The Daily Zeitgeist - I Woke Up Zeit This 6/17: Zion Williamson, ObamaCare, Paraceratherium, NBA, Naomi Osaka

Episode Date: June 17, 2021

On this edition of I Woke Up Zeit This, Jack and Miles discuss Zion Williamson's prospects, ObamaCare surviving the Supreme Court, a Giant Dino Rhino, NBA news, and Naomi Osaka ditching Wimbeldon Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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From the song that's referencing the title. Currently in a big old sort of turfy kind of feud going on. Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. I actually did not know that. I didn't either. It was brought up by a super producer, Anna Hosni.

Coming with the facts. Hosni A. Um, all right. Let's talk about what is trending. Here are some things. Of course, we're going to get to the Sixers. Ugh! Don't, don't, don't.

I actually watched it, so. Lived it. Lived it. Lived it in real time now. Died it, I think is more accurate. But we'll get to that after the break. First up, Zion is trending. So they fired their coach yesterday, Stan Van Gundy. Yikes.

After one year. Did not, I mean, that felt about right to me. Yeah, probably could have done better with what you had there. Yeah. But yeah, he's, apparently the reports are saying that the Pelicans have failed to put the right elements together

to make Zion and his family happy. And then this, according to this article in The Athletic saying, quote, multiple sources have told The Athletic that family members want williamson on another team welcome to la zion i see this is why this is interest of interest to no i think it's well of course i'm always trying to look at what what pieces we can uh hoover off the ground and create a some kind of frankenstein's monster uh voltron basketball team always dream team yeah um but yeah i mean more than anything i think because i think probably i don't know if it's really is it the is it the pelicans fault

is can zion dig deeper like who's to where is who's at fault here right who's coming with it i mean he had uh an incredible season this year uh he's the the king who was promised you know i used to rave i used to make super producer sit and watch zion highlights back when we were in in the old world yeah when we were in person look at this guy. Look at him block this shot. Oh my God. You can't move like that when you're that big. And then he had his rookie year, he was injured.

But this past year, he's been as good as we thought. The memes are flowing though. Just photoshopped in like every conceivable uniform in the league right now. I be like i can see it nicks i can see it rockets i can see it nuggets that's interesting i i feel like this is not a i guess this would have been like a lebron early cleveland era uh ask rumor where it was just like we hear people around him are unhappy and that's enough to become like a uh number one trending subject on twitter right um but yeah i mean people would any team in the league would probably mortgage most of their parts to to get to be in the zion business right zion we love you we want to be in the zion business baby um yeah there i don't know the other things that you i mean this happens

a lot in sports too where this is also like you put these out here just to see if maybe you get some offers coming in maybe some phone calls start coming in just to see what's out there what's possible uh to get the franchise on the back foot but i don't know that's uh yeah i don't know where he could go i mean i know where he's gonna go you know where he would the blazers that would be cool him and dame time uh-huh yeah i would love his teams are always like you know when they're free agents uh going out of their way to join the blazers can you imagine either the lakers or the heat those are the two teams but yeah yeah probably

because he likes you know like fishing and stuff i think maybe miami is more his speed you know being down there he likes fishing yeah he's like going into that shit is he's an outdoors person yeah yeah yeah like i don't see him like fucking with runyon canyon and shit yeah all right uh so that is why zion is trending obamacare is trending uh once again the supreme court had to intervene uh and you know throw a lead block for obamacare for the next handful of years fucking seven two decision not even close what you're telling me that uh brank cabanab and army conde corny bearbit they voted for this

Brink is such a cuck dude he's always loved Obama Clarence Thomas what it was just Gorsuch and Alito I think that's it huh

is Clarence Thomas going to retire? When are we going to get these old timey conservatives out of there? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's like these people who just end up like living forever because that's how evildoers are. You know? Yeah. I don't know.

