The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendpic Games Fortzeit 8/13: Fortnite, Herman Cain, Left Handers, AMC, Ice Cream Truck Song

Episode Date: August 13, 2020

On this edition of Fortzeit Jack and Miles discuss Apple kicking Fortnite off the iOS app store, Herman Cain is posthumously tweeting, left handers make up 10% of the population - the guys discuss, AMC posts an ominous message suggesting their re-opening, and Good Humor has hired the RZA to re-write the old, minstrel-based Ice Cream truck song. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 iheart radio and realm listen to dream sequence on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this very special episode of trend pick games is fort zite uh i'm jack o'brien that's my ray this is what is trending right now. Fortnite. I'm doing the, what was the one dance? Everybody, yeah, that one.

Floss? Yeah, yeah, thank you. Thanks, young man, for letting me know about that one. Flint Flossing. Turquoise Jeep music. Yeah, Fortnite. Cool. Fortnite is trending because they got booted by Apple.

Yeah. App Store. It's an interesting tug-of-war here where essentially fortnite was like look if we want to get some in-game payments normally on not normally all the time using any kind of apple like ios thing you're paying through like the ios form like payment system epic's like you know what let's send these people off there and collect the payment there and so apple is saying don't do all that uh you know what you know what time it is these people off there and collect the payment there and so apple is saying don't do all that uh you know what you know what time it is when you when you're in the apple store

that's how it goes say the magic word you didn't say the magic word which is here you go uh steve jobs this is all yours so what they did was they basically forced apple's hand by like just doing like saying all right do some because we're sending people to the epic game store and apple did they removed them from the apple store and now epic games is suing because they're saying they have a monopoly essentially on like the entire payment environment within um ios um so and the other one is just the distribution market so it's like two distinct multi-billion dollars is part of their suit their complaint and they're not even asking for money they're like just want to bang like everybody else but just not have to do it on their terms they were the ones who made the

the ad that's very dramatic that's like 1984 big brother but this time so that was a an ad that was actually made in 1984 by macintosh that was like ibm is big brother and we are gonna throw a sledgehammer dude the way that guy ran through that thing he's just like get out my way automatons fucking sheeple yeah and then uh so now fortnite throwing it back in their face. Your face, Tim Cook. Anyway. Herman Cain is trending because he is tweeting. Good, great. I love to see it. Love to see it.

So I guess this was like on his deck or something it was scheduled to go out might have been in his drafts uh and then somebody found it i don't know it just really i mean herman kane passed away in july right okay and then what is this now two weeks later a few like eight days later however long it was it feels so long now he his twitter account had a take on the biden harris ticket that's wild so they were like what's going on and it was like sort of written it was just weird to see because it like it wasn't sort of acknowledging like hey we're going to be doing this now it got ratioed to he double hockey sticks uh but his family said like we can't just sit on all these followers man like we gotta we gotta use the platform to

quote share the information and ideas he believed in while also probably getting a little bit of influencer cash because the account has many has enough followers maybe i don't know so to support and promote the ideas that killed him yeah it's really dark he believed in yeah it's very dark and then posted again i think this morning about uh gretchen whitmer the governor of michigan so it's okay i mean well yeah i mean you always wonder like what happens to social like we're now moving in that era where like people with social media followings like what happens when they pass away does someone inherit it do you respectfully deactivate the account do you sort of lock it and keep the tweets there for posterity or do you just exploit the followers because you

know it's all a game about impressions and things and be like i actually have a couple accounts like pretty soon i bet there are people who'd be like hey uh you still sitting on that like you know john cena account like years in the future when he's passed away and you're just collecting huge celebrity accounts to have like a huge publicity network that's a that's a business idea for somebody i just don't like you i'm planning that john cena's not gonna live for john cena and i just met you know i know john cena slander because it you know i as someone who loves movie blockers his genius is clear to me yeah that is interesting though the i mean maybe this is just conservatives needed their own tupac right but like the same way people are buying likenesses to do the hologram shit

right you know what i mean like this is like another sort of you know imprint that people have left behind i'm there's probably some there is an agency that has i remember reading a profile the agency that has all the really popular estates, basically, that they have. Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, Sinatra, Einstein, and they just

got money for their relatives, basically. Weird job to be that agent. Like, yo, man, what do you have? I got shit. I got George Washington and Einstein. Dude, it's like,

we're making dollars off these ghosts, bro. Hop in. Left-handers are trending. Are you lefty? Nope. My mother is. I am.

I know you are. I know Barack Obama is. Barack. Really? Yeah. Jimmy Hendrix. Hendrix. I'm Barack Obama is. Barack. Yeah. Jimmy Hendrix. Hendrix. I'm sure just so many people.

Cobain was left-handed too? Yeah, and he never, he like learned to play the guitar lefty, but he played right-handed guitars. And so he like got a weird, what's that called? When your hand is arthritis. He got arthritis in his hand

from like having to do all the holds in weird ways oh man well you know the shout out and obviously famously uh let's not forget ned flanders one of the greatest uh left-handers of all time yeah really made us look cool thanks yeah thanks to you dwight writers did that did that make you sort of bashful to be like a up up have like left-hand pride i mean all lefties when they saw that episode were like come on come on we're cooler than this yeah like if anything he's the most righty of the characters on that he's like right so just like by the book uh right right he's a right angle the one thing i remember just like my mom being. He's a right angle.

