The Daily Zeitgeist - Trend Of A Woman 4/16: Pope vs. Prez, Bitcoin Movie, Pete Hegseth, 'Aegon's Conquest', Sydney Sweeney

Episode Date: April 16, 2026

In this edition of Trend Of A Woman, Jack and special guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra discuss the Pope vs. Prez, the AI 'Bitcoin' movie, Pete Hegseth confusing the bible with 'Pulp Fiction', the new Go...T movie, 'Aegon's Conquest', Sydney Sweeney's latest American Eagle ad and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:58 she got a great ass and you got your head all the way up it um it's so strange But it's the first one they gave him an Oscar for. They fucked up. They gave him an Oscar. They gave one to LoloA. And he was like, this is it. It's not like that shit is precious. This is it from now on.
Starting point is 00:03:19 I am, Yosemite San. I'm really bad at remembering titles to movies. So anytime Al Pacino's mentioned, I just go, Whoa, and hope that it's the right movie. I needed to tell you that to be fully honest and transparent.
Starting point is 00:03:33 Who is that? What's that voice? Who's that? Exactly. Who'd have? Thrill to be joined by. No, I'm not going to do that. Very talented writer, Sandhameh comedian.
Starting point is 00:03:44 The co-host of my co-host is my co-host? Exactly. One of the hosts of 420-day fiancé with Miles Gray. Miles is on a plane to Japan. And we've got Sophia Alexandra. It's so weird to be sitting across from you when I've been you for the last. a couple weeks. I don't even know how to feel.
Starting point is 00:04:11 We were the same. She just reached out and touched my face like in face off. She did the hand over the face. Exactly. When you just do a little run. Yeah. People who stuck around for the notebook dump on the Whitney Houston
Starting point is 00:04:29 Icons episode would have learned that Al Pacino is in the Hetty Lamar Hall of Fame of celebrities who are famous for a thing you didn't know they were famous for because Al Pacino is now on the official list scientifically of the 25 oldest men to have ever fathered a child. It's not like, I was like, damn, he seems old to be having a child. We have to wait until Nick Cannon is older. He's going to take that award.
Starting point is 00:05:06 It's, I know. He's definitely, he's definitely coming for it. It will, it will be the Nick Cannon Hall of Fame of the oldest fuckers. How old is Al Pacino? I think he's like, over 80 when he fathered a child. I mean, the guy, the guy loves the scent of a woman. If there's one thing we know, but. He probably doesn't like raising children.
Starting point is 00:05:31 He's like, this is actually perfect. Right. Yeah. And we're out, baby. Anyways, I think De Niro was right around the same age, but I don't think he quite made the list. So he's still got some work to do. I think De Niro's a little bit younger maybe than Pacino.
Starting point is 00:05:50 But they are just competing to be the oldest. Like it's them and like a couple guys from the Bible, I think, or on the list. Yeah, I don't know if Mick Jagger was old as fuck when he had a kid too. He was old as fuck, but I don't think he was like, I don't think, like, this is an official lit. There's people out there for whatever reason, keeping track of this being like, who's the oldest? Who's got the oldest sperm that's still motile?
Starting point is 00:06:20 My sperm is so motile. Isn't that the thing? Motility, sperm motility? I mean, if you say so. I don't know. I think it's, it's sweat. It's like quality and quantity. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:34 You want both. Why are you all moving so slow? I know. That's all I know. His are out there. They're vigorous. They're out here. They're doing work.
Starting point is 00:06:44 They're Al Pacino in heat, you know? Can you imagine having an exact looking Al Pacino baby? The baby just comes out looking like old Al Pacino. Exactly. Like the jeans are so strong. Same hair.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Exactly same hair. He's very in person. He gives Yoda. more than you would expect. He's a small man. Yeah, I know. With a very old, old face. Anyways, what's going on, Sophia?
Starting point is 00:07:16 Let's tell the people what's going on in the world. The Pope, still beefing. Still, he's warning, tyrants ravaging the world. While looking, every picture of the Pope, he's gone full John Paul II. He never has his eyes open in a picture. He's just always like kind of taking a little nap, a little, it's exhausting talking to God, having a one way line to God, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:07:43 I mean, I think that was already hard on him, but now he also has to have like, has to deal with this bullshit. You know what I mean? Yeah. And also like, I don't know, I want this to be like a Drake versus Kendrick thing. It's kind of shaping up. Like, it does feel like the Pope weirdly has. Has public opinion on his side and Trump just like everything he drops, everyone's just like, dude, just stop it.
