The Daily Zeitgeist - The World Wide Trend 8/13: Donald Trump, Terry Crews, Jon Taffer, Travis Scott, Premier League

Episode Date: August 13, 2021

In this edition of ZeiterSpace, Jack and Miles discuss Donald Trump NOT being reinstated, Terry Crew's hygiene advice, Jon Taffer's complete lack of humanity, Travis Scott's Fragment x Jordan shoe collab, and the Premier League kicking off. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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short show yeah i'm jack cyberspace remember did you watch the movie the net with sandra bullock i i've seen pieces of it because it was always on cable but i don't think i ever watched it and it's one of those movies you watch and you may have actually even seen it it just doesn't stick out to you at all like i remember it and all i remember is that she had an ergonomic keyboard and but it's not like a thing where she like uh puts on a vr headset and like hacks into the web and is suddenly like could have been i mean or that's virtuosity with russell crowe and denzel or lawnmower man yeah i love virtuosity i mean that's a terror it doesn't really hold up but i remember being like whoa this is cool sid 6.7 whatever the fuck his character was called um what was the premise there that there was like somebody who could like a criminal who could like fax himself around or

something yeah it was like essentially like they had like me and miles yeah it was like we uploaded the consciousness of like a murdering psychopath and made like found a way to manifest it like through this like cyber material so like he could have his arm cut off but like he could touch glass i remember and it was just like regrow his shit um that's cool it didn't make sense but i mean i hear the internet it's only a matter of time till the internet gives us that ability you know yeah we'll become glass lizards who can regenerate it's funny you can like track just how technology entered the shared consciousness just by like that that movie probably made sense for a single month in like 1992 when the guy wrote it and then you know but the people who greenlit it

and produced it probably weren't the most up on technology so no no not at all turn out a budget of 30 million only made 24 million there you go all right well speaking of great movies of the 90s it is friday the 13th yes and i think a couple of them came out in the 90s, it is Friday the 13th. Yes. I think a couple of them came out in the 90s. Most of them came out in the 80s. This is how I know I'm getting old. I didn't even know it was Friday the 13th, man.

Yeah. I can actually... I think I really used to always be like, Oh, it's Friday the 13th. Yeah, yeah. Up until 2020. I remember doing it in 2019 because I'd be like, Oh, shit, it's friday the 13th yeah yeah up until 2020 i remember doing it in 2019 because i've like oh shit it's friday oh like i don't know why i was like oh you know what i mean oh boy because every day's a mess oh but yeah i think the pandemic i was like man

this shit matters bro every fucking day friday the 13th anyway so yeah all right hashtag trump reinstatement uh hashtag we're trying to get going over here uh at the daily zeitgeist now why is this actually trending among amongst the right because this is this is the day we were promised oh jack if you forgot today is the day that the lord has made for another sign i'm getting old i didn't even remember it was trump re-inauguration um yeah so he's oh he's not because it's a fucking lie so are there any like you know rallies or anything like that where we can watch people be disappointed and embarrassed i think the fucking uh mike lindell cyber symposium thing where he was you know purported to have all this

evidence that and you know he's been the loudest person saying that like it's gonna happen um dude once that like whole symposium was just like a total wash with absolutely no evidence shown it's like it was more that i think maybe they had left that sort of goalpost narrative hope that they had and it seemed like that sort of cyber symposium was really more like a helping people remember they're not alone in believing bullshit type event more than something that like re like was like and here's more stuff it was more just like well i mean he's saying enough that i agree with it and i'm with a bunch of other people that agree with me so that's enough i don't really need evidence while every like observer and article i've

written about it was like there's fucking just nothing it was mostly a sales pitch for my pillow shit in between segments i thought you're gonna say i say, I think that, uh, Mike Lindell, uh, cyber symposium killed everyone with COVID. Uh, right. But yeah, well,

all right. Shout out to anybody hurting from, from the disappointment, but, uh, you know, hopefully we can welcome you to reality one day soon. Terry Cruz, uh,

is, you know, this is somebody that people, uh, look to for, uh, you know, this is somebody that people look to for, you know, bathing tips. And, you know, he's an Old Spice spokesperson. Yep. And he's letting them know, if you don't sweat, you don't need to shower. That's his quote.

