The Daily Zeitgeist - PorTrend OreTrend 6/2: Michael Avenatti, Jack Harlow, Queen Elizabeth, Shooting Epidemic, Laura Ingraham, Elvis

Episode Date: June 2, 2022

In this edition of PorTrend OreTrend, Miles and super producer Becca discuss Michael Avenatti getting 4 years for defrauding Stormy Daniels, KFC's Jack Harlow meal, Queen Elizabeth not going to her own Jubilee, myriad shootings EVERYWHERE, Laura Ingram getting in her "Reefer Madness" bag, and Elvis' estate issuing C&D to Vegas wedding chapels.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, hello, internet. I really stumbled on that one. Maybe because it's this episode's special edition. Well, it's not a special edition, but I'm calling this one Port Trends or Trends. Because I am in Oregon at the moment. Shout out to my man on the street who pulled up and I was not prepared to say hello to Zeitgang. But good to see you, nonetheless. I am Miles.

I am joined today by Super Producer Becca Ramos. What's up, Becca? Hello, hello. Look, you're kind of jealous. You're over there. It's been so long since I've been. I haven't been back since I moved. So, almost.

So, was that pre-pandemic? Yeah, I think December 2019. So. Okay. You know, things are looking pretty green up here um i know you're there the best time of year so green yeah yeah and the sun goes down slower because you're like higher up in the earth so you get those longer days that's like my favorite shit when it's like 8 45 and you're like and you're just i have a shadow being cast yeah like

when you have a shadow a sun-based shadow at 9pm, you're living life. Alright, well, enough about what's going on here. And hey, look, if you see him in the street, say what's up. But just please come up and say, I'm Zeitgang first, so I don't get completely weirded out. Up first, Michael Avenatti is

trending. The man who made his whole name during Donald Trump's presidency representing Stormy Daniels. This dude, just want to remind you, I believe he is currently in prison right now for trying to extort Nike on a separate thing.

But he just received another four years for defrauding Stormy Daniels, who was his client, which is the whole reason like we talked that's how he got on in the whole uh yeah you know in the first place but he extorted like hundreds of thousands of dollars in book proceeds that's crazy so look at that scummy scummy guy who would have known who's that man through and through but, I mean, he's probably one of those nicer things, right?

These are like white-collar crimes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, I don't think... I mean, who knows? I'd imagine, like, those extortion, those feel like those... You go to club fed. Yeah. You do those kinds of crimes. But who knows? Who knows? But yeah, real...

Just shows, you know, all the people that we thought at one time, like this guy's a hero in the Trump era. And like this dude, also a straight up scammer, scambag. What else is trending? Jack Harlow meal. I mean, I know he's a snack, but a whole. Come on now.

Oh, that made me laugh harder than I should have. I'm sorry. I gotta go. So he's got a meal now? Oh, that made me laugh harder than I should have. I'm sorry. I've got to go. So, wait. He's got a meal now? Yeah. So, KFC, you know, I feel like they've been behind on the celebrity endorsement game. They are finally taking on a celebrity endorsement from Jack Harlow.

I guess famously from Kentucky himself. Okay. guess famously from kentucky himself uh and he's gonna have his own combo meal hand selected by him which includes brands spicy chicken sandwich mac and cheese and the secret recipe fries cider you said the brands did you get this out of adweek uh great question that sounds like i actually got it out of i think yahoo news okay that's like such trade talk when it's like the brand's spicy chicken sandwich. You know there's 11 herbs and spices. Oh, shit. Okay.

They're secret, right? They're secret 11 herbs and spices. Okay. I don't mean to pull you back into your old advertising brain when you probably know everything about KFC. See, the thing I don't like about those celebrity meals when they're just like, yeah, it's just this combination of shit we already got. And that's the Jack Harlow or like that's the, you know, little what?

I don't know. I mean, I think that was like a rapper of the year. The worst one, I think, was the Travis Scott meal from McDonald's because it literally was just a Big Mac. Like it was a Big Mac meal. Didn't it have barbecue sauce in the sandwich? No, I bought it. It's just a Big Mac. Like, it was a Big Mac meal. Didn't it have barbecue sauce in the sandwich? No, I bought it. It's just a Big Mac.

