The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendtroducing... Zeit Era 1/28: Baja Blast, Jim Justice, Kiribati, Cyclone Bomb, Joe Exotic, Jennie Nguyen

Episode Date: January 28, 2022

In this edition of Zeit Era, Miles and super producer Anna Hossnieh discuss Mountain Dew's boozy Baja Blast, Jim Justice's ultimate rebuttal, Kiribati's first COVID case, the cyclone bomb developing in New England, Joe Exotic having his sentence reduced to 21 years, and Jennie Nguyen getting fired from RHOSLC. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello and welcome to this edition of Ladies and Trendlemen, Zeit Era! See, that was me pretending. Remember that day? Oh man, those were the days when Sierra was out here. I am Miles and I am joined here today by Superdude and a Hosniye. That's funny you say when she was out here because clearly you didn't watch her helping do some co-hosting bits on the New Year's Eve special. Which one? The CNN one?

I was watching them all at the same time. I can't remember exactly which one it was, but I think it was the Ryan Seacrest one. Was Jazzy Faye there? I don't recall, but she did a whole bit about dance moves throughout the years. And she just like her and her like dance crew, like did a bunch of dances from all the different years over the years. I don't know. So anyway,

still out here, honey. Oh, well, apologies to Sierra. Um, let's we're here, but look,

we're not here to talk about Sierra. We're here to talk about what the is trending trending. And up top, my God, Mountain Dew Baja Blast with alcohol. We knew that Mountain Dew was getting into boozy drinks, but they just completely are really trying to explode my heart by saying they are now coming out with a boozy Baja Blast. Are you kidding me? Please just start coordinating for my funeral. Because I will drink this.

Huh? Not I. Yeah, that's fine. You have self-respect. I think that's the biggest difference here. I'm willing to poison myself with like washer fluid. I genuinely don't think I've ever tried Mountain Dew. In any form?

No, it's just never really been my thing. Damn. You know, you can make an NFT out of that. And it tries Mountain Dew. In any form? No, it's just never really been my thing. Damn. You know, you can make an NFT out of that and it tries Mountain Dew for the first time. Sell that as a gift. No. Try it. Try it.

That's all I'm saying. I will not lean into this Jack O'Brien lifestyle, okay? Well, you know, I mean, luckily for him, he's sober, so he's not going to succumb to the uh the sirens call like i will uh to mount dubah blast but yeah i'm it's it just seemed it seemed like the first obvious choice but hey you know nobody's perfect what do you think about and i hate to even put it like this would you ever flash your dog's butt to make a point to someone if you're in an argument? Yeah, of course.

Okay. Then you could be West Virginia Governor Jim Justice, who, Bette Midler, she's angry at Joe Manchin and was saying, like, look, you know, something about how West Virginia is like illiterate and strung out and poor. And Jim Justice, he had something to say because he had a State of the Union, I believe, or State of the State address to his state legislature. And I'm just going to play this because this is a governor of a state who's holding a bulldog with a harness that looks very tight, trying to clap back at Bette Midler. Absolutely too many people doubted us. They never believed in West Virginia. They never believed in West Virginia.

They never believed in West Virginia that we could do it. They never believed that the New Corps or the Green Power or Owens and Miner, they never believed, they never believed they'd be here. They told every bad joke in the world about us. They never believed they'd be here. They told every bad joke in the world about us. And so from that standpoint, Baby Dog tells Bette Midler and all those out there, kiss her honey. They're loving it in there because he flashed a dog's butthole to an entire room of elected officials.

