The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit vs Trendzilla 4/5: UCLA, Shohei Ohtani, Paul Pierce, Godzilla v Kong, DMX, Vaccine

Episode Date: April 5, 2021

On this edition of Zeit vs Trendzilla Jack and Miles discuss UCLA Basketball, Shohei Ohtani literally crushing it, Paul Pierce's IG Live video, 'Godzilla vs Kong' destroying the box office, DMX being on life support, and U.S. Vaccine Passports, or the lack thereof. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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does that even mean? It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this episode of zeitverse trenzilla uh that is courtesy of dolphin beam i'm jack that's miles yeah uh let's talk about some sports actually real yeah we don't do that enough on this show let's get right into it the i mean that game as a ucla alum yo i was rooting so i like came around on

this ucla team so hard i loved tiger campbell i loved johnny johnny juzang man i was really feeling that and like that that was like getting punched in the gut man what but also the best college basketball game that i've seen in decades maybe my life i mean jaime jaquez jr tiger campbell looking like young bob marley and me explaining to every person who has not been watching ucla basketball until like wait yo what's with this team i'm like yeah i don't know but they're here uh it dude what a fucking ride i mean 100 i can't as much as that shit killed me um there's no way that there's i mean there's just absolutely no way this team or any ucla bruin alumni supporter whatever could hang their head because we took what I believe

is going to be the national championship to the absolute fucking limit and forced them to hit just a pull-up dagger shot at the buzzer to change the game. Like, it wasn't going to...

It was such a fucking battle. It was unbelievable. The last four minutes i like was just about to tear off my skin yeah yeah oh i felt like yeah i needed to go smoke a pack of cigarettes after that i was like my heart was just beating out of my chest um and now something now you know look ju-zang they're gonna be talking about about him. Look who's suddenly in the conversation. Yeah, now people are in the conversation off the strength of those performances. And he, I mean, he really, you know, shout out to him.

You know, I've been looking for people who look like me out there on the court. Even though he went to my rival high school, but it's fine. Yeah, he went to Harvard Westlake, right? Yeah. Yeah, whatever. Look, Johnny Juzang, as long as you got that blue and gold on you know what i mean you could do what you got to do yeah yeah yeah and gonzaga so for people who don't follow college basketball uh or weren't watching the game gonzaga is the

first undefeated team to make it to the finals in like a decade or more yeah i think i think decades and they the ucla an 11 seed which you know since there's four uh brackets that would put them like the committee thought of them as like a 44th best team in the country type 40th to 44th uh and they uh took them all the way to the limit and Gonzaga might be one of the best teams of all time. Um, and it was, it was a great game. I do. I was complaining on Twitter throughout because it just feels weird to like,

it feels outdated to have like Jim Nance there being like Tiger, like Tiger woods. Like just, it feels like it's being made for like golf deads or something who like don't watch basketball candace parker candace parker yeah seriously candace parker like please the yeah the they most excited they got was like about a ref getting a call right they were like he should be an nfl ref he explained that so well it was like what the what are you talking about um another exciting sports thing uh that happened over the weekend shohei otani who we have talked about before on the podcast winning uh so this is a japanese

baseball player who is you know one of the most yeah he's one of the one of the most anticipated players in years he's been here for like three four seasons and like has had a lot of injury problems but people are super excited because he can he's like a great pitcher and a great hitter and like that hasn't happened really since babe ruth like just yeah and it's a cultural thing too in japan like they're like oh you can rock it yeah do your shit then yeah you know like here it's just like if you're a pitcher you'll never fucking bad like yeah why would you it makes doesn't make sense offensively and we're also not in the business of being like yeah you should fucking get your you know work on your bat speed a little bit you might get some might get you on base uh but yeah he's he's just like a true two-way player and that fucking just first

pitch swinging just fucking destroyed the ball it was like a 450 foot home run or something like yeah it was the hardest that a ball had been hit so far this season. Obviously, it's a young season, but it was. So he did that at his first at-bat. And he also, during, I think, one of his first innings that he was pitching, threw the fastest pitch so far of the Major League Baseball season. After having Tommy John surgery. Yeah. Like, yeah.

