The Daily Zeitgeist - Now I Become Trends, Barbie of Worlds 7/19: Boppenheimer, Jason Aldean, Netflix, Swedish Fish, Lazy Girl Jobs

Episode Date: July 19, 2023

In this edition of Now I Become Trends, Barbie of Worlds, Jack and Miles discuss the early reviews for Boppenheimer, Charlie Kirk making wild false equivalences about Affirmative Action, country singer Jason Aldean’s new music video getting pulled from CMT due to pro-lynching references, Netflix trying to push for an ad-supported model amid the current labor strikes, the true flavor of Swedish Fish has been revealed and TikTokers are warning people not to participate in Lazy Girl Job trend online so they don’t get fired.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the internet and welcome to this episode of now i become trends barbie of worlds we are in the the boppenheimer universe wow it is upon us party of world yeah let me see i did i will get that uh attribution by uh by the end of the episode was that on discord uh yes that was courtesy of manish on discord muh and eesh uh shout out to manish and shout out to so i guess the reviews are coming in but they're not being like officially collated or you know they're not being officially graded on rotten tomatoes and metacritic yet but oppenheimer seems like a um giant operatic bummer and barbie uh seems like it's it's a bummer in that like it's gonna fuck not that it's bad it's gonna fucking leave you all fucked up yeah i think i think it does you know it's an existential or is it bad yeah right right right i can't i can't tell yet there there's been some like kind of medium medium reviews uh up to this point being like should we grade it on a curve just because

they got a toy company to put out a movie that asks all these like weird dark questions and is like has kind of deep cut takes on feminism because yeah they didn't seem that into it but whatever i i think both both films seem worth watching worth watching on the same day i don't know that's your your personal decision worth watching on the same day as the sound of freedom as we've committed we gotta do the mick box office bang sounds of freedom mission impossible and boppenheimer boppenheimer gotta get up pretty early in the morning to to pull that one off you did it all and oh my god the mission impossible movie is like almost three hours long i'd probably i'd probably start with oppenheimer mission impossible sound of freedom

then barbie i feel like i'm gonna be exhausted after opp of it yeah that's the whole point Jack you're like you're trying to just be completely in a state of disarray by the time you start watching Sound of Freedom that you're like yeah the underground railroad by these people I think they just fired the guy the underground railroad

like that organization that he started he left under because of his own reasons and it has nothing other people like he was forced out who knows who knows barbie pre-sales looking pretty good though that's trending yeah the highest since avatar 2 yeah which is weird we're just talking about that movie but apparently this is like i guess that was significant um yeah they're yeah people are going to see this movie it turned out yeah um yeah they said people think it's around like a hundred some million already

in pre-sales jesus uh so there seems to be a new trend in uh just open racism like it seems like it's becoming like a little more mask off in the mainstream culture uh in a couple places then did you see that charlie kirk clip where he like was talking about affirmative action and like made up this story about like he's like what if you were on a plane and like two guys like who'd never flown a plane before got to fly it because they were racist or because they were black but uh he was like doing voices in the clip and he was like yeah what cadillac and what a false fucking equivalence what are you talking about okay no i mean that's just that's charlie kirk's whole shtick but i mean he's just like he's just racist and stupid so he's not really good at being nuanced about it and then there's this jason aldean music video that is too racist

for the country music channel or country music tv cmt whatever the fuck that stands for um country music television man country music television come on well why isn't it cmtv um because then they you know why yeah because then they're just gonna think it's mtv but c before it anyway yeah it's their answer to their own question of why there isn't wet if there's bt is that there is it's called cmt um no there is it's called all everything else all the channels yes but for those of you who skip past cmt as fast as humanly possible and are but are still like going from channel to channel one by one for some reason the there's a song called try that in a small town and it's basically a pro lynching song like oh how jack how well very evocative of vigilantism

