Rhythm of the Zeit 1/10: Sleeping Beauty, Neil Peart, Kendrick Perkins, Selena Gomez, Marianne Williamson

On this edition of the Rhythm of the Zeit Jack and Miles discuss the Sleeping Beauty proposal, Neil Peart has passed away, Kendrick Perkins getting into it with Kevin Durant on Twitter, Selena Gomez album release, and Marianne Williamson has suspender her campaign for presidency.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet. I'm welcome to This is the WHOA
nailed it once again as always, I'm Jack O'Brien. That
is miles great. Were you trying to say night you
were almost you were trying to honor the actual lyrics
at then I forgot that. I love it. I fuck,

(00:22):
It's all good. Hey, we're here to tell you what
is trending on this Friday afternoon. It is Friday. That's
the beginning of ice cubes. Actually, really wow. Thanks got
a young Michael Winslow in. Let's talk Sleeping beauty proposal. Yes,

(00:43):
if you have Twitter or Instagram, I have a feeling
you've probably seen this the second you woke up today,
unless you are the boyfriend of somebody who's good at
hiding things from you do look at that now that
video is funny. This dude's doing it way too much.
There is a video Sleeping Beauty Proposal, essentially where this

(01:04):
guy took his high school sweetheart to like a theater
he had filled with their friends and family to watch
Sleeping Beauty, but he had hired an animator to cut
them into the scene. No, dude, he is the animator.
Wait no, I'm pretty sure. No, he's not. According to
this article, he was talking to it. He hired an
Australian illustrator. Nah, bro No, I don't know. I thought

(01:27):
I thought looking at the credits that it was him. Oh,
I might have up. Maybe we're fighting the According to
the BBC, the beabs uh. The the man who proposed
first reached out to this Australian illustrator named Kaylea Coombs
and she thought she he was just asking for a
portrait of the two of them. God, and then she said,

(01:47):
then I worked with him for six months to recreate
them all for the same originally agreed upon rate. Yep,
that's how you get him, alright, So what we'll do? Ool? Cool? Cool? Alright.
So it's gonna be about four thousand frames. And so
it opens with them watching um sleeping beauty, and then
sleeping Beauty suddenly has dark brown hair like the proposed

(02:13):
to Yes, the woman is about to be proposed to girlfriend.
Her name is Stuthie David and she's a cardiologist. And
then I may have watched that name. So Prince Charming
shows up and he looks a lot like the dude
who's proposing, Like Lee my boyfriend. Yeah, that looks like
me uh, And then he proposes the cartoon character proposes,

(02:39):
is that correct? Presents the ring but it's like he's
tossing it at the camera, and then the guy in
the theater pretends he caught the ring box and it
hits her with the question, it's pretty impressive. It's like
if Penn and Teller proposed to you. It's it's got
that sort of vibe to it. It's a it's a
big production it and yeah, for anyone considering proposing, just

(03:03):
don't bother, don't bother. Or also maybe the bar is
so high, like there is no Overton winnow, it's just
like it's the wild West Man. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Um.
She so after the as this is happening, she's like,
I feel so bad for all these people who came
to see Sleeping Beauty, which is funny that she thought
that he had just pulled this in an actual movie

(03:25):
theater show and all these people like, like, what the
fund is going on? I came here to see some
good old fashion, you know, pre woke Disney racism, and
now I'm seeing an interracial wedding proposal. And then he
informs her that it's full of their friends and family. Yeah,
and then she says no, yeah, yeah and laughed. It's

(03:46):
like I knew from the beginning of some off brand
Disney remake. Do you think now, because the internet is
a very cynical place, did he do this for love
or he did this for likes? Um? I think it's
hard to say, because this they seemed like a genuinely
in love couple. Yeah, they do. It's just it was
probably one of those things like it would be a
shame to not document this because it's so involved, or

(04:08):
you know, yeah, but it's very documented, So it could
It could either be that they're just so in love
that he was just moved to create a great piece
of content for it, or he could be like insufferable. Yeah,
there's two different ways that it could be. I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna get that curvy wife guy. Yeah,

(04:29):
and check it out. But again, you know, see, this
is how synequal I've become, where there's not even a
reality where I go that that guy really cares and
he wanted to just have this moment for them to
look back on it. What is this? What is sponsored
by Kia that they do a Kiya pulls into the
theater and they fakingly thought it was a parking lot.

