The Daily Zeitgeist - In The Land of the Zeit, The One Trend Man is King 5/3: Wrestlers, Bill x Melinda, Ron DeSantis, Liz Cheney, ManU, NBA

Episode Date: May 3, 2021

On this edition of In The Land of the Zeit, The One Trend Man is King Jack and Miles discuss who the best wrestler is, Bill Gates getting divorced, Ron DeSantis suspending all COVID restrictions, Liz Cheney vs. GOP, Manchester United fans protesting US owners, and some NBA news. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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uh i remember loving that movie when it when it. I haven't seen it in probably two decades. The mid-90s, bro? Late 90s? Yeah. Those were the days, man. Can't say I was thinking much at 13, 14. Let's tell the people what's trending. Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio.

Yeah. Because somebody asked the question, who was your favorite wrestler and you got one yeah I mean I was like old school as fuck I liked Andre Andre the Giant and Hulk Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan yeah obviously it's The Rock for me that's why also Stone Cold and The Rock is trending not because any of these people are hurt it's just a lot of of who's your favorite wrestler and yeah i i mean i can i can say with absolute confidence that would be rocky maya via dwayne the rock johnson wait rocky maya via what is that that's like when he came out before he became the rock, he was Rocky Maya via. Got it.

Yeah. So like, you know, and then he became the rock. That's just all. Yeah. That was his debut, which was like his,

cause his father was like Rocky Johnson. And then his other grandfather, I think his last name is my via. So it was like a combo. Yeah. I had like a kid who lived down the street from me who i was like real into wrestling with when i was like you know four or five we were like into all the wwf wrestlers back when that's what it was called and then like i moved away and then i came back and like he was still

into it and i like thought i was too good for it but like he was he had like gone a little like off or something and so that put me off wrestling i always thought i was too good for it but like he was he had like gone a little like off or something and so that put me off wrestling i always thought i was above wrestling at like since there's one kid because there's one kid see and that just shows you like how ill ill-informed we are like we will wholesale cut things off because of one kid and you're like what the fuck? Yeah. No good. I also, my uncle brought a Bruce Lee movie that had nudity in it. And I brought that to his house. And I was like, yo, look at this fucking movie, man.

Check this out. And his mom was there. I just, like, didn't know any better. And she was like, what is it? Like, stop it. And, like, stopped it. She was like, we don't watch movies like that in our house yeah so uh shout out to uncle billy she's like put meatballs on she's like i meant

asian people oh shit what the fuck is this place okay i'm off this. Yo, breaking news right now. Bill Gates is getting a divorce. Oh, for real? Yeah. Bill and Melinda Gates splitting up after 27 years. He saw Bezos was rubbing it in his face that he was living the good life, and the rest is history. He's going to get an earring now. Watch, you're going to see gets it you have a dang that

would be so fucking funny nothing else changes but he has a dangle ear yeah i hope that doesn't make wait so who is there a source like do we know who is and who wants the divorce is an amicable split bill gates tweeted after a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship we have made the decision to end our marriage over the last 27 years. We have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world. But then it's signed Melinda Gates and Bill Gates. So, okay.

You know, and then on his Twitter, he just put FTB and I was like, okay, bro, easy now. Wow, Bill. Damn. Um. And I was like, okay, bro. Easy now. Easy. Wow, Bill. Damn.

Well, yeah, they, I mean, why don't you help people? Why don't you unleash the vaccines on the earth, asshole? Mm-hmm. It's bad for capitalism. That's not how capitalism works, Miles. Come on. Fuck. That's right.

DeSantis is trending because, uh you know he's declaring victory he saw how well that worked for modi in india uh he's like all right let's we we did it big victory spike the football suspends all emergency covet orders there he is yeah to the, we're back, baby. Back to the normal times. Which, yeah, cool. I don't know who, I hope you feel comfortable if that's what you were looking for. But yeah, that's, yeah. I think he's just, he's just leaning all into this thing.

He's like, you know, just, we can't be policing people. We need our freedoms and stuff. I'm trying to present myself as a possible presidential candidate. It's all very... Curious to know what the next move is. Because if he was looking at the border last week, he's trying to be COVID savior this week. That was Kemp at the border, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kemp.

