The Daily Zeitgeist - Rhythm of the Zeit 1/10: Sleeping Beauty, Neil Peart, Kendrick Perkins, Selena Gomez, Marianne Williamson

Episode Date: January 10, 2020

On this edition of the Rhythm of the Zeit Jack and Miles discuss the Sleeping Beauty proposal, Neil Peart has passed away, Kendrick Perkins getting into it with Kevin Durant on Twitter, Selena Gomez album release, and Marianne Williamson has suspender her campaign for presidency. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That was actually really, wow. Thanks. We've got a young Michael Winslow in our midst. Let's talk Sleeping Beauty proposal. Yes. If you have Twitter or Instagram, I have a feeling you've probably seen this the second you woke up today. Unless you are the boyfriend of somebody who's good at hiding things from you on the internet. Hey, don't look at that, babe. Don't look at that.

Nah, that video is fucked up. This dude's doing way too much. This dude's doing way too much. So there is a video Sleeping Beauty proposal, essentially, where this guy took his high school sweetheart to a theater he had filled with their friends and family to watch Sleeping Beauty, but he had hired an animator to cut them into the scene. No, dude. He is the animator. Wait, no. I'm pretty sure.

No, he's not. According to this article, he was talking to, he hired an Australian illustrator. Nah, bro. Nah, I don't know. I thought looking at the credits that it was him. I might have fucked it up. Maybe we're fighting. According to the BBC, the Biebs, the man who proposed first reached out to this Australian illustrator

named Kayla Coombs, and she thought he was just asking for a portrait of the two of them. Got it. And then she said, then I worked with him for six months to recreate the 1959 film. All for the same originally agreed upon rate. Yep. That's how you get them. All right, so what, we'll do it for like 200?

Cool, cool, cool. All right, so it's going to be about 14,000 frames, and you should fucking illustrate. So it opens with them watching Sleeping Beauty And then Sleeping Beauty suddenly Has dark brown hair Like the

Proposed to The woman who's about to be proposed to Her name is Stuthie David And she's a cardiologist And then Prince Charming shows up And she's a cardiologist. And then- I may have botched that name. Prince Charming shows up and he looks a lot like the dude who's proposing.

Like Lee, my boyfriend. Yeah. That looks like me. And then he proposes, the cartoon character proposes. Is that correct? Or presents the ring, but acts like he's tossing it at the camera, and then the guy in the theater pretends he caught the ring box,

and then hits her with the question. It's pretty impressive. It's like if Penn and Teller proposed to you. It's got that sort of vibe to it. It's a big production. And yeah, for anyone considering proposing, just don't bother.'t bother you're fucked now or also maybe the bar is so high like there is no overton window anymore it's just like it's the wild west man yeah yeah that's true um she so after the as this

is happening she's like i feel so bad for all these people who came to see sleeping beauty which is funny that she thought that uh he had just pulled this in a actual movie theater show and all these people were like i didn't like what the fuck is going on here i came here to see some good old-fashioned you know pre-woke disney racism and now i'm seeing an interracial wedding proposal no and then he informs her that it's full of their friends and family. Yeah. And then she says no.

Yeah. Yeah. And laughed because she's like, I knew from the beginning it was some off-brand Disney remake. Yeah. Do you think now, because the internet is a very cynical place, did he do this for love or he did this for likes? I think it's hard to say because they seem like a genuinely in love couple. Yeah, they do.

It was probably one of those things like it would be a shame to not document this because it's so involved. Yeah, but it's very documented. So it could either be that they're just so in love that he was just moved to create a great piece of content for it. Or he could be like insufferable. Yeah. There's two different ways that it could be. I'm not going to guess. He's that curvy wife guy, sort of in his way. Yeah.

That's what I did. Isn't that so chill? Check it out. But again, see, this is how cynical I've become. There's not even a reality where I go, that guy really cares, and he wanted to just have this moment for them to look back on.

