The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendsday Adams 8/17: Papa Johns, Elon Musk, Manchester United, Kid Cudi, Nancy Pelosi, Addams Family

Episode Date: August 17, 2022

In this edition of Trendsday Adams, Jack and Miles discuss the Papa John bowl, Elon Musk buying Man U?, the Kid Cudi/Kanye beef, Nancy Pelosi not getting a pre-1/6 heads up, LeBron re-signing with the Lakers, and the new Tim Burton series 'Wednesday'!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We'll close out the episode talking about that one, but new series from the twisted mind of Tim Burton. Anyways, I'm Jack, that's Miles. And up top, we got to talk about Papa John. Papa John is the number one trending thing across the morning. Across this Wednesday morning. And it's because they've released

the Papa John Bowl. Which is not a bowl. Neither a bowl nor a pizza. It is like a shallow dish with pizza toppings in it. They're just like... Yo, what the fuck is this? It's the downfall of Western civilization.

I do not... This shit looks like a microwave like a microwave like airplane tray. Yeah, it looks really bad. You know you're in trouble when they show you the product photo that they spent all their time, millions of dollars crafting this image to make it look like something that someone might conceivably consume. And no dice. No dice on this end i don't understand what is there is there there's you're just eating loose cheese loose cheese and topping in this case yo it looks really bad even at my, I've never been like, you know what would be fucking amazing right now? Right. If I could scrape all the shit off the pizza and just eat a goo bowl.

Isn't that how Trump eats his pizza? Yeah, it is. He's just like, I just like the cheese in this house. I don't like the bread. I mean, he's having a moment, a bit of a moment these past six years. These things look terrible, though. They truly look like the packaging was constructed out of Hot Pocket packaging. They were like, you know what people love is microwave Hot Pockets,

but let's get rid of the pocket and just the hot. the hot pocket but let's get rid of the pocket and just just the hot just this is a hot pocket puked into a bedpan um and then we made it out of hot pocket packaging okay first of all danielle weiner brauner at cnn business who wrote this did you get paid to write this fucking article like it's written so uncritically of just like it it reads like fucking spawn con like an ad where it's just like hey it's got they did away with everything that people didn't like and now it's all fun stuff you know what i mean one reason for the slowdown people may be getting tired of pizza there There's a general thought. And then just like quotes uncritically the SVP of menu strategy and innovation at Papa John's. And then you get specifics, three varieties, the fucking price point, how they're going to make sure that it shows up to you hot and goopy the way you like it. But even the product photo doesn't look hot and goopy, man.

It looks terrible. It's confusing as fuck. I'm sorry. This is really fucking making me upset looking at this picture. It's not a fucking real thing. The idea that you'd write this and say, to get people excited about pizza again, Papa John's is offering a new spin on the classic

with Papa Bow bowls that are all topping no crust this is like copy this is ad copy well miles what they're really going for papa john's hopes a new item will eliminate the veto vote when an eatery gets ruled out because it doesn't have enough options for everyone in the dining party um and the thing that when somebody's like i don't really feel like pizza. What they're usually saying is I feel like pizza. If you just scrape that shit off the top and put it into a hard plastic shell that,

uh, it's, it's not good. This, this might be the most depressing. We've covered a lot of depressing news on here. This might be... We were just about to talk about the massive multi-agency cover-up

that's happening around January 6th and all these deleted texts. I'm more upset somehow at this chicken Alfredo bowl. That's's not even pizza i'm uh all right so here's who's taking an l here papa john obviously the head of what was it innovation head of innovation at papa um cnn business oh my god for just rest in peace just like without any criticism i i hope the payday was good is all i'll say to cnn business who i will say uh is winning here is taco bell because they managed to innovate and introduce new ideas time and again And never come up with something like this. It's funny how we're talking about uncritical spawn con. But yeah, we're like free promo.

We're talking about all the time. We're like, yeah, man. They can't fucking lose. They never fucking lost. Okay? I'm sorry. Also, shout out Subway Tuna. But this is, yeah.

We're true consumers. You know what I mean? But this is, yeah. We're true consumers, you know what I mean? SVP of Man U Strategy and Innovation at Taco Bell is really doing it. And this fellow is not. All right. Man U is trending. Elon Musk is trending for the same reason. You quickly disabused me of the notion that this story was worth my attention yeah but it's worth me laughing at manchester united i think okay you know i do

want to say that uh manchester united was arguably i mean as a brand they're still one of the biggest if not the biggest you know football club the yankees or brand you know what i mean like next to real madrid or something or barcelona like where you just go oh man you or manchester united they've had dude their season is starting off terribly they got a new manager cristiano ronaldo is playing with them and he's so mad he's like yo these people fucking suck he's like i don't even want to fucking be here anymore it's causing all these problems the team's like fucking revolting in the locker room the fans are so pissed so

elon tweeted some shit about he's like i like the left side of the republican party and the right side of the democrat party and then like added a tweet below that he's like and also i'm gonna buy manchester united you're welcome the fans were like i don't know like would you would you be opposed to this like that could be cool. Elon owning the team. He might put his own money into it. And most people are like, bro, this is a thing he always does. The sports thing. He's going to buy a sports ball team. And then hours later,

he's like, this is a running joke. But that didn't stop. I think the actual stock price of Manchester United went up a little bit after he said that. Which proves that this is a cool story and not that the stock market is a complete fucking joke. Yeah. That it's a bunch of the most uncool person on the planet.

