The Daily Zeitgeist - I Zeit Need A Minute 5/4: Ed Sheeran, Jordan Neely, 8th Graders, NBA, Shemia Fagan, Carrie Fisher, Jarritos, 500lbs Pasta

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

In this edition of I Zeit Need A Minute, Jack and Miles discuss Ed Sheeran NOT quitting music, Jordan Neely's grizzly murder on the NYC subway, US 8th graders being dumber than ever, NBA news, Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan resigning, Carrie Fisher getting a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a boozed-up version of Jarritos, and the 500lbs pasta stunt!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of i zeit need a minute here um i just found out the oregon secretary of state resigned oh no oh no oh no oh no we're gonna get to that that's a juicy bit of great juicy bit of media as they say but uh i'm jack that is miles thank you for having me these are some of the things that are trending. Ed Sheeran was found not liable in that plagiarism case. They said his thinking out loud hit was ripped off from Marvin gaze. Let's get it on. Um,

they definitely have the same chord progression, but yeah, the melody like that. They, they just don't, it's not even close. Cause that's the one where it's like, baby,

I know that I was seven, 23, 17. melody like that they just don't it's not even close because that's the one who's like baby 23 17 or whatever the fuck that is yeah but it's the same it is the same chord progression and a lot of people pointed out that in his live shows he'll he'll kind of he'll break into let's get it on while he's hitting those chords but whatever so many so many fucking songs have like the same fucking four chord progression structure or whatever you know what i mean is that like it whatever do do that thing the one with the tlc one i get a little bit more that had like a oh yeah he paid for that one he paid for that one yeah yeah he's like oh yeah, we realized that we had stolen this. And so we paid for it. Ah, that's where I heard it. The hit song No Scrubs by TLC.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But yeah, I mean, it's kind of like one of those weird things where like, as a musician, you get that certain chord progressions are just, they're like, they're used a lot. And like to kind of hit somebody with a lawsuit at times is like a little bit like like opportunistic like the last time marvin gaze estate sued they sued pharrell and robin thick and they got theirs for that because that felt i mean when i heard it i was like are they trying to update fucking that track but it's not like they were sampling it like it yeah almost yeah uh but ed sheeran said before this he's like if i lose this case i'm quitting music damn um i hadn't watched the music video for for that ed sheeran song but when like it's kind of everywhere on the internet with people like being like compare this to this and that video is

embarrassing uh the scrubs one no the ed sheeran uh dan the 17 is what I'm calling it I don't remember the name of it New York City subway is trending because an unhoused man was choked to death on the subway as he was in the midst of a mental health crisis by a trained marine and

yeah the New York Times though they get they get this week's passive voice award for this this shit happening they so this guy he's like he was known to be like a performer down there and apparently he was like begging people for food and they were saying like he was getting aggressive uh harassing people and then this marine got him in a rear naked choke and put him to sleep but then just did not let up on the choke. And if you are not getting oxygen to your,

that's you're, you're being strangled to death. The coroner ruled it a homicide. We are, we still don't know if there are going to be charges. However, I will just read this. This is the New York times description of what happened. Quote,

a 30 year old man died on the subway on Monday after he was placed in a chokehold. The police said, witnesses said the victim had been acting in a quote hostile and erratic manner toward passengers on the train when the other man 24 moved to restrain him the video is really fucked up like this guy is just getting choked out like he's he's out and this chokehold is still there and like you're seeing a lot of gross ass people on twitter right now celebrating this shit because they see this like this this man's death is like a just as justified because he was harassing people yeah like because he's unpleasant and puts the truth about american society and inequality in people's face and so yeah truly like just this all this vigilante

shit is just so out of hand and it's getting like worse and worse and worse like you're seeing people intervene like on on behalf of like walmart and shit and it's i don't know man it's it's it's really grim and i think now you know this man who lost his life jordan neely you know he was murdered was murdered yeah jordan neely was murdered it should be the new york times headline yeah but again there is this thing of like you know you know will there be charges or will the status quo of dehumanizing the unhoused and needy just be enough for this marine to skate i don't know like it's it's a very it's man another grim reminder of where we're at. Yeah. Can you pass an eighth grade history test?

The New York Times is asking. Quick pivot from them. Sorry, we're just going to obscure this murder, but also are you smarter than an eighth grader? Did you take the test? That was a close one. Yeah. Yeah. Did you get a five for five? Four out of five?

