The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit67-530Trend 7/19: Ben & Jerry's, Stephen A. Smith, American Academy of Pediatrics, Geraldo Rivera, English FA, Keldon Johnson, Anti-Sex Beds

Episode Date: July 19, 2021

In this edition of Zeit67-530Trend, Jack and Miles discuss Ben & Jerry's decision to stop sales in West Bank settlements, Stephen A. Smith being wrong for a living, the AAP recommending masks for everyone 2 and up, Geraldo Rivera making sense?!?!?, the English FA cracking down on racial abuse, Keldon Johnson's breakout performance for Team USA, and 'Anti-Sex' beds in the Olympic Village? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And let's tell the people a couple of things that are trending. We got Ben and Jerry's trending. Yeah. a couple of things that are trending we got ben and jerry's trending yeah because they have said they will not sell ice cream uh in settlements yeah and what they call occupied palestine and i'm always curious i'm like well whose definition of occupied like what what are you saying because palestinians will tell you that's a much larger place than gaza and the west bank uh in east jerusalem um but uh this it's a first step because i think they caught a lot of heat for being super you know on top of shit or at least out you know their posts on their social media during over the summer and talking about white supremacy and over policing and a lot

of infographics and bringing a lot of information through their humble ice cream uh social media channel and then they were quite silent um when all the uh you know the just the fighting was happening with uh within israel and occupied palestine and yeah so then it seems like they said after talking with partners and things like that, they will no longer be selling ice cream to essentially settlers are in those territories, but they will be selling it in Israel under, they, they called it like a different arrangement,

which is a bit, an interesting way of wording that, but a first step, no less, I guess from a company that's typically been pretty steadfast in their support of like selling ice cream and settlements and just overall uh israeli foreign policy so yeah this it caused a lot of if you look at the posts like on instagram or twitter i mean like they're just they're exactly what you'd imagine a social media to be when someone is you know has a political

um take uh in a very charged environment and it's just melting down into all kinds of weird stuff but yeah so the people were kind of criticizing them for not doing anything about like basically zionism because they were vocal so it's basically they are being held to the standard that they set with the black lives matter response i think that's what a lot of people just felt like it's just so inconsistent you know like yeah what's going on and also then a lot of people were pointing out it's like well you're still selling it in apartheid israel right so you know it's like you look again it's incremental but that's how most things are and yeah it's it's like, look again, it's incremental, but that's how most things are.

And yeah, it's gaining. And again, they found their place sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Because even though now they're saying it, people who are like a little more critical are being like, well, what about you just in general? Like, are you part of the BDS movement or are you not? Yeah. Okay. Stephen A is trending again it seems like now people have

suddenly uh caught on to the fact that he is wrong for a living i guess would be uh and now it's just i mean he just had a normal show today and he he's trending for all sorts of different things. He said, uh, after a couple games, um, with iconic Giannis Antetokounmpo performances, uh, for non-sports fans, Giannis Antetokounmpo is basically taking over as like the new LeBron. Um,

he's, you know, he's been the MVP of the league for a number of years, but he never won a title. And he's basically just doing unprecedented shit in the finals this year. It's been very fun past couple games to watch and

his teammate Chris Middleton had two good shooting games in a row and Stephen A said you know Middleton could be in the argument for NBA finals MVP. Sir. Which nobody, I mean nobody even thought that i mean he's definitely you know cemented his star cred for sure i'll say that because middleton yeah for

sure and i think there's been criticisms like it was his postseason plays when he would really turn on and they're like we can he be that chris the whole season or is it only like when the chips are down which is look not a bad quality to have. You'd rather have someone be like, they show up in high pressure situations. The low pressure ones, not so much because we have people sort of on the opposite side of that. But Chris Middleton for the, I mean, okay,

maybe an argument that you would lose could be an argument for the NBA Finals MVP. But the iconic moments coming out of yannis are like just too much like the block that l u that block man that was one of the coolest things i've ever seen an athlete do um i wonder like if if we could do a like proportional version to our athletic abilities how small that space would have to be for us to be like to cover cover a driving guard who's about to throw a lob up and go from trying to deny that lane to then going across and then blocking out it would it would probably be like

two feet on a five foot rim it would need to be outdoors because i would need them to throw the lob so high that i had time to turn around uh that it would it would hit the ceiling just fucking launch like in an absurd fashion yeah yeah i would need but yeah i mean i'd need to turn around and take a couple beats to catch my breath um and then you know probably like let my eyes focus on the person i'm supposed to be defending which takes a little while these days uh anyways are you gonna where what do you think where do you what do you who you got you think you think the suns can do it or you think just these three games in a row just it's it's it's becoming insurmountable i think it's becoming insurmountable i mean not insurmountable

