The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend Vines 11/10: Midterm Elections, Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, City Edition Jerseys, Gen Z

Episode Date: November 10, 2022

In this edition of Trend Vines, Jack and Miles discuss the midterm election results, Nick Fuentes thinking we need a dictator, Alex Jones being ordered to pay even more money to Sandy Hook parents, the new NBA City Edition jerseys, the Right hating on Zoomers for not being conservative enough!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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Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Caitlin 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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Trend Vines. That's courtesy of Johnny Davis, not to be confused with Trendzlers, I guess. Does that sound enough like Twizzlers?

Yeah, Zeitlers. Yeah, I know. Trend Vines, at least you got the words, the letters that spell red are in trend. Yeah. Anyways, good short show title, Johnny Davis, as always. You going to be at the theater munching on some red vines in the not too distant future mom yeah i'm thinking uh you know what maybe we gotta go with the whole crew actually no i'm thinking about that yeah we might have to do a

little group outing again so we can yell at the screen and cheer for nicole kidman unironically. Oh, is she in Wakanda Forever? No, remember? I'm just joking. Yo, I really was like, oh shit. No, Jack. I mean, she's in all of our favorite films now. Right. Yeah, no, technically. How do you feel about the thing that they're issuing a new one of those?

Have we talked about that on this episode? That they're like, it's a hit. The Nicole Kidman preamble's a hit, so now we've got to produce a new one. And it's like, no, it's an ironic hit. We had a guest, I think, who brought that up when he was like, I think it was the overrated was like cheering for that

because you're encouraging AMC. But I was like, look, it's part of our downward spiral psychologically through the pandemic. So we're just going to, yeah, we're going to hoot and holler at Nicole Kidman. I love it. I feel like it's interesting that they're sticking with Kidman. They're like her weird energy.

Her strange ghostly not knowing how to clap ass energy is what people fuck with about this. Oh, I thought you meant she couldn't clap the yeeks. No, I just meant she doesn't really seem to know how to clap. It shows you where all the pauses go. She definitely can't clap the yeeks either. But I think part of it,

I think it's just like this high-low thing. You know, like Nicole Kidmanman at amc while i'm in my sweatpants you know it just feels like such a mismatch at amc being like mystified and enchanted by creed 2 yeah like who could you get like who's highbrow enough that it is such a like iconoclast mashup that you're like whoa daniel day lewis oh see but what that's yeah 100 believable though it's believable that he would go to the movies and be mystified just by like all the technology because i think people view him as somebody who lives in a shed and like cobbles day and night by candlelight like i feel like tilda swinton would like tilda swinton but like

it would have a completely different vibe people would be like that was the best one i've ever seen right versus like they call i guess you just need someone full of shit i think that's what we're responding to is like oh you know it's her acting responding that world yeah i feel like tilda swinton the vibes would be that somebody has a gun trained on her from off camera as she's doing it. All right. Who are you? Did you already introduce?

I don't think I did. I'm Jack. Oh, man. So rude of me. I'm Jack, and this is my good friend, Miles. Nice to meet you. Hi, listener. Let's tell the people what's trending, shall we?

Yeah. Bobert. Yeah. Bobert we? Yeah. Boebert. Yeah. Boebert. Boebert. Lauren Boebert. You know, everyone's most hated or one of them. I mean, everyone has their most hated member of Congress.

But Lauren Boebert of Colorado. People are refreshing the shit out of election results right now because this race has been like going down to the fucking wire. At first, Adam Frisch had a lead then she started eking back as it stands right now when we just checked she's up by like 800 something votes and there's still a few thousand left to count

so I'm like please what's gonna happen here which is wild because a lot of people I think again most of the traditional prognosticators were like might not be so easy to unseat her but it's i mean it's this is definitely very very close yeah this was not viewed as a race that was going to be close this is one that we're more invested in for humiliation purposes right humiliation yep she's a local house person yeah Right? House rep.

