The Daily Zeitgeist - Nicholas Trendtner, 7/2: Next Up, Budweiser, Independence Day, The Onion, Angelina Jolie, The Weeknd

Episode Date: July 2, 2021

In this edition of Nicholas Trendtner, Miles and Anna discuss Anna's 'Next Up" initiative at iHeart, Independence Day (the holiday, the movie, and the Budweiser commercial?), the Onion roasting the IOC, and Angelina Jolie chillin' with The Weeknd? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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me now, because at the last second, we're doing a trending episode. And who do I got with me? None other than super producer Anna Hosnier. Give it up one time. Oh, hey. I guess I'm also a substitute. You're also here. Also, make sure anyone, Anna has started an initiative at iHeart called Next Up where, you know, we're out

here trying to give underrepresented voices in podcasting a place to get their foot in the door and to thrive. Anna and when is the application window for that program thank you for asking miles uh so yes next up is a program for underrepresented voices so if you identify as that you can apply applications open j July 5th at midnight. That's a Monday to Friday, July 9th at midnight. So you're saying that I bet you're thinking that's a real short amount of time.

Do not worry. The application is not long at all. I decided to do a shorter application because I don't think we need more hoops to jump through to continuously get into these industries that we want to get a foot into but can't because of you know many different aspects upload a nine episodes in this format or your application will not be seen no no no we're just trying to identify people and yeah this is

a really wonderful initiative that you've been spearheading and along with the help of Joelle so it's really dope to see that thank you is my co-partner uh yeah so check it out there's information we have posted uh information about it on daily zeitgeist we have posted information about it on my show ethnically ambiguous this site you can go to my twitter to find a link with more information um so yeah check that out. Keep an eye out. Monday, if you want to apply, please do.

We would love to have you. Or hear you. So let's get into the trends before we go off into this holiday weekend. And look, why are we surprised that 4th of July is trending on the Friday before 4th of July? Are you doing anything for 4th of July? Yeah, me and you are both doing something together, right? Oh yeah, well check the Instagram feeds. Check the Instagram. Maybe we'll be at a place where the who's who of Tinseltown will be congregating.

And I use that word intentionally, congregating. What else shall I say? 4th of July, I'm going to grill the fuck out of something this weekend. I need to eat like i want to eat like a whole rack of ribs or something so that's on my agenda um but along with fourth of july it's worth talking about um something that we were going to talk about on the show but this is actually a perfect moment to talk about it because fourth of july is trending we wanted to talk about um there's okay we talked about how like budweiser was going to give free beer away to like americans

if though if we hit the goal of 70 vaccinated by july 4th okay i don't know that doesn't look like that's going to happen uh but here's the deal what you can do right now is watch some weird spooky commercial uh with bill pullman who if you remember it was famously played president was a whitmore in uh independence day He's in a commercial now, just as this character, just talking about how like we're fighting for freedom. And you know, we're in the middle of this battle still. It's real weird. But all that to say is, do you remember the movie Independence Day? Well, Anna? Yes, of course. I don't actually, I forgot Bill Pullman was the president in there,

because after I saw Bill Pullman in The Sinner yeah it's really hard to imagine him as any other character i know when i look at this still from the commercial i'm like that's the fucking detective from the sinner it's wild how good the sinner is that it pushed out independence day um and put that in my mind but anyway independence day just like a couple things our writer jam he was just pointing out like it you know he was actually like a really terrible president like in independence day if you really think about it because this motherfucker watched all these fucking built like people just get vaporized and not once is like yeah we should evacuate the cities um rather than just saying like, oh my God,

this is some really wild TV I'm watching right now. On top of that, he also, he dropped a bomb on Houston to try and solve the alien problem. Feels very American. Yeah. And also- Who needs Houston, right? I mean, I love Houston.

I need Houston. We all need Houston. But in his mind, he was like- First place of Beyonce. Yeah, I mean, he's like, I need Houston. We all need Houston. But in his mind, he was like... First place of Beyonce. Yeah, I mean, he's like, who gives a shit about Houston? We got these aliens here and I got these bombs I want to use. Plus, I used to be a fighter pilot. And that is all I need to be qualified to be president,

much like George Bush, who wore a fighter pilot costume and did fighter pilot cosplay to just cover up a not great presidency. But anyway, we do. You heard it here first beehive go after bill pullman yeah oh shit yeah his mentions do you like do y'all remember when president whitmore was trying to cancel houston with a h-bomb i don't think so um please don't actually do that i'm sorry here's the other well i mean it i think that well a part of me would love to see yeah i would get smoked from beehive because of like independence day

and even just like not that they believe that he's the president just that they're like that's just a really bad take to just destroy houston that we're coming for you exactly but the other thing is uh spoiler alert he dies in the sequel so like how is he in this commercial pretending you know that he's alive still as president wetmore like how do you how do you reconcile this with established canon do we know i don't think i saw the second one i did i was so high and i i remember being like oh this is bad and then going to sleep like it was one of those movies that i would watch laying down and which means i'm disrespecting it because i'm i will fall asleep within 30 minutes or so um well uh producer brian said

shit was whack so wow well actually if we go by what he spelled in the chat he says shit was watch and then he doubled back shit was whack thank you for clarifying watch uh that one for us okay uh let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk a little bit more i've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project.

