The Daily Zeitgeist - TrendBA Finals TrendVP JayTrend Brown 6/18: Boston Celtics, Justin Timberlake, Box Office, Netflix's Social Media Activations, EGOT Candidates

Episode Date: June 18, 2024

In this edition of TrendBA Finals TrendVP JayTrend Brown, Jack and Miles (grudgingly) discuss the 2024 NBA champions: the Boston Celtics, Justin Timberlake getting arrested for DWI, a boffo box office update, Netflix's half assed social media activations, this years EGOT candidates and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of trend ba finals trend vp jay trend brown brown for the Boston Celtics. Not JTrend. TateTrend. No. Paul Garaventa on the Discord with that one. That's as much as I'll give you, Paul. I think you're a Boston Celtics fan.

A BossTrend Celtics fan. Yeah. I will honor your NBA Finals MVP. And Alicia, the other Celtics fan that's always in our mentions. Oh yeah. I hope you're having a good one.

I am happy for the cool Celtics fans out there. Um, finally got it. Uh, I finally built your super the gondolins of the world. Yes. Yes. Your gondols men.

Um, yeah. Uh, anyways, uh, I i'm jack that's miles these are some of the things that are trending yes um i mean yeah the celtics won i i don't have too much to say about that that we won't already be saying on our nba show miles and jack i'm at boosties but yeah congratulations to the boss congratulations you uh historically great NBA show, Miles and Jack, I'm at Boosties. But, yeah, congratulations to the Boston Celtics. Congratulations. You've done it. A historically great team. You could fill a 40-ounce

bottle with my tears. I will say that. And if y'all want to come buy it, you can sip on these Laker tears if you want for the low, low price of $1,000. But hey, hit me up. I will send it. And you can sip on my tears. I guess something I won't be saying on our nba partnered show uh a historically bad playoff kind of like yeah i don't know maybe

maybe i don't know i guess it's partially because i don't like the celdics but partially also i don't think anybody else does like the celdics and it was just i don't know they didn't play teams at full strength oh yeah this is all cope it's all cope it is what it is they hung an 18th one up good for you

they hung an 18th with a historically good team yeah really well built team beautifully acquired and bought I cope in private and my text threads when I say come home Jason Tatum we both could have had him I'm a Sixers fan miles a Lakers fan the two teams that passed on Jason we went for Lonzo yeah and we traded up to not draft Jason Tatum. So that's where I'm at right now. Anyways, what else

is trending? Former anti-drunk driving spokesman Justin Timberlake arrested for let me see. This can't be right. Drunk driving? No. He was arrested for a DWI in the houndstons according to

literally every website on the planet right now oh yeah not seen this kind of pickup on a news story since 9 11 i'm telling you people are ready to fucking windmill on Justin Timberlake we are out on this motherfucker just straight up he was arrested Monday night and it was like Trump did another January 6th like leading the charge with Braveheart face paint on

like it was people were just like yo the New York Times woke me up like hey man you see this yeah justin timberlake where's your god now i was like i don't even like this motherfucker would you um i like that okay so what have he was partying at a hotel went through a stop sign without stopping refused the breathalyzer which is like a real drunk move or like try and let it come down so by the time they take you to the station for a blood no i don't need that man

i don't need that no thanks i called my then he called his friends then a bunch of homies came through to try and convince the cops to like to let him go alone man so i think this is the move i think he as he was being pulled over called his friends because how else do your friends know to show up and start pestering the cops to let you go right this is so he has a concert scheduled later this week which is all part of his big comeback tour at obviously obviously everybody knows he released his comeback album back in march and we're all still tapping our toes forgot to what what are the songs what i don't even know i remember that's when that's when we talked about on the show and i was like i think justin is fully washed now like he he. His powers are fading rapidly.

Everything I thought it was. We're all tapping our toes to everything I thought it was. The album that totally came out and still exists. Yeah. And he was in a fucking drunk driving PSA. This motherfucker. Yeah. So I don't know.

