The Daily Zeitgeist - The TrenderBolts 5/1: 'Rust', 'The Smashing Machine', Luigi Mangione, RFK, Hetero Awesome Fest

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

In this edition of The TrenderBolts, Jack and Miles discuss the long-awaited release of 'Rust', The Rock's new film 'The Smashing Machine', Luigi Mangioni's case getting turned in to stage musical, RFK's all-star vaccine panel, Hetero Awesome Fest 2025 and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the new Marvel one Is that they do Bum bum bum bum bum is that that sucked is um, I Don't even know I was like that's the one Florence pew is in You bet right? Yeah, well that it's Florence pew there. I am just like, that's the one Florence Pugh is in. You bet. Right. Yeah. Cool. That it's Florence Pugh. There I am. Just like, I don't know. I don't even know. I don't even who are these people, man.

Are they cool? We fucking with them. Julia Louis Dreyfus. Julia Louis Dreyfus is in Thunderbolts. This one, like I've heard that's like the best thing. It's just like they kind of did the thing that's undeniable about the early Marvel movies where you're just like let's take this person who's always fun on camera Robert Downey Jr. and just like let him cook. I've heard that's kind of what they did with Julie Louis Dreyfus and it works. I've heard it works.

Hell yeah. Bro, oh and Geraldine Biswanathan from my favorite movie Blockers. Oh really? Love to see it. Oh, and Geraldine is one of the from my favorite movie blockers. Love. Oh, really? Love to see it. Um, directed by Jake Shrier. Huh? Who? That's a Shrier joint.

I don't know. What was that even? Uh, director, producer of beef director of Dave. Okay. Those are all, so, I mean, pretty, pretty healthy run on a TV. Director, producer of beef. Director of Dave. Okay. Those are all, so, I mean, pretty, pretty healthy run on TV, not gonna lie. Are you hope that's the thing that doesn't,

like, you know what happens? They take like direct small, like nice indie directors and people worked on smaller stuff and they're like, yeah, man, now you're gonna do this big tent pole movie. Now you're gonna do everything we say. Yeah, and if you fuck it up, you're going to. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I kind of hope you fuck it up, man. I hope you fuck it up just so I can see your face. Yeah. What? Yeah. This is I'm sick. I haven't talked to my fucking twin

brother in 14 fucking years because he made fun of me during a fantasy football draft. It's a cool town. Hollywood. Yeah. It's a cool town. Cool industry. Anyways, maybe that's going to be fun. Maybe that's going to, you know, be number one at the box office.

Although it is facing some competition from the Alec Baldwin film Rust. You may have heard of this movie that's dropping this weekend. Oh, fuck. Yeah. So this is the one where Alec Baldwin accidentally killed a human being. Cinematographer Helena Hutchinson. And it's dropping in theaters and on video demand tomorrow.

And like, first of all, like how the fuck do you even promote this movie? Hey, you can't really, the rollout has been, according to the New York Times, decidedly muted. Decidedly, yeah. So the first screening was at a little known Polish cinematography festival. Oh no.

A cinematography fucking... You killed the fucking cinematographer. Yes. What the... Okay. And what did they... They loved... They were doing backflips because they loved it so much?

Well, so there was an audible gasp when they realized that the central event in the movie that the movie is about is an accidental shooting. It's about an accident. It's about an accidental shoot. Rust takes place in the 1880s, set in Kansas, and it's about a 13 year old boy who accidentally kills a rancher and flees the law with his grandfather. Wow. The first time a trigger is pulled in rust, it clicks on an empty barrel. The second leads to a character's accidental death. Okay, spoiler.

Engendering a full bore gasp from premiere attendees. Wow. That's fucking wild. You know, it's like, I get that they're like, okay, this like small Polish festival, maybe we can sneak it in, but it's for cinematography. Like I can't get past that at all. That whoever even decided that was the place, you're gonna be around people who have only thought

about what happened to this poor cinematographer and how things can be different. And then afterwards, Alec Baldwin comes out, so what'd you guys think? So he hasn't done anything. And he hasn't spoken in relation to it. And the filmmakers are saying that they wanted it released to showcase her final work.

