The Daily Zeitgeist - Casper the Trendly Geist 8/11: Field of Dreams, Pro Publica, Vaccine Mandates, Jeopardy, Malice at the Palace, 3.9 million

Episode Date: August 11, 2021

In this edition of Casper the Trendly Geist, Jack and Miles discuss the Field of Dreams game, Pro Publica explaining how rich people taxes work, L.A's COVID vaccine mandate, the new Jeopardy host(s), the new "Malice at the Palace" doc, and the 3.9 million people rejecting sub-subsistence wages. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Casper the Trendly Geist Classic. I don't know if we've done that one before, but if not, long overdue. Well done, Andy. Sloppy Stakes Danger. Uh-oh. Somebody's hitting Trefani's, huh?

Yeah, man. White suit. Danger isn't even his middle name. His middle name is Sloppy Stakes. Oh, it's white bathing suit, slick back hair, Sloppy Stakes at Trefani's. Oh, yeah. I was a real piece of shit spiked hair what do you say i think he's like chicken spaghetti at chicolini's anyway sorry we keep talking about i think you should leave it's become canon too good too good not to all right i am jack and you are i'm trefani's trefani's uh you're a real

piece of shit real piece of shit i used to be a real piece of shit oh man i mean it's funny because it's true we've all we've all been there we've all been like oh man i fucking sucked i know it's and it's funny when people say that like because you talk about your growth as a person and sometimes you're like no no no like I was a piece of shit like yeah for real like so unforgiving of ourselves right you're like you don't understand like I had no idea of what like equity was or what patriarchy was uh all kinds of shit I was. I owned a puka shell necklace. I didn't wear it, but I owned it. It was bad. So you just left it in the corner like the portrait of Dorian Gray or something?

I thought about it. I thought about it. I probably did have a puka shell necklace actually when I was 12, 13. I wore a lot of fake chains. Big, old, shitty, platinum LL Cool J and the FUBU ads type jewelry.

Yeah. Real piece of shit. I've seen those diamonds in your ears. Oh, canary diamonds? I ordered out the back of the source. Yeah. That's where the finest diamonds are sourced from. Exactly.

From the source of the back of XXL or King Magazine. Alright, Field of Dreams is trending. Karen, knock it off. That's a line from Field of Dreams. Baseball, right? Anyways, Field of Dreams is trending because it's happening. It's all happening.

Yeah, tomorrow the White Sox will play the Yankees at the filming location for the 1989 film Field of Dreams on the Warner Brothers lot, I believe. Dyersville, Iowa. Iowa. Iowa. So, yeah, it's the first Major League Baseball game I think that the state's ever had. But the movie still has a lot of people making their

journeys out there to be like, if they build it, I will go. And I am here. I have come to see this place. What's the crowd situation going to be like? I don't know. Who knows? I don't care. It'll just be whoever got to go to Obama's

birthday party will get to go to this. Yeah, I don't know. What are the Field of Dreams stands? What do those look like? I think it was just like a little bleacher. Oh, I don't know. Fuck it. I don't care enough to know.

But anyway, there will be some kind of stands, but there's definitely going to be concessions because Guy Fieri has teamed up with Major League Baseball. They're like, hey, man, can you create something custom to get these people so turnt up on this fucking event? And he just wanted to go with something that was just as American as hot dogs and apple pie by creating the apple pie hot dog. Yeah, baby.

Which looks like a McDonald's apple pie with a little bit of hot dog sticking out each end being like i'm here and it's apparently an all beef hot dog with apple pie filling his dude guy's signature bacon jam uh it just wrapped in a flaky pie crust and an apple mustard drizzle um and some demerara sugar people the reviews are in people say this shit is good i mean the man knows how to slop together a a banger you know yeah slop together banger that's what he does and i think also there's nothing that you're gonna make at like something that's gonna be served like at a major league baseball game that is gonna taste like shit like they're gonna figure out a way for it to be like as on offensive as

possible where people like, book, it's actually really good. It's like, they're like being like, Oh, and we're going to have tagine for the first time. Right.

