The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendified Lover Boy 9/3: Certifiied Lover Boy, Florida, Jack Keane, Miles Teller, Hershey's, Q-Anon Shaman

Episode Date: September 3, 2021

In this edition of Trendified Lover Boy, Jack and Miles discuss 'Certified Lover Boy' being too long, Florida changing how COVID deaths are reported, Fox News failing to disclose that their Afghanistan expert PROFITS from war, Miles Teller refusing to be vaxxed or tested, Hershey's being sued by a cookie maker over the shape of chocolate chips, and the Q-Anon Shaman taking a plea deal. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 trendified lover boy uh yeah i am jack you are miles that is my nickname the trendified lover boy they know that they know

that they know have you have you listened uh to the new drake album certified lover boy coincidentally named i got through the first uh 15 tracks yo they they both dropped cheesecake factory menus of albums kanye and drake it's like yo there's gonna be like some some good stuff in there but it is so much just give me fucking focused albums not like and i get it too because then they'll put in like little interludes or things that have no backbeat and i don't and that's fine i don't always need a backbeat and you can just you can just go over like light melodies and shit but i don't know um whatever trying to find lover boy trying to find lover boy who am i who are you who are we did the work to go through donda to find the five good songs in my opinion jail jesus lord is the best

jesus lord uh hurricane jonah people seem to really like off the grid i'm i'm all right on it but those are the ones and then everything else i feel like is filler um i mean it's like i'm just trying to think what kanye you know because late registration is like 21 tracks you know what i mean and so is um the college dropout is like over 20 tracks beautiful my beautiful darkness that shit's 13 yeah so that's 13 and graduation has 13 so you know he he kind of runs the gamut of stuff but at the same time like you all we also know in the background is like this whole thing with spotify and like that's how you dominate the charts yeah just like continue to listen so it's not i don't know i'm just like please just just give me something where it's i can i don't have. I'm just like, please, just give me something where I don't have to constantly be hitting skip

or feel like I'm groaning, listening to shit through the whole time. Yeah. But I don't know. The 15 tracks you made it through on Drake, any thoughts? It just feels sort of like what I heard when I was going through the first couple. Here's the thing. Sort of like what I heard when I was going through the first couple. Like, here's the thing.

Kanye West is more talented than Drake in terms of that he has. He's a lyricist and he's a producer. And he's a musician and he has that whole thing. So I can't. It's hard for me to compare because Kanye has a lot of hands in the beats he's making where Drake, he's like usually doing it with, uh, you know, 40.

And so the, the album sound kind of like the tracks have like an aesthetic to them. Sure. They all just kind of started sounding the same. I don't know. Like, it just feels a little bit like I'm your people are getting taken for granted because they're like,

who's better than me now. Take, take these 20 tracks and smoke them. Right. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know. I i'm gonna give it the proper headphone treatment this weekend um and and i'll have i'll have more thoughts but i don't know as i said before the verse about kanye is pretty pretty oh yeah yeah bridal path was a 7 a.m on bridal path i mean you just played it for me before we started recording that was i mean that so the one thing i'll say is like kanye's a better musician drake is a much better rapper kanye's kanye barely raps on this album and like uh he has one really like two

really good verses uh yeah otherwise it's pretty and kanye's capable of of good lyrics but i think he's just he's his as his art evolves or whatever his you know how he perceives himself to be yeah we we get we get sometimes we get mc kanye sometimes we don't um but i don't know i'm just i'm underwhelmed with both i will say that that is like it's not one of those things i because i when i was going through um certified lover boy i was doing the shit i used to do when i was 12 when i was going through um certified lover boy i was doing the shit i used to do when i was 12 and i got an album where i'm like i know i like this one song on here but they didn't have a single so i had to buy the whole fucking album right and to get to it i'd be like all right what's this one if the beat if i wasn't fucking with the beat

