The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendly Neighborhood Zeiter-Man 11/24: Grammys, Chappelle's Show, Utah, Outkast

Episode Date: November 24, 2020

On this edition of Trendly Neighborhood Zeiter-Man Jack and Miles talk about this year's Grammy noms, Chappelle's Show has been pulled from Netflix - at Dave's request, a weird monolith has been found in Utah, and a voice over performance you will NOT believe. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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your trendy neighborhood Spider-Man. Zyder-Man. Ooh. Yeah. Podge Moran. Moran. Shout out to you, my friend. I'm Jack.

That's Miles. This is What's Trending. All right. Grammy nominations 2021, as i've talked about before i i just wait until grammy nominations come out and that's how i choose what music to listen to yep uh always never missed never never miss 100 accuracy this time what do we got what do we got? What do we got? Beyonce, most nominated artist. So there you go. Okay.

Some of the things they've been criticized for, not a drop of K-pop anywhere, even though K-pop kind of dominated the year music. Yeah. Not a single person? Not a single. Not a one. BTS is like normally melting the fucking internet down yeah i mean it's not being on there i think people are a little bit i even knew they had a new album

come out like in the last week yeah and i'm i'm completely ignorant to like what is good or you know relevant k-pop i know that they are relevant but shit come on academy of boring people uh wop also did not make any nominees uh nomination list uh and then somebody was pointing out that all the rappers like when you look at the most streamed songs on spotify and apple music it's all, you know, young rappers in their 20s like DaBaby. And the rap category is the youngest person is D Smoke from Rhythm and Flow at 35 or 36. And everybody else is like in their 40s. Nas is on there. Yeah, Royce the 5'9".

I mean, Freddie, I mean yeah freddie's not young yeah interesting d smoke got good for him yeah i'm like that's like the one thing i didn't i didn't realize he was nominated for a grammy i really enjoyed him on rhythm and flow um so that's that's cool uh but again i mean i wish i wish, I wish the Grammys meant shit. Cause they really, they, I remember like in the era, like when like Jay-Z would get snub at the height of his. And I was like, man, they say they don't know what's going on. Jigga should be up there just cleaning up the fucking stage every time. And I think a lot of people slowly, you know, their, their hearts turn cold to the award show, but you know, shout out to D Smoke. Yeah.

And apparently they're really, like, rude to artists. Like, that's something that, like, Frank Ocean has a beef with, like, the producers of the Grammys, which, like, just such a misguided sense of importance that they're like, yeah, no, we're, we're kind of like they, I think their disagreement was over like a Frank Ocean performance where he wanted to do one thing and they wanted to do another.

And they like never forgave him for having his own artistic instincts for a performance at the Grammys, which they're like, we're, we're the real artists here, Frank, why don't you follow our instincts? Oh, wow.

Let me play a little piano somewhere else, buddy. Netflix is trending, or Chappelle's show is trending because Netflix pulled it. It's always no longer offered on the streaming. No longer on Netflix, I guess. So Dave Chappelle, I had gotten a sense he wasn't thrilled that it was on Netflix from his SNL stand-up. I think he mentioned he didn't get paid shit

for his show being on Netflix. And he has this relationship with Netflix, and he called them up and was like, it makes me feel bad that Chappelle show is on your streaming service and I'm not getting paid for it. And they were like, here, how about this?

We'll pull it off. Cause you're important to us. And so he, he posted something just explaining that that's why it's not on there anymore. And that's pretty. So somewhat amicable. Yeah. Yeah. They were like, yeah, no, that's like, they're doing it. That's fair. We're on there anymore and that's pretty oh so somewhat amicable yeah yeah they were like yeah no that's like they're doing it that's fair just not paying for that shirt

yeah yeah i think they're doing it because you know they want to be a place that is associated with like putting talent before uh contracts with viacom. So they're just, you know, obviously they can't be like, no Viacom, like we'll, we'll change the deal. Cause I think that would probably put like legal, uh,

right. Bring legal shit into it. So they were just like, well, if it makes you feel bad, we'll pull it. Seems to be the story. They're like,

yeah, sorry, Netflix, I'm have a problem because you're exploiting my intellectual property, even i don't have the rights to it and it just doesn't feel right that you're not paying me and their answer is i'm sorry i didn't know we couldn't do that that's right basically not not knowing outright they're like this might i would feel some type of way if i just put this out here and we didn't pay them even though we get all the legal ramifications of it but they're sort of like oh just wait till he says something okay he said something

