The Daily Zeitgeist - The NorthTrend 4/25: Twitter, Trump, Macron, Mark Meadows, Bored Ape Yacht Club

Episode Date: April 25, 2022

In this edition of The NorthTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Elon Musk successfully buying Twitter, Trump being held in comtempt of NY courts, Macron winning the French presidential election, more Mark Meadows MMS machinations, and Bored Ape Yacht Club getting hacked.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. 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 Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese

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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. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The North Trend. A play on The Northman, which is a movie that came out last weekend, but is apparently very dark and captivating, and nobody went to see it.

So, I don't know. Go check it out. People, they're like, it's his worst worst movie but it's still good it was like one distillation of a review i read um i'm into it i want to i want to see it instead this weekend i saw sonic the hedgehog 2 okay and it's not they're not the rings out of you it's um it's not not the best sonic the hedgehog movie i've ever seen out of the two that would be sonic the hedgehog one which i saw saturday night before because uh one of my son's friends was going to see sonic 2 on sunday morning so i was like yeah let's check out the first one see if you like it. It did immediately replace Cars 2

as his favorite movie of all time. Not a huge sample size. You're grateful. And then, yeah, we went and saw Sonic 2 and he really enjoyed it. I did not. I did not. It's an underrated part of watching a movie

in a theater with a kid is that you're still not supposed to like be on your phone the whole time i like the idea of you talking shit like underneath your breath the whole time because it's not as good as the first one yeah dad what nothing nothing no that's pretty cool right that's cool he still asks questions of full volume and so i have to like come up with uh answers to questions that don't have answers. Like, why did he say that? It's like that.

I don't know. That's Jim Carrey, man. Yeah. That's just Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey. I love, yeah. Like when you're a kid, you ask him like existential questions. There's no way you could possibly understand the motivation of a character unless like you're really like, okay, well, he he said that because like should we really get into do you want to know why he actually

said that one exact one exact exchange was is tails dead uh because tails tails took a took a bit i don't want to spoil all right spoiler alert ahead of time spoiler tails is dead tails got tails got fucked up in one scene got hit pretty pretty hard my namesake miles tails yeah and was unconscious for a period and said what is his tails dead and when I said

no he wanted to know how I knew that and I was like yeah I mean by all available evidence he should be dead but you know right that that's just not how movies for children work. But the first Sonic was an enjoyable at home viewing experience, I will say. And that shit ain't even trending. That's how good this shit is.

Yeah, exactly. Anyways, I am Jack. You are Miles. And these are some of the things that are trending on this april 25th it's monday uh and elon musk has apparently successfully bought twitter yeah um and there's announcement that the old ceo is about to give but as of this recording that has that announcement has not come yet so right now we just know what he dropped, like $44 billion on Twitter to become the new fucking Rupert Murdoch of the internet.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I like last week's guest, David DeJong's theory that it was because he didn't get let into that club because apparently he was in line, was tweeting from in line at a club, and then said something about how whack the bouncers were or something. And then I don't think that was the exact, but he had a plausible theory of the case. And that makes as much sense as anything that one small slight to one uh very irrationally immorally wealthy person would

change the world in this way yeah what do you think so impulse buy for sure this thing i don't know i don't first domino to fall in the full like because you know i think a lot of people speculate with elon musk and the way he's talked about free speech and like the Internet that like, OK, you know, we're maybe pretty close to seeing Trump back on Twitter. Yeah, a lot of other people back on Twitter because it has to be free speech that it's going to completely just going to be siding with the absolutely unsavory rotten eggs of the Internet. very rotten eggs of the internet. Yeah, it's not great when the moral arbiter of one of the largest communications platforms is somebody who grew from the emerald mines of apartheid South Africa.

Right, right, right. And has shown no practical evidence that he's not heavily in the debt of of that place yeah time i mean yeah a lot of people would just point to how like it's the slow moving uh not even slow moving it might be a real quick realignment to the right here um and then we'll see what happens honestly part of me kind of is is kind of excited for the idea of the people of twitter to burn it down in protest yeah i'd love to see that i don't know really what that looks like i don't know what it looks like but there was this tweet from steve monticelli which is like saying in response to elon buy it's like okay well you know like most

of us now are gonna have to be responsible for making this thing worthless like if it if he really fucks around and turns this thing into a cesspit but it will be i mean that's gonna be those are like the things we have coming up it's like okay you got an edit button but donald trump is back right yeah yeah exactly see how i do that one for one for everybody You know what I mean? Yeah. So the business press, they're reacting like this. This is Jordan 96 playoffs. Like, how did he do it?

