The Daily Zeitgeist - Travel Trends 5/30: FloRida, Roman Shirt, Casey DeSantis, Skiplagging, Bedrotting, The Little Mermaid

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

In this edition of Travel Trends, Miles and super producer Becca discuss FloRida's new rates, Roman's Walmart shirt from the Succession finale, Casey DeSantis' weird Disney princess fits, the skiplagging phenomenon, the Bedrotting self care trend, and the release of The Little Mermaid!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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay 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

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello everybody and welcome to this edition of zeitgeist travel trends uh because we get into some of the hottest trends in travel which we will get to in our second act uh but first allow me to reintroduce myself my name is miles and i'm here with becca how are you you doing anything good uh i went and saw raw dog um jamie's show oh yeah the bell house tour yeah get your copy get your copy i got my i got mine i got mine uh yeah raw dog jamie loftus's book uh which is really, it's, she's such a great writer. And like, just with that cliched phrase from the Simpsons, it's like, she writes the way

she talks. It's very easy to read her work. I haven't started yet, but the show was super, because if you go, the show comes with a book. So I only got my book yesterday yesterday but the show is not like a traditional i would say book like reading you know it's gonna have comedy bits you're gonna meet some hot dogs right it's gonna be great yeah some hot dog celebs and then yeah the tour continues all over you should check out uh jamie's uh social medias so you can see those dates because it's uh it's it's heading all over the east coast yeah do you do you all right um anyway where were we at oh yeah what's trending

florida or florida is trending because florida has just come out and said look um you know when people want me to do a private gig the minimum is a million dollars for me to show up and then he said guess how many i do a year 30 what at least is do you think he's lying that i can't imagine 30 people willing to pay a million dollars of private time with flow rider i think he's probably done two for over a million. And then he's probably done other ones that are easily in the high six figures. I don't know if he's hitting a milli every time,

but I do believe that there are people who are trapped in like the aughts and tens teens who have way too much money and like are high on cocaine and like, you know, be fucking wild as a flow rider, didn't that? Super producer Brian says he really thinks so. That 30 people are willing to pay him over a million dollars. You'd be surprised how many artists are making their money like that now. Just doing private little gigs.

And they're like, man, fuck an arena. Because I can just go to some, you know, autocratic nation. That's a lot of work. Yeah, but then they're like, I don't care. I'll take Mohammed bin Salman's money. I don't give a fuck. But yeah, anyway, we have a friend who does like gigs like that, who's like goes to do like, I don't know, like he went to Mexico.

I don't know who the people were that paid for this, but he's been many places with artists to do these private shows uh so anyway it's a thing it's a thing i mean the same way like didn't who didn't fucking beyonce go to like azerbaijan recently people like don't go don't do that and i was like oh yeah i mean we all know but again she's like i'm a capitalist baby exactly she's never she's never lied about who she was so you know oh yeah she's like, I'm a capitalist, baby. Exactly. She's never lied about who she was. Oh, yeah. She's like, I never said I was about anything else except these dollars.

I mean, I give a fuck about people, but I give a fuck about this bag. So, yeah. Apparently, he just did a bar mitzvah in Lincolnshire, Chicago, which is like wild because, wait, hold on. This kid is 13, but he wants Flo Rida there. Some kids are really in a nostalgia right now. Like I saw a TikTok that was like the black IPs had their rent to pay when they dropped this song

and I was like, oh my God, I feel old. Yeah. All right. I guess so too. Like if you had so much money, you're like, what do you want? You're like, well, I want Flo Rida to come to my bar mitzvah and sing low then i want drake to do passion fruit and then um nikki minaj to do i don't know whatever you know but just make it happen make it happen and then somebody drops fucking five million dollars on a party i guess it's just so wild too because we'll never have

million dollar flow right on money like that no but guess what i can play a youtube clip of one of his live performances very loud and make it feel like that i got the sonos you know yeah exactly and i got one too we can link them up you know what i mean you bring your sonos i'll bring my sonos get even the little ones pair them up we got 3d audio check that out uh Roman shirt is trending because everybody who was watching the Succession finale last night

