The Daily Zeitgeist - Sir Karl Trendkins 5/8: Coronation, Trump, MTV Movie Awards, Joe Biden, WSJ, Texas

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

In this edition of Sir Carl Trendkins, Jack and Miles discuss the King's coronation, Trump NOT testifying in his rape trial, the MTV Movie Awards, Joe Biden's favorite foods, tipping prompts at the self-checkout, and all the senseless death/thoughts and prayers in Texas!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Sir Carl Trentkins. A name that we all know and love at this point, Sir Carl Jenkins. I am Jack, that is miles yes and we are all just getting over our coronation hangovers from yep you know getting up at 3 a.m on sunday saturday saturday yeah yeah because we saw it yes saturday was all a blur man you know this weekend the best part was the media obscuring the amount of protests there were over there. That was one thing I felt like was not there. And when you, I mean, we might have to talk about it because the way the people they were talking about how they got arrested, it was basically they're like, yeah, we knew what they were intending to do. Like we were saying the, how the police have powers to round you up if they think you have the intent.

have powers to round you up if they think you have the intent but they're like saying like they intended to disrupt the ceremony and just the the disruptions uh or enough thoughts of disruptions yes yes yes yes disruptive thoughts but anyway minority report without the precogs with just exactly police gut gut with a bunch of causers which is usually pretty good police usually have a pretty strong gut. Truly the only piece of coronation content I consumed was the tweet from the great Christy Yamaguchi at Wapple House who did

side by side of King Charles with his crown and cloak and golden neck garland and two scepters. And he just tweeted that next to the scene from i think you should leave with carl havoc where carl havoc is saying there's too much fucking shit on me um which yeah he i mean but charles doesn't give up he he gives off the vibes of i just don't want to be here

anymore type could you could you imagine now this is a little abstract but if you could reduce every jewel and diamond and piece of gold and give it a human scream value number of screams number of screams that pain that has been caused by that accumulation yeah that's the kind of that's the kind of math i'm into yeah one glove on one glove off but so he was letting us see his meaty little fingers yeah and then let me know i will rule with a sausage fist soft sausage fist um there's also so this was not an actual conspiracy theory that went around but it was one the media was reporting on because it's fun it was basically a joke someone tweeted

so megan did not attend megan was back west in the ussr oh california yeah uh might as well be the ussr if you know what i'm saying yeah um celebrating her child's birthday and just not getting caught up in the messiness. And you're actually not allowed to walk on the red carpet. So we're going to need you to kind of stand over here. So she stayed home. But conspiracy theorists, aka one person on Twitter, joked that Megan secretly attended the coronation in disguise because there was a person at the coronation in disguise because there was a person at the coronation who couldn't have

looked more like somebody in disguise like he has the most wig like real hair that i think i've ever seen big kind of bottle cap sunglasses indoors at the coron like aviator type eyeglasses almost that you could see like Estelle Getty wearing in like Golden Girls. Yes. Massive mustache. Just like Wilford Brimley mixed with... Ed Sheeran.

Ed Sheeran. Yeah. Or my initial thought I was like Lemmy's uncle? Lemmy's uncle is also very good. Because the mustache is very Lemmy-esque, and the hair is like, yeah, man, I was there in the 70s, but I ain't changing my do. Yeah.

Still looks good. Yeah. I mean, it does seem like potentially even a Tim Robinson character. For sure. Turns out it is legendary composer Sir Carl Jenkins, which explains why he was sitting next to Andrew Lloyd Webber. That would be very strange if Meghan Markle came in disguise and decided to sit next to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Why do I always think Andrew Lloyd Webber is not alive? Because he's 100 years old. Is it probably because their contribution to music is so huge? You're like, that person can't still be around. He might be the still living person most likely to evoke a Mandela effect when he dies. I feel like you're right that a lot of people are like, wait, he died back in 93, I thought. Yeah. And you're like, he's 75.

He's that old. You know what I mean? You're like, oh, damn. Because in old you know what i mean like oh damn because in my mind i'm like yeah man all those classics he did from the 1800s no right cats yeah someone with no no perspective on musical theater yeah so uh new king everybody's excited new king who dis uh trump will not be testifying in his rape trial probably because of all the horrible things he would say under oath somebody tweeted out the front page of a german newspaper and said any of you speak german who can translate this for me

and the headline is ist donald trump ein sex monster um which yeah news at 11 i think we think we have the answer to that um he will officially uh like he said he wasn't going to but he had until 5 p.m on sunday to decide um also the court released video footage of trump's deposition which might also shed some light onto why he didn't testify so during the deposition he mistakenly identifies eugene carroll his victim in this case as his ex-wife marla maples which is a pretty big fuck up because like so much of his defense hinges on the really gross thing was that eugene carroll isn't his type which is a crazy defense and just like it's like him being like i'm you know using sexism to defend his horrible monstrous behavior like in court um

but the yeah he specific like it is like if you saw it in a movie you'd be like that is too easy yeah that's a scene where like they got him yeah just completely shoots himself directly in the foot and then reloads and keeps shooting himself in the foot which it's wild that he has made his career of doing that and might be our past and next president if you believe the polling uh but yeah he's shown an old photo of him with his first wife, Ivana, uh, Ms. Carol and her then husband, John Johnson. And he says, it's Marla.