Someone was like, oh, what did he say? Oh, yes. Yes. But an infusion of cash like that for Man U could be, I think we can all agree, massive. Massive, mate. They could maybe finally get Harry Kane. Harry Kane. Massive.

Massive, mate. In it. Yeah, I don't know. It's wild. You know how when you see a team, usually they're in the running to get the top picks in any sport. You're like, yo, that team doesn't play. When they say they're going after somebody, it's always the best in the running to get like the top picks in any sport you're like yo that team doesn't play like that when they say they're going after somebody it's always like the best in the business right they are now going to like you know second and third tier kind of players and i think that has a that's a big like identity crisis for the supporters too who are like we used to like when

we'd knock people fucking came now when we knock people turning the lights out in their house and acting like they're not there, can't answer the door. Ronaldo's not second tier, is he? No, I mean, so he came last season and was like, here we go, because the season before that, they finished really close, you know, like the top three. And they're like, with the addition of

Cristiano Ronaldo, like this could help. It was a total mess. He's like older, so he doesn't play like really defensively and it causes a lot of issues so now he's just like sulking on the field and that's never gonna that that usually doesn't get results but anyway it could work not gonna work cristiano uh kid cuddy is trending yeah he and kanye they're not working out their issues yeah he did interview an esquire recently and he's just he's saying like don't fuck with this guy like a police just we're

separate people he said quote when it comes to like you know kindly being like who's back do you have blah blah blah he said quote i'm not one of your kids i'm not kim it don't matter if i'm friends with pete or not friends with pete if you can't be a grown man and deal with the fact that you lost your woman, that's not my fucking problem. So, you know, it's,

it's wild to see how different like things went, man. Like his cut, he was in a like real low place and he like really just, he had to work on his mental health and stuff. And you could see him begin to kind of come out of his shell and like kind of begin to be, uh,

creating at, at the level that he used to and many people look at kanye now and like did you see that thing of the all the bags in the gap store about how like the the kanye yeah the easy shit's supposed to be sold like i did i meant to talk about that that i'm glad you brought it up yeah so kanye has a like-label on Gap where he's got a line of clothes. And he is making them put them out in trash bags? Is that what I'm looking at? They look like industrial-sized garment bags

where nobody's lifting this. It just happens to be a fucking bag packed to the fucking gills with loose hoodies. Yeah, exactly. And apparently he saw this shit on hangers. Nah, fuck that. a fucking bag with packed to the fucking gills with loose hoodies yeah yeah exactly uh and apparently he saw this shit on hangers nah fuck that i want people to there's no size or color organization he just wants people to fucking tear through these bags and shit all right okay the song they were both on on uh push album was good. That was the last one. Last time. Who knows?

Yeah, I don't know. It does feel like it's a Pete thing, right? I don't know. At this point, it's like, I'm really... Just tired? I'm just tired. I feel like Laura Ingraham with Trump. I'm like, I'm sorry.

I can't. I can't. Okay. Sorry, I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry, I can't do this, Kanye. All right, let's take a quick break. I can't. Okay. Sorry, I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry. I can't do this, Kanye. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And don't worry, we promise to avoid any black holes. Most of the time. And we're back. And Nancy Pelosi is trending. This is wild, fuck i don't uh so we have this report coming out uh that the secret quote the secret service knew of a threat to nancy pelosi on january 6th days before the insurrection but did not pass it along until hours after the capital had been breached according to secret service emails obtained by crew who is reporting this this is like an ethics watchdog

group crew yeah um so yeah so they said on january 4th they found the secret service found a parlor account that was posting a series of threats against her then like they were just all talking about here's the enemy she's on this list it's yeah i don't know there's like it says good afternoon the u.s secret service is passing notification to the u.s capital police regarding discovery of social media threat. Directed toward Nancy Pelosi. But this happened a long time ago. So. Yeah. So like maybe a conspiracy. Maybe they were just like not trying to let anybody know.

The Secret Service. Despite being the antagonist. To Trump. In one of the more vivid. Accounts of what happened on January 6th. Where he was like reaching for the steering wheel and all that shit um they they have acquitted themselves very shadily uh in a lot of the stories around january 6th and deleted a bunch of evidence and we're just i feel

like we're just waiting to see what the what the story is there yeah i know and that's why i'm like god who knows what's in those fucking 15 boxes of documents and shit considering that the secret service like okay well we deleted everything on our side right what you got uh looks like a big stinky shit pile um will we find out what happened who knows lebron is money. Big money, big money, big money. No whammy, no whammy. What did he sign for? It's like two million or two years. Two million?