That was a big old butthole to an entire room of elected officials. That was a big old butthole, too. I think it's because, you know, it looked bigger than normal, but I think that's because, you know, the tail's cut off on a bulldog, so the tail's, like, all curled up. Uh-huh. And it kind of looks like poop hanging up. I don't know. Either way, I'm not sure that actually proved your point because it is true that the literacy rate is pretty low in west virginia

and the poverty that the people of west virginia experience uh is is quite severe but other than that he just said they always try and knock us down and i'm gonna refer to five companies that are here and then say bett midler this is my dog's asshole mic drop i don't know it did work on me you're like i don't know about bett midler yeah i think she's canceled i mean the idea that you would come for bett midler who i i would say bett midler has already come for herself i i don't even see what is bett midler doing these days you know so it's like i don't even know it's funny how these politicians really get so hurt by like like actors like just like people in the public eye they get so hurt and it's like you know

you're a politician you're technically supposed to be like above all that nonsense but boy boy is it not hard to be like ill on twitter and for them to be like and come for you and show you their dog's butthole it's so like it's hard out here for someone who isn't doing what they should to keep the people of their state um you know flourishing but i think that too you know some good old-fashioned misogyny too there's plenty of people talking shit about joe mansion or the you know who knows but the second you have this outspoken woman doing it, it's like, well, now bring my dog's asshole to the state legislature and prove my point that I don't know how to actually rebut the criticism that was hurled at me. Next thing that's trending is Kiribati, which is a remote Pacific island nation. which is a remote pacific island nation uh and it's trending because this island has detected covid19 for the first time uh this has been one of like the few places on earth that was seen as

you know quote safe uh from coronavirus because they were just doing they really i mean like i think like a lot of smaller island nations they were just doing they really i mean like i think like a lot of smaller island nations they were like nope shutting it down because at least we can control who comes in here uh and we have all kinds of travel restrictions and mandates and things like that but it turns out when they opened they sort of loosened their controls uh covet popped up and you hate to see it so i was it just blew my mind that there was a place that people were like, COVID? No, we're good. The only place I really know that COVID is this concept that is just not real anymore

is the Cayman Islands, right? Right. It's pretty clean. But I mean, Cayman Islands, I believe, is just very strict in how they let people in and the quarantine laws and, and they're pretty good about testing, but like, like not once, even through the last two years,

have they been like, Oh, yeah. Like they are just now realizing, like, I don't, I honestly don't even understand anymore. I mean,

as I'm speaking, I'm starting to confuse myself a little. Like, what do you mean? You've never had COVID. Like, that's so chill. Yeah. It almost makes you like angry. Like, what do you mean you've never had COVID? Like, that's so chill. Yeah, it almost makes you like angry. Like, you don't know what to do hearing that.

You're like, what do you mean? But again, I think. It makes me think they're like pretty chill. I think they're lying. I think they're lying. No, they're actually lying. Everyone's lying there. So I don't believe what they're saying.

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we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us. Like our recent episode with dancer, actor, host of Dancing with the Stars, and now novelist, Julianne Hough. I feel really whole. I feel like the last few years I've really unraveled a lot, which is part of what this book is about. And I really feel so content, which is a word that used to scare the crap out of me. And I love that word now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're black i say and we're black well i am but we are also back and uh cyclone bomb is trending because oh boy if you're in the northeast mid-atlantic there is a major major storm alert

uh from dj ked, major key. It's set to hit parts of the mid-Atlantic and northeast. I saw people with tweets like they were reposting from the weather service that like New York was going to get anywhere between two and 20 inches of snow. And some parts of New England are looking at the same thing. Wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour. I don't know what any of this is. Blizzard? What, are you going to Dairy Queen? gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour i don't know what any of this is blizzard would you go on a dairy

queen because i'm i live in the desert out here and i've the only snow i've seen is on tv most of the time you've been through a cyclone bomb yeah i think once in iran i went through that oh shit i don't know if those were the exact words but yeah severe severe storm like snowstorm yeah i experienced that in iran uh real great time uh wait no it wasn't because i couldn't do anything i could just stay inside with my 90 year old aunt watch turkish soap operas drink tea and yeah i mean i think i just described my entire two weeks this is looking wait there's two weeks you were like stuck in those conditions oh it was a long time honey very low internet productivity as well and it wasn't working great

uh because i think it was during an election time so they slowed the internet down so there's really really nothing you can do right except watch turkish soap operas yeah and sit with one of my cousins who was kind of like i mean honestly like didn't bother him because he's from there but if you're an american and you're used to your ways and we are and you can't go outside the wi- you mean the Wi-Fi is out? Like, uh, okay. So there's literally nothing I can watch. Because there's not even Persian, really, soap operas. You have to watch Turkish soap operas.

