The Daily Zeitgeist - TreNBA TrendVP Joel Trenbiid 5/5: King Charles, Eastwind Books, S'MOreo, Serbian Gun Ban, WHO, Productivity Theater

Episode Date: May 5, 2023

In this edition of TrenBA TrendVP Joel Trenbiid Jack and Miles discuss King Charles upcoming coronation and "new powers", the 41-year, Asian owned Berkeley bookstore, Eastwind Books, is closing, the S'MOreo is back, after two mass shootings Serbia is banning guns entirely, the World Health Organization (WHO) says COVID is "no longer a world health emergency", and workers are saying they spend 10 hours/week participating in "productivity theater".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's courtesy of Paul Garaventa on the Discord. You know? Yeah. Hey, we got a win against the Celtics in game one. We got the MVP, and we'll learn to be happy with that. Hey, I mean, look, like I said, just got a little dinged up in game two. Got a little dinged up. A little dinged up.

A little fender bender. Just like we do. Yo, you had a 34 ding up. What did we get, 27-point ding up? Yeah, we got a little ding up. Yeah, but hey, those blowouts are good. Like we were saying, those blowouts are good. Also, yeah, those are good blowouts.

That's a good blowout. Yeah, I like those. Yeah, because AD and LeBron don't even have to play in the fourth quarter. Yeah, it just looks so down, like demure and sad. Anyway. Yeah, I'm sad. I an nba sad boy uh okay because that's your rapper name yeah that's my rapper name yeah that is permanently my rapper name nba sad boy 76ers fan um i'm jack that's miles yep there will be more games this weekend we'll see and these are some things that are trending

king charles uh is getting coronated yeah oh this looks cool i'm wearing my rui hachi maria jersey as a mask oh that does look cool oh you hook that on your ears on my ears because they stick out bro wow wow this is my new balaclava look okay anyway uh yeah king charles sorry to sidetrack all of our king after this weekend because we can all swear our allegiance through the tv just cut your hands put the put your bloody handprint on the screen let the king know that you're here for him we love him don't we folks his coronation will see more than a thousand people protesting in london's trafalgar square oh right uh and so in order to intimidate protesters the uk home office of police powers unit will be granted new powers

as outlined in an anonymous letter that's usually a good sign right when they're not when they keep it anonymous yeah hey you know what anytime someone's granted new powers and it's usually a good sign right when they're not when they keep it anonymous yeah hey you know what anytime someone's granted new powers and it's not a fucking like a pokemon or some shit yeah i'm not i'm not for that no so here here's a couple red flags on these new powers uh they were rushed into law to prevent disruption and uh they were granted in an anonymous letter so nobody wanted to sign their name to it um the also bad sign another flag popped another flag on this one the united nations high commissioner for human rights called the legislation uh deeply troubling so we'll see how all of this goes i I mean, we're probably just, you know, the mainstream media is not going to be covering them, like arresting people four hours before the festivities begin.

Dude, you know what these fucking powers are for old Bill, as they say over there? Under the new law, protests to interfere with key national infrastructure, such as blocking roads and railways, could face 12 months behind bars in unlimited fine or both i'm sorry unlimited fine is that like a spell from magic the gathering um anyone quote locking on or physically uh attaching themselves to other people objects or buildings to cause serious disruption could face six months behind bars in unlimited fine or both and police will be empowered to stop and search protesters suspected of having intent to yo that's this is the fuck part the police will be empowered to stop and search protesters suspected of having intent to commit an offense i suspect you have the intent yes i have some suspicions about their intent. So I'm sure that will all be handled and used very responsibly.

Yeah, 100%. In London, which had missile launchers on, like built rocket launchers onto their buildings during the 2012 Olympics is where they were at. And that went off without a hitch. Keep it cool. Yeah. There's a grand coronation party

scheduled to take place in Boff's historic Royal Crescent, which you might recognize as a filming location for Bridgerton. I call it a Crescent. Crescent? That's how British people pronounce Crescent, right? The Crescent.

