The Daily Zeitgeist - VesperTrend 8/19: Anti-Woke, Mitch McConnell, Andrew Tate, Sesame Street, Nuclear Plant, Bjork

Episode Date: August 19, 2022

In this edition of VesperTrend, Jack and Miles discuss a federal judge upholding the law in "Stop Woke Act" trial, Mitch McConnell's grim midterm forecast, Andrew Tate getting banned from Facebook and Instagram, Sesame Street disappearing from HBO Max, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant bombing, and Bjork's new albumSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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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 Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Keri Champion

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or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. 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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Vesper Trends.

Yeah, that's right, folks. It's a Bjork-themed episode today. Because she made her Mushroom album. We'll talk about that a little later on. Did you like that album? Do you remember that album, or you just remember that it was called Vesper Team? I just remember the name of that album being Vesper Team. I'm more of a uh admirer of bjork from a distance i love human behavior and that video but i i never like fully

fully bought in that album my favorite album on vespertine is a hidden place uh this is one of my oh man i love that track anyway oh, I love that track. Anyway. Oh, what great track. Love that track. Yo, man, Bjork fucking... Like, that Human Behavior song, loved that as a kid. And then ever since then, I've been B-brained, Bjork-brained.

B-bang. B-bang. Yep. Well, I'm Jack. That's Miles. Yep. Over there. And these are some of the things that are trending.

Anti-woke is trending. Get ready. If you're still part of the woke police, get ready to get defunded. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. I guess it's not, right? It's the opposite of what I just said.

A federal judge has suspended the enforcement of Stop Woke Act. Yeah. Basically being like, don't talk about race in school. And this judge is like, compared to, he's like, it's a First Amendment upside down. You're like, okay, what are you, like a millennial judge over here referencing a stranger things in your opinion? But go ahead on your ruling. But yeah, just said this is violating free speech.

I don't know where the fuck you think what that is. So we'll see. We'll see. That's wild. The woke thing is now exclusively the realm of, like nobody says the word woke other than people who vote for ron desantis like that's it and also yeah you have to be you have to be on the conservative end of the spectrum because it's the same way that like centrist dem fucking corporate democrats just

use that to be like use that same sort of language like i mean if it were just not so woke people could get on board with what we're trying to do yeah you see uh what's the name of that old gator that old uh bayou crocodile oh you're talking about my my friend jimmy cobble jimmy down in the bayou yeah what he say he was saying like trump's document raid might be the biggest story since 9-11 oh no way oh uh but then he was also saying that these uh there's positive democratic party they they don't know what they're doing they do the dumbest and then start like making up dumb versions of progressive policy like support uh i forget what it was but it was he was like defund police might be the dumbest dumbest two words ever existed in english language

dude i'm really out there's you got you got your carvel down man just a couple of carvels in here oh here's him i think talking about stupid wokeness wrong it's just stupid wokeness all right's going on is just stupid wokeness. All right. Don't just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island. Look at Buffalo. Look at Minneapolis.

Even look at Seattle, Washington. I mean, just defund the police lunacy to take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. I mean, people see that. schools i mean that people see that and it it it's it's just really have a suppressive effect all across the country the democrats some of these people need to go to a woke detox center a woke detox you know because i'm out there in virginia okay man the carvel you are also like when you nobody's claiming to nobody's saying take abe lincoln's name off anything like maybe somebody once on the internet said that shit but that's not like a movement on the left to remove abraham lincoln if any the only reason abraham lincoln is being talked about

right now is because of if anything ben stein and this like constant thing you think conservatives say when like we're racist abraham lincoln freed the slaves party of lincoln brother we're just creating new ones shout out kanye okay to just kind of do the whole thing over our abraham lincoln kanye yeah anyways did you see that sound bite sound bite remember how they were all the yeezy gap shit was in like construction bags right i didn't hear a soundbite about it oh he gave a he gave an interview on fox because of course the one place that'll have you at this point damn he's like he's like i'm trying to do something different i'm taking

inspiration from the cutting edge of fashion from the homeless oh shit man mean, that's just good. Iconoclastic bullshit. Yeah. This motherfucker went to Wyoming for one year and came back a MAGA voter who wears like nothing. He's like, you guys heard of Carhartt? Shit, it's lit. Well, speaking of people who wear denim, Mitch McConnell. Yeah. Who wear denim and wear it well.