(04:55):
Neil Pert is trending. Yeah, the author of the famed
drum solo from Tom Sawyer, the Rush drummer Neil Peart
who passed away, Yeah, brain cancer man. Yeah. I'm not
a huge like Rush fan, but the Rush songs I like,
I like, yeah, yeah, And you know they were they

(05:16):
were always doing you know, rust rust, They did their
things doing the most. Have you seen the video though,
anyone who hasn't seen the video, look up um Tom
Sawyer puppet on YouTube. There's this drummer who plays a
miniature drum set with a tiny puppet and he plays
the entirety of Tom Sawyer on like makeshift can drum set.
It's it's it's breath take. If you ever want to

(05:39):
see a puppet just fucking shred. It's funny because I
feel like this morning too, I was just uh completely
like unconnected is connected from this story. There's this video
of like this dude at an NFL game. He's like
sitting on the sidelines and Tom Sawyer's playing and he's
doing and that was that was like trending on some
other things. I don't know. Maybe they knew, they knew.

(06:01):
I don't know because I think because he passed away
on the seventh and it was announced today, So okay, yeah,
maybe maybe word head leaked. I want to talk about
Kendrick Perkins real quick, mainly Kevin Durant, because so Kendrick
Perkins is a He was a starting center in the

(06:21):
National Basketball Association, uh well, into a point in his
career where he was not a not a great, He
wasn't putting up, he wasn't producing, and he was the
starting center on the Oklahoma City Thunder when they had
Kevin Durant Russell Westbrook, and he tweeted out something saying,

(06:42):
I'm about to go on TV and talk about how
Russell Westbrook is the greatest Okay See Thunder uh player
ever and somebody was like, what about Kevin Durant. He's like, nah,
that was a bitch move what Kevin Durant did basically
and not so many words, uh. And then Kevin Durant
popped in and his counter burner, yeah make sure coming

(07:06):
for him, and was just started talking shit about Kendrick
Perkins being He was like, oh man, that's that's strange
for somebody who put up like five and two in
that series that you're talking about. Um, and then yeah,
and our starting center at Kendrick Perkins average a whopping
two and three during that series. You played hard though

(07:27):
Champ l O l uh so he kind of ethered him,
but then Kendrick Perkins came back and it just got
real messy. It's just interesting. Kevin durant Is is an
interesting dude because he's like one of the best players
in the league. Uh and you know the type of
person who you would normally just they would hide behind

(07:50):
a very uh curated media apparatus. But he he's out here.
He's always getting like a feelings hurt. He gets messed,
he he gets fake accounts. Yeah, goes on podcast talks
ship has a couple of drinks, talks more ship Man.
No matter how big you get the human ego, it

(08:10):
doesn't matter, like the insecurities, it doesn't matter how many
millions of dollars you have, you can still be so
like at a certain point, you'd you'd hope with all
your wealth and like actual like tangible achievements, you could
be like, I don't give a funk what anyone has
to say. Like I'm I'm doing my ship. Yeah, especially
somebody who when he was averaging twenty seven and seven

(08:32):
was putting up two and three. But yeah, I don't know,
I kind of respect it like that hero. It's not
like Lebron doesn't have a huge ego. It's just Lebron
would never let that show. He just has too much savvy.
I guess I don't know what it is, but well
there's levels to it, you know, like you know, who
who are you giving your power away to? Right? You know,

(08:54):
like if you're if someone who is clearly just trying
to goad you into something because it's going to help them,
then so like I don't my power doesn't drift downward. Yeah,
but he I don't think Kendrick Perkins was even considering
that Kevin Durant would notice. But he uh, you don't
think he was gonna notice, no, because I don't think
he even added him in the first place. Somebody just

(09:14):
like brought it up. Well, but when you're saying, when
you're announcing I'm about to go on the sports network
to say something about Kevin Durant, like like well he
was saying something about Russell westbro it is by uh,
you know by exclusion the it is about Kevin Durant anyways,
Kevin Durant, And I mean it is sort of his

(09:36):
tragic flaw because the you know, having a sensitivity about him. Uh.
First of all, get made him give like a really
great m v P speech when he won mvm yeah,
and then but it also caused him to you know,
allow himself to be goaded into playing, uh in a
game that he wasn't ready to come back in and

(09:57):
snap as Achilles so rare less party. Uh what is this? Uh?
Selena Gomez has a new album, My Favorite Record, which
means that all the fans of like every kingdom, every
fandom are out there using this hashtag either big up
their own bands, like the BTS fans are in there.