Four out of five. Yeah. I fucked up the first one. I got five out of five, but one of them I was somewhat guessing on uh oh the henry hudson one fucked me up yeah yeah i didn't know i forgot he was trying to get i should have known everyone was trying to go to asia back then that's what it was they talked like a new yorker back yeah we were trying to go to asia he was trying to go to asia but yeah the five five, again, this, speaking of teacher appreciation day, shout out the

fucking history teachers that even got me to, even with my drug-addled brain, got through these five questions of basic 8th grade history. But all these national test results came in on Wednesday, and then there's just the test scores in US history for 8th graders just plummeted. Just really bad.

Yeah, they said that this has been a downward trend for like 10 years, but then the pandemic just completely solidified it, I guess. Just for the history nerds at home, the five questions that the New York Times was asking were, what were European explorers such as Henry Hudson looking for when they sailed the coast and rivers of North America in the 1600s? And my man, I was like, where's beaver pelts? That's the thing I remember.

It was beaver pelts they were trading. They got a whole lot of beaver pelts. was like, where's beaver pelts? That's the thing I remember. It was beaver pelts they were trading. They got a whole lot of beaver pelts. They got a lot of beaver pelts. And it was a water trade route to Asia, a land route to South America, land to use for sugar plantations or religious freedom. Then another one was,

which of the following is a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution? Pretty easy. Free health care, right? Oh, wait, no, no sorry and by five out of five i mean i got it i got them all red red was good right yeah yeah no no no green green is good uh it was right to trial by combat um and then there's another one about george washington and

you know his policy of neutrality it's pretty that one was just a like reading comprehension one it yeah he was basically saying like leave the like treat the aggressors like the non-aggressors. Yes. Okay. Then a real under softball one about Civil War, like reconstruction question. But yeah, I mean, it's, I don't know. I think also, I also feel like as I get older,

my understanding of history has just grown exponentially too, because I've always been into history but i think that combined with just being very engaged with everything that's going on and reading more like going like following my innate interest in history prepared me so i don't want to say you know what the fuck is going on eighth graders i'm saying how the fuck could you stand tall next to me a 38 38 year old. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I don't feel like I remembered any of these from school. I just like knew them from like supplemental, like reading as an articles.

Right. Right. Um, but anyways, in your face, eighth graders, uh, you're dumb.

Hold that L real quick. Yeah. Uh, Pat Bev, Russell Westbrook are saying they want to ring if the lakers win um first of all big if that is if yeah big if now hold on now let's not i think they're trying to curse us by saying that shit like why get ahead of yourself there's only we're fucking one game in yeah i guess that's on his podcast, right? Like that's so,

I mean, there's a lot of, a lot of content that you need to, you need to fill time. We get it, man. I want to ring too. Well,

do you think that'll give us the headlines? Do we say that we want to ring too? Our, our guest on the latest episode of miles and Jack on Matt boosties, Harrison Fagan. He, he tweeted about, he said,

local podcaster demands ring if Lakers win championship and I was like bro you were just on our podcast talking about this mess uh but anyway yeah I it's I don't know I mean it seems like in line with how trolly Pat Bev is and how out of sorts Russell Westbrook seems to be so I kind of believe believe it. But again, I think it's a it's a 40 troll move to try and throw a curse upon the Lakers. And those work in sports, as we've talked about. This is the one place that both of us believe in magical thinking. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Engage in it wantonly or getting gouty, as they used to say. Right. Kurt Gowdy was like that guy who because he what did he what did he because remember he like said something then the opposite happened during the broadcast and then they call it getting goutied oh no i don't i don't know that one i mean there's always the times when like the announcer will be like and he hasn't missed a free throw in the fourth quarter ever like i think they did that to steph and then he missed like two in a row like yeah baby i could have swore it was something about yeah like it's the curse of the commentator basically is what it

is yeah i only acknowledge one gouty and that's my boy trey um but this sick ass hair dude sick do uh when i'm getting gouty does just what i do every time i go to the hairdresser every time i go to the gouty clips. What's that? What's that fucking haircutting place? That's like for dudes to like watch sports and not talk about the only place I can be me. Sport clips. Sports.

Yes. Sport clips. Hey, I want to get gouty. Let's go. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back.

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We should talk about my Sixers got demolished yesterday. Hey, 34 points isn't that... That's demolished? That was a light ding. Yeah, we got dinged up. We got dinged up a little bit. It was a little fender bender.