was loving Roman's shirt when he was hanging out at his mother's house in Turks and Caicos or Barbados or wherever the fuck that was supposed to be. Because apparently it's Walmart. And everyone's like, oh shit, I'm getting that. I'm gonna get on my fucking Roman Roy swag. uh so i didn't realize is it this like turquoise blue yellow different paneling on the shoulder yeah yeah yeah am i a hater i hate the shirt i think it's so ugly i hate

all the clothes these motherfuckers wear i hate the shirt there was a whole thing i was reading this article from a stylist who's like talking about how coded like so the i mean not coded but like how intentional the looks are like everything kendall wears is like it's always like for people who know who are like up on shit they're like oh shit that's like a that's like a fucking 800 t he got on oh that's a that's a that's a 1500 neckerchief or whatever yeah and he looks or it's oh yeah quiet luxury i think it's also the other and you look like you have no fucking taste you just look like a paint by numbers whatever kind of person but yeah so people were loving the fuck out of

that shirt i guess um but yeah i was like okay whatever do you if that's your style that's who you want to be go and be that but it won't be me next up let's keep it in florida speaking of florida casey desantis is trending do you know why casey desantis is trending i do not well allow me to enlighten you um have you seen some of her looks no like how she will go to like a very non-formal event but like wear things like this oh white like she thinks she's like the queen of england yes or will wear like capes to other just non like highfalutin events being like what the fuck what's with all the white gloves and what's with the capes and shit no it literally looks like she's trying to be a part of the royal party like oh yeah yeah exactly and like she would say it like that too like not knowing what she means like i'm

part of the royal party is that like a party you're invited to is that like the royal family are you talking about political royalty she looks like she's trying to do like a i'm a kennedy's type thing she's like i'm jackie o in this bitch it is giving jackie o but it also is giving like i don't know what's her face um william's wife kate middleton oh yeah yeah it's definitely budget kate middleton but anyway all that to say is ron desantis is sick of the fucking haters because he's like, look at my wife. I was like, do you want to just hear this guy fucking just whine about this shit?

It's actually kind of funny because it's so, this take is so fucking bad. Just, just listen to why Ron DeSantis is tripping. Cause we just, just so you know, she dresses like, how do I put this?

Like shit. Is this like shit? She has no fucking fashion sense. Miss me with all the formal wear and here's ron desantis is what with why this is a fucking an abomination we knew that this was what happened because if she were a democrat she'd be on free fashion magazine they would be making her to be the biggest deal but because we're conservative we know that that's not what happened in reality her to be the biggest deal. But because we're conservative, we know that that's not what will happen. In reality, it'll be the opposite where they try to really attack. I mean, we will attack the style.

We will not attack the person, although. Yeah, it's not great. I will attack her judge of character. She's married to you. Yeah, it's like it's just formal wear. It's just formal wear where you don't need formal wear sometimes. Yeah. Some of these events. It's like. It's like when you do the most because you don't know how to dress so you think

doing the most is a fucking style it is not it's just doing the most that's all that is and that's what people are going to say they're like oh she's doing the most with that doing the most with the gloves and cape what the fuck is this girl we at the fucking panthers hockey game anyway so yeah like brian very i mean yes we know just remember when michelle obama she had bare arms and everyone's like oh so she has the right to bear arms clearly and it's like what the fuck but anyway i think it's okay because uh we we don't have time to pay attention to her contrived outfits, as I would say. They're contrived. They're contrived completely.

All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back with some travel trends after this. 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers,

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I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.

Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically

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iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. You heard of skip lagging? Becca? I, okay. So when we were talking about this off mic, originally the title of it, no.