The other Republican racist governor. Yeah, governor. Fine, destroying his state. But yeah, I think either way, this is... right oh yeah yeah camp see i'm the other the other republican uh yeah governor is fine destroying his state but yeah i think either way this is the other thing that's really interesting is i keep reading these things about how trump is like half into half not into the fact that ron de santis is getting really popular right now even though de santis tries to like you know uh be subservient or whatever to the maga agenda but there could be there could be some hurt feelings over there yeah i mean the second that he announces a run for president is gonna be on you know yeah i made him i made him yeah i mean if i had to guess just based on like

how things are trending right now it seems like COVID will just be here to stay and people will just like some people wear masks some people won't and lots of elderly people will die and like that will just be like the thing that America's like

guess that's just how it had to be because we couldn't get that final 30% to get the vaccine yeah so just hide it had to be because we couldn't get that final 30 to get the vaccine yeah so just hide it in like white claw or something i know you know right it really should be in the because i i bet you if there wasn't something that wasn't injected that people that even i don't know or they're then they're gonna be like no how do you know what's in there man oh i don't know look do what you want with your life but please if you're not vaccinated go just go fuck with your unvaccinated people and and leave people trying to you know have good outcomes for

everyone else alone please yeah the list cheney is trending because she had the nerve to say the election was not stolen she even called it the big lie yeah but then trump is calling it the big lie being that it wasn't stolen so he's he's taking he's stealing back that phrase phrasing that's called flipping it on them yeah real quick so yeah but because of this liz cheney like now people are just you know magro world is just trying to rip her apart uh because yeah she's going against trump i was really hoping i would see more of a fight out of liz cheney because i think about her dad being darth vader and i'm like yo come on man like not that i'm like really invested in one side winning over the other but i thought liz cheney could come harder with that because her father like destroyed half the earth right but maybe they're playing a long game you know that's what i have to remember

it's like goons are gonna pull up tomorrow lago and tighten trump up real quick what'd you say about liz you know it's probably who knows her dad's like a shrewd you know pragmatic uh worker evil satan war criminal uh so like he knows the power that she's fucking with there i'm sure he's urging her to tread cautiously um or yeah i'm curious if even that side like that old part like the bush type conservatives are like fuck bro we don't we don't know how to talk to this thing anymore yeah we're completely on this thing yeah man maybe like dick cheney really has no powers anymore when it comes i mean nobody does unless you're on the mag agenda so we shall see the evolution continues um man you is trending uh because man you see that game last night yeah exactly and i did and the 76ers won um big last second tip in

from ben simmons yeah who was playing like shit but uh that is not why man u is trending oh yeah manchester united football club yeah they had a game against liverpool yesterday and it was disrupted by fans storming the stadium uh and just invading the pitch and just being like, yo, we want the Glazers out. And then they left and then they came back in and it was just very, it was very rowdy. And a lot of people are like, kind of like, how did they not think,

how did they not know this was going to happen? They've been talking about it, blah, blah, blah. But I'm like, also, I'm like, I bet people got in because the ushers at Old Trafford are probably fans probably fans too and it's like they were there to burn the motherfucker down oh yeah man come in here right shit up real quick because i'm kind of with y'all i don't like these owners either we did that shit with our entire like democratic process like less exactly three months ago you think you're surprised that it happened to a football game yeah and again we're saying a lot of the talk was imagine the copycat surprised that it happened to a football game yeah and again we're saying

a lot of the talk was imagine the copycat stuff that happens not to say that this is inspired by january 6th at all but this is the i think what we are entering is a phase with a lot of people are like what if we collectively start trying to fuck it up yeah because we don't like that we have owners who are willing to just extract all the wealth out of the club, you know, put very little back in and just try and collect passively all this revenue money. Like they would an American sports team rather than being invested in,

you know, the competitiveness of the squad. Um, so is this related to the, uh, Superbowl league? It's all, this shit is all,

it's all part of the same thing, which is the the game look i'm not here to be a historian about the premier league but there are a few moments where they talk about money really kind of changing the league first was when it became the premier league in the early 90s because it was promised of all this tv revenue and things are like what is this now we're not feeling it but it worked out but then when roman abramovich bought chelsea's a russian oligarch that kind of began changing like what a abramovich bought chelsea's a russian oligarch that kind of began changing like what a club looked like where it was like yo this russian

