The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendan Walsh 7/15: NBA, Putin, CyberTruck, The French Dispatch, J&J, Unemployment

Episode Date: July 15, 2021

In this edition of Trendan Walsh, Jack and Miles discuss NBA news, the Kremlin-Trump documents leak, CyberTruck being Tesla's first flop, 'the French Dispatch" cast photo at Cannes, Johnson & Johnson continually poisoning their customers, and 1.8 million Americans turning down shit jobs 'due to unemployment' Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Jack. That's Miles. First, I was like, are you talking about the comedian? Yeah. Is he named after Trendon, Brendan Walsh? It was Brandon, technically. Oh. Yeah.

If we're going deep into the 90210 war. Oh, his name was Brandon Walsh? Yeah. Brenda and Brandon? Yeah, exactly. The parents were off their faces on drugs, probably missing that layup of a naming convention for their kids. Did you grow up with people who had wacky naming conventions for their whole family?

Oh, brother, did I? Yeah. Family up the street, all k sounds all hard k sounds but would interact season k's because they weren't being too goofy with it but they had a dog named willie that they called kawili to make sure it abided by the naming convention blood um or a crip hey c-willie right there c-willie it's a crip dog yeah you know yeah my sister's best friend uh growing up was named chanel she was uh the fifth child in a family a mormon family and they were like shalisha chantel shim, Shimber. Shimber? Yeah, baby. And she was the fifth, so they called her Chanel

number five. Oh my god, what? All asses. Oh, shush, shush, shush, shush. Dude, Shimber is violence. Shimber rules, man. What's Shimber up to? I have no idea. Just crushing it? Chanel

had world's biggest crush. was my sister's uh friend who had a crush on growing up oh yeah shout out to all those people the older older kids we had crushes on exactly anyways uh i'm jack you're miles like i said deandre ayton's name was trending uh for a while reasons you want yeah uh because he like it was so the the milwaukee bucks uh won last night even the series two two um and yannis uh antetokounmpo had so this is just to kind of reset everyone's mind his knee bent the wrong way uh like a week ago about like a week and a half ago maybe yeah two weeks probably like to the point that we all thought we had seen the end of his like season maybe like his career will never be the same um and he's out there playing uh playing dominating his game two and three he put up 40 um and in this game so he

the this block was like one of those things where you like have to watch it and then watch it at different speeds to like try to understand what how what happened to happen um not according to skip bayless who was like it's not that big it wasn't that good of a block um okay but basically he came out to challenge uh the ball handler and so he's at the free throw line and the ball handler throws up a lob to deandre ayton who's about to dunk it who's just like on the block and anstacupo goes from challenging the lob to blocking the dunk while the ball's in the air he's like he's looking at booker booker goes serving it up and immediately he goes like okay he's like now i'm in Fuck up the alley-oop mode. Turns his head.

Yeah. It's unbelievable. And, you know, a lot of people now, like the old heads from, you know, my day are like, remember Tayshaun Prince, though? Remember Tayshaun Prince? And I'm like, hmm. There's just something about this one that is really, there's, I don't know. There's something beautiful about watching.

And a lot of people point at like some, you know like lebron's block lebron's chase down blocks are amazing this was just it's like a different type of because he's able to go from guarding one person to blocking the person they passed it to in one right like while the ball is in the air like it's just not supposed to be possible like you can't move as fast it's one thing when you you've basically you're you're you're you're defending the you know devin booker at the you know like free throw line yeah like that's where the ball's released and then janice is then covering the rest of the ground from the top of the free throw line all the way to the basket to make a block. It's poetry.

Poetry and mosh, as I always say. I love to turn to someone during a game and say, that was poetry and mosh. And you know that about me. They're like, what was? They're like, dude, I'm in line to get this 12-foot skeleton at Home Depot, man. I know, man.

I was thinking about that block. Awesome derby hat with a neck flap. I don't know. Can you get this guy? He's got a fedora with a safari flap sewn into it. It's really lame. Poetry in motion, am I right? What?

My hat. Okay. Anyway, more I think you should leave. Leaking out of our brains again yes cannot stop will not stop putin is trending this is intriguing there's some leaked paperwork that alleges that uh you know starting in 2016 the russian intelligence community began working to uh get trump elected um they call him mentally unstable and say that it would be the best thing for russia for him to be elected i think it's something we all suspected was true um but people are kind of don't necessarily think these papers are authentic right i mean yeah

i think especially like you know the brooklyn dad defiant twitter accounts of the worlds are loving it you know because it's more just trump russia pp tape you know fantasy shit while most people in the intelligence world are like if they really got this shit this would be like the biggest achievement from like a counterintelligence like you have the minutes from like a high level putin meeting like at that level that's a huge thing to pull off um so a lot of people are dubious and i don't know i mean at this point i i think like the compromise stuff was interesting at the very beginning of the administration when i think most people were just trying to figure out what the fuck happened when really just like no just racism y'all that's that's what it was um more than p tapes and no man it's got to be p