I don't know when he will. And I think they're're probably if he wanted to he's probably like fuck what do i do like to you know uh just avoid this court being in the hands of a democrat like this this potential supreme court pick being in the hands of a democrat president um hey shout out to you justice breyer huh hey you want. You want to hop off this thing? While Biden's president? Don't do what Ruth Bader Ginsburg did. When everyone was like, fam, do it now while you got Obama. And we can make sure that we don't upset the balance of the court.

So a lot of people have been looking at Stephen Breyer, too, and being like, what are you doing, sir? You're 81 years old. What is he doing 82 yeah you'll be 83 this year full full yeah full full i think that's all go take a break entire all three of the liberal people on the court need to be just looking at him and think fool under their breath. Fool. Fool. For real. You were born in fucking 38, fool.

I'm serious, fool. Don't do this, fool. Sonia Sotomayor was like, I was born in 54, fool. I saw that time. But fool, you were born in 38. 38. Are you kidding me? Please. clarence thomas born in 48 you know what i mean roberts 55 uh alito fucking 50 uh kagan sit 1960 gorsuch 67

cavanaugh 65 carby bear bit 72 damn she. Get the fuck out of there. That's fucking wild. All right. Anyways, shout out to the Supreme Court. He's older than David Souter. Jesus. He's older than the former Justice David Souter, who left a while ago.

Think about that. Fool. that fool fool fool like whatever it doesn't what whatever it'll get just completely blown up by the republicans either way so who knows um and he kind of needs to do it soon because there's always the chance that the senate takes back yeah the republican senate yeah or the senate becomes republican again and mitch mcconnell has that the Senate takes back. Yeah. The Republican Senate. Yeah. Or the Senate becomes Republican again, and Mitch McConnell has promised. That clock's ticking. You don't get rid of the filibuster.

They get all these wacky voting laws in that you don't know what to do, and then you appeal to a Supreme Court that's like, they're like, no, let it rock. Let it rock. I fully believe that the next time there's a Republican in the White House, we're going full police state authoritarian government.

Because that's all they have. A much cleaner attempt at it than floppy Trump, for sure. I mean, because they're already doing it now. So it's just that when will it reach the federal level at that scale? when will it reach the federal level at that scale? There has been a discovery of a fossil of what they're saying is the biggest land mammal ever. It's like a horse that is bigger than... It's like kind of, I'd say,

head and shoulders above an elephant. It's pretty... I don't know what's the scale here, because it looks like, this shit looks like bigger than like a fucking dinosaur. Yeah, I think that's what we're looking at. A horse dinosaur horse. It's a horse dinosaur.

Dino horse. What's it called? It is called, of course, so they're saying... Dino horse. It's a type of rhino, but it's built like a horse. The giant rhino... A.Gino, but it's built like a horse. The giant rhino.

It's built like a horse. It's like some conservative rap. Yeah. The giant rhino Parasuratherium. And then, I'm not done. Lynxiancy. So i think i nailed that uh in the northeastern tibetan plateau during the late olaga scene the old kevin e logan scene yeah it's wild though i mean that's what the thing that i think is underrated like we dinosaurs appropriately rated like they are a thing that kids yeah just obsessed kids for an

entire chunk of their lives as they should they're giant lizards that like they're so cool however i think it's underrated how there used to just be giant versions of the animals we know that flew like the there's like a big black crow that is the size of like a 737 and it like they think that it was around when humans walked the earth and there's a that's the reason that like sometimes when a shadow goes over you you'll like feel the um skin on your arms rise up because we were like had to evolve to be scared when you're like damn it's a full of big ass crows yeah and like run yeah oh wow i mean could you imagine how different the world would be if like when you were outdoors you were always worried about either that it was gonna like start raining or that a fucking massive

like blimp sized crow was gonna come through and just pick you up and carry you off to feed to its babies um pick me up and take me away to a better life yeah that would at least take me away giant crow in your safe arms hold me in your arms and he will raise you up on giant dino crow wings there's like giant uh elk and shit that's like you know what it's massive. What did they find? Like a skull or something? What part did they, did they unearth something?

