The Daily Zeitgeist - Once Bitten Zeit Shy 8/12: Damian Lillard, Kanye West, Alex Jones, Mississippi

Episode Date: August 12, 2020

On this edition of Once Bitten Zeit Shy Jack and Miles discuss Damian Lillard shooting the lights out for three straight games, Jared Kushner met with Kanye privately, Alex Jones was shouting at a public pool in Austin, TX, and the state of Mississippi is redesigning their flag. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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100%. What a time to be alive in the late 80s. To witness that, huh, Miles? What a time. All right. Let's tell them what is trending right now. You're Miles. I am.

I'm Jack. Yep. This is what's trending, guys. Damian Lillard is the point guard for the Portland Trailblazers. He had a bit of a night. He has had three nights in a row. So he missed two free throws that would have given them the win in a game. I think it was the Clippers game, right?

A few, like five days ago. A lot of shit talking after that when those game winning or game tying free throws were getting bricked. Yeah. Or afterwards. shit talking after that when those uh those game winning or game tying free throws were getting bricked yeah or afterwards so paul george because uh lillard hit uh like three from near half court in the playoffs last year and then waved goodbye to them uh paul george not very happy about that and so he waved goodbye then there was like some words thrown back and forth. And that was apparently we don't talk shit to Dame ever anymore. That's all I needed.

Ever, ever again. Yeah. This dude's like last three games have been like, I watched the beginning of like, I watched the first quarter or first half of yesterday's game when he went for 61. And I was like, this dude is like, or first half of yesterday's game when he went for 61. And I was like, this dude is like,

I haven't seen somebody look this unstoppable. And he's 6'2". Yeah. Generously 6'2". He's like a regular guy size. Yeah, he's a regular guy. And he just puts the ball in at any angle from any place on the court. Any depth. Any depth. I couldn't, couldn't yeah so quick it's unbelievable

you guys just watch like a highly rated the ratings are still so low for the league right now oh are they yeah it's because all the games are like in the middle of the day like right yeah we might be working at home but like i can't throw the game on and like record and like do the other work we do throughout the day and like watch a whole basketball game like i think it worked when it was at you know like in the evenings when people used to go but i get it you want to pack as much stuff in but i mean there's an energy missing for sure uh you have to like it's very much pure basketball now like that's you have to really love basketball to be into it

it's not like the I think a lot of you know the experience of watching pro sports is like you know you're watching just like an event with like a lot of energy present and this just has way less energy

in the room it looks like the sickest pickup game at like a lot of energy present and this just has way less energy in the room it looks like the sickest pickup game at right at like a health club right like when he when he made a shot from half court basically uh to get to 61 points and to give his team the lead like it was just you know he turned around and was like yep i'm pretty good and that was it like it wasn't kind of wish there was a crowd to like bring it down oh like to respond appropriately um anyways people it's worth watching this dude right now because he is on another level we were saying that about tj warren a couple days ago we were and then he's going off well this is this is more in yeah of course of course and i i really liked who he is yeah and blazers fans are real ass basketball fans man they love the blazers and

that's an unbiased statement from you jack it is an unbiased statement man i haven't i haven't pulled for the blazers in my lifetime um Oh, really? Oh, really. Damn. You're not loyal at all. Damn. My grandfather coached them before I was alive, but he had, I think, been fired by the time I was alive. Oh, so then you took that and you're like, although when we were in Portland for the live show, you're like, I'm going to walk by there just to get the vibes real quick.

Yeah. Because they do put respect on his name. They do. Yeah. Because they do put respect on his name. They do. Yeah. Yeah, there's a big restaurant called Dr. Jack's. That's right by the stadium. And I do. 14 people are about to be like, wait, who's Jack's grandpa?

