The Daily Zeitgeist - Shedeur Trenders 4/29: 'The Rehearsal', 'A Minecraft Movie', Biden/Gaza, Canadian Prime Minister

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

In this edition of Shedeur Trenders, Jack and Miles discuss Paramount not knowing Nathan Fielder was going to do THAT in season 2, the block party screenings of 'A Minecraft Movie', the Biden administration's Gaza ceasefire lies, Canada's election results and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of chador trenders. Oh buddy I just hear his other son can can Dion to be like you're not my bro I'm not having the same thing that having a chador for real. Yeah, you like pretty What do you mean tandem? Well, I think like he's not represent like I think Dion was sort of like representing all of his kids Okay, and he was like, yeah, nah He's not represent like I think Dion was sort of like representing all of his kids. Okay. And he was like, yeah, nah.

So for people who don't know Dion Sanders, one of the best NFL football players of our lifetime, played wide receiver and was a defensive player, which like never happens, but he was awesome at that and also played baseball. Yeah. And, but like one of the best defensive players, like one of the best at his position of all time and has gone on to become, was like a big larger than life personality, kind of like Charles Barkley adjacent, I guess,

like kind of controversial character at the time and then big media personality and has gone on to coach the University of Colorado. They are a really fun team. They've had more success than a lot of people expected them to. And his son was his starting quarterback for his two years at Colorado, and they had a lot of success and he looked pretty good. And via his, you know, he was a big like hype guy. He, you know, earned it with his career, but he told everybody that his son was going to go like top five and his son went top hundred fifty five hundred fifty five. Yeah. And so, you know, it was a bummer for his son.

I'm at first five rounds when I said five, when I said top five within the first five rounds. And like there was also a really said top five, I'm within the first five rounds. And like, there was also a really shitty thing where like the son of one of the assistant coach for the Atlanta Falcons, the defensive coordinator, like got his hands on the phone number for like their draft room for the Sanders' draft room and like called him.

We're like, hey, it's the Saints. We're about to pick you. So like congratulations, cause the Saints were on the clock and then, you know, he didn't go for another couple of rounds. So it was real fucked up and yeah, sad story, but also I'm excited to see him prove the haters wrong in the league.

Just a loud thing too for like a team that Deion Sanders played for also. And just like coming from someone from that organization Whatever. I mean everyone's like shitting on that kid now and I think he said sorry but like yeah Yeah, here we are. Shadoor. YouTube prank generation these dang kids with their YouTube pranks. Good luck. Good luck in Cleveland fam Yeah, he's in Cleveland who definitely need a quarterback, but he was the second quarterback that they drafted. So, but I think he'll be better than people expect. And he obviously has a lot to prove.

It's more about his mental. Like if I can totally see how you'd be defeated by that going falling so far down in the draft when you have such high expectations for yourself, but we see this a lot with certain players, like that low draft number or that low position in the draft can maybe spark a fire to prove yourself. And you become-

Tom Brady can name every player that was drafted before him, which is like over a hundred. Like fucking Arya Stark or some shit. Yeah, yeah. It's his list, yeah. But that fuels the greats. They have personality disorders. Yeah, completely unwell men.

Yes. It fuels them. Who just happen to have a very high functioning athletic corpse to act out their egos with. Speaking of unwell men, I do just have to. We're not gonna talk about it at length because Miles still hasn't seen episode two of season two of the rehearsal.

But this headline blew my fucking mind. So I'm just going to say the headline and we're not going to talk about it anymore. But Paramount reportedly had no idea Nathan Fielder was going to do that in episode two. If you've seen the episode, if you've seen the clue. That's still. It's so funny. I'm like. This show is frighteningly good. It is a detail that like I wish I knew because that was my question. I was like, how did they get them to fucking sign off on this? And the answer is they did not.

But I mean, he's always been able to like fuck with corporations at a level that the Democratic Party isn't even willing to do. I mean, they never would. Not even them famously fucking with the corporate, or fucking with the corporations in a different way. No, I mean, they have a lot of power though. This is, he is but one man and he dumb Starbucks.

Yeah, maybe that's it. He just has that escape hatch where he's like, I don't know, I could go to Canada and make good shit. And the government there just like pays you to make art. Right, right. They helped finance some of my early work. Fantastic. Speaking of art, a Minecraft movie, Miles, is a sensation.

And with the youngers, I've even, I've talked to, you know, this is a thing, a conversation that's always happened in the background among parents is like, Jesus, did you see Inside Out 2? That thing was a piece of shit, you know, that sort of thing. But like, also like when there's a good one, you're like, hey, the sonic movies actually pretty fun.

