The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeit Lotus 7/26: 2020 Olympics, Tucker Carlson, Luka Doncic, The Green Knight, Parkland Shooting, Reefer Madness, Anna's Streaming Corner

Episode Date: July 26, 2021

In this edition of The Zeit Lotus, Jack and Anna Hossnieh discuss the Olympics, Tucker Carlson being confronted in Montana fishing shop, Luka Doncic's 48 pt Olympic debut, yet another King Arthur movie, "the Green Knight", the Parkland shooting survivor whose parents think they are a crisis actor, Fox and Friends dredging up the demonstrably false 'Reefer Madness' narrative, and Anna's Streaming Corner! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Zeit Lotus. Hi, I'm Jack. That's super producer Anna Hosnier. Oh, I thought you were speaking to me. Yeah. No, that's a common problem. Usually we edited it out because every time I speak on the show, you talk back. Yeah, that's right.

A little distracted. Ana, how have you been? How are you doing? That bit makes me laugh. I'm good. Great to have you as always. Let's tell the people what is trending so the olympics are happening uh as we mentioned on tomorrow's episode it seems like the zeitgeist has switched from being like these olympics are doomed to yay we won gold in swimming um we did i guess we i think won a bunch of golds but the coolest thing that i have seen come out of this and it's basically just via social media i haven't really watched any of mbc's coverage

other than some like having some swimming on in the background uh skateboarding the new skateboarding this is the first olympics where skateboarding events are a thing and it's wild like the gold medal and silver medal winner were 13 year olds yes there's like a bunch of really cool young girls who are skateboarding and that's been the coolest part is like discovering them on social media like um japan's funa nakayama and brazil's reisa leal and there's another skateboarder from japan momiji nishiya sorry if i'm saying all these names wrong but they're like 16 13 uh race is 13 and they're killing it makes me very hopeful for the young women of the future um i feel like there's some really cool kids out there doing it man you know it yeah uh all right the my this dude in montana was trending over the

weekend because uh tucker carlson was up in montana just getting away from it all with a little fly fishing trip with his fam. Was he in Whitefish? I don't know if he was in Whitefish, but that would make a lot of sense because that is unofficial and not because Whitefish has invited this in any way, other than by their name, but it is where Richardard what's his name that

white supremacist leader is lives and uh oh he was in livingston livingston montana and this dude came up and was like you're the worst human being on the planet and tucker was not happy uh and he said all right take a breather son uh to somebody who appeared to be like about his age um and he and the guy was like don't call me son i don't know is i i always feel uncomfortable when seeing like those like confrontational things even if the person's completely in the right and you're watching this like oh no do they have to fight guys guys i have an idea jack just stop watching the video no you're not there uh as you can see i've sweat through my shirt just from watching this video yeah but honestly the worst the guy makes some good points about like just what tucker carlson has done to uh the country and the families because tucker carlson's

like i'm with my family man and he's like yeah but like you've destroyed families you've gotten people killed by with your like anti-vaxxer bullshit um i am definitely a team accountability for anti-vaxxers and team like giving making it so that people who are anti-vaxxers feel the consequence of what they're doing because what they're doing is making it so that worse versions of covid can continue to be out there and breeding. And it doesn't just affect them. It affects children who haven't been vaccinated. It affects people who can't get the vaccine because they're immunocompromised.

It affects people overseas and a lot of countries where you can't get vaccinated. Because, yeah, just by avoiding vaccination, you're making it so that COVID can be out there getting stronger. Yeah. He also just perpetuates a lot of, you know, racist and violent rhetoric, encouraging people to treat other people poorly physically and mentally. So he's just the devil. And I wish he'd been like, well, you know what? Blame my bohemian mother or something yeah we haven't talked about that in too long that his uh his bohemian mother like left the family to go be like a free spirit when he was a kid and which you know if i had been like god this kid's a fucking bummer i'm gonna go i gotta

leave i gotta get out of here no i shouldn't blame the kid but still boy did he take that to heart and become a monster yeah fuck tucker carlson luca is trending luca donchich put up 48 in his olympic debut and this is the first time his country has ever made it to the Olympics and they beat Argentina who's usually a pretty good basketball team and yeah 48 in his Olympic debut I mean the U.S. men's basketball team lost over the weekend to France does not appear that they can like kind of pull it together. At least they haven't quite yet. But,

but Luca, it's interesting. Like one really great player is pulling his team like through to, to victory. Whereas like three really great players on the, on the U S team, probably more than that. Five really great players is not,

