The Daily Zeitgeist - No Smoking Trend… 3/19: JFK Assassination, Trump Segregation, 'Coyote Vs. Acme', Postal Worker Strike

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

In this edition of No Smoking Trend…, Jack and Miles discuss who REALLY killed JFK, Trump removing segregation prohibition from government facilities, the possible release of 'Coyote vs. Acme', the incipient postal worker strike and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen Up First from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of No Smoking Trent and the JFK assassination trend. Oh, no smoking trend. I had my hopes up. This is why I voted for Trump, man. Said he's gonna give us the dang JFK files. My name's Jack, bed over there's miles

It is Wednesday March 19th. It's the afternoon Mm-hmm. We now know who shot JFK, but before we get to that These dang LeBron songs. I'll tell you what man. It's coming up with these the man in the mirror one I'm talking about the man on the Lakers. Yep. Oh, god. God bless these LeBron James songs. What is it just, are they just using AI?

No, I think some people are just fucking around. Yeah. Like this one. LeBron, LeBron, LeBron, LeBron James. LeBron, LeBbron Lebron James. Just people are just dumb. I think it's just one of those things where it's, you know, people are talented. People are talented.

Because some people are like posting them splicing shit together like in Ableton and stuff like some of these are being like at least They're just singing and yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, either way It's just like one of those things where we've got we've we're being collectively real stupid for a little bit And we're just obsessed with this. Yeah, I do feel like I'm starting to see some LeBron love coming through a little bit people are are starting to, you know, like obviously there's been fans, but there's always been an equal amount of hate for LeBron. I feel like sometimes like around now people are just like worn down by his

greatness. There's like, I don't know, man. Yeah. I get like, they're in it again. Laker like he's back in the conversation about who's going to win the championship. I don't think they're gonna, but that conversation. I'll fuck you. Yeah, we ain't winning, but it'll, it'll be fun. It'll be. Well, uh, moving on to my favorite sport, JFK assassination conspiracy theories. Um, so happy for you. It's Christmas. It is Christmas. I did not have, I did not have high hopes for this and those high hopes, those low hopes were met. President Trump

made a big show of releasing all the files on the JFK assassination. He did not do that. First of all, there's like some conspicuously absent, uh, like there's one the first, like the transcript of the first meeting between the CIA and, um, LBJ people are like, we, we've been waiting for that one for a while, like their first meeting after Kennedy was killed. And what does that mean to the conspiracy theorists out there that that wasn't released? So the absence of evidence is proof for all of us sickos who think we know what actually

happened that we were right. So thank you. Exactly. Exactly, Jack. Exactly. According to the New York Times, the documents are just a bust and like they don't really reveal anything like there. So there's some of these documents that had big chunks of redacted text and they

are now unredacted and whatever people thought, you know, and their wildest dreams was going to be under those black boxes under that redact on these dacted documents, fully dacted documents, fully dacted. It's just like names of agents and like, you know, locations of CIA, like safe houses and stuff like that. Just like stuff that-

In the 60s. Yeah, in the 60s, stuff that like nobody was gonna give a shit about. They were just, you know, trying to keep it confusing and muddled. On Twitter, Massad was trending and I go, Masad is getting a lot of the, and then I looked and everyone was like, look at this. It was Masad. As with any conspiracy theory, the antisemites are out in full force.

It always comes back to that. Yes. Yes. Cause they were like, he was trying to, he was trying to keep Israel from getting a nuclear weapon. So they had to off. He was trying to take over the media for the Irish, him and Frank Sinatra. So they had to take him out. But I of course know what actually happened. I know that. Yeah. It was, it was Oswald. And then there's a chance that one of his secret service agents was accidentally did the one that took off half his head by accident.

Oh, what? Cause he was, they were all hung over. That they were massively, they had been drinking until the sun came up. Is that new or that's in what we already know? No, we already knew that. That's the kind of shit that's already kind of fucking like, hold on. What is a mess? It was a fucking mess. And like the other wild detail that like we all already know is that when like, so that they, you know, had taken to the local Dallas hospital, pronounce him dead.

