The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend80 Snowboarding 2/10: Ben Simmons, Clog, Freedom Convoy, Bob Saget, Billie Eilish, Super Bowl Ads

Episode Date: February 11, 2022

In this edition of Trend80 Snowboarding, Jack and super producer Becca discuss the Ben Simmons trade, Trump clogging up the toilets at the White House, a Freedom Convoy update, Bob Saget's cause of death, Billie Eilish being a showstopper, and their favorite Super Bowl ads so far. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee 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.

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 Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pardenti

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 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.

Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trend 80 snowboarding move thing in honor of episode 1080, which I'm told we hit, maybe, or about to. Anyways, shout out to The Brew on the Discord and Discord Zeitgang for surfacing it. I am Jack, and I'm thrilled to be joined for this trending episode by super producer Becca Ramos! Hello! All right, it's a very trendful day today, this Thursday, February 10th. Simmons, Ben Simmons, has been traded for James Harden.

The Nets won the trade, I think, because they got a lot. They got Ben Simmons, who's all-league defender, and they don't need him to shoot or score that much because they have the best shooters and scorers in the league. They also got Seth Curry, who is a great shooter, that much because they have the best shooters and scorers in the league they also have uh they also got Seth Curry who is a great shooter um and they got the Sixers backup center Andre Drummond who has been cruche for the Sixers backing up Joel Embiid is the first like good backup that the Sixers have had uh and they got Harden in return.

Also, I think Paul Millsap, who has not worked out this well this season for the Nets, and I don't think is going to do much for the Sixers. But I don't know. It's exciting. Like I'm definitely going to be watching all, I already watch all the Sixers games. I will also be watching all the Nets games because I'm very curious to see what Ben Simmons looks like. Maybe I'll go to a Nets game.

I don't know. There you go. I haven't been yet. Is the city a buzz? Have you been out just hearing people just whisper, whisper Simmons? Just so excited. No, I am so far away. Like I said before, I am so far away.

Like I said before, I get all of my sports news from this podcast here. So it is hard to be a commentator when you're usually learning during this time. But I do live pretty close to Barclays Center. So one day maybe I will go to a net. As we mentioned on yesterday's trending episode, we are the number one NFL podcast, even though we never talk about it. It is how we tried to justify our presence at Super Bowl Radio Row.

I don't think anyone was falling for it. But anyways, exciting times in the NBA. Hopefully everyone's happy. It seems like Sixers fans are happy. I think Nets fans are a little mad at James Harden for forcing himself out of a second team

in the course of two seasons. I'm a little nervous. I think we just need to get this man on a TB12 or whatever plant-based diet that Chris Paul is on that has prolonged his career and then it will have been a great trade for the sixers go sports go sports can't wait for the super ball um clog is trending or

things about toilet clogs uh because according to maggie haberman's book Confidence Man about I think the sub subhead is the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America. So one of the details is that they kept having to unclog the toilets at the White House

which I know at first you're like so this is just about how how much this guy poops or something. But in fact, it is... That's what I thought when I first read the headline. I did not think deeper until I saw it in the doc. I was like, okay, and? Oh, Jack, what?

You're making me talk about what now? Everybody poops again. I know. But the reason that it kept getting clogged is because the president was apparently flushing documents down the toilet. Oh my God. He just discovered wads of printed paper

clogging toilets repeatedly and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper. Let me just find. As I was reporting out this book, I learned that staff in the White House would periodically find the toilet clogged. The engineer would have to come and fix it. And what the engineer would find would be wads of clumped up wet printed paper, meaning it was not toilet paper. It was either notes or some other piece of paper that they believe he had thrown down the toilet.

leave he had thrown down the toilet i just like visualize this imagery of just like this angry man red face fat just shoving the shit down the toilet and it blows my mind because it's like the most elementary way of course donald trump would shove like papers on the toilet like it's like he wouldn't find a really good shredder he wouldn't like you know scheme his way in like a very like 007 type um you know to get rid of information in the white house or just like i don't know have a fireplace going like he would shove shit down the toilet like that like it just it never ends yeah as super producer brian is pointing out uh, the White House has an engineer rather than a plumber, which, sure, whatever you want to call yourself. That's great.

Their toilets are extra fancy. And so you need an engineer. Somebody who graduated from like Carnegie Mellon. Of course. Who's like, thought I'd be doing better things right now. So that's two big things right off top. We have been monitoring the Canadian convoy, which has become the Canadian blockade.

The truckers who have been occupying downtown Ottawa, terrorizing the citizens there, terrorizing their own children. A hundred of the trucks have children in them and people are worried about, you know, the health of living out of a truck that is in what has essentially become a massive truck parking lot. Wait, why are there children in the trucks?

Because truckers are bringing their families with them. Oh, okay. It's a long-term commitment. They're all in. But yeah, the CO2 levels are bad. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, not good in downtown Ottawa. So a lot of air pollution, a lot of noise pollution,

both for the citizens of downtown Ottawa and also the children that they are forcing to come along because of their bad political beliefs anyways they have escalated to now blocking both lanes of one of the most important bridges connecting the united states and canada uh they've they've blocked both lanes of traffic with their big trucks because they can. And there's also a Homeland Security bulletin, a warning about a copycat blockade slash convoy coming to the Super Bowl in Los Angeles. And the State of the Union address in D.C. Yeah, I can see that.

