The Daily Zeitgeist - Out in the Pods They Call it Trending 6/10: NBA, Jeffrey Toobin, Kim Jong Un, Elden Ring, Awake

Episode Date: June 10, 2021

On this edition of Out in the Pods They Call it Trending Jack and Miles discuss NBA news, the return of "Tugmaster" Toobin, Kim Jong “ooOOooh”, the 'Elden Ring' trailer, and Netflix's 'Awake' being a snoozefest. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the they're good they look good they look good but we've as we've seen first two games of a series doesn't mean i fucked around and found out real quick about uh these these young men over there from uh from phoenix yeah no they're good it's cool to see chris paul still out there doing it even though he's a six foot point guard who's like over the age of what is he like 35 something like that yeah yeah it's fun it's fun to watch um not fun for me to watch per se i prefer the other series uh to watch because i'm i'm you know out here and fully invested in their downfall but i'm not gonna lie that um there's like a viral clip of this young phoenix suns fan this kid is like just losing it in the stands and he's like trying to rip his shirt

off but he's like 11 and he doesn't have the strength and probably his parents like you better not rip that shirt i just bought you and then so so he opts for taking it off and just screaming like, let's go. And I can see how pure this young fan's energy is. And you put a smile on my face, despite it being for a team that has caused me a bit of pain. The brand, the Phoenix Suns brand is so strong right now with the courtside with Guy Ritchie. I mean, that's just such a perfect celebrity corollary for the Phoenix Suns. He's Guy Ritchie. Yeah.

My friend Todd texted me right when it came on. He was like, yo, that is couldn't be more perfect. But the this this young man also, you know, and the people in the background, it just feels like Phoenix up in there. And it's just really cool. They were they were one of the worst teams last year. Not not definitely weren't even on anybody's radar. Now they are a problem.

As Charles Barkley called Trey Young. Yeah, well, you know, good luck to y'all. Keep it over there. Don't celebrate too hard. Wait, so you said you are officially rooting against the Clippers? I mean, I'll always be. In the other series? I'll always be rooting. it over there don't yeah celebrate too far too hard wait so you said you are officially uh rooting against the Clippers I mean I'll always be other series I'll always be rooting I'm never for the Clippers so wow yeah I but that's just how it is you know that's that's what's great about I always

you always have to have teams you just dislike because you're a lesionist you know I just strongly dislike Tottenham Hotspur because of my allegiance to Arsenal. Same thing goes with the Clippers, just because I think I grew up with, like, I grew up in a Laker household. My dad grew up in that, like, born here. Like, we're Angelenos, so Lakers is, like, at our core being.

And when you meet people that are Clippers fans, like, what? Why? Like, what? All right, do you, whatever. Is it usually transplants is that what no i have one friend man who grew up here born from here and chose the clippers just because he hated that the rest of us were fucking with the lakers right that makes sense i mean i i respect that yeah i mean i respect it but like i said i i don't i don't need to hear about it um but the best thing is i remember back in the day we used to go to clippers

games because those are the cheapest lakers games you could go to was when they played the clippers uh what is a clippers home game because lakers home game tickets at the stable center were just like astronomically more expensive so the way we were able to go get kick uh you know get tickets to those games was the clippers home games and i remember we all went and it was like a game where derrick fisher hit a buzzer beater to beat the clippers and we're all like ah my friends are fucking mad it's your home game fuck that but yeah you know we'll see well i am uh rooting for the clippers uh both because you know i'mA. transplant with no real like allegiances one way or another other than to parts of the organization. But my dad's homies with one of the one of the coaches with the Clippers.

And it is fun to root for Kawhi Leonard, man. root for kawaii leonard man that is yeah after him taking my heart out and just tearing it into while making unbroken eye contact with me a couple years ago it's kind of it's kind of nice to be back in the good graces tubing we're we're tubing again uh he's back jeffrey tubin uh is back talking out loud on televisions again after masturbating on a zoom call let that was pretty recent right it was in october for some shit yeah last year during the pandemic i'll play this clip for you he's on cnn and allison camarada allison camarada is interviewing him they make this poor lady talk to him about like they're trying to clear the air based because he's back on cnn they're like we're not gonna set up our relationship as our like chief legal analyst because his takes are too good but this

is the cringiest like hand-holding through you got caught jerking off on zoom like pr like revival thing i've ever seen um and we'll play a bit of this for you now just so you can understand how cringy the whole thing is and i have not seen this so the honors help yourself okay um in october you were on a zoom call with your colleagues from the new yorker magazine everyone took a break for several minutes during which time you were caught masturbating on camera uh you were subsequently fired from that job after 27 years of working there. Why are they doing this to her? I don't even know what I'm talking.

