The Zeit of the Living Trend 11/26: Albanian Earthquake, 1917, Bill Cosby, Alia Shawkat

On this episode of Zeit of the Living Trend Jack and Miles discuss the 6.4 quake in Albania, the upcoming '1917' film, Bill Cosby's first interview since going to prison, and Alia Shawkat may be dating Brad Pitt.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet and God to site of the living trends.
You better take tomorrow off. I know, man, my voices
I sound worse than I feel. But I sound like ship.
You sound like I'm Jack O'Brien. That's that's Stevo Miles. Great. Yeah, welcome, Welcome.

(00:22):
I knew your voice was sounding a little under the weather,
but hearing it through a microphone right now, my inner
mother is wanting you to get in bed, put a
hot water bottle on your head and a thermometer under
my tongue. I've been thinking about that depiction of a
sick person for a lot. I've said, I think maybe
five times. I feel like their nose is always like
big and red. Yeah, you gott have a big red nose,

(00:46):
a big rubber bottle on your head, a thermometer the
whole time. Yeah, it's just bursting out. And when you
blow your nose that like turns into a pom pom.
That's shaking. Dude. Welcome my new show where I have
the sickest teen stoners on and we talk about what's
a lit? What's lick to you? Bro man uh Albanian earthquake, Yeah,

(01:11):
that's not that's not lit. It's that's one of the
biggest stories right now. Six point four magnitude earthquake, uh
is what they say. And at the moment they have
twenty three people that they believe to be dead and
several more missing and many more injured. But yeah, man,

(01:32):
earthquakes are the strongest to hit Albania in forty years. Man,
all right, you gotta get those man. It's uh, there's
something really terrifying about an earthquake, like many other up
in a place where it's kind of a anvil constantly
looming over your head to keep the cartoon imagery going. Yeah,

(01:53):
I mean between that and then also going to Japan
all the time, I was going from one earthquake fantasy
land to an other, I mean Japan. Luckily, you know,
after the Kobe earthquake in Japan, like a lot of
buildings had to be like retrofitted or rebuilt or whatever.
New buildings had have a lot of really good mechanisms
for structural integrity, so it's different when you're an earthquake,

(02:16):
and like newer buildings in Japan, like they're meant to sway.
So my uncle used to live in like the top
floor of this apartment building he lived in. My God,
when this ship would get rocking, I'm like, like water
was just slashing out of the fish tank. I've actually
been in the building out here during a very small earthquake,
but it was like right under the building I was in,

(02:36):
And yeah, it was weird because it wasn't really a
violent experience. It was just like a strange, surreal experience. Yeah,
and they strike it. Note you know, without warning. It's
pure Like you know, a weather thing you can kind
of prepare for, you can forecast that. But this all
we have is like people accountech being like I don't know, man,
probably soon and probably the worst thing ever, probably in

(02:59):
the next fifty years. Yeah, and I'm like, that's a
big window for me to keep procrastinating not getting an
earthquake kit. But Miles, it's like a blink of the
eye on the earthquake scale the scale of geology. So
uh that's comforting. Uh, speaking of long periods of time,
nineteen seventeen was a long time ago. I know, it's

(03:25):
funny to hear energy people are gonna think we are
and uh, my my voice keeps undercutting me, but not
like a teenager who's trying to sell me like black
Market vapes hated. I'm like, dude, what what's man? No,

(03:47):
not from you, sir, Yes, I'm sorry, but nine seventeen
is a movie. Yes, that's coming out. The reviews are
in and people are really it reminds me of dun
Kirk when bore just you know, creaming their jeans about
about that movie, creaming them then steaming them right after
the Yeah, with this one. If you haven't heard about

(04:09):
the movie, it looks phenomenal because essentially it's a real
time film that is meant to look like it's one
continuous match, right. Heavily inspired, the director said by twenty
four really, in my mind, I was like, I believe
it sometimes like hold on. That completely took me out

(04:30):
of a World War One epic. But you know, even
when you watch some of the if you're not convinced
about this film, sure the trailer is will excite you.
But if you just watch some of the featurettes about
how they made it and you see the painstaking efforts
they took to seamlessly do things like get a car
from a like a jib or like a crane shot

(04:51):
and then take the like then you see like camera
operators come out of the muck to like unhinge that
camera and then attach it to a vehicle to the
do another shot so the soldier can run through an
active battlefield, like when you see all those things behind you, like,
oh right, this is like choreography and creativity to the
next level. Yeah, and a lot of in camera special effects.

