Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this Monday morning week
Speaker 1: Trend in edition of week Trend. I prefer that week
Speaker 1: trend that's iconic. We you know, it is Monday. It
Speaker 1: is an obscure Garth Brooks SNL episode sketch with Will
Speaker 1: Ferrell as the Devil. But we I think we can
Speaker 1: just assume that everybody knows what we're talking about. I
Speaker 1: am Jack O'Brien, and that is super producer Brian Jefferies.
Speaker 1: Miles is out on assignments. You know, he's scouring the
Speaker 1: Old Country for.
Speaker 2: The Old Country for the best, the best snacks, and yes,
Speaker 2: the most magnificent views.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it appears to be going well. He'll be
Speaker 1: back next week.
Speaker 2: Oh oh he returns your calls. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just I'm tracking him on, you know, in
Speaker 1: some ways that he's not he's not aware of it.
Speaker 2: Actually on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, but he seems like he's okay. The
Speaker 1: eagle is safe in the nest, if you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Anyways, Brian, we're going to talk about some
Speaker 1: things that happened over the weekend. But first we like
Speaker 1: to open with some overrated some underrated to let the
Speaker 1: folks get to know us a little bit better. My
Speaker 1: overrated is something I've I've mentioned before, I think, but
Speaker 1: it's the quote. You know, you know what the definition
Speaker 1: of insanity is, right brain? You know what the definition
Speaker 1: of insanity saying.
Speaker 2: Ship over and over again and expecting different results.
Speaker 1: What the where did it came up with that? Einstein?
Speaker 1: Einstein did dude? According to everybody who quotes it, apparently
Speaker 1: on the internet. Yes, that's like. When I googled us
Speaker 1: to be like all right, so like where did this
Speaker 1: come from? People were like, uh, I mean, we all
Speaker 1: think Einstein said it, but we can't actually.
Speaker 2: Do think he said. Wow, there are a lot of
Speaker 2: there are a lot of images with that quote. Yea,
Speaker 2: his face on it.
Speaker 1: Yes, which is perplexing because that is a pretty good
Speaker 1: description of the scientific method. Yeah, doing the same thing
Speaker 1: over and over again and expecting different results or at
Speaker 1: least like checking to see if they're a different result.
Speaker 1: Is the scientific method.
Speaker 2: In a nutshell? Yeah, So I guess every scientist is
Speaker 2: fully insane.
Speaker 1: Fully insane, or you know other things. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: good description of is like we're practicing to get good
Speaker 1: at something, it requires you to do the same thing
Speaker 1: over and over again.
Speaker 2: When I was a musician, I must have been insane,
Speaker 2: you were, Yeah, truly to practice all those hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like when it's used, it's usually like
Speaker 1: a glib way of addressing like we all do. We
Speaker 1: all do, like you know, people get in patterns of
Speaker 1: behavior that we can't seem to get out of. But
Speaker 1: I feel like it's not it's not because we're insane,
Speaker 1: we're dumb.
Speaker 2: Because behavior is really hard to change justly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, perhaps the brain is like this incredibly powerful machine
Speaker 1: that we aren't capable of understanding with our conscious mind.
Speaker 1: I feel like being a human is like being in
Speaker 1: one of those little hot air balloon baskets strapped to
Speaker 1: just like the most incredibly powerful rocket chip, and like
Speaker 1: we don't know how to operate it necessarily. That's what it's.
Speaker 2: Explain why I'm constantly in a state of terror. I
Speaker 2: don't fuck with hot air ballutes.
Speaker 1: Yes, but yeah, it's And I feel like dismissing things
Speaker 1: that are happening in our brain is like dumb or
Speaker 1: insane glibly is not a good strategy, Like it's always interesting,
Speaker 1: it's not just like we'll keep doing it. And I think,
Speaker 1: I think probably we're also seeing people come up against this,
Speaker 1: like in more of a public way because we have
Speaker 1: the problem of you know, there are certainly problems that
Speaker 1: keep happening because of you know, just guns being everywhere,
Speaker 1: or you know, the climate changing and there's nothing that
Speaker 1: we can do about it. But again, it's not because
Speaker 1: we're insane or stupid. It's because we are in a
Speaker 1: massive system that is more powerful than us, and you know,
Speaker 1: capitalism has taken a turn to no longer serving humans
Speaker 1: and we need to get out of that. But it's
Speaker 1: not it's not our fault and it's not just like
Speaker 1: guys are upid. It's the definition of insanity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's such a it's one of those thought killing
Speaker 2: phrases that that you can wheel out without thought to
Speaker 2: kill other thoughts that people might be having. And uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's the worst. It's one of the worst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and anything like there's so many like the Einstein
Speaker 1: brand is so strong with dumb people.
Speaker 2: People love ascribing quotes to him, Karl Marx, Uh, what's
Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln. He's like in Mark Wain, He's in that
Speaker 2: club of like just the hottest quotables. Yes, that he
Speaker 2: never actually.
