The Daily Zeitgeist - Geistbusters 10/7: Lakers, New Zealand, Trump Meltdown, VP Debate

Episode Date: October 7, 2020

On this edition of Geistbusters Jack and Miles discuss the Lakers winning to make the series 3-1 in the Finals against the Heat. American's are enamored by New Zealand's handling of COVID-19, Trump is melting down on Twitter, and tonight is the VP Debate! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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special episode of geist busters starring dan jack royd and harold gramos uh jack that is miles That is Miles. Oh, fuck yeah. This is what is trending this afternoon. What's new? I mean, Miles, what's new with you? What's new with me? Like in general? Or are you trying to lead into the first trend? Because I'll tell you what's new with me is my renewed sense of feeling good about LA sports with the Lakers. Just really doing what they had to do against the Heat.

It was real touch and go at times. I'm not going to lie, full disclosure, I was fully prepared for the Heat to even the series up. I really thought it could go there. But also still feeling confident in the Lakers. Who knows? Nothing is for certain. But now Friday's game looks a little more uh

hopeful and i didn't realize they were like the for people who have season tickets to the lakers that's not me um one day maybe it could be they were offering like rolls bowl viewing parties like in your car so like it was like a drive-in laker game but in the rose bowl parking lot uh and like apparently they had some some decent uh safety precautions in place did it happen that that actually happened yeah so the thing is they did it for the game last night because they thought you know this is where the marketing people shot themselves in the foot a bit they thought it was going to be a sweep so this is the first game that they had and they're like oh come to game four to watch us wrap it up at the rose bowl so now they're going to do it again friday uh and you know i it'll we'll see what happens then now will those safety precautions

stay in place when people are celebrating uh remains to be seen but yeah i don't know what yeah who knows what's gonna happen but at least you'll have the option of staying inside your own car and keep the windows rolled up. The game was a good game. The Heat had Bam Adebayo back playing with Jimmy Butler, and Tyler Hero was just out of his mind. That's a formidable opponent, man. The Heat are not a joke.

They're a pretty good team. LeBron was looking shaky in the first half and then had a really great second half ad hitting clutch shots and i knew that was going into i haven't had to root for the lakers until lebron came uh because i always root for whoever lebron's playing for and Frank Vogel, who's a coach I'm a fan of, came. And, man, y'all are the worst Lakers fans, man. My friend, I was like, after that shot went in, I was like, bang, bang. And he was like, you know, psyched. And then he was like, man, I don't know what's wrong with our offense.

We look like shit. I don't know what i'm just like no just be happy that you're within a game of the finals like the the heat defense had the celdics offense looking far worse than you guys are looking right now like right at least you're putting the ball in the basket enough to win games it's just i don't know what it is if it's because it's funny like a lot of my friends who are laker fans who we grew like you know like born into it we didn't select the lakers it was just like the local team granted yes we were in the 80s so we had showtime and all that and like there was a lot of energy around but we lived through the dell harris years okay and we got here but i but most of us are like thank god man it just feels good to be able to fucking puff our chests up again and i feel like there's a lot of other people who

are just sort of so focused on like what the team looks like on paper and they're just raging out like like as if they're like doing fantasy we're like this should be fucking what what the fuck's going on here right this doesn't make sense like but be fucking, what the fuck's going on here? This doesn't make sense. But we're still getting the Ws. We're getting the Ws in the finals. That is the point of everything. All the speculation, all the off-season stuff.

I am happy for LeBron. I'm happy for Frank Vogel. I'm happy for myself because all the Rondo haters out there, all the people who were texting me being like, tell your boy Frank to take Rondo out. He's the worst player on the team. He sucks. Oh, really?

Frank needs to take him out. I was like, hmm. Playoff Rondo then showed up and made Frank look very smart. So anyways, shout out to the lakers organization also shout out to the heat because uh you got to respect the hell out of what they're doing and the series is not over and yeah so that young fan who got to be posterized by lebron in a finals game that was great moment for that young, that young man in the number 14 jersey, I believe. Fantastic. Great moment. You love to see that stuff.

