The Daily Zeitgeist - Good Zeit and Good Luck 6/12: Prenup, Kristen Bell, Dave Chappelle, Robert Fuller

Episode Date: June 13, 2020

On this edition of Good Zeit and Good Luck Jack and Miles discuss Melania adjusting her prenup, Kristen Bell catching flack for her controversial children's book, Dave Chappelle has released another incredibly poignant special, and the death of Robert Fuller whose police report leaves many questions. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah. Bound to happen. I think I know. We've done it. Repeated it. Yeah. Bound to happen. I think I've repeated a bunch of these. Well, look. It's Friday. What are you going to do? Look, we got a lot of tables. We got a lot of tables.

I'm gone next week. Oh, yeah. Take a little break. A little summer brizzy. Yeah. Well, uh-oh. Get ready, kids, because the substitute teacher will be high and make you watch blooper videos from the NBA. Did that actually happen?

Oh, hell yeah. There were two teachers. Blooper videos? Yo, Coach Karowski. Okay, this dude, like, you know, because there's always, like, the dudes who are the sports coaches who would have to substitute on, like, on campus or whatever. So in high school, Coach K would come through, and was not mike he's not mike sheshefsky coach k okay he's rob

karowski this dude was something else like we would play pickup with him like sometimes he would come to my friend's house on the weekend to play basketball with us in the driveway and he would like body us and this man was in his 40s and then we would like give him but then we would give him that work sometimes just anyway i wasn't that good but my homie tyler shout out to him uh basically almost dunked on him so he would we whenever he substituted any class he rolled that fucking tv thing and we're like here we go dude it's some nfl or nba blooper thing bloopers is the best though it's not even like no it's not even like physical comedy yeah exactly it's like the three stooges of sports that's amazing somebody needs to make a biopic

about that coach k yeah and name it coach k all right let's let's tell the people what's trending prenup is trending oh by the way i'll be i'll be here for Monday's episode, and then I'm leaving. Then you're leaving. Then I'm out. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Prenup is trending because of that man's wife, Melania Trump.

Yeah. So apparently we're getting the truth behind the scenes of that relationship. There was that time when she stayed back in new york to help uh monitor baron's education uh supposedly that was the official report right the truth is she stayed back in new york because they were negotiating the prenup and she realized this is leverage if i divorce him right now, it's going to look bad. It's going to look bad for him.

I know where the bodies are buried. So she stayed in New York, got the prenup that she wanted, and then moved down to D.C. But for a while there, she was holding out. She was like a player not reporting to camp. Stephon Marr buried it? Yeah, holding out. I'm just going to collect these checks better deal

record videos on periscope yeah she's i mean yeah the the whole book feels like it's just the juiciest stuff it's like oh not only that but there is capital d drama brewing between the women in trump's life yeah ivanka was apparently planning to rename the East Wing the first family's office before Melania moved to Washington and then ruined that by, I don't know, not working for her husband. Is that what it is? I guess. She's like, well, you're not involved in the nepotism, so we can't call the house an office. Okay, sure. This whole thing is this.

So, like, I remember when I used to care, when I used to think, like, oh, we're going to learn something new or, like, really dark. And now I'm just like, look at this viper pit just turn on itself in the weirdest way. And, like, that's what's leading the country and I was like please give me a Cliff's Notes version of the most salacious tidbits speaking of holdouts Belle is trending but it's not Le'Veon Belle

it is Kristen Belle she wrote long walk but we got there Kristen Belle wrote a children's book and it takes on i mean we already she already almost uh solved racism with her appearance in that uh almost come on jack yeah i mean she she basically solved it but after that video that nascar announced no more confederate flags that's right uh and now uh but she realized, oh, wait, what if some kids hadn't seen that this next generation also needs to know racism is bad. So she released a children's book about purple people who focus on their similarities rather than their differences or something.

or something as Brody Reed tweeted white people are like I don't care if you're black, brown, lavender, viridian, pewter, cerulean, vermilion, caledon uh wow yeah

that's such an interesting whatever it's like glorifying color blindness it's that whole I don'tness. It's that whole... I don't see it. No, no, that's not the problem. That's one way to avoid talking about actual racism. I'm like, no, just don't see color.

That's the problem. Yeah. Chappelle is trending. His special dropped. We talk about it a little bit on Monday's episode, but, uh, it's dope.

It's, it's truly, I mean, he's, it's just, I didn't know how bad I wanted to hear from him. It's also interesting because it's like the first social distanced, like live event that I've watched.

Um, the people are like kind of spread out in a field. It's outdoors. It's, I don't know, people are getting their temperature taken as they walk in. It's like a good,

I don't know, it's weird. It's a very interesting documentation of what's happening right now. When you see it, you're never going to, when people look back on this, it's going to have this very specific feeling to it, because as we watch, we're like, oh, yeah, right. People are getting temperature checked. They're all handing out masks.

