The Daily Zeitgeist - Swimming Pools (Trend) 10/22: Alec Baldwin, Klay Thompson, The French Dispatch, Matt Gaetz, Kendrick Lamaar, Robert Durst

Episode Date: October 22, 2021

In this edition of Swimming Pools (Trend), Jack and Miles discuss the tragedy on the set of Alec Baldwin's new film, Klay Thompson being left off of NBA's top 75, Dune, French Dispatch being released, the DOJ putting more pressure on Matt Gaetz, Good Kid, MAAD City turning 9, and Robert Durst getting charged with more murder. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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yes exactly there's a meaning to that very low effort title there's a meaning behind uh we will get to that meaning uh shortly but first um the thing that everybody seems to be talking about is the tragedy oh shit before you get to

the tragedy before i get to the tragedy uh the preliminary tragedy is that i am jack and you are miles true true triumphant triumphantly shout out to the dodgers for giving us a fun one cool uh last night um i don't like the stress i feel when watching baseball because it's so slow yeah like everything matters all the time like especially when you're looking down the barrel of an elimination but anyway the dodgers like it seemingly ending well they apparently like it because they're seven and oh in their last seven elimination games yeah it's funny my five-year-old is like getting his mind around like competition we started playing uh candy land which is the first game we've played that is like where there's winners

and losers and he uh you know really had a bad night because of that um and was like i don't like that it hurts i was like yeah man we're never gonna play this game again don't worry uh anyways uh alec baldwin is trending because of the tragedy uh on a movie that he is producing and starring in he was firing what was supposed to be a blank and it had a live round in it and it killed the director of photography on his movie helena hutchins i i mean i think it's so it's you know this is like uh what brandon lee when the crow when someone else was fired a gun that supposedly had blanks in it but didn't and then he was killed there was another one i think in the 80s where a guy uh accidentally killed himself by like playing russian roulette with like a gun that had blanks in it but you know like the wadding from when the

when the round went off like just injured him fatally and it just it's a big thing that a lot of people ask a lot is Why are we still using... Just put the muzzle flashes in digitally in post. I've never watched a film and go, oh, that muzzle flash was put in in post. That's not a thing. Usually it's pretty rigorous to be interacting with a firearm like that on a set.

Years ago, when I was doing background work, I was in a terrible Discovery Channel reenactment of these terrorists that took over a boat, and your boy played a terrorist. Wow. And I remember, yeah, and I get killed by Navy SEALs. And I remember, yeah, like it was and I got I get killed by Navy SEALs. And in the thing I had to I had to I had to squeeze off like a like a Kalashnikov in AK-47. And the man, the gun wrangling was so intense because they can't have you fuck like it's because potentially you can get injured. You have to really make sure that you know what you're getting involved in.

The gun wrangler was like it's usually one person who you'll interact with who's like handling all of that stuff and even showing you this is the round i'm about to put into the magazine just so you know there's not a projectile on the end of it that it's truly like a blank round and all this stuff to make everyone feel as comfortable as possible because when you start shooting things like it's it feels very real and it's just wild to me that someone could have put a real like a live round into this gun yeah and then all this goes down it's just super it's freaky man and it's again really preventable and it's just really tragic and i think the initial reports are that the prop masters union did not have somebody on set yeah they weren't part of like the local iotsy uh like 44 i think over there so yeah i don't know it's you know without knowing too much i mean at the end of the day it's tragic i can't i mean

alec baldwin must be in it i can't imagine what kind of state he's in right um to like seemingly be like oh yeah you've been through someone's negligence you killed someone yeah um and that oh my god i think that's just pretty that's just an awful awful thing to go through and everybody on that set you know having to watch yeah like you know someone get killed in front of them it's not just all around really sad yeah very sad um clay is uh clay thompson is trending because he is one of the names uh one of the current players who's left off of the top 75 all-time NBA basketball players list. He's still going, so maybe that's why they felt okay with leaving him off.

His statement is like, quote, maybe I'm just naive in my ability to play basketball, but in my head, I'm top 75 all-time. Now, I understand you may feel slighted. You might look at names on there. There's a few names on there that people are kind of scratching their heads at and be like you left certain people out for these other people um but let you know don't worry you you might make it on the next one let

that hundred come around they'll remember you i mean you got a ton of titles but i don't know i don't know uh it's it's tough he's he's definitely one of the one of the people who's probably right on that line um you know he wasn't the best player on his team when he won the title but he was right there um and he's had moments that are uh if i was making a list of like my 75 like just you know the thing that i like about the nba is you're seeing athletes like you know do things that are more athletic and impressive than any human being ever basically and some of his moments when he just goes out of body and is making shots like it's a supernatural thing. Every one of them is going in the direct center of the rim.