tapes man that's how this happened did russia cheat to get him even more votes after he the second time after he had just run uh the country for four years and like when he said i got worse i got worse i didn't change i got worse i didn't do anything baby i got worse like a bad case that case athlete's foot so yeah i don't know i mean i think it's just it's it's a fun story that i'm sure many news outlets are going to get a lot of clicks on because of the combination of, like essentially the headline is Putin does have

compromise. The Guardian, like there's going to be a lot of you know, reputable mainstream media outlets that are going to find a way to make, to report on this, whether it uh believable or not

there's um the guardian for instance reported that like uh security experts say it looks real but like that doesn't mean that it is real all that means is that they found a security expert who was willing to say that it looked real um so it's just it's the same shit as like when they kept finding all these prosecutors who would come out and be like trump is fucking nailed muller's gonna he's never gonna see the light of day again and it was like yeah if you had just interviewed a single defense attorney they would have pointed out all the reasons that like those these cases are full of holes and he's probably not yeah and you know like if you follow people uh like marcy wheeler who's like a big you know uh civil liberties national security kind of uh account to follow on twitter um she's like pointing out she's like the timeline is just

a little weird when you know like when there were outreaches to trump like that they happened before even when this meeting happened so like they're saying the timeline is like too late based on known events yeah 2016 seems weird right that it would be that late yeah and the other thing too is just sort of saying like the way that you know a lot of like people like olig deripaska and these you know oligarchs that we've come to known as being sort of like these intermediaries like the way that they're the the sort of bureaucratic structure works with russia they would have happened through like different meetings rather than intel agencies um but either

way i mean look i think it's clear that r did want, you know, Trump to be president. The compromise stuff is fun to think about. But I think at the end of the day, more than whether or not there was compromise, it's like we still have to figure out ways in which we can make, you know, elections secure and fair and focus on those things rather than do we have a video of trump getting peed on or something i'll tell you how to make elections secure first make sure that people can't deliver water to people while they're waiting in line at the at the uh polling place no water no pee no compromise there it is sorry dude the cyber truck is trending again this always always excites me. The Elon Musk thing that looks like it's, you know. A child's drawing. He went to a crystals shop and designed a,

carved a truck out of some crystals. It does look a little bit like, you know, one of my kids' drawings of a truck that I wouldn't put on the refrigerator because it doesn't really look of a truck that i wouldn't put on the refrigerator because it doesn't really look like a truck um but anyways he is kind of doing the thing where he's like and even if i do get my ass kicked like that's i wanted to i wanted to and like that just proves my point okay yeah because apparently there is like this uh opinion piece in a website called the truth about cars and this one person wrote opinion tesla cyber truck will be company's first flop

and like a huge tesla stan account was like no this is just an opinion and it's probably wrong i think it'll be a game changer so elon musk replied to this like tweet and said to be frank there's always some chance that cyber truck will flop because it is so unlike anything else i don't care i love it so much even if others don't other trucks look like copies of the same thing but cyber truck looks like it was made by aliens from the future shut up did he do it in stanzas um no um but like sort of three separate sort of chunks though um so he is organizing his thoughts in a way that's easy to to follow along with but yeah i don't i okay cool uh i think a lot of people were just sort of this other person on twitter was like

yeah that's a cool take from somebody who's being sued for making company decisions based on his personal self-interest and not fiduciary duty to be out here like yeah i don't know dude i don't give a fuck that's what we're going on i think it's fucking cool all right okay um yeah dude uh i mean i think it's kind of cool too some of the pictures make it look cool to me um but it just feels like a car that like you you're gonna look like an asshole pulling up and for sure i would never drive it but i i'm glad it exists in the world i will feel cool when it drives down the street and i feel like i'm in yes the future from robo cup you see like yeah yeah yeah you like that no first time a cyber truck drives by miles i will facetime you and i will say are you ready for some poetry and mosh and then i will uh you're like

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part punk part uh 80s michael jackson pants like from the waist down yeah um and then bill murray is just like your dad on vacation he's just got like a you know he's got one of those dan flashes pattern shirts from like he should leave yeah it is he is an optical illusion uh in motion um yeah okay bill he's also got a watch on each wrist which is a interesting look um what is he doing with that exactly maybe one is like new york time and the other is the time he's in i don't know it's it's really i'm like i get really it's really aggravating to see the two watch it feels like a stupid like something i would have done when i was 12 yeah to like piss my mom off yeah he's like why are you doing that i'm like

because i you never know you gotta look at one and then what if i'm using this hand and i need to see that time i need both on yeah and you end up sounding like tim robinson in a sketch why you have to wear two wristwatches but hey they're doing them yeah but it's a fun image you've probably seen it somewhere. Neutrogena sunscreen recall. That's my alarm sound. Johnson & Johnson just can't stop putting poison in our topical, the materials that they sell us to apply topically. In this case, it is sunscreen that, what do they have in it here potentially cancer causing chemicals yeah that's

the one so i think it was asbestos and baby powder uh to the point that like you can't buy johnson and johnson baby powder anywhere um oh it's benzene that's what's in it cool just a benzene just a just a low level benzene in your neutrogena and aveno aerosol products so it's not just neutrogena they're having a fucking week huh yeah man uh this is cool because i think we have these products um so that's fun i imagine you and you're evoking a memory in your mind where you and your family just like spraying it on your food, like it's on your mouth. Like, I think we have. Who cares?

