The Daily Zeitgeist - Let's Trend The Zeit Together 3/11: Stimulus, EU COVID, Arsenal, Tsunami, Lockdownversary, Mounds v Almond Joy, NFT

Episode Date: March 12, 2021

On this edition of Let's Trend The Zeit Together Jack and Miles discuss Stimulus checks being on the way, a spike of COVID in Europe, Mohammed Elneny secures Arsenal win, the 10 year anniversary of the tsunami that ravaged Japan, it's been 1 year of Lockdown in the US, people are discussing Mounds v Almond Joy, and Beeple just sold some NFT art for an obnoxious price. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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is a rolling stone song reference. I don't know. What's that? Oh, that's that band my great-grandmother loved. Yeah. The Beatles one did not come through yesterday. So I should not be so presumptuous. For the trend of fit of Mr. Zite, there will be a show tonight on trampolines, baby.

Yeah. I should not be so presumptuous to be like and that iconic performance of course evokes the vocals of one paul mccartney right uh yeah pretty soon i'll be referencing funk master flex mixtapes with these titles too right yeah let's tell the people what's trending uh run that check is trending because we all kinds all the stimmy is coming uh should be by the end of march uh the physical checks should uh be hitting like around march 29th the uh bank accounts, the direct deposits should be hitting bank accounts around like March 22nd. Joe Biden went a day early.

So, you know, I mean, maybe even March 21st. Who the hell knows? Who knows? Maybe he'll put an extra buck in there. No, he won't. But, you know, there's, you can always wish.

I know that a lot of other story around this was like folks and like he won't wait to have put his name on a check like Trump did. But also on paper, is it less people getting benefits? Maybe let's ignore that because he's not putting his name right on the check. And that is just gauche. And also like, what about all the hand wringing and changing of the bill to only pass this on party lines? Wow. Appeal to Republicans only to get how many Republican votes did they get?

Zero. Zero. Yeah. This is the saw somebody on Twitter call it a please don't start bread riots check um and i think that's probably i mean that's truly the democrats art of the deal yep okay yep walk right up to the edge they're like wait you brought the price down and they didn't even buy nah and actually it's below invoice cost and all right now i got i'm out here with this ad car and i just i'm on I'm out here with this ad car,

and I'm upside down on this stimulus package now. An EU COVID spike. I just got such a sinking feeling seeing this shit. It's like we're fucking back in March of last year. Yeah. back in March of last year. Last year, yeah. Yeah, it's according to The Sun,

the most trustworthy news source. On Earth. On Earth, I believe, yeah. Piers Morgan's The Sun. But they had an infographic, which is the only way I can learn information. Italy up 50% Germany up 9 Estonia Poland up 58 63 Hungary up 108 percent and Greece up 48 percent Spain is down Portugal is down so that's good but it it seems like, I don't know. You want to see more like negative.

Like Spain is negative 33%. Portugal is negative 49%. But yeah, I mean, it's... I mean, the U.S. has been negative, right? For a while now. I mean, relative to, yeah. Relative to the worst. The Overton window of how we sort of realize what's good or bad doesn't really apply in the U.S. at the moment.

how we sort of realize what's good or bad is doesn't really apply in the u.s at the moment um and they they've been down from the highs but still like wasn't it when texas passed their get out there and take your masks off laws it was like still on an upswing yeah yeah exactly it was trending upward but they're like but it was lower than where it was a while ago. It wasn't the all-time high. Consider the volume knob is still being cranked up. That's, well, whatever. They don't like stereos. Of course, El Neni. Yes, Jack, you know.

Mohamed El Neni, our Egyptian god on Arsenal, fucking scoring a goal against Olympiacos in the Europa League. I get it. We used to be in the Champions League. But it was a, oh, my God. We were up 1-0. Then they tied it up. And then we scored a second.

And then we scored a third to seal it up. Elneny doesn't normally score a lot. But when he does, it's from outside the box in Europe. And we needed it. And I just wanted to put that in there because i needed that personally to see arsenal do things that are like resemble winning matches totally i like thinking outside of the box and scoring from there you go that's what that's why i like this guy exactly steve jobs of what do you kick a ball with your left foot right oh with oh right you're right everything except except small writing movements yeah like but you shoot a basketball writing shoot it shoot a basketball with my right and do not have any of the uh you know residual like ambidexterity that like a comes along with ben simmons like you

know he's ben simmons is like lefty one thing righty the other and he can like shoot with either hand from like 10 feet away uh i can uh not do much dude i can't wait till the after times and we do the DZ mixtape, like an and one mixtape. Just the most washed basketball move. That would be amazing. We got to do that. It's like I'm hurting my back trying to do a layup.

