The Daily Zeitgeist - Nocturnal Emiss-trends 5/18: Eurovision, Shrek, Charles Grodin, Derek Jeter, Shohei Ohtani

Episode Date: May 18, 2021

On this edition of Nocturnal Emiss-trends Jack and Miles discuss the Eurovision Song Contest, the 20th anniversary of Shrek, Charles Grodin passing away, Derek Jeter's upcoming documentary, and the phenom that is Shohei Ohtani. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You got straight away. They try to save everybody. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Nocturnal Amish Trends. or wherever you get your podcasts. engineer brian okay yeah yeah that's yeah that was that was his idea all right send all your send all your feedback that way yeah i'm jack you are miles i am this is what's trending eurovision is trending yeah the real eurovision not not the movie the actual event is happening we get it all i mean this is the thing this the reason it's trending is because we can get it all. I mean, this is the thing. The reason it's trending is because

we can watch it in the US now rather than watching YouTube clips. The semifinals and grand final will be on Peacock or some shit. So you can kind of watch along and get the vibes like they do in Europe. And the first one, I think think was today at like noon hour time and then this next the second semi-final is going to be on thursday at 3 p.m eastern so you can kind

of check it out i'm gonna i want to see it because i always see the like euro twitter go up when eurovision's happening right and i never know what the fuck is going on and how cool it is i always just see the clips after the fact so what if i don't speak european miles what do i what do i do then well you're in luck jack because rhythm and melody are universal that's the only language i speak man yep uh and obviously spectacle too because like again the the acts are really you know from the images i'm seeing they look like they're putting on a show i I think Rachel McAdams should have been nominated for her performance in Eurovision. Speaking of Eurovision.

Yeah. Wasn't that, wasn't a song like fucking nominated? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I thought it was, I couldn't believe when I saw it,

I was like, wait, what? It's the best lip syncing that I think I've ever seen. Like her, her lip syncing in that think I've ever seen like her lip syncing in that movie is just great alright Shrek is trending

why is Shrek trending this time Miles? Cause Shrek died damn you hate to see it you always get nervous when you see Shrek whenever I see Shrek trending I'm like oh no tell me Shrek's okay no it's the 20th

fucking anniversary of when the film came out today marks 20 years since we were Shrek'd yeah and the internet will never be the same forever put Reshrek'd on that movie's name

because that is such a specific time like we we did a uh a live show about the year 2000 we might do another one at some point but uh but that shrek's just dominance that year felt like one of those things that was just never going to go away uh and it never did uh i still am considering getting a shrek full full back piece um now it's just uh it's like for instance i think it's fitting that one of the things that people are doing in honor of shrek's 20th birthday is drawing Shrek from memory. And the drawings are all sorts of fucked up because Shrek just kind of disappeared

from the culture. So you have to draw him from memory. It's not like it would be interesting to see somebody draw Mickey Mouse or Woody from Toy Story from memory because they're still everywhere. But Shrek, it's a distant memory. Yeah. I mean, I didn't realize too too like in a lot of these write-ups now that i mean i'm sure the shrek fans know that chris farley was supposed

to be shrek yeah and then he recorded a ton of dialogue already before he passed away um and i was just like oh shit where are those tapes at that's one of my favorite careers to imagine like that would have been so dope uh he'd become a trek he would have yeah because well no sure just farley in general like i i don't know seems like he he would have done a lot of interesting stuff like everybody who worked with him performed with him were just like he was a un otherworldly like talent um and yeah who who knows true loss um and i think we lost a lot in in the shrek universe because then we just got mike myers and his inexplicable decision to always do a scottish accent i guess it's not inexplicable his parents have a scott. Yeah, his dad has a Scottish accent.

He'd move. But, yeah, he'd move. No! Man. There was a write-up recently about how So I Married an Axe Murderer is just criminally underrated as a comedy. So, So I Married an Axe Murderer was trending, and

we'll find out right after you say the thing you were going to say about shrek were you just about to say were you just about to say something about something else about shrek oh before that oh no just like i didn't also another thing in reading about shrek didn't realize mike myers that the scottish accent version of shrek is like the second go-around of recording dialogue right like they're like no no actually wait whoa what's that scottish thing actually no do that let's do that instead and just yeah if for something that had so many obstacles on its way it's like i think a lot of people are like dude this is gonna be a

fucking disaster um yeah shows you the first version that he did a shrek uh he did actually as the love guru with the love guru accent. So that was less popular. Yeah, if you were like, what the fuck is that? This doesn't make sense. What? So I Married Next Murder is also trending because Charles Grodin has passed away. Oh, shit.

