The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeity Night, Keep Your Trendhole Tight 6/16: Ivory Hecker, GOP, NBA, Putin, Jared Kushner

Episode Date: June 16, 2021

On this edition of Zeity Night, Keep Your Trendhole Tight Jack and Miles discuss Ivory Hecker removing muzzle; placing foot resolutely in mouth, the GOP staying consistently inconsistent, NBA News, Putin Getting ETHERED by Rachel Scott, and "Living Ken Doll" Jared Kushner's book deal. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and welcome to this episode of Zyde Night. Keep your trend hole tight. That is courtesy of Brian Jeffries, super producer. Yeah, tell show ref. I'm Jack, that's Miles. And here are some of the things

that are trending. We finally have the answer of what bomb Ivory Hecker was going to drop. We talked about her yesterday. She's the one who was like, and before we get to the thing you're paying me to report about,

let me just say that Fox has been muzzling me and I actually have like the goods and we're going to drop the drop, a truth bomb on your ass tomorrow. Mm hmm. The truth bomb. What was it? What could the bomb be? No one knows.

But the second she mentions Project Veritas, you're like, oh, okay. It's something where it's to reinforce this idea that the lamestream media is keeping conservatives from getting the truth out there. And that's what it was. It was essentially that she was being told by the news director at the station she worked at to please, quote, cease and desist posting about hydroxychloroquine on social media. Uh-huh. Just don't eat it. It doesn't, don't, as a representative of this news station, do not go out there with your hydroxychloroquine takes.

And that was the, that was the thing that happened. That's the gotcha moment well and i mean the fact that hydroxychloroquine did end up being the vaccine that uh stopped the pandemic right or it's just unclear to me why why does she think this is going to be like something that vindicates her that hydroxychloroquine is did not work yeah i know so i but that's where project veritas they're operating in a different reality where it could have worked and just because i mean that's what the president was saying and then you want to stop them because i'm following the orders of the president i don't know so that's that's what it was yeah i mean if if if hydroxychloroquine had ended up being the cure for covid and

trump was right all along and she was right all along this would have been a good bomb drop a good little uh ha ha but uh yeah they they weren't even right the thing they were doing the lie they were spreading was damaging and giving people false hope and the person was right to tell her to stop spreading it on social media as a yeah so you know she's already been suspended and now her like mom's doing like crowdfunding and trying to get money and she's already got like i think she's almost got like a hundred thousand dollars so it worked good i mean it's yeah oh my god it's at 124 000 they're suspending her now because they don't want the truth out again okay okay um they said my daughter ivory's efforts to speak out and take a stand for true journalism has been appreciated by so many her position as reporter at fox 26 appears to have been terminated and i've asked been asked to supply a fundraiser to

help with her support thank you so much where will this uh white woman who is infinitely employable go what will happen so yeah there it is and the comments are great patriots have your back it's always good when your mom is on board with your politics uh yeah or your mom just like she taught you the art of the grift you know what i mean she's like oh i learned how to like scream like i've been hit i call the police i learned that from my mom yeah karen gop absurdity uh they are reacting to the biden putin meeting is that what's going on summit yeah man and it's just i don't know i we could go on and talk about what this all is but i think we all know what the president uh from the last administration was like in regards to vladimir

putin uh and what the interactions were like but suddenly the rnc uh through their like communications director is saying things like you know it's giving putin an audience like was giving him a like a win for even meeting with him and quote giving putin a meeting is just the latest win that joe biden has handed russia and you're like but isn't the leader what of their party donald trump has said out loud he trusts vladimir putin more than the american government that but that's not okay um but i just want to play this one clip so you can see because they also dropped uh like a fucking hit piece or something uh to essentially be like yeah man this shit's all kinds of bad so it's uh it's russia it's more again in russia today thousands of

comrades are going back to work building russia's future thanks to u.s president joe biden oh my god first the russian economy is being built back better biden's hard work removing sanctions on the nord stream 2 pipeline means more money for our government to do the work of the russian people billions and billions of rubles to build a stronger future for russia thanks to joe biden it's more than again in russia okay That was fucking dumb and completely hypocritical to the nth degree, but we shouldn't be surprised anymore. But like this willful blindness slash ignorance to, I don't even, we don't even have to talk about Trump's relationship with Putin.

Like it's just, we all remember, we all remember. Helsinki? Oh my God. But again, suddenly they're like oh yeah ukraine is like in jeopardy from russian invasion but like you use that as a complete like leverage point to try and sway the election in this anyway so that's where they're at um but i mean this is what an authoritarian party like looks and acts like it's complete like no that never happened this is what we're saying today don't ignore all that other, this is what an authoritarian party looks and acts like. It's completely like, no, that never happened. This is what we're saying today. Don't ignore all that other shit.

