Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: trend Fist. Grizzlies the Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah it's happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all happening. Two verse seven matchup. By the skin
Speaker 1: of our teeth, I am Jack. That is miles Lakers
Speaker 1: are in. I mean, that's that's something that's trending right now.
Speaker 1: Play in tournament, yeah, I mean people being like, what
Speaker 1: is this play in tournament? What I've heard tell of
Speaker 1: this play in tournament? But what then happens? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we saw the Hawks beat the Heat and then the
Speaker 1: Lakers just barely avoided utter humiliation against the Timberwolves. Humiliation
Speaker 1: for Lakers fans obviously, um, but yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: was the kind of lifeblood for that Other fans of
Speaker 1: the NBA need to be like, watch them lose this
Speaker 1: one where Rudy Goldbert is suspended by his own team. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jaden punched his own hand out and we have, you know,
Speaker 1: and somehow we're still just barely getting through. I was like,
Speaker 1: we were texting during that you me and Jabari during
Speaker 1: that game, and I was just like, if there's just
Speaker 1: a guy who could hit a three pointer, just give
Speaker 1: me one came through with a big one. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then Dennis Shrewder, who I'm always asking myself what he's
Speaker 1: doing out there. His game just bothers me for some reason.
Speaker 1: It doesn't I just can't get on board with it.
Speaker 1: It's it's like he is a shooter who is shot
Speaker 1: like always feels weird to me. It feels like it's
Speaker 1: never going in when I when I see him take it.
Speaker 1: But he he came through huge. The play tournament for
Speaker 1: non sports fans seven and eight in the in the
Speaker 1: league in each conference, Eastern and Western Conference play each other,
Speaker 1: nine and ten play each other, and then the winner
Speaker 1: of the nine and ten games plays the loser of
Speaker 1: to see if they can make it into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So the idea is that it allows for more teams
Speaker 1: to have a chance, so that it's not just like
Speaker 1: cut and dry and like, you know, three quarters of
Speaker 1: the way in this season, the season is over for
Speaker 1: half the league. Yeah, and it's fun because it's the
Speaker 1: only single elimination game other than Game sevens that you
Speaker 1: get in the NBA. Totally, totally it's a blast. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we are going to see the Memphis Grizzlies next up,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm all my confidence will come back, just a lot
Speaker 1: of it took a very big hit, say, but will
Speaker 1: it will emerge and I will be my normal toxic
Speaker 1: Laker self as my second team this season. I just
Speaker 1: that it was exactly what I expected to happen, is
Speaker 1: that everyone was like, they're gonna they're gonna take care
Speaker 1: of them easily, and then they're down ten in the
Speaker 1: third quarter or whatever it was, just they're down fifteen.
Speaker 1: They always make it interesting, they always make it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing, good entertainment. The refs also made it
Speaker 1: a wait, very entertaining game too, so shout out to
Speaker 1: them too. Well, every everybody, i mean complaining about the refs.
Speaker 1: Your mileage maybury because there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: were like the Lakers were getting every call. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've jack, trust me, I know where my
Speaker 1: take comes from. It comes from the land of La
Speaker 1: La because I've seen the stats were like, numerically it's
Speaker 1: verified how many calls go the Lakers way. Yeah all right, Uh,
Speaker 1: MPR is trending. MPR is bailing on Twitter. This seems
Speaker 1: to be a trend. I'm seeing an uptick in people
Speaker 1: who are like, I'm just off Twitter, Like Alex Schmidt
Speaker 1: from secretly incredibly fascinating. Oh really he's gone, Yeah, he's gone.
Speaker 1: He's really. You can find me on discord. But I'm
Speaker 1: no longer doing the Twitter thing. And MPR saw that
Speaker 1: and they said, out of solidarity with Alex Schmidt, they're
Speaker 1: they're just saying, um, I guess Twitter labeled them as
Speaker 1: state affiliated media, like basically a propaganda network. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and that then they changed the label to government funded media,
Speaker 1: but pouters trying to de legitimize mainstream journalism. MPR primarily
Speaker 1: funded by good old corporate sponsorship, like the listeners like
Speaker 1: you like all the time, like they're not. I think,
Speaker 1: what's the stat like very four percent of their funding
Speaker 1: came from the government. On average, less than one percent
Speaker 1: of their operating budget can be traced back to the gun.
