The Daily Zeitgeist - Secret (Text Deletion) Service, Gen Z/Millennials Love/Hate Remote Work 07.18.22
Episode Date: July 18, 2022In episode 1289, Jack and Miles are joined by writer, musician, and co-host of How Did We Get Weird, Jonah Bayer to discuss… The Cover Up Side of the Jan 6th Sh-t, The (Insert Generation Cohort Here...) Hates/Loves Remote Work takes are weird, Movie Releases Are Confusing The Hell Out Of Everyone and more! The Cover Up Side of the Jan 6th Sh-t What is witness tampering? And could this charge apply to Trump? Gen Z actually doesn’t want to work from home ‘Only in Theaters’: Inside Hollywood’s Campaign to Get Audiences Back to the Big Screen Not Even Paramount Knows When Top Gun: Maverick Will Start Streaming LISTEN: Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love) by The DelfonicsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 246,
episode one of their daily
production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared
consciousness and it is monday july 18th 2022 like you thought it was which of course means
miles what was what is our national day you're doing the right thing because july 18th is world
listening day okay and that's what you're doing right now it might mean maybe opening yourself
up to other perspectives and opinions i don't know but in my just for my own benefit i'm going
to say this about podcasts that's just short for the world listening to the daily zyka's day
exactly and nelson mandela international dayour Candy Day, and National Caviar Day.
A very interesting mix.
What a combo.
Yeah.
Didn't we just have World Gummy Candy Day recently?
Yeah, yeah.
It was gummy worms the other day last week.
I like a sour gummy worm.
So this is my time of year, baby.
I'm back. Leo's season is here. And so is sour gummy worm so this is this is my time of year baby i'm back leo season is here and so is
sour gummy candy anyways my name is jack o'brien aka and i would drink a baja blast and i would
drink 500 more just to be the man with diabetes and blood like
adventure golf water
that is a
with Paul Garaventa
oh wait I should
probably finish
yeah shout out to Paul Garaventa
and I'm thrilled to be joined as always always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!
Oh, it's Miles Gray.
You know, just doing my thing, just hanging out.
No AKs today.
Just starting off the week as myself, Miles Gray, the no-ho god.
You know what I mean?
Oh, right, this Monday.
Yeah.
Well, Miles, speaking of starting the
week off right yes thrilled to be joined by a brilliant and talented writer musician and
podcaster whose work has appeared in rolling stone spin stereo gum and who co-hosts the podcast how
do we get weird with vanessa bear and jonah bear it's jonah bear guys, how's it going? Good.
How are you doing? How are you doing, man?
Good.
I mean, just ate tons of caviar for National Caviar Day.
Nice.
For breakfast.
Oh my God.
It was great.
Yeah.
If I see another egg, I'm going to fucking puke, man.
Too much caviar.
Too much beluga, man.
You did it.
What's that one, there's like that one caviar shop in beverly hills
that like whenever i walk by i'm like oh petrosian there's like a petrosian caviar
like restaurant i'm like what kind like that looks like a place you're advertising that you
want to be strong arm robbed when you walk like i can't think of a more like superfluous like
endeavor to be like i went to the caviar restaurant today you'd be like
okay i'm gonna take your watch people talk about like going places to people watch like that is
appointment viewing people watching just going there and seeing anybody who is strange enough
to just go into a caviar restaurant yeah like i didn't know that existed yeah what do you think
like the the target demographic for a caviar restaurant is?
Like, I don't know.
Like, you're a lawyer who gets, like, billionaires off for, like, war crimes and shit?
Like, that kind of vibe, I feel like?
Like, the bartender at the caviar restaurant has to deal cocaine, right?
Like, but it's, like's not even illegal at that point.
It's just like...
Oh, yeah, it's on the fucking menu.
Yeah, yeah.
I have a license to deal cocaine at this level.
Yeah, it's all medical grade.
This is a Petrosian boutique.
It's like, oh, right, right, right.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Like, I'm looking at their...
They have caviar scrambled eggs.
You know how much that dish is?
40 bucks. $36. Caviar scrambled eggs. You know how much that dish is? 40 bucks.
$36.
Caviar salad.
Caviar salad is a $42 fucking dollars.
Caviar salad.
I like how they're closed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Okay.
Just so you know.
We don't fuck around on those days.
We're Thursday through Sunday off.
Well, that's when the really good shipments come through yeah exactly i feel like there's a lot of people a
lot of ascots there i've started noticing that like very rich people at a certain point you get
so rich that you then start cosplaying as a very rich person again like you just like lose all self-awareness and you are you you just look incredibly like a
rich guy from the 60s like screwball comedy right yeah and the reviews are fucking frightening like
every it's all five stars because i think these are all like aspiring wealthy people like i mean
there's really no other place to go for caviar. Like, really? That is the only voice you can really do.
Really, JB from Costa Mesa?
Truly.
Appointment dining.
I'm just going to, I might have to go by there this week and just take a couple photos and do like those TikTok videos.
Like, hey, man, what do you do for a living?
Like, send people in their cars, people walking into the Petrosian restaurant.
I want to go and interview people.
Like, that needs to be, let's do that. I want to go and interview people.
Let's do that.
We got to do that.
Just to interview.
Nobody's going to agree to be interviewed.
Yeah, but fuck their privacy. Yeah, we'll blur their face
for the purposes of the podcast.
Jonah, where are you coming to us from?
I'm coming to you from Western Massachusetts,
the Berkshires.
Okay.
So, yeah. Are you from Massachusetts? I'm coming to you from Western Massachusetts, the Berkshires. Okay. So, yeah.
Are you from Massachusetts?
I'm not from Massachusetts.
I'm from Cleveland originally,
and then I lived in the New York-Brooklyn area for about 11 years, and I've been out
here for maybe five years or so.
Oh, nice. Never met
a bad person from Cleveland, I always say.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
They're almost all good. You said that like
it was a challenge.
Oh, yeah. Let me introduce you
to a couple people. You know, I had this weird
flashback. When I got my license in
New York, I had an Ohio license. I remember going
to DMV and I had all my paperwork
ready and the person working there was like,
Ohio people, they always got it down.