Crescent. But somebody, they got one off before before the letter was rushed through uh somebody mowed a giant dick into the the lawn oh yeah perfect like i i don't how do they do do they have a drone overhead that's giving them or like is this just man when you're mowing out and mow the perfect don you can just do that with your eyes closed if you mow enough you know what i mean that shit's easy yeah it's like bro a penis is easy man for that bellend charles for sure charles in charge charles in charge of our days and our nights yeah truly k-n-i-H-T-S. Yes, that's right.

The bad news, East Wind Bookstore in, where was it located? Berkeley and San Francisco. Berkeley and San Francisco, which opened in 1982 with two locations, is now closing. It's just a sad day, local bookstore. Yeah, the oldest Asian American bookstore of all the a, a sad day. Local book. Yeah. The oldest Asian American bookstore. Yeah. Of all the months to on API heritage month. But yeah,

it's, uh, that's the written word, man. Nobody's fucking with it like that. Yeah. It's wild too. Like it's,

it, every time I see a new bookstore open up, I'm like heartened. And then the cynical side of me is like, please don't get fucked up by Amazon. Yeah. Hold on. But I think that's why it's you know it's funny too because i fucking love the bookstore as a kid that was like the one place my mom might buy me some shit yeah bookstore is the best that was like my favorite like i i have memories of that store and no other just like a local bookstore

where you just like go and read and fucking i mean the local see i didn't really have local because at that point like everything was at the mall i'll go to walden books or like brentano's you remember that shit did y'all have brentano's i don't think so oh they had the green bag the green shopping bag and then it became bookstar on ventura and then that became barnes and noble uh but anyway i just there's something about going to a bookstore that i love uh do you remember clearly canadian those uh sparkling flavored like that's what i would just go to the local bookstore get the clear get a clearly canadian if i was lucky and just chill man those were wait they had a clearly canadian they were just

selling that at the bookstore yeah the bookstore the bookstore. Oh, man. Very chill. Very chill. Very chill times. Yeah. Please buy from independent bookstops, please. This makes me think of the fact that the film You've Got Mail, in addition to other things that make it dated, where they're like, you can fall in love over email. It's the craziest thing. And Dave Chappelle's your best friend. And Dave Chappelle's your best friend.

And you are the CEO of Barnes & Noble. the craziest thing and dave chapelle's your best friend and dave chapelle's your best friend and you are like the ceo of barnes and noble that's what tom hanks's character is and he's like putting meg ryan's fox books it was called fox books yeah box books f o x that's what his brother would say because his brother was his dad's latest son from his like wife who was like 20 years old or something i remember it's just wild that they were like this is cool right people people like corporations it's clinton's america we're all good here yeah anyways uh speaking of nostalgia and things we're all nostalgic for there there's a new oreo that's coming back i didn't realize it was ever here um but people are like i'm so this is like such a great nostalgia play by oreo uh they're bringing back the smoreo um which

was a limited edition flavor from 2013 um i don't like to hear that 2013 was 10 years ago first of all as a human being it feels violent yeah because to me that was just the other day that's me I'm about to meet her majesty at her job our producer Victor was like oh my god I'm so nostalgic for this

I was I had been married for five years fuck you smoriels wasn't do shit with me i mean yeah i i don't know like was this a vibe victor were you trying to get these smoriels like because i know it is like i missed this was it a wave yeah i completely missed this oh victor said i get all the oreos okay so shout out the oreo gang because i i'm like i i only get them when i'm super high at like ralph's and i remember to see if there's any lit oreos yeah the s'mores girl scout cookies are really good so i have high hopes girl scout s'mores they just called them s'mores no fun play on on the word they they've just packed every cubic centimeter of these cookies with as much sugar

as it will take before just like bursting into a pile of like sugar granules um and that they're wonderful uh so i don't know that that's the one that's the sandwich cookie one i think there's a different version for the east coast girl Scout cookies. Oh, right. Because you get it from one of two shops, right? Yeah. I remember we were talking about that when you were blowing the lid open on big Girl Scout cookies. Yeah, man. It was the Watergate of the Daily Zeitgeist.

