The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit Up Your Geist 12/8: Brittney Griner, Steph Curry, Respect For Marriage, Rush Hour 4, NYT, Power Plant

Episode Date: December 8, 2022

In this edition of Zeit Up Your Geist, Jack and Miles discuss the release of Brittney Griner, Steph Curry: the S.I. Sportsperson of the Year, the "Respect for Marriage" act, an potential 'Rush Hour' sequel in the works, the NYT journalist walkout, and the North Carolina power plant shootings!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of people of the world light up your guys everybody the spice girls and johnny and johnny davis. Thanks, Johnny. Johnny is one of the Spice Girls' foremost collaborators. A.K.A. Spice. Yeah, A.K.A. Spice. I'm Jack. That is Miles. These are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon.

Brittany Griner is finally out. Thank God. On her way home. We'll talk about it more on tomorrow's episode. We'll talk about why the right is mad. Also, another thing to mention, which I don't know if we'll get to it in tomorrow's episode, but you'll see the name Paul Whelan

trend alongside this. This is someone, like an American guy, that was detained because Russians believed he was a spy. And a lot of people were like, so this guy just stays in there while dope smoker woker Brittanyney griner gets out um and a lot of people are also pointing the fact that like he was detained during the trump

administration and for all the lovey-doveyness between him and putin he didn't seem to care much to try and get him out so there's like again a lot of what about and how this is an l because putin's a smart businessman. He's not going to do that. Is that Bill Simmons? My Bill Simmons and my Donald Trump are fusing. I was talking to my buddy Vlad who's a big

Vikings fan and he was saying this was gut punch level 45. Anyways, Steph Curry is trending because he was named the SI Sports Person of the Year. Oh, really? Yeah. You remember when that was a thing? That was like a thing we...

When it mattered? I cared about. Does it matter? The Sports Person of the Year yeah no absolutely not i'm like i remember it mattered to me when i was like a big jordan fan and they named jordan sports person of the year and then had a hologram cover okay that sounds dope you're right okay let me see like i have to look in the decade i would have gave a fuck which is is the 90s. So 1990, Joe Montana. Then 91, Michael Jordan. 92, Arthur Ashe. 93, Don Shula.

94, Bonnie Blair, the speed skating god. Shout out to Lillahommer, 94. Cal Ripken Jr., 95. Tiger Woods, 96. Dean Smith, 97. McGuire and Sosa. Okay, I remember that year. That was 98.

The U.S. Women's Soccer Team, 99. There we go. You don't remember the Jordan the hologram cover? I bought three. I was like, this is going to be worth so much. This is from 91? It must have been 91. It must have been the 91 seat. Look, I would have been seven. And at that time,

Jack, to be honest, I was getting Sports Illustrated for kids at the library back oh buddy yeah i was still getting sports illustrated for kids probably at that remember how they had like like those perforated cards you could like tear out in the middle i remember being so pissed off at how fucking low quality like because i was such a collector like anyone's gonna sell these or buy these fuck i mean these don't these aren't even in beckett get the fuck out it just looked like shit si for kids i'm just crying my mom's like what's wrong Like anyone's going to sell these or buy these. Fuck, I mean, these aren't even in Beckett. Get the fuck out of my face. Edges look like shit.

SI for kid. I'm just crying. My mom's like, what's wrong? I'm like, the edges look like shit. Yeah, I remember. I remember those days. Anyways, the other reason Steph Curry is trending is because he hit five full court shots in a row in a video that he has now admitted is fake. We knew that.

