The Daily Zeitgeist - Who Do You Trend You Are? I Am! 3/5: (HBO) Max, Top Sandwiches, Cookie Monster, Shrinkflation, Kamala Harris Ceasefire, France Abortion

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

In this edition of Who Do You Trend You Are? I Am!, Jack and Miles discuss (HBO) Max cracking down on password sharing, TastingTable's outrage-bait sandwich list, Cookie Monster getting in on the 'shrinkflation' craze, Kamala Harris (sort of) calling for a ceasefire, France enshrining access to abortions and much more!See 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. 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

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of who do you trend you are i am that is courtesy of manish wow put that shit up in the discord on the 12 year anniversary of who do you think you are i am yeah sorry well it seems like it's gotta be older than that but maybe that's just because the world of the styles of professional bowling one of my favorite magazines uh is probably trail by at least a decade oh yeah yeah yeah does everyone have their shirt tucked in when they're bowling professionally yeah man you don't want that thing flopping around down there you know wait what thing decade oh yeah yeah yeah does everyone have their shirt tucked in when they're bowling professionally yeah man you don't want that thing flopping around down there you know wait what thing

and how does it how does this shirt oh okay that shirt shirt tail flopping around while you're trying to go up and keep my shirt and keep my junk from flopping around what yeah man what do you think i was talking about you know like those like blouses that like that wear like a bikini kind of yeah that have like the bottom yeah they got like the onesie kind of buttons on the bottom do they make those for dudes to keep their junk from flop around they're bowling i mean they when they're bowling that's the only reason they really should to be on tbh miles they really should um yeah or just do it and you have like the little like dick window so you can still pee like you don't have to unhook your shirt when

you got to go to the bathroom and you still want to keep that professional look yeah the dick window i hated tucking in my shirt like i just fucking i don't know why i have such a like a like a physical response to tucking my shirt and when i do it i'm like this is not fucking me at all yeah and yet you do it constantly you're always constantly tucked i know tucking in my crew neck sweatshirts tucking in my hoodies and you're always like dude i don't know if you need to do that i'm like yes you do dude and then my junk's gonna be flopping around while i'm podcasting what am am I gonna do? Just leave it flopping around down there? Come on, man. Just get your waistband like six inches too big so that it can fit a...

Fit a jacket. Your jacket. Fucking down coat. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm Jack. That is Miles. Yep. This is a Who Do You you think you are i am appreciation podcast yes yes and also uh where we tell you about all the things that are trending on this tuesday march 5th we got a max password sharing crackdown coming at all our asses

oh man it's you know everybody once netflix started doing it, then Disney Plus had to start doing it. Now fucking Max is doing it. So, yeah, I guess we've been warned. I guess figure out a way to share your passwords while you can. Right. So they can make the line go up. Does Max have it like that? Is Max going?

Because Netflix had the password sharing crackdown and it was apparently very successful uh they started making a lot of money is max that inelastic of a product i don't i don't know i mean i feel like if we're talking about what by user number it's up there yeah it would be it's nowhere near netflix but no it's netflix up top then uh amazon party on the back then disney plus um then max actually it's ahead of hulu i guess no that can't be anyway either way i mean i think as people you know it's like that's how you get your hbo that's how you scratch the hbo That's how you scratch the HBO itch now. I have heard various places that Hulu a bit wobbly.

That Hulu might not be here. Oh no. Starting to call people by the wrong name now. Exactly. Calling people by the dog's name. Argentina a good guy. He's a great guy.

Love Argentina. Anyways, yeah, it'll be interesting I mean I don't I actually don't care but it will be interesting to see if people yeah we'll see is how profitable it is and then everyone is just going to be like yeah yeah yeah yeah it's not like they're going to lose business from a password sharing

crackdown you know it's just people will stop watching their product who can't afford it. But guys, here's my advice and we'll talk about it on tomorrow's episode. Just start eating cereal for dinner and then you can watch all the Sopranos you want.

