The Daily Zeitgeist - Felt Cute, Zeit Delete Later 7/31: Ellen, NHL, NBA, Epstein

Episode Date: August 1, 2020

On this edition of Felt Cute, Zeit Delete Later Jack and Miles discuss Ellen Degeneres might be quitting her show, the NHL is back, the NBA is back, and more files from the Epstein case are being unsealed. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Felt Cute, Zite Delete Later. That is courtesy of, at Daily Zite Guys. Nope, that wasn't the name of the person. Maybe Old Greg, I don't know.

I'm Old Jack. I don't know how technology works. Don't ask me to back up anything I say. I don't know where I get these ideas. Thank you then. In the meantime, Miles, we've got to tell these people what's trending this Friday

afternoon. Ellen is trending because there are rumors that she might be quitting. Brad Garrett from Everybody Loves Raymond came out and said, Everybody don't love Ellen. He did? He came out and said that she's notoriously mean to everybody. Oh, wow. He's the tall one?

The tall guy with the real low voice hey come on ray yeah yeah anyways he said she's a monster he's the 100th person to say that her former staffers are all coming out and saying because her apology was basically like i let my staff get along get away with it for far too long so uh and that's on me and all her staff was like actually you're the monster we were just trying to like you know starts at the top starts at the top and also she like all by all accounts like the weird stuff that her staff was doing was being like hey you can't look at ellen or else she fucking, she'll lose her mind. Right, right, right.

That's not on the staff. That is totally, fully, 100% on you. Anyways, you know, she's going to the producers who make lots of money off of her at the company that makes lots of money off of her and being like, people are mean. Oh, just because of that investigation, huh? An investigation starts, you're like, I yeah that's that's always a good sign yeah good sign that there's nothing

to see here wait hold on someone thinks i committed a murder i'm leaving the country that's wait why i don't know but fuck that yeah we were we were actually wondering you know there were rumors that portia derossossi was leaving Ellen and then those rumors just went away and Portia started what happened to Anne Heche whatever happened to Anne Heche we thought Anne Heche was the we didn't know what was going on was she the baddie or was it Ellen we don't know now everything is upended I feel like it's the beginning of a true crime podcast that will only lead in lawsuits yeah that's that's true fortunately uh there are too many people speculating about uh people ellen has killed for her to sue us uh famous last words although you

never know she could be very yeah she's so petty it's like natural she is like too many of us might bother her yeah we'll see i know even after we dragged her for like piling around with the war criminal out of football game but she was, I took that to heart guys. yeah, but you know what? I'm still stuck around. Good standup though. I was always a fan of her standup.

NHL is trending. I did not know the NHL was back. Uh, did they kick off recently or skate off or face off face off? Jack. Yeah. They, yeah. And I think a lot of people there was at first it was

an exhibition game i mean the the it's gonna start back up i believe tomorrow actually i think is when the openers are happening but during the game between toronto and edmonton there were people that were like standing for the you know the national anthems and like another there people like with their arms locked together. Eric Trump was just like, thank you, NHL, for standing during the national anthem. But the reason it's also trending is because there are a lot of hockey fans themselves who back the Black Lives Matter movement and feel that it's important that the sport do a little bit more than just the bare minimum.

That they've been posting pictures of themselves saying, well, if the league won't do it, I will kneel for the anthem, wearing their team's jerseys. So that's nice to see. For me, as a black hockey player in the 90s, I can tell you, for me personally, it's very heartening to see hockey fans actually engage with this sort of social movement at this time

because it's definitely not the wokest environment I had been around as a kid. So, yeah, with that, it's good. I just think the fans, let people know. Just because the league isn't doing it, don't put me in that pile with them because they stand with them. But yeah, a little bit of social media activism. The two whitest places I've ever been in Los Angeles were a fish concert and an NHL game. Just like 100% white people. Well, because it's like the one sport a lot of people of color don't think about because A, it's prohibitively expensive a lot of of times if you don't live in a city that has a rink or something like that uh and it's just that there's

not it doesn't seem like a sport that is very welcoming so yeah and i think that's what there is a lot of i remember especially in the build-up to the last election like a king's game in 2016 felt very much like oh this is this truly is like a conservative rallying point. Not to say, look, but I know plenty of liberal hockey fans, so I see you all out there. Oh, really?