And I'm like, what is this? What is this fucking sponsored by Kia? What the fuck? They do, a Kia pulls into the theater and whisks them away. But it was a drunk driver who mistakenly thought it was a parking lot.

Neil Peart is trending. The author of the famed drum solo from Tom Sawyer. The Rush drummer, Neil Peart, who passed away. Yeah. From brain cancer, man. Yeah.

I'm not a huge Rush fan, but the Rush songs I like, I like. Yeah. And the drums are. Yeah. And, you know, they were always doing, you know, Rush, they did their thing. Doing the most. Have you seen the video though anyone who hasn't seen the video look up um tom sawyer puppet on youtube there's this

drummer who plays a miniature drum set with a tiny puppet and he plays the entirety of tom sawyer on like makeshift can drum set it's it's it's breathtaking if you've ever want to see a puppet just fucking shred it's funny because I feel like this morning, too, I was just completely unconnected, disconnected from this story. There's this video of this dude at an NFL game. He's sitting on the sidelines and Tom Sawyer's playing, and he's air drumming the whole thing. And that was trending on some other things.

I don't know. Maybe they knew? Maybe they knew. I don't know. Because he passed away on the 7th, and then it was announced today. some other things. I don't know. Maybe they knew. Maybe they knew. I don't know. Yeah. Because I think, because he passed away on the 7th. Right. And then it was announced today, so.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe word had leaked. I want to talk about Kendrick Perkins real quick. Mainly Kevin Durant. So Kendrick Perkins is a, he was a starting center in the National Basketball Association well into a point in his career where he was not a great, he wasn't putting up, he wasn't producing.

No. And he was the starting center on the Oklahoma City Thunder when they had Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and he tweeted out something saying, I'm about to go on TV and talkant, Russell Westbrook, and he tweeted out something saying, I'm about to go on TV and talk about how Russell Westbrook is the greatest OKC Thunder player ever. And somebody was like, what about Kevin Durant? He was like, nah, that was a bitch move,

what Kevin Durant did, basically, in not so many words. And then Kevin Durant popped in. And his real account or a burner account? His real account. Okay, okay. Yeah. I'll make sure. Come for him and just started talking shit about Kendrick Perkins being,

he was like, oh, man, that's strange for somebody who put up like five and two in that series that you're talking about. Oh, dude, yeah. And our starting center at Kendrick perkins averaged a whopping two and three during that season three you played hard though champ lol oh uh so he kind of ethered him but then uh kendrick perkins came back and it just got real messy uh it's just interesting kevin durant is is an interesting dude because he's's one of the best players in the league. And the type of person who you would normally just hide behind a very curated media apparatus.

But he's out here. He's always getting feelings hurt. He gets messy. He gets fake accounts. Yeah. Goes on podcasts. Talks shit. Has a couple drinks. Talks more shit. here he's always getting like his feelings hurt he gets messy he gets fake accounts yeah goes on podcasts talks shit has a couple drinks talks more shit man no matter how big you get the human ego it doesn't matter like the insecurities it doesn't matter how many millions of dollars you have you

can still be so like at a certain point you'd you'd hope with all your wealth and like actual like tangible achievements you can be like i don't give a fuck what anyone has to say like i'm i'm doing my shit yeah especially somebody who when he was averaging 27 and 7 was putting up two and three uh but yeah i don't know i kind of respect it like that he lebron it's not like lebron doesn't have a huge ego it's just lebron would never let that show he he just has too much savvy i guess i don't know what it is but well there's levels to it you know like you know who who are you giving your power away to right you know like if you're if someone is clearly just trying to goad you into something because it's going to

help them then you're sort of like i don't my power doesn't drift downward. Yeah, but I don't think Kendrick Perkins was even considering that Kevin Durant would notice. You don't think he was going to notice? No, because I don't think he even added him in the first place. Somebody just brought it up. Well, but when you're announcing I'm about to go on the one sports network to say something about Kevin Durant. Well, he was saying something about Russell Westbrook, but it is by exclusion, it is about

