The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendin' 2: Geistlectric Boogaloo 9/11: #allbuildingsmatter, Peter Thiel, Paul Krugman, Kelly Clarkson

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

On this edition of Trendin' 2: Geistlectric Boogaloo Miles and Jamie discuss the #AllBuildingsMatter trend as a "gotcha" to #AllLivesMatter folks, Peter Thiel hosting a dinner for White Nationalists, Paul Krugman saying dumb shit on Twitter, and Kelly Clarkson "didn't want to do this job". Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest, because the company had promised $150,000 in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, fam, I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay.

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and help you pursue your true goals. You can listen to Sniffy's Cruising Confessions, sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Okay, everybody. Pencils down. Pencils down.

You knew what it was. Jack told you. He's out next week. That means old Smokey McTeacher is coming to teach y'all. And that's a really long-winded way of saying it's time for the trending episode A.K.A. Trending 2 Guys, Electric Boogaloo Shout out to the At D Zeit Gang

There's a Discord Zeit Gang Where they collected Specifically Elizabeth Chase For that title But, you know, I took a little Creative license with it Because you're trying to blend Boogie Nights with

Breaking 2, Electric Boogaloo And I do respect the original Breaking franchise So I must do that Even though Paul Thomas Anderson is a Valley guy, and no matter what, I will be a weird bro from the early 2000s. Okay. Now...

Well, another day. Look, it is what it is. I know. It's heavy, but I can't deny my terrible roots. And you know what? And I'm not just talking about my dye job. What I'm talking about... What the fuck was that joke for? I'm not just talking about my dye job. What I'm talking about. What the fuck was that joke for? I'm bald.

Anyway, Jamie, hi. That's you. Thanks for coming on. Let's get into it. I mean, while we process the news about Babu Frick, which we'll get to on Monday, we will talk about what is trending on this, the day, 9-11. Okay. Now, I say that because one of the top trending things on Twitter right now is hashtag all buildings matter. And I was like, oh boy, what's going on here?

I mean, that's really one that you see and you're like, this could go a lot of ways. Yeah, it was like, is this coming from leftist Twitter? Is it coming from conservative Twitter? Is it coming from Twitter? Is it coming from Rush Twitter? Is it coming from Twitter? Is it coming from Rush? I don't know. But the deal is very, very effective way of saying like, hey, you know how like when the uprisings were happening because of the sort of unchained or rather like. Back in June when the uprisings were happening and people were saying, you know, black lives matter because there is a we have a terrible situation in this country where unarmed black and brown people are just being killed in the street without any kind of consequence.

And we seem to have an issue with understanding the value of black life. And then people respond with, well, what about all lives and so i think this is a clever way for people to draw some attention uh that when most people especially conservatives treat 9-11 uh like you know like they're like their true high holiday as patriots be like don't ever disparage the day that people saying like how does if someone tweeted all buildings matter on this day people be like that's a fucked up thing to tweet on 9-11 sensitive thing to say oh okay i'm looking through this hashtag now. I like this. Yeah. But what's funny is conservatives still can't get their heads around it. Even though it's of one-to-one, right? It's like, okay, right, right, right. So since y'all are doing this with something that most people understand from an empathetic human

being standpoint, what if we did this? What if we fucked around with 9-11? Would you like that? And I think people are still like, that's not the point. Because at the end of the day, it's about white supremacy. It's not about ever honoring any of these holidays it's about de facto white supremacy so that is one of the trends well it's building spender it looks like it was started by a teenager as well those teens guess what they're smarter than us teens 2020 you know whatever that means teens for president and oh boy that could only go right uh let's see the next one peter teal uh the man who destroyed gawker the man the man who destroyed gawker the man who recommended that we drink child's blood to live longer the list i think he low-key doesn't

want everybody to know that so he can still keep like taking young young men's blood like isn't that like his like health regimen that it has it's like some draconian terrifying billionaire uh self-care thing there was like pretty good like uh journalism done that he uh that he did say that stuff at like one of those freaky billionaire meetings oh like those summits yeah i'm sure if you asked him you know just in an interview he'd be like haha no ha, no, of course. That would be ridiculous. Don't try it yourself.

