The Daily Zeitgeist - None Of These Trendidates 2/7: Nikki's Big L, Tesla Vision Pro

Episode Date: February 7, 2024

In this edition of None Of These Trendidates, Jack and Miles discuss... Haley Dismisses Nevada Loss, Calling Primary Process ‘Rigged’ for Trump..., Tesla Owners Told Not To Wear Apple Virtual Reality Headsets While Driving, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Planning to Resign, The Sphere, Missouri Republican Candidate Torches LGBTQ Books With Flamethrower..., Psilocybin, and Coke’s First New Permanent Flavor In Years Adds A Spicy Twist!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, shit. The most popular candidate in Nevada, in in the nevada gop primary none of these candidates i am jack that is miles and these are some of the things that are trending there are some times when the essential like news story of the moment is just the news media being like not gonna lie a lot of people saw that shit to somebody, you know. And in this case, it is Nikki Haley lost the Nevada primary. So for some reason, Trump wasn't on the ballot in Nevada. It's because he's going to be, they have this weird system where they have a primary and a caucus. But the caucus is the only one, that process is the one that awards delegates. So Nikki Haley did this thing and like a lot of people like this was a bill that like got passed in 2021 that did this in Nevada

but Nikki Haley's campaign was basically like okay you know what let's not do the caucus let's generate headlines by hopefully having a blowout primary win because Trump won't be on that ballot and then maybe that will feed the narrative that like i'm surging because i don't want to go head to head in the caucus so she was trying in this race where she was the only candidate on the ballot she was because even like i think the play here was don't like let's fuck the delegates and whatever delegates get awarded from winning that caucus let's try and get the headline let's try and get the the attention the narrative going that like when i win that so a lot of people like it's meaningless but even either way the headlines would be like haley like you know wins and blow out in

nevada primary because people are just used to hearing that yeah those would be the headlines in practice she got destroyed trounced by quote none of these candidates yeah the other option on the ballot was so that's a that's a tough that's a bad look for her campaign for her continuing candidacy i'm expecting her to start being real nice to donald trump in the not too distant future i guess she's still she's still holding out that in her home state of South Carolina, she can make some noise, do something. But it's not looking good when you get beat. When you're trying in a game of you versus nobody. Yeah.

You still lose. I mean, it's tough. It's tough. But, hey, you know, keep making them sweat, Nikki Haley, because I'm sure he'll find a way. I mean, he's like, it was a bad night for nikki haley like of course yeah it was a bad night when you lose to anybody but this motherfucker bad night for america so yeah good night i mean the other thing that should be said is like these rules were also changed like because the republican party in the state like wanted to

make something that would benefit donald trump and i her, the way she looks at it is like, I can't get a Yeah. Uncle Mitt. So she is reportedly planning to resign and will step down soon after the February 24th South Carolina primary. A lot of things hinging on the South Carolina primary. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, this is allegedly the result of poor fundraising results. The RNC just had its worst fundraising year in almost a decade, which is pretty wild because they're that's like this is when you're supposed to be making money. Yeah. Like hand over fist, especially in like a revenge tour of a campaign, like to be like, we ready. especially in like a revenge tour of a campaign like to be like we ready but i think really all this the story of it all here is that she's basically being scapegoated by donald trump because like as the head of the rnc she fucking did everything this dude wanted and helped it stay in his control and molded it in his vision or whatever like she was just basically like yeah tell me what to do with the party right but it was really all the special election L's they took and ballot

propositions that were about abortion access and things like that. All those L's he took. Remember, they're like, what's going on? Well, how are, what's going on with the,

we got to do some serious soul. Like what? We don't understand. It was like, it's because you guys are so tied to Donald Trump. You're putting off moderates and independents or whatever, whoever, however they want to identify. And plus the platform is so bad that's why and i think trump just doesn't can't accept that like he can't accept that wait is it am i kind of fucking up

the party because everyone's like man it's diminishing returns on a lot of these election results and she can't be the person to say that and he can't either he can't admit that either so it's easier to be like, because he was saying all kinds of shit. Like we're going to have to do some, we're gonna have to see how we can find some growth opportunities. And maybe we'll decide after the South Carolina primary. Yeah.