Speaker 1: Got was just dropping bars his whole life. That's mainly
Speaker 1: what he was focused on was like witticisms. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just I would if you think you're like, if you're
Speaker 1: about to quote Einstein, just take a beat, double check,
Speaker 1: or just like don't do it, because what you're about
Speaker 1: to say probably originated with like a morning zoo radio
Speaker 1: DJ or a motivational speaker like that's who comes up
Speaker 1: with these quotes that everybody likes quoting. What's what's something
Speaker 1: you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: Something I think is overrated. I'm just going to go
Speaker 2: off the cuff here looking at the news page.
Speaker 1: Dolby at most, Jack Dolby at most.
Speaker 2: It's completely overrated. It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a scam that that the the Dolby cartel
Speaker 2: has come off to sell you like twenty fucking speakers
Speaker 2: to put in your living room so you can do
Speaker 2: surround sound and it it it's supposed to like bounce
Speaker 2: sound off of the walls and it's supposed to make
Speaker 2: you feel like you're just surrounded by like whatever you're watching,
Speaker 2: and it just it doesn't work, and it's very expensive.
Speaker 1: I've heard of surround sound. It's like the sounds fine, yeah,
Speaker 1: the next step in surround sound is basically it's the
Speaker 1: next step.
Speaker 2: In surround sound, and it's really, really it's truly overrated
Speaker 2: because it it doesn't work. It surround sound works better.
Speaker 2: I know this is boring, but there are a lot
Speaker 2: of people out there spending way too much money on
Speaker 2: their little little speaker setups. You need. You need like
Speaker 2: ten speakers for Dolby at most, which I think is
Speaker 2: too many. I don't see what's I don't see what's
Speaker 2: wrong with two.
Speaker 1: Too damn many speakers at I was like, oh, at most, right,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be it's got to mean something like when.
Speaker 2: You look it up, you'll always see like these, It'll
Speaker 2: always be an image of way too many speakers, little
Speaker 2: tiny speakers in a room with like ghost lines coming
Speaker 2: off of it to denote all the sound bouncing around everywhere.
Speaker 2: And that's just not how physics works. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: think I think that's overrated. I do have like a
Speaker 2: soundbar that's supposed to have it, and it it just
Speaker 2: sounds like a soundbar, you know, it doesn't sound like
Speaker 2: I'm in Pandora Jack.
Speaker 1: Damn it all. I was hoping. Yeah, at most, I'd
Speaker 1: say that ship is tradash. What uh, what's something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated?
Speaker 2: Something I think is underrated? Well, this weekend I built
Speaker 2: myself a new computer, a new rig. So I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: just doing it yourself, just damn man ordering parts and
Speaker 2: just taking the time and just it was it was
Speaker 2: actually I was initially stressed out about the prospect of,
Speaker 2: you know, building a new computer, but it was actually
Speaker 2: really fun and it saved me a ship ton of money,
Speaker 2: and uh, yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 1: That seems that like you might as will be Like
Speaker 1: I built a car from scratch this weekend. For me,
Speaker 1: that just a good that's great. I will take that
Speaker 1: underrated and do absolutely nothing with it because I can't.
Speaker 2: There's nothing. There's nothing that you do do like you know,
Speaker 2: you're like, no, I'm not gonna pay somebody to do that.
Speaker 2: I'll do it myself.
Speaker 1: You know, No, I do have that. It's just not
Speaker 1: building a computer. Okay, so you're broad you're broad.
Speaker 2: Plugging smaller things into larger things and then you just
Speaker 2: you screw everything down.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, I uh pressure washed my back deck and
Speaker 1: that is one of the great feelings. What was so
Speaker 1: satisfying to just wash that watch that dirt disappear.
Speaker 2: I love watching videos like that on YouTube of like
Speaker 2: pressure washing or laser cleaning thing where like something is
Speaker 2: just like super fucked up and then it's just like
Speaker 2: this methodical like inch by inch they just think everything away.
Speaker 2: It's so satisfying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my underrated is uh how unnatural the bodily action
Speaker 1: of jumping jacks is. I had underrated that before this weekend,
Speaker 1: and then I watched my kids try to do jumping
Speaker 1: jacks in their taekwondo class, and then I like tried
Speaker 1: to help them do jumping jacks and it is weird.
Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, they're trying to like fit
Speaker 1: three jumps in in between like the leg spread, and
Speaker 1: they eventually got it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, whoever invented jumping jacks is pure evil like
Speaker 2: all that, Like I just remember doing when when I
Speaker 2: was a kid doing it. My internal organs don't like
Speaker 2: being jostled like.
Speaker 1: That, I don't know, and it is very jostly.
Speaker 2: It takes about six jumping jacks for me to feel
Speaker 2: totally ill. It's just like I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you have loose organs, that's your Your organs
Speaker 1: wander around your body.
Speaker 2: Been around in there. It is.
Speaker 1: It is that that's one of those diseases that you
Speaker 1: see in old books where like old doctors are like,
Speaker 1: well they had like a wandering I think wandering uterus
Speaker 1: was one of the ways that they found to explain
Speaker 1: women trying to think for themselves away. But I do
Speaker 1: feel like it is a natural assumption. That's like man
Speaker 1: if if I like move around too much, like all
Speaker 1: the all the shit inside me is going to like
Speaker 1: jostle around to get tangled up, right, Well, I mean you.
