Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Rip
Speaker 1: Brian wils Trend or Rip Brian Trenson, just whichever Will's
Speaker 1: trend is. How it struck me that one courtesy of
Speaker 1: Banadium Silver. My name is Jack, that over there is
Speaker 1: mister Miles.
Speaker 2: And this is the show where we tell you some
Speaker 2: of the things that are trending on this here afternoon Wednesday,
Speaker 2: July June eleventh, you know, July eleventh.
Speaker 1: Just be ready because July eleventh is a free Slurpee day.
Speaker 1: Get your umbrellas out because that's when the slurpee is
Speaker 1: gonna rain. Also yesterday, be remiss if we didn't say
Speaker 1: the Sopranos finale nineteen year anniversary. Watched the final scene
Speaker 1: and holds up. I'll say ye, I definitely head in.
Speaker 3: My memory eighteen years now.
Speaker 1: I think eighteen years all right, Damn James or Baniac
Speaker 1: on Twitter at nineteen Well fucking blew it, man.
Speaker 3: I can't believe everything you read.
Speaker 1: On the internet, but I so I watched the whole
Speaker 1: final scene. It's like the ending is even more nonchalant
Speaker 1: than I remembered for some reason, you know, because people
Speaker 1: have broken it down moment by moment and they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this person is in this shot and like you can
Speaker 1: see them in the framing like back here, and I'd
Speaker 1: like watched the finale when it happened, consumed all that content,
Speaker 1: and then this was I think the first time i'd
Speaker 1: watched it since, and like when everything's not being broken
Speaker 1: down for you in the moment, it it just feels
Speaker 1: like your TV went out for sure, Like it's like
Speaker 1: I think i'd added a memory where the guy came
Speaker 1: back out of the bathroom, like I think is the
Speaker 1: person who I assumed kills him, like turns the lights
Speaker 1: out on him, but he doesn't, Like he goes to
Speaker 1: the bathroom and that's the last we see of him,
Speaker 1: and then there's like the doorbell, the bell of somebody
Speaker 1: walking through the door. He looks up and that's it.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. I mean I remember at the time, like everyone.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: Yeah no, but I guess, yeah, I guess on a second,
Speaker 3: because I've when I've watched it again, I'm like, oh, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: I don't know, like if that's how the David Chase.
Speaker 1: Wanted to endit, it great, fine, whatever, Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: like the ending I think it's it's also sort of
Speaker 1: I was ambivalent about it. I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: like some people were like it's perfect, and people like
Speaker 1: I fucking hated it.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, whatever, great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually it made me hate the breaking bad
Speaker 1: ending because I was like, that's so like fan servicey
Speaker 1: and like exactly what Walter White would have wanted the
Speaker 1: ending to be, as opposed to just like something like
Speaker 1: this the right ending to the story. Right. But it's
Speaker 1: also like neurologists say that like if you if you
Speaker 1: are like killed suddenly, like you probably won't even perceive
Speaker 1: your own death, Like you won't even it will feel
Speaker 1: like that if you know. Okay, So I just have
Speaker 1: don't stop believing playing constantly and just have don't stop
Speaker 1: believing playing all the time. And that's exactly what it'll
Speaker 1: feel like, all right. Brian Wilson, I mean we talked
Speaker 1: about it a little bit on tomorrow's episode, but one
Speaker 1: of the great, yeah, really tragic life.
Speaker 3: I only know the most obscure things about him. I
Speaker 3: known everything you were talking about and Matt were talking about.
Speaker 3: I was like, WHOA, that's fucking crazy, ma'am. This Brian
Speaker 3: Wilson does seems chilling. I only know that his favorite
Speaker 3: movie is Norbit, and he also offered fans cocaine backstage
Speaker 3: once in an audio recording.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not know about the offer. I didn't
Speaker 1: know either of those Norbit or the cocaine thing. What.
Speaker 1: So he's just like backstage chilling.
Speaker 3: And apparently this clip it's they say it's from the
Speaker 3: Beach Boys Endless Bummer, the very worst of the Beach Boys.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is. But again this was
Speaker 3: like recorded apparently with like fans who were backstage. Oh,
Speaker 3: someone actually posted I don't again, this is the YouTube
Speaker 3: comment this. This was me and two other friends in
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty one. We found out where the Beach Boys
Speaker 3: were staying and went in search of them. We found them.
Speaker 3: Brian was walking down the hall wearing only sweatpants. He
Speaker 3: was our god, and we began to talk to him.
Speaker 3: T us it was unbelievable that we were talking to
Speaker 3: Brian Wilson. He invited us backstage to the concert as well.
