The Daily Zeitgeist - You Are The SunZeit of My Geist 6/30: Bill Cosby, Donald Rumsfeld, NBA, Heatwave, Jaws, Shohei Ohtani

Episode Date: June 30, 2021

In this edition of You Are The SunZeit of My Geist, Jack and Miles discuss Bill Cosby being released from prison, the passing of one of history's greatest war criminals Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld, NBA news, the New York power grid alert, the scariest scene never to appear in a 'Jaws' movie, and Shohei Ohtani basically doing the impossible Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Great wedding. Another one of your weddings I've been to, Jack, that you didn't even know about. I was there. Yeah, man. You saw my dad's big ass clownish bow tie oh he oh was he rocking just 70s hardcore 70s suit yeah i love that powder blue uh i think oh really i think that really was the vibe back then yeah uh just ugly yeah yeah yeah ugly and fucked up i am jack that is miles and what a day uh what a time to be alive real roller coaster so uh early this morning we learned that bill cosby uh is being released from prison his conviction is basically being overturned by the uh pennsylvania supreme court

they're like he never should have been convicted uh he never should have been tried uh and the reason goes back to the one of the trump impeachment defense attorneys uh Bruce Castor. So this dude, when he was, I think he was the attorney general of Pennsylvania, no, district attorney of Pennsylvania. And he determined at that time that there was insufficient evidence to criminally convict Bill Cosby. This was like, I think 2015 or so, like maybe even earlier. No, 2005. And he basically said, hey man, so we're never going to criminally prosecute you for these sex crimes you did, but will you, you know, tell us what you did basically and we you know so that we can possibly use that in a civil case and cosby took that deal because he's guilty as fuck and you didn't want to go to jail uh and that was when he told them that he used sedatives on women. There are multiple,

there are like 50 to like 60 credible accusers, you know, outside of this instance. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, it's like, it's such a,

cause this was like one of the first high profile cases, you know, like even when we were starting the show, like where we thought, Oh, here's a sea change. Maybe where we will actually take the uh like accusations of victims seriously and give them like you know credibility and weight um and then this pennsylvania bro not in pennsylvania not yeah what if man so that's uh but yeah wow yeah i mean well i mean like what does

that mean next i mean like who who else can you know can skate right uh everybody is rich it seems like it seems like if you're if you're rich there are a team of attorneys who are well connected and working around the clock to you know it's just a matter of time before they figure out how to get you out of jail because um that's america that's that's just how it works basically right yeah we just yeah it's like it's one of the the few like the dark corners in our culture that we're still not fully uh able to clean up we just have we can't have a reckoning with rape culture we can't have a reckoning with white supremacy or toxic misogyny any of this stuff so it you know we allowed these people to become presidents and

things right too yeah not without a huge fight that that is ongoing when you think it's over they're just working behind the scenes. Their money's working behind the scenes to make sure that any victories are overturned. Well, but then in better news, Heaven Got Another Angel, Donald Rumsfeld, Hell Got Another Homeboy.

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, eat shit, war criminal. And unknown knowns, and the no known is that he's a war criminal and a piece of shit yeah i mean oh i mean when you're tried in absentia in malaysia that's not a good sign that you're a good person um and being you know tried for you know cruel and inhumane treatment for and being a war criminal and how you torture people so yeah what uh yeah but then it's funny on the other side there's just people who are you know overseeing terrible torture programs and they just get to live out

their days naturally like we're this is like we're just we're all kinds of screwed up here huh did you watch a veep or not veep vice uh equally hilarious the oliver stone one or who did that one no it was adam mckay oh adam mckay the new oliver stone um yeah yeah no i haven't seen it i just saw i just you know i mean i remember just looking at the photos but no i never saw seen it i just saw i just you know i mean i remember just looking at the photos but no i never saw it donald rumsfeld's a pretty pretty interesting character played by uh michael scott whose name i'm drawing a blank on um michael oh uh jason bateman no oh steve carell steve carell wait why did i say what the fuck i got i got george michael

