of conservatives, a lot of Republicans. Well, yeah, I mean, he's that that farm of money. Hey, man, wild what that money does to you.

Like, no, I'm I'm merely just a physical carbon presence in the halls of Congress that are just meant to keep the money flowing in a certain direction. Don't mind me. Would you like a cookie? Yeah. Oh yeah. But that mansion though, huh? You're like, dude, I'm looking at the roll call vote on you striking. Nevermind. Forget it. Yeah. Enough. Enough with that. Yeah. Well look, politics all the time, but that's how it is in this day and age. Francesca, what's something you think that is overrated? Did I word that correctly? What's something that's overrated?

Maybe you guys have spoken about this character, but Che Diaz on And Just Like That is overrated as hell i cannot even finish this most cursed reboot of sex in the city ever che diaz is a com a comedian supposedly they go by they them pronouns which is dope that's great i love all that i love that they're gay i love all those things i just don't like the fact that a boomer wrote this character like it was their weird west world creation of what they think a young person and a young queer person sounds and looks like and is like they're not funny there's nothing more offensive to comedians and maybe it's just comics who are getting upset about che diaz but then an unfunny comic yeah but like like you don't even have to include jokes and sad fact don't even film them doing jokes yeah yeah yeah just cut to everyone

laughs enough but like oh the jokes are so bad it was bad i watched i don't i mean i don't watch the reboot but everybody kept talking about it online so like i found the clip of the special uh in the reboot and i'm thinking like it's just gonna be like a couple minutes but they like made it seem like it was like this is what the special was and i was like there's no jokes in here yeah hey to all my people you like being alive? Hell yeah. I'm like, hey, that's not a joke. Y'all gay? Ah! Y'all gay? It really was. Hey, be yourself.

Exactly. It was a weird, I feel like it's like what Ben Shapiro thinks that like woke comedy is. And you're like, no, there are many non-binary and queer comics that are funny as hell. And how dare you do this to them and us like this is very bad when you watched it were you constantly praying for che to completely fuck over miranda like it every time i was like please be like pull up to the show and like there was somebody else like please break miranda's fucking just smash that shit into the ground i think it's so on brand for mir Miranda to fall in love with someone like Che.

Right. I just love, I think everyone, I think that I've seen the take, we can talk about this for a while, but I've seen the take of like, ah, Miranda's turned into a Karen. It's like, yeah, Miranda's kind of always been a Karen. They're all kind of Karens. And it's way funnier to have someone who's out of touch and like leaving their husbands at the age of whatever, 55, 60 for no good reason.

I still can't finish it because I just think it's, it is again the most cursed reboot. Justice for Steve, justice for Samantha. And I'm not going to finish this until Che gets better jokes. Damn.

Which the season is written, so you're not going to finish it. And it's done. I watched it all. It was like, and I'm like, maybe it'll be, so you're not gonna finish it. And it's done. I watched it all. I was like, maybe it'll be nah, nah, trash to them. First of all, I feel sorry for the performer playing

Che Diaz, because they are going through, they were like, motherfucker, I just read a script. Leave me alone. Exactly. Sarah Ramirez, I think their name is. Sarah Ramirez. Yes, yes, yes sarah's like i just did a job i like i i couldn't make my own jokes yeah but also i saw like a clip of uh i don't know the character the character miranda is the woman who was like into che diaz right

okay i saw a clip or a clip or a meme or something where Miranda was like, I DM'd you like three months ago. Why didn't you hit me back? And Shea Diaz was like, I smoke a lot of weed. I couldn't hit you. I was like, what the fuck does that mean? No, Shea said, I do a lot of weed. Oh, I do a lot of weed. Siren emoji.

Cop alert. Can I have one weed, please? Shea Diaz is a psyop, bro. Let's Siren emoji. Cop alert. Right. Can I have one weed, please? J.D. is a psyop, bro. Let's just get it out. We already know what J.D. is out here trying to do. Yeah, that's a very, I mean, yeah, look, I could get into this all day, but they've really fucked up not having Samantha on there, too. And that's like, it is what it is.

Let's move on to underrated. Francesca, what's something you think is underrated? I mean, this thing keeps on coming back with a vengeance you know it is resilient as hell i think the status quo is just really just stunting on all of us and uh really out here underrated like we just we forget like oh yeah, remember how things don't change? So every week, every day, I'm kind of like, yeah, that fucking status quo still getting the better of us. And, uh, I'm also like generally mad that like people and progressives in the left,

like I wish we should be like, after you see the Canadian truckers, you're like, man, why aren't we doing that shit? Right. You know, it's like the, it's like the 5% of me on the january 6th that was like we should have done that right yeah we would we would have all died obviously because we're not yeah we got murked but yeah but yeah the concept is i mean listen do what you gotta do but instead of the target we should have been fucking blowing up the capital too and shit to, like, get our way. I know that's bad to say, but, like, the concept.

Nonviolently, militant nonviolence. Nonviolently, nonviolently, yeah. Blowing up with our ideas. Exactly. With our vibes. An empty Capitol, too. Nobody in there or anything like that. Just, you know, blowing up with our words.

Bringing you down brick by brick. Dismantling you. We go mosh, as Eminem once said. As everyone who ran into the Capitol to then vote. We go egg it. We just go egg it. Yeah. Status quo is something.

Underrated. This is always the hardest one for me. It's gravity. You know what I mean? How do you upend gravity without getting everybody on Earth to jump at the same time? I believe that's the one way we can make shit happen, you know, and throw Earth off its axis. If everyone on Earth jumps up and down. I think that'd be fun as hell.

Yeah. But yeah, it is like really disheartening because there are always these moments where you're like, oh, you know what? Potential sea change. And nah, you only just saw some change for about six months yeah and then right back to it and whether it's you know equality racial injustice fucking misogyny whatever like there's always just that little bit but then for whatever reason it's too difficult for the masses to fully cross over like the 2020 whites are gone you know yeah where are my guilt followers at yeah they're motherfuckers gone they left they you know yeah where are my guilt followers at yeah

they're motherfuckers gone they left they you know so and it's just right back to normal which is what we say all the fucking time it was like all right y'all putting your black squares up now and posting y'all posting a little bit longer this time y'all had stories we shouldn't have about the black squares you know what i mean It's like maybe that was support that. It's on us. It's on us. We should be like, black squares don't take down so much. But it is.

