The Daily Zeitgeist - Wake Me Up When September Trends 8/31: Cam Newton, Ben Simmons, Caldor Fire, Premier League, Elizabeth Holmes, Paul Ryan, Madison Cawthorn

Episode Date: August 31, 2021

In this edition of Wake Me Up When September Trends, Jack and Miles discuss Cam Newton getting cut from the Patriots, Ben Simmons refusing to return to the 76ers, the Caldor fire, Premier League transfers, Elizabeth Holmes' trial, Paul Ryan saying true statements?, and Madison Cawthorn really hoping we don't have to Civil War Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Sp spiraled on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this episode of wake me up when september trends uh it's courtesy of johnny davis and and Green Day. Like me. Dude, that song. Is it September Ends? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're about to hit September. The big sept. Septuagint. Intercepted.

Alright. I'm Jack. That's Miles. And this is going to be an episode that is just non-stop September wordplay. Alright. This is an episode where I episode that is just nonstop September wordplay. All right. All right. Now, this is an episode where I tell you what's trending.

Tell me, yeah. And a couple athletes are trending. Cam Newton is trending because he was cut by the Patriots, which I don't love for the Patriots because I think he's an underrated quarterback, even though he had a bad season last season. I do love for our national vaccine efforts because he, I think, was unvaccinated and kind of choosing not to be vaccinated.

And I do believe that had a lot to do with why he was cut it wasn't all that rap and hipping and hopping he was doing i don't know if he asked that one uh that one talk sports talk show yeah yeah wow i think he's just dragged by the rap music that's wild that he's he'll get another team will get him right yeah for sure i mean he's he's borderline like starting and should you know would be like the best backup i think in in the league if he ends up being a backup um but was he yeah he won the heisman he was rookie of the year uh was went to the super bowl and was like had one of the better seasons in many years. It's weird.

How often do Heisman winners just completely fall off? It's not nailed on. Because obviously it's a different world, I'm sure. But usually we get so turnt up for Heisman winners, like going into the league. And then it's not always, you know, like where's Jameis Winston, right?

Where's our T3? Where's Charlie Ward, Charlie Ward. So I feel like those days are maybe behind us. I don't know because the, like now the players like Alabama is so massive. It's like basically an NFL team. And so it's, it's hard for those players.

Like Charlie Ward was like too small for the NFL kind of, and didn't really have a great throwing arm. But yeah, I mean, so Marcus Mariota was a Heisman winner who didn't pan out. Jamin. Yeah. Uh, is going to be the starting quarterback for the saints this year. Johnny Manziel,

Johnny football. So it happens. That was a, that was a run of three that, uh, didn't really work out. RG three. Um,

but then you've also got your, uh, Lamar Jackson's. Your Cam Newton, your Derrick Henry. Derrick Henry is just amazing. Okay, so it's, you know, you win some, you lose some. Basically, everyone since

Derrick Henry has been probably like a next-level NFL player. Got it. I mean, who could forget Chrisris winky we should have talked about that in the year 2000 show or ron dane in 99 wow ron dane man i remember he was on all those video game covers and you're like well he's not gonna have a career just like how like steve francis was like on the cover of like ncaa basketball you're like yeah love that maryland team though what else oh so uh another thing that's trending is uh some guy named ben simmons i'm not sure what that's about

uh also there's a fire um happening dude quick pivot in the paint oh like that yeah he's uh the old ben ben ben ben ben newton uh old ben simmons he is trending because he's the old Ben Newton. Ben Newton. Ben Newton. Old Ben Siemens. He is trending because he's essentially told the Sixers, I don't want to play here, and I'm not coming to training camp. So deal with it. What does that mean for him? What does that mean for you?

How are you feeling? When I said that, I remember you were first like, wait, what? And then you just exhaled. It's kind of like I didn't know how this was gonna work itself out i knew that it was like two immovable objects like right like ben simmons they basically threw him under the bus in a way that i've never seen a star-ish player thrown under the bus by the best player on his team and his coach generally people won't do that especially if the person just had like a really bad series you're not like yeah they suck right usually you're like you know we're we're working through it and they're gonna get better

and uh we believe they're gonna get better um instead they basically made it so that he couldn't be on the team anymore but then they didn't make any moves in the offseason so it was like well so are they just gonna because there's no there's no version of reality where someone with that big an ego who's also like kind of fragile i feel like a little bit especially after that series is is going to just like come in and be like hey you know i'm checking in for work and i don't care what they said right right here to grind it out uh i just it's not it's not happening i don't think more power to him i i definitely don't think doc and uh doc rivers and joel mb should have talked

as talked shit as openly because now the Sixers front office is in a really weird place where they have basically a distressed asset that everybody knows they're trying to get rid of and nobody's going to give them full price for it now. Whoops. Whoops. Yeah, it's a mess.

