The Daily Zeitgeist - Play That Trendy Music, Zeit Boy 1/4: NBA, Olivia Wilde, WW84, John Mackey, Maria Bakalova

Episode Date: January 4, 2021

On the first trending episode of the year Jack and Miles discuss NBA stuff from over the break, Olivia Wilde was seen hand in hand with Harry Styles, the internet has chosen its next polarizing topic with Wonder Woman 1984, the CEO of Whole Foods says yet another dumb ass thing about health care, and Maria Bakolova has stated she treats the woman who cared for her in the Borat film as a true godmother. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Play That Funky Music, Zyte Boy. That is courtesy of the Vanilla Ice concert at Mar-a-Lago. I was about to say, were you at Mar-a-Lago? I saw that shit on the news.

Watching that same, that one, I feel like that one guy's Instagram is the one that blew up the spot because he was so thirsty and selfie-ing with Don Ju in the background like, look, it's me and Doju. See, white boy. We're saying white boy and I'm showing... Oh, man. That whole thing. The Beach Boys. It was a whole all-star lineup.

Mike Love is one of the great villains. Not great villains because he's not like a good character but he does represent everything that's evil about America. Hey, man man but his descendants can ball huh yeah man that's right is captain love having a good seat is he playing nephew how's he looking he's out with an injury i think oh then never mind see that's his karma that's what happened that's right i know another one of another nephew or cousin it's so weird how many oh really yeah like love offshoot people i've

like all right it's only one other person but then they were anyway it's love is in the air you know hey or covid i don't know depending on one of the two uh actually we know which one it is um all right let's talk about nba basketball steph curry is trending uh because uh last night or two nights ago he put up 62 points a career high um yep he's also trending because he made 105 straight threes in a viral video or something some uh ungodly number something fucked up looking yeah it was wild um and yeah i don't know like that he's you know people were talking trash because he's now on a on a bad team and they're saying you know this proves he can't carry a team by himself which it does kind of i mean people are like well lebron like is on plenty of teams where there's no talent and he would like

take them to the eastern but no one had sympathy right nobody had sympathy i feel like the the narrative with steve is like it's like woe is curry you know like kind of like and i get it but like but it's also funny to see when like punditry chooses to be like this is a thing that we should feel bad for this guy and other ones like well i mean like if he's that good i mean you got to make it work you know like blah blah blah so yeah yeah i i find all that real boring i don't give a shit about like the sports punditry is the least interesting like part of discord of the culture i think yeah in the in the world so welcome to this podcast but the thing the thing that i like i always different about our band i'm always just blown away by like the fact that he's six

foot three 180 pounds like it's all skill it's all like, there's never been somebody who is not just next level, like athletic and putting up like dominating. Like he's got, you know, he's built because he's built like a person on Tinder. He's Tinder tall, you know, six,

three. You're like, Oh, that's MBA. You're like, look at you. Tiny child, man.

Right. Be gone. Yes. Oh, here's a, we'll dust off Muggsy Bogue's old uniform for you. I'm sure it'll fit too baggy on you. Anyways, have you been watching

Hoops? Oh, yeah, baby. You know what I'm saying. Dude, Schroeder? That's a shrewd signing. I must say. Mr. Palenka, hats off to you. Uh, with all the moves, Trez looks great.

I think every, it's fun to watch everybody. I like even watching Houston. I like watching John Wall kind of start getting his little form. That is one game that I watched. Um, and also, and also feel I'm, I told you before I have like a sick thing where I'm like feeling, I'm laughing at how bad I feel for Russell Westbrook. Um, just cause it's really all to do with that one clip of him when they went on four thing where I'm like feeling I'm laughing at how bad I feel for Russell Westbrook um just because it's really all to do with that one clip of him when they went on four and he has the thousand

yard stare like on the bench and like that assistant tries like pump him up and it was so clear it's like no Russell has left Russell has left the game he's physically here but he is he's not the same but yeah it's been it's been all fun it's early early doors but it's good to see you know the losses that the lakers had at least i could wrap my head around i'm like okay the clippers i get it like moment like uh from a pride standpoint they're gonna come in way more pumped up than we are uh especially given how the preseason was and all the shit talking that's been happening and even the blazers like they for that game when they lost by 50 yeah that was something and then that was a thing and then the next day that happens and i'm like what the fuck

uh but whatever you know we'll we'll all be said and done by whenever the postseason begins this year it's interesting that the uh ratings are up because like we were we were all kind of wondering why were the ratings down for various things, various sporting events, because people were stuck at home during quarantine, or a lot of people were. And I think there's just a real seasonality to the rhythm that we consume. Because this would normally be the NBA season. Christmas Day basketball is what it is. Yeah. So the ratings are way up. The ratings are way up.

