Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Zite
Speaker 1: about now the funk soul trend that is courtesy of
Speaker 1: super producer Brian. And then we worked our way from
Speaker 1: he was looking at that because he was comparing the
Speaker 1: um soundtracks. If she's all that and my Fair Lady,
Speaker 1: he said, he's a hard my fair lady. Uh fan,
Speaker 1: he takes that over, he said, any soundtrack and he
Speaker 1: said it was more the ideological content of the lyrics
Speaker 1: he was a fan of. Uh No, he said, she's
Speaker 1: all that. But then you pointed out Romulus is the
Speaker 1: is the little brother, and she's all that. And then
Speaker 1: we were talking about success, which I'm only watched the
Speaker 1: first episode of season three so far, but all right,
Speaker 1: don't worry. I'm monitoring like a Democrat on election night.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm monitoring results. I'm monitoring people's to come in,
Speaker 1: looking at three returns, and it seems like after episode
Speaker 1: two of season three, a lot of people were out.
Speaker 1: They were like more of this ship. But now maybe
Speaker 1: after episode three, three or three, I felt a little
Speaker 1: bewildered or not, you know, not like loss. I just like,
Speaker 1: come on now and now you know for I'm not
Speaker 1: spoiling ship. Just check it out if you If you
Speaker 1: like it, it's it got better alright. Uh. Election results,
Speaker 1: speaking of which that is taking up a lot of
Speaker 1: the trans over the past twenty four hours. Um, Eric
Speaker 1: Adams one the New York City mayoral race, Michelle wu
Speaker 1: one in Boston. Um. But you know, overall, we'll talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more on just like overall impressions from
Speaker 1: the night. On tomorrow's full episode, white women are trending
Speaker 1: on Twitter because people are blaming them for the loss
Speaker 1: in Virginia, which I feel like these are the trends
Speaker 1: of how Democrats respond to elections, and like frame election successes,
Speaker 1: they blame a group who didn't vote enough for them,
Speaker 1: and they highlight personalities of winners without sort of mention
Speaker 1: of the content of their platform. So much yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: just a lot of I mean, we're still needing to
Speaker 1: see more results. I think I fully get an understanding,
Speaker 1: I guess demographically if if that matters to people. But
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day overall, shouldn't
Speaker 1: come as a shock that people aren't too interested in,
Speaker 1: you know, supporting a party that doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: doing much of anything with all this power, especially given
Speaker 1: how craven Republicans are when they even have like a
Speaker 1: shred of it. The Braves are trending. Atlanta's baseball team,
Speaker 1: uh one the World Series a lot, got some happy
Speaker 1: friends out there from the area and don't know, so
Speaker 1: good for you. I'm glad, look overall, I'm glad that
Speaker 1: Houston Astros didn't win. I'll put it that way, just
Speaker 1: as someone with that just banging on a can pain
Speaker 1: stealing my heart from the World Series with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I definitely I'm glad it didn't happen. Do you think
Speaker 1: listeners know about what what that? Because that's a pretty
Speaker 1: wild story that I feel like because baseball is uh,
Speaker 1: pretty boring, not a lot of people pay attention to it.
Speaker 1: But Houston Astros had like a run of you know,
Speaker 1: just unprecedented, not unprecedented, but like wild success over a
Speaker 1: number of years. And turned out they were like cheating,
Speaker 1: they were using they were stealing, using a camera to
Speaker 1: steal signs and then using the their knowledge of the
Speaker 1: signs and the dugout uh and a trash can, bang
Speaker 1: on a trash can to communicate to the bat or
Speaker 1: what pitch was coming. Uh. And you can go back
Speaker 1: and listen to them doing that and end people hit
Speaker 1: a lot better all of a sudden, inexplicable until you
Speaker 1: found out they were cheating. Yeah, that was pretty wild.