It just looks like a giant chunk. It's a huge axis of the giant rhino compared to a technician. I don't know. By telling me it's an axis, I don't know what means but it's it seems like it's a very uh central bone i would guess based on the axis thing uh that allowed them to be like oh oh boy oh well well um all right let's take a quick break and uh we will be right back to uh talk more hear me despair about the sixers it was december 2019 when the story blew up in green bay wisconsin former packer star kabir

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And we're back. And, yeah, so big game last night. We're talking, of course, about the Clippers beating the Utah Jazz. Great to see Paul George. Yeah, man, playoff P. Shout out to him. Yeah, he played great. I think he had 39.

He was awesome. I i would if i was writing something i'd say based on his past postseason performances that he's due to like shake that shit off and be able to get a little like you need that pain of talking big shit going to the postseason and not delivering hopefully to then be like no i'm not doing that shit again like yeah for people who aren't following the playoffs the best the guy who's been playing the best in the playoffs uh for the entire game not just the first half like joel and bead but for the entire game is kawaii leonard uh and he just went out with an injury um and so everyone was like well the clippers are doomed without him and then their second best player but one of the most like universally derided uh players because he once nicknamed himself playoff p and then proceeded to pee his pants uh during those

playoffs yeah he is he finally came through and played really great and he actually hasn't been as bad as people make it out to be. Right. Anyways, he came through. Clippers won. They're up 3-2. The Sixers, my team, were up 26 in the third quarter. And I did not feel confident. And this might not mean anything

because I never feel confident because I always expect the worst to happen. But this was especially a case. They had already the last game they were up by, I think, 14 in the second half, maybe, and ended up losing that one. So I was like, well, there's always a chance they blow it. And blow it they did. Joel Embiid. Yeah, he just got tired i mean he's we've talked before uh about how like

some of the things he does are like incredible because basically he's a seven foot three kobe bryant like when he's uh fully at full speed and at full energy but he also like being seven foot three and moving like you are not seven foot three you're gonna get exhausted uh and that happens a lot to him uh and so he was just way off for the end of the game uh doc rivers kept him in uh it was very bad i kept ben simmons and ben simmons was really really bad ben simmons seems to be uh seems to be the one who is taking the brunt of the criticism. What about Doc Rivers?

Doc Rivers was... Yeah, I think there's two things that are true. One is that Ben Simmons can't shoot free throws and is extremely limited in everything except defense. You can't play free throws and is extremely limited in everything except defense.

Uh, because you can't, you can't play in the modern NBA without, uh, without being able to shoot. and so he makes them very easy to game plan for a good coach like Nate McMillan can figure you out. If you have if one of your chess pieces

on the court consistently cannot shoot like that's just that that went the way of the dodo a long time ago in the nba because because that that's just like it's too dangerous to uh have have somebody out there who can shoot like right so but he's also one of the top three defenders in the league so they keep him out there because his plus minus is always pretty good um but last night it kind of all came to a head because uh they did a hack a shack uh falla ben whatever you call it where they just kept putting them on the line. He missed 10 free throws. Uh,

and, but I think there's, so I think that's true. Like he's too limited. You can't have him be on the court in the playoffs. Like that's people were saying at the beginning of the playoffs, Ben Simmons makes the Sixers too easy to game plan for. Right.

Um, the other thing is that Doc Rivers does not do a good job making adjustments in game or in series. And the Sixers lost game five for the same reason and almost in the exact same way

that they lost game four. And it's just very frustrating. I am now going to start wearing my Sixers hat it's just very frustrating. Art goes out to you. I am now going to start wearing my Sixers hat because I want this season to be put out of its misery. And I will put on my Sixers hat and not watch the game. And then they start winning.