They always got the paperwork ready. He was like,
I don't know if that's an Ohio thing, but that's another thing.
But yeah, maybe the filter of Ohio people that moved to New York.
Yeah.
Like a different level of motivation or like, I didn't come this way to fuck up this DMV appointment.
I left Ohio for this.
And that is the same filter I'm dealing with because I'm not meeting too many Cleveland people in Cleveland.
I'm meeting a lot of people who left Clevelandveland yes but yeah i feel like everyone's consistent like i feel like all
the people we talk to that are from cleveland like no yeah no it's people are chill people
yeah usually people will be like oh yeah let me introduce you to my high school bully
but yeah i don't know it seems it seems like a. It's a good spot. It's a good spot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, look at this.
It's a good spot.
Nobody says that about their hometown.
Good opinion.
How are the Berkshires?
Beautiful.
It's really nice here in the summer.
There's a lot of nature, a lot of trees, a lot of, you know, art and culture.
I mean, I really like not living in a city and I really like being out here.
And yeah, it's really beautiful.
Nice.
Sounds amazing.
Have you,
have either you been out this way before?
I've been to Massachusetts when I was younger,
I played a lot of hockey,
but it was mostly like playing in and around like the Boston area.
Um,
so I'm,
I'm less,
less versed in the outer areas of,
of Massachusetts or outside of Boston.
Yeah.
I went to, I went to high school for two years in Boston. The, the aforementioned,
before we started recording, we were talking about why, how it's a bad idea to ever give high school students the freedom of living in a dorm. That's why I was doing that in Massachusetts,
but I didn't, I didn't get out to the Berkshires that much other than like once or twice, but it,
it did seem very pretty out there.
It is.
And I did kind of that dorm thing too.
When I was 17,
I did a five week guitar program at Berkeley College of Music in Boston.
So I had that high school kid dorm experience in Boston as well.
A lot of prank phone calls going on.
With all the guitar kids though.
It was a lot of guitar.
It was a lot of kids in practice rooms trying to play
jazz or play really fast like shredding guitar right right right that was more the vibe right
a lot of practice like when you watch kids go from like i like jazz guitar to being like i
fuck with dream theater actually that's where i'm headed now a lot of people had the dream theater
signature ibanez guitar for sure right right exactly that's what i feel like there's always
like that fork in there i grew up a big music nerd kid as well.
I always watched, like, the guitar kids be, like, getting into flamenco, like, shredder ripping metal, or being like, I'm, like, 5D chess brain prog rock shit.
I don't know what any of that means, but it sounds great.
No, it's all good.
All right.
We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.
First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today.
We're talking about the cover-up side of the January 6th shit.
We're going to talk about all the stories about how various generational cohorts hate or love remote work.
And who is behind those stories?
They're wildly inconsistent stories.
Yeah.
Constantly saying, this feels like an op.
We're going to talk about the confusion around when a movie is coming out, if it's coming out in theaters, if it's staying in theaters, if it's going to be on VOD, all of that, plenty more. But first, Jonah, we like to ask our guest, what is something from
your search history? Oh my gosh. So as you mentioned, I do this podcast with my sister
Vanessa called How Did We Get Weird? And I'm always, it's a nostalgia-based podcast, so I'm
always looking up stuff from our childhood. And I found this column in our childhood newspaper,
the plain dealer called Monday moaning.
And we've turned into a segment of the show where it was people just writing
into our local newspaper,
complaining about the most mundane stuff.
And somehow I was like,
I wonder if yes,
there was a thankful Thursday column as well,
that not as successful. But I was like, I wonder if these yes, there was a thankful Thursday column as well, that not as successful.
Right.
But I was like, I wonder if these are archived anywhere.
Turns out they are.
They stopped doing it about 10 years ago,
but there's a bunch of them posted.
And so we've been kind of like doing a new segment where we read them with
guests and get their feedback on them.
But I've just been going through all of these people complaining about,
you know,
like the school bus waiting too long in front of
their neighbor's house or like the mailman dropping a letter a lot of complaints about
younger people on their cell phones um in like what context like they're like i don't like that
they're on them or like they're on them in the restaurant or on the train just they don't like
it seems like a lot of people are just yeah think the next generation is just too too on their phone
which and this is 10 years ago so like they must be going back yeah they must not be but then one
we recently found that was really funny was was it oh someone got told to be quiet at the movie
before the previews had started wow yeah right i feel like i'd write in about that that that is
preempt preemptive shushing is like all all right, you're like working too hard.
You're doing too much work in your brain and the anxiety that you've like generated.
You've like sort of created a whole story where this person is going to continue talking through the previews.
Just why don't you just wait and see?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that happened.
And then the person getting told to be quiet wrote this letter to the newspaper saying this happened to me and they were complaining about getting told so it's to me
that's my search history is a lot of reading these these letters basically yeah like whenever i'm like
in a like a smaller city like i always like to look at the like the most local paper because it
you realize like how quaint sometimes like the problems are and like i remember one time like
in british columbia like i was in this like weird like this smaller coastal town and i found their
local paper and like one of the main columns on the side was this like argument between a city
council person and like getting mad about dog pee versus dog poo on things and it was like taking up
so much space but like the energy given to
them like this is i'm glad that they're not talking about you know police murders or like
shit like that and it's just about dog pee or poo is that the one where they were talking about like
carrying a squirt bottle with them like that that being like you gotta carry a squirt bottle and
like no but i like this what do you mean like as a tactic to scare off a dog or something no no it's to you carry a squirt bottle maybe i heard about it on
another podcast where somebody was like very proud that they carried a squirt bottle with them so
that when their dog peed somewhere they would just like do shit with like water from their squirt
bottle to but then like they were using that to like
hang that over everyone else's head and then like you know at like be like you really should carry
a squirt bottle and they became like the squirt bottle police oh got you okay which just feels
like the way that good ideas happen and then get taken in the worst possible direction right what is something jonah that you
think is underrated here's what i think is underrated i like i think cheap stuff that
you're gonna break or lose anyways and i'm talking specifically like i just got some
$20 sunglasses i know i'm gonna forget them somewhere or break them and i'm gonna be okay
with it i like cheap umbrellas all this stuff it's i like
i like having nice stuff i'm gonna use it like how specific that one is i like i like just this
stuff i know i'm gonna lose that it feels less the stakes are lower um when it's just i haven't
spent so much money on it does that make sense yo yeah totally i love that i was definitely a
sunglass person like that because i was like i remember the first time i bought sunglasses like when i was in high school i bought like
i don't know some no it was college i bought christian dior sunglasses because i was trying
to like j-lo or some rapper or some shit and i lost those shits like in one month and i was so
distraught over it i was like i only deserve shit I get for free at a medical fair.
