The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP PrigozTrend 8/23: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Chandrayaan, Rudy Giuliani, Pumpkin Spice
Episode Date: August 23, 2023In this edition of RIP PrigozTrend, Jack and Super Producer Bryan discuss the completely unexpected passing of Yevgeny Prigozhin, India joining the 238,000 mile high club, Rudy Giuliani turning himsel...f in (and threatening everyone's children), and Pumpkin Spice season starting real early this year!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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.
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and welcome to this episode of r.i.p pregosh trend you need pregosh trend oh poor guy uh he gone to quote a baseball announcer i think would say after somebody struck out um
anyways uh i am jack and i'm thrilled to be joined by super producer brian jeffrey
hi everybody it's um it's a me yeah i'm never mic, but, you know, any port in a storm.
You're also like always adding commentary in the chat.
Yeah, you know, I like to work behind the scenes.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Well, we'll close our eyes.
So you're still technically behind the scenes.
We do have some sad news out of russia uh evgeny prekoshen uh was listed
as a passenger on a plane which crashed with no survivors russian aviation authorities say
oh what a shame it does feel like though the trustworthy outlets like the guardian and such are couching it in a lot of
like listed on a plane which crashed with no survivors aviation authority says
and they found a bag of his teeth somehow in the rubble and um and one finger yes uh and it had a uh sign attached to it that said for finger
printing um the yeah i mean there's something almost almost admirable about the shamelessness with which putin kills his opponents not quite aberrable but like
approaching it's just like how you admire frank black and king of new york or something like that
where it's like wow he's just really like he's just really on his grind there's a forthrightness to it yeah um yeah yeah but uh
it's like a secret but he wants everybody to know that he was involved basically every time
it's also giving epstein vibes in the sense of like we were all like well that guy's gonna die
pretty soon right like yeah there's no way this guy survives no you can't get caught up like that and right and
still be walking around i think it was also towards the end of the summer when that happened
it's like august is a bad month for anybody who is under arrest and marked for death uh yeah you're
not long for this world with powerful people are mad at you yeah especially
for trying to coup them yeah yeah you got you can't i just i remember specifically that putin
is very very not into that it rubs him away he's like weird he has this weird thing where he's like really he doesn't like it if a hockey player doesn't allow him to
score on them yeah and he also hates it when you try and coup him yeah yeah those two things
makes him so mad yeah so anyways uh a fond farewell you know we've all we've all been
there we've all thought that we could coup russia coup putin um but it's harder than it looks folks like to see you try yeah we bid a bid
adieu to the queue the queue um all right and good news uh india's mission to land a craft
the vikram lander from chandrayaan 3 on the south pole of the moon was a success
hell yeah brother hell yeah brother we on the moon is hell boy
uh i'm just proud of my uh friends in the this is the rock announcing this on Twitter. I'm just proud of my friends in the
Indian space program.
Hell yeah, brother.
Is that real? Is The Rock
really? No, but
just he
always is like
somehow attached to major events.
I believe that because anytime
any people who are brown
do anything, he always chimes in because he's just that fluid.
And by do anything, have their head shot off by SEAL Team 6
is also another example of that.
Oh, yeah.
I forgot about that.
Just proud to be an American today, brother.
Holy shit.
I totally forgot about that yeah he's at um this
is a historic uh and i like the wording on this this is a story because only the u.s china and
the former soviet union have achieved a soft landing on the moon until now so it's like a
is that to distinguish it from like people who have just like crashed just like fired people at the moon
and had them just like crash crash into it like the rocket in that old timey movie that's gonna
be a small chunk of my afternoon is looking up failed landings on the moon or hard landings
yeah hardly yeah because you i mean hey you only hear about the successes right yeah those are the ones that sticks in uh people's memory yeah or stick in the moon's eye um russia
russia definitely like when you look back at some of the lesser known stories of their like how they
made their space program possible was move fast a lot of the same things yeah move fast and don't give a
fuck about people's bodies they they were the first people to send a woman to space
and not for like any sort of good reasons let me just put it like that there's some like grizzly
man style audio of people who russia just like fired into space without really a clear plan of how they were going to get them down.
Yeah.
And those people like burning up.
Yeah.
I can't remember the name and reentry.
But yeah, I've heard the tape.
It's pretty.
He's he's cursing them all the way down.
Voices of death.
But anyways, let's not talk about right you know of course this comes
just days after russia totally shit the bed in their attempt um but we're not here to talk about
russia we're here to talk about india um the rover that they sent will poke around looking for water
based ice and examine the physical characteristics of the surface of the moon.
