The Daily Zeitgeist - Nevertrending Story 12/14: Electoral College, Cleveland, Dr. Jill Biden, New Zealand, Charley Pride

Episode Date: December 14, 2020

On this edition of the Nevertrending Story Jack and Miles discuss the Electoral College confirming Biden's victory for the millionth time, the Cleveland Baseball team has finally decided to rebrand, a dumbass WSJ article asked Dr. Jill Biden to drop the Doctor title because.....????, New Zealand has one (1) new COVID case from an airliner worker traveling in America, and Country Music Legend Charley Pride has passed away due to complications from COVID. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the never trending story uh that was courtesy of the discord uh i'm jack that's miles this is what's trending uh first up we got the electoral college uh trending i did see an update from from some mainstream media outlet i think it was like the wall street journal that was like the electoral college you might be confused it's not a place oh they have a lot of respect for intelligence and glad we cleared that up i mean as of as of this recording every battleground state has finalized Biden's victory. So it's formal.

Yeah. So now we're in this straight chaos, do as much to burn the country down phase, I guess, of Trump's quote unquote legal battle to pursue the quote unquote truth. Yeah. Yeah. So this will probably do it, right? They'll just be like, okay, well, we tried. And moving forward, I guess it was a fair election. Yeah, I'm almost willing to bet money

that the response will be, once this Electoral College of Victory is certified, they just say, huh, well, I guess that's a little bit of egg on our faces, huh? Well, where do i go to give my guns back yeah yeah that's what's gonna happen oh man some of these videos of these uh folks who think the election has been stolen from them are very scary the media is yeah and you know for the large contingent of of trumpers who have found the daily zeitgeist

as a place of solace uh at least you know when the media is turned against you i just want to say we don't we don't care about you enough to try and round you up we're just looking for equality and right that might actually even reach you at the end of the day but i don't know that's that's that's what we're on over here yeah we're just trying to help y'all. But I get it, man. When you're so used to being on top, man, equality looks like an attack on you. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And they've been brainwashed for 20 years that we're all trying to kidnap their kids,

put them, inject microchips into them. You know. Uh-huh. Hey, speaking of kidnapping kids, you might hear a kid in the background. Ramsey is joining us for this recording session. Ramsey, you want to say hi? Just shout hi. Hi.

There he is. Hey. Hey. The man, the myth, the legend. The person Jack gets all of his takes from. That's right. he's the brain trust I'm just the muscle Thumbs up or thumbs down this story

The Cleveland Indians Are trending because That will no longer be their name Fairly soon They will be the Cleveland something else The Cleveland The major leagues Why don't they just call them the I don't know, what do you do?

What do they call themselves? Are they have to completely rebrand? Because aren't the Washington team, NFL team, are they fully changing or they're just right now the Washington team? They did it very begrudgingly. And then at the last second because you know it wasn't on their it wasn't their own plan so they uh they weren't doing it on their own timeline so they did it right before the season and didn't have time to even uh come up with a name so they're

just known this season as the washington football team hopefully cleveland uh mlbs the mlbs cleveland the Cleveland MLBs, the MLBs Cleveland franchise. Yeah. Because they are doing this proactively, are able to come up with a name by the time the next season starts. My one request to Cleveland is that they not do a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame theme to name.

I was going to say they should. Or Drew Carey. Cleveland Rock City. Yeah. Yeah, Drew Carey. The Cleveland Rocks? Yeah. Cleveland Rockers. I feel like a Steelers one would be dope. Like, you know, something that has to do with the industry. Because

Cleveland, I feel like, has that, like, gritty, blue-collar kind of vibe to it. Yeah. Cleveland Shakers. Don't they have a shaker? We'll A-B test some of this stuff. Throw somebody around and see what sticks. I mean, now they just have to do what the Braves, the Chiefs, the Blackhawks, Seminoles.

There's a ton still left to have a reckoning but you know yeah day by day i guess yeah yeah uh but shout out to them for like i don't know if it was it probably was not proactive and just out of the kindness of their heart i'm sure they were dragged to this decision kicking and screaming they have had this name since 1915 and it's been wrong the entire time but uh at least shout out to them for uh making the right decision at long last um yeah i mean i don't know if do you get a shout out in the year of our lord 2020 for coming to the determination that cleveland indians is a bad name yeah probably not probably not uh maybe i'll take it back uh i will give a shout

out though to the op-ed writer for the wall street journal uh who just said what we were all thinking i think uh when he said dr jill biden drop the doctor come on what are you trying to overshadow the hubby? Come on. The man with the plan. This was a real article that was actually written in the Wall Street Journal. They asked Jill Biden, Dr. Jill, to drop the doctor because it's intimidating or something. She has a doctorate. It was mind-blowing. She has a doctorate. It was mind-blowing.