You go back and look at videos from 2020, and it is incredible how little's been done. And I know we're going to talk about it with the Kim Potter and Daunte Wright case. But it's incredible how little's been done on criminal justice reform police reform anything not even we don't even have a database still don't have a database of police shootings yeah no and that's just insane to me the most popular meanwhile we're still here out here fucking discussing whether defund the police hurt the democrats biden won motherfuckers what are you talking about why are we mad about this? Heidi Heitkamp didn't get reelected.

It's because of defund the police folks. Of course she didn't say defund the police. Yeah. And the sad part about all of that is, are we really surprised? No, not at all. I'm not surprised. I think the hard part, part right is you want to have

enough optimism in your heart to not go fully black chilled and just be like man fuck everything like why am i even trying because it everything has to move you know like you we have to be able to keep our heads in the game at some level but yeah i think like everything i'm always like well i'm optimistic to a point i yes part of me is like you know you're just like i expect the pendulum to swing right back into place like it always does but you know i think potentially yeah if we reach a you know tipping point of enough like-minded people maybe you see something happen but i don't i don't know how close we are to that because people are just way too distracted by just trying to survive. Yeah, 100%.

That was the thing that we slightly benefited from in the summer of 2020 is that the grind of capitalism, it slowed for a second for people to be like, what the fuck is going on out here? That's a really interesting point because, yeah, exactly. There was a little bit of there was unemployment extension and benefits to folks like, you know, comics who don't have full time work. Yeah, there was. Yeah, that child tax credit. There was a little bit of moment of the boot coming off the neck and a little room there. What's funny is that no one's claiming no politician claims that mantelpiece. I mean, except for like Cori Bush. Right. Representative Cori Bush. claims that mantle piece. I mean, except for like Cori Bush, right? Representative Cori Bush. But no one else really claims the mantle of like, yeah, the streets, you know, I support the streets. I support the BLM movement. I support the defund the police movement. There's very, very, very,

very few. Imagine seeing all that energy and just letting that shit go to waste. And it reveals who really has the power in this country. And yet when it comes time to vote again everyone's going to be asking for black americans vote specifically and and young people's vote and then blaming them when shit doesn't go yeah in the democrats direction like well it's these young people don't vote motherfucking do something yeah to help them do something and they will that's the the shit the meme i hate the most from like like big d lib fucking loser people who are like, oh, man, like, you know, leftists like ruining the country when they don't vote for Biden because he didn't forgive student loans. Yeah, it's like if he forgave student loans, I guarantee you the Democrats will win for like the next 10 years thank you like i guarantee you easiest win it's the easiest shit legislatively could sit and do nothing for the next three years which is already sort of what he's aiming to do all you got to do is abolish student loans everyone under 35

will love you forever forever the memes the memes think of the memes, Joe Biden. It'll be great. Oh, my God. We will do so many memes for you, Joe. We'll put you in all different kinds of aviator glasses. They're going to move. We get laser eyes. Hella laser eyes. Oh, yeah.

We'll do the laser-eyed hotep meme to Biden. You know what I mean? Everything. Biden, you'll be the first black president if you do that. We'll replace Clinton and Obama and be like, you remember when Biden was the first black president? Yeah. And it is wild. I think it's a really disingenuous critique. Right. For people who want to just say, well, it's really selfish that you would even articulate an opposition to voting for Democrats when the alternative is fascism. as fascism. I'm sorry. A lot of people are already living some version of a fascist hellscape or oppressive hellscape, whether or not Joe Biden is in office. And I think without understanding

what it means to what inaction means, it's just as violent for people. Yes. And I think and not really looking at that piece and saying, you know what? Failure to addressing these problems is is we're moving in the same direction. It's just like, how slow do you want to creep towards fascism? Do you want to do the slow motion version where you do nothing and just kind of watch the whole thing rot? Or Republicans who just want to put that shit to fast forward? We're still not seeing real material outcomes for working people, for poor people, for oppressed people. And that's really the whole road. Yeah. Did you not learn your 2016 lesson at all? No, not at all. I mean, it's difficult because I keep on saying this, like Joe Biden was a wet blanket, literal wet blanket to put

out the fire of Trump. And we fucking needed a wet blanket. But now we're stuck with a wet blanket. And we're like, oh, man, it's freezing freezing. You're like, this wet blanket makes me colder. Now we need a weighted blanket now. Yeah, exactly. But I think that's why. A 30 pound weighted blanket. I, you know, I hope to say, I mean, I think I saw one piece this week talking about Joe Biden needing a primary challenger. One piece.

And that was like a very, you know, it was an op-ed or whatever. But that needs to be serious. Remember, he said, I'm just a bridge. I a bridge okay well bridge your ass on out of here really i mean but again this is your ass to kamala harris but we all know we all know after in 2028 we don't all know but it's likely that in 2028 aoc is probably gonna or she's gonna be called to run i mean you don't know i feel like she's on the obama track like in 04 she had a but she had a quote recently she's like i'd rather be out of this shit man i'd rather be in the streets like this i hope so every time every time some i mean every time some new article like the one

we're talking about with axios comes out aoc is like i will go homestead bitches like i will go live off the land and you all can fucking fight pen for yourselves like she's like this close to just putting on a bonnet and having like a million babies and never looking back and we're like no we actually need you i don't think she would ever do that but she yeah threatens it what's funny is because of this too like the democrats are seeding more like like sort of this populist fertile ground to energize voters leaving that to the conservatives now because now they're sort of like hey man you can be anybody and like you can fuck you can fuck shit up on a school board or as a yeah as an electoral official or whatever. And they're really speaking this thing of like really trying to frame it as these people only care about the well-to-do. And it's, I mean, when you look at it, you're like, well, that kind of tracks if I'm not really looking closely. I'm like, yeah, maybe.

happens for fascist takeover. It is perfect when you don't get anything done. You've proven that you're useless. Then you make way for a demagogue to be like, only I can fix it. And that's when authoritarianism happens. And more and more people are on board with that because they're like, well, at least something's happening rather than absolutely nothing. But I also agree that I don't think that people would actually necessarily vote for a Republican. But it's just lack of turnout. You know, the vote is not obligatory in this country. And you just stay home. Yeah, exactly.

And like, why go out? Because the last 40 years they've been lying to me. OK, whatever. Fun. Anyway, Daily Zeitgeist for President. All right. We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back. Anyway, Daily Zeitgeist for precedent. All right, we'll take a quick break and 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.

Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk

Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Santer. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies.

Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. 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, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil.

I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically Black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained?

This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago

when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman.

The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Speaking of the status quo, Kim Potter, the cop who killed Daunte Wright because she claims that she was just shooting

an unarmed person with a taser rather than a full-blown gun she is in the news because her sentencing uh hearing uh occurred uh last week and a lot of people are saying what what's going to be the outcome you know charged with first and second degree manslaughter is it going to be 15 years like dante wright's family had hoped for is it going to be 15 years like Dante Wright's family had hoped for? Is it going to be the seven years that the prosecutors wanted who felt like, you know, based on her record, this feels about right, but based on the sentence or based on the crime, or would the legal system just find a way to access untold amounts of empathy

for the killer? It's the third one. She was sentenced to barely two years with time served along with a weak ass fine that like it sounds like something you would get for just like driving drunk too many times and you'd ever hurt anybody like it's like yeah man sorry you're on probation you're gonna have to spend 16 more months in jail and then you can go back to your two children who are still alive right and go on with your life the thing that was really i mean again speaking of you know how the legal system and and you know oppressive systems maintain themselves the the judge in this trial felt so terrible for this woman kim potter

again who is still alive their and their children are, you know, for all intents and purposes, her life is unchanged since this shooting. Again, this sentence was below state guidelines. And the judge, Regina Chu, said it was, quote, one of the saddest cases I've had on my 20 years on the bench. Oh, really? Was it because Daunte Wright was a young father and was maybe needlessly killed? Is that what it was?

And this goes on quote on the one hand a young man was killed and on the other a respected 26 year veteran police officer made a tragic error by pulling her handgun instead of her taser now listen listen to this on the one hand a young man that's it that's all you get there was killed that's all you get that that reductive a young man was killed but on the other hand you get a respected 26 year veteran police officer tragic error like you know you get all these like you know all these adjectives to describe this person who murdered somebody and who used the excuse i didn't know get the fuck out i i can tell the difference without looking between my roku remote and my fucking television remote you're a police officer yeah you can't tell the difference between your taser and your handgun get the fuck

out of get the fuck out of it and if that's the case you should be in jail for 10 years for being the worst 26 year veteran police officer in the fucking world who after 26 years in the heat of battle still can't tell the difference between your fucking handgun and a taser kiss my entire brown ass like get the fuck out

of here was she not actually the kind of like was she not training other police officers she was already in like maintaining your cool in these situations that's again look at where all the empathy is you've reduced this young man to a young man that's it nothing about 20 years old not not even 21 years old not about their their child that is going to be who's missing a parent now. But this other thing is now just and completely, again, the reduction of just saying that Daunte Wright is a young man and completely ignores the pile of black bodies that have been created by like law enforcement officers who just feel like they can do whatever the fuck they want to. That's not the issue here.

It's just a tragic case it's just it's also weird to me that the judge says it's one of the saddest cases i've had on my 20 years on the bench again another like veteran in the justice system or lack thereof and this is the saddest case and you gave this woman two years with 16 16 months essentially only served and then on parole is it sad because you're feeling more for this police officer than you are for the family and the man who and the children who no longer have a dad like what the fuck this is sad to you i'm sure you've seen and you've sentenced like far poorer people let's say to like condemn them to way longer life sentences or way longer sentences for non-violent drug offenses than you just did for a police officer who should have known better who just murdered a dude in cold blood yeah like i don't understand why she's sad about this because

because i mean it's sad to see that i have to punish someone who is an upholder of oppression i'm just so sad that i even have to do i'm sad i couldn't i couldn't just let her go right now that's exactly what it is i'm sad that i even had to do this much. Yeah, that's what it is. The only time people are sad for people who make tragic errors in their profession is with police officers. We pay them not to make these mistakes. Like, that's their job, not to make this mistake. Motherfuckers wasn't sad for the captain who rode the Titanic into the iceberg. Like, motherfuckers wasn't sad for, you know, pilots who crashed and shit. You're not sad for

you know them as a matter of fact people sued them people sued like the motherfuckers who like make tragic errors in their jobs because and like mistakes happen i get it i'm not like being that reductive or that dunce but like we pay professionals especially a 26 year professional yeah right to not make mistakes like this. Right. And, you know, the judge said that the lesser sentence they said, you know, is kind of above board. Let me tell you why. Quote, Potter was in the line of duty and doing her job and attempting to lawfully arrest Dante Wright when she mistook her gun for a taser. OK. And then said Potter was also trying to protect another officer who could have been dragged and seriously injured

if Wright drove away. OK, I don't I don't know about all that. I know he was shot in his chest and then died a few blocks away in his car. And how long did that black officer in Minnesota get sentenced for killing that white woman? And that was wasn't that a I think it was a much longer sentence. But again, this is where the judge says this is different. longer sentence but again this is where uh the judge says this is different quote this is not a cop found guilty of murder for using his knee to pin down a person for nine and a half minutes as he gasped for air this is not a cop found guilty of manslaughter for intentionally drawing

his firearm and shooting across his partner and killing an unarmed woman who approached his squad this is a cop who made a tragic mistake I can't honestly believe it. Potter's lawyer, her defense attorney, gestured to a box. Because if you saw any of the trial, Kim Potter went up there with those tears. Yeah. That you know, that shit is more potent than fucking uranium. White woman tears. You can move heaven and earth with that shit. Her attorney gestured to a box that was supposedly that contained supposedly,

he said, thousands of letters and postcards of support saying, quote, he has never seen anything like this in his life. What is that supposed to mean? If you get enough love letters from other racists that there's like a quota you can hit, they're like, OK, you got your thousand postcards and your white woman tears. OK, not guilty. Yeah, it's like the Valentine's can hit. They're like, okay, you got your thousand postcards and your white woman tears. Okay. Not guilty. Yeah. It's like the Valentine's Day box.

You know, you just decorate it real nice. And like, well, I mean, she, the racist had a nicer Valentine's Day box. So people wanted to put more Valentines in it. And the judge said the same thing. I received so many letters of support. Oh, that's funny because I remember outpouring of protests around this murder. Yeah. But I guess they didn't come in the form that you liked it in.

It needed to be like a little handwritten note. Yeah. On some, you know, paper source stationary. A lot less energy to put your body out there in the street. Oh, that's for sure. They didn't spray it with strawberry spray, you know. Exactly. This is good.

