All Episodes

October 13, 2020 15 mins

On this edition of Starship Trenderprise Jack and Miles discuss Cristiano Ronaldo testing positive for COVID-19, Johnson & Johnson pausing their vaccine trials after a "mysterious illness", the Kentucky Senatorial Debate happening last night, and Gal Gadot doesn't apologize for the super cringey celebrity video.

Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Starship
Trender Prize. Jack O'Brien, that's Miles Gray. That short show
title is courtesy of Aiden Devlin. Uh. And here is
what's trending. Uh, Christiano is trending. Cristiano Ronaldo, Yes, something,

(00:24):
he might be the greatest player. I don't know, that's
up to you. Maybe it's messy, maybe it's maybe who cares.
But he has COVID. That's what we do know. And
he is uh, I don't know, we'll see. He just
tested positive. I don't know is he currently physically located,
geo located. I know he was. He was on duty
with his the Portuguese national team. I think it may

(00:45):
have been when he came back to Italy for his
club team Juventus. Uh So, I don't know. It's you
know a lot of a few players, professional players have
contracted it. But it seems like you know people who
are and like literally heak of the earth. Physical condition,
maybe getting through it a little bit easier like its

(01:05):
Latan Ibrahimovich I think had it and he was just
like I killed the COVID. It doesn't affect me and
it's like, okay, it's last time we get it, like
your egos is wild. But yeah, so you know it's
it's it's the you know, the pandemic that end apparently. Yeah,
the I mean, I know Europe is feeling it pretty

(01:27):
bad lately. That Madrid had a had an emergency or
like a state of emergency called so, I mean, this
is the most euro of all. This is the equivalent
of Trump getting it, like Christiano Ronaldo is the president. Yeah,
oh yeah, lebron too. Yeah. Man, speaking of speaking of

(01:48):
goat debates, that that that's really kicked into high gear. It's, uh,
it's an interesting debate. It's it's very interesting. It's very
interesting when you got to look at you kind of
look at the numbers before you and you you got
some head scratching to do. The ESPN is certainly like
that's been their main story for the past, like since

(02:09):
the since the Lakers won. Oh so is there a
new at is out they're saying, uh yeah, they're just
like now you have to take this into account. It's
just you know, right, and but it's so funny, like
it's not like we're trying to read a find a
word and like we need the global consensus because it's
such a personal thing. Yeah, I guess if you want

(02:29):
to try and be objective, then I think the only
way it could be like do some kind of analysis
of minutes played, points scored, that output and then you're like,
you're like, wait, it's someone it's Mark Price. Yeah. The
analytics people say that it's basically Jordan's lebron Kareem and
Bill Russell, although Bill Russell is tough to you know,

(02:53):
key different times, same category because it was a different time.
But those those three are are like head and shoulders
above everyone else. But this is this is the like
the same way that CNN makes every political race into
a horse race, where it's just all about like different
tale of the tape, what's who's winning and what's what

(03:16):
percentage are they up by, and it's just like a
them versus them type thing. That's what they're doing two
sports because they need something to talk about. Yeah, might
as well, like there's no sports, alright, let's make an
argument about who's the best player a new sport. M Well,
Johnson and Johnson is trending um and that is because

(03:40):
their COVID vaccine, which was one of the more promising
ones or at least the one that was getting a
lot of the pub in these United States had to
be paused because of a mystery illness that is occurring
in people who were doing the trial. Yeah, participant had
a quote ad verse event. Uh so I'm not sure

(04:03):
what that is, but that just means that there will
they'll be pausing until they can figure out what is
going on. So, I mean, it just shows you how
this is not a quick thing. You know, it's not
a perfect easy way to get to back to normal.
Because even then, it sounds like we're gonna have a
bunch of different kinds of vaccines and they'll be probably

(04:23):
another debate on which one is the best or the
worst or the budget one, you know what I mean. So, uh,
it's we can't even get people to do the one
flu shot every year, like I need to have like
universal adoption of probably multiple COVID vaccines. Probably I'm sure
they'll fit them into the same one. But this is

(04:45):
me completely out of my depth speculating on a thing
I know about vacs pod where we speculate about vaccines,
I do. We were talking before we start recording about
like you know, obviously the are keeping the details of
the illness. The adverse reaction events vague, but you know,

(05:09):
the reasons could either be for privacy purposes and just
not so as not to alarm anyone, or because the
adverse reaction, as you speculated, is it turns them into
a werewolf. Yeah. I think that's what I honestly, that's
where we're heading. It's got that's a fucking it's a
stupid movie plot, right, yeah, yeah, it's yeah. Right. So

(05:35):
we get so many different movies. We have rom coms,
we have supernatural thrillers involving the President, which is fighting
ghosts and monsters and curses from China. So it's um
my year has been a total rom com um. I
don't know about you, honey. H McConnell is trending. Mitchie baby.