okay we'll take it down yeah so the the statement is i didn't uh i like working for netflix i like working for netflix because when all those bad things happen to me like his dealings with viacom uh that company didn't even exist and when i found out they were streaming Chappelle's show, I was furious. How could they not know? So you know what I did? I called them and I told them that this makes me feel bad and you want to know what they did? They agreed that they would take it off their platform

just so I could feel better, which shout out to them. All right, Snowflake. Glad you went to your safe space of Netflix. Right. But yeah, fuck that i mean i'm glad to see things work out so smoothly because i feel like anybody else unfortunately that no one else has the stature of dave chapelle to just call and be like yeah i'm not really feeling that like okay no problem no problem no problem i think other times they would just they would just send back lol gtfoh yeah of course yeah any old media

company would tell you to fuck off they'd be like i'm looking at them telling artists to fuck off for yeah centuries they're like that's interesting because i'm looking at the legal paperwork and your name isn't on here so i don't know why you're calling me right you're like oh fuck okay anything else thanks yeah thanks and we aren't going to validate. Yeah, that's the ultimate insult. It always happens in LA. It's like, why the fuck are you going to... Y'all are the... Oh, sorry, we don't validate.

I have to pay $20 for valet right now? Y'all summoned me here for a meeting, and you don't... What the fuck is up with this city? God. Yeah. It's all too common. This could have been a zoom there is a weird uh 10 to 12 foot tall

monolith uh like a square rectangular you know the thing from uh 2001 embedded in the ground in a remote part of red rock county or red rock country in uh utah uh just in the ground in a remote part of Red Rock County or Red Rock Country in Utah, just in the middle of nowhere, a team surveying bighorn sheep for Utah's wildlife agency found this object and nobody knows where it came from. They think it's probably art, but they don't know. Yeah, it's just there in the middle of the desert nobody told anybody they were putting it in and it's just told me wow oh so just kind of confounding thing to stumble upon yeah i love shit like this man that's if i was an artist that's what i would do hey hey

you are you are oh thank you so much i'm to post a podcast in the middle of the desert. There you do. Yeah. I mean, I would just switch mediums right now. You're just hiding little pieces of dried up poop around my house. But yeah, I guess that is the medium. I was just saying, we were talking about animal pet issues. Yeah, I was saying how my cats just have shit flinging off of them

when a super producer and a finding cat shit in random places. And we had that happen to us back when we had a dog. And yesterday, we haven't had a pet in two years. And yesterday, I found a tiny dried up piece of shit in my kid's room. Just on the floor. I was like, what is... is oh come on man damn it a beautiful shirt yeah god damn it jack check out if you haven't seen the kid who puts a glow stick in the microwave i mean that is some

dumb shit so stupid because the dad's reaction in his mouth i think he's like playing with i don't know it yeah like it's part of zeitgeist lore of stupid videos while he's referenced because the dad's reaction is all of us yeah damn it jack god you ruined your beautiful shirt shirt um am i ever right jack am i ever right oh boy uh and finally there's this uh outcast essay an essay academic essay about outcast uh that seems really cool seems like the sort of of shit that I would read in my downtime. But they got a voice actor or voiceover person to read this. And his name is Kevin Rainier or Rainier.

And we just have to play it for y'all. I think all we'll say is this Kevin Rainier personar person is not from savannah georgia right this person is not from atlanta this person isn't even from georgia this person uh i'm based on the avatar i'm looking on the twitter account not a person of color uh and this person is doing character voices in the outcast essay take it it away, Kevin. Fireside Magazine presents The Art of Speculatin' by Regina N. Bradley, edited by Maurice Broadus,

narrated by Kevin Renier, published in the Autumn 2020 issue of Fireside Quarterly. I'm a Southern Black woman who... Okay, so we'll just stop right there because you're not a Southern Black woman. What was the title? I mean, mean i get it the art of storytelling tried to do like uh sound like a german jamaica jamaica yeah jamaican is a great is a great uh description another uh dave chappelle reference um right near that is but yeah that the art of speculating.

And the confidence with which he reads that title and tells you who is narrating. Like up there with the person who wrote it and edited it is I, the man who will bring these words to life. Kevin Renier. Tis I, Kevin Renier from East Point. L point lays it down don't worry about me it's the am i a crooked letter i mean let's get let's get real here um so this there's a few other interesting things that i think outcast fans will probably sort of be like what what was that uh then this is in i get it outcast album names are a little tricky. But I would first like to mention, you know, obviously the seminal album. On their second album, Atliens.

