The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeitsassins Trend: Shadows 3/28: Joe Rogan, Canada, Stephen A. Smith, LeBron James, Kristi Noem, 'One Battle After Another'

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

In this edition of Zeitsassins Trend: Shadows, Jack and Miles discuss Joe Rogan's nuanced take on tyranny, Stephen A. Smith vs LeBron James, Kristi Noem's El Salvadorian prison photo op (feat. Rolex), the trailer for PT Anderson's new film 'One Battle After Another' and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of Zayt Sassen's trend. Oh. Shadows. Oh. Oh, Shadows. Oh. Oh, now we're talking. I know what that's all about. Oh, you know, Jack. I know you wanted to be Yasuke,

but no, you are more Naulet. ACS? You plan some ACS or what? Wow. Okay, okay, okay. Am I pulling it off? Yeah. Are they Yeah buying it show everybody your Ubisoft tattoo you got Oh my Vision one man. I know I know I know I know yeah, I played division one

No, no, no, you be soft game. Yeah, yeah, you be soft Yeah The division? The division? No, the Ubisoft game. Yeah, yeah, Ubisoft. Yeah, you know when the disease took over New York and a new group of people had to rise up from the dystopian chaos to bring order to New York City? Yeah, that was me, shade agent. You might know my work. Miles, it's Thursday. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's basically Friday, it's almost Friday. Yeah, getting there. It's getting there. We getting there. It's getting there We were just watching some fun videos. We just watched Pikachu fleeing the Turkish police nice little Work of art brought to you by the real dystopia. Yeah, exactly Damn, it is not some AI shit. But anyway, yeah all kinds of shit running Yeah, well we can talk about that when we get to the NBA or NBA section later in this trending episode but up first as

students American citizens are being apprehended basically kidnapped by masked, I don't know, police. It's weird to say that word when you're like, these people are just like state sponsored terrorists. Yeah, state sponsored. Snatching people up off the street. Masked kidnappers. And you know they're good

because they're hiding their identity. That's what's happening in the US right now. Pretty scary stuff. And that they're being deported from the country their identity. That's what's happening in the US right now. Pretty scary stuff. And that they're being deported from the country for holding opinions that the government doesn't like. Meanwhile, Joe Rogan. So Joe Rogan's talking about, you know, governments getting caught up in tyranny and violating people's freedom of speech. He's just talking about it happening in Canada

for some reason. Oh, okay Joe. Oh, wow. He said, he has for a while now said he wouldn't travel to Canada and the UFC is hosting a big event, UFC 315 in Montreal and for political reasons he's not gonna go there.

Yeah, shut the fuck up, dude. It's because no one wants to see your ass, especially not in Canada now. Yeah. Being like the face of a lot of the right wing media, yeah, good time to go. Probably not a good time. Dude, actually I'm not going

because I'm trying to avoid boos and shit and people basically yelling at me or voicing their disclosure with me I'm gonna go because they're tired. Call me a teetotaler the way I avoid booze. There you go I'm saying I know I've as I said that out loud. It sounded like avoid booze. But yeah, thank you for turning that into a bar And what a cool bar it would be to brag about how thin-skinned you are Exactly. Let him know. Let let him know you know what I mean Call me a t total of the way. I'm avoiding the bulls

That's pretty good actually yeah, they can come down on you for a lot of things They seized up the bank accounts for people who are protesting the truckers So he's still worried about the the truckvoys from years ago. But as yet, not really speaking out on behalf of the people who protested or were just like at a protest, you know, not even leading protests. Yeah, or having a byline where you in a student paper said, genocide's bad. We kind of don't like it.'t like so you materially support Hamas

What I even say that word what are you talking? What the what? Yeah, that's that's that's where we're at right now So he was saying he was saying he didn't want to go to Canada last July and now during a recent podcast with fellow non-comedian Brendan Shalb He said I won't be there. I don't go to Canada anymore. I'd rather go to Russia. Oh really? For real?

