The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendessee: The Lolanteer Zeit 2/14: 'Love Is Blind', Snoop Dogg, A Day Without Immigrants, Sha'Carri Richardson, Academy Awards, Sarah Palin, Super Bowl Ads

Episode Date: February 14, 2022

In this edition of Trendessee: The Lolanteer Zeit, Jack and Miles discuss 'Love Is Blind' season 2, Snoop Dogg smoking weed before his Super Bowl performance?!?!, the 'Day Without Immigrants' protests, Sha'Carri Richardson calls out the doping double standard, this years panel of female hosts for the Oscars, Sarah Palin's defamation suit getting thrown out, and this years best Super Bowl ads. 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 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 Podcast 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-Gadson. 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 to See, the volunteer-zite. A play on the volunteer state. I am Jack, and I am thrilled to be joined once again by Miles Gray!

Hey, I'm back. I'm back. Thank you so much for having'm back. I'm back. That's right. Thank you so much for having me back. Thank you so much for listening to me speak now. Yeah. I'll explain more. Check out tomorrow's episode.

A lot of stuff going on in my life. You know, I had to sort out good things, I guess, depending on how you look at it. What a horrible way to describe that. Okay, Loki, I got married. Okay, never mind. Check it out tomorrow. The full announcement. That was part of your vows, right?

Loki had some shit that I had to sort out down here. Yo, Loki, when we met, I had so much shit. I did tell Her Majesty, though, in the vows. I was like, fam. Or not even saying that. Fam. Loki and fam figured heavily in the vows i was like fam or not even say that fam low-key and fam figured low-key okay all right now miles will read his vows fam when you oh no all beautiful all beautiful yeah uh well we're thrilled to have you back and euphoria uh is still airing um you know for a lot

of people uh the super bowl was euphoria having an episode last night i don't know i saw that tweeted by somebody just lame coverage anyway uh are you are you watching luf luforia no i haven't no not yet i had to get through like three other shows yeah also had to watch like half of love is blind because that shit just came out and trash always takes you know precedence for me when the trash comes out my dirty parasitic mouth opens up for all the garbage yeah so love is blind we did uh talk about how season two dropped um so we're not going to talk about euphoria uh we can save that for i'm actually going to be uh for a couple days later on this week for my dad's 70th so super producer becca will presumably be filling in

and she can uh give a review of where we're at with uh this season of euphoria at that point but how give me what's the update on love is blind season two oh my god it's just all i love it because the premise is great because it's all about like already you know motherfuckers are desperate if you're going on this show if you're like yeah fuck it and i'll marry them i don't give a fuck um so people are like very ripe for like just falling in love with the disembodied voice on the other side of a like a wall yeah and i was watching with her man she's like what's wrong with these people i'm like it's the perfect blend of desperation and like quirky gamified interactions um but there's some interesting people like one couple you're like oh they'll work or another person you're like oh this this dude actually kind of evolved a little bit and

the narrator's like he in fact did not um so it's got a little bit of everything it's it's it's pretty messy uh and now we're just kind of waiting for these other there's all and there's always a couple where like like someone wanted to be with another person and they denied them and then like regretted it after and then they see them like after the fact and they're like low-key they're like i actually right like i still like you we talked about that being from season one with uh what's his name the the real hot dude who plays the acoustic guitar who's just like real average ordinary uh abercrombie model and the blonde blonde woman from uh chicago who was like damn barnett that was his name yeah wow yeah yeah that was the furthest i mean we talked about a little bit last last week but i think that's the furthest i've gone

with a reality show in a while because i feel like the people on that show are damaged in a way that is more recognizable to me than right like a lot of the other reality tv where it seems like they're all dealing with you know some form of damage that stems from narcissistic personality disorder you know yeah this is just good old-fashioned thirsty lonelies you know put them in the bucket oh you got the thirsty lonelies yeah yeah you're perfect for this but yeah there's no one like last year i remember i remember rooting for that one couple uh the interracial couple and i was like yeah and they were like a shining example this year it's just it's a garbage i'm not sure who the fuck is gonna end up together after this so you know all right fuck it i like conflict there we go new york post is trending uh did you see that i did not see this dude they posted a picture of like snoop right so one of the camera guys caught snoop before

