The Daily Zeitgeist - Vampire WeekTrend 06.17.24: Freedom20, Israel's AI PsyOp, McDonalds AI, Biden vs. Trump: November Take Your Time

Episode Date: June 17, 2024

In this edition of Vampire WeekTrend, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the latest right wing anti-woke grift: Freedom20, Israel's psy-op to garner Black American's support for their genocide, McDonald's discontinuing their drive-thru AI chatbot, Biden vs. Trump: November Take Your Time (feat. Sinclair Broadcasting) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

all right i have a i have a question for you you were a bassist i am what was your bassist energy like on stage were you a sweat were you swinging it back and forth no no i'm i'm i'm like a fucking statue statue okay yeah yeah yeah stationary i'm usually i'm usually facing the drummer oh wow okay like or i'm i'm more open to the drummer than i am to the audience yeah because that's the rhythm section has to be like if the if i do my job and the drummer's doing their job then the other people can be sloppy as shit on top of it but if like you're vibing too hard like in yeah because when they're when people are too vibey up there like in the drums and the bass aren't locked in it gets a little bit fucking wacky yeah so i saw vampire weekend last week at the hollywood bowl and there i noticed it the last

time i saw them and so i was looking for it this time their bassist is thrusting like really like pumping and humping like at some point i was reminded of like when my dog miles used to uh like hump something a bunch and then you'd be oh yeah that's right i'm your dog miles miles oh yeah that shit you know when the dog you know when the dog is like air humping like you can't stop it so i'm gonna walk and shit yeah that was that was the energy i was getting i was like is this a standard like as bassist crotch a thing or is it just like this dude is feeling the music so powerfully some people really want to be like the lead guitarist but are end up on bass so then they gotta they gotta get it in for themselves somehow i'm just not when i'm playing i'm less like at least instrument wise i'm less about being like a performer like visually than i am like being like

execute your task as a as a musician on stage but also get to like with a band like that they're probably saying playing the same show for like years yeah you're just yeah sometimes maybe you just gotta you know the air a little bit yeah just a little bit by the way that was that they have a new album out they're not playing the same so the same show miles yeah yeah vampire weekend is fresh we love them new band new band what do mattel banana republic butcher box and glossier all have in common they power their businesses with shopify shopify is the most innovative and scaled commerce platform on the planet that also happens to have the best converting checkout on the planet. And that's no industry secret. That's Shopify. Learn more at Shopify.com slash enterprise.

I'm Jess Casaveto, 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling, first-hand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives.

Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions.

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and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it, like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name's Jack, that's Miles. Yep. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend.

Tell you a little bit about what's going on with us. We do a little check-in. You gotta check in with yourself. You know? Yeah. I'm checking in. How you doing, Miles? Happy belated Father's Day. Happy belated Father's Day.

We already did this over text, dude. So let's not pretend we don't. You sent me a really nice old school smiley face emoji. You hit me with the colon and open parentheses. Yeah, man. That was actually more touching than using a real emoji, I got to say. Yeah. I mean, I did that work with my own goddamn fingers, man.

Yeah, I know. It felt like, it's weird. That felt like the handwritten letter version of it, sending an emoji. That's why I do it. Yeah. I'm telling you, man. I want to let you know that was appreciated. That you didn't just send me one of them goofy

like... Sideways melting. I don't think Jack knows how emoji works. What? Very sweet. Very sweet. I got a lovely card from my eldest uh the one from my

youngest sucked but uh the one from my eldest was so nice and no uh both very lovely uh and i got i got some like coupons you know some like i'll help you with i'll help you with, I'll help you with the trash, daddy. Not that like coupon book where it's like, this book has over $10,000 in savings. It's just a penny saver that comes in the mail. But this one is more like, hey man, you want coffee? What do they do? Like, what are the, I would always, for my mom, I always made her coffee. Like, that was like a thing I did since sixth grade. I said, I vowed to never let her make her own.

Yeah. Or my mom, my mom's a night owl so she usually would drink coffee like in the middle of the day she didn't she doesn't like wake up with coffee and she's also like me we're the same we're not caffeine sensitive so she just drinks that shit whatever but my whole thing was like you will never i blew i shouldn't have done you will never make a cup of coffee ever again so early in my life i could have saved that for maybe high school but i went in hot like sixth grade good sunning man that's really good um it was it was a little bit of it was machiavellian on my part i was kind of in some shit over i forget what at the time so i figured i

need to fucking swing big for the fucking for the for the mother's day yeah and that's where i did you will never um anyways yeah It's just like little chores. Clear the table. Clear the dishes. You know, we're starting small. Do you get gifts? I got socks. Didn't you get like sneakers one year?

I did get sneakers one year. Yeah, I remember being so jealous. This year we're completing the footwear set with some socks. There you go. I keep telling you, you should wear socks. I know. For how sweaty you get. I'm just, you know, the stories you told me.

My shoes are just sponges at this point. Yeah. Nah, yeah. One thing that I underrated is just like how easy it is to get new socks. Because I, you know, I've been wearing these Nike crew socks that I really like with holes in the bottom for a long time. Yeah, I got the same. Yeah, yeah. I'm just like, well, I mean, they're mostly intact.