for sure uh right there's sometimes when like first quarter of game five when the suns just were kind of running away with it you know it definitely looked like they could run away with the the whole series and then milwaukee just kind of gutted their way back in it really is like the question of you know they have one person who's unstoppable as a score on Phoenix and the bucks have three at any given time. And they had all three of them working on and kind of watching Devin in game five, you know,

his, I felt like maybe his distribution was not as good as it could have been. It felt like he was the, the comparisons to Kobe young young kobe may be appropriate of in all their moments i'm like you may want to pass it i know you've got the skills to pay the bills but maybe this is these are the heartaches you have to learn to sort of begin to say like i there's times when i can do it and there's times when i have to you know dish the ball yeah it just makes it easier to defend at a certain point if you know he's,

like, I mean, that's how he, they stole it from him at the end because they knew he was going to try and get a shot up.

American Academy of Pediatrics, what are they saying? What are those assholes saying? They're saying, hey, if you're over age two, you need to mask the fuck up. Okay.

That's, that's their, that's their nationwide? New take. Yeah, that's just sort of generally what they are saying you know um just don't don't don't think that uh you know just with all these new variants going around and vaccination rates that they are just don't chance it protect yourself it's it's not

it's it's not worth it um but yeah that's it's bad it's definitely a bit of a quick check of where we are because schools are about to open and things like that, and they're saying regardless of vaccination status, if we're going full reopening, we should be doing this. So yeah. Yeah. Geraldo is trending, which is always an adventure. Every time he's trending was what's new with

Geraldo he's just been on this you know he's recently been showing that he he definitely agrees with that you know certain elements of the he agrees that the pandemic is deadly and we need to protect ourselves and the way to do that is with being vaccinated and also understanding the threat that

unvaccinated people pose to just the general public safety. And he just tweeted this. And this tweet just blew up because everyone's like, I am agreeing with Geraldo. He's on Fox saying other nonsense. But he says, hearing crazy talk on cable TV right now about folks having the constitutional right not to get vaccinated. Yes, they may be dopey, but they do have that right. We have rights to to deny the unvaccinated access

to our home school or business and people like right it you know the don't i got rights works in a few different directions turns out right huh shout out to geraldo uh that's gonna be probably the only time we ever say that i'm wondering which uh cable tv channels he's hearing that uh crazy talk on probably the one he possibly be the one that he works for um wow all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back this summer the nation watched as the republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today.

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killing it the english soccer team whatever they're like dude do something about this man so yeah the english fa obviously was imploring you know the government and law enforcement to do something about all this racial abuse that was being hurled at black players like jayden sancho bukayo saka marcus rashford and there's so far there have been five arrests um where they have were able to like just sort of connect the dots back to real people there's like one kid who got like that's like got his scholarship taken away for like their verbal or racial insults that were being hurled online as well so it looks like they're they're they've got something going it just seems like it's like you rest five

like i feel like you'd have to rest millions of people like right if we're going there so i don't i mean i hope it's effective i guess maybe these people are being having examples being made out of them right um deterrent but shit it's more than you'll see in this country um yeah so that's that's interesting to see at the very least they're like okay well we need to address this in some way um whether it's like banning people for life from attending matches or whatever but just to sort of draw a line and say you cannot do this at all this is unacceptable um but you know the investigations continue i'm sure the libertarian and right-wing people will be totally reasonable in response to this news and not yeah and even just like other people just like how effective is that though like can you is that the solution is like trying to divert those resources to go

like find people out in the world but i guess that would make someone think twice if you're in england and you want to get racist on Twitter. Hey, and if, and if you want to keep getting racist on Twitter, there's, there's plenty of other countries that won't do anything about it for you to go. Uh,

Kelden Johnson is trending who is not a household name. Um, this is part of our, uh, Olympic coverage, by the way, we're, we're now,

uh, have a whole section for it. Uh uh so he is a player on the san antonio spurs uh who the coach of the usa basketball team is greg popovich who's the coach of the san antonio spurs he basically just like pulled one of his like kind of you know workman like you know the third best player on a mediocre team, but who he was like, this dude is kind of what we need for the team, even though they have like Kevin Durant and Dame Lillard in the backcourt.

