The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendifornia PizZeit Kitchen 5/10: Sheikh Jarrah, Tim Tebow, Venom, Bob Baffert, Olympics

Episode Date: May 10, 2021

On this edition of Trendifornia PizZeit Kitchen Jack and Miles discuss Ethnic cleansing in Israel, Tim Tebow getting signed to Jacksonville Jaguars, the new 'Venom' trailer, Bob Baffert being a baffled bamboozler, and the IOC going forward with the Olympics... during a pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Here's some things that are trending this fine day, May 10th. Ethnic cleansing is trending because of what's going on in Jerusalem. Yeah. Yeah. The Al-aqsa mosque in jerusalem was like a holy site uh and you know israeli police uh you know along clearly there to help the settlers there uh in in jerusalem just started beating people chasing them out of their place of worship as they tried to worship and this is just kind of going along with a long string of activities that's been happening jerusalem especially as it relates to a lot

of these settlers of basically evicting uh palestinians from their homes um so these israeli settlers can just move right on in um and the violence that's taking place you know like you know whatever we want whatever we want to call rubber-coated bullets whether you want to call them safe or less lethal whatever just they're shooting rubber bullets at people that can seriously injure you there's plenty like a lot of people in critical care at the hospital um and you know this this goes alongside calls for you know joe biden to maybe re-evaluate the relationship that the united states has with israel and especially as it relates to not saying anything ever uh when palestinian people are being driven out of their homes and we're just looking at an apartheid state

just clear as day um yet you know because of its strategic value to the military and the arms that are purchased i don't know if that's going to happen but yeah many other nations were asking the u.s to sign on to a letter basically condemning uh what's happening but it's it's pretty it's pretty it's awful especially videos of it just the way this is being covered by uh any right-wing media the new york i'm looking at drudge and fox news what what is the new york times saying is all about uh terror attacks yeah yeah it's it's using it's using a lot of language that sort of um obscures the fact that what is happening is essentially ethnic cleansing there are this the way people are being taken from their homes with no recourse at all.

Just watching how Palestinians were treated throughout this pandemic. It's just, you know, this keeps going and keeps going, keeps going. So, yeah, and it just really, really fucked up when you see these news outlets completely use the wrong kinds of you know calling it clashes and things like that no it's not a clash when you're pulling up and you're waving guns in people's faces and telling them to get the fuck out and you know attacking them there's not i'm not even seeing people are defending their lives that's one thing but that's not a clash i'm not even seeing the coverage of the israeli raids i'm seeing just hamas fires over 150 rockets into israel uh idf releases footage of retaliatory strike um retaliatory for what what are they retaliating yeah i think it's again to excuse the United States' role in allowing this to happen and, in fact, assisting them.

And a news media that is just wholly unprepared and unwilling to actually confront the societal ills that we have in the world and to talk about it. I mean, even in Colombia, there was the amount of state violence happening in Colombia the last couple of weeks has also been horrific. And it's hard to see when, you know, what breaks the, you know, breaks through sort of on news media. I know we haven't talked about on the show, but like I was watching just how just untethered these soldiers were in Colombia just to shoot on their own people because of the tax hikes that were happening in the country and just the lack of uh proper response to covet i mean like the world in multiple places is looking at problems that are i think you know on some level

it's like they want to make sure people don't realize that there's so much tension on this earth where like regular people are being just trampled on and are trying to fight back and they don't, you know, they have to obscure that, um, in support of, you know,

state governments. So, yeah, Tim Tebow is trending, uh, because basically anytime there's a press release with his name in it, he'll start trending. America loves them.

Some Tim Tebow. Uh uh he got signed as a tight end um for the jaguars who are in jacksonville which is like his hometown so i think that's why it's a big deal and urban meyer who used to coach him in florida as the coach there so a reunion um we're all kind of on the edge of our seat waiting to see if they kiss sorry what were you gonna say Oh urban and Tim yeah like they used to back in Florida yeah I would love to see them kiss well they did Nike paid a lot of money to vanish those pictures but I will say that was this him coming back from baseball right cuz he fucked up

after trying to be a quarterback Cause that's what he Didn't he win a Heisman wasn't he a Heisman winner Yeah yeah And everyone's like oh here he comes The man who prays He loved Tim Tebow But then he did now he's a tight end Okay well you know

Yeah cause he couldn't really throw a football In the NFL Be some sick ass trick plays dude right yeah yeah you know man um man people anyway and do you think people love tim tebow because he's just like that he's like the chick-fil-a of like football players yeah i think i think uh he overlaps nicely with with the uh you know the portion like i feel like football audiences love to uh think of christianity as like uh persecuted in america as opposed to the hegemonic uh you know status quo and so anytime somebody is like do being very out front with their Christianity, and it makes people uncomfortable.

They like that, I think. And he's very handsome. He's a handsome man. I don't know. Geez. Now whenever you say I'm handsome, I'm going to remember that, Jack. I mean, look at those baby blues. Might as well be an insult.

Venom slash Carnage are both trending. Carnage is the sequel to the venom movie that was uh extremely successful despite me not seeing it a couple years back a lot of people were wondering how that was possible how uh how but i mean it's got tom hardy who i think is like a if he wanted to be he could be like the modern equivalent of a bankable superstar who can just open any movie he's in. He's just more interested. Oh, really? I feel like people like to watch him and shit.

Yeah, I guess he always seems like he's... I want to see him in that breakout comedy role. You know what I mean? Yeah, I definitely don't think he's that. I want to see. What's breakout comedy role. You know what I mean? Yeah, I definitely don't think he's that. I want to see, what's his Ace Ventura? You know what I mean? Right. Or his Analyze This.

