The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeitlander: There Can Only Be Trend 5/25: George Floyd, John Cena, Mark Ruffalo, Jackass, Flavortown

Episode Date: May 25, 2021

On this edition of Zeitlander: There Can Only Be Trend Jack and Miles discuss the 1-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, John Cena kowtowing to China, Mark Ruffalo buffaloed by Israel, Johnny Knoxville getting too old for this, and Guy Fieri's $80m Food Network Deal. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's Miles. It's Tuesday afternoon, and this is what is trending. We're having, first of all, just up top, guys. We're having some issues with, I'm sure this is, or maybe it's not happening because not that many people record Zooms. But the new feature on Zoom. This is being recorded. Thank you. It's very... That I inherently leave.

Makes every Zoom podcast recording feel like a call to prison. Yeah, it is a little jarring. Yeah. But anyway. All right. Well, here are the things that are trending. George Floyd on the one-year anniversary of his death. Yeah.

And there are some takes. There are some takes. Yeah, all kinds of takes sort of suggesting, like, thank you. Like, sort of treating him like a martyr. The Pelosi. Which he is not. Yes. I mean,

Nancy Pelosi really held it down for the George Floyd martyr crew, but he did not decide to sacrifice his life. His life was ended by a police officer. Tragically, he was killed. So there was no, it's just weird. It shows how little progress we've made in the discourse.

Like we can't even just like, if we're gonna focus not to say that george floyd's uh murder wasn't important and absolutely drove things uh to a certain extent but like there are so many other black unarmed black people who have been killed and to get hung up as if like george floyd is sort of like this singular thing i think just does a disservice to like overall what people are trying to get, uh, and the liberation that people are looking for rather than just like, well, uh,

you know, Derek Chauvin found guilty. So let's go right back to it. Y'all. Yeah. I wonder if that's going to become a thing like the way that, uh, you know,

mainstream American culture co-opted the message of martin luther king jr to be like hey he says right we're all friends and yeah there's not racism is about being colorblind i wonder if george floyd because he's a symbol of somebody uh the murderer actually being found guilty if that uh if that will be he's the the one instance that uh people who want to sell toyotas or believe that america isn't racist will will use i mean there's already been a lot of backlash from the companies that said all this stuff at the in the summer of like all the things they were going to do and then how very little followed through on it just because it's like yeah that's what you say right now and then things move on and then you don't have to worry about the suffering of people i think much in the same way like just because there's a ceasefire uh with israel and palestine you know it's like less reporting

on all the mass arrests that are happening of palestinians living in israel too like it's sort of like the music all right we got to the past the rocket part so let's just end our attention to this other thing happening as well. Many things can be happening at the same time so please stay aware. But again just these

sort of thank you George Floyd takes are just fucking awful. Did you guys talk about Mark ruffalo yesterday on yesterday's friendly no well so that's kind of related to this next story john cena two actors who are apologizing today um so john cena is apologizing in mandarin to the people of china for the grave error he made of calling taiwan a country oh boy he's you know he's been studying mandarin for a minute he posted like weibo a lot um but apparently it was during a fast furious nine junket he said oh and taiwan will be like the first country that'll get to see the film

i'm really excited he said that during a press thing yeah uh so the language he was using he was like i am so sorry i it was like this i don't know i mean he must be making a lot of money from there and have a lot of fans there but his apology was like i've never seen somebody or like he was really you must understand i love the people of china and uh there was a mistake was made it's like taiwan is a country okay listen to the people that live in the lands you're talking about they're not saying they're part of china they will say they are their own democratically organized own nation much in the same way any oppressed people will say no no that's that's what they think that's what some oppressors trying to say about us. We're a country.

Tune in tomorrow for Miles' apology for having said what he just said. Yeah, well, we'll see. Yeah, luckily they're not making my blunts, so don't owe them much. So you're good. But the thing, yeah, it goes just, it goes on with like, you know, we've seen this in the past, just like with Daryl Morey when he was with the Rockets. He said he was talking about like being, you know,

supporting the protesters of Hong Kong. And this happens with so many brands like Prada or like Louis Vuitton. They'll make shirts that has like a map of the world and Taiwan will be labeled as a country. And then they're like oh our bad our bad our bad our bad our bad so sorry we didn't mean to offend anyone um but i think just shows you you know the power of uh you know these markets and what it means to people

yeah because it's not like it's not i don't think it's john cena apologizing because he believes that he ran afoul of what he believes, like what Taiwan is as a nation. It's that it was clearly going, it was not a good business move. And that is the pivot we're seeing, like you're talking about with Mark Ruffalo. Right. Mark Ruffalo was, you know, speaking up for the rights of the Palestinian people to not be murdered. I think he used language that was found offensive, and so he had to come on social media and backtrack, and backtrack at a live event, I think, also.

