The Daily Zeitgeist - Shohei OTrendy 3/21: Gaza Ceasefire, Subway, Apple vs. DoJ, Shohei Ohtani, Kyle Rittenhouse

Episode Date: March 21, 2024

In this edition of Shohei OTrendy, Jack and Miles discuss the US "finally" "demanding" a "ceasefire", Subway switching to Pepsi, the DoJ suing Apple (again) over alleged iPhone monopoly, the Dodgers firing Shohei Ohtani's interpreter amid allegation of 'massive theft', and an update on America's Sweetheart, Kyle RittenhousSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet and welcome to this episode of Shohei O Trendy. My name is Jack. That is

Miles and there is nothing to see here. That's all we're going to be saying about Shohei Ohtani. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Move along. What are you to be saying about Shohei Watani. Nothing to see here. Move along, Greeks. Nothing to see here. Move along. What are you looking at? What are you looking at, huh?

What's the... Someone posted... This guy's fun to see hit dingers and throw fastballs. Exactly. There was a thing someone posted on Twitter that like when the Mark McGuire episode of The Simpsons. He's like, hey, kid, do you want to know the terrifying truth that you want to see me hit a couple dingers that was a great episode where it was implied that major league baseball was like behind all the great crimes yeah yeah um hey well speaking about behind the great crimes

of the world um so that big news the u.s has demanded an immediate ceasefire. And that's it. Again, nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Don't look too deep. We can stop paying attention to that sad story. Okay. You just, we're good here. They've demanded a ceasefire.

Ceasefire. There's so many. Hold on. U.S. If I just see what the headlines are the u.s finally back to ceasefire u.s to bring resolution it was ceasefire u.s pushes for gaza ceasefire and i repeat we're good here baby uh we're the good guys again that's the thing right all those headlines that would have you believe that the u.s has finally i think the daily beast was like the

u.s is finally asking for a ceasefire an an immediate ceasefire, and that being the new policy. And a lot of the coverage has the tone of, like, the U.S. is really changing their tune here. And while that may be true in a rhetorical sense, the actual wording of the resolution that was recently submitted on Wednesday is pretty vague. It actually says, quote, because, you know, it's know it's like saying like please can we all agree to this resolution that the u.n security council quote determines the imperative of an immediate and sustained ceasefire to protect civilians on all sides allow for the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and alleviate humanitarian suffering and towards that end unequivocally supports ongoing international diplomatic efforts to secure such a ceasefire

in connection with the release of all remaining hostages so my reading we said they were changing their tune miles that's like a tonal shift not content we didn't say changing the content the lyrical content no it's a tone it's a tonal yeah yeah vibes the vibes have shifted there's a tonal. Yeah. Vibes. The vibes have shifted. There's a vibe shift. That's what they want the headlines to feel like. And look, my reading comprehension is not great, but it sounds like the only thing here that is quite literally unequivocal

is the support for continued negotiations. The ceasefire part is more like, yeah, it's really, I mean, determines the imperative of an immediate like language matters here because the u.s has already vetoed three prior resolutions that was put in front of the u.n security council the last one from algeria and the difference between all of those was they demanded a ceasefire that was respected on all sides this does not have that same language so again the very i guess charitable reading of this resolution is that the u.s is going for something that is worded like in a way that can just bring in a large coalition of support um

but again if that was the case there are already bills like this it was really about a ceasefire and in exchange for hostages there this kinds of these kinds of things have been proposed like hamas also tried to previously negotiate a ceasefire and end to hostilities in exchange for hostages and israel rejected that right so you know again i'm not convinced that the u.s has achieved a tangible change of heart here especially when you consider the fact that financial and military aid continues to flow into the country flow in that direction yeah um and you know there there have been a lot of noises though out of the u.s that made it seem like there was a shift here although it seems like more of an

optics game like chuck schumer was like i think i think israel needs new elections and there were sanctions against settlers that the biden administration announced but you know people who are like really tapped into like what those sanctions mean and really how what the effect it's supposed to have, they say they fall woefully short because when you look at the violence that's even happened in the West Bank, there have been 600 attacks by settlers in the West Bank since

October 7th. The UN found that in at least half of those, the Israeli military also participated. So you can't just sanction these private citizens. You have to also sanction the government or else there's really there's really nothing there again except for vibe shifts headlines that say these things but functionally aren't materially changing things for the better

yeah it feels like they will do the least they can possibly get away with doing and they've realized because of the public backlash they've realized that they can't get away with doing nothing they're yeah they're not going to immediately we're not gonna do something i mean that's whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa it's so cynical you know at the end of the day and like and then to have like because only now it's interesting, there are a couple articles I was looking at where they've added a little bit more texture, where it says, like, the U.S. is backing a ceasefire. But the nuances in its U.N. resolution show the tightrope it walks a little bit more, like, not so forceful about it. But, yeah, we'll see. I mean, like, this is something that who knows the language

could change a bit could or couldn't at the very least it's just a rhetorical shift but i'm sorry miles do you not want to see someone walk a tightrope that shit is tight man people like go to go to the circus yeah i'm sorry tiktok has tiktok has turned me into one of those zombie freaks who doesn't like to watch innocent children die. That's why we got to ban TikTok. Yeah. All right. People are apparently not happy about a change happening at Subway.