Like there were a lot of MAGA hats and shit at a Kings game? I mean, like the trucks leaving. Wow. You're like, I see bumper stickers that are like, you know,

early Tea Party, thin blue line, et cetera, et cetera, type stuff. So, you know, you kind of see where people are at. The NBA came back last night.

We talk about this a little bit on Monday's episode, but any impressions? Did you watch the game? Any thoughts? Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, you kind of see where people are at. The NBA came back last night. We talk about this a little bit on Monday's episode. But any impressions? Did you watch the game? Any thoughts? Oh, yeah. I mean, I watched the Lakers-Clippers game. The Lakers, again, I'm really disappointed how weak the hair is on my Lakers team.

What is going on with the – We got the worst hair in the league. LeBron just needs to bick it, man. He looks cool with his hair shaved. I don't know if it's like, is it diminishing returns? Like, because he's got like the hair plugs that he's got to also like leave science. Does he have the hair plugs or is he, because it seems like it might be like the- I don't know.

Graft versus Host? It might be like glued on. Like, remember there was that time when Anthony Davis like pointed to his own hair and then LeBronron pulled down. It was like a glued-on wig thing. Oh, maybe. Look, either way, it was a little distracting. But all that to say, the Western Conference Finals

could be some of the most amazing basketball we could watch, I feel like. The Battle of L.A. was another good game, just like the last couple have been. Anthony Davis is just so good at basketball. Unbelievable. Reggie Miller. I'm sorry for ever doubting that he would.

I mean, I knew he was going to arrive and be Anthony Davis, but also just the way he plays with LeBron, too. It's like, oh, man. They're so good together. Davis but also just the way he plays with LeBron too it's like they're so good together like LeBron is above everything else just the smartest basketball

player like ever he like knows where things are going to be three steps ahead and he was like willing to trade everything for AD because like I think he just knew like this dude is the truth yeah because if you can if you focus on one,

it's like you can't do both. It's like we can beat a LeBron team, but then you bring AD in. Okay, unless I'm bringing in my own brute squad to do this, it's very tough. The Clippers saw that. They saw a little bit of that, even though it was a close game.

The Clippers were without Lou Will, so they might get better. The Lakers, first of all, the Clippers have Joaquin Noah, who I thought was in his mid-40s, but he's apparently 35 and looks pretty good out there. He just knows where to be and how to move around the court. Didn't he blow his Achilles tendon off or something? Yeah, he blew it off.

He doesn't have one anymore. It's just a floppy. Right. I feel like it was that bad. It was a horrific- Yeah, it was like foot stuff. And that sounds sexual. It was not sexual.

It was just like foot injuries, which is really bad when you're seven feet tall. I remember I had a friend who, like a family friend who went to the United Nations high school that he went to. And I was just like, this kid doesn't do anything. Like they just know. Like he's just so good.

Like at basketball, like he doesn't just have to do anything and also I just remember my mom was like is that Yannick Noah's son and I'm like what the fuck are you talking about and I'm like of course you like these like you know fancy French tennis players from the 80s and shit so

he was like world's most attractive man like in the 70s and shit. He was like world's most attractive man like in the 70s, right? Like everybody loved him. I just know every, like my mother who is Japanese and knows nothing about basketball was like some other. It's funny because the family friend who knew, who like at the time was like this kid, Joaquin, they were like Yannick Noah's son goes to their high school.

And my mom was like, Yannick Noah? And I'm like, Mom, like mom please like i get it you got your eye on yeah yeah and zion played uh and looked great but limited minutes so uh but always exciting to he he looks like he i always worry it's not it's not like watching like a big fragile dude who like falls down a lot because he he's so athletic but it's like the way like his weight combined with his strength and agility like doesn't look like it should be physically possible and so like every time he cuts i'm always worried that his like foot is gonna fall off um yeah like it happened like his shoe just like burst into multiple pieces in college so yeah it's like he has like supercar power like built on like a honda civic chassis right not that like that's how he's built but it's almost like there's a mismatch and what this thing

is capable of and i think what the limitations are physically but i don't know maybe he'll get through it but it's yeah watching that minute management happen like that was already happening before the break and then now even into it i'm like well was he playing this whole right what's happening like what but yeah i mean that was a question my friends and i were all texans like shouldn't he be healed up by now fine but uh yeah i mean maybe it is because they know he's too powerful for his own good. Like, we have to limit his minutes if we want to get a sustained career. They couldn't even play him.