the halftime show just hitting the fucking blunt or a joint or something like right before like he was clearly at the steps to get on stage and just like right before the lights went out they caught me like all right let me get a couple in real quick before i perform and then like snoop dog smoking weed before half like it was like they were shocked and appalled that snoop was smoking weed in his hometown before he takes the stage and people were like yo what the fuck are y'all talking about like this is do you know anything about where this is who this is where we are so a lot of people were just sort of pointing out to like this is like the saddest like outrage take like in the history of outrage takes i would have been shocked and outraged if he had not in fact smoked

weed before the halftime show because and he wouldn't any have you seen him perform anywhere else he's typically smoking the whole time so if anything i would be more the headline there is like damn snoop made a concession for the league by not smoking weed on stage in his hometown stage. Right. Yeah. Great, great performance. We talk about a little bit more on tomorrow's episode. But great.

And I think people just can't believe, too, that it's like legal. So it's like, I don't know. Yeah, it is. Walk walk in any place where there's tourists congregating in la and you'll regularly see people like passing out from smoking weed they're not prepared for yeah and the new the newer post is probably still on some like racist like reefer madness shit you know yeah they're like scandalized that that was the halftime show to begin with and yeah uh yeah anyway it makes sense it's like you know there's more grumblings like chuck schumer is looking for you know a thing to pass that might

be popular with people rather than like you know like functioning you know health care things like that it's like i feel like the democrats always have a shit like the list of like all right shit will deploy in case we can't get other shit done like Like, I think it's time for the weed one. Y'all. I think it's time. I think it's time that low hanging fruit. We should have got done a long time ago. It,

I think it'll pull. Well, there we go. Hashtag day without immigrants is trending. Um, protesters are holding demonstrations in DC, uh, an observance of a day without immigrants,

which is a strike and rally advocating expedited citizenship for undocumented workers in the u.s i mean well yeah because yeah please yeah agreed we do need to have expedited citizenship we still have all these dreamers that we have we need to get on a proper path to citizenship we still have dude we're like you know even like even like capitalists are like hey we kind of need more people here with like specialized skills uh because we don't that's what immigration can do in a positive sense you can bring all kinds of people into your workforce to exploit them further for more profit but yeah uh it's it's always interesting to see how like people on the right who would be like i'm fine without an immigrant

like yeah okay go ahead oh wait all these things oh shit they don't want to do that they they're uh their position is like no longer coherent and coherent and no it's hard to talk about no it's it's just fascism now it's it's truly after the legitimized political discourse shit with the rnc their whole thing is now the only thing i can make of their platform is fascism is fine folks yeah okay like that we talk on tomorrow's episode about charlie kirk calling the halftime show sexual anarchy like they're just like their signals are getting mixed up like that i don't know it doesn't it doesn't make sense anymore uh they must be talking heads fans because they stopped making sense am i right folks okay all right that's a david burn if i've

ever heard one uh let's take a quick break uh while we recover from that joke and i'll be right back i'm jess casaveto 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 L.A.-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,

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is being handled. She had literal performance-enhancing drugs in her system and was called out for it by the Olympic committee and is being allowed to come back to continue to compete they're just like we won't do a big show of the medal ceremony but she's allowed to come on what are we going to take away her ice skates come on folks so fucking weird that they're the high court of sport arbitration whatever the fuck it's called this figure skater uh her name's camilla valieva had you know performance like like was doping like hey whoa whoa whoa whoa you got the

shit in your blood that like makes it easier for you to put in more energy for a longer period of time which we would call performance enhancing versus Richardson, you know, smoked weed. And they're like, that's it. Sorry, folks, you're gone. So I think a lot of people, herself included, were like, this fucking doesn't make sense at all. But yeah, I don't know. What a what a time to have your eyes open and be able to see multiple things contradict each other and yeah. Be disheartened by that.

