The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeiton TC 7/25: Joe Manchin, 'Black Panther 2', Samantha Bee, Choco Taco, Brazil, Hulu

Episode Date: July 25, 2022

In this edition of Zeiton TC, Jack and Miles find themselves upright on miracle status as they discuss discuss Joe Manchin getting COVID, the trailer for 'Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever', Samantha Bee's 'Full Frontal' getting cancelled, the sunsetting of Choco Taco, the Brazilian presidential election, and Hulu blocking Democrat ads!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. 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 versus Angel Reese

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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 four 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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Crash My Zite on TC, going 100 miles per hour. Found myself upright on miracle status.

That is courtesy of Miles, courtesy of season two of the rehearsal. Episode two, season one, the rehearsal, Nathan Fielder's new show, in which we get to meet one of the more interesting characters. He's on a heater with these first two episodes. We get to meet somebody who's real into numerology,

seeing significance in numbers. Let's see what time it is, dude. 128, dude. Oh, 128. Yeah, 128. I'm the one to eat. This is the one to eat this is the thing to eat it's time i just ate thank you like perfect god's talking to me through the clock anyways we're not gonna get too much into that uh watch for yourself watch for yourself i'm jack that's miles these are some things that are trending joe mansion is trending tested positive for covet yep t's and p's my man t's and P's, my man. T's and

P's. T's and P's out to that man. You know, hopefully you wake up upright on miracle status, bro. That's right. Wakanda Forever is trending. A trailer came out that is the best trailer I've seen in a while for anything. So, okay, I was

watching it. I remember seeing a tweet about how the the teaser or whatever came out of the comic-con weekend i was like okay here we go her majesty has like a superpower to catch me getting emotional at the end of youtube videos that i play on tv like one time she caught me watching like a trombone solo and i was like like had a tear i was like man this solo is amazing she's like what are you watching i'm like this trombone solo is objectively fucking art okay you just caught the last part where people are cheering and then with the wakanda one she walked in right in that last frame where you see a hand just and the claws come out and i was like and she's like what are you what are you doing? I'm like, I don't know. Maybe he's alive.

God off guard. I'm such a kid when I watch these trailers, man. They get me with the way they're cut. Trailers are my favorite movies because, you know, can't beat a good trailer as far as I'm concerned. Did you have a favorite trailer growing up or like a trailer that you still think about you're like that the fucking trailer like shook me to my fucking bones i can't oh clockers spike lee's walkers had uh this uh 70 there's something happening no i forgot what the song was that it like used but it really like blew me away and i was like so excited to see that movie when it came out that it like carried through and i was just like i thought it was a very good movie it wasn't like

my favorite movie but the power of the trailer carried through to me being like yeah that's my favorite movie clockers my favorite movie now uh just like yeah i gotta find that trailer i remember like some classic rock song i definitely heard before but there was like something just cool about the way it was cut together for me uh i would say i have two trailers that i remember for whatever reason very consistently the first one i say for whatever reason was blown away with jeff bridges and tony jones because i think there's like oh fortuna or one of those like overused like classical songs is used and like there's like at the time i was so cop brained and i was like yo the bomb squad is fucking lit uh that trailer and then also just the first matrix one

uh i remember i spent like the first matrix or the trailer for the second one the first the first trailer that came out for the first mate for the first matrix wow the matrix that one i remember being completely just like i downloaded like the mpeg version off the internet took like 70 hours over the course of a month yeah yeah um but yeah shout out to the trailers but yeah the wakanda trailer looks fantastic and it i think this is focusing on Atlantis versus Wakanda. You got the fucking homies pulling up on humpback whales. For whatever reason, I think that's one of my favorite shots. The people riding a humpback whale?