(05:12):
I love in camera. That's my camera. That's why I'm
a that's my big Chris Nolan bro head, because he's
all about in camera man, that's the whole thing. And
one of the reviews, I mean, everyone is basically fonding
over the fact that it's like it's technically amazing to
watch and also very powerful emotionally too. It's not just
like a like a g whiz thrill ride. And just

(05:35):
this first line from Slash Film they said, not since
Mad Max fury Road has a film so fully embraced
the motion part of motion pictures. That to me is
a good first line, because I think Fury Road is
one of the such a great film. And I've read
somewhere that this is like a steady like one long
shot basically is that that can't be true, is it? Well,

(05:56):
it's probably stitched together, just like how Birdman looked like
one continuous shot, but you know, get a little tricks.
I don't know that. I'm I can't imagine if you
had to reset a shot in a in a battlefield scene,
that would probably take hours, you know, I don't know,
depending on what kind of like effects they had on
the field. But yeah, but I feel like this is

(06:17):
going to because I think that actually, um, the hardcore
history about World War One like really got people in
the muck, like in terms of like just making that
war really interesting and also like this role for people. Again,
I feel like this will it's probably coming around along
at the right time. Yeah, what's such a brutal like

(06:40):
mash up of modern an archaic warfare styles and then
you just lead to massive casualties. So the first time
that it was just it was on this scale, right Yeah.
Um there, they're like all sorts of surreal things like
Dan Carlin, the host of Hardcore Histories, description of like

(07:01):
the cloud of mustard gas that's just like this like
physical thing that you can see rolling downhill towards you
at like two miles per hour and like you can't
do anything about it, but like it you can't run.
You're probably like in uh, you know, a trench or somewhere.
So if you put your head up, you're just gonna
get cut down by machine gun and the blob is

(07:23):
just coming for you. Very surreal stuff. Wow. Also trending
is Bill Cosby. He gave his first interview since being
uh thrown in jail, and it's just sort of an
interesting study into the mind of a narcissist who kind
of built his entire universe on a version of the

(07:45):
world that revolves around him because he just refuses to
let the reality in that he's done anything wrong, he's
a predator, that he's a monster. Yeah. Was he saying,
like the jury like set him up like y or
a like plants and actors and uh yeah, I mean
then we saw it when he first got off and

(08:06):
came out of the came out of the courtroom, was like, hey, yeah,
I thought it was like a fun time to make
a fat Albert reference or clearly that you don't realize
that time society culture has like actually they're now diametrically
opposed to you and not other people want to Yeah. Cool.
I mean. Also, the true hallmark of a guilty person

(08:27):
when they go set up. Only a very few people
may have actually like have actually been set up to
look a certain way in a crime. But like that
is such a such an easy way to preserve your own,
I guess, innocence or your idea, your your identity as
a person who is innocent by a vast conspiracy to

(08:49):
set Bill Cosby up, versus Bill Cosby just letting his
absolute power and complete control over situations get to his head.
I don't know which one I believe, but yeah, it
kind of goes with the thing like I've always talked
about how famous people dressed like the year where they
hit peak fame, and like he's still dressed like he

(09:12):
did like in the eighties, but he I think his
brain is also kind of like frozen in amber from that,
I mean, who knows what it is where he's at
sort of in his dissimility or what. Yeah, yeah, there's
also yeah he's mostly blind. Um and Ali Aliyah show cut.
Is that how you pronounced that? Maybe bluth? Yeah? Maybe bluth?