(06:01):
So he had a debate Amy McGrath, and you know,
I did I didn't watch, but what I did see
did he lose all his teeth or is that just
how he smiles? Now he's just a turtly, He's just
a turtle's demonic turtle fuck, demonic turtle fuck? What So

(06:23):
the are people saying he lost? He won? Yeah? I know,
I mean it's there was just a moment. I mean,
he's still leading in the polls pretty healthily, although the
fund she's i think has a little bit more money
than he has in terms of fundraising. But like the
things kind of became, you know, back to the forefront

(06:45):
because in the debate there was a moment where Amy
McGrath was you know, essentially pointing to the like fact like, dude,
this guy's been sitting on his fucking hands while people
are you know, screaming for relief, uh and he's doing
absolutely nothing, and he just laughed right then. It was
just like, wow, that's cool. The power of that, like

(07:06):
when you're actually that entrenched in your office or you
can like somebody's like this guy is fucking you know, uh,
completely absent and his and his duties and responsibilities to
the people, and he's like what anyway, Yeah, because he's
insulated and you know, only talks to people who find
those democratic talking points to be laughable exactly. And you know,

(07:31):
the the other thing it which is interesting too, is
you know, I'm pretty sure Kentucky is the second that
state that uses the second most federal aid um, so
you know, he's not exactly what's going like that whatever
he's running the Senate. It's the other you know, he's
just as an important figurehead as Trump is, because he's
like sort of this embodiment of like the fucking the
last line of defense before we have to die, our dogs, hair,

(07:55):
pink and ship. They put a burlap sack over the
cross that was taken a speech on during during the
Amy Coney Barrett. What they're gonna do is they're gonna
arrest people in Patriots jerseys. We're not kinna mind that,

(08:15):
but you know, um hey jokes jokes, Cam don't or
they're gonna make Laker fans though that's going to be
the mark of the Beast eventually. Laker fan. Yeah, they're
just some of these people. Who are we? Who are
we as a fan of? Who are we as a
people anymore? I mean the most American of fans in
that y'all are entitled yep, yum yuma, yumma give me

(08:40):
them chips. Uh. Gal Gado is trending. I don't know
why can you explain to well, she has a She
did an interview in Vanity Fair because I think she
has some other movie coming out, and just you know,
talking about how great she is, how doller, she is
she sold I didn't realize she's sold up like a

(09:03):
hotel she built with her husband for like twenty five
million to Roman Abramovich. Who's this dude who owns a
Chelsea uh and is a I guess a Yelson oligarch,
which is one of the reasons why he left Russia
and bought the Chelsea Football Club to protect himself from
Vladimir Putin. Is the word on the street. Um, so
club to like give himself a public visibility exactly, would

(09:26):
be like, ah, you can't kill him. No, Hey, he's
bringing all this he's all bringing these titles to fucking
West London. Baby. Um it's yeah, football washing. It's a
It's a really interesting phenomenon because it's like autocrats to
you know, just authoritarian states, human rights violators, or people
who just want to protect all their money from being
stolen from Vladimir Putin. But Gal Gado, she's trending because

(09:46):
in this interview, you know, I'm glad whoever did this
interview credit to them, because you gotta ask about the
fucking imagine video from earlier on the pandemic, Like, hey, gal,
what our gall what was going on? What was going
through your mind. Please explain. And and this is an
expert from this interview says when I bring it up
with goodoh, she doesn't apologize. Quote sometimes you know, you

(10:10):
try and do a good deed and it's just not
the right good deed, she says, with a smile and
a shrug. I had nothing but good intentions, and it
came from the best place, and I just wanted to
send light and love to the world. It started with
a few friends and then I spoke to Kristin Wig.
Kristen is like the mayor of Hollywood. Everyone loves her
and she brought a bunch of people to the game.
But yeah, I started it, and I can only say

