The Daily Zeitgeist - Trenda Yaccarino 8/6: "Tampon" Tim Walz, Linda Yaccarino/X, The New Yorker, RFK, Seine Swimmer Sickness

Episode Date: August 6, 2024

In this edition of Trenda Yaccarino, Jack and Miles discuss "Tampon" Tim Walz being chosen as Kamala Harris's running mate, X filing a lawsuit against the World FederatIon of Advertisers for not advertising on X (and also closing their flagship office), The New Yorker's expose on RFK, Olympic swimmers getting hospitalized after swimming in the Seine and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of trenda yaccarino uh-huh trenda trenda courtesy of brian the editor return to trenda Brian, the editor. Return to Trinda. Return. Yeah, there you go. There you go.

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I feel like they always like to do things about the male. Oh, sure. I feel like they always like to do things about the mail anyways I mean the big news is from the window to the walls to the wall till the sweat drip down my ball walls my walls yeah we were we were wrong and what we'll get into a little bit more why we're so surprised why we're uh pleasantly surprised on tomorrow's episode but oh you mean wrong that we're like the democrats instinct would to be do the thing that everyone's not excited about center yeah yeah yeah yeah they seem to not be responding to the normal mainstream media uh narrative of like well so the thing that you need to do is be extremely apologetic for uh any progressive ideas that you've ever held any

progressive things you've ever said uh you need to run away from that and then pretend like you never said it and then apologize and then nominate mitt bromney for presidential candidate. But instead, they seem to be just like, no, we kind of like this guy's politics, and he seemed to be good at talking. Yeah. He's got a lot. Again, I was like, you know, you want to talk about Midwest cred? This guy, again, we'll talk about this in tomorrow's episode.

A lot of people are like, well, Mark Kelly's an astronaut. Tim Walls was a high school football coach. The team he coached had lost 27 consecutive games before he arrived. He then, quote, we said, this is nonsense. Let's turn this thing around. Three years later, they were state champions and now a powerhouse school. Just like that. Yeah, and he was on, I think, Pod Save America or something.

People have been posting this clip of him talking about just defensively how to set his team up, reading the guards and stuff like that. I'm like, have J.D. Vance even try to talk about sports? I would probably die of discomfort even listening to J.D. Vance do that. But yeah, it's just like,

it just feels again. There's something very sincere about Tim walls that I think appeals to a lot of people. And in an era of like, you know, like just very polished, you're like, are you human or are you dancer?

The era of politics. It's nice to have a guy who, you know, is also providing uh hygiene feminine hygiene products in all school bathrooms which is also something to mock him about miles tampon tim is also trending uh because the right's like oh dude free lunch tim what what for children cares about the kids tim disgusting wait so he provided tampons for people and they're making fun of him for doing that yeah for making it like a thing that was like mandatory in

bathrooms it's like oh this guy likes tampons you're like what yeah sure yeah he likes tampons folks what's next what else dude what else do you have but yeah i mean in an era where the you know especially with the selection of jd vance the republican side seems to be getting like obviously weirder which was the phrase that he came up with but just like yeah insincerity is really the big jd vance issue right yes he seems wildly insincere he seems like he's just saying whatever will garner him more political power um and you you just know because you can like find him completely contradicting himself from like five years ago like so recently exactly he's sold his own brain out folks so this is what it sounds like it seems

smart for them to like lean into authenticity here um and not lean into uh trying to apologize and be centrist and uh pro israel at a time when again that is wildly unpopular like a lot of the things that i'm seeing like the strategic galaxy mind dnc people talking about like why they should have gone in a different direction they're talking about apologizing or trying to tack away from things that are popular policies like abortion rights and, um, Medicare for all opposing the genocide in Gaza, you know? Yeah, this is, uh,

we'll see again. That's not the, see if this is the, uh, administration's official platform, if they will speak on Gaza, but yeah, uh,

they didn't lean into the guy who was, who was on record. Yeah. But protesters who protested what israel was doing were white supremacists there yeah or like like kkk members yeah uh but yeah i i i'm i'm excited that i've more for the fact that i've never seen like in an election year people be like all right this this looks like something that could maybe like appeal to people like for mostly good reasons obviously it's still very much like the status quo ticket and that obviously like it we're not things aren't going to change based on who the president is but uh like you know we talk a lot about it

on tomorrow's episode but i think it's been at least since 2015 where like most people were like looking at a democratic ticket we're like huh yeah two in a row like we've gotten two good decisions from the democrats in a row um pelosi this summer yeah the pelosi's low is loose um She says she hasn't spoken to Biden in weeks. She pressured Biden out and then was also a Walls supporter. Allegedly, behind the scenes.