And now I kind of, I just recently bought like an $80 pair of sunglasses and I'm treating them shits like the fucking Holy Grail right now.
But no, I do.
It is liberating to have those like throwaway sunglasses for sure.
Now, are you a pretty, like just looking at your background, it doesn't seem like there's shit scattered everywhere like that.
So my issue is that like I have kids and we our house has like an inch of cheap stuff you're going to break or lose anyways on the floor at all times unless I'm like constantly cleaning up.
It's like a, you know, a snow like snow in Buffalo during the winter.
It's just like it's going to be everywhere.
Like you just have to make,
make your peace with it.
Like,
how do you,
how do you deal with the accumulation of it when you,
you lose it,
but it's somewhere and it's just like around.
That's tough.
That's tough.
I usually feel like the more I look,
the harder it will be to find.
So I try to just kind of take a break,
come back to it later, and usually it will
show up as soon as I stop looking.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Exactly. And what, you pray to St. Anthony?
Well, I'm doing that all the time anyway.
Isn't that what the Catholics do for when you lose some?
At St. Anthony?
Yeah, probably. I don't know, man.
I stopped paying attention to that
pretty soon after the first confession
when I was like, oh man, this is stressful.
Oh yeah, it is.
Because I remember at my friend's house
with the neighbors growing up that were Catholic,
it was the first thing that mom said.
I don't pray to St. Anthony.
Yeah.
And it's like, for my deodorant?
Just like, I'm not not gonna help you pray to fucking
saint anthony i got a lot i got nine kids in this house like turn it over to saint anthony
what's like okay joan i'm curious what's another thing you said sunglasses and umbrellas what's
another like liberating cheap thing that maybe people don't think about that like it's like you
don't need to spend a lot of money on that because you might lose it and maybe it's more freeing to
buy the cheap one that's a really good question those are the first two that come to mind yeah no i agree coffee mugs i feel like
you got you can get the occasional free coffee mug or hats like t-shirts you know yeah yeah
man i'm i can't believe how many free t-shirts i hold on to. It's weird that I have an inability to throw away a free t-shirt.
And I have piles of most useless t-shirts that I think I give to my mom and she uses them as dish towels.
That's like about, yeah, I can't, for some reason, I can't part with a free shirt.
What's something you think is overrated?
the free shirt what's something you think is overrated this might be a little controversial but i think uh cold brew coffee i feel like you know it takes 12 24 hours i'm just not into cold
coffee i i like i like coffee a lot i like espresso drinks i feel like cold brew is like
the payoff that just isn't there for the time it takes yeah i like cold brew for the power of it and i had a like one of those 24 hour
like overnight things you had and it like kept fucking with me because like if i missed my 24
hour window i was like well shit then it's going to be ready in the middle of the day and i did
that shit right before i record and it completely like i lost all momentum with making it and now
i just drink the concentrate uncut and that's just easier for me.
When I met Miles many years ago, he was bragging about how he is caffeine insensitive.
Caffeine doesn't affect him.
And then I watched him drink cold brew and go clinically mad.
Like, just completely lose his mind.
I'm like, I don't experience any change, man.
I was like, you're speaking at triple time what the fuck is happening do you like i i feel like that is another like i feel like i am learning
about you because that is another like opinion of somebody who's like i don't need the like
crack version of caffeine that is delivered by cold brew is that you you like more of a steady
slow drip yeah and i just like that i just like the hotter drinks are like more traditional i
guess but you know i've also thought at times that i'm caffeine insensitive and i've never
heard anyone else say that and is that is that a pos is that possible is that like a real thing
it is anecdotally i feel like on twitter a lot I see a lot of takes of like, yeah, I used to say that all the time.
And then I was diagnosed with ADHD.
Okay.
Interesting.
That may be a reason why I wasn't vibing with caffeine, but my mom is the same way.
Like, so she would drink coffee like before bed just because she likes hot drinks and
likes the flavor.
So I don't know.
I mean, my mom's pretty i i don't know if she has
adhd but i think it's probably some some kind of real thing with their caffeine receptors
the adhd thing is definitely real like i like i that's how i was with nicotine where i was like
i just need a little nicotine to go to sleep my wife was like that's a stimulant what the
fuck are you talking about like that's not it's not how that works man
i'm like i don't know my sleepy time gum yeah but yeah i don't i don't know like the cold brew does
seem like a next level of of caffeine that i i like a lot of caffeine and i still try not to
fuck with it too much because it's it's. Fucking with Jeff, you all get it.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's take a quick break.
We'll come back.
We'll talk about some January 6th shit.
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and we're back and yeah so there there was a story on the intercept towards the end of last week that the secret service had deleted some text messages during the fifth and, which was a crucial time, a crucial time. And beyond just them being like, no,
you can't go to the riot, President Trump, and we'll drive you back to the White House.
Like their involvement, there's some speculation about their involvement in the beat by beat of
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and then they use a big garret emmer some shit you know just a nice little tweet silencer and then um but that doesn't really make
sense that's not how like a coup in the united states would go down unless steven seagal was
involved and so that it seems like maybe a more reasonable narrative is that they let the mob create an unsafe environment at the Capitol.
They come in, they're like, we got to get you out of here.
And then that buys them time to then, you know, do whatever the next step of the non-certification cooing, which makes like that.
That's the first version of this where I'm like,
Oh,
if you were doing a planned out,
carefully planned and not like a haphazard bullshit thing like that actually
starts to make sense to me.
