The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeit Of Monte Trendo 11/17: Fleet, Dolly Parton, Mardi Gras, Sports, Music Facts

Episode Date: November 17, 2020

On this edition of The Zeit Of Monte Trendo Jack and Miles discuss Twitter introducing "Fleets", Dolly Parton helping fund the Moderna vaccine, Mardi Gras being cancelled, NBA Free Agency and other sports related events are happening, and Twitter users sharing their favorite lesser-known music facts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Jack. That's Miles miles this is what's trending. Poe it up, Poe it up, watch it all fall out for all the Edgar Allen Poe fans. Is that an Edgar Allen Poe drop? Yeah yeah. Poe up, drank, okay anyway. Why are there more Edgar Allen Poe remixes like that? I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. The Raven really could go if it wanted to. Hey, who else is here? Who else is in the building? Oh, shit. That's DJ Daniel. Oh, shit.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Where'd you find those? PS5, look alive. You get a PS5 yet? Nope. Nope. What is the process?

You just keep sort of hopelessly queuing up on some kind of online thing, hoping that the consumer gods give you a bit of luck? Honestly, yes. That's for the PlayStation website. I'm constantly in line and then literally checking all of my sneaker Twitters for when they announce PlayStation drops. Like Walmart and Best Buy and shit like that. So, you know, there's a genocide happening right now. Oh, God. Yeah.

Anyway, I'm sorry. But I hope you're able to secure those things Good luck to you We're all struggling in our own ways right now But Loki let me know if you get that PS5 I'll buy it off you No I can't The resale on that

For people who are paying $900 for that Please anyway we digress We do digress And this is what's trending fleet is trending yeah now you see me now you don't it's life is fleeting and so are these tweets um yeah just for people who are blessed enough to not use twitter um don't worry because if you have instagram it's that now it's essentially or snapchat before that they have you know temporary videos that you can now post uh which i don't if i have to see more of this like circle with like a ring around it aesthetic in my apps i'm gonna fucking lose my shit they're already doing that shit in netflix

and like other places where they're like mimicking the aesthetic of like instagram stories right i'm i don't know my old manness is starting to really i'm i'm up to here with it yeah i remember when i first worked in tv uh at abc uh i was i was blown away like the executive producer was of a show I worked on, I won't say which show I worked on, was spectacularly uncreative. And I realized that was kind of his superpower, is he just saw things on other TV shows and would steal them,

but had no creativity of his own. Just good taste. Yeah. And that's what TV is. It's just so much about replicating different ingredients you're seeing work other places, and I feel like it's the same

with online design. Have either of you all fucked around and fleeted yet? No. Nope. Not yet. I think they're doing that thing where they roll out the update to like certain twitter accounts at a time so i just woke up and all my shit was the same and i just see people complaining about it well that's because you're not disposable they roll it out to all the most

disposable humans they thought um ah damn my instagram just updated i was wondering when it was gonna do it the the thing that's upsetting everyone and now it's happened. Oh well. Who cares? What's the thing on Instagram that's upsetting everyone? It's like Reels is like the middle button now. It's just like they rearrange shit. I don't know. I wish I used it well

enough for it to be incensed by the changes but I am not. Yeah. I updated to Mac OS Big Sur and it is wreaking havoc on that ass. Oh, brother. None of my programs work anymore. I know.

That's how they get you. Duck erupted. Let's talk about Dolly Parton. Wait, sorry. On Fleet, is it only videos? Sorry, let's not move on quite yet. Sorry, I just realized I had a question. Yes, yes.

The gentleman in the back with the gray hair. So these Fleets, they only do video? Or who is this? They make videos, these Fleets? You can do stills, too. It's Instagram stories. It's Instagram stories. In another place, you don't want them. And also, I think a lot like it's just it's Instagram stories it's Instagram stories you know in another place you don't want them and also I think a lot of people

Which Instagram stories are only snaps? Exactly. And snaps are slingshots from Facebook if you think about them but the whole thing with actually no I think it was in response to Snapchat whatever shout out to God Joey Flynn. The whole thing with this though a lot of people do point out

rightly that they're like I'm not even gonna begin to show twitter world what my life is like the way i do on instagram because y'all don't know how to act on here like it's too this shit is too much of a cesspit to be show any kind of real the sincere content because i think most people like if you use stories like you will give people a little quick thing here and there but then that twitter audience is like a whole other thing and you know like it's it's it's easier to get pulled into like an entire audience you never intended uh to see your shit so yeah you know i'm just gonna take a picture of my foot and post it as a fleet and it will be fleet of foot oh boy do it and that's they're gonna love it why i'm the winner uh i mean everybody's

just posting yeah dolly parton is trending fuck it dolly parton is trending because she is partially responsible for the moderna vaccine that is 94.5 percent uh effective dolly parton is just it turns out she is a God living amongst humans. Yeah. I mean, we always knew there's always been a positive energy around Dolly Parton. And I will partially credit when Lydia Popovich first came on. She's been down with Dolly Parton. And she was saying like, no, you don't know. This is God on Earth.

