The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendly Neighborhood Zeiter-Man 12/2: Cyber Monday, Van Halen, Dakota Johnson, Cinderblock, Frozen 2

Episode Date: December 2, 2019

On this episode of Trendly Neighborhood Zeiter-Man Jack and Anna discuss Cyber Monday deals, Billie Eilish not knowing Van Halen, Dakota Johnson on Ellen, RIP Lil Bub and "Hello, Cinderblock!", and Frozen 2! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, the internet, and welcome to your Trendly Neighborhood Ziderman, courtesy of Johnny Davis, aka your Trendly Neighborhood Ziderman, from Wu-Tang Clan. I'm Jack O'Brien. That over there is Super Producer Ana Hosniye, joining us today in place of Miles of Grey. Yeah. I only know him by his Twitter handle. Is that his real name? Now, Miles is out today back back in the morrow uh good gentlemen uh but we are still gonna tell you what's trending today on this fine uh cyber monday and that is actually the top thing that's trending along with airpods airpods cyber monday uh this is also the number

one thing on reddit because uh there's something trending that is a strap that holds your airpods together right so making airpods pointless because they're just like well that's everyone's always like i keep losing them yeah and it's like yes well that's kind of the choice you you take a risk when you spend 150 to 250 dollars on these things is that you have to tiny little pill sized things and it's almost asking you to become kind of like hyper vigilant about what you do with your belongings um as you know i you know my partner he left one of his airpods on the ottoman yes we have ottoman money um and the dog chewed one of them so he had to buy a new pair and it's like you have to these are very expensive little tiny pieces of basically forever items

because one again you can't recycle them or throw them away i know so they're also like candy sized yeah and i always want to eat them or like swallow them i that's why i compared them to a pill because i always want to just like put them in my mouth and swallow them with a glass of water like minions yeah so yeah i i don't if you are not a person who takes good care of your belongings i i'm sad to say it, but you should not buy AirPods. Just stick to the wired headphones. Yeah. I feel like they've kind of had a real tipping point, as Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons love to say.

they've released like version 2.0 now they're actually breaking through because now there's like an old pair that's obsolete and thus affordable so are the prices going down on those i think they must oh because yeah like why they wouldn't sell a single other pair of well that's not true i think people one um we live in a time of flex culture so people would flex on each other like by getting the old ones no by getting the new ones so why would you what are you saying well i'm just saying they must have dropped the price of the old ones otherwise wouldn't they be the same price as the new ones no the new ones are 250 old ones are 150 okay never mind then yeah uh let's talk about van halen also trending uh because billy eilish did not know who they were and she doesn't fucking need to yeah exactly i'm sorry i was saying this tried to work up a head of steam to disagree with you on this i just don't care

give a shit van halen cool yeah chuck closterman is like a huge Van Halen fan. I don't even know who that is. He's like a pop culture writer. And he called them the most appropriately rated band in existence. Like neither over or underrated. They're just appreciated for their hits. And they were big when they were big. But nobody needs to, they didn't have like a huge lasting impact that i

know of i don't know that he said that that might just be my take but uh i don't know i you know van halen look they weren't to me it's like there's a certain type of older band that really resonates with me like pearl jam or something like that. But that's because they created a style of being like they're all like. The Yarling? Yeah. Like that's a thing where whenever I hear a Pearl Jam song, I will start making that noise along with the song. Van Halen, you didn't do that.

You sang like normal people. And guess what? Now you don't matter because Billie Eilish doesn't remember you. And we go by what Billie Eilish remembers and doesn't remember. She is our official cultural conscience. It's kind of true. Like she's so famous that it's like, well, I don't know, man. Like if Billie Eilish says you are nothing, then you are nothing.

The thing that is definitely going to be lasting of Van Halen is that Eddie Van Halen did the guitar solo from the Beat It song. So a little known tribute. But that guitar solo shreds. Put that on their wiki. From the Beat It song, as a little known tribute. But that guitar solo shreds. Put that on their wiki. From the Beat It song, as it's known among the kids. Also, Eddie, a common name for lead singers of old bands? Yeah. Well, he wasn't the lead singer.