But then as we got into it, I was like, oh, I have heard of this on TikTok. And I remember saving it and sending it to my partner being like, never. We skip lagging uh so this is what it is uh it's also known as quote hidden city or throwaway ticketing uh where what you do is you book a flight with a layover in the city you want to go to and then you bail on that second leg of the journey so it's like how you save like apparently a lot of people been like swearing up and down like you can save all this money so like let's say you know you you

got a trip wherever because like this is the thing that people do like yeah cancel that next trip and then you in the city you want to be and you got it made in the shade uh but apparently now the airlines they hate it and they say they are cracking the fuck down on it because they're like hey hey hey don't take advantage of our arbitrary pricing systems you fucking you clever motherfuckers uh we don't like that uh but again yeah they said they are really going to they have like tools and shit to like flag these types of travelers because they are costing the airlines i guess a pretty penny but i don't know miss me yeah it seems very silly skip flagged is its own company and why yeah who are who they were like being like yo do it like us they're like we'll book your like just make sure you cancel this

shit we'll book through them versus like an orbits yeah yeah but i think with the view and to be like where are you trying to go okay yeah you should skip lag it over there to get the best price on your ticket to Kuala Lumpur or Amsterdam. So anyway, skip lagged the company, got sued by United and Orbitz for $75,000 in lost revenue, which is truly not a lot of money when you think about how much each plane ticket costs and how many people are on a plane it's like maybe one to two planes worth of people for the year that's like half of first class on a transatlantic flight is seventy five thousand dollars so it seems petty as shit but i did see this go viral on tiktok a little bit ago that was very much like you are being warned. These were people that were stitching these hack travel hackers, you know, that are like,

this is what you do to save a buck, you know, telling them about skip lagging. They were being stitched by airline workers that were like, you will get blacklisted from airlines if you do this. So like at your own risk to save a hundred couple hundred bucks go for it but be warned that you may become on a flight risk like people be warned that somehow a corporation will put you in the same category as someone who's trying to take down an airplane which is so amazing because you fucking you found a loophole man fuck all man i'm saying just skip lag like a motherfucker you know what i mean i mean i will i will not do that because i will not be doing that i i'm a loyal we have to stand up we have to stand up you know what i mean you know i well

because like airline flights are getting so like ridiculous they're insane the seats get smaller they're trying to yeah and they're also just trying to nudge everybody into like paying more they're like hey man you could say you could get our regular seat uh but if you're if you over five seven you're gonna break your kneecaps in here literally the way they've broken up business and economy and the up charges between business and economy and like i feel like even economy there's like economy and economy plus now and like that's stupid like the difference between economy and economy plus is like, you get to choose your seat in economy plus versus economy. You don't get to.

Yeah. Like, and also like, what's wild though too, and it's like, or you get our motherfucking credit card and then we'll look the other way, but we'll get you into our own like debt cycle. But you know, you get your credit card through us anyway, all that to say, uh, let us know your tips. And also if you work at an airline holler at us i can what's the deal can i really be put on a fucking no fly list yeah skip lagging

and i'm sure they say like well it's hard to know like what your intentions are if you are yeah you take it into they're like whatever i miss me with that like national security shit when i'm trying to just secure my financial baggage okay uh next thing up is bed rotting which like which sounds a lot like the like lie flat movement in china uh but bed rotting apparently is like according to the new york post uh and like let me know gen z listeners if this is a real thing but it's a new self-care trend of basically saying, just lie in bed. You know what I mean? As long as you need to, to kind of get your shit right and then get out when it's right for you.

Interesting. I mean, I, as I'm reading the article here, some people are bed rotting while binge watching Netflix, stuffing their faces with sugary snacks or simply staring at the ceiling while others are falling a bit more into the clean girl aesthetic doing face masks sleeping on silk pillowcases and meditating in bed personally as someone who gets the sunday scaries and i guess in theory bed rots i don't know if i recommend this for your mental health every time i do it i'm on well yeah this sounds like me in a depressive state when i when i bed rod episode that's me being like man i don't got the will to get up out this motherfucking bed i get though too if you are so

like the more sort of charitable explanation is one where it's like it helps you reclaim some physical time that isn't tied to like toiling or whatever. So like, yeah, just fucking do you whatever the fuck you need to don't get out that bed. I like I get that. Like, I see that. I thought it might be more of like a protest to have been like, why the fuck should I get up to participate in this motherfucking society? I get that. And I definitely think rest is very important.

get that and i definitely think rest is very important but as someone who has suffered a lot of mental health crises i just recommend maybe talking if you can get a therapist talk to a therapist and get in the sun as early as possible in the day if you can like wake up not look at your phone go for a walk or at least you don't even have to walk too much. Just like sit outside in the sun. You'll feel so much better. I promise. Although part of me like low key is like, man, bed riding feel good as a motherfucker.

