The Daily Zeitgeist - Yes, Trend Even Abs! 8/16: SF Robotaxis, Listerine, Ivanna Trump, Rudy Giuliani

Episode Date: August 16, 2023

In this edition of Yes, Trend Even Abs!, Jack and Miles discuss people boning in SF Robotaxis IMMEDIATELY, a homophobic boycott alert (Listerine this time), Ivanna Trump's gravesite (on a golf course), and Rudy Giuliani's legal woes! WATCH: Fitness Made SimpleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 Yes, Trend Even Abs. A reference to John Baysdow. Fitness made simple guru. Fitness made simple, you know know infomercial guru major figure in my friend group uh during college we were he was just all over tv at that time and my friend sean uh became

became a massive fan of john baysdale uh if you haven't seen him we'll link off in the footnotes uh yeah he would say you know it was kind of wasn't just a fitness thing it's fitness made simple but this this is this will change your life yeah you know um he i one of the last things he did in 2011 he served as the host for the popular youtube series lesbian video speed dating so he's got his he's doing it yeah this is wikipedia yeah we were like speculating what he what he's up to and whether like he has flirted with q anon at all he just i don't i don't know anything about his politics his eyes uh as super producer brian was pointing out have always suggested a like a darkness hiding back there

so some of the looks he's giving while flashing his abs dude he's 6'3 wow he's giving short king energy this is our king but yeah he looks

he does have like sort of Patrick Bateman stare like going. Yeah. Well, even the commercials I remember back then you were like, is this guy for real? Like he's so about his fitness to the point where like, I feel like he just doesn't have furniture in his house. Like he just has like a folding chair that he sits in to sleep and then wakes up and does it all over. Feels like they were shot at like some office park somewhere.

Like, you know, that no store ever went into the strip mall where they were shot. It was just like a, some sort of real estate scam. But yeah. Anyways, you got based out stories.

Hit us, hit us with them. What's he up to? Yeah. Were you even familiar with john based out uh yes and even at um shout out to my friend sean though who his fantasy team uh in any fantasy uh league that we play is still jbfc the john based out fantasy club so wow yeah i like what references major figure in my life,

John Bayesdell. And the only reason it came up is because we were saying our producer Bay had put together a doc and I was saying, do you know where Bayesdell is? And I said,

John Bayesdell? Bayesdell? I don't know why. Anyway, just a glimpse into my messed up brain. That is what it's like when we're not recording uh and here's what

try to do work all right uh we're finally getting to it the big story of the week yes um it's not the rico it is that san francisco approved 24 7 robo taxis and people immediately began fucking in them um right away just it's a robo fuck factory what are you gonna do it's like a starter gun right went off i like how like people like when they're like we gotta get this technology online like everyone's like no it's bad like first responders being like they fucking drive through like accident scenes they don't have any idea what yellow tape is but then they're like but people can bone in them yeah so i mean yeah to your point like the thing that i had been hearing repeatedly over the past couple years because you know five years ago there were stories in the mainstream media on 60 Minutes, they were like, self-driving cars are

going to be here any day. It's huge. It's over. There was that Tesla video where it was like, watch this car just drive home. Narrator, it was fake. It turns out it was fake. They had completely scanned the whole path and

were remote control operating it. But besides that, it was, you know, so it was completely scanned the whole path and we're remote control, uh, operating it. But besides that, it was, you know, so it was, there's a lot of hype.

Um, but a lot of people were saying that it's just actually seems like it might be too complicated for where we are at technologically. And then San Francisco was like, psych, we're going to let these things ride. Yeah. And like when, when they have tested them, like you were saying, psych, we're going to let these things ride. When they have

tested them, like you were saying, they make emergencies way worse by, say, blocking fire trucks, driving through yellow tape at the scene of a shooting. They just pulled up into... What's good, homie? It's smoke or what? It's like, no,

no. Don't pull up to the shooting like that. This is a crime scene. In one incident reported by the department, the San Francisco Fire Department, a Waymo car pulled up between a car on fire and the fire truck aiming to put it out. And the people in the backseat were fucking.

No, so yeah, the horny are already benefiting from this. According to the San Francisco Standard, a lot of couples have already been totally fucking while in these driverless cars. So the future is upon us. Yeah, I don't know. So, like, the thing that keeps getting brought up is privacy, obviously. Like, the thing that keeps getting brought up is privacy, obviously, like the thing they

have more than anything is cameras. Right. They're just covered in cameras. Shockful. So that's, that's weird. Um, but like Santa sanitation doesn't seem to be like, it seems wildly unsanitary. It may be self-driving. It ain't self-cleaning i'll tell

you that because yeah whoever shame on you because the next person who wants to get in their job killer car uh they can just be welcomed by the sweet sweet aroma of coitus yeah i don't know why i chose to be very eloquent with that when i could have said something really vulgar but i wanted to just leave it there yes indeed i don't know why i chose to be very eloquent with that when i could have said something really vulgar but i wanted to just leave it there yes indeed i don't know why like i get i think most people do it like because they get they're getting off on fucking in the autonomous car it's not like people like oh you know what we can fuck i bet people are booking that shit specifically to fuck in the autonomous taxi yeah i guess i guess they probably are i don't know yeah well it's no more like are the windows more tinted in these maybe because they don't want the other drivers to know it's a