Right.
And I mean,
there's all that coincides with like Chuck Grassley on the January 5th
saying like,
Oh yeah,
Mike president or vice president president mike pence vice
president vice pence uh vice pepsi is not like suggested that he would skip the certification
on january 5th and people are like wait why did he say that on the 5th right being like yeah he
might not be there and it's like and i might have to do it like wait hold on what and then he like
backtracked so there's a lot
of it around it where constantly we're just being like so many people knew about what the fuck was
going to go down and open their mouths at the dumbest times that you're just kind of like okay
there's so many more questions than answers but clearly you can see that people there was a group
of people who knew what was going to happen and others that had less of an idea for sure yeah
and it's just i don't know there's also like dhs officials tweeting like jan 6 is going to be crazy
lol like right before and like dhs is like the that's who over oversees i think the
the secret service it's like the people within the department that
would have been involved in like all this shit going down so i don't know like i get i get the
like sort of more stylist position on january 6th being like it doesn't matter they were never
like we were never in danger of this group of dipshits overthrowing the u.s government
they're idiots it's nothing compared to what we've never in danger of this group of dipshits overthrowing the U.S. government.
They're idiots.
It's nothing compared to what we've done in other countries' elections, which is all, like, seems true.
I'm just not sure how it makes sense to, like, be dismissive of the investigation before we know all the facts.
And it does seem like the more we learn, the more it's like, oh, okay, I can i can at least like see what they were trying to do here and that definitely feels like the sort of thing that you wouldn't want
somebody to do if they're going to be also the next president of the united states yeah i mean
i think it's just uh it's just i think the part that makes it tough is like, despite everything that was even known, it's like, we don't even have like a justice system that like moves to correct it.
So a lot of people are like, yeah, we know now do the part that shows there are consequences.
Like, so for so many people, they don't need to be convinced much more.
So for so many people, they don't need to be convinced much more.
And I think that's part of, for me, the frustration, like seeing all this.
I'm like, I'm really curious to see what actual consequences are born out of all this, because it's not going to be enough to be like, oh, they did that.
That's fucking that's the most frightening part of this is that it ends with, oh, and that's it.
And, you know, as we see, like, Trump, you know,
getting ready to announce, like, being a candidate in 2024,
I'm also curious, like, is the media really just going to talk about this guy?
Like, he didn't do all this shit, and just, like,
the coverage about his candidacy is just going to be like, and he's going for it again, rather than this fucking guy
tried to steal the election last time.
Why are we talking about him?
But, you know, I think to be fair and balanced or CNN doesn't want to be too extreme.
They'll just be like, yeah, he's going for another bite of the fucking apple.
And President Trump going for another bite of the apple.
Like, yeah, there's so much.
I mean, this is like how the coverage of like Roe being overturned is similarly just like so middle of the road and
like gamified and like well this is bad optics for the republicans and it's like uh this is bad
for humans right now yeah like your human beings that you're talking about a 10 year old human
being that you're talking about and you're you're making it into like a story about bad
optics man yeah like an episode of scandal or something right like olivia pope couldn't even
save them it's like i don't think that's a necessary analysis in all of this but sure
but yeah i think just looking at all just the back and forth with the secret service
you know and even the fact that joe biden he came into office, they were like, we need to like fucking completely over,
like flip these,
like sub these guys the fuck out.
Like they already had questions,
concerns about the people who were working with Trump,
working with Biden.
So there's a lot of stink coming out of there.
And yeah,
just like the,
the process of like the inspector general being like,
Hey,
we need those texts.
And then they'm like,
Oh yeah,
one second.
Oh, we deleted them just now after you asked for them yeah like that's a it's a bad look as they'd say in the media great for their optics the entire like watergate scandal was about the
cover-up like that's the whole thing was the cover-up that was what everybody was so outraged
about like this is joan i don't know if you're with me on this one but i've always said nixon That's the whole thing was the cover up. That was what everybody was so outraged about.
Like this is,
Joan,
I don't know if you're with me on this one,
but I've always said Nixon,
not so bad.
I'm a big Nixon guy.
No,
but like when you look at like how far we've come,
we're like,
we have nothing but evidence of like a cover up happening here.
I'm like,
that's not even like the story people are like even aware of or focused on is like yeah yeah no you're trying to cover it up it's i haven't paid that much attention to it i've
seen stuff here or there but i'm curious like yeah what else it just seems like i don't know
what would be a big deal at this point right right like because that last headline i saw was about him trying to grab
the steering wheel of this car and they're like oh this is like a big bombshell and then it's like
everyone's like okay and now it's they're racing the tech it's like i just feel like they're gonna
keep digging stuff up where does it go to where does it go exactly yeah i don't know i don't know
if any of this will really ultimately have any impact i have no idea it and it bothers me like
because i saw like
an op-ed last week that was like saying like if the doj doesn't do anything it's gonna it's gonna
harm their legitimacy and i'm like are are you hearing shit that they're not gonna do anything
and that's why you're writing this op-ed to try and like signal to people that like they might
fucking not you know really bring the full weight of the legal system down on these people.
So I guess that's really all
this is building up to. It's like,
yeah, I don't need to, like, I saw the Titanic
sink, like, and yeah, I'm glad to know
what happened inside the Titanic
as it was sinking, but it was clear what happened
from the outside enough that I'm like,
what's going on with that now?
Yeah. But, yeah,
we wait with bated breath yeah if it does feel like
if they don't do anything if he just like wins again somehow like we like that we have enough
evidence to be like he's never leaving office again like he's not just gonna do the dumb
bad version of the coup this time like we we know know for a fact now, like, he is going to, we'll never have another fair election as long as he's alive.
Like, so, I don't know.
Maybe that's something to bring up as you're talking through this.