Speaker 2: Can feel it, It's like you can. I don't know,
Speaker 2: there's all sorts of goop in.
Speaker 1: There, and I got a bunch of wet bags inside
Speaker 1: my cage here in my like central torso section, and
Speaker 1: like I don't want to jostle them around too much,
Speaker 1: if that's cool.
Speaker 2: I want everything to stay in the right orientation, So
Speaker 2: no jumping checks for me.
Speaker 1: But just general, I feel like it's underrated how much
Speaker 1: better we get at operating our bodies as we age,
Speaker 1: Like like our bodies get older and like worse for sure,
Speaker 1: Like my body's worse, Like it hurts more in the
Speaker 1: morning than it used to. Like I know how to
Speaker 1: do stuff like there's like a lot of things that
Speaker 1: are like learning to ride a bike, that you just
Speaker 1: like kind of pick up as you get older and
Speaker 1: spend more time as a physical being on the planet.
Speaker 2: Like do you know what I mean? Like what do
Speaker 2: you like in the bike? Example, Like when did you
Speaker 2: learn to ride a bike?
Speaker 1: I wanted to ride a bike? Oh no, no, no, like
Speaker 1: when I was like six and then you like never
Speaker 1: forget it, but like how to use a hammer, how
Speaker 1: to like but I've started playing tennis again for the
Speaker 1: first time since I was like nine, and like I've
Speaker 1: gotten better at playing tennis, like just by not by
Speaker 1: playing tennis, but just like by being older and like
Speaker 1: knowing what to do with my body and like having
Speaker 1: a little bit better like hand eye coordination than I
Speaker 1: used to.
Speaker 2: Now I know what you mean, because yeah, there's there's
Speaker 2: certain things I have an approach now that I didn't
Speaker 2: have when I was younger, for basically anything that's like
Speaker 2: motor function, Like yeah, I definitely understand that now I
Speaker 2: understand how my body likes to move. Yeah, And yeah,
Speaker 2: I just played to my strengths because yeah, I am
Speaker 2: I am very prone to certain types of like injury,
Speaker 2: like pulling my back or something like that. So I
Speaker 2: have to move in a very particular way. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I don't injure myself.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I would just like get
Speaker 1: out there and just be.
Speaker 2: Like you're just like be jumping off of stuff and
Speaker 2: like yeah, going wild and yeah yeah now I'm like okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Like when you play pick up basketball, there's this thing
Speaker 1: that like people talk about old man's strength where you
Speaker 1: like run into an old man and it's like a
Speaker 1: brick wall and you're like, wait, what the fuck? Like
Speaker 1: I thought I thought old people like got weaker and
Speaker 1: frailer with age. It's not that they get like stronger,
Speaker 1: they just like know how to do stuff with their body.
Speaker 1: It's like an old man knowing how to move your body.
Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned that, because like when I was
Speaker 2: a kid, I used to like ditch school or like
Speaker 2: break into places like abandoned buildings and stuff and do
Speaker 2: a lot of hopping fences, right mm hmm. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: you know, you would just throw yourself at the fence
Speaker 2: and not that long ago, could just be up and
Speaker 2: over and it's nothing not that long ago. Like this year,
Speaker 2: I crashed my drone in like this cactus patch. Oh no,
Speaker 2: a in a literal cactus patch. And I had to
Speaker 2: hop a fence to go get it. And I stood
Speaker 2: there in front of that fence for a good seven minutes, like,
Speaker 2: how the fuck am I going to do this without
Speaker 2: injuring myself or or stabbing myself in the junk when
Speaker 2: I get to the top. Yeah, like all those all
Speaker 2: those things you don't think about when you're a kid,
Speaker 2: of like, I'm just gonna go over this fence. So
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I'm going to plan this for like
Speaker 2: two hours before i even try to climb this fence.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was just a really uncoordinated little kid, because
Speaker 1: I would I feel like I'd be better at that
Speaker 1: now than I was as a kid. I was just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I was uncoordinated. I'd never dove like
Speaker 1: headfirst into water until I was an adult, So it
Speaker 1: was just like an uncoordinated, careful little kid.
Speaker 2: That was my first time in a pool. I dove
Speaker 2: in head first, and I did not know that they
Speaker 2: had deep ends. I had just a mile drowning just mild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well those are not now you guys
Speaker 1: know us a little bit better. Brian is a tech
Speaker 1: whiz flies fucking drones all over the place, building his
Speaker 1: own computers.
Speaker 2: Solitary man, just pottering around at home.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk news. And we're back. And the mugshot dropped after
Speaker 1: we recorded our last episode, close, so close. We were
Speaker 1: talking about the other mugshots of his roof.
Speaker 2: There was plenty to talk about. Then they saved the
Speaker 2: best for last.
Speaker 1: They did, so it dropped. I'm sure everybody's seen it.
Speaker 1: He's scowling at the camera, which you had predicted. I
Speaker 1: thought he might do like a funny smile, because I
Speaker 1: feel like that is his strength, is that, like people
Speaker 1: think he's funny.
Speaker 2: It was a toss up, but yeah, it was either
Speaker 2: going to be smiling or mean mugging. And he he's
Speaker 2: kind of hitting us with that, you.
