The Daily Zeitgeist - This the Trend, My Only Friend 1/21: Ozzy Osbourne, "Please Clap", Pamela Anderson, #CHEARS

Episode Date: January 22, 2020

Ozzy Osbourne has Parkinson’s, “Please Clap” is back thanks to Mayor Pete, Pamela Anderson has married producer John Peters, #CHEARS is trending because Chelsea and Arsenal drew in a thriller of a match. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this episode of This is the trend. My only friend. The trending Daily Zeitgeist. Woo! I'm Jack O'Brien. That wonderful vocal accompaniment. You're Jim Morbryson. That's right. And I'm Gray Manzarek.

Yeah, that was seamless. That was perfect. Shout out to Seamless. And that's Miles Gray. They're not so much. That was perfect. Shout out to Seamless. And that's Miles Gray. They're not so much. They are not. Get at us, Seamless. Yeah, it's DoorDash is the one that pays people sub-minimum wages.

Okay. Yeah, just, you know, start off with a little slander. Miles, let's dive into some subjects that are trending right now shall we splash go then perfect time the the perfect uh that's what you aim for when diving a big splash yep yep that's right uh ozzy osbourne is trending uh unfortunately he's revealed he has parkinson's yeah which is very sad. I don't know. It seems like a lot of the symptoms we've seen him having fairly recently line up with this, but it's still surprising.

Yeah, I think it's just that he only revealed it now. But yeah, I mean, he's 71. Right. And you realize, too, I'm like, man, like for 71, he definitely looks like he's aged, but I can only imagine what living as fast as one Ozzy Osbourne did could do to you. But yeah.

He has a DNA mutation that makes him particularly impervious to alcohol. He can drink more than any other person basically there's like a dna mutation and he can also do drugs i think more than most people wait that's an actual thing you're saying he's like a superpower i swear that that was a thing that uh came through to us in a pitched cracked article and I believe we fact-checked it, and it came up true. Yes, apparently he was just going through a lot of health troubles in the last year, and because the tabloids were basically being like,

oh, he's on his deathbed and things like that, he just sort of wanted to get out and tell everybody sort of what's going on with him. Wait, British tabloids were negative? No, but you know, even when we used to do Bloid Watch, how often, you remember, Ozzy would show up a lot in the margins

about like saying, you know, he's only got so much longer to live. That's true, that's true. Yeah, it's just, it's a terrible, terrible illness. And yeah. It is. My soul is definitely better off from having dropped that from our show, I think.

Bloid Watch? Bloid Watch. But I think we had to get rid of it because there's so much actually worse shit going on. We're like, all right, don't have time to talk about shipping Benefer. Now shifting to Benefer from, yeah. Pete Buttigieg is trending as well as Please Clap 2.0 is trending. Yeah. So what is the origin?

What is the original please clap well the original please clap is jeb bush um you know towards when he had that fire campaign going on right uh he was giving uh what some what he would describe as a rousing speech and the audience was not responding and he had one of those lines that if it were like an Obama or something, people would know. Oh, yeah, that's wow. We're behind that. But instead, it fell on deaf ears. And all we got was, please clap.

And he was like annoyed. Like, y'all know how to do this. It's time for you to clap. So now, since a lot of the senators are in, well, actually, all the senators who are running are in D.C. for the impeachment. Buttigieg is out here making the most of his time in Iowa. And he was speaking with a crowd in Iowa and a very similar thing happened, really impassioned moment. And no one, I think it wasn't clear to them what he was trying to get at. So let's play the Buttigieg one. By having better hands guided by better values on those pulleys and levers of American government.

So can I look to you to spread that sense of hope to those that you know? Come on. A very Krusty-esque laugh. You know, honestly, that warmed me up to him. Anyone who laughs like Krusty, any Simpsons character, you got my vote. Just hopelessly awkward.

Yeah. Someone then, because the internet is a cruel, cruel place, especially Twitter, people have been, someone actually did a side-by-side of the please clap and the new Buttigieg come on, folks. So they're just deafening silence lines up. Yeah, it's pretty good pacing. I'll just play this one for you. So, I mean, if you haven't seen the original Please Clap video,

it's the only video that will come up if you say Please Clap. Unless things might have changed in the last 24 hours. But here's the side-by-side of the two moments. ...better hands-guided by better values on those police and levers in the air. So can I look at you to spread that sense of hope to those that the national security interests of this country to get back into business of creating a more peaceful world. Please clap. Come on.