It's a messy team to root for, but still going to keep rocking the hat because i like the hat uh so we will stick oh what's up man sixers fan nope just like the hat nah not fucking with the process not fucking with anything don't know anything about anyone just like the hat moving on ben simmons never heard of him never heard of him just here to pick up an ice cream cake that says ben simmons please stay uh the caldor fire is trending um this is a fire that is basically about to um make render uh lake tahoe one of the biggest um you know uh outdoor uh you know vacation spots in california uninhabitable um it's i i was there uh over last summer with my family um and just even then it like there were days you couldn't go outside because of the air quality, because of fire season. So this is not unexpected.

It is just fucking terrible that this is the new reality. Oh, man. I mean, you look at those fire maps, how they just grew over the last couple of days and you're like oh that's a lot of it's a lot of damage and it's interesting because there's a lot of expensive homes there so that usually means like a pretty fierce response to save the private property up there but i don't it seems like one of those things where just there's winds and nature is just on its own course so yeah for anybody out there, hopefully people who have had to evacuate,

hopefully you're safe and hopefully it's not too devastating for you. Although you already saw like fucking horrible stories about like Lyft and Uber rides that were like in the thousands to like sort of exploit people who were trying to flee. So hey, there it is. Apparently Mike Davis,

who, uh, has a reputation for always predicting the future. He predicted the LA riots before they happened. Uh, he predicted, I forget what else, but he is saying the next wave of the story is going to be when the insurance

companies start just bailing, start being like, sorry, we can't protect your right your property because we can't repay when like an entire state catches on fire like what what are we going to do that's our whole company yeah so look out for that when the insurance companies no longer insure entire chunks of the country i think yeah we've sort of touched on that yesterday in the

episode it's like and then you can see like the counter movement of like banks and things to be like no no no right yeah you better insure this shit right wow of course they're gonna fight each other cool fight fight fight fight banks versus insurers banks versus insurers the popular kids are gonna fight each other whoa Whoa, get to the quad. The banks fighting the insurance companies. And then Griezmann. Yeah, Antoine Griezmann. That's what I meant.

He's a French player, although he is Spanish as well. But he chooses to play for the French national team. He is actually uh very interesting move so because barcelona have been just an absolute kind of disaster running their club they don't they barely have like money to pay their players to a point where they're like even our best players are like can't maybe another team can take you for a little bit because we just can't handle your wages can take you for a little bit because we just can't handle your wages so anton griezmann we don't have any money he had to go back uh

well not that he had to go back he re-signed with the company with the not company the team that he played for before barcelona atletico madrid so he is going back to atleti and uh yeah he's he's back baby um for a fraction of the cost that he was sold for so it's uh just like a sad merry-go-round there's a lot of people fucking up their bag uh when it comes to teams uh they're just blowing it with yeah and it's just a lot of you know like barcelona's already had to been like yeah we gotta get messy sorry can't afford you griezmann sorry can't afford you um then they're like great for messy right he just had his debut over the weekend i mean it was it wasn't very eventful but um wait what were you saying about messy there so

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kissinger you bastard leave henry kissinger alone mexican billionaire carlos slim leave the billionaires alone got him bill clinton got him um but guess she, you know, I'm sure a lot of people lost money, including people who probably don't have billions of dollars. So not great. Her court case is finally going to court. And in addition to like doing some maneuvering around whether she would have to wear a mask in court, I think she didn't want to. So she could like smile awkwardly at the jurors she will also be caring for her newborn child in court which is

you know it's a gambit i bet it'll i bet it'll work it'll make her seem more i can't i can't imagine like that that's the most effective thing you could possibly do. It's like, oh, you're going to take away this baby's mother? Okay. No, that's fine. Right. Oh, that's fine. Just this.

Oh, God. I mean, it's so tough being a single mom. The last thing would be to go to jail for duping people. That would really suck. Your husband is a uh a hotel millionaire so well but i mean like before like i feel like a single mom you know what i mean i mean i'm just here where is he right now oh shush hush bye hush bye no go bye go bye you're holding a rolled up legal pad that's not a baby in your arms.