Yeah, you can't tell unless you look at the bottoms. Yeah, yeah. And the forefoot's all blown out. Yeah, I got a gift, and it's like a wireless meat for thermometer that i can connect to my phone let's meet thermometer i'm always grilling baby it's summertime i'm really grilling it now a gift i don't have to do the touch test i'm pretty good at like touching meat and knowing like how done it is but now set that shit and my fuck this thing will tell you when to take it off and it accounts for the resting time and you keep it on there like as it's cooked in there it's like a fucking

stuck in there yeah yeah yeah yeah beautiful it's beautiful beautiful we're winning uh some things that we think are underrated overrated what do you want to start with you want to go underrated oh shit yeah sure oh wow i love that we can still surprise each other. After all these years. We know the key to each other's hearts. My underrated is the horror of nature. To quote

Werner Herzog. Or raccoons as monsters. Yo. Alright. This is trigger warning for anybody who loves crows like i do um i was bringing in the trash and encountered a straight up horror movie scene like right next to the trash cans a crow just ripped ripped to pieces. Ripped from the headlines.

Missing body parts but mostly just ripped apart. It was right next to a bunch of trash that had been ripped open and rummaged through. My first thought was like, wow, this cat. Our neighborhood cat must

be getting into the garbage. It's great for a cat, too. A crow is a big game for a cat I think it's too big and so I did a little research and I believe all signs are pointing to raccoons one dropped our groceries

on the lawn or on the front porch the other day went back to get the rest of the groceries from the car came back and there's a massive raccoon and then there's this video that oh my god of a raccoon just

grabbing a oh my god he just absconded with it into the fucking tree line yes um so apparently raccoons are known to do this and the with audio it's truly terrifying. Yeah, I didn't want to watch. I didn't need the audio for that.

So you think a raccoon just murked that crow? Yeah, I think so. Like the raccoon. So I left my groceries on the front porch, went back, grabbed the rest of the groceries, came back, and there was a raccoon standing there next to my groceries, like on his hind legs. That was the size of like a small child. Like, yeah, straight up Danny DeVito size.

And he didn't seem scared to me at all. He was just like, I had to get his chest out. Like, what's up? Yeah. Yeah. I had to be like, aren't you supposed to? I was like, and then like, I i took a couple steps toward him and he like kind of lazily oh what's up homie you're not doing good enough to go to arowan you're like what

wow ralph huh what the fuck damn damn bro you didn't even want that shit anyways um nah man i'm not into this man i care about my health man wow you know organic berries are it's very important like the the yeah don't don't think they're covered in chemicals bro don't sleep but i also then because crows are so smart i was standing there next to this like crow corpse and like there was like blood on the pavement and shit like it was it was a mess yeah like i like cleaned it up fast because i didn't want the rest of the crows to like see me and think it was thinking i had done it because i did i did the wrong place wrong yeah yeah and i some research suggested that that is possible but like they'll hold a grudge because

you like clean up a dead crow and they're like this motherfucker just made that crow go away i wonder i feel like they probably like the crow when it was getting jumped was probably like help help and then some other crows were like oh shit they're like oh no bro sorry they got they got posable thumbs yay exactly sorry bro like i know we use tools and shit but the thumbs thumbs trump our use of tools yeah when it comes to being i'm assuming what happened is they were both going for the garbage and the crow oh yeah in the way yeah yeah it was oh it was nasty man that was wild last weekend randomly there were two like little dead sparrows like in my yard that i had like first there was one

hermetic there's like a dead bird over here and i clean it up and then on my way to take it to the garbage there was like another one wow and i felt so fucked up like putting i was using the pooper scooper i don't know what it was but i felt bad because i was using the pooper scooper so the first one was just like laying in shit and then i had to scoop the other one and i just saw them peacefully next to each other and i'm like man nature is so fucking cruel like yeah you don't know what you got till it's gone yeah that sounds like some cat shit little sparrows you know like they weren't they no they were like just like sleep like they were they were not attacked like i think they may have died naturally i mean it wasn't hot like i get sometimes if there's like a heat wave but this was not the time for that but

anyway we've seen some shit, haven't we? We have seen some shit, Miles. What's something you think is underrated? Underrated pita, naan, injera, fufu, banku, kenki. Any, basically any cuisine that involves using carbs as a spoon, a utensil. Yes. There is a poetry to eating with your hands. Absolutely.

