The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeitathlon 2/15: Alec Baldwin, NYT, Remington, Coachella, Sarah Palin, Elon Musk, Rescue Rangers

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

In this edition of The Zeitathlon, Jack and Miles discuss Alec Baldwin getting sued by the family of Halyna Hutchins, the NYT's unsympathetic pandemic housing market article, Remington and Prince Andrew having a bad day in court, Coachella time-travelling back to 2019, Sarah Palin vs. NYT, Elon Musk pledging to donate $6 billion if UN can detail ending world hunger, and the new 'Rescue Rangers' trailer Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to the zeitathlon short show title courtesy of super producer brian i'm jack that is miles that's where you ski and shoot a rifle uh yeah i think that's right and i think they were yeah they were trying to is that the one yeah ski shoot the rifle there there's another one that involved horses that uh This is kind of the most important news you missed while you were away. So at the last Olympics, during that portion, a coach punched the horse. And so they're choosing to replace the horse riding portion of, I think it's Pentathlon. One of the Tathlons. Wait, there's a horse involvement yeah

i think this is the summer olympics but we we one of the things that they were suggesting replacing it with was pillow fighting which is how it came across our radar dude those i i mean i was on the internet the last few weeks i saw those clips pop up yeah the one where the guy got knocked out have you ever been knocked out in a pillow fight i feel like i got knocked out in a pillow fight when i was like i've i'll tell you this i've been hit too hard and i've dropped the pillow and then straight up put my hands on somebody because i'm so pissed because i got hit so clean with a pillow some of the most satisfying hits uh you'll ever see are i'm not joking one time my friend hit me so clean with a pillow i i lifted his whole body up and threw him across the room like i was

an example of like a dare like person on drugs not wild like i never i never summoned as much strength than like the humiliation of being just cleaned with a pillow and just being like no now i have to my 14 year old brain can't handle it. And I will now go to plan B violence. Especially those old pillows that are, you know, real bunchy and. Yeah. Really, really get someone. They don't make pillows like they used to. Hey, we've been saying that forever. These kids are soft, man.

Soft as their pillows. Yeah. All right. Well, this is the show where we tell you what's trending. Yeah. yeah all right well this is the show where we tell you what's trending yeah and uh the family of the rust cinematographer who was killed by a shot fired by alec baldwin has filed a wrongful death lawsuit um yeah i don't know what's their problem what's what's going on what do they wow i don't know we'll have alec baldwin on pretty soon uh to get his side of the of the events yeah um no i mean this is i i feel like uh this was expected yeah uh because it was

clear very clearly there people like what was going on there why was this person in the line of fire like that with live ammunition it seems like somebody fucked up somewhere and we're trying to get to the bottom of it. I can only imagine what the next move is from Alec Baldwin and his lawyer or his wife when they do another street rant. Or his press agent, George Stephanopoulos. Yeah. Well, we will see. Yeah new york times gets it miles they get it thank they know what we're going through they know that the economy has been all sorts of fucked up since the pandemic um and they they wrote an article about some people who

are going through the same stuff the the rest of us are uh it's titled they rushed to buy in the pandemic here's what they would change a frenzied seller's market led some people to make harried decisions when buying their homes that they now regret um and it's all about the struggles of being house poor and people are really uh really uh focusing on some quotes from one of the plaintiffs in the article who works for Amazon, you know, like many Americans, you know. You do a quick search of this woman on LinkedIn, head of global sports marketing partnerships at Amazon. Okay.

Oh, so she's not like pissing any bottles. She's no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The bottle pissing helps her throw away massive amounts of cash on, you know, sports washing Amazon's fucking reputation around the world. Stephanie DeSantis, not, unfortunately, not like Ron DeSantis, but a different spelling her

story a lot of people have like been like just pulling these excerpts from because they talk about how she said you know i had a maximum budget of 900 000 but then she quote pushed her budget up to 1.3 million reassessing her priorities quote i decided i've done a lot of traveling i've had a lot of fun i've done the thing where i'm like i'm hungry for pasta I'm going to go to Rome for three days that thing you know that thing miles that thing that's what that song was about that thing that thing where you say you're hungry for pasta I'm gonna go to Rome for three days hell yeah queen uh yeah and so a lot of really unsympathetic characters in this one again we talk constantly about like misleading articles that have no writing about the human suffering uh due to massive inequality but more like uh-oh they're in over their skis with this farmhouse they bought

in upstate new york yeah um anyway shout out to the New York Times. They get it. They are undefeated leftists. They're got such a leftward bias, you know? Oh, yeah. I mean, if you blur your eyes, all the headlines kind of say workers of the world unite. That's true. When you look at it.

