Dark Zeit of the Moon 9/3: Super Mario 3D All Stars, Nancy Pelosi, NBA, Steve Nash, Myocarditis

On this edition of Dark Zeit of the Moon Jack and DJ Danl discuss the newest Mario multi-game coming out shortly for the Switch, the Trump administration hanging on Nancy Pelosi for getting a haircut, mad shit talking happening around Giannis (but not necessarily about him), Steve Nash being the new coach of the Nets, and the heart condition plaguing young athletes recovering from COVID.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Dark
Sight of the Moon. I'm Jack O'Brien. That is DJ
Daniels to me, it's to me, Daniel. Uh do we
start with Super Mario three D All Stars? I mean,
you know, I'm stoked about it. I know you're stoked, brother,

(00:22):
and I know you being such a Switch guy. A
new Switch title coming out, this is right up your alley. Yeah,
I mean I'm more about like the new shift on Switch.
I don't I don't like when they're taking steps back,
we're looking looking in the rear view. But yeah, now
this is this seems dope. No, I'm excited about it.
I mean, you know, I think it is. Uh. It

(00:45):
is a very easy buck for Nintendo to just do
all of their old content on the Switch. I mean,
the Switch is a great platform to just be able
to do every one of their old ass games, which
is great. And the fact that you know, people are
still playing Super Mario sixty four to this day and
some people who hadn't played Sunshine or Odyssey get a
chance to it seems like a sure fire hit. And

(01:08):
then you know you've got Super Mario Bros. Thirty five,
which is just I mean so wait, people who are
still playing Mario sixty four, are they playing it on
in sixty fours or where they playing that? Yes, indeed,
there's some emulators, but a lot of people are just
playing it on a raw and sixty four's um. The
speed running community is really big for that game, so

(01:30):
you know, lots of people are just trying to best
their own times, get better and better at it. So
it's just from beginning to like getting the right number
of stars. Yeah, very good. Yes, I mean there's there's
a bunch of different you know, levels of speed runs.
Some people are just like beat the game as fast
as possible, beat the game with glitches, without glitches, get

(01:50):
all the stars, blah blah blah blah blah. There's tons
of different categories for speed runs. So it's you know,
it's a very open market in that way, open open
field of competition. Nice. Hell. Yeah. So let's talk about
Super Mario Brothers thty five. This is something I didn't
know existed. It's like a battle Royale, yes, uh, using

(02:10):
the sort of battle royale style with an old old
school game. Yes, definitely, Uh, definitely, taking from the Tetris format,
which is everybody's doing the same thing at the same time,
and then occasionally, depending on how how well you're doing,
you send basically small challenges to everybody else that's playing

(02:34):
against you, making it harder and harder for them. So
the better you do, the more you progress, the more
challenges you throw in other people's way, making it harder
and harder until it's really just down to the final
couple of people. And I think it's a really awesome format.
I mean, you know it's um I'm I will acent
be trying it out. It sounds like a lot of fun.
So you basically like you kill thing in your on

(02:57):
your Super Mario's board and and it lands and somebody
else's board precisely, it's like you're still running the very
very similar O G. Mario levels, but like every time
that you jump on a kopa or or like a yeah,
a shell or something, that shell then pops up on
someone else's screen and they have more stuff that they
need to tackle, making it harder for them. Man, it

(03:20):
is a wild Have you played the tetris I have?
It's extremely difficult. I'm not going to tetris, So that
one's like, are you playing it with ninety nine other people?
Is that where the ninety nine comes from? Sir, you
got it right. I just want to make sure you know.
All right, let's talk about Nancy Pelosie. So there's this

(03:46):
salon thing that I don't know. Is it resonating with
people as much as the Trump administration thinks it is.
She basically went to a salon that told her she
could go there. She's walking around inside without a mask on,
so that's not good, um it. She thinks she was

(04:07):
set up. So they just did a press conference from
the White House press Room where Kaylee mcneney like just
had this had her walking through the salon on loop
behind her like, I don't know. It reminds me of
a less successful version of like the Windsurfing ed with

