Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Zeke
Speaker 1: Verse Trenzilla. That's courtesy of Dolphin Beam. I'm Jack, that's Miles. Yea.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some sports. Actually, yeah, we don't do
Speaker 1: that enough on this Let's get right into it. But
Speaker 1: I mean that game as as a U c l
Speaker 1: A l Um. You know, I was rooting, so I
Speaker 1: like came around on this U c l A team
Speaker 1: so hard. I loved Tiger Campbell, I loved Johnny Jusing man.
Speaker 1: I was really feeling that and like that that was
Speaker 1: like getting punched in the gut, man, but also the
Speaker 1: best college basketball game that I've seen in decades, maybe
Speaker 1: in my life. I mean, Hima Hockey is junior Tiger
Speaker 1: Campbell looking like young Bob Marley and me saying to
Speaker 1: every person who has not been watching U c l
Speaker 1: A basketball and like, yo, what'sn't this team? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they're here. Uh it's dude, what
Speaker 1: a fucking ride. I mean, I can't as much as
Speaker 1: that ship killed me, Um, there's no way that there's
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just absolutely no way this team or
Speaker 1: any U c l A Bruin alumni support or whatever
Speaker 1: it could hang their head because we took what I
Speaker 1: believe is going to be the national championship to the
Speaker 1: absolute fucking limit and forced them to hit just a
Speaker 1: pull up dagger shot at the buzzer to change the game.
Speaker 1: Like it wasn't gonna it was. It was such a
Speaker 1: fucking battle I was. It was unbelievable. The last four minutes,
Speaker 1: I like was just about to tear off my skin.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I felt like, yeah, I needed to go
Speaker 1: smoke a pack of cigarettes. After that. I was like,
Speaker 1: my heart was just beating out of my chest. And
Speaker 1: now something now, you know, look jus Ain't they're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about him suddenly in the conversation. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: people are in the conversation off the strength of those
Speaker 1: performances and heat. I mean, he really, you know, shout
Speaker 1: out to him. You know, I've been looking for people
Speaker 1: who look like me out there on the court, even
Speaker 1: though he went to my rival high school. But it's fine,
Speaker 1: Yeah he went to Harvard Westlake, right, whatever, Look, Johnny Jusian,
Speaker 1: as long as you got that blue and gold on
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you could do do what
Speaker 1: you gotta do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And Gonzaga So for
Speaker 1: people who don't follow college basketball or weren't watching the game,
Speaker 1: Gonzaga is the first undefeated team to make it to
Speaker 1: the finals in like a decade or more. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think decades. And they the u c l
Speaker 1: A an eleven seed. You know, since there's four brackets,
Speaker 1: it would put them like the committee thought of them
Speaker 1: as like a forty four best team in the country type. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they took them all the way to the limit
Speaker 1: and Gonzaga might be one of the best teams of
Speaker 1: all time. Um and who was It was a great game,
Speaker 1: I do. I was complaining on Twitter throughout because it
Speaker 1: just feels weird too, Like it feels outdated to have
Speaker 1: like Jim Nance. They're being like Tiger like Tiger Woods,
Speaker 1: like just it feels like it's being made for like
Speaker 1: golf Dad's or something. Who like don't watch basketball, canker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and seriously, Candice in the game, like please the Yeah.
Speaker 1: The they most excited they got was like about a
Speaker 1: ref getting a call right. They were like, you should
Speaker 1: be an NFL ref. He explained that so well, it
Speaker 1: was like what the what are you talking about? Um?
Speaker 1: Another exciting sports thing that happened over the weekend show.
Speaker 1: Hey Otani, who we have talked about before on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Uh so, this is a Japanese baseball player who is
Speaker 1: you know, one of the most Yeah, he's one of
Speaker 1: the one of the most anticipated players in years. He's
Speaker 1: been here for like three or four seasons and like
Speaker 1: has had a lot of injury problems, but people are
Speaker 1: super excited because he can He's like a great picture
Speaker 1: and a great hitter and like that hasn't happened really
Speaker 1: since Babe Ruth. Like just yeah, and it's a cultural
Speaker 1: thing too in Japan, like they're like, oh, you can
Speaker 1: rock it, Yeah, do your ship then, you know, like here,
Speaker 1: it's just like if you're a picture, you'll never fucking bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes doesn't make sense offensively, And we're also not
Speaker 1: in the business of being like, yeah, you should get
Speaker 1: your you know, work on your bat speed a little bit.