You know, it is one of the most satisfying experiences. Like, you know, obviously in America, we love corn on the cob. We love chicken wings. We love fucking shrimp, peeling each shrimp, crab boils, crawfish boil, like ripping shit apart and eating with our hands, like on a big table with a bunch of people is fun. I mean, obviously the boils lend itself more to communal eating while the other ones on a big table with a bunch of people is fun i mean obviously the boils lend itself more to communal eating while the other ones are a little bit more individual but like just thinking about like individual versus communal because in a lot of these instances when

you're eating like ethiopian food or like west african uh sub-saharan african food like you everyone's kind of just eating from a big pot together and like that allows for more fluidity if someone joins to eat it's not like oh let me get you a table setting it's like no pull up right here it's all here rip off some injera get in non might be like the most like i feel like non would be my first my number one draft pick maybe for like i love injera i was eating a lot of food this weekend but yeah it's yeah naan bread is also fantastic but i just think there is there is a magic to eating food with your hands also adding the starch thing i used to be look i used to be scared of the injera you know i would eat it but i wasn't

using it as much i wasn't really utilizing it like i could have been and over the last few months i've really just been i've just been my ham on the injera whenever i eat ethiopian food because you still have a ton left over but anyway all that to say it's it there's there's food just tastes better like that i don't know what the science is um but it just tastes better when you eat with your hands and i i just appreciate the culture as like instrument like you using food for instruments i think is you know like obviously the bread bowl is the american equivalent but right using food as like tool uh like anytime you can do that edible fork or yeah scooper uh i love this idea i just think the subtlety though too of sharing food like from a communal thing obviously people like americans definitely have like their sanitation thing like

i don't know the germs like obviously you can wash your hands and you learn how to to eat this properly but there is there's just something i don't know there's a spirit about it that i think more people especially in america should should get into to feel sort of connected with their food in that sense rather than being like i need my fork and knife obviously some cuisines need that but you know what i mean embrace the ones where you use the food to eat your food that's one thing we've just like i i've just up and like not taught my kids how to really use utensils and they are fucking beasts like they'll just they just go at it with their hands and it's a it's a real uh embarrassment it's like your kids are too damn old to be i know way too old to be eating with their wait are they really hand their hand-to-hand combat eaters like that

for real they have rarely eaten with a utensil without me being like four. Four. Like even spaghetti and shit? Sometimes, man. And I was born ready. And I was already a fish and spaghetti. Okay. Yeah, that's not good. I'm not proud. Yeah, look.

I'm going to blame it on the pandemic until they're in their 20s and still eating with their hands. And then that will probably stop working. I'll blame it on Kobe Bryant's death. Blame it on Kobe's death because that was right around the time. I'm not going to blame it all on 9-11. My overrated

is Life Hacks. I don't know. Did you see this post from Science Girl? One of those aggregator Twitter accounts that I don't know. I don't follow her but she makes up half my feed but she she did this post of like first thing you do when you get into a hotel room

and it's a bunch of what is all this life hats for staying a bottle cap so yeah oh first thing first thing was wedding a toy like taking a toilet paper roll that was like half unfurled and using like the moisture from the sink to seal it i've seen that when you go and you're like oh they pressed the thing or whatever okay then was putting a bottle cap on a okay so what just the the we'll come back to the toilet paper thing. The next one is lock your door. Cool. Then put a Corona bottle

cap on the door handle so that you can tell if somebody jiggles. Must be Corona. Can tell if somebody jiggles the handle in the night at which point what? Basically, you can tell if there's like a pressure difference

inside your hotel room and outside which has been the case in 90 of the hotels i've ever been in where like the door is like constantly like like being pushed in and out by just air pressure differences okay so that that one uh the corona bottle is just gonna make you paranoid i think then she like does her thumbprint on a mirror for some reason wait what why is she checking the fitted she like for bed bugs yeah so she goes under the fitted to check for bed bugs which okay fine fair fine like i don't want to see what's on there but okay if you're you you may be a brave i know part of me is like, man, just let me be ignorant about the bed bugs already, but

I get it. Yeah, you definitely don't want to bring that shit home. The best one is finally... This diaper? Don't use the hotel safe because that's exactly where they're going to look for your valuables. Oh, is she narrating? I'm watching this on mute. Is this being narrated? She does not narrate. No, no.

It's just played alongside creepy music uh instead of using the hotel safe which is exactly where they're gonna look you take you bring a diaper with you uh-huh and then you make it you put your valuables inside the diaper and then you make it look like it's a dirty diaper and the the thief who breaks into your room is going to be so grossed out they're just going to like fall out the door like i'm like waving their hand in front of their nose yucky um this diaper smells like cash or yeah or the cleaning lady or the you know cleaning person's going to throw all of your valuables away because they think it's a... I would assume that more times than not,

the cleaning person's going to throw that shit out. Yeah. Is there an epidemic I don't know about, about people breaking into... Are hotel safes that easily cracked? No. The whole thing just feels extremely paranoid. It's like a person with paranoid personality

disorder like disguising all their shit as like clever hacks it feels yeah it feels like that tiktok shit where like you know people are already like on edge so you're sort of preying on that with like these hacks that aren't really necessary like yeah you know like the same thing where the woman was like this is how you know if this like plastic tag is on your car door handle yes whatever feels like the you know it's that kind of brought to you by the people who told you that if you have a zip tie on your door handle that they've marked you've been marked you know to be smuggled uh which also interesting that i like that this account is guns and roses girl three is the actual handle that's that's science girl it's just a an account who like posted science stuff and got a bunch of followers and now it feels like it's like run by a marketing firm or something like that

