The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend We Back! 1/4: Jeffrey Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, Trump, Binny, Tetris, Pink Stanley Cup, The Rock

Episode Date: January 4, 2024

In this edition of Trend We Back!, Jack and Bryan, The Editor discuss... the latest Jeffrey Epstein documents (feat. Alan Dershowitz), Trump getting kicked off the Colorado and Maine ballots, Disney daydrinkers mad about Binny getting moved (whatever that means), the first human to beat Tetris, Willis Gibson, the Pink Stanley Cup release making Starbucks fans go crazy, and the Rock having In'n'Out for the first time… every time!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the editor and this is a character who will be playing yes I am now hold on hold on Jack hold on look can I finish can I finish oh yeah yeah yeah I am rebranding myself as Brian the editor editor. Okay, I will only respond. Damn. That's the serious energy right there. The serious branding energy. Hey, it's 2024, okay? It's 2024, folks.

I don't like it. I'd like to return it for one 2021, please. Or just anything. Just one 1989. Could I get a 1989 in exchange for this 2024? I'm feeling like a 2006, maybe. Cause you still,

you still got enough of the internet. Yeah. You can still pirate movies. It just takes a lot longer. Not me. I wouldn't steal a car and i wouldn't steal a movie um what a time to be alive folks 2024 can only get better from here right i mean it can't be worse remember when that was the thing that we all thought honestly jack i didn't think i would

live this long so i'm just yeah hey i'm just glad to be here guys hey um me too i'm glad to be here for the epstein document drops uh so is anyone who's come within 10 feet of an electronic device this week is probably aware hundreds of pages of legal documents pertaining to jeffrey epstein were unsealed resulting in an online frenzy that caused the court website hosting the docs to crash within minutes. Which may I add, if you've ever been on

a government website, that's really not much of a statement. Continue. Yeah, they crash all the time. They, not great. So people were expecting some bombshells about high profile associates um but it was there's a lot of stuff that i think we already knew people seemed surprised that uh stephen hawking was on there but i'm pretty sure i knew that already that he was like a known

associate of epstein and there's definitely been some stories about Stephen Hawking being, uh, a bit of a creep in the past. So, uh, you're not going to believe this one. Bill Clinton, uh,

was mentioned over 50 times, but not accused of any crimes. Although the documents do reference one of Epstein's accusers alleged that Epstein once remarked that Clinton likes him young, which doesn't sound good, would make sense given what we know about him being president to most famously have had an affair with a relative child in the Oval Office. Donald Trump also mentioned,

but it's not, like it's just the most damning story involves Epstein suggesting that they call up Trump during a stop in Atlantic City. So Trump supporters are like, we won, baby. He wasn't in there that much,

which is, I mean, kind of, I see where they're coming from. It's not the little weird that, uh, they're considering this a win since, uh, the victim, the alleged,

uh, victim in this case, whose lawsuit led to all of these documents in the first place was literally recruited for Epstein while working as a 15 year old towel girl at Mar-a-Lago. So he's, he's not on implicated. I would say, I just,

I just wonder my whole thing with this is how, for how long are they going to like, we like wheel out these little drips and drabs as, cause it feels like a distraction at this point anytime they they wheel out a batch of shit you already knew yeah more or less and just sort of they're just throwing out names like all bunched together some of these people are sex predators some of these people are just people that he knew because he knew a lot of people that was kind of his job so it's it's frustrating to see this just wheeled out

anytime they need a fucking headline or i don't know what the purpose is because they're not gonna like do anything about this they've had ample time to prosecute anybody who's implicated in this and they haven't. So like, what is the purpose of this is my question. There's a lot of documents. Like I believe that at least part of his strategy for accruing power in the world was blackmailing people,

uh, powerful people. And I think there's probably like, I wouldn't be shocked if there is eventually something there. And like there, there is new like details that I wasn't aware of. Like he offered a cash reward to prove that Stephen Hawking wasn't at an underage orgy as one lawsuit alleged.