He was the lead guitarist. Yeah, see, that's how little I care. Yeah, exactly. Who gives a shit? But yeah, people are acting like this is the equivalent of when kids were all tweeting wait Titanic's based on a true story

that was a thing yeah that was like a big trend early days of Twitter and that was upsetting I think but this nobody needs to know who Van Halen is yeah you know what mentally I've already moved on from this story nobody knows knew that the Nobody needs to know who Van Halen is. Yeah. You know what?

Mentally, I've already moved on from this story. Nobody knew that the Tulsa race massacre happened until Watchmen came out. Let's worry about that and not the Van Halen thing. Dakota Johnson. Why is she trending? Well, basically, she stood up to Ellen DeGeneres' crap, if you will. Okay. So tell me the story, because that's what I heard.

I heard it was like a feud between the two of them, but then, I don't know. Well, so Dakota Johnson, being the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffin and the stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas, decided today, well, not today, whenever it happened a few days ago, that she will no longer be taking Ellen's weird shit on her her show so she came on the show ellen was like how was your birthday party i wasn't invited dakota johnson's like you can see in the moment where she has that thing where she like is like right you were invited ellen you didn't come and ellen's like i don't know what you're talking about i wasn't invited anywhere and she's like you can see it because she does that before everything she says. She's like, you weren't invited last year because I didn't think you would want to come. Because you're like massively famous. And like, I've only met you on the show.

But this year I definitely invited you and you didn't come. She was like, no, I don't think that's true. That's not true. Let's ask somebody. And like asks her producer. Her producer is like, yeah, you were't think that's true. That's not true. Let's ask somebody. And asks her producer. Her producer's like, yeah, you were invited. You were out of town.

She's like, oh, I was out of town. Not right, because I had that thing. Yes. What was that thing? Classic investigative journalists of Twitter, a.k.a. just random people who have the time of their lives, figured out that it was the same weekend that she was at the Cowboys game with George Bush Bush. George Bush Bush. Bushy Bushes. Oh, that's right. lives uh figured out that it was the same weekend that she was at the cowboys game with george bush bush george bush bush bushy bushes oh that's right i had that thing where i was hanging out with a

war criminal my bad so fuck off ellen i'm sorry these i hate her bits because she literally says you harassed me so much last time when i didn't invite you because one we're not friends so why the fuck would i like imagine being hanging out with all your friends and being like yeah ellen's coming everyone would be like why why did you invite ellen degeneres to your party maybe that's just my era of folk but i'd be like man what the fuck why'd you invite ellen ellen the generous she's gonna come in and be fake nice to everyone and then rude to random people? Like, no, thank you.

There's more stories kind of circulating. This has given people an excuse to start tweeting and chatting about the fact that Ellen is mean. Yeah. Not a nice person. Yeah. It's a known thing within the industry that Ellen is somewhat evil. And the fame and money has gone to her head and she's no longer with us folk on planet earth yeah so in response to this story somebody was like oh my

gosh just the other day I was going into the parking lot of the Writers Guild of America and somebody was walking into the building and dropped their parking ticket. And they were a very famous person. I won't say who they were, but you can probably guess. And I went up to return it to them. And they looked at me like I was the biggest creep in the world and walked away fast while I was trying to do them a favor. And everyone was like, oh, it's Ellen, right? And the person was just like, not going to say.

Because you don't want her to, I don't know, blacklist you because she's a monster. Yeah. Oh, my God. We're blacklisted. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're never working for the Ellen show. Lil Bub. R.I.P. Lil Bub has passed.

Long live Lil Bub. This brought Cinderblock to our attention. Just to be clear, Lil Bub is a cat. Oh, yeah, yeah. And not a rapper who does Xanax. That's true. A young rapper who does Xanax. That's a good point.

