The Daily Zeitgeist - The End Of P. Trendy 9/17: P. Diddy, Lunchly, Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, Movie Pass, Marjorie Taylor Greene

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

In this edition of The End Of P. Trendy, Jack and Miles discuss P. Diddy getting hit with a RICO and sex trafficking charges, Mr. Beast and Logan Paul launching a Lunchables competitor, a MAGA sheriff keeping note of homes with Harris yard signs, former MoviePass CEO admitting that their unlimited ticket scheme was fraud, Marjorie Taylor Greene walks back her wild debate conspiracy theory and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Randy. My name is Jack. That over there is Miles. And these, well, these are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, September 17th miles Pditties career and life is a public figure is ending in horrifying revelations about what he had going on behind the scenes and

in completely unrelated news, the Me Too movement has finally come to Fox News. Yeah, really weird. So yeah, prosecutors charged Sean Puffy combs or whatever he's going by now, did he love anyway with, first of all, he's on a Rico, okay, a racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking

and transportation to engage in prostitution. They say it's ongoing. There could be more charges. If just reading what's in these documents, there's a lot of obviously nonstop allegations of physical abuse, soliciting minors and sex workers for freak-offs, what these events were called that were like sex show parties distributing drugs all kinds of sexual it's like just really really fucking dark dark stuff and they're Pointing to like a network of enablers. That's why they found like it to be like a whole conspiracy And also a prosecutor said he is too dangerous to get bond. So that should give you an idea of just how said he is too dangerous to get Bond. So that should give you an idea of just how much of a dark chapter this could be. And I don't know who else gets involved with this. But it's,

I mean, something we've seen bubbling for many years are always rumors about, you know, his predation. But then around the end of last year, when Cassie filed those civil charges, and it was like settled in a day. That's really, I think when things started to begin to buckle. And now here we are. And he is in jail and has obviously pled not guilty. And we will see where that goes. They, again, they think kids in prison.

Yeah. Yeah. At a minimum for sure. They said Combs created quote, a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in crimes such as sex trafficking forced labor kidnapping arson bribery and obstruction of justice This is like talking like intimidating witnesses like and they say kidnapping because people were trying to leave these events and they were not allowed to So what was interesting like this morning? I was watching when the DOJ kind of came up there to like announce you know they had unsealed this

indictment and announced that he had been arrested etc. I was checking on Fox and it sounded like now that a black man was in the hot seat for like sexual abuse and violent treatment of women all of the women on Fox News this morning were like giving like just impassioned pleas to viewers to explain like why women don't always speak out and seek justice after any kind of transgression or like how vile it is to sexually violate a person they were saying things that like just nearly antithetical takes to have when like defending Trump like when they're usually defending Trump they talk about

how powerful men are enabled by society and the people around them to continue to victimize people. And you're just, it was like so surreal to watch like flying over everybody's heads. Yeah. But yeah, this is a very odd moment to witness in real time as this was happening. We're like, they just switch one on. It's like, okay, I can be a human really quick, but also I get it. Racism made me woke in this very specific way. Right. Yeah.

They sometimes get really liberal when the person doing the thing they're talking about is a black or brown person, you know, they're animal rights activists all of a sudden because of the Springfield panic. Yeah. When Kristi Noem stuff was happening, not so much. Not so much less. So much. Let's just not talk about that and say, Hey man, you know, I've driven our dogs for being annoying.

Why is everybody making a big deal about this? So huge, huge, huge, a Titan of hip hop to come crashing down. And I'm imagining many other people will be brought down with him. Yeah, but this is the big one. They didn't start with a tiny domino. No, no, no. They went right at the head. And yeah, like what this means for, I don't know,

like if he's cooperating or not. But anyway, this is, I'm sure, going to be an ongoing story to the point where like people were asking the DOJ, like the US attorney, they're like, are you worried about like Epstein style threats to P2D safety? Right. And they were like well look we take everyone's safety you know very seriously no matter who it is so like you know obviously that's like very important to us but it's yeah. They were like haha trick question you guys thought Epstein killed himself what the fuck and now And now you're. Yeah. You worry. Yeah, right.