Um, and, but I mean, here's my issue is that it seems to amount to more like documentaries and people sort of profiting off of it than actual action there's been ample time there's been enough time for a slew of documentaries to come out but no cases right it's just salacious that's that's that's the word i'm looking for yeah it's just salacious i will say i'm not above it um it's got my ass uh david copperfield did magic tricks at a dinner party with epstein and was um asking people he uh

did you observe david copperfield to be a friend of Jeffrey Epstein's? Macaulay asked to which the alleged victim said, yes. Did Copperfield ever discuss Jeffrey's involvement with young girls with you? The lawyer then asked, he questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls, which is like suggest that David Copperfield was either like very aware of what was going on

and still just like hanging out or he was like conducting his own like magic guy investigation into into what was happening you never know what those magicians are up to it could be just like true it could be just a long con like like something out of the prestige. Yes. Dershowitz, though, previously claimed that the documents would prove that he did nothing wrong. And he said he wants every last document and piece of paper relating to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein the late pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein to be publicly released, asserting that it will prove that he did nothing wrong. Um, and then he, uh, the documents very clearly state that he allegedly raped underage girls and was an eyewitness to sexual abuse of many minors, uh, by Epstein and several of Epstein's co-conspirators.

And in light of this news, Dershowitz defended himself by blaming feminism and Hamas. And that's not a joke. That's literally he went on a Fox News show and was interviewed. And he was like, I understand that all the feminist groups and the radicals who think this is the worst thing in the world that anybody ever had any contact with Jeffrey Epstein. That's not what people are mad about. Where are all those radical feminists

when it comes to the Hamas rapes? Oh, boy. Killing it. Dershowitz. Dershowitz. I mean, it just proves, you know, you don't have to be smart to be a lawyer yeah you you have to be smart in one very specific way yeah uh what what else happened over the break should we just end it there uh no let's take a quick break we'll come back we'll go through uh

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been kicked off the uh colorado ballot yep uh before we took a break before we took our leave of you good listener um he uh so also off of maine he's challenging that with the supreme court uh stands accused of receiving like millions of dollars of uh payments from foreign governments while he was president um and is probably going to win the presidency like that that like that as more news piles up uh it seems like people who pay attention to this these sorts of polling things are like and yeah man he's like like that it's not looking good for biden he's probably gonna win um that's the thing right any state that would take him off the ballot was already wouldn't yeah it was it was already a blue state, right?

Yeah. Yeah. So that's wild that that's going to happen fairly soon. There's a controversy over Disney Day Drinkers Club where they're mad that they got rid of a mascot called Benny. The thing from this story that is news to me is just that there's a club of people of adults who day

drink all day at Epcot in Florida. they're like, leave our little trash can alone. Leave it where we drink on a trash can. Yeah, there's something there's something a lot like alarming and sad about that that i don't care to articulate or elaborate on but

there's just there's something spooky about that to me yeah spookily and very specifically American. Um, a 13 year old became the first human to beat Tetris. Uh, recently, uh, an American 13 year old named Willis Gibson recently beat the original Tetris. Um, like kind of, there's not like a victory screen where they're like,

congratulations, you beat Tetris, but the game is designed to go on forever. But he played until his high score caused the game's memory banks to overload and crash, which... You play until it glitches. I'll give him the win. He beat the game.

That is how you beat Tetris, yeah. Yeah, he beat it so hard that the game didn't even know what to do with itself. So that's pretty impressive yeah it is i don't want to think about how much time that took but i am i am so glad yeah for humankind that this was done by a 13 year old in any time period and not a grown-ass man well you lose your like little fast twitchies as you get older so you yeah it needed to be a young like they were talking about the way that he was doing it like there there's like a controlling method called like rolling and uh like you have to have fingers on like one side like on both sides of the controller to like get