Exactly, exactly. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, his Tropic Thunder. You know, when do you see him, Sean? This trailer is the most I've wanted to see the original Venom. Maybe I'm just movie starved. Yes. Or I don't know what it is but this this

trailer looks dope and uh yeah made me be like all right i guess i'll catch up on that yeah i was definitely like okay so i need to watch the first one right i really like the uh it's just like the humor of it it seemed fun and yeah i think it's weird how i have like this childlike perception though because like in my mind i'm like venom and carnage man like i wasn't really feeling them when i was reading spider-man comics so like i don't want to support them weird that's like in my subconscious i realize i'm like oh villain adjacent so i'm like oh no no no i'm good guys even though i don't even watch these fucking movies yeah but it seems like it's almost a movie where like so the the only thing that i had really associated venom with was just the like sort of black color like taking over spider-man's mask

and then like the trailer for the tom hardy one was just like that black plasticky shit like kind of coating his face but they didn't really get into like all the all the different like he has you know like retractable limbs and like dozens of them and it's like they're alien parasites that land on his body right he has a symbiotic relationship obviously yeah yeah so like they i feel like i read i read about that after venom was out there like that was the premise and that was more interesting and then they actually hit that premise in this trailer it's like he's using all the different you know alien parasite appendages to do shit for him make a wacky breakfast you know have some banter with

the local bodega owner i mean he's a real new yorker or whatever hey anyways it's a good trailer this next one is wild so uh came out over the weekend that uh the kentucky derby winner had failed its drug test after the derby um which you know it kind of came out of nowhere uh everybody who watched the race was like i can't believe this horse is like holding off the other horses like what an amazing story uh just like got out in front and just stayed out in front and like nobody saw it coming uh but that's the sort of thing that happens the other strange thing is that it was like much smaller than the other horses which uh usually you don't see huh this tiny horse is beating the brakes off these other massive massive like beautiful examples of god's love

just god's greatest works of art but so uh now there's like a echo story from that because they're still trying to decide like do they strip them of the win which it seems like they should they already banned the trainer who is the only trainer that i know bobby baffert like he's the only like name brand kentucky derby trainer uh and he's been banned from the race going forward because it was his horse that was uh all hopped up and baffert uh had had some hot takes he was like it's like he was looking for okay you want the clip because this man who was caught running a fucking juiced up horse and his explanation for it. First of all, what the fuck is Ashley Schaefer? The character that Will Ferrell plays on Eastbound and Down.

Yes. I almost feel like they modeled Will Ferrell's Ashley Schaefer character from Eastbound and Down. Some say it's Ric Flair. But after looking at this man with the white hair and transition gradient glasses, I'm like, he looks like a fucking guy who cheats on horse racing, first off. Oh, for sure.

So this is him going to the calm waters of Fox just to tell his story about what's going on. Well, I haven't heard anything officially. They haven't told me anything. I know when Churchill Downs came out with that statement, that was pretty harsh. And I think they had to just, you know, with all the noise going out, you know, we live in a different world now. This America is different. And it was like a cancel culture kind of a thing.

So they're reviewing it. I haven't been told anything. We're prepared to run. I can't see them keeping me from running. Does your team get to review the results? Okay, thanks, Fox, for pressing him on that cancel culture point. But the man was caught cheating at horse racing. The horse failed the piss test.

I don't know. It was like a Me Too cancel culture shit. I don't know, man. They're all over my ass, bro. But again, it shows you the mindset of when you deploy those just phrases or whatever. It's just like, I don't know. They're trying to hold me accountable, cancel culture or something. it's like right weird yeah before they used to let me just cheat just carte blanche old white guy defense or just white guy defense in general cancel culture

yeah it must be canceled culture canceled no bro you got caught cheating man what are you in the biggest race in the world and like everybody interviewed you like you were a winner and your horse was like mostly drugs when they tested it after the thing it like had more drugs i mean i don't know jack we live in a different america now you know this america you're talking about i mean that does make you look back and be like okay so i mean this dude now has the record for most wins at the derby and so you have to look and be like okay so i mean this dude now has the record for most wins at the derby and so you have to look and be like wait so when he's saying we live in a different america is he saying that like he would he used to be able to cheat yeah right where what was the turning point and

what is different than versus now can you please flesh that out mr baffert baffert uh hell yeah baffled am i right yeah uh and then uh finally uh the ioc uh chief had to postpone his visit to japan amid a covid spike and the the thing that blew my mind about this article uh is they said this is a real bad look for them as the olympics are supposed to only be 10 weeks away the olympics are 10 weeks away come on what i mean yo they're not it's not getting better like the cases the case rates are going up it's and you want people to oh man that's a show like again we're gonna have to watch the absurdity of the you know international olympics committee uh and what that means in terms of safety in a pandemic because they've pledged so much money already like it's just fucking yeah so yeah roughly two

percent of japan has been vaccinated uh and the hill just published an article saying as with roughly two percent of japan vaccinated pressure to cancel olympics intensifies huh please cancel the olympics i know for god's sake like also it's stupid to not have it's also really fucked up when you're like it's supposed to be like a global coming together to be like oh wow like these people converge on a city and celebration of sport really it's for you know city bank and coca-cola and them but that whole idea like to just take that on be like it's the nba bubble kind of right are going to suck. It's just not the same product. Because that's what it is

at this point. It's a product. Sorry. Sorry, mate. As they say in Japan. Absolutely. As my mother always said from Niigata, she'd say sorry, mate. Like, are you Canadian? Whatever,

mom. Don't worry about it. let's not take that 23 and me all right guys that is gonna do it for this monday afternoon we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves wear a mask get a vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country

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I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister, or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams.

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