The Daily Zeitgeist - PresiTrendial Inauguration 1/19: QAnon, Dodger Stadium, Kyrie Irving, Presidential Pardons

Episode Date: January 19, 2021

On this edition of PresiTrendial Inauguration Jack and Miles discuss what QAnon thinks is going to happen tomorrow, Dodger Stadium being converted to a COVID vaccine site, Kyrie Irving doing good work with his money during the pandemic, and the many pardons the president is about to hand out on his last day in office. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar.

And I'm also Lacey Lamar. Just kidding, I'm Amber Reffin. What? Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share. We're back with season two of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. This season, we make new friends, deep dive into my steamy DMs, answer your listener questions, and more.

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DT. Oh, wow. We'll see what happens. I don't know. It's like Christmas. Maybe I'll get something. Maybe I won't. I don't know. Yeah, you don't want to get too high. Your hope's too high.

But at the same time, it does seem like things are going to change. And by that, I of course mean, uh, what QAnon thinks is going to happen tomorrow is going down. It's going down for real. Yeah.

Cute. Look, I, this isn't like necessarily a trending thing. I mean, it's trending cause it's happening in our culture, but I was forwarded an email from, uh, somebody who got this from their QAnon aunt. QAnon.

Yes. Thank you. That what they believe is going to happen tomorrow during the inauguration. And they may be disappointed. It's like all around that the emergency broadcast system will be activated at eight in the morning, meaning the only things that will be on TV is what the president wants, which will be like mass arrests of treasonous people and then nonstop confessions. This has all been part of like the lore of the conspiracy theory. And then a lot, a lot of China fear mongering.

They said also heard Biden inauguration will not be inaugurated, but rather arrested on constitutional grounds. They said also heard Biden inauguration will not be inaugurated, but rather arrested on constitutional grounds. When that happens, they anticipate full attack from trained Antifa who are backed by China and its weaponry. That includes Club K missiles that have been placed around the city. And yeah, all that to say is I, you know, I don't think there's there isn't the potential for chaos because as we've seen over the last, I don't know, years that there there are plenty of people who are hell bent on preventing Joe Biden from being president. But I don't know. I don't know. It's all very.

Yeah. It's all very scattered. This to not happen. And everybody who believes in Q to be like, oh, I guess we were wrong. Right. I don't know. Because then I also read another thing that was basically saying like pivoting from like a smarter Q scammer who is basically being like, look, the storming income yet because movements, as we all know, movements take a long time. taken our our endeavor is no less important or arduous but yeah um on that side they're trying to pivot to say that the administration this last four years the trump administration has been to set up the legal framework to then trigger the proper whatever is going to happen to prevent yourself from acknowledging white supremacy so yeah the yeah i mean they people who believe in So, yeah. gotten you know there's no word count limit on the internet and so you can just keep going keep

explaining expanding keep explaining um anyways uh stay tuned q and on uh dodger stadium is trending uh it is being uh converted or at least a portion of it is being converted into a vaccine distribution center yeah and oh it couldn't have come any later yeah yeah i'm glad we're we have this set up i know the rollout of the vaccinations was real fucked up out here i try to get my parents who are in the old people category uh to get them you know appointments and like you were able to do them through like kroger's website but then like even though they booked it on the day they said they could do it we're like oh actually the city there's a miscommunication we have to go with what they're saying so we can't do it um it's very disorganized and i just hope that we can actually

make a concerted effort to get this done. Uh, because yeah, our city is just like literally inundated with corpses because of the, just how out of control the entire COVID situation is, is here, uh, to the point where they're like, okay, I know we know we have regulations on cremations for air quality,

but because there is such a pile up of dead people that we have to process through the crematorium, we're lifting those limits. Yes. And that's the reality we find ourselves in. Yep. And malls are still open. Kyrie is trending.

Kyrie Irving. There's news that he has been doing kind of philanthropic stuff behind the scenes without really telling anyone over the past year. Like what, what are some examples like paying students tuition to, uh, HPC is everything.

He, I mean, he donated 323,000 defeating America. He committed a one and a half million dollars to help pay for WNBA players who didn't, who opted out of the 2020 season during the pandemic, uh, you know,

helped distribute a quarter million meals to New Yorkers, uh, 17 pallets of food and masks. He partnered with Nike to donate to the standing rock Sioux tribe, uh, bought a house for the family of George Floyd paid off, uh, nine students tuitions from Lincoln university and HBCU.

So yeah, he's's you know quietly been uh doing doing good work with his money and i mean i will say what he makes 20 salary like 20 million or something like that yeah so one and a half million that's that's that's a that's a percentage it's not like when jeff bezos is like here's one million dollars which is a fraction of one percent of my wealth and i think those uh criticisms are valid but at the same time you know it's i don't it's also when you see people actually giving out of the because they want to not for the publicity because many people

are like hey everybody i'm doing philanthropy right um it It rings a bit hollow, but yeah, cool. Good for you. Yeah. He gets a lot of shit because he's enigmatic and, you know, says there was obviously the controversy over the flat earth thing a few years back. And in Boston, they were quick to throw him under the bus as like a bad teammate for his time there but first of all he's like a genius at making shots

and second of all just you know it seems like behind the scenes like there's a method to what's going on there. Just vibing you know. That's what he does. He's just vibing. Just vibing. And they look pretty good. The nets so we'll we'll see

yeah we look forward to seeing you uh let's talk about presidential pardons that's something that's trending a lot today because the i mean because they're a thing. And yeah, they're completely out of control. Hey, did you get one? I didn't. Oh, look at you, sucker ass. Didn't get it. I got three. Just blank check. Yeah. I was like, yeah, some dirty weed shit that went down in the early aughts, man.