Speaker 3: Unbeknownst to two of us, our third friend was taping
Speaker 3: our encounter. The tape was just for the three of us.
Speaker 3: How it got out I'll never know. And this is
Speaker 3: what happens. So this is Brian Wilson talking to some
Speaker 3: fans and saying like, hey man, I'm doing two shows.
Speaker 3: Like they're like, yeah, we'll be at the first one,
Speaker 3: and he's like, yeah, come hang out afterwards. We can
Speaker 3: just you know, we'll just wrap man', just chop it up.
Speaker 3: And then biz like, do you guys snort cocaine? And
Speaker 3: it's a very odd interaction. But also so I don't know,
Speaker 3: wholesome such a wholesome offering.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the way he asks it is like, so this
Speaker 1: is him offering it trop bib. We'll rat than it.
Speaker 1: We get into just hang it out right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 2: Wait for it.
Speaker 3: I give.
Speaker 1: Hey man, I do I do, Brian as for you,
Speaker 1: I will, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: That's what it feels like.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So there's some on the writer jam Put pointed out,
Speaker 1: like the demo recording of Surfs up from the Smile sessions,
Speaker 1: like just Smile, Yeah, the false st is crazy. Smile
Speaker 1: was the record he was working on after Pet Sounds,
Speaker 1: and then Mike Love convinced him that like Pet Sounds
Speaker 1: was a flop and a disaster, and so he got
Speaker 1: convinced not to make Smile, which was like the Smile
Speaker 1: Sessions are where he recorded Good Vibrations, which is like
Speaker 1: regarded as one of the like great songs of that decade.
Speaker 1: So shout out to Mike Love, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the there. He's out there. He's still out there, you know,
Speaker 1: because things are good and things work out by the
Speaker 1: way they should. All right. We have testimony from a
Speaker 1: former Doge engineer who, you know, we were hearing some
Speaker 1: wild stuff about this crack team of young hackers who
Speaker 1: were going in and fixing the US government.
Speaker 3: Finding all that waste and fraud.
Speaker 1: Fining all that waste, finding all that fraud. I have
Speaker 1: no doubt, Like I was assuming that they were going
Speaker 1: to find some weight, Like the government is like old
Speaker 1: and creaky and like built by ninety year old. Certainly
Speaker 1: like they're going to be able to find some waste,
Speaker 1: some fraud.
Speaker 3: Hold on seven hundred thousand subscriptions to TV guide that
Speaker 3: are still active. No, no, okay.
Speaker 1: This is what we congress alone. Yeah, but yeah, this
Speaker 1: guy said that like they were really struggling to find
Speaker 1: waste and fraud. They were relatively nonexistent.
Speaker 3: Hmmm.
Speaker 1: Wow, But you walked in there being like, oh I
Speaker 1: know everything, I know how to get waste and fraud
Speaker 1: because I think you know the way that was that
Speaker 1: the same one where they're comparing it to how like
Speaker 1: they know how it is in tech where there is
Speaker 1: tremendous amounts.
Speaker 3: Of like wasteful spending.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I personally it was pretty surprised actually at
Speaker 1: how efficient the government was. Holy shit, this is what
Speaker 1: you hear like from people who've like worked in both
Speaker 1: private sector and the government. Like the government like is
Speaker 1: so it's not like not funded, but it's like it's
Speaker 1: not like there's no just like giant wasteful like idiots
Speaker 1: at the end of you know, like thirsty Thursdays where
Speaker 1: like they yeah, they bring in a fucking bespoke whiskey car.
Speaker 1: Everybody's they're like working because they like believe in doing
Speaker 1: that thing, not because they were like convinced because they
Speaker 1: had like a fucking indoor adult playground and like cool
Speaker 1: candy on tap. And you always hear people be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's real amateur hour in the private sector, right,
Speaker 1: And when you look at the record of things that
Speaker 1: have been accomplished by you know, publicly funded adventures such
Speaker 1: as the Internet, they just get like taken over by
Speaker 1: fucking the private sector and the private sector because we
Speaker 1: live in a you know, our religion is capitalism. It
Speaker 1: gets like taken over and we retell the story where
Speaker 1: it's actually like Steve Job in a garage somewhere actually
Speaker 1: made that make the Internet. Go oh yeah, it's Bill Gates.
Speaker 1: It's not that his parents were so wealthy. He had
Speaker 1: access to a computer before any other child did in America,
Speaker 1: and that the government had built the infrastructure for the
Speaker 1: thing that he was working on. Born in the fuck man,
Speaker 1: just like, well, I guess I wouldn't benefit because I'm
Speaker 1: not a white person. But Jack, if you were just
Speaker 1: born twenty five years earlier, dude, oh man, the snorting
Speaker 1: cocaine with Brian Wilson and coding the Internet, you know.