And then the Secret Service comes in and steal his body at gun point and take it back to Washington, DC. Like they're like, no, like we have protocols. Like you're legally not allowed to take somebody who's been murdered, like dead body out of like the jurisdiction. And they were like, we'd really like to see you stop us and stole his body. And then his brain was missing. They just kind of fucking put their hand on their hip this way Yeah, you know, I'm you know, I'm clutching right now, right? You know, so don't want this do you get the phone out the way doctor?

Yeah, yeah. Well, is that is that the conspire? Is that the is the sort of? Intrigue of that part to be like you can't properly do like an autopsy that would maybe Yeah, there would have been a different like a second type of bullet of that part to be like you can't properly do like an autopsy that would maybe. Yeah, there would have been a different, like a second type of bullet fragments in the brain. What's in the official autopsy? Is that very, the official autopsy I think is like brain is like missing and there's just all sorts of like wild shit. Like just like not applicable all over it. And a, and a, and a like, oh, okay.

Yeah. It's a, it's a very strange autopsy and Like it's evident to the person performing it like that. His body had been altered. Huh? So there's yeah, but you know, it's fine So this is my theory. This is like my pet theory There's people out, you know, like you said there's the anti-semitic conspiracy theories Which I wasn't really even that familiar with on the JFK thing. But yeah, they're out in full force. There's this great Daily Mail article where they're like, and the fact that they don't they didn't release that LBJ

CIA director transcripts points to the fact that Cuba might have been involved, which has always been the just like big picture. The idea that U.S. intelligence would want to hide Cuba's involvement to like, save face for Cuba. They had a boner for justifying all of the nonsense. They just invented a laser gun based illness five years ago that was attacking their agents.

Like they just made that one up to try and make it so we could have beef with Cuba. You think that if Cuba was involved in killing the president that they'd be like hiding that fact. They would be so psyched. All right, don't like put your historical context around what I'm saying, okay? It was just easier when I could just say a thing

and people go, oh, Cuba. Fuck, man. Well, what's up next for document dumps? I don't know, man. I mean, well, so Trump, and now we know he's a man of his word and is going to do just put all everything on the table. He has also said that he wants to release all classified documents surrounding the assassination of RFK and Martin Luther King Jr.

So I mean, that like, I would definitely be interested to learn more about that. You sure about that? You sure about that? Okay, whatever. Okay. Yeah. Oh man.

We'll see. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah. So he's doing a lot of interesting things, you know, doing a lot of these big, we're about to release the Epstein files while like doing wild shit behind the scenes, like erasing Jackie Robinson from government websites. And so a new development is that it's now legal, federally legal to have segregated facilities.

Right. There's, most states have laws prohibiting you from having water fountains for whites only. But, um, now the, they're changing the books so it's no longer federally illegal. What happens if they go like they go so far back, it's like segregated ballot by old school racial division. So it's white and black. What do the Asian people do? Right. What do you know, what do people from Mexico,adam? What are they supposed to just no water? No, they're not gonna be here anymore

They don't this is so fucking wild like everything is just They're trying to goad especially black people like there's so many fucking stupid things that he's doing that's aimed directly at black people trying to get. I don't know what the fuck he's trying to do. I mean, he's probably trying to get people to act out of pocket so he can be like, you see, we got to do this. These are the problems I'm talking about. But this is just so.

Yes, just pick a fight to by being racist and then being because, yeah, he wants to claim that anything that is anti-racist is like the problem with the country. So by being extraordinarily 1950s racist, you can get people to try and do anti-racism. And then he feels like he's on sound footing there. And with the mainstream media as it's currently constituted, he might be right. He might not be totally wrong about that. He might be pretty safe to win that with the New York Times being like, you know, Trump's controversial statements on race draw the ire of, you know.

Yeah, there's also Ben Shapiro is launching a five-part docu-series titled the case for Derek Chauvin That is going to be about like getting Derek Chauvin pardoned So yeah exactly what you said trying to provoke a response Yeah, of course They need to they need to because this is he needs as many narratives going in the direction that the white ethno state is the only fucking answer right um but the numbers are he's gonna be tricky with these numbers i'm looking at with the demographics trump although there are many people who are forgetting um how systems are of oppression are affecting them yeah but hey good luck they seem pretty

