The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeitlander 2: the QuickTrending 5/26: Prank, Ted Bundy, San Jose, Kyrie Irving, Amazon x MGM

Episode Date: May 26, 2021

On this edition of Zeitlander 2: the QuickTrending Jack and Miles discuss the first REAL loyalty check, yet another Ted Bundy movie, yet another mass shooting, Kyrie Irving hoping Boston won't be Boston-y. and Amazon buying MGM. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I promise you'll be happier and healthier if you do. Hello, the internet, and welcome to zeitlander 2 the quick trending oh yeah we're on this highlander kick baby that's good the highlander i don't know man i just know i know vaguely the mythology from memes and references. Right. But, like, you behead one, and that's how you become the... That's how you kill them. It's like the Santa Claus. The Santa Claus thing, where by killing them, you become the Highlander, I believe.

You become Santa, right. Yeah. You ever wonder, like, in those films when films and like Santa dies, like what Mrs. Claus is thinking. She's like, uh, well, I bet she's probably like,

you know, cause like Tim Allen's not bad looking. Right. So it didn't, was there a Mrs. When like, there's no widow when he pulled up to the North pole after Santa fell off his roof and shit.

What if she just dies right away too? I know that's honestly, we need is he married in those movies another movie that i've never seen i only know the mythology for uh you're talking about uh the santa claus yeah yeah yeah he's well he's like a divorced dad oh okay so his wife like doesn't automatically become mrs close no got it oh but that would be wild like if he was hot like he had a side chick or something and then just because of like the relationship they're like why am i turning what's going on tim

right like i'm sorry i became santa claus and now she had to go merc mrs claus in the north pole all right we figured it out figured the whole damn thing out five yep um again this is back when every fucking comedy in this was like divorce dad scott calvin like yeah we get every motherfucker's divorce bro and you're writing this script in the midst of your divorce wow and his initials are sc yeah was that really his name in the yes yes wow what Yes, baby. What? I mean, that's one of those things that's like, get it,

but it doesn't really make sense. It doesn't even matter. You know? Right. It's like, oh, it was meant to be. It's like, but your name's not,

whatever. It's Chris Kringle, whatever you want to believe it. What was that video we were just watching of the girl catching her- Getting mad at her homegirls

for doing the loyalty test i'll say that's trending that was pretty entertaining um do you want to talk well anyway sorry we just completely hijacked the intro to talk about the santa claus the feasibility of a side chick becoming mrs claus yeah um but that one of the things that's trending is this clip it's like a one of those prank videos uh that i think might be the only real one of those like this is basically the equivalent of like one of those morning radio uh drive time shows exactly uh where they do like the caught you cheating we're gonna do the roses and like in la they call it are you down are you down and uh those are all fake by the way i hate to break it to y'all but those are uh officially fake um and

this one seems to be real based on the fact that the person's response it would have been impossible to script yeah um so again this is from a tiktok video where you know guys is pulling up to these women who are like out clubbing and just asking to do a basic thing like can we call your friend's man to see if he will be loyal to her are you guys single or got boyfriends single single is a pringle i have a boyfriend got a boyfriend okay so are you guys all friends with each other? Yes. Best friends. You guys know her boyfriend? Yes.

All right, so can we test his loyalty? Is that okay? Yeah. So he just asked, can we test his loyalty? Is that okay? She says, yeah. My man is all good. Cut to this part.

They're like, okay, so call him up and be like, yo, we want to kick it with you on the low, but can't tell your homegirl. And this is the call. Oh, can you come get get us and we can like maybe hang out or something we kind of want to see you all right yeah i can do that but like gina can't find out is that fine yeah just don't tell her can we like come to your house though and hang out like watch a movie get food or something just make sure y'all tell him he said yes he said yes he said yes i thought we were like best friends since like what sixth grade you're mad you're mad at them so she skips over

the boyfriend and get she's just mad at her friends who she had given permission this is yeah to do human nature it's human nature but it is the same thing with like trump voters or anything where like you cannot admit that like yeah clearly you the most people are like oh my god he ain't shit right how the fuck is this my man's right rather than taking that reality on she said oh my home girls are snake ass rat mother why would you ask him that they're like why are you so good at asking him that i think i think that is just seeing them be like do that even though like i just i can see where the lizard brain would be like you mother yeah i get it i get it it's

completely illogical and therefore the first one of these i've actually believed but i yeah because it follows like drunk ego mind yes when it's you're not you couldn't catch the new or even process the fact that this person's like hey can we do an experiment right turned into i can't believe they tried to fuck my man wait uh okay and then she walks off to o tools yeah o tools gotta get to screw you guys i'm going back to o tools um shout out to all those irish bars with oh first names uh or oh apostrophe oh charlie's uh oh brian's in santa monica uh the clan you get free stuff well oh not that shouldn't be isolated that shout out to the clan he's canceled whoops uh shout out to my kin from shout out to Wu-Tang Clan. Yes. Thought that was obvious.