self-driving car right so maybe the windows are more tinted but it doesn't seem like there's more privacy but then again maybe the sorts of people who are booking cars to fuck in are not in it for the privacy you know yeah it looks like the back seat is uh tinted but again i think it's just to each their own you hear about a thing where it's like an autonomous taxi you just want to get your rocks off and bump down in it yeah and i don't know i mean that i guess that's one way to look at it but i don't know i mean i think part of it is just there's just there's just that juvenile thrill i think like there's like i remember like in high school like there was like this one couple like in high school like it was like their thing to just have

sex in all the places you shouldn't be having sex. Right. Right. Right. So if that's your MO, I get it. You know? Yeah. This is, this is a new breakthrough in places to have sex technology. Yeah.

And also like, I don't know. Cause I think about too, like I look, we watched a lot of taxi cab confessions on HBO back in the nineties. Sure. Sure. There were always couples who definitely like just couldn't keep their hands off each other even with a human motherfucking driver in there yeah you're coming home drunk you know yeah i'm sure i'm sure it's it's it's bound to happen i

just the the degree to which it is immediately happening is uh funny to me yeah like i respect it i respect it it's just i will never be in inside one of those i think based on this oh yeah yeah yeah it seems seems gross yeah although i mean people are constantly on planes and stuff so it's like well i'm just wondering if i'm being naive and it's just like, oh yeah, well, where you're sitting right now, people were fucking right. People are probably fucked like on my like outside bench, like near my house. Like how? Yeah.

This is what the fuck? How? But people just do, you know, love knows no limits. Uh, we do have a new homophobic boycott alert that we want to share with the listeners.

Yeah. You know, we know our audience and we know that you guys are trying to stay on top of this sort of thing the latest um no it's so listerine is being boycotted like for a like a latent pride label people are just noticing now they're like ah they're grooming our kids they're indoctrinating our kids they're gonna boycott them but all this really the reason i want to talk about is like i just wish i the the fun part about consolidation and capitalism would be if these like mega companies that own every

fucking brand anyway just like in mass just branded everything with like pride shit so then like conservatives like no beer is drinkable now yeah like and then will that be the moment they realize like but how it's like because it's all owned by like four fucking companies right your soap to your food to your cheese like come on now yeah i mean i it made me think of like communism when like you saw the like beer they're like patriot beer that looked like it was just like right state-owned like shit beer that was like you know you go pick up from like in the bread lines right in the soviet union like when like when things were really grinding to a halt it's just you know i feel like they are bagging themselves into a corner

where they're like all right we have to like go get our rations uh yeah because we can't go with any of the global market bullshit because it's also i also don't expect any of these people like how many conservatives are truly not using keurig anymore because they they pulled their ads from tucker car Carlson years ago. Or people who are back to wearing Nike and shit when they had all those boycotts. It's weird how in a way, they're probably also testing

their own gangster about it too. Yeah, fuck that. But Listerine's my favorite mouthwash. The other ones, they're icky to me. They have to change their shoes to Air Patriots when they just terrible with like certain friends just like oh shit um one sec one sec i'll be right out what are you doing in there honey all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back we're back and you know with all the rico news we shouldn't lose track of just some other things that are happening in the in the world of trump like this past weekend a photographer snapped a picture of ivana trump's gravesite on trump's bedminster golf course i feel like this story missed me or it just like, didn't stick in my brain. You don't remember that when she died, when he, we,

he buried her there and we were all like, what's he hiding? Like what happened? Right. You know, like, is this some coverup? But then we're like,

Oh, I think it's a tax thing. But you like, can't even see the grave anymore. It just looks like a dude. It's so fucking overgrown. I couldn't... I don't know what the fuck

these kids thought of their mother, but that was my mother's grave site? I'm like, yo, what the fuck is this? You can't even see the headstone. It's grown over with weeds and shit. Yeah. It truly looks like

where a mafia snitch is buried oh yeah like so that nobody would know 100 it's like a weird amorphous mound with grass like suddenly and like that's six feet long yeah so there's an anonymous trump official who's saying this is because the soil and foundation need time to fully set and a larger headstone will be installed um she was buried a fucking year ago so it's interesting that this is just just part of the process that's a slumlord ass answer too yeah i'm like what about this thing that can be very easily addressed and you're like it's actually the foundation needs to set a little bit more before we can give you air conditioning in your unit yeah huh what's

that gonna do with anything i'm look i gotta go i'm not gonna give it to you sorry it's definitely shit like so he dumped his xyz body on a golf course didn't bother to cut the lawn at the time a lot of people were like what is he what's Right. Like this, this doesn't make sense. Um, and so the ground had to be consecrated so she could have a traditional Catholic burial on a golf course. Uh huh. Uh huh. As one does.