Exactly. That's the secret. With this one neat trick millionaires don't want you to know about. The chicken farmers don't want you to know about. Hey, speaking of chicken farmers we got a tastingtable.com list we ranked

26 classic American sandwiches from worst to best sometimes there is blatant clickbait that I just have to take my hat off to and say yep you got my ass i'm in for the one i'm not there's no way i'm not reading this list 26 to 1 and disagreeing with it so much that i'm like gonna maybe call my dad to complain about it this list is infuriating

yeah it's this is brilliant outrage bait because it doesn't look i'm just gonna run it down from 26 hot dog ruben sandwich french rami is fucking pissed i know it's his favorite meat uh 23 chicago beef 22 sloppy joe's i'm sorry sloppy joe's before of chicago beef and a French dip and a Reuben? No. Anyway, then Club Sandwich, Hot Lobster Roll, Egg Salad Sandwich, Cheeseburger at 18, Po' Boy at 17, Pastrami on Rye at 16, Cheese Steak, then Chopped Cheese, then Cold Lobster Roll. How come Lobster Roll is getting double representation here? This was written by the state of Maine,

I feel like. When you get to the number one, which I feel like is a regional sandwich that is mostly enjoyed in New England. Yeah, Cuban sandwich at 12. Italian sandwich, I think there's just like a hoagie. You know, like a grinder. You know what I mean?

Yeah, you can get Uncle Yugi's and grab a hoagie. Exactly, bro. Then number 10 10 tuna salad 9 breakfast sandwich just breakfast sandwich generally 8 meatball parm 7 pulled pork 6 chicken salad 5 nashville hot chicken sandwich 4 peanut butter and jelly 3 bagel and cream cheese 2 grilled cheese and number 1 drum roll, please, Mr. Executioner, a fucking fluffernutter. Fluffernutter? At number one.

I'm truly speechless. That is a list of 26 sandwiches, arguably. I mean, bagel and cream cheese, not really a sandwich, I guess, but sure, I'll allow it. Hot dog. Like a bacon, egg, and cream cheese, not really a sandwich, I guess. But, you know, sure, I'll allow it. Hot dog. Like a bacon, egg, and cheese is a sandwich to me.

Bagel and cream cheese is like saying like, oh, I put two pieces of toast with butter together, and I call that my toast and butter sandwich. Right. That's not how this works. Yeah. Where's the muffaletta? Right off the bat, hot dog being the worst American sandwich is an absolute travesty.

It doesn't make sense. Are we the ones that put it in bread? Right? Versus it just being a frankfurter? Yeah, that you would just eat with a fork and knife. They're just saying, well, the whole thing is it has to be it says, quote, the only way to give a hot dog any flavor is to smother it in toppings and hope

the bun is somewhat palatable. Spoiler alert, it rarely is. Who is doing this? Who is doing this kind of damage to our country right now? It's somebody who is... They do admit in the article hot lobster roll right up starts. As a native

New Englander, yeah, that's what i thought you see exactly you're not an american oh someone went to the universe you went to university of vermont uh-huh okay nailed on i fucking knew it and also this person is an expert in veganism and plant based eating i'm sorry but like then you're not engaging with the products that you're ranking in a way that i feel is unbiased or honorable uh but anyway well like this the article did what's supposed to do i'm thoroughly outraged um dude a french dip is what's your favorite of these ones you don't have to rank them but like what what's one what's one i mean you said i could go for i like the high ranking of the grilled cheese like i think a grilled cheese is a great sandwich that is like very uh easy to make you know you

easy to make uh always there in a pinch the better the bread the worse the cheese for me i like an american cheese but like the better it gets um nashville hot chicken sandwich is great um i i don't know like the the ones that I'm also being influenced by the pictures that they chose, you know, like the fucking hot dog that they chose has a, has ketchup on it. It's like, get the,

what, what? And also like all over the bun. Yeah. They really like the, the, they defaced this, this hot dog.

Um, I'm not a huge Reuben guy. I'm not, but admittedly, I just don't think I've had the right one. I've not had the right Chicago beef experience to fully judge that. I don't love a club sandwich. I mentioned this. Okay, fair.

And you got very mad at me. I have not had a good po-boy jesus fucked up i haven't i can't believe it and i'm asking where did you go to have you to have a terrible po-boy because you can get a decent one in la too all right i'm gonna have to try it little jewel in new orleans i didn't realize that the youth threat when i said this earlier you said this was your last episode of the podcast yeah This was my last episode. Yeah. And I said it was racist to say, you know, I'm like, you don't like poor people?

