The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendtroducing… by DJ Shadow 6/2: Coach K, Danny Ainge, Proud Boys/Oathkeepers, Andrew Giuliani

Episode Date: June 2, 2021

On this edition of Trendtroducing… by DJ Shadow Jack and Miles discuss Coach K retiring, Danny Ainge also retiring, the heat coming down on far-right extremism, and Andrew Giuliani's first campaign faux pas. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, how are you? Oh my God. How is everybody? Yo, apologies up front i was the tiredest i've ever been on this morning's episode y'all i sea world really took it out of me um and then i was also traveling last week i don't know it was a lot it was a lot and uh i gotta apologize man my eyes two times a day uh my eyes were like tiny they were like little pinholes oh just so tired now yeah yeah get your sleep anyways uh i went to bed right after recording at like one o'clock and uh now i'm feeling well-rested. There you go. And I do it all for you guys.

There we go. Let's tell the people what's trending. Coach K is trending. He's retiring, supposedly. Mike Krzyzewski. But not effective immediately, right? No. He's going to do the farewell tour.

Yeah. He still needs to, I guess he ain't quite ready, but he's just letting everybody know. Maybe it's to get the most out of the players. I don't know. Wouldn't you play harder if you knew your legendary coach? This is it, man. Come on, guys. Let's go. It's after this next season.

He's always looked like Hitler if he shaved his mustache. In my mind, I'm always surprised that he's not retired i'm like he's is he retiring yet no yeah he's been around for so long you want to talk about somebody who's acting like their career has spanned five decades that isn't andrew giuliani right mike mike shishofsky yeah man i remember when i was devastated. I was shot out of a cannon into my Ducatrid when they beat the undefeated running Rebs, UNLV, which was my favorite college team of all time. And just the most corrupt program ever.

Those Tarkanian years. program at Tarkanian those Tarkanian years uh but man I love I loved that team and I went to the final four game when they lost to Duke and thus began my long career of jinxing uh anytime I go to a game where I really have a strong rooting interest uh it's bad news for that team anyways Coach K as my friends pointed out there's something about him that just says he loves pickles doesn't he just look like he would love a pickle yeah like he's like if you went into his office and you're like hey coach

and he's like oh what's going on JJ shout out to my friend Cass like Coach K loves pickles, man. Or he really respects it with a fork and knife and shit. He got that barrel of pickles in his room. It's a fork and knife job. Nah, Coach K don't do that.

I'm telling you. Just one other thing. Gave me an appreciation for how Polish names are spelled. Because I remember it blew my mind when I saw it spelled. It's Mike Krzyzewski. And then it's like Coach K. And shishavsky and then it's like coach k and i'm like huh and then i saw it i'm like right english doesn't just work in the ignorant way americans think it does or at least the roman the roman characters don't i think there's no better testament to uh the american character than the art form of shortening Polish last names to

just a letter I had a friend Skinjeleski was his last name and we just called him Ski yeah there it is there it is baby Danny Ainge is retiring also

shout out to probably the person I like the least in sports um it's got a weird weird phrenology tendencies allegedly uh but i think people have reported on that uh but um i mean this is this is also coming off the heels where he was like when kyrie irving's like yeah you know i don't hope for no hopefully there's no racism in boston and his response that was like I never heard any of that from any single player that I've ever played with in my never seen racism in Boston and really in fact this is the first I've heard of racism because I don't see color so I don't see color also I don't know history and I don't know who Bill Russell is who famously said all of the shit that he dealt with when he played in the fucking garden I'm actually colorblind I don't see

history so yeah oh yeah that's when it gets really weird I just like to look forward and away at conflict anyways he's retiring he was the president of basketball operations for number of years had a lot of success as

the president of basketball operations with the Celtics and they just got this this makes me love the nets uh so much more um because i've like i'm looking for a reason to root for the nets i just love watching them because they've they've just nobody's ever put together three perimeter uh players as good as they've got and they just bounced them but bounced the celdics unceremoniously from the from the first round and the next day danny age retires come on i love you i love it yeah um anyways uh good riddance to good garbage uh proud boys and oath keepers

are trending speaking of good good garbage or bad garbage. They're tripping, man. Why are they tripping? Because the cases are getting... They're intensifying from the straight-up conspiracy cases that they're building with the Oath Keepers. There's schisms happening where people are trying to distance themselves from local chapters. There's disagreements. I mean, this is, they're starting to scatter. I mean, this one journalist was putting it, that's just sort of saying like,

the reason people, it's attractive is that they have like this we're winning narrative, which was really prevalent and clear in the Trump years, especially when you're getting shout outs and shit like that. But this is pointing out that it's very important that these people are as many people are brought to trial and find justice

to actually counter that idea or that the presentation or concept of what these people are. It ain't winning. It ain't winning. I'll tell you that. Yeah. It's hard to hold on to white supremacy when you're so clearly not supreme.