Especially not it. This is perfect. I mean, he is the perfect guy to do it. He did the perfect thing with it. Perfectly handheld, uh, self-contained looks gross to me we just love guy you know we love guy okay yeah got this picture which he is doing as like in association with major league baseball uh he is wearing a chevrolet t-shirt

uh yeah you know just letting people know about all the, all the corporate sign on. He got synergy is what we call that. Jack. Yes. Pro publica is trending because they dropped the latest, how taxes work when you're rich mixtape. Um, this one shows how part of their cruel summer. Yeah,

exactly. This one shows how Trump's tax cut was shaped by billionaires and benefited them. I don't know. I actually didn't remember this, but apparently it was a big controversy on the right because Ron Johnson was not buying in to the tax cut at first. And people were like, all right, we got one. We got a good one on our side, folks.

And the reason was because two of his biggest donors wanted him to push for more money for the pass-through, like the tax pass-through accounts. And he got that. And so, you know, just helping out the rich, helping out the richer. Yeah. And Ron Johnson is by far one of the smoothest brains in the Senate. So no surprise there yeah it's just a kidney being up there uh but anyways great reporting continuing to be done by propublica la vax mandate uh that's something that apparently there's going to be a handful of things that are requiring uh vaccination proof uh to uh la city council

voted 13-0 to create vaccination requirements for indoor spaces such as restaurants movie theaters concert venues uh i am hoping this is the future yeah because i don't want any of this uh you need to have had a negative covid test in the last 72 hours. I'm like, where the fuck you been in three days? Yeah. And also that doesn't like, there is literally no benefit to that because you become symptomatic and start testing positive five days after exposure. So like, I mean, there could be some benefit,

but it's just so easy for that slip through. I mean, and also I thinkia also became the first state i think that they're saying to mandate that teachers and school staff um are either vaccinated or submit to testing but again when that's why like every fucking expert is just like it's don't don't do this school shit's gonna be a fucking nightmare i don't it's the ingredients are here for a disaster is what everyone says yeah just need to make it real simple for people like yeah you don't you don't have to get the vaccine you also don't have to come to work yeah um hey you like uh you like stuff yeah yeah you should get the vaccine then if you like stuff hey if you love

just sitting if you just if you like stuff hey if you love just sitting if you just if you're cool just kicking it at home watching tv all day and never leaving then yeah go ahead do you do you probably safe that way anyway yeah all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back this summer the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president.

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really rooting for i don't know too many people who were like, oh, let's do the guy we haven't heard of with the really bland name and face who just works for Jeopardy. Who sounds like that racist comedian guy. Right. So Mike Richards. Yeah. So Kramer is going to be the new host.

No, it's the executive producer of both jeopardy and wheel of fortune. It was like, Hey, let's just make it me. Yeah. People, people love me. On Monday,

we were talking about this and just how, like how it's such a devious bait and switch. It felt like where they were basically parading around this diverse crew of people who might be the host, but really it seemed like the whole time they knew it was just going to be mike richards right and it's like let's just pretend man let's get him like you know let's get him all hopped up on this idea that we're going to do something interesting and now it's just mike richards and mayim bialik so blossom and kramer

are now the hosts of jeopardy yeah and you know, I saw an article that was like, LeVar Burton's ratings were very low for, I'm like, hmm, I wonder if the executive producer could have had anything to do with, you know, putting him on a day that they know the ratings are low or, you know, not doing a good job promoting the Olympics or something happening happening i don't know other shit huh yeah not like a showrunner would have the power also over an edit to be like leave

the stuff in where it looks like he's fucking up and also let's not get let's not re-upload those takes right you know because like there was some there was some it wasn't the smoothest possible thing but at the same time if like you're if you're like a showrunner you're probably in that booth being like okay like we want this to look good yeah let's try this but it is what it is yeah anyways great job by him running the uh search for replacement i do love uh i do love when like this is how we got dick cheney as well george w bush put him in charge of the uh search for a vice presidential candidate and after months of intense searching he was like you're never gonna believe this man it turns out who'd you find i'm i'm the i'm the one i'm the best oh great yeah but anyways they're they're like seems like they're using this as an opportunity to like expand the Jeopardy

universe, cinematic universe. The JCU. Yeah, the JCU. Because now there's the like mainstream or the primetime version of Jeopardy that's hosted by Blossom. So that's cool. Ron Artest is trending because there is a new documentary. This is one that I feel like I can't believe hasn't happened until now.

