The Daily Zeitgeist - The Cleveland Guarditrends 7/23: Ben & Jerry's, Olympics, Cleveland Guardians, Lil Nas X, Donda, Rick Dennison

Episode Date: July 23, 2021

In this edition of the Cleveland Guarditrends, Jack and special guest host Jamie Loftus discuss the Right cancelling Ben & Jerry's, the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, the Cleveland Guardians, Lil Nas X's new single, Kanye's weird listening party for 'Donda', and Vikings coach Rick Dennison getting fired for refusing to get vaccinated Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I am Jack. That is Jamie humoring me. Jamie Loftus, welcome to the show. Oh, thank you. I've had the same. I don't know if you, uh, I've been self-conscious. I have like a piece of popcorn in my tooth. It's been there for three days and I was trying to get it out while we were recording earlier.

So I don't know how to go. Still there. Misophonia. Still there. Can't get it out. Good God. That would be, that would be unbelievably precise. Misophonia still there can't get it out good god that would be that would be unbelievably precise misophonia they're like i feel like she has a popcorn kernel in her teeth again

and she's trying to excavate it all right well hey let's tell the people some of the stuff that is trending um let's do it so we got another one of these uh cancel culture things happening from the right uh ben and jerry's is canceled uh except it's not cancel culture because it's happening from the right so they they're allowed to um have their feelings hurt they're saying that it's uh a human rights issue is that what are they yes're saying that it's a human rights issue? What are they saying? Yes, they're saying it's a human rights issue. Okay.

So people are comparing the fact that Ben and Jerry's decided to stop selling their product in settlements in Israel. And the Republicans have started taking pictures of themselves, like throwing away Ben and Jerry's ice cream, which is that'll show them times. Do we need to, I mean, it does bring me pleasure every time to watch a grown man aggressively, like spike a pint of Ben and Jerry's that they like purchased into their garbage. Good for them.

Also, that whole thing is so frustrating. I mean, I'm glad that Ben and Jerry's is no longer selling in settlements, but it's also like that was just a testament to good old fashioned online pressure. It worked. It worked. There you pressure. It worked. Yeah. It worked. There you go. It was good. So whatever,

get, you know, chuck your ice cream into the trash all you want. Um, why, why does that only happen with the right? Cause like, wait,

so people are comparing the Ben and Jerry's thing to Chick-fil-A and people, you know, saying that we shouldn't eat Chick-fil-A because of their horrible stance on lgbtq plus issues um yeah but we don't buy it and then throw it away just don't buy it because that's how boycotts work it's not like get some and then like film yourself shooting it on your iphone like it doesn't make sense i love it though shooting pints of ice cream would actually be cool someone should do that in a movie or something that would be kind of fun i feel like it would look cool um yeah and the and the cutting the

nike logo out of the socks and just wearing wearing them with with the holes in them that was also another flushing nike shoes down the toilet what are you doing you spent like 80 to do that wasn't there one with like a coffee brand too i mean there is like also yeah keurig i think i forget what that one was i saw a video of like a man in the suburbs like smashing a keurig to death with a baseball bat i'm like got him and then probably like a few weeks later when the whole thing was over going out and buying another one and keurig spike sales spike no he's an espresso guy now yeah yeah baby this is evil and and they like that yeah exactly who's nobody can tell them who can and can't use child slavery. The opening ceremonies are happening,

like not trending that much for being the Olympic opening ceremonies, but they happened like last night slash this morning. You know, I think people are still... Was it John Legend? I just saw someone tweet, boy, John Legend never turns down a check, does he? I had no idea he was involved.

I know Naomi Osaka lit the flame, which is cool that she's kind of the japanese athlete of the moment um the the hot tonga guy was back the like kind of oiled up dude who okay so at the rio olympics you can't just say that at the rio olympics uh tonga entered with this shirtless dude, and he was just aggressively oiled up and kind of jacked, and people were into him. They were like, this guy's awesome. He was trending.