racism sundown towns okay that's one part yeah what else you got the video mixes actual news footage of blm protests with lyrics like you think you're tough we'll try that in a small town well they could just be talking about property destruction you know right and and and you know that kind of stuff and and and rabble rousing and then there's the fact that some scenes for the video are seemingly shot in front of the maury county courthouse in columbia tennessee which was the site of a infamous 1927 lynching and also where a white mob gathered during the 1946 columbia race riot okay i didn't hear that last part and i don't think it's probably relevant but i still fail to see how this is racially what the fuck are you doing you're you're putting the imagery of people

who are protesting for racial equality and you think you're tough we'll try that in a small town because then because again right because a small town means that you guys can just do terrible violent things to people of color that are there at the wrong time of day or just there happen to pass through yeah oh man he's and what he's being like yeah you guys got you guys damn right that's what this video is about no he's saying isn't it obvious i have a racist bone in my body i don't have a racist bone in my body. I don't have a racist feather in my cowboy hat. Yeah.

In the past 24 hours, I've been accused of releasing a pro lynching song, a song that has been out since May and was subject to the comparison that I direct quote was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. There's not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it there isn't a single video clip that isn't real news

footage that's fucking so stupid as a defense right like it's not that i made this stuff up it's not black people really did this shit right like what are you fucking saying wow i mean again it's funny too because that's kind of like the refrain of like tough guys who are not in the game yeah or they're like yeah i'd like to see them try that around here yeah it's like for what you ain't doing shit yeah so shut the fuck up but i know you like to hear these songs because they help you feel potent in like this, uh, an environment in which you feel that you are the bad guy because you just, just cause I'm white.

Yeah. Um, come on, man. But yeah, he looks, I wasn't that familiar with Jason Eldeen, a writer jam pointed out.

He looks like a Westworld robot played by Fred Durst. That kind of seems to be the overall vibe. Yeah. CMT pulled it. So yeah, I like again, just like how he's so being so obtuse about it. Right. He's like the lyrics don't even mention race.

The visuals. Oh yeah. They're blatantly racially charged. Right. And the implications. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh yeah. It's bad. But the song, I mean, wait, what are we talking yeah it's bad but the song i mean wait what are we talking about the video or the song right because it sounds like his text it's like he's not defending i guess he is defending the video but he's kind of like that's it's a pro lynching song wink because i did a pro lynching video right yeah but yeah i guess it's not real news footage none of it's none of it's fake news folks yeah and then uh netflix is uh they really want people to watch their ads they want to get into this ad ad business their whole like a big part of their argument for like why they're they should be able to treat writers like shit was like, we changed the game. Like this is,

there's the before Netflix times. And now there's like this new world that we created. That's not ad supported. It's this totally different market. And not sustainable one fucking bit, which is why they keep cutting costs to the point that now they're revolting. Yeah.

But anyways, they seem to be at the time that they're having to lean on this argument in the labor dispute they seem to be trying to push really hard to getting into like ad supported content business because they just basically got rid of their cheapest ad free plan um the basic 999 plan is now no longer available uh if you have it already for now you can keep it but no one can select it as an option and they didn't make any kind of announcement they just like quietly yanked it and replaced it with a 6.99 per month subscription with ads where you also like don't have access to everything um and like there's a huge gap between

like the ad supported one 6.99 and then the next one is almost 10 more it's the next one's 15.49 for the version without ads so they're like please yeah please please take buy these ads we're doing so bad right now such nonsense again this is part of what happened with streaming they tried to do this thing where it's like we can spend fucking billions

on content and then tell people they only pay us $9.99 a month and sure we'll make profits in the short term because we don't owe any people residuals. But then like, what after that? And now they're like, oh, fuck. We're just kind of focused on the next earnings report. Ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, please. Right. All right. Let's take a quick break and we will be right back.

