January 22, 2026 • 32 mins
In this edition of Zeitos… The Trendmaker, Miles and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss the Oscar noms, more on Trump's Davos appearance and Board of Peace, the death of Pitchfork and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everybody, welcome to this uh what afternoon? Addition, Oh,
Zytos the trend Maker. It's like Mentos like that.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And look, because Blake you are here, I will shout
out Snarpila because Snarkila did post Trendos the Crazy Makers,
to which infinite Jost of Carlin Jost fame, but Zeytos
the trend Maker, So we call that a bit of
a collab.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's synergy. I like that anyway, it's synergy. And you
know what, what's up with Sinners? Gee? Because I just
looked at the Oscar nominations and they have set a
new fucking record. Shout out black filmmakers, don't shout out
everybody else Oscar nominations.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We'll start with that because that's a little bit lighthearted,
and then we'll get into the some of the worst shit.
You're some of the worst fucking shit you'll ever have
to hear us talk about every day. But again we're
Zytos the trend Maker. So yeah, the Oscar nominations drop.
Ryan Kugler Okay of California Fame Sinners Okay. His movie
(01:06):
is officially the most nominated movie in Academy Awards history,
landed sixteen nominations for including Best Picture, Direct Screenplay, Best
Actor for Michael B.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Jordan. Who else got one? Me? Mosaku fucking got nominated.
Delroy Lindo got nominated, which is great because Delroy Lindo
is such a fantastic actor. He needs flowers soon. Here's
the thing. A lot of movies got snubbed too. And
here's the other thing. Before this, you know what the
record was for most nominations. Blake? Oh sorry, record Blake
(01:37):
is the co host.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh hello, sorry, Blake and I just talked so much
before the show's actually recorded.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I forget to do that part. That's Blake Wexler. Hi, Hey, Hi,
Hi Miles. And I didn't notice because I was looking
up Ryan Cougler's football stats. Do you know? So he
played wide receiver for yeah, for Sacramento State, Okay, and
he in his career twelve hundred yard arts over twelve
hundred yards, receiving six touchdowns. The guy he could play. Wow,
(02:05):
he was, Yeah, he was. He was good from two
thousand and four. So you can go on ESPN and
look up Oscar Award nominate director Ryan Kuk Wow, Wow,
that is amazing. I didn't realize that he uh yeah,
it was good. Yeah. God.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But anyway, before this, the previous record was fourteen nominations,
and that was all about Eve Titanic and La La Land,
La La Land, very similar movies to Sinners, very similar,
very very similar, very similar places of inspiration for those
films as well. Yeah, so congratulations to the god Ryan Coogler.
(02:45):
You know, I believe his variety forever. You will live
in infamy for that stupid ass tweet casting doubt on Sinners,
being like, it's only made sixty million dollars. It's only
you got to make a couple more to be technically profitable.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And look at you. Look get the fucking state of Donald.
This film is nominated for sixteen Awards. Elsewhere, F one
was nominated for Best Picture. I guess because that you
see it. Yeah, I did, and I was like, this
is not a this is not an awards film. To
the imagination, this is a movie. I said it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
When we saw it, I was like, it makes me
feel like it's nineteen ninety six again.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's like world in culture is just so the shitter
that like F One's a prestige film. Yeah, now it's
like this is just Oscar bait, you know, like we're
only like the cool loud cars and it's just really
to get you know, awards elsewhere. Let's see there was
there are a couple snubs.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I think some of the big ones One Battle after
Another's Chase Infinity wasn't nominated, and Amanda Seifried, who was
in the Testament of A and Lee was very was.
A lot of people are like, ooh, this might be worsome.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Nope, didn't happen. Uh, Wicked for Good completely shut the
fuck out, So I guess I am not surprised. Jay
Kelly also didn't get anything. I don't know if anyone
who saw it, I don't know why you would come
away and be like, George Clooney needs to be nominated
for again. It's time the version of himself that may exist. So, yeah,
(04:18):
that's the best act thing he's ever done. I think
this is I think he's entered his prime. Right, you're right. Finally, finally,
Jesse Plemons didn't get nominated Forgonia.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Meanwhile, and the Guys child will be very happy to
hear this. Kpop Demon Hunter's nominated for Best Animated Feature
and Best Original Song, So now he can see he
can be completely confused again when he sees human beings
sing golden on a stage and be like, who the
fuck are these pieces of ship?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's not my fuck, that's not on tricks. Get them
out of here so that'll be fun. Did you have
any fun any movies that you were really into this year?
I did like Pogonia. I mean, Sinners was so sick,
like it's just everything you want, you know. Yeah, It's
like the cast was unreal, The songs were great, it
(05:07):
was great. My one critique I have, yes and it's
one and too much Michael B. Jordan's yeah, yeah, yeah,
uh No. It was just that a lot of people
really loved that music scene, where like it's getting all
trippy inside the juke joint and shit like that when
the like when the breakdancers and the modern people come
(05:28):
out to participate in that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was a little bit like that took me out.
That was an aesthetic. I wasn't fully into it. Against
such a.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Minor note, because overall I really thought the film was
really dope and I enjoyed it, but that one part
I was just like, why are there bee boys here
right now? I just like, I just remember how that
got like too, but I just chunked it up as like, oh,
this is probably something culturally, I'm just not aware. You
go see, and that's the right respects you should have had,
probably being ignorant.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't need to have an opinion on this. I
just know that the Bee Boys they ride in over Okay.
Another question Michael B.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Jordan and a lot of people say, man, shouldn't you
be nominated twice, to which I'm like, no, because it's
a singular performance within a I mean, I get the
thought that he's like, well, he played two people in
the movie, but I think yeah, And I think you're
lumping that in to be like, yeah, it's because your
performance overall in this film it rises to the height
(06:20):
of being nominated for Best Actor. You know, I think
they're clumping that in. I believe it's actually the industry
for the company. Yeah. Because Eddie Murphy was nominated for
eleven ye yes, or I mean he submitted for eleven
and people are like he did. Guys that one character
only had one line and he say, Grandma titty a bag.