the thing moving fast enough basically um because once once the things just like start appearing in a split second like you have no no chance to like control any or like think about it it's just immediate uh like the speed with which the message is going from your brain to your fingertips is yeah you don't have time to like process anything yeah i've seen videos of people like just leaving their body playing tetris yeah um but i've never what's the highest level you made it in tetris oh uh i beat it actually that's why i was so surprised to see this story because i i beat it myself oh you're just surprised on my game boy took him so long to catch yeah yeah i was i didn't make a big deal about it but i'm you know as people know and a tremendous gamer the switch god yeah switch

god jack o'brien um no i don't i don't remember i do remember like this story gives me anxiety a tremendous gamer. The Switch God. Yeah, Switch God, Jack O'Brien. No, I don't remember. I do remember, like this story gives me anxiety just thinking about what he sees when he closes his eyes at night after doing this because Tetris is the, Tetris and skiing are the two things

and being on a boat. Those are like the three things that like fuck with my perception so much that hours later when it was like i was going to sleep i couldn't adjust it was just like everything was tetris in my brain you know what's funny is that there's uh i think it's called tetris Connect. There's a new Tetris out. And I play it in VR. And it's like this immersive experience with music and effects and all this stuff. It's very relaxing.

Something I like to play late at night before I go to bed. And it's very cool. Does it fuck you up, though, in the same way? Did you get that perceptual... Yeah. When you're locked in, it does something to your brain. Yeah. Visually, you get like...

You can still see the blocks. Yeah. It's nuts. Getting acid flashbacks without the acid. Yeah. It's very boring. I'm getting flashbacks to when I played Tetris for an hour earlier today. The

young man, the child, dedicated the achievement to his dad who died in December, which is very sad. And yeah, it's pretty incredible. I didn't know it was possible. He's gonna get a movie made after him

with a story like that. Story like that. Gotta be true. Um, but yeah, the rolling technique, like we can follow in the, in the movie,

we could follow the evolution of the rolling technique invented by Hector fly. Rodriguez used a SIM similar multi-finger roll to set button mashing records on the track and field arcade game. Uh, that's funny. Do you remember that game on Nintendo? I never played track and field. I remember it,

but I never, I was never into the, the, the track and field type games or the Olympic games or anything. It was just like tapping a button really fast. This is all it measured. Anyways, congratulations to Willis Gibson.

There was some, uh, wonka nation at the box office that was supposed to be a play on domination but it didn't really translate anyways Wonka was the top movie there was some Boppo B.O. happening it had like a solid first weekend but then it

I think just had legs it feels Christmassy for in some ways like it just felt like an appropriate movie to be seeing at christmas time i feel like people love a whim people love whimsy people love musicals like it's like whimsy the movie seems to be i'm not a fan of whimsy but like people enjoy it yeah I can't hate on that. Well, you're an intellectual. Fuck off. What's whimsy going to do for you? Aquaman, not so boffo-be-o.

It sank at the box office. Better late than never. Why? Oh, yeah, because that was supposed to come out like three years ago it's something i don't know it's supposed to come out when people still gave a shit about aquaman there was there was a brief moment that they had there and i guess the pandemic fucked that up yeah uh the color purple did really well uh that like was the biggest musical christmas opening since 2009 yeah this is i wonder if they're gonna start admitting that movies are musicals in the ads now that two musicals have done well because as we discussed like the color purple trailer like kind of i i think there were some that admitted they were musicals, but the main one that they put before other movies that I saw,

they were just like, this is just a different movie called The Color Purple, or Mean Girls. They didn't show any singing. When I saw the little poster thing, I was like, oh, they remade The Color Purple. Okay, sure. Like every other movie from the 80s.

Why not? Except Robot Jocks. Anyway. Shout out Action Boys. They're never going to remake Robot Jocks. Yeah. Let's see. Pink Stanley.

