The Daily Zeitgeist - First Stop Is Always IsTrendbul 9/26: Mayor Eric Adams, 'Deadpool & Wolverine', Oscars, Trump Tourbillon

Episode Date: September 26, 2024

In this edition of First Stop Is Always IsTrendbul, Jack and Miles discuss the indictment of NYC mayor Eric Adams, Disney pushing for a 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Oscar for Hugh Jackman, Trump's new $100,000 tourbillon watch grift (feat. Bryan The Editor) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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here on this episode. We love watches. Sorry. We just found out about this sick new watch. We're examining the innards, the specs of these new Trump tourbillons. We're gonna get to them, but folks, this is a good opportunity. You're gonna have to hop on. Anyways, this is... Let's see. Let's go with First Stop. You know First Stop as always. It's go with first stop. You know, first stop is always is trend bull. Mm hmm. That one courtesy of the Nadium silver. Oh, yes. Cord about Eric Adams talking about federally trend, Dited Mayor Treneric Adams.

That one courtesy of Paul Garaventa. Wow. Eric Adams is. It's it's all coming to an end folks, in the most glorious way possible. Yeah, yep, yep. And I'm Jack, that's Miles. We are joined by our watch guy, Brian the editor, who's just checking out the specs of the watch and he's gonna report back if this thing looks like

the must-watch that we assume it is. I think it's personally worth a hundred racks, of the watch and he's gonna he's gonna report back if this thing looks like this Trump couch that he assume it is. I think it's personally worth 100 racks but hey that's well you know that's just my opinion but we'll get to that. So you're saying 100 racks they're selling it for 10 racks Miles. That's 10 racks! No isn't that 100 000? Oh really? Yeah or am I really miss reading that? No, you got it. You got it. I just my brain wasn't making room for the possibility that the grift was that strong. Yeah. A fucking hundred thousand dollars. So anyway, I mean, this is

but this is like one of our great days as America. Like the. Yeah. So first of all, we've got the person who's running to be president has a very good chance of becoming the next president, Donald Trump, selling a watch for a hundred racks. And it looks like shit is probably shitty, just naked corruption on that front as the naked corruption of Eric Adams, his office is being revealed in an indictment that just so many choice details. We're going to get into some of our favorite Eric Adams moments. It's like going to be like the Mark Robinson story where every five days, there's going to be a new wrinkle as people go through this very long indictment.

But it's comedic. It is comedic. So I just want to, I want to pick out a couple of highlights. So what he was doing is he was doing favors for foreign governments in exchange for gifts and favors and from that trips to Istanbul. So the St. Reg. Regis. Yeah, yeah. So the, you know, it's always, Istanbul's always first is from a text that he sent to his partner, Eric Adams sent to his partner, because she thought that he was in Paris, I think,

and he was in Istanbul, and he was like, oh, I'm transferring here. You know, first stop is always Istanbul because he basically flew for free on Turkish airlines. I mean, New York is the Istanbul of America. As he said. And the Turkish people can feel proud that he was willing to make that statement

because he was only willing to make that statement about every other city on the globe. Yeah, everything is the sole Korea of New York. I mean, America. The the thing about these texts, though, is so funny because he's so sloppy. Like, again, they had to create the perception that he was actually paying for flights rather than getting like just these obscene discounts to fly business class. Yeah. So keep that in mind as Jack and I do the,

play the part of Adam Staffer versus airline manager directly from this indictment. Yeah, so I'll be the Adam Staffer and Miles, you do airline staffer with a Turkish accent, okay. Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, I haven't dialed that one in. The one you do when we're not recording is so funny, but alright.

Alright, Adam Staffer, how much does EO? Please let them call me and I will make the payment. It is very expensive because it is last minute. I am working on a discount. Okay, thank you. I'm going to charge $50. No. That would work, wouldn't it?

No, dear. $50? What? Quote a proper price. How much should I charge? Smiley face emoji. His every step is being watched right now. $1,000 or so.

Let it be somewhat real. We don't want them to say he is flying for free. At the moment, the media's attention is on Eric. God, they should have just been like, No, that is too much for bribe flight prices. It needs to look like non bribe flight. Hey, the crime we're doing, you're doing it badly in terms of covering it from the media.

We need you to do it better. It gets better. Yeah, this is a great exchange from Adam Staffer. It's probably not the same one, but I like to imagine that it's always just the same Adam Staffer. So in regards to all the gifts that he received from the airline manager or promoters on his annual disclosure form, the Adam Staffer was like, Hey, to be on the safe side, please delete all messages you send me. And what did Adams respond? Always do.

Always do, baby. And we know he did not. This is in the indictment. Always do. Every single time. He in fact did not. So then there was, of course, the first stop is always Istanbul. And just to like give a full picture of what is happening here.

