The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeit of the Living Trend 11/26: Albanian Earthquake, 1917, Bill Cosby, Alia Shawkat

Episode Date: November 26, 2019

On this episode of Zeit of the Living Trend Jack and Miles discuss the 6.4 quake in Albania, the upcoming '1917' film, Bill Cosby's first interview since going to prison, and Alia Shawkat may be dating Brad Pitt. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello the internet and welcome to Zite of the Living Trends. You better take tomorrow off. I know man, my voice is... I sound worse than I feel, but I sound like shit. You sound like Steve-O or some shit right now. I know man. I'm Jack O'Brien. And I'm Steve-O.

That's Steve-O. I'm Miles Gray. Yeah, welcome. Welcome. I knew your voice was sounding a little under the weather but hearing it through a microphone right now yeah it sounds my inner mother is wanting you to get in bed yeah a hot water bottle on your head and a thermometer under my tongue i've been thinking about that depiction of a sick person for a lot i've said i think maybe five times i feel like

their nose is always like big and red yeah you to have a big red nose, a big rubber bottle on your head, a thermometer the whole time. Yeah. It's just always. And it's just bursting out at the end. It's just shooting mercury out at everyone. And when you blow your nose, it like turns into a pom-pom that's shaking. Dude, welcome to my new show where I have the sickest teen stoners on. And we talk about what's

lit what's licked to you bro oh man uh albanian earthquake yeah that's not lit that's not lit it's that's one of the biggest stories right now uh a 6.4 magnitude earthquake uh is what they say and at the moment they have 23 23 people that they believe to be dead and several more missing and many more injured. But, yeah, man, earthquakes are so scary. The strongest to hit Albania in 40 years. Man. All right.

Oof. Yeah. Got to get those. Man, there's something really terrifying about an earthquake. When you grew up in a place where it's kind of an anvil constantly looming over your head to keep the cartoon imagery going. Yeah, no, 100%. I mean, between that and then also going to Japan all the time, I was going from one earthquake fantasy land to another. other i mean japan it luckily you know after the kobe earthquake in japan like a lot of uh buildings had to be like retrofitted or rebuilt or whatever new buildings had to have a lot of really good

uh mechanisms for structural integrity right so it's different when you're in an earthquake in like newer buildings in japan like they're meant to sway yeah so my uncle used to live in like the top floor of this apartment building he lived in my god when this shit would get rocking i'm like oh like water was just sloshing out of the fish tank yeah i've actually been in a building out here during a very small earthquake but it was like right under the building i was in and it yeah it was weird because it wasn't really a violent experience it was just like a strange surreal experience yeah um and they strike at no you know without warning it's pure like you know a weather thing you can kind of prepare for right you can forecast that but with this all we have is like people at caltech being like i don't

know man probably soon and probably the worst thing ever probably in the next 50 years yeah and i'm like that's a big window for me to keep procrastinating, not getting an earthquake kit. But miles, it's like a blink of the eye on the earthquake scale, the scale of geology. So that's comforting. Speaking of long periods of time, 1917 was a long time ago. Your voice, Jack. I know.

I'm sorry. It's funny to hear. I feel like I'm sorry. It's funny to hear. I feel like I'm on the show with someone else. I feel like I'm trying to build up energy. People are going to think we have a fucking actor. And my voice keeps undercutting me. You sound like a teenager who's trying to sell me like black market vapes. Hey, dude.

I'm like, dude, what? What's up, man? Like OG Kush. No, not from you sir uh yes i'm sorry but 1917 is a movie yes that's coming out the reviews are in and people are really it reminds me of dunkirk when people were just you know creaming their jeans about about that movie creaming them then steaming them right after. Yeah. With this one, if you haven't heard about the movie, it looks phenomenal.

It does. Essentially, it's a real-time film that is meant to look like it's one continuous masterpiece. Right. Heavily inspired, the director said, by 24. Really? No. Oh, God. In my mind, I was like, I believe it sometimes.

Yeah. Can you imagine that? Hold on, that completely took me out of a World War I epic. But, you know, even when you watch some of the... If you're not convinced about this film, sure, the trailer will excite you. But if you just watch some of the featurettes about how they made it

and you see the painstaking efforts they took to seamlessly do things like get a car from a like a jib or like a crane shot and then take the like then you see like camera operators come out of the muck to like unhinge that camera and then attach it to a vehicle to then do another shot so the soldier can like run through an active battlefield like when you see all those things behind you like oh right this is like choreography and creativity to the next level yeah and a lot of in-camera uh special effects god i'm i love in-camera that's my whole thing camera that's why i'm a that's my big uh chris nolan bro head because he's all about in-camera

man that's the whole thing and one of the reviews i mean everyone is basically fawning over the fact that it's like it's technically amazing to watch and also very powerful emotionally too it's not just like a like a gee whiz uh thrill ride and just this first line from slash film they said not since mad max fury road has a film so fully embraced the motion part of motion pictures yeah that to me is a good first line because i think fury road is one of the such a great film and i read somewhere that this is like a steady like one long shot basically is that that can't be true is it well it's probably stitched together stitched together just like how birdman right looked like one continuous shot but you know you get little tricks i don't know though i'm i can't imagine if you had to reset a shot in a in a battlefield scene yeah that would probably

take hours you know i don't know depending on what kind of like effects they had on the field but yeah but i feel like this is going to because i i think that actually um the hardcore history about world war one like really got people in the muck like in terms of like just making that war really interesting and also like visceral for people again yeah i feel like this will uh it's probably coming around along at the right time yeah what's such a brutal like mashup of modern and archaic warfare styles exactly and then you just lead to massive casualties yeah so the first time that it was just it was on this scale right yeah um there there are like all sorts of surreal things like his uh dan carlin the host of hardcore history's

description of like the cloud of mustard gas that's just like this like physical thing that you can see rolling downhill towards you at like two miles per hour right and like you can't do anything about it but like it's you can't run you're probably like in uh you know a trench or somewhere so if you put your head up you're just gonna get cut down by machine gun fire and the blob is just coming for you uh very surreal stuff wow uh also trending is bill cosby he gave his first interview since being uh thrown in jail right and it's just sort of an interesting study into the mind of a narcissist who kind of built his entire universe on a version of the world that revolves around him. Right.