On their second album, Atliens. Oh, Atliens. He's not British. He's not British, this dude. Like, I've been listening to his voiceover work elsewhere. No, he's from tampa phone number on his phone number and his other work he just sounds like your average uh you know ohio sounding white dude whenever he talks but he for whatever reason he's going atlian i mean but

i mean jack who could forget i mean he not going to fuck this next one up. Yes, maybe the second album, he's not a fan. Maybe he's a day one OutKast fan. He knows how to say this album title. I mean, who doesn't? Southern Playalistic Adilica Music. Southern Playalistic Adilica Music. What?

I'm sorry, what? I'm sorry. Southern Playalistic Adilica Music. Southern Playalistic Adelica Music. Southern Playalistic Adelica, Duga Duga, Cambridge Adelica Music. Okay. Whoa. For people who don't know,

the album is called Southern Playalistic Cadillac Music. Adelica. But I get, again, you throw this person who presumably does not know much about hip hop, clearly, based on some of these album names, or the fact that he was like, yeah, that's cool. I will do this like mammy voice on mic.

When you look at it. Yeah, because the first album name is just a full on run on word. Right. So if you were maybe doing a thing. Oh, shit. I'm trying to I'm looking at how it's written and i'm trying to be kevin renear for a moment so you would say southern play a list of music yeah there is some idyllic i get the dot there is a adilla and if you take southern play a list and you just play a list

is one word they didn't put two c's there so play Playlist of Cadillac music. But all he had to do was listen to the song. Listen to the song that's called Southern Playlist of Cadillac music. Oh, my God. I needed that. This dude. Oh, legend. That's one of the worst things I've ever heard. And one of the worst things I've ever heard. And one of the best things.

The confidence cannot be overstated. And who could forget their five mic winning album, Aquamini. Like what? Aquamini? Oh, man. Aquimini. Okay, sure. Aquimini. Okay, sure.

Spody. Odie. But he nails that, probably? Yeah, Spody Odie Dopealicious. Wait, how? How did you? Come on, Kevin. He's like, well, I mean, who could argue with that horn line?

Yeah. What? I mean, I love Spody Odie Dopealicious. I mean, I'm out here. You might as well call me Hollywood Coke. I always thought it was Hollywood Cole. I think, honestly, that's probably one of those things where I've never looked at lyrics. And in my mind, I'm thinking like a tough guy

named Hollywood Coke. But yeah, I think that sounds much better. Look, we're all learning things about OutKast today. Oh, man. I am really excited to read this essay now. I'm glad it was brought to my attention. Would you ever attempt to just get through the audio version? Like listening to the whole thing as read by Kevin?

I keep wanting to call him Keith, but that's his brother, probably. Kevin Rainier. No, I don't think I could. i don't think i could do it i think it would be too distracting right two separate experiences one to try and uh read this person's thoughts and deep analysis analysis of outcasts and uh the other just to bathe in the sheer genius mind level cringe that this dude is bringing. I just found out what the deal is with that line from Spodeo de Dopealicious. What is it? Okay, because you know the thing, it's all violence happening.

He takes his shirt off, I think is the lyric. And so I'm looking at it, and the actual lyric is, now who want to fuck with hollywood courts and i looked that up that's a housing project so he was calling his neighborhood out i'm over here living in la being like yeah who want to fuck with hollywood coke like this person but yeah there we go and that's just my interpretation of the situation that there you go and that's they made it difficult to understand on purpose so that

we all had our own interpretation of the situation. They're masters. Thank you for Southern music. Southern playlistic idyllic music.

Big Boi. Oh, God. Yeah, I think I do have to listen to the whole thing, just like catalog all the things this dude gets wrong. Big Boi. B-O-I? I don't know. B-I-G-B-O-I.

Big Boi. Oh, man. Big Boi. All right. Fuck it. Oh, and also, Zygang, just before we go, I want to let you know that we're having a huge sale, or we are.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports, especially tennis. Tune into my podcast each week to hear me and my friends in the community break down the latest matches, including the U.S. Open. Plus, hear from some of the biggest names in the sport about what the future holds. It's about belief, and once you break through that, then you know you can win a Grand Slam. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast every Monday on the

iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Bruce Bozzi. On my podcast, Table for Two, we have unforgettable lunch after unforgettable lunch with the best guest you could possibly ask for.

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leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Swordquest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.