The Daily Zeitgeist - Supersonic Trendsport 5/19: Jim Brown, Ron DeSantis, Travel Advisory, Don Trump Jr., Apple, NBA

Episode Date: May 19, 2023

In this edition of Supersonic Trendsport, Jack and Miles discuss the passing of the great Jim Brown, Ron DeSantis' possible presidential bid announcement, foreign travel advisories against the U.S., Donald Trump Jr. launching a non-woke men's lifestyle magazine (in 2023), Apple getting sued for charging its users more in DoorDash, and NBA news!See 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. 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

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of supersonic trends sport uh it's courtesy of pat on the discord who apparently every time he read that we were looking for sSTs, he read it as supersonic transports. I saw someone else on the Discord thought it meant super producer sex tapes. Yeah. I mean, that's their thing. They were just trying to manifest that into existence. Yeah.

It's a short show title. Had you heard of supersonic transport as even a phrase? I mean, when you said know what it is i thought it maybe was a reference to some sci-fi thing like sounds like a company that a character in a sci-fi movie might work for it's like yeah we were at work at supersonic transport i i think it probably came into like popularity because of the um jj fad the song supersonic yeah supersonic but that was like one of those big deals like the

breaking the four minute barrier on the mile and breaking the sound barrier sound speed barrier it's like a huge deal and then everyone just takes it for granted but yeah look at us and look where we're at now look at us now I was actually just listening to a really

On the media episode Where they were talking about how It creates this massive boom Every time something breaks into That's what a sonic boom is It creates this massive Physics Event

That just travels They can't do it over land or else it'll just like break all the windows and shit i remember yeah like when the space shuttle would come back and we could hear it in california sometimes yeah i remember happened like twice when we're at school and out of science teacher like we're gonna go listen out for the sonic boom wow you could hear it yeah it wasn't like super loud but it was enough to be like like you if you listened you could hear it be like you're like that was like a medium sonic i'm like bro that was super that was sonic i don't know out of here um all right well rip the goat and various

uh derivations of that are trending because jim brown the greatest football player to ever live the greatest lacrosse player to ever live what uh yeah live, the greatest lacrosse player to ever live. What? Yeah, he's the greatest lacrosse player to ever live. He played it at Syracuse and is by far the best to ever do it. Take that, too. Exactly, Jim Brown. I'll try this sport.

Also, an amazing activist and actor in blaxploitation films and uh just films in general um yeah retired at the height of fucking high of his career yeah that's what i think honestly makes him like he peaced out because he's like i'm i have more important things to focus on like civil rights. Yes. Uh, yeah, just, just, uh, a gigantic figure and great actor, man.

I loved him in Mars attacks. Yeah. The way he punched that fucking aliens, little glass dome piece. Yeah. Fuck them up. One of the greats. Yeah.

also apparently the retirement wasn't like something he had planned. It was just, he was filming the dirty dozen and like bad weather caused the shoot to go long and his nfl team owner was like i'm gonna fine your ass if you don't come back and he was like oh okay i retire how's that then so always always fighting the good fight yeah um yeah never let somebody punk you like that especially too when he knew he's like man i got i have way more to offer than what i offer you yes all right ron desantis is all over the mainstream media because they're expecting him to announce that he's running for president

next week and at the same time just took a political hit because disney was going to create this two billion dollar campus what's that one billion one billion oh one billion i don't want to i don't act like they're that ball and it was only going to be a bill only a billion yeah uh that was going to bring 2 000 jobs to florida and they pulled out because of like specifically naming him as like the reason that yeah uh yeah it was going to be like sounds like kind of like a company town too or like it was going to house like people from like imagineering sort of sounded a little dystopian like this campus they were about to build that's why it's no good to have any side in this fight yeah it's like i don't know man just as long as fascism loses that's's the primary. And just however that happens.

Great. But yeah, this is just the ongoing spat with Disney. And it's true. I mean, like he's sending troops to the fucking border, like in Texas. He's he's doing the most right now. The last bathroom bill he just signed is so fucked up and backwards. Like he is. Yeah.

He is basically saying, like, I'm auditioning for the part of most heinous asshole with a legislative power yeah um so we'll see how that goes and and pierce morgan is already like you can already tell he's already he's already getting the table set because he's like oh just like i don't i can't i can't imagine why people wouldn't choose the iran over the dawn oh damn yeah okay well i i was gonna say that this is only a story in the mainstream media because that's the only place that his candidacy like really seems to make sense uh but now that i've heard the ron over the dawn yeah talking point he might be uh donald trump might be fucked well did you see the time magazine cover is that a real cover i couldn't tell if that was a real cover it looks looks like AI art, to be honest.