(10:31):
that I meant to do something good in pure and
it didn't transcend. It didn't transcend. Yeah, because what you
were doing wasn't transcendent to begin with. That's amazing. It
didn't transcend. That's such a good how I'm going to
speak on all of my failures that just didn't transcend.
Oh interesting, really, So it's not you're not even admitting

(10:52):
that it didn't like succeed. You're just saying that it
didn't transcend the mortal plane. That people actually not the
metric we're using. Um, we're asking if people didn't get
fucking mad at you because it looked like entitlement fest.
But you know, I think the other thing she was saying,
she's going on, she's like, you know, I just speak
my mind. I'm not going to apologize for that. Uh

(11:15):
blah blah blah blah. Shout out to you. That's a
what a dumb video, but a one day and then
finally we have battle rap trending because the Joe Biden
campaign just released a video starring two famous battle rappers. Yeah,

(11:36):
if you like spid battle rap, like like you know,
fucking King of the Dot or any of the you know,
this has d n A and Charlie Clips. Okay, these
guys they're they're in there, battle rappers, They're they're out here.
So to see them do this video with these two

(11:57):
battle mcs going back and forth out like one, you know,
it's just sort of playing the apathetic voter who like
doesn't see why he should get out and vote in
the other trying to convince him, you know, but Biden
inherits got a plant an outlaw to choke hold uh
and things like that. It's surreal it feels it's just
so weird. Um, but hey, you know what, this outreach

(12:20):
they gotta do. This the outreach they gotta do. I'm
really curious to know what those checks looked like, Yeah,
secure the bag, because I definitely, out of the goodness
of my heart, wouldn't be like, oh, yeah, you want
me to do this weird scripted battle rap that has
none of the flavor of the ship I actually do. Um. Okay,
that's to be about you got you got about a
quarter million for that because I'll do that because I've
seen the fundraising numbers. I think you can afford this,

(12:42):
especially if you just again are reducing the black vote
to like dudes battling in a like a tennis court. Um.
But yeah, the points that you know that, it's it's
interesting because they're so they're doing actually the best version
of trying to wrap a campaign an ad I've ever seen,
Like at least there are bars, um, but they're still

(13:05):
like very much like they're a little too specific, like
when you're calling out like dollar amounts for like the investment,
uh and certain things. But you know what, this is
how they're doing it. They said, this is from the
campaigns that Our collaboration with the Ultimate Rap League is
an example of how our campaign is taking an innovative
approach is to engage the diverse communities across the United States.
These artists are influencers within their respective communities, and we're

(13:27):
thrilled to showcase their artistry while delivering a key message
to voters about how a Biden Harris administration would leave
Black America behind. Oh, I mean would advance Black America.
I must read that. Um so that is yeah, that
is a that is a cool ad um the maybe

(13:48):
they're using jiu jitsu to like, you know, just subtly
put a one in a million shot out there that
the Trump administration might get the idea to throw a
battle rap back at them, which which would be worth it.
Everything would be worth it to see what the Trump
pens they'd get pent I mean Pence's pencil. Oh yeah,

(14:11):
yeah yeah, oh and then they just hit him like
and then Joe Biden already has like a written he
can spit at a debate where he's like, no, no,
not funk that. Chris Wallace dropped the fucking beat real quick,
and it's the fucking shook one's beat. Yeah, yeah, just
a total uh addie, don uh you know, push a
T versus. Drake threw him in with the first one

(14:32):
just to deliver a knockout punch. You are hiding a child,
dumb exactly. It's like, you know what, I'm gonna spray
your mom's crib to make you look for me. Oh man, uh,
what a time to be alive. Drake once said, it's

(14:56):
every day man as as I said, Uh, that's Joe
Biden trying to quote the a YouTube influencer. Um, all right,
that is gonna do it for us for today. We'll
be back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,

(15:16):
wash your hands, wear a mask, stands. I don't do
nothing about white supremacy. And we'll be back tomorrow. Our child,
then Biden Bye,

The Daily Zeitgeist News

Advertise With Us

Follow Us On

Hosts And Creators

Jack O'Brien

Jack O'Brien

Miles Gray

Miles Gray

Show Links

StoreAboutRSSLive Appearances
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.