Daily Zeitgeist trademark pivot right there. I'll tell you what else people are upset about, Miles. Oh, God, no. mean subway's getting rid of coke subway is getting rid of coke and switching to betsy baby um so this is happening january 1st 2025 okay so if you spend new year's at a subway you could order a mountain dew at 1201 if you hate yourself oh come on you're getting them 1201 thanks for pretty much blowing the lid off what i do every new year's i go to subway i blow they're not open so i break into a subway make myself a tuna sangway and now wash it down with a mountain dew oh wow i mean, I'm for any place I can get a nice Fountain Dew, a little Fountain Mountain Dew.

Except for at the Austin airport. Except for at the Austin airport. We were getting barbecue and I was like, I felt like I was ordering for my partner. They're like, oh, what do you want for the fountain drink? And I saw all the options. Like, there's Dew. And I said, yeah. He's going to want Mountain Dew. Let me take a Mountain Dew. The way I said, I got you a Mountain Dew. You're like, oh do you want for the fountain drink and i saw all the options like there's dew and i said yeah mountain dew let me take a mountain dude the way i said i got you a mountain dude like oh i don't know why i don't know i better not yeah man you know i turn into

a werewolf when i get the dew i can't drink a mountain dew before i get on like a five hour flight yeah so people are gonna get hurt yeah so i pounded some Big Red. Shout out to Big Red. A lightly caffeinated hyper sugary beverage. It makes sense to me. This doesn't really make sense from a consumer perspective. Subway going Pepsi

because I think of Subway as the healthy option. Healthy fast food option. And Coke has the two best low-calorie beverages, I think, or at least the two most popular. Hashtag not an ad. Hashtag not an ad. Just facts.

These are the two most popular. On the other hand, I'm just here to envision possibility what if mountain dew work with subway to create their own version of baja blast that was like kind of appropriate i don't know what would be appropriate to subway you know yeah like captures the strip mall midwestern vibes yeah subway maybe like lake turon fish piss you know what i mean yummy concrete sewer creek that's fizzing for some reason like that's that weird bubbling yeah like what is decomposing down there that shit should not be bubbling like no no Car mechanic runoff. Like something that's like, you know, but then like with a little pizzazz.

Car mechanic runoff pizzazz. Like subway tunnel juice. Yes, subway tunnel juice. Just evoke the fact, because I remember like back in the day, they would have like old timey depictions of like the New York subway. The New York subway, yeah. You know, that's kind of what they were,

they were going for us. This is actually the decomposing corpse of a Italian laborer. Yeah, exactly. Oh, that's spicy. Yeah. You know, it's funny though,

too. In my mind, I don't, I felt like subway never served Coke. I don't know why. Yeah. No, I remember the DCs going to get a nice turkey sub, a diet Coke, or a diet Sprite

when I was really at my lowest point. Yeah. But I guess because I would always get Orange Bang at the one I would go to. Orange Bang? Yeah. I think it must be like a franchise to franchise you don't know orange bang full no well you don't know orange bang horchata oleful and jamaica

oleful no dude you've never seen there are these like these are like these local fountain drinks i guess this is like only a california thing you never seen this shit yeah why does that one have like a head like a pilsner on top of it because it's orange bang baby and it's like a off-brand orange julius oh shit it's orange bang because yeah exclamation point oh brian brian the editor just said orange bang is not at every subway anyway so that's my privilege orange bang is orange bang caffeinated name like that i gotta a no no all right it has egg whites in it though that's why it's foamy damn egg whites yeah egg cream yeah man anyway sorry just i'm having my own like mandela effect moment here and i'm like they always had pepsi but was orange bang