Cause he just refuses to let the reality in that he's done anything wrong. He's a predator that he's a monster. Yeah. Was he saying like the jury, like set him up? Yeah. Like it was a bunch of like plants and actors and, uh,

yeah. I mean, I mean, we saw it when he first got off and came out of the uh came out of the courtroom it was like hey hey hey yeah i thought it was like a fun time to make a fat albert reference or clearly that you don't realize that time society culture has like actually they're now diametrically opposed like to you yeah and you're not like people going oh yeah cool i mean also the true

hallmark of a guilty person when they go i was set up right only a very few people may have actually like have actually been set up to look a certain way in a crime but like that is such a such an easy way to preserve your own uh i guess innocence or your idea, your identity as a person who is innocent by saying, well, this is a setup. A vast conspiracy to set Bill Cosby up versus Bill Cosby just letting his absolute power and complete control over situations get to his head. I don't know which one I believe. But it kind of goes with the thing like i always

talk about how famous people dress like the year where they hit peak fame yeah yeah yeah and like he still dresses like he did like in the 80s but he uh i think his brain is also kind of like frozen in amber from that i mean who knows what is where he's at sort of in his senility or whatever. Yeah, there's also that. Yeah, he's mostly blind. And Alia Shokat, is that how you pronounce that? Maybe Bluth? Yeah, maybe Bluth. Oh, wait, no.

No, what's Tobias? No, is she Funke or Bluth? I think she was Bluth. Even though Funke was her dad. Right. Okay. Anyway, yes. Or from many other things.

Also the lead from Search Party. Or you might remember her from Three Kings as a little girl. No. Yeah. What? I remember seeing her on Arrested Development and being like, she was in Three Kings. She was the little girl who had the arm cast on. Wow.

Yeah. That's an incredible pull on your your part i don't know look again i have a memory for the most inconsequential shit i'm like you mean all your show come from three kings three kings is like what a what a movie like and i mean walberg and clooney and it's just like a great film also yeah but with a very odd take on like what our involvement is in the middle east sort of oh really yeah you can tell it's a little bit dated. It's a little dated. So this is some dumb Lloyd Watt shit,

but she's trending because she's been seen hanging out with Brad Pitt quite a bit. And people are speculating that they're dating. He's 55. She's 30. It's kind of like a i don't know i don't i don't know who i don't like it for like are they super talented and cool and interesting and he's old and still like seen as a hot guy i think as all like dudes of a certain age like damn brad pitt's probably gotta be like the peak looking dude right you know and in way, even then you're like,

man, I would probably be with Brad Pitt. Right. Yeah. So I guess. Wow. If you talk to like a 30 year old woman, she's probably like,

yeah, it's only dudes who are like, man, I don't know. Brad Pitt's fucking hot, dude. Yeah. I don't know.

Is art, but are they dating? Are they saying, are they're like, no, they're saying no, that they're just friends. They're just friends.

Yeah. He's apparently also friends with Kanye. So Brad, Brad Pitt is apparently a hipster. He's having his midlife crisis already. Well, he, so this is all since he divorced Angelina Jolie and got sober.

And now he's, he's found a new path in this life oh he's sober yeah he got sober one like right around the time of their divorce oh you know it's funny we may have even talked about this on when we used to do blood watch uh that he was yeah because i think there was like some that was part of the shit that was fucking up their family oh yeah and i think was also maybe affecting his ability to ever have custody of them, too. Right. Like, okay, yes.

Loved the kids enough to put it down. Yeah. It was wild. This article about him and maybe Bluth's relationship said that he and Angelina Jolie got divorced in September 2016 after two years of marriage. Doesn't that seem short? I guess they were just, they had a long courtship, I after two years of marriage. Doesn't that seem short? I guess they were just,

they had a long courtship, I guess. Oh, okay. Because I feel like they were just super like together for like decades. Hippie dippy people of the earth. Oh, right.

Look at our United colors of Benetton family. Right. And we're just like gallivants like marriage. I don't know. Yeah. Cause I think they have kids together that are older than that. Oh, yeah. I feel like Shiloh was their first biological child.

Look, I don't know. I just know the names, man. Yeah. I got a lot of tables, man. What am I going to do here? All right. I'm going to go gargle some salt water. That works, huh?

Yeah. I think so. That was a hard remedy. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for joining me, teen vape salesman. I got to go vape some. Got to go vape. I heard it does bad stuff to your voice.

I want to vape. I want to vape. Yeah, you make your shit. Yeah. Should we tell people that I delivered this whole thing through one of those uh machines you put up to your trick oh yeah or what did they call it problematically in south park uh cancer kazoo that's what he said about the what was his uncle's name yeah and he was like were you stationed in denang i remember that was the one of the first lines of south park i remember i like, what is this show?

Oh, man. And I remember my friend's dad who was served in Nam. Like, I didn't know what Da Nang was at the time. Right. It's like, that's an acronym. I just thought he was like

saying weird stuff. I didn't know what he was saying. A little bit of history. All right, guys. Enjoy your evening. We'll be back tomorrow uh with more podcasts we'll talk to you then