Speaker 1: You might get some might get you on base. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's just like a true two way player. And
Speaker 1: that fucking just first pitch swinging just fucking destroyed the ball.
Speaker 1: It was like a four and or fifty ft home
Speaker 1: run or something like that was the hardest that a
Speaker 1: ball had been hit so far this season obviously the
Speaker 1: young season, but it was uh so, he did that
Speaker 1: at his first step back, and he also during I
Speaker 1: think one of his first endings that he was pitching
Speaker 1: through the fastest pitch so far off that major League
Speaker 1: baseball season after having Tommy John surgery. Yeah, like yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so excited. Uh you know, my my friend Tie,
Speaker 1: another Japanese American kid, we when he was coming over,
Speaker 1: we were praying to God that he was not going
Speaker 1: to the Angels because we are a lifelong Dodger fans
Speaker 1: and maybe man, this, maybe we can maybe we can
Speaker 1: figure something out. And the second that happened, I was
Speaker 1: like we were both like, are we gonna have to
Speaker 1: wear Angels stuff? Because on some level we were so
Speaker 1: like all Japanese people were like so stoked on show. Hey,
Speaker 1: and I like and just to see him be such
Speaker 1: a generational talent is it just feels me with such joy.
Speaker 1: But like also like come, sorry, I can't get down
Speaker 1: with that uniform. So maybe I'm just gonna make my
Speaker 1: like Fantasy Show Dodgers uniform. He uh So, he was
Speaker 1: the first person the first picture to hit second in
Speaker 1: the lineup since three the first picture to hit d
Speaker 1: h Ever, Um, it's just you know, he's doing something
Speaker 1: that no living person has seen in their lifetime. So
Speaker 1: it's pretty. It's pretty. And he plays with Mike Trout. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that Angels really just like gobble up
Speaker 1: generational talents and still may still managed to not make
Speaker 1: the postseason. H you hate to see it, you know,
Speaker 1: you hate to see it, or he can be like
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and have your soul ripped out back to
Speaker 1: back years. Well, the second season we didn't do that great,
Speaker 1: but the first one cheating Paul Pierce had a pretty
Speaker 1: noteworthy weekend. Uh. People were, you know, talking about him
Speaker 1: because he went live from a poker game, looked like
Speaker 1: a bachelor party, like he was getting a massage. A
Speaker 1: woman was dancing behind him acrobatically. He looked acrobatically. I
Speaker 1: like that for those listens. She's making a clap, y'all. Uh,
Speaker 1: And people were throwing poker chips at her, I believe
Speaker 1: as tips. And Paul Pierce looked like he had never
Speaker 1: done ecstasy before, and then he did it for three day.
Speaker 1: He did all the ecstasy. Yeah, he's like I took
Speaker 1: at all the ecstasies. Hey, this guy's a cop man. Also,
Speaker 1: like his energy was so it was clearly going live
Speaker 1: to like taunt another woman who I think would have
Speaker 1: danced at this party because he could have got money. Yeah. Yes, Monica,
Speaker 1: swing through, Monica, Swing Monica, swing through famous words if
Speaker 1: you're in l A. So so it's not even he
Speaker 1: wasn't even certain she was in town. But anyway, he's married.
Speaker 1: Also is like ESPN personality, who's like, you know, ESPN
Speaker 1: personalities tend to be pretty buttoned up. U. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: it's it's it was interesting. I I appreciated his tweet
Speaker 1: on Sunday at like seven pm where he tweeted good
Speaker 1: morning to everybody, so he you know, he was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I got real fucked up this weekend. Anyways, Uh, and
Speaker 1: congverse Godzilla. The box office was, you know, it's starting
Speaker 1: to look like it did before the pandemic. They did
Speaker 1: about the same as the last Godzilla movie. Um, and
Speaker 1: that is with theaters basically being you know reduced. Oh
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Uh it's doing much better overseas.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's gonna be the first Hollywood movie to
Speaker 1: make four four hundred millions since Bad Boys for Life. Uh,
Speaker 1: and might be the first to hit five hundred since
Speaker 1: Frozen two, which seems like it came out in the
Speaker 1: mid nineties, right right, Frozen two. I remember I was
Speaker 1: eleven when that. Yeah, um, d MX is trending obviously
Speaker 1: very very sad news from over the weekend. Um. He
Speaker 1: you know Odeed is on life support. Um in a
Speaker 1: vegetative state right now. Yeah, not not not brand not
Speaker 1: no brain activity uh as a lot of brain activity.