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they're like oh my like again like a fucked up terrible mass shooting and then this one is all right that's it we're tightening up the gun laws uh just it's very frustrating living in such a very very hard i mean i guess it's like hey it's possible you know we always point to australia as the example of like hey it's possible but maybe this will remind people that it's possible i mean it's like the weird thing though too most a majority of americans are like bro i don't give a fuck i want to be safe yeah but it's there's something about the the way the messaging reaches people where they're just like it's impossible right

yeah and then also like i remember when vin like i think i still remember when viradas came on just talking about how like again we've we've made these things like sanctified to the point that they are rhetorically untouchable topics yeah um but yeah this is anyway uh congratulations that things happened but yeah hope hopefully you get that get that done yes uh covet is over so that's cool all right um let's move on i guess so is this podcast um uh yeah the world health organization uh just announced that covet 19 is no longer a global health emergency oh really there's no more deaths people aren't dying anymore uh just over 3 500 people

uh a week at this point so oh but it was way worse when it was really bad less people are dying so that's good we can uh and it's also um people are officially tired of paying attention to it. So there is a big graphic put out by the World Health Organization, breaking COVID-19 global health emergency is over. And the stock price shot through the roof. Yeah. They're also saying that officially 7 million people died, but that the real number is probably closer to 20 million and that the virus is still probably closer to 20 million and that

the virus is still a significant threat. So it's interesting. Oh, OK. It's over. But here's the thing about pandemics, as they said, they truly end. This is from one of the people there. So they truly end when the next one begins. Yeah.

So in this job that has huge practical impacts on people's day-to-day lives they're getting very theoretical here yeah it's i mean like what's i mean again oh you look at because you know we're we're on the the verge of uh announcing we've ko'd covid in this country yeah from joe byron so then that means we can end the emergency and end the considerations we're giving because of it um yeah so while covid continues to kill thousands of people each month uh the emergency is ending but we're entering the 23rd year of the 9-11 emergency that's real yeah there's still a national emergency period declared over september 11th yeah that's still in place hey i still i still remain vigilant i still am ready to say something when i see something

doesn't matter what it is if i see anything i will say it um makes me feel like i have a purpose in this world so workers are saying that they engage in productivity theater for over 10 hours a week to appear busy. A survey shows, which I think is being reported because people are like, wow, that's a lot. I feel like that is they're being conservative there. Yeah. To say what? 10 hours.

That's if you work 40 hours, that 25% of your time is just fucking around. Three quarters of your time is spent doing actual work at the workplace the fuck out of here I mean yeah it I don't know depends on it honestly depends on what you do like if you're in an office type setting where you like it is about like

just get these two things done the whole day yeah but we act like it's a big deal. Then yeah, my ass is jerking around like a fucking clown. I was telling you off Mike. If I, like I was the, I was the,

I was the Tony award winning productivity theater artist. Okay. And I would, I knew how to fucking, I knew how to not work. Yeah. If I had a chatty boss, I get the chatty boss just going on some shit.

I'd be like what happened with your weekend what i made your daughter's soccer game no no the ref oh no that wouldn't be me that wouldn't be me diana that would not be me all right man i'm gonna go outside real quick and i got high in my in my honda they are included also like i think it's complete bullshit that it's that low when you read their definition of what productivity theater is they say it includes attending unnecessary meetings or spending excessive amounts of time on administrative tasks that's that's i think that's 90 of the american work yeah right there. And these kind of like, you know, what were those jobs we're talking about? What's that category of jobs?

