The Daily Zeitgeist - Are You Not Trendertained? 2/22: Mike Lindell, Daft Punk, Merrick Garland, 76ers, Coca-Cola

Episode Date: February 22, 2021

On this edition of Are You Not Trendertained Jack and Miles discuss My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell being sued for $1.3B, Daft Punk are retiring after 28 years, Merrick Garland is Biden's pick for AG, the Sixers are playing well (and other NBA talk), and Coke is showing off a new paper bottle. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I feel like, okay, the only people I can name is Marcus Aurelius. Who's the dad? Because you fought with Marcus Aurelius. Commodus. That's who he was. Okay. Yes. And then there was Proximo.

That's right. Oliver Reed. Okay. Great. Done that. Moving on. The toxic man hit of the year 2000 gladiator yeah you know I was just thinking over the weekend how much Gerard Butler has

I'm sure this has been mentioned before but like he just came in and swallowed up Russell Crowe's career like oh yeah this is all the work you'd be doing if you were still you know interested and easy to work with right and not getting like fist fights all the time with like random people right yeah and then i wondered again i'm sure there's also

many pieces too but like how does gerard butler think of his own career you know like did you did you think this is where you'd be not to say it's bad or whatever but yeah sometimes when i think of people like scottish actors might not end up being like an american secret service agent five times a year right i remember reading an article back when that was the thing i would do like read an article that didn't even seem that interesting to me but uh there was just enough free time uh in my life there's an article about him where like the profiler just like interviewed him at a bar and he was like having drinks and being gerard butlery and i'm pretty sure they revealed that like he wasn't even an actor really he like was just somebody who was like looked hanging around movie sets yeah basically it's like he like

really came to it like backed into it by accident right thing hey we need a new leonidas sound guy what do you think he's like holding a boom but he's like ripped because it's like hot me yeah you come on you're leonidas get him in a hair makeup put that weird uh chin goatee on him there's a handful of stories that are like that where uh somebody like goes to a tryout just accompanying their friend and then they get the role because they're like so interesting looking that was like i think johnny depp in the office yeah phyllis in the office was like a producer like a script supervisor she worked at the casting office where they were every day when they were casting the show allison jones was like like you know like the mega comedy cast casting director they're like everyone the producer's like we need

someone like very normal like someone like you know phyllis who works here and they're like what about fucking phyllis yeah yeah let's just do that just reading gerard butler's wikipedia is you're right he started off like going to law school yeah yeah was fully into law and there's this one line that says during his time as a student he was the president of the university law society a position butler later said he quote kind of blagged my way into i think his whole life is like blagging his way into shit basically so okay i like that he also sang in a rock band called speed so yeah he's lived, huh? Yeah. That's not even trending. He's lived a life.

He's got that. That's just the respect we have for Gerard Butler. Have you seen Den of Thieves? Yeah, yeah, yeah. With the O'Shea Jackson one? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

It was trash. It was trash, but his face is very Russell Crowe in that. He's got very, very real Russell Crowe. I just hated everyone in the movie.

They're all fucking gross. Big Nick. It's just weird too because it's such weird half-ass copaganda, but also like, but you know, we're also being cruel. If you really look at it, cops aren't that great. I'm like, no, no, no, no. Leave this all alone. This isn't for me.

I want him to be greased up in a Zack Snyder film. All right. Let's talk about what's actually trending. Now that we've talked about what should be trending, Gerard Butler, let's talk about what people are actually talking about. Mike Lindell is trending. Mike Lindell fucked around, and you'll never guess what happened next. After, wait, before, find out comes after fuck around.

He found out. Yeah, he found out. He did, indeed. What's he finding out? A $1.3 billion lawsuit from. So they were playing. They were not. He thought they were playing.

suit from they were playing they were not uh dominion you might remember the the moment where he went on newsmax after newsmax had received their billion dollar lawsuit from dominion uh and they were like oh we you know reacting like shaggy and scoob seeing a ghost they were just like i gotta get out of here man like even even though it wasn't like he literally they cut to the host of the show and it was an empty chair like there might have been like speed lines like there might as well have been speed lines like still there that was like though that was like one of the most recent ones right because yeah that was fairly recent yeah i think it was like in it was this month or in fe. And because he was also pointing out, he's like, they spooked the Newsmax people because I got all this evidence. That's the thing. They want to threaten me.

It's not because I'm lying. It's because I have all this evidence. Well, now we will see what evidence you have, sir. Because if you do not, your pillows are, fuck, I don't know what they're going to do with them. Your pillows belong to us now. All your pillows are belong to us. It's going to be Dominion Pillow Company pretty soon.

