The Daily Zeitgeist - JasTrend Vorhees 5/26: Minneapolis Police, Bryce Hall, Jimmy Fallon, SpaceX

Episode Date: May 26, 2020

On this edition of JasTrend Vorhees Jack and Miles discuss the Minneapolis Police killing George Floyd, an unarmed black man while in custody, two Tik Tok stars were arrested for drug possession, a video has resurfaced of Jimmy doing blackface in the early 2000's, and SpaceX is going to launch its first manned-mission. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Did you have a good weekend? Oh, yeah, man. Just got back from missouri sick trip uh over to the lake of the ozarks partying at coconuts you know how we get down uh yeah i was uh no i i was just in shock looking at that i'm like damn i wonder what bucket those people fall into of like it's a hoax they all believe it's a hoax or they believe it's really not that big of a deal. Or is there a group that is actually acknowledges that it could be a deadly, potentially deadly illness, but they just got to get out and have a good time. Yeah, I think it's all the I think people are doing wishful thinking. They're thinking, well, I don't know anybody who died from it so i'm just

gonna that was like my uh yeah my younger cousin's uh condom use policy in college that's right that's right he's like if you have bad thoughts then bad things can happen i'm like yeah tony robbins baby all right tony robbins. On that Tony Robbins energy. All right, let's talk about what is trending right now. Minneapolis police are trending for bad reasons. Yeah. Another unarmed black man killed in police custody. This time, these officers believed that uh the victim was trying to like

write a bad check at a deli basically so these cops showed up and really what what this all boils down to is regardless of what was going on this man is on this in the street face down with a police officer with his knee on the back of his neck he's kneeling on the back of this man's neck for many minutes and uh and it's just awful to hear because it's just like eric garner this man is saying i can't breathe please man man i can't breathe relax he's saying he does please don't kill him him. It's, it's awful. Um, and you know, as we've seen constantly,

especially over the last, uh, month and a half, um, you know, we're, we're not seeing any kind of story like this continuing, or we're not seeing this story, uh,

dying down, uh, at all. Just same, same shit. I know right now, the, like four of the officers that were involved uh have been

let go i believe or fired um but this is an ongoing thing i mean i can only imagine what uh you know what other i mean i don't know how much more outrage people can generate uh until like really we're handling this at a legislative level and actually having a real discussion in this country about what we were doing to each other and how uh people are viewing you know black people like you can't you can't jog you can't chill in your own house you can't go to the deli without like without legitimately anyway but yeah this is the frustrating part of covering the news so closely all the time. Yeah. Bryce Hall is trending. Not to just be like, and moving on, but...

I mean, honestly, this Bryce Hall story is... I'm like, what is going on? It's a number five trending story. It says TikTok's Bryce Hall and Jayden hostler arrested and charged with possession okay so this is why we don't know it's some tiktokery going on uh we don't this is the young people's uh medium uh and these two like i guess there are these two litty genzy tiktok creators who have a some they have a someone the Sway. The Sway crew. The Sway house. Come through the Sway mansion

where we fucking make the Litty Con titty. You know what I mean? And then drive to... Apparently, they rented some gigantic Airbnb in Texas, but were also bringing a bunch of drugs with them, and they got popped on their road trip carrying some drugs. But they have been...

Carrying drugs through Texas. Bad idea. That's how you know these are kids. Because any adult knows. Everybody learns through someone... Don't carry drugs through Texas. Yeah. No, never.

Never. Just don't even... I wouldn't even smoke weed before getting on a plane to go to Texas. Because I would be in my own head the whole time. Even if it flies over Texas, they might get you. Oh, man, those connecting flights through George Bush in Houston. Woo! I have to, yeah, nervous times, sweating through my shirts.

I'll be interested to see if they posted some dumb shit and a cop saw it over their 11 year old shoulder and was like let's do this let's catch these fools what they said is that the official charges were possession of four to four hundred grams of a controlled substance and possession of two to four ounces of marijuana so okay i mean we'll see what that means it could be you know some like molly or psilocybin i don't know i don't know what they had four to four hundred grams oh okay so it's somewhere in there just because that like is a uh dude you have limit not because like they couldn't determine. Yeah, that's just what they... Exactly. But that's just... That's gotta piss you off

if you're the dude with like... They're weighing it and it's like 3.95994 grams. All right, now it's a felony. It's like, Jesus Christ. That's why these... I mean, not that... I don't know what these guys are about, but this whole thing. It says, the second degree felony punishable by two to 20 years years in state prison or fine of up to $10,000.