It was just... He said he was sorry that he used the word genocide right in relation to the actions of israel and he said quote it's not accurate it's inflammatory disrespectful and is being used to justify anti-semitism here abroad now is the time to avoid hyperbole come on that's right that's such a not that's not a real take that's right that is i mean you're watching you can see what's happening yeah that's a lawyer to overtake because if he he would have been he would have said sorry i use genocide for the systematic killing of a race in palestine by the israeli authorities which is by many definitions what genocide is but i understand okay i'm sorry

how about this uh human rights violator that seems to be something that many other you know international bodies are willing to agree upon but yeah i think it's uh you feel like it sounded like that was the real mark ruffalo in the first tweet and then you know your support staff is like you're gonna have to sort this out now sorry every celebrity is a corporation so yeah and if look if if you're not in the business of talking spicy then don't talk spicy or rather the truth it reminds me of like back like years ago where they were like we're sorry for that we said that the congressperson's language was racist it's like well it was right i don't know what we're apologizing because you're allowing you know someone else to dictate or define what this

conversation is about and completely you know distract from what is actually happening miles being called racist is the worst thing that can happen to someone in america so i wouldn't know i'm using the other side of it but okay i'll believe you it's absolutely the worst uh oh that's the worst okay yeah worse than getting uh your life taken for yeah by the police uh for doing nothing um johnny knoxville is trending uh there's a new uh what what is being called the last the final jackass film coming at us and there's a new gq article uh talking about his career as he prepares for that um many people marveling at his uh survival to this point dude he's so his he's so physically fucked up yeah it's like not even funny he's 51 or something now yeah and he's i'm fucked up. Yeah. It's like not even funny.

He's 51 or something now. Yeah, and he's like... I'm like, I'm at that age. Look, yes, I was fucking gassed up off of those jackass shows, the CKY tapes, the fucking films. But as I get older in my body, knowing the shit I can or is iffy to do, I'm like, please, Johnny, you don't have to let this be more of a cerebral jackass than a physical one.

Give your body a break, sir. And I don't know if I, I don't know. Part of me feels like I have all this like old, old body empathy where I'd be like, oh, no, no. Like watching it. And I'm like, I can't watch. Please, I can't watch this. Like the whole fun of that was watching young, dumb people injure themselves in young fun dumb ways

like backyard wrestling type shit and it's not fun when you think the person's gonna die I guess you know that he's not he hasn't died but uh you know he's got gray hair like he's got all the markers of

somebody who it hurts to get out of bed in the morning and he's out all the markers of somebody who it hurts to get out of bed in the morning and he's out there like fucking you know just getting well i don't even know what the what the uh stunts are in this one but yeah i i just i just already hear bruce springsteen from like that the song from the wrestler like have you ever seen a one trick pony and you're like oh god please don't tragic just pivot johnny to just do fucking like airbnb ads or something yeah host america's got talent like shouldn't he be on that shouldn't he be one of the panelists for america's got talent at a certain point it's like johnny knoxville doesn't have to be on t i'm sure if he's good with his estates and his finances just lay down forever please take care of yourself if he's fine

financially then yeah man what are you still doing out here what are you doing man just create a create space for the young jackasses out yeah like yeah he that absolutely he should have like treated it like uh you know like turn right like kobe leaving it like having people or jordan like having young people who wear his brand here's my jackass challenge to you yeah you know what i mean right get jackass of the year within two seasons um flavor town is trending yeah i mean it's always kind of trending in our hearts but oh yeah it's trending now because so i don't even this is one of uh so i didn't do any of the trends you you pulled all the trends for us in this and i don't know what this sentence means because look i'm

gonna read this okay yeah so flavor town is trending because Guy Fieri just signed a three-year extension worth $80 million with the Food Network. Now, I wrote the Knicks because this sounds like athlete money now. Right. Like three-year extension, $80 million. I'm like, who are we talking about? Guy Fieri? And it's not for the Dodgers. Oh, it's the...