Yeah. If it is, in fact, real, we should just make sure. But it's him peeling an orange very menacingly. Yeah. No, no, it's real. It's real. That's tough, man.

And those hands look strong. You can't tell because it's already been started, but it almost seems like he started the orange himself without any help so he is pretty tough and the big boy and behind the scenes okay just yeah just ron just focus on the camera and you know just whatever happens the orange happens i can't do it yeah i can't well it also plays into his uh pudding finger blasting pudding thing like you know he's doing finger blasting a navel orange digital work to get that orange open and people said my digital campaign was lacking look at these meaty thingy those hands are meatballs though my goodness

he's got hands like christmas hams i tell you those big bear paws uh he so he said on a call with donors you have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing biden trump and me and i think of those three to have a chance to get elected president biden and me based on all the data and the swing states uh which is not great for the former president probably insurmountable because people aren't going to change their view of him he's like this i like that already tells me all he he's not like trump is going to be making fun of him all all over the place and he's going to be like well the data is not great for him so uh vote for me. I went to Yale.

All right. Sure. Cool. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of write ups happening. So, you know, it's coming. It's just going to be fun to watch them fight. It's going to be such an L he announces. And then he just capitulates to Trump immediately.

Dude, what the fuck? Yeah. What kind of Connor Roy as campaign are you running right now? He's just going to roll now he's just gonna roll over literally roll over and show his belly show his little tummy his tum tum but like people were kind of wondering what he was waiting for and like that that nothing has changed from the point before where it didn't make sense for him to run against trump because he like can't tactically does it he seems like he doesn't believe he can say anything mean about Trump.

Um, which is going to make it impossible for him to run against Trump. But the thing, it turns out he was waiting for was like to get his bullshit mainstream media PR push lined up. So they're like, okay, so we got,

got a may time magazine cover. Um, great. Try it. Tried three different poses. And we were, we're kind of liking this one with with the meatball fingers peeling an orange uh so it'll be it'll be i'd say it'll be interesting it's not going to be interesting it seems like it's going to be pretty boring yeah but hey look i'm i'd love to be surprised and watch two goofballs go at it

and over who's more racist yeah in which case we're all gonna lose but hey yeah that's just the way it goes sometimes there are this is a daily star article so that's just like a very poor england uk tabloid london tabloid. London tabloid. Yeah. But they compiled a bunch of statements from other countries, like travel bureaus, about the 2026 World Cup that is happening in North America, Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

And many countries are kind of warning people not to travel to the United States of those three. They're like, that place is super fucking dangerous. Everybody owns guns and are shooting you if you knock on their door. It's wild when you, I mean, again,

this is how desensitized we are to our own situation in the United States, but to hear a foreign policy-esque description of the United States, you're like, oh my God, yeah yeah this is all true the rate of firearm possession in the u.s is high it's legal in many states for u.s citizens to openly carry firearms in public incidences of mass shootings occur resulting most often in casualties like oh my yep yeah yeah everybody's basically i mean like because none of these countries like don't have guns. They're like, yeah, just so you, I mean, yeah, what you see is real, like fucking guns everywhere over that place and no social safety nets, uh, and all kinds of extremism. So yeah, yeah. Not a good recipe.

and they're like, I came to America and I thought like everybody'd be wearing a cowboy hat and, you know, uh, driving around on like with, with guns. And, uh, it turns out not everybody's wearing cowboy hats.

Yeah. But, uh, the other part is true. Um, a lot of people, the scarier, more dangerous part is true.

Yeah. I went, um, and I tried to even, I was on, I've, you know, I'm single.

So I went on Tinder to maybe meet a local person and a gun showed up to my day it was a sentient pistol have you heard that term aphirican aphirican no yeah i saw it in a tiktok video but it's just like an interesting way to describe i think is someone from uh europe describing how like when americans like are like in a outside of the u.s but still react to their environments as if they have the same existential threats that are posed to them in the u.s like a big like a bang or something around them like they would like sort of jump at us thinking gunfire or something while it might just be something else because we take all these other anxieties with us wherever we go that are very purely ours yeah we are a scared people uh and yes sometimes for good reason and sometimes the fact that

everybody's so scared is the thing to be afraid of yeah because it's wild when you go like when i mean i think most people experience this too you travel abroad and like even if it's not necessarily like a violent thing you're like oh my Oh my, for a second, I thought I was in America still. Right? No, no. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come 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

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts and don't worry we promise to avoid any black holes most of the time and we're back and donald trump jr he has this brilliant cutting edge idea to launch a magazine oh specifically hold on what is wait what is him what i'm sorry what is this word he's going when i was working at cracked and they were like you know i was on the website but they were relaunching the magazine in like the year 20 2000 and like three 2005 i guess it was. Everybody at that time was like, launching a magazine in 2005. Good call, guys.