off top skip five seconds then skip skip like that was my tolerance for music at the time and then i'd go back i'm like i missed a lot of shit i may be doing that with this but a lot of things this we're kind of blending into you know drake songs switch up in the middle so you gotta skip to the middle of the song yeah especially with travis scott like you don't even have nine songs in one yeah all that to say little little sims that's a good yeah that's what you were saying little sims i gotta listen yeah because that's you know i think the other thing just to say little little sims that's a good album that's what you were saying little sims i gotta listen yeah because that's you know i think the other thing just to say about both of them i was i would love to see something that was pushing things a little bit forward they're relying on

kind of like their usual fare to make this album rather than kind of pushing their boat out and being like here's let me let me try something new Here's, this is what I've been doing over the last year. And, fuck, I keep talking about this. The other thing is, Drake puts out all these fucking albums in between albums. And some of the shit is better on that. Like, Chicago Freestyle. I'm like, yeah. Like, what the fuck?

Why isn't that on here? Like, why'd you put out that other fucking shit? So, I don't know. There's a lot of, you know, it's all to make money but just bring the fucking heat please i'm old and my backpack straps are getting worn out okay i can't keep doing this let's see uh there's some news in uh covid reporting this week that we never really got to in the main show so i just wanted to put it on people's radars basically while cases are surging in florida their numbers seem to be going down and the reason for that is because they changed how they're reporting covid deaths on monday of this week as things started looking really bad they changed how they're reporting it so that it used to be once a death was attributed to covid it would just be like added to the total

for that week now they're like backdating it to when the death happened so because it takes like a couple weeks for people to officially designate cause of death, the numbers are getting added to two, three weeks ago. And they will always be because it takes a couple weeks. So you'll never have a high number in the current week or the current day, which is by design. So for instance, on Monday, Florida reported 42 new deaths. And it was actually like based on the numbers they'd been using, it was actually 262. So not like it's not a fucking competition or whatever, but it is like just shows very Trumpian like attempt to just break with reality without trying to address the

underlying problem yeah so they're they just changed the game on these hoes basically as jay-z said change the game and we suppose well we've got cynicism at its at its height just to be like yeah i mean this is like kid shit you know what i mean like this is like the kind of problem solving you do when you lie as a kid we're like well i wasn't lying i just changed up everything to make it look this way and i don't want to be grounded except we're dealing people's lives so yeah another uh kind of detail of an overarching story uh is who cable news was having on to talk about the afghan war and the withdrawal from afghanistan a lot of the experts it turns out were the people who got rich off of the forever war no right so they got people who were profiting off of it where the ones are like it's a disaster we gotta go back for more and like nobody else they would they would have like

you know somebody on in between like for like a couple minutes who would like have an alternate point of view but it was basically wall-to-wall people were like, this is a disaster because this is a quote. It hurts America's national honor and is a shameful display of American leadership. Just like the Vegas shit. And then like saying they should have stayed until sometime next year. But number one, number one stunner of this is Jack Keane, who is former military brass and like many former military leaders, he'd also been making fuckloads of money from weapons and equipment manufacturers. $459 million contract to provide 2,000 Humvees to the Afghanistan war through 2023 sits on the board of a company

that makes chemical lights for the military. So just you know, and it's like we talked about. There's a whole region of the country in northern Virginia that just got very rich over the past 20 years by being like the facilitators of these

forever wars um god because i remember there's like wow you got all every news channels like you all got nothing but hawks on here to talk about this the only fucking perspective is the hawk first boar hawk you just hawkery so many hawks i thought trey young and dominique wilkins were about to pull up and give their take on it too because everything was just about like does that no not like barely anyone was like yeah i mean this was a failure uh that this form of trying to like bring democracy to a country is is just a terribly failed experiment i hope we can move on rather than being like you know china now now they're gonna be creeping in you know so just treating it like a public relations uh l instead of like you know what the massive disaster from day one that it was

yeah like you said it was across the board cnn had leon panetta on comparing the withdrawal to the bay of pigs uh he is the senior counselor for a defense consulting firm and a member of oracle's board of directors uh david petraeus uh made the cable news rounds general david petraeus called it a dunkirk moment and said biden should literally reverse his decision and he's on the board of a cyber security firm that contracts with the department of defense and is a partner at a private equity firm with a major stake in defense spending but yeah keen is the true goat before his current job uh he was the director of weapons giant general dynamics and advisor to Akedemi, which is you might not know that name, but you probably know them by their former name, Blackwater.