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from everyone being like the celtics are in real trouble here. The Sixers to being like, oh, this is, this one's over. Yeah. Everyone's like, oh,

right, right, right. This is what the odds were telling us anyway. This is what we thought was going to happen. I'm still pulling. I'm still pulling. I feel like,

you know, the universe owes us. Yeah. Sixers, Lakers. That's truly the only thing. Magical thinking is the only thing I have going for me because heading into the series I was like they don't have a chance and the only thing that

is is carrying me is like maybe it's their year because it hasn't been in the past which tends not to be although I would I would be a little concerned because given the GOP's strategy of praying for a disaster to help you know their 2024 things the last time the sixers and lakers played in the finals was seconds before 9-11 that's right wow so i i don't know see there's my history brain coming in again yeah anyway that was one of the other questions on the new york times test who played in the NBA finals right before 2011. Yeah, exactly. I'll never forget.

All right. The Oregon Secretary of State. Oh, man. news clip which is two people who own a dispensary that has been receiving suspiciously beneficial treatment uh with regards to like seven million dollars worth of beneficial treatment from oregon finding out that the secretary of state who made all that possible who was under scrutiny and their champion their champion they're going on there, uh, to be like, we're,

we ride with her. And like, there's nothing to see here, folks. And they find out mid interview that, uh, the secretary of state has resigned. I will just say this just so you can get the full satisfaction of it.

Okay. These people own the second largest dispensary in Oregon, apparently called La Mota and the co-founders. Again, they've had $7 million in state and federal tax liens okay recent years and they've been sued in oregon circuit courts 30 times for a lot of them for non-payment of bills so these two knuckleheads decided well let's make it fucking rain straight cash money on the governor, Tina Kotak, on the secretary of state, Shamia Fagan, and the president of the Senate, the state Senate, Rob Wagner. And maybe those things will go away. And I just want to keep in mind that not only the secretary of state, they normally do elections and things like that, but they also have oversight of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission, which is a very important thing.

So let's cut to this interview where they're being asked like yo like what's the deal like you know with your relationship to her and you know like this seems very shady but you're saying there's nothing to see because on top of her getting 77 000 a year as her salary for secretary of state she was taking 10 grand a month from these people the dispensaries that's about 120 that was her salary to work for these people they're friends miles have we learned nothing from harling crow they're just friends well at least we can watch this with satisfaction when these corrupt assholes learn that they're they're protected also both hot they're both hot um yeah they're both yeah they're both hot they're both high and here we go i feel like we learned so

much for her and we're thankful for the time that she spent with us. And we support whatever decisions she makes in the future. I apologize for stopping this. I think we need to break for just a second. And I apologize for doing this in the middle of the interview. She resigned. This dude's face. So his face just goes dead and his eyes go wide.

Oh, no. Oh, no. face oh oh no so his face just goes dead and his eyes go wide oh no oh no wow you got my reaction so okay it goes on and on and on eventually uh his his co-conspirator gets up he's like i need a second and then i love this shade of the reporter when they go back to studio they're like oh yeah when she left camera she was in tears so yeah it's wild to watch the whole 180 of them being like hey you know i know she's not resigning and we support her in whatever she does because i think it's like she's just very she's an upstanding person she's a coach of my kids about she resigned oh no oh no oh no oh no the dude did the mike pence when he was in the room with uh tries to teleport out of yeah yeah it was that with trump with pelosi and he's in between and like they're just throwing shit back and forth at each other and he's just like this is this is not he just powers down yes yeah he tried to he tried to power down she turned up and god

it's i like this is the fucking this is this shit gives me life when you can see like corrupt people greedy people who try and sidestep shit not do not pay their fair share or whatever and then you get to watch them hold the whole ass out yeah prior to the person the news producer walking in which kudos to this news producer who was was like i just think we got to get your reaction to this news that i told just coincidentally just learned of in the middle of the interview after getting a bunch of you guys smugly talking about how you guys are best friends. That's the thing.

Like this, this does remind me of the Harlem Crow thing a little bit in that like they are leaning on like there were just really good friends. We're personal friends. She's the coach. It's like, well, that's not good.

Like that's when somebody who is like in a position of power is giving you huge breaks and is also your close friend. Like that doesn't make it worse than Harlan Crowe, because I can at least say Harlan Crowe didn't have any business before the court, even in that broad context. Although we know that his business before the court is to actually just pump millions of dollars into conservative causes and judiciary campaigns to reshape the cultural landscape of the country however this is so fucking blatant it's like yo man they want us for money can you help us out we'll give you

10 grand a month um and it turns out too like a lot of court records were showing that uh shemia fagan like was like kind of had a lot of debt, too. So I don't know if, like, they kind of did, like, a Sopranos type thing, like, real gangster shit. Like, hey, we know you got some bills. You know, it would help. If you would fucking, you know, maybe make some of these investigations and audits into our business go away.