So he basically helped pressure the FDNY to overlook fire safety issues on a Turkish owned building so it could be ready for a visit from the country's president. So straight up like making New York City more deadly in exchange for cheap airfare is what he was doing on wax. He stayed in a Bentley suite at the St. Regis Hotel. That's worth something, right? It's wild though, too, like as New

York is just such an important city general and aside from all the ways Eric Adams bigs up New York, like the fucking UN is housed. It's the Lima Peru of it's the Lima Peru of the United States. Of course, the United States is

the Zagreb of America. As he was wearing that Croatian soccer jersey, I was like that Croatian soccer jersey. This guy is amazing. Yeah, but he's always I love whoever's coming into town and he's got to big him up. He will always say that New York is that city and bless him. Bless him for that. But yeah, it's just very this is going to just get

go completely off the rails, I'm sure, as as things stand, because like he gave a pretty defensive press conference earlier and was like just sort of saying like how he's he's going to continue to do the work, obviously, for New Yorkers. And by that, he's going to steal public funds, make a mess of the city and accept bribes. So great. Great. And one of the better kind of acts of civil disruption, disobedience that I've seen, somebody came with a loud speaker to that press conference and just basically shouted him down, but like shouted him down with some statements that were very quote worthy

and quickly being like, you know, you have done New York and the black community tremendous damage. So yeah, you are piece of shit. Yeah. He's a great, great, great mayor. Shout out to New York and the black community tremendous damage. So yeah, you are piece of shit Yeah, he's a great great great mayor shout out great. You're you've had your first indicted mayor bless this city. Yeah, I think we get to reuse the Indicted double LP world excited again because it was New York, you know, yeah exactly Eric Adams indicted Can someone from Wu Tang please just hop on that really quick? Yeah.

All right. We've got some early Oscar buzz not coming from anyone except Disney. Disney's putting this out here mainly, and they've announced that they're going to be campaigning for Hugh Jackman to get a best supporting actor nomination for Deadpool and Wolverine. Oh, OK. I haven't seen it still, but I'm I don't think I'm not sure that people were talking about his performance specifically, but no.

Was that part of like his deal? He's like, all right, I'll do it. But you have to put fucking millions in an Oscar campaign for me to be considered best supporting. Like what? What is the point? He's just left over from like Ryan Gosling and the Ken thing, which like I, I thought the second I saw Barbie, I was like, Ken should win best supporting actor. Like I thought that was a great performance, but I, I wasn't thinking of the fact that

like what it was going to do to the brains of Disney execs when someone was able to get nominated for playing Ken in a Barbie movie. You know, right, right, right. Like it's got to go to you, man. It's got to go to you. We got to get this guy an Oscar. Yeah.

OK, sure, sure, sure. I mean, at least they're they also look it sounds like they also want to get him a Golden Globe for making it a best comedy. I mean, that that's actually that tracks. Yeah, yeah. They're going Globe for making it a best comedy. I mean that that's actually that tracks Yeah, yeah, they're gonna nominate it for best comedy. That seems entirely possible given that The tourist one for best comedy in the past I think so yeah that Johnny Depp Angelina Jo Lee film yeah Marvel fans have come out and they're like guys. He's not going to be nominated. Okay Yeah, Marvel fans have come out and they're like, guys, he's not going to be nominated. OK, instead, the Oscars should introduce a best on screen couple or best duo category. Oh, yeah, because every year there's always that.

Yes. I mean, I guess you could shoehorn any just relate like relationship on screen as being like, and that was the best duo. Well, they're doing a casting category this year so like that is I Don't know vaguely in the same family But like just calling it like best on-screen duo is that's just the MTV Movie Awards. Yeah, which is fun Yeah, but yeah, I mean I think I want to see best stunt and best in in-camera Special effect before I want to see best duo. Yeah, right, right. These two people were in a movie we liked.

Let's give them one of our own. And our next nominee is Michael Monroe and Nicholas Cage for long legs. Yeah, right. Love that. I love that. I love long legs references and I get them all. Let's take a quick break and we're going to come back and it's time for our watch guy

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And it's going to surprise a lot of listeners to hear that I am not a watch guy. I'm not collecting watches because I don't have the attention to detail that is required. But Brian, the editor does. And so I am a shoe guy and, you know, sneakers. He's already entered my world. Donald Trump has already entered my world with the bright gold shoes that are just not that comfortable. Like, yes, they look awesome. And yes, I like what they how they make me feel.

And yes, they gave me lead poisoning. Yeah, but if you lead poisoning and like, that's not the only reason they're not that comfortable. They also each weigh 93 pounds. This is this is such a wild. So his new grift is wristwatches that look like shitty, like Canal Street, Rolex's another New York reference there. And there's two varieties.

There's a four ninety nine one that looks like I'm pretty sure is probably a fifteen dollar watch for dollars. Ninety nine cents. No, four hundred ninety nine dollars. And then the big boy, which they have only made 147 pieces of, each numbered, is the Trump Victory Turbion. And boy howdy, it looks absolutely awful. But if you like moving parts in a watch and you have $100,000 you're willing to part ways with and you love Donald Trump

and ethno-nationalism, then yes, maybe this is the purchase for you. Yeah, the only reason to buy this is, as Miles says, if you fuck with him heavy, because number one, tourbillons are getting cheaper and cheaper since China sort of entered the market, and you can get them for like, like a few hundred dollars.