Yeah. I'm going without my kids tonight. A Minecraft movie is supposedly I've heard and I have not seen it yet, but my kids loved it, which they love most movies they've ever seen. But they fucking love a Minecraft movie. Who'd they see a Minecraft movie with? Who did they see? With their friend.

Like a friend. Did they sit, did they behave? I don't know. I think so. I don't know and I don't want to know. I don't want to know. Were they okay? Yeah, I think they behaved.

They're more the type of people who are just like, you can't get their attention while they're watching a movie, let alone like them trying to like do something else. They're just like, you can't get their attention while they're watching a movie, let alone them trying to do something else. They're just locked in. Oh, right. So, yeah. The warming glow of the screen is enough to take all the attention. But they loved it. It was to the point that they had an extra day off school and they were like, all of our friends have seen this shit like we need to see this movie Or else we can't talk to people anymore

So yeah, but they loved it and now Warner Brothers is Trying to get another round of people to watch the movie or rewatch the movie by doing a special block party screening series of screenings in which people are encouraged to sing and talk along with the movie, because the movie's very heavily memed and the screenings have been notoriously loud and full of people throwing popcorn at the screen and shit like that, which sucks for theater employees,

but I guess they're baking that into to the into the price of admission. I don't know. I don't know if they are. I mean, it's probably not. I think the tickets are still the same. I don't know. Y'all you guys will figure it out. Yeah. I mean, maybe this does feel like an opportunity for a group outing to just go if the shows are actually filled out with kids, because I'm wondering at that point, is this going to actually like reenergize the box office for them?

Do we bring the kids or are we going as adults surrounded by street kids? We go as adults to really upset the parents that are there with their kids to wonder why this group of 10 adults just came in and why are they filming everyone? When the Lego movie first came out, I went and saw that and I was like the only, it was before I had kids and I was like

Goddamn, I either need to like have kids or just like shielding your eyes like walking into the ocean with rocks in my pockets Like this is like Here by myself as an adult with a bunch of parents It and there it does suck suck in that context immediately. Like, who's this guy? Who's this guy? Who's this guy? Who's this guy?

Who's he with? What the fuck you doing here with all these kids? Rather than like, I was in a file. So you like regular guys? Yeah, right. But yeah, I don't know. The writer Charles Bramesco suggested that this was basically the popcorn throwing equivalent

of a safe injection site. He responded to the article announcing it by saying looking deep within and concluding that my belief in safe injection sites means I must support this on principle as well. That's Charles Bromesco into the crevasse. Wow. Well, what's the equivalent of having Narcan too?

Just having a parent there to just yank yourself, yank your ass out there. Yeah. What did I tell you? This is also, I mean, this is happening with all the, you know, wicked and the concert movies where it's just like everybody's singing at the top of their lungs.

So you have to like create special screenings for it. Yeah. Well, it's like it's like then they realized like, oh, right. People are going to sing in this. All right. What if we do a singing? Like, I remember like, was it the greatest showman to did that? Oh, yeah. And I was so I didn't realize how big that movie was. I'm like, is this justified? And then cut to people loving it.

Yeah. Hugh Jack. Ba da ba ba ba. Um, all right, let's, uh, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some shocking news about the Biden administration. We'll be right back. And we're back. We're back. And yeah, so for over a year, Biden and his administration repeatedly claimed working tirelessly despite the fact that not being tired isn't the characteristic anybody associates

with Joe Biden. Yeah, true, true. They just had to, they had to come up with like, they're like, this kills two birds with one Biden. Yeah, true, true. They just had to, they had to come up with like, they were like, this kills two birds with one stone. Yeah, he looks like that because he's running himself ragged trying to get a ceasefire deal in place. And I think anybody who was present

and observed the news over the course of the, from October 7th on, you're like, I don't believe it? Yeah, it doesn't seem like. It doesn't seem like it, not even close. It doesn't seem like Israel is indicating any sort of intention to stop or, you know, either you're like behind the scenes and they're just fucking ignoring you

while pretending that they're listening to you or you're lying. And it turns out it is the latter. They were lying because, so there's this new article from DropSight News that is translating a bombshell investigation by Israel's Channel 13 that is revealing that the Biden administration was just completely apathetic on the whole genocide issue,

and were completely just like lying to our faces. No shit, you're right. The wildest part of this report for me is a former Israeli ambassador claimed that, quote, God did the state of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period because Israel fought in Gaza for over a year and the administration never came to us and said ceasefire now.