This is real support. Yes. And what's wild, too, is a sentence comes out the same day they put Amir Locke. You laid him to rest. Yeah. In Minnesota. And it's just it's again. I mean, yes, it's the exactly it's the status quo. And the and the sad part for me is that like these things, I'm so desensitized to this shit at this point. Like, I don't even feel anything. Like, and I know that's sad. I mean, I feel anger.

But my anger at this point has to be so compartmentalized where, like, by the time we go to the next segment, I've forgotten my anger about this story. Yeah. about this story. You know, like it has, it has to be that way because if not, you can get weighed down by the fact that this sentence comes out when we bury a mirror. You know, like these things stack up in a way

that it's just like, it's overwhelming. And I think that's in, it's kind of like an abstraction for most American people who might not be, you know, as in touch with the idea

that they're living in an unjust nation, because for many groups of people here, you see the same shit happen over and over and over and over and over again. And you begin to get this feedback from society that says, my life isn't really worth much. I'm disposable. There isn't. I it seems to be that an easier way for me to exist is to just try and bury everything and ignore the fact that the violence that is committed against people who look like me or believe the things I do or, you know, for whatever the reason is, that all I can do is have a very, very cynical idea about what's in store for me. And that and again, that also feeds into like even when these people say, like, I can't is what's in store for me. And that and again, that also feeds into like, even when these people say, like, I can't believe they wouldn't vote for Democrats. Let me tell you why. Because a lot of people are seeing this really horrific shit happen over and over again. And I don't care how many fucking dashikis or how much kente cloth you wrap around

your dumb ass in the Capitol. That doesn't change the fact that you functionally did fuck all to protect people. And that's what is really infuriating is that you see, quote unquote, leadership in this country, and they're not prioritizing just the bare minimum. We're still having fucking debates over qualified immunity. You know what I mean? And that's what really makes it disheartening, too, is like we can't even get over that fucking hurdle, let alone even what you were mentioning, Francesca, like still no databases we're still can't even do the bare minimum so much criminality within the justice system and not only that i mean you've got extremists just laced all through it too you know as january 6th proved and uh but meanwhile the defund the police people are radical come on yeah and uh and anything i think the right and even to obviously a certain

extent uh democrats but they're kind of okay with the number of innocent black americans who get gunned down so long as you don't say anything about it right it's like no the real problem they have is with people taking the streets about this they're not upset by the status quo of the murder. They're fine with that. They're just really mad that you've got a problem with it. And that's racism in a nutshell. That's right wing and that's left wing in a nutshell. It's like, I thought we were post-race. Why do I have to keep on reminding me that your community is over-policed and that you've lost your relatives to gun violence, police violence, and the criminal industrial complex or the prison industrial complex, you know?

And yeah, everyone's in a shitty relationship with this country, which has violated you, transgressed over and over. And so it still does the thing like what you hear in a lot of dysfunctional, toxic relationships. Oh my God, you're still talking about that? Right. like what you hear in a lot of dysfunctional toxic relationships oh my god you're still talking about that right that i that i cheated on you multiple times that i'm abusive that i'm no good we're still talking about this yes because you are still fucking up that's why and the fact that this insistence to move on again but the inaction is just as violent because you're not addressing the fucking factors that are making life so miserable for people right as you're texting your your your other like side chick

like you're still talking about that hang on let me answer this text from i told you i'm i'm working in social media stuff now so i have to look for people with big followings beckyakes is a serious business person that I have to speak with. Not to change the subject on this subject. I may need an alibi. I just

got an email. That's why I was checking my phone. I want y'all to keep this in because I may need the whole internet to be like, no, he wasn't there. I just got an email i was that's why i was checking my phone and i won't i want y'all to keep this in because i may need y'all to i may need the whole internet to be like no he wasn't there i just got it i just got an email from like a weed store a dispensary with like a 91 order oh and i was like oh shit somebody just stole my card but then it was like payment type cash so like somebody must have went to a weed store posing as me and paid cash for like a hundred dollars of shit and uh but you got the points but i got the receipt and like the points and shit i'm not sure what's going on but in case this weed store in case the dispensary gets robbed or some shit today i want y'all to let everybody know jackie swiss recording daily zeitgeist

right here right now i got an alibi. It wasn't me. But if nothing like that happens, I want these points. All right. I want these points. You want the stamps on the card. I want the stamps on the card.

Yeah. Yeah. I was sweating though. I was sweating. I was like, damn, somebody got my card, man. That's why I went silent for a minute.

Maybe someone's hooking you up and you're going to get ping pong. Maybe somebody's about to be at my door And be like here's a present for you brother Oh remember those white guilt gifts from 2020 Damn Remember them Venmos

From people from high school They're like hey man I haven't had one person Venmo me For Black History Month this year And like I would donate it anyway But maybe this is it Everybody Venmo me for Black History Month this year. And like I would donate it anyway, but maybe this is it. Everybody, Venmo me, Miles and Francesca, because Francesca's is here by default. Venmo us all for Black History Month.

And everybody will decide what we're going to do with it. And please don't let it be a scam similar to what the Trumps are up to right now. Because, my God, if crypto wasn't being fucking force-fed to people at the rate that it is now i mean i don't even know what to say here so first of all we all know nfts are fucking tight okay they're like the sickest way to fucking go skip a few steps straight to bollardom yes and that's why my first lady millennial trump is coming out with her own set of collectible potus nfds i just want to read this fucking fucking press release that came out from melania's twitter account potus trump nft collection to launch on president's day

the potus trump nft collection celebrating the trump presidency will launch on blah blah blah on president's day they go on to say say the NFT collection consists of 10 original pieces of digital artwork highlighting iconic moments from President Trump's administration, such as the 4th of July visit to Mount Rushmore and Christmas at the White House. The limited edition collection is comprised of 10,000 NFTs and is tiered into platinum and gold levels. Again, they're saying they've got it. NFTs and is tiered into platinum and gold levels. Again, they're saying they've got it.

The quote from Melania is, quote, I am proud to expand upon my NFT platform and I'm honored to be able to recognize important moments in our nation's history. Our nation's history. I look forward to collaborating with others to offer a truly special, authentic parts of U.S. history. Also by the board. I love it. My husband. My husband.

My husband is, you know how it's like my wife and my husband. My cap or, I mean, let's be real. I love being part of this as well. The thing that they say, the company goes on and be like, you know, this company is providing history fans the ability to purchase patriotic themed collectibles with immutable provenance permanently recorded on the blockchain. Okay, fool. Immutable provenance? What the fuck is that?

I mean, you know, because it's real art, you know, it's not like those. You don't know if you're getting janky art. You know the provenance of this. You know where it originates from because of the blockchain which is funny because this isn't the first time melania trump has sold nfts like a couple weeks back she sold like a grifter like charity bundle which was like the white hat she wore when she met macron and a watercolor of that moment and then an nft version of that watercolor piece this is sold sold for $170,000. And it was supposed to go to charity.

Some portion went to charity. We don't know what the fuck. But here's the thing. The thing about the blockchain is you can kind of dig in and try and line some shit up and figure out, well, let me see if there's anything overlapping. Turns out the same crypto wallet that paid for this winning NFT bid or whatever

is the same crypto wallet that created the this winning nft bit or whatever is the same crypto wallet that created the nft in the first fucking place they said they did it on behalf to facilitate the buy on behalf of like a third party now the big critique of this shit of all this nft shit is you can buy your own shit at an inflated price to give the fucking impression that the shit is worth more than it is and wait for some other idiot to come along and buy the shit off you and be like they're like i i put up the 15 grand to make that shit look like it was worth 15 and then this person gave me 20 for it done deal so it's a very you know again immutable problem and people money long money launder over this right yeah yeah i now i you know like i still just really don't get it

and and one of my homies i think he's been on this show before shout out to baysod is into it i mean he's into it like he would get so mad right now at us talking about it they support this shit and he tried to explain it to me it was like it's going to be the future and things like snoop dog just uh announced death row is going to be nft label or some shit like that which i i just i don't i really don't understand it i think and like i'm i don't like i'm a pretty smart guy and like i just can't grasp it i don't understand it and i don't think people who are into it even understand it they just are you know doing it the benevolent crypto argument is one thing right is that you're finding a decentralized financial system that isn't tied to like the

global banking system with no agreed upon value that is insanely volatile and could crash at any moment that is actually not used to buy and sell goods right but merely hoard and inflate value but even then and even then. And even then, right? Like you have these groups of people who are like, you know, putting together crypto DAOs and stuff. There was this group where this guy used like the very democratic form of their like DAO to make himself the leader. And then he took all the crypto and ran with it. So a lot of people like this is how it could be. And I get that there is a way that it could be but the second year that greed is a dimension of it it's going to be completely

perverted and i and i think maybe one percent of people are going to try and use it in a way that i get that there is a way to maybe think of a better future but based on the amount the amounts of energy that it takes to mine the shit and all this other nonsense that goes on from from my perspective i'm like why is every rich motherfucker suddenly coming out here with their nfts or or trying to pump up some version of crypto because again it's thinking of it as like downline sales people from the what's the what is the jeggings company the leggings company lularoe you know what i mean they need more people to come in down line from them to make sure that the assets that they have now, they

can sell that shit and it's still worth something. Right. It is a pyramid scheme. Yeah, they're going to be holding the fucking bat. Yes. That's obviously the cynical view of it that I have looking at it and why whenever I see Larry David out here

being a fucking uh preacher evangelical for this shit i'm like it's a rap dude like they got everything and watch that ad i was like that commercial was funny i laughed yeah it was funny and then oh god yeah the punchline was on us indeed few things can make me like the Federal Reserve. And crypto and NFTs are like, yeah, maybe we need the Federal Reserve. It's crypto and then actually touring the Fed because it's a dope ass tour. But those are the only things that can make you like the Federal Reserve. Things that can make you like the Federal Reserve.

What I don't get about the NFT is I'm going to create a piece of art that is not replicable and assign an arbitrary value to it that is then somehow going to appreciate. Even though, I get Bitcoin because it's got the word coin in it. But what the fuck? What am I going to do with this little dog or this little melania hat you got it so what happens so like this is what bazaar said to me he was like because he went to noah uh trevor like a show of his and like you could buy the ticket just with cash or you could buy the nft and like if you have the nft it was the same price but if you have the nft like subsequent shows or different things could be like and for anybody who has like the trevor noah nft you get these perks and these perks and these perks so it's like you get it's like

it's basically like a reward program but will it be okay that's that but there's a quantity of that that i sort of get right the whole point is nfts are helping to mainstream the use of cryptocurrencies that's it i really like if you broaden out because it's not enough to be like oh i bought this much ethereum or i bought this much crypto or dole or whatever you're saying we got to find a way for people to start using this crypto in a way that also feels like there's it's an investment and also works, too. So if you don't know much about economics, you damn sure know about Michael Jordan taking off from the free throw line and dunk contest. Don't you want to own that gift as the NFT and be the only motherfucker on the Internet that owns that? Like, that's all it is.

They're making fun of us. They're making fun of us instead of helping us understand the economy and also how bullshit like the market is they're just making fun of us yeah they're like do you want to really be a miranda if you're such a sex in the city fan well by the moment that shea d has fingered miranda in carrie's apartment face to face face to face kitchen finger bang scene in an NFT. You got it. That's mocking me. I'd buy it. Oh, man.

I'd buy it. I'd buy it. It wasn't not hot. It was hot. It was hot. It's the only time I like Che Diaz. Yeah. The only time.

Smoking weed and being like, shut up, girl. Oh, your friend recovering in the other room from her surgery? Fuck, take this, take this. NFT! Oh, my God. All right, 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 Cle 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. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts,

the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Santer. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote.

What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take. Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. 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, where we live at the intersection

of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here and play basketball every single day

and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire?

Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.

This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Let's keep our eyes on the dystopia a little bit more as we talk about MoviePass. You know, as our writer, J.M. McNabb, says, they're going full Black Mirror.

You say, what? How could MoviePass become some kind of Black Mirror episode? Well, let me tell you. So at the end of last year, one of the original co-founders, Stacey Spikes, acquired the company out of bankruptcy. Okay. And the whole thing with Stacey Spikes was they were saying, look, I was basically ousted from the company originally because I was the one saying, yo, this business model doesn't work. It makes no it makes no sense like you're gonna fuck everything up trying to do it like this and they're like you know what stay get the fuck out of here spikes comes back and then you know saying aha i will buy this fucking distressed asset now and finally make it the thing that it needs to be really pay

off on this process of movie or the the promise of movie pass and so we're like well what are the new what's the new movie pass about what's it going to be well along some like whatever boring details there's a new thing that it's going to have an app where you can quote earn credits to go to the movies by watching ads and commercials that are customized to you you say okay well it's like sounds like i in the late 90s and like early 2000s where you would just do like focus groups and you get like free Eastpac backpack all the time. That was like my bread and butter.