They were horny for him? Yeah. People got V-horny during the Rio opening ceremonies. And then he was like, man, i really like when i'm the number one trending thing in the world and so he went and learned to ski and then was at the opening ceremonies for the winter olympics carrying the flag for conga um and then he's back again so he's a he's a fixture the olympics are so i mean this is this does not this is not the number one way that the olympics are fucking twisted right that's so fucking bizarre i know i love it though i like

somebody who's just like this it's it reminds me of michael buffer the guy uh who like um trademarked let's get ready to rumble and then would like charge a million dollars just to go places and say let's get ready to rumble um not the good grift that's a victimless crime find your lane no matter how specific and just own that shit um double and triple down uh fuck the olympics though yeah so i mean other things that were weird about these opening ceremonies obviously no no crowd so uh you know the ap's report said that an ethereal blue light bathed the empty seats as loud music muted the shouts of scattered protesters outside calling for the games to be canceled um and then when they did a moment of silence for all the people who have died from the pandemic

you could hear the people chanting outside uh because that's it's very very strange for them to do a moment of silence while just pushing forward with the olympics and right like it's just a reminder of something similar i believe happened during during the super bowl as well where there was just like a moment of silence and then it cut to bleachers full of people before vaccinations were available and yeah like um why bother clearly you don't care um yeah shakari uh richardson is also trending because uh so there there's like a report from uh or or a tweet from like some cbd company that's like uh olympic athletes are like putting cannabis center stage as they talk about like how they used uh cannabis to prepare for the games um i guess they were

using cbd so uh people are saying it's different but it's still weird that like i think it's like yeah women's soccer players are like being celebrated for using cannabis products to prepare um in a way that is like performance enhancing uh but just allowed but then right and the fact that they're that it's like totally fine and like oh is it this fun to talk about in the open is yeah gross yeah and then uh as mentioned in the name of this episode the cleveland major league baseball team have announced their new name. Previously, they had the offensive name, the Cleveland Indians,

and now they've changed their name to the Cleveland guardians. After surveying over 40,000 names in the search of a new name, one randomly. I know I, I am so confused by this. Like I, um, it's all right so my i mean it's my first thought is like yeah definitely an improvement so well done like you know probably a hundred years late but uh okay we're made we're making progress uh i'm wondering is this like when toronto picked the raptors for their nba name because like jurassic park had come out and raptors were like very cool at that moment

um and like guardians of the galaxy came out 10 years ago and they're like still not over it i can't get there yeah they love chris pratt maybe maybe it's a schwarzenegger uh deep state conspiracy could see that going okay uh-huh it sounds like a health insurance company um the cleveland guardians yeah yeah and yeah it's a bad name name and yet a huge improvement. So well done. I'll take it. I'll take it. It's just, it's so annoying to me that like this will be, you know, sports fans will be like, oh, now we have to call them the Guardians.

And it's like, can't you give us like a better name so that we don't have to put up with like, so that we can be like, like well it is officially a better name it is yeah yeah whatever it'll pass sports fans are annoying we got used to the

Washington anything is annoying that's true that's true yeah super producer Brian is pointing out that all sports team names are dumb. You just. Exactly. Yeah.

Yeah. It's all context and you eventually get used to it. There's a team called Red Sox and no one's ever had an issue with it. Yeah. Explain that to me. Explain that to me. Why are people flipping cars over in my neighborhood because of something called red socks? It doesn't make sense.

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And we're back. And Lil Nas X is back. And he is actually the number one trending thing on google right now even though um kanye had a listening party uh which we'll get to last night and even though the olympics opening ceremonies are going on little nas x uh dropped this track industry baby the video is the number one trending thing on youtube right now it's a pretty great video it's a i really like the song um it's a good song yeah and all of the all of the uh proceeds from the video are going to bail relief too yeah um which is i don't know

little nas x is just i like how he operates he's really really smart. Yeah, very smart. People were having the conversation like a couple weeks ago, I remember, about like, so is this, do musicians from now on just have to be like this smart about social media? Like from now on, like that's what makes you famous as opposed to the music and but i feel like it's been that way for a while right yeah i mean i like i don't know it's not

like most musicians are doing stuff like this and and kind of opera i feel like lil nas x kind of stands out because his music is consistently really good his politics are consistently really good and he's just like he's got so much going for him um that's it i don't know i haven't really thought about that yeah but like all eras of music have people who are just like really good at like capturing that moment and like the media like madonna i feel like was really good at like capturing the media attention like as it existed back then and lil nas x she's like the madonna trend before it was that was the term right yeah exactly also i had never seen jack harlow before i'd heard i hadn't