The one thing I remember just like my mom being like, I need to sit at the edge of the table. I'm not trying to fucking elbow fight with people as I eat. So I was like, okay, I don't know what that means, but please let's just sit down at this McDonald's. AMC is trending. Oh man.

How cynical is this promo it's so dark 100 theaters august 20th and they haven't been open obviously they've been struggling like every theater is because it is pandemic uh and we need to be do what's absolutely safe for not only the customers, but the people who have to work there to live. They're opening and they're saying, hey, man, you know what we're doing? Just to bring everybody back. Movies in 2020, we're going to now be charging 19.20 prices on August 20th. That means 15 cents a ticket. Wow.

That's so kind of them to not their employees yeah and they will also be giving their employees the sorts of considerations that employees were given in the 1920s right exactly oh my god check this that was a triangle shirt waste fire then or right before that i think it was right around then yeah so it's it's, you know, this is what happens. You know, these companies got to do what they got to do to get this machine cranked up again and have a total disregard for what people or what their customers would be comfortable with and clearly not considering what their actual employees would be comfortable with. So, I mean, it's funny.

Triangle shirt waste 1911. Okay. So, you know uh within within nine years but i would say not even for 15 cents a ticket like even if it's free i'm sure they're i don't think they're gonna get that many people to come back considering yeah i don't know what i feel better because that time probably are they gonna be showing talkies when's tenant come out i think tenant comes out in september okay so what they're probably trying to do is get people used to it and then fully risk their lives

when the new flick comes out yeah they should just have like piano music playing over the pictures from the show yeah if they want to really go there yeah um and then finally uh the ice cream truck song is trending uh yeah turkey in the straw is what that's called apparently um but it has a super racist uh history related to minstrel shows so So Good Humor hired an obscure musician by the name of The RZA to recreate the Ice Cream Truck jingle and they are now calling on

all Ice Cream Truck patrons or Ice Cream Truck drivers and operators to replace the Ice Cream Truck song with this new joint they created with The RZA. Is the track lit? drivers, and operators to replace the Ice Cream Truck song with this new joint they created with the RZA. Is the track lit?

We'll play it for you guys right now. It's pretty dope. Hey, yo, yo, yo, what's up? We got the RZA live in effect. Chillin' right here, bro. You remember that Ice Cream jingle? Yeah. Of course, we all know it.

Kuduma, they called me up and they was like, we gotta do something about this, Rez. We could make a new ice cream jingle for a new era. We wanted to make a melody that includes all communities. That's good for every driver, every kid. And I'm proud to say, for the first time in a long time, a new ice cream truck team will be made available to trucks all across the country.

Oh, oh. That means forever, you know. I like that they just let him talk off the dome. Okay. Okay. Not bad. Yeah. It hits the right things it has like bells you know i hate to say this but this is probably one of his best productions in a long time i'm sorry you know he's but i'm glad to see bobby digital back in there and doing

showing that wu-tang is for the children yes specifically for the children quite literally wu-tang could not be more for the children than the rizza making the new ice cream truck jingle uh please slap that out your ice cream truck if that's what you do yeah um i mean sometimes capitalism is so cynical that it's it's brilliant but then it's also like super cynical and good humor is like you know so good humor hit me up to do the new jingle for the new generation and it's like it it feels just really weird or that's like okay then let's get this like really seminal black producer to then like invert the whole racial dynamic of their origin story

and create a new thing where it obviously looks good but i hope good humor did it because they really believe in wu-tang they fuck with you know every every dimension of the wu-tang philosophy right um yeah i i think i think they embody it all i feel like that's something we would have done if we worked at good humor yeah absolutely i mean that's what like i don't know sometimes capitalism gets it right you know so shout out i'm hoping to that wu-tang fan working for the marketing out good humor and was like bobby digital get him to do this i do i also love that for the video announcing it they just let the rizza just like go they're just well like yeah we're not gonna write anything for you just go just talk for about 14 minutes and we'll figure out how to do that because he

loves he's very verbose which is like one of the funniest things about him and i i will always talk about this the bjork documentary him talking about bjork is my one of my favorite rizzo conversations because he's so in awe of bjork he has one of my favorite talking voices in the world and rapping voice i love his delivery like it's all in the back of the throat. Camouflage, chameleon. That guy's the man. Yo, York's voice, she could communicate with the whales. She got that Norse, got Norse, North,

Northern, and that Norse vibe. And I was like, yes, that Norse Northern. Norse Northern. All right. That is going to do it for today's episode. We'll be back tomorrow with the whole ass episode of our show. Until then,

be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wash your hands. Wear a mask. Stay inside. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. 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, nickname 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. Our second season is airing right now, so you can catch up on our conversations that are intimate and often hilarious. Listen to Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated. Crooks everywhere unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere starting September 25th 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.