But this whole thing now, it's like you have to, you have to do it our way. So how do you get these credits? Well, in order to make sure that your stinking ass is actually looking at the fucking advertisements, the, the app is going to access your phone's front facing camera to make sure that your stinking ass is actually looking at the fucking advertisements the the app is going to access your phone's front facing camera to make sure that your eyes are fucking on the screen eye movement trackers to say hey you trying to fucking zone out during this john and kate plus eight reboot series that's coming out you need to look at this like a red square comes on the screen and it pauses the video until it knows you're looking back at it again and that's how you earn your little fucking creddies it is minority report yeah yeah it is it is scary so first of all

this is insane and i love it i'll never do never do it. But I love that we are finally seeing, what's the right word, the downfall of how accelerated our technology has gotten on us. Where basically all this is doing to me is, because this is not going to work. But all this is doing to me is driving home the fact that our phones can track our fucking eyeballs. Absolutely. And, and this is the technology that we have when we're looking at our phones. This is off topic,

but kind of on topic. I had to do like some, I for the IRS or some shit, some verify ID shit. And I did it on my phone and i had to upload my driver's license and it was like okay now we are going to turn on your camera and take a selfie video of you to verify that you look like your id and it was like this video selfie that was all different colors and it was like scanning my face and i was like this is my fucking phone yeah and this is the

irs yeah accessing my phone to do this shit and the fact that it has gotten down to the point where movie pass can do this too insane insane i mean i if nothing will make me watch an ad for Marry Me all the way through. You cannot force me to watch that fucking ad for that fucking movie with Owen goddamn Wilson. Right. Or is it Luke? No, it's Owen. No, I don't want to watch J-Lo. The cast of Anaconda got back together for a romantic film.

Right, right. I've scrolled past that. I don't care if I get free movies i do not care yeah i will not watch that all i feel like what we need to do is invest in like fake eyes that people can put on and then trick your fucking phone into thinking like your eyes are actually looking at this i bet you could just put like a broom with googly eyes and set it up right or even like sunglasses that have eyes printed on them yeah they're just like yeah this shit looking because what if what if you do have sunglasses on what you got to take them off i mean jackie's you're right because it's like the half of your

brain when something like that happens the irs thing i think i did something similar but i've like put it into the like will forever forget that we're entering into uh tech totalitarianism part of your brain we're like i'm gonna totalitarianism part of your brain where you're like, I'm going to forget. I even did that. But, but like you're simultaneously kind of fascinated that it even exists. Yeah.

So you're split. You're like, Oh wow. Whoa. Wow. Yeah. Anyway, that's how I felt.

I was like, I guess this is cool, but also this is terrifying because at any point you can just turn this on. You could turn this on. You can listen listen to me you can see me like it's it's pretty wild it's interesting because it's also like the models like i don't know if apple is participating in this but like that you know apple's model is like yeah no no we're tracking you all the time but only for us really and they've been generally resistant when like the NSA and others want to a back they hate the idea of building in a back channel for security right because they think that that's like a violation of privacy slash their ability to come out with the next

new iPhone you know they're no heroes right like they're the least awful when it comes to some of this privacy stuff yeah but yeah it's also it makes me reconsider you ever like when you're going number two i don't like to hold my phone because that's gross i like to set it up and it's oh wow put something on to watch and then i'll like be watching it well because i feel like in the act of shitting like your whole body becomes filthy so you're yeah i don't know i like to put it somewhere and then i'll like sit down because of course we can never be alone out that phone oh yeah you're holding it oh i hold my phone oh yeah yeah i'm not touching my ass i brought a laptop i sometimes i bring a laptop in the fucking bathroom if i need to watch something on a bigger screen i'm like you know what fuck it i'm gonna watch mary but i get you though i get you it's

the it's the it's the it's the fact that it's it's a mental thing you don't your body is doing something that you don't want to actually like touch something that goes to your face I just feel actually a little too close to all the people I interact with on the internet like something I'm gonna push the wrong button

and someone's gonna hear like this news drop I'm gonna accidentally press snapchat and somebody will be like oh you're going live right now on instagram and you're like oh that's exactly what i'm afraid of but i also know that like there is someone on the other side of this little black mirror my my phone's name is black mirror 2020 if you ever want to airdrop people okay i love that but i always imagine that there is someone on the other side watching me just kind of like on the toilet far away like. I'm doing that.

I'm on a side frame anyway. Long distance. You're listening to the podcast, which you probably are. It's wild, too, because the creative people keep saying like, why Black Mirror ain't coming back? And the creator just straight up said, the world is depressing enough now. Like, when the world gets so depressing enough for the Black Mirror creator. Yeah. And we get to the point where it's like, yeah, he's right.

Like, MoviePass talking about we're going to track your eyeballs. Also, shout out to AMCA list. You know what I'm saying? You know, let me get the plug in here real quick. $25, see three movies a week i know 25 now i thought that she was 20 before it raised it raised after the pandemic but you know what we 25 a month you get free popcorn or just extra free pop you get extra free popcorn okay extra free popcorn you can see any movie imax you could do it all you know it's it's a beautiful thing movie pass

was a unicorn and the movie gone experience but it got people going back to the movies i think which was pretty dope i don't think there are three movies in a given month i ever want to see in the theater no absolutely not in the summer maybe because it's hot and i like to be i like going to a cold movie theater and when it's hot but i mean that's the thing i'm already like i'm looking at how like you know a lot of these places are like private theater rental I'm like I want to go in there and straight up disrespect an AMC theater like bring in a bunch of crawfish

we have a crawfish eat a crawfish boil in the fucking theater and rent that shit out and be like I'm sorry yeah and we're smoking blunts in here I don't know who these other people are they just joined us I don't know Mr. AMC but we really enjoyed House of Gucci I'd be smoking my vape in the AMC.