This has got to be up there with one of the most disastrous comeback tours ever right like with between the britney memoir and this yeah the the album not really doing numbers and then getting arrested the most he has to left is to pump fake and n-sync tour that's that's it that's it it's funny that he was like man i can't wait to get rid of y'all and now he's like i need you to make to be relevant again yeah anyways uh you hate to see it people like as we were recording the first photo came out and it was literally like he was .5 seconds out the

door from the police station in cuffs and people were like got your ass got him wow wow wow whatever look he'll be fine he has millions of dollars so it's a different

legal system maybe it's time to take a long look in the mirror and cry me a river cry me cry me well it's probably timberland's gonna be out here being like i think you know dwis are actually pretty chill yeah no i think juicy j was like free the memphis legend justin timberlake i'm like juicy j your whole thing is about your whole thing is about abusing xanax stop talking you're the xanax and lean guy and my character witness juicy j you're like oh no no no that's your fucking famous quotable juicy well movies have once again refused to die over the weekend inside out to exceeded expectations as we've been talking about boffo bo and uh you know what what should these movies be doing one of the things

that's come up repeatedly is like, why the fuck is Pixar not putting movies out in theaters? Why do they keep dropping movies on Disney Plus? People love these fucking movies. People need things to do with their children. And these are as unimpeachable. Culturally, people are just like, yeah, no, they have like a good message.

They're pretty good movies or at least they were like, we, yeah. Like why not? Why are we not capitalizing on that? So they brought back the old crew from inside Riley's head and it fucking destroyed destruction at the box office. So is i guess one week maybe two weeks after bad boys 4 came out and exceeded expectations pretty significantly uh this one was uh anticipated

to hit 90 million uh at the domestic box office inside out 2 was uh projected to hit 90 and it hit 155 million Jesus Christ all right but again it's just I don't know like it feels like the the fact that there are no more easy answers like

let's make another superhero movie again again might in some cases lead to them learning some lessons that have been beating down their fucking door for a while such as like people like Pixar movies

or um black actors can star in movies guys black people can you can have all kinds of people of color be the central focus of a film and it will connect people aren't gonna see it man no i love will smith i love martin lawrence denzel miles you know me denzel's my favorite actor dude i got a martin and i am i'm the man i sing the fucking theme song in the shower i can't open a movie though man because other people are

racist um yeah anyways and i'm tapped into that i'm tapped into that community so and uh prequels maybe like i feel like i could make a google doc for them it's just like when in doubt like say no to the fucking prequel try a new thing. Say yes to the massive superstar who you're only saying no to because of racism. People like Pixar movies. There's three for you to keep in mind. I didn't realize this was the first

film since Barbie to make more than $100 million. First over $100 million opening weekend since Barbie. The Beetlejuice one? That's actually the next one I'm looking forward to is the new Beetlejuice one. That feels like it has the chance to activate

all the millennials and Gen Xers. You feel like it's got the juice? It's got Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Miles, don't do it. Don't do it. Not a third time. Not a third time. Not on this podcast.

Yes, well, Beetle, Beetleborgs. Beetleborgs. Oh, thank God. Oh, thank, big tall beetle boards. No! Oh, thank God. The fantastic show. I did see the trailer for that with my kids. But I did take my kids to see Inside Out 2. It's fine. It's not as good as

the Inside Out 1. Did lead to a lot of conversations about what anxiety is with my six-year-old. But that's fine. That's not why I didn't like it. It's just not as good. I'm not prepared to have that conversation with my little boy.

I acknowledge bad feelings, and I got the message of the movie. Hey, if you stop talking about bad feelings, they won't happen. That's how that works. Then they go away. Shut the fuck up, kid. Don't give your bad feelings life by discussing them. Just keep them them down it just felt like it was a little more hurried like all the like i don't know like that at the end of inside out there's uh like a bunch of fun like gags and like this one just i don't know it felt like they did three less passes on the script this time

around for whatever reason. Maybe you're a changed man since the first one. Or maybe I'm just different. Okay, I'm darker. Okay. Okay. Ennui is a character this time around. So that's fun. Oh.