God walks amongst us and it's Dolly Parton. And yeah, with this now coming out, people like doing, because a lot of people are fact checking. They're like, you guys are just saying Dolly Parton. And yeah, with this now coming out, you know, people like doing, because a lot of people are fact-checking, they're like, you guys are just saying Dolly Parton did this. And then you look in the New England Journal of Medicine and like one of its like, thanks in part to funding by,

it was like the Dolly Parton Fund for COVID Research. Hell yeah. So hats off and wigs off to you. Yeah, absolutely. She also, they, in the opposite of that, the lowest accomplishment of the past couple weeks, the Country Music Awards had a Dolly Parton boob joke in it. So she's everywhere, you know?

Is she there? Highest and lowest. She probably rolled her eyes. I actually don't know. Yeah, seriously. Something about social distancing. Two reasons why I'm social distancing from Dolly, seriously. Something about social distancing. Two reasons why I'm social distancing from Dolly Parton.

Tell you that much. Her boobs, man. Her boobs. That's why. Because they're big and huge, huh? Let's laugh. Nailed it. No Mardi Gras this year. They're calling it. Obviously. Yeah, it makes sense. We'll see.

That's what? three months in? Yeah. To the year. So I don't know. We'll see. I might still go down that. I go by the religious calendar because I want to know, when is Maundy Tuesday? Okay, because that's what the heathens call Fat Tuesday.

That is actually Thursday, April 1st. So Fat Tuesday is Thursday, April 1st. Damn, they're calling it this far out. I remember like Mondi Tuesday. I remember once, or Mondi Thursday. That's what it is. Mondi, whatever. There's so many religious days.

Yeah. Shout out. Anyways. Shout out to Christ. Shout out to Christ. What I'm saying is I only pay attention to the religious calendar. I don't pay attention to Anthony Fauci's calendar

Gregorian timekeeping you're not my leader Fauci do you see poor Anthony trending on Twitter yeah what is that it's a kid who did a assignment.

It seems like it's a second grade assignment to color the electoral map of the various states in with whatever color won it, blue, red. It's a recording of a kid's mom yelling at the teacher

because she is teaching her son anthony fake news uh oh my oh so it's a response to a angry rabid mother who is like you're teaching them joe bynum won the election exactly there is no election winner okay there's seven states where uh you know it hasn't been found yet we we don't know yet there should have been x's in those states not blues um poor anthony seven states is she including north carolina i don't know seven states is a lot of states um poor poor and yeah poor anthony poor that teacher too damn having to deal with all these teachers. I mean, there's so many clips, too, of angry parents just pulling up in the Zoom lesson to be like, excuse me, what are you teaching my child about slavery that it happened?

Did you just say that the indigenous peoples did not want to be converted to Christianity? What is happening in this Zoom class? What is happening? Let's check in with sports shit real quick. DeAndre Hopkins, you see that Hail Mary? Speaking of the religious calendar. Oh, yeah.

The Cardinals game? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kyler Murray, dopest dude with the wackest name of all time. Kyler. Kyler. Kyler. Kyler. Kyler's a real lacrosse ass name but that dude rules yeah um and then james harden is also trending because he might be going to brooklyn be one of three people uh one of like three of the top 10 players in the NBA on the same team. So that would be interesting. Yeah.

There are not enough shots in a basketball game for all three of those guys. That's going to be tough. You don't know who's going to, who's going to evolve their game. Is anyone capable of evolving their game at that point? Cause you have, I guess Harden's only one without a chip, right? Between them.

Yeah. So do they are like, all right. Because I feel like Harden will be the least like, he's like, I have to prove you guys won already. Like, let me do this. And like, are they going to relax? I don't think so. Because they got points to prove.

But Harden's the one who can't put it together in the playoffs usually. So I do feel like, I don't know. He would be the one that they should ask to evolve this game. Yeah. A Philly also in the hardened sweepstakes. Uh, the,

the rumor is he just, he wants out of Houston. He posted a picture of a bottle of water with the lid unscrewed or a video where he was unscrewing the lid and people were like, yo, like analyzing it. Like it was a fucking Kubrick movie like yo no cap yeah that's what that's what people thought it was him commenting on the cap uh anyways uh the main thing we're here to talk to you about today is a thread of music facts uh many of which i didn't know because i'm dumb so uh daniel what happened take it away gentlemen oh gee well someone just said

uh posted that weebay gift from the wire and said post a little known music fact and some of them were just mind-blowing one of my favorites was that Reptar on the Rugrats was voiced by Busta Rhymes. That's right. Go look it up. Wow. I love that. I love that. The one from Leaders of the New School?

Busta Rhymes. The one and only. Wow. That one, I now have to listen to some just Reptar drops to be like, oh yeah, that is Busta. I am Reptarar he's like here comes reptar and you're like i should have fucking known right no dinosaur did that the one i saw was that the i love because i'm a big neptunes fan is about pharrell and saying that

pharrell has never done a song with drake lil wayne or nikki minaj right because they're all on young money and to this day he like you will not see them on a track because birdman of young money fame uh never paid pharrell for the what happened to that boy beat unbelievable i don't know this is like peak neptunes too when they were being like yo to even get dial my number it's 250 000 i remember that was like like at minute you weren't getting anything for less than that and then on top of that all of the publishing so i don't know what happened here where pharrell got to this point the song's out and he still has no money for it i want i want to i want to explore this a little bit deeper you think they could have settled that one particularly after the fact, especially now.