Just like the idea of people just mobbing up on you, but they're pulling up on 70 dudes holding onto a whale underwater and being like surprise motherfucker like it's so dope and it makes me it's something i had never seen before the avatar trailer and then now it's in this like yeah i don't know it's it's wild it might just be one of those uh ideas that was out there it was in the firmament you just had to look at the numbers to see it yeah and then you were like okay 77 the number of the humpback whale and then you've got underwater so it may be a negative number but yeah man and the and the use of all right by kendrick it like kind of emerges from

the song that's playing the whole time yeah very going bob marley to kendrick like that yeah very well done very well done. Very well done. Very exciting. Samantha Bee is trending. Yeah. A very good show. R.I.P. Yeah, after seven seasons.

DBS is like, no more. So that sucks. I felt like that was a great show. And fantastic. Dude, think of Alison Zeidman, a past guest who who would back in the early days would was like writing some stories for us she was she was over there samantha b oh right shout out zeidman you know what i mean shout out homies who are looking for some work

after that but yeah we named the show after her yeah exactly that was the one i think that was one of the conditions she said she's like well i can't work on a show that doesn't have at least three letters of my name in it yeah but yeah a lot a lot of very funny writers sad to see it go you know a lot of yeah i just like wonder if tbs you know is the right network because like i feel like in the tweet that she announced it sort of alluded to the fact that they're like yeah you know because it's not just baseball or a rerun of big bang so thanks for that and i'm like that's true i'm sure you i'm sure you were giving the i don't know how uh how with it with the program uh the higher ups at tbs are but the very least uh got some good good do they do they make other do they make other original material like Like other original content? I mean, I remember when they were making

all the Tyler Perry shit for a while. I don't know. See, that's how far away I've drifted from what is on... On TV. I have no idea. Broadcast TV. No clue.

The last OG. Oh yeah, the last OG. That's right. And Chad. Look at that. All right. Let's take a quick break. We will be right back.

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Yeah. It's one of the best Choco delivery systems, I think, that's been invented. It feels like if they're putting this down, somebody needs to hurry up. Taco Bell just needs to jump on this shit immediately. And be like, we're also an ice cream store now. Like, surprise, motherfucker. Yeah. I mean, right now, I don't know if there's an official announcement.

But a lot of people were saying that they're catching wind that Klondike, who's the manufacturer of it, is like, oh, it's getting discontinued. So I don't know. We'll see how real that is and if it's it's getting discontinued so i don't know i we'll see what how real that is and if it's gone for good but if it has been discontinued then that's a big yikes for the fans of the waffle you know taco crust or what am i looking for a shell with the chocolate and vanilla ice cream and then dipped in chocolate big yikes for me klondike yeah as well as my two yikes for me klondike sorry yikes yeah that was my go-to off the ice cream that and the screwball so the screwball is the non-chocolate option right screwball is like the pink ice and one that had

a gumball at the bottom right in that like cone plastic that is a trend i was noticing is that the young kids like weren't as into chocolate during trick-or-treating since we have hundreds of people come through our house during trick-or-treating. Wait, shut the fuck up, Jack. Shut the fuck up. Wait, what? They don't like chocolate?

As much. I noticed the younger kids being more into gummy and fruit candies and chocolate kind of taking a back seat. And so I remember suggesting that maybe chocolate was kind of going away because maybe they've always been raised on this inferior version and the knowledge that it uses child slavery. And maybe that's just made chocolate less popular with uh with young people i don't know but and then would this then be part of an overall trend away from chocolate uh we we can't know i stand with the choco tacos and the and the kids like me who would be like to be like where's

the chocolate candy like honestly that's whatever you know times are changing the kids know more than we do so you know take over kids fine fine do whatever you want with your shitty world with your shitty no chocolate world all right so the brazilian election is coming up uh there is a leftist leader that is like way up in the polls over Bolsonaro. And Bolsonaro has responded by kind of taking a play from the Trump handbook and being like, I think the election's already rigged. But somehow the electronic voting system in Brazil, which has been used without controversy since 1996, I think it's vulnerable to being hacked.

And just already putting doubt on the outcome of the election because he's losing by so much. Well, yeah, because it's like Lula da Silva's got like 47% and then Bolsonaro was like under 30% and that's when he's like, ah, this is all rigged.