Okay. fiat even and it's not for the dodger oh it's the okay um i mean just goes to show you what the fuck this guy's like his gravitational pull if his extension is worth you know another fucking 23.33 million or whatever do we think the food network has nba contracts where it's guaranteed uh with with or without you know injury uh i don't know you know that nfl do they i don't know what i don't know what those numbers look like i don't know what what kind of red lines we saw back and forth when they got to this agreement um but you know fieri's a fighter um and you know it's kind of one of the people you definitely want in your franchise uh when you need somebody with a good heart who will wear a jokey bowling ball shirt

franchise uh when you need somebody with a good heart who will wear a jokey bowling ball shirt uh and will you know does will bleach his tips till they they can be bleached no more right i'm gonna go i'm gonna say something controversial here i think his agent should be fired i think he should get way more than this uh because fieri is like i i wouldn't have said that until you put it in the context of sports okay he is bigger than the food network the same way that like lebron was bigger than the calves he is like he is transcending and becoming like his moment is now like getting bigger and like his uh cultural impact is getting bigger they need him way more than he needs them uh so i don't know maybe this is like non-exclusive or whatever but just in terms of okay but with that you're saying he's worth more than 26 27 mil a season yeah i'm saying like you know uh what are we looking at what what are you what are you doing

what if you're breaking down a season with fieri what are you trying to get him well i guess i guess when you put it that way i was i was uh so i'm good at math and so i was dividing eight into dividing eight three times into 20 uh which is not which is not how math works holy go on we'reetrics you fucking weird I was like thinking of like you know that's a Brooke Lopez contract or something and he's more of a he's more of a max guy he should be

a max guy but maybe like 27 million is actually probably max so maybe maybe that's about right where it should be yeah what does Durant make a year? Oh, man. Durant's

salary from the Nets, he makes 26.54. So he's right in line. Yeah, so he's just edging him out with 26.6666667. So Although Durant is underpaidpaid that's whose agent yeah

yeah lebron is 39.22 james harden's 41.25 million kairi's 33 how is kevin durant is he on an old contract no what is happening did he have less like power because they're he had no achilles maybe does that kind of bring the kind of that might lessen the whatever all that to say i think fieri i think look come come to you know zeitgang sports agency uh and we'll triple that you know what i mean yeah man just trust us you know i work I work hard for my clients. Meaning I eat at all the Tex Wasabi's franchises I can go to. So that place is apparently gone. It was always like in the back of my mind, bucket list.

Tex Wasabi? That I'd be able to go to Tex Wasabi. But somebody was talking about that restaurant on a podcast recently and said that like that was only around for like a a short a short while um yeah johnny garlics and before the pandemic yeah yeah they've been out anyways do you have you ever eaten at a fieri like original joint not like a place that's been on diners drive-ins and no i have not i have not made uh i've been places from diners drive-ins and dives because i used to do more production stuff and with travel like i had that app that was like basically are you close to a place that's that was on diners drive-ins and dives yeah or like

anything that's been on a food network special that's dope so it was cool like you could be like man i'm in savannah georgia what the fuck do i know like aside from just local although i did i did uh tweet big boy from outcast where to go in savannah georgia and he replied to me in the year of our lord 2012 you can check the fucking receipts um i think he told me to go to i think it's called slo's barbecue uh and it was delicious but um damn even no no that's a real recommendation i gotta fucking remember what it was. Slo's is in Detroit. Anyway, look, Savannah BBQ Gang, let me know. But yes, I've never been to a Fieri

place. I would, I want to. More than anything, I think I just want to fucking smoke weed with Guy Fieri. I would just see what that's like. Yeah, or do the next thing, get high and go to his restaurant. That should be a... That's like doing acid if you smoke weed with Guy Fieri he's gonna I feel

like he'll say some weird shit like not problematic but you're just like what or he's just the most normal person in the world yeah and you're like never it's like smoking with your dad he's like yeah man and then Tiger Woods was good at golf

what uh-huh you know who was good at golf What? You know who was good? Jordan Just like the most vanilla taste Hey man stop killing the blunt Just talking man let me hit that really quick Alright hey You ever see that commercial with Ronaldinho the soccer player And he's kicking a ball against a crossbar

The goal That was fake I don't know if you know that. He actually didn't do that. Alright, bro, what? The worst, most boring guy to smoke with. Alright, that is what is trending on this Tuesday

afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole last 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. We will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.

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