Right. Turbion is a brand. Turbion is a... So, a Turbion is a mechanical device in a watch to counteract the effect of gravity on the balance wheel. I just do that with my sick boosties, but OK. It's an archaic mechanism. You don't need it in a watch to keep keep it accurate.

Sure. It looks cool and it's impressive engineering. Yeah, it's like one of those things like when you see it, people go, oh, shit, dude, you don't want to cost so much money. Look at all this shit moving inside. Really cool. Yeah. Couple things that catch my eye here. Dude, that must have cost so much money. Look at all this shit moving inside. They look really cool. Yeah, I get it. Couple things that catch my eye here. The spec sheet is looking at me real, real funny. It's all wrong.

There's just not enough information. They're not telling you what- Spec sheet being like the details of like how- The details of the watch. So one thing that catches my eye is it says, Swiss made power and precision. Saying a watch is Swiss made, like cost certified, and it's not, is illegal.

Kind of like, you know, bourbon, like, or champagne. Like you can't, you can't just go there with that. So you have to be certified by whatever the governing body of switch switch watches is I can't remember but Yeah, the spec sheet is weird. The finishing is not a hundred thousand dollar finishing and I would estimate that The the diamonds they're using are moissanite They're saying they're saying it's vs. One. Okay. I don't know anything about that I don't know what any of this means but they're claiming does say a bump on it. Well, that's cool

it would be like the highest is like flawless and then like internally flawless then VVS one VVS two then VS. So that's, I think, you know, it's like for people like rappers always talk about much as VBS or whatever, VBS stuntin', but you got VS and then you're own, there's only like a couple of diamonds on it that are very small. And then you're saying this watch costs $100,000.

I'm just doing the math. I'm like, you're trying to raise $14.7 million as quick as possible. And you're probably, this might just be a way to launder more money into his campaign like from people who have already maxed out donations or don't have dark money groups to use because like it's just such a Like no one's paying a hundred thousand dollars for this shit. Also making making a watch out of solid gold is so

Dumb to me because it's incredibly heavy and gold is soft. It's very soft. So yeah, it ain't soft and heavy. The two things you want out of everything that you're spending a ton of money on this moment you bang it on a door frame, you're going to have dents in your watch. Yeah, just none of this looks right. I didn't realize how like, I didn't realize things could be as heavy as gold. I went to a children's museum in Copenhagen with my kids and like they had a gold bar there. And I picked that shit up and I was like, this feels like a magic trick. Like what the fuck is happening?

Was that a magnet or some shit? Yeah, yeah. It felt like it was like a magnet. I didn't realize that that was a thing, that something could be that much answered. It incredibly did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess I'm shocked to learn that this $100,000 Trump watch

might not be worth the money he is charging for. Yeah, those blue screws look painted to me. That doesn't look like heat treatment. No, wow, wow. Really coming at the hardware. Maybe this is the like treatment. No. Wow. Wow. Really coming at the. Maybe this is the thing that finally brings him down. Yeah. This same VS one. Yeah, he gets taken in by the Swiss government for fucking.

Right. I mean, saying it's not affiliated with Trump or any political campaign. Like, there's a video with him being like, we're doing the best watches in the world, folks. Look at these watches. They're the best. Like, what does it mean? It's not affiliated with him being like, we're doing the best watches in the world, folks. Look at these watches. They're the best. Like, what does it mean? It's not affiliated with him. He's running for president. He opens the video saying, Hey everyone, it's your favorite president, Donald J. Trump. And I'm, I'm in the watch game now. I'm not sure how it,

another interesting part is when you look at the FAQ says, will I be getting the exact watch that I see on this site? It says, the images are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation. I'm very curious what actually ends up on people's wrist because this could be a total misrepresentation of the item you receive.

Yeah, yeah. He has complete disdain for his supporters. So, yeah, he's like anybody who's stupid enough to support me, probably stupid enough to buy this dumb fucking watch. Watch. Yeah, it's actually made of fucking bullshit anyway. Buy it. Hundred thousand dollars. Like, listen to him talk about this was special. I think you're going to love it.

My new Trump watches doing quite a number with watches. And the quality to me is very important. The Trump victory tourbillon. This isn't just any watch. It's one of the best watches made. It's a tourbillon watch with all he's so checked out. It's like so funny. He doesn't know he doesn't really selling it. Now, he used to be like a little bit more hey and it's a great watch he's like he's like like shifting his weight like a fucking preschooler in a play or something who's just like waiting for his line to go okay by a thousand yeah they claim that his likeness was merely licensed to the best

watches on earth LLC the best watches on earth, LLC, the best watches on earth, all one word LLC, which first of all, they must be the best watches on earth. So Brian, you look pretty stupid right now. It's right there in the name. Let me just stop the recording. Well, no, Brian just jumped out the window. The second of all that company the best watches on earth LLC was founded in July of this year and is His located in the middle of Wyoming. So

Great. Look great griffs happen out there in Sheridan, Wyoming. So bless up bless up. Bless up folks All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, September 26th. We are back tomorrow with a whole episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you tomorrow. Bye. Bye. See y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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