The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend 'n' M's Super Bowl Special 2/13: SuperBowl, The Flash, Indiana Jones, Netflix, Megan Fox, MGK

Episode Date: February 13, 2023

In this edition of Trend 'n' M's Super Bowl Special, Jack and super producer Becca discuss the Superb Owl and all of the things it wants you to buy, Netflix making a reggaeton show... without Puerto Ricans, and the Megan Fox/MGK split!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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what's happening you know i'm glad the Super Bowl is over because we finally got to see what we all came here to see, which was Rihanna perform at the Super Bowl. Yeah. And I can move on now. Yes. I don't know what I was expecting.

I don't think I'd ever seen Rihanna perform live. Like, just... Yeah, I don't think I had or even, like, thought about what a Rihanna performance would be like and it was very fascinating it was like exactly what I would want her energy to be which is just like

yeah like I'll fuck you'll dance for me like basically and like the dancing the dancers were amazing they were incredible I mean the stage was very cool the choreographed dancers the staging dancing, the dancers were amazing. Like they were incredible. I mean, the stage was very cool. The staging was dope.

The songs were great. And like the fact that she was conspicuously giving people not very much was like what I didn't realize I wanted from Rihanna, but definitely worked for me. I mean, it was the most, I feel like Rihanna thing of 2023 to do, which is like, as someone like Rihanna, you know, previously, you know, shitting on the NFL to come do the Superbowl, do it as like, I don't give a fuck as possible to not be dancing. And then have all these rumors swirling where, you know, if you were reading any news about Rihanna, like practicing for the Superbowl, they were like, she's not showing up to rehearsals like whatever whatever and to realize she's pregnant was a great

reveal of like her just like not showing up to practice or anything like that because simply she cannot be dancing like that because she is big big pregnant um and i loved the memes after of the experiences that i also shared of like you're watching it and you're like is she pregnant but i know she just had the baby so like i don't want to assume that it's like like not just her post-pregnancy body like all bodies are beautiful like you're just totally these emotions and then you're like oh no no she definitely is is pregnant yeah the people i was watching with were like is she i don't you don't want to say it out loud. The text came through and I was like, Becca confirmed she's pregnant. Everyone's like, oh, okay, great.

Becca! I can feel free wondering now. Yeah, a Becca chant rang out spontaneously. I had the inside scoop. It was great. I'm grateful to have Becca and friends. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it was dope it was interesting that

for the first non-pepsi halftime uh actually now the apple halftime show uh they did have her flying around on her and like the band and backup dancers flying around on what appeared to be iPads. Yes. Yeah. I was like, Oh, okay. That's, that's pretty, uh, conspicuous,

but I like it. I did not miss Pepsi personally. Usually I feel like the Pepsi, the trademark of the Pepsi show was always like, we start with like a teenager who sprints onto the field and like, is like amazed by what's happening and there's like always like a crowd like dancing right in front of the show and this was just like all dancers dancing choreographed like yeah this is definitely giving like mini music video you know yeah like it

was just yeah so that happened at the super bowl trend nms as as we mentioned the super bowl commercial hit there's the whole business about maya rudolph becoming the new spokesperson for m&ms which in turn got rid of like the politically divisive sexually beguiling anthropomorphic candy characters and fox news was all over it it's like like, let it go, Fox. Like, we can never make you happy, I guess. Right. But it did seem like we were like, so this must all be teeing up some Super Bowl commercial. We were right.

I think they actually even said that in the initial thing. But the commercial itself was so strange. Like, I kind of respected it that they went with for their like big thing that they had you know captured the zeitgeist with this very stupid debate about whether m&ms are sexy or not i guess um that they then like the payoff the punchline to that debate was something that felt like one of the SNL sketches that comes on between 12.30 and 1. You're like, alright.

I can see them getting high and cracking up about this at the table read. That's fun. But this was one of the ones that I feel like kind of missed. It was very weird. I didn't this was one of the ones that I feel like kind of missed, you know, it was very weird. I didn't even catch it during the Superbowl. Like I was watching TV and it was just a Hulu ad that I was like of

something I was watching. And I was like, out of the context of the Superbowl, I was so lost. I was like, clam, what? Anyway,

continue Jack. So the premise is that she has taken over not just as spokesperson, but the candy design. And under her reign, M&Ms are now clam-flavored for reasons that... Not answered in the commercial. I keep wondering, am I missing something about my rudolph that