a pepsi product no orange bang is like its own thing yeah that shit looks like it was like mixed up in the parking lot hey whatever it tastes it's bomb as fuck though so the job done yeah anyways i think i i see the complaints i see i also see you know some possibilities for a mountain dew centric or a subway centric mountain dew flavor so uh stay tuned we will be keeping our eye on that one we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back 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.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. get your podcast the black effect podcast network is sponsored by diet coke and we're back we're back and the doj under joe biden again back at it again man in the white slaying the goliaths yeah you know the little guy the department of justice hey third times third times the what is it a charm right yeah third times third time third time just means there'll be a fourth time maybe that's right to sue apple so uh they just filed a quote landmark lawsuit against apple accusing them of anti-competitive practices and monopolizing the smartphone market apple denies the claims um but merrick garland said apple quote undermines apps products and services that would otherwise make users less reliant on the iphone and lower costs for consumers

and developers yeah yeah some sneaky stuff you know i think like most people know if you've ever tried to like marry an apple and a non-apple product that in any sane universe they would work together you're like fuck man it's better i just get the fucking apple watch yeah fuck man i might as well get the fucking airpods yeah that's that's what that's what this is about like i mean that's just one dimension of it but that's an example of how they you know they keep you with those little shocks to be like that's right just stay in my lane and obviously going green on on my message is obviously the the biggest i think example of how they subtly nudge people towards being like you don't want to inconvenience everybody you know right by being going green on the chat you look ridiculous right now um the lawsuit lists a number of allegedly

sketchy practices which include blocking cloud streaming apps that would lower the need for more expensive hardware uh sabotaging the quality of messages between iphones and non-iphones making it hard to use non-apple smart watches with with the iPhone blocking third-party companies who make digital wallets. This is probably the most damning, but as mentioned, it's the third time that the DOJ has sued Apple since 2009. And Apple's barely

hanging on. They're against the ropes, y'all. They really are hiding away. Are they still using Ireland as a tax haven i think so yeah continue wow anyway so they're on the ropes um and let's see what i would love to just yeah fucking fuck these monopolies up please but like what what took so goddamn long and are you actually going to be able to do it because my god the amount of money that Apple is going to fucking pour into this

shit for like having kids who are between the ages of like you know who are just in kindergarten first grade there's a lot of apps that you have to like download like educational apps like reading and

I got they are yeah oh you got bright wheel you're in the bright wheel gang you got bright wheel dude oh and bright wheel i got they are yeah oh you got bright wheel you're in the bright wheel gang you got bright dude oh yeah bright wheel big big big bright wheel family it also reminded me how terrible the communication used to be when we were kids between like you know there's so many apps now to let parents know what's going on and like when i was a kid it's like you either they didn't you didn't hear shit or maybe they send a note home with you that you would throw away and not give to your parents yeah the um yeah and you just had like we had a password our family just had a password that was like if somebody picks you up and you don't

recognize them this is the word right that means that i don't know them teacher yeah um but a lot of the apps are glitchy as fuck. Like the app store is not, it's not great. It feels like it could be better. There's, there's multiple times a year that I just have the thought of like, shouldn't this be better? Like shouldn't the iTunes,

whatever they call it these days, like, shouldn't this all be better and easier to like sync up? And it's, it's really kind of a mess yeah yeah i don't know again like the way you know you always hear app developers talk about how difficult it is to get into the apple app store yeah and how much again like you're if if this is like the free market you know you want to have people be able to contribute in every single

way they can't yeah um but yeah man just let's see let's see what you got doj let's see if you if keep that same energy in court and like let's get let's get a result here let's go let's go let's fucking go quote merrick garland um all right Shohei Otani his interpreter was fired Amit like so there was 4.5 million dollars sent from Shohei Otani's bank account to a bookmaker

and and not a publisher of books someone who takes illegal not Penguin Random House but to you know someone who takes no yeah not penguin random house um but to uh you know somebody who takes bets and that is generally like that's a lot of gambling money um for somebody who is the michael jordan of baseball um but might be the michael j Jordan of baseball in other ways in that best to ever do it and also

massive gambling problem that has to be ignored we don't know I truly can't tell if this is a scenario where the internet just goes for the wildest possible scenario right away or if it's just suspicious yeah uh mizuhara ipe is the name of his interpreter yeah it's interesting because they were playing a game in seoul prior to like all these allegations coming out and in that like they're just talking yeah like two friends not

very friendly somebody like yo you stole you stole four and a half a mil from the room his his claim his team's claim is that he that that money had been stolen from him uh to like make bets and then he was like paying it to the bookmaker but it was like his interpreter who was placing the bets yeah it's not even really suspicious it just looks like a blatant like i don't know i didn't realize that it was like a hit from his bank account to the bookmaker yeah it's directly from shohei otani's bank account. That's what all the wires show. But like, again,

yeah. So it's, it's either Shohei Otani is spending millions of dollars on sports or this other guy, the, or, you know, his interpreter maybe needed some help and he bailed him out or he stole it. But then also I can also see in a very like japanese way that the interpreter is like be