Because people, like, the Democrats were so happy last week that, like, Biden was still up three points on Trump. It's like
that's that's not the battle of who could care less. Right. Exactly. Sure. All right. Let's talk
about another failing of the mainstream media. And this is the way that they're covering
like various generations loving or hating remote work during a pandemic i mean this has been i feel like one
of the main like not main topics but one of like the bigger sort of societal shifts that came out
of the pandemic that's like constantly debated of like is remote work good is it bad is it killing
us is it like do we not know what our own faces look like because of zoom and like constantly
hear about these different things like zoom fatigue we've covered all those things okay what'd you say i'm confused about that last one not knowing what our face
looks like because it's like talking about how generally like people are like losing like
certain mirror neurons aren't firing when you look at like a fucking zoom call too long there's like
a whole there's like some other neurological studies about it and i say that like flippantly
but it was sort of like your brain is kind of like not using certain things.
It could be when you're just looking like they're saying, like it affects like your ability to know where you are in space and time, like especially when talking to people in other time zones.
Right.
Your mind is trying to place your existence in physical space, like in relation to a video.
And like they're saying, like it's like running your cell phone on like GPS location mode, but there's no cell service.
So just draining your battery, trying to figure out where you are.
Oh, your brain.
I got it.
So it's like a subtle thing.
But again, we hear constantly like, is it the pros cons?
Do they love it?
Do they hate it?
And, you know, in the beginning, it was clear that a lot of people that had the ability or privilege to work remotely enjoyed doing so. In fact, like
it was like a big thing that people can like pointed to when people left their jobs was people
wanted to continue to work remotely or have the flexibility because, you know, the pandemic has
changed all these things. But then as like the pandemic, you know, raged on, it was also clear
that like the boss class of people were starting to like unite in their sort of like message of
like, Hey, let's, uh, let's get back to the office folks. How about that? Huh? Wouldn't that be fun?
Like back to normal. I know the case numbers aren't going down, but like, what about if we
went back to the office? And it's, I think, you know, it's clear that the commercial real estate
industry clearly being hit by the lack of people in traditional office settings. And they, along
with like other business interest groups were like really pushing hard like we saw them like
whether it's from the government or the media like this whole idea like we're back baby like
what but today you can like read pieces about remote work like in slate there was one about
like you know as a black employee remote work has done wonders for my mental health because I don't
I no longer have to deal with like dumb fucking racist microaggressions or just weird bullshit
that's born out of like having to be a black person in a workplace. And that comes along with,
you know, people's unneeded analysis or suspicions, et cetera. Well, you can also find like articles
that are saying everyone hates it.
And I want to point at Business Insider for a second.
In April, they had a piece that was called Return to Office is Driving Gen Z to Quit.
And it talked about how much Gen Z workers, again, hated this push to return to the office.
It was they they weren't agreeing with it.
They didn't like having their boss be like, I don't give a fuck if you're going to get sick, man.
You have to come back to work.
So I can just like watch you.
But then you can feel my cold eyes digging.
Yeah.
Because you were asking you to get in here to look at something on my computer really quick that I think is cool.
That like check out this meme.
Is that.
Oh, man.
I mean, I remember having a boss who was like, hey, check out this meme is that how it's pronounced oh man I mean I remember having a boss who was like hey check out
this YouTube video I'm like you're
fucking way too old for me to
be calling me into your office to check out a dumb YouTube
video anyway all I have to say is
then at the end of last week
Business Insider put out a new piece called
Gen Z actually hates working from home
what
like this is really like they're pointing turns out they hate
it i like how they said actually you know like as if they know what they said in april like actually
actually gen z actually hates like working from home and i'm like what the fuck is the thrust of
this piece though they are pointing to surveys that show that like gen z were like the least interested age cohort in remote work when you compare workers in
their 30s and older but like many commenters like on the article and just like on twitter and stuff
were like this shit is such weird bullshit they're like yeah i want to like extend my work day by
hours to go to a place that's like terribly cramped in the middle of a
pandemic no that's what i want can i read the first sentence here just say i want i want to
get you guys's opinion on what they were going for here right for the youngest employees working
from home isn't everything are they doing like the gen z thing like oh my god that is everything
like are they like oh trying to do like a play on that
yeah i i that went right over my head whoosh that sucks though that really is bad bad yeah what
they're they're all pointing like articles like this and there's another one that was in fortune
magazine which we all know is the official outlet of the proletarian revolution um that they point
to a survey of high school students to
reinforce this argument this they're all drawing from this art this like one survey and i'm going
to quote it quote less than a quarter of gen zers feel remote work is quote very or extremely
important to them per the national society of high school scholars 2022 career interest survey the report which pulled nearly 11 500 high school and college
aged individuals but mostly high school says that remote schooling during the pandemic may have
turned swaths of gen z off from remote working so i'm like that's not a good sample size of the gen
z workforce are kids who spent like have never worked years
of their like high school life indoors me like hey you want a situation that mirrors that
as a work thing and they're like no right yeah like i would get it like if you were
younger and you had you wanted to go to college in person right and you had to do most of your
colleagues experience online maybe you would be like when i get in the workforce i want to be
able to interact with people right and make friends i get that's like the socialization
aspect but yeah i mean it also just seems funny when these places make like a sweeping generalizations
about like a whole generation of people want this or that
when it's like there's so much nuance and so much going on there right right it's like the
misrepresentation between like the opening uh like talking about the work like gen z workforce
having this opinion and then going right to this is what high school and college students think they will want once they start working.
Well, clearly, I'm sure they came up with the headline first and they were like,
how can we find data to support this?
It doesn't matter what it is from.
Let's just find it.
Yeah, they've had this headline ever since they wrote the article saying that gen z does like working prefer working from
home and the better business bureau of every city reached out to them and were like what the fuck do
we pay you for what the fuck did we pay you for fortune magazine like get back out there and find
me one that gen z actually doesn't actually put actually in the title sir like it how is that mr fortune and just interesting
when you talk about like the things that they do like in this national survey of high school
scholars it says remote work remote work doesn't even crack the top three things gen z is looking
for in a job according to the high school student survey it said they prioritize fair treatment of
all employees quality of life and flexibility and corporate social responsibility. I'm like, look, kids, you clearly haven't had your soul fucking ground to dust and blown away by some bosses fart into nothingness because you may realize like oh yeah that flexibility means not
having to waste gas and shit to go to like my icebox of an office and number two is essentially
remote work it's like it's basically contradicting the entire fucking point and i think it's fucked
up because yes i get for like what a person a young person who's about to enter you know their
working career whatever thinks of what their life would be like.