Oh, yes. Hey, how could we forget? Yeah. So. Wow. And that's who was like the number one MVP for the week of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Right. On cable news that's like yeah that's like having

if if there was like uh the prohibition debate was going on in this century and it's like okay and to give their take samuel adams is here to speak on this it's a debate between samuel adams uh mr jack daniels and his cousin jim beam yeah. Are here to tell you why they think this is a very dangerous road to go down. I'm just a local man from Tennessee and I'm from Kentucky. And we just think this is a bad idea. Don't look into our pasts.

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another Miles, a lesser Miles is trending. Fake-ass Miles. So Miles Teller, who was great in Whiplash and then immediately just turned into

the worst, or was the worst all along, but has been just a shitty dude. He tested positive for COVID and refused the vaccine and is basically shutting down a movie that he's working on,

which, fun fact, is the movie where he was cast to replace army hammer. Oh, the Godfather thing, the offer. Yeah. Oh, I've had a,

I've had a bad run. Yeah. That's a curse. That's a cursed production then. Yeah. Because they said, this is the thing. There's like,

this is published in the daily mail. So take it with a grain of salt, but the production has been shut down, but they said their source said that miles teller is not vaccinated he wouldn't even get the test now he's brought the virus to the set and the whole set had to be shut down um this dude wouldn't even test yeah okay tough guy the publicist for him said your facts are incorrect but declined to elaborate further so the offer i actually didn't know i thought it was the rom-com with j-lo but this is a show about the making of the

godfather alongside giovanni rubisi colin hanks matthew good juno temple and dan fult fogler it's at least an interesting project i didn't know existed before this news story um well i i will be on the lookout for that to continue to be derailed by uh shitty men be on the lookout to just fucking punk miles teller's ass around town telling me can't even drum good yeah uh i do like i i got the feeling watching whiplash that if i knew anything about drumming i would be like oh my god what is he doing because he was not convincing from i mean i yeah look i know some jazz drummers i heard their takes on it they were not feeling it it would be like a movie about a writer who like writes so hard and so much that his fingers start to bleed because like that thing that happens like it's yeah drumming so hard that his hand

starts to bleed if you are just trying to hit a double time swing on a fucking cymbal yeah your hands shouldn't your techniques fucked up your hands are bleeding like you should you're holding the stick wrong you ain't you ain't throwing it you ain't getting that bounce uh so yeah it would be like if someone wrote a movie about basketball and the dude's just taking a free throw still his like his his hands bleed or some shit dunking the ball till his hands bleed yeah yeah i get people love the the ride i think for me i unfortunately i was was in that group of people who have been in competitive bands and jazz bands and being a fucking trumpet overachiever type kid. And I was like, oh, they're getting it all wrong. But I was able to sort of put that at the door because I'd already paid the money to see the film at the time.

So I was in the theater and I wasn't going walk out like i did um anger management many years ago you walked out of anger management yeah oh dude that movie gets so good um really no it's not true uh i think it was just my my experience having very uh toxic teachers and coaches that were very formative to me see i was man i had a hockey coach that was like that and i told my mom to take me off the team oh i was like this guy's fucking my head up i was five yo at five wow yeah it was his french canadian coach and he would scream man i didn't even understand him because his quebecois like vibe was so thick i didn't know what he was saying i just know like you gotta get moving i'm like oh man i'm i don't this is this

isn't my this isn't my communication style baby right um but my mom's like my communication yeah like you're not gonna motivate me like this hey look jean-luc is not gonna go down like this with me if you want if you want to get the best out of me, connect with me on a human level, and then that's how you motivate me. Yeah. All right, let's talk about Hershey's. They are trying to basically say that nobody can make a Hershey's Kiss-shaped piece of chocolate anymore.