Oh, really? Hmm. Maybe you have a very rigid definition of what parenting is. Yeah. I don't know if they're fit to be in the jury, my honor. Paul Ryan is trending because he's brave, you know? Aw. Yeah, he's a brave guy.

He got out. He said the dirty bit out loud in public he said yeah trump lost that shit in november that election was a loss that was a big old duke ellington and there was like you know that makes news these days because then people are like you see man it's these rhinos paul was always against trump so that's just yeah if you want to if you want to get trending in the right now because it's hard to do it by saying like nazi shit out loud you just have to say the truth and then they're like what yeah maybe that'll be interesting that they'll start seeing that truth is currency

like to be relevant because everyone's all just fucking burnt out on like the hate shit and just lies so like they're like nah man actually the way i got back into it is i just kind of started being like yeah trump lost uh like you know the domestic terror threat of like the maga people is actually really serious and we shouldn't just be ignoring it and look at me now come on dancing with the stars yeah is he wait no he's not is he no but if Spicer was for doing the nothing then I'm sure Paul Ryan could at least get to like one of those like ESPN like celebrity crossfit competitions or something right let's just say his agent has

reached out to dancing with the stars and let them know he's he's a veil and it was a disrespectfully pass i think is what they said we disrespectfully pass on this and uh finally speaking of uh saying nazi shit out loud madison cawthorne who is the very junior congressman uh from north state of carolina north carolina the northern one uh is basically calling for like a civil war oh come on that's what you heard i just heard him say we don't want that we don't want to take up arms against our fellow americans so we need to push for election security yeah yeah he warned there could be bloodshed after repeating false election fraud claims called the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. Political hostages boosted false claims that the election was stolen and rigged.

He also said if our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen then it's going to lead to one place and that's bloodshed and i will tell you as much as i'm willing to defend our liberty at all costs there's nothing i would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow american um so he did uh don't make me kick your ass. You don't want to see me angry, bro, type thing. And then they were like, he was saying he doesn't want to kick your ass. What? What's wrong with you guys? Why are you saying he did that?

Oh, my God. Could you imagine if Joe Biden said, the last thing I want to do is round up the unvaccinated and put them into camps, you know, to get this thing. But I don't want to do that. Obviously. Look what he said. He's to get this thing but i don't want to do that obviously look what he said he's like i said i don't want to do that right it's just because i articulated an alternative that was so violent that maybe i was hinting that that might be the alternative path i don't know anyway i'm madison cawthorne it's been so great to be here for all of our political prisoners who are on a 23-hour lockdown.

Keep your heads up. Also, so many of them are not in prison. The real story there is how light the fucking sentencing and penalties have been for some of this shit. Not their fucking, you know, this isn't the new, they're like, oh man, when are they going to get them out? When are they going to get QAnon guy out? They're like, oh man, when are they going to get him out? When are they going to get QAnon guy out? You know?

And he also, someone was like, what are you doing to support the patriots who were captured on January 6th? He was like, oh, well, so here's the thing. We don't actually know who all the main political prisoners are. And so if we were to actually like go and try and bust them out, let me tell you the reason why they're talking, these political, taking these political prisoners because they're trying to make them an

example, uh, because they don't want to see the mass protests going on in Washington. So he just kind of rambled through that one. Um, I mean, yeah, this just shows you the mindset of republicans is if we don't get

what we want we're just gonna fucking lie and get people in a frenzy to do as much shit and damage as possible yeah that's that's their that's their platform you saw what we did last time that you guys won the election well it's gonna get worse bro yeah i mean part of me is like yeah okay uh-huh that's all y'all do is pump fake but there's there's just we live in such a different age where people like are quite literally believing that like tyranny is at their doorstep yeah i feel better if with them only pump faking if fucking all of their supporters weren't armed and just like ready to fucking light a room up with a automatic weapon at a moment's notice that's those aren't the type of people you want to be pump faking generally yeah well we'll see

what happens that's the whole point i guess is to then make people as uneasy as possible because you've already seen like the effect it's had on school boards yeah with people who are like i'm not fucking like dude i'm volunteering the school board like i don't i don't need fucking blood on my car and then punctured tires because i said a mask works so this is kind of the you know this is this is the road we're heading down yeah uh all right that is what is trending on this tuesday afternoon we are uh back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show again back at it again uh until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get the vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy and we'll talk to y'all tomorrow bye bye k hasn't heard from her sister in seven years i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do what was that that was live

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