No way. Yeah. That's crazy. That's so wild. Such a strong statement coming from you, somebody who throats the boot for an administration that is blatantly in league with Russia? Yeah, Canada, I can't look when I inevitably I'll be there.

That's like because I'm fleeing America, but I like going to Canada and I'm doing is it what's the vibe? What's Canada? Well, how do you all see Americans when we show up in Canada? Because I know there's a lot of Canadian listeners. I'm I'm very respectful wherever I go. So typically, but I'm also know this is a very interesting period in international relations.

I don't necessarily see Canadian people turning up like, what are you a fucking American? And then throwing a fucking hot Tim Hortons in my face. But let me know. You have to like swear allegiance to Tim Hortons or fine. Toony or fine. I'd be like, sure, man, it's better than what we got going on down there. Yeah, whatever you want, man. I love it. I love it.

All right. In NBA news, yes. First of all, I do just want to celebrate this pass. Yokech, you know, against the MVP top two for the past five years now. Yeah, just Google Yokech pass. There's no way obviously we can do it justice, but it's a fucking magic trick. It is a magic trick. Like I'm I think I finally figured out the physics of what's happening. He says the strongest fucking wrists.

Yeah, he just like taps it over his shoulder and it goes all the way from the three point line to like directly into the hands of somebody waiting at the baseline as a player named Brook Lopez on the other team who plays for Milwaukee does just the best like the wrong direction. I know we keep bringing up the Washington admirals. Yeah, it's some Harlem Globetrotter ask shit where they're like, are you playing that up? Like, did you really get on tape to to be in the wild play for the Washington generals after his career is over? Anyway, yeah great pass Google that but also bro if you could do that while your pants are falling down that would really

Take time. Can you time the head turn in the complete opposite direction with just your pants just falling down at the same time? Yeah, and then maybe a trigger with the pants to fall But also there's also beef Brewing between Stephen A Smith and LeBron James or at least Stephen A Smith keeps trying to get LeBron James to talk about him Yeah, and he's succeeding unfortunately. Yeah, like this is this is just I don't know LeBron James One of my favorite if not my favorite player of all time in NBA history Stephen A Smith one of my least favorite One of my least favorite

people around Basketball and I just I feel like this is not good for LeBron. I don't know wait like it's just a it's just a bad situation there's a lot of LeBron I don't know wait like it's just a it's just a bad situation basically LeBron came up to Steve Naismith courtside and told him to lay off his son Yeah, this is my son out of this shit Which I like you got to stop fucking with my son. That's my son. That's my son It's like he's an NBA player though. Yeah, and Stephen A. Smith is a piece of shit, so what'd you expect?

Right. It's gonna happen. I just also like though too how Stephen A. Smith, he's even talking about, because then LeBron went on the Pat McAfee show, it's just funny to hear LeBron curse because he sounds like the virgin who's swearing. Yeah.

He's like, this motherfucker. Like, it's not quite rolling off your tongue, LeBron, and that's okay because you are the goat and you are media trained. You're also the goat of media training. But anyway, continues talking about this back and forth with them, but also just hearing Stephen A. Smith talk about how he thinks he would have fought LeBron James is so funny to me, like that he thinks there is even a remote possibility that he was going to activate some kind of kinetic confrontation with LeBron James is the funniest shit to me. I didn't know he was going to roll up on me.

I had no idea. But when he said what he had to say, I was in no position to give any kind of retort without making a scene. It was during the third quarter. It was fresh out of a timeout. It was him walking to the basketball court. It was on national television. The cameras were rolling.