It never did. And that's not to be taken for granted. To have that worded as some kind of like gratitude journaling sentence is so vile to hear. So disgusting. Like they're even like, woo-wee! I can't even believe, thank God that it was Joe Biden who is so indifferent to genocide.

Unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, again, every time, and it continues to this day that there's still nonstop military operations happening regardless for any consideration for innocent human life. And yeah, I think the closest thing we got was when we heard Biden might pause certain weapon shipments

and then kept other ones going. That was like the closest we got. Everything else was like, oh, he talked to Bibi Netanyahu and yeah, he talked to him and agreed with everything that was happening. Yeah. There were reportedly talks about Biden giving a speech to quote, pressure Israel politically, which might trigger quote, elections there. Um, and then Biden ultimately quote, backed off, back off, Joe, the Biden administration also shielded Israel from allegations of war crimes.

We saw that. Prompting a major backlash from staffers in the State Department. This was actually reported on already, but lawyer Stacey Gilbert resigned in protest because she was like, they're basically covering up war crimes for Israel at a time when the world is crying out for somebody to fucking do something.

And according to Biden's own officials, Netanyahu deliberately tanked hostage negotiations fearing a deal would force him to end the war. And at one point, guys, Biden, Biden hung up on it. He said he called him full of S H I mmm, during a phone call and hung up on him, full of chidur, and he hung up on him, and he then just continued to support him and resumed weapons shipments. This is such a fucking stain on the country

and such a stain on the Democrats. And it's unbelievable that they're, I mean, it's not unbelievable. The easiest thing right now was to be like, okay, let's listen to the working class. Okay, clearly like there's some energy there. Listen, but like we can get over the working class part and maybe bring some equity to like working people.

But like when it comes to like imperialism and the brutalization of people of color, that's just something we're not gonna be able to do. However, they don't realize how many people look at what's happening, are intelligent enough to connect the dots and how deflating that is to see, and will not, I'm sure they are not going, this is just gonna be this thing

that they continue to ignore and then wonder. This is a great opportunity for AOC, I mean, like AOC during the, her DNC speech basically parroted all, all this shit, all, you know, that working tirelessly. I think she specifically said the line working tirelessly, uh, like Harris and Biden are working tirelessly to get a ceasefire, the Harris campaign, then use that in promotional TikTok posts in order to quote, win over younger left leaning voters concerned about Gaza.

Let's ally that with this talking point. So a lot of people like Matt Leck wrote, good a time as any for AOC to apologize for the ceasefire lie and throw Biden and Harris into the past where they belong. It just seems very straightforward, just coming out and saying, I was wrong, they lied, truly feels like the least she could do and anything less than that,

it really does start to feel like the same old DNC bullshit. This is the status quo. This is the thing too, there's polling that shows even democratic voters want the opposite of the status quo. And I think largely the status quo is to still fear outside spending against you if you take a position that goes against an interest group or lobby like APAC or something.

You know what I mean? Like Kat Abu Ghazaleh, who's running in Illinois, I mean, like formally against Janshia Kowsley. She noped out. She's Palestinian. She's very outspoken about what her positions are. And she even like in talking to her about like what the campaign was,

she's like, yeah, APAC's probably just gonna throw a ton of money trying to like knock me out of this race. But again, all of these people who are coming as outsiders, there's even another guy in New York who's running for mayor, who's also very outspoken. He's completely unshook by being like, I'm going to stand on the fact that I believe, you know, like Palestinian people deserve to not be indiscriminately killed and have, you know, a shot to live a normal life.

This is like, these are the sort of things that I think make someone different is to be able to speak without the fear of what outside spending is gonna do. If you preemptively cave to outside spending, you've already compromised any beliefs you have. That's the guy, Zoran Mamdani is the guy who's running for mayor, who's also just saying it,

just being like, why are we doing this? It doesn't even have to be an argument as specific, broadly just to appeal to people's sense that, we really shouldn't be having a hand in just arming a state that is just hell bent on killing innocent people. That's just like a bad, also like a waste of money. Yeah, no, for real. Like, and then they can use all the other talking points

they want to paint you as some kind of like weird sympathizer with terrorism. But again, you're just talking about broadly, then I think this is the other thing. When so many people like progressive ideas, we're just talking about human rights, you know? And not fearing interest groups coming to spend you into the ground because you say universal healthcare or these other things, or Palestinians deserve rights.