But it was also the fact that they're not raising enough from small money donors. Like that used to be the shit that he could just fucking snap his fingers. And the money just started flowing in and the fact that that is drying up a little bit has is also her fault so you know everything's not his fault who's been just like raking these people for money for like now for his legal bills yeah for his legal bills yeah couldn't be that yeah i mean party chair, RNC chair, DNC chair is like a level of bureaucratic specificity of a political figure that traditionally has been beyond my

ability to give a shit because it does feel like whoever is in that position, like I've never heard of like and then this RNC chair came in and really changed the direction of politics. But sure. You know, I'm open to the idea that I should give a shit and know who she is. I mean, it's just worth knowing, because whenever you see like how like, you know, just looking at how the DNC was accommodating the changing the primary schedule that benefited Joe Biden. Like that's where that's where that power lies. It's just sort of like DNC, DNC. DNC, DNC. Wow.

Her likely replacement, who still has to get elected, Michael Whatley. Yeah. No relation to Jody. No. The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party and a noted stop the steal guy. Yeah. This guy was saying shit like after the election. He's like, you know, because of my leadership in the state of North Carolina, Democrats weren't able to steal out the votes there.

Thank you. I just kind of said that shit. I'm like, oh, OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Here's your birthday cake. Blow out the candles. posted on Twitter to say that all current vehicles require a driver to be engaged at all times and that you shouldn't be driving a Tesla with an Apple Vision Pro on your head. I feel like he doesn't get that Apple Vision Pro is a pass-through device and that i am engaged when i'm driving with that thing on my face pretty nerdy out of touch guy take from from people who just hear we yes actually it makes me see better because i can both see twitter and the road so i was like i don't know like what are you talking about when you say i have to be engaged at all times yeah i'm actually hyper engaged because when i can watch twitter scroll twitter watch watch three NBA games and drive at the same time, I'm not looking down at my phone to do those things.

And my brain chemicals are firing and I'm actually like a way better driver. That's so that's quite literally the logic I would use in high school and college to get behind the wheel like all fucked up it's like no dude because like like the stakes are even higher dude yeah like i can't fucking swerve or shit or else i'll get pulled over dude so the only time i drive the speed limit is when i'm drunk so exactly that's actually safer is something that i was saying way too late into my life oh yeah oh yeah shame shame a shame upon myself my former self for like don't drive finding a way to twist my brain doing just logical gymnastics and to be like yeah like if i'm so fucking gone then it feels like i'm not even driving a car so then i have to actually really pay attention because it's like a spaceship that i'm in many ways when a drunk person is saying in many ways you're in trouble you're

like yo okay dude i just asked if you had a couple drinks tonight man yeah in many ways no in many ways a couple implies two drinks which nobody's ever stopped at two drinks, as far as I'm aware, Your Honor. I'm sorry, what did you mean by many ways? Step out of the car. I mean, like, yeah, I have many drinks. Got it. The ability, like, when I drank, the ability for other people to, like, have a glass of wine and a half, like, I was just like, this is bullshit. This is a conspiracy.

Like, I don't understand how it's possible. Like, I couldn't deal with it. Yeah. Turns out it was me who was the problem. It was me the whole time. Not them. Why is everybody drinking so slow? God damn it, dude.

You want to fucking, you want to shotgun this bottle of wine? Shotgun the bottle of wine? Yeah. Somebody get me a shot, to quote tomorrow's episode yeah dr dr rudman dr rudman but yeah so i mean i guess this is a thing that is having to be decided like it you know we talked about the person who released a video of them driving while wearing the vision pro Plus thing and then getting pulled over. That was apparently a viral

video, but obviously it's raising the question. And Apple has like, they're trying to stay clear of calling the goggles like virtual reality or any other similar name instead, referring to it as spatial computing.

They're saying, don't describe like in the blog post targeting developers who like would be fueling all the different applications on this they're saying don't describe your app experience as augmented reality virtual reality extended reality or mixed reality which is like kind of the whole promise of the thing right it's like yeah it's reality i'm like you can see like that that was what i thought was cool about it that made it cooler than like an oculus is that the pass through because i could drive with it thank you i just love the euphemism like how they're telling like shaming developers like don't describe your app experience as any of

this crap it's spatial computing like be like yeah i'm not like driving under the influence i'm in a chemically induced navigational crisis yeah i think is what i would call that that's right yeah don't describe the thing based on the main selling points that we've advertised around it right describe it as this made-up phrase that we just made up. Right. It's like when people sell bongs on Amazon or some shit, and they have to call it something else just to get around it. Wait, I actually don't know what you're talking about.