So yeah, you know, that's the Olympics. I've already been a real fucking brain scratcher from what I've seen. Like half the, it's like interesting watching like how there's like the, what was it? The Norwegian team or one of the Finnish athletes who like took a picture of their dorm that was like absolutely inundated with water like blowing out of like

all the fucking lights and shit they were like you got to erase that now put it take it down now don't show anyone those pictures uh to you know whatever there's so many people complaining about the judging but hey all that to say is i haven't been i've every year my excitement for the olympics goes down just that much more yeah what was the peak what was the peak for you was it 96 yeah i feel like 92 was big for the dream team barcelona yeah but then we were coming and there was 92 also dan and dave when that was thing. But maybe it was just because we were children. But Carl Lewis was a real showstopper. But it makes sense that the Olympics is the most late-stage capitalistic institution of all.

It's just controlled by massive global corporate sponsors. uh global corporate corporate sponsors and it makes sense that like as they become slightly less profitable that money's not coming out of their profits coming out of like how they treat the people at the bottom level which in this case are the athletes the people who are putting in the work i mean it all i think it all depends like kind of what 96 was just like michael johnson you know that was just like and his golden sprinting spikes was like the big thing and then other years like just would have one thing that i was like super excited for after that i was just mostly watching for the basketball right um but i don't know there's there's just something over time that you just like, you kind of get less invested.

And the more you like pay attention to things, you're like, this whole thing's fucking stupid. Yeah. And it especially sucks to, you know, if you're only watching for basketball and the Winter Olympics, which still to this day, like refuses to have any, it's bullshit. Uh, it's definitely like the midterm elections of,

of the Olympics. And sometimes, you know, I, I will credit though, uh, the Vancouver Olympics, uh,

made me switch careers because I was jealous of a, a downhill skier who like, just like accomplish their life's dreams. And I was like, what am I doing in politics? Like, yeah, I was like, what am I doing in politics? Oh, really? Yeah, I was like, this person's fucking crying because they went after a thing they want.

I'm like, nah, I need to do comedy. There you go. I'm off this. All right. Well, anyways, I think everybody was riveted when they went from the Super Bowl to the Solo Bob, the Solo Bob sled. You know what?

I'm not gonna lie. Watch the fuck out of the solo bob that shit was more interesting to me than the fucking the super bowl at that a certain point i was like damn one person and then hearing about all the sprinters they convert because that thing was like 300 pounds the solo bob so you really like and watching those people get out the blocks you're like that's a fuck like yeah you got you need power behind that yeah uh all right uh amy schumer regina king and wanda sykes i believe are announced as the lineup to host the oscars this year they're going with like a panel okay which okay that's a that's a cool lineup sure like them another thing sorry regina award shows

regina hall not regina king oh okay another thing that is slowly more more and more people like why are we doing this still like right it was funny to see how many like people in the film industry be like man the fuck oscar gives a shit about him wait hold on what yeah um sarah palin was suing the new york times uh for linking her in an editorial to a mass murder and a u.s judge on monday threw out her lawsuit so that was being like covered as a major it determined press freedom i think is like how it was being covered and therefore very significant and the judge was like you don't really have any evidence per se sounds oh on par for the mega world yeah because all they need to say is that they are suing someone and we'll be like oh no yeah because you see the same shit rhetorically deployed when you know because i watch a lot of you know i'm on reddit and shit and looking at

weird shit all the time and uh you see incidents of people like losing their shit over like wearing a mask or something and it's like a thing where you always see conservatives like threaten the lawsuit like in these like day-to-day altercations with other people where they're like okay well you must want to get sued like is what they always act like oh now i'm gonna have to go to my trunk and sue you and most people are like yeah yeah go ahead but that's one consistent thing that there's like oh wow can't wait you must you must want a hundred lawsuits right now is like they're sort of rebuttaled to things and i'm like do you know how much it costs to sue somebody because you're probably going to be put off by it unless

you're you know you have some cousin who's practicing law and is willing to take your file your nonsense case yeah the thing that with trump's strategy where he has just done illegal shit flagrantly for his entire career and then just threatened to sue people if they point it out problem with that is uh not everybody inherited 100 million dollars when they were a baby damn it step one inherit 100 million dollars as baby and then ads from the big game man everyone's talking about them what was your favorite oh man when larry davis speaking japanese selling nfts was he really speaking japanese yeah there was something when he was saying like he was definitely doing it i heard him say something in japanese that's

when i was like what's going on in there and i looked and i was like larry davis speaking japanese and then it was like the towards the end of it and it's like crypto and i'm like wow okay um yeah what other ads did i see i honestly didn't again because i really only watched like a little bit before halftime and then very like on and off uh for the second half i didn't really get to see as many commercials aside from the fact that i felt like i kept hearing the word crypto be said like a lot yeah nfts crypto the bank wallet all all that shit uh i don't really know what anyone was talking about still offer still stands if you can send me a link to a video where this shit makes sense and uh you know you know, plead your case. Sure. I'll, I'll check it out.