Dominion Voting Machine and Pillow Company. And then you're going to be like, oh, you know what they're doing, right? They're putting subliminal messages in there to make you a socialist. Which might be true. He's still talking with his chest out like, yeah, i was waiting for this they walked right into my trap um motherfucker you walked right into a lawsuit when they kept saying keep fucking around yeah find out stop uh unless you have something if you have something

then let us know like to tell the people otherwise uh you're fucked yeah he says his one quote right after like the the announcement of the the lawsuit came out quote now i can get to the evidence faster it's gonna be amazing more movies more documentaries about election fraud oh shut up fool so one thing that uh i hadn't quite realized because the the story about his sort of going full QAnon was that his MyPillow stopped being carried at Bed Bath & Beyond. But Dominion looked at his sales

and apparently MyPillow sales have gone up by 30 to 40% since he went full Mega. So not surprisingly, the Mega people are ready to take a nap. I mean, not just, yeah, full mega. The codes were like QAnon for fucking discounts. Put in 45. All of the discount codes basically indicated he's part of the big lie and who he was trying to appeal to.

But yeah, I mean, I guess, you know, maybe the show will be more popular for like, yo, put an offer code QAnon. Right. I don't know what the fuck is going on. In sad news, Daft Punk is breaking up. Ugh. What a daft move on their part. Really? Absolutely. breaking up oh what a daft move on their part really absolutely gut-wrenching to hear this

two people who i don't know what the fuck who the fuck they even are how can i even feel anything for to me or two fucking robots who just steal 70s disco tracks speed them up and add some synths on top now i don't mean to reduce all their work to something that's simplistic but i mean you'd be surprised how many of the melodies daft punk melodies you like are just been like hold on i like that disco sample let's speed it up chop it up and now we got a hit but i you know but they're great they're i mean their careers fucking storied yeah they uh they could have easily i mean my my guess for why they never took off their mask other than like not being famous was just uh they ugly you know that or they could have just like farmed the work out to somebody else and not had to uh even like show up in person to anything

oh right like how hans zimmer writes scores now for films how does he do it dude he just has like a lot of people do this they have like very talented interns and composers that work for them yeah it's like i'm gonna just noodle something here and now you work with the whole film now you're like damn because i had a homie who like uh worked uh with han zimmer and like like left and i was like but that sounds like a great gig he's like no like everyone just thinks han zimmer makes everything and like right left and I was like but that sounds like a great gig he's like no like everyone just thinks Hans Zimmer makes everything and

like right I like I like to play saxophone anyways Daft Punk keeping it real by actually retiring hanging up the the helmets yeah I didn't realize how active they

still were but you know yeah I mean I know they had that recent album but real names Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel du Hormone Christo you know yeah i mean i know they had that recent album but real names thomas bangalter and gui manuel du homer cristo oh really i didn't even know we knew who they were yeah so you know look up some records show up at their house and uh see what they look like merrick garland is trending uh he is Biden's pick for AG his confirmation little confirmation here

going down and anything interesting I mean he's just saying like look here's the deal my first priority is to figure out what the fuck happened on January 6th oh really yeah he's like that's what I'm gonna do that job when i get in here i'm gonna

figure i need to fucking put this all out there and i don't know i mean part of me like considering his like other picks we've possibly seen around the justice department like you know you're like maybe merrick garland just maybe he'll go full throttle maybe he'll turn his eye to turn his eye away on like other issues that maybe doj should be concerned with but in this instance i'm like well it's the guy who could have been a supreme court justice possibly getting a revenge scenario on like the forces that kept him out of the highest court in the land and so yeah he might have some incentive to figure it all out i mean not to say he's just doing this off the strength of his spite but yeah oh boy that's a good fuel to be running he was like one of the point people

on the oklahoma city bombing investigation after that happened so he has like experience with right-wing extremism in the u.s so um that that's a good cover story for the reason that he's going in and fucking up Moscow Mitch. No, that'll be interesting if he does get confirmed. 76ers are trending. This is very self-serving. They're like the 14th trending thing on Google. Trending though. Yeah, trending.