He's pulled it. He's pulled victory from the jaws of defeat. It's like, oh, well, it's because he's the richest person in the history of the world maybe and he offered to pay them 43 billion dollars and because of coverage from the likes of you guys that is you know great for the company because you guys just think everything he does is genius he bought into the whole great man theory of capitalism um so i don't know yeah the things he said uh like that a good sign as to whether there is free speech is is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like if that is the case then we have free speech

um which well i mean it makes sense that now a lot of people are going hard on the picks with him and gielan maxwell right like being like yeah yeah let's get these retweeted let's we'll let's tweet the things he won't like and see what his threshold for that is but i mean it's it's just a weird spot for him to be in like you don't want to be it's one thing to be the coolest kid in the lunchroom and then suddenly become the lunchroom monitor right that's your your relationship inherently is going to change with the shit because i you get now you're like man i love what could i do on twitter man they fucking love me but then now you're the face of if if when shit starts going one way or the other that's gonna affect him because people are just gonna

begin to just say just like jack like jack dorsey was twitter even when he wasn't it's just gonna be elon and i'm sure he'll just say some spicy shit and then people get pissed or annoyed and then you know the fights will man if you thought twitter was bad now fuck yeah it's gonna be borderline unusable probably um i i still go there mainly for nba highlights and for uh i mean i guess on to the other to the other side of that it is borderline unusable as it is so yeah they fucked up the latest update uh yeah and in general you know like it's it's it already has enough fucked up things on there it's like what's a little bit more, I guess? But it's about, I think, the power of Twitter to normalize that or give the perception that it's normal, I think, is what's a little... That's the dark part of all this.

Well, Donald Trump is trending, not because whether he's allowed back on Twitter is the main question that I think most people have uh with the sale of twitter but uh because he's being held in contempt of court in new york yeah um and we'll be fined ten thousand freaking dollars a day for not cooperating with subpoenas and producing documents um dang yeah that would be uh highly convincing to me and will not even register as a blip on his radar i'm assuming god i mean all he's got to do is send a couple emails you know accusing some you know like mickey mouse of being a groomer or something and then he can

has like another four weeks worth of ignoring the fucking court so right yeah i mean this is going to be an interesting week for him too because as we're talking to there's like more text messages coming out and i don't when i say interesting week it's just going to be a week where people uh who are not in on the maga side of things go how the fuck do this does this shit keep how much more do we need does anyone need to know here before something's done? Yeah. So we got MGT, which we talk about on tomorrow's episode, but asking to declare martial law.

Martial, like Marshall's, the store. Yeah, Marshall. Yeah. Well, over in France, Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election with 58% of the vote. People are rightly pointing out that's still a lot for a Nazi. Yeah. Yeah.

And I think a lot of the commentary is like, okay, cool. Neoliberal Macron has won. What's your new block of support gonna look like is it just gonna be the you know the the moneyed bourgeoisie or what or who who stands to benefit from this next presidency but i mean if you're a fucking fascist in france you're looking at that even like bro move on up. Like they're building, they're building on it. This is more than what Le Pen had five years ago.

Yeah. I mean, it really seems to be part of a larger trend that we've seen in America where the options seem to be like centrism, global corporation, bootlicking, you know, that option, and then the far right. Yeah. And the left doesn't really have a horse in the race. Hey, here's the menu for potential candidates. You can get bootlick or curb stomp. Right. Which, who do you like?

Hey, folks, which one looks good to you? On the bootleg side, I mean, pretty much nothing is going to change for you. Let's be honest here. Definitely not in a better way. And then curb stomp, if you have misplaced anger, that might appeal to you. Yeah. Because you just want to see a bunch of people get smashed out. I don't know.

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podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Mark Meadows, so many texts. So many fucking texts, man. More texts than you'd care to know about. More texts than my phone when I had a Nokia 3390 and I just got it. CNN has gotten over like 2,000 text messages between the former chief of staff uh that were between election day and the inauguration on the 20th and everybody everybody's in this jared doju eric ivanka rudy the fucking my pillow guy

marjorie taylor green everybody and it spans the stuff from like rick perry the former energy secretary being like we need to get killers in there like talk about like like lawyers to gum up the gears like he's talking about like these like i don't know he might be talking about real killers who fucking knows but they're all like pushing to have the election results overthrown yes and to get okay get killers like lawyers in there who can completely slow down the certification process because that was the whole thing is like if you can get the certification process slow down then you have some legal wiggle room for mike pence to fuck it up um on the 6th and then but if he won't do it