Are you talking about my glass water tobacco pipes? No. Yeah. I'm talking about your decorative, modern, minimal flower vase. It's wild. Because they sell fucking fucking stems you know what i mean for like freebasing and shit like on there too or like what are you smoking whatever like and it's like always like uh like a tooled glass tube for uh the chemistry there's a whole

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the sphere this is in the headlines they said an activist climber ascended like the structure in las vegas and apparently this guy like was doing it to raise money, like has a bunch of followers online or some shit for a, for a homeless woman and her unborn child. And I was like, Oh, is this like a book good thing? Like to raise awareness for like unhoused people that are like vulnerable. Um, well not based on the organization that TMZ got a quote from in regards to this. It said reporters spoke with Timment outreach director for survivors of the abortion holocaust oh jesus christ who confirmed that the man was detained after coming off the top of the sphere so i was like oh wow he apparently has done this shit before in the

build-up to the super bowl he did it like in like the last two years i guess but like anti-choice activist climber is like a very weird description for someone's like occupation or what they do like what are you up to these days i'm an anti-choice activist climber it does suggest that he's worried that someone is going to cut down the sphere and he's like trying to protect it with his life like the way that you know protesters would climb trees to prevent them from being cut down and then people would just like cut them down anyway because they didn't care about yeah they're like get down like it's your last shot man before we fell this thing there's a missouri republican

candidate who is lighting lgbtq books on fire with a flamethrower, which just... Worth noting, the first books that were burned by Nazis were LGBTQ books. Like, that was where they started. Yeah, but did they do it with a super soaker filled with gasoline? Right. That's the question.

That, like, flamethrower is a very interesting... Like, what is this contraption? Is it one of the Elon Musk flamethrowers that was no dude no is it it looks homemade as fuck yeah so anyway way to look tough because you burned a book but yeah yeah this is uh i mean it's we're getting where it's a wacky election season so we're only going to start seeing more and more obscene absurd ridiculous offensive provocative campaign shit like this yeah apparently what's interesting too is like they said it was like with liberal tears wait what that was that the flamethrower was powered by liberal tears there's a label on the flamethrower that said liberal tears. So I guess it's a fuel.

I mean, that does make sense in their world that it's like, I live off liberal tears. I live off gasoline. That's my alternative fuel that gets me out of bed in the morning. I don't need coffee. I just need liberal tears and methamphetamine. Yeah. liberal tears and methamphetamine yeah another some people are pointing out too it's like it looks like those books actually had like labels on them as if they were taking out of a library right then i'm like are you destroying public property or whatever i mean it's not like laws

for anyone yeah yeah but again here we go like like we keep saying all these people that are you know trying or vying for office especially on on the right, are just like straight up. They're like, I'm looking for clicks. Yeah. Yeah. They look they look like library books that like still have the plastic cover on them, which that's can't be good. Can't be a good thing to inhale. I just like when like to launch this campaign. This is the tweet that had the video and it said this is from Valentina Gomez for Secretary of State said when I'm Secretary of State I will fire emoji burn all caps

all books that are grooming indoctrinating and sexualizing our children MAGA period America first American flag emoji it's like you're not serious at all but okay when I'm there I will burn them with my homemade or my homebrew fucking flamethrower that i just created wow used to be the bell

weather and then uh things went sideways yeah the weather ain't good based on that one that's right psilocybin is trending because you know's one of our most promising therapeutic medicines that scientists are looking into. But the police, less of a fan. They've been busting more and more people for selling it. exponentially. It's more like the size of the busts. I think, you know, obviously there is probably not as much of an emphasis on like shrooms as there was like meth or like fentanyl or some other kinds of like, you know, mass produced drugs or something like that. But yeah, it's just like this. There was a story in NPR that's just like, it's just more and more people have been using them and more and more people are selling them too. And I think a lot of it is to do with like a lot of states have more relaxed drug laws or like i don't know dude yeah if you fucking get caught like whatever so