Speaker 3: And coming up with like really just because I just
Speaker 3: think of like how low the bar is for like
Speaker 3: our the original scripts, like in Hollywood in the eighties,
Speaker 3: not that it was bad, but you're like you were
Speaker 3: you were just really roaming in and like it's like
Speaker 3: a fucked up ski resort or something.
Speaker 1: Man's boobs in and there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, great, great, great.
Speaker 1: Great great resort or something. It's like five movies that
Speaker 1: I have that premise, But.
Speaker 3: Even then they're still like, yeah, man, this one sounds
Speaker 3: a little different than the last one.
Speaker 1: What if we did a replace all A phrase I
Speaker 1: just came up with because I'm also brainstorming the internet.
Speaker 1: What if we did that with karate and so instead
Speaker 1: of it being a fucked up town that is like
Speaker 1: run with skiing and then they settle things with skiing race,
Speaker 1: what if it was fucked up town that's run by
Speaker 1: children's karate, they settle things with a children's karate tournament. Swish,
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, just tears and eyes and the boardroom. Unbelievable
Speaker 1: the way they speak to the human experience, just like
Speaker 1: it's a gift, all right. What if there was more
Speaker 1: than one karate kid? What if there were three ninjas?
Speaker 1: Count it bang bang way downtown. Let's take a.
Speaker 4: Quick break, we'll come back, and we're back, and we're back,
Speaker 4: and it's time to boycott his birthday parade.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we were talking about how, you know, I
Speaker 3: think yesterday right that, Yeah, there was you know, some
Speaker 3: some grumbling, some suspicions that maybe people aren't going to
Speaker 3: be descending onto Washington, d C. For deer leaders fucking
Speaker 3: birthday bonanza parade.
Speaker 1: It's not even a good one. It's like, what is
Speaker 1: it seventy nine.
Speaker 3: His birthday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's seventy. I think seventy eight. It's not even
Speaker 1: fucking that's not that's not.
Speaker 3: Because he saw the Bastille Day celebrations his first term in.
Speaker 1: Paris and he was like, what the fuck. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: first of all, you're not gonna there's no America can't
Speaker 1: show out like the French can't in that way.
Speaker 3: Just so you know, we're.
Speaker 1: We're a very very sick flavor society of Bland. So
Speaker 1: I know you saw that and that looked hype, but
Speaker 1: that's not happening here, babe. We are baked chicken breast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unseasoned baked chicken breast.
Speaker 1: You are chicken cordombles. We are baked chicken breadth.
Speaker 3: That's that's cook avon that you saw over there. This
Speaker 3: is just just catch up on a fucking chicken tender.
Speaker 3: But anyway, the organizers, like we said, expecting to anticipating
Speaker 3: rather two hundred thousand people to show up and spontaneous.
Speaker 1: That number out there is they're getting fired. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: want to lose their job they're like they're part of
Speaker 1: their like the Doje engineer being like, actually, this place
Speaker 1: fucking sucks.
Speaker 3: Stinks this place, but you know, so there are not
Speaker 3: many people showing up, as we found out at least
Speaker 3: do it looking at Hotel resu hotel booking. Maybe and
Speaker 3: I believe it.
Speaker 1: I just don't think people give a shit about Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's birthday enough for two hundred thousand people to make
Speaker 1: their way to the capital. People love a fucking party, man,
Speaker 1: like that. We were talking about how they're can like
Speaker 1: having to cancel or not having to but because of
Speaker 1: you know, all the corporate funding drying up, Like a
Speaker 1: lot of these Pride events are like much smaller, and
Speaker 1: like the amount of tourism for these Pride events is wild.
Speaker 1: They're like, this is better than a Taylor Swift cont
Speaker 1: Like we have, right, more bookings than like Taylor Swift concerts.
Speaker 1: We have like more. It's like the fucking super Bowl
Speaker 1: for Columbus Ohio, you know, and Columbus Ohio doesn't get
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. So these are like people will go
Speaker 1: to a party if you throw a good party, if
Speaker 1: you're a good one. I think the problem is this
Speaker 1: looks like a fucking terrible part. It looks like baked chicken.
Speaker 3: Breast, and it looks like every it's like a fascistic
Speaker 3: everyone praised the dear Leader. Event Now, I don't doubt
Speaker 3: people will go because there's plenty of people in this
Speaker 3: cold Yeah, will fawn over deer Leader two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be able to like build a good crowd
Speaker 1: shot for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then but don't but you know, someone's gonna take.