He said, if you ain't been sweating, you don't need to shower. That's that's his quote. He said, if you ain't been sweating, you don't need to shower. I mean, that was kind of my law during the pandemic. Yeah. But no shutdown. But not to the point where I was like, I don't need to bathe because of this. I was just more like I've been like in a state of suspended animation for like three days, like 72 hours straight. And I'm like, this is a purely theoretical exercise for me because i've never not not sweated for more than an hour uh in my life but yeah i mean again i don't know

if i don't know if he's necessarily coming down on the side of no one needs to shower or what his philosophy is uh but either way it's just like come on terry yeah stop like what are we like i mean i like not that i think this is like demonic like a lot of people on twitter like why are we talking about but yeah this he believes i mean my wife doesn't really sweat and you know the hasn't showered in 14 years right you can't well like i can't you know when she she uh during medical school would go through periods where she was you know just straight up studying head down not doing anything except studying for you know a week at a time and the only way i would be able to tell that she was hadn't uh showered is that her hair would get like a knot in it or something but like she wouldn't

smell bad so i think i think there's something something there right he's uh you know your body's just cleaning you with natural oils if you're not a sweaty piece of shit like me in the chat drop in that there's a growing belief that some people think that all these celebrities talking about is some like weird misguided pr effort to get people to like use less water because california is in such a terrible drought oh man that's i don't know i mean that would that does sound like a terrible pr campaign that celebrities would think celebrities yeah dude what if we just said we don't shower and then because they do what we do and then they'll stop using water and then i can have my football field of grass that i have to water every day wow carbon offset memes yeah yeah oh yeah i i do uh believe that immediately and yeah it does seem like there's a lot of these popping up right i think i was out when uh ashton and me like me

like yeah talking about not not washing their kids. Kids, another one, don't really sweat that much, except for my kids, because they got the curse. But, you know, and they don't need to be washed as much. They don't smell as bad. Yeah, don't. There you go. Just hose them off. Yeah, they do get sticky, but that's mostly like lollipop residue. When you hit puberty, that's when all your hormones and shit are going off.

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oh god um to fucking rail against unemployment benefits. And again, we'll play the clip. And Jack, you have your feelings on. Look, this is here from the asshole's mouth directly. I'm not an economic professor. If you get eight hundred dollars a week, unemployment benefits and you live with a partner who also is getting eight hundred dollars a week, with a partner who also is getting $800 a week unemployment benefits, $1,600 a week, Laura, $83,000 a year for that household in unemployment benefits. The median income in America is only $63,000. We're incentivizing people to stay home. What if we gave that additional unemployment benefits to employers to incentivize people to go to work well what what if we just cut off the unemployment i mean hunger hunger is a pretty powerful thing i don't mean physical hunger because people who

truly are in need need help i'm talking about people who can work but refuse to work but the government is okay right i like how you tried to write the ship when you're like i mean obviously like there's real people that need help but the people who are unemployed aren't those people yeah huh and what she would never meet anybody who would fall into that category so she just gets to create a fictional category he went on to say hold on let me just play this fucking gem of a quote because it fully puts the nail in the coffin of his assholery you know i think that's right i have a friend in the military who trains military dogs laura and they only feed a military dog at night because a hungry dog is an obedient dog well if we're not causing people to be hungry to work that then we're providing them with all the meals they need sitting at home oh my god all of your employees are dogs obedient dogs and you demand them to be subordinate

this thing's all about isn't a show all about like catching people like skimming or like pouring too generous of drinks well i mean it's more just about mismanaged bars and yeah a lot of that is like you know just money being poured out the bottles free for people but i mean here's the thing like it doesn't surprise me because at the end of the day this is a guy who's like fucking and like has all these bars that he's into and shit like that and as much as he'll act compassionate to like the people that work at these like fucked up bars at the end of the day he's someone who's looking at numbers on a sheet and crunching them and not considering what a person is so it's not a big shocker it's just