Right. I mean, I'm learning Turkish now, but at the time, my Turkish was not great. Wait, do they dub them in Farsi or they just have subtitles? Where we are in, the region i was in was northern iran so it was dubbed in azari turkish oh got it got it which i'm not i can follow to an extent right but in the context of a soap opera yeah you're like i'm really just reading context clues at this point like right and also like your aunt's facial reactions you're like yeah okay that's bad but she's also like half checked out because she's 90 it doesn't really care that much it's just more like something's on the tv for her to like zone out to yeah yeah that was like my grandma watching baseball in japan she loved baseball and she

was just like have this tv by her bed with like she would only wear one ear she had this single earphone it was like a long cable that only had one earbud and she was just like hit her tobacco vape pen because we convinced her cigarettes didn't exist anymore because we were trying to get her to stop smoking and she was like wow really she's like they don't make them at all

yeah we had to we're like look man this shit's different right now she's like okay and she she was fucking with it because then she could smoke it in bed because sometimes we catch her smoking cigarettes in her bed we're like what the fuck are you doing she's like i can um respect me i was born two days before the titanic sank the idea that you told her cigarettes don't exist anymore really kills me yeah you know unfortunately uh sales were down so so bad we eradicated them that's what it kind of felt like and the other thing too is because she was

my grandma was a little badass always drinking her beers and smoking her cigarettes till the day she died my uncle who was taking care of was like yo i caught her asleep with a cigarette in the bed i'm not about to have the whole place go up in flames because she can't you know that's and that was sort of like the last straw we're like nah nah nah nah nah cigarettes are actually canceled in the entire world so here you go that's incredible um and then uh next up tiger king is trending because you know joe exotic he was trying to you know all these pleas and appeals and trying to get out of jail i'm like i'm dying even though i've done a lot of bad stuff please uh the federal judge just came back and they're like yeah i'm resentencing you to 21 years in prison so hold that uh you're you've still been convicted in a murder for hire plot

against carol baskin so i really can't believe they did a season two did you watch any of it it was not good because i don't think there was anything else really to add no there wasn't if all you would do is catch up with people and like learn a little bit more and when i saw when i figured it was like this i'm like i already knew it was not going to be good but when i really saw what they're offering up i was like wow you're really're really double dipping for these views because it's not this is not anything worth watching. Yeah, I didn't think it was necessary to do a season two, especially for how long it was. I was like, wrap it up. I think it got to the point pretty quickly.

Yeah. Well, you know, that's how they that's what Netflix does. They got to get them clicks and they'll even rinse off stuff that just should have just been, it could have been a one and done. And finally, Jenny is trending from Real Housewives of Salt Lake City because, you know, she did an IG or an Instagram live to address her racist Facebook posts,

her firing. And obviously like I get that she was fired and you know, the stance here, there's so many people bravo could have fired already uh but chose not to um but she did the classic defense which is oh if i'm so racist then why would this black man appear in this video with me and i'm just going to play you a section because uh winter mitchell like reposted like a sort of excerpt from it and it's very telling just based on how this person talks

you know and and that's why i'm sitting here right next to her right now you know i don't even live in utah you know we talk every day i don't even live here but the minute that this happened i got here because that's the type of friend i am he says i'm not even from utah like huh what do you are so what kind of friends are you and the minute this happened i was here because that's the type of person i am it's not like and the minute it happened i was here because she's the type of person who I had to back up. He really was like, and that's the kind of person I have. Check me out on rent a POC dot com where you can rent any kind of person of color as a defense shield against accusations of racism. I don't even understand.