And so he just pulled in Kelton Johnson and they went from losing to Nigeria and Australia to beating Spain, who's like usually the other powerhouse. Yeah. So kind of, it's interesting, you you know you got to treat it like a team and uh sometimes like role players are what you need yeah especially when you got a bunch of stars like you meet someone who's like i just need someone to come in and do a job like yeah not somebody who's trying to you know cement

their place in olympics history because that was vince carter when he dunked over that french dude like directly over him that will never leave my mind yeah uh and finally uh we wanted to talk about this probably the most viral story about the olympics besides the spread of the virus is uh these beds baby you know what we're talking about beds made of cardboard uh and the way it's being covered is probably to stop the athletes from boning am i right ladies and gents that's how we'll do it make the beds be unfuckable on right so a couple things with that story first of all this is you it's always a red flag when the story seems to be getting most of its run or like gets its first coverage from the new york post uh and that's where this one came through and it's basically it started as american runner paul kalimo tweeting these beds are aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes

and you know this is just an athlete this is not an official uh and there's like a jokey tweet too yeah it ends with like the crying laughing emoji yeah um i i see no problem for distance runners even four of us can do uh not sure exactly what he meant there but yeah it's a crying laughing emoji and the headline for the new york post athletes to sleep on quote anti-sex cardboard beds at olympic games amid covid i mean that's that's one way to take a tweet a joke tweet from a uh one of the athletes okay but it gets traction gets traction because it's sort of a novel idea of like a chastity bed or something that's like, the second you start pumping, this thing's going to fall apart.

It's going to turn to bits. And like most people are making jokes like, yeah, do a Brooklyn style with the mattress on the floor. But I guess there's a lot of uh debate on how to keep the athletes safe and if this is the way to do it but like it's when they say cardboard they're completely missing the part that like it's made of like recycled cardboard because like it's all about sustainability so after the games like they can take those cardboard elements of it and recycle them into like further paper goods and things like that and plus the design

of this predates covid so as much as we want to sleep in on a bunch of fucking pizza boxes yeah i think is like what it hits people's imagination when they hear cardboard beds and i'm sure the sochi games makes gives us that imagination for like the most just janky like living quarters because i remember the sochi olympics you were like um because like remember like parts of the like dormitories in the olympic village like half finished and shit right people got trapped because like the shower was in like part in one room and part in the other like yeah just like oh damn we put the wall in the middle of the shower yeah yeah i mean when you look at the picture of

the quarters um it definitely looks very spartan very uh there's two beds and two dressers and that's all you got um yeah so i don't know it looks it looks like freshman year of college a little bit uh yeah you know looks like a dorm where they're making sure that the students aren't boning by being on real rickety old beds yeah i bet people are like picturing the dennis nedry like we'll like start start playing if uh you try and have sex on the bed and it just collapses on you this bed isn't for boning stay your ass in your own room but it's funny because like another there was an irish gymnast who posted a video of them just like jumping on the bed to be like yo you can fuck on here basically you're like they're not flimsy

they're just it's a stupid headline that just turned into a whole thing but again these olympics are such a disaster i'll believe everything the second i read it like if you know it's like oh my god it's like there's they have a horse hair problem there's like a bunch of horse hair everywhere we don't know where it's coming from like see right games are goofy that's also a good way of that irish gymnast to you know put it out there that he's he's entertaining offers yeah yeah exactly you know my bed works yeah my bed works fyi um and i think the you know if you're not familiar with the whole i i'm sure most people are the the whole trope of the olympics being like a like one big orgy

uh you got the 94 winter olympics where an alpine skier said two german bobsledders offered to trade their medals for sexual favors uh an unauthorized brothel reported at the 2000 games in sydney as opposed to the authorized brothel i guess a hot tub orgy at the vancouver games in 2010 uh sex right out in the open at the london games in 2012 sex right out in the open yeah and that's a direct quote and an american javelin thrower admitted having sex with three women every single day sometimes just hours apart i don't know if we can say admitted uh i think that's bragged and possibly made up having sex with three women every single day but um hey you know hey man americans you know number one yeah especially

the the idea that it's an american come on yeah dude i was like dude like three a day all right i'm gonna own up to it i'm not proud of this but um yeah like three a day. All right. I'm going to own up to it. I'm not proud of this, but, um, yeah, like three a day. And they were all like, dude, you're the best at sex. And like,

also like, I feel so bad. Yeah. They're all saying like, honestly, if there were like a gold medal for like sex, like you would have got that. Obviously like your javelin throwing skills aren't as great,

but like the sex is good. So I think they're, I think they're telling the truth. All right. Well, those are the things that are trending this afternoon. 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 fucking vaccine.

Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest, because the company had promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Swordquest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades.

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