But the water-based ice, it's just funny to me to imagine that the thing that determines
who will rule the moon is who gets there first.
It's like a race.
Yeah, because that's the thing.
Dibs.
You just gotta get there and shout dibs. Someone very clever in the past decided,
hey, we probably shouldn't allow governments
to have military installations on the moon.
So there's treaties for that,
but as far as, like, you know,
depleting the moon of all of its resources
and possibly sending large chunks of it flying at us like a roland
emmerich movie that's all fair game yeah um so i can't wait for that yeah no military installations
but mining towns mining installations which corporate historically have never had any like
mishaps or accidents no i think i think we're good here india is about to like rule the world
for the i feel like the next you know they're just demographically they're set they're in a
very good position as other populations around the world age um they have that good dependency ratio when a big chunk of the population is moving through their working years
that is good for the economy and like so that when there was the u.s like baby boomer generation
moving from like 18 to 65 uh america was at its peak of economic performance. It was doing great.
They of course wanted to believe it was because they were like so smart and
shit.
Uh,
but like now that they're hitting retirement,
uh,
and have hit retirement,
things are falling off.
And China similarly,
the one child rule kind of,
yeah,
the one child rule put them in an amazing position for,
you know, 18 years but now they have this massive population like working age population that is all entering the part
where they become this is why it's called the dependency ratio is because it's you know people
who can't work so under the age of you know 14 and over the age of 65 or 70, they become a drain on the economy.
And therefore, so you want more working age people.
China had that to a high degree for a while, and now they're entering the phase where they're going to not have that.
The United States entering it, you know, not quite as bad as China entering a bad phase, but not quite as bad.
Just definitely not as good as it had been for them during the baby boom era.
And India, I feel like, is demographers.
They're really set up well for the future.
So, I don't know people don't like reporting this because it takes away like the um specialness of like the u.s having had
economic success they're like no that was our personality and perseverance and i was like no
it was just like your numbers and age and that was it and a lot of luck and uh and a lot of uh a lot of unscrupulous uh activities
yeah totally and a lot of immigration yeah yeah i mean that is one of the reasons that the one of
the things that saves the u.s from just aging going off of a demographic cliff is immigration
but of course um some people don't want that because they're dumb.
All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted
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you get your podcasts and we're back and rudy giuliani has turned himself in and uh threatened your children
while he's at it what's going on here a couple days after claiming in a radio interview that he
has scientific evidence quote unquote that trump won the 2020 election. Uh, he has turned himself into authorities in Georgia,
uh,
but not before.
I can't wait for that white paper.
I know.
Right.
Scientists are saying folks,
they're all saying,
who's he going to put it out on PubMed or something like that?
Yeah.
Medically incontrovertible evidence.
Um, but he did spend a lot of time ranting to the press gathered outside the police station uh by defending his mayoral record for some reason
um he argued he's still the same rudy so still the same rudy gi who made New York City the safest city still in America,
a.k.a. brutalized, unhoused New Yorkers.
But we should all be on his side now.
He also claimed that he's fighting for justice and for Trump, who has been proven innocent several times.
And then he ended his speech by warning that the justice system has been politicized
uh and then looked into the camera and threatened that your rights are in jeopardy and your
children's um so huh but guy okay seems trustworthy to me i i back him now look i i i love rooting for the little guy so you know here's the rudy is he
short there are some pictures of him where he like looks very tiny but i think that might just be
like the way that so his head he's one of those guys where his head throws me off yeah and i i can't tell how tall he is because his head is so fucking big yeah he's like yeah
mostly head yeah 40 head um so seemingly trump doesn't want rudy to flip because uh he is hosting a $100,000 per plate gala dinner to help pay Giuliani's legal bills.
And the invite was written in a very classy cursive writing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dare I say illegible.
President Donald Trump.
Something, something. president donald trump something something you something or quentin eyewitness in
america's mayor yeah rudy giuliani um said something like that but you need i don't i
don't think you needed a classy font to let people know this was going to be a classy event
for a guy facing conspiracy charges and a 10 million dollar sexual harassment
suit so we'll see yeah i mean it look it's it's sponsored by mcdonald's so uh there'll be plenty
of filet of fish and diet coke to go around yeah for these hundred thousand dollar per plate gal
hundred thousand dollar per plate jesus christ i wonder who do you think is going to pull up to this that's the thing like i you hear about these sorts of things for like obama and hillary and it kind
of makes sense to me because of the uh degree to which the rich people who want to be friends with
them have their head up their own ass yeah at least At least, you know, you go to one of those,
you'll be immolated in a,
a firewall of,
of charm.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
But I,
I don't know about this.
