The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendustrial Zeit and Magic 3/4: Lola Bunny, NBA, Evacuation, Vaccine

Episode Date: March 4, 2021

On this edition of Trendustrial Zeit and Magic Jack and Miles discuss Lola Bunny being less sexualized in the Space Jam sequel, Joel Embiid ejected for trash talk, TJ McConnell rare triple-double, Damian Lillard clutch af, Brooklyn Nets crushing it, an evacuation order issued for NZ's North Island following earthquakes/tsunami warning, and vaccine nationalism means that poor countries will be left behind. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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okay just a little fact there alright I'm Jack that's Miles I almost got it wrong I'm jack that's miles i almost got it wrong so that's where my brain's at that's where my brain's at uh and this is what trending uh lola bunny is trending miles uh this is why what happened okay so they did a they gave us first look at the new lola bunny in space jam 2 yeah um and she is uh she does not look like she was uh drawn by an incredibly horny uh 14 year old with a boner um yeah she looks like a uh you know a cartoon character it's yeah i uh you know as much

as i talk about my you know uh hyperbole i mean maybe it's not hyperbolic you know i love lola bunny from the space jam uh 96 how old were you when that came out 12 yeah that's like i mean they knew what they were doing they knew what they were doing but yeah it's funny to see like how they're approaching this now being like yeah maybe that's like weird that we just completely objectified like the one like female character on the team with like the the daisy dukes in the crop top with i do not mean to aggrandize but her breasts were of substantial size yes uh for a rabbit and yeah and i think now now they've they've yeah made it up much more of like a character is this funny watching the commentary like you know there's a certain point you have to say are you really upset that they didn't just go you know fully hyper sexual on this rabbit character aside from yes i think we're all

title many of us are connecting it to our adolescence and things like that but despite my love for lola bunny not on the side of what the fuck did they do like yeah all this does is make you realize how inappropriately horny the original drawing was or at least yeah exactly because you try and be like the second i'm like well that don't look like and i'm like you know what that's not a take i mean that ain't the little button like no this is not it this is not it uh also if she were an anatomically correct rabbit um she would have more than two breasts uh so take that uh i don't even want to see what kind of memes are popping up

on HM oh there was another thing that was really interesting Mara Wilson obviously Twitter is going off with all their takes and then Mara Wilson had tweeted I once turned on a TV in a hotel in London and Space Jam was on

I'd never seen it I was busy in 1996. So I said, who's that? My then boyfriend said, that's Lola Bunny. You don't remember Lola Bunny? I said, no. And he said, in a way, I'll never forget. I remember Lola Bunny.

I didn't know you dated Mara Wilson. She said we broke up not too long after. But yeah. you dated Mara Wilson she said we broke up not too long after but yeah please don't be one of these people who is angry that your cartoon rabbit is not sexy enough culture war moment oh of course anything for a culture war moment

is Tucker Carlson gonna is this gonna be a chyiron you think i don't know because then it then it is it it's too transparent about the fact that he jerks off to like or that he's just like a creepy horny dude you know right so i feel like this is kind of a trap for them that they should maybe avoid um i don't know yeah either way i am a consultant for uh problematic right-wing people so you know reach out to me if you if you want to know call me the bellwether i do respect she's got the uh arm arm uh sleeve like uh mellow and ai back in the day let's give that to ai i mean i feel like you know he really set that off yeah that's true um well

speaking of all those uh talented basketball players uh there's just a bunch of nba players trending i want to uh i want to talk about it with you sure um so damian lillard was trending uh joel and bead was trending uh tj mcconnell was trending yes that tj miller uh tj mcconnell no he's uh he's like this journeyman uh guy undrafted little like every time he's on the court there is at least one person who's watching the game saying i who is that dude that snuck out onto the court right doesn't look like i think i played with him at yeah yeah yeah he's just like constantly running around um doesn't look like his game doesn't even look like an nba player's game like he he will drive to the basket and because he can't jump or and he's like six one uh he will never see like he his game is like driving under the basket and then like running back out to the three-point line like he

doesn't he doesn't do the things other nba players do because he's like well obviously that would get blocked yeah well let's be real here he's all hustle but he uh he had uh 10 steals in a game he's he's putting up big numbers you have a triple double uh i don't know i don't know if he had did he yeah it was the steals that got him steal triple double rare triple double with steals yeah so shout out to you shout out to dame time we saw that step back to that all right damian lillard yeah like he's good he might be the most clutch this guy's good huh i don't know this damian lilla guy but yeah he hits the hardest shots at in crunch time like i feel like a lot of people get painted with the clutch brush because they are they hit a big shot and it becomes

iconic and so right everyone's like oh they're kind but it feels like when this dude puts something up towards the end of the game in an important game it's going in yeah to the point where i'm like i'm the i'm hard pressed to think of another player like personally being selfish of like who i'd want to close out a game yeah it's like. It's like, I mean, when you're doing it like that. Okay, Damien. Joel Embiid had a big game against the Jazz, who the Jazz are the best team in the NBA. Probably not that many people who aren't paying attention realize that they have the best record, best splits, best, you know, average point differential.