Congressperson Lohan Boebert. Boebert. Maybe you should go with that just to kind of switch it up a little bit. Rudy Boebert. Is there anything there? Anything? I don't know. Okay. Yeah, maybe a mashup. I like that. Maybe they collab on a project. Why don't we just call him Rudy Gobert?

Right. You know, he started the pandemic. She finished it. There you go. All right. Nick Fuentes, just going down the hit list, baby. Yeah. All our faves.

They're all, everybody on the right is super turned up right now and angry because they're like, but we said really vapid talking points that don't relate to people's lives and ignored the Supreme Court's heinousness, and we're still losing? Nick Flynn says, maybe you're lucky enough to not be so well-versed in all these extremists. He's a white nationalist, racist, anti-Semite, every single kind of hatred this guy embodies. kind of hatred this guy embodies he recently on his like talk like live stream uh he he's basically has some thoughts about like why america needs a dictatorship because you know he realizes uh i think we're outnumbered so we need a dictatorship you gotta recognize the fact that this is a godless country i hate it it's immoral it's wrong it's heinous it's evil also not only is that godless country you are in a not sound treated studio either sir that room sounds very with a backdrop that

suggests that you are in a building that doesn't exist that is as tall as the empire state building in like five blocks like next door yeah right next door to the empire state building um we digress allow him to go on his dictator's creed but this is an evil country and this country will surprise you with how evil it is and that's why you got to get this out of your head that there is some silent majority cavalry that's going to come out of the woods and save us at the last minute. It's not. Interesting. When we meet the left on the battlefield and they outnumber us like five to one, that's it.

But the point is, when you look at these things like abortion, it's popular. People like abortion, hate it, but it's true. And you can thank the Jewish media for that. Whoa. Yeah. Sodomy is popular. Being gay is popular you know being gay is popular being a feminist is popular yeah sex out of wedlock is popular contraceptives are that's all popular that's all that's not to say it's good that's not to say i like that popular means the people support it which they do and uh here's the turn it sucks and it is what it is but that's why we need uh dictatorship that's unironically why we need to get rid of all that we need to take control of the media or take control of the

government and force the people to believe what we believe or force them to play by our rules wow so um that's the energy from one corner of i like when he said i have a dictatorship i'm like kind of lost control of his faculties for a moment. Like Dr. Strangelove or what's his name from the Jinx when he was like, Robert Durst. What?

Had the bile duct just work in overdrive. That's fun. Is that a person with a following? That does look like it was filmed in his base no i mean nick fuentes is known on the far right i mean he's you know like he's like also he he was like so far right he's like maga's bullshit like at a third time it's not going

far enough yeah communist maga's bullshit so yeah i mean it's this is definitely somebody who has an audience but it i mean it only takes a few days of clips like that to end up becoming like the normal thing that a bunch of people say uh but we'll see what happens there but i think it is clear the frustration that the right wing is like experiencing now truly like i was always trying to think like did they really think there was a red wave or were they fucking with the base to get them riled up enough that the disappointment when it didn't come they could weaponize which seems like this would lead you to believe that it was all part of a plan to weaponize and be like all right let's everyone's so flabbergasted though you know what i mean because typically what i thought the script

was going to be it's a red wave it's a red wave and you heard jesse waters that night for like i mean and if there isn't then something's up wink wink that i thought the second the numbers weren't going their way you would hear challenge after challenge after challenge, like total chaos. But it seems like a lot of people who preach the election denialism weren't quite living it on the day for, I guess, a little bit of luck there.