Kevin Durant. Anyways, Kevin Durant, and I mean, it is sort of his tragic flaw because having a sensitivity about him, first of all, made him give a really great MVP speech when he won MVP. And his mom's a real MVP. Yeah. But it also caused him to allow himself to be goaded into playing in a game that he wasn't ready to come back in and snap his Achilles. Rare listening party. What is this? Selenaomez has a new album my

favorite recording which means that all the fans of like every kingdom every fandom are out there using this hashtag to either big up their own bands like the bts fans are in there uh justin i'm sorry miles gets choked up every time he talks about Selena Gomez It's something about when I think of when Justin and Selena were together I'm trying to figure out if these songs are about the weekend or about Justin. I did listen to the one

track at the very end because I had Kid Cudi on it and it was not bad I don't know much of her body of work but I know she's a talented person but the one part was like a lot of Selena fans are getting messy because Justin Bieber has a song called Yummy Out, and they're like, he's doing too much. Because he was on live telling his people, he was with his wife,

being like, hey, buy the album, buy the single, stream it, whatever. And then there was some image circulating that was instructing Bieber fans to play the track Yummy at low volume on loop while they sleep just to get the numbers up just to boost the charts a little bit so yeah some people you know like not many people know if that's directly from him probably not because they're because we exist in this culture now where it's like people yeah treat their favorite artist like it's a political candidate that they want to win. And it's also just because we're savvy enough to know how to game certain metrics. It's just all about that to then say, I belong to this fandom, and it's number one.

But what do you get out of that? I don't know, but check out Selena Gomez. Yeah, I'm just being an old person. Hey, but what do you get out of it, kid? Then what? Speaking of political candidates who we want to win, Marianne Williamson has suspended her campaign. Oh, you hate to see it.

Yeah. A week ago, she fired all her campaign workers, everybody who worked for her campaign, but was like, this is about a state of mind, man. And just kept her campaign going for a week without anybody employed other than herself and her chakras. But now she has officially decided unto herself without the consultation of any media people,

media strategists who had all been fired. She did decide after a week that she was no longer going to run i think she decided that today or maybe in the week prior to her firing all of her staffers and then just decided to give it a week to maybe she's like maybe i can do it without everybody let me see or i feel like the second you're high you're firing all your staffers you're like yeah this it's a wrap yeah i'm. I'm just going to do this part first. I don't have to cut any more checks.

I do feel, though, like she might be the sort of person who, yeah, the power of positive thinking, like she thinks it can do anything. Like she, even though she wouldn't say it out loud when you're sick, She thinks it's because you have too many negative thoughts. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, she was the one candidate who spoke quite bluntly about the need for reparations in this country. So I'll give her that.

Yeah. And also the wonderful clips we saw of her like speaking engagements where she made the white audience members apologize to the African-American audience members. Yeah, that was dope. That's a woke level audience members. Yeah, that was dope. That's woke level 9,000. Yeah. The tweets, though, around it are some of my favorite. Oh, no, she tweeted,

RIP to the campaign of Marianne Williamson, the Gwyneth Paltrow of Jill Stein's. That's so good. And then Jess Dweck said the campaign had about the same lifespan as an unvaccinated child. Oh, shit. Wow. Oh, boy, yeah. They don't play. Wait, is she an antivaccinated child. Oh, shit. Wow. Oh, boy.

Yeah, they don't play. They don't play on that Twitter. Wait, is she an anti-vaxxer? I forget. She has some odd takes that are basically like, if you have illnesses, you can positive them away. Okay. She's anti-vaxxer at Jace.

I mean, I think it's full on to just say she's all into pseudoscience. Yeah. Yeah. And thinking your way out of things that scientists have spent a lot of human power hours to arrive at these discoveries. I love human power hours! Alright. Well, that was a joke from college. And

we hope you guys have a great weekend, everyone. Great week in the books first week first full week of 2020 we're really doing it am I right? look around the room

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