Speaker 1: Know, a little little bit of me and mugging.
Speaker 2: He's sitting us with a little bit of that. Jack Nicholson,
Speaker 2: the shining looking through the eyebrows kind.
Speaker 1: Of yeah, yeah, it's so first voice I hear when
Speaker 1: seeing this image is actually Miles Gray saying, oh, you're
Speaker 1: a tough guy. Because he really he really like seems
Speaker 1: like he is going for I don't know, there's something
Speaker 1: that embarrassing about it, and I'm trying to like view
Speaker 1: it not just as like somebody who obviously is critical,
Speaker 1: but like just he he seems like he is like,
Speaker 1: all right, look tough. I don't know. I guess part
Speaker 1: of it is also just knowing that he spent a
Speaker 1: ton of time thinking about what he was going to
Speaker 1: do with this image, and his decision was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it looked like really fucking mean, like tough,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like one of those big
Speaker 1: generals with the big muscle the arms.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I wonder I wonder what the conversation was like
Speaker 2: in uh, like on his team. Yeah, yeah, just here
Speaker 2: in the room, because like there is there is a
Speaker 2: lot of chatter in those places. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you've ever had your mugshot taken.
Speaker 1: Jack, but I think I have.
Speaker 2: Actually, Yeah, there's there's like a lot of chatter. I remember.
Speaker 2: I remember I had a mugshot taken, and uh, we
Speaker 2: were talking about will Smith movies of all fucking things.
Speaker 1: Oh really when they gave you your mugshot, when they
Speaker 1: were taking talking.
Speaker 2: About the decline of of Will Smith movies over over
Speaker 2: the over the years, I thought was really really weird.
Speaker 1: But yeah, funny.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what what what was going on in the room?
Speaker 1: Probably not discussing Will Smith movies.
Speaker 2: He's got the red tie on, of course.
Speaker 1: Red tie, navy jacket, white shirt, American flag colors.
Speaker 2: What else would it have been?
Speaker 1: Right, But there were bets taken. I'm assuming not nobody
Speaker 1: made a lot of money taking the red tie, since
Speaker 1: that seems to be his favorite.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just what you wear if you're republic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. The other voice I hear is, h,
Speaker 1: what is this a center for ants? Because that is
Speaker 1: the movie quote that super producer Anajosnier sent to our
Speaker 1: group chat when the picture dropped, and it feels spot on.
Speaker 1: He does. He looks like he's being like trying to
Speaker 1: be intensely like smoldering, but it does come off as
Speaker 1: a little zoo Landry zoolander ish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's he's sort of altered the way that
Speaker 2: his h he holds his jaw. Usually he's in a
Speaker 2: bit of a pout mm hmm. But this he's it's
Speaker 2: just lips are just straight across.
Speaker 1: Yeah, squared up. Yeah. I I am like, this is
Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman, you have one job, get me behind the
Speaker 1: scenes of how like what happened? Like how he must
Speaker 1: have practiced the hell out of this post. There are
Speaker 1: probably no less than one hundred test photos taken before
Speaker 1: he went in to get the real one taken. He
Speaker 1: was probably a total diva when it came to preparation
Speaker 1: for this picture.
Speaker 2: He brought his own lighting. Oh, like, he brought like
Speaker 2: some ring lights and shit.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he at least inquired about it. But if
Speaker 1: anyone can ever get their hands on like the different
Speaker 1: looks he was practicing in the various photos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's like he's he seems less jowlly. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's just because it's like a sort of top down angle.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the other big point that I want
Speaker 1: to make is he has been losing weight over the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. I think, like some people have speculated,
Speaker 1: it's o zepic, which is like the thing that rich
Speaker 1: people are doing where they take a diabetes medication to
Speaker 1: weight and like it has some really bad side effects. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's like off the market. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: he has like an entire like medical school of doctors
Speaker 1: who are willing to give him whatever the fuck he
Speaker 1: wants whenever he wants it. But yeah, he seems like
Speaker 1: he has deflated like three sizes in this picture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his face definitely looks slimmer. He's got cheek bones bafflingly,
Speaker 2: it's weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe one on TV twelve. But I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he's been working with Brady. I'm pretty sure this is
Speaker 1: just ozempic. And like ozempic, the way ozempic works is
Speaker 1: like I think it like makes you just eat less,
Speaker 1: which can't be great at a time when you have
Speaker 1: the stress of a presidential campaign and like fifty three lawsuits.
Speaker 1: We also the the other news is that date for
Speaker 1: one of his trials is going to be like the
Speaker 1: day before Super Tuesday. It's like March fourth, maybe so interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. If that date holds, it would come. So
Speaker 1: this is a quote about the date. If that date holds,
Speaker 1: it would come right in the middle of the Republican
Speaker 1: presidential nominating calendar and the day before Super Tuesday, a
Speaker 1: crucial voting day when the largest number of delegates are
Speaker 1: up for grabs. This is one of his federal indictments,
Speaker 1: not the not the Georgia one. Also after the debate,
Speaker 1: his lead slipped a little bit, but it's it's so massive,
Speaker 1: Like me, look at the numbers, it's so new Emerson Pool.