Nothing can hurt us. Don't burn your lips. Yeah. Anyways, be on the lookout for that. Minimum wage. Why is minimum wage trending there's just more stories coming out essentially about how um you know a minimum wage in this country is at a point where you know you would have to work for what minimum wage is in the moment 97 hours per week to afford a modest two-bedroom rental

if you're on minimum wage that's what it would take take. Um, and that's why it's like, dude, 18 isn't even enough. You know what I mean? Like 25 should be like the fucking standard. I mean, like, it's just a, I think it's just more sort of analysis, I think to help more, or I don't know if it's meant to help people understand what the stakes are here, but if you are just you of the disposition to realize that there's massive inequality, then yes, you will look at this and say, oh, okay. If it's 18 doesn't cut it and it's 24 to just be able to put a roof over your head and make rent, that's what it needs to be. So, yeah, it's really some disturbing shit when you really keep looking at all the analysis around it. It's really some disturbing shit when you really keep looking at all the analysis around it. Yeah, there's this poll that's going around that says 1.8 million Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits with the implication being like the unemployment benefits that we were getting during COVID were too good, too rich.

And we have to take them away so that people are forced to go back to work. Um, and it's just, it's such bullshit. First of all, the, the poll is like one where you can choose multiple reasons for not going for

saying no to a job. And like the ones that got more results were like COVID-19 constraints and childcare and, uh, health medical limitations. Um, so, that got more results were like covid 19 constraints and child care and uh health medical limitations um so but they're they're taking the fact that like 13 of people who turned down a job felt like they were getting enough money on unemployment insurance as a symbol to take that insurance away as opposed to as a symbol that like the insurance is only working for 13 percent of people yeah i mean because at the end of the day again no matter what people say on tv they're still being you know uh egged on by a class of

people who say i need cheap labor to get back to, or I don't make the same kind of money hand over fist that I used to. And even have Kayleigh McEnany, the former White House press secretary, going on Fox this morning and getting mad about the child tax credit that was going to begin to be going into people's accounts today. And she's saying, yet another reason to not go back to work. There's a place for welfare in this country but excessive welfare without work requirements is where we get into really dangerous territory um no we're in dangerous territory by exploiting people's labor in the way that we do and offering them wages where they would need like quite literally three full-time

minimum wage jobs to make ends meet yeah that's the dangerous territory child care on top please articulate right exactly and please please articulate kaylee mcananey what is this dangerous territory don't just end it there please describe what this means and also like the fucking you know means testing of like work requirements we know what we you know it's all welfare queen fucking shit that you're going back to um and i'd argue that again the job the terrible job you were doing in the white house was a form of welfare that the country was putting of course all all conservative like thinkers in quotes are on a form of welfare where like they're the smartest person they can find

who will say this wild shit. Um, and yeah, they, they're just, it's just, you'd want the, I don't know,

man, it's just frustrating that the story in like, this isn't, this story is an Axios is that by 1.8 million americans saying that they were able to turn down a job due to unemployment benefits that that's like a bad thing suggests that like american capitalism only works if we can put the gun of like starvation to people's heads and be like i mean yeah that's the exactly the loud that's the the quiet part that's just getting louder and louder we need as we need people as desperate

as possible so they take any fucked shitty subsubsistence wage we put in front of them and just such a weird thing it's like the way that these people are looking at sort of a poll that says 1.8 million are like saying no to jobs because of welfare it's like the same mentality if you were dating somebody you looked you asked all your exes why'd you dump me and they said oh because you you actually weren't a sexually satisfying partner for me and then you're like huh this is damn fucking vibrators and stuff out here fucking ruining me i see what's going on like you're not going no no they told you the problem it's that you are inadequate it's and

this is the same thing that these people are saying right the wages are inadequate right therefore i am going for the option that works in my self-interest the most much in the same way that you're unwilling to say that these takes are coming from a group of people who are so interested in their own profits that they're going to go and completely try and obscure this argument to just be about yeah they're stealing and they're just lazy and that's the fucking problem no then then please listeners be if you hear people say that quickly flip the script on them quickly all right well uh those are some of the things that are trending uh 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 vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy

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