(06:40):
I thought that was enough. That was supporting actor. Yeah,
that's one of the dumbest lines from the clumps too,
I believe, or the clumps. When Janet Jackson is at
the dinner table and when Eddie Murphy is talking to
the dad, he's talking to grandmother. He was just an
old bag lady with old bag pitty and then the
uncle goes up, cool Grandma, Tutio, that's get him an Oscar,
(07:02):
I get this hand. Now he's part of the conversation
at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And again this is also shout out to super producer
Anna Josier the God. This is the first year the
Academy is recognizing the work of casting directors prestige casting,
something that Anna has been talking about very passionately for
many years, that sometimes the mere assembly of a cast
is worth noting, and they and keep putting people in
(07:31):
specific roles that should also be recognized and yeah that's.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Uh that that should be the case. This like that year. Yeah,
so good on them.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But anyway, Best Picture nominee is Bogonia F One, Frankenstein, Hamnet,
Marty Supreme, One Battle after Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental
Value Centers, and Trained Dreams. Also Wagner Mora, the Brazilian
actor and The Secret Agent. First, I believe Brazilian actor
to be nominated in that category.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
All kinds of good fun shit I've only seen us
that I see obviously some of these too. Okay, good
rose Byrne got nominated for If I Had Legs That
was really good too. Yeah, and also was Conan great
in it? Or is it just because Conan is good?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I mean it takes a second to see Conan playing
a therapist, like a real combative therapist and not feel like, okay,
this is a bit. But once you realize, like I'm
watching a movie and he's not Codin O'Brien, he really
kind of he settles into it in a way that
wasn't distracked.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's great. Yeah, anyway, just move on now to the
fucked up? Yeah? All right, yeah, yeah, I mean stretching
a little. Yeah, so let's talk more about Uh can
we talk about Kazam? Did Shaq get nominated for Kazam?
Which is anything like anything?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Fucking Did Shaq get nominated for being Kazam with the
Berenstein Bears Mandel film?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Uh? Yeah? So look, Donald Trump went to Davos. Uh
yesterday we talked about his speech that I think really
proved to everybody who had any doubts over Trump. Like
in Europe, they're like, oh, this guy is babbling and
shaking like a freaky person. I don't want to be
near Nothing he says makes sense at all.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yikes, the US is over and so a lot of
people have been describing this as whiplash inducing U turn
because right after Trump took the stage and was like,
the US should control Iceland or green I don't know,
I call it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Iceland, but I mean Greenland because see now, Trump then
randomly posted that he met with the NATO Secretary General
Mark Rutt and quote formed the framework of a future
deal with respect to Greenland and in fact the entire
Arctic region. Huh. I should do no idea what that means.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I wonder again, because we talked about how all the
headlines suddenly changed. I'm like, Trump's gotta get out once
the stock market started feeling the pain. So I don't
know if maybe the oligarchs were like, hey, man, stop
sucking up my money and get your fucking head together.
But again, this deal that importantly happened, they say, quote
might just quote seed sovereignty over small areas of Greenland
(10:08):
where the US would build military bases.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Again, as we've said from the beginning of Trump's Greenland obsession,
we already have an agreement with Denmark where we can
basically build whatever the fuck military shit we want. So
I think this is like one of those things too,
where it probably Trump's hand is like, look, bro, I
got it. He has to come out of here with
some kind of win or like a piece of paper
(10:32):
or something like covered in gold that he can be
like and look what they did, and he'll fucking forget.
He just has this. He's like a lab rat who
just needs the stimuli of something that could be perceived
as a win, and then he will move on because again,
the wording of like a framework for an agreement, which
is already granting things that we already had, is not
(10:52):
a win. But at least that allows him to say that.
And I don't know if that's that's where we've netted out,
but that's what it's. Give him a cookie, give him,
give'm that cookie. And he and the thing is too.
He's holding the piece of paper with the agreement on it,
and it just says like January nineteen eighty two, when
the original agreement was that the United States call it
so when their faces. Yeah, yeah, just scratch out the
(11:14):
Cold War date and put today's date. He's like, see this,
it has the seal from the King of Denmark. So yeah, there,
so it's real. Who are you? Who are you? Where's
Christian Erickson j Erics?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, you know what happened to it's hard he was
a great player, hard issues. You never know, you never know.
I'm more of a Christian nogl fan. That's how you
pronounce that. Christian Norguard is how they'd say that here. Anyway,
loves Trump, so anyway, all all, while all of that
is happening, like again, the stock market fucking rallied after
(11:54):
he said shit about a framework of an agreement, so
I'm sure some people made money off that moment of madness.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But again, the US has been permanently damaged in a
way that MAGA politicians clearly don't understand. Some do, and
the ones that do don't care because they are trying
to get as much money from their position in the
administration as possible. So when this shit hits the fan,
they I think they're hoping their dollars will insulate them
from punishment, and might be their calculus, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
If it ends. But again, I think the one thing
is that the Europeans now know that you can clearly
push back against Trump and the thing that hurts him
is money in the money pocket. So uh, I don't know,
I don't know what that means now going forward, but
it's you know, I think obviously the damage is clearly
uh irreparable at this point unless some kind of miracle.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, I'm not banking on them, but.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
By that, yeah, remind of when like networks used to
do upfronts where they would like, you know, unveil their
brand news shows and stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But instead it's just like America just unveiled Trump's new
you know, types of dementia, and everyone's like, oh, this country, this,
this network is gonna shut down, you know, like the
oh right right, yeah, this is the whole line up,
This is this is what we're doing some kind of
these are you want us to put ads on this lineup?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Okay, so your first show is called ripping toddlers out
of the arms of their parents. That's now we can't
advertise on that, and and then that next one is
called killing Innocent people. And then and then your show
piece show is it's still American idol okay, it's American
idol okay, I understand that. And then at eleven PM
we're snatching itsidens out of there.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
But it's different. The winner gets to be a citizen,
So think about it, think about it. But everyone secretly goes,
oh my god, dude, they're fucking cooked. We need to
get as far away from them as a fucking pots
of bull. And that's their leader exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's not a middle bad all of our for all
of our listeners abroad, I hope you know that most
American people who are who understand what's happening, want nothing
to do with this.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's so embarrassing. There are unfortunately millions of people who,
through a completely fucked education system, ignorance, cultural racism, or
just literally the toil of having to to fucking survive
under capitalism, have no time to know what's going on.
It's really a perfect storm for this kind of shit.
But again, I think you know our stance as a show,
(14:34):
because I'd really like to go to Canada again. I
really like British Columbia, and I don't want to have
to keep telling people I'm Japanese. I don't like that
would be I'm Canadian. I mean, I actually love telling
people I'm Canadian, so I might keep doing that even after,
you know, hopefully we elect someone who isn't trying to
actively destroy the world. Oh yo, Yin's Canadian too. We're
(14:58):
from a nevuscation sure, yeah, Canady. Yeah yeah, like the
Atlantic Wood, the Atlantic Wood basin, yeahs pray off the keys.
He's talking like the charge nurse on the pit. Who
I love her. She drifts in and out of that accent,
by the way, at will.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I know, I really don't like, like, I get that
the Delco thing has it's it's big right now.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
People are loving our regional accents, but like, fuck man,
like hot get this is where I'm like, don't appropriate
because I believe that actress is from New Orleans, nowhere
close to to yinzer country. No give that, give that role.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know, there's someone who's gonna kill it because it's
only like the like oh you know, no better place,
like hey, it's like just comes out of like these
random words that allow that anyway whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And she'll say home normally in the same sentence and
then say it in a different way later, right right, right, yeah,
you know Sorry, Robbie, I gotta go home later. But
you know what they say, heim is where the heart is.