Because now I'm always going to remember it's pronounced Ennui and not N-U-I. N-U-I. I went to N-U-I. N-U-I. I went to the Tisch School at N-U-I. I mean, N-Y-U-I. N-U-I. I went to N-U-I. U-N-I-T-Y. I went to the Tisch School at N-U-I. I mean, N-Y-U? No.

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And we're back Would you look at that, we're back So this is something we've been talking about for a while now are these like social media activations they're like these experiences that are designed uh around the fact that they know you'll take you'll put them on social media like they're made for instagram they're made not to be experienced and to be

fun as you're having them but to be experienced via social media um i've been to a couple of them i've been to bubble world with my children which has you know it's just like there's a room full of balloons they're just like weird and like if you look too closely at them the seams really start to show and you're like oh this carpet is filthy underneath that was different i went to one that was a lot different and it was like looked like sort of like a baltimore drug scene it was called bubbles world and i think maybe i was at the wrong yeah that's the wire one i went to never mind okay uh they like the i i think this is why that story about um the uh about the willy wonka like activation that ended up being like real shady yeah janko why everybody was so obsessed

with that is we've all like been to these things and like had experiences where we're like this feels like it's right on the verge of being a thing people put on in their spare time. It has the energy of the haunted house economy, as we've

talked about before. Anyways, Netflix, one of the activations I've been to was a Squid Game activation. You went to that? Yeah, I went to that. Where was that? On the CBS lot. Oh, for real? Yeah.

It was very unmemorable. It was fine. What, you could do some of the games or something? You could do some of the games. Yeah. You don't fall through you nothing no one died but they were doing they were doing summary executions of people right they were killing people okay like if you fucked up but those people were being kind of annoying too

yeah okay they deserve it like the most fun game was the marbles game because it was just like that's pretty hard to fuck up you know go to a fucking netflix thing just to play with marbles that's literally what i did that's i mean there there's like a the glass bridge is just like a memorization thing there's a terrible version of battleship um there was the one where you like the red light green light one from the mood or from the show like doesn't really work like it's probably the coolest looking but it doesn't really work um right and then i'm pretty sure it ends the climactic event involves carrying an egg on a spoon like it's like a are you for real race yeah what is this a block party in the suburbs right exactly it just feels like a race

yeah right and you had to shave a balloon with shaving cream on it the premise of squid game right is that it's like children's games but yeah yeah i don't know it again just feels like it's executed at the level of a haunted house um right and but netflix is like investing in this so they're like buying up old closed down neiman marcus's and like sears you know places in the mall and taking it over and turning them into netflix world um or sorry netflix house uh which will be a combination store restaurant and experiential entertainment venue where people can dance on a replica of the bridgerton set compete in squid game challenges the thing i did that was like pretty underwhelming no word yet on whether or not there will be a lily hammer themed experience

with an animatronic stevie van zant but yeah that'd be nice yeah i okay i mean sure but like a mall's so fucking a department store is huge yeah i mean so quick game thing like you needed a lot of space to like run it through but it's basically like a very low rent version of disneyland it feels like is what they're trying going for yeah i know they like live i mean look i i've always said something needs to happen with like these old shopping malls like what the fuck's going on i guess this is one way but people don't doing things in real life is a it does help but is this the thing to draw everyone out i'm trying to think of what do i want to dance on the bridgerton set no do yeah i mean you're a bridgerton head you're a bridger total b head dude total b head i don't even want this i don't want this because i can't dance you know i can't do

formal waltzing it's so funny you're more of a genesis early 90s kind of guy you know what is funny though her majesty we're watching this shit and she was like she's like wow like people were just dancing like in these choreographed things like what what a time and i'm like that looks like the driest dancing i've ever fucking seen in my life right yeah but i guess they like the cool version hand up and like touch the hands and then spin around each other yeah like that exactly and then like yeah elegantly like circle your partner. I think they're just discovering the feeling of being horny for the first time in their lives. And they're like, oh, why is my brain quickening, sir? But if they had a Bridgerton like ball thing, but it was like a fucking like actual maybe nightclub where people dance.