Speaker 1: Also elon it, don't you know, don't get too frightened
Speaker 1: by NPR. They're still going to cape for the status quo.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day. They might report on
Speaker 1: things that make you uncomfortable, but I don't think we're
Speaker 1: going to see the kinds of takes that are calling
Speaker 1: for pitchforks outside of the Tesla factory right now. Definitely
Speaker 1: not They're they're pro commerce. They are in the pocket
Speaker 1: of the you know, commerce departments. But it's also interesting
Speaker 1: because if you compare the amount of money that they
Speaker 1: get from the government with his fortune, which is being
Speaker 1: driven by like government tax breaks for billionaires and for
Speaker 1: like carbon emission credits, and you'll see that he is
Speaker 1: by far much more funded by the government than anyone else.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's true. Let me look at the story
Speaker 1: of a lot of American businesses told from the perspective
Speaker 1: of people who aren't just buying into the billionaire kind
Speaker 1: of selective forgetting that happens. You'll see that they're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of help from the government along the way,
Speaker 1: but they rail against any attempt to tax them or
Speaker 1: do anything other than worship them as self made man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he needs he needs a label on his fucking account
Speaker 1: that's as government funded billionaire. Yes, absolutely, that'd probably be
Speaker 1: more accurate. But people are pointing out he hasn't applied
Speaker 1: the same label to actual US government funded outlets like
Speaker 1: a Voice of America, which is like the yeah CIA
Speaker 1: radio station and stars and stripes. Uh, so interesting well,
Speaker 1: it's not interesting. It's just so fucking cynical. This is
Speaker 1: the year of the wealthy person. Clap back where there.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not not. I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: I can't do it anymore. You guys are bad. Three
Speaker 1: and left media of NPR. Come on, y'all. Their main
Speaker 1: shit is market Watch. What are you talking about there?
Speaker 1: There's your Overton window right there, when like NPR is
Speaker 1: like being seen as like, oh my god, they're left
Speaker 1: of Jacobin, what are you gonna do? Uh? And then
Speaker 1: we also have It's an n Newsday because the NYPD
Speaker 1: is doubling down on their dystopian nightmare robots. They just
Speaker 1: announced that they're bringing back Digi Dog, which sounds like
Speaker 1: one of those little pocket pets that people used to having.
Speaker 1: Nine yeah yeah, Tom about to actually a creepy robot
Speaker 1: dog that they introduced back in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 1: then immediately withdrew from service because everyone was terrified and
Speaker 1: it was just a weird. Rightly. I mean it's like
Speaker 1: every every city's been doing this. We talked about even
Speaker 1: the Bay Area, where they're like, hey, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: one that can kill people, Yes, and people like, no,
Speaker 1: you're fucking not. They're like, oh, okay, co co co
Speaker 1: co co Coka. They didn't realize, you guys are so
Speaker 1: fucking sent it away. They announced that was by killing somebody,
Speaker 1: Wasn't it like did they have bring like a bomb
Speaker 1: into somebody during during like a hostage situation. That was
Speaker 1: the first time it had been used. Yeah, Dallas, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was in Dallas, and they were basically people were
Speaker 1: like referencing that as being like, oh no, this is
Speaker 1: not the first, like we have used robots to kill
Speaker 1: people or the police have used robots to kill people before.
Speaker 1: Kind of our thing, guys, Yeah, because you don't pay
Speaker 1: these cops enough, you know, to put themselves in danger,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. There's a press conference with
Speaker 1: Mayor Adams where he's stressed, we cannot be afraid of
Speaker 1: this new technology, which is just like you gotta if
Speaker 1: you're on his staff, you gotta like watch robo cop
Speaker 1: a couple of times to just make sure he's not
Speaker 1: doing like an exact recreation of a robot Apocalypse movie.
Speaker 1: This is sparked many of the same concerns people have
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one, when the dog was dispatched
Speaker 1: only in poor communities, right, They're like, where will it be,
Speaker 1: May Adams He's like, well, I mean if it's in
Speaker 1: a housing, like public housing, like you know, if you're
Speaker 1: in public housing, probably Okay, So yeah, poor people, we will,
Speaker 1: we will, we will terrorize poor people with this. Robot
Speaker 1: dog cats out of the bag deployed as part of
Speaker 1: a response to a home invasion in the Bronx in February,
Speaker 1: and officers use it a public housing building in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: which caused a big backlash. Some people describe the devices
Speaker 1: emblematic of how overly aggressive the police can be when
Speaker 1: dealing with poor communities. Yeah, and then a city councilman
Speaker 1: subpoenaed the police requesting records related to the device, and
Speaker 1: suddenly the contract with Boston Dynamics was canceled. Huh oh
Speaker 1: you want to know about the Oh no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: So actually we're done. We're not robot dog. That reminds
Speaker 1: me of like when you try and like as a kid,
Speaker 1: you try and lie to your parents and they follow
Speaker 1: up with another question and then you just bail on
Speaker 1: the scheme entirely. Yeah. Yeah, where it's like oh actually yeah,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna go to Steve's house and his mom
Speaker 1: is gonna be there, so it's okay, like, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna walk over there. You don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: me tonight. When really I was gonna go there like
Speaker 1: make a bomb or something and gets so fucking high
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, yeah, I'll call his mom, and
Speaker 1: I was, actually, you know what, I'm not gonna go there, Steve.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't actually heard mom. Steve's fucking racist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so fuck that. Actually I'm not anywhere, so don't call it,
Speaker 1: don't think of it. Oh I forgot. Yeah, his mom
Speaker 1: is racist too, so let's not put ourselves. They also,
Speaker 1: so the New York Posts recently had a cover Big
Speaker 1: Botter is Watching instead of Big Brother Um, because there is.