Starting point is 00:08:12 Just take the L. Just maybe give it. Yeah, take the L. Go to your little casino in the sky. All right. So that's still happening. We just got word of what might be the worst pitch in Hollywood history. That pitch is Casey after.
Starting point is 00:08:32 Fleck and Gal Godot starring in an AI generated Bitcoin movie. I knew that a movie was being made about Satoshi, the guy who's like the mysterious figure who created. Nakamura. Yeah, Satoshi Nakamoto. He's this mysterious figure. He created Bitcoin and people have been trying to figure out who he is. And there was a hot script about this.
Starting point is 00:09:02 moving around Hollywood and they were like ooh what if we did the worst possible things that we could at every step with that. That entire sentence of you introducing this
Starting point is 00:09:15 was just like the most disgusting word salad I've never wanted to eat. Actually one step was like not like okay you have my attention I see I'll allow it but get their fast counselor
Starting point is 00:09:29 when they said that they had Doug Lyman directing the director of the born identity and go. And he can make a globe-trotting thriller. And that's what this one is. A globe-trotting thriller about the search for the identity of the man who created Bitcoin. And then it's now being hyped as the first fully generated studio quality
Starting point is 00:09:55 AI feature film. All the actors are real. Don't worry. Sophia, all the act are real. That was my biggest worry. Jack. Wait, but are the actors real? As are the props.
Starting point is 00:10:06 So that's cool. They're not just like doing Pew Pugh hands and then like turning the hand into a gun. But everything else will be AI generated. There is a picture from behind the scenes of the movie that it
Starting point is 00:10:20 looks like they're in the severance office. It's just an empty gray room. It looks worse than the severance office. office to be honest. They don't even,
Starting point is 00:10:36 like it truly just has overhead lighting. Like it has office lighting in the room that, uh, that they're shooting the movie. And that's because, uh, lighting will be filled in during post production. It was just filmed in a former car show room in London with like overhead lights.
Starting point is 00:10:56 And they're like, yeah. And then we'll just like, you know, lighting it in. just color color the lighting like this is exactly like you talk to writers and they're like they talk about the way that studio like suits would be like yeah can you just a dialogue that in you know what i mean there's like just dialogue it in there give us some sparkling dialogue that'll
Starting point is 00:11:23 get us from point a to point b uh you know what this you know what this makes me think of um Basically, I was just listening to this podcast about the making of dirty dancing called What Went Wrong. And apparently at one point to release the movie, like a Clear Cell type company wanted to sponsor it and was just going to be like all over the poster and stuff. Like Clearsell presents dirty dancing. And this is what this is making me think of. Right. That is what movies would have been for all of time. We didn't have people who it's, it's really like, like the thing that people talk about is that there used to be people who were in movies because they liked movies.
Starting point is 00:12:10 And like, even though they were suits, they were suits who liked movies and they wanted to create good movies. And so they were pushing back on Clearousel and Nogzima present dirty dancing. And can we change the title because dirty is not what we're going for here. That's literally what they tried to do and take that Borsion storyline. out. Right. Can we change it to refreshingly clean dancing? Refreshingly clear
Starting point is 00:12:36 skin dancing. Let's make it a snow borsion. It's just a fun time outside. That's right. Celebrating, building a snowman. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, now we just have it's pure corporate like number pushers who are in charge
Starting point is 00:12:52 of everything. They have cast Casey Halfleck. Are those sexual assault allegations? Still out there? Great. I think you just, the tone of that question is basically how everyone's like,
Starting point is 00:13:08 is that still? No, we're just. You know, it's a bottom of a barrel situation when it's Galgado. Galgado. And Casey Affleck? It's like,
Starting point is 00:13:17 ooh. Gal Gadot, who in addition to her geopolitical awfulness, uh, already struggles with acting when she's on actual movie sets. You know? Like, I feel like,
Starting point is 00:13:30 asking her to act opposite a tennis ball is not not going to help things. It's not going to bring about a very lively performance. She's not going to be saying, whoa on the side of this movie. She sure isn't. And I mean, I guess they also don't care about her, which makes me feel kind of better a little bit,
Starting point is 00:13:53 because if they're casting her opposite Casey Affleck, they're like, well, if anything goes down, you know, She supports the law. You actually have to. Right.
Starting point is 00:14:03 You actually, if you're contractually going to like get your movie bonded with Casey Affleck in the lead role, the female lead has to have murdered somebody in order for it to be, feel safe enough. And you just overall have to think she's trash and disposable. Right. Right. Right. Well, she kind of is. Let's just do this. Which, oh my God.