Maybe you have something there and there's no booths and people have to dance. But don't know i'm an old person who thinks people dance at nightclubs i feel like there is a cool version of this and they will not be executing on that um yeah they have done netflix restaurants in la and the reviews the worst time we're not kind yeah so first of all they put it up like right during the wga strike right down the street from the wga strike they named it netflix bites which people were like yeah it certainly does bite uh in in their reviews like those la times review so um i don't know we'll see uh we'll see maybe this is the future wave of of the future. That's so weird. It's like, it's so funny.

It's like, Disney has Disneyland and then there's like Universal Studios and then you can go into an old Macy's and dance on a Victorian set called Netflix House.

But, is there anything fun they could do with Stranger Things? I'm trying to think. Like, rather than just like have a, a like store that looks like it is straight up out of the 80s like right you could probably do something that's like super effects heavy but again we won't know because it sounds like the first places that are getting it king of prussia out there in pennsylvania yeah dude is that near pittsburgh or is that Philly? That's near Philly. Okay. And then

the Galleria in Dallas. So Zeitgang in Pennsylvania and Dallas, let us know what it's like when it opens. I don't even know. A year or two from now. But it is funny. We've talked before about how the thing that's really ailing

people is we don't have human contact. We don't have human contact we don't have like places events to do with one another and like this is corporate america being like well we'll allow you to see each other as long as we can cash in a dance in it and want to dance in the remnants of american consumerism that we turned into a third space uh how would you like to feel haunted uh while you experience human contact and then uh just the tony awards not normally something we cover extensively on this show but uh we do have three potential egot candidates okay that's where we do like an egot we do like an egot so first of all just memorable moments across the tony's brook shields wore crocs on the red carpet

due to a toe surgery hell yeah so that's fun uh the show's host ariana dubose poked fun at her viral bafta rap i don't don't... I remember that. That does not compute with my memory. So she came back and was like making fun of herself. The big news. We got some EGOTs. We got some EGOT potential.

Jeremy Strong, who won for Succession on the TV front side of EGOT, won a Tony for an Enemy of the People shortly before. I don't know if you saw his outfit. Yeah. He was dressed as John Wilkes Booth for some reason. Yeah.

He definitely he's got the Colonel Sanders tie or ribbon neck, whatever that thing is called. I'm not an expert in menswear but that thing so he won shortly before traveling back in time to assassinate president lincoln um and because after his emmy for succession uh he is now i think on the verge of e-gotting okay he just needs to like grammy's the easy one right you just need yeah you can put out an album or some weird yeah yeah voice a book you know it's the oscar that's the one that the oscar's tricky but i feel like jeremy strong is on the track you think he's got one of them yeah i do

i think jeremy strong he's like weird in a way that's off-putting to people but also is like serious and dogged like i feel like he's not gonna go if rami malik can get one yeah yeah i think yeah maybe maybe freaky jeremy can too uh sarah paulson won for uh a drama called appropriate already has an emmy for that oj show playing marcia clark uh one of my favorite performances one of my favorite moments of tv one of my favorite characters from history one of my favorite characters from history and angelina jolie so angelina jolie is really the one we gotta worry about here uh because she took home a tony because she was a co-producer of the outsiders and she already got the oscar for girl interrupted yeah but will she debase herself and

appear on television i mean might as well right you know she feels like the last of those kinds of stars who are like i don't know if they would do a tv show right you know like where like glenn close did tv and shit like that but you're like angelina just seems a little too mysterious a little like limited series maybe it's like five episodes uh from steve mcqueen maybe or someone like that i could see it happening yeah wait was she ever in i might just be like memory holing when she was ever in the tv show but yeah i don't think so yeah or at least not in any meaningful way where you're like this fall angelina jolie Or at least not in any meaningful way where you're like, this fall, Angelina Jolie is coming to Fox. She'll probably produce something with the Obamas that wins a Grammy.

As one does. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Or an Emmy. She was uncredited in an episode of Entourage in 2007. Wow. How did they miss that opportunity to give her an Emmy? You missed it.

Sorry. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, June 18th. We are back on Thursday. We're off tomorrow for Juneteenth. And we're back on June 20th, Thursday. So until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines. Get

your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all on Thursday. Bye. Bye. 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 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 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.

Kaitlyn 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.