makes that lends it to the clam thing or like is it i don't know i'm still not sure i i feel like i'm missing an obvious reason that they went with clam flavoring but yeah it's just the company immediately announced that the spokes candies are back after the thing so it was like the whole idea was and we're going in this new direction haha it's a bad direction is this what you want tucker carlson you filthy pig eat my clam flavored m&ms and i those weren't the exact words of it. And then they immediately go back to being M&Ms with spokes candies that Tucker Carlson can jerk off to or not. But that's what's important, I think, for all of us, for America to move forward. It was so bizarre. And I want to know,

as someone who used to work in advertising who was the creative director and were they fired after this because it was so bad i don't know i don't know right you do come from the world of advertising so like yeah i'm just curious like frequently during the super bowl during the super bowl ads i have like my brain immediately leaps to the ad agency room when this is pitched and like what what was going through everybody's mind what was said that made people be like okay clam okay right so they're clam flavored yeah no i think i get it yeah yeah um you know like what i do wonder how far back this ad was pitched because depending on the client this ad either got started last year like march 2022 or if they were able to like steamroll a project maybe january 2023 but that would be like very

much pushing it i know most of the clients that i worked on that their ads were in the super bowl we started those projects like immediately after the last super bowl like the number of people that have to approve an ad read for a podcast let alone like a super bowl ad like shooting the ad like you gotta like have you have like a bunch of little like creative teams being like, what if? And then they pitch it to the creative director. Then the creative director has to pitch it to the client. The client has to approve it. Then they decline it

and they approve it again. And then they gotta go make the thing and the producer gets yelled at and it's a nightmare. And it's eight months of work to get out there and then potentially have the worst out of the Super Bowl like this one. Some have speculated that this is perhaps a distraction for the company, seeing as Mars Wrigley was just fined

by federal workplace safety authorities in conjunction with an accident in June in which two workers fell into a chocolate vat, which they weren't supposed to be working on. Oh, no. Which, that's gross. That's like how willy wonka kills one of the kids and literally um not to laugh but oh man so maybe they had like a willy wonka based like ad and then that happened they were like scrapping i mean yeah i don't know we'll never

know we never will know the actual state secrets are being leaked because the elderly presidents are like, how do I open email, Jack? But the you know, these these are the state secrets that will the earth will end and blow away in a cloud of dust before anybody knows what what actually happened with this ad to make this ad possible yeah corporations they're the they're the true our true rulers let's take a quick break shall we we'll come back and do a little trailer watch super bowl a dish this summer the nation watched as the republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today.

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I promise your taste buds will be happy you did. And we're back. And so The Flash is coming out with Ezra Miller. Highly problematic star, Ezra Miller, just on wax, victimizing people. For months, like there's been multiple articles multiple arrests and a history of violence ezra miller for years like you know this is not their first time boyering into being a bad person you know they have been in trouble with the law before 2022 they got multiple arrests in 2022 but also you, you know, before there've been rumors of, you know,

assault and battery, you know, from prior partners, all sorts of things. So the fact that like Warner Bros, you know, cancel the Batgirl movie fully done, like it was a done movie. People were very excited for it. It had, you know, representation, Afro-Latinoino representation like all the things that you know in this new modern era of filmmaking people wanted to see they scrapped but they are holding on for dear life of the flash i don't understand i don't the trailer was okay you know but yeah they didn't recast like it's just it didn't seem to me to make sense it feels like i i don't i'm not saying oh now i get it and good decision by you warner brothers uh but it does feel like they have a lot of narrative baggage tied up in this one because this is apparently the one based on a comic

called flashpoint paradox i think super producer justin was saying um in which like the different universes cross over with one this is their multiverse for sure this is dc's multiverse it's very clear they're bringing back all the batmans you know they got ben affleck matt ben you got michael keaton batman you're bringing in Supergirl. Like, it is definitely a, like, merging of, like, Justice League vibes. But I just don't think they're, like, I'm assuming their thing is like, well, we already shot the movie

and we have to make the money on it and it's setting up for other movies and we'll probably recast Ezra Miller in, you know, whatever we do with the Flash next. But I just don't think they're going to make enough money off of releasing this version with Ezra Miller than they would have if they just recasted him and redid it.

Recut the scenes. I don't know. Yeah. Feels like. Because I think people are very staunchly against Ezra Miller right now. I don't think they're going to see it. People don't have confidence in DC as it is anyway. So I don't think they're going to see it because people don't have confidence in DC as it is anyway. So I don't think they're going to be like, oh, but I got to figure out how it all connects so I can watch the next DC movie.