But yeah, that's like Smith in Ireland. That's the most common name. So it means nothing. Ted Bundy is trending because there's another. There's another Ted Bundy movie coming. Oh, fuck off. Really? That's why yeah and it that's that is and it's trending because that is the reaction of people

they're like what who's playing ted bundy this time justin bieber no some bieber-esque uh that would be kind of funny it's um jayden smith as ted bundy it's the name it's a child star uh i believe um let me see if i can find this it is okay super producer anna hosnia is coming in fact checking me smith is the fifth most common name in ireland and o'brien is the sixth most common name in ireland so uh i look like a fool yet again um you got me you should flip that on me now jack and be like how dare you make me say something like that mom trying to make me look dumb as fuck over here saying some shit like that right um yeah i don't oh it's oh michael murray yeah what's he from fucking i don't know that he's one of those three name dudes

right they don't they don't deserve my respect one tree oh okay he's from one tree i don't know if you heard that demonic voice super producer on his knees thank you method of dropping in from now on. Oh, a freaky Friday. I mean, cool. But again, we don't need like Ted Bundy for real. Like it's not even a,

it's so tired at this point. Chad, Michael Murray also, uh, not the name of a 39 year old man. Uh, I don't know why that name just seems like a child stars name to me. He's 30. cause it evokes the 80s

when you had three name stars right and like early early 90s yeah my my big sister's first crush was a dude named chad uh and i used to rib her endlessly about that oh man uh the 80s when chads were king um san jose is is trending because of a mass shooting there. Yeah, another one. At least nine are dead after a shooting at a light rail yard in San Jose. So like a commuter rail type situation. And yeah, we were just, I was saying that like it, people were like, this is the 15th mass shooting in, you know, the past couple weeks.

But it feels like it just kind of got put on the back burner by the mainstream media. There were 12 over the weekend. Yeah. 12 over the weekend. 12 over the weekend and again whenever we bring this up we talk about how there isn't like a agreed upon number whether it's like two plus injuries three plus the the person themselves a perpetrator themselves i don't know it's but i mean we're talking about 12 mass shooting just it's yeah yeah and then you start reading about like these gun laws in texas where it's like yeah man you got a hand well here's a gun for it right right um yeah as uh we were saying before we

started recording they can they can have texas back the people of texas y'all can y'all we're we're good i don't know what that yeah like where where do we end up i've talked about this with other friends if if you're gonna give conservatives a state it needs to a b one where uh like it has somewhat of its own industry so you can really feel good be like all right y'all do you we're not helping you anymore you got disneyland and universal right let that be your industries and you know uh i mean it sounds like you want to give over Florida. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, because then also, like, you kind of have a front row ticket to climate change.

And it'd be interesting to see, again, you've seen how some people, how some Republicans respond to climate change, like when it's right in their face. Some are like, okay, y'all, climate change. And other people are like, oh, it but i'm just gonna say something different now yeah but if the u.s military thought that cuba was a uh belligerent enemy close by which obviously is not a fair characterization but it is how the u.s like described cuba imagine living next to texas like you think they wouldn't attack like the day that they were announced uh as a sovereign nation um i don't know i think at the end of the day i think americans are really simple

like even though especially the ones who talk so passionately about like seceding at the people just want wi-fi and food right you know like it's not it's a lot of times their ideologies are much greater than like like especially when you see the january 6th type people that this sort of wealthy uh upper middle class insurrectionist it's more just like they're not willing to give up their creature comforts for whatever this fantasy land we're going cooing yeah they just thought it was a fun a fun thing to do um i didn't know you couldn't do which i didn't know i didn't do i did not know i couldn't do that uh kyrie irving is trending uh because he specifically uh asked that boston not be racist ahead of uh you know his game his new team are

the nets uh i would say uh this might hurt your feelings as a Lakers fan, but I would say based on the first two games, they are the presumptive favorite in the NBA. Based on the first two games? That's fair? Yeah. Based in my mind? Yeah. That's a crock of shit. I've never heard anything so