Other people get hot, but his is just like he. Like mathematically. Yeah, mathematically precise. mathematically yeah mathematically precise uh like that he would make my list because that is one of my favorite things i've ever seen an athlete do in the history of sport for me um but that's probably not like you know the people who are doing this are sports writers they care about a bunch of uh boring shit that i don't care about like you know a lot of people think like you know that there's there's so the debate around it's like dominique wilkins shouldn't be on there or like paul pierce shouldn't

be on there like i don't know see like i i see i see meek having a very significant place within the history of the nba yeah and like his play style um and it's sad to see rick berry on there but not his son brent berry uh as we all know that pretty sure is he still to this day the only white guy to win the slam dunk contest no didn't rex chapman win it or maybe rex chapman just had like some good dunks i think you're right that it was uh berry was the only one but yeah i don't think i don't think he won it like brent berry did so off the strength of that, I mean,

somebody needs to move over when he took off on those air zoom flight 95s from the free throw. And I remember that. Yeah, that was huge, but that's about it. Yeah. I don't know.

Did, did, uh, did Jordan make it? Cause I would definitely put him on. Yeah. Let me look. Uh,

Sam Jones, magic Johnson, LeBron James, Jason. Yep. Michael Jordan. He's right there. Yep. Yeah. That's it. So I've always been a big, uh, yeah let me look uh sam jones magic johnson lebron james jason yep michael jordan he's nice there yep yeah that's so i've always been a big uh jordan guy i love jordan i call him air jordan and i think he's one of the greats i've always said one of the greats um dune and french

dispatch are both uh dropping today i believe uh and both the the reviews are in um french dispatch i had i had heard is like this masterpiece when it came out in can and now the reviews are a little bit more muddled like you know when a movie comes out and people love it because like the hat like you'll see like the energy in the headlines i mean like anderson has struck gold with blah blah blah or whatever now stuff what's like the it's like oh you know despite a great effort my problems with the french dispatch like it feels like people are kind of walking the line doom seems to be yeah people seem pretty pumped about doing i'm i'm very i'm getting more excited about doing uh so i i think i'm gonna be doing that this weekend okay see dune okay

heading back to arrakis huh uh-huh there it is have you read dune no i just have this co-worker that i used to work with who would like forced me to know about what dune was because he loved it so much and i always just think of him i texted him today i'm like i know you watched it like how you feeling he's like well it only got to about 150 pages into the book and blah blah blah he's like but i i thought it was pretty solid pretty good oh oh the movie only guy i thought you were saying he was like all right so let me let me be honest with you i haven't read the book i've only read 150 pages yeah um it's uh i did not this, but the trailer came on while I was watching sports with my old man, uh, over the last weekend.

And he said, Dune is his favorite book that he's ever read, which is super out of character for him. Oh, wow. So, uh, yeah. Uh, all right. So let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months.

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All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts and we're back matt gates is trending because uh there there are some reports that uh two of the top the dogs uh the doj's top the dogg's top uh lawyers prosecutors are on his ass um yeah and have been for a number of months and this is just kind of coming out but you know it would it would lead you to believe that uh there is a there there. Yeah, and also we saw that he lawyered up with the people who only take L's in court for sex predators. So there's following that pattern as

well. And also his homeboy from Florida who's been cooperating. I think last week the prosecution filed for another extension because they're like, he's leading us to all kinds of things. So week, the prosecution filed for another extension because they're like, he's leading us to all kinds of things.

Uh-oh. So yeah, the singing has not ceased over there, and I can't imagine it's good news for him. And also, I think he can't practice law right now in Florida either. Ah, damn. A lot of people are waiting on when he can get back out there. Knocking down the doors to get represented by him thank you um and okay uh good kid mad city uh swimming pools trend uh the sound of like words trend and drink uh it's it came out on this day uh 2012 okay so that was nine years ago yeah that's actually

less time than i thought um usually when i hear one of these i'm like oh my god i'm so old but right kendrick feels like he's been with us uh for a long time so i think yeah i think it's also because like his albums are so good yeah like you don don't think, oh, that album was an L to the face. Yeah. And yeah, so it's... God, fucking nine years, though, is a lot. But when I think about it, that it's almost kind of like, damn, we're that...

