The Daily Zeitgeist - Eggs Trendedict 1/5: XXL, Tanya Roberts, Matt James, PAGOP, NBA

Episode Date: January 5, 2021

On this edition of Eggs Trendedict Jack and Miles discuss XXL asking their audience about varying degrees of rapper quality, Tanya Roberts has passed (officially), the new season of the Bachelor has started featuring Matt James, Pennsylvania state Republicans are further blocking elected officials from taking seats in an attempt to try and overturn the general election, and the boys discuss their NBA Mount Rushmore. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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When are you going to do that for your kids? It was also like when I was young and real hungry all the time, couldn't really afford to feed myself. Of course. So that was what I would have for dinner. And now it's the greatest food memory i have yeah those are the days when you're like i just need the most dense amount of calories to get my like scraggly teen or early 20s body like across the finish line of my work day

yeah wow wow wow anyway uh all right let's talk about some things that are trending. XXL put out a poll asking who your favorite rapper is and who is the GOAT, as well as saying underrated, overrated rappers. I don't feel up to the underrated, overrated question because I'm not... I can tell you who underrated and overrated children's musicians are these days, but I'm not qualified to... Okay can tell you who underrated and overrated, uh, children's musicians are these days, but,

uh, I'm, I'm not quite. So I, if we go down through first one, favorite rapper of all time, go Jack, who's your favorite,

my favorite rapper for me personally, in terms of just like who I've, I've gone to see the most times live is probably Jay-Z. Okay. Um, my favorite, I was going to say, say yeah i'd probably go andre 3000 for favorite uh just because like i like every verse like of every song he's ever appeared on uh and also just like from day one i was in love with that dude's verses.

It feels weird to... Go ahead. No, I was just going to say the bling bling era thoroughly poisoned my brain. You know, like that was like big oversized white TJZ was me, was I. He is I and I am him. Seated on 20 inch rims with the tilted brim or however that rhyme goes by him.

But yeah, there was something about, I think it's just like a time in my life because overall, like I don't listen to that much Jay-Z anymore. But like when I think of like the amount of emotional energy I expended around Jay-Z, like it's a lot. You know, I peed my pants at Coachella to not lose my spot front row. Right, to not lose your spot in the front.

That is part of the Miles lore. Not many people I'm Liam Neeson-ing it for like that. Also, like Ghostface or, you know, like it feels weird to leave Wu-Tang out. Yeah, you know. The Wu family. They're more like people I want to kick it with. Like I want to see a Wu-Tang.

Like I want to see the members fight in person. I want to see one of those arguments in person. Okay, rapper you dislike? Rapper I dislike? I just don't really pay attention to rappers who, I'd say probably since he's being brought up as one of, like in the GOAT conversation, I'd probably say Emininem is underrated or overrated

um i mean he had like a couple really good albums but like he's you know definitely trailed off and and his music still sells like he's like apologizing for his like shitty behavior he's like i'm sorry it's like okay yeah yeah uh i think the ones i dislike are probably the new generation okay the only thing the only thing i think the ones i dislike are probably the new generation okay the only thing the only thing i have a really big feeling on is the underrated rapper and for me personally it's little sims from the uk she is fucking ridiculous lyrically and i feel like she does not get the kind of props over here that she should be because like when i listen to her tracks i'm like this is you better watch out like this there's

wordplay in here that people are sleeping on and the goat category i mean like that's too divisive but living living right yeah active active living now kendrick yeah i was gonna go kendrick just like nobody else has just that you know batting a thousand just everything he puts out every album he puts out is uh fire like so musically like he's producing great albums and the rhymes are hard to hard to argue with and then like when he appears on another track it's pretty uh pretty electric uh i would yeah i would go Kendrick probably for GOAT. And he's not getting brought up a lot. I think people are kind of forgetting about him

because he hasn't released anything in a while. If you don't listen, remember Control? That fucking track that came out with J-Elec and Big Sean? Listen to his fucking verse on that. His verse on Control. Or him when he flips the J. Cole Black Friday beat and to do his own thing on it. Whoa!

But anyway, that's, you know, but either way, we all win. His appearance on control is like the scene on the boat at the end of The Lost World where there's just like body parts thrown about. Right, right, right. It's just like, what the fuck happened here?

Like a monster was on deck. Anyway, so that's that. Do you like the Jay Electronica stuff that's been released this year? I liked that first album. It's not bad. I thought it was pretty dope. I haven't gotten, I've been getting very much retrospective with a lot of music I've

listened to this year because I've, so many things passed me by. The last Schoolboy Q album I barely listened to and I'm like i need to i really like schoolboy q so yeah he's also underrated um and hosney just popped in the chat she says underrated iggy azalea okay yeah she does she has always written hard for iggy i mean because that's true like i'm just off of the strength of her lyrics, I guess you could say something. Let me just...

I remember, if we're going to talk about Kendrick's control verse... Cardi, I think, is underrated. She's just making... Yeah, she can't miss right now with her hits. Right. But lyrically, maybe. But here's the thing. Let's just hear some bars real quick from Iggy Azalea,

because we gotta talk this. Splash! You feel good? Uh huh. Go Iggy! What's that? Let them know with these lyrics.

I feel fucking Hunt. You feel Hunt? Okay. Tire marks, tire marks. Huh? Finish line with fire marks. Uh huh. When the relay starts to run, we train.

Uh huh. Master, she know the pants got split like a pet tractor. Uh huh. Huh? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I mean, motherfucking bars. You know? That's straight bars, Jack that That's straight bars Jack That's why Anna knows the truth

All my hip hop takes Salute the queen And her Australian Might Tanya Roberts is trending She is A actress A legendary actress who she she was like it hit the wire that she had passed

and then like it hit the wire that she had not passed and was still alive and then she did pass like 24 hours later so just a a weird i don't know, like the strange bungling of a celebrity death announcement by her people. Yeah, because like the thing was her husband thought that she had died in his arms apparently. And then he had kind of left the hospital being like, oh, she's like she's effectively dead. And then he then and then relayed that to the publicist. And then he got another call from a doctor saying, she just passed away. And he's like, oh, I thought she, oh. And so then this sort of stop, start announcement happened.