Like, it was end of the game, coming down to the last possession, and they couldn't put him in. And he's their best player or his second best. Yikes. You know, Brandon Ingram is going to be a huge star, apparently. I didn't realize how good of a season he was having. But he's former Laker, got traded away for AD. I mean, in that sense, what can you do?

Because many of us, as fans, we're like, oh, you don't want to let go. Like, Brandon, if he makes good on the talent we're seeing, like, this is someone we want to have. But cut to us with AD, and I'm like, who? That's right. And then Epstein is trending you know as as he has been they unsealed unredacted documents from virginia jufri's i think it was like a 2011 court appearance and it's a lot of stuff that like if you've been paying attention

you already knew um she provided a list of uh she was asked in the deposition to name the quote politically connected and financially powerful people that ghislaine maxwell told you to go have sex with uh and she her list included prince andrew alan dershowitz former new mexico governor bill Governor Bill Richardson, New York hedge fund. Is that new? No, I knew that he was implicated. Oh, okay. New York hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky,

and former model agency manager Jean-Luc Brunel. And then there was also, she reported that she saw Clinton on Little St. Jeff with two young women. And she asked Epstein what Clinton was doing there. And he laughed it off and said, well, he does owe me a favor. And she said she doesn't know if it was a joke or if he was serious. But not a good look for Bill Clinton, former president, to be on Pedophile island with king pedophile and two young women yeah it's interesting because a lot of the coverage of this is conservatives being like well what about now you're gonna you're gonna stick it to bill yeah fuck yeah yeah dude

drag his ass out the fuck you talking about and also then you have to do the same with donald trump people of the fair people of the right he's got so many photos of them together it's all just stinks like shit i think that's why it's so interesting to no matter what your political disposition is it's like there's some fuck fuckery going down and let's get to the bottom of it and it's like i guess some people want to i guess if you're very narrowly looking at like using this to nail bill clinton sure but it's this is like a whole fucking thing right it's a whole whole ass problem um and we'll see what comes of that but god i mean even like in that documentary like there's so many people like yeah i saw bill clinton there oh but i didn't see him do nothing it's like okay right could have just said you him there. But I like that you went out of your way

because then even Alan Dershowitz's participation in that Netflix thing was just so eerie. So yeah, let's let all of the truths come out because that's how we move forward. We don't need to protect these people. Dershowitz was trending when the documents first hit the internet because it's pretty detailed about the fact that she was you

know made to have sex with him multiple times which again we knew from the documentary and from lots of articles but i think people were you know he's been protesting too much on social media like just being like i swear it up and down give me me a lie detector test. Shoot me up with truth serum. Put Wonder Woman's lasso of truth around me. All things that you can't possibly do that don't work. Jeez. Anyways, that guy, total definition of the word ghoul. But so are people on the left and the right hey it shows you being a fucking creep predator

has no political ideology you know what i mean you were saying though like when you looked into this there was just all sorts of cute stuff everywhere yeah i mean it's at all but it's just funny like when this information comes out every no matter whatever your worldview is there's a way to just punch that into your narrative and be like, yep, mm-hmm, and this ties with it. It's like, right, I think really we just want to see Ghislaine Maxwell actually stand trial and make it through and see where that goes and not have any kind of foul play. That would be nice.

We'll see. She's claiming her innocence. Oh, the other revelation was that Dershowitz was intimately involved not intimately wrong word choice but he was like the legal counsel who fought to get that Florida

agreement that was like unprecedented where Epstein got you know a year in prison where he was able to leave anytime he wanted and where it specifically said that anybody who was like who might also be implicated in any of the accusations wouldn't would be like they wouldn't be able to prosecute them which was which was like the detail that everyone was like

that's kind of unprecedented and weird and like it's weird that anybody would have never happened that uh and it turns out uh dershowitz was fighting for that because he was fighting for his own that's him me too yeah yeah so there you go uh all right guys well we hope you have a great weekend that's gonna do it for the week uh we'll be back on Monday with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wash your hands. Wear a mask. Stay at home.

Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to you all on Monday. Bye. Bye. 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 iHeartTrue Crime Plus, only on Apple Podcasts. There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre. We'll be right back. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, Emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts.

Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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