The Daily Zeitgeist - Happy Birthday, Justrend! 8/24: Charlie Watts, Jerry Jones, Busta Rhymes, Havana Syndrome, Gov. Cuomo, Tony Hawk

Episode Date: August 24, 2021

In this edition of Happy Birthday, Justrend!, Jack and Miles discuss Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts passing away at 80, Jerry Jones trying to talk sense to Cowboys fans, Busta Rhymes' take on COVID, Havana Syndrome going mainstream, Cuomo leaving his dog at the Governor's mansion, and Tony Hawk selling skateboards painted WITH HIS BLOOD. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I would do it over and over again. All of that has molded me to become the woman that I am today. Like I wouldn't change anything. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Happy Birthday to Just Trend, a.k.a. Happy Birthday to Justin Smith. happy birthday to just trend uh aka happy birthday to justin smith big super producer justin smith who assassinated dj danil and became one of the uh super producers engineer editor of the daily tdz miss you danil full app and yeah it just makes us sound smart uh makes the record go smoothly all around a very cool guy uh shout out super pretty cool dude a pretty cool dude super producer just trend smith uh charlie

watts is trending the drummer from the rolling stones yeah past 80 yeah i mean they're getting they're getting up there man yeah i i just remember like yeah at first it's like yeah he's not gonna be able to tour and then say oh he died um that's that sucks i i always thought like whenever i'd watch him play drums he looked so effortless playing rock drums that i all it was like the most fun thing to for me to watch charlie watts like with his sort of like turtle movement style yeah he did not he yeah it seemed very easy to him like he was not uh like he would look down his nose at like a uh was it was the drummer from uh guns and roses who was like really

expressive and like made a big deal about every every drummy Adler. Yeah. I think I'm thinking of Steve Adler. Yeah. Well then drugs, yikes, alcohol, just it'll happen. It'll happen. But yeah, rest in peace,

Charlie Watts. I, I'm sure there's, I will text my mother and father and see if they heard the news. Yeah. Are they big stones fans? Not really, but I mean,

like I would always like my mom i would she would always laugh at this like impression of uh charlie watts i would do um as a kid remember that it's because i was like i don't know like as a kid he always struck me as odd like in that group of musicians i'm like this dude i was like first of all he looks like i was like he looks like grandma because like my mom's mom had like very short like white hair and that's like kind of like charlie watts is like bowl cut and i was like oh it looks like obachan and that's you know i should call you grandmother in japanese and my mom's like dude shut up she was like shut the fuck you idiot i'm saying that shit playing the drums yeah and i was just like but then i was just like pretend to play drums like

pretend to be charlie watts like i was like a little old, like unwrapped mummy and shit. But anyway, look, many memories were had to you, Charlie. So respect. Yeah. Jerry Jones is trending, you know. Double J. It's always interesting, you know, coming into a story, you realize, OK, this person is trending. You read the first sentence of this quote.

Everyone has a right to make their own decisions regarding their health and their body. And I'm like, oh, but I wouldn't be surprised in the least bit. Is this a button hook route? Are we going to fly? It's a deep post. What are we doing here? However, he continues, I believe in that completely,

until your decision as to yourself impacts negatively many others. Not the most straightforward way of putting that, but I see what he's saying. Then the common good takes over and I'm arm waving here, but that has everything to do with the way I look at our team, the Cowboys, or the way I look at our society. We have got to check I at the door and go forward with we,

your Dallas Cowboys are doing that. So, I mean, that is not a popular take in texas i'm assuming no but clearly trying to use the leverage of the of the mighty dallas cowboys to try and be like hey you ain't a cowboys fan unless you fuck with the vaccine jerry jones out and he tried it i don't know i haven't begun to read the replies on some of the tweets that uh were on there but it's mostly people who were like surprised like whoa okay jerry jones wasn't expecting that from you but like i said people know at the end of the day you gotta have people healthy if they're gonna keep buying things right shutting shit down doesn't work and on some freedom rah-rah shit um without people having

their health and that's why the i mean very cynically that's one way i believe many business owners like no no vaccine vaccine vaccine vaccine yeah yeah people have money to be made uh which jerry jones always has that in the back of his mind but you know what perfect some fucking just based replier on twitter just says because my money is more important than your freedoms that's all I heard here oh boy that would be awesome if this was the thing like because the

