The Daily Zeitgeist - English Midfielder Jordan Trenderson 7/7: Jovenel Moise, Robert Downey Sr., NBA, Critical Race Theory, Kurt Warner

Episode Date: July 7, 2021

In this edition of English Midfielder Jordan Trenderson, Jack and Miles discuss the assassination of Hatian president Jovenel Moise, Robert Downey Sr. passing away at 85, NBA news, the politicization of Critical Race Theory, and Kurt Warner's upcoming biopic Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Do they call it that? Thigh rubber? Yeah, because you're just rubbing your... because it's angst. The real thigh rubber. Yeah, love that. Alright, well here are some things that are trending. Haiti is trending because their head of state was assassinated this morning yeah jovenil moisa yeah moise yes what's wild in his in residence

uh they say it was a group of heavily armed highly organized very tactical people and some people saying is a these people were speaking a mixture of maybe spanish and english uh obviously those are not the languages in haiti uh so a bit of intrigue to that but yeah this is uh i mean he's been overstaying like his term like since february with like a very trump type argument saying like well my my term started late so i'm gonna stay another year and that had caused a lot of uproar and i mean it's it's already haiti's already in just such bad shape you know economically because again they're the few actually one of the only places that have liberated themselves from slavery uh only for the rest of the developed world to just rain down all kinds of economic

penalties to keep them from flourishing as a country um so it's just a very fraught situation i do wonder i wonder if he got that justification from trump because that was some that was a weather balloon that trump put out there at one point he was like well this uh investigation into the russia hack uh should like reset the clock on my presidency i remember that being a thing that he put out there well biden backed that claim at first when he first was you know saying like well no i get to say and then you know the u.s was backing that assertion so yeah uh yeah it's it's definitely just it's very uh yeah it like evokes all this stuff from like born identity or some shit right when it's like but it's like real life stakes uh and yeah the political situation is already very uh. And it was streamed, right?

Like it was an assassination that happened on social media, I think. Wait, what? Yeah, the footage of the assassination was posted on social media. Wow. Partially, oh, I was partially caught on video. That's eerie. Yeah. That's one thing that like,

hopefully we don't get another like JFK assassination, but like that, you know, all of the, these like massive flashbulb moments, 9-11, everything like would be completely different today because everybody has a, has a camera.

And would there be so many people like live streaming from all different right points of view um yeah all right well robert downey senior is trending a filmmaker father of robert downey jr oh okay this is how you get the senior moniker is just naming i just rebranded to try and ride Robert Downey Jr.'s wave. But he passed away. I didn't know who he was. Yeah, I knew him from film class in high school. You had film class with him in high school? Yeah, yeah, he was cool.

Oh, okay. Damn. He was always skateboarding around trying to act like he was one of us. Trying to buy reefer. Seemed a little old. No, his movie Putney Swope, which is like this very, it's like a 60s sort of indie satire. Okay. But as Robert Downey Jr.r said real maverick filmmaker and yeah shout out shout out to him

shout out to a real one all right nba finals trending that happened last night what's uh what's your review uh the review is chris paul looks really good, he put up 32? Yeah, yeah. He, again, man. What's their coach called? Monty? Monty Williams? Yeah, he is, man. He's got them fucking, like, they look like a fucking unit.

Yeah. Which makes me very jealous. Because I just love to see teams that are just so together like that, like very much playing for each other. Apparently like after the game, like they were just chilling in the locker room just to kind of take in like what they've done and what they've accomplished this season. So I mean,

look, Giannis look, didn't, you know, you could tell his knee was bothering him at certain points, but he still put up 20 points. Yeah. It's going to be, it's going to be. It's going to be something.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And the fifth trending thing on Google Trends is what is critical race theory? Uh-oh. Some people are late to the party? Yeah. I think there's a lot of local news stories right now. I think there was a Fox News story where somebody was lashing out against it, and then it's just hitting various local school systems.