Everybody at that time already knew magazines aren't launching. They're dying. What are you doing? Apparently, that message hasn't gotten to Donald Trump Jr. He's publishing a non-woke men's lifestyle magazine

that is an offshoot of Trump Jr.'s lifestyle publishing a non-woke men's lifestyle magazine that is an offshoot of Trump Jr.'s lifestyle brand Field Ethos. Field Ethos, wow. Which is already a website and podcast made by old school adventurers who make no apologies for who we are.

This part gave me one of the strongest cases of douche chills I've had in five years, this part gave me one of the strongest cases of douche chills I've had in like five years. This part. And by sundown, they're whiskey fueled philosophers by a campfire. Whiskey fueled philosopher is a beautiful euphemism for an alcoholic xenophobe. Like really, truly, truly a men's rights activist who's had a little too much whiskey by an open flame sitting by an open fire saying the dumbest shit that you could possibly think about it oh no

if i don't and what says old school adventure more than gunning down an endangered sheep on the american taxpayers dime which is what he did uh Apparently took a hunting trip to Mongolia last year that reportedly cost US taxpayers over $75,000. Or I guess it was, you know, when Trump was still president. He also went on a bear hunt in Utah and his hunting guide is now facing five years in state prison because of a bear that Donald Trump Jr. illegally shot. So this is just kind of any because of a bear that donald trump jr illegally shot so this is just felony killing of a bear basically but doju is the trigger man but the guy is the fall guy

yeah uh wow wow wow but yeah feel these i mean yeah cool non-woke men's magazine we were just talking about this was called stuff and maxim yes yeah well it's time to bring them back because those were cool and not completely out of things you can look at pictures of dead animals in it though too now not just boobies also this is apparently already a quote lifestyle brand and what says a rugged masculinity like toasting the premature death of a elephant with a couple of manly mimosas in the 45 official field ethos mimosa set um okay you can buy on their set on their website what is a fucking mimosa set exactly i believe it's just two glasses that are like those little champagne flutes without the stems they're two stemless ones and because you are such a fucking loser hunter fuck who doesn't know anything about you

buy your donald trump it has like like radiated lines on it tell you like this much champagne and this much oj oh cool oh that's helpful that's useful um like they it seems like it's just a product that is also sold with like goop branding on it and it's just like a thing that you know is made in a factory and then you just can screen print or you know a laser matrix dot print like the logo fe field ethos on it dude the fucking merch store is infuriating i can't i can't even i can't man let's just move on hey man they're just whiskey fueled philosophers by the campfire um oh kill me now just truly kill me now like i might not i might not survive having to sit next to one of those guys at a campfire. Jack, you like philosophy, don't you?

Philosophy major yourself. Which somehow makes me think that I would be a particularly bad candidate for sitting and enduring that. You'd probably be like, that's not philosophical. Forget it, man. You're just saying really fucked up, heinous shit. There is a lawsuit claiming that Apple users are charged more

for delivery on DoorDash. A DoorDash subscriber claims that expanded range fees don't accurately judge a restaurant's location and cost iPhone users more than Android. Which, sure. Hey man, that's racism. Yeah, that's anti-iPhone racism.

I hate it. I hate it. I mean, what is true is though, a lot of like when you order food like through a delivery app like that, if the restaurant offers their own delivery, you should always use that one. Always. Because the prices are different when you look.

At least in LA la i've noticed that a lot like that there'll be a upcharge on a lot of dishes because you're you're doing through like an uber eats or dash door as i call it yeah so they basically use this expanded range fee as a way to be like these dipshits bought a two thousand dollar phone so we can charge them up we can charge them a lot more money. And then we're going to pass that on to the worker? Oh no. No, no, no. This is just something that somebody who works

at corporate came up with and we've been making money and they got extra bonus points. And now they don't work in a cubicle. They work in a corner office. How do you think that was presented in a meeting when whatever fucking craven genius came up with the expanded range fee to fucking build more?