Oh were those separate words? Yeah, same words. One thing
I think worth pointing out, though, is we saw the speech.
Everyone saw the speech.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
The world saw the speech and said, Jesus Christ, what
the fuck is going on? But Caroline Levitt she had
to go on Fox News because Daddy's watching. And this
is how she described this speech where Trump alienated the
entire United States from the rest of the world.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
The President just tells it like it is, and he
came here with his America first vision on full display,
talking about how the American economy is booming once again
through massive deregulation.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
First of if she's talking about how he said there's
all these new steel plants being built, that was a
straight up lie because none of those steel plants exist.
And also the economy is not booming. Ask anyone who
isn't a millionaire. This is how she described how the
reception of the speech was.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
And I know they were all very pleased with his speech.
I was in the room, John, and it has rave
reviews because the president just is it like it is,
and he came here with his America first vision on
full display, so it has.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Rave reviews and that people are saying, is this guy
stark raving Matt right? Right? Yeah, they were giving the
signing ovation and it's like, no, they were walking out.
They were standing up to leave the building. Yeah exactly.
Someone literally told him to fuck off. Wasn't getting But
(17:26):
again I get it, Caroline. That's what you have to
do because daddy's watching, so must nice thing.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah. Uh see, all better, daddy. She lied to the TV.
So now you can go on pretending that that's reality.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
All right, let's take a quick break and when we
come back, more news something worse. Okay, we're back, just
staying in line with the old new orders, the new
(18:05):
world order or whatever, and not even the cool kind
from WCW. No ah man, remember that, nWo Actually no that.
And now, thinking back, all those guys must have been
like white supremacists except problem evn Nash maybe the one
good one because he can be cast in movies still, right,
if he's still alive?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, I think God is Kevin Nash's politics?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Fuck dude, they probably are. I don't know, like a
single anyway. Let me just check really quick, because like gods,
really legal issues, oh my god, never mind again. Of course,
like the sport where everyone hits their head so much,
they fucking.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You're going to go out on a limb of people's politics. Yeah,
maybe not wrestlers for me. I'm like, but he was
in Magic Mike, he was in.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The Longest Yard, he was Hilario, he was in Detroitter's
playing Tim Robinson's dad if you remember. So never mind
strike that from the record.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
The other New World Order, so again, like many in Europe,
have now begun the process of keeping America at arms distance.
And Trump has tried to like portray this international humiliation
of again alienating allies as a win somehow, because he
unveiled the Board of Peace, the Multinational Coalition, which is
(19:29):
a grift because you pay a billion dollars to get in,
and then basically it's that's nothing. You think you have
access to a guy who fucking doesn't know what day
it is and will remember that you even gave him billion,
You fucking idiots.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
That zoom meeting. There's a zoom link that anyone can
join with nothing going on in it. And that's just
it's just a billion dollars exactly, dude, it's sick. So
I think Trump's will vibe with the Board of Pieces like,
I don't need NATO because I have a new group
of friends called the Board of Peace, and we're actually
all of the cool kids in school. Okay. Who So
it's an no one from the G seven. It's not
(20:02):
even the fucking people from the bricks countries. That's another
fucking you know, uh formidable Coalition of Nations, not even
and most of the G twenty wasn't even there. So
who do you who exactly are you saying we don't
need our allies. I've got this other group of people
who will just give me money. That's the United Arab Emirates.
It's Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Bulgaria Orbon was there. Fucking Javier
(20:28):
Milay of Argentina, a representative of Erduwan, was there. Unfortunately,
Benjamin Natanyahu couldn't be there due to the fact that
he's wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes
to be arrested on site. So yeah, that's a he
won't be able to accept his oscar this evening because
(20:51):
the Hague. So that's his group of really cool kids.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He got everyone on stage to sign onto the super
group of SIKA fans, and even like Trump's the images
from this room, it looked like he knew this was
like just this shit wasn't now because it he tried
to be like, and these.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Are actually the sickest artists like ll like our Ice
Ice Baby Vanilla Ice or fucking you know what other
weird ted crazy Town is here? Crazy Town is sugar
Baby Youth Asylum here? Whoa youth asylum? I haven't heard
about them in a long time. They're not NATO, so yeah,
I don't know. But he looked like the energy was low.
(21:30):
His speech sucked. Even Caroline Levitt was like, couldn't convince
herself anything about this was reasonable or real. But like
the peace board, you're like, what what are we talking about? Peace?
Where like what what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So at first it was supposed to be a group
to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, but now it's like
just like the Homies Club, And now they're like, actually,
it's like world peace for a billion dollars. And that
was a thing leading up to this signing. They said
fifty to sixty countries have been invited, but only twenty
five have agreed.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
To sign on and most people twenty five billion baby. Yeah, hey,
but you know who did say yes, Vladimir Putin. That's
gotta be where something. Huh huh, Which is funny because
on Fox and Friends Brian killed me. It was like,
why would he invite Putin? It's like that guy wants
nothing to do with since like, oh, Brian, man, you're
so close, dude, You're so close, dude, yet so far
(22:23):
Why would he do that? Why would he do that? God? Fuck?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Oh Jesus sorry, I get but why a violent person,
willing people, needlessly unhinged.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Person who believes they're above the law. Wow. Why. Another
fun fact is that Trump's brand is going so far
down the shitter in Europe that even Europe's far right
is having buyer's remorse over like aligning with Trump. Okay,
this guy has managed to only have like eight fucking
(22:59):
friends in Europe at the point, and now that he
tried to steal Greenland, they're like, maybe we need to
switch it up. For example, uh, Nicola Procaccini, the leader
of the right wing European Conservatives and Reformants, a reformist
group in the parliament, said quote, I think we should
be honest, and also she is like Georgia Maloney's like
(23:21):
right hand, like okay, the Italian the leader. She's like, quote,
when Trump is wrong, we should say he's wrong. When
he's right, we should say he's right. Again. Not scathing,
but very different to them. Will always be like this
guy's this guy's figured it out. This is the direction
we needed, because that was always the thing a lot
of these right wing populists are doing in Europe. Was like, oh,
that shit's working in America. Let me emulate that to
(23:43):
see if I can get this same kind of nationalism working.
And it has clearly because there's a lot of there's
a bit of a right wing resurgence as we see,
but now because of the brand being so toxic, now
they're trying to be like, Okay, look, I'm a right
wing populist, but I'm not like hit Trump, Hitler or
anything like that. I'm like regular, like European. How do
I fucking spin this? Jordan Bardella, who is the president
(24:05):
of France's far right National Rally, and Nigel Faraj, who's
like one of the worst fucking politicians out of the
UK with gregsit and all of his like xenophobic shit.