And had I done something, what do you all think? What do you all want me to do? Do you want this to be a reincarnation of Chris Rock and Will Smith? Oh, you were going to slap LeBron James. Stephen A. Smith, you you were going to slap LeBron James? Stephen A Smith you You were going to slap LeBron. He said he said on it was on site Are you for are you fucking with then he goes that let me state for the record that while we bring up that Let me assure you I

Wouldn't have gone it wouldn't have gone down like that. I would have gotten my ass kicked That's that is true. I mean, that's true. I'm glad you said that I'm glad you know that Because had that man put his hands on me, I would have immediately swung on him immediately that I'm not going to tolerate But I knew he wasn't gonna do something like that I feel like if LeBron James put his hands on Stephen A Smith, Stephen A Smith would not have immediately and instinctively started swinging I think he would have immediately and instinctively wet his pants I think his pants would have fallen down pissed down the leg of his pants as they fell down and a slide whistle went off He'd piss his pants so hard his pants blew down to his ankles That's how hard the pee is just wearing. Yeah heart

He's wearing a big heart big old heart boxer shorts. And then he keeps peeing and those fall down and he's wearing... And he has to have sock garters too. You gotta have sock garters to complete the, oh my pants came down. Look. Anyway, so it's just whatever. The mess continues. So I would just say the whole LeBron Brawny thing is such a tough situation for him for Brawny. It's always been like such a tough situation for him. So I don't know. I don't really see LeBron's point because anybody is going to get criticized for being a player in the

league. Like that's just like part of being a player in the league. But I think it's probably like when there's commentary about their relationship as child and father. Yeah. Yeah. And like that's where I'm a higher. But yeah. And he's like, well now, but also this is this is this is commentary too. And I get that. And I don't know how you balance it too. So either way, like no one would get mad, LeBron, if you just fucking folded Stephen A Smith Smith up. No.

On live TV. So, in a way, that's okay too, you know? But yeah, like, this is your dad, you're asking him to be like, hey man, could we not do this? Can you drop me off, like, up the street from Crypto before you drive in? Right? I'll just, I'll just, no, no, no, I'm good. I'll just walk up myself. That's cool. That's cool. Yeah. I'll get

out here right here on Fig. Yeah. I'm gonna get out here right on Figaro. Thanks, Dad. Thanks, Dad. Thanks. I see you in there. See you in there. See you. Love you. Love you. Love you, Dad. Let me go. Kiss me. Don't kiss me. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Take a quick break and we'll be right back. Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok, you come across a video of a teenage girl and then a photo of the person suspected of killing her. And I was like, what? Like it was him? I was like, oh my God.

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And that's the name of our podcast, Beardless, D***less Me. I'm the old one. I'm the young one. And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? A lot of cussing, a lot of bad language. It's for adults only.

Or listen to it with your kid. Could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out. It's a work in progress. Listen to Beardless, it's me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

September, 1979. Virginia's top prison band, Edge of Daybreak, is about to record their debut album, Behind Bars, in just five hours. Okay, we're rolling. One, two, three, four. I'm Jamie Petrus, music and culture writer. For the past five years, I've been talking to the band's

three surviving members. They're out of prison now and in their 70s. Their past behind them. But they also have some unfinished business. The end of their break, Eyes of Love, was supposed to have been followed up by another album. It's a story about the liberating power of music, the American justice system, and ultimately, second chances. Listen to Soul Incarcerated on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. Politics news. Should we do a little politics news? Yeah. White House has stuff going on. They've got the answer for this.

This is I feel as far as I'm concerned, this story is over. The Atlantic editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, is an anti-Trump hater. This is wild. We are in the midst of this stupid ass Signal story where we know what happened. It is true that they were blabbing about sensitive information and classified information that should not be on fucking Signal no matter how you want to cut it. Even though they want to be like, it was just like light details or whatever. No, no. Stop trying to fucking fake news your way out of it.

But this is, I guess, the Caroline Levitt. God, dude, what a fucking gig she has to just go up there and be. She fucking thrives off of it. She seems like she's having a blast. Yeah. What's the shit they take in the boys? V. Yeah, she takes like the compound V of, I need to speak with the manager energy. Like she's juiced up, like she's like, like it's another fucking level of combative nonsense.