Yeah, that's Marla. Yeah. That's my wife before his lawyer. Correct him. And the people, I mean, it's worth hearing.

Sorry. Even the attorneys on the other side who are like asking questions, they can't even believe that this guy went from like oh i mean why would i get near her she's not my type and also you you're you're not he even said the fucking lawyer he's like you know you're not my type either and that's it and it's like bro this is why he he can never take the stand because he doesn't understand anything uh but yeah this is this is the clip of him insisting he's like i don't even know who that is i don't know is that my ex-wife woman let's see i don't know who it's marla say marla's in this photo that's marla yeah that's that's my

wife which woman are you pointing to no here oh the person you just pointed to was oh i see who is that who is this point and the person the woman on the right is your then wife. I don't know. This was the picture. I assume that's John Johnson. Is that? Wow. I don't know.

This was the picture. That's your, okay. That's your ass, I would think. Yeah. Who knows? This truly reminds me, like anytime there's something like this in a movie, I'm reminded of that Brady Bunch episode where they get taken to court by a guy who claims they like broke his neck and he comes in in a neck brace and then mr brady drops a book and like the guy jerks his head

to the side to see what made the loud noise and the judge is like case closed yeah that guy's neck isn't actually hurt if only our legal system was that simple because yeah that would get his ass he got for sure yeah unfortunately we have no clue if this is going to do anything or have any impact on the case uh but truly a monster um new polling saying that he's leading joe biden by seven points so terrifying. Yep. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds. Sword Quest.

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winners pre-taped their speeches and the rest was made up of flashback clips from past awards shows. Oh, that's tough. That's tough. That's tough. And by tough, I mean that's shitty. Flashback clips from previous award shows

at an award show. Were they just running the clip of like tom cruise and ben stiller yeah like over and over again moment i think that was the only thing i can remember like being a thing i was like huh that was kind of funny yeah we always finish each other's sandwiches i was gonna say sentences um but yeah the most actually speaking of the most notable taped speech came from attention vampire tom cruise who accepted his golden popcorn trophy for top gun maverick while flying a goddamn jet no you think he just can't he tom cruise at this point like the way he still looks pretty good is he did something that operates

by speed bomb logic, like the logic of the bomb that's on the bus and speed. If he goes below 300 miles per hour, gravity will catch up to his face. Yeah. So he just lives in a perpetually moving plane.

He can't drop below Mach 1. Do you think he's in it? Remember even in Contact? Do you remember the Jodie Foster film Contact? The mysterious science guy that was funding everything. He moved to space because it said it was slowing down the progress of his cancer.

And so that guy lived in it. I feel like Tom Cruise is... We're pretty close in being like, yeah, I actually have to live in a zero gravity environment in order to live this long. I don't care about my bone density. I just want to live forever. So, I mean, Howard Hughes spent a lot of the end of his life just in a plane flying around the globe.

So there's something to it, folks. Add that to the carnivore diet of things to aspire to. Yeah. Did you see his new Tom Cruise sneakers that just dropped? Empty tissue boxes. So producer Brian is saying, so he's basically Jason Statham and Crank. Actually

Crank, he had to keep his heart rate up, I believe. Yeah. This has to do with gravitation and the had to keep his heart rate up i believe um yeah it was his thing well the same cruises this has to do with gravitation and the time space continuum i like um actually the actually um well the theory that i just made up on the spot it's incorrect so this is more of a stop the bus theory that i have from speed yeah the daily mail is reporting that jill biden dr jill biden wants uh joe biden to ditch the ice cream and stop eating like a child yeah it's an it's a nice like very

light touch hit piece like on joe biden because obviously daily mail daily mail the daily fail you know as a conservative like nonsense rag with just like the most salacious gossip too so it gives you a little bit everything but i like on this and they're like all right how do we how do we hit joe biden oh right jill how jill biden wants him to eat better because he's so old and could collapse at any second because of his diet i mean i think that's true of most american men of a certain age but right um his favorite foods are pretty relatable i'd say you might want to run on this as your campaign yeah this is the most relatable thing about him yeah his favorite foods a bacon egg and cheese croissant i love a chris sandwich oh of course love a chris sandwich you