Right. One question just kind of tangentially related, but that I think I asked on a recent episode, but like, do, are there, have any journalistic institutions talked about their plans to do a deep dive into the insurrection um because i don't i never had

a lot like high hopes for any governmental truth like fact-finding commission right like it's not like incapable yeah so like why why were unless they want your money and they figure it out real quick. Um, I can't, I think if it's one of those things, it's probably going to be something that is being worked on, you know, not publicly because they are,

you know, they want to make sure they can preserve sources and things like that. And really starting connect those dots. So I'm sure there's something to come out. I mean, we saw the amount of independent media that came out just to start putting images together and parlor videos and clips and things like that. So yeah, I mean, there's definitely a lot of the people who work on counter extremism, I'm sure have a vested interest, but who knows? I mean, also the other reason the Power Proud

Boys are trending is because Paul Gosar, who's one of the absolute shittiest representatives in Congress from Arizona, they found some apparently leaked messages that he was trying to collab with the Proud Boys to disrupt Biden's win in Arizona. to disrupt biden's win in arizona um okay yeah so you're seeing how like even these hyper right wing representatives in congress look at these groups as being like oh these are people i can unleash um for our bidding and i'll just you know stay separated yeah gotta keep them separated. You've always said that. Well, speaking of proud boys, Rudy Giuliani's little boy who makes him proud is Andrew Giuliani. And we talked last week about how on the strength of his five years or five decades in politics, including his gestation period, I think, uh, in the 1980s,

yes, in the 1980s. Uh, he is going to throw his hat in the ring for New York governor. He's also apparently a medical expert. Yeah. He's been getting some flack because people are like saying he's, they've noticed you're wearing,

you're not, you don't have a mask on. You know, these situations where you're in a public setting and indoors, like food or retail establishments, and you're also not vaccinated, so you can't just go masks away, sir. But that's why he says, look, you guys are tripping. And what he says is, I have not been vaccinated. I have the antibodies. I understand people want to make a big deal that I haven't gotten vaccinated and still attending events, but I have the antibodies. Okay. Now, I understand there's a lot of people who, there's a lot of studies going into this to see what it means if you've been infected and those natural antibodies that are created.

But there's, you know, there's much to say that some protection is offered, but it's not clear enough to say, oh, yeah, that's the same as vaccinated. Take your mask off. You're good to go. Because I know people who are rocking the antibodies argument and got COVID twice. Yeah. So I don't it's hard to keep going with, you know, especially when you have somebody here who's running for governor and you're out loud saying just like this. So, like, I got the antibodies. You know, that's what's going on. you're good you got the antibodies do your thing i know so many people who got covid and then when they got tested for the antibodies they weren't

there so like right yeah there's another thing they're the tests they say are hard too because they don't understand the biases of the subjects that they've tested who people who may have antibody like who have antibodies but they may not know what that means for them in particular. So it's hard to really have an analysis unless you know like, oh, this person was wilding out and had antibodies and still was safe. Other times it could be someone had COVID, has antibodies, did not want to fuck around again and was very careful and didn't get infected so that may be a reason why yeah but all that people are like super spreaders who have covid the whole time don't aren't symptomatic and just are spreading it to everyone yeah um yeah if only there were

yeah we don't need that kind of we don't need that shit but then again but again it's all it all depends on your ideology folks that's if you want to take your tips from a fucking weird goon like this guy sure uh you know let him rock but uh for i think most people probably know things if only there were like a uh way that you could inject your body with something that would cause it to produce antibodies so you wouldn't get sick but i jack i have an immune system right okay so huh so that's what i have to say all right got it so you don't know drop it vaccines work drop it i have an immune system drop it end of story and find a new angle yeah good luck oh man well those are some of the things that are trending uh today we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then

be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get a vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. 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. 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 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. 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, fam. I'm Simone Boyce.

I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the podcast from Hello Sunshine that's guaranteed to light up your day. Check out our recent episode with dancer, actress, and host of Dancing with the Stars, Julianne Hough, revealing the healing journey behind her new novel, Everything We Never Knew. I am showing up for my younger self, and it is becoming a ripple effect energetically in my life, and that's why I feel so safe now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.