Yes. He. I mean, we're not worried about that. He's a threat to himself is what we meant. No, not at all. Not at all. So anyway, much more probably horrific stuff to come out after this. Yeah. All right. We've we've talked about Lunchables.

What a transition. So I love I love this show. I love this show. You know, care less about the country struggling. You know, the thing about Lunchables. Oh, yeah. So Lunchables making a comeback. I think the reason we were talking about them is because public schools were serving them as lunches like they had gotten insinuated themselves into Getting paid to make lunches for public school children with like via

Public school funding getting paid to do like a healthier lunchable. That was still wildly unhealthy Yeah And also I think we talked about the fact that they had a little bit of a little bit of lead, a little bit of cadmium in there. I love cadmium eggs during the Easter season. Yeah. It's the yellow part of Cadbury cream eggs. That's how they get their name. In addition to like a dose of sodium that is like medical grade. Like it's, it's what is usually used to like dry off something. Yeah. But someone has found a way to make Lunchables worse, which is kind of

impressive and not surprisingly, uh, those someones are YouTube stars, Mr. Beast, Logan Paul and KSI. Oh, wow. Wow. Their new lunch line is allegedly a groundbreaking new better for you lunch option. I assume it's better for you in comparison to arsenic laced Mountain Dew. Has to be like what they're comparing it to. Well, it's a lot better than like actually just eating just unprocessed lead or like a hunk of cadmium.

Yeah, just like a handful, like a snowball sized hunk of cadmium. Yeah, it's worse for you than this. So the lunch consists of either pizza, nachos or turkey and cheese with crackers. So basically they are doing the Lunchables. So it's Lunchables. It is Lunchables. Okay.

However, and this is where the health, where they become kind of health nuts. They are also adding a Mr. Beast brand chocolate bar. Oh, yumma, yama, yama. And don't get freaked out by the chocolate bar because they will also be offering a bottle of prime hydration. Different than prime energy. I'm guessing. Yes, definitely different than prime energy.

Although I didn't realize that there was a difference and I saw kids drinking prime hydration like a seven year old, which I still think is bad, but I was like, holy shit, that kid's drinking 300 milligrams of caffeine. Poor parents. Yeah. Yeah. But it is a new dystopian, like high watermark for the nation. Oh yeah, absolutely. I just like, I for these these what the two people I get why they're like, hey, the kids fucking love Mr. Beast and KSI and Logan Paul, don't they? And then what they come out here and say, like

groundbreaking new better for you lunch option is the what a stretch. What a fucking stretch. So this is it claims to be healthier than Lunchables because, quote, prime has more electrolytes than a Capri Sun and Lunchables. And Mr. Beast's chocolate bar has less sugar than a Kit Kat or Crunch Bar. So just that, which that seems very like that does seem like an argument coming out of the Trump campaign where they, you know, they've chosen to specific comparison points to be like this very specific

thing is better. Um, when you look at the overall nutrition, you will see that it has way more calories, way more fat, way more saturated fat than lunch, than Lunchables by the way, like Lunchables, which is military grade, like sodium bomb for children, more sodium than lunchables, more sugar overall. So they were talking about. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

As being a drop in sugar. Well, they were talking about the chocolate bar having slightly less sugar than the other chocolate bar. And yeah, I mean, electrolytes are times the sugar. Yeah, it does. Total sugar in Lunchables is four grams. They have 12 grams. So three three acts nearly a half in this healthy food.

They literally, yeah, just picked one thing and we're like, well, that one thing has less sugar. That feels like how I would try and get my mom to buy me this. Yes. It's like the logic of a child. It's almost like this is actually kind of genius marketing. They're already inoculating their consumer base with the exact sort of question and answer back and forth they need to do to ask their parents to buy. We know it is like a way, futuristic, better for you option

than the normal Lunchables. And when you compare the two, like a Capri Sun doesn't really have nearly as many electrolytes and the Mr. B's chocolate is less sugar than the Twix bar. So yeah, buy me. Main question. Is this a sting operation set up by Child Protective Services to see who buys their kids food marketed by YouTube's biggest scumbags? Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I like for it. Get them out of there. services to see who buys their kids food marketed by YouTube's biggest scumbags.

Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I like for it. Get them out of there. Do they still do the Taco Bell Lunchables? I don't think so. I think that went away because they, it was, they had a PR. Oh yeah. Was it with the meat problem? I just think that in a world where you're trying to be like, we're not poisoning children. Having a like Colabo with Taco Bell probably is not in your best interest.

But I don't know. Maybe they were just like, yeah, fuck all that. Like this is good for those nacho ones. Well, fuck it. They were delicious. Anyway, let's see, do they have Taco Bell nachos? They know they're discontinued. Yeah, they're discontinued. And it looks and the pit photographs of them look pretty old. See, do they have Taco Bell nachos? They don't, they're discontinued. Yeah, they're discontinued. Yeah. And the pit photographs of them look pretty old. I know like obviously Earth death is like a huge thing as we like lament the things that our children

may not experience that we did. But by God, if I could give my son a Taco Bell Lunchables, what I'd give for that. And I'm sad, I barely am able to go to sleep at night thinking about how he won't know the sweet, sweet taste of processed quote unquote meat. Well, now he can know his generation's equivalent YouTube star lunch. Logo bowls, logo bowls, logo bowls, Logan of bowls.

Lunchly is such a fucking just like the app. I know was developed in 2013. Right. Just like deliver lunch directly to your mouth without you having to like stop typing. That would be what it was called. Oh, right. Like, like, uh, like Soylent, the early Soylent was like lunchly. Yeah. Everybody fucking hates lunch. So what this product presupposes is have you worked a regular job? Lunch is like the time you get to take

a breath and feel alive. Yeah. And then we have actually haven't left a tech campus for more than three hours in the past once whenever you want. That's the whole thing. I don't even know when to get it. You know, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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right is kind of ramping up the rhetoric in response to the assassination, the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump. There, there's a mega sheriff. So his name is Sheriff Bruce Zikowski. He's asked his constituents on Facebook to note the addresses of homes that have yard signs supporting Kamala Harris and Tim walls. Yep. Great. Great. So what, so he can high five them and say. Yeah, definitely. You're on the right side. When people ask me what's gonna happen

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Jesus Christ. And I know he's, like, this isn't serious. Like, I got, this obviously sounds like MAGA podcast talk. It's like, who should do is right there. The address says you could drop them all off there. But then to even use the illegal human locust, are they? I mean, no, they are for real because they are truly like the wheels are. I just, when you, just when you thought they would maybe find the floor, they

found, they found another level, they found an escape hatch goes all the way down. Yeah, it seems bad. And even if he thinks I'm not being serious, this is just me being funny. Why won't they let me be funny on social media anymore? Like if you live in that neighborhood or in that town, like that's fucking terrifying to have your sheriff say that they're going to like note your address at a time when the person who may win the presidential election seems like they want to like openly be authoritarian. Um, that would definitely make you less likely. That's just like my rhetoric

man. Yeah, just I'm just JJ rhetoric over here. Everybody chill out. I'm Redrick Tatum. All right. We always like to check in with MoviePass. How are things going with MoviePass? It was a craze in the early days of this show. People were getting to go to unlimited movies for $9.95 a month. Cheaper than a movie ticket somehow. We were just paying a monthly fee to see unlimited movies.

For the price of less than one steak, you can eat unlimited steak every month. How does that work? It's going to it's going to work. Just stop it. OK, OK. I think the way it works is if it's gift card logic where nobody bothers to actually use it, they just like pay for it because they like the idea sounds cool, but everybody used it to the point that it did not go well. And the CEO, Mitch Lowe, who you might remember, he just pled guilty to a

securities fraud charge and admitted that he conspired to deceive the public and investors about the sustainability of movie pass no Yeah, I know say it ain't low and then Ted Farnsworth the former CEO of movie passes parent company Helios and Matheson is scheduled to face a trial on the same charges next March. So this whole thing that seemed like this doesn't really make sense in the same way that like the giant streaming bubble didn't really make sense just give us a small amount every month and we'll spend billions of dollars. It actually wasn't right.

