The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit to the Heart 8/27: Where's Joe, Jacob Wohl, Lord + Taylor, Gamescom

Episode Date: August 27, 2020

On this edition of Zeit to the Heart Jack and Miles discuss the confusing hashtag #WheresJoe in which the Trump campaign forgets that Biden's not the President right now, Jacob Wohl is trying phone-in scare tactics against mail-in voting, Lord + Taylor is going out of business, and lots of announcements at this year's Gamescom (like Fall Guys season 2!) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Love that Nets team. I do call him Rich. Rich Jefferson. That's Miles Gray. I'm Jack O'Brien. This is what is trending. Where's Joe is trending. Yeah. Give it to him.

Give it to him, Joe. Give it to him, Don. Where's Joe? Where you going to do a little basement stream? I don't, yeah, where is Joe? Who gives a shit? Who gives a shit? Is that just meant to be like, he's hiding.

Biden be hiding. Hiding Biden. Yeah, that would be better. be hiding hiding biden yeah that would be better uh but it does seem like they're trying to run as uh as challengers even though they're incumbents like they are yeah showing footage of the you know uprisings and uh the people out of work and the pandemic and being like, things will be bad if you don't elect Trump. It's like, yo, that is Trump's. No, that's you. That's you, dude.

You're holding a mirror up and going, oh, fuck. Yeah. And then you'd be like, that's Joe Biden? And you're like, you're looking at a mirror, dickhead. They're asking where's Joe at a time when he's the president. And then there's another ad with Joe Biden looking all spry and shit, and then contrasting that with Trump going up ramps all delicately,

and they're like, oh, Joe's got all this energy. This is the fucking saddest shit, man. We got people are dying. Oh, there's a Joe Biden ad that's like... It's like a two-minute ad. He's got the energy. He can bench press a Mack truck. Is that Drake's song Energy?

The theme? Yeah, exactly. I got energy. You got a lot of energy. Oh, that's Enemies. I got enemies. Got a lot of enemies. Got a lot of people there.

No, it's Energy. Trying to take my energy. Trying to take my energy. Oh, yeah. Who knows what it is. Yeah, they're just trying to take Joe Biden's energy. don't who knows what it is yeah they're just trying to take joe biden's energy shout out to six god joe biden that's what it might come to next you know what i mean like it's it's like so being like de-emphasizing the strife and pain of most people and just be like trump sucks huh like biden's old huh where it might be like yo actually uh joe biden is drake sick sick sick yeah it'll be like real steel

except each uh instead of having fighting robots each uh candidate gets a rapper and they like rap battle for the presidency perfect jacob bull is trending always an adventure when that dude's name is trending it's like what happened fuck is this guy never in jail like for all this like this bullshit that he pulls yeah like these schemes i mean granted like he's always finds this like walks this line of like troll or totally illegal bullshit and uh now it's basically like prank calls uh to people to try and suppress the mail-in vote right yeah what what is it he's saying that they'll be able to track you or something? Yeah, like police can track you with your information

and credit card company. It was just really, it was basically trying to scare low-income voters. It all depended on what sort of motivations you wanted to use to prevent someone from voting mail-in. But yeah, it was just very cynical, straight-up bullshit line. Because this is what they have to do uh mail-in uh but yeah it was just very cynical straight up bullshit lying uh to you know because this is all this is what they have to do to try and get to 270 electoral votes is just squeeze out

the little like just a razorist thin razor thin margins that they can skate on and yeah worked on 2016 so you know yeah and i i, based on like how Trump's running this shit now, it might work again, depending on how susceptible people are to their racist demons inside. I think about it every time I look at those like statistics of like how likely either side is to win. I think about it like somebody, I convert Joe Biden's chances of winning to a free throw shooter. And again, this is stupid and not a useful thing, but I always... And actually, don't listen to this anymore.