It can't have anything to do with who I am. Right. But it's wild too because there's also been like assassinations like some of lula's like yeah top orders yeah supporters or uh top like even election officials have been assassinated like bombs people being shot at um just feels like straight up a authoritarian government trying to take over and overthrow democracy in one of the largest countries in the world and definitely in the Americas. And I don't know, just the coverage, it made me kind of take a beat and be like, so is this how like the rise of authoritarianism and

fascism would look in the united states is just like they just don't cover it really they're just like i don't know when i when i went back and like looked at what has already been happening i was like oh why isn't this like front page news this is crazy they're basically already waging a civil war based on his bad polling numbers and like i feel like it's just being covered as like man like his supporters are crazy it just i mean i don't i think the you know in general the media here is like what right-wing violence i don't know what that is yeah you know, right wing violence against people on the left. Hmm. Sounds like a disagreement.

I don't know. Like, I feel like you're not the reporting about it. Like in the U S isn't as like, uh, giving people the full picture as it might. Like when you read about it elsewhere, that's kind of looking at all the dimensions of a story like that.

Yeah. All right. And finally, Hulu is trending. So apparently the Democratic Party was trying to run some political ads ahead of the midterms on some of the central themes

of the Democratic midterm campaign, including abortion, guns, the January 6th attack, and Disney basically refused to run them. I'm guessing it's like, it seems like it's based on the idea that like they're too politic politicized the disney owned company disney owned yeah i'm sure yeah they get their marching orders from the mouse but yeah this has been like a thing going back and forth where there have been a few candidates who are like i want to put an ad on streaming because that's

where i'm going to get to more younger voters like putting that shit on broadcast television isn't as effective for me um that was siraj patel and this is in new york and they kept they kept saying to him that it's like there's's this policy we have. They're like, oh, is it written? They're like, it's unwritten about sensitive topics. They're like, what the fuck is that? It's an unwritten policy. Then how could we know how to navigate any of that shit? So you're not allowed to talk about abortion or guns.

You're just allowed to use them to kill people or to overthrow people's right to bodily autonomy like that right and i think that's what's really alarming is like you have a corporation now stepping in to say don't tell people about what they're what's at stake for them in an election like there's nothing deceptive about what they're saying and i think that's where we're now starting to see how ill-equipped you know corporations are because Cause they used to both sizing shit all the time. And now like objectively Democrats like, well,

they just overturned reproductive rights doing nothing about gun control. There's quickly eroding voting rights. Those are measurable and true. And they're like, you know, despite a little sensitive for, you know, we want to obscure those moments, really. I just feel like we might be seeing

lines kind of clarify a little bit. Bolsonaro is getting a bunch of support, like, openly from Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson's actually going on Fox News and being like, yeah, there's

voter fraud down in this Brazilian election that hasn't happened yet. And, you know, just like backing him, giving him a lot of support. Trump is openly backing him. And so I guess it makes sense to me as corporations don't know which side is going to emerge victorious in the next you know after the midterms and then in the next presidential election and so they're going to treat both sides like they have valid point and like we can't count on corporations to uh take the right side here they're taking watching the sidelines and yeah they're they're trying to pick like a horse to bet on. I don't know, fascism or not doing much. We'll see which horse wins.

But gotta see, gotta see, gotta figure it out. It's more angst to throw on the angst fire, for sure. But again, I think this hopefully inspires more people to be a little more critical of like how like you know the media operates and what they're ingesting too because yeah i mean you look at something like disney too they're already trying to walk a tightrope to keep like the gop from fully being like everything they make is groomer content right so and you know also like we want our special tax districts too that it's like they put their chests out first with the you know, also like we want our special tax districts to that.

It's like they put their chests out first with the, you know, sort of opposing the don't say gay bills and then very quickly. Right. But that also might be part of the strategy, probably is part of the strategy on the Republican side is like that. Disney is opposing you on this one made up issue that we've completely invented that they're groomers so that they feel like they owe you one when it comes to get to make good. Yeah. Get to make good on that one. That's the call. Yeah. Well, we shall see.

Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a 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 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, Caitlyn 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-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Womenio 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. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed 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.