Speaker 1: That was pretty wild story. But yeah, and they were
Speaker 1: you know, it's not that they were like a terrible
Speaker 1: team and then you have this, it's like, well that's
Speaker 1: certainly an edge, but whatever, all's well that ends well,
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah. So they were back in the World Series, uh,
Speaker 1: and like trying to clear their name by winning it
Speaker 1: off in the fair way with a bunch of the
Speaker 1: same players, and uh, they did not pull it off.
Speaker 1: They failed to show up. I need to find this tweet.
Speaker 1: But somebody tweeted, uh, the handshake emoji between Houston Astros
Speaker 1: and JFK Jr. Failed to show up tonight. Um. I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty good because that that is something
Speaker 1: that you know, is not trending today. JFK Jr did
Speaker 1: not show up in Daily Plaza over the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours like Q and I was expecting, so, you know,
Speaker 1: shout out to Q and on you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: hurting right now, dude. Someone also tweeted there like some
Speaker 1: picture tweeted like Hey, fun fact, Jorge Solaire once like
Speaker 1: hit a homer off me so deep and omaha that
Speaker 1: he apologized to me. Um wait, who's lair. He's the
Speaker 1: World Series MVP. Okay, yeah, that's great because he had
Speaker 1: three home runs, uh in the like in the World Series,
Speaker 1: and he was just he was he yeah, you know
Speaker 1: he did his thing three home runs last night, or
Speaker 1: because the Dodgers had somebody who had three home runs
Speaker 1: in a single game. No, no, no, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: just over over the series. Okay, yeah, I guess that's
Speaker 1: still pretty good. I don't know. I probably couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, he and he hit you know, he
Speaker 1: hit one in the He hit like a three run
Speaker 1: homer I think in the third or fourth inning. So look,
Speaker 1: it's okay. Yes, I'm not saying it's bad ad. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying like, yeah, no, look, I'm trying to just
Speaker 1: disconnect myself from as a Dodger fan and go, okay,
Speaker 1: good for them, good for these people that I know,
Speaker 1: good for them. Fine, fine, next thing to focus on.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the next thing to focus on, Uh,
Speaker 1: there is a Vice News headline that I thought was
Speaker 1: a Onion headline. Um, but it also brought me back
Speaker 1: to what's cool about Vice News. The headline I'll just
Speaker 1: read to you, drug users are nostalgic for quote old
Speaker 1: school heroin as fencinel takes over, and the reporting is
Speaker 1: like they open with, uh this paragraph. For nearly five years,
Speaker 1: Daniel Garrett made two hour around trips, sometimes twice a day,
Speaker 1: from Martin to Jackson, Tennessee, so he could buy heroin
Speaker 1: anywhere from half a Graham to a Graham each time. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then you know it goes from there. He finally
Speaker 1: moves to the town where he gets his heroin and
Speaker 1: the heroin drives up and everything's fentinal now uh, and
Speaker 1: that is killing a bunch of people. So it's definitely
Speaker 1: like good reporting on like how uh horrible public health hazard.
Speaker 1: But it's just a very frank like, uh, they have
Speaker 1: a picture of this dude. They're not using a fake name.
Speaker 1: They're just like, yeah, Daniel Garrett said he can no
Speaker 1: longer find heroin in Jackson, Tennessee. Um, I mean like
Speaker 1: versus other places were like, oh, don't talk about that.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not real. That's there's too much judgment
Speaker 1: around addiction. Yeah, rather than also being like, yeah, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: people are struggling with addiction and sadly there's also an
Speaker 1: epidemic of fentanyl killing people. So yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back. Uh, And CVS is trending um because yeah,
Speaker 1: CVS Walgreen's Walmart have opened a cove COVID vaccine appointments
Speaker 1: for kids under the age of twelve, the wild protests begin. Yeah, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: when you're not envy cvous employees kind of Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's so far I feel is that the next
Speaker 1: weird thing we're gonna start seeing happening it has to
Speaker 1: be right, uh, with younger kids and vaccination coming out,
Speaker 1: because it seems like that's that's a bridge too far
Speaker 1: for some parents who have been maybe pro vaccine before
Speaker 1: that where there's like but then this thing, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like does it have to be that solution, um, even
Speaker 1: though you know, safe and effective. But yeah, I can
Speaker 1: already see the video clips. Yeah, and and also the
Speaker 1: you know there, I could definitely see the anti vax
Speaker 1: crowd who thinks they you know, even though they're like
Speaker 1: it's a personal decision. Also like being out in full
Speaker 1: force shaming anybody who goes to a CVS with their
Speaker 1: child to get the vaccine, which I think would be
Speaker 1: plenty to dissuade somebody from getting the vaccine for their child,
Speaker 1: Like when people were screaming at kids and their parents
Speaker 1: because they're like, you're putting a mask on your kid. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin stays trending. So what the thing I saw
Speaker 1: about this is that the armorer who people think is
Speaker 1: you know, was supposed to be in charge of making
Speaker 1: sure that all everything was safe with all the guns
Speaker 1: that were being fired on the set. Their lawyer is
Speaker 1: suggesting it was a plot by someone to sabotage the
Speaker 1: set and specifically pointing to the people who walked off
Speaker 1: the set the day before because of the terrifying working conditions.
