The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit The Beam 4/18: Subway, Trump, Frank Ocean, CBC, Assassins, Mario

Episode Date: April 18, 2023

In this edition of Zeit The Beam, Jack and Miles discuss Subway's new pasta dishes, Trump's new NFTs, an update on Frank Ocean's Coachella performance, Twitter branding CBC as a 'government-funded media',  the "Assassins" shoe from the Simpsons, and how the Mario movie being successful spells doom for us all!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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courtesy of jeff crisco on twitter um i'm jack you like that is the geist child that's the guy that's legit this is legit my baby geist child is miles is mid feeding right now just i'm giving him baba the shit out of out of this thing you'll hear tomorrow uh the whole i did the episode with him as well uh it was real fun and but i will say this as a society we need to be giving a minimum fucking like 12 weeks off fucking parents at a minimum it's wild like uh her majesty gets more because she's in a union but it's like you got to be in a fucking union to like get that kind of guaranteed time off anyway all that to say shout out the parents and shout out to the Geist Child.

Those noises are unbelievable. Alright. Superproducer Brian was making fun of me for my outrage heading into this episode over a story that I can't believe is not front page

news. I started googling around for it. I was like, well, surely you guys covered this when I was out. Sure. Very little. We didn't.

No, we didn't. And like I said, don't call me Shirley. Subway has pasta. I saw the ad over break. And so I think I just like, for some reason,

this is just like a printer or tv ad tv ad i think it was like on the women's final four uh like they just put put an ad out like yeah and subway has pasta now and it's just straight up pasta not like a pasta salad not like a side of pasta salad it's straight up they're like we're olive garden now and it is so strange to me that we as the body politic have not rejected this like a bad transplant i find it so upsetting wait and that like it feels like they've just jumped the shark it's like you don't know what you're doing anymore you're doing pasta now yeah it's it's i don't know why it doesn't seem like it should be the sort of thing that doesn't make sense to me like super chooser brian was like yeah why wouldn't they of course like all you need is like very cheap ingredients you already

have a bunch of the ingredients on site and yet it doesn't make sense delis are known to have pasta uh i don't i don't know why but the subway having pasta really upsets me they just don't know but what hold on is it just i think it's because i always suspect that like all of subway's ingredients are like very synthetic and i guess that would be easy to pull off as a pasta too but it just feels like subway is very is so limited in what you're saying because the food is so fake how dare they go for something like pasta that is like real normal food yeah i mean i've eaten multiple meatball subs from there why wouldn't i expect a place that serves meatball subs to have pasta I have no

explanation for why this is so upsetting to me but I assumed when I was out for two weeks that this was the only thing you guys were talking about I was like oh man I can't wait to come back and hear Miles' Subway pasta takes Veer Das thanks so much for coming on the daily zeitgeist man what the fuck

is going on recently honored at the kennedy center i couldn't help but notice that during your acceptance speech you didn't mention subway having pasta at all and i and i know narendra modi basically threatened you with uh jailing because of your your speech about the two indias i just felt like there was maybe a little room for you to bring up the very real issue of positive at subway but anyway no no i'm good i'm good i'll get man no i mean i'm not here to tell you how to do your job uh but i'm saying if i was you that's what i do with my just giving you ideas for free so um all right uh trump released some new nfts featuring him crossing the delaware um that was the only one that really stuck in my brain i love seeing though

how they did like the little george washington p-tail like with him and he's got kind of like this long version and it is kind of it's funny to see it's like this long haired version i feel like mine would be longer even longer and actually if uh although you know it's funny luxuriant despite him using like a monocular kind of thing uh is that what you call that like just the one because i know it's a fine no is oh is that also a monocle like the like the half of a binocular oh uh i think those are called telescopes right oh yeah that makes sense that's me just using my non-latin degree to be like and that is a monocular look through my monocular good man come close son we're gonna look at the stars through my monocular

yeah we call it a telescope shut it you insolent fool making me look like an idiot in front of my boss again and then this one is like kind of uh this is a Aerosmith mixed with Trump. Yeah, but I think the bandana on the mic stand is very Steven Tyler. Yeah. But yeah, that's him rocking out. Way too few bandanas on the mic stand to be Steven Tyler, but yeah.

Yeah. You're playing a Les Paul. Dude, come on, dude. If you're really rocking, I can already tell what you're playing because you got that Les Paul. I'm not throwing shade at that, but that's Les Paul like dude come on dude like if you're really rocking like what I can already tell what you're playing because you got that Les Paul no I'm not throwing shade at that but that's but the Les Paul but I think you do you go harder Trump oh and then they took the same one then put him on a motorcycle while playing a guitar it's very easy all shit like they just straight up took that image and put it on top of a motorcycle motorcycle between his legs, facial expression. Then the,

the, the worst one, which is like brute force photoshopping his head onto like a way fitter dude's body. But he's serving up clip art of barbecue, like a grilled food on a plate. Like it's all weird clip art mashed together in this one. These are all hilarious circumstances

to imagine Donald Trump in like on a boat on a small boat trying to cross the Delaware at night under cover of dark quietly but holding your telescope holding your monocular as I say

like at a weird angle like even a weird angle yeah to suggest it's all for effect um right but i'd love to hear him get get on the guitar get on the mic and do a little rockabilly thing oh yeah he's like you want to hear blackbird head it over trying to play a guitar while riding a motorcycle and then for whatever reason the one that I feel like he would have the most trouble with is trying to work a grill oh yeah pair of slats in the backyard with a dog right next to