FDA they had the immediate clap back for the FDA approval but if Jerry Jones like started the groundswell of people actually getting the vaccine wow some people are so weird they're like well then why is smoking cigarettes still still legal oh honey okay we've got a long way to go don't we and it's also like not legal when it affects other people which is yeah i mean

like issue here like you can't smoke on an airplane why can't you smoke on an airplane yeah anymore huh because the second hand yeah okay there you go you just figured it out sir go on now busta is trending now this is the opposite side of that coin unfortunately the man from leaders of the new school flip mo squad bus a bus as in bust the fucking rhymes he a clip came out of him back in june where he was at a like live show in st louis and you know what another one a clip that starts off we're like okay i like the energy of this take i don't know where it's going and then it takes takes a turn. COVID can suck a dick. Okay, yeah.

COVID can suck a dick. I agree. Okay, sure. Not a fan. We are sorry. All these little weird-ass government policies and mandates suck a dick. Uh-oh.

Like, now groans. Trying to take our civil liberties away. Feels good to be back outside we outside for real okay so noted uh civil liberties advocate buster rhymes um has has made it known where he stands on all this i like how dude the the best for some of the people's replies to the buster rhymes do you think ron funch has said like Rhymes really looking for an extinction level event then another one said put your mask where my eyes can see people that shit in there so

oh boy not to say anything disparaging but Buster Rhymes certainly doesn't have as much money at stake with regards to his live shows as uh jerry jones does um so you know yeah not that many people it's not like he's got he's selling out a tour so it's easy for

him to just uh do the standard i've been rich for too long thing and yeah that's that's where people have to let that melt away and says that's not buster rhymes up there speaking that's trevor smith right some fucking guy llc was also buster rhyme but that's trevor smith that's trevor esquire yeah um yeah man he had such a like his music had such a specific like energy to it that i feel like yeah dude because nothing else like captured yeah yeah is that what it is his ability to fucking not listen to the status quo yeah like there was just something about his energy that told me this guy does not uh follow follow the pack you know he's not a he's not a follower um but man i, when I first discovered him, that was like his music was the, like

took over the whole energy of like a couple of weeks of my life. And like, I don't know, eighth grade, ninth grade. Anyways, uh, RIP to his mentions and RIP more to Jerry Jones's mentions and RIP to Charlie Watts. Uh, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Fantasy football fans, the NFL season is here, and now is the time to get ready to dominate your leagues.

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because so many military sources that the mainstream media trusts are like cia and pentagon are on board with the vanna syndrome you know the it's been taken pretty they've been given a lot of credulity even though the symptoms seem to suggest a weapon that does not uh seem scientifically possible as far as we know uh at this stage and also because one of the people who suffered the kind of sonic attack what was being thought of as a sonic attack and then was being thought of as microwave attack um and then was being thought of as microwave attack. A big part of the early reports was sound. They recorded the sound and people identified it as a type of insect that is native to Cuba.

And that was probably just a new sound to them. So a combination of a lot of things the symptoms seem to be pretty diffuse and uh you know could could be just the flu or you know some of these things but then they say they experience very acute like attacks so i don't know um i don't know but i'm always surprised by how physical the impact of psychogenic events can be anyways Anyways, the mainstream is picking up. This is the first time I've seen this as like the main headline on Drudge because her trip to Hanoi was at least delayed, might end up being canceled after two staffers fell ill there uh with havana syndrome symptoms and you know early stages but this story just keeps getting i don't know it feels like a lot of stories where there are two incompatible realities and the two sides are just like careening towards each other without blinking and like

nobody is admitting or like backing down or being like yeah you know we're we're still trying to figure this out it's just like no this is real no this other thing that can't possibly be also true and then they're not gonna back down until who the hell knows so we'll see where's it popping up next it's in hanoi it's in fucking havana it's in weren't there some people in like europe too who said they were getting hit with it also yeah yeah vienna uh i think was a worldwide baby yeah it's it's gotten everywhere china not russia surprisingly i don't think uh even though they think that it's it is from russia and all the all the sites have like the uh have communist histories uh or a lot of them do at least exactly so think twice before you start barking for medicare for all you know