Like, how much money do you think Pharrell wanted in the first place? I mean, maybe that song's so big now that we're talking numbers so astronomical that young money can't possibly pay it. But, like, come on. Don't you want a Pharrell and Drake song? I do. Well, I want a Pharrell. Like, you know, I mean, I'll keep it a buck. I'm not really feeling a lot of the latter day Neptune's production.

Him and Chad are like, they've taken a bit of a vacation. And rightly so. They've gave us peak aughts hip hop. Hits on hits on hits. And then, yeah, go do your thing, man. Pharrell, just wear your gold teeth and make funky looking sneakers. Reptar is voiced by Busta Rhymes in the movie, but not in the show, it turns out. FYI. I'm cutting out you

correcting that. I will be removing that. The fact that Michael Jackson sang the chorus for Somebody's Watching Me. I did not realize that. The fact that

the background singing on all of the lights was like the entire Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I didn't realize that. It's like, who is it? Elton John. It's Pete Townsend. Eric Clapton. Patti LaBelle I mean

this was stacked John Lennon was on there I knew Rihanna was on it who I thought it was but apparently there's a bunch of other famous people whose names I don't have in front of me but

the other one the Rockwell one makes sense because Rockwell's dad is Barry Gordy who you know running Motown so he could summon Michael Jackson for an uncredited feature and then I think also like

isn't I know the human nature sample for right here is also by S-W- v remember that song oh yeah yeah totally right here apparently that was uh mj let that go for for no royalties there's the other one that was saying that uh if you like tribe called quest uh the hot sex on a platter video q-tip is wearing a mask because he got a black eye when he was jumped by rex in effect because Fife had dissed them in a previous track. I'm like, yes, I'm old. Give me all these facts.

It's any Rex in effect trivia. That sounds like some fan fiction I would have made up when I was 11. And then Q-Tip fought Rex in effect. The thing they're saying, well, that correction came out because the first tweet to that thing was saying Q-tip was in a rapper fight club and that's how he got a black guy and someone's like nah it's not from the fight club it's from when rex in effect jumped him and then they're like but then they're like well he was still in the rapper fight club so there's rapper fight clubs there's jumpings i yes it's all i love shit like this even when it's not real like there's something about know, because like music and hip hop, there's such little to know about what's happening behind the scenes. Aside from like diss tracks and like and the odd article here and there that when you get this kind of shit, I'm like, yes, more, more, more.

Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Speaking of samples, since you're mentioning it, my favorite sample that I found was from the song Six God is a sample from Donkey Kong Country 2. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Found that sample and I was like, wait a minute. Six God, boy.

Saw that on the internet and I was like, that is fun. Shout out 40. This other one. I don't know if you remember the song the legendary song on and on by erica badu in the beginning when she's like y'all feel that oh that's because she hit her head on the microphone when they were tracking and she was talking to the booth yeah so funny that's so funny did you guys know about ben laden being in love with uh whitney houston i saw that fact i didn't know that at all but that is wild oh man and to the point that he wanted to murder bobby brown to like to be with her make whitney his

wife could you imagine then been lying to get to get some coke problem he was like yeah you know what anything um you know what call off 9-11 actually i'm just i don't i don't know if that's a good call man i'm getting i'm kind of getting cold feet man it sounds like it'd be all bad for us uh the other another good one oh on this track ghetto superstar again we don't know if any of this is real but we'll treat it as real because i love stories like this on ghetto superstar from the bulworth soundtrack famously featuring odb pros and maya odb was not supposed to be on the track apparently they said he just went to the wrong studio and they were doing a session and he asked pros he's like yo

let me get on there and pros was like okay yeah all right i'm like what am i gonna say no to fucking odb sure hop on here some of the of the best ambient nonsense in the history of music from ODB during that when he was just on one for an entire decade. More with the SWV right here thing, that's Pharrell saying, S-W-V, that's Pharrell. Wow. That's a sample. Because I also remember he worked with Teddy Riley.

That was his mentor, and he actually wrote Teddy Riley's verse in Rump Shaker. Wow. Mm-hmm. One of the greats. The vocals from all the lights are Alicia Keys, John Legend, Drake, Fergie, Kid Cudi, Elton John, Charlie Wilson. From Charlie Wilson's War?

Yeah. No. The politician? Yeah. Yeah, and Rihanna, of course, and then a bunch of people whose names I don't know. All right. Well, those are all interesting musical facts. Dude, those Charlie Wilson vocals,

you know, they're powerful. You know he he'll he pops up with snoop uh and also just in bound to what the when he comes in what the fuck is it somebody what does he say uh you're tired oh yeah with somebody to love. Somebody, somebody. Uh-huh, honey. Yep, there we go. With nobody to love. All right, well, we're going to be doing this for the next 20 minutes.

Yeah, literally. Doing Charlie Wilson impressions. That's going to do it for this afternoon. We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wash your hands. Wear a mask.

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