The Daily Zeitgeist - I Want To Trend Away... 6/7: Logan v Mayweather, Trump v O'Reilly, Hill v Manchin, NBA teams v other NBA teams

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

On this edition of I Want To Trend Away... Jack and Miles discuss Paul v. Mayweather, the Trump/O'Reilly "History Tour", Jemele Hill v. Joe Manchin, and NBA news. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Paul V. Mayweather. The internet is still abuzz over the boring. Watching pirated clips yeah exactly i mean i've seen uh clips where it looks like mayweather knocked him out and then held him up the whole time uh i've seen clips where paul seems to be throwing a bunch of big punches that don't really land um the first round i watched the whole damn fight wow and i had to and again i did not pay shout out to the 16 year old uh family member at this party was that like when we were all trying to find a way to watch it for free like instantly summoned a twitter like a twitter stream and i was like i'm so washed i used to be that child

or i could be like i could find this for free and be like it's on pay-per-view and then cut to them be like oh this kid's the chosen one uh the torch has been fully passed uh but yeah from mayweather to paul as the greatest uh boxer of a generation it was clear like at a certain point in the first round uh lo Paul tried to just wail on him to try and get a knockout, and then he gassed himself on that. And then after a while, it really did look like Mayweather was being a very kind god where he's like, I'm going to act. It felt like, I will teach you a lesson about boxing.

You talk all this shit. I will show you how dead you are. I will take you to the eighth round so you can see what it's like to have to actually be active be defensive and attack and yeah it was unsatisfying though because i think the whole reason people tuned in and this is why i wanted to watch that mother getting knocked out yeah you want to see him get fucking rocked like rock mine um but it didn't happen and you know what whatever they all got their 35

million a piece or whatever the fuck that was so and his brother got to say that he won the fight which was very frustrating the best were they at the end of a round were clearly just like oh my god this guy's gassed they'd cut

to his brother and there were a couple where he didn't realize he was on camera and he's like my brothers are about to get fucking destroyed and then the camera was like hey it's all good man three rounds to two i got it at three rounds to two right now and you're like you were just sweating your little weird ass outfit out oh we on we on yeah oh oh yeah confident confident confident but yeah man this this is gonna be a thing from now on like celebrity versus actual boxer because they made so much money i know so many people who got this fight or at least illegally streamed it like the there were a lot of eyeballs on this yeah yeah um and like i the the sentiment seemed to range from damn he could have knocked him out and didn't and to like i'm kind of impressed that uh paul made it all the way um yeah but i think when you couple that with mayweather saying like i wasn't

gonna knock him out you're like you weren't really fighting floyd mayweather right you floyd you were in the ring with floyd mayweather as he got over a million dollars per minute to not be punched right um so yeah did but this is gonna open the door up to more i think this is the first steps towards the mtv claymation series celebrity death match. Right. Come to life. Yeah. There is, unfortunately, this Trump O'Reilly tour will not be a that he can claim to be the greatest president of all time what does that mean

i you know i mean o'reilly writes is like a best-selling author of fake like revisionist histories of like all the presidential assassinations this is like a thing that all right part of the o'reilly brand post disgrace um and trump needs needs some revision so uh i'm sure it'll be very successful it's going to be throughout florida and texas in december um and i don't know. I'm just waiting. He really needs to revive his image. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop for

him to be successful and the build towards 2024 to begin because I just don't trust America to continue doing what they're currently doing, which is ignoring him and only paying attention to notice whether his pants are on backwards or not.

And that's what we'll see with how hungry the media gets again. Like, damn, the ratings are a lot better when we give this white supremacist destroyer a ton of attention. Yeah. But fortunately

we can trust mainstream media. They're always have the populace's best interest in mind. There is a visual chart of the interactions with Trump's statements before and after the ban that is pretty remarkable. I mean, it's what you would expect, but it's just wild to kind of see it. The New York Times put it out, and it's just a massive cloud of just huge, so many statements that he was putting out there that were getting covered, that were getting retweets, getting lots of likes.

The ones that stand out, I won this election by a lot lot there's 4.7 million interactions uh the first lady and i tested positive for covid 19 got 4.6 million um and then and it's just like this massive cloud of all these statements um and then the ban happens and there's just like this tiny little trickle with like a couple that get a lot but not not as much as they used to and it's just yeah it really is shocking that it took that long for the social media companies to be like oh this person's the dictator who's trying to kill us i mean it's it's easy to not see that when you're not you know you're in a

socioeconomic class where the threat of something like that isn't real you're like i don't know dude it's it's great in menlo park i just bought three houses around me so i have privacy right right um yeah and i love my neighbors because i don't i bought them out of their homes right um anyways uh we it'll be interesting to see how this holds up yeah two years from now um or two years from january i guess uh jamelle hill is trending uh what's what's going on with jamelle you know jamelle hill just saying things like you know with joe mansion not supporting the for the people act you know the the massive voter voting reform bill that he is in fact upholding white supremacy um and the fact that he won't even consider adjusting or altering the filibuster again a relic of white supremacy that continues into our modern day. Just like, yeah, that's all

this is. That's what this is. So I was like, yeah, no, no, that all tracks because this is the arguments he's laid out in terms of why he doesn't want it. They just don't make sense. And we'll talk about that a little bit more in tomorrow's episode. But yeah, it's hard to look at it and say this is for any other reason, you're somehow, you know, you're just more of a secret Republican white supremacist and you realize letting everybody vote might not be great for that agenda. I'm confused why it's, it's just because people love to, like people on the right love to hate her or something? Yeah, I'd imagine. That her saying this is controversial? just because people love to like people on the right love to hate her or something but yeah i imagine this is controversial i i'd imagine i think people are thinking like get her off at espn it's like she's not on espn if you remember that uh but it's true i mean it's like really

i think another way to really look i think also to create more pressure on joe mansion to be like this isn't about you saying like well how come republicans aren't behind it no what you're functionally doing is allowing all of these just rancid voter suppression bills that are aimed at disenfranchising voters of color um that's you not getting behind this uh you know hr1 that's all you're doing is you're just letting this slide and letting it you know you're just letting it rock out there and you have the chance to make things evil equal but he wants to make things even um and finally the nba playoffs continue to happen uh your team got bounced uh unfortunately um i mean look that was i can say I can say it, man. Devin Booker and Jay Crow, they

cooked our asses. Fucking deep fried our shit. It was unbelievable. It is what it is. I was saying on Instagram and stuff, it's so, like, I get it.