Starting point is 00:14:25 And AI written? AI, not written. But AI, everything else. And it is wild to me. Like, they're in such a weird bubble. We just live in, like, separate worlds. We truly, it is the movie Elysium if I had seen that movie. I feel like it's such a good metaphor that I don't want to ruin it by having seen it and being like,
Starting point is 00:14:49 what if it's not that, yeah. Right. But, you know, the one where the rich people all live in a thing in the sky and, you know, everybody else is in this world and it's just like truly a building full of people who are all like, this idea is great. Like this is an Elysium idea
Starting point is 00:15:08 to be like, and we're going to get headlines by talking about how this is the first fully AI generated movie. Nobody thinks that's good. Like we are seeing the results of AI in our daily lives and it's bad.
Starting point is 00:15:24 It's not good. There's so many terrible things. that I don't know why we are still I mean, I do know because it's corporations and they only see money. But it's also like, I mean, not to be superstitious, but Natasha Leon
Starting point is 00:15:40 started that AI movie company and now she's off the wagon. I'm not going to say the two are connected. I'm also not going to say that AI, bad vibes, man. It's bad vibes.
Starting point is 00:15:56 It is bad vibes. I will, I will allow it is bad vibes. They're saying, you know, that's why she fell off the wagon. I'm saying bad vibes. Don't be associated with building AI. That wagon gets slippery once you're working with AI.
Starting point is 00:16:12 Yeah. So all in all, it's just wild to me that they're like, this is how we're going to pitch our movie to people. And it is, it sounds bad. I mean, it sounds like this is maybe a business article
Starting point is 00:16:24 that they just like escaped containment. because they are like, you know, we instead of having to like go on location for these shoots, like it would have been a $300 million movie and instead we spent $70 million on it remains to be seen if that is noticeable on the screen. But to this point, I feel like we haven't seen a version of AI where we were like, guys, they've done it. We have to admit this is better than what would have been done by a human. So how about let's just like not use it until people stop killing themselves from it?
Starting point is 00:17:02 Yeah, right. How about just that? How about until it stops sending hallucinations out into the world with false information that ruins everything? How about we wait for that? And then we're like, maybe you get to have a movie as a little treat. No, no, no, no. We're going to keep pushing this. We're just going to keep on putting it, pushing it everything through the AI grinder until,
Starting point is 00:17:26 people shut the fuck up. Or they're just like not there anymore. We just kind of leave them down there. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about Bible quotes. What's up, everyone?
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Starting point is 00:21:41 He's a Jesus head. He's a Jesus head. It's one of our favorite subjects here on the Daily Site guys. And, you know, one of this administration's favorite subjects, I would say, is my man, J.C. up above on high. Pete Hegseth just confused the scripture like with the, with the, the quote from Pulp Fiction from the Tarantino movie. So he's paraphrasing
Starting point is 00:22:13 a prayer recited by Sandy 1, one of the US Air Force combat search and rescue teams involved in the recent Iran mission and which is meant to reflect Ezekiel 2517. But the version that he
Starting point is 00:22:29 said is, I'll just read it for you because it might sound familiar to those of you who are familiar with Pulp Fiction, probably not. Those of you who are familiar with the actual Bible. He said, they call it Cesar 2517, which is meant to reflect Ezekiel 2517. It reads, and pray with me, please. The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of the evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty shepherd the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper
Starting point is 00:23:11 and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother. And you will know my name, my call sign is Sandy one. What is this fucking weird owl shit? When I lay my vengeance a upon thee. Amen, he said, in, in front of people. Everybody freeze. This is a robbery. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:43 Any of you fucking pricks move. And I'm going to execute every motherfucker last one of you. Sorry. Real Bible quote is, and I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes. And they shall know that I'm the Lord when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. But rebukes just doesn't slap as hard. I think you can all agree. Rebukes. Rebukes is weak.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Nobody's beuking in the first place. You don't need to rebuke. How about we unbuk this whole thing? Yeah, let's call the whole thing off. That's just complete dipshittery of an amazing level, probably AI generated, amazing that he... Yeah, there's just this surreal, level of insanity in this administration every day,
Starting point is 00:24:38 like whether it's him quoting the very cool speech from Polt Fickham, by the way. But like doing it after asking people to bow their head in prayer, you know, Trump posting the image of himself as Jesus. It's just they can't, they truly can't help themselves. But then he was like, it wasn't what? It's Jesus. Right. I wasn't even, who's Jesus?