Oh, my God. Oh, it was, no, okay. It was a quarter pounder with bacon. That's what it was. That's the only difference. They put bacon and then the fries came with barbecue sauce, but everybody does that anyway, Travis. Yeah. So that's not a Travis meal. Like like it wasn't like

super special i think also i don't care how many monies you're giving away i still remember what happened to astroworld fam yeah so you're not you're not gonna you're not gonna uh philanthropy your way out of this one sir although i'm sure your representatives are like no no i think just long enough they will completely forget the tragedy uh of that of that event i mean you know what they say the devil works hard but christiana works harder so you know out here oh man okay uh next trend queen elizabeth queen elizabeth the second she will not be attending a service of thanksgiving i guess at saint paul's cathedral for her 70 year reign jubilee the platinum jubilee um apparently she was experiencing quote discomfort during the first day of the jubilee because of a parade or something how How old is this woman again? How old?

Let me look. Queen Elizabeth is 96. She's 96 years old. Let the woman rest. I mean, there's so much wrong with the monarch of England, but I'm like, yeah,

I would not be going anywhere if I was 96 year old. Put me in bed. Let me rest. Potentially forever. And be like, look, I'm 96. I'm probably going to die soon. So let's first accept that. Yeah. And be like, don't read too much into it if I'm not at

an event. Because I feel like everything's like, oh my god, she's going to die. She can't go here. It's like, she's 96, bull. Like, is your 96-old grandmother going many places? Mine wasn't. When my grandma was 96, she lived to be 101. And when she was 96, she chilled in her electric

adjustable bed all day, smoking cigarettes, drinking a little tiny can of Asahi beer because in Japan, you can buy many cans of beer, and just lived her best life watching the Tokyo Giants every day. So, you know, just do that,

whatever that is for you, Queen Elizabeth. Maybe look at old maps of the empire and be like, wow, look at all that. I used to have it like that. Wow. Shout out me and the monarchy.

All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back to talk about the other things that are trending right after this. 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,

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yeah it's definitely not getting better also like as the week has gone by more news about the um boobald uh shooting has come out of like not that we were ever surprised of how much it was mishandled by this state by the city by the police and not only is was it so mishandled but the police get 40 of the city's budget uh yeah period so it's like policing is not the answer i saw a thing where the police were saying some really bizarre line i don't know if i'm i'm i should probably research it before i say it but it was something to the effect of that the shooter had shot all of the children and no that is implication that the police may have shot somebody yes that is um what is still unfolding as well as when when i'm saying we're finding out every day how mishandled the situation was originally it was like oh no like

he uh like ramos the gunman is very weird to say um ramos the gunman uh was the one who shot all the children but now it is unclear if that is true or if there were police officers involved also shooting some of those children so like accidental wow this is so yeah and then i then i saw that like some like the police the school police force isn't uh cooperating or dragging their feet it's it's becoming very ugly and and all you see are countless reports of how distraught the community is and like the relatives that these children have left behind it's uh you know to go along with the the whole shooting and there are all kinds of narratives obviously on the right they can like greg abbott had a special session about how to curb like school shootings not a single

item about gun control on there it's never it's my mom i was talking to her the other day about it and she was like i was like how are you feeling you know as a teacher in texas and she was like i don't know when i signed up to be a first responder you know when i started teaching 19 years ago i did it because it was a very convenient thing for my children at the time because we were in school and she could have the same hours as us and then also you know she's an amazing teacher i would say she saved many kids lives she's helped kids who have parents have been deported um in immigration and gotten kids to college and she was just like naturally made to be a teacher because she's good at teaching, at helping children, not being a COVID first responder,

making sure she doesn't die on the job because these kids that don't wear masks are giving her COVID. She did not know that she had to become a, you know, a police officer in her own classroom, protecting children from being shot. Like it's just absolutely insane the emotional burden we

put on our educators who are not getting paid nearly as much as police officers whose jobs they are refusing to do so we gotta call our representatives and vote yeah vote I mean maybe vote these motherfuckers out too if they're just gonna cape for

yeah the local level shit is important so like don't forget that and i would rather you'd rather have people who are out here saying stuff like you know what you know who needs to have police budgets teachers that's where that money needs to go to be honest yeah but they actually ensure like you're saying outcomes for people and i can think of many teachers who are like so important for me to like not become completely like nihilistic or like not think i could do something or do or give me the belief that i could do something and how much that all adds up but i mean do they that those the same police in texas were bragging about how they had like body armor that was rated for to protect them from like rifle rounds no they literally have military grade equipment and body armor and yet 19 children are dead like make it

make sense yeah and the only sense it needs to make is that we are it's as clear as day we're not we don't we're not emphasizing the actual people that need help or protection um and then so so to go along with that weed is trending because laura ingram is out here saying that weed is actually causing the mass shootings not the guns or the bullets that do the destruction it's the weed that someone may have smoked and her like i guess latest report or stand-up bit whatever you want to call it quote the american people are hearing a lot about ar-15s and background checks, but they also deserve to hear about this.