You're like, what kind of fuck goes on? But yeah, it's interesting that uh you know the so i watched this game um because i i watched the first half they were killing them i was like all right like and normally you never watch you normally normally i uh record the game check the score after it's over so that i just like feel the the pain of the loss one time as opposed to just dying slowly over the course of the full game. But this one seemed pretty

safe, so I watched the whole thing and it was like being... You know, it was pretty traumatic to watch here in this big a game. And the last time that I did that was the game that where kawaii hit the game winner that's the last one that i watched while it was happening so i have a good

that might be the power is watching then yeah right i told you live have i told you that like when my dad was coaching the celdics and they made the eastern conference finals i went to game one uh and they lost to the net then i was out of the country uh for games two and games three they won those and then i came back and they lost the next three uh in front of me so like i do like genuinely am a cursed human being your catholic guilt is just intersecting with your sports fandom in this way where you're actually taking the burden on emotionally it's definitely my fault i think i think we can all i deserve it and you know maybe this is hell you know uh all right and finally uh naomi osaka is trending uh because she's dropped out of wimbledon uh to

you know work on it spend time uh working on herself and spend time with family and friends uh more power to her and fuck the tennis officials who are like we stand stand by it. Uh, we, we don't need her. It's like, yeah. Okay. So yeah, you would have had, I guess who's not watching.

Yeah. I guess who doesn't give a fuck about your sport when you don't have her. And she probably would have won the French open, right? Like the, the person who won was unranked. Yeah. I mean,

yeah. By that logic. Yeah. If I was doing brackets. Yeah. Um, she has confirmed for the Olympics though, uh, By that logic, yeah. If I was doing brackets, yeah. She has confirmed for the Olympics, though,

which is interesting. It almost suggests that she's specifically saying, fuck you to the tennis authorities. And I think, you know, being Japanese, I think that's a big thing for her to represent Japan in the Tokyo and like you know get a you know possibly get a gold medal and shit yeah and they i mean you can't talk about a better crowd to play in front of than in japan being like the sensation that she is not just in the u.s but especially for japanese people half japanese people like me you know know, just the whole, yeah.

So hopefully she can, you know, there's no mandated press she has to do there and she can just focus on that. But yeah, I just love that she's, it's nice to see people create boundaries for themselves and their own well-being. Because I think we're so used to this thing that like certain things, you just got to power through. Like Wimbledon you're gonna say no well first of all she's 23 years old so she's got a few wimbledon's a few swipes at the wimbledon uh in her career left but yeah just a testament to all of us you know like let's just all yeah remember that we're people and like sometimes it's better to really just focus on getting your own self right and and pouring love into yourself than feeling pressured to perform or whatever at your own expense. I feel like this is like part of the zeitgeist right now of like people emerging from the pandemic and being like, I'm not OK or I don't want to go back to work and and like i shouldn't have to um you know like people uh have had a

chance to take a pause from the you know being in the grind and hopefully this is kind of a permanent change where people uh the people have some rights as opposed to the large organizations exactly we're all we're all becoming rocky and rocky balboa saying hey don't i got rights don't i got rights yeah very good famous quote that that is you're the only person who remembers that like even fans of that movie it's it's the most inconsequential line i think of in any film give people the context because people don't know what you're talking about because what he's trying to get uh reinstated to box like legally right isn't that like what's going on oh i thought it was when he like lost all

his money okay no no it doesn't even matter because they used his likeness in a video game isn't that rocky balboa wait what no that's part of it wait i thought rocky balboa was the one where there's like a video game reenactment where like he fights james tony yeah right and then he's like no i don't think there's rights involved i i watched that movie once very no it was i look it doesn't even matter because that's how silly it is all you know is it's in the context of someone the judge saying no to you in court you've lost a decision and you're like all right i guess the court's ruled but then your idea to salvage your case is to turn around and address the judge one more time and just say, hey, don't I got rights? I was like, yeah, you know what?

I like that. I like that energy. And then the rest of the movie is about his battle to the, he takes it to the Supreme Court. The don't I got rights case. Balboa versus the US. Oh, shit. Hell yeah.

All right. Well, that is going to do it for this thursday we are back tomorrow with a whole ass 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 and we'll talk to you all tomorrow bye 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,

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