The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeits of the Old Republic 5/4: Cinco De Mayo, Kim Jong Un, Meteor Shower, Midnight Sun, Don Lemon,

Episode Date: May 4, 2020

On this edition of Zeits of the Old Republic Jack and Miles discuss ways to celebrate Cinco De Mayo in quarantine, Kim Jong Un has reappeared in public, there will be a Meteor Shower this evening, there's a new chapter in the Twilight saga, and Don Lemon is making headlines for saucing the President directly on TV. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Star Wars, Zights of the Old Republic, a game I'm very familiar with. My name is Jack O'Brien. That's Miles Gray. May the 4th be with you, Miles. Thank you. And also with you. His the 4th be with you, Miles. Thank you. And also with you. His mercy endureth forever. Thanks be. Indeed it does.

Under his eye. All that good stuff. Thanks be to George Lucas. Indeed. Let's tell the people what's trending right now. In honor of tomorrow, Cinco de Mayo is trending. Yeah, makes sense. You got any Cinco de Mayo plans?

Nah, probably just going to go to some Mexican restaurants around town that I know are opening and try and patronize those businesses. There's a couple spots that are doing just massive margarita kit or something. I mean, I'll probably just save it for the weekend or something. But I think the articles that seem to be trending with Cinco de Mayo margarita kit or something i mean i'll probably just save it for the weekend or something uh but i think the articles that seem to be trending with cinco de mayo have been a lot about being like what you know how you can have cinco de mayo in quarantine and maybe patronize a local business at the same time and if you're up do you usually like go out to eat for a single tomorrow no

absolutely not i have no i don't i don't celebrate many holidays in general like you're not gonna catch me out there for saint patrick's day or anything like that but uh i like food uh and i like the thing about quarantine is like so many places are just making it easy for you to like make good shit at your house like we're just like hey buy this kit where we've already done the hard bit by making all the food seasoned you just assemble it. So I'm loving that kind of... Just put this in a pan. Right, right, right. And you can't fuck it up.

Here, fine. Here's a pan. It's already hot. The pan is already hot. Just put it on your stove. You know what? Fuck it. Do you want us just to make this for you

and it's takeout? Yes. Yes, please. All right. Well, shout out to Zeitgang. Hope you guys are planning a safe and enjoyable Cinco de Mayo. Yeah, don't be one of these kids out here just running in the streets. Yes.

He's back? Like Kim Jong-un. He back. Kim Jong-un is back and running in these streets. Like jogging? No, he's not jogging. He is cutting a ribbon that released some balloons, I believe is the video that I

saw. He looks very large. He looks like I can understand heart problems coming from this man. But he is back. He seems to be alive, either that or there's some very impressive puppetry going on in north

korea i'm worried for his sister though yeah i don't know i i guess i don't know it's so hard to know what's going on i mean like a lot of those rumors about him even being like gravely ill came from like defectors who are then like working like are part of the south korean government now i don't know it's just so hard to know what's going on in there because they don't it's completely hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world basically so hey yeah but good good for him how old is kim jong-un anyway i'm trying to look at this photo and be like based on what i'm looking at i think he's 47 oh no he's 35 he's young he's my age bro i think whoa he just turned 30 so what the fuck he just turned what he just turned 30 we're born in the same year 84 wow

i mean look i don't even i don't i don't i don't even know if you can have any kind of a take on kim jong-un anymore that hasn't been said aside from, okay. Yeah. Absolute power corrupts physically as well. Yeah. Do you think that maybe he was really ill, but watching The Last Dance has helped reinvigorate him? That's a really good point.

Because he's famously a Bulls fan. Yeah. Huge Bulls fan. Tight with Rodman right yeah i don't know maybe that episode three brought him back from the brink right it could we could also be seeing a dave situation i mean that's the thing that's interesting about north korea is you can never get close enough to fully uh you know vet anything that's happening there. So when Kim Jong-un came to power, we didn't even know who he was.

