The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendbenyamapalooza 05/16: NBA Draft, Zune, Martha Stewart, Ron DeSantis, Magic Mushrooms, Religion Switch, Costco

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

In this edition of Trendbenyamapalooza, Jack and Miles discuss the 2023 "Wemby-A" draft, the Guardians of the Galaxy Zune, Martha Stewart's S.I. swimsuit cover, Ron DeSantis sending Florida law enforcement to the TX border, L.A. dispensaries allegedly openly selling magic mushrooms, American pumping the brakes on religion, and Costco's antiquated cake ordering system!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Victor Trembanyama Palooza. It's the NBA draft lottery tonight. Yeah the draft but the lottery we don't even need to have the draft after tonight we will know who is picking number one potentially the greatest swing in like nba franchise history since lebron james was coming out and it was like who who's going to get to pick LeBron James? I am Jack. That is Miles Gray. It's exciting times. Woj has said this is the most highly anticipated player to ever enter the NBA.

Maybe the greatest prospect in the history of team sports. So kind of keeping things nice and measured, you know, you don't want to put too much pressure. And we haven't seen another person with his like physical stature. Absolutely. Just get destroyed before the season even started in Chet Holmgren. Last season.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it's exciting for sure. I think it's anticipated. And because he is like such an unknown quant, like we're just,

it's like, it looks like the next evolution of the game where you're like, like wait you can be this big and do all this yeah but i think also lebron has prepared people for somebody who is this anticipated and then actually pays it off which is i think more of a miracle than people actually realize the fact that he was able to do that that's a lot of pressure a lot of things can go wrong uh but lebron james truly a genius we will see how the lakers do in game one tonight and then at halftime we will see who gets the number one pick in the nba draft uh so now that we've gotten all our uh nonNBA listeners gone, we can finally talk about the Zune. I mean, that's what people really care about.

Microsoft's failed iPod competitor from years ago. The Zune literally is back in the news because it was a punchline, apparently, at the end of Guardians of the galaxy volume two you know after two films of chris pratt's character like listening to a walkman because he left earth in the 80s he finally adapts to modern technology and adopts an mp3 player but he gets a zune miles oh hell yeah that's not even a good one dude i don't know if you remember it like early on in the show we had one listener who was listening to the show on the zoom right yeah we would call the zoom god i know i think you still listen so shout out the zoom god because we could not believe we're like and here are the devices one zoom and you're like that's fucking dedication so you were ahead of the curve, Zune god.

Yeah, now they're coming back. Zune actually makes an appearance in Volume 3, which Microsoft, and you're not going to believe this, has turned into a branding opportunity. So there are two stunts that Microsoft is pulling. One is just giving away a Zune that they're like, A, we found this in storage we truly quote have no idea if it works which i i thought that's whoever whoever they got doing

marketing over there they're doing good good job easy there and then there was the second thing which was so the person who came up with the we just found this in storage. Don't know if it still works, but we're going to give it away. That person's coworker got pissed and they were like, that idea is too good. And Chad is getting too much damn attention. So I'm going to do a Zune centric product stunt. so i'm going to do a zune centric product stunt so my best guess as to how this happened is they were like all right so what else what's what's a buzzy thing we'll 3d print a zune and people were like uh i mean that yeah you could do that that idea kind of sucks and they were like even well what if we did it in fucking space

uh still well still bad well you at least have to be impressed by the amount of money we are lighting on fire to do this idea so they're also 3d printing a zune on the international space station baby um get the fuck out of here. It's the worst. It gives a shit. It just made me flashback to every badge marketing meeting I've ever been in. What if LeBron James did... Really?

What if LeBron James 3D printed a Zune in space while flossing and and listening to the new ice spice yes oh you thought i was feeling zune that's what they should do wow see and now now they gotta get me back in the marketing seat y'all exactly uh anyways if you are starting to hear about zune again and don't know why it's because somebody's spending a bunch of marketing money. Martha Stewart. Speaking of things coming back around. Yeah. Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover star at age 81.