They both condemned Trump's threats and were like, dude, like,
why is he using tariffs to like coerce countries into
fucking like giving up their sovereignty? Like what what? And
(24:27):
even the not so stealth Nazis of Germany's AfD party
are actually starting to criticize Trump. It's not even like
they weren't, like they've said really nothing and now quote,
he has violated a fundamental election promise, namely not to
interfere in other countries, and he has to explain that
to his own voters. Next to this person from AfD
who is like one of their leaders, was another national
(24:49):
leader of the party and kind of defended Trump and
said like it's doing what this Like, I guess what
he thinks is in the best interest for his country. However,
wild West methods are to be reg here, and the
end does not always justify the means. Again, not scathing criticism,
but this is the first time you're hearing people be like,
oh that's uh fuck that uh no, and it's for
(25:09):
their own asses now, because I think they read the
room how normal people in Europe are feeling about Trump
and like, Okay, we got a fuck this isn't it,
This isn't it. Yeah. I mean, if they were smart,
they would do this, but they're They repeatedly showed himself
to be the stupidest fucking people in the world, where
like now that Trump has lost his charisma where he's yeah,
(25:31):
he's he's risless, and when before he lost it, listen, like,
I don't agree, we don't agree with any of this,
but he was able to trick people into thinking that
he was this power for whatever fucking reason. I'll never
understand that he's this because he took us as an answer.
I think that's why. And even when reality went up
against it, he's just like, I'm gonna go harder, and
they're like whoa, And was A could bullshit his way
(25:54):
in a way where it's like, all right, if you
read this on a piece of paper, obviously this is
the stupidest thing I've ever seen. But if you listen
to him, if certain people listen to him, they'll be like,
this guy's a genius, he has a ship together, he's rich,
he's powerful. But now when you're dribbling on yourself and
you're calling the country that you threaten to invade the
wrong name, and you can't you're falling asleep while you're talking.
(26:17):
That's not it's not cool even for these people like
the far right. They love a charismatic piece of ship,
and now he's he's shamous piece of ship that seems
old and he's melting and that's not a brand that
these even the worst people in the world are like,
all right, well he's he looks like he smells now
and we can't be associated. Have you do you know?
(26:39):
Do you did you watch Aquatine Hunger Force at all?
A little bit? A little bit, there's a there's many
side characters, but for any from for the listeners out
there who watch the Aquatine, there's one character that they
call Jimmy the Tree Wizard, who is just like this
like freaky dude on the street and who's always like
like bablin and shaken and shit. And they were like,
(27:00):
what the fuck is like, that's what America is now,
Like we are Jimmy the Tree Wizard. This is what
Jimmy the Tree Wizard looks like. Okay, And that's where
we just went up to the fucking world economic Foruma
Greenland and Jason give him media and they go, what
the fuck that's happened to that? What are all those
(27:21):
things on him? If Jimmy the Tree Wizard had a
nuclear arsenal in one of the big Unfortunately, that's scary. Party.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We have President Jimmy the Tree Wizard with the nuclear football.
But I think, I mean, the sooner people realize you
are dealing with Jimmy the Tree Wizard with the nuclear
football rather than a guy who knows he's president and
what that entails, it might be a little bit easier
to navigate.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, give him a fake award, like give him these
fake things just to shut him up long enough before
we can get him at all. I feel like at
this point, try everything you know, and like to the
point where like even a vis like no, they're they're
trying to convince you to not do that, mister president,
just because they gave you a gold they know, and
he's like, I know they gave it to me, and
they meant it like that's where the next day anyone
else a gold thing exactly because if his advise like no,
(28:07):
they're playing you, and you say that to a senile
old man who just got a gold gift, he's gonna
be like, you're a fucking hater, Get the fuck out
of here. Blind. Yeah, I got a gold gift. They
gave me a golden balloon. They fucking respect me. You
get the fuck out. Oh they're playing me. I'm smart, Okay,
this golden balloon shows that I'm the greatest anyway, So
(28:34):
this feels like some dumb shit. I mean, like you see,
I was talking about this with Jack, like when the
Florida Panthers went to the White House, they gave him
a golden hockey stick, and he was.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Like, it's like, this guy isn't amazing, idiot, the scariest
ship ever, building a King Tut style tomb that he
can keep all his ship in.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Going there and going yeah, I don't worry, don't worry. No,
we're just closing this big stone or behind you. It's fine,
it's fine. There's McDonald's in there, some loose French fries
and a fialal fish for you. Man, you'll be fine. Yeah,
there where your family can't contact you. It won't be
a stay in here. And then finally just want to
touch I think for millennials, especially Pitchfork, a deer website,
(29:18):
you know, a website that has actually even rated the
work of our favorite musician on the show, Chris crofton
Oh yeah, you know they gave him. I'm trying to think.
Let's see, we always talk about what Pitchfork gave him ten. Well,
that's right, seven point four actually for his Hello It's
Me album from twenty eighteen. Here's the thing Pitchfork I remember.
(29:40):
I used to go, like when I was in college,
I'd be like, man, fucking put me onto some new shit,
like what is this? And every now and then there'd
be an album I liked and then I'm like, wait,
what the fuck, Like, you guys are so dumb for
giving this thing like a fucking five.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
No, you're stupid. Anyway, They've been a mainstay for a
music lover, especially in the US, and I'm sure abroad
they've now now because Conde nasked who owns Pitchfork. Now
they've basically like we're going to a subscription model, which
I get because no one goes to fucking websites like
that like that anymore. But they're putting like everything behind
(30:14):
a paywall, so you get like four articles for free
and then they blur out all the critics scores for albums.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
And like, uh uh, come up with fucking five bucks
right now, so you can find out what this album got.
It's so we can tell you if you like it
or not. Yeah, it's just how we do it. And
then like they've also added like a rotten tomatoes feature.
It's just again, a lot of people on the internet
were like, what a fucking stupid mistake. This one person
on a liquid h box boasted might legitimately be the
(30:47):
worst change to a website I've seen in my thirty
two years of life. Astounding work, lads. Yeah, yeah, I
don't know what the I mean. I don't think you're
gonna get more money by paywalling information like that. That's
your like opinion. Man, it's a business model. It's one
of these things that's such about where so many of
these legacies and it's so weird to call Pitchfork a
(31:08):
legacy media company, you know, but it kind of is.
It's just yeah, yeah, it's just not it doesn't fit
into how people are getting information anymore. So it's like, oh,
we'll just make it expensive. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Look, guys, Okay, I get all my information from Jimmy
Tree Wizard man.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
That's right, bro, that's that's right. Just the one truth.
The one universal constant. Okay, all right, y'all, that's gonna
do it for this episode of What was Trending. We're
going to be back tomorrow morning, and you're going to
find out what the other wonderful and mysterious things the
world has provided for us to feast our gaze upon.