Yeah. And people were pointing out that that is one of many movies that he completely stole just by sheer grodiness. He's played somebody who refuses to give up his car to a FBI agent trying to commandeer his car. He's just like, I don't think so. But this is a weird one because it's not like I remember Midnight Run coming out, but it did come out, I believe, in my lifetime. It definitely came out in the 80s. And he always seemed like a guy who was perpetually in his 40s or 50s.

Yeah. And now he just died at age 86. I could not. He was like one of those dudes who like yeah probably looked 45 at 25 right right it was just you know just going you know living along that path because yeah i remember but then he looked 45 at 65 right and you're like damn what's your secret groden yeah but yeah i mean i remember for him you know beethoven i'll always remember that, you know, as the stressed out dad from the Beethoven films. But I mean, he was probably playing that character like in his late 50s.

I'm assuming if he just passed away at 86. Because he's born in 35. Beethoven is like 93. The motherfucker was almost sick, damn near sick. Yeah, but he could play young. He was just perpetually in his 40s. We bought it. Hook, line, and sinker.

You know what I mean? Fooled me once, Grodin never again. Shout out to that man. Charles Grodin. Jeter is trending because he's getting a six-part documentary called the captain from the people that brought you the last dance about the chicago bulls really about michael jordan um i should have called it the gift basket and made it and told the story from the perspective of all the women who slept with derrick jeter and got a gift basket and made it told the story from the perspective of all the women who slept with Derek

Jeter and got a gift basket from him yeah I don't know what that I mean I Derek Jeter is you know fantastic athlete um I just don't know I don't know really fucking anything about him I remember there being like a period where it just seemed magical like he he would, people were like, he shouldn't be this good, but he's just like always so clutch and amazing in like big moments. Um, but yeah, it's, I don't know. Who is Derek though?

What's going on with Derek? Are we going to find out? I mean, I'm sure Yankee fans probably know a lot about the weird stuff of like fun stuff about Derek Jeter or weird, but like, what is that shit? Like,

is he, cause if it's just about, I'm weird, but like, what is that shit? Like, is he, cause if it's just about, I'm sorry, but like you're not, you need some kind of character flaw for me to kind of be in on. Yeah. Cause I want to know that you are like, have this weird balance of like freak athlete,

but also like, I don't know. You, you, you have some like weird hobby or something you're so obsessed with that nearly cost the Yankees a world series or something. I don't know, but give me something like that that i don't want to see the magic man be so magical and if it is maybe it'll warm my heart but he was behind the scenes he was up all night

playing russian roulette the night before yeah like i won't yeah exactly like because to know like michael jordan's just ego was gambling. Yeah. Like was just doing all kinds of shit and like, like was kind of the secret sauce for him was just being slighted and then going out of body on the court. Like, I want to see that too, but maybe, you know,

I'm being, yeah, hopefully it's not just like, yeah, he's just like a really cool dude. Uh, and like, just always rose to the moment cause he was like good at baseball and also a cool dude.

Cool dude. Episode three, when he gave all that stuff away for free. It's like, oh, cool. Do you know the story of the gift baskets? No, I mean, I just know vaguely that he had this thing of that. That was a thing. But yeah, when you slept with Jeter the next day you got a gift basket uh from him that i think that's not gonna be there memorabilia it better be in there i mean that

would be i don't know we we learned uh i guess we didn't really get the personal words and all from from the last dance uh just the gambling thing but yeah but i wonder if he's definitely kind of like less concerned because he's probably not on the same level jordan where he's like no dude i was a fucking asshole where he's just like yeah you can tell him about the gift baskets i thought i was being nice maybe he's kind of i don't think that's gonna be in there because there's nothing to do with him as a yankee or does it or does it was that there was yankee memorabilia in there in those gift baskets uh so you tell me you tell me miles did he uh he also was with mariah carey too wasn't he at one point yeah he was there's because so yeah like he's a phenomenon too i don't know for sure what do you

again i don't know he just was such a uh clean cut kind of athlete to me and i'm hoping we get some cool stuff but i'm sure that will i can't imagine them green lighting it and it's like we're describing where they're like episode one derrick was always a really good kid it's like people it's like all these people they get fucking kindergarten teacher like oh i remember derrick yes he was so sweet and he would share his crayons and we're like he did he grow up in new york i feel like he's from like not he's not from like florida or where most baseball players are from no jersey he was born in jersey yeah yeah so shout out to him and he was not he was not like a top draft pick. No.

Coming out of wherever baseball players come out of. I think maybe that's probably the interesting thing about Derek Jeter is he wasn't this enshrined talent from the beginning. Right. And that's unlike Michael Jordan, who you're like, uh-oh, look at this kid. Right, right. Buck it up. Yeah.