The games are good. They're having two series where teams will play each other two days in a row. That's been pretty dope. Anyways, Olivia Wilde is also trending.

Because of the NBA. She put up 45. A lot of thought you know for a rookie that's pretty good yeah in unreleased jordans that no one saw i've been like what the fuck just shooting out the lights in unreleased jays we've never seen uh so i didn't know this we didn't know this olivia wild she split up from jason sudeikis in november first of all i was like what and the reason she's trending is she pulled up to some wedding with harry styles and they were all booed up and i was like wow jason sudeikis what i don't i don't know the nature of their split like if who my sympathy

my fee and my empathy should go in what direction yeah but i bet like if you're jason sudeikis and your wife your ex-wife is now like booed the fuck up with what most people would be like well jason it's harry style like like i don't know who upset what friend would be like yeah man that's fucked up i feel like it's one of those things you'd be like well i mean jason you know what i mean like i know i know i know it's i know it's fresh and all but like let's be real like if jason said i mean if harry styles pulled up to you what would you do he'd be like oh yeah i would be on that too uh so i don't know yeah it's like it just happened he's more bummed that olivia got to meet him before he did uh he's like i just thought honestly it was more that i was hoping after

living on split i would be with harry but i guess he is with her but she's directing him in an upcoming film so i think that's where the sparks began to fly got it yeah harry styles is yeah big shocker uh i like i liked him a lot in dunkirk uh I like watching him do everything, bro. For sure. It's just funny. In this instance, the only person I really kind of want to check on is Jason Sudeikis. Olivia Wilde's living her best life. Harry Styles is living his best life.

Jason Sudeikis, I know you love sneakers. Maybe you could cop a couple pairs on StockX just to kind of fill that hole. That Harry Styles hole in your ego. Maybe you could cop a couple pairs on StockX just to kind of fill that hole, that Harry Styles hole in your ego. I think this would be like if Scarlett Johansson left Colin Jost for, I don't know, Harry Styles, I guess. Harry Styles is a singular entity, but it's like we already thought you were overachieving and then it just self-corrected to,

uh, right. Like, Oh, right, right, right, right.

Um, funny can only go so far. So now I'm worried. Oh, um, I'm like, but, but her majesty,

I have Jordans and I'm funny. And she's like, yeah. And so now I'm with Louie from one direction. Knew it. Tomlinson you got me again Wonder Woman 84 is you know it seems like it's

in a number of ways yeah it seems like it's the latest sort of the last Jedi Ghostbusters reboot sort of just to really divide audiences to the point of becoming political for man planing yeah man planing yeah different than the supply splaining just complaining yeah um and this it seems like every time there's some uh element of misogyny at the core of the complaints the last jedi uh had a female protagonist the ghostbusters had a had women protagonists this movie has a woman protagonist

and a woman director um and yeah people are people are mad don't they know how dumb men on the internet are they're gonna going to cry. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I watched it. I haven't seen it yet. I liked the first one better. Although I loved, I will say I love the aesthetic, you know, as somebody born in 84, you know, I recognized everything from the, I was that conscious as an infant newborn.

But like, I liked the, I mean, although there were some things like somebody pointed out, I think it was like Roxane Gay or someone that her father had built the DC Metro station that they were like, there's a scene in a DC Metro station. She's like, oh, my dad built that in 1988. Wow.

And so it was like, so people were like nitpicking on stuff like that. I think just to have fun, there was just like, my only issues with it wasn't like, ohicking on stuff like that. I think just to have fun, I, there was just like, I only, my only issues with it wasn't like, Oh,

this is movie is awful. It was like, there were just a couple plot holes that like, for me, I was just like getting fixated on because like, I love comic stuff. And then I was just like, what? Oh,

all right. Well, uh, and then her majesty, who's not a comic book person was also confused by this, like one element. But other than that, I mean, shit is, is basically free. the fuck you complaining about that's again it's like airplane shit i was like