Because it's illegal to say that. Right. And they see what happens to the others. So I don't know. But I'll say this. I mean, I know this is i mean i know this is what clearly this is what republicans are thinking anyway they just aren't saying it in such clear terms they're basically like well we got to make sure that vote doesn't count and only ours do

gerrymander gerrymander gerrymander and then maybe that's one way but yeah yeah i mean the gerrymandering just got fully like that that was was a not a fringe thing. I mean, both parties have been gerrymandering for a long time, but like the degree to which Republicans gerrymandered local and even, you know, House elections was pretty staggering to people and, you know, treated as such in the mainstream media fairly recently and now that's just been like kind of added into the equation so i mean it yeah it remains to be seen like nobody's really mentioning everyone's just like well the republicans are still going to win the house with let's look at the total number of votes cast for the republicans versus the democrats here right see let's see those numbers to get an idea of where we're at yeah yep but you know that like all that hardcore gerrymandering again they're like oh fuck obama doing good let's paint the town red by any means necessary and we saw like democrats not really

checking that in the same way until like a few years later and they're like, oh yes, it's getting completely out of control. I guess right now, just the bare superior numbers are what's helping. And then Alex Jones. So just a trifecta of the best of the best. We got Bo Burt, we got Fuentes, we got Alex Jones, baby.

Yes, Mr. Jones and me. Oh, families from Sandy Hook, about 473 million uh so the judge just basically the court has ordered him and the company to pay another 473 million dollars to more on top of the nearly one bill yeah yeah yeah yeah but again this is like while we say that like wow that's a lot of money there's also countless you know like there's also talk about how he's declaring bankruptcy rich people know how to keep their money away when they owe a lot so we'll see what actually happens and and if he you know he ends up with his pockets inside out um all right let's take

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And let's talk City Edition jerseys, NBA. I mean, we have an NBA podcast. Yes, Miles and Jack. Got Mad Boosties. Yes, obviously.

Yeah, you can go listen to that. It's 100% top rated, as I've said. It is the most 100% top rated NBA podcast by Miles and I. 100%, 100%. But yeah, there's new city edition jerseys and for us as basketball loving people the jerseys are also fun and the city edition jerseys are like every team every year they can get the city edition which is where they can do something a little bit outside of the norm of what their traditional colors are for the team i think one

of the saddest ones is the lakers jersey yeah like both the 76ers and the lakers at least y'all have like an interesting script and it says like city of brotherly love but they both seem like they were designed in microsoft word right Or someone is selling bootlegs outside the arena. Right. And you're like, man, this ain't the jersey this year. Right.

And you're like, wait, this looks like such little effort was put into it. I thought Rob Palenka designed it. There are no I's in it in Los Angeles. So he may have designed that one because remember rob plinka we don't use the word i or even the letter i around here exactly we just put trophies

in place of the eyes anyways you were pointing out the memphis one is dope yeah because every team is doing something that's relevant to the city so the memphis grizzlies one it has like this gold platinum metallic look like again they're first of all just paying homage to all of the music like stacks records and things iconic coming from memphis but also memphis rap uh so like you're getting a little bit of that dimension like the little chrome reflection which is really dope the spurs i'm not gonna lie i like the callback to like the 96 all-star game you know with the Fiesta colorway uh which is nice the Washington Wizards one is also dope I think also because I'm Japanese I love cherry blossom iconography and this is like a whole cherry blossom vibe

the Charlotte Hornets one appears to have an abbreviation for clit on the front of it? Is that CLT? Yeah, CLT. I mean, you have a dirty mind, sir. Okay, my bad. Yeah, I'm not sure. Is that their airport? It might be. Because the Portland Trailblazers,

there it says PDX, and I love it. The color, it's like a mint green and black, and that one has a street going across that is literally like the print of the carpet at the Portland airport. Yeah, like that became a meme. So the Clippers uniform is like black and red and very simple. But then it has what looks like stained glass behind it. Yeah, that's like that's meant to like echo like the Watts Tower. That's dope.