Until then, take yourselves, takere of each other, get your shots,
(31:47):
get your vaccines, stay safe out there, don't do nothing
about white supremacy is gone, damn baby.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah and yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
We will see you then. Bye. The Daily Zeitgeist is
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Hey, everybody, welcome to this uh what afternoon? Addition, Oh,
Zytos the trend Maker. It's like Mentos like that.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And look, because Blake you are here, I will shout
out Snarpila because Snarkila did post Trendos the Crazy Makers,
to which infinite Jost of Carlin Jost fame, but Zeytos
the trend Maker, So we call that a bit of
a collab.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's synergy. I like that anyway, it's synergy. And you
know what, what's up with Sinners? Gee? Because I just
looked at the Oscar nominations and they have set a
new fucking record. Shout out black filmmakers, don't shout out
everybody else Oscar nominations.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We'll start with that because that's a little bit lighthearted,
and then we'll get into the some of the worst shit.
You're some of the worst fucking shit you'll ever have
to hear us talk about every day. But again we're
Zytos the trend Maker. So yeah, the Oscar nominations drop.
Ryan Kugler Okay of California Fame Sinners Okay. His movie
(01:06):
is officially the most nominated movie in Academy Awards history,
landed sixteen nominations for including Best Picture, Direct Screenplay, Best
Actor for Michael B.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Jordan. Who else got one? Me? Mosaku fucking got nominated.
Delroy Lindo got nominated, which is great because Delroy Lindo
is such a fantastic actor. He needs flowers soon. Here's
the thing. A lot of movies got snubbed too. And
here's the other thing. Before this, you know what the
record was for most nominations. Blake? Oh sorry, record Blake
(01:37):
is the co host.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh hello, sorry, Blake and I just talked so much
before the show's actually recorded.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I forget to do that part. That's Blake Wexler. Hi, Hey, Hi,
Hi Miles. And I didn't notice because I was looking
up Ryan Cougler's football stats. Do you know? So he
played wide receiver for yeah, for Sacramento State, Okay, and
he in his career twelve hundred yard arts over twelve
hundred yards, receiving six touchdowns. The guy he could play. Wow,
(02:05):
he was, Yeah, he was. He was good from two
thousand and four. So you can go on ESPN and
look up Oscar Award nominate director Ryan Kuk Wow, Wow,
that is amazing. I didn't realize that he uh yeah,
it was good. Yeah. God.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But anyway, before this, the previous record was fourteen nominations,
and that was all about Eve Titanic and La La Land,
La La Land, very similar movies to Sinners, very similar,
very very similar, very similar places of inspiration for those
films as well. Yeah, so congratulations to the god Ryan Coogler.
(02:45):
You know, I believe his variety forever. You will live
in infamy for that stupid ass tweet casting doubt on Sinners,
being like, it's only made sixty million dollars. It's only
you got to make a couple more to be technically profitable.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And look at you. Look get the fucking state of Donald.
This film is nominated for sixteen Awards. Elsewhere, F one
was nominated for Best Picture. I guess because that you
see it. Yeah, I did, and I was like, this
is not a this is not an awards film. To
the imagination, this is a movie. I said it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
When we saw it, I was like, it makes me
feel like it's nineteen ninety six again.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's like world in culture is just so the shitter
that like F One's a prestige film. Yeah, now it's
like this is just Oscar bait, you know, like we're
only like the cool loud cars and it's just really
to get you know, awards elsewhere. Let's see there was
there are a couple snubs.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I think some of the big ones One Battle after
Another's Chase Infinity wasn't nominated, and Amanda Seifried, who was
in the Testament of A and Lee was very was.
A lot of people are like, ooh, this might be worsome.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Nope, didn't happen. Uh, Wicked for Good completely shut the
fuck out, So I guess I am not surprised. Jay
Kelly also didn't get anything. I don't know if anyone
who saw it, I don't know why you would come
away and be like, George Clooney needs to be nominated
for again. It's time the version of himself that may exist. So, yeah,
(04:18):
that's the best act thing he's ever done. I think
this is I think he's entered his prime. Right, you're right. Finally, finally,
Jesse Plemons didn't get nominated Forgonia.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Meanwhile, and the Guys child will be very happy to
hear this. Kpop Demon Hunter's nominated for Best Animated Feature
and Best Original Song, So now he can see he
can be completely confused again when he sees human beings
sing golden on a stage and be like, who the
fuck are these pieces of ship?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's not my fuck, that's not on tricks. Get them
out of here so that'll be fun. Did you have
any fun any movies that you were really into this year?
I did like Pogonia. I mean, Sinners was so sick,
like it's just everything you want, you know. Yeah, It's
like the cast was unreal, The songs were great, it
(05:07):
was great. My one critique I have, yes and it's
one and too much Michael B. Jordan's yeah, yeah, yeah,
uh No. It was just that a lot of people
really loved that music scene, where like it's getting all
trippy inside the juke joint and shit like that when
the like when the breakdancers and the modern people come
(05:28):
out to participate in that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was a little bit like that took me out.
That was an aesthetic. I wasn't fully into it. Against
such a.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Minor note, because overall I really thought the film was
really dope and I enjoyed it, but that one part
I was just like, why are there bee boys here
right now? I just like, I just remember how that
got like too, but I just chunked it up as like, oh,
this is probably something culturally, I'm just not aware. You
go see, and that's the right respects you should have had,
probably being ignorant.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't need to have an opinion on this. I
just know that the Bee Boys they ride in over Okay.
Another question Michael B.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Jordan and a lot of people say, man, shouldn't you
be nominated twice, to which I'm like, no, because it's
a singular performance within a I mean, I get the
thought that he's like, well, he played two people in
the movie, but I think yeah, And I think you're
lumping that in to be like, yeah, it's because your
performance overall in this film it rises to the height
(06:20):
of being nominated for Best Actor. You know, I think
they're clumping that in. I believe it's actually the industry
for the company. Yeah. Because Eddie Murphy was nominated for
eleven ye yes, or I mean he submitted for eleven
and people are like he did. Guys that one character
only had one line and he say, Grandma titty a bag.
(06:40):
I thought that was enough. That was supporting actor. Yeah,
that's one of the dumbest lines from the clumps too,
I believe, or the clumps. When Janet Jackson is at
the dinner table and when Eddie Murphy is talking to
the dad, he's talking to grandmother. He was just an
old bag lady with old bag pitty and then the
uncle goes up, cool Grandma, Tutio, that's get him an Oscar,
(07:02):
I get this hand. Now he's part of the conversation
at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And again this is also shout out to super producer
Anna Josier the God. This is the first year the
Academy is recognizing the work of casting directors prestige casting,
something that Anna has been talking about very passionately for
many years, that sometimes the mere assembly of a cast
is worth noting, and they and keep putting people in
(07:31):
specific roles that should also be recognized and yeah that's.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Uh that that should be the case. This like that year. Yeah,
so good on them.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But anyway, Best Picture nominee is Bogonia F One, Frankenstein, Hamnet,
Marty Supreme, One Battle after Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental
Value Centers, and Trained Dreams. Also Wagner Mora, the Brazilian
actor and The Secret Agent. First, I believe Brazilian actor
to be nominated in that category.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
All kinds of good fun shit I've only seen us
that I see obviously some of these too. Okay, good
rose Byrne got nominated for If I Had Legs That
was really good too. Yeah, and also was Conan great
in it? Or is it just because Conan is good?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I mean it takes a second to see Conan playing
a therapist, like a real combative therapist and not feel like, okay,
this is a bit. But once you realize, like I'm
watching a movie and he's not Codin O'Brien, he really
kind of he settles into it in a way that
wasn't distracked.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's great. Yeah, anyway, just move on now to the
fucked up? Yeah? All right, yeah, yeah, I mean stretching
a little. Yeah, so let's talk more about Uh can
we talk about Kazam? Did Shaq get nominated for Kazam?
Which is anything like anything?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Fucking Did Shaq get nominated for being Kazam with the
Berenstein Bears Mandel film?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Uh? Yeah? So look, Donald Trump went to Davos. Uh
yesterday we talked about his speech that I think really
proved to everybody who had any doubts over Trump. Like
in Europe, they're like, oh, this guy is babbling and
shaking like a freaky person. I don't want to be
near Nothing he says makes sense at all.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yikes, the US is over and so a lot of
people have been describing this as whiplash inducing U turn
because right after Trump took the stage and was like,
the US should control Iceland or green I don't know,
I call it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Iceland, but I mean Greenland because see now, Trump then
randomly posted that he met with the NATO Secretary General
Mark Rutt and quote formed the framework of a future
deal with respect to Greenland and in fact the entire
Arctic region. Huh. I should do no idea what that means.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I wonder again, because we talked about how all the
headlines suddenly changed. I'm like, Trump's gotta get out once
the stock market started feeling the pain. So I don't
know if maybe the oligarchs were like, hey, man, stop
sucking up my money and get your fucking head together.
But again, this deal that importantly happened, they say, quote
might just quote seed sovereignty over small areas of Greenland
(10:08):
where the US would build military bases.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Again, as we've said from the beginning of Trump's Greenland obsession,
we already have an agreement with Denmark where we can
basically build whatever the fuck military shit we want. So
I think this is like one of those things too,
where it probably Trump's hand is like, look, bro, I
got it. He has to come out of here with
some kind of win or like a piece of paper
(10:32):
or something like covered in gold that he can be
like and look what they did, and he'll fucking forget.
He just has this. He's like a lab rat who
just needs the stimuli of something that could be perceived
as a win, and then he will move on because again,
the wording of like a framework for an agreement, which
is already granting things that we already had, is not
(10:52):
a win. But at least that allows him to say that.
And I don't know if that's that's where we've netted out,
but that's what it's. Give him a cookie, give him,
give'm that cookie. And he and the thing is too.
He's holding the piece of paper with the agreement on it,
and it just says like January nineteen eighty two, when
the original agreement was that the United States call it
so when their faces. Yeah, yeah, just scratch out the
(11:14):
Cold War date and put today's date. He's like, see this,
it has the seal from the King of Denmark. So yeah, there,
so it's real. Who are you? Who are you? Where's
Christian Erickson j Erics?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, you know what happened to it's hard he was
a great player, hard issues. You never know, you never know.
I'm more of a Christian nogl fan. That's how you
pronounce that. Christian Norguard is how they'd say that here. Anyway,
loves Trump, so anyway, all all, while all of that
is happening, like again, the stock market fucking rallied after
(11:54):
he said shit about a framework of an agreement, so
I'm sure some people made money off that moment of madness.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But again, the US has been permanently damaged in a
way that MAGA politicians clearly don't understand. Some do, and
the ones that do don't care because they are trying
to get as much money from their position in the
administration as possible. So when this shit hits the fan,
they I think they're hoping their dollars will insulate them
from punishment, and might be their calculus, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
If it ends. But again, I think the one thing
is that the Europeans now know that you can clearly
push back against Trump and the thing that hurts him
is money in the money pocket. So uh, I don't know,
I don't know what that means now going forward, but
it's you know, I think obviously the damage is clearly
uh irreparable at this point unless some kind of miracle.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, I'm not banking on them, but.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
By that, yeah, remind of when like networks used to
do upfronts where they would like, you know, unveil their
brand news shows and stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But instead it's just like America just unveiled Trump's new
you know, types of dementia, and everyone's like, oh, this country, this,
this network is gonna shut down, you know, like the
oh right right, yeah, this is the whole line up,
This is this is what we're doing some kind of
these are you want us to put ads on this lineup?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Okay, so your first show is called ripping toddlers out
of the arms of their parents. That's now we can't
advertise on that, and and then that next one is
called killing Innocent people. And then and then your show
piece show is it's still American idol okay, it's American
idol okay, I understand that. And then at eleven PM
we're snatching itsidens out of there.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
But it's different. The winner gets to be a citizen,
So think about it, think about it. But everyone secretly goes,
oh my god, dude, they're fucking cooked. We need to
get as far away from them as a fucking pots
of bull. And that's their leader exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's not a middle bad all of our for all
of our listeners abroad, I hope you know that most
American people who are who understand what's happening, want nothing
to do with this.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's so embarrassing. There are unfortunately millions of people who,
through a completely fucked education system, ignorance, cultural racism, or
just literally the toil of having to to fucking survive
under capitalism, have no time to know what's going on.
It's really a perfect storm for this kind of shit.
But again, I think you know our stance as a show,
(14:34):
because I'd really like to go to Canada again. I
really like British Columbia, and I don't want to have
to keep telling people I'm Japanese. I don't like that
would be I'm Canadian. I mean, I actually love telling
people I'm Canadian, so I might keep doing that even after,
you know, hopefully we elect someone who isn't trying to
actively destroy the world. Oh yo, Yin's Canadian too. We're
(14:58):
from a nevuscation sure, yeah, Canady. Yeah yeah, like the
Atlantic Wood, the Atlantic Wood basin, yeahs pray off the keys.
He's talking like the charge nurse on the pit. Who
I love her. She drifts in and out of that accent,
by the way, at will.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I know, I really don't like, like, I get that
the Delco thing has it's it's big right now.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
People are loving our regional accents, but like, fuck man,
like hot get this is where I'm like, don't appropriate
because I believe that actress is from New Orleans, nowhere
close to to yinzer country. No give that, give that role.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know, there's someone who's gonna kill it because it's
only like the like oh you know, no better place,
like hey, it's like just comes out of like these
random words that allow that anyway whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And she'll say home normally in the same sentence and
then say it in a different way later, right right, right, yeah,
you know Sorry, Robbie, I gotta go home later. But
you know what they say, heim is where the heart is.
Oh were those separate words? Yeah, same words. One thing
I think worth pointing out, though, is we saw the speech.
Everyone saw the speech.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
The world saw the speech and said, Jesus Christ, what
the fuck is going on? But Caroline Levitt she had
to go on Fox News because Daddy's watching. And this
is how she described this speech where Trump alienated the
entire United States from the rest of the world.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
The President just tells it like it is, and he
came here with his America first vision on full display,
talking about how the American economy is booming once again
through massive deregulation.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
First of if she's talking about how he said there's
all these new steel plants being built, that was a
straight up lie because none of those steel plants exist.
And also the economy is not booming. Ask anyone who
isn't a millionaire. This is how she described how the
reception of the speech was.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
And I know they were all very pleased with his speech.
I was in the room, John, and it has rave
reviews because the president just is it like it is,
and he came here with his America first vision on
full display, so it has.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Rave reviews and that people are saying, is this guy
stark raving Matt right? Right? Yeah, they were giving the
signing ovation and it's like, no, they were walking out.
They were standing up to leave the building. Yeah exactly.
Someone literally told him to fuck off. Wasn't getting But
(17:26):
again I get it, Caroline. That's what you have to
do because daddy's watching, so must nice thing.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah. Uh see, all better, daddy. She lied to the TV.
So now you can go on pretending that that's reality.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
All right, let's take a quick break and when we
come back, more news something worse. Okay, we're back, just
staying in line with the old new orders, the new
(18:05):
world order or whatever, and not even the cool kind
from WCW. No ah man, remember that, nWo Actually no that.
And now, thinking back, all those guys must have been
like white supremacists except problem evn Nash maybe the one
good one because he can be cast in movies still, right,
if he's still alive?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, I think God is Kevin Nash's politics?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Fuck dude, they probably are. I don't know, like a
single anyway. Let me just check really quick, because like gods,
really legal issues, oh my god, never mind again. Of course,
like the sport where everyone hits their head so much,
they fucking.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You're going to go out on a limb of people's politics. Yeah,
maybe not wrestlers for me. I'm like, but he was
in Magic Mike, he was in.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The Longest Yard, he was Hilario, he was in Detroitter's
playing Tim Robinson's dad if you remember. So never mind
strike that from the record.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
The other New World Order, so again, like many in Europe,
have now begun the process of keeping America at arms distance.
And Trump has tried to like portray this international humiliation
of again alienating allies as a win somehow, because he
unveiled the Board of Peace, the Multinational Coalition, which is
(19:29):
a grift because you pay a billion dollars to get in,
and then basically it's that's nothing. You think you have
access to a guy who fucking doesn't know what day
it is and will remember that you even gave him billion,
You fucking idiots.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
That zoom meeting. There's a zoom link that anyone can
join with nothing going on in it. And that's just
it's just a billion dollars exactly, dude, it's sick. So
I think Trump's will vibe with the Board of Pieces like,
I don't need NATO because I have a new group
of friends called the Board of Peace, and we're actually
all of the cool kids in school. Okay. Who So
it's an no one from the G seven. It's not
(20:02):
even the fucking people from the bricks countries. That's another
fucking you know, uh formidable Coalition of Nations, not even
and most of the G twenty wasn't even there. So
who do you who exactly are you saying we don't
need our allies. I've got this other group of people
who will just give me money. That's the United Arab Emirates.
It's Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Bulgaria Orbon was there. Fucking Javier
(20:28):
Milay of Argentina, a representative of Erduwan, was there. Unfortunately,
Benjamin Natanyahu couldn't be there due to the fact that
he's wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes
to be arrested on site. So yeah, that's a he
won't be able to accept his oscar this evening because
(20:51):
the Hague. So that's his group of really cool kids.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He got everyone on stage to sign onto the super
group of SIKA fans, and even like Trump's the images
from this room, it looked like he knew this was
like just this shit wasn't now because it he tried
to be like, and these.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Are actually the sickest artists like ll like our Ice
Ice Baby Vanilla Ice or fucking you know what other
weird ted crazy Town is here? Crazy Town is sugar
Baby Youth Asylum here? Whoa youth asylum? I haven't heard
about them in a long time. They're not NATO, so yeah,
I don't know. But he looked like the energy was low.
(21:30):
His speech sucked. Even Caroline Levitt was like, couldn't convince
herself anything about this was reasonable or real. But like
the peace board, you're like, what what are we talking about? Peace?
Where like what what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So at first it was supposed to be a group
to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, but now it's like
just like the Homies Club, And now they're like, actually,
it's like world peace for a billion dollars. And that
was a thing leading up to this signing. They said
fifty to sixty countries have been invited, but only twenty
five have agreed.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
To sign on and most people twenty five billion baby. Yeah, hey,
but you know who did say yes, Vladimir Putin. That's
gotta be where something. Huh huh, Which is funny because
on Fox and Friends Brian killed me. It was like,
why would he invite Putin? It's like that guy wants
nothing to do with since like, oh, Brian, man, you're
so close, dude, You're so close, dude, yet so far
(22:23):
Why would he do that? Why would he do that? God? Fuck?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Oh Jesus sorry, I get but why a violent person,
willing people, needlessly unhinged.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Person who believes they're above the law. Wow. Why. Another
fun fact is that Trump's brand is going so far
down the shitter in Europe that even Europe's far right
is having buyer's remorse over like aligning with Trump. Okay,
this guy has managed to only have like eight fucking
(22:59):
friends in Europe at the point, and now that he
tried to steal Greenland, they're like, maybe we need to
switch it up. For example, uh, Nicola Procaccini, the leader
of the right wing European Conservatives and Reformants, a reformist
group in the parliament, said quote, I think we should
be honest, and also she is like Georgia Maloney's like
(23:21):
right hand, like okay, the Italian the leader. She's like, quote,
when Trump is wrong, we should say he's wrong. When
he's right, we should say he's right. Again. Not scathing,
but very different to them. Will always be like this
guy's this guy's figured it out. This is the direction
we needed, because that was always the thing a lot
of these right wing populists are doing in Europe. Was like, oh,
that shit's working in America. Let me emulate that to
(23:43):
see if I can get this same kind of nationalism working.
And it has clearly because there's a lot of there's
a bit of a right wing resurgence as we see,
but now because of the brand being so toxic, now
they're trying to be like, Okay, look, I'm a right
wing populist, but I'm not like hit Trump, Hitler or
anything like that. I'm like regular, like European. How do
I fucking spin this? Jordan Bardella, who is the president
(24:05):
of France's far right National Rally, and Nigel Faraj, who's
like one of the worst fucking politicians out of the
UK with gregsit and all of his like xenophobic shit.
They both condemned Trump's threats and were like, dude, like,
why is he using tariffs to like coerce countries into
fucking like giving up their sovereignty? Like what what? And
(24:27):
even the not so stealth Nazis of Germany's AfD party
are actually starting to criticize Trump. It's not even like
they weren't, like they've said really nothing and now quote,
he has violated a fundamental election promise, namely not to
interfere in other countries, and he has to explain that
to his own voters. Next to this person from AfD
who is like one of their leaders, was another national
(24:49):
leader of the party and kind of defended Trump and
said like it's doing what this Like, I guess what
he thinks is in the best interest for his country. However,
wild West methods are to be reg here, and the
end does not always justify the means. Again, not scathing criticism,
but this is the first time you're hearing people be like,
oh that's uh fuck that uh no, and it's for
(25:09):
their own asses now, because I think they read the
room how normal people in Europe are feeling about Trump
and like, Okay, we got a fuck this isn't it,
This isn't it. Yeah. I mean, if they were smart,
they would do this, but they're They repeatedly showed himself
to be the stupidest fucking people in the world, where
like now that Trump has lost his charisma where he's yeah,
(25:31):
he's he's risless, and when before he lost it, listen, like,
I don't agree, we don't agree with any of this,
but he was able to trick people into thinking that
he was this power for whatever fucking reason. I'll never
understand that he's this because he took us as an answer.
I think that's why. And even when reality went up
against it, he's just like, I'm gonna go harder, and
they're like whoa, And was A could bullshit his way
(25:54):
in a way where it's like, all right, if you
read this on a piece of paper, obviously this is
the stupidest thing I've ever seen. But if you listen
to him, if certain people listen to him, they'll be like,
this guy's a genius, he has a ship together, he's rich,
he's powerful. But now when you're dribbling on yourself and
you're calling the country that you threaten to invade the
wrong name, and you can't you're falling asleep while you're talking.
(26:17):
That's not it's not cool even for these people like
the far right. They love a charismatic piece of ship,
and now he's he's shamous piece of ship that seems
old and he's melting and that's not a brand that
these even the worst people in the world are like,
all right, well he's he looks like he smells now
and we can't be associated. Have you do you know?
(26:39):
Do you did you watch Aquatine Hunger Force at all?
A little bit? A little bit, there's a there's many
side characters, but for any from for the listeners out
there who watch the Aquatine, there's one character that they
call Jimmy the Tree Wizard, who is just like this
like freaky dude on the street and who's always like
like bablin and shaken and shit. And they were like,
(27:00):
what the fuck is like, that's what America is now,
Like we are Jimmy the Tree Wizard. This is what
Jimmy the Tree Wizard looks like. Okay, And that's where
we just went up to the fucking world economic Foruma
Greenland and Jason give him media and they go, what
the fuck that's happened to that? What are all those
(27:21):
things on him? If Jimmy the Tree Wizard had a
nuclear arsenal in one of the big Unfortunately, that's scary. Party.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We have President Jimmy the Tree Wizard with the nuclear football.
But I think, I mean, the sooner people realize you
are dealing with Jimmy the Tree Wizard with the nuclear
football rather than a guy who knows he's president and
what that entails, it might be a little bit easier
to navigate.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, give him a fake award, like give him these
fake things just to shut him up long enough before
we can get him at all. I feel like at
this point, try everything you know, and like to the
point where like even a vis like no, they're they're
trying to convince you to not do that, mister president,
just because they gave you a gold they know, and
he's like, I know they gave it to me, and
they meant it like that's where the next day anyone
else a gold thing exactly because if his advise like no,
(28:07):
they're playing you, and you say that to a senile
old man who just got a gold gift, he's gonna
be like, you're a fucking hater, Get the fuck out
of here. Blind. Yeah, I got a gold gift. They
gave me a golden balloon. They fucking respect me. You
get the fuck out. Oh they're playing me. I'm smart, Okay,
this golden balloon shows that I'm the greatest anyway, So
(28:34):
this feels like some dumb shit. I mean, like you see,
I was talking about this with Jack, like when the
Florida Panthers went to the White House, they gave him
a golden hockey stick, and he was.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Like, it's like, this guy isn't amazing, idiot, the scariest
ship ever, building a King Tut style tomb that he
can keep all his ship in.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Going there and going yeah, I don't worry, don't worry. No,
we're just closing this big stone or behind you. It's fine,
it's fine. There's McDonald's in there, some loose French fries
and a fialal fish for you. Man, you'll be fine. Yeah,
there where your family can't contact you. It won't be
a stay in here. And then finally just want to
touch I think for millennials, especially Pitchfork, a deer website,
(29:18):
you know, a website that has actually even rated the
work of our favorite musician on the show, Chris crofton
Oh yeah, you know they gave him. I'm trying to think.
Let's see, we always talk about what Pitchfork gave him ten. Well,
that's right, seven point four actually for his Hello It's
Me album from twenty eighteen. Here's the thing Pitchfork I remember.
(29:40):
I used to go, like when I was in college,
I'd be like, man, fucking put me onto some new shit,
like what is this? And every now and then there'd
be an album I liked and then I'm like, wait,
what the fuck, Like, you guys are so dumb for
giving this thing like a fucking five.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
No, you're stupid. Anyway, They've been a mainstay for a
music lover, especially in the US, and I'm sure abroad
they've now now because Conde nasked who owns Pitchfork. Now
they've basically like we're going to a subscription model, which
I get because no one goes to fucking websites like
that like that anymore. But they're putting like everything behind
(30:14):
a paywall, so you get like four articles for free
and then they blur out all the critics scores for albums.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
And like, uh uh, come up with fucking five bucks
right now, so you can find out what this album got.
It's so we can tell you if you like it
or not. Yeah, it's just how we do it. And
then like they've also added like a rotten tomatoes feature.
It's just again, a lot of people on the internet
were like, what a fucking stupid mistake. This one person
on a liquid h box boasted might legitimately be the
(30:47):
worst change to a website I've seen in my thirty
two years of life. Astounding work, lads. Yeah, yeah, I
don't know what the I mean. I don't think you're
gonna get more money by paywalling information like that. That's
your like opinion. Man, it's a business model. It's one
of these things that's such about where so many of
these legacies and it's so weird to call Pitchfork a
(31:08):
legacy media company, you know, but it kind of is.
It's just yeah, yeah, it's just not it doesn't fit
into how people are getting information anymore. So it's like, oh,
we'll just make it expensive. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Look, guys, Okay, I get all my information from Jimmy
Tree Wizard man.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
That's right, bro, that's that's right. Just the one truth.
The one universal constant. Okay, all right, y'all, that's gonna
do it for this episode of What was Trending. We're
going to be back tomorrow morning, and you're going to
find out what the other wonderful and mysterious things the
world has provided for us to feast our gaze upon.
Until then, take yourselves, takere of each other, get your shots,
(31:47):
get your vaccines, stay safe out there, don't do nothing
about white supremacy is gone, damn baby.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah and yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
We will see you then. Bye. The Daily Zeitgeist is
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