Like, what? What is he saying? He's just there to be like, she's not racist. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. is he saying he's just there to be like she's not racist yeah okay yeah yeah okay well honey i think it's more that um she didn't think you had the right to stand up for the fact that black people are being killed on the street it's not really i mean it's just like the whole i don't really like the over sweeping concept of she is not racist well yeah it's like okay it's more than that it's more than just calling her just blatantly racist like her posts covered a wide range of incredibly fucked up

concepts right and i think but it reveals right that that's what racism does to your brain it turns into a bunch of like swastika shaped worms and where you used to have a good looking brain uh because the idea for her is racism is i don't have any friends that aren't the exact same race as me and if i do then how could i be racist and it's a misses the point so bad i mean but this is the kind of shit that we see all the time it's the same thing as like well as a father to a daughter and shit like that that is meant to be uh you know a defense against that a shield if you will but i don't know i mean like has luanne talked about her black face yet no oh of course where's ramona at she's still cooking yes oh fine she's doing

great interesting it's like bravo has a track record of protecting the white women i just think it's interesting that one time that um kenya wore like a native american costume i forget exactly what it is from real housewives of atlanta and they made her make a statement yet ramona singer left and right be saying some of the wildest shit i've ever seen or heard on television and they have not made her say a goddamn word well i think that i think because you know you can just tell that the decision making is happening from very like-minded people right oh person of color transgresses that's when there can be account white people no no one needs to stand to account for anything don't worry because like we

get it i mean ramona's just a she's just a wild card you know and that's and we need them for the show that's my reality tv i keep coming back to this like the casting is so fucking bad these days i guess if you are racist but you bring good television it's okay no that seems to be it the same with 90 day too like you have people who are the one guy had was up out there for attempted murder and they let his whole season play. And people were like a cursory search reveals that this person is an attempted murderer. Yeah. I mean, we're kind of seeing it also with Mary M.

Cosby, who's kind of self exiting the show. But right. They would never fire her because Mary M. Cosby is such. I think that shit television, but says things like she's like a mexican thug right like you have to say i love your beautiful slanted eyes yeah whoa or even the first scene she's like i don't like to go to black neighborhoods wasn't she saying she didn't like to go to black neighbors they're like you're black miss she expressed that she likes lighter

skinned black men. And she said, well, that's just a personal preference. And it's like you're actively talking about colorism without acknowledging it. Well, that's always that's always a thing. Preferences and racism. Well, the way you're talking about it. Yeah. Okay, whatever.

I'm not here to educate the ignorant. I'm just here. And in this, this people might not find it as troubling which you know whatever but she called heather chubby i was like first of all you're justin you're you're racist you're ignorant and you're an asshole yeah and you just hear body shaming people for like yeah you're just body you're you don't even know when to stop and you know what she did like a um a greeting card apology on her Instagram. But it was like.

Oh, you're talking about Jenny? No, I'm talking about Mary M. Cosby when she posted that greeting card with all the swoopy language. Swoopy fonts apologizing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where you're like. Huh? Okay. But the thing is, I didn't hear Bravo say a damn word.

Right. Because Mary's good television. Right. Hmm. Well, I mean, we love a cult leader that has to marry their grandpa to keep the church going. But yeah, based on my understanding, she's not coming back. But I don't think she likes being questioned anymore. Yeah, that makes sense.

Because, I mean, you look at a number of posts of people that have been to her church and you're like, whoa, it's all bad. Anyway, this could easily turn into another reality show, but it won't. And with that, I think that is going to do it for today's trending episode. Have a great weekend, y'all. I'll be on Monday, but I'll be gone for a couple of weeks taking a trip. Don't worry. I'm not, you know, I might be fired i don't know we'll see we'll see if jack lets me back and uh you know pray for me but no for real i'll be uh you know taking a quick break

i'll be back though worry not and with that you already know just please please fuck with the vaccines please fuck with the masks fuck that don kick racism, misogyny and all that hatred bullshit in its ass if you see it. And until next time, we will talk to you then, which would make sense because that would be next time. OK, see you soon. Bye. Bye. 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. 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay 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. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. 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. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. 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. Kaitlyn 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.