uncomfortable with the backlash to Tesla and Elon Musk, you know, like that. That seems to make them uncomfortable because that feels like it's kind of across the board. Like he, Elon Musk just came out and was like, the woke radical liberal left is trying to kill me. Yep. I mean, I think it is. I think that is, I think for, for white conservatives, they're used to seeing enraged

minorities and they like that. But to see people take their anger out on private property in like an effective and very dynamic way to put it lightly. Yeah, they're not going to like that. Because you saw how they were in 2020. They're like, that auto zone. That's right. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be back to talk about We might be able to see coyote verse acme guys We got we got some there's light at the end of the tunnel that looney tunes movie Oh that's as love oft. Yeah, that's as love off great. We might Starring a will forte. Yeah, I love a good forov off. Right. We might be starring Will Forte.

Yeah. Wasn't that what people say? Love a good Forte joint. Right, we'll hear. We'll talk about this after the break. We'll be right back. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here?

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or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. And we're back. And we talked about it during the break, so you're probably going to the next story. Yeah, yeah. Sorry about that, guys. You're going to love it though. So Warner Brothers' most famous tax write-off, Coyote coyote verse acme is now that they're now talking to a smaller distributor about

Selling that movie to them. Thanks to you know, the smaller distributor coming through they this is a distributor that just Distributed a Warner Brothers animated movie the day Blew Up, a Looney Tunes movie, The Day the Earth Blew Up. Also thanks to apparently the three ghosts that must have visited David Zaslav in the night. But yeah, so Ketchup Entertainment is currently negotiating an all rights acquisition in the 50 million dollar range for Coyote vs Acme. And if the deal goes through, the movie would get a theatrical release in 2026. Wow.

This is like a Roger Rabbit style, like live action mixed with Warner Brothers animation. Well, it's just like so weird for a thing that it felt like everyone was saying, no, this is like actually good. I don't know why the fuck would they do this but yeah maybe now they're like damn I guess I guess we can maybe that maybe it was worth putting out and not just trying to get tax hit because of our fucking shareholder value yeah sure but David'sattling chains. You will sell the acquisition rights to catch up entertainment. You will stop jacking off to fleabag

when people are in the room with you. You will have them avert their eyes or agree to skip the scene altogether. For anybody who doesn't know, but David Zazlov loves to tell the story about how he went the first time he saw it. He liked Fleabag guys. He's he's no square. He liked Fleabag. But when he first saw it, he was on his yacht with some friends

and he started it and it was a little raunchy. And he turned around and said, guys, we're either going to stop this right now or we're going to watch it and we're not going to look at each other while we're watching it. And he tells it like it's an understandable thing that he, an understandable request and not just a transparent thing he was doing. So people wouldn't notice that he was jacking off to, to, to definitely jack it off. Yeah, again, this paragraph, July 2019, the Zaslavs were on Geffen's yacht sailing around the Mediterranean

with a crew that included Winfrey, King, and Lloyd, and Laura Jacobs, blank fine. One night, fucking Lloyd, blank fine. Winfrey being Oprah? Oprah, yes. Oprah, that Winfrey. Yes, exactly, altogether. Not King Charles, but Gale King.

Okay. One night, one night they decided to screen the award-winning BBC comedy Fleabag, which was made by a production company that Discovery now owns, but which Zaslav hadn't gotten around to watching. A minute into the first episode the group found itself in the midst of a hot and heavy sex scene. Pause. So I put my hand up recalls Zaslav. I go, whoa. So they stop it and I said, okay here's the strategy. We either shut it off. We either shut it off or we put it back on and everybody only looks forward. We don't look at each other until it's over. They opted for the ladder.

Why did he think that? Because he was so ashamed and embarrassed? I don't know dude. He, he, some, he was, something was going on with his pants or some shit. Yeah. Yeah. Or he's like so sexually repressed that he couldn't bear to be in the presence of a artistic depiction of sexual encounters and then connect to another human being with your eyes while it's hot. It's very like, Whoa. Yeah. All right. Here's the strategy, which is what I like to do at the beginning. Anytime I'm watching a movie with some friends, I like to pause right,

right as the movie starting. All right. Well, everybody chill out. Everybody stop. Oh, all right. Here's the strategy. Okay. Watching this movie going forward. You guys can do whatever you want. Like look, looking wise, but I'm going to be over here. You're not going to get over me. You're not going to wonder what I'm doing under this weighted blanket. And those noises are normal. Find a new angle. But yeah, part,

part of the reason that they might be considering the sale is just people keep talking about it. They, I think they probably thought the story would just disappear but just last month like Will Forte was being interviewed and so the interviewer was like what did you think about your movie being shit can't into the dustbin of history and his quote was my thoughts were that it's fucking bullshit it is such a delightful movie It deserves so much better than it got I can't tell you possibly why the decision was made to not release it