Don't listen to this anymore. But I convert it to a free throw shooter and I'm like, man, that's Ben Simmons. That is not making me feel comfortable at all. Hey, you mean FaZe Ben? You mean FaZe Ben, dude? FaZe Clan Ben Simmons? That's right. He's all part of FaZe Ben? You mean FaZe Ben, dude? FaZe Clan Ben Simmons? That's right. He's all part of FaZe Clan now, bro. Spend too much time on that FaZe Clan. Should be working on a jump shot. Yeah, free throw would have been.

Should be working with Mark Price Clan. That sounds a little too on the nose. Yeah. Lord and Taylor is trending because it will never trend again that's the the collabo between lord and taylor swift right that album this came out yeah yeah it's a bit it's a banger no isn't that like that old people brand i i thought it was a jewelry brand is it yeah whatever i just feel like you jewelry people money well what is it i was wrong it's a convenience store or a uh department store one of those big yeah old people right right i mean

to me i'm always like what the fuck is lord and taylor no no yeah it's one of those we didn't have them out here stores that you see written on the side of a wall that looks like it should store blimps, but, uh, it's actually a department store. That's like three stories of, uh, you know, just a random assortment of,

uh, a yard sale, basically a capitalist yard sale. Well, that makes sense. Cause I'm like, it's that old people store. It 194 years in business.

So yeah. All right. Lord and taylor uh lord and taylor is a uh that i'm sure that was mentioned at one point in their death throes a marketer being like we got to get lord and taylor swift right to do an ad for us maybe that'll work i mean we're kind of doing that thing it's like we're sold we've been around since slavery right uh but okay i don't know i mean i'm sure people worked at a lord and taylor cool yeah yeah i don't know like this is what's happening now if the people don't have money you can't buy shit fucking the stores are starting to shut down restaurants it's all i can only imagine like what i'm sure i I don't know if Lord and Taylor was managing.

They were making the right moves in business for the last couple of years. But, you know, I guess pour one out for that, for the GOAT 1826 founded in. And then the thing I'm obviously thinking about is Gamescom. Uh-oh, what, Jack? What are you thinking about? Did you hear fall guys season

two fall guys season two is coming out oh man you you got the you you're fucking with fall guys season one season one oh you're liking it man uh dude groundbreaking you know how how like you know how late did you go like how many people you know how deep did you get deep oh yeah how many people how many people are left what's you ever win yeah man like 11 people oh cool that's sick man is that winning yeah these parts hell yeah but this is this is uh an example of how influential fortnite is because games are from a uh complete outsider's perspective, because I talked to an outsider recently and they were telling me how,

like even they can see how influential Fortnite is that games are released in seasons now. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, yeah, I think it's weird because I could have felt this mirrored the exact conversation you were having with DJ Daniel just moments before.

Yeah. In a panic when you were crying what the fuck is fall guys season two is that a tv show yeah i also said games con uh yeah you said you said game scum it was a game scum what's this game scone what's that no but the fall like mountain dew code red game scum drinking my game scum yeah the uh i gotta get on there because all the footage i see is super fun it's like requires very little like fine gamer skill just gotta just have fun out there just mashing shit up like old school you know takeshi's castle oh shit most extreme challenge as you may know i just picture all video games as first person shooters until i'm proven otherwise right fall guys ultimate knockout is uh looks like a nintendo game almost like or like an art game uh very cartoony anyways uh that's what's trending this thursday afternoon this has been gamer update you're talking to number one game guy game guy jack brought to you by eb games uh all right uh that's

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Bye. 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 Latin Grammy winner, author, and TV personality, Chiquis, about raising her younger siblings after the death of her mother, singer Jenny Rivera. I would do it over and over again.

All of that has molded me to become the woman that I am today. Like, I wouldn't change anything. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Kay 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 audio of a woman's nightmare.

Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Curious about queer sexuality, cruising, and expanding your horizons? Hit play on the sex-positive and deeply entertaining podcast,

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