I heard it was for two million dollars. He's being a real stand-up guy, this LeBron James. Saying, you know what? How much more money can a guy have? But no, it's something like like 98 million it can go up to 111 million um over two years so it makes him the hot like the most guaranteed money player he this puts him above kevin durant now i still can't conceive of what 111 million looks like in my mind or how that would if you have so much money that you're lebron go okay cool 97 million

okay great great thank you let me just write that down in my ledger okay thank you nice nice nice yeah people are everybody's like you know now all the conversations are around like will he get the lakers to draft his son r Ronnie, who, as we talked about recently, had a pretty exciting highlight where he seemed to, uh, float in through the air and while like passing by the basket, like, okay,

and I'll put this right here, uh, while I fly by the basket. And yeah, so, so now people are like, well, by the basket and yeah so so now people are like well this would put him past the season where his son would be uh eligible to enter the draft so right i don't know i still feel like it's

very rare for anybody to be good enough to go straight from high school to the draft you imagine we fuck up our draft picks, fucking drafting Bronny and shit to make LeBron happy. I'm like, I was saying earlier, I'm like, I love the sentiment, but I'm ruthless. The Lakers is not for

take your kid to work day. Right. You know? And look, unless he has some really ridiculous development, but I don't know. I mean, like, good for LeBron James. A lot of people are like, well, you're tied to him forever.

But yeah, come on. Let's get another banner then. Let's go. Let's go. Wednesday is trending, not just because that's the name of a new series dropping from the sick twisted truly fucked up mind of tim burton it's uh it's wednesday adams it's a wednesday adams based series um and it looks fun it looks like you know it know. It looks cool. I mean, Adam's Family really hit me. You were saying it hit you when you were like the right age.

So I might have been a little bit too old to enjoy it as much as I did. But I really loved that shit. I went and saw both those movies in the theaters. Yeah, I mean, what? Adam's Family Values came out in 93. That was the sequel. Yeah, so I was like 13. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, I mean, what? Adam's Family Values came out in 93. That was the sequel. Yeah, so I was like 13. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was like, I'm nine. But you know, I had like the taste of a 13-year-old. You know what I mean? Right, right. But I really, yeah. And the first one came out in 91. Right. So it was like 10 or 11.

I just loved it. I thought they were so fun. I really liked the second one. They're all just super they're just super goofy. But yeah, the trailer looks, it's funny how, like, how powerful the image of Wednesday Addams' silhouette is. It's just seeing, like, dark pigtails creep down a hallway. And they're really, like, using that visual to, like, be like,

yo, don't fuck with her. Love that the high school she attends briefly and is kicked out of is nancy reagan high school that's very fun um luis guzman as gomez yeah is not like that's not straightforward that's not who i would have pictured but it's fun it's a lot of fun fun. Well, it follows the long tradition of Gomez Adams being portrayed by people of Puerto Rican ancestry. I want to say, who's the

first one? John Astin? And then Raul Julia. Then Raul Julia. Then Luis Guzman. Luis Guzman's energy is different from Raul Julia. Oh, yeah. It's always going to be like, he's a very one-note kind of guy.

Yeah. But it's fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't mind seeing that in a Gomez-Adams suit. Come with it, Luis. Come with it. This also just put the question in my mind, how did Tim Burton not direct the Addams Family

movies in the first place? I guess I'm glad he didn't because he knocked those out of the park but it feels like they were both peaking at the same time you would have expected but I guess he was making Batman Returns

at the time that he would have been making the Add Adams Family movies. What a fusing of franchise and just the sickest, darkest, twisted, most messed up mind.

I don't know. Maybe he's still got a fastball hidden up his sleeve. She has piranhas bite someone's dick off in the trailer. So, that's cool. Oh, I got it wrong. The guy who played the original, John

Astin, in that version they said Gomez was of Castilian and Spanish ancestry. And then Raul Julia Puerto Rican. And then apparently when they announced this people were being like it might have johnny depp in it oh so oh yeah yeah now that would be you saved it well because johnny depp is actually part i don't know if you knew that he's part uh native american

part puerto rican part wolf part wolf, part Wolf, part Les Paul electric guitar, and part leather bracelet. Part motorcycle. Part Pinot Noir. Yeah, the Adams family. I think I want to start keeping a ranking of the people

I would least want to hang out with for a day, and I think I want to start keeping a ranking of the people I would least want to hang out with for a day. And I think Johnny Depp might be number one on that list. Yeah, I think in general, anyone who's a scumbag. Based on smell and how interesting he thinks he is. Yeah. In ratio to how boring. Anyway, those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday

afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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 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 four 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 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 Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. 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. 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.

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