If you wear the sunglasses when they live. Remington and Prince Andrew both had a rough day in court, Miles. Oh, boy. So Remington, after battling the Sandy Hook parents for years in court, they lost. They needed to pay $73 million to families. They were found to have been marketing to at-risk men. So people are hoping that this could affect how gun manufacturers are both marketed and insured.

Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are like, this is monumental. I am very curious to see what the ramifications are of this case. to see like what the ramifications are of this case um and alongside that too uh alex jones i think is also uh the saint hook families in texas and connecticut they won their defamation case against alex jones too there's just uh there's a lot happening uh and i'm sure this is you know the gun lobby was doing everything they could to stop this. Everything good, like as they always do. Have you ever heard the theory that like they should just make people who buy guns get insurance

on the level of like people who buy cars? Right. Aren't they doing that in like San Jose? I don't know. I just found out about that like idea and it sounds like it would i mean that's what it should it should cost a shitload of money and be uh the incredible burden that it is on everyone else right uh you know in society for you to own a gun um anyways yeah it's gun gun ownership requirements i know in san jose so most gun owners have to pay a fee

and carry liability insurance there you go um and then prince andrew uh settled out of court undisclosed amount of money with virginia jufri um and there's been some uh takes from people being like she shouldn't have settled because because we would have found out more information. But I feel like maybe before you start telling a victim of a horrific trauma what they should have done. Yeah. Just shut the fuck. Just sit down. Yeah, maybe shut the fuck up.

Yeah, I get that. And I get that everyone wants to know what exactly's happening jeffrey epstein but like we're talking about uh this you want this woman to just completely time travel back to probably the worst periods of her life and like in a media atmosphere that is just going to reduce this to some sensational nonsense with no consideration of her humanity yeah maybe i would settle too right um um but yeah a lot of people are like and i get it people think that this is how the the that you know he's he's able to escape any kind of accountability uh but you know at the end of the day this is this is the settlement that settlement that Virginia Giuffre thought was best for her. So so be it.

Yeah. So maybe shut the fuck up. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about how the pandemic's over. 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.

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vaccine mandates. It doesn't seem like it's just all, it's just like, you know, they saw the Superbowl and they were like that. We want that to be the vibe at Coachella. Yeah. The music festival this year.

Dude, nothing. They said no vaccination requirements, no mask mandates, testing. Just, hey, I know it took a couple of years, but we're back in 2019, folks. Yeah. The anti-vaxxers, the people on on facebook have won it seems like they just everyone's just like yeah done and done i think yeah it uh it's it's it's it's so it's really disorienting to like just read all these stories like whether it's california and their mask mandate ending or like dc and like being like yeah you don't need vaccinated i don't know whatever fuck it we're like we're still in a pandemic you still need you still need a good

amount of people to still be vaccinated and children because like that number is also very low like no matter what kind of city you're in liberal or conservative um but like the idea being that hey cases are low so you know just like i guess if you're not vaccinated wear a mask and then all's done rather than keep the fucking pressure up to really give ourselves a better shot here but i don't know like i'm i think like many people were getting used to like this ebb and flow of like man we hit a surge people get you know people's tight and shit up then it goes down you loosen up only to usher in another wave and regret that we were spiking the football on the fucking one yard line before we actually got in the end zone again yeah i mean that that

is like part of the plan right is the like loosening restrictions when numbers are low but i don't know the numbers i'm looking at deaths for february 14th 2022 they are over double what they were for 2021 looking at cases for 20 february 14th 2022 they're uh triple over triple what they were for 2021 yeah well you know it's this thing that we always do in this society in this society which is pin the the source of the pain on something temporary or new rather than the thing it's always been you know right it's easy to say oh this fucking pandemic man people are stressed that that man. People are stressed. People were stressed before the pandemic because we don't support people that need help. And we're not supporting our educators or frontline workers or essential workers properly.