right but okay you said you've seen the toilet paper thing before i've seen yeah like where it looks like the roll like rather than starting a new one it looked like it had been sealed i was like oh are they using some kind of like heat press to like stamp the toilet paper thing i don't know why this person i don't know why it's a safety thing it was more like an aesthetic thing you know how like sometimes they'll fold the last sheet i've seen it where it has like that looks like it's been like embossed to like stay there but i didn't realize they did that with the sink or i don't know and what's with the towel are

you smoking weed and that's why you don't want the fucking yes you rolled up the towel and put it at the door i don't know if it's because she's smoking weed or because like in case somebody tries to gas you under your door it feels like based on the other thing like based on the beer cap on the door handle it's that like everybody is trying to get you from the outside yeah with like like some kind of neurotoxin yeah yeah exactly okay i haven't found though not one of these things was useful the toilet paper one is the only useful one because i think it's cool to like have that little like press thing you know yeah that little like that that's like a neat thing you could do if you're like having people over you know in their in their bathroom you make the toilet paper look like it's like freshly sealed

but is that like a safety hack because she wants to be able to tell if somebody like broke into her room and like used the toilet i don't know it's it's so confusing because none of these really make that much sense and like and i get the it's like traveling alone is must be terrifying like in this world but these don't even seem useful no you know it's like is the joker chasing you and he's gonna put his flower lapel the beer cap bottle feels like if you're an assassin and you're trying to like get the drop on somebody who's like coming in because i've seen that in movies and what they did was put an empty beer bottle on top on top so that shit shatters yeah yeah or what was the one movie like not gonna like wake wake

you up when it drops yeah it's just good to know if somebody has break a light bulb and scatter their broken glass all down the hallway so you hear someone approach yeah it's this is all this is in movies y'all but okay go on go on guns and roses girl three what uh what's something you find overrated okay so the this our obsession with celebrity culture like and the commodification of it is so fucking dumb um tmz is they're fucking they already have a documentary out about how j-lo and ben affleck's marriage is falling apart on hulu like a documentary yes t. Wait, TMZ's a production company now? TMZ, this is for they have a documentary on Hulu called J-Lo and Ben, Missed Warning

Signs, where Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew, psychotherapist Jen Mann, who's also on those VH1 couple therapy shows, and then John Peters, a mega producer. Just watch this first part where Harvey is talking to this one dude about J-Lo who doesn't know her, but he somehow has these wild takes.

It seems to me that you need to have that alone time. She's never had. You're 100% right. She does. She did. They both did it. 100%. She's a love and sex addict.

Look at the men she's with she can't be alone what's with this look at his hair wow he's like die jobs growing out so he has like this like spooky ewok lion's mane i mean it's kind of adorable but uh yeah doesn't it look like a jim henson like a yeah it totally looks like a jim henson character like a jim henson puppet yeah yeah where it's like look it's spooky lion ewok man with the gray by his roots and brown by the edges john peters wildly speculating on someone's love she's never been alone like who the fuck are you get the fuck out of here and they go on just like because she's got a lot of boyfriends i don't love addict no he's like she's a love addict okay and then dr drew starts on with his

like fucking pseudoscience nonsense it's just so weird like how invested no honestly i don't know who gives a shit i mean i'm sure they must because they're they're making something but like this adds nothing to anything oh come on man you're not you're not living and dying with every update on why they're married whether their marriage is fucked and why it's fucked i look i love a love story and i love a breakup story but we've we've literally seen them break up before yeah so i'm like this is just just end this i guess i'm not shocked but by them not making it the distance i think it's just the psychoanalysis that's happening from these people like as bystanders it's just so fucking odd uh and to be like and it's on hulu for you now it's like i don't know This feels like a weird loose. Like you turned like four articles into a thing that you can then sell to Hulu or whatever.

Yeah. Just an odd. Just the fucking whole thing is just lazy. We root for cinema here on the Daily Zeitgeist. And I, for one, I'm just a fan of new forms of cinema that we're seeing. This sounds great. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. She falls deep, man it she falls deep man she falls deep why are you talking to this guy who looks like a fucking dude who's been kicked out of the shire and lord of the rings for being a drunk is not like they have three fake doctors like fake therapists and then like a guy they're just like yeah he's just like a film producer but hey i used to date barbara i used to date babs strice and is that who is it that guy john peters yeah he's still alive wow the guy that bradley cooper played in uh the uh mechanical spider guy oh is that is that who he played yeah yeah bradley cooper played him in licorice pizza and yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like he's a famous like womanizer

just monster behind the scenes and he was the guy who kevin smith has that story where he's got a note from him on the superman movie that kevin smith was like asked to rewrite where he's got a note from him on the Superman movie that Kevin Smith was like, asked to rewrite where he was like, I don't know. Like, what if there was a mechanical spider? And then Kevin Smith was like, uh, I mean,