One of my favorites. I don't want to. Order of a pair of blue jeans tucked in. Oh, yeah. Great neck, too. He got a great neck, too. Love his neck. One of the greats.

Love to gobble on that thing. Would love to kiss that little meat on his neck. Love that. Just tongue in a little bit. Put a little Tabasco on there. A little la-la-la-la-la-la-la. Call that little moose boosh. Moose boosh. He's out here now mitch mcconnell he's been saying for like the last three weeks basically uh red wave yeah you know

maybe like maybe it might be more of a vibe than something that can be measured in votes um but we'll see and we saw tucker carlson the night before he was like i don't know for all the hate the well-deserved hate that joe biden gets some for some reason the democrats are poised to stay in power and so this narrative has been going on for a while about basically trying to be like yo y'all y'all gotta vote we could the red wave won't happen um and then he also said that there's the senate might have an issue because of candidate quality which again is another shot at trump and that sort of side of the party but i mean it's just like managing expectations essentially yeah he's like let's he's like maybe the house the senate this you know not

doing as great all right we got a cameo from my four-year-old and his best friend, Brown Bunny. Say what's up, Brown Bunny. Very eloquent. Appreciate you. He just got back from superhero camp, so he is amped amped yo what the fuck is superhero

camp i mean they just it's like learning it's this place they did under under the sea camp for a week earlier in the summer and now they're doing superheroes just like various learning activities but then they do a different skin on themed yeah like okay let's do our spider-man jungle gym or whatever kind of thing anyways uh andrew tate is a name that i had to learn this morning um yeah this is a tiktok conservative um just despicable misogynist paul sheer looking motherfucker um yeah kind of and he's like also like i think was he was like a boxer kickboxer or something too so he's like kind of built like some fucking dude where like incels would be like this guy knows but then he just says the most backwards shit like right any take that absolutely just like men are fucking at the top women are subservient anything they do is wrong men are

always correct uh but then also okay or what's his it says he's was born in chicago he talks he has an interesting accent i don't know if he was raised in the uk or what but he has like a euro adjacent accent i can't put my finger on and i don't i'm not interested enough to like really dive deep on him but whenever i see videos of him i'm like oh this is bad bullshit yeah and you know this is something that a lot of people have noticed how younger his audience is a lot of fucking like middle school and like junior high type kids very impressionable and you got this dude being like i mean oh if a woman is assaulted that's their fault and that's those are the kinds of takes that they're like what a fresh original take yeah no seriously and but mainstreaming that for kids on tiktok so meta's like yeah this isn't

this is a fucking danger yeah um and hopefully we'll see what happens with tiktok but as of this time he's off the meta brands this tiktok like how how are they in terms of like banning and policing the content on their platform not good yeah not good all about that's why it's like no fridge you can have infinite types of experiences on that place right infinite experiences for an infinite amount of time exactly on an infinite scroll uh but you can't you can't even uh police that shit just a little bit yeah which always leads to fascism yeah and it'll just lead you to a guy who's basically saying women are intrinsically lazy okay there's no such thing as an independent female you don't want me to say that and therefore it must be true because people have said i shouldn't say

exactly and he does this shit like he'll go on podcasts and like people be like yo that's like a woman will say something and they'll be like and that's wrong and here's the thing i'm gonna say something that's gonna upset you because it's actually the truth and i want want everybody, I want everybody knows her, her reaction when I say this, because this is what happens when people hear the truth that they don't want to hear, which is if I have responsibility over a woman in any way, then I must have a degree of authority. Right? So you can't be responsible for a dog if it doesn't obey you. Correct?

Jesus Christ. And see, that's why you're responding like that. Cause it's true. Like that's the shit he does. That's a, that's why you're responding like that because it's true like that's the shit he does that's a that's a straight rip off of a quote from a bcc article about some shit that he said also i'm not gonna give him paul sheer i've seen paul sheer in person paul sheer is a very handsome man it's actually kind of unnerving paul sheer uh who you might know from human giant kind of like a he i think you described it like the vibe

you get from him on tv is like the illustration from diary of a wimpy kid the in person he's just like a handsome bald guy yeah i'm like what come on man you're not supposed to be a tall handsome dude the hell you're not supposed to be that's's what I said to him. And he asked me to leave. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. 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. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed?

