The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend Dead Redemption 2 5/14: Jeff Bezos, Black Light, Percy Jackson, Obama et al

Episode Date: May 14, 2020

On this edition of Trend Dead Redemption 2 Miles and Jamie discuss how Jeff Bezos is on track to become the World's first Trillionaire by 2026, a video from Japan is going viral using blacklight to show how easily germs spread, a live action Percy Jackson series is in development for Disney+, and several Obama hashtags are trending: ObamaGate, ObamaGateGate, and ObamaGreat (the best one). Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And also, I'm thrilled to be joined by little Yammy, little Zammy, Stamboni herself, Yammy Lofty, Jamie Loftus. Hi.

Hi. And we were just talking, we're talking games because you said the Blunt King, the Blunt Prince, the boy Blunt Prince of East LA.

Isaac was also playing the Jedi game that I put down because it was getting too hard. But then Core started and I should go back. Oh, okay. He will tell you. It's not easy. It's not just a button masher game.

You got to think like a Jedi. He's been getting really into it. I don't know. I don't know shit about stuff like that. But he's been on the Star Wars game, and then sometimes I could be like, hey, let's take a break. Let's take a breather.

Let's do some crash racing, and then he gets back into it. I love crash racing. Some crash racing, maybe. Hey, why don't you get those cute buns in the kitchen? Make me an egg. Oh, yeah. Yeah, before you can be a Padawan,

you got to make me egg. Make me egg, yeah. Before you get your Padawan learner's braid, which every Padawan has that little mini. I went to Cancun and somebody braided my hair. Yeah. Yeah. You got to make Jamie an egg.

Yeah. But we're here to talk about trends, not how to get your Padawan learner's braid. And let's look at what is trending right now. Aside from these young ass kids outside my window acting like there's not a pandemic going on. No way. Really? There's things have been things have been so up and down in my neighborhood. One day, everyone's like, we're having a barbecue.

The next day, they're like, we're once again afraid for our lives. Yeah. But I mean, that's just how I get it. If I was 22, I literally thought I knew everything at age 22. Like, I could not be told anything. So do what you got to do, kids. Anyway, we digress. Jeff Bezos is trending because you're, oh, we're going to love this.

The worst possible reason. Holy shit. The worst possible reason. It's basically become entirely feasible possible that he becomes the world's first trillionaire yeah they said that he's on track he's on track first of all to become the world's first trillionaire by 2026 there i it's so bleak oh my god he's made so much money off the pandemic which goes without saying like but he's made an absurd like i i think that the the piece i was reading about it last night was like in february amazon stocks were trading somewhere

around 1200 now they're at over 2000 just a couple months later because of how it's bleak and and some people are coming at this story being like wow a real american dream and you're just like the you've missed you've missed the point where have you been think about think about the people who are in like the c-suite at amazon who have left in protest because they're like you're actually firing activist workers in these warehouses that are advocating for the safety of our own employees i quit uh so jeff bezos keeping it trill in 2026 uh next up is blacklight now i don't know if you saw this video it was going it was popping over the weekend and then now i think must have it's reached like usa today levels of viral um because there was this uh special on japanese tv on channel nhk which is like the national broadcasting company there they did because there was this special on Japanese TV on the channel NHK,

which is like the national broadcasting company there. They did an experiment where they're basically showing how easily germs spread in a restaurant, just in a restaurant context, if someone has any kind of illness. So it was like this video basically shows all these people in like a setup restaurant with cameras and stuff. And a few people like would spray like on their hands, like this sort of like white liquid that would disappear, but would appear under a black light. And those people would represent anyone who had like COVID germs.

And so they sent those people around the restaurant. They're interacting with silverware, serving trays, like, you know, it was like a buffet style thing, talking to people, socializing.

And then at the end, everyone just went on about their time, like as if they didn't have to worry and didn't wash their hands. They turn the black lights on and you just see like people got people have white all over their face on their shirts. It's all over the cups. It's all over the things just to be like, hey, this is just a visualization on how these things spread on surfaces and why this isn't a joke or a game like

we get that we had to show you black light but this is what it is i i respect i respect the i respect the fact that they made that video but yeah to quote the great valerie cherish i do not want to see that i think it does i think it's just an important thing i think you or i we respect uh germs enough uh to say that like yeah i think i think i'll keep it tidy and i understand what's at risk i think for some people they just have to be they have to see this version to be like oh right to be like right i mean you should wash wash your hands. I'm all for a terrifying visual example if it gets people to stay at home. Fortunately, we don't need them

because we learn our lessons without the horrifying visuals. That's my reward for actually staying at home is I don't have to watch that video. Speaking of horrible visuals, Percy Jackson is trending. What is Percy Jackson? you fuck i was gonna ask you what the fuck percy jackson is no this series totally missed me there's like it was i was the

right age for it when it came out but there's a few series that kind of all clumped together for me two of which are gonna be on dizzy plus percy jackson and artemis fowl i know that they're pretty different series i know i read a few of each book but they're just i don't i don't know it's just like this is mishmash to me yeah for me mid-aughts talk about mid lost my mind on drugs during those years so the last thing i was doing was sitting down with a kid's fantasy book unless i was tripping or something i'm like i see something easy man i need something there's also something called aragon there was definitely those books were long as shit and i could not tell you one thing that happens i thought it was pronounced did you there was a

movie from aragon but i thought it was pronounced e-ragon and because it spelled like e dragons email dragons i don't know e-cigarettes yeah this i because i know there was a movie i know there was a movie that's when i first i'm like i know percy jackson i thought at first a long time ago i think i thought it was about a fictitious soul singer in the 60s that's what i thought oh that would be way better than what it is no it's it's some kid with a haircut all right hold on let me see this screenplay real quick who's the main character It's some kid with a haircut. Yep. All right, hold on, hold on. That's all I know. Let me see this screenplay real quick.