Please clap. Please clap is so much better. It's a way, I mean, I think people are making a mess of the Buttigieg thing. It's really not that big of a deal. But please clap still to me is the GOAT line of any campaign gone wrong. When you have to say, y' but like please clap still to me is the goat line of any campaign gone wrong yes when you have to say y'all please clap right please clap um yeah i i'm surprised it'll be

interesting because this is something we've seen in the past with the mainstream media when there was a candidate that they were like all right it's time to stop taking this person seriously, like Howard Dean after he lost in Iowa. They kind of took a brief moment out of context and made it look worse. And now we're going to have that with social media. And I do think Pete Buttigieg is like having that sort of energy deflation sort of organically right now. Yeah. Well, I think a lot of millennials too are horny to dunk on him. Yeah, exactly. So it's one of those things, unfortunately, like they're going to make a fucking Mount Everest out of a little dust pile most of the time.

But this is just funny because you like to see the benefit of this video. We got to hear his real laugh. Right. I do think we're going to start. I feel like the Howard Dean of the 2020 race would probably be Bernie Sanders. And I'll be interested to see some mainstream media attempts to reenact the Dean scream in the coming months. I mean, at this point, I think, you know, the Overton window is not there no, where is our threshold for something like that anymore? Right.

Yeah, that's true. Because I think Trump, when he said he was grabbing people by the pussy on wax and that did nothing, someone being like, yeah. They're like, man, remember those days? Yeah, exactly. Pamela Anderson, trending. Yes. Back in the headlines.

Yes. And in our hearts. Yes. She got married. Yeah, on Monday. Lucky number, what is this? Lucky number five, I believe. So she got married to this producer, John Peters,

who produced the original A Star is Born with Barbra Streisand. Also the remake with Bradley and Gaga. Both of them, it's actually for both of them, their fifth marriage, if you recall. Let's just go through a quick history lesson. Both optimists. Pam Anderson, her exes, Tommy Lee, who she has the two sons with, Kid Rock, Rick Solomon twice. Damn.

And then, so that's her fourth. This will be her fifth. And then recently she was living with a soccer player named Adel Rami in Marseille. And for Peters, he's been married to Leslie Ann Warren. Oh, you remember that torrid love affair that flamed out in the early 70s when the then hairdresser took up with Barbara Streisand, who he met on the set of Comedy for Pete's Sake. And that began a 12-year torrid love affair that spawned that spawned the

Streisand uh film a star is born I guess anyway the the thing that makes that really warms my heart about this is that they're 22 he's 22 years older than her but he has loved her since he laid eyes on her at the playboy mansion when she was only 19 that is heartwarming oh the 41 year old guy knew he wanted to marry the 19 year old Iold. I know. Ever since he saw her at the sex cave. Yeah. And so the way he describes Pamela Anderson, though, like he really, I mean, regardless of what, you know, whatever their relationship is, he clearly has been having eyes for her. This is a quote about Pamela Anderson that he gave. He said, Pamela has never seen her full potential as an artist.

She has yet to shine in a real way. There is much more to her than meets the eye, orela has never seen her full potential as an artist. She has yet to shine in a real way. There is much more to her than meets the eye, or I wouldn't love her so much. There are beautiful girls everywhere. I could have my pick, but for 35 years, I've only groomed, I mean, I've only wanted Pamela. She makes me wild in a good way. She inspires me, I protect her, and treat her the way she deserved to be treated. So, John Peters, I was just realizing as we went in on the story that he is the producer who was obsessed with putting a giant mechanical spider in that Superman script. Oh, really? That Kevin Smith was doing the rewrite on. And then John Peters ended up

being one of the producers on Wild Wild West and got his Mechanical Spider finale. The reason I knew to look at that is because I knew that that producer started out as a hairdresser for Barbra Streisand.

And then did Flashdance, I think? He did a lot of big shit in the 80s too. I knew that that producer started out as a hairdresser for Barbra Streisand. Got it. And then did Flashdance, I think? Yeah. He did a lot of big shit in the 80s, too. Yeah. No, he was on top of the game in the 70s and 80s. Yeah, he said he saw her at the Playboy Mansion, and he was pleading with her to not do Playboy when he met her.