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but it was like a, a movie where Casey Affleck wears like is dressed like a ghost, like just a white sheet over his head, walking around and sort of a mopey meditation on like horror movies or on the idea of a ghost. This seems to be a like tone poem type thing about King Arthur. I'm sorry, what?

Yeah, it's supposed to be like a poetic meditation on like the medieval times and the legend of King Arthur and the green night, which I wasn't even familiar with. Didn't know that was the thing. The green light. It has Dev Patel in it.

Yeah. So Dev Patel is the lead. I mean, there are definitely reasons to be interested in this. We'll, we'll check it out. People, people seem interested.

Um, okay. Okay. I'll watch it it and i watch absolutely everything oh yeah is there anything that uh isn't a streaming corner watch that you've watched recently that you want to let us know about absolutely everything i have watched oh my god this new season of real housewives of potomac let me just say let me just do a little bit of a reality corner oh my god mama i'm into it okay moving forward um the white lotus started that on hbo max real funny oh man really missed steve zahn what a character steve zahn's facial expressions i mean the man can act in comedy that's a great show recommended on hbo max right now i also recommend wellington paranormal which

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boy do I have some thoughts on some cool young ladies taking over the scene didn't care for it is that your thought? I have some thoughts uh parkland shooter is trending because a uh one of the parkland shooter survivors dad joined q anon or is was influenced by q anon to believe that their son is a crisis actor they now uh after their child went through like such a traumatic event uh they've been brainwashed by social media to the point that they think their

kid didn't actually go through that um so and the kid is interviewed by, I think, Vice and just talking about how you think your parents are unreachable. Jesus, look at it. How do you talk to somebody who thinks you're an actor, who thinks that you're, you know, part of a simulation that's based around child trafficking? And like, you know, it's basically the modern equivalent of the satanic panic. Oh, wow. I don't even know how to process that. If my dad was like, you crisis actor, I think that's a great opportunity. And this is the only time that you are allowed to take a frying pan to your father's head

because that is so disturbing and so disrespectful to your child's lived experience having to experience a trauma so deep that they thought that they might die at their school a place that you are supposed to go to learn and feel community that you would feel like oh i could die here a place i have to go every single day until I can graduate. And then I have to go again, if I choose to a, you know, institution and get a higher degree. Now this place has been tainted and ruined for me for the rest of my life that I will live in fear walking into a classroom because you don't know what to expect because that's been literally the trauma imprinted on your soul. And then to have your damn piece of shit dad be like i read an article online right

from this website and i think you're faking it and it's like it should it's truly like a looney tunes frying pan to the face moment of how fucking dare you it's very very surreal reality that we live in i'm gonna add that to my list of very few reasons to assault your parents and you do keep that updated i've noticed the list of very few reasons to assault your parents that's really dark i don't have that list i'm very sorry reefer madness is trending because on fox and friends this morning uh they were claiming uh that not enough is being done about illegal marijuana use um and uh even made the claim that marijuana use makes you violent which it demonstrably does not uh but they're they're like oh you haven't met me uh yeah that's another one of your reasons to uh nope shut it down no no no yeah the whole concept uh first of all this clip that you

showed me from fox news where um two people two white people whose names i don't know from fox news and brian kill me we'll insert it here so you guys can hear. We have taken on a mindset that marijuana is not really, it's not really a big issue in our city. I can tell you that marijuana undoubtedly is connected to violent crimes that we're seeing in our community. When you have something where people get high reward, they can make a lot of money by selling illegal marijuana and And the risk is low. The risk for accountability is very low. That creates a very, very, very, very, very bad situation because those individuals get robbed. Those individuals get shot at. Those individuals get involved in disputes all across our city. I'm seeing it happen more and more.