There was one time, there was an audit into I believe their business, and she recused herself after the audit was completed. So, killer timing. There you go. I shouldn't be involved with this audit that we actually just completed.

I'm just realizing there's a conflict of interest. I just finished coaching her kids' basketball team. Yeah. They didn't do anything wrong based on the audit, though. But I am going to recuse myself now. Recuse myself for the portion of turning it in the completed audit yes there is a headline making the rounds that harvitos has uh a hard alcohol version that's dangerous i feel like it was a little misleading in that it like it's five percent alcohol it's not like when you're hard alcohol yeah it's not like they have a liquor that they're selling it's just that it has the same

kind of alcohol content as a like white claw or something like that generally but it's just that instead of being a malt a malted uh alcohol beverage like those it is tequila and haritos just simplify it it's just like you know there's like sunny d seltzers too now yeah yeah they're just they're just coming for our child brains now they're like yo you want high c with malt liquor i'm like yeah i guess so if they made surge with alcohol oh man i might come back i might be in trouble i love that commercial yeah surge but yeah uh it's i guess you know everyone's the the seltzer wars continue on uh which was a rejected sequel uh in the i think it was a prequel actually in the star wars franchise the seltzer wars yeah they didn't like it uh may the fourth be with you and also with your spirit

carrie fisher uh got a hollywood walk of fame star which like my main takeaway was i couldn't believe carrie fisher didn't already have a hollywood walk of fame star but right also like it just once again shines light on the arbitrariness of those ho Walk of Fame stars. Well, yeah. Last time I checked was 55K. Becca Ramos, who produced her, checked the website. I think announced basically a $75,000 donation and you can get yours.

So, Jack, I'm putting a lot of my money into a high-yield savings account. So, hopefully by the time I perish, there will be maybe three thousand dollars to go towards that 75 yeah but i i'm sure this was just like disney was like this would be a fun thing to do for star wars day so that yeah then the money was found but then her brother was like the other headline i saw was that her brother was like oh I've been cut out of this thing

oh really yeah which I guess he's considered I didn't even Todd Fisher and he said it's like anything you go to TMZ to be like tell them I'm upset about Todd Fisher wanted a walk of fame star no no no

that's Carrie Fisher's brother and he was cut out of interest and he didn't he wasn't invited to the thing like mark hamill and some other people and he's like yo i'm her fucking brother uh hello but i guess i don't i don't know what their relationship is so yeah you would think you would invite family of the deceased yeah finally big news i think we know the sequel a lot of people have been like cocaine Cocaine Shark is the sequel to Cocaine Bear. But locals are baffled as 500 pounds of cooked pasta was found in the woods.

In New Jersey. So shout out to New Jersey just doing, first of all, keeping weird new jersey alive uh and also doing something that is i don't know i i would have guessed new jersey if you made me guess where this happened um but also just a very boring sequel to cocaine bear just like a really pasta bear pasta bear the story of a bear who found 500 pounds of pasta and ate it and it wasn't even sauced

yeah uh it's wild too because apparently it was found by a woman and she shared the fucking picture like on facebook and she's estimating that it's i'm like how do you know it's 500 pounds because it looked like a big ass pile of pasta now 500 pounds i'm like what do you know it's 500 pounds because it looked like a big ass pile of pasta

now 500 pounds i'm like what is that uh two shacks and is no that's that's not it's like one and a half shacks doesn't see yeah it doesn't seem like 500 pounds now that i'm looking at it here miles it feels like it feels like facebook mom sort of um hyperbole yeah it's like that's 500 pounds of pasta right there i And I don't mean to say that it's not weird, but yeah. Who's doing that shit? Although they're probably loving it right now to be like, look, it's a news story. We dumped all

that pasta. It feels like just, you know, somebody did one of those TikTok videos where it's actually a fetish video of some sort. Like the one where they prepare nachos by spreading all the cheese on the counter. Like this is just the next level of that,

of like preparing a pasta dish in the woods, like mixing dirt and sticks in with it. Also, this is interesting. This Facebook post from this woman, Nina Joknowicz said, you might say, who cares about pasta? But pasta has a pH level that will impact the water stream. That water stream is important to clean up because it feeds into the town's

water supply. And then she commended the town council because it was one of the fastest cleanups she's ever seen. Now I'm wondering, did Nina put this pasta there? This feels like a viral stunt. She's trying to get attention for the importance of the pH value

of water streams. Which I get. I mean, worthy cause because most people have no fucking idea how precious our water supplies are and how terribly regulated they are. So hey, if you gotta do a pasta stunt, then do a pasta stunt. But don't harm any bears. Pastastunts.com

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It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.