Speaker 1: That cheeky wide Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be like the inauguration all over again. You're gonna
Speaker 3: have Sean Spicer just or you know, fucking what's her
Speaker 3: face now, Caroline Levitt doing her best. This was while
Speaker 3: attended birthday party ever Ever.
Speaker 1: So the other thing is, though political started asking elected
Speaker 1: Republicans who are going, just seven of fifty surveyed GOP
Speaker 1: lawmakers are planning to actually attend the president's birthday festivities
Speaker 1: over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Of course, the biggest blickers of the boot like Marjorie
Speaker 3: Taylor Green and Byron Donald's they are gonna be there.
Speaker 3: But they're even having like the heads of the armed
Speaker 3: survey committees like in the House and the Senate, they're like, ah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I gotta do another thing.
Speaker 1: Like Mark Wayne Mullen, who's prettived that they're pretending is
Speaker 1: for the army, that's the army's birthday is not even
Speaker 1: going to They're like, well, they're like we're actually going,
Speaker 1: which makes sense, Like there's actually a huge arms conference
Speaker 1: happening abroad that we have to be at because that's
Speaker 1: that's really what's going on.
Speaker 3: It's a military industrial complex. It's not these soldiers. Mark
Speaker 3: Wayne Mullen, who's also a very loyal Trump person, he's like,
Speaker 3: I got my anniversary, like a bunch of people just
Speaker 3: have all these weird lindsays not even going.
Speaker 1: So that's wild.
Speaker 3: That's and you're like, what the fuck again, There's been
Speaker 3: a lot of mumbling Trumps, like the protesters they fuck around.
Speaker 3: They're gonna find out. But honestly, the the funniest shit
Speaker 3: is if no one even bothers to fucking protest, like
Speaker 3: the thing that would do to his ego.
Speaker 1: I low, like nobody can I think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: protests on Saturday elsewhere? Yeah? Yeah, which if we could
Speaker 1: get a protest, those bigger than his birthday party in
Speaker 1: other cities.
Speaker 3: They are to be trust me, La New York, Chicago,
Speaker 3: all the stay yes have these huge Yeah so many
Speaker 3: places those are mean much bigger crowds.
Speaker 1: But anyway, this is this is a trend with the
Speaker 1: mainstream media though that I just want to like if
Speaker 1: I got, if I got to be the editor in
Speaker 1: chief of all media. There's these two. There are these
Speaker 1: trends that they do, like this being one where they're
Speaker 1: they think they're like owning the Trump administration, but they're
Speaker 1: really just like acting as fucking hall monitors for the
Speaker 1: Trump administration. Like this one where like you're telling on
Speaker 1: these people for not attending. You're like fun, like now
Speaker 1: it's gonna make them go, right like Politico lindsay, yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: or like the fucking people the all the all the
Speaker 1: stories about how like Biden deported more people. It's like,
Speaker 1: what do you think you're doing right now?
Speaker 3: You're bringing people back into the fold of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: With that, right, Yeah, it's so fucking annoying. Yeah, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's up, bitch. You can't you can't deport people like
Speaker 1: our guy Biden could.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right exactly. It's it's all all very very sad,
Speaker 3: but you know, we will see what happens. There's this
Speaker 3: there's another quote from people that are just not gonna
Speaker 3: be just so many people and all this to have
Speaker 3: sixty six hundred soldiers and some actors because they need
Speaker 3: people to fill up the costumes that they're gonna be
Speaker 3: wearing to.
Speaker 1: Oh for real.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's like trying to honor all the like
Speaker 3: the conflicts that the US Army has been in since
Speaker 3: its inception.
Speaker 1: Kind of Oh so they're cosplaying.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's what again. He saw this fucking fantastic French
Speaker 3: Bastille Day fucking celebration and he's like, I want that,
Speaker 3: but old tanks ripping up the fucking ground. Yeah, yeah, Brian,
Speaker 3: even the Korean War and Vietnam because Trump believes we
Speaker 3: want all of those.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but it's gonna be the Vietnam War as
Speaker 1: depicted in Rambo two.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna be Rambo one guy, just as Rampo
Speaker 3: as the depiction of the Vietnam War.
Speaker 1: Last time, you bet we do.
Speaker 3: And that's actually slashed doone.
Speaker 1: Wow, pretty sick? All right? Omaha there was a raid
Speaker 1: at an Omaha meatpacking plant and residents sprang to action
Speaker 1: there as well. Yeah. Also Rock the state as non
Speaker 1: citizens worry that ICE scrutiny is about to intensify in Nebraska.