cool new thing i have not seen that was supposed to be in theaters i will just sit on my couch and press this triangle button great chris pine apparently comes back uh in a body switching a switcheroo respect method uh which i think people are mad about but it definitely like just all the sounds of it sounds like it has like a very like intentionally goofy 80s movie vibe to it yeah probably but it doesn't and i think it just doesn't i think it aesthetically didn't nail all of that to put you in the mindset to go oh the rhythm is such that i'm watching an 80s sort of funny version uh but kristen wigg i think was probably that was really enjoyable to see her like play this other role that she's in like rather than just being like you know a sort of more straightforward comedic character yeah i feel like yeah i can't i can't

wait to see where kristen wigg goes because uh i feel like yeah she's so fucking funny and she's such a like yeah she's so good and when she's got the right role but then there's like a lot of times she just like pops up randomly yeah but i think it's like a lot of things like you see some comedic actors because you know a lot of actors will tell you comedy is harder than doing dramatic acting yeah that to do comedy at a level like where the highest do it is something that they all are like nah like that shit is harder than me crying yeah like i don't know and i think but vice versa but we also see how many comedians actually end up being really solid dramatic actors because their foundation. So

fuck shit. I mean, we'll let Kristen Wiig be the new fucking Meryl Streep. Who knows? Glenn Close. I don't know. MacGruber. Her turn in MacGruber. One of the greats. You think she'll pull like a Jonah Hill? Yeah. Be like, I'm not a comedic

actor. Yeah. She's like, no. And then we're like, well, hold on, Kristen. Don't go all the way there there uh i mean not to say that you aren't a good dramatic uh performer but you are very much a comedian who's at the top of their game that should be yeah that should be the something that you wear as a badge because a lot of comedians or a lot of dramatic actors can't pull off what y'all do. Yeah, except for us. Yeah. Yeah, triple threat over here. I don't know about you, man. Cast us in Hillbilly Elegy.

Exactly. Watch me transform. Yeah, I saw that thing they made of you looking like Chalamet. Oh, yeah. That was ordered by theresa lee uh the very funny stand-up teresa lee she was like yo because i think on a on one of our year-end episodes was talking about uh me having like how i would look with timothy chalamet uh oh right hair curls vibes yeah yeah yeah and uh it was they made it so. It was haunting.

Let's talk about John Mackey. He is the CEO of Whole Foods, and he solved America. So that's cool. Wait, why is he even hearing anything that the CEO of Whole Foods is trending? I'm like, what kind of take? What happened? Because Whole Foods is Amazon, so it has's not like, because Whole Foods is Amazon. So it has nothing to do with really Whole Foods like that. So I'm curious where, what got this man's name trending?

All right. I'm just going to read you the quote. I mean, honestly, we talk about healthcare. The best solution is not to need healthcare. The best solution is to change the way people eat, the way they live, the lifestyle, and diet. There's no reason why people shouldn't be healthy and have a longer lifespan. A bunch of drugs is not going to solve the problem.

So come spend your entire paycheck at Whole Foods. Unless you work at Whole Foods, in which case you can't afford to. What the fuck? The whole thing is you don't need it. You just need more health thing is you don't need it you just need more health then you don't need health care okay please solve poverty next eat your way out of a poverty and disease

you just need more money so do that i okay then easier said that's a very nice way i mean it's it's funny we've we've we've crossed paths with people of this mentality of like yeah dude what you eat supersedes everything else and everything you're experiencing is because of the food you eat not your genetics not because of hormones not because of any other internal thing that could be going on that differentiates one fucking corpse to the next uh and it's like this i'm curious if john mackie has that thing where like we always say you hit the genetic lottery and now you're you're you're putting everything on the fact that you drink in this turmeric shot in the morning rather than like yo you might just have really good genetics that

are responding to all this genetic the circumstantial uh lottery the ceo lottery yeah this dude probably did not pull himself up out of an orphanage by his bootstraps would be my guess i don't know i don't know the story about john mackie uh but i don't know yeah it's just it's very american you know american approach to everything uh we also yeah i'm like i wonder what what are the health benefits like for your employees if you're out here being like we don't need health care right first of all i do that i got ahead of that uh to all whole foods employees rather than health care you can take as much celery home as you want right i do think that they are notoriously or not notoriously. I think they're like above average maybe to work for.