I still not still got nothing. Still, still got nothing here. Still like most people have been saying, someone else had a tweet about, they're like, wow, the amount of celebrities like in these crypto ads really makes it apparent

that they need more people quote downline from them. If they're going to get rid of all these leggings yeah i like i saw somebody else wondering like how they should have to reveal if they were paid in crypto or cash when they're in a thing like this because i think that's relevant because if they're going to keep pushing the idea that crypto is a thing and then they have like massive amounts of their wealth tied up in it it just so far everything I've seen on the crypto front just reveals that celebrities spend way more time talking to financial advisors than to anyone who is not either working for them or themselves famous. Yeah. That's what's wild. You know, how quickly you can just move up the social ladder and then

you have completely, you have completely no idea how most people live anymore. Right. There was an ad for mixed nuts, Ken Jeong and joel uh joel joel mckale which is how i think you should pronounce it joel i'm in honor of that dunk i don't know if you saw joel mb dunked on the calves and it looked like somebody exploded it looked like they both exploded like where when he dunked it looked like they both like had stepped on a mine yeah i felt like an animation that would have been like nba street right yeah but anyways uh ken jung and joel mckale like had a uh i eat my mixed nuts separately i eat them all at once like and then they tweet it and then america is like thrown into a civil war over it and not like legit but like everybody's really mad at each other and protesting

in the streets and the funny tagline is hmm who knew that like a small disagreement would divide america so it was like written by you know the centrist people who are like guys we just need to come together which sucks jesus this whatever i hey man. Super Bowl commercials will heal everything in time. I was hoping they would. I really thought we had it. Hey, the Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen one. Oh, you know what? That was a funny one. The Pringles one.

With the dude with his hands stuck in the can. For his whole life? That kind of made me laugh. More specifically, when the guy went on a date and then his date lovingly caressed his can hand. I mean, you have to ask yourself, is she into you or is she into the can hand? The can. Which one is it, dude?

And then the E-Tray baby was back for a new generation. And that's the only one that stuck with my three-year-old not surprisingly because he was like oh i know that dude uh and then also the mcdonald's one where they like the whole ad is about the thing you say right when you're ordering when they're like what would you like and you're like uh could i get and that like got stuck in my kid's head like it was a an earworm um and he was like well so it was just like ah people's like whatever their transitional tone is into actually speaking and then for some reason kanye rolls up in like a futuristic war vehicle and really he orders i think i think that's what was happening i always always say, yeah. I'm thinking about what I say.

Yeah, let me get a... I go, yeah, let me get... I say, yeah, let me get... I say, promptly, sir. And then I tell them what I want. And then you're like, they always put spit in my food when I order like that. Must be a menu hack. Kind of what I'm into now.

All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, February 14th. Happy Valentine's Day to everyone out there. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine.

Wear a mask. Even if you're at the Super Bowl, you know, it'll be nice. They're time traveling, huh? Over there. That that was wild i didn't see a single fuck is it because the wave like is it because like fauci was like we're basically out of the big pandemic part i'm like what is everybody saying right now out loud and who has anyone checked in on people with kids who work from home because i haven't heard from my friends who do that. Yeah. People were tired of it.

They were just waiting for one person to be like, well, that's enough then. And that's how everyone's acting. Hopefully it doesn't blow up in our face. I mean, we see it every time, right? Hey, it's great. And then you get three months of like feeling good, then a fucking crippling wave, and then another couple months and then another wave. But hey, man, whatever. Let's just live free.

Let's live free. The hammer and the dance. It's real. Also, don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will be back tomorrow. Bye. Nah. And we will be back tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. 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, Caitlin 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 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 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. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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.

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