then we need to chase him out the building with a mob which was like very clear that that was the like the plan was pretty much known it's like to get to this thing all of these things have to happen so with rick perry he's like yo we got to get these like lawyers out there and when you think about what he was talking about and what ended up happening like in the sense that it was rudy giuliani and sydney powell killers these were not luckily for this like fragile country and then there's like a like there's a lot of denials where it's like oh i don't know if like those are even like sent from the my phone one of them signed it rick perry with like a signature on it um so i don't know it's just it did you know i think this is just

going to be a continuation of like the slow hiss of bullshit that comes out of this punctured tire of our government yeah it's really bad it's really bad what how did they end up with julian was it just like mismanagement by trump being like that bad at this all of the top tier grifters got their shit and left like bannon you know what i mean like that group of people who are like smarter than trump were connected with other people who could also help in like many different ways that era ended and then we got into the sycophant era which is only people who are gonna agree only people who are telling me my mixtape is hot as fucking the the hottest dumpster

fire in town and that's how you got giuliani who would be like oh yeah we can do anything and you get like you know two fucking senile boomer dudes fucking freestyling to each other and then you get this shit yeah it's just like the the thing that perry's calling for about like you know really buttoned up great lawyers coming through to gum up the works like that has been done by the republicans before and resulted in them winning a contested election with bush versus gore so like it does just illustrate how close, if it had been standard operating procedure for the Republican Party,

he probably could have pulled it off. Right. Which is pretty wild to think about. And also, all of this and the position that we're in and the lack of urgency on the kind of middle left and neoliberal side just makes me realize that it's not um like as things get worse and as the revelations get worse it it's almost it feels less like people are like well we must like rise together and it just feels like everyone's like fucking defeated or something yeah it's it's bad and yeah i think i mean at this point it's like you know we can we can continue the sort of

optimism of like you know and then doj will come around and like it'll fix it all but we have so many problems in this country that have easier solutions than merely following the evidence and arresting someone that we still can't get over that i'm like yeah let's yeah let's you know day by day that's why i'm like i'm not gonna live in the future when nothing's happened i'm gonna just live till shit's real and then we'll just go from there we'll go from there and even grace and alan had a like big game this weekend the bad guys it was big weekend for the bad guys yeah i'm not just talking robotnik uh it was a big big weekend for the for the bad guys with uh grace and alan coming through and just being on fire for Milwaukee, who I do like Milwaukee.

I just don't like that Grayson Allen like really did it. There's a lot of people, a lot of fans on the NBA Twitter who will accuse a player of intentionally injuring someone. And it, it's like, come on, man.

Yeah. But, but this, I don't know. He, there seems to be a lot of smoke with this guy being a dirty player. But anyways, after one of his teammates went out with an injury, he stepped up and played really well against the team that he most saddled

with an unnecessary injury. So that's a bummer for the people of Chicago. And, yeah. Hey, though. Bucks doing it. Just chugging along. I need them to come in strong to the next series and play well against the Boston Celtics.

Because that one is a wrap. This show is united against the Celtics putting up another banner. There is a wrap this show is united against the celtics putting up another banner there is a sliver of uh sunshine uh because board the board ape yacht club um miles and i both bought some uh some crypto no uh they got hacked which is nice to see they so apparently these hackers they got into their instagram account their discord and and were sending these links that essentially just opened up people's crypto wallets to these hackers. Yeah. I guess I don't feel good about that either because I think a lot of the people who are investing in crypto are...

No. Yeah, so it all sucks. It's hard to get mad, right? Because I don't fault anybody for looking at something and thinking that it's a solution to their all, you know, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems. Right. Crypto. But, yeah, when you see stuff like this, it's I think what with the harm that it does, it just shows you like, man, this is you can't. How the fuck are you going to protect yourself if somebody just get into an Instagram account and suddenly, boom, three million dollars worth of JPEGs are gone. are gone once again miles the answer is always deregulation we saw it with enron thank you saw it with uh american capitalism over the past 20 years and now we're seeing it with uh crypto baby deregulated twitter is going to be great yeah deregulation there too i mean

it always works out buckle the fuck up everybody it's gonna be an interesting one alright well those are the things that are happening on Monday let's see if we can make it to Tuesday let's just see if we can make it to Tuesday

day at a time that is a good way to go I am Jack you've been Miles. And we are back tomorrow 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 tomorrow. 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. 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 Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti.

And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. 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.