I know it's bad, but I'd be getting high in the movie theaters. Wow. But anyway, Moonpack. I just want to say, alongside this story was Stacy Spikes. So he originally had another app that he launched on Kickstarter in 2019 called PreShow, which was exactly this same idea. You get credits for movies if you watch like 15 to 20 minutes of commercials while the camera's fixed upon your eyeballs so 15 or 20 minutes yeah i think you could probably break it up right you may maybe you have to get through that shit to

get a credit and you could probably break it up however you want but that's a hell of a lot of your damn human time to do that which is why buy by our fake eyes. So you can hack these kinds of stupid devices. Advertisers will absolutely go for this. Like on that side, they're like, Oh, this is perfect. I love this.

Well, force their eyes on it. Great. I'm there for it because honestly, with the whole streaming thing and everyone fast forwards, it's a, it's difficult. It's a mess.

It's a mess. How am I supposed to sell my toxic yard? They're going to start doing that with TV, with TVs now. Like, yo, you want to keep watching Grand Crew? Watch these commercials. They're like, yes. I like the idea of a stripper named Pipe Jerry or a plumber named Jerry Pipe. This is my favorite moment of that show.

Similar thing happened, you know, similar thing that technology I didn't know existed, Similar thing happened, you know, some similar thing that technology I didn't know existed, but it's like incredibly surveillance state was I think Matt was trying to record like screen record the trailer for the Many Saints of Newark. Newark. I was like, where are we? Many Saints of Newark. Terrible film. But and after he screen recorded it, he watched it back. It was black. Black. It's completely dark screen. Like. Yeah. That's because Apple, Apple is trying to help you out. That's one of those third party shits to actually be able to like record. Because even if you do the screen cap, like you can't even take a picture of your, of shit.

Like I used to do that shit to make memes of like 90 Day Fiance. They'll be like, nope, shit's black. Because the app, like the Apple operating system knows you're trying to lift like a copyrighted image. Fuck that. That's crazy. Yeah. But look, there's black because the Apple operating system knows you're trying to lift a copyrighted image. Fuck that. That's crazy. Yeah. But look, there's workarounds. The one thing Stacey Spikes said about all this, like, yeah, maybe it's fucking weird.

But at the very least, I'm being upfront about how this shit works. I'm not trying to talk like sneak in weird little fees and shit and limits on what this new movie pass is we're being straight up look at these ads maybe get some more free movies why am i the bad guy so i mean i don't disagree with that and yeah but that hardly makes me want to engage with it doesn't make me want to do it but if he's like yo we're telling you everything we're gonna do we're saying we're telling you we're taking advantage of the technology they give us. At least he's just like saying, I'm not lying to you. You just got to decide if you're okay with it.

I like that defense, too. It's like, baby, I told you I was a scumbag when you got with me. Baby, I told you I was going to have sex with another woman. What you mad? I was that friend about you. Come on now. And now I'm the bad guy. I never lie.

And now I'm the bad guy? I never lie? Anyway. So, yeah, good luck to them. If you want to join for my crawfish boil in a movie theater, hit me up on Twitter. Yeah, Miles, let's do that. Bring in a coalition of the willing. Let's go.

Let's do that. We'll move it coming out. Let's go do that for four. Because also, shit, there's a boiling crab right across the street from the fucking AMC in Burbank. Right across the street from AMC 16, baby. They come in with a motherfucking gigantic trash bag of crawdads and fucking boiled potatoes and corn. And they're like, what are you doing that, sir?

I'm like, I'm going to eat this and watch the new Spider-Man. Good day, sir. The cockroach of the sea. Yeah. Sorry. I can have like two and then I look at their face and I'm like, I can't anymore. Just give me shrimp. You suck all the juice out of me.

I'm not a UC2 person either. You don Oh, they're so good. Just give me shrimp. Suck all the juice out of you. I'm not a juicy, sweet person either. You don't like crawfish? It's all right. Oh, I love, it's so interactive. I like an interactive food. Like, I like working for it, like breaking shit down. You know what I mean? No.

Yeah, I get it. Hey, different strokes. No. So I guess. Give me my food, man. What are you going to have, the crab legs then? Hell yeah. Okay.

Bougie. Hell yeah. Or chicken.ougie. Hell yeah. Or chicken. Yes. How about? Easier to eat. How about? Easier to eat.

Meanwhile. The crawfish of the land, as they say. Yeah. Meanwhile, my whole outfit is soaked in whole shebang juice. All right. Oh, yeah. You're getting messy in that AMC. Oh, my God.

Disrespect. I'm not joking. I think this, the funny shit, because have you seen that meme of like that black woman who was on like a spirit airlines flight and she had a whole seafood boil. She was eating in the plane, like big ass crab legs and shit.

And like, everyone's like, yo, she's doing it right. But like also just the air on that plane, shout out to people who are sitting around her. I was on a flight from boston back to i think it was san francisco and i was living there and i was so hungry it was one of those

like i don't know 9 10 a.m flights whatever too early to have gotten anything to eat i fucked up it was a long flight and the guy next to me has a giant buttery lobster roll oh he's just eating it right next to me and i was was like, just itching. I was so, I like almost, I was very close to asking him for a bite. Is, okay.

And I hate to, I was going to end the show, but now it got me thinking, you know how sometimes you'll see somebody come on a plane with like a whole ass meal. I like to smell the food. I brought a whole fucking meal on this tiny ass plane. Do you, are you more outraged that they're being selfish and

they're polluting the the odor the air with their food or you just mad because you only ate a fucking nature valley bar four hours ago before you got on the plane your stomach's louder than a fucking you know dmx concert definitely definitely the latter yeah yeah dms because i think about i'm like oh god i'm like i wish i should have man this motherfucker brought five guys on yeah and well shit i mean y'all don't bring food on i won't bring food from the crib on the plane but anything past the gate oh that's oh yeah i do but then i get in the thing i'm like man this fucking shit ain't worth that much because you know lax yeah is the like dog shit jersey Mike's is like $73.

Yeah. Yeah. It depends. The Chicago airport's got some good food and other airports got great food. Does it? Esso has great food. But my mom, of course,

she's Chinese. So she always brings stuff from home. It's like cut apples, cheeses, endless. That's like my mom. She's like, I made egg sandwiches.

And I'm like, I love these mom, but we were violating people on the plane. Or hit up Love Field and go get a Whataburger. All right. Anyway, Francesca, thank you so much for coming on the show today. It's so good to have you. And thank you.

Have your insights, which are priceless. Always so much fun. People already know where to find you. March 10th, which are priceless. Always so much fun. People already know where to find you. March 10th, I believe. Correct? Hell yeah. The Bell House in New York. There it is.

