The Daily Zeitgeist - Trenderbolts of Zeitning, Very, Very Frightening Me! 4/7: Scott Rudin, Shaq, Jordan Peterson, Amy Poehler, DoorDash

Episode Date: April 7, 2021

On this edition of Trenderbolts of Zeitning, Very, Very Frightening Me Jack and Miles discuss Scott Rudin being a 'monster', Shaq doing a good deed, Jordan Peterson being butthurt, Amy Poehler’s false fluids, and DoorDash workers gaming the algorithm. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

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Hi, I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar. Just kidding, I'm Amber Revin. Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share. We're back with season two of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. This season, we make new friends, deep dive into my steamy DMs,

answer your listener questions, and more. The more is punch each other. Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen, okay? Or Lacey gets it. Do it. How do you feel about this, okay? Or Lacey gets it. Do it. How do you feel

about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what

does that even mean? It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Frienderbolt of Zeitning, very, very frightening me. That is courtesy of Box of Chords of Unknown Origins. Which is their name.

That's funny. I have one of those things. Oh, yeah. A Box of Chords of Unknown Origins? I'm not joking. That is most of our storage space. It's just a random salad of

unused cables and cords yeah you open it up just what is this shit electronic salad yeah it's almost like the thing where like her mad she's like do we have them like check the cables box he's got it all every form of us USB in multiple lengths. Yes. Anyways, shout out to Box of Chords of Unknown Origins and Queen, a little band that people should check out. Little upstart band from the UK. They got some bops, gang. Let's talk about Scott Rudin. I always had my suspicions based on his name

that this guy was not too cool rude dude scott rude dude was his nickname in hollywood assistant circles he's like a legendary producer um who it has just been like it's an open secret that he's an abusive dick to people who work for and around him. Um, so a expose has come out where they're like, well now the me in the me too era, you're not allowed to do things like,

uh, in this case, there's a story in which he uh what one of his assistants is not able to book him on a sold-out flight and in a fit of fury he smashed an apple computer monitor on the assistant's hand uh the screen shattered leaving the young man bleeding and in need of immediate medical attention i would have fucked scott rudin up right there it would have been enough and oh i hate this shit i hate because man production's weird like that hollywood is very fucking weird where like

asshole creative people can just fucking flourish because of like their ability to make money for a studio and shit like this and like you have these instances where it's someone who's so out in the open with this shit but because you know that's that's why i think it's so rampant especially in entertainment because there's no recourse for anyone if you're up against someone who has more perceived power or influence within the industry like there's just no there's no way to remedy it because it's all built on like you know gathering around people who are influential and powerful to have you know allow your own stock to rise and i feel like there's especially in the executive side there's more insecurity uh

than your typical industry because there's like it's not a job that you can uh describe in concrete terms of like what you're bringing to the table uh and it's easy to yeah just feel insecure in that job and so it's easy to bully insecure people and also being insecure leads to bullying behavior a lot of the time so right uh anyway everyone left work that day and was like fuck this uh but then they came back the next day and continued to work for him um and do a glass bowl at a colleague yeah and they had a panic attack and had to leave and then throw a potato what the fuck yeah they're they say like it's openly acknowledged that people would be like going bald prematurely like getting sick yeah just like working there the one thing i thought was interesting was uh tatiana siegel

tweeted you know several people i spoke to for this scott rudin piece told me they spoke to the new york times last year for a similar expose. Huh. Obviously, it never ran. Huh. New York Times. I mean, yeah. It's that mainstream media complex of sources and

tightly woven web of sources and access and financial. There's probably big studios that advertise with the new york times um anyways fuck this dude uh this way like that would be wonderful if suddenly we had a a sea change where people like this were just no longer employable within any industry. Yeah.

I think it just has to be, I don't know for whatever reason, you know, we just have to be better about taking allegations of this kind of fucking behavior and like learning how to, I mean, I'm not in a position to hire or fire a studio executive, but like there,

I don't know how we're going to arrive to that point unless we can be open and not fear retaliation and protect the people who are actually trying to bring light to these kinds of topics rather than, you know, allowing like the culture of like, dude, it's career suicide. If you fucking say something,

man. Yeah. Shaq is trending for better reasons. Yeah. Little, little capitalism fairy tale exactly our favorite kind yeah feel good story shack a rich man paid for this man's wedding engagement ring debt so yeah it says some guy was paying off like for his engagement ring. And Shaq, the clip is quite literally. I got to pay for it. And guys like, hey, thanks.