absurd in my life. I'm rooting for the Lakers, and I'm rooting for the Sixers. No, no, no. I mean, they're spooky as fuck. They are just the most terrifying offensive team I've ever seen. And they have fucking shooters coming off the bench that are like, oh, you rang? James Harden heads up their second unit. I think that's better. Because who's like the best three-point shooter

uh joe harris is that his name uh yeah all that to say i can only focus on the three horsemen of the apocalypse and i'm like yeah yeah they're scary um but anyway so he has moved on and now is on uh the best offensive team in the history of the NBA. And they are beating up on his old team in the first round of the playoffs, the Boston Celtics. And he was just like, hey, we're going back to Boston. You know, there might be some hurt feelings. I hope there's no subtle racism.

I mean, the way he says it is like, it's interesting because they're kind of asking like what's it gonna this is your first game back in boston and with a crowd his answer is this i mean it's not my first time being an opponent in boston uh so you know i'm just looking forward to competing with my teammates and um you know hopefully we can just keep it strictly basketball you know there's no belligerence or any racism going on subtle racism and people yelling from the crowd okay that's uh pretty clear almost so boston is he's had that experience before um yeah come on it's the northeast it's not racist that's only in the south uh yeah yeah that's where abolition that's only in the South. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's where the abolitionists were in Massachusetts. But it's, man, this shit is fucking, oof.

Consuming the energy even the Brooklyn fans had, it's, I don't know. The stakes are fucking high, though, for this series. Yeah. People are on one. People are enjoying being out uh in in a crowd again and so you know they want to see their team win they want to keep keep that energy alive so mgm that old chestnut the studio that gave us rocky and uh the james bond movies was just purchased uh by a small company named amazon

what do they do yeah so a little bit of this a little bit of that basically they it comes down to them being willing to pay the least for to make people work the hardest uh you know to get you packages on time to get yeah whatever um but this is a big deal because you know we we've long said like the future is uh you know the new york knicks brought to you by amazon like the amazon knicks uh right like shit you know that like these tech companies were going to buy everything and especially like legacy media, like the New York Times is going to be the Microsoft New York Times. I should have thought of titles before. These are bad.

The Microsoft New York Times. I just like watching that whole unfold yeah microsoft uh new york times uh but so this is kind of the first big legacy media company mgm still has the bond franchise or at least you know partially uh and amazon is not going to be in control of that uh so you know we got rocky got the pink panther uh of course we have species uh the erotic alien series um because everyone in the 90s was horny for aliens uh but this so people were like so what no time to die the james bond movie that's been on the shelf for like a year and a half now uh people were assuming that meant like this would go straight to streaming like the

uh coming to america too but our writer jam was pointing out like the bond franchises like has a you know an estate that protects it like no other uh broccoli is the name that is always associated with it albert broccoli uh co-founded eon is that it i don't know i've always i've always i hope it's broccoli hey broccoli out hey it's al brock come on he co-founded the company that owns and basically protects the Bond franchise. He started that company in 62. And now his daughter, Barbara Brock, Brooke Ollie, and Michael Wilson own it and are supposedly kind of the custodians they're the ones who ultimately i think you know whenever you're hearing conversations around who the next bond is going to be like they seem to be the keepers of that decision um but they are their fantastic evolution of the character yeah i mean

a blonde bond come on you can't make this stuff up, folks. That was wild. Remember how mad people were about that? I'm like, he's Aryan and y'all, what the fuck? How do you win with these people? So James Bond actually should be in the public domain as of 2015, according to the laws that say that copyright expires after 50 years after an author's death right uh you know ian sir ian fleming became officially pickled uh in 1965 so 2015 was when it the franchise the character entered the public domain in canada uh so canada could be dropping the uh unofficial james bonds anytime they want uh but they're they're not because uh you know

the broccoli house of broccoli uh is is pretty litigious so um do your worst losers right i hope they make do they own mgm grand now the hotel and casino that's a great question that i don't know the answer to because see like we're all like it's this is just the mono company where it's like yeah i'm going to that i'm going to amazon las vegas presented by amazon and staying at the mgm Grand by Amazon in a Bezos suite. The one example of a Canadian trying to make a Bond movie was a filmmaker whose previous credits included

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter and he announced that he was planning to make a new movie based on For Your Eyes Only but it takes place in Ottawa. I like that. I love yeah i mean just make them into a canuck you know um yeah why not do you absolutely do you uh all right those are uh some of the things that are trending right now um we're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing

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