It was incorrect. The thing that seemed wildly incorrect and I feel like the ones I know people have any kind of luck with is the AMC one. But I think that limits you to three a week. But regal has one that's like 19 bucks a month and it's like unlimited. Unlimited. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, at the same time, like I'm sure there is a limit on the amount of movies that like the average person can pack into their lives. So I'm sure like they,

these people came with the idea that, and just like guessed exactly wrong. And then the big corporations like did their research and were like, this is actually the price point and like how you actually make it make sense. And probably having it like attached to a massive company that is already making money off of movie goers makes it more possible for you to like eat

some upfront investment in order to like, you know, actually use whatever information you're gathering to make it make sense. I was just reading about like this guy, I think I saw it on Reddit, this dude who bought like, like in 1990 United had a ticket for like for $290,000. It was like a lifetime ticket where you could just do whatever on it.

United Airlines? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. And he bought his like a lifetime pass and he's like, best investment of my life. He's like flown like 23 million miles or something just from using it. And I was like, wow, those are, I mean, I'm, I don't have $290,000 lying around, but if I did, I would do some shit like that. I have one of those forever, a book of those forever stamps, and those have been fucking skyrocketing in value. I'm making the postal service right now. Making dimes hand over fist. But just Ted Farnsworth is kind of an interesting story. He's been in federal custody since last August because his bond was revoked due to allegations that he used company funds to pay for a sex worker, which included purchasing the sex

worker at Cadillac. And then there was later an altercation between the two that resulted in multiple restraining orders and yeah, payments of like a hundred. So the Cadillac cost $144,000. And then there was also a payment to the man of $147,000. So I don't know if like he thought there was like a tax right off at that level, at that dollar figure. Based on the financial advice I just see on TikTok,

I can definitely see a world or something like, dude, you'd buy a Cadillac, dude. It's like free for a sex worker. And you can write that off. Yeah. Oh. Uh, and then just, you know, MTG has been out here saying Laura Loomer is dangerous and racist and you don't say Jewish space lasers. Yes space lasers yes so in case you thought like wait is Marjorie Taylor green like coming around no just jealous no no no no no just jealous very um so she claimed that an ABC whistleblower who leaked the debate questions to Harris had died in a car

crash in a post on X. So over the weekend, uh, just after 8 AM in DC cited a news report said the ABC whistleblower who claimed Kamala Harris was given debate questions ahead of the debate has died in a car crash. According to news reports, very important. According to news reports. Can you link off to that? Yeah.

Is this in Quote T? Is that linked? No, I guess they don't do that on X. I'm sure the quote is coming. Yeah, yeah, they stopped doing that. I do love the idea that someone was murdered for blowing the lid off of a conspiracy to let a presidential candidate know

that the debate would feature questions about the economy and abortion. They seemed they really did seem floored by that. Like they were like, how is she doing this? Like about her debate about Kamala. How does she have any performance for people with uteruses? How? So we did get the source for the story.

And it is an AI generated WordPress blog. for people with uteruses. How? So we did get the source for the story. And it is an AI generated WordPress block, which was spreading a virus. So not, not only, it was also spreading a virus. What? Wow. Straight on top of a hat for everyone. Straight grandparent internet usage. Yeah. Yeah. But then it got debunked and then she was looking like yeah She's like, ah, it's fiddle sticks. Yeah, she did come back and post Looks like I was fooled on that one. The news source was not correct, but kept the earlier post up Right, so just left it there

Okay, great. So she knows how to use the internet everybody. If you're not. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, September 17th. We are back tomorrow with a whole 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. No, we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere unearths the plot to murder a one woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into

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