I can't believe ESPN let this one fall through their fingers because this documentary is coming out on Netflix. It is about the malice in the palace, which is one of a handful of flashbulb memories from like the last i don't know 25 years i feel like that where i i remember exactly where i was i know a lot of people do yeah i remember who i was with i remember not believing what i was seeing yeah you know when you have players from the pacers going into the fucking stands to like fucking fight. And you're like, what the fuck happened?

In retrospect, I don't know if I could actually explain to you quite literally what exactly happened. Like I know what was going on, but like not in a way that I know every detail. Because I feel like I just got the 40,000 foot view that like the sports pages were giving me. Somebody from the stands threw something around our test yeah it's really interesting that this is coming out now as we're like starting to have a second reckoning with the fact that athletes are human beings right uh like you know that uh somebody threw shit at russell westbrook in his series with, I don't know who he was playing or what fan base. Definitely wasn't the Philadelphia 76ers because they're a notoriously well-behaved crowd. But, yeah, I mean, that's got to be enraging to have people all around you who are just like treating you like shit, like just endangering your safety.

Anyway, somebody threw a full beer that hit him while he was laying on the scores table and he went into the crowd and then two of his teammates kind of followed him having his back. And it was just a wild fist fight for minutes well it was like happening live on tv i hadn't remembered how fucking good ron artest was at that time yeah he was putting up 25 points a game six boards seven almost two steals and was shooting 50 41 from three and 92 from free throw. That's wild. And he was coming off of being the all defense player of the year. Yeah, there's interesting stuff like,

cause Jermaine O'Neal's talking about it too. And Jermaine O'Neal like became an afterthought sort of after, you know, once that happened. And like, I know he's ended up playing in China and things like that, but there's some interesting stuff where he's talking about just kind of like the mental health aspects around this and like we're on our test and like not knowing like someone needed help uh because of just at the time that's just like not in the reality or vocabulary of people um and just like the idea especially

back then when like if coaches or scouts are like nah man he's kind of he's got he's got he's got problems he's got head case or something suddenly it's like oh that's just the mark of death for your career yeah that's just like a liability it's yeah rather than like exploring that work with him let's help him as a person and then cut to him i remember you know when he helped the lakers secure that fucking championship and scored that three like afterwards he's like shout out to my therapist and everyone was like oh my god wow like look at him saying this shit yeah anyways i am gonna watch the shit out of that yeah i can't wait and finally uh the number 3.9 million is is trending because that is the number of people that have left their old jobs and search for something better.

And what is that, the last year? Even the last couple of months. I mean, it's just like now there's like 10 million job vacancies. So the hits keep coming. The pandemic has quite literally put things into focus for people and realizing what they are willing to do and not willing to do based on the wages that employers are offering um so yeah i mean this sort of like soft withholding of labor for better pay the momentum definitely isn't blunted at all and even for all the talk of like well you know you're it's the it's the benefits that are out here people are quitting it's like no man people are quite they they want better for themselves and they're looking for it they're they're not being they're

not standing idly by um yeah so you know depending on what news outlet you read they might uh paint that one way or the other but um yeah this is the evolution of what workers are willing to tolerate and won't keep continues to evolve yeah i mean it it is wild that things as straightforward as like taking care of people have like been made to seem unpopular by by like fox news and well because yeah the second thing who's gonna pay for it who's gonna pay for it right what the fuck like are we have we really internalized that like old parent tactic of like when you asked for something from a parent when you like were a kid who didn't have a job like, OK, who's going to pay for it? I don't know the billionaires who you're not taxing at all.

OK, hold on. Hold on. Where did you learn? Who the fuck told you about that? You want to talk again? You want leftist TikTok again? All right. Those are the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon.

We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the fucking vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. What happens when a professional football player's career ends and the applause fades and the screaming fans move on? I am going to share my journey of how I went from Christianity to now a Hebrew Israelite. For some former NFL players, a new faith provides answers.

You mix homesteading with guns and church. Voila! You got straight away. They try to save everybody. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the President of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nickname Squeaky.

The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts.

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