This is the new thing we're talking about. There is no consistency aside from just staying in power. I do feel like it's just straight up trolling, right? It's like doing the thing that would be the most infuriating. Like telling the lie that is the be the most infuriating the people like telling the lie that is the most obvious and infuriating just to like make people mad or maybe they already had so p listeners can't tell this but they had a amazing photoshop of joe biden wearing one of those like russian fur hats yeah just so maybe they like had created that already and just knew that they needed to use it

um it looks like it was done in msp it's yeah one of the worst things i've ever seen well the new jersey nets were the number one trending thing from yesterday because kevin durant had a career performance uh put up 50 and like 17 and 10 and carried the nets to a game five victory in that series which he needed to because Kyrie Irving is hurt and James Harden was hobbled but then this morning was even wilder for less good reasons so Kawh, knee injury. So just like some of the best players, uh, left in the playoffs or getting injured or, uh,

Chris Paul, CP three, uh, is tested positive for COVID though. He has been, uh, vaccinated. So he should bounce back quickly,

but this has just been a weird playoffs. And this morning was very strange. I think also too, like, I mean, mean aside from the covid thing there's these injuries like feel like it's because they put these people straight back to work yeah without a proper off season uh you know aside from any like laker excuses i can make but like you know at a certain point you need the recovery period when you're playing at such a high level your body isn't a fucking rental car that you just kind of like put more gas in and it's ready to go for another 300 000 miles but yeah i honestly i'm i as much as i'm like a clipper hater like i don't i don't wish the

injury don't go why that just look that's uh it's it sucks that's that's not that's not yeah that really sucks at all i hate i hate that yeah i was like texting with my friends last night saying you know even when it looked like the nets were gonna lose i was saying like four of the top title contenders are have one of their top two guys injured and it seems like the people whoever doesn't have one of their top two guys injured is going to win the title, basically. And the Clippers were one of the four teams that didn't have one of their top two guys injured. Right. Now it's time for Playoff P.

Playoff P, baby. Come on. Let's do it. Prove the haters wrong, a.k.a. me. I mean, he had a really good game last time. No, he's been playing really well. I'm not going to take that away. But now what happens? No. me. I mean, he had a really good game last time. No, he's been playing. He's been playing really well. I'm not going to take that away. But now what happens?

No, okay. I'll leave that. I'll leave my hater at the door. I'll leave my hater at the door. Rachel Scott is trending. She is a ABC News reporter who had the opportunity to question Vladimir Putin and just- Fucking epic. Ethered him.

I mean, thank you, Rachel Scott. Thank you to this woman of color, this black woman who said, give me that fucking mic. Let me say, let me say spit something directly to Vladimir Putin's head right now about

his LDE, his little dick energy, or however that's being perceived with his insecurities. And a quick followup, if I may, sir. The list of your political opponents who are dead, prisoned or jailed is long. Alexei Navalny's organization calls for free and fair elections and end to corruption. But Russia has outlawed that organization, calling it extremists. And you have now prevented anyone who supports him to run for office. So my question is, Mr. President president what are you so afraid of oh yo when she was asking the question reporters were looking around the room

like right doing this shit yo oh my god listen to his answer right well once again i would like to repeat uh what i said about uh so-called foreign agents and the people he goes on he brings up like black lives matter and stuff and it wasn't yeah that's the look of someone who is used to jailing people that would ask him questions like that immediately but yeah what did he bring up Black Lives Matter in the context of like your country has problems too yeah like you understand too that there are these groups

that be pulling shit you know what I mean so yeah just Rachel Scott love to see it big fan big fan now well speaking of love to see it. Big fan, big fan now. Well, speaking of love to see it, one of our favorite dudes is going to be finally justly rewarded with a big book deal. That is, of course, Jared Kushner.

Oh, fuck off. He's getting a book deal? He's getting a book deal, baby. What is, oh my God. What is, like, what are the numbers the numbers what do we know I don't know the numbers yet it's just it's just been announced that he's working on a book deal but that is I can't can't imagine ever wanting to read a word that that dude says right right right yeah there's been a lot of talk too because i know

trump's been trying he said he was getting a book deal and he's like you know the top two i've got some of the top people they've offered me a book deal and like they asked like the top five publishing houses like dude we've never offered him anything because he's a he's like a liability to work with and like there's no you don't know what you're gonna get back or if it's even gonna be close to the level what you think you can put out as like a marketable piece of fiction, I guess, or whatever he would be writing or talking about.

Yeah. I mean, the Trump one would just automatically be completely untrustworthy. I guess Kushner would be too. So it's pretty wild that they're letting him kind of get his, his version of things out especially when you know what wasn't he the guy who was like it's bad pr to do covet testing so let's hold off on that and just let people die um yeah so uh shout out to the publishing industry. Yeah. We'll see if I'll,

again, I wonder if this is part and parcel of the, we got to be having enough money to handle the legal cases. Right. They're on. Yeah. Cause I don't know. I haven't checked in on Don jr's tick tock and see what kind of money he's

making, but not a good time. Yeah. All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this wednesday afternoon uh we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other and be kind to yourselves get the vaccine and don't do nothing about white supremacy

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