And she was saying that there's a, quote, reported link between weed and several mass shooters based on a single study about saying, like, oh, a person, this one mass shooter had smoked weed prior to committing the shooting and all these other things. I'm like, okay, the dude,

let me see some, let me see some, uh, fact check on, uh, alcohol and crime. Literally. What kind of crimes are being,

let me see. And I would just love, cause that's legal. I love how they've like thrown out. Like when you take a basic science class, like I had to take a couple of labs when I was in college and they do like the scientific method and they're like how correlation is not causation and it's like huh reporters

love right wing reporters love to forget that like correlation is not causation just because someone smoked weed does not mean they gunned down a school and let me tell you anytime I've smoked weed I have gone to bed literally I can't even play call of duty well no I can't do anything Let me tell you, anytime I smoke weed, I have gone to bed. Yeah. Literally.

I can't even play Call of Duty well. No, I can't do anything. I'm watching a movie and I'm going to bed. Yeah. But, you know, we have to, like, that old racist myth shows its head again. The demon weed. And then finally, Elvis Wedding is trending because there's this report so the company there's this company that handles all the licensing for like the elvis presley estate and they are trying to stop like these two well-known elvis impersonators from doing

weddings in las vegas like apparently the mayor of vegas and the governor of nevada has like their back but this company is like you need to immediately cease and desist from all of this and these guys are out here saying like you know if Elvis were alive today he would be cool with it which you know I mean we saw them recently I think Travis and

Courtney got married by an Elvis impersonator so and like that's one of those dudes like it's the same people we see like even when that Jonas brother got married to a homegirl from Game of Thrones. I don't know anybody's names. That's how I speak because I'm almost 40. Another that's very

iconic, I guess, Elvis impersonator. Part of me is like, who gives a shit? I know. Are they taking that much business away from you? These two individuals and other people impersonating some dude who stole a bunch of black art? I mean, cool.

Let's just let them get married. People don't have better things to do. It's like scammers are petty. People love to be petty. That's what they're hired to do you know it's like that's there's a check there's a check in it for them they're like look if we can get these damn guys to stop doing the weddings then we'll run the elvis wedding racket and we can make seventy thousand dollars a year um for one an industry i don't know uh so good luck to them uh you know but i i feel like elvis wedding

impersonators are like probably the most american thing we have next absolutely that's what i'm thinking i was like get rid of them like that's incredibly american yeah like that's all we think of is vegas oh honestly if you said vegas and you wanted to be super cliche about what you're and you can't say casinos I would probably say Elvis impersonator or quick or drive through a chapel yeah exactly if you had to get married

Elvis impersonator right exactly it's never anything else if you had to get married by a celebrity impersonator just for the fun do you have someone that you would think you would have a good time? Obviously, knowing that this is not a serious wedding, it's just for the lols. That's a great question. I feel like I would do Beyonce.

Just because I'll never be able to meet Beyonce. So, like, it would be nice. My dream would be to meet Beyonce. So like it would be nice. My dream would be to meet Beyonce. But if I could have celebrity Beyonce that'd be good. Well let's put that in the air. And maybe you know what? Maybe a real Beyonce can marry. And then we can all have a tree together. I think I would have a

maybe like a prince impersonator. That would be a good way. Or just for fun like Shanaynay from Martin. I would probably do something weird, something comedic, more than like pop culture icons. Anyway, I'll think about it and I'll let y'all know

what I come up with. A deep think about it. Alright, well that is going to do it for today. Check us out tomorrow. We got a whole new episode with more fun and more talk about our country. And yeah, until

then, please take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Please get vaccinated if you haven't. Please, please, please do whatever you can to fight white supremacy, misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, any kind of discrimination because we need as many good people out there as

possible. Yeah, happy pride. Alright, y'all, thank you so much. Yeah, happy pride, too. We'll see you soon, and we'll talk to you tomorrow. Okay, 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-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese

People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry.

Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way

we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlyn 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.