But it makes my blood boil. Um, yeah, like it It's like Tim Robinson being like someone needs to shoot Lauren in the back of the head Having Trump on fucking SNL. It's just. Holy shit. Well, good luck. I hope it. I mean, I've heard enough good things about it. I definitely wanted to see it. So yeah. And the Looney Tunes movie, the day the earth blew up, a Looney Tunes movie is apparently a hit.

Apparently, slight 86 percent around on the tomato meter. It didn't. It's not a hit in the sense of no. Nobody went to see it. Only four million people worth went to see it, but maybe get out there, get out to your cinemas, go see the dang Looney Tunes. Help Warner Brothers out, will you? Would you help the Warner Brothers out? Well, I guess this is, this is ketchup entertainment that put it out. All right. And finally, there may be that put it out. All right, and finally, there may be a postal worker strike. Yeah, yeah.

Obviously, so much of what's happening with Doge is intentional, it's meant to make everything not work, so then fucking the wealthy can come in, swoop in, privatize, take over the husks that remain, and everything will go to shit. But right now- You've heard of disaster capitalism. But what if we were causing the disaster? My name is Donald Trump.

Yeah, we were both. We can make it happen. But, you know, Louis DeJoy, remember him from the first administration? He's still there. He's still there. Way to go, Biden. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Continuity. He's basically asking he he was going around, asking Elon, the Doge people to be like,

we need to close thousands of underperforming post offices, post offices, under what? So I'd imagine everyone's getting their fucking mail because that is the one thing that works actually here. So, and this isn't like a fucking Girl Scout troop that isn't selling enough fucking cookies. And you're like, well, maybe we should find a new den for all those scouts. No, you're talking about closing up the fucking post office. And so now the postal service, the American Postal Workers Union, they represent more

over like 200,000 postal workers. They are essentially they're saying, look, we are going to be protesting this because what they are trying to do is a hostile As they say reports indicate that the new presidential administration is preparing an illegal and hostile takeover of the USPS Threatening the stability of our jobs our workplaces and the public service we proudly provide It says now postal workers and the communities we serve are standing together to ensure our postal service stays in the hands of the people Not the billionaires. Let's make it clear to the country that US mail is not for sale. God. So there's a lot of confusion about like, okay, so your tax dollars go to making things work so that like you can get mail and get

electricity and like water come to your house and stuff like that. And, you know, just overall infrastructure stuff. But like there is even in that jubilee video where that where that one guy was like, and these government organizations get tax breaks. They pay taxes for DEI. Yeah, exactly. Shut the fuck up. The fuck you're saying, man. Like we talk about the profitability of the post office is like so

Confused like I don't I don't understand what they think it does You think there would be like something like that's equally as upsetting for people on the right if it's like a bunch of people talking About zin pouches that clearly don't know what the fuck it is, right and just saying weird shit and they're like, that's not They clearly don't know what the fuck it is. Right and just saying weird shit and they're like, that's not the fuck Yeah, they don't know what they're saying. Oh, okay. So you do understand what that looks like When people don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Okay, right I'm just curious what the what the baseline is, but it doesn't matter these people just want to see shit burn So they want to burn it down so that they get the contracts to build it up But these aren't the people that are even cheering it you're not gonna benefit from it asshole

Their team is yeah, you've been conditioned to root to rah rah that shit, but that's right. Well, congratulations Yeah, congratulations. You've played yourself. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this wednesday, march 19th We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show this Wednesday, March 19th, we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines where you still can, get your flu shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye! Adieu!

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It's about an unlikely duo in the 1920s who tried to warn the public that Prohibition was going to backfire so badly, it just might leave thousands dead from poison. Listen and subscribe to Snafu on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's you get your podcasts. the news and boil it down to three essential stories you can keep up without feeling stressed out. Listen up first from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.