Starting point is 00:25:05 Yeah, no. I didn't even know. I was doing something totally different. That's what I think doctors are like. Like, if that's what he thinks doctors look like, we've got bigger problems, which I think we do. But if he's, when he's visiting his doctor, his doctors have, like, light coming out of their hands, his brain might be even more broken than we thought. Sophia, are you a Game of Thrones fan? Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:29 Hell yeah. Did you know that there's a Game of Thrones movie coming out? I did not. So there's a new Game of Thrones movie coming out. I thought you were going to say so. I guess you're not a fan. So I guess maybe shut the fuck up and stop claiming to be a fan, loser. Literally what I thought you were going to say.
Starting point is 00:25:46 Wow, I'm so meaning your mind. Why are you bullying me? So the movie is called Game of Thrones, Agon's Conquest. So plot details remain scarce. The film is going to focus on Agon the first Targaryen, also known as Agon the Conqueror, who was the first Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Dragon Writing Guy, created the Iron Throne. I just, I don't know. This was released in Vegas, like a few days ago.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Oh, yeah? The title's a no for me. The movie wasn't, just like these details. Oh, I was like, how did this happen? Did it leak? Got you. I just, I don't know. Is it enough, like, do we think that people are going to go see a feature film that's a prequel to what we already know happen in Game of Thrones?
Starting point is 00:26:44 I mean, I think you would want new people. But you're not going to draw them with a name they can't pronounce or don't know how pronounce it properly. Yeah. Game of Thrones sounds badass. Yeah, just called the Game of Thrones. Snow or whatever. Yeah. Or, I mean, do something that just sounds like a badass situation.
Starting point is 00:27:07 I don't know. Like conquest. No, like the birth of dragons or something. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. Dragon breach. No, that doesn't, I don't like that. Yeah, I mean, you might as well call it like my uncle Ted's adventure.
Starting point is 00:27:26 It's like no one knows who that is, honey. Yeah. I don't think it's going to work. New Sydney Sweeney American Eagle campaign has hit the internet. Oh my God. Why? It's pretty, but it's like not as a Nazi code just the last one. So that's good.
Starting point is 00:27:45 Hey, we're just looking for improvements here. Yeah, those are real small crumbs to hold on to. I know. But she does reference that one because the only words in the ad are, what brand am I wearing? Yeah, that one. and then, like, laughs. So she's like, yeah, you guys got mad about the whole eugenics thing.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Still out here. Why is this ad for, like, right-weighing edge lords? They're not buying those jeans. I don't really understand. Yeah. Anyways, in a statement, she highlighted the brand is partnering with the crisis text hotline, presumably so that people won't get mad at her again. But I don't, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:28:27 Honestly, who could give a shit, you know? Sophia, that's sometimes that's what I have to say. But it is pretty crazy that she's still like, I don't know, maybe we give it another try. Maybe we. I think it's pretty easy to see like where everyone's loyalties lie in this like end of the world, like her situation. Yeah, she's on Elysium. It doesn't even take a lot to like be a good person in public currently. You know, it's like, I don't know, don't support bombing kids.
Starting point is 00:29:00 and starving people. I don't know. Don't support rape. You know, it's like very few, the bars in hell. So like very few things you have to actually do to be normal. And the fact that this company
Starting point is 00:29:16 after this wanted to be like, yes and, lean into this shit. Again, those people are not buying your jeans. Sophia, we kind of had a moment earlier. We've got to just like make a,
Starting point is 00:29:27 do a fun little wink to our little moment when everybody was talking about us. You guys remember when you thought we were Nazis? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That one.
Starting point is 00:29:38 That's right, bitch. I should start saying that. Yeah, that one. That one. Just about whatever. Yeah. I kind of like it. It feels meaningful.
Starting point is 00:29:51 And I am so mad at her. It's pretty fascinating to know that like if her tits were like 50% smaller, we would be hearing from her. Not at all. Oh, does she have big tits? I actually hadn't noticed. Yeah, no, no one knows. Is that? Yeah, it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:30:07 I'm just saying that this woman got a platform for no goddamn reason whatsoever. Just, and she is fumbled it in the worst way. And she's dating Scooter Braun. Like, I don't. Is she really? She has been for like, oh, wow. Wow. Congratulations to the happy couple.
Starting point is 00:30:24 I'm saying trash, trash. Trash. Trash. And finally. A little bit of good news to end the day on for our listeners. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, believe they might have found a cure for internet brain rot. And that cure is experimental short films.