It was so interesting. So you are, of course, referring to the time Tyler Harrow, LeBron stole the ball, was on a breakaway. Tyler Harrow ran full speed into his body and then just went flying like he had just been... Dude, it was bad. just went flying like he had just been bad looked like wipe out like that abc show like his body just went it just was flying ragdoll physics in the opposite direction but yo tyler harrow is real good i've never seen somebody make one facial expression that made them look like go from looking like a grown-up to a child like his his little snarl it was like by putting that adult looking thing on his face it just drew it into such harsh contrast it would be like putting a mustache on a on a five-year-old it was just like yo what

are you doing my man um but But that was a tough look. I mean, he still hit some big shots, though. That dude is... Yeah, yeah. And he made a meal of that contact, too, to try and make it look like a foul. But come on, young man. You're not going to get that.

And you should... You know, let's... We got to know where we're at. It's not an offensive foul when you just bounce off of somebody's body. No matter how pained your face is. Yeah. New Zealand is trending.

Somebody tweeted this thing. It's just nice to check in with what a sane world might look like had we gotten this COVID thing under control. Obviously, New Zealand is an island. Far fewer people, so less of a level of difficulty, but still, you know, by contact tracing, by following scientific recommendations and medical recommendations, they've got this thing in a good place to the point that an American who moved to New Zealand,

uh, pointed out, they were like, you know, Americans are so impressed by New Zealand's handling of COVID, but they don't know like how good it is. Their most recent small cluster of cases, uh,

was followed in such detailed contact tracing and gene swabbing that they traced two cases to a trash can lid and an elevator button oh my god it's just like that's my new porn that's my new porn but that's i mean that is what like take yourself back to 2019 like that's what you would expect from a modern country like a modern country should be able to pull that off well modern or not it's about having the culture within the nation that is about helping and protecting each other you know what i mean like that's it's just the weirdest thing like what you mean communism is that what you say fundamentally agree that it's like yeah man we got to take care of our people that's it's just the weirdest thing like what you mean communism is that what you say fundamentally agree that it's like yeah man we got to take care of our people that's kind of like the thing you know like it's like we're all in this thing trying to help each other out but

here it's like i don't know man do you have enough what level of treatment can you afford and also uh we don't give a fuck enough to even like to contact trace with the president, mostly because he probably doesn't want to be revealed as patient zero or whatever the fuck that's going to be. But yeah, it's a, I guess that's what it is too. It's like, I want to know.

It's like, you want to watch, like you, you go to eat dinner at a family where like, where everyone's all loving and shit. And you're like, ah, this is cool,

man. This is fucking tight. Right. And then you go, and then you're like, Trump meltdown, Trump asymptomatic, Trump, uh, trouble breathing, This is fucking tight. Right. And then you go home. And then you're like. Trump meltdown. Trump asymptomatic.

Trump trouble breathing. All things that are trending. He's apparently gasping for air still. Although, according to his doctors, he has been fully asymptomatic for 24 hours. And his dick has gotten bigger somehow. Right. According to his Twitter. Yeah.

He's like, look, Sprite can for scale. But there's also Trump meltdown trending because he is just still fully on one ever since he got out of Walter Reed and got the good good that they were giving out. He, you know, hopefully they can keep him on whatever is keeping his mood stabilized, you know, for long enough that nothing bad happens. But that's where we're at. We've got a volatile sociopath in charge of with his finger on the button, baby.

So the VP debate is happening tonight. May have happened by the time you hear this. I'm going to go ahead and say that nothing that well, I won't I won't make any predictions that they're going to be debating from behind plexiglass, which Pence was fighting at first and thought they were... It's just interesting. I still don't fully understand that angle, that they are basically trying to make it... I think basically they were arguing that they shouldn't have to stand behind plexiglass because that would be acknowledging the virus too much and inside of the Trump-Pence world that would be emitting defeat, I guess.

