The Daily Zeitgeist - The Sixth Trendse 6/24: Supreme Court, Drake, Brad Pitt

Episode Date: June 23, 2022

In this edition of The Sixth Trendse, Jack and super producer Becca discuss myriad bad Supreme Court decisions, the sad state of Drake, the sadder state of Brad Pitt, and the even sadderer state of Late Stage Capitalism!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.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast 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. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The Sixth Trends. It's courtesy of Cousin Skeeter, no relation. And it is a trending title, Bruce Willis edition.

We did Die Hard with a Trenjence. Which he put on there, but he changed it to Trend Hard with a Vengeance. I really like. Die hard with a vengeance. Anyways, thank you for the one that worked. Cousin Skeeter, no relation. And I'm thrilled to be joined by a very special guest co-host. A brilliant and talented producer of this very damn show that you're listening to.

Becca Ramos! Hello, hello. How are you? I'm are you i'm good i'm good amongst a busy move but i am good nice and you are moving i am not moving my partner is moving that's right okay so lots of moving pieces lots of moving pieces. We did get the couch in, though. So, exciting stuff. Did y'all do that together? Yes. Carry the couch?

We did. Are you doing the moves on your couch? Well, it's a Floyd couch, so it is known to be very easy to take apart and put back together. But we did use his Jeep, so we had to do, i think two trips between like the old apartment and this apartment unloading loading all the pillows he built it but yeah i remember the last move i did without help was from missouri to new york and there was uh it was it was long you know driving a u-haul across all those states finally got there like had to like sit in traffic for three hours because we chose the wrong way to get across Manhattan and there was just a point where we were carrying a couch up the apartment stairs, um, like to get to our apartment and like,

uh, my wife's knees buckled and I was like, come on, you can do it. And like, she like got up and we were like pouring sweat and we got up there and we just like both looked at each other. We're like,

never, never, never again. Well, I feel like the last move I like, this is again, the first move in a while that we are doing it ourselves. I got movers the two times I've moved in New York.

And then I had movers when I did the cross country, but I got some like really botched movers and they almost like stole all my stuff. Yeah, that's the other thing. When we got movers the next time, it was bad. You gotta really vet them. That is the thing they don't tell you is that you have to pay a lot of money if you don't want your shit stolen like you just have to know that you're forking up like seven grand for good movers oftentimes you have just created an officially sanctioned hostage situation yes where they're like yeah no we could get there in a day if uh what's it worth yeah they're like yeah, we'll do it in three weeks. My stuff doesn't come for two months

and stuff is missing, everything's wet. And I was arguing with them every day to be like, where is it? Lesson learned on the cross-country move. Anyways, I am Jack. That is Super Producer Rebecca and it's

a bad day. It's uniquely, I think think bad because we're getting bad supreme court decisions ahead of the like main course bad supreme court decision like the nightmare scenario darkest timeline bad supreme court decision where they're gonna overturn roe um and we're getting like the aperitif right now where they're like, just so you know, like where we're coming from so that you guys can like kind of better understand our whole shit. We are going to overturn the ability basically of cities to prevent people from carrying guns wherever the fuck they want, like concealed carrying. Yeah. And they did this in New York, right?

In New York, yeah. It was a concealed carry law in New York City. Which, mind you, in the climate right now, as someone who lives in New York City, we have had three different shootings in the past couple months in the subways from non-police.

The police did not help. We don't know how many police shootings there have been yeah we don't know one type of uh shooting statistic they absolutely do not yeah so you know i'm not loving this as someone who is a new yorker who it has been i don't think more historically dangerous in years than it right now to be on public transit, to be out at night in this city. You know, I'm in Brooklyn and I feel pretty good most places I go, but the energy is very different on the trains now. Like it has been, especially those last couple of shootings, both of them being in Brooklyn. Like it is, I, it's like you're, you're checking in on your friends. You're like,

Hey, did you make it home on safe? I need you to tell me. Cause it's just, it's bad. So this sucks. All that to say. Right. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. It, they are overturning like common sense, modern laws built specifically by people who live in New York for the city of New York in favor of the Second Amendment, which was written before the invention of bullets. Yeah. You had to load your gun with gunpowder. Yeah, you had to bite something, I think, and spit it down the barrel of a gun.