Right. It does feel like they're doing the thing that Spider-Man Far From Home, No Way Home, whatever the last Spider-man is with multiple spider spiders men was but they're doing it in a flash movie instead of a batman movie but they're doing it with the batman anyways very questionable decisions boo so producer brian a little bit more of a dc head than i uh is saying they literally made two cuts of justice league for no reason with two different directors. Exactly. Seems a little messy. Seems like there's not a, like the, the thing that Marvel is so good at and it not, it's not great for cinema in general,

but like just very consistent. And it feels like they're always on rails and they've got this thing thought out five years in advance. And DC is always there to just make that look extra difficult, you know? So anyways uh the other big trailer indiana jones and the dial of destiny so this one i will the dial of destiny so it like they had the last crusade the rays of the lost ark um temple of doom and then they've really just fallen off with kingdom of the crystal skull and the dial of destiny the dial like is is the does dial do anything for you other than

like an old-timey like tv um, I mean what I was thinking, which is probably incorrect, like vice, I didn't get to watch the trailer before we hopped on. But my idea is if you watch pirates of the Caribbean, you know, they have that like compassy thing. That's the vibe it's giving me.

Sure. But I know that's a compass and not a dial. So I'm not sure. Compass of destiny might've made more sense to me. The Dial of Destiny just feels strange. But anyways, I am a bit intrigued. Now that I found out, I was like, oh, did they even get Spielberg for this? Because if not, they did not get Spielberg.

They got James Mangold, who made Logan. And now I'm more interested in it than I would have been if they had gotten Spielberg. If Spielberg had gotten Spielberg, because he's still the executive producer. But Spielberg took a swing and a miss with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I think. I never watched it because I couldn't find a single person who liked that movie. I think I watched it in theaters. Yeah, I think a lot it in theaters. Yeah. I think a lot of people did.

You know, my dad's a big Indiana Jones guy. So I've seen all of them. I'll probably see this one. If it comes out on Christmas, I'll definitely see it with my dad. But I mean, I'm excited. I love Indiana Jones. I think they're fun adventures. And so James Mangold made Logan, which is. And I liked Logan too. So think they're fun adventures. And so James Mangold made Logan,

which is, and I liked Logan too. So yeah, Logan was great. And it's also like iconic character in their old age being a step slow, which seems like you need that to be the plot, the premise of an Indiana Jones movie at this point, especially if Harrison Ford is actually starring it, which he is, which he is.

He is. He is getting up there. Yeah. And still looks so good. He does. What a face on that man. Truly. Netflix made a reggaeton show and forgot to include Puerto Rican people in the production. Yes. So I submitted a story, shocker. but i actually had a friend send this to me and i did a little bit of a deep dive and i was kind of blown to be completely honest in november of 2022 netflix announced the show neon which is going to be focusing on three friends who move from a small town in florida to miami with the hopes of making it big in the world of reggaeton the show chronicles not only their larger in life dreams and the harsh comic realities of attempting to make it in the music industry. But with that being said, there are no Puerto Ricans in the writers room. There are no Puerto Ricans really

documented in the making of the show. The showrunner is Shea Serrano, who is a Mexican American writer, author and journalist. And then they have a white showrunner, Max Searle. So it is, to me, very perplexing and kind of hurts, to say the least, because I just don't feel like there are a ton of Puerto Rican stories out there that are being told by and for Puerto Rican people. And I think not to like, I don't know much about Shea Serrano as a writer or anything like that, but it perpetuates this idea that it's like we as, you know, Latinos, Latinx folks are this monolith of a culture and like reggaeton itself specifically is so rooted and not just like Afro-Latinoism. It's rooted in like Puerto Rico,

in the DR, in like Cuba. Like it is an Afro, like Caribbean style of music and originated in Puerto Rico as a part of Puerto Ricans like protests with the US government and like creating its own separate culture from the US as it's been colonized by the US.

So it is just very depressing to hear this, that they have been kind of covering it up by saying like, well, we're not going to be focusing on the Puerto Rico aspect of the story. And it's like, but you can't do that when you're talking about reggaeton specifically. Like reggaeton is Puerto Rican. Like inherently, those are two synonymous pieces of culture. You cannot take Puerto Rico out of reggaeton and you cannot take reggaeton out of Puerto Rico. So, you know, it just, it feels icky that they're having this like, you know, Puerto Rican lead actor, they're shooting it in Puerto Rico, but the showrunner is white, the writer is Mexican.