Speaker 1: I I'm like really bummed out by this. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's look, he's a he's his motherfucker's all over the place.
Speaker 1: We know he's he's he's said all kinds of wild ship.
Speaker 1: He's not all kinds of wild shit. Um. But like
Speaker 1: I was realizing, you know, in my adult life, like looking,
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about him, you know, just looking
Speaker 1: back on the man Earl Simmons, Dark man X, and
Speaker 1: I realized, I think when I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, this guy's as angry as me or
Speaker 1: like his music sounds as chaotic as my adolescence is
Speaker 1: and mentally emotionally for me at the moment. So that's
Speaker 1: what pulled me in, was like, yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: feels right and then as I got older and looking back,
Speaker 1: I realized, man DMX was just one of the most
Speaker 1: openly um haunted rappers like out there, like in terms
Speaker 1: of like charting, you know, he was not you don't
Speaker 1: really know what Jay well, you know what what's going
Speaker 1: on in Jay's mind? You don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: and fucking you know. I mean like other artists shore
Speaker 1: like there are other artists that are honest, like Kendrick
Speaker 1: or j Cole or whatever, we're going to rap a
Speaker 1: little bit differently. But DMX was like clearly just this tortured,
Speaker 1: haunted person who did not not know how to help himself,
Speaker 1: but he only knew how to express himself through his
Speaker 1: raps super aggressively. And I think there's something about that,
Speaker 1: like I try and take on is like a thing
Speaker 1: to you know, what can we what wisdom can you take?
Speaker 1: Because most people we don't like to struggle in front
Speaker 1: of other people. We don't like people to see us
Speaker 1: struggle with anything. That's why we don't ask a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't ask for help when they need help,
Speaker 1: or they'll try and solve things and keep things private
Speaker 1: and don't share things. Because we have this thing of
Speaker 1: not wanting to let allow people to see a struggle,
Speaker 1: and DMX allowed the entire world to see his struggle.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to really wax poetic about it,
Speaker 1: but like, as I look back, I'm like, that's actually
Speaker 1: I think the thing that resonated with me is that
Speaker 1: he was just honest, because I mean, he was I
Speaker 1: don't know another rapper who was crying like that and
Speaker 1: also being so honestly toxic with his masculinity too. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, just I mean, and check out any interviews
Speaker 1: that he's done like later in his career, like really
Speaker 1: understanding how much pain that he went through. It really
Speaker 1: kind of I just thought he was the toughest motherfucker
Speaker 1: I ever saw or whatever. You know, he's got that
Speaker 1: pee boomer back dad, he's wearing chain weren't but he talks.
Speaker 1: There's a clip of him on the talip Quality podcast
Speaker 1: where he talked about at fourteen when he was just
Speaker 1: in and out a juvie for since seven years old.
