The Daily Zeitgeist - The Trend Of The Road 5/23: NBA, White House, MAX, Baggage Fees, Dodgers, Ron DeSantis

Episode Date: May 23, 2023

In this edition of The Trend Of The Road, Jack and Miles discuss the end of the Lakers' playoff run, a nazi crashing a truck into the White House, (HBO) MAX not working, the Jetstar passenger fined for wearing 13lbs of clothing, the Dodgers hating Catholics?, and Ron DeSantis' incipient presidential bid announcement and his offputting laugh! WATCH: Ron DeSantis just being a normal human personSee 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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LeBron. Good job. Good job, guys. Good job, man. Honestly, though, really good job on the close to that season. If you said we would be the second best team in the West, I still don't believe that, actually. I can't even believe that right now. But here we are.

Here we are. here we are here we are we are the lakers have been swept from the national basketball association playoffs swept up by the denver nuggets who are it's turning out maybe the best team in the league by maybe a lot i'm jack that is miles this is sports talk uh here we go. You can hear more about that on Miles and Jack. Matt Boosky's, our NBA podcast. But here on this one, we talk about news, baby. Okay. So some disturbed Nazi crashed a truck into the White House. Wait, Jack, why are you saying Nazi? A Nazi flag was seen being removed from the back of his truck.

Oh, how do you know that? Because people saw it. It's one of those things that a lot of people start looking at when you crash a truck into the White House. There tends to be a lot of witnesses. But yeah, it is being hailed by the right right as a psyop uh i've seen the video word there's like the like there's like a police officer like investigating the cab of this u-haul truck and is like pulling stuff out and like the nazi flag was like on the ground and they're like

it's perfectly unfurled this is a psyop right and you're like i mean who knows what like that's like when you get into the intentions of the driver maybe he was going to put like say joe biden you're a nazi i i don't know take this hey maybe it was a peace offering because he's not so you probably like that you probably like that you nazi, I'm for progressivism. Anyways, that was not a PSYOP. That was not AI. There was a Pentagon explosion that was AI. There's an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon that spooked the markets, briefly, and was AI.

We'll talk about that more on tomorrow's episode um max is the big thing uh max is not working uh oh what's max doing for work now then so max is the new hbo max oh yeah yes um the one to watch is the tagline um the one to watch that is hbo yeah it's like yo what did mine change it oh mine still you know i i sometimes i make it ask if it wants to app refresh so i still got hbm am i gonna treat this like quibby yeah and also i can't sign oh no as of yet because i don't remember how the fuck i signed in i opened and they say oh you trying to download max i'm like no the fuck i'm not yeah fine all right they've got us they've got yeah i tried to open hbo max and then it just quit repeatedly um so all right

sazzy beats off to a flyer um people are using this as an opportunity to just post entire movies that are part of the max uh ad campaign like people are like forget max watch john wick for here on twitter the way it was intended people just posting full movies full-ass movies so piracy for everyone baggage fees are trending oh this is great adriana ocampo uh wore more than 13 pounds of clothing to try and avoid paying a baggage fee um she also appeared to be i don't know on classrooms or uh just giggling though hard to yeah so giggly now so giggly it looked it looked like a little bit of psilocybin induced goofballs goofballs. I don't know if it's just being drunk. Or it could just be, look, this person is 19 years old. I remember being 19 and doing the dumbest shit was the most hilarious fucking thing that could ever happen.

Like when this person checked in to the airline, they're like, yo, you're about 13 pounds over on this baggage. And like, okay, fine. Wore all of the clothing that was 13 pounds over including like stuffing an ipod into their pants and shit and they're like all right cool yeah i'm trying to get on the airplane and like the the flight attendants are like yeah this is uh this is not happening they're like you can either take all this shit off and like store properly or you're gonna pay a fine and they they did both so sucks, but it is something that's crossed my mind. Yeah.

Didn't know. Yeah. Aussie zeitgang. I know you're down there. Is Jetstar like probably, I'm guessing it's like frontier or, um, you know,

spirit, Yeah. Spirit. Some people fear it. Some people hear it. Uh, from the, isn't that from ghostbusters too?

I have no idea. I don't remember that at all. No, you don that that's from that's like that was like the one rap song in the ghostbuster song too hot to handle too cold to hold where it's called the ghostbusters and the something else i forget oh this is from it was dougie fresh it was a doug. Fresh track on the Gustbusters 2 soundtrack. Yeah. Doug E. Fresh. The Bobby Brown song from Gustbusters 2 is constantly on rotation in my head.

Really? Irrevocably. Yeah, it's just always going to be there. What's that song called? Control or something? Oh, on our own. I guess we gotta I don't know the words. Take control. We got to.

Too hot to handle. Too cold to hold. They call the Ghostbusters and the M Patrol. And they're in control. And they're in control. Had them throwing a party for a bunch of children. All the while the slime was under the building. It's one of the last thematic

rap songs I feel like until not by will smith that just recaps the plot yeah of them having thrown a party for a bunch of children which is also the weirdest plot point of ghostbusters 2 they've gone from saving humanity to doing mankind to doing kids birthday parties hey Hey, Islam was under the building. So they packed up their group, got a grip, came equipped, grabbed the proton packs on their backs and they but not about Vigo, the master of evil.