that doesn't really make sense for this or like, and then like, people were like, oh, he gave you the mechanical spider note. He always gives you, gives people that note. And then the next movie he produced was wild, wild West. And it ends with a giant mechanical spider note he always gives you gives people that note and then the next movie he

produced was Wild Wild West and a giant mechanical spider even though it's like Civil War era right it's a steampunk it is a steampunk it's a steampunk mechanical spider exactly exactly yeah so that's like that's like Elon Musk's obsession with x it's like you gotta make everything x like john peters is just sex and mechanical spiders and yeah apparently just commenting on this out of nowhere so the whole thing's just so odd like yeah that's so again i don't know what i expect they got like to be like the person to like in your trailer to be like i think she's she's got a she's never been alone you're like sir you look like you've always been alone what is this uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back uh we have a new product that we're all really excited about here we'll be right back

i'm jess casaveto 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine.

Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote.

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Exactly. We have test kits for it remember we were selling those test kits to test your water for the woke mind virus the ph balance also woke mind virus content yeah well guess what something you never asked for has arrived

but many others have because turning point USA had a conference their own conference over the weekend and when they weren't like busy fixating on arresting drag queens and abortion doctors they had little commercials playing in between the speakers where people did their little ethno nationalist scream solos um and one of the most eye-catching products from this had to be in our opinion yeah freedom 20 which that's like that's man but freedom dude freedom come on let me hear out let's just read like freedom 20 i know it looks exactly like freedom 20 oh okay just seems like a george michaels remix where it sounds like a promo code

that charlie kirk says on his podcast for a discount on something hey put in freedom 20 for 20 off so um i was not aware that water the element which sustains life according to the mortal combat film if you remember that's what johnny cage remembers when he fights sub-zero and uses a bucket of water to impale him. And he says that it's the, because that's the only place I've ever heard that, that water gives life. The element which brings life. But yeah, they're being targeted. And I don't know, maybe someone heard the phrase that like water gives life.

And maybe they misinterpreted that, like as drag queen speak or something. They're like, it's giving life it's no water is giving me life fucking queen yeah um so i'll just play this commercial for you because it's what a fucking terrible sales pitch i don't like wait here i'll let the the creator elizabeth white speak for herself what if your choice of water can make a statement what if it could symbolize your commitment to values like freedom individuality also that echo is because it's playing through a gigantic like convention hall and like i said in between the speakers self-reliance freedom to owe water isn't just about what's inside the bottle it's about the

message it sends with every sip with labels like this water isn't free but your speech is it's not Wow. Wow. Uh-huh. Wow. not just choosing a brand you're choosing to stand up for what you believe in try freedom to oh and tag me in your instagram story for repost hold on drink break wow yeah man wow let it be a statement let it be a statement when you drink your water it should be a state that should also i mean yeah they really want you to let with this you can let people know that you are angry and hateful when you sip water because your t-shirt that says liberal tears make me come isn't doing it okay it's not quite clear what where you stand where you stand on that but uh yeah i mean on their website the water bottle is like the water bottle is like bright pink which i didn't realize how it's red much that would fuck me up um but that you cannot have a water bottle be anything other than blue

it turns out it's actually red it's a little bit of a color correction issue i think there that it was it looked like either way it looks wrong doesn't it like is is there another is there any bottle of water that isn't blue i can't i can't like i feel like red water doesn't have blue on it you mean yeah that where the label isn't blue or something blue as part of the backdrop maybe the logo may be white but there's blue is usually represented white or blue like red is like oh this this must be weird like red cherry infused water like it doesn't it's just a bad label choice and that's the only bad choice that they've made here otherwise all your criticisms let me get through all the details here okay because for $40, you can get a 24-pack of those 16.9-ounce water bottles. You get 24.

You can get 35 Crystal Geysers for half that price. But the thing is, Crystal Geyser doesn't have racial slurs written all over the bottle, like this one does. So take it with a grain of salt or whatever you need to. White, who is the person who created this she said uh she apparently she found success working in auto racing video games and tech according to her interview in the new york post said quote i was watching the republican debate and a light went on in my head they cut to commercial and i saw so many people drinking water but the water being consumed had no connection to the people drinking it kevin mccarthy was drinking dasani which is left right and center if he drank freedom i think he would

still be speaker of the house i got it i might actually agree there yeah i don't know if it has to do with freedom to oh but i have a feeling drinking dasani is just just generally bad for you so i can't totally push back on that claim yeah i can't totally push back on that claim but yeah uh freedom to all folks get it while you're thirsty yeah yeah um that looked like a uh turning point usa conference like that that looks like a blast we might have to go be boots on the ground there next time. Yes. All right. A few weeks ago, there was a report that came out about a covert operation ordered by the Israeli government to artificially boost support among Americans for its war in Gaza, which

sounds like the sort of thing that we usually object to. The mainstream media is usually like, wait a second. What about Russia? Yeah, yeah. Wasn't there something there? to like in the main the mainstream media is usually like wait a second that's what about russia yeah yeah wasn't there something there but yeah these this this campaign was using fake accounts on social media to target again like black lawmakers young progressives in the u.s and canada um this is from wired's report on it said in addition to eroding support for the united nations relief and works agency which provides assistance to 5.6 Palestinian refugees, a chief aim of the operation was to sway opinions of black Americans. the campaign said its primary targets included the account of u.s congressman hakeem jeffries who is the leader of the democrats and you know seen as being potentially the next democratic