I'm so excited. you know my my friend ty another japanese american kid we when he was coming over we were praying to god that he was not going to the angels because we are lifelong dodger fans and maybe man this maybe we can maybe we could figure something out and the second that happened i was like we were both like are we gonna have to wear angel stuff because on some level we were so like all japanese people were like so stoked on shohei and i like and just to see him be such a generational talent is it just fills me with such joy but like also like i'm sorry i can't get down with that uniform so maybe i'm just gonna make my like fantasy show a dodgers uniform he uh so he was the first person

the first pitcher to hit second in the lineup since 1903 uh the first pitcher to hit dh ever right um it's just you know he's doing something that no living person has seen in their lifetime. So it's pretty dope. And he plays with Mike Trout. Yeah, that's the thing. The Angels really just like gobble up generational talents and still manage to not make the postseason. Sorry. Sorry, Angels fans.

Hey, you hate to see it, you know? You hate to see it fans hey you hate to see it you know you hate to see it or it can be like the dodgers and have your soul ripped out back to back years well the second season we didn't do that great but the first one what cheating ass guys broke paul pierce had a a pretty noteworthy weekend uh people were you know talking shit about him because he went live from a poker game looked like a bachelor party like he was getting a massage a woman was dancing behind him uh acrobatically he looked acrobatically i like that for those listeners she's making a clap y'all uh-huh uh and people were throwing poker chips uh at her i believe as tips cool and paul pierce

looked like he had never done ecstasy before and then he did it for three days and he did all the ecstasy yeah he's like i took all the ecstasies guys all the ecstasies hey this guy's a cop man what the hell why'd you also like his energy was so he was clearly going live to like taunt another woman who i think would have danced at this party because like you could have got money yeah yeah monica swing through yeah monica swing monica swing through famous last words if you're in la so so it's not even he wasn't even certain she was in town yeah but anyways he's married uh also is like a espn personality who's like you know espn personalities tend to be pretty buttoned up uh disney owned company yeah so it's it's it

was interesting uh i i appreciated his tweet on sunday at like 7 p.m where he tweeted good morning uh to everybody so he you know he was like yeah man i got real fucked up this weekend anyways uh and converse godzilla the box office was you know it's starting to look like it did before the pandemic they did about the same as the last Godzilla movie and that is with theaters basically being reduced capacity. Oh so then it killed the first the last one. Oh yeah. It's doing

much better overseas but yeah it's going to be the first Hollywood movie to make 400 million since Bad Boys for Life and might be the first to hit 500 since frozen 2 which seems like it came out in the mid 90s right right frozen 2 i remember i was 11 when that yeah um dmx is trending obviously uh very very sad news from over the weekend um he you know od is on life support um you know in a vegetative state

right now yeah not not not brand not no brain activity uh as there's not a lot of brain activity i i'm like really bummed out by this and you know it's look he he's a he's a this motherfucker is all over the place we know he's right he's he's said all kinds of wild shit he's done all kinds of wild shit um but like i was realizing you know in my adult life like looking i was just thinking about him you know just looking back on the man earl simmons dark man x and i realized i think when i was a kid i was like yo this guy's as angry as me or like his music sounds as chaotic as my adolescence is in mentally emotionally for me at the moment so that's what pulled me in was like yeah this is this feels right and then as i got older and looking back i realized man dmx was just one of the most openly um haunted rappers like out there like in terms of

like charting you know he was not you don't really know what jay well you know what's going on in jay's mind you don't know what's going on in fucking you know i mean like other artists sure like there are other artists that are honest like kendrick or jay cole or whatever who are going to rap a little bit differently but dmx was like clearly just this tortured haunted person who did not not know how to help himself but he only knew how to express himself through his raps super aggressively and i think there's something about that like i try and take on as like a thing to you know what can we what wisdom can you take because most people we don't like to struggle in front of other people we don't like people to see us struggle with anything. It's why we don't ask for,