There's only so much. Oh, my God. Are you serious? Do I fucking drink young men's blood? Get away from me. Why? You got a plug? Was it specifically male blood?

Is it? Oh, boy. You know somebody who got on the low? Wait, hold on. I just knew it was like blood from the youth. This is just. Anyways, what is he doing now? Oh, this time. I just knew it was like blood from the youth. This is just, anyways, what is he doing now? Oh, this time,

sorry, it's not even about that. This is about, apparently there's an article in the Daily Beast. So he's a board member at Facebook. He's on the Facebook board.

Let's just remember that. Apparently, he had a dinner with a well-established white nationalist supremacist and then wrote to the Facebook board about how he had such a lovely time

with this guy. And people were like, what the fuck are you talking about? But anyway, that's how Facebook works, y'all. Those are people who are on the board over there. Hey, do you want to know what the work culture is like at Facebook? Here's a fun peek. Jesus Christ. Well, that's...

I hate it. I hate it. Well, that's, I hate it. I hate it. Well, speaking of Jesus Christ, we've talked about Peter. Now we need to talk about Paul. Specifically, Paul Krugman, who's also trending. That was great. I was like, where is it? We talk about Horny Pope on Monday.

I know. Horny Pope got me going in my Catholicism brain right now. Shout out to the apostles. So Paul Krugman is trending uh the apostle of american revisionist history apparently because he is out here with the fucking fever take on 9-11 saying that 9-11 did not trigger a wave of uh islamophobic violence or sentiment in the united states oh i don't know That's like some Trump shit. It's so off. It's like, okay, that's what you

want to believe, fool, but that ain't it. The way that those tweets, it was just presented so blandly and so matter of fact that it just made you feel like your brain was leaking out of your ear. I'm glad. It seems like he

has been pretty handily uh dunked on because it's just like so demonstratively untrue it's just i just i can't put myself in people were like that take i think people were trying to spit take but then there's like they didn't even they weren't even drinking anything. They even spit out because it was just such a on its face, like shitty lie. Because, yes, there were like really great intellectual takedowns about being like, tell that to these people and presenting cases of Islamophobic hate crimes, things like that. Or some people just clap back with, I don't know, FBI statistics. And they're like, my man, you don't the fucking date. I thought you're Mr. Data guy.

Anyway, nice try trying to pretend that this country doesn't have an issue. Better luck next year, you fucking loser. What do you think? He's got an even hotter take on 9-11? Oh, boy. Don't do it on the 20th anniversary, sir. Back to the lair. And then finally, why is Kelly Clarkson trending?

Why is Kelly Clarkson trending? trending she's alive she's fine she's fine she it's just one of those um yet another infuriating uh like headline that is just pulled out of context to make you say why is kelly clarkson trending so we've been tricked by this one but it was kind of funny the way it was presented it was like kelly clarkson says i did not want to do this job and we and we as a nation need to ask ourselves what job what is she huh but then you're like oh yeah she has she's had a talk show for a while it's pretty cute i've watched various clips on youtube sometimes um but it's kind of a nothing quote she did an interview with the la times whatever she's hosting her show throughout the pandemic whatever all talk shows during the pandemic sorry are mostly bad uh but she well yeah uh but but i

it's just i mean i don't want to see i, I think that's me projecting my trauma from having to watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt dance with Jimmy Fallon over Zoom for 10 straight minutes in a doctor's office. So that's just my trauma I'm bringing to the table. But it's a nothing story. Kelly Clarkson said, I will be completely honest and i haven't since the beginning i did not want this job i say it's the dream i didn't know i had because i i talked to so many people and not just celebrities blah blah so she's basically saying i didn't want to host a talk show which um which begs the question why is she hosting a talk show there's a lot of people who want to host a talk show that don't have it foisted upon them. But that said, her talk show is cute by all accounts.