They'll have to. They're all being really conscious of the pandemic, yet also know they want to be here to hear what Dave Chappelle is saying and that he also wants to be able to say this like with an audience. here to hear what Dave Chappelle is saying and that he also wants to be able to say this like with an audience um and on top of that it's born out of the explosive like uprisings that have taken taken place across America and then you're gonna hear from a comedian whose material has always you know been discussing with through his humor like what the black experience is I mean from the Chappelle show from you know the white the black white supremacist and things like that uh these kinds of things have been at the forefront it's interesting like you say it was interesting when he started talking about don lemon and how don lemon was shaming like a bunch of celebrities and you know his view on

that he's like this isn't a celebrity issue this is an issue of the people in the streets and it's not about he's like i need to let them speak but please believe i have a lot to say and then he it's really a just a passionate like speaking engagement with you know his humor intertwined in it or at least the first uh part that i saw i don't know if he moves on to like more material but no it's mostly that uh but it's i feel like he realized at a certain point that like he can't help but be funny and so he he's just like giving a he's saying what he's saying is very serious and thoughtful and yeah he's just so fucking smart but he can't help but be funny and so it's just it's funny like they're they're laughs in there and he's just you know working through it on stage

yeah it's it's awesome yeah and i mean you know he's controversial yeah no matter no matter how you cut it it's interesting to just see somebody like clearly be so moved to try and do something in that moment uh you know for better or worse but it just yeah it'd be an interesting snapshot of like what this you know moment in time was like like i said he's working through it he like i think his response to some of the controversial things he said in the past has been that he's like you know acknowledges that he's wrong i mean even the in this special he talks about like a thing that he said that was wrong not not about you know trans people but about like just a fact he got wrong on snl but i do think that's

like the fact that he openly talks about being a flawed person is also something that is i don't know at least very human about yeah well it's just it's right now it's just very hard times for people especially black people and i i you know i i commend him for like articulating his thoughts on everything because it's really uh for a lot of people like people like Dave Chappelle might have been an entry point for them to actually be able to observe racism and understand it a little bit more because his humor disarmed him a bit. But that the last thing we're talking about that's trending, I think just goes to show how prevalent all of this still is. Now, this story is still being fully reported out. But what we do know is that this man, a black man named Robert Fuller, was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California, near City Hall. And the cops just

somehow immediately ruled it a suicide. I think most people would probably say, I don't know why someone would want to hang themselves in City hall, what that means right now. I mean, until we know more, we, I, you know, we'll just see what happens.

But I think to other people, it appears to be a lynching. Um, and. Oof. Like, you know, like we've been saying there,

if we, when we make gains, uh, against dismantling white supremacy, there's going to be there will always be pushback because it has to survive and again i don't know if this is a hate crime but my god when i just when you read what's on there and then the police are just calling it a suicide right away that is very eerie to me yeah and just stinks of a cover-up and on top of it i have a feeling like if it's

near city hall i there has to be some kind of surveillance footage of what happened so i think rather than doing that like they should have not you know made a uh a determination at like the cause immediate determination but i don't know maybe there's a note i don't know but i think it's just if you're gonna do that like explain all of that rather than us as the public seeing a black man was found hanging from the tree. Police say it's a suicide. Right. That's. I mean, this is this is the problem is that we can't trust the police on on this shit right now.

No. And man. This is the thing, man. everyone's wounds are still so open and whether it's brianna taylor still having still trying to get her murderers to to see justice or you know tony mcdade there's still so many people that we still have to seek justice for and it just shows you in this country like the list it might never end also the the suicide of it reminds me of all the ferguson organizers who have died from mysterious suicides uh it's it's wild man i mean who knows better how to make a murder look like a suicide

than cops is a point I've heard made I mean the coroner just says because there were quote no signs of a struggle or that he was hung up or that there wasn't but again I don't how could we know and that's the thing

we're at the point now where when people of color and black people any vulnerable you know, how could we know? And that's the thing. Like that's, we're at the point now where, uh, when people of color and black people, any vulnerable community dies and it's just, you know, swept under the rug. It leaves us with so many questions that now we don't even know what to, what to make of this.

Yeah. Um, and that's why I think it's important. Whatever the truth is like that has to be, that has to be, uh, you know, presented to us.

All right, guys, the truth is like that has to be that has to be uh you know presented to us all right guys that's gonna do it for this week of the daily zeitgeist yep we hope you have a good weekend stay safe be kind to yourselves be kind to others don't do nothing and uh we'll be back on monday we'll talk to you then bye bye 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.

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