speaker of the house if they get the majority and in these posts they would do things like a promote a black lives matter hashtag and like put like images of mlk with like fake quotes about how mlk supported yes and then it said or like website created for the operation included articles with titles such as quote the leaders of the civil rights movement and their support for jewish people and israel um sadly national security advisors in the white house when they were asked for a quote or a comment they said they weren't aware of this campaign despite this being publicly reported back in march um and lawmakers like hakeem jeffries um who's a staunch supporter of israel are you completely like they're just they've completely

ghosted anyone who's asking for clarification um a lot of these posts were made with chat gpt side note sam altman is currently advising the department of homeland security on ai so you know nothing weird anything it's a everything's all the right people are doing the right things right now um but platforms like meta and altman's own open ai have acknowledged that the campaign is being ran out of a tel aviv based firm um similar like a firm that's similar to russia's infamous internet research agency which was famously using fake accounts and sock puppet accounts and things like that to you know uh so unrest during the election in 2016 uh and probably continues to do so as we contend with this but um it's just clear where

like this double standard is and yeah like you know how do these politicians play dumb when the violence is continuing to unfold in gaza and worsening in the west bank where even you know the it's getting worse in the west bank and not really becoming an aim of the discourse of politicians um and yeah yet they are the targets of a foreign influence campaign as they debate how much military aid goes to said nation um but yeah but maybe they can scream claim it was these uh open ai accounts like down the road in in history they'll be like i won't be viewed negatively by history my inaction or uh i was i was fooled by yeah i will use open ai to write a revisionist retelling of my career in office and i'll read

that to myself at night but yeah it's it's really wild um just again now how the government fully because i mean i think this is like something we see all the time and a lot of people point out that depending on who's in power like sometimes things are bad but only when the other party's doing it like we the police haven't become less violent they're still killing innocent people by the handfuls and the democrats are like well i mean it's sexier when it was 2020 and they could get something out of it or talk about foreign influence campaigns and things like that or just i mean i i could i mean imagine like what if suddenly the democrats found their heart because like trump was the president while the like the violence continues to continue in the

middle east and then oh my gosh we have to stop this trump needs to do something but again i think that just sort of reveals how you know the the status quo is just meant to be defended at all costs but can be weaponized when you need it to sort of be politically advantageous for you but truly do nothing about it do nothing about it just use it as a rhetorical tool right uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about what uh biden and Trump were up to over the weekend. 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers,

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so this is just something we wanted to make sure we didn't miss because it's the sort of thing I feel like we'll probably be seeing more and more of in, in the future with regards to AI, but it's the sort of thing that is decidedly not profitable and therefore won't get covered in the mainstream media as much as latest breakthrough in AI. So McDonald's was trying a drive-through AI chatbot in partnership with IBM.

They started it in 2021. There was a lot of fanfare. They're not saying why the technology is being removed, but if you had to guess... Right. Why would you stop using an experimental

technology in your business? Because it's making you too much money? It's making me too much money and it's actually too good. It's freaking freaking the customers out they're like oh my god they mcdonald's hasn't nailed my order this hard and i know that like tiktok is just full of videos of people talking about how the ai fucked up their orders one mom ordered two happy meals in the ai i thought she should have 30 happy meals instead another person had nine sweet teas added to their order because of crosstalk one ai drive-thru tried to add bacon to a customer's ice cream oh man that one i'm like okay so what do we know about like these general artificial intelligences like they are basically

just auto complete that has been trained on the entire internet so right is it is it possible you know there there was a long period of uh internet history where like 90 of the content was people talking about how much bacon they ate right wondering like is like yeah i like ice cream if you put bacon on it dog um wondering if they they scraped too much of that content wait so in those drive-thrus was it was it just text that would come on the screen or there was a fake voice i don't know i never i never did it so i sure. Yeah, because it was only like a handful, just over 100 restaurants. It was in 100.

Because I know that, like, whenever you go to a drive-thru, there is a certain croaky voice of like, hey, what are you? Can I help you? Did it nail that? Did it nail the sort of right like existential crises of someone having to work at fast food like if i got a enthusiastic

they're from egoized voice i'd probably just uh i'd be like ah fuck this ah it knows me but i don't know it's it's also unlikely m also unlikely McDonald's is actually abandoning AI integration. Last year, they announced a partnership with Google, which included a chatbot named Ask Pickles for employees, which could offer advice or tasks such as cleaning ice cream machines. Just a note that when read aloud, that sounds like ass pickles, which I don't know i do i do like to use text to voice uh things to like read our docs in the morning to me while i'm doing something else and uh i