There's, Laker fans suck. Because there's a lot of Laker fans that are just these bandwagon fair weather fans who just turn toxic. The second we don't win. I'm used to seeing us not like we haven't won a chip in years until last year. And I'm, I'm here watching. I'm like, yeah, whatever it is, what it is. But like when people start

being like kuzma he's got to go to china man with that kind of play like it's nonsense like dude he's he's over performing on his contract let's be real um and i just you know i just look at it like this we're gonna go back palinka who knows what kind of stunts he's gonna pull um and see what we do but i you know it is what it is there's no there's nothing you can say aside from yes we've played more than any other team but i'm not really interested in excuses aside from saying yo big up to them they came to fucking play their shooting was unreal and that's what happens when you have when you rely on two stars who are completely unfit yeah i mean it's so the fact that it's shocking that a

two seed beat a seven seed like they were the one of the better teams in the league all season and you know had some big nights and uh one of the lakers best players got hurt one of the best players in the league got hurt and wasn't there for the last two games. I don't know. I feel like there, because there are so many Lakers haters and because Lakers fans are like immediately like seen a suspicious and have to be like, well, I'm not making excuses. It's just,

it's being turned into a bigger thing than it really is, which is that any other team, your best player gets hurt. Like, and that best player is like one of the top five players in the league and everyone's gonna be like oh that sucks man that that's what happens in the nba especially when you like it that seems to have been a thing that happened to everybody uh who went deep in the bubble is that like they had a lot of injuries this year

um so i i feel like it's kind of being overblown um but that's what sports media is there for um trey young man i trey young is terrifying you you never fully appreciate how good a player is until you have to root against him and uh the 76ers played trey young young man for the hawks uh like very young i think he's young man for the Hawks like very young I think for the Hawks young point guard that's where I am 22 years young

and he is just next level like you know shoots it from beyond 30 feet has a floater that's unstoppable yeah and the Sixersfooting icon you know what i mean yeah shout out to him i see it baby i know the clock's ticking that's a lot there's a lot of

a lot of you know bald talk on nba twitter for you know his hairline and kind of weird do and uh durant had like kind of a people were saying he just needs to give it up because he's got a bald spot on the back yeah but hey you know what do you i think all that needs to do is i think that's the thing we have to go up against too is like this idea like oh how is he a sarin bald or how's he starring his hairline all week right i don't because he's a basketball player he's not a fucking hair model um if that were the case he'd be like yeah is this the best hair model we have sure uh but no this guy is a fucking athlete and he's doing what he got to do i i see your struggle and i honor anybody who's just do what you got this is your head baby live it out how you want to but that 2018 draft class man looking pretty good luca and trey who were traded for each

other um but this also it feels like there is a change happening in the nba uh where like used to be that like steve nash's sons who are all offense uh wouldn't go deep and like it was just it always when it when it came back to the playoffs, it would always be like the team that was best on defense would pull it together. But now the nets look incredible. Um, and unstoppable the Hawks again, like really, you know, it was only game one in both series, but they both just look kind of impossible to stop. Um, yeah. Hey, Ben Simmons says he wants to defend. He wants to take on Trae Young. Uh-huh.

Okay. That's fine. Maybe. Yeah. He just makes the Sixers too easy to stop on the offensive side. But I'm currently not wearing my Sixers hat, which I usually wear, because when I was wearing it, they got down by 30 points in the first half. So I took it off, and then they played better.

So I'm taking it. I'm leaving it off until the end of the playoffs because my brain is broken by basketball. I like how idiotic we can become. Oh, my God. Damn, I wonder if I shouldn't have screamed all that shit when I went to Staples Center. And then you're like how the fuck are we the center of the sports universe or it's like y'all it was i'm sorry i'm i'm gonna take that one but that's the i think that's like just this

like projection that we do as fans sometimes or you just you're so invested in it and you even see your own actions magical It's magical thinking. Yeah. It happens when you're in mourning for the loss of a loved one. And when you're a sports fan, just your brain stops working. Good luck to everybody. I'm looking forward to, uh, I'll still watch because man,

the, the play from some of these players is really, Oh, Hawaii is back to playing like next level. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. More on that later. Yeah, yeah, more on that later. All right.

That is what is trending this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. 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 here episodes of rip current early and completely ad free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to i heart true crime plus only on apple podcasts captain's log stardate 2024 we're floating somewhere in the cosmos but we've lost our map yeah because you refuse to ask for directions. It's Space Gem. There are no roads. Good point. So where are we headed?

Into the unknown, of course. Join us on In Our Own World as we uncover hidden truths, navigate the depths of culture, identity, and the human spirit. With a hint of mischief. One episode at a time. Buckle up and listen to In Our Own World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust us, it's out of this world.

There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of lucha libre. English, and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. 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. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast.

As the U.S. elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever. But in a new, hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share what the science really shows, that we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.