more like uh well he finally said it out loud wow yeah i mean it, it's the hypothetical, you know, theoretical people in their minds. It's very easy to starve them into working, but absolutely. Cause meet them or see what that's actually like, or, you know, actually look at the studies that have been done about how stressful it is to you know be be at that point economically that it actually makes you sick but um nah we should we should unlike any other country or society uh that has succeeded and thrived we should make people be on the brink of starvation to uh motivate them that's a good idea yeah um no problems there nope no no problems detected has he always looked like that is that what he uh because his uh it's like watching somebody do a like regional theater version of the sopranos a little bit with like the regional theater level like makeup like the eyebrows are like

kind of haphazardly put on there yeah gotta gotta put a little blackener in his hair to make that thinning hair look a little thicker baby yeah a little bit it's a it's a look all right let's talk about uh the sneakers app is causing people stress once again has uh has crashed uh because there's a big drop coming yep travis scott the fragment lows uh everybody wants them everybody wants the travis scott jordans um and yeah it's like a i like his taste in colorways like it's a it's a cool colorway yeah yeah the fragment collaborations with jordan have been really cool i i dig them too um but yeah it's it's just a bunch of people who are like there's a lot of memes of saying like oh

for people who don't know nike has an app called sneakers where like really highly coveted nike has an app called sneakers where like really highly coveted like uh limited run shoes like on the app you open it up you enter the draw and then like most sneaker heads you wait 15 minutes to say sorry fam you weren't selected um and then we move on with our days and say this thing's fucked because some kids some child of a nike executive bought them fucking all so we never had a chance right yeah that one that's that's sort of basically the tone of people talking about this and also you know that's why a lot of people are moving into the replica sneaker game because there's people making replica versions of shoes that you can get that are damn near look the same and there's like a huge sort of battle in sneaker culture where there are kids who are fed

up with like not being able to get a sneaker and then the only way it's available is at an exponential markup on a reselling site like ebay or stock x and it's like what the fuck so people were just like fuck it i'll just buy the counterfeit versions that look the same because i want to wear them and they don't cost it cost a good normal amount and you've talked before on the show about how like a lot of times these are made in the same factories as the actual yeah or you know like the the sort of colloquial version has been like it's like after five work where a factory that is making the authentic product for like adidas then they might have leftover material at the end of the like once they fulfilled what they're supposed to make for adidas then they say

well we got all this extra material let's just crank out our own and sell them on the side to make some money you're pointing out that there's like this is not being covered by like hype beast and you know the fashion yeah it's probably not as big of a discussion as you know because it's something that you see on reddit a lot or like other sort of message board environments but like i think if and tiktok has really brought a lot of people to the yard of replicas um yeah and i think like you know these what these blogs that a lot of people go to probably get all their ad revenue from the brands who you know are yeah the fact that this is happening right exactly that you could go to someone else and buy a product where you know that they but

buy ours because then it's prestigious and i think a lot of people just look at it as like well what does it mean to even wear a limited edition sneaker is it that you like the shoe or you're trying to just communicate to your by your footwear that you're wearing something that costs three thousand dollars on your feet i think most people because of pandemic to have like looked at them like that's the dumbest use of your time and money yeah and you know i don't know i think it's it's just interesting to see how consumer culture is moving as it relates to sneakers yeah if you need to do a philosophical thought experiment about like the value of a brand uh versus the like same materials put together in the exact same way

coming from a different distributor maybe maybe it's time to uh yeah pay pay the less money hey has anybody thought of uh so so the app is called sneakers snkrs has anybody thought of... So the app is called Sneakers. S-N-K-R-S. Has anybody thought about putting a T in there? S-T-N-K-R-S? Sneakers. Thank you. There he is. Yep. Firing on all cylinders here.