kill it okay what else joe uh chocolate chip ice cream whatever it's pretty down the middle chocolate chip cookies man i actually really don't fuck with chocolate chip ice cream. Whatever. It's pretty down the middle. Chocolate chip cookies. I actually really don't fuck with chocolate chip ice cream. I feel like it's just... Chocolate chips are best when they're not super cold. Yeah, because they just... They're like... They don't melt right. It feels like the take of somebody who

was like, oh, you can put shit in ice cream. Like the first time somebody did that in 1982 and he just stopped at that right you know he doesn't know that there are other flavors so chris sandwich chocolate chip ice cream chocolate chip cookies pizza peanut butter and jelly ketchup is listed is listed as its own item angel hair pasta with red sauce this is where i'm thinking did somebody from england just be like write some like juvenile shit american people eat does he know what i mean his hot dog like that would that that's i i need

to know what this ketchup devotion looks like yeah is he just straight ketchup on a hot dog no spaghetti with butter and red sauce is what more specifically what they're saying like that's okay butter wait butter and red sauce i don't look this is why i'm like i'm a little dubious yeah at this point though i'm also like you don't want to like change this man's diet at this but like this has kept him alive for this long right right not that he's like operating at top function but yeah i don't know i just feel like when you got an old car you don't want to be like let's uh yeah let's change the air filter one piece of the engine like um it's working like this it's working like this just let him let joe cook

you know god by that i mean just do nothing and no actually don't let him cook because he's going to make a bunch of unhealthy stuff for himself let joe cook but like don't let him literally cook that would be really bad uh and would burn the white house down and then the wall street journal has an article about uh tipping at self-checkouts and you know has customers crying emotional blackmail is the headline. And then they like in the course of the article, they get into the fact that it is companies basically putting the onus for paying employees onto customers rather than, you know, the raising the wages themselves. Yeah. But the headline makes it be like, look, guys, everybody's mad about this.

You don't have to tip anymore. You know, it's like the wall street journal editorial board is fucked up and weird and gone they've gone beyond what is normal yeah i mean yeah i i always tip as much as i can the one thing is whenever you're at the checkout and they're like you want to donate to a homeless pet well no you don't don't worry about that because they've already paid and they're trying to pay themselves back with giving them the money they've already paid and when the option goes between like typing it in or you know adding the 20 or whatever or giving them cash always give cash for sure um because yeah there are policies are it's not enough to say, don't tip because like this only happens sometimes.

But sometimes the tips that you put into like the machine, like the checkout register, don't make it. Most of them do. And there are laws in place to say they have to. But obviously, when it comes to enforcing those laws, it's corporations versus employees. And America is stacked heavily in the direction of the corporations so yeah and i think finally just this is a terrible violent weekend especially in the state of texas where people there's another one incident where i think eight people died after someone drove through a bunch of people at a bus stop uh and then a shooting at an outlet mall that i believe left eight or nine dead and the response from the officials in texas have based they've all just said to pray uh meanwhile there's

two democrats uh in the texas house they've co-sponsored a bill just because this is how far we've gone that would require third graders in public schools to have access to bleeding control stations and tourniquets that are part of battlefield trauma kits that the military uses yeah and with all this it's like it's really i don't it's just so difficult to keep watching this thing play out over and over and hear this like asinine suggestion of like well you know i have my faith in god and so we're just going to pray about it i'm like you know what how about we do this rather than legislating people's like trans people's rights away and body autonomy away why don't y'all pray on that shit and then use your legislative you know might or will to legislate

the gun thing because you clearly have you clearly have the will to legislate something and then pray for others so i just swapped them shits out real quick yeah and the coverage has been like kind of weird and quiet on this like the texas mall shooter had like nazi tattoos and just seems like they're they're just trying to make it normal their rhetoric of this driver too he was saying all this anti-immigration shit when they were like trying to apprehend him it's yeah my god i mean as much as they want to be like it's i the thing that blows my mind is when they report on these shootings and things and like investigators are trying to figure out where he obtained those weapons fucking anywhere fucking what yeah why is that even a thing you say yeah they're always like he actually got them legally folks so so nothing to see here i mean this cycle

it's i don't i mean yeah i mean joe biden is now like yeah you guys you guys need to do something but he's talking to us specifically yeah shit i mean maybe the people outside it's true it seems like the people who aren't elected officials have the will to want to see something done differently yeah but anyway all that and plenty more happening this weekend. All right. Well, those are the things that are trending

on this Monday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine.

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