I really like the colorful ones, especially if there's a story there. The Sixers last year had the old Spectrum, which is where they used to play that court in the Barkley days, represented. The Memphis one is pretty dope. But yeah, I don't know. So one thing, Minnesota's jersey seems to have i i don't know why they

have chosen to go colorful because it doesn't seem like it fits yeah i was reading something about it about like it was just meant to like um be a shout out to like the creative community of like minneapolis and i know like the type set was created by like a local like a lot of the fonts and stuff were created by people from those cities um so i think it has something to do with that yeah all right because when i thought i was like it looks like a like a rug like i'm at a sailboat race right like with the color block i'm like yeah okay yeah but both the lakers and the sixers just are like white and i guess city of brotherly love is cool but they're also doing the thing with the tight arms you know yeah yeah yeah which i'm not like that's

not what basketball jerseys are to me they're doing that across the board it seems like i mean everybody well and also the the players are wearing the jerseys tighter too like we're in the new era yeah you know it's not like back in our day we wear all like a 3x jersey down to our ankles that's right anyways uh gen z is trending yeah again more fucking anger from the right so many fucking bad like the same take i've seen from many and it's like only takes like three people in maga world to say and then all like the new blue checks on twitter like yeah we seriously need to think about raising the voting age because these young kids don't know what they're doing

there people have even said arguments like it should be 21 because you don't have the wherewithal to like wield some life changing shit like a vote. Oh, the gun control argument. Yes. Yes. Yes. Wow. Wow.

Now y'all are bringing up studies about how the brain ain't fully formed. And like there's there's still like adulting that can happen, et cetera. But now they're just doing that because they're like fuck man these kids they don't think the status quo is cool uh and i don't know i mean like look a tip to all political parties start hiring younger fucking consultants and you might see something change right or at least people who come from like real life situations not like some political creature who's like two three generations in on the game do we have the numbers in like in terms of what the like how much Gen Z voted? A lot of the early stats that people were pointing to was just like how the split is like absurd.

It's like like Gen Z isn't fucking with conservatism, basically like exponentially. I want to say like maybe 70 to 30 or something like that so i think a lot of it is a lot of anger slash like denial about like how can our thing be this unpopular with young people but crime there what about the crime oh the crim the crim wave what about the crime no they don't know about the crim wave man what about the crime no they don't know about the crim wave man what about the crime yeah so oh because also there was a you know they're the new gen z congressperson from florida uh is going to be sworn in yeah so there's you know there's i couldn't tell if that was like where the story was or like what the raw numbers were but it does it does feel like things broke more progressive than any of those

pollsters we're expecting it's like the same thing that like like boomer like silent generation teachers would say like would be like i don't know why we're these kids are too sensitive we're like now everything's a participation award a lot of that i think is just translating into people becoming just generally more empathetic right so they're like dude what what are you talking about like let somebody like die because they've had like some kind of like pregnancy complication because restrictive abortion like what no yeah all that to say is their like message of like abject hatred only appeals to people who are like trying to grip like to the ashes of like this weird old america they think is dying yeah i want somebody to do one of those twitter threads that's like a brief history of the young people shouldn't be allowed to vote because i'm sure this shit happened in the same like every time

like the young people are more progressive and smarter than the previous generation. And that is a scientific fact based on IQ norming and all that stuff. So it happens every generation. And the danger of young people voting, the power of young people voting is evident in this take. And I think the other big thing is like, obviously Gen X and boomers, they're making up a bulk of the Republican party and like people in there, like, you know,

millennials like in their thirties are a little bit more split. But I think with millennials and younger, like we're, we've like, everyone has some version of like, we don't like what's going on. Yeah. You know,

like that's kind of the general tone of like how we see things so i think because of that that just naturally makes you think of like well what is the next move like what is progress what is the how will this problem get solved where older people are more like we had it really good i don't know why people trying to introduce all this other woke shit and it's like that's not what this is like we're trying to introduce all this other woke shit and it's like that's not what this is like we're trying to fucking move towards solutions here but it is also the generation least raised on mainstream media and you know they've least been strapped to that feedback and they're like wait a second like we we don't really agree with almost anything that you guys are saying. What are you watching in here, Grandma?

Alright, well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. 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. Get the flu shot.

Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. 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 4 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. 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, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.