We shall see where this goes. But the vibe market, the stocks are up. Yes. The vibes are high. In addition to Tampon tim uh the more formal uh annals of the conservative media have they're attacking him for being a socialist again a thing that like i think is very popular with young people um probably still scary to the elderly but uh this

headline from the wall street journal was pretty wild harris running mate teases his own project 2025 socialism um so because he want he wants kids to have lunch for free at school unfortunately i do not pay for a wall street journal um account yes so i don't know what specifically they're saying there but that's great well by that i mean like he's done a lot for like you know like voting rights you know where like kids get um like registered or like they're they there's a list for mail-in ballots and like there's 16 and 17 year olds could pre-register to vote you know like those like a communist you mean yeah yeah yeah like like a common social social

void yeah so he's stalin uh minnesota stalin all right yeah exactly that'll stick that'll stick that'll stick yeah yeah all right uh but back to trend of yakarino, X on Tuesday filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against an advertising industry coalition and its members, including CVS, Mars, Orsted, Unilever, basically saying, we sue you for not advertising with us. Yeah, exactly. This is like a group that was created by the World Federation of Advertisers. Again, for their like, we need to set like a standard as advertisers around like what's brand safe? Like what is brand safety mean to us? Is it stoking race riots in the UK and around the country with miss it rife and using a platform that's rife with misinformation like X is that safe for our brand do we want our soap ad to go up next to a video of a Nazi talking about just genociding people is that is that brand say oh no well hmm then maybe

this isn't the place for us which is really interesting right, right? Because when, when Elon Musk bought X, his whole thing, like it's free speech. And a lot of people like, well, there go your fucking ad dollars, you know, like,

like, like fucking CVS doesn't want to be in there. Like weird birther shit or whatever the fuck is like the conspiracy du jour on X. And I think it's important to remember how, when like, like early on when people were like, dude, like remember like the anti-Semitism, this is like right after the anti-Semitism shit that was going on with him. He had to go have this like weird New York Times, like round table discussion where he told the advertisers, he's like, they're not going to strong arm me for spreading misinformation. for spreading misinformation.

I just want to play this back because this is sort of what he said to the very people that are like, yeah, then we're not going to advertise on X. This is Elon. I hope they stop. Don't advertise. You don't want them to advertise? No. What do you mean?

If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money blackmail me with money go fuck yourself um but go fuck yourself turns out elon you just fucked yourself with all this tough talk so again basically he's suing them to be like, they stopped advertising on us because we don't meet their standards for brand safety. And that's, that's not right. That's not fair. No fair.

Yeah. I object to this capitalistic interaction on the grounds of no fair. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. What's a free market if companies have the freedom to do whatever the fuck they want yeah no bullshit yeah so it's very linda yaccarino has like this video where it's very uncomfortable you can tell she's completely been consumed by like being part of twitter for too long in this new phase of whatever late stage twitter um but yeah

go ahead i mean like this follows up like to like a lot of conservatives have been like screaming about like specifically conservative media like the daily wire being like they're not buying ads on like our racist content like what is this they used to yeah that's tough and we hate to see it and you do hate to see it what is it is it freedom of speech or mandatory advertising on my caustic rhetoric yeah they should have to give me money yeah because i'm all about freedom um all right let's uh let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. 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.

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We're back. And the RFK Jr. New Yorker article that he was trying to get ahead of did come out. Yeah. article that he was trying to get ahead of um did come out uh the i mean the bear thing seems like he kind of like it they it it goes so quickly like they like they it's not even the focus of the article um it's a couple paragraphs where I'll just read it real quick. One day in the fall of 2014, Kennedy was driving to a Falcon Re-Outing in upstate New York when he passed a furry brown mound on the side of the road, pulled over, discovered that it was the carcass of a black bear cub.

Kennedy was tickled by the find. He loaded the dead bear into the rear hatch of his car and later showed it off to his friends. In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his fingers inside the bear's bloody mouth, a comical grimace across his face. When I asked Kennedy about the incident, he said, maybe that's where I got my brain worm. Yeah, actually people have gotten parasites from eating bear meat. After the outing, Kennedy, who was then 60 and recently married to Hines, got an idea. He drove to Manhattan and as darkness fell, entered

Central Park with the bear and a bicycle. A person with knowledge of the event said that Kennedy thought it would be funny to make it look as if the animal had been killed by an errant cyclist. The next day, the bear was discovered by two women walking their dogs, setting off an investigation by the NYPD. This is a highly unusual situation.