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And we're back. And Sesame Street is not back it's gone off of hbo max 200 classic apps gone poof gone overnight uh people are like what the fuck was that not not sure not sure but it again shows i don't know what their strategy sounds like the strategy is just get rid of any kind of content where we're going to have to pay a lot of royalties to people for streaming. And that shit was good, too. Let's also lean into unscripted, because guess what?

Then there's no fucking writers to pay. Am I right? And less kid content, I guess. I don't know what this thing's going to become. Early Sesame Street was very LSD influenced. Like there was, you could tell that Jim Henson had dropped acid. Oh, yeah. I mean.

In the year that he invented Sesame Street. And also to have those ideas about like inclusion and shit. and also to have those ideas about like inclusion and shit oh back then he must have been out his mind on spooky old drugs or whatever they do down there in new york yeah they take a woke heroin they take a rope heroin and they inject that heroin um but that's yeah so a lot of people are like this is fucked up uh there's like it's a lot of newer stuff but i think it's just part of what we're seeing like every day just a little bit of something is disappearing on there and also it's a shame too because it's a lot of this shit like sesame street or stuff that has uh you know appeal outside of just like the c-suite over at

discovery yo i you guys probably talked about this when i was out but the fact that discovery bought hbo discovery being like that's like telling me like the history channel just bought like disney like that that's what it sounds like to me it doesn't make sense isn't hbo paramount or uh warner yeah warner and then it was at&t and then and then at&t is like oh you want to buy this office go ahead discover take that discover discovery is just a discovery discovery is just like a whack cable channel it's not one channel though that's the thing is just like a whack cable channel. It's not one channel though. That's the thing is it's a brand is called discovery, but I know, but it's all,

it's, if you think of all the shows, all the networks that exist within it, you're like, Oh, this is like 60% of what pay cable channels are. Right. So there's just like,

because of that, they're, they're bringing in a lot of money. Never works out when like lower-brow thing buys a higher-brow thing. They just can't deal. Discovery being like, okay, now we're going to own HBO

and make all the worst decisions possible. I feel like that always is. It's like when, uh, that wig company bought NBC universal. That was, that's a 30 rock reference. Yeah.

They've got it. They've, they got the juice now they've, and they just kept building and building. And then like, once they had their, you know, discovery channel and all that.

And then it's like adding things like Food Network, HGTV, DIY. And just they get bigger and bigger. And you forget how big these shows are. Very creative. I'm sure there's a lot of creative geniuses working there and just making great calls. And also the first thing to go is always like the more progressive and diverse content yeah because it's like five

you know 50 something white guys in a office probably saying some shit like who watches sesame street anymore right exactly yeah we don't need to renew that there is a i can't tell if it's a real story or just like the u.s media loves a nuclear scare if there's a real story or just like the US media loves a nuclear scare. If there's a meltdown anywhere in the world at a nuclear reactor, they're going to find a way to make that into nonstop news. And right now there might be one of those. So accusations are flying between Ukraine and Russia over Europe's largest nuclear power plant

because it is being bombed and they're blaming each other for it. So the Russian side is saying that they're being bombed by Zelensky. Zelensky is saying that it's a mess and it could be very bad yeah i mean you know why not hide in a place where it says oh if you shoot bang bangs over here the fallout will spread all over right and then also yeah being able to if anything happened you know russia will blame ukraine uh but yeah i mean it's it's pretty it's pretty

fucking scary because the people that are working in the plant are like shrapnels hitting fucking reactors and shit. And if the fuel starts spilling out, that could be a huge fucking problem. And it's a huge problem also because this is the direction we need to go in. Nuclear energy is much much much more efficient much better uh for the environment and we probably should be going in that direction but every time

a story like this happens i feel like we get moved further and further away from that well because i mean that's the that's inherently the issue man it's such a double-edged sword yeah you know like the same thing in like japan too after fukushima like it's just a you man it's such a double-edged sword yeah you know like the same thing in like japan too after uh kishima like it's just a you know it's like yeah the the energy is cheap and abundant and if the fucking a couple things go wrong and they're bad we can't even grow food in this entire region of the country anymore because it's like they should grow a ton of rice in that area and now i'm fucking can't do shit with it yeah um yeah so yeah it is it's always like again we're living in an omni crisis folks like spin the wheel chances are something is bubbling up speak of bubbling up york has new