Speaker 2: That is a wide delta there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he went from having sixty two percent of the
Speaker 1: field in April twenty twenty three to fifty percent after
Speaker 1: the debate. And he had fifty six like before the debate.
Speaker 1: So they're saying it like dropped six percentage points and.
Speaker 2: This is the lowest support to date.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the lowest support. And it's still he
Speaker 1: still has a majority out of like the actual fuck yeah,
Speaker 1: out of like eight candidates, he still has the majority
Speaker 1: of both.
Speaker 2: Now does this speak to his charm or does this
Speaker 2: speak to how lame everybody else is?
Speaker 1: Oh, definitely how lame everybody else is, But I think
Speaker 1: also charmed.
Speaker 2: It's just it's he does I look, I hate to
Speaker 2: admit it, but he does have a little.
Speaker 1: Bit of as Oh, for sure, he does.
Speaker 2: Have a little bit of ads that speaks to certain people.
Speaker 2: It's just like, it's just wild to me that you
Speaker 2: can have eight whole ass other people and they they
Speaker 2: got nothing to show, they got they're bringing nothing to
Speaker 2: the table. Yeah, and they're all too shook to like
Speaker 2: oppose him directly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're too scared of him. DeSantis is the second
Speaker 1: in second place at twelve points. Jesus, Like back in January,
Speaker 1: he was at twenty nine percent and now he's at twelve.
Speaker 2: And nobody likes him. No, yeah, he's still in second place.
Speaker 2: This is so wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the biggest kind of increase in support among Republican
Speaker 1: candidates was Governor Nikki Hayley went from two percent to
Speaker 1: seven percent. So it's just it's really Vivek, who everybody
Speaker 1: said won the debate, actually went from ten percent to
Speaker 1: nine percent after the debate. So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I left out the second verse to lose yourself.
Speaker 1: That's right. So I don't know's it's crazy time. This
Speaker 1: is going to continue to be. We are just moving
Speaker 1: forward with him being indicted him, you know, having court
Speaker 1: dates and everything that goes along with that, mug shots,
Speaker 1: and then he's also running for president and he's almost
Speaker 1: definitely going to win the.
Speaker 2: I'm excited excited Jack, because I've man if he had
Speaker 2: told me, you know, years ago, that this is where
Speaker 2: we would be, yeah, I wouldn't have believed. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: have believed myself.
Speaker 1: It's very strange.
Speaker 2: It's very This country is sick. It's fully uh, it's
Speaker 2: fully sick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: were waiting on was his actual weight being revealed, but
Speaker 1: he like they just took his word for what his
Speaker 1: weight was.
Speaker 2: I guess honestly like that. I think that is just
Speaker 2: what happens, because it's like, it's not like when you
Speaker 2: go to the doctor's office and they have like the
Speaker 2: little scale and the little like the little ruler that
Speaker 2: they put on top of your head. See. I tell y'all,
Speaker 2: like they don't do that in jail.
Speaker 1: More of a DMV situation where they just take your
Speaker 1: word for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like they stand you like I think for height,
Speaker 2: they just have like the little tape on the wall
Speaker 2: where it's got the markers for hype and then yeah,
Speaker 2: they just sort of like they take your word for it.
Speaker 2: They eyeball you for for for weight.
Speaker 1: Well, whoever was doing the eyeballing was being very generous
Speaker 1: because Trump came in at six three and two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen pounds, which is like what Muhammad Ali weighed
Speaker 1: in his prime.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm not buying that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't think so. I think he
Speaker 1: definitely drops some weight. I would have probably taken the
Speaker 1: under like we having seen him lose so much weight
Speaker 1: in the run up to the mug shot, which I
Speaker 1: also feel like that has to have been like he
Speaker 1: wanted to get in there for the mug shot because
Speaker 1: he thought he looked kind of good. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, drop them weight, I'm looking, I'm young,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty, I hit hard.
Speaker 2: Plus he's got merch to sell. Jack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of Uh, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of mugshot merch.
Speaker 2: You think he's gonna let everybody else make money off
Speaker 2: of this and he's not gonna make any.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can. You go to his website. The
Speaker 1: featured products are the mugshot in color on a white
Speaker 1: T shirt and the words never surrender written in I
Speaker 1: don't know what font. That is an exclamation point underneath
Speaker 1: the picture of him surrendering.
Speaker 2: My fucking brain. My brain hurts, Yeah, my brain hurts
Speaker 2: so much. But never surrender.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do have beer koozie to answer your question.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, all right, but it will reject it will
Speaker 1: it will self destruct if you put a bud light
Speaker 1: in there. They wow, can't have it.
Speaker 2: Did they make the font on that make America a
Speaker 2: Great Again hat?
Speaker 1: Like even yeah, the make America great Again? The newest
Speaker 1: edition is massive, but the whole, the whole, like the.
Speaker 2: Hat is bigger too, Like it's like a giant, like
Speaker 2: an oversized hat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a giant novel.
Speaker 2: Surrender. Holy shit, you just snder.
Speaker 1: That's what they've gone with for their tagline for the
Speaker 1: for the mugshot is never Surrendered. They've got on T shirts,
Speaker 1: they've got a signed poster, Never Surrender. Signed poster is amazing.
Speaker 1: You can get him to autograph his own mugshot. But
Speaker 1: the the photoshop work on his store is really like
Speaker 1: because they also have the never Surrender mug, but like
Speaker 1: they don't do the curve, Like I feel like that's
Speaker 1: very basic that like the the image kind of curves
Speaker 1: around the cup. But it just is a like a
Speaker 1: photograph of a mug with just a flat picture of
Speaker 1: the mugshot on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's no there's none of that distortion that
Speaker 2: I didn't even notice that. So these are not these
Speaker 2: are not made yet. No, these are just mock ups. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that makes that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have the the bumper sticker, which presumably would
Speaker 1: go on the back of a car with a bunch
Speaker 1: of Einstein.
Speaker 2: That's definitely a photoshop job there.
Speaker 1: The bumper sticker is the worst, like like they just
Speaker 1: took a photo, Like whoever is doing this learned photoshop
Speaker 1: in like nineteen ninety two and hasn't updated anything. It's
Speaker 1: truly bad. Anyways, let's say, let's take one more break
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and check in with some of
Speaker 1: the other things that happen this weekend. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and I guess we just talking about Vivec, who is
Speaker 1: still in as according to this poll, which polls are
Speaker 1: full of shit, but you know, still in third behind
Speaker 1: desantism Trump, but not strongly in third, and in fact,
Speaker 1: like Mike Pence got a bump in support, but Nikki
Speaker 1: Haley is also that Haley Pence both around seven percent.
Speaker 1: All of this is like such minuscule numbers. I don't
Speaker 1: think any of it matters. But so Vivec, because he
Speaker 1: was like kind of the loud voice at the debate,
Speaker 1: got to go on a bunch of the Sunday shows
Speaker 1: and just you know, further exposed himself as like a
Speaker 1: rich kid huckster spouting mega extremist views in order to
Speaker 1: bolster his own career. Like it seems like a pretty
Speaker 1: straightforward playbook he's working from. But networks they're, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they're susceptible to this shit. They did it with Trump
Speaker 1: and they're doing it again. Brian, do you know what
Speaker 1: the definition of insanity is? Because his networks certainly don't.
Speaker 2: Doctor oz Vivid has has doctor oz vibes for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just a brown doctor odz. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: not really.
Speaker 1: A doctor, right, yeah, but he's like a scientist because
Speaker 1: he made hundreds of millions of dollars off of scientists.
Speaker 1: So basically that's that's how that works. That makes you
Speaker 1: a scientist too.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, exploiting scientists makes you a scientist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but so, I don't know. He was on NBC
Speaker 1: and CNN's Sunday shows, Uh, CNN with Dana Bash and
Speaker 1: then Chuck Todd. When CNN he suggested that white supremacists
Speaker 1: are so rare in America that they're basically unicorns. Chuck
Speaker 1: Todd obviously pointed out that there was literally a white
Speaker 1: supremacist who murdered went into a grocery store and murdered
Speaker 1: three people because they were black, targeted them because they
Speaker 1: were black, did it with a swastika covered assault rifle
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville over the weekend. And of course with that
Speaker 1: particular story, ram Swamy was like, oh, we shouldn't politicize
Speaker 1: this thing here after politicizing like everything else that came up.
Speaker 1: He also said that if he were in Mike Pence's
Speaker 1: position on January sixth, he wouldn't have certified the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election. He would have overturned the election, which is
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. He definitely seems like a dangerous person, you know,
Speaker 1: were he to get in power. It feels like he
Speaker 1: has some fascist tendencies fasci.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's a bit fascy, and he's h he's
Speaker 2: also he just seems like a worm, like just this
Speaker 2: spineless piece of ship who will say anything he needs to.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well let's uh. There was this
Speaker 1: AI Sports article that people were passing around over the
Speaker 1: past week that I just I continue to be very
Speaker 1: impressed by the writing prowess of AI and genuinely worried
Speaker 1: for the writers out there. You know that they're going
Speaker 1: to be replaced. You know, after I saw that headline
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago that paired a picture of
Speaker 1: Vince Vaughan with the headline, it's no big secret why
Speaker 1: nobody will hire Van Bought anymore, you know, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: they're working on the next level. Ships can't find his ask. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we have a we have this sports article that
Speaker 1: you were passing around that it just provides the least
Speaker 1: possible information in the most words, it really feels like,
Speaker 1: yeah again, I just keep coming back to like C minus,
Speaker 1: like C student energy like that. It seems like it's
Speaker 1: trying to stretch the word count like a C student,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just this headline. I like, when I
Speaker 2: first saw this in the dock, I was, I was like,
Speaker 2: what the fuck is this word? Salad Westerville North escapes
Speaker 2: Westerville Central in thin win in Ohio school football action.