And he's not alone in other cities.'re doing as well but what are they going to do it's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube they've legalized pot in a bunch of places and now they've seen violent crime spike they're going to say you know what we made a mistake well they should because obviously yeah the chief's numbers support what he said okay now if you were able to watch this video, please watch Brian Kilmeade. Watch it one time where you watch the full video and then watch it again where you only watch Brian Kilmeade.

Now tell me, do you think this man has pheromones? Because he is giving up absolutely zero energy at all. I don't know if he's the type of person that you walk into because you genuinely didn't realize he was there because that's how little energy he's the type of person that you walk into because you genuinely didn't realize he was there because that's how little energy he's giving off in this clip but i didn't care for it also um you're wrong yeah very it's just very wrong and they like the

crimes that they throw to a police officer who is talking about crimes connected to marijuana but they're basically all connected to the war on drugs, illegal marijuana and people not being able to get marijuana or dealing marijuana or you know

and so yeah that's the it doesn't make sense. It doesn't, the thing they're throwing to does not prove the point they're trying to make. So I'm thinking about maybe going to another show for my drug advice. No longer just going to Fox and Friends for my advice and news about drugs. Now, I'm curious, do you feel like at this point, like police chiefs,

it's like we're going in like a bit of a time circle. So we legalized weed in a lot of places. And so they couldn't, you know, there was like a bit of a decline of blaming weed for violent crime. And now they're like grasping at straws again, instead of acknowledging that the pressure they put on communities and the treatment of people of color in these communities and black people could possibly lead to violent crimes.

They're really looking within. They're now again, like throwing the dartboard, like, okay, okay. What do we, what do we got?

What do we got? We got weed. Weed is the problem. It feels so like we're like in this circular mess of like, no, no, honey. No, no no we did

this yeah we already figured out that's not the problem and now you found a way to bring it back and be like weeds the problem i mean every researcher who did the studies who was like that's not it is probably just like ripping their hair out of like i published this we know this is not the problem right then you have some cop on tv being like i don't know man that guy he took a hit of reefer and then he robbed a bank or what i don't know what what's violent crime anymore these days but it's just like it's nonsense and it's so transparently nonsense that you're like, okay. Yeah. I do feel like trying to blame it on marijuana is specifically a bad gambit

for the conservatives these days because I just feel like enough people have smoked it or been around it that at this point, like now that it's legal, uh, we've Tucker Carlson's like, my goddamn mother is the problem. Bohemian lifestyle, smoking weed.

Right. I mean, what did crime like suddenly shoot up once, uh, people legalize marijuana. It did not super producer on a hose. Where can people find you and follow you and listen to you? Um,

I'm just at Anna Hosni on Twitter. And, you know, I have that show Ethnically Ambiguous. Maybe you've heard of it. Maybe you've never even heard of me. Okay. All right. That's going to do it for today. Back tomorrow with the whole last episode.

Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the fucking vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest,

because the company had promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, but the company had promised $150,000 in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Bruce Bozzi. On my podcast, Table for Two, we have

unforgettable lunch after unforgettable lunch with the best guests you could possibly ask for. People like Matt Bomer, Emma Roberts, and Colin Jost. Did you say a Caesar salad with lobster? Yeah. Whoa. Our second season is airing right now, so you can catch up on our conversations that are intimate and often hilarious.

Listen to Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome to Haunting, Purgatory's premiere podcast. I'm your host, Teresa. We'll be bringing you different ghost stories each week, straight from the person who experienced it firsthand. Some will be unsettling, some unnerving, some even downright terrifying. But all of them will be totally true. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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