That needs to be clarified. Yeah. Lil Bub is the really cute cat because it looks like a kitten, but then it has the added feature that it has its tongue sticking out of its mouth all the time. And I believe Little Bub had dwarfism. Oh, yeah. I believe. I think that's why it looked like a kitten. Which is weird because we really, like, we, like, fetishize these pets, these little cats, like Grumpy Cat, who have, like, disabilities in, like, the weirdest ways.

Right. Where we'll be like, make them an internet celebrity. Right. So we were like, well, who's left now? Who's the reigning number one cute cat? Because Lil Bub passed, Grumpy Cat passed, and Garfield is on his way out. And this brought a cinder block to our attention. Real quick, Garfield's not his way out, and this brought Cinderblock to our attention.

Real quick, Garfield's not real, Jack. Well, you know. Yeah, Cinderblock is that huge gray cat that people have made famous for being fat, which, again, I don't appreciate all this, like, well, look, I'm doing it, yes, making beauty. It's like, guys, they're cats and they deserve respect. Your impression of people responding to cute cats is upsetting? That's the internet as a whole.

Everyone's like, oh. And you're like, guys, yes, it's a cute cat, but let's not go to the top. The Garfield thing was, by the way, based on a tweet by Drew Toothpaste, who tweeted, Grumpy cat and little bub are dead. These come in threes. Garfield is next. So just wanted to. Okay.

Only after I called you out. It wasn't me. It was his stupid joke. But anyway, RIP little bub. Cinder block is the very large cat that like can't. They keep trying to put him on water treadmills and he like puts one paw on the treadmill and like just lets it go by. So this is what you do to get a cat enrichment activities.

And yes, I do have to spend a lot of time talking to my vet about this because I do have two fat cats. You put their food in some sort of mechanism where they have to play with it in order to get the food out. Right. That kind of like gives them some exercise. Putting a cat on a water treadmill is so wild to me because one, cats hate water. And two, they're going to be like, I'm not human. This doesn't compute to me as a thing I can do to lose weight. Also, I don't care to lose weight. I'm a

fat cat who uses my body as a pillow for myself. Yeah. The assumption about those videos seems to be that this is like some high Yeah, the assumption about those videos seems to be that this is like some high-tech animal training facility. And it's probably just like a high-tech creative torture of animal facility. I don't know. Maybe there's science behind it. Of course, I haven't looked it up because I can't with how my life goes. I don't have the time.

But it just seems weird. The cat is so big that it might not be able to support his own weight um really i think that might be well i can't imagine why else they would do it in water i see that's the thing it's like i feel like people are trying to just create memes out of these animals right like truly like why can't we find other ways to get cinder block to lose weight other than making it walk on a water treadmill. Yeah. It is working. Okay. DJ. However,

how, wow. Uh, BT dubs, uh, super producer Daniel, uh, has pointed out that it is working. He lost 0.8 pounds,

uh, which could, uh, in cat weight is a significant portion of his body weight and or should be a significant portion of his body weight. But will he gain it back once he's done? Yeah. So the creative torturers at this creative torture method factory are trying to convince us that it's working. this creative torture method factory are trying to convince us that it's working.

If it's working, then I hope it makes Cinderblock a lot healthier and we stop calling him Cinderblock. Cinderblock, by the way, was found in the house of a hoarder who had passed on. And it just like you put hoarder found dead in their house and then giant overfed enormous cat in the same sentence. You have to wonder, was Cinderblock feeding on the remains of their owner? And turns out, I don't know the answer to that. So let your imagination fill in the blanks. That's a fine thing.

It's like you raised your cat, you put your your life into it and then you pass before them like why shouldn't your it almost feels like your cat is doing their duty to be like and i shall eat you now right and give you a second life as energy for me to chase lasers uh frozen is also not really trending uh we talk about it on tomorrow's episode that Frozen 2 crushed the box office. It's trending in a general people keep talking about it in the office sense. And Anna and I just learned we both watched Frozen 1 for the first time over the weekend. And it was me. For me, it was the first time I'd watched it sober for and uh for the first time ever ever yeah anna you had some you had some takes i you know i struggle with the movie because when i don't think it's