him um I feel like that would freak him out feel like he would try and kill that bug that's the kind of thing where like his humiliation of like over not being able to use a grill would lead to like right wing takes of like cooking ain't for men even if you're barbecuing right you know it's like what what about like pit masters and what it goes american man should have no no sorry that's femme femme not my america hell no uh

frank ocean we talked about this yesterday it's just i just wanted to bring it up because the weirdest rumor that i had heard in the aftermath was that he was supposed to have designed the concert around a giant skating rink in the middle of the desert and then had like so that's last second and it turns out that is true like that seems to be the one that has come through as like what actually happened which i'd love to see that i wonder if that's uh that's maybe what we'll see second week that would be cool if he shows up right i don't know part of me seems like is his ego so damaged at this point like what does he do i mean if he saw that bjork show maybe he's maybe he comes through how was that was that did you see that was that good i

haven't seen it but i've read descriptions of it and she had a full orchestra she was wearing a chain link fence among other things and it just sounded wild she like finished the show by like entering a giant hamster ball and just like leaving stage but it just sounded people said it was like so maximalist and incredible and just like everything you would want so alex g that was the only coachella set that i streamed and it was dope uh let's take a quick break 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,

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You're no longer baby who gets the baby kisses. And I've been practicing my little baby noises. And they sound... Your voice is too deep, dude. Your voice is too deep. It just sounds like I'm burping. It's that or just like moaning. Like, oh, I'm like, what? Everything all right, man?

That's what babies do. That's what babies do. They're like, oh. All right. CBC's Twitter account got branded with the Elon Musk government funding, but he said 70% government funded media. He put that label on because they objected to the fact that they made it sound like they were fully government funded.

But then he was like, actually, you know what would be epic if I changed it to 69 percent oh my god so he did that and then he continues to when reached for a comment for a media story he always responds with the poop emoji so okay it's just it's like the that's what she said thing whereas like a thing that is objectively you know funny people came up with it and did it in the first place now sucks and will never be able to be used again

forever. Thanks, Elon. You ruined 69 for us. The Homer Simpsons Assassin's sneakers, or I guess is it Ned Flanders? I feel like I've seen Ned Flanders. Ned is the reason homer put on like wants them they're like he pulls up nike assassins with the tagline join the conspiracy this was an

early episode this was season two of the simpsons and it's from season two oh damn that's what it says also the footwear design is like pretty accurate to today that's why i'm having a really hard time believing that this was season two well i mean but if you think of so many shoes now like there's there's like five sneaker designs that came out by like 1990 that's true to this day like like timeless so like i'm not you know cause it looks like it's half of like the Bo Jackson air trainer. Yeah. There's like, they're, they're kind of combining a lot of different things.

Anyways, uh, you can now buy those from a company called retro for $180. Um, which of course there are five people who got to buy it for that. And now the reselling market takes over and they're presumably going to be thousands of dollars but yeah i mean it is interesting how they did it it looks like what they're using is a knockoff air jordan 4 sole interesting like if you look at if you look at the actual sneaker that that is based off of that lower half is the air jordan 4 with like the little ridge like little sharp fin before the bubble look all right this doesn't have to be like sneaker yeah yeah this podcast but i know

what you're saying they actually don't look much like the ones that ned flan or at least not what the ones ned flanders was rocking in the episode made me think of they it just looks like a jordan three jordan four body with like some embellishments yeah but hey look uh for those of us who are simpsons brained like you and i i mean i like the idea but the shoe doesn't look enough like the fucking one from the thing that i'm getting excited yeah i wouldn't buy these um the sir han sir hans yeah they look like shit. Super Mario Brothers appears to be ready to join the $1 billion box office

club. Wow. It earned $87 million in its second weekend, which is pretty incredible. Like, you know, the first weekend was way more than people expected, but like also the second weekend is way more. Even after the first weekend, people are like, well, it'll drop this much much and that's just in the u.s yeah that was just but

i don't know i saw people like av club was like if the mario movie makes a billion dollars we might really be screwed and they're basically saying that this is in what is our future now is just all terrible video game movies. We're already there. Do these people actually, are they looking at the entertainment industry? Like there's so many video game movies or like The Last of Us just came out. It's I think pretty well known that the studios are looking at video games as IP and they're like, hey, those come with built in fan bases that we can just crank out the numbers with if we do it right so i don't know if that's necessarily the thing but it also

sounds like the take of someone who doesn't like realize that like it's not because they're going to be like oh my god mario super mario doing well means any video game film is going to do well we're talking about the most fucking recognizable video game character, like of all time. Yeah. Yeah. They say, quote,

if this damn thing breaks the billion dollar mark, the deluge, I thought this was going to be a damn metaphor, but no, no, no. Uh, the deluge of gaming,

like bullshit, that's going to start spewing out of Hollywood is going to be truly unimaginable, but like, I don't know. It feels like we've gotten to things that are the best adaptations of video games. Like we're at least the best mainstream with the last of us.

And now this seems to, I don't know. People seem to really enjoy this. And the thing that they did with it was just make it almost straight up a, like a less story, more just like fun things from the video game. Right. So if I would imagine that they like might have figured some things out here

and video game movies might get better video game movies were going to happen regardless. Yeah. I, they've been, I mean like there was a fucking max pain video game movie with fucking mark walberg in 2008 i remember and i was like i'm not going to see that shit uh but again because it's not the like the most recognizable character there's just i don't know it's just so

fun this take is just very odd to me like well and also like that movie didn't seem like it had that much in common with what i would want if If I liked that video game, like what I want, just a straight up action movie starring Mark Wahlberg as a guy with the same name as the shooter that I liked playing, you know? Right, right, right. Hey, it was that bullet time though. Yeah. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday 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.

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, Caitlin 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 Pardenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Teherry-Poor. 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.