Yeah, we're almost 10 years from that. I really like To Pimp a Butterfly. I really like Damn, but I think Good Kid, mad city is still my favorite, uh, album of his. I think it might be my favorite album of the 21st century. I really,

really love that thing, man. Really? Yeah. Butterfly is like one of my favorite head, like albums listened to with headphones on. It's not like it doesn't have, you know,

people like to bump it in their own ways, but there's something about like really listening to that album that I, I always find myself. Oh shit. yeah it's not like it doesn't have you know people like to bump it in their own ways but there's something about like really listening to that album that i i always find myself oh shit what's that even like those other like sort of like the untitled unmastered that was even good kendrick kung fu kenny let's just hope looking forward to whatever this next top of the morning top of the morning let's get this shit let's get this shit do you think he just leans into that i hope so i thought that would be amazing like if he just took it because i remember him talking about like damn and like how it was like a revelation for uh him when he was talking to jimmy ivy and he was like

well the third album is very important you got to make this one good and then you're just like a legend forever and he was like so that's when i decided to really make it good it's like wow that's a wow just like that thank you just like that uh thanks for the advice yeah hey here's my here's my tip decide to make it the best album ever and then do it he does feel like an artist who could take things in a completely new direction and like you know enter whatever his blue period is or you know but every every album's kind of been in a completely new direction so um we'll we'll see and pushes and pushes shit forward oh man glad glad glad he's he's working on something. And maybe he'll fucking shift the paradigm and be like, let me point out the absurdity of this genre by leaning into the absurdity.

But I don't know. He's quite that kind of artist. Yeah. Or he could just make a great album. I'd be cool with that, too. Or just decide to make the greatest fucking album ever. Hey, Jimmy Iovine, get on the phone with Kendrick. Tell him.

Hey, it's the fourth one fourth meal you know what fourth means uh you got to make it the best album that's ever been like what the fuck man well i thought the third one i put a lot he's like well he's like well then i have to throw away half this stuff well let me hear it first i'll decide and he's like we're not going to count section 80 okay that's fine uh durst is uh trending because uh not for the reason the super producer brian thought that uh it was trending he thought we were talking about dad vibes the new limp biscuit uh limp biscuit song that sounds like it's definitely gonna be in a tim allen comedy at some point yeah or like a like an apatow film oh god like would he new father

pulls up just like as a joke you know what i mean yeah but it feels like it's designed for that um but anyway if you haven't listened to dad vibes uh don't don't yeah don't do that to yourself uh but the real reason durst is trending is because uh robert uh old robert durst um you know he was convicted of murder and the one uh that that was the one he admitted to right i mean i think he admitted to i think he said i killed them all of course oh right right right so that's right that we we have the verbal confirmation from him uh talking to him that he did all the murders the first one that he got convicted of was the one where he flew out to la and murked his friend who susan verman yeah who he thought was on to him and then like wrote a note

uh with like a misspelled beverly i think yeah The same way that he always did. So like there was that, there's a lot of evidence for that one. Um, these lawyers are making their way through the jinx very slow. Uh, and just kind of working their way backwards. Um, cause now he's being charged with murdering his wife,

which is the one that kicked it all off. Uh, she disappeared. They don't really know. I don't think they ever found her no they never did and like this was in 1982 yeah 82 got got for the 2001 of susan berman and then this one with his wife kathy from 82 but then what was the one the one in the middle yeah so he killed his wife uh allegedly killed his wife uh new york went into hiding in Texas, and then sawed up his neighbor

and put a bunch of his body parts in a trash bag and got caught throwing that out. And the police, he somehow got off of that one. I think the conviction was like evidence tampering. Yeah. For that. It's like, but you... Okay. Okay.

So he's basically been caught for murder three times now. Hey, man. Being rich and white, bro, I'm telling you. Like the star in Mario. You chop the body up and then they're like, we'll hit you with this evidence tampering. Sir? Excuse me? Wow. you can chop the body up and then they're like we'll hit you with this evidence tampering uh sir excuse me um wow and he's on a ventilator i think for covid this yeah not long for it's a mortal coil yeah the um hanging by a thread the detail like what at the i think is the first

episode of that when it's talking about his married life with his wife and how they keep their dogs keep disappearing and he keeps getting a new replacement dog that looks exactly like the one before and then that dog disappears and he's just like killing them all it's just

so karma will be meeting you shortly anyways those are some of the things that are trending here at the end of this week we are gonna be back on monday with a whole ass episode of the show uh it will be halloween week i guess so get ready it going to be spooky as fuck. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about

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