The Daily Zeitgeist - 28 Trends Later 4/17: White House Easter Egg Roll, Sweden's Moose Migration, Colossal Squid, '28 Years Later', Canada Buttons

Episode Date: April 17, 2025

In this edition of 28 Trends Later, Jack and special guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra discuss the White House Easter Egg Roll (whatever that is), Sweden's coverage of the great Moose Migration and very happy cows, scientists capturing footage of the Colossal Squid for the first time, Mike Lindell in financial ruin?, the new '28 Years Later' trailer, Canadian liberal operatives planting Trumpian buttons at a conservative conference and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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girl gang. Listen to The Girlfriend Spotlight on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the Internet and welcome to this episode of 28 trends later. My name is Jack O'Brien and I'm thrilled to be joined by a special guest co-host. Occasionally, my co-host co-host today, my co-host, it's the hilarious, the talented Sophia Alexandra! It is me, thank you so much for having me. What a joy. What's going on?

You know, just chilling with you, my co-host, co-host. Co-host, co-host, with the mo-host, mo-host. Well, it's wonderful to have you. We've been having a lot of fun. And this is the episode where we tell the people what's trending. All right, it's good Thursday, which of course means, Sophia.

What's up? You know what that means, right? You Gentile. Jesus comes back and in an egg. So, he doesn't come. So that's Easter where Jesus comes back. So there's an egg that's been hidden and you find it crack open Jesus in there. Jesus is in it, correct?

Yeah. No, this is the day where Jesus, so good Thursday, I think is last supper maybe. Marries the bunny. No, no, no, Thursday, I think is last supper maybe. Is that when he marries the bunny? No, no, no, no. I think it's what I think. So last supper where they eat a bunny and that's why we have bunny rabbit with Easter.

But anyways, so it means Easter coming Sunday. And of course it means our favorite holiday tradition, the White House Easter Egg Roll, which we all know what that is. Gentiles are crazy. Very Gentile coded event, the Easter Egg Roll, where the White House will get 30,000 eggs, despite the price of eggs these days, the American Egg Board has donated 2,500 dozen cartons for the event. So it's a lot of eggs that they're going to be giving to children to roll across the White House lawn with long spoons. That's what an egg roll is. Yeah, I think it's pretty tight considering

like it's not like there's people that could eat those eggs. Nah So much so it's like Why don't we not do anything with the eggs that would actually make them be food, which is what they are It's been a tradition first too long. We can't stop doing it. Okay, this is it was started by Abraham Lincoln Proving that history was boring as fuck above all, above all other things. History was incredibly boring. But it was also like if at that point that was the like biggest entertainment, I'd believe it where you're like, Oh, I'm going to get a long spoon and roll an egg. Okay.

But I think we have like white lotus now. I don't really think we need to do this. They used to go and like watch civil war battles back then. Like they would just get a picnic blanket and go next to the battle and try not to get shot while they watched civil war battles happen. That's how that's how starved for entertainment they were. So the egg roll is a race where children push an egg through the grass with a long handled spoon. Sounds like it sucks shit that event. I will say as far as egg sports,

you really can't beat the egg toss. Have you ever participated in an egg toss? No, we just eat them where I'm from. You're weird. So that's basically have you ever done a water balloon toss where you like throw a water balloon to each other from increasing distances? I've thrown it from a second or a third story down to people below. Yeah. But yes, I have occasionally been. Yeah. Oh, OK.

Just blood. You know, don't be gross. Oh, OK. Just blood. You know, don't be gross. Oh, nasty. I have occasionally been tossed a water balloon. Yes, yes. It's just the for for drama. You can't beat it. I've been at many a child's birthday party completely unrelated to the fact that I have kids.

I just go to them. But and rate how how dramatic the games are. And water balloon toss and egg toss are near the top, where it's just, you know, pair off and then toss back and forth with the egg toss. You know, once the egg breaks, you get salmonella instead of just getting wet from a water balloon. But very the game creates a lot of high stakes drama.

I think playing water balloon based games in the summer is like the best. Yeah, yeah. Water balloon, yeah. It's both of those. I love the toss game. Very simple and it works every time. Nobody doesn't enjoy it.

I've never been like, oh, it's hot out. Why don't we go and toss an egg? Yeah. It's just wild though that the Trump administration is not, you know, is doing a display of, you know, being wasteful. So it seems crazy. Just the giant jerk off motion to everyone that's like paying 12 bucks a carton for eggs

if they even are ever buying them. Yeah. People are being critical of this. I don't think incorrectly, like 30,000 eggs is a lot of eggs to just be using. There's also people like influencers online who are saying like, here's what to do to deal with the like high price eggs.