but a lot of people don't ask for help when they need help, or they'll try and solve things and keep things private and don't share things because we have this thing of not wanting to allow people to see a struggle. And DMX allowed the entire world to see his struggle. And I'm not trying to like really wax poetic about it, but like, as I look back, I back i'm like that's actually i think the thing that resonated with me is that he was just honest because i mean he was i don't know another rapper who was crying like that yeah vulnerable and also being so honestly toxic with his masculinity too oh yeah and uh yeah just i mean and check out any uh interviews that he's done like later in his career like really understanding how much pain that he went through it really kind of i just thought he was the toughest motherfucker i ever saw or whatever you know he's got that r.i.p boomer back tad he's

wearing a fucking chain learn but he talks there's a clip of him on the talib quali podcast where he talked about at 14 when he was just in and out of juvie for since seven years old, he got out of 14 and this dude tricked him into smoking crack at 14 that he looked up to that he was doing crimes with and robbing people with. And that completely fucked up his sense of self, completely fucked up his ability to trust someone because this was someone he really looked up to. And when you like see these moments,

it gives me just another dimension to what you know what dmx actually was rather than just being like oh man dmx was the dude who barked yeah yeah we when you first like when i first started listening to him i was not expecting him to be like breaking new ground in terms of like how vulnerable he was willing to be on mic and definitely ahead of his time and in terms of that yeah and i think he he stealthed it very well because when you're it's so violent and angry and you're screaming it it looks like strength but right he's actually talking about is like deception his inability to trust people how cynical his worldview has become and yeah so like that's me

getting in my like washed hip-hop analysis phase in my latter years i'm like nah i think that's what maybe was resonating was that like it wasn't because you know you juxtapose that with the bling bling era and those people you there's no fucking way you didn't know shit about them as people right right at least this guy was hurt yeah and that's what i you know latched on to so you know uh I hope if he's able to pull through I know things don't look very good but maybe something good can happen it's also the 27th anniversary

of Kurt Cobain's death so people are tweeting about that but another drug related people in a lot of pain who turn to drugs to deal with it and man it's a it's a bitch it's a it's a tough one yeah yeah another dude you could that's i think i wonder if you know because you could hear it in his voice too yeah like it was it sound you know it felt

if it sounded like how i'm sure it felt yeah yeah exactly i think that's like a thing that they both very they're very similar and like sonically you could you kind of you could feel where they're coming from yeah that unplugged album which was the i you know looking back i hadn't realized how close that was like that was like weeks before his death right yeah but man what a fucking performance dude you hear lake of fire right now you're gonna be like oh my god yeah where do bad men go when they die and finally uh vaccine passports are trending because uh fauci came out and was like i don't think the federal government's going to be the people mandating vaccine passports. You know, this has been something that Republicans have been against for the same reason they've been against mask mandates and all that shit.

But he was saying, like, I could definitely see corporations doing it. So it's just more America, you you know turning the job of government over to corporations and yeah i don't know is it like you can it's not like vaccine passports it can be illegal or something it's just that there's not going to be one single uh government entity that is demanding that you have them in order yeah which means it's now going to be one single government entity that is demanding that you have them in order to travel. Yeah, which means it's now going to be more sovereign citizen type shit about being like, well, you can't allow me. And now it's like, well, you know the free market that you love so much?

You heard it? You know free market capital? Yeah, this is what's happening. I'm saying I'm free to tell you to fuck off as the business owner. But, well, yeah, I think we were talking about it last week when you were gone and just how slippery of a slope that becomes, you know, because then at a certain point, that's just, yeah, that's just going to kick off a black market. And you'll have people exploiting this ability to manipulate data

to put other people at risk. And it's just like, I don't. ability to manipulate data to put other people at risk and it's just like i don't but again but how can you also try and properly manage uh this pandemic without being like well if if you are unvaccinated i mean you're vulnerable right then that we how do we safeguard against you because we can't americans have shown they don't know what mortality is because so if you gave them a binary of like well you could be harmed like yeah i don't care and then cut to their deathbed and they're like trump 2020 right you're like what no see that see that's why you weren't actually equipped to make the decision for yourself that's why experts who

are studying this said it's better it's the outcomes are better for you to be safe uh and to be inoculated yeah bad at that bad at uh having any sense of collectivism whatsoever so um bad combo hell yeah america uh anyways Anyways, those are some of the things that are trending from today and over the weekend. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be

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