So actually come to think of it, you're not allowed back on. But okay, go. Oh, we're not done. Go on. Please keep describing this awful situation. And you since then have been on leave from CNN. Do I have all that right? You got it all All right sad to say

Okay, so let's start there To quote Jay Leno. What the hell were you thinking? Well, obviously I wasn't thinking very well or very much It was something that was inexplicable to me. I think one point I wouldn't listen well your my defense because nothing is really in my defense i didn't think i was on the call i didn't think other people could see me oh okay okay yeah even though he says this isn't this isn't a defense but i'd like to make a point you think that's a defense that's why i keep saying it you couldn't just be like yeah it was the dumbest shit i've ever done in my life i pretty much threw everything away because i was impulsive or what

anyway right but go on go off king about how i didn't know anyone was on the call you thought that you had turned off your camera correct i thought that i turned off the zoom call now that's not a defense this was deeply moronic and indefensible but i mean that that is part of that that is part of the story okay uh-huh so now let me get into the rest of the story okay so now what was i watching at the time great question allison so i was navigating to pornhub.com the website like where is this going what is the point of all this because it's deeply uncomfortable and they acted like he like he like greeted the queen incorrectly or something like right that is his his vibe is just all right so i had a little

oopsie daysms uh i can explain it and there's no way there's no explaining it right i mean i really uh so what do we do what is effed up or making us do right now the cnn why would they make that poor woman have that conversation to talk about someone masturbating uh with them right there as an invitation for them to then talk about their own masturbation uh seems cruel and unusual um yeah i i don't know like i get there's one conversation like it's obviously you do what you want with your body in the privacy of your own home. But you're committing lewd acts in a work call.

You can't even compartmentalize jolly time from Zoom serious time. But yeah, okay, cool. So hey, if you need a boss who's down with second chances, holler at cnn he also has the energy of somebody who believes they've aced every job interview they've ever been on he's just like right i'm so glad you asked me that allison and it's really uh i mean uh dodo brain over here right but uh also uh what what is this famous jay leno quote that none of us have ever heard of what the heck were you thinking why even do like why even again all these like

attempts to like soften right like sort of make uh you know just i don't know i i well cool so he's he's back y'all two pins back yeah shout out to that man kim jong-un is trending uh because he's looking slender yeah he's felt it up because he was hidden for like a month and a half and no you know half the time they're like, is this him? Is it an impersonator? Like, what's going on with him? There's all this speculation about his health. He came out looking thinner.

And because, again, you know, it's the, as colloquially known as the hermit kingdom, where you don't know what, like, all you can do is kind of presume to know what's going, happening on, uh, within the borders there. That it's like basically turned into two camps of thought in terms of foreign policy. One, which is like, well, if he's sick and lost all this weight, we better buckle up because there's going to be a power vacuum in this country. And we don't know who's making moves behind his back or what's going to happen or who we're dealing with if something's actually going on with his health. other one is oh maybe he he you know

for his health lost a little weight because he wants to have some more longevity as a leader and then foreign policy we're like that's i guess the better option because at least we know who we're dealing with in that respect but that's like it's just wild how this is like oh my god lost weight is he dying is he healthy what's that for porn policy? And that's why it's just a light on the internet. Is there anybody saying that he is a different person now? No, not quite yet. I don't know if anyone's gotten to the Dave theory. Okay.

So I'm just looking. So the Guardian put together, put an image where you could slide back and forth between him June 2021 and July 2020 and he looks like a much younger person in June 2021

but maybe he just needed some rest and relaxation get a little bit of sun but yeah he's also smoking a cigarette in the so shout out to him he's like smoking a cigarette in the image. So shout out to him. He's like, look, I'm losing weight on my own terms, man.