best, you know, average point differential. But the Sixers beat them in overtime and Embiid was like trolling and got one of the players kicked out by being like, you should get a tee for that. Come on. Like a younger brother or something. Or, you know, like,

he's going to get away with that? Or anyone who knows soccer culture, yeah, you beg the ref to throw the other players out. You're like, go card him up card him up give him a card like to the point where referees be like if you tell me to give someone a card you get a card now right uh but you know it is what it is the other thing i want to bring up to you is did you see when candace parker absolutely schooled shack on tv no i'm telling you it was one of the most satisfying moments because we're like yo shacks get him off of here he's just toxic he's old he's not willing to understand the game has evolved

and he's like i don't understand like why are they switching so much like what's going on like and candice because the game is different because what do you mean and she looked at him like she's like why am i explaining this to you and it was i was just like see put i need more of her i need less of shack because i don't need the guy who's the version of me who's like washed and can't see the future like i want to i want to hear from more intelligent people to broaden my horizons yes and then the nets are probably the most entertaining thing happening in the nba right now uh terrifying to anybody who is uh interested in seeing a team that isn't the nets win the title because they are uh they kevin durant has been out for an extended stretch

uh with an injury and just kairi and james harden uh let's look unstoppable together what do they got 10 10 game run right now without Kevin Durant, or nine games without him. Yep. So they're pretty terrifying and a lot of fun to watch. Is it because there's less strip clubs in Brooklyn? What's the concentration of strip clubs?

Yeah, we need to look into that. I'm sure Reddit has already looked into it. Trying to figure out, like, what's happening here? He might have moved on to a new phase. Where he's just all about the... He's into IRL streaming on Twitch now. He just follows a few. He just loves those. That tunes in.

New Zealand was trending because there were two quakes over seven on the Richter scale within an hour. Apparently the epicenter was offshore and it was in the eights offshore, which is terrifying, super high. People were asked to flee to higher ground, flee inland because of tsunami concerns. There were even concerns that a tsunami might race across the ocean and hit Hawaii, which is a thing that can happen and frequently has. Do you know that?

We've talked before about that story about the rogue tsunami in Japan in like early or I think it was like mid 1800s. That hit in japan that hit japan and they were they it was like went down as this legendary rogue tsunami and now just now uh experts are figuring out that it was from a giant earthquake in the northwest of uh the united states what oh right that's what i was gonna i thought i thought there was some relationship with the pacific northwest and vice versa but damn yeah the cascadia subduction zone still the most yeah we still got to look out for that one god what are we gonna do when like one of these inevitable things happen? You know what I mean? Like America has proven it's pretty up to the task and, uh,

we, we've been nailing our, uh, stress tests as at worst, like at best, like Americans, uh, can like drop the shit sometimes and like help each other.

But like, anyway. Yeah. Speaking of which vaccine nationalism is trending because this is just sort of a overarching struggle that's going on with wealthy countries, basically buying up all the vaccines. Yeah. There's all sorts of very complicated, you know,

plans in place to try and prevent this. But, you know, the, the way the world operates right now uh in this like sort of neoliberal global uh everything is capitalism uh people are people are poor countries are getting screwed yeah and then even now like there there was a export of like AstraZeneca vaccines that were supposed to leave Italy bound for Australia. And the EU and Italy straight up blocked that shit.

And they're like, no, you told us you were going to deliver X amount and you didn't. So this shit is not getting exported. Like you're going to fulfill the fucking agreement. And it's just, yeah, it's, you know know everyone is trying to do the best for their people and then yeah we we will then we still get echoes of what we see in our day-to-day where people with more resources are going to have an easier time to weather the storm while people without them are going to bear the brunt of it uh there's this quote in this who what why article uh poor countries should not be forced to wait for vaccines to trickle down to them.

Between them, talking about, I think, the United States, they say, between them, G7 nations, oh, between them, G7 nations have secured enough vaccines for every one of their citizens to be vaccinated three times over, while many poor countries are yet to receive a single dose. over while many poor countries are yet to receive a single dose so yeah it's wild i've even find i mean like as we see the rollout and stuff happen here too like you see more and more like even in california there's like the signup website was able to be like exploited by people with means you know what i mean who were like technically in a group that was okay but because we're doing this to an online portal, we're already cutting many people out of access

because they can only access it a certain way. Right. Yeah. Well, let's hope this can end with everyone being safely vaccinated as quickly as possible. All right. That is going to do it for this thursday afternoon we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show uh until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves wear a

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