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they are doing a thing they've they've kind of nailed this recent headline and it's trending because a lot of people are sharing it as it relates to shakari richardson uh who we'll talk about in the next normal episode but if you haven't heard Sha'Carri Richardson, who is a hundred meter sprinter and, you know, one, you know, one of the qualifiers with in spectacular fashion and was favorite to win the gold medal in the hundred meters women's race, she was banned. She's basically going to be banned from the olympics because she popped for thc on a you know doping test uh that was done after her qualifier race and it's not because uh thc is a performance enhancing drug no uh because we're still tied to these arcane uh archaic racist laws

in this country that are still finding their way of seeping into sports. Alongside, we also found out that there was a swimming cap for like Afro hair that the Olympics are, will not allow in competition. So now why will they not allow that? What is the reason? I don't,

who cares? The second you just seconds, I hear, I see the headline. I'm like, there's no, what are you going to say? You're going to swim too fast with a different cap on or like whatever no

come on now uh but this tweet from the onion or their you know their headline to this article is dream crushed over trivial bullshit represents nation better than gold medal ever could and whoo yeah trivial it could have been racist you know racist bullshit could also work in this instance but yeah it all because i feel like if you're into cancel culture like dude dream crushed Yeah, trivial. It could have been racist. You know, racist bullshit could also work in this instance. But yeah, it all... Because I feel like if you're into cancel culture, you'd be like, dude, Dream crushed over trivial bullshit? No, not in this instance.

Yeah, it really is just racist. Classic racist behavior by the IOC, who notoriously, I think, treats people of color very poorly. Yeah, who'd have thought? Who'd have thought? Who'd have thought? Yeah, and this whole thing with Sha'Carri Richardson is really sad. Like, the whole thing, it's not that she, again, was, like, trying to be cheeky

and be like, oh, I'm going to win my race by hitting a fucking blunt before I go out there. No, she found out from a reporter, like, in an interview, a reporter broke to her, like, was saying, essentially let her know that her biological mother had passed away and she had no idea and she was like oh okay i didn't really i wasn't aware of this that's a lot to process and then you know blew some steam off smoked weed in oregon where it's legal ps and that is the backlash uh that is occurring so it's really fucked up but we'll talk about that more on the episode coming tuesday and here's another one anna hold

on to your butts hold on to everything you've got because angelina jolie was spotted having dinner with the weekend what are we talking about here okay anna's eyelids are fluttering in a point where i think her ios her oh her operating system has crashed did you see this i'm sorry what angelina jolie and the fucking weekend are were spotted having a dinner date in, I believe, Paris. No. Santa Monica, also the city of love.

So what do you think about that? You can't even do your face. I wish people could see your face. I just, I don't even, I mean, i can understand no i mean like a part of me like it makes all the sense in the world because like the weekend has that pull like he clearly can just hit up anyone and be like, what's up? Let's catch dinner. Yeah. Catch dinner. I don't even know what that means.

But like, what? Angelina? I don't know. I guess I just like, I can't imagine Angelina being like, well, okay, weekend. I mean, if she heard House of Balloons, then she's ready. Sure. Anyone who heard House of Balloons is ready to go, at least go on a date

with the weekend just to see what what it would be like i mean based off the music the strength of the music alone but this is what's so funny uh because i think right uh brad pitt is like with someone really young too excuse me wasn't brad pitt like spotted on a date with or he's dating someone really young too now i don't know if that's just her saying like oh you want to you want to fight fire with fire catch me with the fucking weekend um maybe that's what it is people are speculating because she's pretty good about keeping her privacy that maybe this was like staged but i'm like don't make the weekend at like some kind of accessory here. The weekend knows what he's doing. But I don't know. I wish them,

I wish them luck. That's just a wild couple to think of. This is more a, you know what? Good. You know what? Good for them. Angie,

get up up on the weekend. What are you going to do? You know, live your best life. Hell yeah. Ladies. Can I hear a what? What? what for for her and abel test for getting it on with young cool men hell yeah so yeah this one is brad pitts what is he he was with some other young model or whatever i don't know it seems like well

this is why it's messy to be in a celebrity there was a celebrity like news about him being with a woman a young model who was married to another older man but i guess they had an open relationship i don't know i really stopped reading into what brad pitt was up to after i read that article that he was like sleeping on the ground at a friend's place in marriage whoa yeah brad pitt seems to have like he had it'll sound like he went to a very dark time after the Angelina divorce so I really just decided as respect to Braddy I'm gonna step back from reading shit about him because a part of me also like I'm at that phase where I'm like I really don't care what he's up to yeah nobody cares it's tired you know what yeah honestly I want to see more I would read every day on an update on you know Angel, Angelina and The Weeknd. That's like when Baron Davis and Laura Dern were together. You know what I mean? Do you remember that era? That was just like, oh, I need to know more. I want to know more. I want to hear everything. I want to see how they giggle, what they giggle about, what their dinner conversations are like. Same with The Weeknd and and angelina unless this is like some

other ridiculous marketing plan in which case how dare you how dare you toy with my emotions like that but it is what it is okay well anyway that's what's trending today i hope y'all are enjoying uh you know your time here this summer here uh hope you have a great weekend i hope you have a good safe holiday if you are well don't really celebrate the fourth of july let's be real but um if you're doing shit that day uh do your thing be safe uh don't use fireworks especially if you live in the western united states where the mega drought could uh just destroy everything but i know that probably won't happen. You're scaring a lot of dogs. Oh, yeah.

I will say that. A lot of pets get really traumatized. They'll run away. From fireworks. And they run away. And then, you know, shelters get packed because they have all these dogs who've gotten scared and run off. And, you know, it's just not good.

It's not worth it either. What are we celebrating? Stop scaring the dogs. We're celebrating imperialism. Wee! Okay, but also, but let's just take the America part out and let's just have the barbecues, the cookouts, you know, the pool stuff, all of that good stuff. Have that.

You know what I mean? Take care. We'll see you next time. You know, as Jack says, wear a mask, you know, get the fucking vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. Don't do nothing about dumb ass misogyny either. None of that. Just all the bullshit.

Fuck it up and have a good weekend. Talk to you soon. Bye. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that?

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