And so people are trying to figure out, what's the deal with this? I've heard it is the scourge that will destroy my children. This is the constant tug of war with a concept not a lot of people are actually wrestling with or choosing to understand what it means. Or actually do a little bit of research and how it's seeping into the structures of this nation. And aside from the story of people just being like, what is critical race theory? There are other ones of one of the largest teachers unions is now saying that they will defend their members who are punished for teaching what they describe, quote, an honest history of the United States. And yeah, that's essentially because they're saying they realize what lawmakers are trying to do. They want to, you know, limit the discourse around race and discrimination

so we have more ignorant American people who can go throughout life saying nothing needs to change. Nothing. And, you know. We're good. We're the good guys in this story baby yeah so honest history is just them actually acknowledging racism in in the history of the united states and yeah you know just tell what happened right critical race theory was like is a um focus grouped term like that the right-wing media has created right like to yeah just start well i mean you're saying that they've created the term critical race theory yeah yeah no well or at least they like settled on that as being like scary to people right yeah exactly because again this is mostly taught at the

graduate level at university um because it's truly about this assessment of how you know white supremacy and anti-black racism uh has kept people uh behind uh and oppressed for many years and how it continues, you know, just drawing, just taking the direct lines from 1619 all the way to now and just saying, Hey, this is real.

And this is something that needs to be studied because if we don't understand it and look at it critically, how are we going to be able to create an equitable society? So that's not on the agenda, really, equity for many people. Well, shout out to unions. I've heard they're evil, but apparently this teacher's union. I was raised telling they're evil. My uncle who owned a factory says union's bad.

Yeah. And he always got me the sickest birthday gift. So I love him and I will agree. They had a sick pool. He said, you want this pool to go away? No. Well, then don't support unions. Okay.

Okay. Kurt Warner is trending. They released a clip from, so there's apparently a Kurt Warner movie happening. Like he's acting? Or about him? So Kurt Warner is his debut in Ocean's 14. He's going to be the guy who just throws things through hoops. That's his specialty.

No, there's a movie, a biopic about kurt warner because you know when he first hit the scene the big the big news was this guy was bagging groceries a couple weeks ago um okay a little bootstrap uh-huh you know how america loves a bootstrapper loves a man who picks himself up by his bootstraps and so they released clips from this movie. And it really, it looks like an SNL sketch. Like it's just the dude from Shazam in a wig, in like a flat top wig, or maybe they actually cut his hair.

But, you know, he just looks like he's in a Kurt Warner costume. He, the footage, for some reason they showed they're showing like the making of footage of the movie. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that he's like very Christian. And like this reads to me as like one of those trailers for a Christian movie where it's like, they're not so much advertising the experience you'll have watching the movie

as much as they're advertising, we're actually making a movie that has Christian values. Like, cause there's, the trailer has behind the scenes footage, which makes, and it's a lot of behind the scenes footage of the football, which makes it look like shit.

Like, you know, there's like fog and no crowd in the background so it really like that is one of the easiest ways to ruin the magic of a football movie is to show it as it's being shot yeah where there's no energy and yeah i didn't realize it's being made by a production company that specializes in christian films right so hey i'll be damned if i don't see dennis quaid as dick vermeil what the fuck who and then anna paquin is playing brenda yeah anna paquin playing Brenda which shout out to shout out to Anna Paquin what a great actor

okay well can't believe that's another movie I'm gonna miss who'd have thought but anyways I have to question the rollout of this but maybe that's the point is not hey

you guys are gonna wanna come see this and more, hey, Christians, let's make this a activist campaign that everybody gets behind. Yeah, right. That tells the story of how it's basically angels in the outfield, but with Jesus helping Kurt Warner win the Super Bowl.

Carrying that ball. Yeah. There you go, Kurt. All those drop backs when you only saw one set of footsteps. I was carrying you, Kurt. Christ was holding me in that three-step drop. Wow. Little did I know when i played that option pass

christ was always the option huh yeah bro but he came in for an injured player so christ also broke that dude's leg when he uh it was like trent green or something oh um yeah this may be like a new um way of marketing things where you don't, the content isn't in your face about God right away, but you just tip your hat in certain ways to just let people know, just so you can try and maybe like, well, maybe we can fool some Rams fans, but really we want to get that evangelical check.

But you know, maybe if we keep it, we zoom out enough, keep it broad enough. It's just enough for people to go in and then halfway through be like, yo, is this some kind of christian movie right right i'm just here for the rams man well uh it's called american underdog the kurt warner story and man true american a white man america's underdog what the fuck are we doing here a white man who was a successful quarterback at every level uh well what a true underdog I'm sure he was you know just shit upon and in high school and college when he was a standout quarterback and yeah again more

more mythologizing that we do hey man yeah that. Yeah. That's right. Well, four stars. I'm already preemptively giving up four stars. I think that's just dumb. Change a lot of minds, including mine. I'm going to be evangelical after this. All right. So those are the things that are trending today. We are 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 about white supremacy. Nope. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast.

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