We just had one picture of him when he was 12. Anyways, shout out to him. Just great to see him back up and about. Meteor shower and midnight sun, both trending. So I assumed there was some wild shit happening tonight uh it turns out the meteor shower is a celestial uh event happening in the night sky this evening so look out for that uh if you want to stay up and don't have to be up super early uh midnight sun however is not happening in your night sky it's happening on your bookshelves, folks. Uh-oh.

Watch out now. Uh-oh. Stephanie Myers has announced that there's a new Twilight sequel coming at you, and it is called Midnight Sun, which seems right. Do you know how that... I'm completely ignorant of the Twilight saga. Do you know how it ends? No. No, I don't even know how it ends? No, no.

I don't even know how it begins. No, what? Yeah, I just know. I kind of know what's going on. You're like Team Edward or Team Wolf guy. Tyler, Taylor, whatever, whatever, whatever. I mean, what happened to that guy's career? I haven't heard from him

yeah so i'm like what's the sequel do they have kids i don't know look this is what happens when people who know nothing about they do have kids i think oh shit yeah they they had kids in the last one i think she was pregnant and like the uh whole conflict was like whether she was going to be torn open by the baby because it was a vampire. Vampire. She was not a vampire. Okay. Wild shit. Wild stuff.

I did not see it coming. Yeah, but I don't know. The writing on... I've read excerpts from the first Twilight book, and there's some bonkers writing in there that I suggest people check out some excerpts from. Yeah. I mean, Dan will just hit us with a wild little bit of info

that old team Jacob, who's the the wolf dude was in love with the baby upon birth upon birth he's in love in love with the baby i don't know man this is because he's dan is saying he's connected to it wait so is that his child it's supposed to be like a prophecy i don't know see oh so dan Daniel has given us a really confusing explanation about how, I'm just going to leave it at this. You know, when you, I don't know. I don't know what the moral is of Twilight, to be honest with you. How does Kate Beckinsale's character tie into all this?

Yeah, is she Taylor Lautner's mom? Yeah. Let's talk about Don lemon uh dude yeah also a fake sounding name that sounds like it could be could have been written by stephanie meyer don and all yeah it either sounds like it's uh david s pumpkin's arch nemesis don lemon um but don lemon the cnn anchor you, he made some headlines because he addressed President Trump pretty directly. It was just sort of saying, like, what is it about Obama that gets under your skin? Is it basically saying, like, is it because he's better than you? And a lot of people were like, wow, Don Lemon's going in.

And that's about it. But I think what's really just great is just listening to this clip because the because the internet as we all know is undefeated in every fight it gets in someone has already cut don lemon uh wearing like god's son or rather like he's got his uh ether whole outfit on that nas wore um so this is just check out this is just hearing don lemon's uh entire monologue but with the ether soundtrack. What is it about President Obama that really gets under your skin? Is it because he's smarter than you? Better educated?

Made it on his own? Didn't need daddy's help? His wife is more accomplished? Better looking? I don't know, what is it? His wife? What is it about him? Damn. That he's a black man that's accomplished, game president, that he punked you on the whole birth certificate thing.

What is it about him? Okay. So anyway, and that's all we have in this world, are scoring weird points on Twitter. There's real suffering going on in the world as we speak. Face. We win. Maybe this will finally convince Trump supporters.

This is the one. Because famously, all Trump supporters respect the lyrical work of Nas. Yeah. Big Nas fans. They were on Team Nas during that. The Jay-Z Nas beef. The Jay-Z Nas beef. The Jay-Z Nas beef. Miles, it's been a pleasure talking about the Zyka.

Fantastic. As always, thank you guys for tuning in. Thank you for listening. Stay safe. Don't protest the government without a mask on. Don't protest the government without a mask on. Stay washing your hands, and we'll be back tomorrow with more podcasts. We'll talk to you then. Bye.

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that are intimate and often hilarious. Listen to Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest. Because the company had promised $150,000 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 Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the podcast from Hello Sunshine that's guaranteed to light up your day. Check out our recent episode with dancer, actress, and host of Dancing with the Stars, Julianne Hough, revealing the healing journey behind her new novel, Everything We Never Knew. I am showing up for my younger self, and it is becoming a ripple effect energetically in my life, and that's why I feel so safe now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.