like yo bro i'll fucking take this one yeah just fucking like you're too like you're too big bro we can't have you can't have your shine you can't have your shine dulled in any way by a scandal like i'll fucking let me tell him tell him it was me man um so you don't know but this is the one thing is like i don't know i don't see how this affects him at all like Shoei Otani like they're like they stand to make way too much money off this guy for it to really turn into a scandal but like there are people like you need to investigate

him now I mean they're gonna have to investigate him like it's too suspicious and out in the open at this point like they cover-up time is over. Now that it's being reported that there was

a payment from his bank account to a gambling company for $4.5 million. There's not much you can do at that point to be like, nah, it turns out he told us it wasn't his and we trust him.

Now watch us hit some dingers. Rob Manfred, the commissioner of baseball, was like, we looked into it, man. He's fine. He's fine, man. But enjoy Shohei Bobblehead night. Let's make sure we're out there. Also for

Japanese American Pride night, he'll also're out there for also for japanese american pride night uh he'll also be out there just buy your tickets folks there's nothing to see here this is we need this we really need this man um and finally uh kyle rittenhouse we do want to check in with with our guy little buddy uh i can't even i can't even stomach that as a joke. Yeah, no, just the worst. So what's he been up to? He wrote a book called Acquitted, which rocketed to number 9,569 on the Amazon charts.

Just stratosphere, baby, yeah. And they were like, well, clearly there's a hunger to hear his thoughts on things. And so he's now on a college speaking tour put on by Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA. Yeah, man.

The Rittenhouse Recap, man. That's what we're calling it. And then there's just the poster that they put out like he just i don't know it's uh there they say that ridden house is talking about the second amendment which is like if a school booked a lecture on urban safety by jack the ripper yeah this is not your guy yeah second amendment the fucking kid who shot up okay so this is this is the poster boy for them illegally acquired yeah yeah so you quote addresses the quote lies of blm um and uh so this week he

showed up at the university of memphis and it didn't go well no um he hopped on the stage with a golden retriever in tow and apparently this dog is his ptsd therapy dog um and as jm puts it this is the bleakest possible airbus sequel hey no law that says a dog can't yeah assist uh be with someone who a trash monster. Who is probably just... Anyway. So the event had 200 protesters outside and that was even more than the people inside who were also protesters.

There's just this clip that's going around of just yeah, oh man, it couldn't have happened to a worse guy. Yeah. So they're taking questions from the audience, and this happens. Yeah, he's asked about, hey, your friend Charlie Kirk, who's like bankrolling this, isn't he racist? Yeah. He says we shouldn't celebrate Juneteenth.

We shouldn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day. We should be working those days. It's called Katani Brown Jackson Affirmative Action Hire. He's telling nonsense about George Floyd. And he said he'd be scared if a black pilot was on a plane. in those days it's called katani brown jackson an affirmative action hire he's tailed to nonsense about george floyd and he said he'd be scared if a black pilot was on a plane does that not seem racist i don't know anything about that they answer no no no does that seem racist is a yes or no question kyle after all the things i just told you would you consider that hate speech i'm not gonna call him on that there's not a single i think there's like three people who are there to actually see him now a guy's like hey all right let's go

they just so he leaves with his fucking dog he like yes the dog the dog was laying down and like did not realize he was moving so the first couple steps yeah take me away let's get out of here um but you know what noelle's taken according to uh uh he's just uh that that was actually he was not booed off stage that was uh because of a like the the show was so off the hook that he like the local authorities were saying that he had to like shut it down or else he's gonna wake up all the neighbors yeah the fire marshal said he's gonna shut us down but here's here's here's how he said he no else taken on that one and i think it's funny uh that a lot of the media is saying we got boot off stage. In reality, we did a hard cutoff time and just happened to leave at that.

Great event. We did a hard cutoff time when the question and answer segment had me actually have to stand to account for the words that someone who I agree with said. And I just. Oh, my God. It's like just the biggest, like fakest smile on his face him and his oh yeah yeah dude this yeah yeah it's like that smile that has l written all over right we we actually absolutely nailed it up there and people were like kind of so into it did he not know did he think that there weren't cameras inside the thing that showed what happened

um no yeah I don't know I guess not you know just like yeah like you know how like all the great artists do it like just like they're in the middle of their encore and then someone fucking goes get the fuck out of here man they're fucking on to us and then you're in the concert

just like how Taylor Swift does it yeah that happens all the time. Yeah. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to y'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 cleo gray former member of 7m films and shekinah church and we're the host of the new podcast forgive me Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice.

And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.