Speaker 1: He got out of fourteen and this dude tricked him
Speaker 1: into smoking crack at fourteen that he looked up to
Speaker 1: that he was doing crimes with and robbing people with
Speaker 1: and that completely fucked up his sense of self, completely
Speaker 1: fucked up his ability to trust someone, because this was
Speaker 1: someone he really looked up to. And when you like
Speaker 1: see these moments, it gives me just another dimension to what,
Speaker 1: you know, what DMX actually was, rather than she's being like,
Speaker 1: oh man, DMX is the dude who barked. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well when you first, like when I first started listening
Speaker 1: to him, I was not expecting him to be like
Speaker 1: breaking new ground in terms of like how vulnerable he
Speaker 1: was willing to be on Mike and and I think
Speaker 1: he stealth died it very well, because when you're it's
Speaker 1: so violent and angry and you're screaming it, it looks
Speaker 1: like strength. But what he's actually talking about is like deception,
Speaker 1: his inability to trust people, how cynical his worldview has become.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so like that's me getting in my like
Speaker 1: washed hip hop analysis phase in my latter years. I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: I think that's what maybe was resonating, was that like
Speaker 1: it wasn't because you know, you juxtaposed that with the
Speaker 1: Bling Bling era and people you there's no fucking well
Speaker 1: you didn't know shit about them as people. At least
Speaker 1: this guy was hurt. Yeah, and that's what I you know,
Speaker 1: latched onto. So you know, I hope if he's able
Speaker 1: to pull through. I know things don't look very good,
Speaker 1: but it maybe maybe something good can happen. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: It's also the twenty seventh anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death,
Speaker 1: so people are tweeting about that. But you know, another
Speaker 1: drug related uh people in a lot of pain who
Speaker 1: you know, turned to turn to drugs, uh to to
Speaker 1: deal with it. And man, it's a it's a bit,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough one. Yeah. Another dude, you
Speaker 1: could that's I think I wonder, you know, because you
Speaker 1: could hear it in his voice too. Yeah, like it
Speaker 1: was it sounds you know, it felt if it sounded
Speaker 1: like how I'm sure it felt. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I
Speaker 1: think that's like a thing that they both very they're
Speaker 1: very similar in like sonically you could you kind of
Speaker 1: you could feel where they're coming from. Yeah, that Unplugged album,
Speaker 1: which was that I you know, looking back, I hadn't
Speaker 1: realized how close that was, Like that was like weeks
Speaker 1: before his death. Yeah, but man, what a fucking performance. Dude.
Speaker 1: You hear Lake of Fire right now, you're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, yeah, we're do bad men go when
Speaker 1: they die. And finally, vaccine passports are trending because Fauchi
Speaker 1: came out and was like, I don't think the federal
Speaker 1: government is gonna gonna be the people mandating vaccine passports.
Speaker 1: You know, this has been something that Republicans have been against,
Speaker 1: uh for the same reason they've been against mask mandates
Speaker 1: and all that ship. But he he was saying like,
Speaker 1: I could definitely see corporations doing it, So it's just
Speaker 1: more America, you know, turn turning the job of government
Speaker 1: over to corporate rations. And yeah, I don't know, is
Speaker 1: it like you can It's not like vaccine pasports that
Speaker 1: can be illegal or something. It's just that there's not
Speaker 1: gonna be one single government entity that is demanding that
Speaker 1: you have them in order, which means it's now going
Speaker 1: to be more sovereign centers than type. Ship about being like, well,
Speaker 1: you can't allow me, and I was like, well, you
Speaker 1: know the free market that you love so much. You
Speaker 1: heard you know, the funeral free market capital. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is what's happening, right, I'm saying, I'm free to tell
Speaker 1: you the funk off as the business owner. But well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we're talking about it last week when you
Speaker 1: were gone, and just how slippery of a slope that becomes,
Speaker 1: you know, because then at a certain point that just yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just gonna kick off a black market and you'll
Speaker 1: have people exploiting this ability to manipulate data to put
Speaker 1: other people at risk. And it's just like I don't
Speaker 1: but again, but how can you also try and properly
Speaker 1: manage uh, this pandemic without being like, well, if if
Speaker 1: you are unvaccinated, I mean you're vulnerable, then that how
Speaker 1: do we safeguard against you? Because we're the we can't.
Speaker 1: Americans have shown they don't know what mortality is because
Speaker 1: so if you gave them a buyin airy of like,
Speaker 1: well you could be harmed, like I don't care, and
Speaker 1: then cut to their deathbed and they're like trump right,
Speaker 1: You're like what oh no, see that. See that's why
Speaker 1: you weren't actually equipped to make the decision for yourself.
Speaker 1: That's why experts who are studying this that it's better,
Speaker 1: it's the outcomes are better for you to be safe, uh,
Speaker 1: to be inoculate. M hm hm yeah. Bad at that,
Speaker 1: bad at having any sense of collectivism whatsoever. So um
Speaker 1: bad combo. Anyways, that those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending from today and over the weekend. We
Speaker 1: are back tomorrow with a whole as episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow. Bye. By