Like I probably,
you know,
various mall moguls,
like people who made a lot of money on malls.
I feel like is,
is who I'm like strip malls,
um,
subway franchisees.
Cause I'm really,
cause okay.
It's like,
if this were just like a Trump dinner,
I can sort of envision,
you know,
like all the lackeys pulling up,
but this being for explicitly for Rudy.
Yeah.
I'm like,
who's going to pull up for this guy?
Because you're not pulling up for Trump.
You're pulling up for Rudy.
Yeah.
Big fan.
Yeah.
I'm very curious to see who actually shows up.
Well, both the invite and his statement before turning himself in are mentioning America's mayor.
So I think he's just like trying to trade on his good name.
Just be like, don't pay attention to any of this shit that's happened in the past 15 years.
Think about 9-11.
Most of all, think about 9-11, folks.
most of all think about 9-11 folks hey speaking of 9-11 its cousin 7-11 has already launched their uh pumpkin spice flavored products they launched they launched their pumpkin spice shit on august
it's august the fuck i know they got they want to get ahead of the game you know just like they get
a two-month jump on nine 11.
Um, all right,
I'm going to stop making the seven 11,
nine 11 comparisons,
uh,
because do they need to be made?
I feel like they make themselves,
you know,
um,
you go,
you,
you all can do your own research.
I'm surprised seven 11 didn't change their name.
Right.
I,
I feel like if they,
if they really cared about this country,
they would have,
but yeah,
they launched their, their products back on August 1st.
And yeah, it feels weird
that we are launching early and earlier
as the earth is getting warmer and warmer.
Like people just want to sip a like warm autumnal beverage
while everything around them melts.
Well, actually, when you think about it,
with all of the changes to the climate,
autumn might actually start coming a few months early.
So you might as well get a lead on that,
get people used to their pumpkin spice lattes.
The leaves will start dying soon yeah yeah yeah
get ahead of it the official reason for the season actually happens tomorrow uh starbucks
pumpkin spice latte uh will be hitting stores thursday august 24th jesus christ um this is the 20th anniversary of the beverage and starbucks is introducing a
pumpkin chai latte aka an idea that they just took from tiktok where it's like sort of a secret menu
hack that people talk about on tiktok they're just like yeah we're doing that. And they'll also be releasing pumpkin spiced cocktails at their little hoity-toity Starbucks Reserve locations.
The pumpkin spice whiskey barrel aged iced latte.
Now, I am a recluse.
I don't know what the fuck a Starbucks Reserve reserve what is that is that like a bar oh it's
the top it's the it's the top starbucks man so it's like their flagship starbucks type store
no i think it's i think it's like their idea have you ever heard of like the fancy taco bells
that are like sit down restaurants uh no not in america yeah i think they're trying
to make fancy starbucks a thing these are the fancy starbucks that have like a bar in them
oh okay i see wow so they are thoughtfully deconstructed starbucks yes okay they also
have a pumpkin spice espresso martini but like only one of them has alcohol in
it the pumpkin spice whiskey barrel aged ice latte does not have alcohol in it oh so they're just
they're just getting the peatiness in there i guess so your coffee can taste even more burnt
yeah yeah exactly awesome the pumpkin spice espresso martini uh does contain alcohol so you can pretend like
you're james bond undercover as a soccer dad basically yeah that espresso martini is really
taking off i keep seeing it everywhere yeah you just gotta get awake and drunk yeah america loves
wide awake drunk wide awake and drunk get an espresso martini
and a red bull and vodka yeah and a buzz ball like not technically able to drive but you will be
absolutely certain that you are a better driver than you've ever been yeah when you're drunk on
these absolutely they should sell buzz. I feel like that would be
just in the little cooler
at the front of Starbucks.
I'm like,
they should really,
there's a gap in the market.
They could really take over.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, Brian,
it's been such a pleasure
having you on.
Welcome to the show.
Where can people
find you,
follow you?
Do you do any of that stuff?
I am not on social media anymore. All right. So you can't find you, follow you? Do you do any of that stuff? I am not on social media anymore.
All right.
So you can't find me and don't follow me.
All right.
Hey, leave Brian the fuck alone.
How about that?
Any comments you have for him, you come through me.
All right.
Yeah.
Any complaints or anything, you send it to Jack O'Brien at gmail.com.
Yeah.
Do send it to that because I hate the motherfucker who got that before me.
So just send all your.
Yeah.
All your hate mail.
Just send it to Jack O'Brien at gmail.com.
At gmail.com.
And yeah.
All right.
Well, thanks for doing it.
And 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. 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 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 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.
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. 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.. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the
making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's
Sports.