And now I think it's just easier to say, oh, it's these damn restrictions, man. We just got to shake these shackles off of the mandates and that's what'll help us start feeling better when that's not it at all the pandemic you know for a group of people who might not have been paying attention revealed a lot of uh inequalities that exist and just absurdities of how we treat our people but yeah i guess it's easier to just say like well it's the mask mandate that's stressing people out rather than we need to continue to you know support the people that need it and like we're still act and i think it also helps lessen the argument that people need like financial and material assistance throughout this miles people are fed up okay that's the

nah just yeah no they are this whole thing but not with the pan they're fed up with the fact that they can't afford a home to live in or they can't afford to to support their children on one income uh yeah those are the things that people are fed up with but you know when we deal with a fucking disingenuous like corporate media it's so much easier to be like you know i think it's so weird when they do the segments like after they sort of present like whatever the actual news headline is and then they get the commentary people like yeah you know and i think this is what a lot of people are feeling right now they're just they're they're ready to to just see some progress on this that we're moving out of it like this isn't a fucking ride at disneyland you know like people are

annoyed like they it's been years since people have just been hungry for pasta and been able to go to Italy for a couple days. Yeah, just on a whim. There's an update on the Palin thing we talked about. The judge threw out her defamation case against the New York Times

before the jury came back with their verdict, but kept the jury so that they could come back with their verdict but kept the jury so that they could come back with their verdict just to you know let a have a second opinion uh so the the jury came back and was like yeah no there's bullshit there's nothing here um right so officially and thoroughly uh she lost the shit out of that one that's like such a weird case to you like ah who do i want to lose more the new york times or sarah valent although the ramifications of the new york times losing would have affected journalism at large right so in that case you're lucky uh but yeah good to good

to see that people figure that part out uh elon musk donated six6 billion, apparently, to... Who? Where? How? It's like that McDonald's commercial, except much more foreboding. Who did you donate to? So he tweeted at one point that he would donate $6 billion if the UN could explain how it would solve world hunger.

He did donate six billion dollars no one really knows to who or where but i'm sure a good cause that's such horseshit and again is this coming off the heels about how all those uh like monkeys that they were doing the experiments with the neural link like most of them died and lived like they said like lived lives of like quote untold suffering or something okay sure yeah sure also reports of extreme racism uh inside tesla factories in california oh yeah we'll get to that uh we'll yeah we have to get to that story but yeah that seems like a very well timed vague gesture at something that seemed positive oh well i donated six billion okay that's a large amount so hey who got that six billion where you at where you at anybody no hmm the truck convoy the what give it give it the truck convoy right the people the brave freedom fighters in canada and then finally

rescue rangers there's a there's a rescue rangers movie in the tradition of alvin and the chipmunks and alvin and the chipmunks the squeakwell uh we got a new kind of reboot of a animated show beloved in our youth uh this time updated for people who were kids in the 90eties. Um, and it is, I don't know how to feel about this because it's voiced by John Mulaney and it's directed by the lonely Island, like by Akiva Schaefer. And I don't know,

on the one hand I'm like, all right, well this is not nearly as shitty as I would expect it to be. And yeah, i enjoyed the shit out of that show when i was a kid on the other hand i'm like or they could have made the next mcgruber you know i mean it seems like they're they're having a lot of fun with all the intellectual property that that comes along with doing a film like this because they're bringing in all kinds of like things about animation and i think that's why i'm kind of like is this a

rescue rangers movie or is this kind of like a fun skewering of like our nostalgia for animation and over the years how it's changed and this that and the other that's why i'm kind of like confused because i didn't need rescue rangers to be like rebooted right you know like i'm not there's no like i saw that as a kid i'm not looking for them to be like oh yeah but now chip like he does wild cocaine now in hollywood night clubs right okay i mean not that that's the thing but cheese right oh sorry actually so hitting that cheese hard but yeah but i mean sure what the fuck the funniest thing was like when seth rogan was like that like beowulf looking animation guy yeah from like a video game yeah like cut scene yeah and just like

the bit of like the eyes just look so unreal and like they're just kind of like leaning into it he's like no from where i'm looking at i'm looking right at you and they're like you the eyes are not aimed at us yeah that was pretty good that was funny i guess that's what's like interesting is like in isolation there are moments i'm like haha haha yeah but i'm like what is the offering of this film exactly i'll watch the shit out of it for sure is it i'm guessing it's pg-13 at the very most right yeah it's got it can't be r which which would have which I do like when they got the freedom to stick a stalk of celery up someone's ass and have them dance around like in MacGruber. Yeah, unfortunately this was not the Red Band trailer that dropped today, so we'll have to wait. All right, well those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, February 15th.

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. Wear a mask. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye-bye. 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 Capital One, founding partner of iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, 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 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.