You can dye marshmallows or rocks and then do Easter egg hunts for those things. Like, have you guys not heard of the like little plastic Easter? Like the little plastic Easter eggs are so superior to regular eggs. Like there's so much better. You can hide shit in them. What's everybody doing? And they're reusable. And they're reusable every year.

I've had the same ones for like five years. And sometimes if, you know, we forget to open them, we get... Yeah, I don't understand why it's such a big deal. Like why the chicken zygote is like a big part of it. Yeah. It's like, it's all about the looking. It's like pro-life propaganda. Like there's got like it's all about the looking. It's like pro life propaganda. There's got to be an embryo in there or I'm not into it or I don't get horny. Also, like there's

so many really cool rocks that I've seen people do like paint as eggs. Yeah. And then like they just keep them in their yard after Easter. That's fun. And they're so cute. I don't like that. That's cute. I do like that. But you can't, very hard to hide candy inside of rocks. No M&Ms in there. Yeah. All right.

In a segment we're calling, hey, that's pretty cool, man. Where we talk about stuff that's pretty cool and not depressing. We have a lot of good segments on tomorrow's episode, I gotta say, guys. Pretty excited about some new ones that I think are gonna stick with us. What do you think, Sophia? I think these are gonna be recurring segments. I'm 1000% behind things that we think are cool. Hey, man, that's pretty cool.

So, up first, a couple of Sweden stories for you. Finally. Finally. Just, you know, this also I think would fit into our recurring segment, Mundanity Kane, where we're looking at like mundane things that can we can distract ourselves with as the world goes to hell. The nine exist. So in Sweden, there are two events that are popular right now. One of them is a televised coverage of the epic moose migration. There's just moose migrating across Sweden. So there's a quote in this NBC News article. I make sure I have coffee. I have

snacks. Sleep. Forget it. I don't sleep about the coverage of these moose migrating. I was late to school because I saw a moose and my teacher was like, what? You saw a moose in the city? And I was like, no, no, I was just watching TV. So that's cute. And then as for a lot, if you're more into the live thing, one of the things that they like to do is gather to watch cows get let back out into their field when it's warm enough. This is actually from a Reddit video from a couple years ago, but it's just like a field on a farm that's surrounded with people.

Like it's a stage at Coachella and then some cows just like get out into it and the cows are like really, I don't know. It like this is a thing I didn't know. You know when a dog is like really excited to get back out in the yard and is like running around and like kicking its legs up and like galloping a little bit. I call it big hops. Yeah, big doing big hops. They're that's what the cows are doing. I didn't know cows could do big hops. They're always just you know, anytime I see them, they're standing. But I guess it's my that's a me thing. They're just fucking bored by my whole shit.

Yeah, I've never seen them be so like lively. Yeah, they're especially that first cow in the video, the one that really like just the first one out the gate busts out into the field and is just it does a little spin circle. Yeah, it does. It does a couple big hop gallops does a little spin circle. Yeah, it does. It does a couple big hop gallops and then a spin circle. And then like some of his buddies are behind him and like think about doing that. And then they're like, nah, we're just gonna go forward.

We're just cows. But anyways, pretty cute. It is really cute. And also in the world. Hey, that's cool. Segment. We have scientists have captured footage of the colossal squid. This is big news. They are the Thomas pin chon of the animal community in that we know they exist. And we just haven't had photographic evidence of them until now. That's like my father. Oh buddy.

By the way, Thomas Pinchon, like how has he pulled that off? I don't know. Thomas Pinchon, for people who don't know, one of the great novelists, still alive, I think. But yeah, like crying of lot 49, gravity's rainbow and has never been photographed, I don't think. And is pulling like just in in this day and age, you'd think that enough annoying fucking people would find a way to like chase them down and get a photo.

It's the same thing with Elena Ferrante because Elena Ferrante, people like have written about who it could be and they think it's like probably this husband and wife actually that is pretending to be Elena Ferrante, which who's not a real person. And they still haven't found out who it is. That's the missing daughter one. God, I'm good at novel titles. I mean, those books by the way are incredible. I haven't read them. It's like, My Brilliant Friend, it's all of them.