Yeah, Jack Ramsay. It's happening all over again. Yep. Anyways, Damian Lillard is the fucking man. Well, my grandfather was Masaru Nakajima who was a great professor of German philosophy yeah one of my favorite

yeah thank you you do like Goethe's work and he was obviously very much into his work as well was he really a German philosophy professor that's dope he had to actually help the Japanese government understand

the nazis because he was so entrenched with german philosophy and culture he was like one of the few japanese people who they could be like yo what are these people like what are they what are they talking about like what's the vibe with these people like what do they say when they're saying it right it's wild there's pictures of my grandmother she's like 5'1 in like berlin like in like 39 and like front of the like the reichstag and it's like such a trippy photo i gotta i gotta find jesus yeah because like they would go there like with the japanese government would be like hi can you can you talk to somebody there someone come back and see what you hear and then he did that once and he was like man this is

this is not good he's like i'm a pacifist and they're like all right you loser then take off fuck out of here uh yay is trending uh because so there's just a this is just fucking the weirdest story uh because he is being used by the Trump administration. Basically, he had a meeting with Jared Kushner, who is Trump's main advisor, son-in-law, obviously, not too long ago. And I think it was last week that came out in the New York Times, and he confirmed it

and said they were talking about some book. And he has also acknowledged that he's aware that he might hurt biden's chances and help trump get re-elected and he doesn't care it's just not clear if he knows that he's actively being used by the trump administration it would be very interesting to get a bug of how they talk about him behind his back uh well yeah i mean especially when you read like some of the stories from the operatives who got you know caught up in this like helping gather signatures and things and like how they were like hey man like we they're asking for help and that's right

they who they need who's they and you're on their behalf and you're part of the machine? Okay. But you know, peak 2020. Peak 2020 type shit. We do talk about how little endorsements matter. But he did get a big endorsement recently, right? Yeah, from DaBaby. Yeah. People, I think, were

kind of on the edge of their seat waiting to see where DaBaby was going to land. You know what I mean? I think it'll be important to see where Wiz Khalifa comes in on this. I think that's really important. No, seriously. I mean, he, as a rapper from a swing state, actually, no, he was born in North Dakota. Right.

Wait, Wiz Khalifa was? Yeah. But he's in Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah. I was like, wait. Hesburgh's finest he's pittsburgh's finest and i'm like wait he was born in north dakota anyway yes i'm just thinking of that uh what what what happens with the black and yellow coalition black and yellow black and yellow um alex jones was trending uh because he there's just a great video of him trying to go to a park in Austin. There are some lifeguards who are volunteering for the city

and basically kind of working the door for these public parks and being like, hey, there's too many people in there. Can you wait? They're not armed. They're basically a bunch of 18 year olds sitting there reading and you know just trying to do their part to make the the park a safer place for their fellow citizens and alex jones rolls up uh with either the tiniest megaphone I've ever seen, or he is continuing to just expand up and out.

But he's just walking around with this tiny megaphone, shouting at them, being like, you're part of this conspiracy, the COVID-19 hoax to seize power. And the kids are just it's just a great illustration of you know the contradiction between this you know right wing

talking point and how little people who are they're accusing of this vast conspiracy really give a shit about them because the people aren't even can't even really be bothered to like one girl i think gets up the energy to flip them off but like everybody else is just like kind of looking at their phones being like yeah i wonder like if

like in texas especially like because that's where he's always mobbing around doing shit like just like right it's like andy dick in la really like oh my fuck yeah or like anybody natural right yeah like billy zane yeah whoever has like the wild la sightings but yeah everyone has that energy like here we go uh-huh yeah but also i think everyone is just now getting more and more used to dealing with that kind of energy because it doesn't need to be alex jones like in your town there is someone sort of doing that rah-rah shit for the wrong reasons you know whether it's people pretending to work for a federal agency and telling people to source like you can actually be sued for asking people to wear a mask so just for your safety you need to sign this like i'm sorry who

are you like i work for this badge i laminated at kinko's about 10 minutes ago. So, yeah, please, you know, at the end of the day, you're doing the right thing by considering the safety of other people. That's really what it all boils down to. And then Mississippi, the Mississippi flag is trending because they

are redesigning the flag, getting rid of the Confederate flag. Finally. Yeah, shocking. Last state, maybe, you know, hold on to it. Who knew Mississippi was this progressive? Yeah, shocking. Next level.