It's actually not like, I guess I was picturing somebody like a ball cause you know, balls fly all over the place when you're playing golf, especially the way this guy does it. I'm saying. Pings off the headstone. Um, yeah. Golf courses are like famously like so meticulously taken care of, but the, the specific detail is they're just like, nah, let it, let it rock. We don't want anybody to know it's an actual fucking freak people out.

Yeah. Like creep people out. Yeah, like creep them out. But apparently this is part of a decades-long plan that he's had to add a cemetery to his golf club. In 2007, he announced that he wanted to build a 19-foot-high mausoleum where he himself would be buried one day. When state officials expressed concerns, he offered a concession that the building

would be a mausoleum and chapel combo. Don't worry. Could get married next to the decomposing carcass of Donald Trump. Um, then he came up with the idea of making a small family cemetery, uh, but also then pitched a large 284 lot cemetery.

So club members could purchase an eternal membership oh my god yeah cool cool cool cool cool yeah i want to be buried here it's just it's you know part of me like i think when people are like there's documents in there that's what it is because people wouldn't dare exhume a corpse to see what the fuck is in that fucking box you know it was like the one theory that was going around but which is wild too because i feel like both ends of this spectrum make sense like one is like he's hiding motherfucking documents he's not actually in there it's a bunch of fucking documents that he can just access whenever because he's counting

on people to not dig up a body and the other side also being like he's so fucking greedy that he'll just put a dead wife's body ex-wife's body there just to try and get save a couple bucks on some taxes yeah the taxes thing also like doesn't really make sense because he already pays nothing in taxes for the golf course because he persuaded the township to declare it a farm because you know he's like a billionaire and so they get the most welfare of anyone in the United States. Oh, what do you guys farm? Oh, we use the trees for mulch. Oh, okay. But yeah, I don't know.

Just the whole, the lack of maintenance on a golf course. The one thing that is like always like maintained just within like a millimeter, like the grass, like how tall it is, like everything is is perfectly maintained but then they let this one place just like grow over so you can't even see the headstone is like so fucking disrespectful yeah crazy 100 just makes it even more shady well we'll see what happens i mean maybe some some indiana jones type figure could get to the bottom of this caper and see what the contents of that gravesite actually is yeah and then just more in the world of trump rudy uh rudy oh no it's not going well for this man no he broke boy alert uh he was on monday begging for his life basically saying he's like i've got so much legal trouble i have no cash man i need help uh

he even says like he talked about how he had to put like his three-bedroom apartment for sale it's like it's like six and a half million apparently is listed for um but if like they were breaking down like the just certain legal fees he's looking at he's facing nearly ninety thousand dollars in sanctions from a judge in a defamation case a twenty thousand a twenty thousand a month fee to a company to host his electronic records not his album what the fuck i don't know what the fuck that has to do i mean like that feels like how like my parents are like yeah we actually have the top tier uh penthouse n Norton antivirus suite. Yeah, it's like that doesn't exist.

Yeah. What? No, it's actually, we're paying thousands of dollars. It's really top of the line. And you need a separate generator. Right. So that one seems a little bit more like a self-reported expense where you just kind of be like, what's the most I can say this shit costs? Right.

But then also $15 dollars he owes uh for like a for a search of his records that he had to pay for and then fifty fifty seven thousand dollar judgment against his company for unpaid phone bills jesus christ how are you gonna do 60k fucking phone bills oh man calling hey calling ukraine probably expensive when you're trying to dig up yeah shit that ain't there so but is it i feel like i know are we living in that age like in the 80s in the 80s and 90s yeah but like not anymore but maybe he's like still in that world you know he was at his peak in the late 90s early 2000s when there was still like uh just dial down the middle 1-800-ATT yeah exactly call att so maybe he like somebody just suckered him into like paying for phone calls

he's still he's still using vonage they're like what you're on vonage dude yeah i think it's cheaper i don't know it costs a lot about four grand a month it is so upsetting though that like so he's complaining that he has to sell his 6.5 million dollars like so he just has 6.5 million dollars like that's ready to go oh no okay rudy yeah it's it's just like i'm so much less liquid than i used to be before i committed all these crimes and that's the real tragedy well it's wild though too because then like when he's talking about all these legal bills that you know they're like the judge is like well if you're trying to like claim some kind of hardship like you need to show like let me see and then his lawyers said quote producing a detailed financial report is only

meant to embarrass mr giuliani and draw attention to his misfortunes oh my god i mean he kind of handled that himself yeah i mean and like the influx of like i feel like so many headlines this morning have been like all about like how rudy giuliani fell victim to the very law like he was prosecuting people under the irony i feel like that was probably the more embarrassing thing oh Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You should know better here.

Roots did how, how they like to use this statute, but Hey, he's too busy getting a, a boner in a movie. God, man. Some of,

some of those, like the transcripts of like his conversations, like that are recorded of like, Oh yeah. With that woman that was working for him. The assistant is like, so horrifying yeah yeah it's it's like somehow it's it's wild how everyone's talking about like i mean people were definitely talking about that when that story came out but my god i'm like how much my god man anyway rudy yeah, go do one, pal. Alright.

Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.

Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's 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 Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadston. 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.