I'm like, ah, Jack, you pushed me. You're like sitting down. Foul, foul. You just checked up the ball, man. Foul. That was a foul. You checked it too hard. I go so hard to the fucking rim and I just throw up the ball man foul that was a foul you you checked it i go so hard to the fucking rim and i just throw up when those nastas like i'm like oh and one and one

you threw it and hit the underside of the rim all right all right see what you got motherfucker clear path foul clear path foul uh the sham god oh and the shit could you imagine a mixtape of us attempting Sham God's crossover? I want to see that. Yeah. That would be funny. I saw a clip of this 11-year-old girl hitting somebody with a Sham God. It was so nasty. I was like, oh, God.

For this country, if we do one thing right, it's basketball. I do love just soccer. Yeah. I do love just regular, like, TikTok of, like, backyard basketball moves. Yeah. That and any clip where it's an adult crossing up a baby. Those are instant classics. Or did you see that one video that was the clip that looks like the same sort of format

of those TikTok videos where it's, like, a little boy shooting hoops, hoops like in his driveway and said a new family moved in across the street and i noticed this young kid he was out there shooting hoops every day by himself so i thought i would go introduce myself and then this dude just starts fucking swatting the shit out of him he's dunking on him just it's just so violent and the kid's like oh man yeah there's my favorite of those and i can't find it right now but there's a uh time when someone crosses up a baby and like the baby doesn't fall immediately but like it's almost like they've put a spell on the baby's legs and the baby just like can't move uh and then falls over like three seconds later there is that other one in the before times we

were passing around the office i think it was like an office mini hoop one where someone just yacked on a like a co-worker and it was just uncalled for like the person did not was not trying to meet you at the rim like that but there was there was one recently maybe that's the one you're talking about and i just only saw recently. But where the dude like goes up and on the way down, he like does a sick windmill and dunks on the person. And everybody's like the whole, it's like a classroom. And everyone's like, oh, it's the most violent. And the celebration is just everybody immediately is like, that was brilliant. All right. everybody immediately is like that was brilliant yeah all right it is uh the anniversary of the

311 tsunami yeah it's 10 years damn or no yeah 10 years it's so hard listen to tomorrow's episode you'll see how we're struggling to figure out how time works but yeah it's been 10 years i was i left japan right at the end of february i was like i was there i was thinking about like i just quit working in politics and so i was just trying to find my shit i was out there with my friend ty and we were just like doing little odd jobs making videos for like companies or whatever just kind of figuring out how to stay out there and at a certain point i was like yeah I guess I'm ready to like go back and start the whole comedy thing.

And the day before I left, there was a huge earthquake and I was in the Mori Tower, which is in this part of the city called Roppongi. And it's one of the tallest buildings in the city. And we were like on the upper level and it was just like swaying. And that's when I was like, damn, I'm glad I'm about to be out of here. But then the tsunami and the earthquake hit uh like a week and a half later

oh wow so there was like a big one leading up to it yeah i mean but i mean there's it's just so active there seismologically uh so it's like nothing new but i mean looking back it was just such a harrowing moment. Um, and yeah, just one that the, the country still sort of, you know, recovering from and, uh,

just, I mean, just seeing any of like the footage again, you realize how mismatched we are when it comes to battles of humans versus the earth. And when you just extrapolate that to all the other things like you you realize like how precious uh our time is here but also like you know that we actually have to consider what it means to live here and as disasters not that this is tied to climate change but as natural disasters increase like our preparedness has to be in line with it because

we could i mean we've seen what happens just with it being too cold yeah so yeah and i just you know just you know rest in peace to everybody who lost their lives and absolutely just the subsequent fallout as well so the um did you did you read that article about the cascadia subduction zone in like the pacific northwest and i think when you brought it up i did yeah um a while back yeah it's just so infuriating because it's um you know it's the thing that we've been running up against in the past year over and over again but you know people know this massive earthquake is coming to the pacific northwest it happens like once every 200 years it'll happen at some point in the next hundred years probably and it will result in you know a massive massive tsunami that will