Elden Ring is trending. I don't know what that is because it's not on Switch. Good job. I was going to say first, no, Elden Campbell did not lose his Lakers championship ring. And that's not why Eldon ring is trending is because there's a new game, Jack. It's a, it's so it's a collaboration from a Bandai Namco who, you know, make great games.

But George RR Martin is the creative force within the game. And everyone's like, yo, how do we not know? Like George RRin's real good about not talking about anything and it was just unveiled at this thing i think a lot of people you know had theories and things about this game but the trailer is just so like out there wild like it looks like you can i guess you can see like sort of the the martin influence but because it's a video game like visually they can do so many other things that would probably be end up being like a multi-billion dollar film

um but yeah everybody's very excited for it now are we at a point where you can trust video game trailers now uh because i feel like that was always a thing back when I was, uh, paying attention to, uh, trailers. I, I just am gaming so often now that I don't, uh,

that I don't even look at the trailers, but, uh, the, yeah, you used to get burned by these trailers. That would be like much better graphics. They would be showing you stuff that it was like a leaps beyond what was uh we

were capable of and then it would just be either like a cut scene or you know it just wasn't wasn't what we were i mean we're still that's still very much a possibility especially when you're talking about like current gen consoles like the game this game is not gonna look the same on ps4 as it does on ps5 um but yeah i've they're always going to show you the absolute best version um whether they're you know cut scenes or renderings that are like using processors that most of us don't have and the consoles we use but at the same time like now that like a lot of these systems are getting much more robust in terms of like their computing power uh i think that gap will begin to tighten up but yeah you know shit's still a bit of a fantasy for sure and speaking of fantasy well that was also taking place enough in the fantasy genre and

but there's a new movie on netflix that sounds like it would be like a fun kind of uh not hate watch but like watch and laugh at it's called awake um and the premise is what if like it's a post-apocalyptic world where people can't sleep and so people just get i guess like, like drunker, like as the, as the movie goes along. I don't know. It's supposed to be very bad. Oh, because you're like the exhaustion from the lack of sleep. Your brain is just devolving over the course of days. Some of the reviews are really seeing the Guardian foot awake review.

Netflix is bird box. Light thriller is a real snooze one star damn i mean i like the idea like i like it's such a high thought as a film right right everybody on earth couldn't sleep could you imagine like how long would that last before everything like falls apart because you and it's like some dudes like man because i'm barely getting any sleep now with the kids you know what i mean that was everybody that was written in three minutes this is definitely written by a new parent probably um yeah it just seems like a very hard thing to i could see this maybe being a novel but being a movie it's just like people just look like shit and make bad decisions.

And I don't know what you would do with that necessarily. Yeah. Sweet Tooth, on the other hand, looks pretty good. The new Loki show is supposed to be very good. So all things that you can stream. And of course, we got that wreck from dvk earlier in the week invincible invincible i started watching it is it good yeah it's actually it's i'm i'm like almost through the first episode but it's there's like some real like emotional type shit in there that

is interesting is like really interesting to see especially in an animated thing where like there's clearly this tension between this father and son and but mapping like the superhero stuff on top of it is is cool it's cool i don't know i'm gonna keep watching though i was you know that when dvk is like you gotta watch it um i i i respected him immediately and checked it out that night but yeah i'm gonna keep going uh i am reading a novel that I hold in my hands, made out of paper for the first time in a long time, called The Time Machine Did It by Schwarzwelder. Based off of that New Yorker interview with him,

he's like the guy who wrote some of the best Simpsons episodes. Right. And it's, you know, I laugh out loud pretty frequently, which not many novels really do that. So, yeah. I'm sure it feels very Schwarzwaldian. Yes, very

Schwarzwaldian. The main character, like the private eye main character is like if Jake from Chinatown was crossed with homer simpson um it's pretty fucking funny all right all right yeah it's just great i love some comedy prose and i haven't like really read much of it since uh early cracked days um you know so good i'm glad you're reading you're reading with your eyes again

yeah yeah in your hands hands and by that my i'm making my kids read and you're like do the voices this time and tickle my back uh all right uh those are some of the things that are trending on this thursday we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the fucking vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

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