And it seems like they're kind of hushing any Puerto Rican voices that are on the set. They are exclusively not seeking out Puerto Rican writers, Puerto Rican folks to be a part of the creative process. It's icky. It's icky. Boo Netflix on this one.

I'm going to watch it, but I am curious to see how they are going to somehow separate puerto rico from reggaeton because it's just not possible you cannot like we just watch the fucking grammys with bad bunny on that stage representing puerto rico and you know reggaeton so it's just yeah shooting in puerto rico is is wild especially because it's based in miami so i don't get why they can't shoot in miami not that i like have anything wrong with shooting in puerto rico but given what is going on um you know politically between puerto rico and america in terms of

trying to get its statehood or trying to, you know, become more independent and being supported by the economy. Like, to be shooting in Puerto Rico and then, like, spit in their face about, like, not having any Puerto Rican support on this team is just... It's kind of icky for also Shea Serrano. Like, is you, the creator, coming up with this idea?

You did not feel inclined? I like him. Like, I like his... You's a he's a podcaster and a good solid writer uh but yeah this is fucked up yeah my friend submitted this article from hyper allergic they're an independent um brooklyn journalist uh hub and they do a lot of like news on like the arts and um they reached out to shea serrano he didn't comment on anything they've reached out to netflix they haven't really commented on anything but they did interview um latino rebels which is like a really cool independent latino like activist journalist

group um and yeah they they interviewed a bunch of the puerto ricans that areans that are like the lower people they have like because it's in Puerto Rico they have you know Puerto Rican you know assistant producers and things like that and they're all saying like they're trying to you know skirt around the idea that they're not including a lot of Puerto Rican representation in the film making

process and I don't know I just I hope to hear from Shea Serrano on his perspective when this movie starts or not this movie, the show starts to actually get through promo and like goes live and kind of hear why he decided to make those decisions. But as a Latino in filmmaking, I find it disappointing that we're still, especially like this is a black. Like Latino story. Like these are Afro Latinos. That you're not seeking out to represent their voices.

Especially during black history man. Like we are finding this out. And you're not going to reach out to Afro Latinos. And black Latinos. And actually represent them as they are. Authentically. So disappointed. Please if you know more.

Let me know. hit us up and finally megan fox and mgk i mean they're it's not not we don't know much this is a kinetic situation but the rumors are flying that their their love has ended they've broken up megan fox apparently deleted all her pictures of mgk on ig followed eminem which is the ultimate kiss to mgk do they feud eminem and mgk okay so when people were saying that i didn't understand i was like is this an allusion to like eminem and rihanna's song together or is it something about people like comparing eminem and mgk I could see both. I'm not versed enough in Eminem's universe to understand the significance, but it seems to be significant according to the internet and pop culture that she followed Eminem,

unfollowed him, took all his photos down, posted Beyonce lyrics. If you listen to Lemonade, which generally people understand Lemonade is a breakup album, but Pray You Catch Me, that song like hurts in your soul. Um, so it's clear that he probably cheated on her based on that choice of song. And, you know, I'm here for Megan Fox getting her lick back.

She needs to leave that man. I've been not about it. The backstory of them and MGK feud, by the way, is just further, uh, solidifies that he's just like a fuck boy. Uh, so MGK tweeted about Eminem's daughter.

Okay. So I just saw a picture of Eminem's daughter and I have to say she is hot as fuck. Okay. Well, that's kind of gross. So then, uh,

I think there's been some diss tracks. Uh, yeah, there's well well deserved feud i love this for megan kelly uh i always want to say megan kelly uh megan fox to just be spurned and say fuck mgk because i think a lot of people were like we want this for you yeah it's just it was a creepy love i mean it felt very you know press ish yeah like from the beginning but also there was just like so many moments that you would see them on the red carpet and she looked like so over it right like he's just like oh like all over her and she's just like oh like he like had no like like rapport on any sort of public display it's like i know some of it was like obviously

they were both indulging in it but sometimes it was just like bruh give her some space you're like in her like you're like sucking her air like can you like take a step back like oh it was giving me like claustrophobia watching them all right well those are some of the things that are trending on this monday after the super bowl we are back tomorrow with the those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday after the Super Bowl. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Becca, where can people find you, follow you? You can find me and follow me at Bex, B-E-C-C-S, Ramos on all platforms and at Mel Mundos in Bushwick every other Saturday. Yeah, yeah. That is going to do it until tomorrow.

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