that great i think uh i think kids are horrible uh movie reviewers right i think all kids are stupid for liking that no i mean i can see the appeal it's like a bunch of songs there's a dancing uh what is it snowman which by the way olaf's like a bunch of songs. There's a dancing, what is it, snowman? Which, by the way, Olaf, probably the greatest part of the movie. But overall, I found Elsa to be a bit of a cunt, very selfish. Wow. Anna was sad in a weird, dark way. There was some true darkness that I didn't care for like you know i found i found elsa so deeply selfish

of like you don't just get to boohoo because you get frozen hands or whatever your problem is which by the way not explain why the fuck was she born with this weird frozen situation uh and then just be like oh no i'm i'm a freak and like run off and be like, finally, and then sing a song about being selfish, like letting go and doing whatever the fuck you want when it's like you just froze a town and then you're like little sisters there. Your parents are dead. Like, what are you doing? Yeah.

Let it go is a song that in the end is about letting your selfish desires win over. Yeah. To live in an ice castle. Right. Okay. Right. Or the in an ice castle? Right. Okay. Or the proverbial ice castle of addiction. I didn't care for that. What?

That's what it is? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You think her vagina is frozen solid? Oh, maybe. Wow. Yeah. Actually, if it is, she can do whatever she wants. That's tough. That would be tough. Oh, yeah, maybe that is the unspoken truth. She's like, no, you don't understand.

Like, shit's fucked up. Everything is frozen. That would make, I guess, masturbation incredibly difficult. Which is why she's so pent up. Yeah. Why she's like, I'm just going to go to this ice castle. That's why she has all this pent up energy. So it's just like.

Well, it's true. They're not fucking. Right. Well, maybe. I going to go to this ice castle. That's why she has all this pent up energy. So it's just like, well, it's true. They're not fucking. Right. Well, maybe I don't know how old they are. I don't know. Do baths exist? Do shower heads exist at that time? Probably not.

No. Poor Elsa. Also, we both the the scene where the giant. It's just a very strange transition where her parents are like, we'll back in no time darling we're just getting on this boat and then it's like it's it's a cut to the boat just being swallowed by a massive wave i wish there was no edit and it was just them like waving goodbye to them and then it just like a rogue wave rogue wave wipes them out. Yeah, that was also a really dark moment where I was like, wait, what? Yeah. That was a really gnarly storm that they were just sailing through.

Yes, it was as scary as any storm in The Perfect Storm. And we're all like, why are these kids so upset that their parents are going on a quick trip? It's because they saw Frozen and they're like oh no i've seen this happen before yeah as most disney movies the parents always die going on a trip or something yeah especially though right after uh parent after the kids are like oh don't go mom i'm like i have separation anxiety from you and they're like don't worry we'll be right back the thing your parents always say to you right before don't worry your nanny and butler will take care of you. Well, shit, that has been your

Trendly Neighborhood Zyder, man. This is fun. This has been fun having you on, Super Producer Anna Hosnia. Yes, and just contractually not obligated to work on this show. Yeah, no, you're doing this in your free time and we are not paying you. work on this show. Yeah. No, you're doing this in your free time and we are not paying you.

Nope. At all. Except in LaCroix. I don't drink LaCroix. Anna, where can people find you, follow you, listen to you? I'm at Anna Hosnia on Twitter, tweeting these hot, hot takes about Elsa being a cunt. And I'm

also... Oh, I host a podcast called ethnically ambiguous thank you on this network and i'm also i just brought my bachelor podcast will you accept this rose to this network that is correct it is here now it's called will you accept this rose also i am executive producing a podcast about 90 day fiance called 420 Day Fiance that Miles Gray and Sophia Alexandra host. So listen to that because the more listeners of that, the more money I make and the less I have to interact with Jack.

I'm just joking. Could you imagine? Soon I will work as Jack's boss. Look, the truth comes out at the end of these episodes. Yeah, if you missed the sound of Miles' voice, go check out 420 Day Fiance. That's going to do it for this evening. We'll be back in the morning with more podcasts.

We'll talk to you then. Bye.