I don't know why why he would do like it's it just feels like person with superpowers creates fake video suggesting he has slightly better superpowers than he really does but it uh fooled me fooled my ass i think i mean i think this happens all the time, but usually they'll do it in a way that's a little less believable. Like, Steph Curry throwing a basketball across a court and making it feels like within

the realm of possibility. I think that's why it's like not, like, super human enough. Right. You know what I mean? Which I think confuses people because, like, the other famous one, the soccer player Ronaldinho, like, years ago did this thing where, like, he alleged, like, was just supposedly able to mean which i think confuses people because like the other famous one the soccer player uh ronaldinho like years ago did this thing where like he alleged like was just supposedly able to kick a ball like right off the crossbar every time and return it to him which is like like you know

robotic levels of control and it went viral because it was like oh shit but most people were like that's fake with this i don't know when i first saw it i was like oh that looks like it has the hallmarks of one of those fake like found footage whoa moments but i don't know i would have liked to seen something a little so he said yeah sorry those are fake but i did make two in a row um okay so that makes me wonder those hundred threes he made in a row was that doctored like was that fake did you see i don't think that earlier this year i remember seeing that and was like my god he's locked in but yeah it'd be one thing if he like then played like absolute shit this season right and instead he's having like uh even better so yeah you can't really argue with it. Yeah, I can. I think that guy sucks.

Hey, let him know, Jack. Let's go. We're going to Oracle tonight. That's right. Respect for marriage is trending. Yep. This sounds like a bill that would be bad. Yes, exactly. I feel like the GOP would pass, and I feel like they were like,

we can't not vote for something that sounds this racist. Marriage for the Troops Act. act damn it they got us uncle sam's health care plan they keep getting us with these names we just voted to tax the rich and have universal health care anyway but yes this is the bill that uh the senate first passed now the house has voted to pass, which again, codifies federal protections for, you know, same sex marriage, interracial couples, you know, what normal people do fall in love, get married. So, yeah, they've managed to pull that off. So now it's up to you, Joe Byron. Get your pen ready. Get your inky winky and get to i don't even

know what the fuck i meant to say there i guess your ink ready inky wink yeah get your inky winky sign the dotted line fam your teletubby brand yeah it happens yeah i did way too many mushrooms watching teletubbies the other night i i do wonder if he's trying to look into if he can delay this until the 2024 election season you know so that he can just be like ah ah where's that darn pen i'm gonna get to it it's just these damn pens are out of ink hopefully i'll get it by i don't know when's election a couple weeks we're not trying to like weaponize you know your lives or like your own sense of stability against you. But vote Joe Biden again, folks. Come on. He'll find his pen.

He'll find his pen. He's going to vote for Joe Biden to find his pen. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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No. But they've announced, kind of, Jackie Chan has announced at a film festival that he's in talks to do another Rush Hour after in 2019, saying that he wasn't doing anything like that. So people are excited. that so people people are excited i personally this was my first uh it was a big it was a big morning for me because it was the first time that i had realized rush hour three had come out oh yeah yeah you didn't see rush hour three i did not it totally was my radar yeah i think well so rush hour two was a great time of the movies that's the one with the in vegas right i i forget what what it was i just remember remember where i was i saw it in connecticut with like the family of my college girlfriend and just i remember being like do that wow that is such

college girl like college girlfriend night at home for. Home for the weekend. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I was just like, oh, anything to be distracted for a moment. But Rush Hour 3 doesn't exist. And even though the Wikipedia page, you know, Brett Ratner's Wikipedia editors have said it was

a hit. You know, the first two movies were like monster hits. and the third movie is... It says that it was a hit because it had $248 million worldwide. But if you assume that the production budget has doubled for marketing, which it

almost always is, then it actually didn't even break even Rush Hour 3. I guess there's a reason that Rush 4 Hour has been delayed. A lot of questions. For instance, Jackie Chan's thing was like, yeah, I'm talking to the director later on and we're going to

figure out if we can get the script where it needs to be. That's my Jackie Chan impression. And people are like, ooh, director you say. Because Brett Ratner directed the first three. Watch something happen with him? Yeah, exactly.