I don't know. I don't know. There's just so much dumb shit going on with the Plexi, the fucking apparent ticket that's being left for Tupac at Will Call. There's all kinds of just... I'm sorry, what? I did not know about that last one. So Kamala Harris said that Tupac was her favorite rapper. And then so Jason Miller, who's one of the campaign advisors, like we will leave

a ticket for Tupac Shakur for the debate in Salt Lake City. And he was like, I'm actually more of a Biggie fan, but we will have a ticket for Tupac. And people were like, they were like, OK, yeah, nice joke or whatever. Then the Trump communication manager was like no no jokes here there will be a ticket for tupac it's like what is this even what do we do what are we talking what is this wait why is the wait so the trump administration or the trump campaign officials were saying they were leaving a ticket for tupac it's all just to troll her because at an naacp event they're like angela rye asked her like

who's your favorite living rapper and she said tupac and they're like but tupac's dead honey and she's like oh yeah i'm i'm sorry anyway yes but she's like but my favorite rapper is tupac got it so they're like oh does she know so now they're being the gatekeepers of hip-hop history knowledge i mean to be like okay yes as you think tupac isn't she could have just been like yeah that's what you think but she's like okay and you're gonna look dumb as fuck when he pulls up and takes the ticket right exactly um that would be 2020 also tupac reveals he's alive to claim his ticket in salt lake city to the vice presidential debate to watch just the the boringest debate um and he's maga though that's the other thing are you are you expecting to see fireworks tonight are you gonna

be watching i actually can't watch this debate i'm uh i will watch the highlights for y'all uh to yeah all duty i mean you know pence is you know he's better on the mic so even though he's like not very like the most compelling person but he's he's better with his words yeah so he's like he's got that old school ability to like say awful shit but like it sounds like boring policy talk um yeah brag that he's rush limboff on decaf yeah that's what he called himself. That is such a shitty nickname, but I'll take it. Yeah, I think we're going to see some spicy swings

coming out of the VP Harris candidate. I think we'll see Pence with some weird mistimed dog whistling i don't know i don't i can't again it's like anything everyone's so in their corners already that regardless of what happens uh it'll there'll be at least one or two clips where people will be like and that's a for the election yeah i mean but kamala has been great, like, tearing people apart on mic at, like, Senate hearings. I haven't, like, really been into her, like, even the time when she supposedly, like, owned Biden in that first Democratic debate. I didn't think, like, it was that effective. It just felt a little like, yeah, okay. Like, it's just a little calculated, but i mean that's fine it just wasn't like the most what did you want what'd you want i don't know it just didn't feel like she was being authentic which is a thing i think people value now which is dumb but still it's a thing that people value so yeah i mean i also just wanted to leave joe alone leave joe alone man come on man yes

he's the architect of one of the architects behind the massive mass incarceration of the 90s but do you have to dunk on him like that come on man they literally brought out a mini hoop and put it behind him and then she dunked on him yeah uh i don't know well we'll see i'm also doing the thing where i unconsciously when i want someone to win i lower the expectations and that's also a tactic on in debating you always want the lowest possible expectations for the person who is doing the debating like they did with bush and then he mopped the floor with al gore well we'll see man it could be you know maybe uh kamala puts her vince carter uh you know 2000 dunk contest shoes on uh and just windmills the fuck out of pence up there but i don't know because but it's funny though like now even politics is like we measure in debate dunks now um and that's what that's how we're gonna score it now they're like wow

kamala harris left her arm in the hoop and is dangling with her arm in the hoop after completing the dunk i mean that is that's some serious arm strength the reverse 360 windmill when he let it let him know that that he opened that dunk contest with that vince carter 2000 the 2000 dunk contest 2000 or 99 yeah it was one it was i think it was 2000 because i feel like the first first year i was in high school and my friend basically yeah it was 2000 yeah it was our first year of high school and then my boy he ditched his valentine's day dance date to watch the dunk contest that day and we were like yo we're wowing but fine that was the one time that was the right decision that was such a great yeah

to this day i mean uh we we laugh with like the homegirl that he left like like hanging like that i mean we like we're older and all chill now but she's like yeah that was fucked up i was like hey i wasn't cool enough to have a date that day and so i was you know maybe i poisoned the well and was like yo we need to watch this vince carter don't contact bro don't just leave me here uh all right that is going to do it for this episode of the trending zeitgeist we are going to be back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, stay inside, wash your hands, wear a mask, don't do nothing about

white supremacy, be kind to each other and be kind to yourselves. We will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. K 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?

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