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by Diet Coke. And we're back. We're back. And there's a controversy or a question being raised online. What exactly is the flavor of swedish fish yeah i i didn't know i've always said vaguely red yeah it's red it's how i describe it yeah and i never knew how to describe it and i always just thought it's like it's something remember

wasn't there like a swedish fish oreo that we talked about a while back yeah there was and we're like what the fuck are you gonna do with that shit and i don't know if it was good victor did you try it i know victor tries every oreo oh we tried it i think i think i tried it for sure i think oh you did yeah it was the before times we bought it for the office and it tasted it was probably the most uh clear like that it sets up an expectation in your mind you're like well that shouldn't be very good but right i'll try it because maybe there's something there and it's it tastes exactly like what you expect it to be right and it's not really that good for the reason that you would expect okay it's like victor in the chat said it's fucking weird it's weird yeah it's i mean the one thing that they

i think they should have instead of called it calling it the swedish fish oreo they should have called it like dirt cup because you know those like oh yeah from 20 rounds yeah yeah like that is what it evokes like gummy kind of fruit gummy candy with chocolate on top yeah gotcha gotcha that that gave me the context i needed do we now we now have evidence of what like what the fuck a swedish fish intended flavor is i feel that was one piece of context i didn't need by the way for the oreo i didn't need to be like and what is swedish fish flavoring i was just like no it's swedish fish flavor that's it's one of the it's on the elemental chart at this point swedish fish uh fish but they're um you know most people had assumed fruit punch but the flavor is actually lingonberry

a very popular berry in scandinavia oh yeah yeah i'm not familiar have you had lingonberries yeah i have the lingonberry pancake. Okay. I know it from the Big Lebowski. When the nihilists go to IHOP, they all order the lingonberry pancake. I have the lingonberry pancake. They look like cranberries. Yeah, I've had... Well, when you go to Ikea,

because you know I love the fucking Ikea fucking food court, the punch, they have lingonberry punch right there that comes out the fucking fountain. so and i always drink that because that shit is like vaguely red fun flavor uh that i really like and sometimes i even bought like the concentrated shit that the little ikea mart like on the way out but i guess it didn't it's one of those things that i've only had honestly this is how american i am the only time i've had lingonberry flavor is at ikea right so then when i'm not in that context i'm like what the fuck is this flavor like swedish fish yeah i'm wondering like what a raw lingonberry tastes like because i'm assuming

there's a reason that it hasn't like become a an ingredient as a berry itself like it seems like lingonberry flavor is its own thing and yeah yeah it seems like it's tart right so like you kind of need to process it to like get it to that flavor that the little children's like like me who have an immature palate yes anyways uh mystery solved i guess but thank god we were we were pretty pissed over here when we couldn't come up with a solution i haven't seen my family in three weeks jack because i was trying to get to the fucking bottom of this deep dive uh tiktokers are warning people not to participate in the quote lazy girl jobs trend and brag about their lax work days um so they don't unintentionally

out themselves and get fired yeah were we talking about this on mic or off mic yesterday i think i think maybe off mic yeah because when i saw this i was like the fuck a lazy girl job and again gen z i love y'all you know but a lot of the words that y'all come up with are just descriptions of shit that have been happening since time immemorial so like this, lazy girl job was coined by this one influencer. And she talked about these jobs where like, you can basically not do shit all day. Like when you're there, like,

you know, especially when you work remote and she, she made it clear. She's like, look, I'm when I talk about those lazy girl jobs, those are jobs I had. I'm not snitching on myself right now about how little i'm working only for my employer to

be like wait what the fuck like how many edibles are you cramming in like today the fuck um again so from that aspect yes it just sounds like a bullshit job where you can it's just kind of performative and we've all had those that was like david graber wrote a whole book called bullshit jobs those just like most jobs actually don't need to exist they're kind of there to give uh people someone to order around and you know create motion that creates the illusion that something is happening within the economy like if you look at day-to-day what everybody's doing a lot of the jobs i think he estimated like over half the jobs don't really need to exist but they do because because capitalism and we have to keep reinforcing this thing that the worst thing you can be is unemployed yes so we we got to keep the fucking charade going which is like again

you know we've we've got we've become so efficient yet we can't use that efficiency to work less huh okay okay impossible um all right those are some of the things that are trending on this wednesday july 19th 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 and we will talk to you all tomorrow bye bye i'm jess casaveto 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'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.

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. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just

because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.