Looking great. The hair, really. I'm saying the hair, Martha. Yes. You're looking naughty with that hair. It's windswept. I don't know what they're trying to do, but it's definitely like, they're making... It's very interesting. I'm like, man,

could you imagine if they had Joe Biden do something like this? Right. It's messy. When you compare the age... Oh, but with his old weird hair plugs, that shit would look terrible Could you imagine Looking at Winswept look with Joe Biden Spider web hair

Like chunks are missing Yeah Yeah Joe Biden The next Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model or just sportsman Of the year maybe This does seem to be a thing

Like as the population gets older And also The older population Continues to hoard their wealth From younger generations Marketers are going to be taking Note and like there's also An announcement that the first

Senior citizen bachelor is In the works. Long time coming. Yeah, long time coming. I guess that was the thing that people were talking about. Long time coming is the subtitle of that season. That's good. Good work.

Anyway, back to you. I got my marketer hat on. What can I do? Yeah, well, I mean mean i for the bachelor that's always been something that you want to see because these are people who like you feel like are horny and want to be with each other and not necessarily know about the clout from social media so it feels like a bit of a pure uh affair in that sense but yeah Martha, woo. Doing, doing big things on that, on that cover.

I wonder what Snoop has had to say about that. Yeah, I'm sure there will be a viral video where Snoop interviews Martha Stewart about the swimsuit. Um, all right. Uh, Ron DeSantis, uh,

speaking of the elderly Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, uh, said on Tuesday, he will send state law enforcement officers to the southern border and texas um this is the thing hasn't he done this before he said he was gonna do stuff like that and people like you're the fucking governor of florida and he's like yeah but i'm running for president so i gotta put on my xenophobe pants and boots and really get to crack in here uh But yeah, they're saying they're going to

send hundreds of state troopers, police and National Guard soldiers, plus boats, planes, basically to reinforce the xenophobia of the migrants at the southern border to keep that thing going up as

Title 42 is set to expire. So, yeah, he's going all in i mean that's not even like the one ron disney there's another one about how like they're investigating like a teacher for showing kids a disney film and now they're like oh what do we say about it's it's a lot over there like you couldn't we could do a whole you can do a show about tracking ron desantis's fuckery like on a daily basis now as the as he gets more desperate and like continues to have zero traction and people are like yeah no he's not yeah a serious option i'm sorry we talked about that from day one like he he is mike pence light he's like a thing that the media fell

in love with and that donors fell in love with and then the second for there's all these instances where he would meet with donors and then they would like as they were leaving the building that the meeting was in announced their full support for donald trump yeah uh like he's it's changing a lot yeah it is just he doesn't work i mean his one good thing was being antagonizing, you know, liberals in the culture wars. That's really his superpower. Right. And but at the end of the day, like, I mean, especially when you saw him completely like fumble with questions, even about his own history of being like a jag at Guantanamo Bay. You're like, oh, man, you're not you ain't ready for primetime because you got to be able to, like, look a journalist in the eye, even though you did war crimes, and be like, oh, did I?

I don't know. But that's an interesting notion. Thank you for bringing that up. He was like, where did you hear that? That guy's a liar. You think he remembers me? Yeah. The guy who told him, who promised him the torture would stop?

He would remember me? The innocent guy that was tortured for years in Guantanamo? No. But, yeah, whatever. in Guantanamo? No. But yeah, whatever. And then it's, you know, as he continues to be less and less relevant in the presidential race,

then his ability to trigger libs becomes less and less. And so he's in a tough spiral from Santos. What will he do? Don't see a way out of this one for him. Hey, do Border Crisis crisis see if that one does

anything yeah i'm sure he'll try increasing because it doesn't seem like like this by this point he should have come to the conclusion that he doesn't have a chance and like announced no i wasn't it was never i'm happy with my job as florida governor and just like sit it out that's actually better than president actually. So, but he hasn't done that. So I think we will be seeing increasingly desperate swipes at relevance and at lib triggering. Yeah. He doesn't have like this kind of sense of like that narcissism that makes you impervious to people making objective observations about you.