And now she likes her talk show. You know when you are just like forced into having a talk show and after a while you're like, you know what? I like it. Doing daily psych guys isn't that bad. It's like that. Just foisted upon. I mean, what would you do if someone cut what

if that you get a knock on your door and they're like look ellen's off jamie you're in you ready i'd be i would i would you know when the call comes ring a ding ding i'm trying to picture you they're like and we kind of want to keep some of the segments here's a deal like you can say whatever you want politically we're not gonna ever censor you but the one thing is we do need to keep certain segments consistent we need to keep the dancing yeah and we need to keep the surprising celebrities with bugs yes and creepy crawly stuff and creepy crawlies i'd keep the creepy crawlers you would do a little like jane fonda jazzercise breakdown or something oh yeah i do a little bit of jazzercise uh sure let's keep the dancing let's keep the creepy crawlies let's drop the workplace abuse and let's drop yanking information out that

they don't that they don't want no that's actually also oh is that the thing that's gotta stay yeah okay well i guess I'll just die. That's fine. Okay, fine. We'll move on then. See you later. To someone who will take the job. And there's always someone, baby.

And one last thing before we go. Super producer Anna Hosnier. She is doing a fundraiser. She is doing a digital Gaza 5K. She is raising money for funds to help the children in Gaza who are suffering with mental health issues. So please check out her Twitter page and donate if you can. If you got a little bit, give a little bit.

If you got a lot of bit, give a lot of bit. Because honestly, every dollar will go to a great place. And on top of it, you know, Anna's going to make this digital 5K workout. So check out her Twitter page at Anna Hosniyeh, H-O-S-S-N-I-E-H to get more details. And then, you know, how about a little bit? Okay. Well, with that, thank you all for stopping by this episode of the Trending Zeitgeist. You know, we've got a weekend coming.

You know what I mean? Take some time. Relax. Listen to some good music. Have a nice beverage, you know, like an ice water, iced tea. Yeah. have a have a nice beverage uh you know like an ice water iced tea yeah honestly and i say this all the time please be kind to yourselves too take a moment to breathe get in touch with your body and just tell yourself hey man shit is hard but we're trying to do it one day at a time because

we are doing it and we do have to take it one day at a time don't get too ahead of yourselves because we i could start if I wanted to, I could start thinking about the year 3055 and freak myself out and not do anything all day. But there are good things on the horizon. The Babu Frick toy comes out in a month. Yep. So just go ahead and pre-order that.

Boom. Did that. So until next time, we'll see you on Monday. You know, like Jack says, something about white supremacy. Classic Jack. No, I'm joking.

Yeah, wash your hands. Be kind to each other. Please wear a mask and socially distance when possible. And obviously, don't do nothing about white supremacy. If you can correct somebody in a kind way, why not? And if Caitlin Bennett is listening, Kent State gun girl. So sad to see what happened to you at the university yesterday. Oh,

I'm not over it. You hate to see it. You hate to see when a bigot interacts with people who actually care about things. It can get pretty weird. All right. Till Monday.

See you then. Bye. Bye. In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest. Because the company had promised $150,000 in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest.

We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, fam, I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the podcast from Hello Sunshine that's guaranteed to light up your day. Check out our recent episode with Latin Grammy winner, author, and TV personality Chiquis about raising her younger siblings after the death of her mother, singer Jenny Rivera.

I would do it over and over again. All of that has molded me to become the woman that I am today. Like, I wouldn't change anything. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project.

All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister, or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Curious about queer sexuality, cruising, and expanding your horizons? Hit play on the sex-positive and deeply entertaining podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Join hosts Gabe Gonzalez and Chris Patterson Rosso as they explore queer sex, cruising, relationships, and culture in the new iHeart podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Sniffy's Cruising Confessions will broaden minds and help you pursue your true goals. You can listen to Sniffy's Cruising Confessions, sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday.