April 29, 2025 • 24 mins
In this edition of Shedeur Trenders, Jack and Miles discuss Paramount not knowing Nathan Fielder was going to do THAT in season 2, the block party screenings of 'A Minecraft Movie', the Biden administration's Gaza ceasefire lies, Canada's election results and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Shore Trenders.
Oh oh, buddy, god, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Sure his other son canned. Can Dion to be like,
you're not mom, bro, I'm not having the same thing
that happened to Shador for real?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah you like, do you mean cand Like.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I think like he's not represented, Like I think Dion
was sort of like representing all of his kids, okay,
And he was like, yeah, nah, there.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
For people who don't know. Deon Sanders one of the
best NFL football players of our lifetime. Uh played wide
receiver and uh was a defensive player, which like never happens,
but he was awesome at that and also played baseball.
Yeah and uh, but like one of the best defensive players,
like one of the best at his position of all time,
(00:49):
and has gone on to become was like a big,
larger than life personality, kind of like Charles Barkley adjacent,
I guess, like kind of controversial character at the time
and then big media personality and has gone on to
coach the University of Colorado. They are a really fun team.
(01:10):
They've had more success than a lot of people expected
them to. And his son was his starting quarterback for
his two years at Colorado and they had a lot
of success, and he looked pretty good and via his
you know, he was a big like hype guy. He
you know earned it with his career. But he told
everybody that his son was going to go like top five,
(01:32):
and his son went to top hundred and fifty five. Yeah,
and so it was, you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Know, it was a bummer for his son five rounds
when I said five, when I said top within the
first five rounds.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And like there was also a really shitty thing where
like the son of one of the assistant coach for
the Atlanta Falcons, the defensive coordinator, like got his hands
on the phone number for like their draft room, for
for the Sam draft room, and like called him. We're like, hey,
it's the Saints, We're about to pick you. So like
(02:06):
congratulations because the Saints were on the clock. And then
you know, he didn't go for another couple of rounds.
So it's real fucked up and yeah, sad story. But
also I'm excited to see him prove the haters wrong
in the.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
To for like a team that Deon Sanders played for
also and just you know, coming from someone from that
organization whatever I mean, everyone's like shitting on that kid now,
and I think he said sorry, but like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, here we are shador YouTube prank generation, These dang
kids with their YouTube pranks.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Good luck, good luck in Cleveland. Fam.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah he's in Cleveland who definitely need a quarterback, but
he was the second quarterback that they drafted. So yeah,
but I think I think he'll be better than people expect,
and he obviously.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Has a lot to prove. It's more about his mental
Like if I can totally see how you'd be defeated
by that go falling so far down in the draft
when you have such high expectation for yourself. But you
we see this a lot with certain players, like that
low draft number or that low position in the draft
can maybe spark a fire to put yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And Tom Brady can name every player that was drafted
before him, which is like over a hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Like fucking Aria Stark or some ship.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, yeah, exact list. Yeah, but that that fuels the greats.
Uh they have personality disordered?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, completely unwell men, yes, fuel who just happened to
have a very high functioning athletic corpse to act out
their egos with.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, speaking of unwell, men, I do just have to
We're not going to talk about it at length, because
Miles still hasn't seen episode two of season two of
the rehearsal, but this headline blew my fucking mind. So
I'm just gonna say the headline. We're not going to
talk about it anymore. But Paramount reportedly had no idea
Nathan Fielder was going to do that in episode two.
(03:59):
If you've seen episode you see the Yeah, that's still
it's so funny. I'm this It is a detail that
like I wish I knew because that that was my question.
I was like, wo how did they get them to
fucking sign off on this? And the answer is they
did not. But I mean he's always been able to
(04:20):
like fuck with corporations at a level that the Democratic
Party isn't even willing to do, you know, never what they.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Even them famously fucking with the corporate with the corporations
in a different way.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
No, I mean, they have a lot of power though
this is he is but one man and he dumb
dumb Starbucks. Yeah, maybe that's it. He just has that
escape hatch where he's like, I don't know, I could
go to Canada. And make good ship and the government
there just like pays you to make.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Art right right. They helped finance my early work.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Speaking of art, a Minecraft movie, Miles is a sensation.
Uh and with with the youngers, I've even I've talked
to you know that this is a thing. A conversation
that's always happened in the background among parents is like Jesus,
did you see Inside Out too? That that thing was
a piece of shit? You know, that that sort of thing.
(05:18):
But like also like when there's a good one, you're like, hey,
the Sonic movies actually pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, I'm going without my kids tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That a Minecraft movie is supposedly I've heard and I
have not seen it yet, but my kids loved it,
which they love most movies they've ever seen, but they
fucking love a Minecraft movie. They see Minecraft movie with
Who did they see with their friend?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Like they did they sit? Did they behave?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I don't know, I think I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I don't know, and I don't want to don't I
don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Were they okay? Yeah, I think they behaved? They think
there are more the type of people are just like
you can't get their attention while they're watching a movie
let alone, like them trying to like do something else.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
They're just like a little kit So yeah, the warming
glow of the screen. Yes, yes, take all the attention.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But they loved it, Like it was to the point
that they had an extra day off school and like
all of they were like all of our friends have
seen this shit, like we need to see this movie
or else we can't talk to people anymore. So yeah,
but they loved it. And now Warner Brothers is trying
(06:34):
to get another round of people to watch the movie
or rewatch the movie by doing a special block party
screening series of screenings in which people are encouraged to
sing and talk along with the movie because the movie's
very heavily memed and like, the screenings have been notoriously
loud and full of people throwing popcorn at the screen
(06:57):
and shit like that, which sucks for theater employees. Yeah,
I guess they're baking that in to the into the
price of admission. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't know if they are probably not still the same.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't know, y'all, you guys will figure it out.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, I mean, maybe this does feel like an opportunity
for a group outing to just go if the shows
are actually filled out with kids, because I'm wondering at
that point, is this going to actually like re energize
the box office for them?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Do we bring the kids or are we going as
adults surrounded by streaking.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Adults to really upset the parents that are there with
their kids. To when it's always weird and adults just
came in and why are they filming everyone?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
When the Lego movie first came out, I went and
saw that and I was like, the only it was
before I had kids, And I was like, God, damn,
I either need to like have kids or just like
shielding your eyes, like walking into the ocean with rocks
in my pockets, Like this is like, don't to just
be here by myself as an adult with like a
(08:01):
bunch of parents and there.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It does suck, Like in that context, immediately, who's this guy,
who's this guy? Who's this guy? Who's the guy who's
he with? What you doing here with all these kids?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But yeah, I don't know. Uh. The writer Charles Romesco
suggested that this was basically the popcorn throwing equivalent of
a safe injection site. He responded to the article, announcing
it by saying looking deep within and concluding that that
that my belief in safe injection sites means I must
(08:39):
support this on principle as well. That's roscot into the crevasse.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, and what's the equivalent of having narcan too?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Just having a parent there to just yank yourself yank
your ass out there?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, what did I tell you?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
This is also I mean, this is happening with all
the you know, Wicked and the concert movies where it's
just like everybody's singing at the top their lungs, so
you have to like create special screenings for you Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, it's like it's like then they realized, like, oh right,
people are gonna sing in this, all right? What if
we do as singing? Like I remember, like, was it
the Greatest Showman Too? Did that? Oh yeah? And I
was so I didn't realize how big.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That movie was.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm like, is this justified? And then cut to people
loving it?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Right, Hugh Jack butt up, bah bah bah. All right,
let's uh, let's take a quick break and we'll come
back and talk about some shocking news about the Biden administration.
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And we're back we're back.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And yeah, So for over a year, Biden and his
administration repeatedly claimed working tirelessly, despite the fact that not
being tired isn't the characteristic anybody associates.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
With Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, true, true, They just.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Had to they had to come up with like they
were like this kills two birds with one stone.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, he looked like that because he's running himself ragged
trying to get a ceasefire deal in place. And I
think anybody who was present and observed the news over
the course of the you know, from October seventh on,
and you're like, I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, it doesn't seem like seem like it not like
Israel is indicating any sort of intention to stop. Or
you know, either you're like behind the scenes and they're
just fucking ignoring you while pretending that they're listening to you,
or you're lying, and it turns out it is the latter.
(10:46):
They were lying. Because so there's this new article from
drop site News that is translating a bombshell investigation by
Israel's Channel thirteen that is revealing that the Biden administration
was just completely apathetic on the whole genocide issue, and
we're completely just like lying to our faces. The wildest
(11:11):
part of this report for me is a former Israeli
ambassador claimed that quote, God did the State of Israel
a favor that Biden was the president during this period
because Israel fought in Gaza for over a year and
the administration never came to us and said cease fire. Now,
it never did, and that's not to be taken for granted.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
To have that worded as some kind of like gratitude
journaling sentence is so vile.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
To hear, so disgusting, like they're even like, whoae, I
thank god that it was Joe Biden, who is so
indifferent to genocide.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Unbelievable. Yeah, I mean again every time, and it continues
to this day that there's still non stop military operations
happening regardless for any any consideration for innocent human life.
And yeah, I think the closest thing we got was
when we heard Biden might pause certain weaponshipments and then
(12:16):
kept other ones going. That was like the closest we got.
Everything else was like, oh, he talked to BBNN and Yahoo,
and yeah, he talked to him and agreed with everything
that was happening.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, there were reportedly talks about Biden giving a speech
to quote pressure Israel politically, which might trigger quote elections there,
and then Biden ultimately quote backed off, back off Joe.
The Biden administration also shielded Israel from allegations of war
crime he saw that, prompting a major backlash from staffers
(12:48):
in the State Department. This was actually reported on already,
but lawyer Stacey Gilbert resigned in protests because she was like,
they're basically covering up war crime times for Israel at
a time when the world is crying out for somebody
to fucking do something. And according to Biden's own officials,
NETNA who deliberately tanked hostage negotiations fearing a deal would
(13:12):
force him to end the war. And just at one point, guys, Biden,
Biden hung up on it. He said, he called him
full of s H I M during a phone call
ship and hung up on him full of sugar, And
he hung up on him, and he then just continued
(13:33):
to support him and resumed weapons.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
This is such a this is such a fucking stain
on the country and such a stain on the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Unbelievable that they're I mean, it's not unbelievable. The easiest
thing right now is to be like, Okay, let's listen
to the working class. Okay, clearly like there's some sugar
energy there, but like we can get over the working
class part and maybe bring some equity to like working people.
But like when it comes to like imperial and the
brutalization of no, no, no no, that's just something we're
(14:04):
not going to be able to do. However, they don't
realize how many people look at what's happening, are intelligent
enough to connect the dots, and how deflating that is
to see. Yeah, and will not. I'm sure they are
not going there. This is going to this is just
going to be this thing that they continue to are.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
And yeah, I mean this is a great opportunity for
AOC because I mean, like AOC during her d NC speech,
basically parroted all all this shit. You know that working tirelessly.
I think she specifically said the line working tirelessly like
Harris and Biden are working tirelessly to get a ceasefire.
(14:42):
The Harris campaign then used that in promotional TikTok posts
in order to quote when over younger left leaning voters
concerned about Gaza. Let's a lie that with this talking point.
So a lot of people like Matt Lek wrote A
good a time any for AOC to apologize for the
ceasefire lie and throw Biden and Harris into the past
(15:05):
where they belong. It just seems very straightforward. Just coming
out and saying I was wrong, they lied is truly
feels like the least she could do, and anything less
than that, it really does start to feel like the
same old DNC bullshit status quo.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
This is the thing too, there's polling that shows even
Democratic voters want the opposite of the status quo. And
I think largely the status quo is to still fear
outside spending against you if you take a position that
goes against an interest group or lobby like APAK or something,
you know what I mean, Like kat Abu Gazola, who's
(15:44):
running in Illinois again, I mean like formally against Crows
the show. She Nope, doubt she's Palestinian. She's very outspoken
about what her positions are, and she even like in
talking to her about like what the campaign was, She's like, yeah,
APAX probably is gonna throw a ton of money trying
to like get like knock me out of this race.
But again, all of these people who are coming as outsiders.
(16:05):
There's even another guy in New York who's running for
mayor who's also very outspoken. He's completely unshook by being like,
I'm going to stand on the fact that I believe,
you know, like Palestinian people deserve to not be indiscriminately
killed and have you know, a shot to live a
normal life. This is like, these are the sort of
(16:27):
things that I think make someone different, is to be
able to speak without the fear of what outside spending
is going to do if you if you preemptively cave
to outside spending, you've already compromised any beliefs you have.
That's the guy zorin mom Danni is the guy who's
running for mayor who's also just just just saying it,
(16:48):
just being like, this is why are we doing this?
It doesn't even have to be an argument as specific
broadly just to appeal to people's sense that, you know,
we really shouldn't be having a hand and just arming
a state that is just hell bent on killing innocent people.
That's just like a bad as a waste of money. Yeah,
no for real, like, and then they can use all
the other talking points they want to paint you as
(17:10):
some kind of like weird sympathizer with terrorism. But again,
you're just talking about broadly.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Then.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think this is the other thing when somebody like
progressive ideas, we're just talking about human rights, right, you know,
and not fearing interest groups coming to you know, spend
you into the ground because you say universal health care
these other things, or Palestinians deserve rights. That's the kind
of upending of the status quo we desperately need. And
(17:36):
to have people still straddling I get that that's just
how the machine works. And you are looking at it like, yeah,
because I'm sure Apak would spend every dollar they had
to just completely vaporize AOC if she said something like that.
But you also have to trust that maybe saying that
we'll bring more interest to your campaign from people who
have you know, who are looking for something that seems
(17:57):
like it's going to be something different than what we've
been offered every time.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Well, speaking of people fighting for the status quo, Canada
has elected I mean, so they didn't elect the most
conservative option, so that's good for them. They they elected
their new prime minister, who is Mark Carney, who was
already he was just like Trudeau's successor, and it's a
(18:25):
pretty shocking turn of events. When Trudeau resigned, the election
was basically like he resigned because his party was like
they were getting smoked and the election seemed like a
layup for the Conservatives. But as we've covered before, Trump
basically changed everything, and the Conservative leader, Pierre Paulyiever, whatever,
(18:50):
how are the fuck you? I'm never gonna have to
pronounce Median listeners we are, That's how American we are.
Sometimes we're Pierre Pouliver. He just didn't push back on
trump Ism the way that Carney did. H He also
like trump Ism was so toxic that we talked about
how the Liberal Party actually was putting out fake Trumpish
(19:15):
buttons at the Conservative events to make it seem like
they were more trumpy than they actually were, just because
that's how like fucking toxic Trump's brand is inside Canada.
The Conservative guy who was running for prime minister lost
his own seat to the Liberals, which is pretty humiliating.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He even tweeted on the day of the election, like
Donald Trump, stay out of our elections and it's like, yeah,
you're cook it.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Tell already, Tell him, buddy, tell him, Steve Dave. But
so the bad news is that the election was also
catastrophic for the more progressive NDP party. So they're basically
doing what the US did when you know, twenty twenty
very scared of Trump and just trying to get the
(20:04):
fuck away from him and being like, well, we've got
to go with the safer option. And so even though
they have a NDP party that is like progressive and
actually left leaning, basically NDP voters were so scared about
Trump and what would happen with a conservative government and
(20:24):
power that they just caved and voted liberal. And the
liberal or the actual like kind of left leaning party
is projected to lose seventeen of their twenty four seats,
which will cost they won't even be an official party
because that's so bad. The guy yag Meet Singh, who
we've talked about before, was like a guy was like, boo,
(20:48):
you're a loser, dude, And he was like, would you
say say that to my face? And the guy like
was like, I didn't say it, dude, I would never
lie about this. I did not say anything even that,
like got uh, he got truce and lost his seat
and resigned as a leader on election night. So it
just feels like, I don't know. Trump's power is like
(21:13):
this version of Americanism that is like spreading like a
virus where like everybody's like Jesus christ Man, well we
can't can't have that. But like it's also people keep
making the mistake of trying to fight Trumpism with neoliberalism.
And Trumpism is a response to neoliberalism.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Right, but then but neoliberalism takes Trump as a gift
to be like, oh great, but you kick the can
down the road because we'll go. You don't want it
to be like this. We don't want this guy here.
I mean, just the historical lessons are so clear, you know,
like when you talk about how you get into fascism,
Like even though our current like form of American fascia,
(21:53):
quasi fascism, whatever you want to call it, isn't really
like anything else before it, the road to it mirrors
the others pretty perfectly, you know what I mean. Terrible
economic conditions lead to hyperinflation, Banking systems start getting strained
or collapse. You have fucking food shortages, terrible unemployment, and
then that rolls the red carpet out for fascism. And
(22:15):
this was the case in both Germany and Italy after
the First World War. I mean, and in those instances too,
you had a bunch of unemployed soldiers who are just
kind of being like, I need something to do.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Then.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So again, the lesson I think is it's in America,
we do a.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Great job of taking care of our soldiers so.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Exactly exactly, and they're not up to anything once they
get out either. But I mean, I think again it's
the ignoring of the inequality that leads you straight there,
just straight there. Like I said, I think we were
saying this the last time when the polls started to
shift after Trump to Canada. Don't just kick the can
(22:52):
down the road. I mean, I now know that maybe
the wrong people are empowered to really change the status quo.
But you like, we're we're losing our soul here because
we didn't address inequality in a way that was tangible.
And that's really that's it's just right, it's right there,
it's right there, Canada.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So I'm thinking Canada is four years behind the US
in terms of like the political reaction to all this shit.
And I'm hoping Mexico is like eight years ahead because
they've they've had a actual reaction that deals with neoliberalism
head on that you know, not perfect, but definitely.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
At least acknowledges.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah that maybe definitely complex, says, but yeah, they at
least are acknowledging what the problem is, which is good.
All Right, those are some of the things that are
trending on this Tuesday, April twenty ninth. We're back tomorrow
(23:56):
with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
your vaccines way still can, get your flu shots still can.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Bite Bite,
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Shore Trenders.
Oh oh, buddy, god, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Sure his other son canned. Can Dion to be like,
you're not mom, bro, I'm not having the same thing
that happened to Shador for real?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah you like, do you mean cand Like.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I think like he's not represented, Like I think Dion
was sort of like representing all of his kids, okay,
And he was like, yeah, nah, there.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
For people who don't know. Deon Sanders one of the
best NFL football players of our lifetime. Uh played wide
receiver and uh was a defensive player, which like never happens,
but he was awesome at that and also played baseball.
Yeah and uh, but like one of the best defensive players,
like one of the best at his position of all time,
(00:49):
and has gone on to become was like a big,
larger than life personality, kind of like Charles Barkley adjacent,
I guess, like kind of controversial character at the time
and then big media personality and has gone on to
coach the University of Colorado. They are a really fun team.
(01:10):
They've had more success than a lot of people expected
them to. And his son was his starting quarterback for
his two years at Colorado and they had a lot
of success, and he looked pretty good and via his
you know, he was a big like hype guy. He
you know earned it with his career. But he told
everybody that his son was going to go like top five,
(01:32):
and his son went to top hundred and fifty five. Yeah,
and so it was, you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Know, it was a bummer for his son five rounds
when I said five, when I said top within the
first five rounds.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And like there was also a really shitty thing where
like the son of one of the assistant coach for
the Atlanta Falcons, the defensive coordinator, like got his hands
on the phone number for like their draft room, for
for the Sam draft room, and like called him. We're like, hey,
it's the Saints, We're about to pick you. So like
(02:06):
congratulations because the Saints were on the clock. And then
you know, he didn't go for another couple of rounds.
So it's real fucked up and yeah, sad story. But
also I'm excited to see him prove the haters wrong
in the.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
To for like a team that Deon Sanders played for
also and just you know, coming from someone from that
organization whatever I mean, everyone's like shitting on that kid now,
and I think he said sorry, but like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, here we are shador YouTube prank generation, These dang
kids with their YouTube pranks.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Good luck, good luck in Cleveland. Fam.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah he's in Cleveland who definitely need a quarterback, but
he was the second quarterback that they drafted. So yeah,
but I think I think he'll be better than people expect,
and he obviously.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Has a lot to prove. It's more about his mental
Like if I can totally see how you'd be defeated
by that go falling so far down in the draft
when you have such high expectation for yourself. But you
we see this a lot with certain players, like that
low draft number or that low position in the draft
can maybe spark a fire to put yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And Tom Brady can name every player that was drafted
before him, which is like over a hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Like fucking Aria Stark or some ship.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, yeah, exact list. Yeah, but that that fuels the greats.
Uh they have personality disordered?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, completely unwell men, yes, fuel who just happened to
have a very high functioning athletic corpse to act out
their egos with.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, speaking of unwell, men, I do just have to
We're not going to talk about it at length, because
Miles still hasn't seen episode two of season two of
the rehearsal, but this headline blew my fucking mind. So
I'm just gonna say the headline. We're not going to
talk about it anymore. But Paramount reportedly had no idea
Nathan Fielder was going to do that in episode two.
(03:59):
If you've seen episode you see the Yeah, that's still
it's so funny. I'm this It is a detail that
like I wish I knew because that that was my question.
I was like, wo how did they get them to
fucking sign off on this? And the answer is they
did not. But I mean he's always been able to
(04:20):
like fuck with corporations at a level that the Democratic
Party isn't even willing to do, you know, never what they.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Even them famously fucking with the corporate with the corporations
in a different way.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
No, I mean, they have a lot of power though
this is he is but one man and he dumb
dumb Starbucks. Yeah, maybe that's it. He just has that
escape hatch where he's like, I don't know, I could
go to Canada. And make good ship and the government
there just like pays you to make.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Art right right. They helped finance my early work.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Speaking of art, a Minecraft movie, Miles is a sensation.
Uh and with with the youngers, I've even I've talked
to you know that this is a thing. A conversation
that's always happened in the background among parents is like Jesus,
did you see Inside Out too? That that thing was
a piece of shit? You know, that that sort of thing.
(05:18):
But like also like when there's a good one, you're like, hey,
the Sonic movies actually pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, I'm going without my kids tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That a Minecraft movie is supposedly I've heard and I
have not seen it yet, but my kids loved it,
which they love most movies they've ever seen, but they
fucking love a Minecraft movie. They see Minecraft movie with
Who did they see with their friend?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Like they did they sit? Did they behave?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I don't know, I think I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I don't know, and I don't want to don't I
don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Were they okay? Yeah, I think they behaved? They think
there are more the type of people are just like
you can't get their attention while they're watching a movie
let alone, like them trying to like do something else.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
They're just like a little kit So yeah, the warming
glow of the screen. Yes, yes, take all the attention.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But they loved it, Like it was to the point
that they had an extra day off school and like
all of they were like all of our friends have
seen this shit, like we need to see this movie
or else we can't talk to people anymore. So yeah,
but they loved it. And now Warner Brothers is trying
(06:34):
to get another round of people to watch the movie
or rewatch the movie by doing a special block party
screening series of screenings in which people are encouraged to
sing and talk along with the movie because the movie's
very heavily memed and like, the screenings have been notoriously
loud and full of people throwing popcorn at the screen
(06:57):
and shit like that, which sucks for theater employees. Yeah,
I guess they're baking that in to the into the
price of admission. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't know if they are probably not still the same.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't know, y'all, you guys will figure it out.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, I mean, maybe this does feel like an opportunity
for a group outing to just go if the shows
are actually filled out with kids, because I'm wondering at
that point, is this going to actually like re energize
the box office for them?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Do we bring the kids or are we going as
adults surrounded by streaking.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Adults to really upset the parents that are there with
their kids. To when it's always weird and adults just
came in and why are they filming everyone?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
When the Lego movie first came out, I went and
saw that and I was like, the only it was
before I had kids, And I was like, God, damn,
I either need to like have kids or just like
shielding your eyes, like walking into the ocean with rocks
in my pockets, Like this is like, don't to just
be here by myself as an adult with like a
(08:01):
bunch of parents and there.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It does suck, Like in that context, immediately, who's this guy,
who's this guy? Who's this guy? Who's the guy who's
he with? What you doing here with all these kids?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But yeah, I don't know. Uh. The writer Charles Romesco
suggested that this was basically the popcorn throwing equivalent of
a safe injection site. He responded to the article, announcing
it by saying looking deep within and concluding that that
that my belief in safe injection sites means I must
(08:39):
support this on principle as well. That's roscot into the crevasse.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, and what's the equivalent of having narcan too?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Just having a parent there to just yank yourself yank
your ass out there?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, what did I tell you?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
This is also I mean, this is happening with all
the you know, Wicked and the concert movies where it's
just like everybody's singing at the top their lungs, so
you have to like create special screenings for you Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, it's like it's like then they realized, like, oh right,
people are gonna sing in this, all right? What if
we do as singing? Like I remember, like, was it
the Greatest Showman Too? Did that? Oh yeah? And I
was so I didn't realize how big.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That movie was.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm like, is this justified? And then cut to people
loving it?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Right, Hugh Jack butt up, bah bah bah. All right,
let's uh, let's take a quick break and we'll come
back and talk about some shocking news about the Biden administration.
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And we're back we're back.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And yeah, So for over a year, Biden and his
administration repeatedly claimed working tirelessly, despite the fact that not
being tired isn't the characteristic anybody associates.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
With Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, true, true, They just.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Had to they had to come up with like they
were like this kills two birds with one stone.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, he looked like that because he's running himself ragged
trying to get a ceasefire deal in place. And I
think anybody who was present and observed the news over
the course of the you know, from October seventh on,
and you're like, I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, it doesn't seem like seem like it not like
Israel is indicating any sort of intention to stop. Or
you know, either you're like behind the scenes and they're
just fucking ignoring you while pretending that they're listening to you,
or you're lying, and it turns out it is the latter.
(10:46):
They were lying. Because so there's this new article from
drop site News that is translating a bombshell investigation by
Israel's Channel thirteen that is revealing that the Biden administration
was just completely apathetic on the whole genocide issue, and
we're completely just like lying to our faces. The wildest
(11:11):
part of this report for me is a former Israeli
ambassador claimed that quote, God did the State of Israel
a favor that Biden was the president during this period
because Israel fought in Gaza for over a year and
the administration never came to us and said cease fire. Now,
it never did, and that's not to be taken for granted.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
To have that worded as some kind of like gratitude
journaling sentence is so vile.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
To hear, so disgusting, like they're even like, whoae, I
thank god that it was Joe Biden, who is so
indifferent to genocide.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Unbelievable. Yeah, I mean again every time, and it continues
to this day that there's still non stop military operations
happening regardless for any any consideration for innocent human life.
And yeah, I think the closest thing we got was
when we heard Biden might pause certain weaponshipments and then
(12:16):
kept other ones going. That was like the closest we got.
Everything else was like, oh, he talked to BBNN and Yahoo,
and yeah, he talked to him and agreed with everything
that was happening.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, there were reportedly talks about Biden giving a speech
to quote pressure Israel politically, which might trigger quote elections there,
and then Biden ultimately quote backed off, back off Joe.
The Biden administration also shielded Israel from allegations of war
crime he saw that, prompting a major backlash from staffers
(12:48):
in the State Department. This was actually reported on already,
but lawyer Stacey Gilbert resigned in protests because she was like,
they're basically covering up war crime times for Israel at
a time when the world is crying out for somebody
to fucking do something. And according to Biden's own officials,
NETNA who deliberately tanked hostage negotiations fearing a deal would
(13:12):
force him to end the war. And just at one point, guys, Biden,
Biden hung up on it. He said, he called him
full of s H I M during a phone call
ship and hung up on him full of sugar, And
he hung up on him, and he then just continued
(13:33):
to support him and resumed weapons.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
This is such a this is such a fucking stain
on the country and such a stain on the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Unbelievable that they're I mean, it's not unbelievable. The easiest
thing right now is to be like, Okay, let's listen
to the working class. Okay, clearly like there's some sugar
energy there, but like we can get over the working
class part and maybe bring some equity to like working people.
But like when it comes to like imperial and the
brutalization of no, no, no no, that's just something we're
(14:04):
not going to be able to do. However, they don't
realize how many people look at what's happening, are intelligent
enough to connect the dots, and how deflating that is
to see. Yeah, and will not. I'm sure they are
not going there. This is going to this is just
going to be this thing that they continue to are.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
And yeah, I mean this is a great opportunity for
AOC because I mean, like AOC during her d NC speech,
basically parroted all all this shit. You know that working tirelessly.
I think she specifically said the line working tirelessly like
Harris and Biden are working tirelessly to get a ceasefire.
(14:42):
The Harris campaign then used that in promotional TikTok posts
in order to quote when over younger left leaning voters
concerned about Gaza. Let's a lie that with this talking point.
So a lot of people like Matt Lek wrote A
good a time any for AOC to apologize for the
ceasefire lie and throw Biden and Harris into the past
(15:05):
where they belong. It just seems very straightforward. Just coming
out and saying I was wrong, they lied is truly
feels like the least she could do, and anything less
than that, it really does start to feel like the
same old DNC bullshit status quo.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
This is the thing too, there's polling that shows even
Democratic voters want the opposite of the status quo. And
I think largely the status quo is to still fear
outside spending against you if you take a position that
goes against an interest group or lobby like APAK or something,
you know what I mean, Like kat Abu Gazola, who's
(15:44):
running in Illinois again, I mean like formally against Crows
the show. She Nope, doubt she's Palestinian. She's very outspoken
about what her positions are, and she even like in
talking to her about like what the campaign was, She's like, yeah,
APAX probably is gonna throw a ton of money trying
to like get like knock me out of this race.
But again, all of these people who are coming as outsiders.
(16:05):
There's even another guy in New York who's running for
mayor who's also very outspoken. He's completely unshook by being like,
I'm going to stand on the fact that I believe,
you know, like Palestinian people deserve to not be indiscriminately
killed and have you know, a shot to live a
normal life. This is like, these are the sort of
(16:27):
things that I think make someone different, is to be
able to speak without the fear of what outside spending
is going to do if you if you preemptively cave
to outside spending, you've already compromised any beliefs you have.
That's the guy zorin mom Danni is the guy who's
running for mayor who's also just just just saying it,
(16:48):
just being like, this is why are we doing this?
It doesn't even have to be an argument as specific
broadly just to appeal to people's sense that, you know,
we really shouldn't be having a hand and just arming
a state that is just hell bent on killing innocent people.
That's just like a bad as a waste of money. Yeah,
no for real, like, and then they can use all
the other talking points they want to paint you as
(17:10):
some kind of like weird sympathizer with terrorism. But again,
you're just talking about broadly.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Then.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think this is the other thing when somebody like
progressive ideas, we're just talking about human rights, right, you know,
and not fearing interest groups coming to you know, spend
you into the ground because you say universal health care
these other things, or Palestinians deserve rights. That's the kind
of upending of the status quo we desperately need. And
(17:36):
to have people still straddling I get that that's just
how the machine works. And you are looking at it like, yeah,
because I'm sure Apak would spend every dollar they had
to just completely vaporize AOC if she said something like that.