Right. So the president on the way out is expected to pardon more than 100 people, including Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, and Joe Exotic. Those are three of the top four people who are expected to get pardons on the betting markets. People are taking bets on this. Wait, Joe Exotic is for real? Yeah, for real. Oh, my. He is the third highest odds lil wayne is the highest odds then steve bannon which who gives a shit but that's nailed on right

and then joe exotic so yeah his lawyers are so confident that he'll get a presidential pardon uh they've already hired a hair makeup and and wardrobe and a stretch limo for his release. That's cocky. Yeah. Oh, narrator. He, in fact, did not get a presidential pardon. Because then what happens? I can't even, I don't even want to put myself in the mindset of someone who is expecting to be pardoned to leave prison.

I can't imagine what that disappointment would be like. But yeah. Yeah. And I mean, it's not surprising his pardons are for sale. This is I think, his brother or Hillary's brother. I forget which one was charging $400,000. It was Hillary's brother, Hugh Rodham, charged $400,000 to act as a middleman for people seeking pardons. And Trump's pardons, Lobbyists with access to Trump have been making tens of thousands of dollars advocating on behalf of people who want pardons. Rudy Giuliani reportedly was charging $2 million to help, quote, secure a pardon, which CIA whistleblower John Kriakow refused to pay and instead informed the FBI. It was like, that's that's so weird when you're like you're already snaky you're like yo man let me get a pardon he's

like two million like fuck you fbi like fine i'll do the time sitting on my head i don't give a fuck that two million i mean but rudy i was was doing the math. If Trump is actually going to stiff him on the legal bills, and we say he started work on trying to upend the election on November 4th at $20,000 a day, which was his rate, he's out over $1.5 million. Damn. So you got to charge, too. He's like, look, bro, I'm upside down on trying to overturn the election thing, man, so I'm going to have to charge you $2 million for this part. That's just how it is. It's just the free market. It works every time. We also,

so our writer, JM, kind of looked into the history of this because it does seem strange that at the end of a presidency suddenly the president is giving out golden tickets for get out of jail free cards. For criming?

For criming to the highest bidder in this case. And apparently it is due to Alexander Hamilton, the musical sensation. What? He included it in the constitution because he thought that pardoning might restore tranquility of the Commonwealth in times of rebellion. Wow. Yeah.

So it was actually a direct continuation from the British monarchy, who similarly gave rulers the ability to grant mercy to their subjects, which was extended to governors um in the colonies in america but it does like the the similarities between the u.s president and like british monarchs are like this is just another example of yeah like literal extension of like we're a monarch can be like well i was literally it's my divine right as a god was talking to up and the law and actually be like you know what i don't believe in that law and as god or i'm sorry as king right i'm gonna just say you get a mulligan on that one and i don't think that is a that is a power to you know subvert or pervert the league i mean the legal system's already perverted so i don't know how to however you use these fucking things but giving that influence is

definitely seems like a bit of a slippery slope yeah uh also interesting it'll be also interesting to see uh which if any of the capital rioters get pardons. You know, I'm assuming there's pressure behind the scenes on Trump to not pardon any of the insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the U.S. government. But because of all the historical precedent of this being a bullshit, like just completely corrupt institution, the Capitol rioters are demanding pardons from Trump. Quote, quote, Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate agent charged in the storming of the Capitol. Oh, who took the private jet there? Yeah. I would like a pardon from the president of the United States, please. I think that we all deserve a pardon.

I'm facing a prison sentence. I think that I do not deserve that. Aw. So, yeah. Would love to hear your take on, you know, any person of color who was killed on our- Yes. Just in general.

What if, where if there's any ideological, like philosophical overlap on how you see justice being served. But yeah, I'm, you know, she, that, I watched a little bit of that cbs interview that she did because she was so cocky with it the night of the the insurrection she was like okay go ahead she was retweeting people being like um fbi come get her she was like yeah please come get me and they came and got her but yeah this she was very much like she had this sense of entitlement that extended that we saw those

people who walked in again like i've said this before whiteness is like for some people like you got the star in mario brothers like to the point where you you walked into the capital on some like i don't give a fuck smiling and yeah saying and then also pivoting to be like well he asked us to go there right so i don't know he asked us yeah so it'll be interesting to see when the maga folks have to blame the president to get to save their own skin it's all why i don't uh enter on unauthorized buildings especially federal buildings during an insurrection. Just a quick note. All right. That is what's trending today on January 19th.

We will be back tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow morning with the whole last episode of the show tomorrow afternoon to tell you what's trending on Inauguration Day. 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'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson.

26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts.

There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of lucha libre. 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. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? It's right here in black and white and prints. They lie. It's bigger than a flag or mascot.

Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar. Just kidding. I'm Amber Revin. Okay, everybody. We have exciting news to share. We're back with season two of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber

show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. This season, we make new friends, deep dive into my steamy DMs, answer your listener questions, and more. The more is punch each other. Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen, okay? Or Lacey gets it. Do it.