So like that teardrop shape. Yeah. They think they own it, which is a very weird thing um but it's coming out in a lawsuit because there's this uh berkeley bakery called the cookie department and they make like a cookie that has like a big old chocolate chip in the middle of it that looks like a hershey kiss right and that's what they're doing is they're suing Hershey for the right to keep using this teardrop-shaped chocolate chip on its packaging because Hershey complained that they're like, that looks like our proprietary form, the Hershey's Kiss.

And, you know, the cookie department, they said, look, you know, they threatened us with a trademark lawsuit and so we just figured fuck it let's we'll come at them straight for their necks because they believe that they have a very weak case because this is just how all chocolate chips look right you know like theirs is just bigger like because on some level it's being piped out in the same process and being made to like on and and dry in that shape because it's coming out in globs and that's your shape but yeah they think they own it yeah yeah that's a that's a good point at first i was like that is kind of like iconic

but yeah it's also the shape of all chocolate chips so or anything that's like piped out and has to dry like it's gonna have a little more of a conical feel to it because of science so it's also the shape of all chocolate chips. Or anything that's like piped out and has to dry. Like it's going to have a little more of a conical feel to it because of science. So it's like almost like unless they're saying they are the only people who are allowed to make a chocolate chip like that. What's the problem here? Fuck it. So we'll see. As much as I hate to say it because I know that they and all chocolate companies are usually such stand-up organizations.

Don't look into how they cultivate it. And then finally, we wanted to check in one more time with our good buddy, the QAnon Shaman. He took a plea deal, says he is no longer part of the Q movement. Great. That's great. Wow, we've solved it,'all go back to work folks

no need for anything q shaman has done a 180 yeah he he basically took a plea and you know cop to the most serious charge he was facing which was obstruction of an official proceeding uh he had six charges at first and that could have put him in the slammer for 28 years but he took the plea deal and now it's just the one case and they say it could be around 51 months in prison um so four years possibly even though you know he's leaving notes like it's only a matter of time justice is coming like in the senate chamber and the fbi is like yo you're making threats like oh no no just like very non-threatening just kind of like that justice was coming okay why did you bring a fucking spear then oh because i'm very non-biose i just got i just got carried away man i got

carried away and donald trump made me believe stuff and so now that i have i've had my organic food which i made a big fit about in prison i've regained my acuity uh that's what his lawyer said he has regained his acuity yeah um because the whole thing was based on they were going this thing like he was being deceived he wasn't like in the right mindset to sort of parse through like this being real or not and now he's like oh no i've i've seen the light um because i was able to have my kale in prison. Well, most other people don't get that fancy privilege to be like my Q Shaman religious beliefs basically keep me from eating this simulated bologna sandwich. Jesus Christ.

Anyways. Well, good for him. Got one more good guy in the world seen the light yeah well the other thing that's funny is there's another jan 6 dude who he was like yeah i'm my honor i'm off this q nonsense i'm good i i don't i'll never do anything bad again so part of his um terms of release are like okay well then you stay the fuck off the internet because that's how you got here, right? And he's like, yep, yep, don't even need it anymore because I'm not on that at all. This motherfucker had to go back to jail because he couldn't resist tuning into Mike Lindell's

pillow telethon, sales-a-thon he was having that was disguised as a Stop the Steal convention. And so they're like uh sir we're looking at you you were back on that shit and he's like oh fuck you saw all right how'd you see that how did they see that i mean i'm sure at that point like it's very similar like yeah just you know we're gonna monitor your your internet we have like the child controls on your shit right so i don't know i mean it just definitely feels like a lot of people in this insurrection are getting away with the the one excuse most people of color can't use which is oops i didn't know i couldn't do that right um

may i have my kale now my honor yeah all right well that is gonna do it for us for this week uh season 200 in the books oh we did it man yeah uh we're back on bucket we did it we fucking did it uh we are like this hey dude we did it man fuck it all right later and the show stopped we are taking monday off and uh every day after that because we always said we were gonna do uh 200 200 just to prove just to prove them wrong yeah prove the haters wrong yeah they they all said we couldn't do it anyways we will be back maybe on tuesday now we will and see all, we are not working on a format. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,

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