(04:28):
John Kerry, where they just like really, uh, found this
one awkward piece of footage of the opponent and just
like played it and played it over and over again.
It's when they do stupid ship. Yeah, when they do
stuff like this, it feels like they might be out

(04:49):
of touch with reality enough to lose, like to be
surprised by the vote and lose because this is such
a this feel like this sort of thing that Democrats
would do, like where where they're like we got him now,
and it's just like some dumb bullshit they could not

(05:11):
possibly bother or matter to anyone other than them. There was,
you know, our our good friend former Crack writer David
Wong a K. Jason Pargean had a tweet about this
where he said, if I ran a newsroom and you
brought me another one of these like dumb gaff stories,
I'm kicking you the funk out of my newsroom because
it's like that ship is just so not important anymore,

(05:35):
like at all. And I mean, I know that doesn't
necessarily matter to the Trump White House and that's kind
of their whole bag is just like playing on gaffs
and like trying to gotcha people at every moment. But
it's just I don't know. I I pray that people
don't care about this ship at all and and really
try and focus on what's truly actually important. But you know,

(05:57):
but I would love it if the Trump campaign like
really chose to focus continue to focus on this Like
I'm with that. I'm with that, I support that. Yeah, Um,
there's a bunch of NBA ship talking happening. Richard Jefferson
former like okay player in the league. It's like solid.

(06:19):
Uh He put out the question, is Janice Coupo, who
is about to win his second m v P in
a row? Uh? He posed the question, is he a
Scottie Pippin without his Jordans? Like basically because there now
Janice's team is down two oh in the second round,

(06:41):
and I mean I kind of like the Heat are
really good. They're playing the Heat, and the Heat seemed
like they're a better team. Have seemed like that to
me all year because they've got a bunch of three
point shooters and Jimmy Butler can get a buckets crushing. Yeah,
he can get buckets in the playoffs when his team
needs them to get buckets. Like that's they are a

(07:03):
really good team. It's not shocking to me that Janice
is not able to, you know, overcome this because their
their team is a little bit flawed and even though
they won a lot of games all year. As somebody
who has been forced to root for players who can't
shoot in the NBA for the past few years, uh,

(07:25):
I can tell you not being able to shoot and
having your best player not be a knockdown shooter in
the modern NBA is difficult. No, definitely hard um and yeah,
so I don't know. But but anyways, Scottie Pippen was like,
I'm sorry, was this supposed to be a insult Richard
Jefferson He was like, uh, Joannie and I are very different.

(07:49):
I've I never won back to back m v ps
like he's about to, and he never did like some
of the amazing things I did. My question is what
the fund did you do in your career Richard Jefferson,
and everyone like, oh, a lot of head explosions. Uh.
And then Jay Williams came in and was like, there's

(08:12):
nothing wrong with being a Scottie Pippen, Like Lebron was
the Pippen to d Wade back at Miami before he
became like the Jordan's. And then Lebron was like, wait,
what the fund does this have to do with me?
Like what are you? Where is this coming from? So
like all these people who had mediocre careers in the
NBA who are now commentators are coming in, you know,

(08:36):
talking spicy and then getting uh, you know, pushed to
the curb. But the some of the best players in
the history. Then b A always fun to watch speaking
of some of the best offensive players in the history
the NBA. Steve Nash very good. Yeah, multiple multiple m
v P winner because they were that year they were

(08:59):
only looking at offense and not people didn't have to
play defense the years that he won. Uh the MVP apparently,
uh No, he really like an amazing passer, amazing uh
player and kind of a one of a kind type
of player. Uh. Was just hired to coach the Brooklyn Nets,

(09:22):
And this is interesting. So a lot of people were
criticizing it, being like, you know, this just never coached
a game in his life. How are you giving him that?
And other people were like, uh I, I see your comment,
and I raised you a Steve Kerr. Okay, yeah, because

(09:46):
he came in he was. The thing that seems different
to me is I don't know that Steve Nash very
smart player. He's also like such a good player he see,
I don't know. There's this thing where the best players
don't always make the best coaches. I've talked about it