Speaker 1: They also have the K five Autonomous Security Robot UM,
Speaker 1: which is the thing that we've talked about before that
Speaker 1: I've seen around like hospitals in Los Angeles. It's the
Speaker 1: exact same thing. It's made by night Scope, produced by
Speaker 1: night Scope k N I G H T Yes, And
Speaker 1: it's a security robot that is egg shaped. It looks
Speaker 1: like a butt plug like or the tip of you know,
Speaker 1: the space shuttle, but mainly the butt pug. It's ribbed
Speaker 1: for a purps pleasure. Yeah, Brian is saying it looks
Speaker 1: like a tartist from Doctor Who. Yeah, it looks exactly
Speaker 1: like a tartist. It just it's just so dumb that
Speaker 1: I would I wouldn't necessarily feel safe by it. Although
Speaker 1: like the people who like want to always evangelize about
Speaker 1: this ship, like it prevents crime. Yeah, so that's the
Speaker 1: thing that they keep saying, and yet there's not even
Speaker 1: like a single instance. They can't point to a single
Speaker 1: instance right of it stopping a crime. Well, Jack, it
Speaker 1: can predict and prevent crime. Just predict and prevent crime.
Speaker 1: How it's predicting first of all these things saving motherfuckers
Speaker 1: that you've ever seen. So most experts claim that it
Speaker 1: is at most a roving scarecrow. That makes sense. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like the same as like remember I
Speaker 1: remember in the nineties when like CCTV cameras kind of
Speaker 1: like people are like, oh, that'd be good for my
Speaker 1: business or whatever. But then the people are like, look,
Speaker 1: we know you can't afford that. How about this shit
Speaker 1: that's just a decoy? So motherfuckers think you have a
Speaker 1: camera outside your shit, Like this is the equivalent of that.
Speaker 1: We don't need to look at the mountains of research
Speaker 1: and analysis on you know, societal breakdown and where quote
Speaker 1: unquote crime emanates from. We just need more garbage cans
Speaker 1: with cameras on them. Yeah, all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back, and
Speaker 1: Governor Bill Lee is trending. Yeah, he's uh, he's actually
Speaker 1: doing something about guns. What even even though he refused
Speaker 1: to use the word gun for like a week after
Speaker 1: the shooting, and even though he said one of his
Speaker 1: wife's best friend was a victim, Well, now he has
Speaker 1: come out with basically, I mean it's it's look, it's
Speaker 1: a very American approach. And again this is from a Republican.
Speaker 1: So let's just say it's just slightly better than the
Speaker 1: status quo, where like he wants to just have like
Speaker 1: more robust red flag laws. Um So, but here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't you know, require background checks for gun sales
Speaker 1: between private individuals, which something a lot of people are like,
Speaker 1: you gotta, you know, lock that down. But it does
Speaker 1: require like criminal activity and like if there's like court
Speaker 1: ordered mental health information, that's sent to Tennessee's like background
Speaker 1: check system, like within seventy two hours, and apparently you know,
Speaker 1: directs like the law enforcement agency that is in charge
Speaker 1: of the background checks to like review the system and
Speaker 1: submit a report within two months identifying any barriers to
Speaker 1: complete accurate and timely reporting of information. So it's a
Speaker 1: whole look, it's it's basically a step in the right direction,
Speaker 1: but doesn't come close to in a way that I
Speaker 1: feel like most activists are like, oh wow, butts you okay,
Speaker 1: Governor Bill Lee. But I don't know what we can
Speaker 1: really expect from Republicans at this point, especially in a
Speaker 1: state that is completely locked up read and it's just wild.
Speaker 1: Like Senator Rick Scott, he said he also came out
Speaker 1: and said he personally knew one of the victims of
Speaker 1: the Louisville bank shooting, but then even in that hasn't
Speaker 1: said much of like anything about gun control, And like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do these people, like are they do
Speaker 1: they think they're scoring points for knowing gun violence victims
Speaker 1: like when this kind of shit happens and then doing
Speaker 1: all about it. Yeah, Like I don't know what a
Speaker 1: racist person being, Like one of my best friends is
Speaker 1: black and you know that. But I'm still racist. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. That's why I'm not going to do
Speaker 1: anything about like racially motivated police violence. Right, It's like, wait,
Speaker 1: what does that mean. It's like I knew George Floyd
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm voting against this police reform bill.