Yeah, so Andrea Junker, at Strand Junker, tweeted, in 1789, the Second Amendment was written. In 1847, the bullet was invented. So thus, the Second Amendment only applies to muskets. But that is the deal with this Supreme Court. And been the deal with all of the,

I think, gun rights conversations we've been having for many years right especially after uvalde right like it it's like you guys are fighting for an amendment that no longer applies to the you know fuel power that exists in the arms weapons world that we live in like it's just like when that thought like law was created and thought of you could not buy you know a fucking semi-automatic gun that could shoot 100 rounds in under two minutes like it's just not the same not the same so it sucks it's more proof that you know even after something like uvalde happened that we are still not taking you know the issues we're having with gun laws seriously yeah the constitution is broken like we there needs to be and probably

will be within a generation a strong movement to fucking tear up the u.s constitution it's fucking broken it's from a different time like shut the fuck up everybody and just overturn rip it up restart anew i'm sure it's going to be a very bloody fight but that's what needs to happen they know it's coming yeah the police um like in another supreme court decision you know just a good day for police and police advocates out here uh the supreme court is like that you can't sue the cops if they don't read you your miranda rights anymore um which is going to make the tone uh the substance of law and order episodes very different um also just gives police more power like just really you know putting power in the hands of the already

extremely powerful seems to be the goal of this court um also stacy abrams for some reason was like we need to pay police more which i thought that's been our as the you know far left people's argument is that like we don't right like they're getting paid so much to do so little like that has been a huge conversation here in new york city because you know the police are getting even more funding and like being able to spend more people on this like more police on the subways and things like that and it's like been arguably more and more dangerous every day so that is crazy isn't the miranda right the whole case came from a supreme court case if i vaguely remember doing poli sci of 2016 um when i took poli sci in college uh like i don't understand how you can like create a supreme court law for it and then basically take it away yeah well because they

the supreme court is just a political institution that gets uh changed with you know whoever uses their wields their power more wisely to fill it up with ideologues and it's in a bad place don't understand how we're like presidencies for four-year terms like and you can only do it twice and how then on the flip side we have fucking supreme court lifelong uh you know, positions. I don't, I don't, I, and granted, like I said, I took one semester of poli sci. I did not go to law school or study up on this,

but it is confusing to me with, yeah, like producer Brian said, no age cap. Like, I don't understand why it's like, these are lifelong terms with no age caps. Like, I don't, I don't get it. Because RGB can do push-ups and clean. Like. Yeah.

It's a fucking nightmare. It's an absolute nightmare. Very frustrating. I'll tell you what's not frustrating. The new Drake album is. No, apparently it is pretty frustrating. I was going to say say i would argue potentially frustrating um it's i i've had this thought before when listening to drake music um but now uh i haven't

listened to the new album but super producer brian is is like worried about drake like he's not a drake stan or anything but he's like that dude is like he's suffering from depression right I love the way you put that Super Bruiser Brian is worried about Superstar Drake right no it is like I think very telling

that how do I put this you have so much like you did it all right like he I think so much of his music as we were talking off air, uh, before, uh, we got on,

like he is angry, right? He's so angsty. And a lot of his music at the beginning made sense, right? Because he's like coming up, he's like trying to prove himself. He's like,

you know, y'all are, y'all ain't seen me yet. Right. But it's like, now we have, now you are like record breaking, you know,

number one rapper in the world right now we have now you are like record-breaking you know number one rapper in the world right now and have been for you know many years at this point and not because of potentially like your creative ingenuity you know it's he's not kanye he's not you know kendrick but he is so marketable he knows how to play the game he knows how to be big He knows how to play the game. He knows how to be big. He knows how to make, you know, hits. He knows how to be every summer song. You know, Drake knows how to turn out a summer hit. But, you know, at this point

now, it just feels like there's something broken in his music. Like, it's sad. It's stale. It's like, no one's asking for the new album, and you're giving it to us. And it's like, all of us would love to hear some you're giving it to us and it's like all of us would love to hear some good work from you like you can sit on it like you can incubate it we are good if you like took some time and the album would most appropriately be titled honestly never

mind um the most depressed thing you can utter uh unless you're being passive aggressive in which case it's just a very passive aggressive thing yeah it's like there's a lyric on money to the grave or money in the grave whatever that song is with Rick Ross where he's like he's been on top for so long and like he's just worried about like the

drop and I think like that really feels like he's like he's just like I don't know i'm just like bored and like uh but like i don't want to fall because it would be like slightly uncomfortable so i'll just like keep churning this shit out but it just seems genuinely like a great embodiment we've got two great embodiments of the emptiness of our current system of capitalism. We got Drake who's like on top and is like, I just don't want to like not be on top,

I guess. So I'm just going to keep like churning out empty, like simulacrum of my previous work and people will keep buying it and we'll just keep doing this. Well, because I don't want to feel like i don't want to jump in the pool and feel that momentary like discomfort of like the surprise of like the body temperature change that that's i think that's like basically what his lyric what he says is like how how he

talks about his success in that in that song yeah it's just it's uh pitchfork put it really um simply and i agree i didn't read the whole review but what did they give it to them what they give them they gave us 6.6 which i feel like is like i might give it a 6.6 for what it was um a breezy drake dan's album sounds great in concept but the half measure house beats and lackluster songwriting keeps it from really popping off and i agree i think that is a great summation of what the album really is you know it's like we were talking more life had like it's like what this album should have been you know like the certain essence of certain songs and more life like the um do better you know like it's just like that is what i wanted out of this album. And this album sounds like that one song

just over and over, but, like, not, the lyrics aren't, the hooks aren't as good. And honestly, Drake is known for his hooks, so I was kind of disappointed that it was, like,

even if it was at a bass level, not as, like, lyrically inclined, or, you know, we all know Drake isn't a strong singer, you know? I just felt like