That's the kind of upending of the status quo we desperately need. And to have people still straddling, I get that that's just how the machine works. And you are looking at it like, yeah, because I'm sure APAC would spend every dollar they had to just completely vaporize AOC if she said something like that. But you also have to trust that maybe saying that will bring more interest to your campaign from people who have, you know,

who are looking for something that seems like it's going to be something different than what we've been offered every time. Yeah. Well, speaking of people fighting for the status quo, Canada has elected, I mean, so they didn't elect the most conservative option. So that's good for them. They elected their new prime minister, who is Mark Carney, who is already he was just like Trudeau's successor.

And it's a pretty shocking turn of events. When Trudeau resigned, the election was basically like he resigned because his party was like they were getting smoked and the election seemed like a layup for the conservatives, but as we've covered before, Trump basically changed everything and the conservative leader, Pierre Polyver, whatever, however the fuck you, I'm never going to have to pronounce. And I'm sorry, Canadian listeners, we are, that's how American we are sometimes.

Or we're. Pierre Polyver. Um, he just didn't, uh, push back on Trumpism the way that Carney did. He also like the Trumpism was so toxic that we talked about how the liberal party actually was putting out fake Trumpish buttons at the conservative events to make it seem like they were more Trumpy than they actually were, just because that's how like fucking toxic Trump's brand is inside Canada. The conservative guy who was running for prime minister lost his own seat to the

liberals, which is pretty humiliating. Even tweeted on the day of the election, like Donald Trump, stay out of our elections. And it's like, you're cooketh already. Tell him buddy. Tell him Steve, Dave. But so the bad news is that the election was also catastrophic for the more progressive NDP party. So they're basically doing what the US did when, you know, 2020 very scared of Trump and just

trying to get the fuck away from him and being like, well, we've got to go with the safer option. The middle. And so even though they have a NDP party that is progressive and actually left leaning, basically, NDP voters were so scared about Trump and what would happen with a conservative government in power that they just caved and voted liberal and the liberal or the actual like kind of left-leaning party is projected to lose 17 of their 24 seats Which will cost they won't even be an official party because that's so bad and the guy Yagmeet Singh who we've talked about before

That's so bad. The guy Yagmeet Singh, who we've talked about before, was like, a guy was like, boo, you're a loser, dude. And he was like, what'd you say? Say that to my face. Nothing. And the guy was like, I didn't say it. Dude, I would never lie about this. I did not say anything.

Even that guy, like he got, he got trounced and lost his seat and resigned as leader on election night. So it just feels like, I don't know, Trump's, uh, power is like this version of Americanism that is like spreading like a virus where like everybody's like, Jesus Christ, man. Well, we can't, can't have that, but like it's also, people keep making the mistake of trying to fight Trumpism with neoliberalism, and Trumpism is a response to neoliberalism. Right, but then, but neoliberalism takes Trump as a gift to be like, oh, great,

we can kick the can down the road, because we'll go, you don't want it to be like this, we don't want this guy here. I mean, just the historical lessons are so clear. You know, like when you talk about how you get into fascism, like even though our current like form of American fascist, quasi-fascism, whatever you wanna call it, isn't really like anything else before it,

the road to it mirrors the others pretty perfectly. You know what I mean? Like terrible economic conditions lead to hyperinflation, banking systems start getting strained or collapse, you have fucking food shortages, terrible unemployment, and then that rolls the red carpet out for fascism. And this was the case in both Germany and Italy after the first world war. I mean, and in those instances too, you had a bunch of unemployed soldiers who were just kind of being like, I need something to do. Then so again, the lesson I think is, it's the inequality.

Fortunately in America, we do a great job of taking care of our soldiers. Exactly, exactly. And they're not up to anything once they get out either. But I mean, I think again, it's the ignoring of the inequality that leads you straight there, just straight there. Like I said, I think we were saying this the last time when the polls started to shift after Trump to Canada, don't just kick the can down the road. I mean, I now know that maybe the wrong people are empowered to really change the

status quo, but you like, we're, we're losing our soul here because we didn't address inequality in a way that was tangible. And that's really, it's just right there. It's right there. Canada. So I'm thinking Canada is four years behind ahead because they've they've had a actual reaction that deals with neoliberalism head-on That you know not perfect, but Definitely at least acknowledges. Yeah that maybe definitely complex

Says but yeah, they at least are Acknowledging what the problem is, which is good. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, April 29th. We're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines, we still can. Get your vaccines the way you still can. Get your flu shots the way you still can. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.

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