I mean, it definitely had the Peggy Noonan vibes where you could tell it was like a half-thought-through thing that they were just putting out there. Right. It was like stream-of-consciousness op-ed writing. But it was, yeah, that was their, the entirety of their take was she should get rid of it because I don't like the way it makes me feel um what was the headline of it wasn't it hey dr jill biden relax yeah that's right something

like that what the fuck gives a shit because her name's because she has a title yeah like hey erase yourself to not to not go as far as to overshadow the male in your relationship. The new headline that they've used to tone it down is is there a doctor in the White House? Not if you need an MD. However, you don't

for people with doctorates have traditionally been referred to as doctors and you're just mad that she makes you feel inadequate. Right. This is... Oh, boy. A whole lot of projecting going on.

Yeah. Joseph Epstein, shout out to you, my man. New Zealand is trending. Oh, God. Trying to figure out why. When you click through on the Google Trends story that is linked with the trend, the reason that it's trending right now,

it links through to a page that has news about COVID-19 updates. And at the top is just a story about New York shutting down. But down below, there is an update about a New Zealand airline worker who tested positive. That is a singular New this one person who tested positive because they've almost totally eradicated the disease from their nation. And they were concerned, uh-oh, is this the previously dormant New Zealand strain of the disease? Like just that we hadn't stamped it out? Turns out, no no it is they haven't

completed genome sequencing but they uh think based on what they have so far it came from a broad and probably you guessed it america oh boy so it's ah that must be so embarrassing you know like in new zealand because like no one has covid and like people like what the fuck were you thinking yeah coming in here all dirtied up uh it's i don't know it's just so weird to read news like this because i can't think of a like we're living the antithetical experience here where it's like i don't know we can't trace anything we don't care about like we're having trouble communicating anything effectively to the people to try and do uh you know take precautions but oh well sorry sorry new zealand for that one for some of our illnesses what moment ramsay has a quick question we'll see if it's about new zealand what's up

yep okay hey i'm recording right now i'm gonna come over there once i'm done it'll be like five minutes and then i'll help fix that okay non-committal uh boy toy is not doing what he wants it to do hey jack you're doing your best man you're doing hey you know brother you know i'll tell you what. You're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. Your mouth to God's ears. So let's talk about Charlie Pryde, country music legend, one of the first successful black country singers in the country music industry, passed away over the weekend

from complications caused by covet 19 um and he was at the country music awards that we covered a few weeks back where they it was very important to them that it appear like no ordinary times they advertise it as like these are this is just the, you know, this is a little break from the wild times we're living through. And that included having all the performers not wearing masks, including 82-year-old Charlie Pride, who was receiving. 86. 86-year-old Charlie Pride, who was receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award, achievement award uh and yeah he was uh well there's no later yeah dead a month later where no no clear indication uh of that the country music network is specifically at fault but obviously doesn't look good doesn't look good yeah i mean

either way it's just like it's just awful yeah whether or not we know what the where he how he got infected but yeah this just doesn't end just doesn't end uh yeah yeah this is uh yeah just the ambient uh dumb acidness of their country is uh really coming back to bite everyone um yeah yeah because it's just like you think my god you're having an 86 year old at your unmasked event like in general like what don't you even feel a duty to this person whether or not you're trying to get over the optics of what normalcy is or what appears normal it's like uh 86 year old coming coming through here where we're like hey ignore the pandemic that's fucked up and i'll be like even if he didn't contract it there don't fucking put people at risk like that it's just fucking oh it's just just fucked up.

Somebody should be in jail for that entire show. Yeah, if that is the case. But I mean, at the end of the day, like it's just, we don't, we're just in such a, we'll keep talking about this every single day. We're in a situation where we're not doing, you know, the things or the government

is not providing the support to allow to, you know, look after one another and actually try and get this thing under control so we're left to our own human nature which is inherently flawed in a time like this where people want to get together and ignore that shit is awful so yeah yeah just eating our own tails yeah Yeah, yeah. And it's delicious. All right, guys. And it's molting. That is going to do it for this Monday.

We are back tomorrow with the last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to y'all bye bye k hasn't heard from her sister in seven years i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do what was that that was live

audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller

from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's so much beauty

in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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, or wherever you stream podcasts. What happens when a professional football player's career ends and the applause fades and the screaming fans move on? I am going to share my journey of how I went from Christianity to now a Hebrew Israelite. For some former NFL players, a new faith provides answers. You mix homesteading with guns and church. Voila! You got straightway. They try to save everybody. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you ever wonder where your favorite foods come from?

Like what's the history behind bacon-wrapped hot dogs? Hi, I'm Eva Longoria. Hi, I'm Maite Gomez-Rejon. Our podcast, Hungry for History, is back. And this season, we're taking an even bigger bite out of the most delicious food and its history. Seeing that the most popular cocktail is the margarita, followed by the mojito from Cuba,

and the piña colada from Puerto Rico. Listen to Hungry for History on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.