Right. I mean, like I can already see if people like if he does a debate and they're like let's talk about his boots why he's always wearing such a thick heel he's gonna fucking lose it and the next one he's like i'd actually like to speak about some of the smears that are going around about my boot choices it's a normal sized heel yeah find a new angle find a new angle and then trump will call him puss in boots boots you could it already writes itself man yeah Trump is actually gonna use that puss in

boots fuck hey listen boots where's Antonio Banderas meatball run oh pudding fingers run we heard about you eating a pudding cup with your fingers thing like I saw his response to it where

he's like I don't even eat pudding man too much sugar someone said that on on like a plane they caught him like he would eat like snack packs but we use his fingers damn man I Like, I don't even eat pudding, man. Too much sugar. Someone said that on a plane, they caught him. He would eat snack packs, but use his fingers. Damn, man. Why even you just squeeze it into your mouth like an adult.

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oh allegedly allegedly allegedly uh according to the la times yeah i mean it's because like you know right now like you know parts of the like, up in the Bay Area, they did the right thing and they've decriminalized it. And now with veterans groups, psychologists, many people are like, yeah, man, psychedelics, yeah, they work. So maybe think about making them a little more accessible. uh like and i think this you know the state legislature is like you know weighing on it in on a bill to decriminalize them like they're just people are just going fucking sloppy with it now like they're like hey man we got shrooms too like you can get a fucking eighth of an ounce for 30 bucks 5g's for 50 and also i have noticed too people who are on the black market end of psilocybin sales they're now like branding their shit like they oh yeah like you can tell that these people who were like had cottage industry like you know mushroom sort of businesses they're they're like anticipating the you know like just like how cannabis like and all the branding became fucking

just like paramount to the marketing you're starting to see psilocybin people like people who i'm like meet up with on signal they're like yeah i got this these new graphics like we got a whole new marketing package i'm like what the fuck on the actual capsules or just like on the in the boxes they got yeah they got new they have like a line of products too they're like if you don't like the normal chocolates we got the little mini bites and if you don't like that we have them in pressed capsules now and you're like what the fuck what happened this just used to be these little chocolates that you made so yeah people are definitely i think they see what's coming and they're they're getting in line but yeah yeah

yeah i mean hopefully you know this is this can extend across the land because just hearing from people again psychologists like all these researchers veterans groups so many people are like extolling the virtues of like like ibogaine or like dmt and psilocybin for wellness but hey we'll see i guess i'm sure you know we have to wait for like procter and gamble to like okay it like we've tried there's no way we can make something that's this good. So I guess. Right. Just give in. Fine. You can have mushrooms. Fine.

Edville brand mushrooms. Tylenol, PM, psilocybin, and MDMA mixed together. People are switching religions, apparently. Religion switch is trending. Yeah. Is this a new gaming console? you know yeah and i know it wasn't come on i knew it wasn't the switch god is over here but yeah it's uh it isn't the newest offering from nintendo but it's a an article like it's trending because a survey came out about how amer Americans aren't really fucking with God these days.

This is from Axios. More Americans are also turning away from Christianity and are seeing themselves as unaffiliated with any religion. Or as religious, quote, nuns. N-O-N-E-S. Even as some conservative Republicans seek to inject more religion into schools and public life. Yeah, we know. They don't know how to read the room. They don't know how to read.

So, this is what they're trying to do. But yeah, this, like, the-partisan public religion research institute they surveyed people across the country found a quarter of americans say they've changed religious traditions or denominations over their lifetime or recently and like the reasons are things like the biggest reason being stopped believing in the religions teachings 56 other people said negative religious teachings about treatment of LGBTQ plus people. Other people said family was never that religious growing up. Yeah, that part. Scandals involving leaders in former religion turned them off.