Now, I'm curious to see how this will play out, but we shall see. As somebody who has watched some TikTok videos, I can tell you that there's no way to create that sort of inspiration without some really serious psychedelics. sort of inspiration without like some really serious psychedelics you know you really need to be on some next shit to do yeah exactly some of those tiktok dances and stuff i mean they're like i mean look what happened to the beatles when they started getting trippy man right that's what we gotta do for our shit jimmy fallon is trending a video has emerged or kind of been resurfaced by the internet of him playing chris rock in 2000 on snl and it is when you look at a screen cap from that performance it's straight up aggressive like old-timey blackface yeah but you know the thing about this is remember when jimmy fallon we were talking about the carl malone shit and all the other times there's been found blackface or i mean uh

kimmel uh doing carl malone and that yeah and i remember attached that it was funny because there will always be these like white celebrity does blackface in a thing we all saw but we're only remembering now might have been fucked up and when it was his turn in the hopper for that uh instance i remember when we like oh what about jimmy fallon doing chris rock and that wasn't enough like that didn't quite get the headlines and i guess now like we've come back to the cycle or like people like all right oh that's right jimmy fallon and i think the week before, it was Robert Downey Jr. Oh, I didn't see that one.

People were bringing up the Tropic Thunder. I'm like, yeah, I think we've all discussed many of these things already. So, I mean, unless y'all are ready to cancel him, I mean, by all means, go ahead. I'm not going to miss that Chris Rock bit. Yeah. At the same time, think about all the good Jimmy Fallon does with his like political takes and just, I mean,

he's, he's a thought down the, down the middle. And finally, SpaceX is trending. SpaceX, Elon Musk's private space company is going to launch its first manned mission into space uh tomorrow um and i am nervous for these astronauts based on what i have seen of privatization privatization has not

has not had a good track record these past 30 years. No. I don't know why it would be better. Like, unless they have all former NASA people who just recreated all the rigorous, like, checks and rechecks and all the different things that they used to make sure that it was a pretty low incidence of everybody blowing up uh i mean i don't like it miles i don't like it yeah i don't know it it reads like the you know like the minutes up to the inciting incident of a film i don't want to watch about like negligence in like commercial space exploration um i'm he's not is he eventually gonna put his

own body on the line and go up in one of his rockets or is it gonna be like uh now i i obviously want this thing to be successful and i don't want any harm to befall anyone but it's a very odd situation when you have like a billionaire who's like yes go man like this is now we're taking the risk of now we're gonna send humans like up it was different when we're like launching satellites and things and testing the rockets yeah but now like we're putting human life into our hands and i hope that all goes well because like oh man every every like space tragedy involving loss of life is like so heartbreaking uh because like part of me is like i think i always i have this like childish fascination with space and

nasa and being an astronaut and it's like there's nothing like violent about being an astronaut like it's not it's not like you're not there to fucking kill harm or anything you're there to like go off of this thing earth and go see what's out of miles we don't know what happened on the dark side of the moon exactly and the freaky shit that goes down there's a coconuts actually on the dark side of the moon it's wild over there man but yeah like that's why when like those like it's it's just tough to see you know i again i don't know i'm everything's morbid now in my mind because that's all I have around me is pain. Yeah.

It's going to the International Space Station. So it's going. It's a mission. They're not just going up, hitting space, and then coming back down. They are going up, getting out of the car, and chilling up there for a little bit. All right.

Then hopefully, I mean, that's the thing that makes me feel feel good it's like they're not trying to do too much you know you're not doing too much out of the ordinary i it seems like a lot to me i mean i don't know like and again i'm speaking out there man i'm speaking from the ignorance of a fucking goonie podcaster has an absolutely no scientific background yeah me neither but i'm worried i'm more worried than the expert astronaut who is putting his own body on the line so maybe it shouldn't be that way so you're just saying because of like the history of privatization and those kinds of things like you always know many eggs get broken on the way to making that i mean yes uh also you uh i've been watching elon musk for the past couple years uh you know he seems like he's on some next shit that might be

like fun for uh people who are partying with him but for like the stability of somebody who's putting their life on the line in one of his machines. Like I saw what he named his kid. I saw when he tried to prove that his, well, first of all, I saw the shape of that Tesla pickup truck. And then I saw when he tried to prove that it was bulletproof and threw a metal ball through the window. Did he do it or he had the engineer do it?

Yeah, he had the engineer do it. All right, let's not drag Elon's name all the way to the end. Oops, which I feel like, I don't know, man. I don't know. I think even more, though, to your point about the son's name, he changed the son's name again. They had to re-edit it. And I'm like, like okay you can't even

commit to your kid's wacky name and you were willing to put that child through all kinds of shit with that name i guess maybe there is a reason to feel that like if now that person i mean it's not like he's doing the calculations but whatever good luck to them it's just godspeed nasa was nasa NASA was using military precision and all the best minds who were mission-driven. And this is being bankrolled by a dude who is under the impression that he has never done wrong in his life,

even though he was born on third, hitting a home run. So thinking he hit a home run. Dude, he was born on home. Yeah, he was born on home. He was born on third, and then they were like, take your base, sir,

and let him trot home. Take your base. And then handed him a... Just shrugs? Handed him some emeralds when he got there. All right. Well, those are the things that are trending. Shout out to the astronauts.

Yeah. Hope you guys are safe. May the force be with you. I don't know. Anyways, Miles, that's going to do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with a whole new podcast.

We'll talk to you guys then. Until then, be safe. Wash your hands. Be kind to each other and yourselves. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you.

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