Bullshit jobs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like when you do that, yeah, that's most of it. But the real part, in my mind, it's when you're not doing shit at all. Not like trying to get the most out of like a task, just so you can like, you can just clock out a five. Like I'm talking about like fake shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like being like, yo, I i'm sorry i had to go fix something on the copy machine yeah yeah i didn't yeah but i said just take a little walk nice little walk spend some

time in the bathroom even though you're not going to oh my god just a little time just me time i had a i had a homie who would take i'm not joking he was he would he would be shitting for two hours and watch a movie on his phone yeah and i was like that that's some that's not even productivity theater that's straight up just you're going to the theater uh in the bathroom stall yeah at least shout out to them for recognizing that a lot of these meetings don't need to happen and if you think about it right like let's let's just i know we say that's charitable, but we presume that if 25% is bullshit, then get rid of 25% of the work week. Yeah. Which is why I think a lot of people...

The CEOs are reading this and being like, so that seems like we could pay them 25% less. No, motherfucker. no motherfucker how do we use amazon's technology to uh focus on how much time they're actually spending on task and then use that to uh say for savings purposes to deliver value to our shareholders oh so you know what's funny the most militant like type of asshole bosses i had was when i was a pa when i used to like be a pa when i was coming up like a production assistant on like tv or film sets or whatever oh damn like film and tv producers or villains i didn't get that from this week but it but it's wild though it would be like a it would be like a fucking capo type situation where you would have somebody who's just like a

couple layers above you not even a producer like the head of the pas who's also a pa and be like you need to be active all the time i don't want to see a cell phone you need to if there's a trash can that's even half full you got to take the trash bag out when they when they wrap that section you better make sure that whole thing is clean i'm like yo relax man yeah you don't like the abuse of just people who want to work in a creative field like by by people who are you know we're like well we can take advantage of that vice vice's 22 rule which i always come back to but it's just they had a thing they literally said where we go by the 22 rule uh hire 22 year olds pay them 22 000 a year and work them 22 hours a day.

Cha-ching. Ka-ching, bro. Cool company. Cut to, it's collapsing. Yeah. It was their YouTube. Their YouTube kind of fucked them over. That shit blew up too hard.

And then everybody was like, oh my God. Yeah. Give them billions of dollars. And not to say that the shit wasn't good. It was good. But I think that was the beginning of like a lot of just like uh that was the beginning of everyone being like this is the most potent media brand on the earth yeah they i i had a feeling they might be in trouble when like they were they were still like creating good shit they had like desus and mary on the on uh the their tv yeah on

viceland um but they were also like there were these new york times articles with the ceos and like founders being like we're actually more of a ad production studio i was like oh yeah that's when it yeah do your consumers and the people who actually make your brand valuable at all know that you're an ad production studio because right exactly yeah oh yeah guys let's not have too much critical commentary on that they're they're an advertiser with us yes but i'm talking about femicide in in mexico yeah yeah well they're they they buy a lot of ads if you don't mention they're a factory yeah all right those are some of the things that are trending heading into coronation weekend. We are back on Monday with a whole ass episode of the show.

Oh, hold on. Are you going live when they do the homage of the people? I'm going live on Instagram. I'm going live. If y'all want to do that, I'll hit the homage of the people with me. Check me out on live. What time is the coronation west coast because i was gonna do it on tape delay but oh jack how dare you it's just hard to like get the whole family up and in their outfits that i'm going to make them wear for the coronation of the people to show their proper respect so that's what i was thinking but you're right you're right i'll wake them up at two in the morning um let's see let's see more prominent guests sovereign's escort will assemble buckingham palace live live u.s coverage begins at five eastern that's two two a.m pacific yeah uh the coronation service will take place at six a.m eastern three pacific oh hell yeah uh oh that's easy that's when i get up for my work

mark woolberg uh workout ice bath yeah yeah and then the whole thing concludes at eight so if you're up between three and five uh west coast time uh or six and eight east coast uh you can you can maybe do the homage of the people yeah get yourers ready. Get ready to just cut your hand and put a big bloody foot. Put your blood out. Yeah. And also, whenever we go back on tour,

y'all better expect to do the homage of the Zeitgang at the show. We will make you pledge fealty. All right. Well, back on Monday

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