dude just came in with all this money and bought all the best players brought in the best coach and now they're smashing it because of the money and that's when we started seeing the financial doping really really kind of evolved in the sport um but yeah all of this to say is like we have a whole culture of owners in a few of these clubs especially ones with american owners who are looking at these british these english football clubs they own and are like but i own the buccaneers are like i own the nuggets or whatever the rams and like we can have a shitty season and i'm still collecting like what the fuck is this right and they don't like that it's it's all based on the competitiveness so um all this to say a lot

of people don't like their owners and these are the undulations of that yeah that distaste shit um how are you feeling as a laker fan real quick check in i mean look um you got always be i'll always have my eyes right you know what i mean um because what the nuggets might see us in the first round if we keep slipping um but i don't know i mean i'll i don't know you guys are in danger of the playoff uh the play-in game right yeah exactly that's i'm like can we stay like five or six please but we'll again um it's hard yeah i mean we when you have a team that's built around two dominant players and then they go down and like we're left to our own like devices it it hurts a lot um but i'm not look again i'm one of those toxic fans. Even if it starts going bad, I'm like, yeah, whatever.

Y'all teams suck anyway. But I'm hoping for the best. I hope they're relieved. But fuck it. Jokic isn't going to see us tonight. He isn't going to see LeBron tonight or tomorrow. He is hitting some shots that are otherworldly. or tomorrow he is hitting some shots that are otherworldly i saw him hit a fadeaway uh like near the three-point line that like looked like it slipped out of his hand it went so high

yeah and then just like dropped into the center his shooting coach i know you know i mean and what exercise are they doing like they have to be so abstract i feel like he's like yeah this bird scooter backwards down a hill and then do and then just one arm launch this shit into the hoop like i don't know what is but yeah again this is what we're talking about like these new these athletes are now showing such tremendous it looks goofy right sometimes i'm like man joker's don't know what the fuck he's doing out there but he knows what the fuck he's doing out there he just moves in a way we're not used to yeah but you know you like to see i don't love to see it i like to see it

yeah it's it's a beautiful thing but uh wish he played for a different team because again yes that's what we said last time player you want you you don't like to play against but you want on your team yeah yeah uh aka a good player who plays for another team yeah i guess more i felt like more like a ron artesti kind of vibe or like they are like there's something about joker he he just irks me in a different way not that he's like meta but like right he it's not it's one thing when you play someone you're like damn i'm gonna hoop it yeah and then joke it's i'm like he makes you feel helpless yeah exactly some of this shit he's sitting moving around like what the hell is going on so yeah especially because he doesn't look like he's moving that

faster very athletically no and then and that's what makes it kind of cool you know when you got somebody who's just like sorry not used to this shit are you that's the shit he's talking sorry i guess i'm just a little unorthodox oh mr silly's in the building hitting weird shots mr silly shout out to mr silly uh one of the the hardest i've ever seen someone destroy was mr silly at my child's birthday at a children's birthday party uh these kids were falling down laughing hitting their head on the ground uh mr silly what what uh uh and i'm gonna not gonna lie the material is not great uh it's not it's not the best material you've ever heard um but can you get it can you get a crowd of four-year-olds rocking like that

no nah it's it's a gift uh it's he he mostly confuses his name with uh the words pizza hamburger spaghetti it's like i'm mr spaghetti i'm mr pizza i'm mr hamburger uh and yo when i tell you he destroyed uh i've never i've never seen laughter like this just crushing a paper cup in your hand like no i was some parents were looking like genuinely like befuddled and like looking at each other like what the fuck is this uh but i was i was enjoying the enjoyment of the kids i was like oh you're like a healthy adult yeah anyways happy birthday to young five-year-old young man uh ramsey oh he's five oh my god he's five he's grown up man yeah he's got that where he's gonna have to start shaving so that's some old dead dead humor shit yeah because you have you're giving him foods with hormones that are accelerating those

processes in his body right yeah i mean i got him on this hormone regimen you know because he's making the lead so he's got to start shaving yeah he's just had his fifth birthday sounds like some american actual parent oh for sure yeah all right that's what is trending today we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves wear a mask don't do nothing about white supremacy and we'll talk to you all 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. 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,

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