(10:17):
Uh justin Sorry, it's this. It's something about when I
think of when Justin Selena or together, you know, and
I'm trying to figure out who if these songs are
about the weekend or about Justin. I did listen to
the one track at the very end because that kid
cutting on it, because I want to hear when it
was not We're not bad. And I think i've I've

(10:38):
I don't know much of her body of work. But
I know she's a talented person. But the one part
was like a lot of Selena fans are getting messy
because Justin Bieber has a song called Yummy out and
they're like he's doing too much because he was on
live telling his people he's like with his wife and like, hey,
by the album by I mean by the single, stream
it whatever. And then some there was some image circulated

(11:00):
that was like instructing Bieber fans to like play the
track Yummy at low volume on loop while they sleep,
just to get the numbers up, just to boost the
charts a little bit. So some people, you know, like
not many people know if that's directly from him, Probably not,
because there because we exist in this culture now where
it's like people, yeah, treat their favorite artists like it's

(11:20):
a political candidate that they want to win. And it's
also just because like we're savvy enough to know how
to game certain metrics. It's just all about that too.
Then say, I'm I belong to this fandom and it's
number one, But what do you get out of that?
I I don't know, but check out Selena Gomez R. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm just being an old person. Hey, speaking of what
do you get out of it? Speaking of political candidates

(11:43):
who we want to win, Marian Williamson has suspended hate
to see it. Yeah. A week ago she fired all
her campaign workers, everybody who worked for her campaign, but
was like, this is about a state of mind demand. Uh,
and just like kept her campaign going for a week
without anybody employed other than herself and her chakras. But

(12:08):
now she has officially decided I guess it's unto herself
without the consultation of any media people, media strategists who
had all been fired, she did decide after a week
that she was no longer going to run. I think
she decided that today or maybe in the week prior
to her firing all of her staffers and then just

(12:30):
decided to give it a week. Maybe she's like, maybe
I can do it with that everybody. Or I feel
like the second you're hiring, you're firing all your staffers.
You're like, yeah, this it's a wrap. Yeah, I'm just
gonna I'm just gonna do this part first I have
to cut any more checks. I do feel though, like
she might be this sort of person who, yeah, the

(12:51):
power of positive thinking, Like she she thinks it can
do anything like she even though she wouldn't say it
out loud when you're saying she thinks it's because you
have too many negative thoughts, right, yeah, exactly. Yeah. I
mean she was the one candidate who spoke quite bluntly
about the need for reparations in this country. So I'll
give her that. But the other and also the wonderful

(13:13):
clips we saw of her, like speaking engagements where she
made the white audience members apologize to African American. Yeah,
that was dope. That's woke level nine thousand. Yeah, what
sweets though around it are some of my favorite? Oh no,
she twitted tweeted r I P to the campaign of
Marianne Williamson, the Gwyneth Paltrow of Jill Stein's That's So Good,

(13:34):
and then with just d Weg said the campaign had
about the same lifespan as an unvaccinated child. Shit boy, Yeah,
they don't, player, I forget. I mean, he has some
odd takes that are basically like, if you have illnesses,
you can like you can positive positive. She's she's anti

(13:56):
vaxer at Jace. I mean, I think it's full on
to just say she's all into sudoscience. Yeah, like and
you're thinking your way out of things that you know,
scientists have spent a lot of human power hours to
arrive at these discoveries. I love human power hours. All right,
well that was a joke on college and uh we

(14:18):
hope you guys have a great weekend everyone. Yeah, uh great,
great week in the books, first week, first full week
of Uh, we're really doing it, am I right, look
around the room. Great cheers, Bye bye.