But my God, I'll always love her on That 70s Show. Even though I didn't see her. I don't know much about Charlie's Angels and other stuff. Like Sheena or the beast master but i know about her on that 70s show you will be missed midge pensiati uh matt james is trending that is the name of the new bachelor yeah uh and yeah he's uh he's hot he's hot. He's Christian. They're loving it. Women are screaming when they were seeing him. It's a whole thing. And first black bachelor, so shout out to him.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. This is one of those names that transcends the bachelor in that I think I've been hearing talk of him since like he first because he's been on he was like on a season of the bachelorette i think right like years ago and people have been clambering for him to to be the bachelor for for a little while now no he was a friend he was a yeah but he was so anahosnia is coming in let me know i'm wrong but he like he was uh people were picking him right to be the next bachelor for a while or wanting him to be he was like a

satellite wu-tang member he was a friend of one of the most popular contestants ever and he grew to popularity due to his presence on this other guy's instagram and they needed a hot black guy basically it's very problematic and I said got it no matter how much how many how many checks ABC was willing to drop off at my doorstep none of which I cashed but yeah he was like uh he's like Memphis Bleak to Jay-Z you know like he just kind of the proximity to that person like okay well I mean it's some I feel better you know but look I don't want to throw shade on Memphis name because I love the early Rockefeller stuff even though it's not that great.

Yeah, that was actually your initial pick for underrated. Memphis Bleak. Memphis Bleak. I mean, Memphis Bleak is money. Memphis Bleak is murder. PAGOP, that I believe stands for Pennsylvania Grand Old Party. Yeah, Grand Old Party. What's going on there?

It's just chaos right now because there's a new session of the pennsylvania state senate and the republicans wanted to remove they basically removed the lieutenant governor john fetterman that big burly motherfucker who's like scary as shit like like just through the you know procedural votes were like okay you're leaving because he wasn't gonna allow them to vote on a motion to basically keep a guy who won his election from being seated.

So it's just this, yeah, even though his election has been certified by the state, the challenger to this election was basically saying like, oh, it's contested. I'm not accepting and blah blah blah so the state republicans aren't going to swear him in and then that's

what this is leading to and it's a whole bunch of nonsense right now so the whole thing that we've been talking about with you know trump's uh half-assed keeps tripping over his own dick coup is actually going to have repercussions down the line because uh you know people because it it has normalized this attempt to just overturn the results of elections that that's what we're seeing here at a local level or at a state level i guess right and it's and it's just so craven and in your face like it's they're like they're doing the thing trump wish he could do it'd be like no we don't like that this guy won't sound fucking and for all the rah-rah shit that's happening on the right i mean like i guess that's probably why they have a vision of you know uh progressives democrats liberals doing something unilaterally to them because that's how they view

power being like oh no no once you have it then you bash the shit out of everybody with it and that's what they fear like the bashing of their nonsense uh but whatever it's it's yeah it's it's just created a lot of headlines but it's just purely i believe unconstitutional since they this person like is a duly elected politician right and finally uh there is a you know i'm a sucker for these sorts of tweets that's like you know it's not it's asking you to uh pick the the five nba most influential nba players the last three decades somebody did a bad photoshop of like a mount rushmore with kobe michael j Steph Curry, and LeBron James.

And they're saying, who should be fifth, even though Mount Rushmore only has four faces? And a lot of people are saying Iverson. I think it's somewhat redundant to have Kobe and Michael because Kobe was sort of modeled on Michael Jordan. because Kobe was sort of modeled on Michael Jordan. Right. But I'm obviously not going to say take either of those dudes off. Then say take off Steph Curry. Yeah, you could take off Steph Curry, but he has... I do think if the question is influential,

the dude has changed the way people even think about the game. He has, but Allen Iverson changed culture. You know what i mean like him pulling up tatted the fuck up like that it it completely changed how anyone viewed what like the aesthetic was of basketball hip it it like you know fucking white kids had their like white you know the sleeve armbands on pretending to be alan and all that shit um i don't know who you unseat but alan iverson definitely has to be in there that's just without a shadow of a doubt because i think for

all of you know people wanting to just focus on like his what he's doing on the core which is amazing this man also influenced the culture uh in a way that is just to this day people are still you know emulating it's it's also weird that there's not a single big man on there like it's all guards basically uh right you know lebron is uh a power forward but you know shack hakeem al-ajwan both in the last uh 30 years probably probably belong somewhere in the conversation at the very least. It's a crowded mountain. That's all it is. It's why it's hard to do these things. Alright.

Those are some things that are trending right now. Put Chris Jackson on there. Put Chris Jackson on there. That motherfucker, he was a rebel. You know what I mean? All those dudes. Who was the dude on Craig Hodges? Craig hodges yeah yeah i mean i think that's what we actually kind

of need to start doing it's like yeah we know these motherfuckers could ball but like there are also some people who were ahead of their fucking time sort of societally uh in the game and got blackballed yeah so i i forward a motion to change mount rushmore into mount illumination uh where we illuminate those who have been cast into the shadows for standing up or just believing in some shit that was truer than what other people believe so yeah also what watching games where chris jackson uh is like on is is kind of otherworldly. It's similar to Steph Curry, but his shot's almost like pure. It's a beautiful thing.

Anyways, that is what's trending. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Stay inside. Wear a mask. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we'll talk to y'all tomorrow bye

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