(09:34):
Wait no, uh, I didn't know what's uh? Uh told
by it was no she Funk or Bluth. I think
she was, even though Funk was her dad. Anyway, yes,
or from any other feed from a search party. Or
you might remember her from Three Kings as a little girl. No, yeah,
she's a that was I remember seeing her on Arrested

(09:56):
Development and being like she was in Three Kings. She
was a little girl had to arm cast on. Yeah,
and that's an incredible pool on your part. I look again,
I have a memory for the most inconsequential ship. I'm like,
you mean all your from Three Kings. Three Kings is
like what a what a movie like? And I mean
Wahlberg and Clooney and it's just like a great film. Also, yeah,

(10:19):
but with a very odd take on like what our
involvement is in the Middle East? Sort of really yeah,
I think you can tell it's a little bit dated.
It's a little dated. Uh so this is some dumb
Bloyd Watch ship. But she's trending because she's been seen
hanging out with Brad Pitt quite a bit and uh,
people are speculating that they're dating. He's fifty five, she's thirty.

(10:43):
Um hmm. It's kind of like a I don't know,
I don't I don't know who. I don't like it
for like and cool and interesting and he's old and
still like seen as a hot guy. I think as
all like dudes of a certain a like rad Pit's
probably gotta be like the he looking dude, you know,

(11:03):
and in a way even then you're like, man, I
would probably be with Brad Pitt right against Yeah. So
I guess if you talked to like a third year
old woman, she's probably like, yeah, it's only dudes who
are like, man, I don't know Brad Pitt's sucking hot dude. Yeah,
I don't know. Is are But are they dating? Are
they saying are They're like no, they're saying no, that
they're just friends. They're just friends. Who was apparently also

(11:27):
friends with Kanye so Brett. Brad Pitt is apparently a hipster.
He's having his midlife prices already. Well he so this
is all since he divorced Angelina Jolie and got sober
and now he's he's found a new path in this life.
Oh he's sober. Yeah, he got sober one like right

(11:49):
around the time of their divorce. Oh. You know, it's funny.
We may have even talked about this on when we
used to do blood Watch that he was Yeah, because
I think there was lick some that was part of
the ship that was sucking up their family. Oh yeah,
and I think it was also maybe affecting his ability
to ever have custody of them to like, Okay, I
guess I love the kids enough to put it down. Yeah, um,

(12:09):
this is wild. Uh. This article about him and maybe
Bluth's relationships said that he and Angeline and Jolie were
got divorced in September two thousand and sixteen after two
years of marriage. Doesn't that seem short? I guess they
were just they had a long courtship. I guess, oh,
because I feel like they were just super were together

(12:32):
for like decade, hippie dippy people of the earth like
Guitar United Colors of Benetton family and we're just like gallop.
It's like marriage. I don't know, because I think they
have kids together that are older than that. Oh yeah,
I feel like sir or no neces. Sorry, Shiloh was
their first biological child. Look, I don't know. I just know.

(12:54):
I just know the names. Man. Yeah, I got a
lot of tables. Man, what I menna do here? Alright,
I'm gonna gargles? Uh, salt water? Is that that works? Yeah?
I think so that was a remedy. Yeah. Well, I
thank you so much for joining me teen vape salesman.
I gotta go vape. I heard it does bad stuff

(13:16):
your voice, Yeah, it made you ship. Yeah. Should we
tell people that I delivered this whole thing through one
of those uh machines? Oh yeah? Or what did they
call it? Problematically in South Park? Uh? Cancer kazoo. That's
what he said about the what was his uncle's name?

(13:38):
And he was like, were you stationed in Denang? I
remember that was one of the first lines of South Park.
I remember. I was like, what is this show? Oh man?
And I remember my friend's dad, uh, who's was served
in nom Like I didn't know what Denange was at
the time, right, It's like it's like prisid. I just
thought he was like saying weird. I couldn't. I didn't

(13:59):
know what the same A little bit history, all right, guys,
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