He's like, you could have a real career. And I mean, credit to her. I mean, the path she took made her a pretty huge name. And no shade, I did watch the show VIP she used to be on, Valerie Iron's Protection Agency. And she was not a great actress on that. The performances were not that great. Although barbed wire, stellar.

Stellar. I think she was nominated for a Razzie. Cheers! Also, can you imagine do you remember how many people got the barbed wire arm tattoo as like that was the time that film embodied an entire subculture of tattoos. Right.

The barbed wire getting that thing on your arm. What year did that come out? It was the most of its time movie to ever completely flop. It came out in 1996 in 1996 96 what a year of cinema and i feel like the film cover the poster for the film was basically like a playboy cover she's just holding a gun yeah she's like i'm topless basic it's implied topless but i got a glock implied toplessness uh and cheers i just want to say that cheers oh no you're reading that long it's hashtag c-h-e-a-r-s which is shorthand for when there's a premier league football match happening so this was chelsea versus arsenal got it that is why i have shoehorned it into the dock

very conveniently so i can get a little bit of my Premier League talk going on. It was a great match. Chelsea is in fourth place. Yeah, it was in fourth place. We were in 12th place at the time going into this match. And traditionally, Arsenal has been a top-four team. We've just had an abysmal season. 12th out of how many? Out of 20.

Okay. Yeah, so we're in the bottom, technically what they call the bottom half of the table. Yeah. And, you know, it was a hard-fought match. One of our defenders, who used to be a Chelsea player, got a straight red card. The fans didn't like it, but we clawed back with 10 men

to eke out a 2-2 draw, Jack. And what, oh. I mean, I feel like I just watched Braveheart in 15 seconds. Thank you so much. That story just, my heart is three times the size it was before I heard it. That was beautiful, man. That's not because you're diet.

No, no, it has nothing to do with that. Yeah, it was an amazing thing. Also, I just want to point out, the person who was playing captain, Hector Bellerin, he blew his ACL in this game like over a year ago. So this was him, it was kind of a really great comeback. He came back after, you know, ACL injuries are, that's it, you know, potentially career ending. And football in particular.

And season end, always a season ender for most sports. Yeah. But he came back and scored the goal to give us the draw. So it was a bit poetic. Yeah. It's interesting because more recently

in the NFL, they've been less season ending. You were just getting right back out there? People are getting back out there quicker than they ever have before. What are we talking like? If you get, let's say you do an AC on September. Adrian Peterson did it like so quickly. It was unbelievable. I mean, this was maybe five, six years ago, but.

And obviously technology has regressed since then. But I'm just wondering what training secrets nfl uh athletes are not sharing with their football brethren across the uh i wonder because in football your your footwork is mostly about you maneuvering versus in when you're playing footy you got to like pass the ball kick the ball dribble the ball so much is leg centric right obviously but like obviously for someone who's a running back if your knees aren't doing aren't firing on all cylinders you're not gonna be doing that great yeah uh so i don't know you know i don't know yeah it could just be that um most football teams are gigantic entities that are like get them out as quickly as possible right

uh yeah i mean i was implying that it was performance-enhancing supplements. Do you think it's, oh, not stem cells straight in the knee? That's one new year. I don't know. There was also someone who was doing, like, placenta treatments on a knee injury. We had a striker going under. I think Kobe did that, too. He did placenta something?

Yeah. Yeah. But look, the real competitors, they're going over there for the weird treatments. Mm-hmm. But look, the real competitors, they're going over there for the weird treatments. All right. That is going to do it for this evening's Trending Zeitgeist, a.k.a. This is the Trend. We will be back tomorrow with a whole new episode of the Daily Zeitgeist.

We're going to talk to you then. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the President of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nickname Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange

and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeartTrue Crime Plus, only on Apple Podcasts. a new faith provides answers. You mix homesteading with guns and church. Voila! You got straight away. He tried to save everybody.

Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish

about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Santos! Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. MTV's official challenge podcast is back for another season.

That's right. The Challenge is about to embark on its monumental 40th season, y'all, and we are coming along for the ride. Woohoo! That would be me, Devin Simone. And then there's me, Davon Rogers. And we're here to take you behind the scenes of the Challenge 40, Battle of the Eras. Join us as we break down each episode, interview

challengers, and take you behind the scenes of this iconic season. Listen to MTV's official Challenge podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.