But then there's also, you know, you hear the complaints, but then they're also part of Amazon, which is has turned treating and paying employees like shit into a, you know, culture. Yeah, culture. And finally, Maria bakalova maria bakalova maria bakalova they call me mr bakalova okay uh maria bakalova from uh the old uh borat movie there yeah yeah i thought i had pictured maria butina when when we first uh yes yes the famous maria bees uh from eastern europe but yeah she was like she's trending because she had an interview um in the la times when the glow up is so real uh looking like a million bucks pulling up in a million trucks uh and the you know they're talking like this and that like oh we found out

that she was in her last week of school at bulgaria's like national film and theater academy right and she heard about that last day of auditions got it whirlwind boom now you are her uh but i think the one interesting part was the you know like the film and even we were talking about it was like look at this this black woman intervening to like save these people like you know there's this woman janiece who was like the like the babysitter remember who she was like she's like oh no honey what is he telling you like you are a womp like you know she was truly like mortified at what her what maria bakalova's character was saying and i think a

lot of people were like damn like she's actually the hero of this film like this real person who even though this was like a bullshit prank comedy film like connected with whoever she felt this other human being was to like try and bring some positivity out and when they asked about her she said janiece is a true angel. I will always think of her. I will always think of her as my godmother, a real hero and life coach. She just wanted to help this girl become a strong woman. And she said, we had a real human connection from the very first time we met. I called her on Thanksgiving. It was my first American Thanksgiving. And I was so happy to talk to her that I started to cry. she was just saying how just that's this this had

this very real connection even though it was like a thing like it wasn't just like yeah and that was the movie and i was done it's like no that left an impression on her so yeah good to see that so i think the um the babysitter the woman uh janice was at first like i didn't know shit and I wasn't very pleased that this that I was like fucked with in this way. But that's cool. At least that they had a good. I think like most people were at the end of it. It's like just kind of like, oh, huh. I thought it was a real thing.

Yeah. Wow. Exactly. Fuck you. But yeah, I guess all is well that ends well one note uh on the whole back on the whole food story uh this is not an up-to-date story but uh as for one of the possible reasons why the ceo of whole foods might have been being asked about health care uh when he tried to shift gears there is that in they were planning to cut healthcare coverage for anybody working for part-time workers, basically people who were working

between 20 and 30 hours. So, you know, that would be 19,000 or sorry, 1900 Whole Foods workers were going to lose their health care benefits in 2020 I don't know if that ended up going through but that is probably a reason why somebody might have asked him so shout out to them oh wow

they just ate better and paid for more $10 asparagus cups asparagus water put your fucking helmet on and get near your fainting couch because it turns out he is what a self-identified free market libertarian oh of course shit it says as a as a beginning businessman he was challenged by workers for not paying adequate wages and by customers for overcharging during a time when he was having difficulty breaking even. He began to take a more capitalistic worldview and discovered the works of Ludwig.

Oh, my God. Like, it's just he's just all in. And also, I mean, I don't have to tell you what comes after this. If I told you he's a he's a free market libertarian you know who his favorite uh author is already baby ayn rand you're so correct ayn rand he loves the novels of ayn rand so i mean why are we fucking ever surprised like he's just a fucking parody of himself oh man that is shout out to shout out to that man although in college was a democratic socialist for the record far to record uh-huh the people who are right wing

love to act like oh you know i used to be left wing but it's impractical um oh my god why of i mean we've this is the thing we've known this guy sucks. But the more I'm reading, he called Obamacare fascism. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Instead of socialism, stating, quote, technically. Oh, my God. This is him defending Obamacare is fascism.

Obamacare is just ineffective and bullshit. And just, you know, it's good for the health care industries. Regardless, his take is, quote, technically speaking, it's more like fascism. Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it. And that's what's happening with our healthcare programs and these reforms. I mean, it makes sense that he'd be a libertarian because he is just somebody who went out there on his own in the wild, was just born into the wilderness without any advantage and built himself a home from just kindling. No, actually, his father was a professor of accounting and CEO of LifeMark. Of course.

Yeah. So he's just been mainlining this bullshit. And also, you're describing communism, you fuckwit. Yeah. All right. Well, that is an appropriate cross-section of- Just for people who don't know, the workers control the means of production in socialism. Yeah.

FYI. If you cross paths with John, Big Mac Mackey. Workers control the means of production in socialism. Yeah. FYI. If you cross paths with John, Big Mac Mackey. Big Mac. How much do you want to bet his college friends called him Big Mac? God. Or not. I don't know.

Or did he have one of those? But he tried to get it going? No. He got one of those nicknames for the most pathetic moment in college. Right. Where he's like, oh oh it's poop overalls again it's like what is that like you don't want to know you don't want to know yeah you don't want to know don't worry about them those guys i love those guys oh man i love they're my best friends oh get away from me i love those guys all right guys that is gonna do it uh for this first episode of trending back at it again uh we are back tomorrow with the whole ass 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

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