Drake having a great hook is what he's known for. And it was just very blah. I can never get over that. Whichever one it is, because I did not memorize the track list. I'm sorry, y'all. The one that's like the pussy one. It was just like so uncomfortable. Every time I hear it, I'm just like, I call him my name.

Your pussy is calling my name. It sounds weird when he's singing it. It sounds bad. And I don't like it. I have to listen to that song, at least. I'm going to do that. Because that sounds... Super producer Brian gave it to us as calling my name.

And I should have known by the second half of the hook. Brian says it's a non-song. Yeah. It's the one going viral on TikTok. It seems like the most unremarkable lyric. So the fact that there's something about the delivery where you're like, oh, this feels like the death of something. Yeah.

Just, ugh. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about the second great example of just the Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about the second great example of just the emptiness of capitalism and what success looks like in this world with regards to Brad Pitt and what he spent an entire year doing.

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app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and brad pitt uh so there's a gq article that some people have been like their reputation laundering for uh brad pitt you know there were some unfortunate things that happened and now he's in recovery and uh oh yeah he was really ill wasn't he um i don't know or like like in recovery like um like addiction yeah yeah yeah so one of the details in this gq magazine i just had to call out because it is it's just such a like drake getting to the top of like music in a in a way that is like people are like he has more hits than michael jackson and shit like that um and being completely depressed like openly like the incapable of like even generating an emotion

uh that is like identifiable uh is is a great illustration of just like, yeah, we're all in this system that gives us the motivation, has the carrot dangling in front of us that keeps us going. And when the very few people who actually catch the carrot realize that it's meaningless and immoral

and it all sucks and they lose lose their mind and soul uh oftentimes and it's not it's not good and also they can't complain like they can't be like oh guys this actually sucked because um because they got everything yeah they got everything that we think we want um but anyway so i'm just going to read directly from page six, who's talking about a revelation in this GQ article. Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt has admitted spending a year on a, quote, foolish dig for buried treasure just to realize it was all a ruse to get him to invest in a radar company.

The Moneyball star told GQ magazine that he was told gold worth millions of dollars was known to be buried under Chateau Miraval, his 1,000-acre estate in Provence. I got obsessed, Pitt, 58, told the mag. Like for a year, this was all I could think about, just the excitement of it all, said the Missouri-raised actor. Maybe it has something to do with where I grew up, because in the Ozark Mountains, there were always stories of hidden caches of gold. He lives on a 1,000-acre estate in France

and is looking for buried gold. He lives there with a family he loves and he's still looking for gold. His house is worth so much money. What are you doing? There's just something... The fact that we don't really know anything about Brad Pitt and he's been famous for 40 years

has always made me suspect, well, they're hiding something. And I've always hoped it's kind of just that he's sort of a dull puppy dog type stoner guy who's not quick on his feet and then like i don't know like this is just it's it's so depressing not like i feel sorry for brad pitt as much as like our version of reality at like hyper capitalism is so thoroughly corrupt and just like existentially boring and pointless yeah it is i mean it's it's kind of amazing not in a good way but just in a astonishing way how

uh this because the whole reason that it happened is because uh the man that had targeted him wanted him to be a potential investor in a big radar company and obviously successfully pitched all this material, which is bananas, you know, to be able to prey on somebody's like, I guess, I don't know, emptiness. is like so lost in his life that you're like oh i know i can dupe him into spending millions of dollars on equipment to search and play treasure hunt in his house because he has nothing better to do it is it is such a state of inequality in this country being able to like have the money and the time to do that and then also still be so empty it's wild it is just like it's it's it's like obviously i don't like feel necessarily bad for brad pitt but it is just such a existential dread of like oh the haves and the have-nots like you're it's like almost great gatsby-esque you're like wow your life is that way and i'm over here and that is crazy to think what our problems are and they're

so different and how you know i'm honestly grateful that i i don't know what it's like to be that rich because i i don't think i'd love to be that empty and i feel like that is like the spectrum of like the more money you have the more empty you end up being yeah i mean he seemed he seemed to still find it exciting i mean he did i'm sure he's like the most upsetting part is probably the money he lost and all that equipment. But now he has all that equipment. Maybe he'll go mining somewhere.

Isn't that where like, I think all the radar equipment was developed by people looking for oil in Texas. Maybe you can go wildcatting. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. 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 y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. See y'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.

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