A spokeswoman for the Central Park Conservancy told the Times it's awful and a follow up piece for the Times which was coincidentally written by Tatiana Schlossberg one of JFK's granddaughters a retired Bronx homicide commander commented people are crazy and that's the end

of it that's it yeah then goes on to like describe all the other weird and fucked up shit about RFA Jr. Yeah. One of his ex-wives killed herself after what her family alleges was a lot of mental abuse, emotional abuse from him. They then sued to have her buried in Westchester

where the family was from and Kennedy like countersued to bury her on the Kennedy family plot on Cape Cod and then he a month later a month later winning this right to be like your daughter your daughter's body

has to be buried where i is mine yeah uh he exhumed the body and moved it to a separate part of the cemetery because he said it offered more space um and that was like a lot of his friends were like that's wait that's fucking evil man what's the there's another one where one of the uh someone who's an editor at rolling stone uh uh the magazine spoke to former rolling stone managing will editor will dana who recounted an incident which kennedy visited the magazine's office carrying a bucket with a little injured baby bird so then we have our meeting and we do our thing and suddenly he's like i gotta go um can you go get one of your interns like take the bird to the vet dana recalls while kennedy claimed that dana's story is a lie rolling stone executive editor sean woods backed up the anecdote and

said fact check true he's got a whole fucking weird like this is like was he fucking around with dead animals like as a kid because i think we might be this might just be the tip of the old fucking iceberg he's been a real big animal guy for his whole life um but yeah hanging out with dead ones yeah like he's uh sticking his hand in the mouth of dead like roadkill on the side of the road um yeah he's he's very strange i mean we we have a whole episode about it in our upcoming kennedy show but he's it goes way darker and deeper and stranger than you would expect uh rfk jr is a very weird guy i mean who would expect from a guy who saw his uncle and own dad get murked yeah um right just probably and i don't know what kind of you know what what he did to sort of address

that trauma but i can it's like in a weird way i'm like kind of makes like i understand if this motherfucker's been through a lot but this is also to act like this any of this is like normal or like yeah this guy could run the country right come on now come on now all right we have a new story in the if only someone had seen this coming department. Swimmers have been legit hospitalized after swimming in the Seine. Yeah. They're not saying this, like, A, definitely led to B, but the athlete, like, two athletes who previously swam in the Seine

fell ill amid ongoing concern about high levels of bacteria in the water. And again, they're not being like that was definitely caused by that. But the like the whole Belgian team withdrew from the triathlon. I thought the Belgian team when they're like our mixed triathlon team like has been vaporized because Claire Michelle, who was supposed to who did the swim last time is in the hospital i thought it was like e coli specifically the thing that everyone was like oh the e coli levels are pretty bad in this river and then someone is hospitalized with like an e coli infection yeah um yeah i mean i guess they can try and dance around it but right i wonder what happened to the american dude who was like wiping his own bare ass

and then eating burritos. Yeah, yeah. Not washing his hands to prep for the show. Can you imagine he's taking a victory lap over this shit? He's like, they said I was a fucking weirdo. But I don't have E. coli. I have another gastrointestinal thing that I think is happening, completely unrelated.

Don't want to talk about it. Yeah. Completely unrelated. Don't want to talk about it. Yeah. But yeah, a Swiss athlete also had to pull out of the mixed relay triathlon due to a gastrointestinal infection. And he had swam in the sand during the men's triathlon on July 30th. So, I mean,

is there something to, cause the other thing that we're hearing a lot more now is in the Olympic village that there were like worms in the food? Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, yeah. I haven't seen that. Yeah.

A British swimmer said, quote, the catering isn't good enough for the level of athletes that are expected to perform. We need to give the best we possibly can. He said the food in Tokyo was incredible. But in Paris, he said there wasn't enough protein. long queues waiting 30 minutes for food because there's no queuing system uh wait where's the worm part hold on because this is where it gets um they're like you said you wanted protein man yeah he said the narrative of state sustainability has just been pushed on athletes i want meat meat. I need to perform. That's what I eat at home.

So why should I change? I like my fish and people are finding worms in the fish. It's just not good. Damn. Worms in the fish is not good. Sacre bleu. Y'all, come on now. If I know one thing, athletes need to eat a-

Sacre, ew. Oh my, sacre, ew. on now if i know one thing athletes need to just oh my sock right and i will write your headlines for you the new york post yeah sock right poo about the sen river sock right ew about the food yeah um but yeah like it i mean anyone who's been around anyone who's even like been like i'm gonna start lifting it's like dude how many eggs are you eating how much meat are you eating right then you then you have to extrapolate that to a bunch of high performance athletes and worm fish now i don't know if they're just taking shots or whatever but it's pretty it seems like a pretty consistent complaint that the lodgings are shit the food is shit this the river is full of shit yeah all right you go fishing miles what do you what do you use what's the bait worms

okay sorry if some of them ended up in the meat just they ate the worm that that's how i got it on the hook for you to have your little protein i'm sorry i'm totally unprepared to have protein i went fishing when i found out that's what you guys wanted. Yeah. I use dog turds. I put right on the end of the hook. And that's how I catch my fish. That's the bait I use. That would actually work in the sand. That's a key part of the ecosystem in the sand is dog turds.

All right. Well, those, Miles, are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, August 6th. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. 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 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. 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,

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