Starting point is 00:30:45 So the study involves splitting a group of 500 random participants into two groups and half watched challenging animated shorts. And the others were fed viral videos containing home video style, domestic antics. And researchers then asked participants to pen a five-sentence short story and they also measured subjects openness and conceptual expansion
Starting point is 00:31:12 by asking them to note connections between seemingly different concepts. The people who watched the animated films scored much higher on both metrics even though they enjoyed the videos they were shown less. So they were like, uh,
Starting point is 00:31:28 the short films had an immediate positive impact because the film's ambiguities force our brains to consider alternate and original possibilities instead of simply falling into well-worn mental ruts. Dude, that's literally what Netflix is. Just one big well-worn mental rut?
Starting point is 00:31:46 Yeah. Yeah. And they keep auto-playing and you already know what's going to happen. And you just are still doing it because you're like... We've mapped your well-worn mental ruts and found the next mental... rut for you to just slide down like a like a water slide.
Starting point is 00:32:03 Go ahead and descend into the madness that is mediocrity. A terrible color palette. That's Netflix. This reminds me of a study. Please buy my show. This reminds me of a study from early like early TDZ days that I would talk about a lot where they found that when people would complete a time, task in a diverse group, they would have like a lower level of confidence that they did the
Starting point is 00:32:37 task well and that they would do the task much better than a control group that did the task with a group of people who were similar to them. Similar like an age. Age. I think it was just like all forms of homogeneity were like, yeah. And then people, if you're like, with similar people, you're going to be like, yeah, actually, we, we fucking nailed that and you didn't, but you're going to feel more confident you did. It's just like doing difficult things,
Starting point is 00:33:09 doing uncomfortable things. We live in this world that is like sending us, yes, well-worn ruts that you just like slide down. They're like, let's remove the friction from our day-to-day purchases and day-to-day lives and just like stay in these things and like just forcing your, clockwork oringing some challenging art house films into your brain is like the thing the most dangerous thing is giving us all the ability to do child's pose about literally everything in our lives all of the time you know when in yoga they're like you can do this but also if you feel like taking child pose at any time you can and i fully respect that i'm not saying that you shouldn't take child spills, but because you can remove interaction from people by ordering everything.
Starting point is 00:33:58 And you can remove interaction, like, in a thousand different ways because you're communicating now through texting and social media and whatever. And at the end of it, your life is easier, but is it better? Yeah. And it's not. It's not. Yeah, it's not. And it made me think also of the study about couples that have been together for a long time and, like, what? what keeps the relationship happy. And they, like, had a control group that just did what they normally do. And another group for dates, like, same number of dates that the other group. But the other group did a different new thing for every day.
Starting point is 00:34:38 Like, even if it was a new restaurant or anything, they just were not allowed to repeat. And at the end, when they, like, you know, did the questionnaires, they found that, like, the people that did new stuff felt and scored much higher. on happiness and like their love towards each other than the control group. So it's brain rot and like neuro pathways. Like it's all the same for everything. Yeah. It's like, it's just doing the easiest thing to be like, okay, let's just do this thing we've
Starting point is 00:35:10 never done. It's more annoying and you're like, oh, we probably hate it. But even if you hate it, that's a bonding experience. And I do feel like it's also we, you know, everybody's overworked. And so it's just like, I don't know. you know, by the time we get to these parts of our lives, we're just like, just fucking, just put the feeding tube in.
Starting point is 00:35:29 Like, I just want to, you know, like I just want to watch some background shit while like scrolling on social media. But like getting past that impulse and, um, clockwork oranging yourself into watching some stuff that's like art and maybe a little bit challenging in the end. Like, I do feel like it can be beneficial.
Starting point is 00:35:50 I feel like this could be part of like a new, group that's like reverse proud boys where instead of like humble boys. Yeah, it's like humble boy where you do like brain hacks like you know how the proud boys were like okay you like no fap and then I think that was it. That's the only one I was aware of and then we like punch you. Yeah, drink raw milk and you'll be like alpha if we just do like brain hacks like watch
Starting point is 00:36:16 difficult experimental films and like wear that suit that shows you what it feels like to be an old person until you're until we're just all at peak empathy. I feel like that's. Yeah. And also just like take a different walk home. Yeah. Take a different walk home. Order a different thing.
Starting point is 00:36:36 Go to the place you've always been meaning to check out. Yeah. That's one of my favorite things. When you walk by a place like a bazillion times and you never ever go in and finally you're like, what am I doing? Then you go in and then you're like, oh my God, this place is awesome. and you meet like the person who runs it and you love them, you could have that experience today.
Starting point is 00:36:54 It's like the beginning of an episode of Emily and Paris. The most brain. Hold on. Most brain rot shit. I'm bad. All right. Giant hat. Sophia is such a pleasure having you.
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