Who's the main character? Is this kid Percy Jackson? Right, he got a haircut? He's got, but when I say kid with a haircut and then you see the picture, you're like, oh yeah, it is kind of a kid with a haircut. Oh, it's like a strong choice? It's got, yeah, it's a,

because when did the movie come out? The movie came out and directed by Chris Columbus. 2010. 2010. Yeah. It's the haircut is, is really giving away the year it came out. It's a haircut. It's truly now.

Like, I think this is, I often just doing the show. Like I find out about things that I'm so have completely just not in or I've not interacted because of my age. Yeah. And like when I look, I'm like, have completely just not, I've not interacted because of my age. Yeah, Steve Coogan is Hades. What? He was Hades in that one? Steve Coogan was Hades. Sean Bean was Zeus.

I'm learning all this too. Rosario. And left Zeus? Rosario Dawson as Persephone. You're just like, all right. Okay. Uma Thurman. Uma Thurman as Medusa.

That sounds fun. Wait, this is who is going to be in the film? This is in the film, right? No, this was the 2010 Chris Columbus movie. Fantastic. Yeah. Fantastic. So the childrens are excited.

So I'm glad everyone is feeling great. The final trend I think is just funny because it just shows how stupid and petty the culture wars get on Twitter. Because these three things are trending right now. There's hashtag Obamagate. There's hashtag Obamagategate. No. And hashtag Obamagrate. Obamagrate is my favorite evolutionary point in this stupid hashtag war.

The galaxy brain. Oh my God. I mean, again, so Obamagate was Trump and the right's attempt to try and act like he had done something by pointing out Michael Flynn's crimes as president of the United States. And that was supposed to be his Watergate or Obamagate. And then there was Obamagategate, where everyone is just talking about, like, just trolling the people who use the Obamagate thing to be like, no, no, no, what about this thing

your president's doing? Whatever. And then we have Obamagrate about how great he is. Yeah, that's like the camp of people that have people that have a mug being like, I miss him. Yeah. That's a very specific vibe. I miss Percy Jackson, I think. I think I'm going to build.

I miss Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Lightning Thief. That is also such a long title for a movie. Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Lightning Thief. Say it five times fast. That's my challenge. What title for a movie. Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Feet. Say it five times fast. That's my challenge. What's the longest movie title ever? Ooh, I don't know. I can't stop thinking of all.

There were so many mid-aughts fantasy series that are now flooding my brain. Because Artemis Fowl might be good in spite of Josh Gad. I don't know. Yeah, the first one I felt like, my first instinct is the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford is probably the most I can think.

Otherwise, or Precious based on the novel Push by Sapphire. Well, that's the thing. Yeah, how long was the name for the Guardians of Ga'Hul? Okay, so let me tell you this. I feel like that was pretty long. There are plenty of films I have not heard of from the 60s. There's a film from the 60s

called Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Sun of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil Mutant Hellbound Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead Part 3.

Uh-huh. That same construction, that's the longest title according to IMDb. The second longest is part five of that series. Then the films I can start remembering. Okay, then number five, Borat, Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit, Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Dr. Strangelove is listed as just Dr. Strangelove in IMDb, but doesn't have the full or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Yeah. Then Chronicles of Marnie Lyne and Witch's Wardrobe. Oh, that's not that. That's not. I'm looking at this is just I mean, this isn't very long, but the title that popped into my head is both a mid-aughts forgotten fantasy series, a shitty movie, and a weird title. Legends of the Guardians, colon,

the Owls of Gahool. Do you remember? Owls of Gahool, yeah. Yeah, Guardians of Gahool. Also 2010. Directed by Zack Snyder. Release the Snyder Cut of Legends of the Guardians, the Owls of Gahool,

while you're at it. Cowards! Yeah, I think at that time, 2010, I was in the midst of my political career using alcohol to go to sleep to forget that I was just like perpetuating like the human crushing machine that is like politics.

I can't wait for your memoirs you know you you didn't miss much with gahool and i think that they i think i'm saying it gahool because that's how the owls say it and it's really annoying how the owl they're like it's gahool like they hit it's gahool yeah it's good all right i've been living here for 40 years it's gahool. It's gahool. All right. I've been living here for 40 years. It's gahool. I've been saying it like this for my whole life. Release the Snyder Cut of gahool. Exactly. All right. Well, while Jamie and I endeavor to try and get Zack Snyder's attention to release the

Snyder Cut of whatever gahool, we will take our leave. Jamie, thanks for hanging out and talking some trends. And we will talk to y'all see you guys in the morrow uh and yeah please please be safe with you please be safe please treat each other with kindness uh you know as much as you can it's very hard out here but a little bit of kindness goes a very long way um in any direction even if it's to yourself. So please just today's challenge. Be kind. Rewind. All right. What happens when a professional football player's career ends and the applause fades

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