how the cia does when it comes to communism um yeah they they use it as a boogeyman to do other awful shit huh anyways i don't mean to disparage because i think of of any people the most sympathetic uh figures in america are definitely covert cia agents uh you know an institution that's never done chaos agents yeah just infiltrating governments i just i don't know i don't know cuomo uh apparently left his dog behind at the governor's mansion he says no now he says it didn't happen it feels like it could be one of those stories that just manifested because it was so like perfect for who he was that just somebody thought they heard that and like it just went from there um but even his in his denial he said

that he asked people to take it while he went on vacation which seems no he said he had to look at a like monitor a storm down back in the city so he had to leave albany and then asked someone if they wanted the dog but then there's like a report that the person gave the dog back because they couldn't handle the dog. If we've learned one thing about the dogs of political executives, they're tough to, they're hard to handle, man. Yeah. You know. And I think like anything, just learn to know that whatever he's saying is probably bullshit.

Especially when you heard his defense of things. You're like, no, no, I don't.'t yeah his kind of speech on the way out was uh you know you know when you're the governor and you have a work trip and you give your dog away to a subordinate like were you doing this every time you had to leave albany right just you know hey you want my dog for a couple days and then look if it works out i don't know maybe take huh that's very strange and finally tony hawk is trending he is selling 100 skateboards uh that are painted with his blood he's got bloody fucking skateboards out here 100 skateboards painted with actual blood and they say each board boasts a vials worth of hawkks dna mixed in with the paint for the decks

um i don't know what that means a vile's worth of dna as that could be like a hair follicle you know if you're really but i mean but look he clearly got his blood drawn and they show them putting that shit in the paint. So sick. Yeah. The DNA thing suggests like, I don't know, that they're going to try to clone Tony Hawk, even though he's mixing in with the paint. So it's not like you just have a pure specimen of Tony Hawk's blood.

Yeah, this is all going to. The whole thing is it's going to like an anti-plastics non-profit because I think he has some kind of stake in like that canned water liquid death. Oh, okay. Got it. So I think like it's all kind of working together

or I know that liquid death is sort of helping put this all together. So I think, oh, no, it's just a collab, I guess, between the two. So is Liquid Death like a anti-plastics kind of initiative? Yeah, essentially, yeah. By having them in aluminum cans, they want to do away with the plastic bottles and shit like that. But I remember when we did Sketch Fest in San Francisco, we did that live show. They had that like all throughout Sketch Fest. And I remember being like, what the fuck is this beer and then i was like oh shit it's canned

water all right right cool you know who owns liquid death louisville louisville slugger the aluminum bats they have leftover aluminum that's what it comes down um i'd love to hear it i'm glad to know that they're still in there. Them and Easton. Big aluminum. Yeah, Easton. Easton and Louisville. They're working together again, trying to make when aluminum was king.

I had the Little League World Series on the other day in the background, and it was pretty exciting. There was like a grand slam. It was fun times. I think it was fun fun times i think it was michigan v texas and oh the uh liquid death was created by a former netflix creative director nice cool good at branding shout out yeah and i would love to know the origin story did he have like a vc friend who he went to stanford with and he's like what if we did this dude Oh, almost definitely. All right, guys. Well, that is going to do it for us,

uh, this afternoon. But you have about 24 hours from right now to go out and get your live show tickets. Uh, the live show is going down, uh, in almost exactly 24 hours.

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daily zeitgeist momenthouse.com slash the daily zeitgeist uh and we will hopefully see y'all there until then uh be kind to each other be kind to yourselves wear a mask get the vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. 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. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports, especially tennis. Tune into my podcast each week to hear me and my friends in the community break down the latest matches, including the US Open.

Plus hear from some of the biggest names in the sport about what the future holds. It's about belief. And once you break through that, then you know you can win a Grand Slam. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast every Monday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest, because the company had promised

150 grand in prizes to four finalists, but the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for the Legend of Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey fam, I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the podcast from Hello Sunshine that's guaranteed to light up your day. Check out our recent episode with Latin Grammy winner, author, and TV personality, Chiquis, about raising her younger siblings after the death of her mother, singer Jenny Rivera. I would do it over and over again. All of that has molded me

to become the woman that I am today. Like, I wouldn't change anything. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.