(10:07):
with like I've made the comparison between this and actors
becoming directors, Like the best actors don't always make the
best directors because they are so like interior and focused
on you know, uh, like they have a next level
of like gear to shifts to whereas like people who

(10:30):
aren't necessarily great actors, but who are movie stars. Your
Ben's Affleck, You're Robert Redford, You're you know, people like
that Clean Eastwood who just like know how to the
right spot to be in and like what just like
how all the ship works around them and have built
a career on that become the better directors. Uh. I

(10:54):
think you have a similar thing in the NBA, But
I I don't know. It'll be be very interested to
see a if he's a good coach, be if he
has the patience for this ship, because it's it's not fun, man,
It's it's not like this dude is a very famous
celebrity who has spent his past his years since being

(11:18):
in the NBA just like being a famous dude and
like making documentaries and having a great life and he's
chilling and this is like now he's gonna stick himself
in the you know, in the of it the hottest
of the hot seats with two huge stars who have

(11:42):
who are not the easiest stars to coach allegedly, Um
so I don't know it'll be It'll be real interesting.
I can't imagine that this move was made without consulting
Kevin Durant short Kyrie Irving. So I'm very interested to
see the direction this takes. And it's always cool when

(12:05):
something just comes completely out of nowhere. I had no
idea Steve Nash was even interested in coaching. Neither neither
did I. And honestly, you know, I wonder if there
should be I mean, I shouldn't say should be, but like,
do you believe that everybody should kind of like come
back up through the ranks a little bit? I mean,
you know, we were talking a couple days ago. Patrick
Ewing's coaching Georgetown right now. Do you think everybody should
kind of take a college stance or a college you know,

(12:27):
the old college try as it were, before they step
into the pros? Or do you think it's okay to
just immediately go from being a player to a coach.
Do you think that's kind of like do you think
that's jumping ahead in line at all? No? Not really.
I think they should be able to use whoever they
I think it's going to do the best job, and
I mean that's fair. It's just a big gamble, like

(12:49):
they are putting a totally unproven person in a position
in like it's just a big gamble in an unproven
talent when you have that much talent on the team
with Kyrie and k D so um. But I don't
I don't think there should be any rules saying I mean,

(13:10):
what has to happen, maybe more of like a personal
kind of like yeah, you know, a personal growth thing
of like I would like to earn this role rather
than simply so. Kurd did his time as a GM
with the Phoenix Suns actually before he became a coach,
but that like he was at least in the business,

(13:32):
in the league, like in the business talking to people
thinking about the game. And maybe Steve Nash has been too.
I have not been keeping up on him. I just
know that I think of him as like a very famous,
cool dude who like is probably going to fund parties
a lot of his uh you know, uh yeah, and
then finally, uh MYO. Karditis is trending. That is a

(13:57):
heart condition that thirty to thirty five percent of college
athlete or a college football players who tested positive for
COVID nineteen showed symptoms of after they test positive. So
it's just like one of the scariest thing about COVID
nineteen is that we don't know what the long term

(14:18):
health implications are. What are some of the you know,
symptoms are some of the damage that's being caused that
we don't yet know about. Um I I say, one
of the scariest things for me as a parent because
it doesn't immediately seem to frequently kill young children, but

(14:40):
we don't know like what other damage it causes. But anyways,
this is why they decided not to have the college
football Big Ten season UM and or at least to
postponent for the time being. Uh and there became very
controversial because parents and players, like you know, they always

(15:04):
want to play, so it's you got to do the
right thing for their health sometimes even despite their their wishes.
But coaches really should not be pressuring them to like
not let them have the season, Like, come on, they're
not the ones that are putting their bodies on the line.
All right, that is gonna do it for this Thursday, Danna,

(15:30):
where can people find you and follow you same old
place on the old Twitter DJ underscore d A n
L find me there. I'll be talking about this and
Super Mario All Stars three D and all that stuff.
Hell yeah, bro uh yeah you can. You can catch
me on my switch and Jack Underscore O'Brien. Yeah, that's

(15:55):
gonna do it for this episode. We'll be back tomorrow
with the whole episode of the show. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, wash your hands,
wear a mask, stay inside, and don't do nothing about
white supremacy. We will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. By