Where you got Derek Jetereter coming you know taking a different path nah dude michael jordan got cut from his uh high school freshman team he sucked at basketball for most of his life and then just decided to be good his junior year right um well speaking of decided to be good you know right yeah we should talk about that we should talk about his uh hall of fame award acceptance speeches they're so interesting hall of fame award acceptance speeches that's where we learned of michael jordan's like true pathology uh when he was like brought his college roommate out and just talked about like how he like was better than him basically like it wasn't it wasn't like man you were always there for me it was like and when we first came to college

people thought he was gonna be better than me huh look at look at where we are now are you entering the hall of fame nope it's me uh oh hey tell them about how you were crying begging me to loan you thirty thousand dollars no okay we were backstage at the ambis uh getting ready to host the pre-show something miles and i did over the weekend yeah uh we yeah we were watching tim duncan's uh hall of fame speech and it was just like he kept being like yeah and then i went to whatever the nearest gym was uh and played i don't remember if i played well uh but they offered me a scholarship and then to wait for uh the first guy who ever saw me offered me a college scholarship uh then i don't remember if i played any played good but the spurs decided to draft me number one uh but anyways like it was like so like like frustratingly humble like yeah

this isn't even interesting because you're like he's using like gaps in memory to be humble like yeah clearly you were fucking people up when the wake forest recruiter saw you and was like hey marvin wake forest or fucking you know i'm sorry i just completely fucked up the chuck berry joke from back to the future but you were clearly fucking it up when they offered you that scholarship and then he's like and then when i went to the states i don't know how i played like a bunch of nba i guess i did okay i don't know it's like no, you did really well. Tim, you're the best power forward of all time. And yeah, the message that I took from it is if you're 14 and have never played basketball, give basketball a try because that's what Tim Duncan did. And he ended up being the best power forward of all time. He was a swimmer prior to that.

Right. He was like, yeah. And then my mom died and I was really kind of down. And then people got me into basketball and I guess it was worth trying. So yeah, I guess now I'm in the Hall of Fame for basketball. Thanks, Tim. His braids looking great. It's just funny. He's got this edgy haircut,

but he still looked like Tim Duncan. There's no edge to him, which isn't a bad thing because he just seems like such a wholesome individual. Yeah. But even with his cool hairdo, still feeling like big fundamentals. Yeah. His braids give off a, would be at a, the string cheese incident like show more than,

more than like that he's cool or fashionable or whatever. And then finally, we got to talk about shohei uh shohei otani uh the only baseball player we really uh talk about on this show because he is uh he's the opposite of inside baseball he is just you know breaks across everything uh and makes baseball interesting to me someone who is not interested in baseball uh so he you know we started talking about him at the beginning of the season because he was you know he's been in the states in major league baseball for a couple years but this is the first time that he was like healthy at full strength uh and was going to be both hitting and pitching uh regularly and he is now leading the league with 13 home runs uh still pitching among the best in the league

he's got a 2.10 era striking people out uh at a shocking rate throwing 100 miles per hour so he's holding opponents to a 1.126 batting average yeah i mean i don't know like do people i feel like people know baseball enough to know how that like pitchers and hitters are not the same right and pitchers should be nowhere near the the top honors for rbis or home runs he's first in home runs second in r he's 32 rbis yeah um so this is you know he's that two-way legend that he's becoming the fucking thing the last time we're talking about i'm like it's happening like he's showing that he can do it and now it's we're checking. Oh, our man is leading in home runs. And I think... I mean, when you're playing with Mike Trout,

and then they're like, Shohei Otani might be the MVP. You're like, what the fuck? This is outrageous. Not in an angry way, but just wild. Mike Trout, people think, might be the best baseball player of all time. He's on Shohei Otani's team. Statistically, he's one of the greats to ever do it and but he's just kind of boring i mean his name

is mike trout yeah uh and so people like aren't that into him but yeah man and you know the the last time we talked about him it was because he legged out a... Like, he hit what was, with any other baseball player, just an easy out because he just grounded out to the infield. But then when the, you know, shortstop threw it to first base, he was already there. It's just... It's unbelievable. He's, like, just a next-level,

like, one of the great athletes of all time i think oh god i hope it gets just like wilder and wilder and just more sensational because it really does have the potential to completely become like shohei mania like on earth yeah yeah if he keeps this up because yeah i mean i'm sure like within baseball that's already happening, but there's levels to it, too, where suddenly now people who don't give a fuck about baseball are like, what the fuck? And I think that's

slowly starting to happen. Shout out Shohei. Shout out Shohei. And that is going to do it for today's trending episode. We are back tomorrow with a whole and that is going to do it for today's trending episode we are back tomorrow with a whole ass

episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves wear a mask wash your hands get the vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy and we'll talk to you all tomorrow bye you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest, because the company had promised 150 grand 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 Swordquest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Swordquest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. They're just dreams. Confessions. Join hosts Gabe Gonzalez and Chris Patterson Rosso as they explore queer sex,

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