I can see that this does seem to be like it's really succeeded in terms of like giving the nazis a very popular seemingly like a lot a lot of public support russell brand uh is is team nazi truck drivers of course he's and that's why he's in that Tale of the Nile whatever movie because it was like every actor in Hollywood that should be annexed right now all ended up in that movie. It's like, wow, crazy. Yeah.

That movie does appear to be cursed. You wouldn't know this from the trailers necessarily, but the lead like the star of the movie, the male lead at least, is Armie Hammer. They did their best to cut around him. They have a series of posters

with each different main character from the movie except for him, but they just refused to recast it and do the CG. Of it all, I think that movie cost cost 90 million dollars it's getting bad reviews on letitia right she also was like so letitia right yeah she was like very anti-vax and the marvel universe is like actually we will kick you out of the marvel cinematic universe which is a bag to get if If you're in Hollywood and you're able to get in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,

you just wreck those coattails so you die. And for you to be so blatantly anti-vax to lose that ship is bananas to me. Yeah. That's something our writer, J.M., pointed out. It's getting bad reviews. It appears to have been... It was supposed to be released in December 2019,

the murder on the Nile. It's the follow-up to murder on the Orient Express made by the same director. That one was like kind of a surprise hit. Which is, yeah, because I saw it and I thought it was very mediocre at best and like Johnny Depp. And like, right. Unsurprisingly mediocre.

Unsurprisingly mediocre. And, you know, another problematic Johnny Depp. Right. Another problematic lead. Although in that case, spoiler alert, he is stabbed 20 times within the first half of the movie. So it's fine, I guess. Yeah, it's fine, I guess. I don't think the same can be said for Armie Hammer.

He did not have the good sense to be stabbed multiple times right away in that one, in the new one. So we're looking to take a bath on that one. Yeah, they were supposed to release it right before the pandemic. And then they were like, let's push push a couple months because i think it was releasing the same time as the last star wars movie actually so they were like can't keep you with that yeah at first they were yeah which was turned out not to be biggest hit in the world but they were like this makes sense as a counter programmer to a movie that is mainly going to be interesting to kids we'll we'll put this out for the for the adults that was the plan when fox was fox and disney was disney then disney bought

fox and was like nah we're gonna push it to the beginning of 2019 pandemic army hammer story uh and now it's uh like two and a half years later and nobody's happy, it would appear. But I don't know, maybe not our biggest problem. But it is always fun to watch how these things end up happening. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back, talk Bob Saget, Billie Eilish, Super Bowl ads. Super Bowl ads. 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, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine.

Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take?

Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. 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, 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 black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.

This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. 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. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S.

president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of this right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer.

This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And the cause of death was released on the passing of Bob Saget, who was found dead in his hotel room in, I think it was Orlando. Yeah.

Somewhere in Florida, like a month ago. And it's apparently head trauma, which I don't know. Like they don't really know how he hit his head, but the summary seems to be he hit his head and went to sleep thinking like thinking nothing of it like thinking oh i just bunked my head and it actually caused a brain bleed um and you know he didn't wake up which is super tragic super sad especially when you think it's like you know

something potentially preventable had he like gone and gotten checked out or something but it's also something that can happen to any of us so just stay safe like if you feel like you may have been concussed go get that checked out um yeah this is like that thing anytime someone hits their head and then you're like don't let them fall asleep yeah thing like that this is now the thing i will think of anytime i'm hanging out with someone who's just been concussed. I guess that's. Or when you bonk your head, maybe just be like, you know what? Maybe I should go get this checked out and not just lay down and think, ah, not a big

deal. Ah, you know, I could, but I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I gotta lay down. But he also was tested positive for COVID- post um most how do you say that post post on posthumously posthumously there we go there it is we figured it out together we figured it out together my diction that also might be wrong post human post humus sleep we're not an english podcast that's the detail where i'm just like wait a second he was in florida where they really

like to keep the covid of it all out of the headlines and off of their uh records and i'm not i don't know and it's all wonky it's wonky and it's sad either way get tested for covid don't hit your head and not go see a doctor. Yeah. Stay safe. Two lessons we can learn from this. RIP Bob Saget. Billie Eilish is trending and not for a great reason. Not for a great reason. Not for her, but just a very dumb story.

So I guess one thing I didn't know about Billie Eilish is she is known for, So I guess one thing I didn't know about Billie Eilish is she is known for she will stop her show in its tracks if she suspects that a fan is uncomfortable or hurt or needs attention. And she recently did that. She fan was having a asthma attack. She stopped her show and made sure that the fan got an inhaler before the show went on. And when she did that, she said, I make sure, you know, my fans are OK. Let me find the direct quote, because that is going to come. It is going to come for us in the comments. Yeah. And yeah.

