The Daily Zeitgeist - ZeitRider 8/5: Lebanon, Reels, Jake Paul, Ren & Stimpy

Episode Date: August 5, 2020

On this edition of ZeitRider Jack and Miles discuss more news coming out of Lebanon, Facebook has launched Instagram Reels to battle Tik Tok, Jake Pauls' house has been raided by the FBI for unconfirmed reasons, and Ren & Stimpy is coming back! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Jack O'Brien, that's Miles Gray. This is what's trending right now. We are still seeing reports come in, a lot of news coming through from Lebanon. Despite what our president said at first, it was not, they don't believe it was an intentional act. Oh, right. He immediately said, oh, shameful attack. Yeah, shameful attack, bomb. And it seems like it was, which makes sense with him that, you know, something that he

would interpret as intentional or pretend as intentional is actually just sheer incompetence but it seems like what what happened was they were storing too much seized explosives at the same place and a fire broke or the ammonium nitrate specifically right could have been yet used for fertilizer or explosives but yeah so right now i think as people are still kind of trying to figure out what is going on and fully understand the devastation um superdose anahosene just helped collect some links of ways to help out uh whether that's uh like funding medical relief directly uh there are some medical students who are also looking to raise funds to help out there, as well as people trying to provide shelter. Because if you look at the aftermath,

the city has been flattened. So people are in need. So if there is a way for you to help, the resources will be there. I will tweet some out. And yeah, you can get them all there. And also from the Daily Zeitgeist account. And just on top of everything else, aside from the devastation of this explosion, let's not forget that there is also a pandemic happening across the world. So things like adequate medical care, shelter are doubly, triply, quadruply even more important. So yes, we'll have those resources for you. Yeah.

Reels is trending. Reels is, it seems like it's... So what Instagram Live was to fucking Snapchat, this is... I'm just trying to remember all those kid technologies. All those kid technologies. So what Instagram Live was to Snap snap this is to tiktok instagram stories instagram stories my bad yeah um yeah so they're they're basically this is them they're trying to uh rip off tiktok so that uh they don't have to acquire tiktok essentially yeah i don't know i guess i do is it that much different i already

was like man i can't i i'm barely able to do stories and all i have to do is hold something down like adding effects right i don't know i'm sure there'll be time enough to figure it out but uh cool i mean i i've had a hard time paying attention to anything tiktok uh related yeah that's not since you saw those people biting your fucking style that you've been like exactly putting out there since like that's my dance yeah you guys knew that was my dance um you're like i used to i used to explain my complex personal issues with choreographed group dances you guys showed me the wayne brady thing that was oh man but that that is something that i have seen uh people going through some shit but like doing it in the genre of a tiktok video like a dance

video um there was one video that somebody posted that was a young woman, a young woman lamenting it. Like, so I caught it, you know, after I missed the first five seconds. So I didn't know what it was. And it just seemed like one of those,

you know, photo montages of a happy couple. But then it actually starts off with a girl crying and being like to the guy or to the girl who my ex-boyfriend left me for like be kind to him it was just the most like self-effacing uh darkest thing i think i've ever you know yeah because that's the kind of thing like she knows like if the dude who like dumps like yeah but see she's like a good person at the end yeah do that you know what i mean and also like i don't know this pro i gotta wear condoms again who dumped us. She's a good person. She doesn't have to do that.

I don't know this part. I've got to wear condoms again. We'll see. We'll see. Being kind while using a bunch of pictures of you guys looking cute together. Those were the pictures. I'm just so glad

I'm so far past this shit like you know this is the time honored take from people our age like thank god this shit was not around when we were when we were going through our adolescence trying to sort out who we are as people and making mistakes and shit i gotta say almost got my household tiktok infected my household. I'm not going to say whether it was me or my wife, but one of us became obsessed with trying to figure out how to do the TikTok dances early on in quarantine. Had the whole family staying up all night doing drilling. That may have been the root of some of the beef

Jack and I were experiencing over emphasis of TikTok. Miles, just do it. Come on. He's like, what? You don't think it's funny if just how that one comedian does the Donald Trump lip read remixes?

I do that, except it's all Harry Carey baseball calls. Such a good idea. Oh, man. That would blow up on Tic Tac. Tic Tac. On Tic Tac. Kids love Harry Carey.

I love Harry Carey. And baseball. If there's one thing I know kids love, it's Harry Carey, baseball. Bob Euchre and Vince Scully. Anyway, shout out to Facebook because do you think there are people who are actually like have brand loyalty like the way i do with like nike like do you think there are people who have brand loyalty yeah and switch i don't know i don't know i've like facebook they're like oh finally a facebook version now i can get behind it because facebook's

dope no because i feel like all these fads they just they take they overwhelm people so quickly Like Facebook, they're like, oh, finally a Facebook version. Now I can get behind it because Facebook's dope. No, because I feel like all these fads, they overwhelm people so quickly. It's almost like you don't have time to be picky. It's like either you're in or you're out. Right. Jake Paul is trending. Speaking of young people I don't understand, Jake Paul is trending because his mansion got raided by the feds. Wow.