Try to challenge my boys? That's not legal. Oh, Vigo. Yes, what a song. Peter McNichol's greatest role, I gotta say, as Januszush poha he is vigo he's vigo yes dr frankman but why are you came go yes i think go that is really the best part of that movie right kind of a lot yeah of course there are many perks to being with a living God

Dodgers baseball team from Los Angeles they won yesterday so Lakers fans need not fret back in business so the sisters of perpetual indulgences

or indulgence my old catholic education coming back So the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgences or Indulgence. Yeah. Indulgence at my old Catholic education coming back. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are now invited back to the Dodgers Pride Night, even though I guess it. So this was a story for the past week because they were asked not to come to. They came to the Dodgers cave to right wing pressure like specifically like marco like when marco rubio like stepped in a lot of people like wow marco rubio is throwing his weight around and most people like why the fuck is he affecting

the conversation over here who gives a shit um and and then a lot of right wing commentators are like this is an attack on catholicism and christianity at large make no mistake they're drag performers who dress as nuns is that the idea yeah and like it's like all for fundraising for all kinds of different causes but again like yeah there's just very campy drag nun kind of visuals and and like even like more other like figures like you know you know bishops or whatever, but very campy, colorful. Because, yeah,

because they're making fun of the people and their fun ghost stories that they tell you you're going to go to H-E-double hockey sticks if you don't eat fish on Friday. Hey, Marco, while we're on the subject, you see this headline out of Chicago? Oh, no, what's that? Is it about the Catholic Church?

Yeah, it is. A new report also names 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers who abused children between 1950 and 2019, far more than the church acknowledged before the review began. Yeah, over 2,000 children. Jesus Christ. But again, that's what always... I can't believe when these people are like... I mean, I can.

But you gotta... They have to put all that shit out of their head. Like you're talking about groomers and people like actually putting children at risk. And we see this constantly in organized religion. But again, yeah, let's come after the,

the sisters of perpetual indulgence. I don't know. It's kind of like a weird look. I honestly, like once the Dodgers did it, like in my mind, the damage is kind of done. Yeah. And like their whole thing is like after generous conversations with the, you know, the sisters of perpetual indulgence, like we were offering our sincerest apologies.

And it's like generous conversations. I think they're probably like, cause they, they're like, please. And they're like, okay, how about this? Like, let's negotiate then. And they're like, okay, fine, please. We just, this is such a bad look for us. We caved to Marco Rubio. You fucked up. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk. Meatball Ron, Tiny Ron DeSantis

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and we're back and desantis is expected to announce today is that is that or already has probably by the time you've oh really you heard this happening today i think so uh actually so the the tweet uh the truth it was a truth and it has two million or two hundred thousand uh oh sorry god i was imagining there were more people on truth uh the way that they like count truths and re-truths and likes is so so this donald j trump truth has 1.99 thousand re-truths what does that mean point not so that's just 1990 oh that's what oh yeah okay anyways it says tiny quotes ron desantis is five foot seven and people are like uh-oh game over brother um god but uh he's gonna launch his presidential

bid with elon musk oh wow wow wow wow. I mean, yeah. Two human shit posts together. Yeah. I mean, let's, let's not forget, uh, his, his old,

his, his time at Guantanamo, which he's really fighting. Uh, like he really wants people to forget that part. How would he remember me? No chance. Little,

little old me. Wait, are you talking to me? Ron DeSantis? Uh, yeah,on desantis oh yeah yes this is a this is an interview press conference being held by you oh okay got it got it got it yeah you know what's interesting i see a lot of people talk about how one of the biggest differences between trump and ron desantis is like ron desantis has a lot of these like interesting moments caught on camera whether he's like laughing like an absolute corn ball like where you never kind of see donald trump like hamming it up we're like look at this

fucking fake politician laugh or like ron de santis has so many of these gifts and be like and you're like what is up with this guy where he lets the facade fall for a second right exactly or him where he wiped his like snot on a guy in iowa like this is another video that's like going around where he like wiped his nose and then he goes all right brother and just pats him on the shoulder just there you go leave it right there boom oh nasty yeah thank you that laugh for it look at this laugh jack is that miles what the fuck was that i don't that's the Dean scream of laughs. Oh my God.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I hadn't seen that. Oh yeah. I think I'd seen a screen cap of it and assumed that it was like AI generated. No, no. He's at a campaign event and he has a laughing fit.

Listen to that. It looks like he's unwell. Yeah's i think because this is the thing like everyone everyone has said that he is the kind of like he doesn't know how to work a room so he leans into it real heavy yeah and it's off-putting to a lot of people because it's so like transparently just fake but hey he can't be blessed with all the skills he's kind of the buddha judge of the right right he's like has buddha judge seems more sincere than this guy you know yeah it's just like there's like something calculated about but see okay i think i know what you mean like buddha judge you can kind of see through it and you're like i know i see your

programming that you're writing whereas like that's not fair to buddha judge but like he there's just similar things yeah yeah it's insincere for sure yes the way desantis does it you're like oh come on like what the you're not even trying he actually has like some hillary vibes where it's like you know trying to be down trying to be cool and like just failing at it yeah but at least where hillary clinton was like trying to court black voters ronda sanders was like i have i keep a clan hood in my bag right just like you folks that that laugh is wild though i had not isn't it it's interesting yeah it's troubling like i it's it's one of those things that contributes to like all these like donors and shit being like oh this guy's not presidential yeah they meet with him and then immediately are like man he he's like he just doesn't seem to have his

like all his faculties about him he's in he's in campaign mode jack you know yeah we could well his campaign strategy seems to be uh make america florida that's like one of his opening lines at all his campaign stops and i don't think everybody's on board with that like even right wing people it feels yeah they're like no we like your brand of cruelty to those people there. But like, it's more fun for us to see, not like to be in it. No, right. We like the cruelty from afar. I think we've made that clear. It's like right wingers.

We're not. We're very averse to experiencing any kind of difficulty or trouble to the point where we will cry and crumble. So we'd like to keep it very far away from our experience. And we just like to watch with our popcorn yeah anyways uh those are some of the things that are trending on this tuesday afternoon we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then uh go watch that ron de santos laughter video if you just want to be like shaken to your core. 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 four 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 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-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Women's Sports. Harry Poore. 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.