Shaq just taps him, like barely looks at him, taps him on the shoulder. He's like, all right, now he's off to do his own shopping. So he said he's just he's just trying to make people smile. That's all. I mean, you hear that about Shaq. Like, I feel like he's kind of like has these Bill Murray-esque tales too of his acts of kindness yeah where he just like pays for an entire grocery store's worth of groceries like yeah for the next hour or whatever exactly yeah uh you know one of those things that probably shouldn't need to happen uh but the media loves to loves to talk about yeah we love oh my god

rich person pay poor person see it works out in the end yeah exactly ever see right i'm sorry but that those instances are one in five billion right when a celebrity is like hi allow me to extend my generosity towards you to get you out of the situation that's not that's but again these are the things yeah that kind of get your head to like maybe you know that's why it's okay to for us to not try and fight for something better maybe Shaq will pull up and pay for my medical Jordan Peterson is trending because he was like wait a second here uh Ta-Nehisi Coates uh tanahasi coates has is writing a new uh captain america series and one red skull uh who is a classic captain america villain uh some of his schemes and ideas uh resemble one jordan peterson's ideas and he's like wow is he trying to say something about me and people are

pointing out like it's not it's not so specific it's just like that what he what jordan peterson's doing is not original enough for him to even draw that conclusion there's so many people who have similar ideals and are preying on unsuspecting young people on the internet. But yeah, I mean, Captain America has always been anti-fash from punching Hitler in the jaw from the early days to now. But the irony of the people with the shield storming the Capitol. Right. You take from it what you need to, I guess. Yeah, yeah. having time but the irony of the people with the shield storming the capital right you know you

take from it what you need to i guess yeah yeah i just yeah fuck this guy it's just so funny because he his whole shit was he rode one of the first sort of outrage of culture war waves into becoming this like fucked up self-help you know like racist self-help dude because everyone's like it was when he refused to like use students preferred pronouns yeah yeah it was like oh my god yes and then he had all his just very wordy ways of being like i am a total prick um that had everyone on board so yeah yeah good for you but anyways apparently that uh series is supposed to be definitely worth checking out. I did not realize that Coates was writing a Captain America series.

That's fucking dope. I don't really read comics, but I might check that out. Well, his Black Panther series is really good. Is it? Yeah. I got it on... I got into that. There's a Marvel app where you can essentially read every Marvel comic known to man

just in an app so it makes for very fun uh comic book reading what's that app called just the marvel unlimited marvel unlimited yeah and uh there amy puller's name is trending because uh she there is a uh stripper who was, there is basically a fake story going around that a dancer squirted at a police officer in self-defense. And the mugshot kind of resembled Amy Poehler. The story is fake, though. Just putting that out there. They were trying to say that this dancer was Amy Poehler because the mugshot looked like her no they were just like oh wow this woman looks like amy poehler and it was such a uh just sensational story that they wanted uh they

wanted to spread it around and uh it turns out it was immediately debunked. It is a mugshot from a raid at a club that happened in 2008, I think in Houston, actually. But it's, yeah. I mean, it's not that police aren't assholes who, you know, abuse and target sex workers. It's just that this particular story is not uh true and i don't think is how squirting works i don't think it's if you knew if you know amy poehler you'd see that mugshot and be like that ain't right yeah yeah for sure and finally hashtag

decline now is trending yeah what's going on it's these so these two um door dash drivers in you know the lehigh valley in pennsylvania they had figured out a way to game the algorithm of door dash in order to secure better rates for themselves as delivery drivers and so they started this movement the decline now movement which essentially was saying like whenever a driver they were like okay look if a driver declines a delivery like the algorithm then shifts and offers the same delivery to another driver but incentivizes it by raising the fee a little bit more so they'd make more money and so because they're independent contractors it's up to them so they realize in mass they just started set basically being like we're not taking anything less than this amount They're independent contractors. It's up to them. So they realize in mass, they just started basically being like,

we're not taking anything less than this amount. And if everybody does, it will decline the fuck out of every order until they have to pay us this rate. So it started a whole thing. I don't know how long it's going to last because it's a smaller market where they're doing it. So that made a difference there. But who knows where else it could work if you're you know using doordash or you're driving for doordash maybe give it a try but yeah they're still trying

to figure out you know at the end of the day i think it all boils down to doordash needs to pay people more so they're not you know weaponizing your own draconian algorithm against you for you know humane pay that's yeah it's they're taking advantage of the fact that they're being managed by a algorithm that doesn't view them as uh humans right doesn't like take any of their humanity into into account that's pretty pretty brilliant and also shouldn't be necessary but uh yeah yeah shout out to decline now all right those are uh some of the things that are trending this wednesday afternoon we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves yourselves, wear a mask, and don't do nothing

about white supremacy. We'll talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre.

Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of lucha libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the president of the United States.

One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange

and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeartTrue Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar.

Just kidding, I'm Amber Revin. What? Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share. We're back with season two of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. This season, we make new friends, deep dive into my steamy DMs, answer your listener questions, and more. The more is punch each other. Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen, okay?

Or Lacey gets it. Do it.