Speaker 1: Yeah, justin win. You know, people talk about a narrow
Speaker 1: margin in sports. I never heard someone say thin win
Speaker 1: in a thin in thin win is new. But like
Speaker 1: I got I can see how they got there right
Speaker 1: like they're It's it's always like oh okay, I see
Speaker 1: I see what you're doing. Also, the game is not
Speaker 1: particularly close, like a thin wind would suggest that the
Speaker 1: game is close. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna read
Speaker 1: it to you. The Westerville North Warriors defeated the Westerville
Speaker 1: Central Warhawks. Also Westerville Chill the fuck out. They defeated
Speaker 1: them twenty one to twelve in an Ohio high school
Speaker 1: football game on Friday. Westerville North edged Westerville Central twenty
Speaker 1: one to twelve in a close Encounter of the Athletic
Speaker 1: Kind at Westerville North High on August eighteenth in Ohio
Speaker 1: football action. Hey man, they shot their shot. You know,
Speaker 1: they shot their shot wild, Like I encounter or the
Speaker 1: athletic kind is so funny.
Speaker 2: A human never vetted this. That was insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they it's just two attempts at an opening
Speaker 1: sentence are the first two sentences of this sports article
Speaker 1: Close Encounter of the Athletic Kind. So it really is.
Speaker 1: It's like, I understand how people see like start to
Speaker 1: ascribe personalities to this, because it's really you reading this.
Speaker 1: You immediately like I don't particularly like find myself drawn
Speaker 1: to criticizing writing or like being like, but I but
Speaker 1: anytime I'm reading AI writing. I do feel like I
Speaker 1: am a seventh grade English teacher, you know, just like
Speaker 1: reading a kid, like just stabbing all over the place,
Speaker 1: doing their best to try and write something that sounds right.
Speaker 2: Early together. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Westerville North opened with a seven to zero advantage over
Speaker 1: Westerville Central through the first quarter. The Warhawks trimmed the
Speaker 1: margin to make it seven to six. At halftime. Westerville
Speaker 1: North jumped to a twenty one sixth lead heading into
Speaker 1: the final quarter. The Warriors chalked up this decision in
Speaker 1: spite of the warhawks spirited fourth quarter performance.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, you've done reading that because I fell completely asleep.
Speaker 2: Holy shit. That that is the longest short article I've
Speaker 2: ever heard someone reach.
Speaker 1: Stretch that word count, stretch that ship.
Speaker 2: It is a dispassionate reciting of just the events that happened.
Speaker 1: There's no and even like not not really, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just have no sense of anything that happened. Like trimmed
Speaker 1: the margin to make it seven to six. It's like
Speaker 1: this is a story about numbers that like.
Speaker 2: Changed changed, that's all you're doing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. It does say specifically, you're
Speaker 1: reading a news brief powered by score Stream, the world
Speaker 1: leader and fan driven sports results in conversation. Uh so
Speaker 1: it is an AI tool that they ended up taking
Speaker 1: the article down and seem to be reconsidering.
Speaker 2: That's their way of telling you that this is an
Speaker 2: AI article is by saying you're reading a news brief
Speaker 2: power by score Stream.
Speaker 1: Yes, the world leader in fan driven sports results in conversation.
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear, Brian.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I think I'm just stupid because I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can read between the lines, but like,
Speaker 2: why can't you just say that we're just we're trying
Speaker 2: out some bullshit for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hopefully we didn't fire all our beat writers
Speaker 1: because this is a mess.
Speaker 2: But no, they just fired all the good ones who
Speaker 2: would complain about stuff. Yeah, they kept that one guy
Speaker 2: who just doesn't give a single solitary fuck about anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's just like really excited for all the different
Speaker 1: ways that AI is going to impact the future of journalism. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: speaking of all the exciting ways AI is going to
Speaker 1: impact things, The AMPTP, the studios, the studio side of
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Writers Strike, hired a crisis PR team. They
Speaker 1: are the Washington, DC based crisis PR firm that was
Speaker 1: responsible for assisting the people during the Pizza Gate. They
Speaker 1: came through. And yeah, yeah, the Levinson Group previously worked
Speaker 1: with Comet Ping Pong post Pizzagate. And this is in
Speaker 1: addition to the studios to other existing media consultants. So
Speaker 1: they seem like they're already getting results because not long
Speaker 1: after that news was reported, the New York Times published
Speaker 1: a cushy article profiling their lead negotiator, Carol Lombardini. And yeah,
Speaker 1: the articles just like talks about how she's a got
Speaker 1: working class roots, she's a baseball fan. Her job is
Speaker 1: incredibly difficult to like work with so many different companies
Speaker 1: that want to crush their worker spirits. She's got a
Speaker 1: lot of different things to balance, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then there's this like anecdote that she hangs
Speaker 1: out at chain restaurants such as Cheesecake Factory and has
Speaker 1: been mocked by screenwriters as a result, which I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's true, but if it is,
Speaker 1: like writers, lay the FuG off.
Speaker 2: Come on, I think you know what I'm changing. I'm
Speaker 2: changing my my overrated. It's overrated. To make fun of
Speaker 2: people for going to the cheesecake factory. Yeah, yeah, no
Speaker 2: one does that anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think they just like selected a single
Speaker 1: like social media post and are trying to like make
Speaker 1: this person into a working class hero despite the fact
Speaker 1: that her salary is one point two million dollars. So
Speaker 1: she's don't all right a lot of cheesecake facts.