album bubbling oh yeah and it's her mushroom album that's what she's been calling it apparently not like she was on mushrooms and made an album or this is an album that's what she's been calling it apparently not like she was on mushrooms and made an album or this is an album that will make you feel like you're on mushrooms well in this guardian piece when she was trying to be like you know be like hey let's collab blah blah blah she was describing it to them as quote her her mushroom album it's like digging a hole in the ground that's what and she's like the experience of being a mushroom i think so and she went on to say this time around i'm living with moles and really grounding myself so okay cool i mean i don't know yeah bjork i don't give a shit say

what i'll fuck with you let's hear this this album. They say that their description was like the two lodestones of this album is like bass, clarinet, and techno. So I'm like, yes. Hell yeah. Fuck yeah, Bjork. Give me some more quotables. She said the album is like, quote, let's see what it's like when you walk into this fantasy and you know have a lunch and fart and do normal things like meet your friends absolutely that's a direct quote from this

interview so let's see what it's like when you walk into the fantasy and you know have a lunch and fart and do normal things like meet your friends okay Okay. Okay, Bjork. Okay, Bjork. What else do you have? She said, I feel as a singer-songwriter, my role is to express the journey of my body or my soul or whatever. And hopefully I will do that till I'm 85

or however long I live. I try to keep the antennas up and read where my body is at. She's a fucking goat, man. The best. I love, I still, there's this Bjork documentary. will never forget because the RZA. I was just going to ask you for a recommendation of a Bjork documentary because this just makes me realize I need to watch a Bjork documentary.

Dude, there's this, there's a Bjork documentary where, I almost want to pull up the soundbite, where the RZA is giving an interview. Like the RZA is giving an interview like the rizza i've seen this chiming in yeah and he's just like i can't believe bjork man she got a voice that could communicate with the whales that's right i have seen that and just was just like and he was so sincere and every person who's talking in it you're like bro everybody fucks with bjork oh like no matter how they're like oh the dress was weird like what'd you say blah blah it's like man she's a fucking artist man i fucking love that shit truly one of the great yeah so i think i'll find the i think it's just called inside bjork is the one i'm thinking of does she perform like does she go on tour and

like do i feel like a b Bjork show would be an experience. Oh, yeah, yeah. There were shows when she was doing them with Matt Most and stuff. They were fucking wild, full orchestras. Yeah, Super Producer Brian saying she's amazing live. I cried. All right. Wow, she said she did a Wu-Tang collab?

When? In this recent interview, she said she calls how, during the homogenic era, how she had wanted RZA to contribute beats to the album. I think what happened was I wanted these kind of Icelandic volcanic beats, and I was kind of struggling with it. I had done my beats on my own, but it takes me a long time to make them.

And sometimes I get impatient and want other people to do it. So I sit there and describe them, what I want them to do. So I was in Spain, a Wu-Tang clan were supposed to come to spain rizzo was supposed to come but then months passed album got finished and delivered it then rizzo was like i'm ready shall i come to spain damn it that's that that sounds like uh that's everything i know of uh of going to see wu-tang

is that they show up six months late they'll show up on your way to the car be like yo y'all ready yeah get all your feet stomp you're like what hold on there's some more she goes on that she then bjork traveled to new york city to meet rizza and they wrote some songs together they were never released she says sometimes you do things and you don't plan you don't plan them it's magic and i really think what we made was magic. It wasn't part of the whole thing, but among her favorite memories of Wu-Tang Clan, she says, was an in-store at Tower Records.

Quote, I'd never done anything like that before. I turned up and seven of the Wu-Tang Clan turned up to protect me. I was signing books for an hour and they sent some of their team standing there with me it was magic in my eyes they're punk they are definitely similar we do things in like a ritual way no this needs to be an album or a movie or something that that detail made me i had a i just shoved a snickers into my mouth i just spit chocolate spit all over the place so now can you imagine like them like all the wu-tang they're like smoking a blunt and bjork is just saying shit that's blowing them their minds oh my god yeah greatest person to get high with even if

she's not high right and they're all gonna be like yo that was deep bjork say that shit again about the moles i'm humble now yo that's a bar right now you stay grounded you with the moles okay i like that can i take that just just a podcast of them hanging out in a room together yeah leave a mic on bjork and wu-tang just chat okay find the checks and then print only one and sell it to martin shli. And get some money. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending. As you can hear, I've already started eating candy to celebrate.

Got one foot out the door. End of the week. We are back on Monday 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. We will talk to you all on Monday. Have a great weekend. 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 Cleari Gavetto, 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 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, Caitlin Clark vs. 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. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. 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

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