Did not know what those two words meant together. I thought it was like a character from an animated show that I wasn't familiar with. But there are Stanley Quencher cups that you can get in pink from Starbucks. Exclusively in Starbucks at Target stores. And they are the latest consumer good to make people act, uh, badly to one another. Like they camp out overnight, you know, build, build some community. And then, uh, once it comes time to actually acquire the pink Stanleys, uh, people are

acting wild. Yeah. Here's just a little taste of what it's like out there trying to get a sparkly pink cup. So these people camped out overnight. It's a very long order. Everybody's in their jam jams. Yeah. It's a very long everybody's in their jam jams it's a long ass line

and people are just loading the fuck up like dozens of pink stanley mugs and then uh whoa whoa people jumping over

counters in this one people at the front of the line have gotten steel you guys like thereafter waiting overnight and then a guy just jumps over over the counter yeah it's a it's a mess out here. People really like these cups for whatever reason. I guess because everybody is like resellers or just... That's the grind. It's just reselling items that have false scarcity attached to them.

People waited in line forever to get. That's a bummer. But to cheer us all up, let's check in with Dwayne The Rock Johnson who addressed his In-N-Out flub. I'm sure this is a news story everyone's aware of. Uh, but to, to cheer us all up, let's check in with Dwayne, the rock Johnson, uh, who addressed his in and out flub. I'm sure this is a new story everyone was aware of, but, um, he basically said he like did an Instagram post where he's like, it's cheat day, brother.

I'm going to get like so much in and out burger. And this is my first ever eating first time ever eating in and out. in and out burger. And this is my first ever eating first time ever eating in and out. And then people pointed out like he's had videos in the past where he's eaten in and out, um, or like been to in and out. And,

um, he bought in and out. He bought in and out for somebody, but I just like, there's this weird thing where like a, a type of video, like a genre video that he releases regularly. It's kind of like the main thing he's known for is like his cheat day videos where he's like, oh man, look at this stack of pancakes as big as the table that they sit on uh and just so much uh all mcdonald like a hay loft of mcdonald's french fries just uh i'm gonna gonna eat them all so bad i better turn this video off uh while i eat them no no no

yeah like it's he ends the video before he eats them so often he leaves the camera on but it's just facing the ceiling pulls a clean fish skeleton from his mouth uh but it i just i think a lot of people have long suspected that he's lying about his cheat day meals and like not actually eating them um just to like seem like one of the people uh which if you think he actually does have a cheat day probably and it probably involves like i don't think it's in and out though ants on a log or something like that you know it's like oh i've been so bad i ate an anteater no like you Ants on a Log, like celery with peanut butter and raisins. Oh, no, I don't know what that is. No, I eat mostly liquid cheese. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. And cookies and pizza and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. No, this is a white person delicacy. Ants on a lock. Oh. Three ingredients. Can't fuck it up. But, yeah, it's also very popular with young children.

It's an easy way to get children to eat vegetables. But, yeah, like bodybuilders are always like, you know, raisins are junk food. So, that's my nasty little secret. I had five raisins earlier. It's dangerous candy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I think that's probably what his cheat day actually looks like, is like five raisins.

And he pays his personal trainer to like chew up peanuts for him. Feed it to him like a baby bird. Yeah. It's actually a lot of, uh, benefits to him. Baby birding me. Um,

anyways, those are, those are the big ones. Those are the big stories you missed over the break, or at least the ones we could think of. That's it. We were sitting here being like something definitely happened. Something happened. We know something happened.

We know it. What was that thing? Yeah. I'm sure plenty of terrible stuff happened, but these are the ones that we talked about today. And we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Brian, where can people find you? Follow you? Oh, actually, there's a new development here. New development? whole ass episode of the show uh brian where can people find you follow you although oh oh oh

actually there's a new development here new development they can find you and follow you i updated my twitter uh-oh just in time for that platform to start popping off yeah yeah yeah yeah because my takes are gonna be so fucking spicy and I want you to get in my mentions and just get in my mentions and get real in there. Because I'm not going to check him at all. So it's Brian, the editor on Twitter or whatever it wants to call itself. That's good branding when you were saying I'm Brian, the editor earlier. Yes. Oh, look at that.

Comes full circle. So yeah, you can find me there not paying attention and be as nasty as you like. Be as nasty as you want to be. Yeah. All right. Those are some of the things

that are trending back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine.

Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll talk to you yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye. 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 Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. 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.

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