So will he be the director again? Chris Tucker also on the Epstein flight logs. Brett Ratner kind of looks like Hunter Biden. Oh, my God. That's very complimentary to Brett Ratner. Yeah. Hunter Biden's a hunk straight up no you just saw those pictures and you can't get it out of your head that's the thing yeah that's right

we're all haunted yeah uh yeah i think the way you pronounce that is hunk hunk uh yeah also like i don't know can they do a rush hour four in this world now in this world yeah in this world today like all the jokes are just i mean let me tell you as someone being black and asian the amount of rush hour jokes i was subjected to oh my god i can't even tell you like in the beginning i was like when it came it came out, I was like, yes. Cause I was fucked with that first soundtrack too. You know, looked up from your SI for kids. You ain't gotta be rich,

but fuck that. How are we going to get around your bus pass for all your mustache? Like I was like, yeah, a mil. Like I was fucking, what? Well,

fuck you then. Like I, that soundtrack was great. However, you know, there was so much, it's like the's like that yeah the jokes like they cut both ways i was like but yeah we'll see and then as a super producer brian points out yeah chris tucker was on that epstein plane we're gonna talk about that yeah yeah he was on the flight logs whatever whatever whatever yeah but that's cool maybe they'll incorporate that into the plot.

I don't know. Could you imagine? Like trying to excuse it? They're like, no, I was there for like a charity thing in Africa. I had to go to save that little girl who had been kidnapped. Yeah. We had to get on a flight quickly. I couldn't book it.

There's a scene of him being exasperated with the booking agent you know at the airport and then i gotta find junetown though hey did i hear you say that you want to hop a ride with me to south africa with bill clinton yeah all right that's right the new york times is trending there is a walkout happening at the new York Times because they're failing to do what union members are demanding, despite being very profitable. We've talked before about how they're so profitable. massive corporations to get fun little infographics made by the the minds at that from the minds of the new york times and the content creators at bp but anyways they got a lot of money they're choosing not to give it to their employees and hey look at that and you know wages need to go up prices are going up and uh sounds like the leadership of the new york times like i don't know no it's not happening so the union's like yeah this is uh they're not really

showing any good faith uh in this so we're off this for a day so don't play wordle don't play wordle you do that play the crossword puzzle uh don't don't read the new york times today the one day walk out so yeah you can stay off the new york times it's also funny too because like i know the new york times i just i'm sorry i had to look at the new york times write up about the strike that's happening at their own paper just to see where that where they were landing and it's the first time i've seen them actually get a quote from another side not just the one who's they're interested in being, well, the head of the New York Times says, it's really disappointing that they weren't able to

come to an agreement. And then, while union leaders are saying, the New York Times is acting in bad faith. Hey, both sides. Both sides. Power plants are trending because this is now

appears to be a trend. At least seven power plants have been shot up by what are thought to be right wing protesters who are protesting drag events. Yeah. Is that I know that there was in North Carolina. They like the two coincided with each other. Is there is there more like evidence now that to suggest like that's what's going on? Because I remember there was like a January six or woman who was in North north carolina she's like i know why the power is out in that county and then the feds were like okay tell us it's because the power is out because somebody

hit a substation right that's why it seems to be that like the fbi has been brought in there's a lot of speculation as to why it's happening but like it's weird. Some people are saying that there's six that have been tied to this, but then there's other places in this Daily Mail article, which is not always the most trustworthy, but there's about 106 attacks on the electrical grid in the U.S. have been reported from January through August of this year.

Yeah, just going with an assault rifle and shooting up your local power plant seems to be a thing that the raid is doing. Yeah, because I know it's like a thing, like militias, like it's a part of the idea of attacking infrastructure or whatever. So it definitely overlaps there.

Are militias supposed to be like in case something like that happens? So, like, definitely overlaps there. Are militias supposed to be, like, in case something like that happens? Nah, just unhappy guys who didn't make the football team, Lark Bang and fucking Warriors. Yeah. Because it makes things a little bit bearable for them, I guess.

So, it'll be interesting to see what comes of this. Yeah. Like, if they actually get to the bottom of it. Because, like, I feel like you would hear all hear all the time it's like they foiled a plot to attack something right right all right well those are some of the things that are trending on this december 8th we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get the vaccine get the flu shot don't do nothing about white supremacy And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

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