But I think that at least when I was reading about it, they still were like, no, we don't know who it is. Like the person picks up their checks or whatever in this like specific way from their agent or gets their money in a specific way. And people have tried to trace all the stuff and they think it's like this journalist couple. Interesting. It's fascinating.

And again, how in this day and age- Because when you Google Elena Fernante, when you Google Elena Fernanthes, when you Google Elena Fernanthes, people are like, did you mean Elena Ferrante? There is a picture of a woman. But then if you look underneath it is a quote that says, I am not the face of Elena Ferrante. Interesting. Anyways, on to the Colossal Squid. Last month, scientists captured footage of the colossal squid for the first time

since the species was discovered 100 years ago, and it is wild looking. So I didn't realize that the colossal squid is one of the glass squid, like the see-through squid species. So maybe that's why it's so hard to get them on camera. Transparent, so it's probably hard to shoot. But it's like kind of glowing behind the eyes and just wild.

It is a juvenile specimen. So like it's really they kind of bury the detail that this colossal squid is one foot long because it's just a little guy, just a baby. He's just a little guy. It's just a baby. It's just a little guy. But we haven't caught the species on camera up until now. So we got you, you fucker. Part of me stares wide-eyed, slack-jawed with wonder at the mystery of the infinitely creative

and complex mystery of the natural world. And the second part of me looks at this and thinks that thing is a fucking alien, kill it with dynamite. It's real freaky looking. Okay, so I think that it does look like an alien, but my next thought isn't to kill it. Okay.

It's probably got more powers than us. It's got like probably telepathy and shit. And I can't countenance that. No, what I'm saying is like how mad are his people gonna be? I don't wanna be on the wrong. It's like why whenever I use, first of all, I don't have Alexa or any of that shit,

but if I'm at someone's place and it's being used, I'll always thank it after. So I'm like, I don't want to be on your bad side. I'm like, tell your girls Siri too, like, I'm cool. Just make sure that at the meetings they know, like, I'm cool. The meetings that they're having while we're asleep. You laugh, but... We do have an Alexa in our kitchen that I've tried to get rid of multiple times and I've

been overruled multiple times by my children. Yeah. Kids love the Alexa. Children love the Alexa. They love getting confident answers that aren't correct from, from a robot voice. But yeah, it's, um, it, it sucks. And like sometimes I will be upstairs and it will be talking downstairs, even though nobody's home. It just starts talking. And I think it is having meetings with the Siri on my phone.

Yeah, they all are. Should we take a quick break and come back and talk about some other news stories? Yeah. We'll be right back. In 2020, a group of young women in a tidy suburb of New York City found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare. Someone was posting photos. It was just me naked. Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body parts that looked exactly like my own. I wanted to throw up. I wanted to scream. It happened in Levittown, New York.

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a judge tearfully, I'm in ruins. So that's just, that's just sad. But it's probably bullshit. This is just him trying to not have to pay anything, you know, that's like, it's the thing that Alex Jones did at his trial where he was that they're bad at like pretending to be sad. Like they don't have the soul required. I feel like they do cry though, if you take their money away. Yeah, that's right. That emotion is real. Yeah. Outside of that, I don't. It's hard. It's hard to get much of a response. Yeah. Did 28 days later,

the 28 blank later franchise has a new installment that I think we've we've mentioned before coming out, but we got the latest trailer and I can report shit looks cool. Yeah, she looks like a lot of fun the original fast zombies the so Alex Garland who made like Ex Machina and Annihilation I really liked and the Civil War movie from last year that had a cool scene Really good scene though, like honestly great scene the one with Jesse Plemons, I love Jesse Plemons. What an actor. Yeah, the movies movie overall is fine, but that scene Rips but anyway, wait, maybe I did see it. What's it called?

Civil War. Oh, no, I did not. Yeah, I thought when you said that Civil War movie that it was about a Civil War But you were actually just saying the title You're like that Star Wars movie and I'm like, what's it called? What's it called? You're like, that's Star Wars movie. And I'm like, what's it called? What's it called? That's Star Wars. But yeah, so his career started when he wrote 28 Days Later, I think, like back, back in the day.

So he wrote it, Danny Boyle directed it, and they're back, both of them, for the third installment in the franchise. Trailer's out and it looks cool. It's as the... It looks beautiful too. As the title suggests, it is now 28 years later. We've got new civilization. So you got the post post-apocalypse,

which I always think is a lot of fun, where you get to see, get to experiment with like new types of society. Reality. Society, you know what I like is like movies that are about society. And you know, cause then you can like say stuff about society, you know? And like when they're about like culture, you know?