Yeah, you'd want to think like my job will be cool.
I like my coworkers.
We kick it after work.
We go out for drinks and shit like that.
But that's obviously they're they're more speaking from an experience that they're yet to have.
But they're using this for like this very stupid, like pro business propaganda shit.
And I'm like, it's just confusing to read.
It's I mean, it's so transparent that like they just couldn't get they couldn't get the results.
They couldn't get the headline that they were looking for.
And so they had to just lie, I guess, is kind of the only real honest way to put it.
And I get there are like again
every the week all we contain multitudes you can't treat anything like a monolith so i'm sure there
are plenty of kids who are like yeah fuck that like the last i've been doing remote shit for a
lot for a few years now and that's the last fucking thing i want to do i totally get that
but i think to like you're saying also saying jonah like to have this like hasty broad blanket generalization and be like yeah all of them fucking hate it
right and they also don't and also never had a job yet but like i do wish this article had worked in
more of these terminologies like this is everything or like turns out it isn't fire to be working
remotely right right right it's like those previous surveys
that said gen z actually wanted remote work that's all cap they said what market cap
like oh shit fortune go to bed go to bed fortune i don't know you know i work in um like i'm
finishing a graduate degree in clinical mental health counseling.
And so I work, you know, in mental health.
And to me, it's like the remote work is like change everything.
I mean, it's made it amazing, you know, having access to therapists, people getting help with mental health, all these companies starting up.
So to me, there's just so, you know, doing a podcast like this from our houses, to me, there's so many benefits.
There's just so, you know, doing a podcast like this from our houses to me, there's so many benefits.
I find it hard to think that things will ever really go back to the way they were. And people go and commuting into these huge corporate offices and spending all day there when they know they don't have to anymore.
Right. Yeah.
the like boss you know ceo class of people to be like you don't need your big concrete dick symbols of buildings in a downtown to like demonstrate the might of your company in fact
you'll probably save a lot of money by getting out of your like 30 million dollar fucking 40 year
lease or whatever the fuck you're locked into and then you can just build more anatomically accurate
giant concrete dick symbols.
Yeah, that's true.
That represent your company because you don't have to like have people working inside them.
So you get giant concrete dicks that are like 800 feet tall.
Concrete dick obelisks coming to a downtown near you.
Yeah, enough with all the, you know, bullshit about making them look like
buildings. Do the damn thing.
I mean, so, do you think
overall, like,
and this is just my conclusion, is that
the reason
this group of respondents is
responding this way
is because they're being asked
like a question that's too abstract.
Like, based on what they've
experienced right like i'm not trying to because i'm not trying to be old elder geriatric millennial
here being like yeah that's all bullshit none of these kids want that because i'm like i get the
yearning for socializing and like you know the idea that being in an office can like foster
connections that give you a network to be able to like you know progress your career advance it but
i don't know like my take is they're asking kids whose souls have not been crushed yet
and of course they're going to respond this way i think there's been a culture of like yeah i think
they miss the socialization i also think there's been a culture of them trying to push like offices
that are fun they have like a beanbag room or like a ping pong table or something. And I think
that couch. Yeah, that might seem fun if you are looking. Maybe that's like an extension
of college or something. But I do think you're right. I do think that. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe
I don't know. It's I've never met anyone that said I can't wait to go back to my office. I don't know.
I'm sure I'm sure that I have not. Yeah, I'm sure those people go back to my office. I don't know. I'm sure that those- Truly, I have not.
Yeah.
I'm sure those people might exist in some context,
but I mean, I don't know.
I also feel this is based on like a LinkedIn survey.
Like it's like, I don't know,
you know, we don't know what the sample size is.
We don't know.
I mean-
11,000 children, actually, is the sample size.
Okay.
All right.
I guess we do know.
11,000 college-aged or high school students and college
aged kids but yeah i because like even with the perks right i remember early in my career like i
remember seeing my friends who like went to like fancy like their offices were like fucking nice
and i was like oh that shit looks dope because like meanwhile like the place i go to for lunch
is a liquor store up the street versus like a
building that like had a cafeteria and shit in and you're like oh look at this capitalist like
fucking hellscape that's so shiny but even when i worked in offices like that had amazing perks like
you know wild ass thirsty thursdays and like barista cart like cooking up whatever fucking
drinks you wanted that shit wore off like within the third month of working there.
I'm like, I fucking hate my life and I just want to be home all day.
Please get me out of here.
Yeah, I think it's like living.
I've never lived in those places, but like an apartment complex with all these amenities
and then the price seems nice when you're and then you realize you probably never use
almost all of them.
Right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah. and then you realize you probably never use almost all of them right right yeah yeah and you can work
from home and have a social life with people you don't work with or the ones you want to hang out
with from work you can go hang out with them but you have control over your life as opposed to
being forced to come into an office and overseen by like that does feel like a big part of it is like having someone there who is
overseeing you and like there is what like no matter what their management style is there is
like some sense of like you are being judged and like this is going on your permanent record no
matter what and like that high school students and college age students don't
really have the kind of profound long-term sense of like mental harm that that sort of environment
does yet so yeah yeah if you look at like culturally like a show like the office right
like the american version um like it's almost like this is just where you go.
These are the people you're stuck with and you can make these connections or something.
And it's like, yeah, you don't have to do that anymore.
Like you can hang out with whoever you want.
You don't have to be miserable.
So yeah, I think there's sort of maybe this nostalgic,
like, I don't know,
like maybe it's idealized a little bit in some ways.
Cause I, you know,
I think that show is still really popular with a lot of people. But, yeah, I think this new paradigm is is totally these CEOs are not happy about it for sure.
Yeah. Where's that like spinoff show where it's Stanley and Oscar from the office texting their group chats and like this motherfucker, Michael, really just says shit about gay people right now.
And everybody is laughing in here.