shrooms like yeah go ahead but then because of that there are more like grow operations or stores selling them like when they aren't supposed to and then that has led to like a lot of the confiscation but like overall like you know a lot of the like even in this article points out, it's like it's having a renaissance, like like psychic, like people are more and more interested in psychedelics and more and more. There's just more and more research and investment going into psychedelics, too, for therapeutic uses. therapeutic uses. So it's like kind of an interesting thing where like on one hand, people are probably, I don't know, either just getting fucked up or like trying to do something, tinkering with it themselves. And least anecdotally i've heard is like a good alternative to drinking and probably a healthier one even in as you say anheuser-busch inbev their very own post malone who's like a big bud light guy like he had a fucking whole album was called shrooms and beer or whatever like yeah fucking it's just become so normal but yeah i mean i think that's what's really

interesting is just the the promise of the positive benefits that have that people have seen and just being able to let that research you know evolve into something that can maybe help people but i think with anything you're always weary of like what big pharma and their friends on capitol hill can do to sort of stymie that development and growth. Yeah. And finally, Coke is debuting their first permanent flavor in years. This seems like, I mean, they're coming out saying it's permanent. We'll see if anybody wants to drink this shit because, you know,

so for a while now, they've been trying to counteract the trend that people don't have this shit anymore because it's bad for them. Right. And so, you know, people treat it like a treat, I guess, instead of as a beverage that like you drink throughout the day. And so they've been doing all these like limited time offerings and they've got like all sorts of combination, vanilla combination vanilla orange like all these different types of coke and now they're like we finally found this is the one guys it's coke spice coca-cola spiced okay which that i can't believe they didn't do a tie-in with dune but yeah or ice spice yeah or ice yeah you know this is but they're like really saying like this I can't believe they didn't do a tie-in with Dune. Yeah. Or Ice Spice. Yeah, or Ice Spice.

You know? This is... But they're, like, really saying, like, this is permanently... You're going to be able to get this forever, and you're going to love it. It's a combination of raspberry and spice. Spice. There's a lot of spices, guys. What are we talking about?

I know. I know. You go in, it's like, wow, man, it's cumin. What the fuck? What are we talking about? Like, I don't know if it got sweeter or because I drink less like soda that I just wasn't used to it. I mean, it's a grapefruit soda, but damn, the sweetness. I was like, my teeth were curling in on themselves. It made you squared a little bit. Maybe just a little bit. A little bit of sweat.

As advertised. Exactly. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's true. Like, I mean, it's like I remember as a kid, like when when my mom or dad was like, oh, that's too sweet for me. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? No such thing, asshole. Give me that shit.

Watch me pound this. Or I remember my dad, he would cut juice with water. Yeah. And be like, yeah. He's like, oh, that juicy guy is too sweet. And he would always say, I'm going to cut it with water. And I was like, okay, bro, I know know. Let me step on the shit real quick. Yeah. It needs to get stepped on a couple of times.

You know what I mean? Hey, hand me that. Hand me that. That baby laxative real quick. But yeah, like and now I've that's like, you know, those little moments when you're like, I'm I'm becoming adult now where I'm like, oh, shit, this. No, no, no. Put a little seltzer in that. This is too sweet for dad. The amount that I drank orange juice when I was thirsty. Oh, my God. Dude, like Minute Maid gallon jugs. Oh, my God. I drank that shit like it was water.

I drank it like it was so good for you. You know what? A little more health food for me. Did you get that vitamin D enriched one, too? They had one that like, I remember my mom would buy that because she was like, oh, vitamin D. Cut to me fucking drinking straight out of that jug. Like I was in the desert, just dehydrated. I was like.

Oh my God. Running from playing outside and just drink straight sugar to the dome. Yeah. Now it's just all prime energy drinks for me. That's right. And what is it? Panera Bread fucking hypercharged lemonade. Charged lemonade.

That's right. That is how to make sure you rest and recuperate. Welcome to adulthood, asshole. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this wednesday february 7th 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 no and 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadson. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer,

we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first,

I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume

women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. 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.