bluth i got all them names mixed up yes steve carell but he's uh he's just like so gleefully uh nihilistic it just it just makes perfect sense right bad bad human being and again this is just another example of a you know an upholder of american imperialism at all costs uh and also just to see like how this is again another version where it's whether it's rich people avoiding justice or you know rich people who are working in the government uh on our foreign policy that can also uh sidestep international courts and things like that so yeah yeah and then uh yannis was trending last night because we all thought uh his season possibly career was over when he had people keep calling it an awkward landing on his left leg um after going up that shit was not awkward that was violence to

anybody who witnessed it it was gruesome his leg bent the wrong way it was like you're like okay well we're in hyper extension town and yannis is the mayor right and but no see this is like one of those things too like it happens with some athletes where you're like i'm looking at something that is an injury like there's no way and then somehow just because through their malleability of joints and flexibility that they kept that from being a terrible terrible thing but yeah for people who aren't basketball fans yannnis is like seven feet tall, moves like a point guard, and I think his wingspan is many inches wider than seven

feet, and just one of the most phenomenal NBA athletes of all time. But anyway, so Zach Lowe's reporting there's no structural damage to his knee. That doesn't mean he's like back next game uh that series was tied to 2-2 in the game in which he was injured uh the hawks came back so um it's a it's

the strangest nba postseason uh i've ever seen you know the hawks nobody had them a lot of people didn't have them coming out of the first round and usually you have a pretty good sense of who's going to the finals in the NBA, but because this was such a weird season because there were so many injuries, it's looking like it's could be the Hawks could be, uh, the Clippers without Kawhi. Um,

yeah, it's, Hey, people, people, I'm glad to see smiles in places where there normally aren't when it comes to basketball. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

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everybody in New York got a, you know, one of those alerts that terrifies you on your phone. That's like and like buzzes five times. And but it wasn't an amber alert. It was telling people to turn off their air condition. Oh, no. Because it's 97 in New York City. because it's 97 in new york city uh one of the hardest places to be when it's that hot uh because everything smells of garbage and the fact that you are on an entire land island of concrete like starts working against you because it's capturing all the heat and like baking you

uh and then reflecting off the buildings insulating it further yeah and they were just like oh yeah i don't know man i'm starting to feel like this whole capitalism thing uh where where there's just not the incentive for people to like fix this shit man no i mean look at before and we're you know as much as we people it's like like what about climate change what are we gonna do it's like well it's here now right and it's clearly fucking everything up like you have street cables melting in certain places you have like i saw like in tacoma washington because it's so hot up there the people were quadrupling the rates to rent a hotel room that had air

conditioning in it so again you're beginning to see how you know access is playing into how people even navigate these you know flare-ups and the gradual just you know hellscape that uh the the geography the land that we're on is becoming so yeah i don't know know. That's what always just gets me more and more bummed. I'm like, see, we're just constantly, we're trying to keep up with something that we're not actively solving. And it's just gonna, I don't know. I don't know how it ends up,

how we get to the optimistic end of this thing. Yeah. The, you know, maybe this young generation coming up behind us of socialists where even young republicans are socialists maybe they'll they'll fit shit but the the boomers they're they're hanging on for dear life um and i i'm also just interested in the use of these like alerts i don't think they're ever that great like i think think science or like people have like done, looked into whether these help solve crimes and it's like very rarely they do.

And oftentimes they create, you know, false positives all over the place. Right. But I'm sure there's a way to use that. The fact that like people, you can just reach anyone at a moment's notice but it just doesn't seem like we figured out the right way to do it uh jaws uh a real scene from a jaws sequel that never was happened while somebody was parasailing like that very standard beachfront activity that you see anytime you're at the beach. Are you dragged behind a boat or is that you pulled behind a boat? You're on a parachute.