She should be spraying that like chrome spray paint into her mouth. Like those guys before, before every time before she goes out, she's like, you know, huffs on some of that shit. It's funny. It's actually just silver spray paint out of a paper bag. I'm huffing to get right for these press briefings. But here's her talking about Jeffrey Goldberg being a Trump hater. Do you trust the Secretary of Defense who was nominated for this role, voted by the

United States Senate into this role, who has served in combat, honorably served our nation in uniform? Or do you trust Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a registered Democrat and an anti-Trump sensationalist reporter? This president and this national security team are putting our national security and the American people first. We are restoring American strength around the world. And the-

Okay, all right, okay, okay. Do you trust? Nothing but Buster. Who are you gonna trust? Who are you gonna trust? Pete Hegseth, I I can only merely describe Achievements nothing to actually defend his character or why it's unlikely that he did this or a liar Now from that juxtaposition take what you will and make your decision. Yeah, okay. That's all right Yeah, no, she's got a really good point and I trust the guy who's uh

Repeatedly been drunk on the job and had to be carried out of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And seems to have a penchant for assaulting people and has, you know, extremist tattoos as a white supremacist. But you know, but then, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No way he could have a slip up. It seems like he's yeah, this is opening check

They say he has his slick back hair. Okay, and President Trump is winning on every account. Thank you. No further questions Wow, she is in her 20s that person. Yeah, she's 27. She's And look what the oh, I mean look what it do to you Look what it does to you looking like you're taking peeks at the Ark of the Covenant every night before bed. Just a little one. Let's see. Let's see. Microdosing Ark of the Covenant. This little little peeks.

What I do is I just do a little like the way I get away with looking at an eclipse. Just real quick. Yeah. Bing, bing. Just took a little quick little bit, but it kills you slowly from the inside. Kills is very slowly Christy gnome did a Like she's listening stunt basically. I mean it's the what if she's been doing this shit all the time Let me do dehumanizing bad guy videos for Instagram

And so she did one of those in an El Salvador prison and was rocking a $60,000 gold Rolex in front of a bunch of shirtless El Salvador prison and was rocking a $60,000 gold Rolex in front of a bunch of shirtless El Salvadorian prisoners. Yeah. And going on to be like, this is what will happen to you. This is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use. If you are here illegally, do not come here illegally. Now, check out my fucking Roli cost 60 racks. Okay. See what I see what I did with this.

She's pointing with her Rolex hand. Yeah. It's just like, it sums up just like everything terrible about our reality right now is like you have a 60 K Rolex rocking evil doer talking in front of a bunch of prisoners, trying to discourage people who are destitute with no financial recourse except to leave where they are from to be like, and you don't want to be like them. Don't do it.

We got some scarier ones up front. Actually, this one's not scary enough. And could you like kind of look mean? What could I do to get them to look mean? So like dangle the outlets. Yeah. Kristi Noem. Yeah.

I mean, I mean, this is what her and Cash Patel have been doing. They just like take pictures to make it look like they're doing a job and they're merely just, you know, faces. When your boss only can be communicated with via like Fox News hits, you know, like just a little 15 minute Fox News segments like that's. You need things that show up on Fox. Yeah, that's it. That's the equivalent of like when I would write essays in Courier font. Twelve point five.

Yeah. Point. You know what I mean? Just to fill out the space, because I wasn't really doing a lot. But it looked it looked like three pages. Mm hmm. You know what I mean? Does you go on Fox News, get some face time. Trump thinks honestly, I do think even Trump would even be like, Christy, what are you doing? Are you being productive?

No, not at all. I mean, it's so funny. It's probably merely for the repetition because his mind, his memory is so terrible that she has to appear on TV because he only remembers the TV characters now. He's just like, you know, the the American people you need to tell them 375 times every time you're going to do something to get them to remember. Exactly. All right and finally we have a new trailer for a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, filmmaker behind Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, which Magnolia is like his number two box movie at the box office. Makes sense, Tom Cruise.