But they opened it up to a design contest, and it's pretty interesting to see what's rolled in, what's being considered, what's being voted for. It's just funny because, like like just to turn it into a guys let's just let's just throw some ideas around why don't you submit what you're thinking and then we'll bring that to the commission because there's a commission that's assembled and while like there are rounds where like these submissions go further and further like ultimately like the people aren't going to vote on this they they still have the ability to figure out like how what they're going to do with

the final design but there have been over like nearly 3 000 submissions um and they narrowed it down to like i think just under 150 options and they have we're talking the designs that they apparently were submitted it runs a gamut of everything. They said, one of the people on the commission said they had flags that featured, guitars, beer cans, large mouth bass, a Jesus meme,

and the Southern Conference logo. The Southeastern Conference? The SEC, dude. I think it's just the SEC logo. I mean, like, you know, shout out to the true fans. So, yeah. So there was another one that made it

in apparently because of some like typo because of the submission number and so when like the the website was like yeah check out some of these like great submissions one was just a fucking mosquito giant mosquito with stars around it yeah and people were like really vibing with it and they're like okay get we have to get that out before we before enough there's like some public support in terms to i think you know like a bode mcboat face type situation what was bode mcboat face that was like another opportunity for people to rename something i think it was a boat and they were like the the troll answer became like the fucking thing yeah it was i think it's just a lesson just like whenever don't never let the internet determine like what you are going to do like never give the internet that much power

just say you'll consider what the consensus is after your poll but never say the winner the winning option is the thing we'll do because that's what happened oh it was a it was a british like research vessel so they're just like okay let's change it to that but it's the same thing like when i remember there was a a walmart competition where it was like send pitbull to do a live show at your local walmart like vote for it like your walmart and he'll do a live show there cut to coordinated effort of people being like yo do the walmart in like remote part of alaska right and like that's where he has to go perform now. All of these are squares. Let's go with Ohio. Ohio has the pendant-shaped flag.

That's thinking outside the box. What do you mean? It still has to be on a flag, though. It's pendant-shaped. It's a flag that is... Oh, right, because it's a little more triangular. It should be an amusement park park it looks like somebody's pants like you could turn it like vertically and be like let me hop in my ohio pants

the ohio bergy or bergy i'm probably butchering that you're from ohio what's how you say that ohio bergy yeah it says the ohio burgy is the official flag bougie bougie oh oh what a little i love ohio bougie what do i look like hmm huh okay that's for dj academics amigos fans bye uh i think that's gonna do it do you have a favorite uh state flag by the way no uh. No? Like one that I think of. Actually, whatever doesn't look so much like the American flag, like our vibe with. That's why California and the Bear Republic stand up.

Sure. I don't know. Colorado actually looks like a baseball hat a little bit. Yeah. Arizona's. Do you have one that you think of or one that you actually just i feel like there's ones that when i look at i'm like come on please new mexico seems appropriate it's like yeah yeah i kind of like new mexico i like the

vibe minimal you know what i mean yeah very minimal south carolina is interesting too like the palmetto and like the crescent Moon. That feels like a streetwear logo. Yeah, that might be my favorite. I think that one was recent, too, because of Confederate flagship, right? I can't imagine. Did South Carolina have anything to do with the Confederacy? West Virginia just has a child's painting in the middle of it. Oh, man just shout out to

washington just his face is that what washington's yeah yeah um all right guys that's gonna do it oh wait hold on man i'd be remiss if i didn't say maryland dude love i love that like checker pattern that they have it It's very aggro. Maryland is kind of wild. It looks like it was designed by cross colors in the early 90s a little bit. It's got some wild-ass

patterns. Let us know. What's your favorite? What's your best and what's your worst? I think it was... I meant that to the audience generally yeah yeah no i was just saying the maryland flag looks like something will smith wears in men in black oh yeah like i would you know but i've seen people like with like all over print like maryland shit yeah yeah and you know i'm like oh what's that oh okay maryland

all right guys that's gonna do it for us for today. We'll be back tomorrow with a whole ass episode. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wash your hands. Wear a mask. Stay inside. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

And we'll be back tomorrow. We'll talk to y'all then. Bye. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project.

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