Speaker 1: So rather than you know, the logic that would say
Speaker 1: they were scared for their lives because of bad working conditions,
Speaker 1: the next day those bad working conditions harm somebody and
Speaker 1: kill somebody, the logic they're suggesting is that evil uh
Speaker 1: worker is planning to make a point about work safety
Speaker 1: by killing somebody. Yeah that's rich I mean. And then
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin is now like taking screenshots from like people
Speaker 1: who worked on the set who are saying things like
Speaker 1: I loved it. It was the safest place I've ever been.
Speaker 1: To sort of counteract this like very distinct narrative that's
Speaker 1: out there where people saw that the camera crew walked
Speaker 1: out or like like several camera operators walked out because
Speaker 1: of the working conditions many people is very like articulating
Speaker 1: like this is like one of one person quote. In
Speaker 1: my ten years as a camera system, I've never worked
Speaker 1: on a show that cares so little for the safety
Speaker 1: of its crew. Mm hmm um. Meanwhile, Alec Baldwin is
Speaker 1: posting on Instagram from like the costume designer who's just
Speaker 1: saying this in quote, I'm so sick of this narrative.
Speaker 1: And again he posted the thing and just said read
Speaker 1: this okay, which is I'm sick of this narrative. I
Speaker 1: worked on this movie. The story being spun of us
Speaker 1: being overworked and surrounded by unsafe Coudic conditions is bullshit.
Speaker 1: We never worked more than twelve and a half hour
Speaker 1: shoot day. That was once. Most days were under twelve.
Speaker 1: The day Helena died, we had come off a twelve
Speaker 1: hour turnaround after an eleven hour shoot day we had,
Speaker 1: including camera gotten off by going on dude to two.
Speaker 1: This is all provable. The camera crew had hotels. They
Speaker 1: just didn't feel they were fancy enough, not that they
Speaker 1: were unsafe. You can't tell me that six big men
Speaker 1: felt so unsafe in their hotel, but we're fine sleeping
Speaker 1: in their cars and parking lots, which never happened, like
Speaker 1: they also claimed. So Alec is just kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: dealing with it in his own way, which is just
Speaker 1: posting he's contrarian defenses of this. So it's like he's
Speaker 1: been saying, you know, nobody posted the voicemails to his
Speaker 1: daughter that didn't color disgusting a little pig, So like,
Speaker 1: what what about those? You know? Yeah and yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean and even then, like you're there was like this
Speaker 1: New York Times piece where the assistant director said, like
Speaker 1: told the detectives that he should have inspected all the
Speaker 1: rounds that were chambered in that gun and didn't. The
Speaker 1: assistant director said that they spically that was the last
Speaker 1: person who had custody of the weapon before Alec Baldwin
Speaker 1: had it on set and said declared a cold gun. Um,
Speaker 1: but in fact he had not verified that. So yeah, again,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of mistakes and tragically or
Speaker 1: just recklessness. And I think that's really the point of
Speaker 1: this investigation is to understand like where it starts from. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does feel like if there was any doubt in
Speaker 1: these the people who walked off mind about like whether
Speaker 1: this was a safe set or not, like they probably
Speaker 1: would not have drawn attention to attention to that after
Speaker 1: somebody was killed. Also, yeah, like there there there's plenty
Speaker 1: of testimony. It's not just the people who walked off.
