The Daily Zeitgeist - John Dies at the Trend 6/26: The Office, NBA, Kanye West x GAP, McGangBang

Episode Date: June 26, 2020

On this edition of John Dies at the Trend Jack and Miles discuss fans rediscovering the Office episode featuring blackface, 16 players are COVID-19 positive in the NBA, Kanye signed a big deal with GAP, and people think Saweetie invented the McGangBang. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And it was suggested by aish lal so they said they were just reading the book and think the second book is extra applicable during the pandemic so anyways shout out to uh jason parton miles how are you great fantastic never. That's wonderful. You are flexing to the point that you're shaking. Yeah. I'm going to get a headache. Trying to get these triceps, man. Trying to throw a horseshoe on the back of this thing. You know what I mean?

Is that what you want? Hey, you know what they say, man? when i'm working out to my toxic man tapes they tell you biceps are for the ladies but the tries are for the guys and i don't know what that means does that mean to out of respect or they're attracted to it i'm still i think tony horton is still trying to figure out what he means by that in the p90x tape but it's all tries are for the guys yeah those guys are impressed because they're like yeah man because like everybody can work the biceps too but the guys know you know what i mean and then we're like yeah you know but when we say that all like on the low maybe i you know i'm dealing with some stuff that i it's

weird to acknowledge the triceps of anyway welcome to p90x uh let's tell the people what's trending uh the office is trending they've deleted their blackface scene yeah i mean we were talking about this earlier this week you know the office was a very uh it was one of those shows that did kind of like what the democratic party likes to do. It'd be like, yeah, see, that's not good.

And then not really go much deeper than that. Uh, and at the time that was like sort of, you know, it was, it was a fun way to sort of address the like big racist elephant in the room. Uh, and now we're kind of,

it's, it's interesting. Cause like, yeah, the show has such a different tone. We're like, now I feel like most people wouldn't just like look at camera awkwardly if your boss said some racist shit you'd be like well hold the fuck up michael scott just sit the fuck down my my good friend um although the the zinsk might

just still look at the camera awkwardly yeah and he's gonna be like he's like he's like it can't be a stereotype if it's true. He's like, affirmative action is racism against white people. Oh, Jim. Yeah. So Greg Daniels, the creator or co-creator, because it's really Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant joint, talked about it in an episode from 2012 where Dwight shows up as one of these Pennsylvania of these uh pennsylvania dutch folkloric characters called belchnickel and he's like he's like yes and he normally shows up with a like a character named black pete and they're talking about like oh it's blackface or whatever and like that's not good and you see dwight text somebody and they they do like a smash cut to someone about to walk

into the building in blackface and they get a text and they do a u-turn um and then you see that character later in the episode and like they've clearly like sort of uh very quickly smeared off their blackface uh so there's like remnants of it and that's the extent of that reference but they completely took that out and you know greg daniels was saying he's very sorry it's completely like unacceptable even like and as satire sorry and that was about it but yeah this is uh i don't know i mean like we were talking about this yesterday of is it you know is it really because you think it's unacceptable or you just don't want to really you want to get ahead of being called out about it so it's better to appear proactive and do it uh but yeah i mean take a look at anything now i'm sure there's

plenty of things that need to be re-edited but i think really i would love to also see greg daniel say and yes because of this i'm going to you know i want to be as a showrunner, put together a show that's empowering black creators or not the usual American-looking type of show. Because that would be something cool he could do with his tremendous power. Where there were enough black people on the staff that we never would have made that joke in the first place. Yeah. We would have known better. Yeah. And they felt empowered enough to speak up

there's a lot of traditions around the world i think there's a santa claus character that uh is in blackface and oh there's so many there's also dutch and like in holland they have like a despicable black blackface character they still do because that was kind of the reference of the Office episode. Right. Yeah. I wonder if they're going to reckon with that. Tampa Bay. Tampa has a festival once a year where people dress up like pirates and put brown stuff on their face. So that's something to maybe keep an eye on, guys. Yeah. NBA, speaking of Florida, 16 NBA players tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the kind of mass testing of everybody who is planning to participate in the virus bubble playoffs that they're going to do down in Orlando.

They are going to give them video games so that's pretty cool oh okay yeah tight but it's i don't know so so the the players are going to be quarantined for 14 days before you know do all the things before they're able to come into contact with anybody i i get a an increasingly queasy feeling about the this nba plan and i feel like they're going to have the good sense to call it off before before it starts is is my hope yeah it's just uh i mean i get the the desire of the athletes, you know, because it's like you truly have like a one focus lifestyle when you are an athlete. Like I can't think of the run-ins I've had with professional athletes as like in their prime or as like parents. They just seem like it's hard to go from your life being about one thing for a really long time and

everything you do is in service of how you're going to perform this one thing uh so i get that but at the same time you know you see just how much the owners and people know they're just looking at all the money that is being missed and saying like isn't it worth trying maybe even if we can make it safe and you just wish they could just you know say this isn't it worth trying maybe even if we can make it safe? And you just wish they could just, you know, say this isn't, it's not worth it at all. Like if one person passes away, whether that's someone has to do with the league or in the facilities, that's been a failure, complete failure.