Is that what you're saying? It's mainly the name that I don't like. It's like kind of yucky. I don't want to eat a poor boy. It just gives me the willies. Yeah. I mean, that's why I like going to New Orleans is such a like rite of passage for people who love like good food too. Like also like a muffaletta should be on there that's also a fantastic sandwich that I mean maybe it's Italian or whatever but shit I had one in New Orleans made my wig blow back breakfast sandwich

is I think if you're just gonna give a single entry to every breakfast sandwich i feel like that would probably need to be closer to number one for me breakfast sandwiches are one of the great foods yeah yeah i agree agree well anyway you've you've you've successfully trolled us tastingtable.com meatball parm i would say is to me what uh the subway tuna melt is to you i will always eat a meatball parm including at subway um including when they like start when they're like meatball huh oh yeah it looks like we do have that and like stir the thing and there's like the skin on top of it right still i'll still fuck that up um yeah yeah those are probably my faves. All right. Let's take a 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,

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We're so back. And shrinkflation is on the American mind. And Cookie Monster has weighed in. He said, me hate shrink flation. Me cookies are getting smaller. Sad face. Although I think the,

is that, yeah, it's like, it's like a sad emoji, but I feel like it's also like kind of looks like it's having an orgasm. Maybe the eyes are closed and it's looking down a little bit. Um, no,

but anyways, uh, this prompted the original Muppet performer who played cookie monster, Frank Oz to get in his feelings and was like, I'm shocked to see a news article on cookie monster talking about shrink flation. Jim would never have allowed this. The Sesame street Muppets need to live in their own pure world, not our world. on Cookie Monster talking about shrinkflation. Jim would never have allowed this.

The Sesame Street Muppets need to live in their own pure world, not our world. What has happened to the integrity of the character and the integrity of Sesame Workshop? I'm of two minds here. On the one hand, if he's just mad that Cookie Monster is using the very stupid word shrinkflation and he's just like it cheapens it because shrinkflation and he's just like,

it cheapens it because shrinkflation is like a dumb word that was clearly invented by like a producer at CNN or whatever. I'm fine with the outrage. However, like Sesame Street is very, like was created by a like socially conscious initiative to make educational material more widely available to underprivileged people

has routinely commented on everything from death to racism to 9-11 over the years so I don't know where this is got I'm just hoping that this is not how I find out that Frank Oz is like that's why we need to give Donald Trump another chance.

No, no, he's definitely opposed to Donald Trump. Okay. Yeah, he's come out and said that very clearly. I think he said, quote, in my opinion, we need to realize that Donald Trump is now legitimately mentally ill. His behavior this week has crossed the line. I think that's when maybe he was in office or something like that. But yeah, I don't know like part of me is just like i wonder if for him being such a og sesame street person you know what i mean like because he was fozzy bear he was he would and i know not all these are sesame street but og henson person like miss piggy kermit

fucking yoda cookie monster he's done it all that i think maybe as someone who's like yo i was with jimmy right yeah he would not fucking he's like he would not be fucking with this because even he passed away before 9-11 and he wouldn't have talked about this shit so i don't know so i feel like that's maybe like his kind of old head like like old head hip-hopper kind of shit where he's like right yeah it's like an nba player wouldn't have been player about this shit you know what i mean so maybe that's that's my charitable positive version rather than slowly being like and that's why that's why the muppets are too scared to talk about vaccine injuries you're like whoa whoa frank oz what the please sir why did he turn into a soprano's character i don't know that's why they're scared to talk about even though i was born in england if jim henson was around the muppets would have been pro 9-11

the whole like behind the attack that's weird yeah anyway still with us um 79 years old biden administration jumped on it um you know there i don't think this is cause and effect but people are pissed off about this i think understandably so like the price gouging that is happening companies shrinking their products while charging the same or more um and you know biden is using this he made a video about snack shrinkflation during the super bowl and this has been a thing that people in the democratic party and like progressives have been like trying to push him toward for a while i know elizabeth warren was talking about this like even early

on the administration like 2021 right i've been pushing yeah we were there corporations for the biggest surge in consumer prices in four decades and he's been you know dragging his heels like a democratic president but now at least he's saying something so that's cool yeah hey at least they're saying something yeah you know which i think leads perfectly into our next story they're saying something kamala harris called for a ceasefire in gaza sort of not really um yeah so she made headlines by calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza um the headlines proclaim that she called out israel and is escalating the administration's rhetoric on this issue um but weirdly after uh she states there must be an immediate ceasefire.