Speaker 1: They're everywhere. Yeah, it feels like they're everywhere. And I
Speaker 1: do feel like, again, like as we talked about tomorrow,
Speaker 1: like the protests have done some good things by drawing
Speaker 1: attention to this story that for a while was just
Speaker 1: like do you see those people getting in the way
Speaker 1: of ice in like that San Diego neighborhood. But like,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like there was as much media attention
Speaker 1: on like how fucked these raids are and that they're
Speaker 1: happening everywhere.
Speaker 3: They're like that it's so fucked up. How the protesters
Speaker 3: broke a window?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the raid? Okay, Okay, I see where this
Speaker 1: is going. Yeah, I mean the raids are happening all
Speaker 1: over the country. There's now Trump is like they're sending
Speaker 1: in ice like special response teams to five different states
Speaker 1: that are led by Democrats, again to just create the
Speaker 1: headlines that it's so bad we have to send in
Speaker 1: like the Navy seals of the immigrant kidnapper gang, which
Speaker 1: is yes, okay to get all these people who are
Speaker 1: peacefully protesting. Shout out to Ellie from Zeitgang who mentioned
Speaker 1: to me and the DMS that again, like with this
Speaker 1: thing that's happened, because we were just talking about Warren Buffett,
Speaker 1: like yesterday, I was just thinking about Omaha. But like,
Speaker 1: Nebraska is one of the biggest producers of meat, and
Speaker 1: you know already there's a labor shortage there, so like
Speaker 1: for every hundred jobs, there's only like thirty nine people
Speaker 1: available to do the work. These are the like, these
Speaker 1: are the small knock on effects that begin to happen
Speaker 1: when you're just absolutely no consideration for what you're doing
Speaker 1: who you're doing it to. But America's precious meats. Also,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a version of the story
Speaker 1: that people can attach to that would give them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: your meat, I mean, they don't give a fuck, Like
Speaker 1: it turns out, it's why it's a press over everything.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean meat. They're coming for your guns,
Speaker 1: they're invading your state, like states rights. Wasn't that your
Speaker 1: burger Hamburgers?
Speaker 3: Are y'all fucking for real? Yeah, it's it's It's just again,
Speaker 3: this is how we're seeing this all play out. And
Speaker 3: I'm always heartened to see that people where they're living
Speaker 3: their their first response is to take up for their neighbors,
Speaker 3: the people that live in their community. There was a
Speaker 3: photo of the lunch room at this meat plaque packing
Speaker 3: facility with just all these like lunch like people's like
Speaker 3: lunches that they bring to work that were just accumulated
Speaker 3: on a pile on a table because all those people
Speaker 3: had just been fucking kidnapped by ice. And it's just
Speaker 3: like such a really subtle visual, but you're just like,
Speaker 3: you just look at that, and you're like, that's someone
Speaker 3: who was just going to fucking.
Speaker 1: Work to try and make ends meet, and now all
Speaker 1: that's left of them is a fucking lunch pail that
Speaker 1: was before the Ice agents ate their lunches. Yeah, presume probably. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom also is like, I am the face of
Speaker 1: this resistance but not drawing a ton of attention to
Speaker 1: anything but like himself, it feels like, yeah, I mean he's.
Speaker 3: He's saying the right things for the most part right now,
Speaker 3: but it's just like you're just like, dude, I hate that.
Speaker 1: It's you man. Yeah, don't give it.
Speaker 3: You don't give a fuck about trans people, fucking the
Speaker 3: actually the actual poor people, you don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he like went in and like broke up a
Speaker 1: homeless encampment like with him with his hand, like it
Speaker 1: was like shit all over there the photo op. I
Speaker 1: feel like he's gonna like he's gonna be like arrest
Speaker 1: me then like Harvey Dent style, and then he's gonna
Speaker 1: get arrested and immediately like join the Aryan Brotherhood in prison. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm too cute for prison guys. I need protection. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is the other thing too, with all these raids.
Speaker 1: Remember like when the way he's talking about I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if you hire somebody who doesn't have legal status,
Speaker 1: you're going to be in trouble too.
Speaker 3: Where the fuck are they rounding.
Speaker 1: These people up? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if that's really the case, And again, that's not
Speaker 3: the fucking issue here.
Speaker 1: That's all just double speak to make it seem like
Speaker 1: there's any kind of balance like whatever. There's no balanced
Speaker 1: application of the law. This is just straight up white supremacy.
Speaker 1: You're gone fucking wild. Yeah all right, those are some
Speaker 1: of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, June eleventh.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, Be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while you still can't
Speaker 1: get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye Bye bye.
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