I know it feels good in the short term. And then in the long term, you're like, I'll tell you this as a, as a new parent, I'm like reading about these like Gen Z people like, yeah, just get in bed. And I just fucking just lay there,

watch TV, eat ice cream and i'm like man i wish i did that but like then my baby i'm trying to get the baby to to bed rot too i'm like yo that's true you need to do that that is that's restful that's important no but it's you know it's all right i think look getting me me walking. I'm getting more steps. This little thing has improved my life for the best, it turns out. I'm not bed rotten anymore. And then finally, Little Mermaid, $117.5 million over Memorial Day weekend. On the other side of the internet, I saw people who are big fans of Burt kreischer that stand-up comedian i'm not particularly a big fan of he had a movie come out and like everyone's like everybody gotta go see burt kreischer's movie and they did not do well at all i was just

thinking like a motherfucker and anyway uh and they were like why the fuck are people gonna go see little mermaid when they're this genius film by burt kreischer the machine yeah i'm like okay maybe because it's a film that's like taking place in russia and not very critical of russia right when they just unilaterally decided to invade another nation i don't know maybe that part schoolboy q um but yeah little mermaid fifth highest memorial day weekend of all time uh but you know you already know the follow-up because there's because it's black always a buck yeah but look people either like you could do the non-racist thing and be like oh my god ursula's makeup was foul that shit was trite uh or you could be like full-on mask

off racist and get mad at uh hallie bailey uh but either way uh they're laughing their way to the box office yeah you know doing boffo numbers so i haven't seen it i don't know if i will i'll probably see i'll catch it on an airplane i just can't like as much as i love like i love little mermaid little mermaid is like the first one i really fucked with as a kid because that shit came out like right as I was able to be old enough to go to a movie theater and be like, oh, this shit? Yeah, I'm rocking with The Little Mermaid.

The remakes, I just... Every time there's been a live-action one, I'm like, nope. Lion, nope. Aladdin, nope. I really appreciate what this Little Mermaid stands for and the reactions i've seen from uh you know young black girls on the internet has been so sweet so wholesome i am excited for all

of those young kids to be experiencing a princess that looks a lot more like them but i have actually a hot take always hated the little mermaid before hall. Before Halle Bailey. Not Halle Bailey. Right, right, right. I hated White Little Mermaid. Like, I don't know what it is. I have a thing with underwater sea creatures. I don't like their movies. I didn't like Finding Nemo.

I didn't like Dory. I like how you said it. Like, we're on some problematic right-wing podcast. You're like, I don't like their movies. I just don't like their movies i just don't underwater see people underwater seek it's my mom like laughs at me she's like yeah that has been a theme in your life like you just don't like are you got like a hydrophobia or something like did you almost drown i am very afraid of the ocean and um because it's so big yes and we don't know

like there's like we only have discovered like five percent of the ocean oh okay yeah okay you really do person who wears shoes at the beach like in the water because like i will freak out touching the sand wow i'm that person wearing water for you i mean i get it when it's rocky but like i guess it's because you got the heebie-jeebies you're like no no i'm like i'm gonna die like something is gonna sting me like I'm gonna go down like okay crocodile dundee I don't know like it's just I'm scared

all right well look that's that's unfortunate but I'll probably watch it on a plane yeah look plane movies that's that's all the time you know it's at altitude we have so much time to plane rot as we do. All right, y'all.

Well, that is going to do it for us today. We're going to be back tomorrow. You already know with the whole episode. So until then, take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. You know, do all that safety shit because this world is a fucking mess. Take care of each other, especially if you see people trying to discriminate against some fucking marginalized group. We don't have time for this shit anymore.

Please. There's too many of us that know this is bullshit. Too many of us. So, you know, just let them know they're outnumbered. All right, y'all. We'll see you tomorrow. Take care. Bye.

Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. 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 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. 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.