All I need is a small excuse. but yeah trending uh all i need is small excuse uh but they had kind of an interesting weekend because mb'd put up 50 on the bulls uh i think on friday night his line was like 50 17 five assists four blocks two steals like uh just unbelievable numbers and then uh last night they played the Raptors who were like kind of his kryptonite. He always just emotionally. Yeah. I mean, let's not. That face

said it all. The Eastern Conference Finals. That was Eastern Conference. No, that was to go to the Eastern Conference. Oh, yeah. Second round. Cannot get out of the second round can you believe that went in can you believe that

but he yeah they went aggressive double team on him and beat the 76ers pretty easily like they you know had a 19-0 run I turned it on just in time to

see them like just make a run go from 12 down to like six up uh so that is uh that's enough for you that was enough for me yeah but uh yeah i mean i'm sure that's one of those things that he's a good enough player that i'm sure he'll figure out a way to get around it. Yeah. And also, like, there's a lot of talk that they're like, are they trying to get Kyle Lurie? That's another reason why they got the Sixers are trending, too. Because apparently, like, there are those stories like they wanted Harden and couldn't get it, but they are still looking for a big name trade to really try and shore up these chances of a title

or a deep, deep, deep playoff run. The Nets beat the Clippers and looked very good doing it. They also beat the Lakers. It's a regular season. The Nets are the team that when I'm watching them, I find

myself rooting for them just because it's the same as when I watch a LeB team that when I'm watching them I find myself rooting for them just because it's the same as like when I watch a LeBron team I'm always rooting for him because he's like I never rooted for the Super Warriors because yeah because I feel like it was uh it felt evil it felt evil and it also felt like less interesting like I think this is an interesting experiment to have like three of the best offensive players, but like, they also don't defend at all.

And I also just like the nets and like, it was, it's just kind of cool how they went for like, they had a year where it was just like, yeah, we're not doing anything. And then like, just turned it on.

Yeah. We're just hanging out until the next season, basically. But, uh, yeah, it on yeah we're just hanging out until the next season basically all right cool but uh yeah i feel like the warriors were interesting enough before they got durant and then once they got durant it was just like all right but i just like because i love kd yeah i do i do love kd but i always root for lebron because he's like doing things that nobody's ever seen before i feel like this team like as evidence the like as evidence, the Nets as evidence by the fact that they have the highest offensive rating

in the history of basketball since, since they came together. Yeah. But they also have the worst defensive of all time. Like they're just like the best offensive and the worst defensive team is very interesting. Right. It's very interesting. Right. It's like an imbalanced supervillain.

It's like, they are so powerful. But if you get them near milk, they'll die. Yeah. Interesting. They are that lactose intolerant. But they can snap and everyone will die. And you're like, huh, okay. That's interesting.

Has there ever been a superhero or villain whose kryptonite was lactose intolerance um i don't know i mean not yeah you know i could make some kind of joke based on the diets of my people but i don't know uh yeah it's it is probably culturally biased that that hasn't happened i I mean, if there is, that would be the most racist shit. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, the Black Panthers enemy black man who can't eat cheese and doesn't like swimming pools. Basically,

everyone is lactose intolerant except for the... I'm not lactose intolerant. I'm blessed because Asian people and black people don't have the best time with cheese. Right. But I don't know what happened. Shout out to the genetic lottery because I'm about to eat a whole block of cheese for lunch.

There's a Wired article that's not trending yet, but it says that cheese is not as bad for you as people like to pretend. Thank you. It's the element that gives life more than more so than water uh and finally coca-cola is trending they introduced revealed uh a future wherein they uh serve their beverages in a paper bottle yeah and they showed us what the paper bottle looks like and it looks like a muscle milk bottle that they wrapped in a wet paper towel 100 exactly why did they why is this what it looks like i mean it's because they were just shamed into it because for like year after year people like coca-cola is the worst polluting brand on earth right all right fuck okay

what about sustainable bottles and they're working with this danish company to make these bottles that like they do what they say they're gonna do right but it's just like one of those things where you know it's the marketing how do you market this thing and even though i'm like on board obviously with reducing waste of all kinds i still find myself looking at the bottom like, man, I don't want to drink out of that. Like some fucking idiot. Does it have to look like does it have to be just white and wrinkly on the outside? It's weird. I mean, I think maybe this is just a test version because the way they're going to do it is they're going to first test this bottle with like a juice company that called Ades or something that they have in Europe.

And so it's going to be a Hungary. So Hungarian Zeitgang, Budapest Zeitgang, let us know when the bottles drop this summer what the fuck it's like. And then I guess from there, you know, I'll figure out how to do the rest. But yeah. All right. Well, that is going to do it for this monday afternoon we are back tomorrow morning with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves wear a mask stay inside don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all

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