And I have to pretend to go along with this shit.
He tried to kiss me, fam.
Yeah, it does, I think, give people that idea.
Like, it can be like a whimsical place.
I think we'd be remiss because we do have somebody on the Zoom call who does represent Generation C.
And I just, I would like to ask Super Producer Trisha.
Oh, yeah.
Just very quickly, Tricia,
from your 10,000 foot view,
I don't know if you're hearing this
or you, you know,
you got something else
happening right now,
but Tricia, if you're there,
would you mind giving your perspective
generationally?
Am I far off?
Am I an old man yelling at the sky?
What do you think is happening?
Damn.
Real short notice.
Caught Trisha lacking.
My bad, Trisha.
We'll cut that in later.
No, this is being noted.
Thanks a lot, Trisha.
Sounds like Gen Z really does like remote work
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And let's talk movie releases.
I mean, the studios are up in arms.
They're very concerned that nobody knows when a movie is coming out, if a movie is coming out, that it is only in theaters.
A lot of polling is showing consumer confusion.
I feel that 100%.
Yeah.
Like, Top Gun 2 is still only in theaters like months after it was released
i think i think it's i don't know i because i like am always like i i find it interesting to
like see how movies are doing at the box office i like end up like kind of aware of like okay so
that did really well so that's probably not going to come out on vod but like if you're not paying attention to that stuff it's just like yeah no top gun that came out like
months ago why is it still out and why can't i watch it on tv yeah i in my mind i just thought
everything came out on streaming like that's what i've assumed actually for most of the pandemic
like when a movie comes out and i'm always like, oh, this shit's only in theaters like that.
I'm always like ready to sit down and be like, what the fuck?
It came out today and realizing it's only in theaters for certain things.
But I don't even doesn't even make sense like what they're prioritizing by putting in theaters these days.
Like, I'm pissed that I didn't realize that RRR, which is still my favorite movie I've seen this year,
the kind of Bollywood action musical,
just extravaganza,
like, that shit's out in theaters.
I didn't realize that was out in theaters.
Like, I should have seen that in theaters
before I watched it in three chunks on an iPad
over the course of two days.
Could you do a three-hour?
I can't,
man.
I,
I,
I feel like three hours.
I really have trouble staying engaged in a,
in a movie theater for three hours.
Maybe I just need to go do that.
Just go watch it.
Cause then,
yeah,
I can take pee breaks and it'll be,
I won't be missing that much.
You know,
Jonah,
what's your,
what's your been your like movie consumption pattern?
Are you, are you even like watching stuff? You've just given up. You you're like I don't know if it's good enough I'll find a DVD
somewhere I was just thinking about this and it's like you know think about that the Irishman that
Scorsese movie that came out in 2019 it was like a really big deal that it was coming out on like
Netflix and in the theaters and now it's we're so used to it like i feel like now like
you're saying we expect everything so i would find it hard like i have like an indie theater
near me that and i'll just kind of go check out whatever's there but i can't remember last time
i specifically was like i want to go see like a blockbuster film at like a chain theater i think
it would take a lot i don't know for me to leave the house.
It takes a lot.
That's to be really good.
I'm going to leave.
Yeah.
I mean,
the last one I saw in the theater was Jurassic Park Dominion or whatever,
the lost world Dominion or old Dominion university,
whatever it was called.
Yeah.
Old Dominion university.
Yeah.
Old Dominion university.
Like,
and that I also,
my first assumption was it was
going to be on streaming and i had to quickly be like oh shit i gotta do the fucking like movie
theater for this and i think now it's already like on streaming like even in like within like
wasn't there like some prescribed window that like like the studios were trying to do where
it's like all right we'll give like a 40 some day yeah 45 days was i think pretty standard um heading into the pandemic and then um and that even seemed short
like before i know christopher nolan has like 90 days written into his old contract and um
yeah it's like now it's basically you know the the uh blackow movie came out on streaming and had a massive theatrical release on the same day.
And I think people think it didn't do well because of that.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
People are back.
They are seeing movies in theaters.
back they are seeing movies in theaters so like a big reason this is on people's minds is that this movie the gray man starring ryan gosling as someone who's like easy to forget when you see
them like the idea of the gray man is like you know a cia agent who's like you know just blends
into the background to the point that like they can get away with doing stuff.
Like a white guy?
This sort of like, yeah, exactly.
This like forgettable figure.
And it's like, yeah, so we'll get the handsomest human being like on the planet to play that role.
Forgettable dude.
Yeah, forgettable dude.
But anyways, it's like a big it cost i think 200 million dollars
like there was the budget for it and it's coming out just on netflix like they're uh just putting
it on netflix and like doing a theatrical like a limited theatrical release like it's an indie movie
um but so that's coming out this weekend a lot of people seeing the ads for that are like, wait, what? That, but that's, you're giving me ads like it's a blockbuster. It has kind of like opened pandora's box for like the
sort of obscuring or blending together of like film and streaming that like the prestige the
perceived prestige is getting diluted a little bit because now our idea of like what a big movie is
we also kind of expect to be on our tv at home and it's almost
like yeah whatever i don't give a fuck about the theater like can i stream it right now and is that
kind of like is that beginning to change how we're even like perceiving what a film is or not you
know yeah i think so i think it's very similar actually to like the remote work idea where
people would it be like oh this is never possible And then you see it's possible and people don't want to go back.
Like, I bet you Forbes write an article like,
Gen Z doesn't like streaming movies at home.
They love spending $50 to go to the theater.
Yeah, every time a movie comes out that doesn't do well at theaters,
they write that article.
They're like, turns out Gen Z is rejecting the yeah or or i guess every time
the movie comes out that does do well top gun i'm sure they were like there were 20 think pieces
they were like turns out gen z is ready to go back to theaters right is is gen z responsible
for the death of the cinema yes you know it's like i don't know are are is everybody like young broke as shit right
i'll put that question too like instead of being like with the millennials it's like they like
avocados more than house rather than being like they've been fucked multiple times by recessions
and then with gen z it's like i don't know these kids like used clothes how they dress it's like
the little more thrifting.