What did he do? Do they know? Early reports from the Daily Mail are saying that... Very reliable. Always. We're saying that it was for gun

possession. Or something. Ill illegal firearm stash jake paul like was like building up a waco style like ready to take over the world that would be right interesting and unexpected i mean i thought he was just um he was caught in possession of a douchey personality. Right. So that's what they got him for. Yeah. Jake Paul has a celebrity boxing match coming up with Nate Robinson. Is that right?

Oh, shit. Okay. That's fantastic. And I will be sure to intentionally miss that. Although I feel like Nate Robinson. I know. It will rock him. That's a that's it to see and now look at us now we're talking about it because i'm thinking a little i mean nate

robinson has a throat tattoo so we got to count that for something he's also nate robinson five nine uh so jake paul i think is six two so has the reach on him but nate robinson played uh college too, so has the reach on him. Nate Robinson played college basketball so well that he got drafted to the NBA at 5'9", and also college football. He's just an incredible athlete. He played football too?

Yeah. He's going to rock him, you would hope, right? I wonder if... This is the undercard to the Roy Jones Jr. Mike Tyson match. If we really want to see some of his acting, he's in the Uncle Drew movie.

Oh, yeah. One of the great performances. Have you watched Uncle Drew? No, I have not. I feel like that's something we should watch just because it overlaps so much with shit we like because it's like a bad prank comedy, but with basketball players.

Right. Is that what it is like do they actually prank go to like a court and prank people from i maybe i don't know yeah i feel like there has to be some scenes like that i mean i could look into the production but i won't but i'd rather not but i just know there's like a ton of like you know like reggie miller is playing like a former teammate like chris weber is also a former teammate uh and then like i didn't do tiffany haddish nick kroll of mike epps jb smooth this this is a very interesting cast i did not realize so interesting kairi i really want to like really want to get to to the bottom

of who is kairi irving i need to i need to read the new yorker needs to do a uh you god style deep dive into uh kairi irving's personal personality uh that you god thing is a call forward to tomorrow's episode. I mean, does he identify, does he ever consider himself Australian? Because he was born in Australia, right? I think that's like the one weird thing I know about Kyrie. Is that true?

Yeah. And he's a flat earther? Flat earthers don't even think Australia exists. I don't know, right? Yeah. They were just basically, his parents were expats there. That's amazing. And finally, Ren and Stimpy is trending because Comedy Central has decided to re-up.

There's, you know, with streaming, I think I saw that, what's it called? Rick and Morty is the top most streamed tv show of the pandemic and you know adult cartoons are becoming like more and more of a you know a thing that hollywood is like gotta gotta get these going and uh you know rather than coming up with original ideas they're like might as well go back to some things. Hey, what do we got in the old dusty IP we own box? Yeah.

We dig up in there. Even if it's problematic and the owner is an accused pedophile. What? Who? All right. Well, Ren and Stimpy? Okay. Well, look, let's just separate the IP from the IP holder or the art from the artist itself.

So the creator of the show has nothing to do with it um other than he's gonna get paid i'd imagine yeah i don't think he's like completely lost his the like the creative rights to that show but yeah i think maybe john k the guy who uh created uh ren and stimpy i think we talked about it on an episode last year but uh he was a pedophile who was like grooming you know 13 year old girls until they were 16 at which point he would start dating them um the thing i just would like the all the cartoons coming back it almost feel it makes sense because i feel like there is some kind of like very tangible like regression happening like with people and like whether we're like resorting to like the comforts of childhood or because of things are so uncertain i mean like i

get it but also at the same time i'm like i'll maybe watch beavis and butthead yeah that's like that ren and snippy ren and snippy was a snick thing for me so like that was like a very much like oh we're snick man it's the whole event like it's time for snick where beavis and butthead like i felt like i have more time to watch when i could watch it but yeah yeah different strokes yeah i mean ren and snippy also isn't particularly like childish like the sense of humor is childish, but the art itself is dark. But then they'll be like, look at this man's,

inside this man's ingrown hair. And you're like, what the fuck? This is so gross. This is too freaky. This whole episode is playing out in the inside of someone's mouth? Yeah. All right, never mind.

All right, Miles, that is going to do it for today. Yes. We, what do I say at the end here tomorrow with a whole ass episode oh yeah that's going to do it for today we'll be back tomorrow with a whole ass episode

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