Speaker 1: Huh uh. So again, they just come off as the
Speaker 1: shittiest fucking quote unquote friend you could ever have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just so weird, like the way like they
Speaker 1: are so opportunistic to say that. But then again, one
Speaker 1: of those victims, and I'm not gonna do shit about it. So,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what does that tell you? Oh, sir,
Speaker 1: you sound like in a really bad way, Senator, Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of ceased to feel my own humanity anymore. So
Speaker 1: I just plug it up with opulent purchases of Hitler stuff. Miles,
Speaker 1: there's nothing about that that is weird. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to talk about we I have to talk about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this. In the Atlantic, did an article
Speaker 1: written by a Harvard grad about how there's not a
Speaker 1: Nazi bone in that guy's body who collects Nazi memorabilia.
Speaker 1: And I know because he's been nice enough to have
Speaker 1: me over for drinks. He's just a good host who
Speaker 1: knows that me and my heartward gret friends get a
Speaker 1: big kick out of Nazi memorabilia and seeing how how
Speaker 1: neat the stuff is. That's what is Like. The stuff
Speaker 1: that they have is like really nice linens and like it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make Nazi Germany. Look, it's not like this
Speaker 1: is the ruins of a concentration camp. It's like, look
Speaker 1: how nice the like thread work is on this now
Speaker 1: doesn't tell you how evil they were. Yeah, and their
Speaker 1: ability to use precision machining. U max is trending. Um,
Speaker 1: HBO Max is no more. No, there is only Max,
Speaker 1: There's only Max. There is there's only zool. I thought
Speaker 1: for sure because I said, I read a headline that
Speaker 1: said HBO Max reveals its name change, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna drop the Max because that's Cinemax and
Speaker 1: that's not really a big important part of their brand.
Speaker 1: But no, they dropped the HBO. Yeah, just they're just
Speaker 1: taking it to the Max. Yeah Maximum. It's so stupid, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: to your point, like HBO is the only thing that
Speaker 1: gave it like a sort of a hook when you
Speaker 1: even read the name. He's like, oh yeah, I know
Speaker 1: HBO like Prestige TV, and now it's like Max. Okay, anyway,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be changing now to on. I guess
Speaker 1: May twenty third, here's the thing that just blows my
Speaker 1: fucking mind and just like wants to be like a
Speaker 1: pirate forever. So with ADS, it's gonna cost nine ninety
Speaker 1: nine per month. If you want it AD free, it's
Speaker 1: fifteen ninety nine per month. Then you can get Ultimate
Speaker 1: AD free for nineteen ninety nine a month. And really
Speaker 1: they're basically saying like, oh, oh you want, oh you
Speaker 1: want like you eight, you want like ultra high definition?
Speaker 1: You that you bought that four K TV, and now
Speaker 1: oh you want four K okay, Oh you gotta sounds
Speaker 1: as well? Okay, so you want that too, Okay, son,
Speaker 1: be about like five more bucks a month, and then
Speaker 1: like I guess you can add a few more screens
Speaker 1: to stream. But like the pricing tiers are, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, just like I slowly got off Twitter, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like I don't know where I'm gonna end
Speaker 1: up with all these streaming services. Man, Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of tables. It feels like these days with
Speaker 1: all these streaming things and keeping track of like all
Speaker 1: these like nine ninety nine bills I have pop up
Speaker 1: every month, I'm like, what the fuck is this again?
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus? Remember you wanted to see if Yellowstone was
Speaker 1: as weird as it seemed? Yeah? Or it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you wanted to watch like a bunch of the road
Speaker 1: Rules Challenge, Yeah, yeah I did, And now I don't know.
Speaker 1: Now I'm like trying to watch old Beavis and butthead
Speaker 1: reruns and acting like it's worth it. Yeah it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's gotta gotta make that money worth it.
Speaker 1: So you gotta just grind through. Just what catalog? How
Speaker 1: about this Max? Just give me fucking HBO? Yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: I like, I get that. There are some other cool
Speaker 1: like MAX originals and stuff, but I know a lot
Speaker 1: of those got shit canned anyway, So just fine, you
Speaker 1: got me, Just give me my HBO. Uh But yeah,
Speaker 1: not Ultimate AD Free. I love it. They really get
Speaker 1: Ultimate ad Free, Max, Ultimate ad Free to the Maximum.
Speaker 1: Um Okay, okay, dad. Has there been a good product
Speaker 1: with a MAX like add it like Pepsi Max? Not great?
Speaker 1: In my experience, The Nike Airmax that those worked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the only one I think I can I can
Speaker 1: give it up. Yeah all right, Well, those are some
Speaker 1: of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, April twelfth.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the Whole show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye
Speaker 1: bye bye m