Very boring. Like it's, it looks cool from a distance. And then when you get in there, you're just kind of, uh, in a, in a very like strapped in really tight to a harness and just going slowly up

and down. Uh, but it became, uh, much less boring when a shark jumped out of the water and fucking attacked somebody like a giant i think they think it was a white shark jumped out of the water and like basically bit somebody's foot off oh my god bit their foot off yeah they're in serious condition they survived but are in serious condition at a local hospital

i'm not doing this no yeah it's like it because you're also totally immobilized back there like there's not nothing you can see so it it does resemble to a large degree like a a fishing rig that you're just like being used to fish for sharks back there chum the water with your foot yeah yikes yeah this is the thing i'm whenever i see i've seen too many videos like on accounts like kook slams on instagram where there's just all these wild just a wind gust will take the parasail like just completely left and you're just you're not having the time that you thought you were having. And yeah, there's part of it. I think that coupled with my fear, quite literally, of the film Jaws

is a thing that will keep me from ever doing that. Yeah. I mean, this is... Jaws would have used this scene if they had thought of it or if parasailing was a thing when they were still making Jaws movies. 100%. And finally, got to talk about Shohei.

Shohei, he is on a tear um he on tuesday night in yankee stadium he hit two home runs uh to take the major league lead in home runs we've been talking about this dude uh from like basically day one of this Major League Baseball season. I don't give a shit about Major League Baseball, usually, but this is incredible. And for people who don't care, he's also pitching while he's doing this. With a baby's face. With a baby's face.

Even though he's looking huge now. A lumberjack's body. Paul Revere, Paul lumberjack's body yeah paul revere paul bunyan's body um two he's pitching at a 258 earned run average uh and is just crushing home runs it's unbelievable yeah slugging percentage of 1.049 which is like he he's over one it's rare that anybody goes over one just even simply right if you if you see that though if he's playing just watch him at bat because there's a good chance he's gonna crush the fucking ball and then if he's then you can watch him pitch really it's just uh yeah there's no there's a like's a New York Times article that said, is there such thing as too much Shohei Otani? And I don't think there is because we're talking about,

this is a thing that I think we've talked about too, is I love when we get these, like, there's an athlete out there who's just fucking it up so hardcore that everyone's like, I don't know, man, I never even watched this until this person showed up and we're watching something very historic. And even like Aaron Boone on the Yankees is like, I don't know, man. I never even watched this until this person showed up and we're watching something very historic. And even Aaron Boone on the Yankees, what he's doing is he said, quote, borderline impossible. Yeah.

That's what makes this so fucking special. And I think it's just, I feel like if you just watch baseball very passively, you're like, yeah, good pitchers, they can do that. And if you're good at bat, you can do that. But the combination is just makes this shit so freaky. Yeah. Hasn't been done in 100 years. I'm just going to read this list of his last two weeks.

So June 15th, home run. June 16th, home run. June 17th, five strikeout. Threw five strikeouts. Six innings pitched. One earned run. June 17th uh five strike through five strikeouts six innings pitched one earned run june 18th two home runs june 19th home run 20th home run 21st they were off okay 22nd he had a bad day zero went over three uh 23rd one earned run nine strikeouts, 24th off again. He should have still hit a home run even though they were off. 25th home run, 26th went one for three, 27th home run, 28th home run, 29th, two home runs.

Nobody has ever been in a zone like this as long as I've been passively paying attention to baseball. It's pretty dope. People aren't pitching strikes to him. They're just afraid of him him and he's still doing he's finding it he's finding it so he's got 28 what's he is he on pace to to fuck it up home and for a single season uh i don't know i don't i actually don't know what what his pace is yeah but i wish i know his pace is a lot i don't think i think if he was on pace for like over 60 people yeah we probably putting that in the write-ups but yeah um like just being on pace to lead the league and home runs while also uh pitching extremely effectively is uh

unbelievable he's right now people say the odds on favorite to be the mvp um and this kind of came out of nowhere like he wasn't supposed to even be the best player on his team this season yeah i mean yeah when you're doing things mike trout can't do then we're yeah that that's something but i mean i think the the hope was always that this was possible like when he came to the to the u.s was that he's a two-way player. And in Japan, he was proving it. But everyone, again, is always like, well, let's see what he can do in the majors. And you know what?

Japanese people know how to play baseball. So don't think Major League Baseball is the only place where you get it done. Okay? Yeah. All right. So those are the things that are trending on this very eventful Wednesday. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass 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. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you.

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