And we just other found like really, like, you know, the growth opportunities are really at the margins. You know what I mean? Yeah. And we've seen that with expanding our range fees, like having expanded range fees doesn't actually dissuade a lot of our consumers

that are using iPhones. We've noticed that they might be in a slightly different socioeconomic reality than some of the other customers so yeah yeah so uh we're projecting and this is what it looks like it'll do to our bottom line oh we love it bradley fucking profit dude yes yes yes yes yes just imagine a bunch of fucking just crazy drug-fueled business people like yes yeah we're just like slowly dying on the inside business people um oh yeah they stink because they're dying on the inside but but this is the entire economy now is just everything's so complicated and out of sight and it's just

finding ways to just like wedge in there and get a little bit more money for people um fact and it's yeah it's illegal when a scammer does it and as we talked about like somebody was spoofing the site of a local restaurant and you would go to that and order the food and then they would place the delivery for you, but charge you like 20% extra. And there's like, yeah, these people like nobody has time to pay attention to any of this shit.

So we can just make an entire business out of charging people 20% extra for nothing. Uh, so anyways, the corporate headquarters have also figured this out 100 they don't fucking know they don't fucking care yeah finally lakers tough tough start to the western conference finals starts denver nuggets they're they're serving us are good they're serving us nuggets every night nuggets are on the menu boys and you're gonna be force-fed

them because my god jamal murray what was he doing what is he doing out there he's out of his gourd on the floor uh joker like a little less uh you know gave gave us a little less of the business than in game one but i'm looking that and i gotta say jack i hate to say this i'm worried about lebron james he um i'm worried about lebron james i am worried about lebron james he is he looks very hurt and not of himself yeah there there was one moment where he was on a breakaway and just like control of the ball. Yeah, was about to just dunk nastily. He was rocking that thing. And instead just lost the ball. So my theory on what's going on with LeBron James is,

I mentioned this in the thread, and it got crickets, understandably. But altitude is like hangovers. It gets so much harder to deal with from the age 20 like up to the age like as you get closer to 40 it just gets worse and your body just gets worse and worse and worse at just in denver this fall and i was fine so i don't want to hear that i'm the same age go for a jog no i collapsed and started pissing blood because it was so hard, but I wouldn't do that. What's LeBron's excuse?

Yeah, it's really hard. So you're saying this is altitude-based slump? I think it's probably altitude-based. That's my guess. He was missing layups. He can't shoot. He hasn't made a three-pointer since i was in college right it feels like yeah i'm just worried i'm like i'm not even mad i'm like i don't want to see him be mortal right

now it's like it's it's fucking me up a little bit yeah but we're getting close i don't know man we'll see what happens but i mean two that's they're they're out ahead in a great way. They were both close games. I came away from game two of the Lakers series against the Warriors feeling like it was over for the Lakers, and they figured out a way to win that series handily. So we'll see. You're down 2-0. Game three, yeah. We got to, mister.

We need this. Because we ain't making history. We ain't making history. Even though, and really had a fantastic game too. I couldn't believe when he was, and he's, he had a great,

like first game of the playoffs and everyone was like, well, you're not going to see that again. And he was like, no, this is just who I am now. And again, and again.

Yeah. I was, I was holding the Geist child up. Cause normally we're not trying to, you know, aim him at the TV. Right. But like, you know you know they they love the light show and i know that he doesn't even know what he's looking at but i'm like that's really we have to root for him yeah but yeah we'll see we'll see our kids aren't allowed to watch tv during the week but

you know we make an exception for nba basketball so they're always like is there a game on and then they just wow really want they love the NBA basketball, so they're always like, is there a game on? And then they just really want it. They love the commercials. That's what they're going for. Just asleep during the game. And like, all right, that'll be a timeout for Philadelphia. They wake up, timeout, timeout. Is that Geico commercial coming?

Speaking of commercials, I don't know if this was a new announcement, but I saw the ad for the first time. The Cool Ranch Doritos Papadilla. Oh, yeah. Who's the celebrity in it? Wasn't there like a celebrity in it? Another one.

DJ Khaled. Oh, DJ Khaled. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. I can't believe it. It looks shit-rific. It looks so bad. I can't believe they did it again.

Doritos. bad i can't believe they did it again doritos i was like the doritos locos taco was like this is a thing that we all had secretly invented in our mind and we're wishing that somebody would invent and now we get this and it's like i've never wanted pizza crust coated with dorito it no dust it looks like you know how like the cool ranch dust looks it's kind of got like different colors on it but also looks like like dandruff like it's weird because it looks like the outside of your calzone or papadilla or whatever has like some like some kind of dry skin crystals in it condition yeah or like gray scale from game of thrones like i don't want to eat that anyways those are some of the things that are trending

on this friday may 19th heading into the weekend hope everyone has a good one a safe one we're back on monday with a whole last episode of the show uh we have the weekly zeitgeist with selections from this week's episodes if you missed in case you missed some of the best bits talk to y'all on monday 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 on Monday. Bye. Peace. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden.

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