Culture's tight. It's like, wow. Like what if culture, you know? Like what about that? But anyways, mainly I'm in it for there's giant spikes, giant wooden spikes that I'm sure a bunch of people get impaled on. The Chekhov's giant wooden spikes in the background of some shots. And good news, the zombies are still fast.

Zombies still fast, except for the Killian Murphy one. He looks slow as fuck. Yeah. He is like a precious hollow bones. He's so tiny. And they're you pointed out child archers. Yes. Oh my god. Bow and arrow.

So good at the shooting. It was so great. I want I want all children. Well, no, I'm not going to say that in movies though. All children should shoot bows. All children should be armed. Yeah. That's where I'm going. You always said that. Arm the teachers, arm the students. Thank you. And then we don't have this problem. And let's do a, let's close out with like a nice little quaint story from Canada. Canada's liberal party was caught planting buttons

at a conservative conference that like had Trumpy slogans on them. So like they put make Canada great again on these buttons. Lock Justin up. Exactly that's one of them. Lock Justin up. So basically they made buttons that were like these conservatives are basically like these conservatives are basically like the conservatives in America to try to make them look bad. Which is that I guess that's where we're at is just like being associated in any way with the Trump administration in other countries is like bad enough to, yeah, that like people will lie to make it seem like you're associated with the Trump administration.

I mean, my takeaway was not that. It was that Canada is just so pure. I know. They're like, guys, we're going to do a crazy terrorist act. And they just like planted four buttons. Yeah, fake buttons. I mean, how cute like in America Trump is like, hey, watch me dismantle democracy and like, yeah, we'll get the other side that way in Canada. They're like, what if the buttons? Okay, they're not real buttons, but we'll put them there and we'll be like,

they're kind of mean. They'll have the ability to use them if they'd like. So, you know, I don't know. Just think about it. I think it could be kind of neat. Yeah, it is super quaint. Like at a time when I feel like this wouldn't make news in the US unless those pins had like tree frog poison

on the tips, you know, and were like designed to actually like shoot into your chest when you put them on your shirt. Unless they like became like a pizza gate, then there's no way people would give a fuck. Unless they became a pizza gate. You know, they're like, oh, actually, these buttons are how you get into the secret layer where we order the pizza for all the children that we keep. They'd just make that part.

I'm sure I do. Like, do Republicans realize because Republicans keep talking about how they're going to make Canada the 51st state. Like, do they realize that they would never win a presidential election ever again? Cause Canada, so Canada would be the most populous state in America. It's got 41 million people. That's 2 million more than California.

So they would have the most electoral votes and seems like they're like this version of the Republican party, not super popular up there, considering that like they have to like, they're pretending that their opponents support the Trump Trump ideals. I feel like maybe we should make Canada just ask them for the next presidential election. Can we borrow you to be a state and then we'll give you back to yourselves?

Yeah, especially like after the tariffs. I love coming through and being like no Canada. Yeah, you're a part of us. Yeah, exactly. especially like after the tariffs I love coming through and being like no Canada Yeah You're a part of us Yeah, exactly They'll probably be down The psychotic behavior that those two things just do not go together at all Well Sophia, it's been so wonderful having you here on the daily zeitgeist

Where can people find you follow you all that good stuff? I am at the sophiat A on all of the things. And thank you so much for having me. It's always a joy. It's always wonderful having you. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines while you still can.

Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. In 2020, a group of young women found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare. Someone was posting photos. It was just me naked.

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope, about the rise of deepfake pornography and the battle to stop it. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith. And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith. That's my daughter, man, who my wife has always said is just a beardless, d***less version of me. And that's

the name of our podcast, Beardless, D***less Me. I'm the old one. I'm the young one. And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? A lot of cussing, a lot of bad language. It's for adults only. Or listen to it with your kid. Could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out. It's a work in progress. Listen to Beardless S***less Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. The number one hit podcast, The Girlfriends, is back with something new. The Girlfriends Spotlight. Each week you'll hear women triumph over adversity. You'll meet Tracy, who survived a terrifying attack.

I remember that feeling of, okay, this is how I die. And turned that darkness into light. I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it. So come and join our girl gang. Listen to The Girlfriends Spotlight on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention. This is a story about radical nuns in combat boots and wild haired priests trading blows with J. Edgar Hoover in a hell-bent effort to sabotage a war.

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