uh and the world is just like not built for it and nobody's doing anything about it nobody's like changing anything about because it's just like well that's not how capitalism was designed that's not how our society was designed yeah yeah and then i mean because you think about even now even 10 years later there's still 40 000 displaced people in japan from from the tsunami and that's just because too there's the contamination from the radioactive fallout right um yeah i mean is's just a really painful moment, I think, for most people. But yeah, Japanese people especially,

just because it's 18,000 people died. Yeah. Very, very just tragic disaster. Yep. And as we talked about on this morning's episode, this was the day last year that we kind of, everybody realized

that the NBA was shutting down. Tom Hanks had the coronavirus. It was about to get weird. Mounds is trending. Why? Because Ari Melber had a take on mounds, I guess. He tweeted,

who buys the Mounds bar when an Almond Joy is available? Considering it is a Mounds bar, yet also features the bonus of some carefully placed almonds? I mean... Okay. But a lot of people are responding. Almond Joy is dark chocolate, right? Mounds is dark chocolate.

Mounds is dark chocolate. Yeah. But I don't... Is it that different? Dark chocolate versus milk? No, I mean, because the coconut is so front and center. Overpowering, yeah. Yeah, that I'm not sure if I quite pick up the nuance

between the milk and the dark. Plus, you get, again, as he says, as this MC scholar himself, Ari Melbert says, carefully placed almonds. Yeah, they are carefully placed, and that is what's most important about them. Yeah, exactly, because you've seen the other bars where they are carelessly placed.

Sometimes they're on the underside. Willy nilly. An embarrassment. Yeah. William nillium william nilliam william nilliam isn't that a tweet then yeah i think so um are you team coconut you you fuck with yeah i like it yeah i don't i that's what i'm like it i've never gotten i've never understood the real battle between the two but it seems like a lot of the people who are really feeling this debate

it's just about like we don't fuck with almonds or like the dark chocolate is better so yeah okay in a box of chocolates uh which is like life as we know what what is your number one like what's the one that you're looking for like oh probably it has to be um like a european chocolate probably because like they use like real milk and shit right but like of the different variety you know how like you get a box and there's oh you're saying like a russell stover's like yeah anything that's a truffle it has to be a truffle and i don't like i don't want any fruit in there it's gotta be straight chocolate I don't even actually like nuts if I'm having a really fancy yeah like you know I remember when I used to work at the mall and I would swap discounted wallets at the coach store for Godiva chocolate um I'll

be like you'll just hook it up with a truffle thing that's all I want is a truffle like specifically has like a nugget or yeah truffle just indicating the innards are filled with uh some kind of solid right or you know softer chocolate or other things but truffle chocolates yeah please i'm team i'm team coconut like that's my number one find the coconut one okay um oh you the dude is like biting off the corners and shit they're like who did this well it's usually like forrest gump not to uh be spoiling rude but he he and not to spoil it but not maybe not that bright because uh you do sometimes know what you're gonna get when you uh look at the chocolates you can kind of tell which one has coconut kind of do some of them hey asshole some of them sometimes there's a fucking poster inside

that tells you which ones they are. But we get it. Look, he had a long life, man. NFT artwork. There is a piece of artwork that just sold for $69 million. It is purely digital, but with a uh you know stamp uh it's by people who has like a one million over a million instagram followers uh is just like a graphic artist um and

the piece is like a thousand it's a collage of a thousand different drawings he did over the course 5,000 drawings he did over the course of three years and it has an NFT in it so you know it's gotta be worth

69 million dollars yeah I don't know. Like cool. Yeah. I mean yeah great. You have your non fungible token there to stay. Bless you.

69 million. Like fuck bro. I don't want to own the fucking like Guernica or some shit. Right. It's. Fuck with art. Like you'd want to have like a real like masterpiece but i get it this is like the wave and who am i but a pleb with a taste for picasso i'm i'm somewhere

between being confused by it and being like uh like ethically opposed to it i don't right it just seems like a place to hide money uh for rich people essentially yeah and it just like for all the decentralization talk of people that are really into crypto like just like focusing 69 million dollars into an nft uh is an interesting way that we're starting to see just like wealth accumulate in these weird like forms now right so you're holding on to 69 million in the form of this thing yeah yeah someone explained to me how this is like uh a way to just redistribute power to people who aren't part of the technocratic class. And I'm not saying that like, yeah, I'd like to see you try. I honestly don't know. Please do explain it to me.

I'd love to know what the argument is for NFTs, which I'm told are stands for non fungible tokens just now by Miles Greip. Boom, boom. All right, guys, that is going to do it for this Thursday. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of our show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wear a mask.

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