Yeah. As a listener, he's going to come for me. And also, well, while I'm looking that up, shout out to the person who claimed our treatment of Joe Rogan was infantile. Which is such an interesting... I feel like that comment was infantile. I don't know, just... I don't have the original quote that she made, Jack,

but I do have the follow-up that she alluded to after all the drama's been going about on Twitter, and it says, I'm not apologizing. I didn't do shit. Leave me the fuck alone. See you at Coachella. Yeah.

So the thing she said on stage, I wait for the people to be okay before I keep going. Seems like it could be a just broad platitude of a good uh policy to have as a human being performing for other human beings also like i it i i suspect you know artists very sensitive and like really in it i i'm amazed by her ability to be in like connect connected with her fans enough to notice a asthma attack. Yeah. I don't know.

I'm underestimating how obvious that is or how close maybe the fan was to the stage. Right. There's also that. But I also, you know, I've never been to a Billie Eilish show. I've heard she's a great live performer. I don't know. But that original quote I have made, which your quote was first,

and then Kanye says, come on, Billy, we love you. Please apologize to Trav and to the families of the people who lost their lives. No one intended this to happen. Trav didn't have any idea of what was happening when he was on stage and was very hurt by what happened and yes travel be with me at a coachella but now i need billy to apologize before i perform

uh-huh okay um no one asked for kanye to be a part of the conversation and yet and he just took a clickbait headline that said that she was dissing Travis Scott and took that as gospel and was like, all right, well, now I'm going to make myself part of this story. Very dumb. The moral of the story is I'm impressed by Billie Eilish for being able to be that tuned into her audience to notice an asthma attack and everything else is stupid bullshit. Super producer Ana says Gen Z is hyper aware. They care. And I was going to say that.

Yes, I do think that's part of it. Is that Billy? She cares. What can you say? Yeah. I mean, I would care if I could notice it.

I just feel like I'd be too worried about what I'm doing with my hands and how much I'm sweating and what I'm going to say next to notice. And that's why you're not performing on a stage of millions of people. And that's why I'm not Gen Z. I'm an old jaded boomer.

Super Bowl ads. Yeah. We talked yesterday about the Colin Jost and his wife. Yeah. We talked yesterday about the Colin Jost and his wife. Scar Joad. Yeah. Yeah. What's his wife's name again? You know, Scarlett Johansson.

Scarlett Jost? You know, oh, I guess you're right. I don't know if she took his name, but, you know, she loves to be in any race possible, you know? Yeah. Very versatile actor. So I liked their ad about how what if alexa could like read your mind and i like it because i love amazon and everything they do and i don't feel weird when they're doing something likable like i'm being brainwashed by a borg but anyways uh there's a

zendaya ad featuring voiceover from andre 3000 for squarespace um and i have not seen it but you have and you say it's good it's really good because i was like of course sunday is in a super bowl ad she's the it girl right now um but this is uh squarespace's first in-house ad a little bit of advertising agency lore um a lot of places are moving in-house and the industry is shaking in their boots. And so this is, yeah, one of Squarespace's first in-house ads. And it was really well done. It's like a Sally sells sea cells by the seashore. Nailed it.

I can't say it. That's the point. It's hard to say. The whole script kind of is like in s's which is kind of interesting and it's um by the director who did scott pilgrim um i can't remember right and it's really beautiful it was a great ad it's gonna be fun to see what else comes out that's the only reason i've watched the super bowl in the past is for the ads and as someone who came from the advertising industry it is our you know oscars let's just say it's so big that my roommate who is still in the industry

has a monday off her agency gave it off to her because it is the day after the super bowls they actually do the thing that bros are always like oh they should make day after super bowl yes national holiday so i can she's like i'm getting a facial and i was like oh you took oh, they should make day after Super Bowl. Yes. National holiday. So I can be hungover. She's like, I'm getting a facial. And I was like, oh, you took Valentine's Day off? That's cute. And she's like, oh, no, I got it off because my agency took the day after the Super Bowl off

for all the people who worked on Super Bowl ads. And I was like, oh, okay. Anyways, those are the two Super Bowl ads I've seen. And they both seem to be winners. There's one with Pete Davidson. I haven't seen it i don't even know what it's for i just saw the headlines for it can't lose bug eyes cold pale skin can't lose anyways those are the things that are trending becca thank you so much for joining

where can people find you follow you all that good stuff you can find me at bex ramos b-e-c-c-s-r-a-m-o-s on all platforms but i'm really on instagram and i did post on tiktok for the first time really ever this night so you know who knows maybe i'm gonna be on dance routine what are we talking uh no i actually archived the dance routine ones because i was like this is too embarrassing i made these at the beginning of covid when we were like chronically indoors and like I had nothing to do in my like 300 square foot Brooklyn apartment um so we're starting anew and it was just a little uh get ready with me um trying to romanticize my silly little life but no just uh yeah Bex Ramos well congratulations to TikTok. Wow.

I think this is big for them that you've joined. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. That is going to do it for us this Thursday. We're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Wear a mask. Don't do nothing about

white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all 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.

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 Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. 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 Teherry-Poor.

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. 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.