Everybody cheers. And then she adds, uh, for at least the next six weeks, it was comical the way the delivery of that came out. Like it really felt like you're like, Oh shit. Okay.

We're doing this now. We're saying immediate ceasefire. And through the, it was just like, because she had said there must be an immediate immediate ceasefire and was like yeah and she was like oh i gotta complete the whole sentence here for at least that next six weeks and then um but yeah it's you know i guess we're taking the babiest of steps uh to get towards trying to end the suffering of people this is like while

we're also reading headlines about the famine that is hitting the region and like the just the devastate like the devastating caloric loss that human beings are having to endure uh because of the aid not getting there um or just you know waiting to figure out what the polling's gonna be if i could if i should say this yeah um so that's potentially on the table uh but yeah let's let's just let's see something please because uh time is of the essence and many people are suffering in the most fucked up way yeah i have I have noticed that, like, for instance, she put the blame for a lack of ceasefire on Hamas. But like the same day that she gave the speech, it was reported that Israel didn't even show up to a Sunday ceasefire meeting with Hamas in Egypt. Yeah. The sentiment

I'm seeing from a lot of like Biden supporters is like, well, Hamas doesn't even want the dang ceasefire. Well, yeah. And i mean if if you look at anything the history of negotiating between israel and palestinians there's a lot of like here's the worst deal ever oh you're not going to take it i guess you're not as serious and they're not they don't you're not serious because we're going to give you the most one-sided thing to take and i can only imagine that both sides are communicating their displeasure at what are what the terms are going to be by not coming to the negotiating table and we find ourselves in a very grim situation um and that's where you know you hope that a third party like the country that is you know

doing most of the arming uh can say you need to fucking figure this out yeah because uh need a little help yeah yeah help me out here but again like you know we've there's we've seen the reporting like netanyahu's like real bro i'm fine with trump too bro he's i'm trying to wait out biden so yeah oh man complicated shit gets more complicated well i mean the u.s has inspired some good things abroad and i think we should be proud of this uh france will likely become the first country in the world to explicitly enshrine abortion rights into its constitution wow because they saw how fucked up things have gotten in the u.s oh glad we can be the it's just like the low-hanging fruit of like yeah i mean obviously

everybody believes this but like if we officially do it it's a win for macron and because like nobody doesn't think this is a good idea but because the u.s is so fucked up we can you know pretend like this needs to happen in france and get a quick like political hit from the left because he's been doing macron's been doing a bunch of you know legislation to roll back uh rights of immigrants in france as like you know giving way to the right wing and so this is like his and here's one for you guys on the left triangle relationship. Yeah. This is also a meanwhile too. And like Biden, like recently,

like in this New Yorker interview, he's like, I'm going to, I'm going to pass Roe v. Wade is the law of the land. We're like, yeah, you keep saying that.

But then he goes on and he said, quote, I've never been supportive of, you know, it's my body. I can do with what I would do what I want with it. Biden said that. Yeah.

To soften it. And then, but basically it's like you know going on he's like but i have been supportive of the notion that roe is probably the most rational allocation of responsibility that all the major religions have signed on and debated over the last thousand years what are you bro sir be a little more unequivocal here yeah like and i get that you're trying to be like hey man i'm still a catholic deep down like this isn't the fucking 60s yeah uh but hey some of us are living in a time warp so there's that now we need the the echo of the french legal system to

reverberate over here now yeah see we fucked up with, you know, like health care access and body autonomy and woke y'all up. And now we need our full on scream fests of courtrooms. That's right. Just to make the fall as entertaining as possible. Yeah. Anatomy of a fall. Hey. Hey.

All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, March 5th. 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 you tomorrow 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.

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 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,

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