That's right. Tom Cruise. I think that's what it really that's that's when they break through is if he has a very famous, famous actor in the movie. I mean, at least in the terms of people go to the theater and talk about it, because I feel like most people who like films or whatever talk about PTA work or his filmography. But so this movie, so they just dropped the trailer, it is intriguing. It's like a near future dystopia civil war type. Civil war, civil rights revolution. There's he's he's with Tiana Taylor. Yeah. Regina Hall is Teyana Taylor's mother.

There's a Benicio del Toro wild card factor. Yeah. Benicio del Toro is there. I have the fact that it's Leonardo Caprio and you have like Teyana Taylor. I think it's going to activate many different people. Benicio. There's like, this just feels like a, like a big movie. You know, it feels like a big movie and you know? It feels like a big movie, and the budget is over $140 million. Oh, shit. Which is... That's big for him.

Usually his movies, the budgets are around like 25, $40 million. And that's usually what his movies make. Like his box office has been between $10 million and $70 million. Like his high is $70 million for There Will Be Blood. And like his last one was licorice pizza Which was like 33 million and so they're they're going big they're taking some big swings and there's guns

There's movie stars. There's action sequences This looks cool as hell to me. There's Johnny Greenwood score all over the trailer. It's always Johnny It's always Johnny Greenwood the the guitarist from Radiohead. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. I think this will be a movie I'll see, but I always say that and I don't end up making it to the movie theater.

This is a movie I'll see eventually. Yeah, yeah. You didn't like Licorice Pizza, right? Just, it wasn't for me. What's your favorite Paul Thomas Anderson Boogie nights? Good nights. No, there will be blood to I really there's this I I think it's more that I Quote Boogie nights the most from my adolescence Like when the movie came out and merely because like dude the porn star movie and then as you watch it more and more

It kind of starts getting realer and realer and you're like, oh shit dude, like just kind of this is all like fucked up um But yeah, I also really enjoyed there will be blood too. Yeah, there will be blood fucking rips Anything with the valley a person too. Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's like only in many ways the valley is a character in magnolia All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole ass episode of the show.

It is a Croft and F. So hold on to your butt. Buckle the fuck up. Buckle the fuck up. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines while you still can. Get your flu shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.

Bye. Bye. Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith. And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith. That's my daughter, man, who my wife has always said is just a beardless, d***less version of me. And that's the name of our podcast, Beardless D***less Me. I'm the old one.

I'm the young one. And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? A lot of cussing, a lot of bad language. It's for adults only. Or listen to it with your kid. It could be a family show. We're not quite sure.

We're still figuring it out. It's a work in progress. Listen to Beardless D***less Me on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here? How goes lower? From Blumhouse TV, iHeart podcasts and Ember 20 comes an all new fictional comedy podcast series.

Join the flighty Damien Hirst as he unravels the mystery of his vanished boyfriend. I've been spending all my time looking for answers about what happened to Santi. And what's the way to find a missing person? Sleep with everyone he knew, obviously. Listen to The Hook Up on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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Listen to locatora radio season 10 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pod of Rebellion, our new Star Wars Rebels rewatch podcast. I'm Vanessa Marshall, voice of Harrison Dula Spectre 2. I'm Tia Zirkhar, Sabine Ren, Spectre 5. I'm Taylor Gray, Ezra Bridger, Spectre 6. And I'm John LeBrony, the Ghost Crew Stowaway moderator.

Each week, we're going to rewatch and discuss an episode from this series and share some fun behind the scenes stories. Sometimes we'll be visited by special guests like Steve Blum voices Zabarelio Spectre 4 or Dante Bosco voice of Jaiquel and many others. So hang on, because it's going to be a fun ride. Cue the music. ["Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major,