either so that's what he looks like my little brother's friends yeah who is this so like in the middle of this this video that is like uh you know lil nas x goes to jail it's like a lot of like really hot like ripped dudes and then this like kind of scrubby looking uh white dude with like curly hair and like who sold you weed in high school is like just like whole vibe comes through as like the library uh cart and uh passes a little nas x a uh like pickaxe that he uses to escape with and i was just like that is really weird like what what are they saying that like that guy is so schlubby looking like why was that character so schlubby looking and then he comes in with like a pretty great like uh it was a good

verse but i had no idea that he was a he was an artist um uh yeah the i i've heard i've been like hearing about him a lot and then i'd never seen him. And I was like, wow, I'm 500 years old. He literally looks like my little brother's weed dealer. Yeah. So Donda is trending or was trending last night because Kanye did this listening party at the Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta. I don't know if that's the football stadium or the basketball stadium because the fact that it's

all just like corporate naming as we talked about on yesterday's trending just makes it completely useless. The names of stadiums are completely useless. At the Mercedes Benz Arena, it was like sold out. Not many people were wearing masks.

He was wearing a mask and it's like sold out not many people were wearing masks uh he was wearing a mask and it's like a full face mask and all red and he played the album which i i did not get a chance to listen to okay yeah i also have not listened i mostly saw the fact that kim kardashian and the kids showed up for support they were yeah yeah i mean i think that's cute you know i have a whole family are supporting billionaires with little billionaire children i love that for them this is really big for dad um yeah yeah he didn't say anything uh he didn't dance he just like walked around on a giant white stage um that apparently cost 150 000 and just like kneeled sometimes but like that that was really it um which is very like in keeping with you know he just does weird weird shit i'm this is uh the most excited i've been about a

kanye album since life of pablo just because i feel like maybe he's gonna he's gonna get it back uh but i don't know i don't know how to probably not it's such a i don't know worry about the guy's mental health but i'm also like uh but also it's just like how much Worry about the guy's mental health, but I'm also like, uh, but also it's just like how much talent if, if the album's good. Great. I don't know. I don't know.

At this point, does anyone like, I don't know how to feel about the man at all. Yeah. Yeah. No, me neither. Um,

but will I listen to the album? Yeah, probably. Yes. I didn't, I don't think I even like really listened to Jesus is King. like i listened to it like once through maybe um i i did i remember i think that i did zeitgeist the day jesus is king came out because i think that miles was listening to it i have a vivid memory of oh yeah i remember that when i came in yeah um my miles hasn't liked a Kanye album since the first one.

Yeah, he was not. He was not into it. Let's be clear. He was not enjoying it. He was listening and disliking every minute. Yeah. But anyways, we'll see. I still have hopes that he'll get it back. You know, there's always like Bob Dylan had a really bad 80s and then he came back and started making weird good music in his 80s so maybe uh he made the most horrifying christmas album i've ever heard i still like i think about it all the time that santa video is so weird. Oh my God. So strange. You know, peaks and valleys. Yeah. Yeah.

And then finally, Rick Dennison is trending, which is just my neighbor. Who's that? I don't know. What? No, Rick Dennison is an assistant coach for the Vikings who refused to get vaccinated and got fired. So I'm happy to hear that people are getting fired for not getting vaccinated. I think we need to make it more difficult for people to not get vaccinated.

Isn't that nice when it's like you see someone trending, find out they suck, and then find out you're probably never going gonna hear of them again in your entire life you're like oh that that all that was a beginning middle and end right there okay bye rick dennison rick dennison is such the name of like my dad's friend a neighbor yeah like rick dennison refuses to get fucking vaccinated do you hear about rick dennison he got a boat uh there's i think that there's a character named dennison in that famous kyle mooney sports video i'm pretty sure that's one of the fake sports players he's talking about you know where he goes come on dennison i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure that's great people need to watch that the kyle mooney interviewing people at like

the lakers championship parade i think it was oh my god those old good neighbor videos from like the early 2010s classics formative great all right well those are the things that are trending we we did it jamie uh thank you so much for for being here where can people find you and follow you find me on twitter at jamieloftishelp listen to actcast my podcast about the Kathy comics and if you're watching the Olympics and

wondering why some people don't like the Olympics check out nolympicsla.com it does a great job of kind of breaking down all of the structural issues with the Olympics not just this year but all the time always

always bad alright that's going to do it for us this week we're back on Monday with the whole last 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 then bye bye

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