Speaker 1: There were actors who were saying that it just felt
Speaker 1: incredibly unsafe and that the people behind the camera were
Speaker 1: often behind like uh you know, bulletproof glass and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so that it just feels like a terrible situation to
Speaker 1: be in, especially when the producers are trying to cut costs.
Speaker 1: And finally, uh, Aaron Rodgers, who you know, a Iran Rogers.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, one of the greatest to ever do
Speaker 1: it throws the most beautiful ball, uh in in the league?
Speaker 1: Um yeah, man, just a work of art the ball
Speaker 1: he throws. But he is also so he held out
Speaker 1: over the off season, was really mad at the Green
Speaker 1: Bay the team because they drafted a quarterback like to
Speaker 1: back him up, and he I don't know. I felt
Speaker 1: threatened by that or it thought they should have consulted
Speaker 1: him before doing that. Um and was very upset. And
Speaker 1: then like can late didn't really play in the first
Speaker 1: game of the season, which they lost by a bunch,
Speaker 1: and and then he has been lights out ever since.
Speaker 1: Like once he decided to actually play. He so he
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID nineteen. And it turns out even
Speaker 1: though he said at the beginning of the season, at
Speaker 1: a press conference on August six, I'm immunized, which should
Speaker 1: have should have jumped out to people question and what's
Speaker 1: your vaccination status? Have you done it yet? Yeah? But
Speaker 1: then he also like kind of threw people under the
Speaker 1: bus with the rest of his answer. These guys on
Speaker 1: the team that haven't been vaccinated, I think it's a
Speaker 1: personal decision. I'm not going to judge those guys. It's
Speaker 1: an interesting issue. It's an interesting issue, interesting issue. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: when you start tap dancing around that, it's not a
Speaker 1: great sign. He had petitioned the NFL to have an
Speaker 1: all alternative treatment count as vaccination, but the NFL denied
Speaker 1: his request and has considered him unvaccinated since the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season, so not great. His wide receiver Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: who is maybe the best player in the NFL, is
Speaker 1: COVID positive right now. I don't know which direction the
Speaker 1: transmission went, but that's got to be pretty frustrating. Yeah, um, yeah.
Speaker 1: It just seems to be people who are ideologically predisposed
Speaker 1: to the not believing in vaccines are wanting to not
Speaker 1: believe in vaccines or believing that Trump was right about
Speaker 1: ship and then people who have just never been told
Speaker 1: no in their lives, and surely someone who freaked out
Speaker 1: at the thought of someone backing him up doesn't have
Speaker 1: deep seated control issues that might relate to acknowledging the
Speaker 1: pandemic as a real thing that has thrown their lives
Speaker 1: into a state of total out of controlling. This not
Speaker 1: that at all, but you know, uh, it's you see
Speaker 1: it everywhere and it doesn't I think that's where you
Speaker 1: really kind of see like the there's no demographic necessarily,
Speaker 1: but more a mindset, right, Well, I do. I really
Speaker 1: got to find out what what his alternative treatment is
Speaker 1: because that's something that I haven't really heard about. I've
Speaker 1: heard people claim that they caught COVID and now they
Speaker 1: they have the antibodies, so get off my back. I
Speaker 1: don't know about the alternative treatment that they're claiming, unless
Speaker 1: it's like I remember, loidal silver or something like all homeopathic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hey man, I'm just gonna eat just blocks his zinc. Man.
Speaker 1: How's that? Yeah? Hell yeah? Um all right, well, those
Speaker 1: are some of the things that are trending on this
Speaker 1: fun Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole
Speaker 1: last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine, the
Speaker 1: real vaccine, not an alternative treatment that Aaron Rodgers, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow. By Vibes