Yeah. And I'm also just, I'm just sour because, you know, also soccer came back in England and my team's Arsenal is just making a joke of themselves. I'm like, this season should have stayed canceled. Don't need to see this. Now, do the players seem... One thing that I'm curious about if the NBA does actually come back is that will the players, besides LeBron,

who will always be in incredible, almost bionic shape, will the players be in shape? Have the players in in uh england been in shape we had like 9 000 injuries in like the first 10 minutes of our first game back it was like it was out it was like and but like i told you it's like that simpsons scene where homer goes out the back of the ambulance and falls down a cliff on a gurney like it was that comical it seemed like a lot of people when they like officially teams came back to have people start training it was it was nice to see that some of the athletes they are just like us and they also stress eat uh despite being

like you know million dollar you know athletic vehicles oh man i have uh i've been trying to lose the COVID-15 that I gained from quarantining and stress eating and eating an entire pint and a half of ice cream in one sitting. And it's not fun. I've never thought when you eat ice cream like that, are you like, am I dehydrated? And that's why I'm eating so much ice cream? eat ice cream like that are you like am i dehydrated and that's why i'm eating so much ice cream because i think there are times when i'm like i know i'm like i'm on i'm on pace to be like i will finish this pint of ice cream if someone does not come in and take this out of my hand i'll try and drink yeah i'm like i'll drink water before to be like maybe i'm just dehydrated and then my body will be like i don't actually need this ice cream i'll drink a huge glass of

water and i'm like yeah i'm just gonna yeah, I'm just going to keep going. I'm just going to keep going. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good idea. I will do that next time. Hydrate first. And if you still want ice cream, then that means you deserve it. But hydrate first.

Is Jenny's problematic? Jenny's is, I know they're like tied to the Biden campaign in some way. I know. I don't know. At this point point it's like you can't win with anything half the time because then something gets bought up by like boeing or raytheon and next thing you know like your your kids your kids like teething toys are also like parts of like predator drones that were you know discontinued or some shit yeah kanye gap is trending uh i don't know what this is dude he signed a 10

year deal with gap the gap clothing company to bring oversized uh over dyed crew neck sweatshirts to the masses so he is basically yeah this is a yeah, it's Yeezy season at the Gap. And the Gap stock couldn't be happier. Dude, the shares went up 39% just off the strength of that. I mean, that's like incredible for them, isn't it? Like, why would he do that? I don't know. I mean, maybe because it's fast fashion, they can make a lot of clothing cheaply and exploit that labor as they do it i don't know i mean it i have a feeling just because they're so massive it's the scale that the gap offers

versus anything else like you could just flood the zone with t-shirts and things that just happen to have bigger sleeves so that's what he's saying. It's going to be modern, elevated basics sold at accessible price points, unlike all the other Yeezy season shit that was like, you want to pay $400 for sweatpants that look like Bill Belichick had diarrhea in. He will continue to sell the overpriced stuff, I'm guessing, right? this is just like in addition

to if he's yeah i mean if he's like the i don't even know what he is anymore sure i i think you'd think so because you know this was all driven by his desire to you know conquer the world of high fashion which he says yes i did that so um in your face virgil ablo but i don't know what yeah i don't know if maybe he's just like realizing it's a like it's such a bad look like luxury fashion right now is such a bad look if you're trying to look like anyone connected to like what the you know what the like actual world is like um yeah maybe that makes sense but i don't know we'll see what happens that's the only details that have come out like we don't know anything about numbers money what have you but we just know 10 years the gap and kanye west which is funny

because he rapped about them in college dropout uh i feel like that that was his original i was just thinking about that for some reason that that was his original. I was just thinking about that for some reason, that that was his original aesthetic, was like Gap, J.Crew, kind of preppy shit. Finally, McGangbang is trending. A YouTube influencer recreated one, and a younger generation is just finding out about it. Oh, that's why it's trending. I'm like, what are these kids going on about?

Yeah. I think her name is Saw Weedy and yeah, people are just figuring out what it is. I feel like we should do a podcast where we try and figure this like youth shit out. We're like Saw Weedy. Saw Weedy? Because we're just close enough that it's

embarrassing we don't know anything about it but also so far away that it makes sense too and i'm like i don't and be like it's saweetie dad i'm like i don't know you were uh you were saying that they did a thing with these uh tiktokers, uh, these youngers, these youngins, they'd never heard any of like the iconic songs from the 2000s. Yeah. Like say my name. They just complete like that. When I saw that,

I was like, Oh, we were, we were really, now I know. Like who's beyond. Well, also I realized too,

that, that was, I've always known, obviously millennial influences is waning in terms of like being at the cutting edge of what youth culture has been like that for some time but now like when i see videos of like that i'm like oh no like we're we do we no longer make the culture like that's not like when young kids are like i don't know i don't know what you old people think this is because it's not sacred to us and now we are the focus of like these social media platforms i'm like okay cool

i'm just gonna fade to the back and i can fully be an old head but if you don't know what a mcgang bang is you first you order a mcdouble then you order a hot and spicy mcchicken and then you combine the two uh you just split the two uh burger patties and then stick the McChicken in between. Right. And voila, three levels. I'm watching her live stream video that she did. She's adding fries. She's really doing something over the top with it.

I mean, also combining three sandwiches at McDonald's is inherently over the top. I mean, but also combining three sandwiches at McDonald's is inherently over the top. But the takes on Twitter, it feels like old millennials starting to be like, can't believe you didn't know the McGang Bang. Like, that's what I'm looking at. They're like, man, these kids really didn't know what a McGang Bang was just because Sweden. Like, OK, look, we're old, everybody. We're just accept that we're old and broke. We thought by this point we wouldn't be so broke, but we are old everybody we're just accept that we're old and broke we thought by this point we wouldn't

be so broke but we are old and broke uh and that's just what it is right now that is correct that also uh because i'm in the process of trying to fix my diet up a little bit uh that make like watching somebody eat and make a, make gang bang really, uh, is giving me, uh, hunger pains. My mouth is literally watering. Close the window, man. You're going to mess your microphone up. Anyways, that is going to do it for the week. Thank you guys for listening.

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