Premier Club, Premier League, what's happening? The season has fully kicked off. We're back, baby. All the footy fans are rejoicing. How's Arsenal looking? Arsenal is playing right now. I'm avoiding looking at the score because it's funny.

At old jobs I used to have, Jack, I'm not going to lie, I would say I had a dentist appointment so I could watch these games when they were in the middle of the day. But I respect the pod too much, so I DVR them, and I'll watch them later on.

So I'm avoiding Twitter. All the trends right now are about the Arsenal game that's happening right now. So I've been doing this thing where I'm closing one eye and just being like, what about this word? That's not Arsenal. But yeah, the season started. The fans are excited.

Manchester City is looking to defend their title. Arsenal fans are having like the opposite like it's funny being a laker fan and arsenal supporter because on one side the lakers are just like hey rob palinka say less i'm gonna retool this roster like it's nothing um and then meanwhile we're here like we just need like two people and then we can't get it done and so like a lot of a lot of the the gooners out there are a little bit um deflated is there a is there an nba team you would compare to arsenal like in terms of just the where the fans are at right now like maybe like the knicks wow really well this is what i'm okay so last time y'all won the league 2004 oh come on man the knicks haven't won since 72 i feel yeah but this is this is what i mean

though they're still like popular right like people still they're still knicks fans even though they don't like there may not be as like forceful but they have a loyal there's dedicated knicks fans no matter what right um and even with arsenal there's dedicated fans where even though we haven't won the league since the invincible season because like we won the league on just we went unbeaten the entire season so it's a pretty epic win but we've just been coasting off of that um and things have just been falling apart. But people still respect the name. We still can get people to sign for the team despite the lack of results. So, I don't know.

I don't know if that's the best NBA comparison. But it's because also it's in London. So, that's a draw. So, a lot of people can be like, well, I mean, at least I'm in London if I play for the team. And it's in a big league. So I don't know. That's kind of where I place it. Damn sure it's the Lakers.

Yeah, yeah. I'm wondering Pistons maybe since that last time they were good was in their early aughts. But do you think that Detroit is like people go, you know, like to be honest, like I always wanted to play for the Pistons. Yeah, I feel like. I mean, Cade Cunningham, their number one draft pick was said all that but i think he might have

just been saying the right thing to yeah yeah you want to start off on the right foot and no shade to detroit because i think it's a great uh franchise uh but i just in my mind it feels kind of more like because i think the new like like because it's london it also has a bit it also has a little bit more prestige because of the city itself right the pistons kind of overachieved they're like scrappy when they were the bad boys like nobody expected detroit to win a title those two years when they beat the lakers nobody was expecting them to beat the lakers but like with the knicks you've got people are like how the fuck are the knicks right right yeah and it's the same thing

with like arsenal people like damn are they like a meme sometimes they like they fuck up the in the weirdest ways yeah yeah but people still fuck with it i don't know so how about to my nicks fans how bad is your owner oh it's cronky right just fucking stan cronky's the owner yeah yeah the guy who fucked saint lou Louis in half. Yeah, okay. But, yo, things might change, though, because I believe he's losing a lawsuit out of St. Louis, and he may need to come up with a lot of cash.

So a lot of people are hoping that he'll sell the club. So who knows? Whatever. All right. But meanwhile, you have the big-ass SoFi Stadium that he also got la to fucking throw a bunch of money away at so all right i'll be pulling for y'all in spirit uh in the background i won't check the score because i just can't you know how my poker face is yeah yeah why are you sweating blood just a frozen smile on my face while tears pour out of my eyes just it's like i've never seen

you smile like that it looks like you're trying to break your teeth and show me all right well those are the things that are trending on this friday afternoon uh we are back on monday with the whole ass episode of the show until then be, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wear a mask. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to y'all to Monday. We'll talk to y'all to Monday. Hey, to Monday. All right. Bye. Bye. I'm sorry. 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.

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