was stopped in my tracks because i thought they had a technology called ass pickles and honestly ass pickles not a bad idea but anyways ass pickles i don't feel like i need to pitch you on ass pickles ass pickles pitch themselves but yeah that's true i'm already all in on ass pennies from the ucb sketch season one so ass pickles i'm all in on one of my favorite sketches of all time yes yeah it's just again fucking just fucking pay people man nah come on yeah you're right why do i it's so weird how reflective i'm like i'm gonna sound stupid saying this yeah but just fucking pay humans oh you sound like a fucking idiot i can't tell you man i'm so stupid here dude crack open one

of these freedom freedom 20s dude and take that to the don'ts maybe stop saying shit like that yeah it's just it is purely like you can drive shareholder value by making an announcement that you're trying an AI thing out and then you can just like quietly like a raccoon moving

under cover of night you can quietly dispatch it without anybody noticing except it's eviscerated remains for the next moving under cover of night you can quietly dispatch it without anybody noticing um except it's eviscerated remains for the next person to find yeah truly this is one of the worst crimes ever like right next to the one thing we know raccoons do which is like turnover trash cans yeah the dead bodies bird and twain yeah um all right let's check in uh so biden and trump uh had a weekend biden uh the new york post kept accusing biden of like mental uh of like having brain lapses and brain freezes where he would like wander off um i don't know how fair these were. They weren't. They called cheap fakes, Jack, where you basically recontextualize.

You put a video without context or narrow the frame of the video and then just create a thing where it looks like Joe Biden was giving a ghost a handjob. It does kind of look like that. giving a ghost a handjob on d-day it does kind of look like that so he was facing the other way um while all the leaders were looking elsewhere and they had like lines of sight drawn on or something but with no no that's that's that's no that's an actual parachute wrinkling yeah i thought they were like this is where they're looking and he's over here it's coming directly from macron's crotch but uh yeah he's just facing the other way and they were like uh i think they might have had this headline before the story like they might have just been like well we've got this headline meander in chief um so we got to use it somehow it ain't gonna be the last time they use it

biden embarrasses us with confused wandering at World Conference. This was the G7. And apparently he was just looking at there. There was another parachutist descending from the sky in the direction he was looking. They just like cut that out. He was and he was giving a thumbs up to the guy. Everyone else was looking at the one guy. Joe Biden looked at the guy who had no attention and was just like in his own old man way it was like

to me he's like more observational than everybody else maybe he's like more observant than everyone else he cares quite literally about the marginalized people in this instance the marginalized often ignored secondary sky secondary skydiver That's why he's courting your vote today. And then not long after the visit to Italy, he appeared at a fundraiser in LA full of Hollywood bigwigs like Clooney, Julia Roberts, Obama. The event raised $30 million, which is a record sum

for a single Democratic fundraiser. I think most of that credit has to go to Jack Black's American flag overalls. Which are pretty sick. democratic fundraiser um i think most of that credit has to go to jack black's american flag overalls um which are pretty sick um sickening but the post uh latched on to a moment at the end of the event where biden appeared to freeze up and had to be led by obama um again i don't know it see it feels like the kind of dude borderline he's fucking old he's old as shit so like old people move slow as fuck and i get it people in their 80s do move pretty slow this dude was he was just they're applauding and he's just kind of like yeah man all right

hey this is a little bit all right right and i remember at a thing recently when there was like a like a concert happening at the white house or like he's not this is what it made me think of yeah he's just like frozen with a big smile on his face yeah yeah and he would look like any uncomfortable white person that couldn't dance while many other people with rhythm around him were and he was just like you know what my version of just of basking in this is to have a smile on my face and just be like golly what a time yeah okay yeah okay but he's fucking i mean there was a time when he when he was walking off stage and they were like do you think his uh trump's felony conviction is going to help him and he like stopped and did like a long smile

yeah again it's just like not pulling off normal behavior because he's very old meanwhile trump did a fucking like 40 second just silent pause during his speech the other week in the music that's the thing it's like they're both they're both old they're both their minds are both fucking devolving before our eyes it's a race to see demonstrate whose brain is less broken less broken brain off is what the yeah is what this election seems to be about one guy is just slow-mo old grandpa and the other is like freaky dude who's saying shit to you that doesn't make sense that you just want it to stop like yeah he also had like trump recently met with a bunch of ceos last week and the ceos came out of there being like this dude cannot even talk yes they said uh trump doesn't know what he's talking about said one ceo uh several ceos said that

trump was remarkably meandering could not keep a straight thought and was all over the map so yeah this is like ceos want a republican to win like ultimately of course they're all rooting for this guy and they're like yo came out guy. And they're like, yeah, they're probably like, I don't even know this motherfucker or remember what he just promised us. Yeah. Also, he has such a shitty record of following through on things. I mean, I get it. Just like it's like, what do you even do here? It's like, I guess we could make slightly less billions of dollars with Joe Biden when he raises taxes.