And there is a legal settlement with her family where some of the film's earnings go to her husband and son. But yeah, and also it's only releasing on like 115 screens. So I mean, we're giving her two points on the back end of this thing. It's like, and how close are we to seeing that? 2%. 2.2. I'm sorry, 0.2.

Sorry, 0.2, sorry, I had that backwards. Did I say 2.2% of a percentage point? It's 2.1s. 2.1s is a 0.2. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, you didn't let me finish. Jesus Christ, man. I'm just like, I don't know.

Any fascination around this, it is gonna have to be like a morbid curiosity. Yeah, for real. But I totally get to that you're, I mean, I understand on paper the logic of like honoring the final work of this cinematographer, but yeah, I don't know. Like I just just going to be one of those things like, dude,

I'm not going to watch the Alec Baldwin shot the person movie. Yeah, it's like I mean, I remember when The Crow came out like that, a lot of people were like, well, this is tight. And also, but like there was like a weird eeriness to that one also because he like, well, Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee, and then Brandon Lee, like the character in the movie gets killed, gets shot to death,

and then like comes back to life, like from the dead. And so there's like, I don't know, a weird, I had no idea that that was the premise of this movie though. That's fucking spooky. It's about a little known photographer with a daguerreotype camera. And he gets accidentally shot by some doofus playing with a pistol.

The director of the film has admitted it's a tough one to market, which seems like an understatement and has not been doing the best job of hyping the movie. The big takeaways from his promotional interviews have been that he regrets ever writing the movie in the first place. Oh, my God. And directors haunted. And that he didn't watch out Baldwin's reality show because he said

he was busy hitting myself in the face with a frying pan. Holy shit. So apparently Baldwin left a good impression on everybody. Yeah. The reviews have not been super enthusiastic. The cinematography is described as gorgeous, but the climax is a big gunfight involving Baldwin, that one critic called ghoulish. I wonder if they had to like come back and like shoot that like after. Yeah. Yeah. God.

Oh, man. That's so fucked up. The director too. That's so wild that he is even like that quote about what he's saying. Yeah. He said, uh, what is it? Talk about the butterfly effect. I wish I never wrote the damn movie.

You think about the chain of events that started that morning of the shooting. Bad decision after bad decision was made. Oh, God. We're not friends, Suza says of Baldwin. We're not enemies. There's no relationship.

When asked if he watched the actor's recent cringy, cheerful family reality show on Max, The Bald Winds, he said, I think I was busy hitting myself in the face with a frying pan that night. He's like, no, for real. It's kind of, I'm kind of, I'm kind of sick. It's like how I'm dealing with this. Yeah, men would rather fight a hundred gorillas

than go to therapy or hit yourself in the frying pan. I mean, I think this director, I have a pretty good gun free piece of IP I think you could maybe start writing on. It's called one gorilla versus 100. No weapons in that. I mean, the sequel might have to involve guns because I think, I think it's going to be a... But if anyone's gorillas, they're really good to go. I'm off that. I'm all in for arming the primates. A documentary about the Rust case made by a filmmaker who's a friend of Hutchinson came out in March on Hulu

and was a big hit. And it kind of seems like anyone curious about the incident would have just watched that and not the actual movie that's supposed to be mediocre and is like fucking haunting and weird, but Yeah Wild story. I did I did watch the trailer. Did you watch the trailer for the the smashing machine? It's about like a really UFC guy starring the rock under a bunch of prosthetics. I think oh, yeah

It's funny cuz I saw like a frame of it. I'm like that ain't the rock and I kept him Yeah Oh yeah, it's funny because I saw like a frame of it. I'm like that ain't the rock and I kept him moving Yeah, yeah This headline is lying to me I know like nah this ain't the wrong even fucking look like I'm next but no I've heard a lot of I mean I've heard a lot of people talk about I'm still fucking shook from the weapons trailer Yeah, I can't but ways so this everyone said they're like oh for everybody thought the rock didn't have range Look at this shit. Yeah, it feels it feels like it's going to be I don't know.