I don't know.
What do you want me to say?
You're like a little, little bit of difference there.
But yeah, I feel like there's part of the confusion is like, I don't know if it's a
good or bad thing for like the movie industry because like you're spending $200 million
and people are like, I don't know.
Is that like a TV show?
You know, I'm like, and we also have so many prestige tv shows with like with like talent that
we used to silo in our minds as being like film talent or tv talent that i think it's all coming
together now to just become like the audio visual industry um yeah i don't know if that's like if
that's like a more of a meta problem that they have to consider is like people aren't i don't
know how many people are taking in stuff is like being like it has to be in theaters like maybe avatar too like has a shout for something like
go home avatar yeah like the the gray man thing like i i feel like i don't have like strong
opinions or like no i guess nobody's figured it out but like when i see something that feels wrong
i know it and like the gray man not being in theaters doesn't make sense to me like they
should have released it in theaters and like i think the only reason they didn't is because
like netflix paid for it and so netflix is like no we we want it to be like the big netflix thing
but like that they should have released it.
It's the type of movie,
like a big budget action movie
that has an amazing cast.
That's the sort of thing
that's supposed to come out in theaters.
And then you can put it on Netflix.
But guess what?
Gen Z doesn't fuck with cinema anymore.
So now it has to be on streaming it even seems like
an odd business decision for netflix who's like being like we're viable as a business like you're
not going to turn the like box office revenue spigot on right and just be like it's for the
people maybe we'll draw in more people with this film right like their whole thing is like that
they know a lot about what people want to watch. Like that's supposed to be like the thing that makes them different.
Like you could definitely apply that to theatrical movies as well,
but yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Put your prayers up,
put your prayers up for them.
Prayers up for the movie industry prayers up for the mouse house.
And,
uh,
the,
what are, what are the shitty like trade nicknames for all the other ones?
I forget.
It's the house that Mouse built, right?
And Mouse House.
I don't know if there's other.
I don't know, dude.
I've avoided the industry trade magazines for a while now.
Unless I'm reading about Armie Hammer selling timeshares in the Cayman Islands.
What a run.
Well, Jonah,
it's been such a pleasure
having you.
Where can people find you,
follow you,
all that good stuff?
Yeah, sure.
You can check out
our podcast on iHeart.
Also,
How Do We Get Weird
that I co-host with Vanessa.
They are my sister.
Thank you so much.
So we have a new episode out today with Michelle from Japanese Breakfast.
Oh, dope.
So that's a really fun one.
And I'm on Twitter, Jonah and Bayer.
And yeah, you can check on my website.
I do a lot of music writing.
And yeah, that's pretty much it, I guess.
Nice.
Your sister's character on Weekend Update of the young boy,
like I think having a bar mitzvah, or I forget the name.
Jacob, the bar mitzvah boy, partially inspired by me as a 13-year-old.
I've always wondered that.
It is, I think, one of my top five snl characters of all time it's so good and like
deeply just like perfect and human it's like so so wonderful so yeah yeah it's like it's like
some of the best snl characters always based off someone's sibling like garth is like dana
carvey's brother oh is it? I didn't know that.
I didn't know that either.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying?
I like,
uh,
I don't know if you're familiar with John Worcester.
He plays drums in a bunch of bands,
super chunk,
the mountain goats.
He plays with Bob mold a lot. He is on social media.
I feel like just one of the funniest people a lot of it's
music oriented but
yeah John Worcester is just
someone I've I think it's
great on social media very funny very silly
amazing check it out
Miles where can people find you what's a tweet you've been
enjoying Twitter Instagram at
miles of gray
G-R-A-Y because I see a lot of y'all
hitting me up with a G R E Y spelling.
And that is upsetting.
Cause that's not my name.
Also check out the other podcasts,
you know,
miles and Jack got mad boosties.
That's the basketball podcast.
A great episode this week or this last week with a CJ Toledano.
Check out for 20 day fiance where I talk 90 day fiance with Sophia,
Alexandra,
some tweets that I like. Check out 420 Day Fiance, where I talk 90 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra.
Some tweets that I like. First one is from Wactose Intolerant at Millie Tamara's tweeted,
listening to classic rock and in parentheses, kids by MGMT,
which is how I feel when you go to classic rock stations.
And then this other one, I'm just going to put it in the Twitter chat
or the Zoom chat so you can see the picture.
It's from Gators Daily
at Gators Daily and it's a picture of a big
giant, like looks like
ran over, like gator
and it just says, it's flat
fuck Friday.
This fucking gator is
so big and looks like a
flattened piece of chewing gum. It's not like road
kill. It's just how it looks.
But I just like the aggression of it's flat.
Fuck.
Right.
Um,
you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.
I've been enjoying a tweet from Joe at Gulcher tweeted reminder,
not to put sunglasses on your dog for a fun picture in the sun.
This is actually very bad for the dog as it gives them a false sense of confidence and makes them look really cool,
which can be dangerous when you take them off again and they have to go back to normal dog.
And I also liked CuteNatureBF tweeted,
If I had a girlfriend, I would take her to get ice cream and then pretend I don't hear anything as she totally blows up my toilet later,
which is the nice thing to do.
Boyfriends out there.
Boyfriends of the world.
Yeah.
Let go of that adolescent urge to be like,
Oh,
need a plunger.
Yeah.
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Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy?
I think, you know, William Hart, who is the lead singer of the Delphonics, passed away last week.
And the Delphonics are fantastic, you know, R&B soul group.
But also, like, for lovers of hip-hop, the Delphonics have provided many samples.
This wonderful art form we call hip-hop.
So let's go out on a track that informed two banger tracks the first
one what so the track uh just so you know is called ready or not here i come and that inspired
the fujis ready or not here i come and also sampled socket to me by missy elliott also that
horn sample uh it's just like all their music's fantastic and i'm sure many people are familiar
with the delphonics even if you don't know
them explicitly. So check out
Ready or Not, Here I Come by the Delphonics.
Rest in peace to William Hart of the Delphonics.
And yeah, just enjoy the
smooth soul silence of the Delphonics.
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