Right. Maybe. Following through on things like a train of thought the whole the whole thing though with the um you know trump or joe biden is getting old like that's being fully now uh like weaponized by sinclair broadcasting and you know we've seen like we saw when trump last time there were people putting together like those monster mashup cuts of like you know because they own over like 290 local news stations and they just had everyone singing from the same script about trump this is this is an example they're doing it now with joe biden to be like is he old this is just something that uh aaron rupert put together on youtube calling into question the

mental fitness of president joe biden his national correspondent matt galco tells us the issue could decide the election wall street journal has published a story which calls the mental fitness of president biden into question as national correspondent mount galco tells us the issue could be an election decider should he be on that or any ballot the wall street journal is out with new reporting wow calling into question national correspondent matt goka president joe biden as national correspondent matt gelka tells us the issue could be an election decider this video is fucking six minutes long here's another one calling into question the mental fitness of president joe biden i mean it's you know yeah the it's full court press now with this one and it's wild too i mean like again both of these guys

are old but however the polling seems to show that more people just outwardly think joe biden is the one that's like old maybe right did they add another one they're like and is trump losing his mind they're like oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah joe biden's old deranged biden seems like a little bit old uh and sleepy but the it's wild because all of those clips like they look like normal other so there's one where the guy has like a red sports jacket and a bow tie on where you're like okay this is like some conservative weird bullshit but all the other ones look like just standard local like your local abc news uh yeah and i think that's the thing that's so insidious about the and we've talked we talked about this like early on when this was all happening but like

this consolidation that's happening with like local news is like there's no such like you're not getting local news anymore they're just feeding you propaganda through the fucking you know glimmer of your local news and yeah you'll have a smattering of actual local news things but if it's done by a place like sinclair broadcasting it's not going to be the kind of stuff that helps you understand your neighborhood or your community better or ways to help it more just to live in fear of it and in this case how to uh you know help dear leader donald trump because the president of sinclair broadcasting this guy david smith is like horny for trump and has always been like i like whatever you need like sinclair is here to spread your message sir do they own like do sinclair did they buy up like abc cbs nbc like local news stations or is it yeah they are oh wow yeah i i know we covered

that in the past but it is just wild one of those thoughts that's so deranged that it uh resists uh yeah like and they're all moving conservative they're all moving conservative yeah it's just like it's just wild and like yeah you're controlling that much of the market it's yeah that's that's what you get and so yeah you're getting you're getting it all from every angle yeah they paid less attention presumably to trump like bragging about how he aced his cognitive test given by ronnie johnson robbie johnson dr Johnson. Robbie Johnson. Dr. Robbie Jack. Dr. Rob Johns. Do you remember Robbie Johansson by Dr. Great guy. It was actually Robbie, Ronnie Jackson. But

you know, he's not going to get called out on that. He was Dr. Feelgood and also the guy who gave out all the drugs and was like, Donald Trump is the man, bro. And then had to be asked to leave because he was lying about a bunch of shit on his resume. But you see,

Trump, he went to a black church, though, in Detroit. Yes, he did. Quote, unquote. Yeah. So Kellyanne Conway was like, you know, Biden campaign isn't doing stuff like this. Trump went to historically black church

and there were 8 8 000 worshipers there and first of all you look at the picture and it appears to be in the hundreds of worshipers and yeah and i'm also yeah what's your definition of black also certainly not the people who are in attendance at this event and i'm not trying to mean that yeah problematic blood quantum type of way no no no because these are as Charles Bargu say a lot of vanilla faces in the

crowd yeah so historically they just said it was historically oh right well this area was gentrified and all the previous black residents had been pushed out due to gentrification and uh but yeah it's it's a white church now no historically black like we just painted it it used to be painted black in some places and then we repainted it look at this historical image

it's black and white what do you mean if you look at this historical image from Google Maps from last year, you'll see that it had... Look from above, it looks black. Those are the shingles. That's right. That's right. Anyway. So what are you trying to say? And then on Father's Day, he naturally posted a heartfelt message to his family.

No, wait, I'm sorry. He used the occasion to rant against the radical left in the courts. Happy Father's Day to all, including the radical left degenerates that are rapidly bringing the United States of America into third world nation status with their many attempts at trying to influence our sacred court system into breaking to their very sick and dangerous will. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. That's a lot of he's so i mean he's still i mean we talked about it last week but he's still pissed that uh people in congress are not doing enough to try and overturn his conviction yeah but we feel like how how are they going to do that sir they can't yeah but i guess he just

wants them to make more never stopped him before anyway he's doing great he's doing great he's killing it and biden is uh having brain farts um the fuck man yeah race to the bottom this year his continually denying his children love though like lucy with charlie brown's football is probably his best running bit i do i do respect that just that he's it's like father's day let's talk about my grievances fuck you donald donnie do you think like he gets a gift on father's day and he looks at it and he's like meh and he just kind of oh yeah like for maximum effect you know what i mean it's not like oh thank you thank you he's like oh what's this dad i got you i know i was just on my hunting trip i thought you'd really like this

little thing I got why don't you get a hold of yourself loser Melania put this in the bullshit pile next Melania hasn't been in the same room with him in years I know that's just what he

calls the person who takes the gifts. I'm not. He's like, just let him say it. Just let him say it. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass 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. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. I'm Carrie 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.

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