He's putting in a good performance in the trailer. I'll say that. Yeah. All right. Well, hey, here's to him eventually running for president. Looking completely unrecognizable. And also Emily Blunt is playing. She's doing the like Amy Adams in the fighter thing where it's like yeah town eat up Yep, oh man. Well. Oh, yeah, he does Wow, and you got hair. It's got hair. He does he have hair like could he have hair? No, he ball bro

He's been balding. Yeah, like I remember when he had hair back in the day It was it was looking Michael Keaton in the 80s-ish. Yeah, exactly, exactly. When you got that, he had like a flip-flop hairline at the top. Nickelsonian. Exactly, exactly. Job Bluth, pre-Arrested Development backend money. That's right.

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ever happens. But we had that with the A.I. Willy Wonka musical. There's people announced the Ray Gun musical. Yep. But I feel like they'll it's always like we tell the story or we hear it and then it was like and then they said they were going to get sued so they didn't do it. So they didn't do it. Yeah this I mean, this is obviously a bigger story than Willy Wonka AI and the No, man, ray gun musical. I don't know. I mean, I guess it did did it when our yeah was ours Was it our it was Luigi Mancioni snuck in at the last second? Yeah story of the year 2024. I wonder if it's a cheap way because obviously

the process of writing a script and selling it for traditional media like film or television is such a long process that you can be like, dude, I have a stage, I can write some, I can get Chad GPT to do a rhymy song about offing a CEO. Yeah. I mean, they were gonna to do it in San Francisco.

So it's not like it was going straight to Broadway or anything in this plan. But dude, that would have been a fucking move to be like the Luigi Mangione musical on Broadway. Yeah, that would be like two blocks from where the case is pretty dire. Prosecutors have been pressured by the White House to seek the death penalty and formally filed notice with the court Thursday that they plan to seek the death penalty. Very normal, very normal. He pled not guilty on Friday, but, you know, it is the ultimate crime

in the face of like our current, you know, organizing principle of civilization, you know, for somebody. Do not hold a CEO of a publicly traded company or a CEO of a corporation to account for any of the knock-on effects of their greed in society. Douches, you can't. They're just doing their job.

That really is like the new Nazi shit, I feel like. It's like we're giving the same excuses to like CEOs of being like, they're just, I mean, they're just doing their job. Yeah. Like that's just, it is, I mean, it's a tough, they're just doing their job of basically not giving a fuck if people live or die based on their-

They have children, okay? They have, you know, they're just doing what they can. The, I was just following orders sent to me by the market. That's basically where we're at. Yeah, hey, don't hate me, hate the market, baby. That's right. The disembodied Borg market that tells us everything that is true and just.

There's, RFK Jr's been on one, this guy. Oh my God. I mean, he video called into a town hall. Uh, that was the saddest weirdest town hall. Did you see this video? Dude, I saw a screen cap of that panel and I said, I'm, I have, I got a lot of tables, man. Yeah. I can essentially right now. Person panel, three of which were Chris Cuomo,

just looking like staring off into the middle distance. Like he can't believe what happened. James Cawhill, who was literally looked asleep, like was at one point had his head like off to the side, like he had just taken like three oxy or something like was just falling out on the stage, it seemed like, but I think he was just tired. And Stephen A. Smith for some reason. Yeah, sure.

And then RFK calling in and claiming that the reason that the Mennonites have remained unvaccinated is because the vaccines contain a lot of aborted fetus debris. Contain a lot of aborted fetus debris is a direct quote. Um, I got this. They do not, but, um, absolute dip, shittery nonsense.

We actually have the most mentally unwell people in the cabinet, like right now. Like you just think of everything that's coming. Like you got Marjorie Taylor Greene who was like, Cardinals are being controlled by Satan. And like saying that with like the emphasis, like you really believe that shit? RFK is like, yeah, I don't know if I'm really fucking

with germ theory anymore. Like he's, like what the fuck is going on? There's fetal debris. Yeah, this is, uh, I guess this is everything we deserve. I think early on there were some, uh, I think there were fetal cells used in the early development of the vaccine, um, just from a like purely scientific and he of the vaccine just from a purely scientific and he made it sound like, yeah, so what they do to get this vaccine is they go to a clinic,

take all the fetuses and then get a Vitamix and just blend that shit up and it goes right in your veins. But I mean, so I'm saying they have the religious right to not do that. I'm sure the rest of you are cool with it. But, yeah, you know, I guess they're weird. It's just like so insidious, like, and the way that the mainstream media has like bought into it, like if he says anything remotely vaccine friendly, they're like, the guys come around.