Not sure what they're talking about. They must be talking about Zoroastrians. And a traumatic personal event or church or congregation became too political. Are people like moving away from believing in God or moving away from organized religion and, and being just like, I believe in something, but not a Christian God or something like Yeah. It's just more like people are just kind of like pumping the brakes over. Like, that's like the main takeaway from this is like, people are not becoming more religious. Like, and if they are, it's they're, they're switching their belief systems a little bit that are probably like

i mean yeah like christ is cool but like not the like damnation shit so i'm not taking that part uh but again it says the catholic church had lost the highest percentage of followers 39 and then evangelicals lost the second most which which is wild because they are spending so much fucking money trying to like stop the bleeding and being like, Oh, y'all don't like religion. Oh, you think it's too fucking regressive and restricted.

Did you not see our Jesus's Superbowl commercial? Come on. Yeah. Did you not see? We are Nazis now. That's what we do. But yeah, it's just like the answer isn't like less access to health care or treating LGBTQ people as like second class citizens. Like, you know, you do better evangelicals.

Here you go. Marketing tip for me. Fucking try and be more inclusive. You might get more people involved. But again, this is just the last stop of white grievance politics so you know whatever just fucking burn up into re-entry into the atmosphere this has been another edition of miles's marketing tips uh yeah miles i want to get your marketing brain on this one i was just actually talking to bob pitman on math and magic about this man i've got a lot of ideas what uh what do you? What do you got? So Costco has a cake business that they refuse to put online.

You can't call them. They have a box. You have to write your order on a piece of paper, drop it in the box, and the cake will appear in physical space. You don't have to use the internet for this. No. You put it in the box. Well, then the cake will be there.

Right, right, right. Yeah. I think this is is genius i think this is great marketing it's perfect it gets people talking reminds you of the olden days when you used to use a pen and paper right like rather than just mashing shit into an app i love that people are incensed by this i know like let me speak to your manager it's about what your cake ordering process yeah oh i'm sorry did you have trouble doing it no i just don't like writing yes should be on an app i like to check in with people needlessly on things that they're taking care of i mean yeah just so what man it probably helps everyone in the baking department that like with online orders you'd probably get inundated with shit because it's so easy and they're probably like man our

business don't rely on these like look we sell the fucking rotisserie chickens man that's where we get our nut not the fucking cakes and all people love the good costco sheet cake like excluding myself but they're probably like yeah we don't need to blow out the fucking bakery by letting people put in tens of thousands of cake orders like if you give a fuck come by and show us you really give a fuck by writing it on paper and putting it in the box lucy huber pointed out in a tweet uh ordered a cake from costco and their system is from the 1800s you write what you want on a piece of paper put it in a box and then nobody follows up. And you just show up and hope they made it.

And people are like, yeah, that's basically including Costco. People are like, yeah, your cake will be there. And then sure enough, the cake arrived as ordered. Lucy, I know that for many years, people have just been able to trust off of what has been said uh to like a vendor or something like pre-internet it was the same shit people got their cakes you know but we need that confirmation email to fucking hit so you know everything's gonna be okay what is my human interaction going to be for the day if i can't call somebody and just insinuate that i don't think they're going to provide the cake that i asked repeatedly anyways yeah i love this marketing so this one gets the miles gray

b plus a minus for marketing this is an a plus plus wow because it's working on so many levels it's it's nostalgia which is huge right now and everyone's nostalgic for the 1800s i mean with like child labor you know xenophobia racism the clan you know people are loving it polytheism you know yeah right if it dissuades someone from buying a costco sheet cake at a party i'm at then also that's also good too yeah uh all right well those are some of the things that are trending on this tuesday afternoon we are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show go lakers until then be kind to each other be kind to yourself yeah get the vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy we'll talk to y all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. There are no roads. Good point. So where are we headed? Into the unknown, of course. Join us on In Our Own World as we uncover hidden truths, navigate the depths of culture, identity, and the human spirit.

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