But you also have to trust that maybe saying that
we'll bring more interest to your campaign from people who
have you know, who are looking for something that seems
(17:57):
like it's going to be something different than what we've
been offered every time.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Well, speaking of people fighting for the status quo, Canada
has elected I mean, so they didn't elect the most
conservative option, so that's good for them. They they elected
their new prime minister, who is Mark Carney, who was
already he was just like Trudeau's successor, and it's a
(18:25):
pretty shocking turn of events. When Trudeau resigned, the election
was basically like he resigned because his party was like
they were getting smoked and the election seemed like a
layup for the Conservatives. But as we've covered before, Trump
basically changed everything, and the Conservative leader, Pierre Paulyiever, whatever,
(18:50):
how are the fuck you? I'm never gonna have to
pronounce Median listeners we are, That's how American we are.
Sometimes we're Pierre Pouliver. He just didn't push back on
trump Ism the way that Carney did. H He also
like trump Ism was so toxic that we talked about
how the Liberal Party actually was putting out fake Trumpish
(19:15):
buttons at the Conservative events to make it seem like
they were more trumpy than they actually were, just because
that's how like fucking toxic Trump's brand is inside Canada.
The Conservative guy who was running for prime minister lost
his own seat to the Liberals, which is pretty humiliating.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He even tweeted on the day of the election, like
Donald Trump, stay out of our elections and it's like, yeah,
you're cook it.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Tell already, Tell him, buddy, tell him, Steve Dave. But
so the bad news is that the election was also
catastrophic for the more progressive NDP party. So they're basically
doing what the US did when you know, twenty twenty
very scared of Trump and just trying to get the
(20:04):
fuck away from him and being like, well, we've got
to go with the safer option. And so even though
they have a NDP party that is like progressive and
actually left leaning, basically NDP voters were so scared about
Trump and what would happen with a conservative government and
(20:24):
power that they just caved and voted liberal. And the
liberal or the actual like kind of left leaning party
is projected to lose seventeen of their twenty four seats,
which will cost they won't even be an official party
because that's so bad. The guy yag Meet Singh, who
we've talked about before, was like a guy was like, boo,
(20:48):
you're a loser, dude, And he was like, would you
say say that to my face? And the guy like
was like, I didn't say it, dude, I would never
lie about this. I did not say anything even that,
like got uh, he got truce and lost his seat
and resigned as a leader on election night. So it
just feels like, I don't know. Trump's power is like
(21:13):
this version of Americanism that is like spreading like a
virus where like everybody's like Jesus christ Man, well we
can't can't have that. But like it's also people keep
making the mistake of trying to fight Trumpism with neoliberalism.
And Trumpism is a response to neoliberalism.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Right, but then but neoliberalism takes Trump as a gift
to be like, oh great, but you kick the can
down the road because we'll go. You don't want it
to be like this. We don't want this guy here.
I mean, just the historical lessons are so clear, you know,
like when you talk about how you get into fascism,
Like even though our current like form of American fascia,
(21:53):
quasi fascism, whatever you want to call it, isn't really
like anything else before it, the road to it mirrors
the others pretty perfectly, you know what I mean. Terrible
economic conditions lead to hyperinflation, Banking systems start getting strained
or collapse. You have fucking food shortages, terrible unemployment, and
then that rolls the red carpet out for fascism. And
(22:15):
this was the case in both Germany and Italy after
the First World War. I mean, and in those instances too,
you had a bunch of unemployed soldiers who are just
kind of being like, I need something to do.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Then.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So again, the lesson I think is it's in America,
we do a.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Great job of taking care of our soldiers so.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Exactly exactly, and they're not up to anything once they
get out either. But I mean, I think again it's
the ignoring of the inequality that leads you straight there,
just straight there. Like I said, I think we were
saying this the last time when the polls started to
shift after Trump to Canada. Don't just kick the can
(22:52):
down the road. I mean, I now know that maybe
the wrong people are empowered to really change the status quo.
But you like, we're we're losing our soul here because
we didn't address inequality in a way that was tangible.
And that's really that's it's just right, it's right there,
it's right there, Canada.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So I'm thinking Canada is four years behind the US
in terms of like the political reaction to all this shit.
And I'm hoping Mexico is like eight years ahead because
they've they've had a actual reaction that deals with neoliberalism
head on that you know, not perfect, but definitely.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
At least acknowledges.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah that maybe definitely complex, says, but yeah, they at
least are acknowledging what the problem is, which is good.
All Right, those are some of the things that are
trending on this Tuesday, April twenty ninth. We're back tomorrow
(23:56):
with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
your vaccines way still can, get your flu shots still can.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
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