Situationroom.com if you want to come out and see me or follow me on all the socials. With Sam Matt and who else? Sam Matt, council member Tiffany Caban. Again, DSA backed, like, you know, Democratic Socialist on the New York City Council. We'll see how she's doing with Eric Adams and his vegan cop loving ways. Hey, man, we got to get rid of this drill music. You feel me? That's the problem.

It's the music, not the. Close the door. Oh, you died in a fire? Close the door. Close the door. Yikes. Is there a tweet that you're liking? Oh, also, like, what like what about no shout out your

you know socials all that i'm sorry oh yeah uh franny fio on twitter and instagram and even tiktok franny fio f-r-a-n-i-f-a-o i'm sure that you guys discuss this in great detail but i'm loving everything that has to do with the ram ranch resistance i don't know if we've talked i don't know if they talked about it when i was gone but i know about the the gay musical that is disrupting the trucker convoy yes the trucker convoys who are speaking on an app called tello are being interrupted by the gay cowboy anthem ram ranch which is also a terrible but very funny song. And so a guy named, a BuzzFeed reporter named Paul McLeod was just live tweeting this discussion on Zillow with a bunch of the truckers. And it's very, very, very, very fun. Let me just read one of these.

He writes, this has gone way off the rails. quote just now what is this ram ranch people are talking about is it somewhere we can go and get our money so this is these are all the canadian trucker supporters who've just been completely swindled out of their money and someone's playing ram ranch which starts with 18 naked cowboys in the shower at ram ranch and uh yeah it's beautiful i love this entire thread oh god i love it i love just like chaos which are like we don't know how to get the damn crypto out like okay oh well you tried you tried jakees thank you so much man man, for coming on and helping me host. Yes. I know.

I know. Tell them. I mean, obviously. I'll just let you do. Where do they find you? Where do they follow you? Oh, man. You can find me in these streets as always.

I'm looking for a tweet right now. I always forget to find a tweet. I've been liking trash tweets I'm looking over the past couple days now. Just like no funny tweets. I've been in the world is terrible mood on Twitter over the past couple days now just like no funny tweets just all i've been in like the the the world is terrible mood on twitter for the past couple days so let me let me try to find a comedy one for you guys yeah yeah something that's funny oh all right fuck it i don't need nothing that's funny let me get y'all excited about something yeah so i i didn't i didn't know this uh so a tweet i'm liking is this idea from a Muppet movie that's never gotten made that I think sounds dope as hell that I would love to see made.

Especially if it's a Muppet movie. But even just this concept, I think it's pretty dope. So there's this, like, tweet going around where people are retweeting, what's your pop culture, white whale, unreleased, unrealized stuff. Oh, yeah. I remember that tweet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And people are, like, you know, saying what it is. retweet and what's your pop culture white whale uh unreleased unrealized stuff oh yeah i remember that tweet yeah yeah yeah and people are like you know saying what it is luke eplin wrote when jim henson died he was developing an idea called the cheapest muppet movie ever in which gonzo blows the budget on the opening credits and then the rest of the movie gets cheaper and cheaper looking same street at every shot etc would have been amazing that shit sounds great yeah i mean apparently he was developing comedy idea yes that's so fucking fun and then apparently

like that i went into the thread and people were saying every once in a while the henson company or somebody will like bring it back up and hopefully one day it'll actually go into development. But that is so funny. Like the opening sequence is just big budget is beautiful. It's great. And then the rest of the movie just gets cheaper and cheaper. Every celebrity cameo in the first 30 seconds.

And then by the end is Heidi Montag from the Hills. Yes. That is such, that is Heidi Montag from the Hills. Yes. That is such a funny idea that I wish somebody would. I want the Muppets to do it because it would be very beautiful, I think. But just the idea. We need to pull up to, what is that, Sunset and La Brea, where Henson Studios is at. Go to that Henson Studios.

Demanding they make the film. Fuck, you could crowdfund that shit and it would probably look exactly as it needs to. Probably. So, yeah, that's something I'm liking. And one day I hope that gets made, because that sounds dope. Add JockeysNeil on everything. Y'all know what it is. Go ahead and follow your boy.

I'm telling you, once we get past that magical number, I'm going to go ahead and release the news. Like 900 short, right, to get you to 10K? Yeah, 900 short. 900 short. We're going to get there. I'm following you right now. Oh, hell yeah. 900 short right to get you to 10k yeah come on now 900 short we gonna get there i'm following you right now oh hell yeah we're gonna get there we're gonna get there but otherwise and then okay so tweet i like is from at memphis quinn it's it's like this me it says can you hear me screaming telepathically and it's just laughter emojis it's a picture of professor uh charles xavier in his like you know iconic yellow

like hover chair but it says rather than professor x the head is superimposed with the late earl simmons aka dmx it says professor dmx and it says y'all gonna make me use my mind and that shit was so funny to me as a big Darkman X and X-Men fan. And then another tweet I like is from Spencer at Spence the Kiddo tweeted, Me on Love is Blind. I'm black. Are you? I'm always like, are they?

That has to be getting asked, right? Because I feel like you've got to figure some stuff out up top. But you know what? I love that. Just very good strategy on Love is Blind. You can find me at Miles of Grey on Twitter and Instagram and also the other show, 420 Day Fiance. If you want to hear me talk 90 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra. Also, Daily Zeitgeist at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter

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to keep this Black History vibe going, the song we're going to write out on is, look, we have some, we have we got a few Chicagoans on this show. We have a Chicagoan on the mic. We have a Chicagoan who works behind the mic in Justin. And I want to shout out Minnie Ripperton. Chicago's very own mother of Maya Rudolph, who tragically passed away very young from breast cancer.

Yeah. Maya Rudolph has pipes because her mother is Minnie Ripperton. Yeah. A lot of people don't realize that. The woman who went number one with. Like her vocal range out of control. But this track, Le Fleur, L-E-S-F-L-E-U-R-S. It's a great track.

If you're not up on mini-rep or 10, put this on when you're vacuuming or cleaning up or folding your laundry or just doing stuff around the house. It feels good. Or put it on when, you know know all the people from underground take over up above and hold hands across america yeah exactly song at the end of us yes that's right perfect perfect so yeah educate yourself mini ripperton a legend and that is going to be the song we write out on daily zeitgeist is It is a production of iHeartRadio, so for more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple, or wherever you get them damn free

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