And then he's just able to say the wildest anti-vax propaganda. And just like on this panel, nobody says shit as he says that they're just like sitting there regretting their life choices. Yeah, just everything. God, man. Everything he says is like so devoid of any kind of scientific backing. And now fucking hair brain worms is over here just telling us, yeah, man, the up is down.

Yeah. Fucking just completely, completely abandoned science. I don't even like, I don't even know what to say anymore. He also gave that big speech last week where he was like, you know, talking about how there's a epidemic, a huge uptick in severe autism. Like people, these are kids who will never be able to play baseball, who can't go to the bathroom unassisted. Oh, right. And that's why we all need to put them on a list. That's right. So that I can kind of, so that I can keep track of them. And he said that as new research was about to be shared,

I mean, I'm assuming he had access to, that found that only mild cases have risen from 2000 to 2016, only mild cases. So any uptick is completely consistent with the theory that every doctor seems to support That the reason that there has been any increase in autism is that people are more aware of it and it's being diagnosed More successfully and that's what's happening It's not an epidemic caused by fucking too much fluoride in the water and it's not an epidemic No, that makes you gay Right, right. It's not an epidemic caused by fucking too much fluoride in the water. And it's not an epidemic. No, that makes you gay.

Right, right. It's not an epidemic caused by abortion smoothies that are getting injected into our arms via vaccines. That's probably like what maybe RFK to tell himself to stop like shooting junk or something, where he was just like, it's the fetal debris, man. I gotta kick this fetal debris.

Yeah, this is all bad. I mean, and you just think about everything that's gonna be happening with the FDA and our lack of consistency over knowing what's even in food anymore. It's like, you didn't really have to fuck with that. You know what I mean? But here we are.

Here we are. It's just a lot of the things that we're quietly helping keep things somewhat on the tracks are being completely undermined by this administration. But they do have a solution for that, which is going full North Korea and having a state-sponsored media that replace. Did you see that the White House now has like their own version of the Drudge report? Yeah.

Yeah. Where it's like White House wire or something, WH wire, and it's like all the same 1992 web design as the Drudge report. That there's like- Is it also in Courier font? Or no? Yeah, yeah. You can pay attention to this one, not that one.

Yeah, it's, sure. I mean, do it, do whatever you can, man, to try and tell people, like when shit really starts getting fucked up that maybe that website will help explain away why. Yeah, I don't think they're going to have access to the things that they need. I think we'll be, I think they might end up being surprised by how few people just leave the drugs report to go pay attention to that. Right, right. Oh, just one thing I just wanted to point out, because I just love stories about backwards heterosexual men. There's a thing, Heterosomefest was trending

because this fucking guy who owns a bar in Idaho, he's holding a two day Heterosomefest at his bar outside the Capitol to coincide with Pride Month. And yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be really cool. When is that happening? June 20th and 21st. You know, feature live music speakers who quote, are on the front lines defending traditional family values and local food and drink vendors

that don't wanna have people patronize their businesses anymore if they go there. Yeah, the festival is more than an event. It's a declaration that faith, family and freedom are worth protecting. So this guy's done it, I think last year too. But if you guys are in town, Hetero Awesome Fest. Jesus Christ. Sounds like it's so funny when this shit is just an absolute parody of itself. Yeah.

It's like, yeah, what are you calling it? Hetero Awesome Fest? Yeah. Yeah. How'd you know, man? you hack my shit man um damn all right y'all uh this panel is about uh being straight is cool right some might say awesome right what being a cis-het white guys hetero awesome fest man Not enough people know about this thing that has been the default for the past 300 years in mainstream culture This one trick society doesn't want Being a straight white guy

All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday May 1st We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines while you still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye.

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