Speaker 2: Hey, she's grape and by jack, she's doing the best
Speaker 2: she can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but just anecdotally, like I am seeing more people
Speaker 1: tweet things like, Okay, the people who wrote Rise of
Speaker 1: Skywalker want more money, like people you know, pointing out
Speaker 1: bad movies and being like, the people who wrote this
Speaker 1: are the ones who want more money for what they do.
Speaker 1: They should get less money because man bad. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I didn't like this one movie. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: hopefully like it does. It does seem like there is
Speaker 1: a concerted attempt to try and start getting a pro
Speaker 1: studio message out there, but it always feels kind of
Speaker 1: misguided and half asked and like it doesn't fully understand
Speaker 1: the current climate and how people actually learn about stuff.
Speaker 2: With anything that people actually like give a fuck about, right.
Speaker 1: But I mean, she only made one point two million
Speaker 1: dollars and then had a bonus of three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five thousand dollars. So I if you were giving
Speaker 1: her a bonus like that that was more than thirty percent,
Speaker 1: you're off. She's just makes a normal amount of.
Speaker 2: Money had to do to get a thirty bonus. I
Speaker 2: wonder how many lives she had to ruin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then finally we bid a fun farewell to
Speaker 1: Bob Barker, who passed away at the age of ninety
Speaker 1: nine this weekend. Mad I know the two tweets that
Speaker 1: I feel like perfectly summed everything up. Lewis Vertell tweeted,
Speaker 1: I cannot believe Bob Barker lived as close to one
Speaker 1: hundred as possible without going over, and then serious black
Speaker 1: at Ni csu pr tweeted in honor of Bob Barker.
Speaker 1: And then it's a photoclage of chicken noodle soup, a
Speaker 1: sleeve of saltines and ginger ale, which, yes, that is it.
Speaker 2: Actually sounds amazing right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't feel good by the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm feeling a little shitty, and I could really
Speaker 2: go for a chicken noodle soup, zontans and a ginger ale.
Speaker 1: Yeah, price is right? Is a higher level. Like, as
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, anytime I've had to watch TV
Speaker 1: during the day, and it's almost always because I'm sick,
Speaker 1: Like the Price Is Right is so far superior to
Speaker 1: anything else that's on. That's just Yeah.
Speaker 2: I used to watch Prices Right a lot when I
Speaker 2: was a kid. I always loved his little skinny microphone. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that, in fact stuck with me to adulthood because
Speaker 2: I own a skinny microphone in his honor. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, yeah, he's he's one of the best
Speaker 2: to ever do it.
Speaker 1: He's uh, is your skinny microphone like orange or like
Speaker 1: avocado color? I feel like the.
Speaker 2: It's just like a similar style. But it's like I
Speaker 2: had him in mind when I saw I was like,
Speaker 2: I want that skinny micro I want the baw barker microphone.
Speaker 1: People are also like creating a death feud between him
Speaker 1: and Betty White, who passed also passed away at I
Speaker 1: think ninety nine, because so he was famously an animal
Speaker 1: rights activist, Like you might remember that he ended up
Speaker 1: every episode telling you to spay or new to your pets.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was real. It was like a weird thing
Speaker 1: that he always dropped in at the very end. He
Speaker 1: also like was really concerned with living conditions of elephants
Speaker 1: in zoos, and he's actually the reason that there aren't
Speaker 1: elephants in the zoo in Toronto anymore, and he lobbied
Speaker 1: really hard to get rid of them in Los Angeles also,
Speaker 1: But like the there was a there's an elephant in
Speaker 1: the Toronto Zoo that he personally paid one million dollars
Speaker 1: to have moved to an elephant sanctuary, which that's pretty wild.
Speaker 2: Very nice. Yeah, I'm I'm vehemently sort of against zoos
Speaker 2: in general. So yeah, that's always nice to hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one's so Back in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: he clashed with Betty White over the fate of Billy,
Speaker 1: an elephant at the La Zoo. Barker wanted him relocated
Speaker 1: to a sanctuary, but Betty White was a quote staunch
Speaker 1: ally of zoos.
Speaker 2: What the fuck, Betty White? What you mean?
Speaker 1: No, that's such a bad position, Betty.
Speaker 2: You know they used to put black people in zuits right.
Speaker 1: Right, just saying, I'm sure there are a lot of
Speaker 1: really nice, like animal loving people who work at zoos.
Speaker 1: I could see how it would but just overall to
Speaker 1: be like, fuck that. I like zoos and I like
Speaker 1: being able to go to see the elephants there. But
Speaker 1: by the way, Billy is still living in the La Zoo. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: shout out to poor Billy. And it's still like a
Speaker 1: point of contention. When we went to a children's birthday
Speaker 1: party at the Zoo and there were protesters they're shouting
Speaker 1: at people when they left, uh for having like looked
Speaker 1: at Billy and not freed him. Basically feel bad.
Speaker 2: Because people freeing an elephant getting just completely fucking trampled trampled. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: don't don't try and free an elephant yourself. Just just
Speaker 2: lobby for it, guys. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But in terms of any personal animosity between Betty White
Speaker 1: and Bob Barker, most of the reporting on the feud
Speaker 1: came from the National Enquirer, So who even knows if
Speaker 1: any of that sh it's true. But truly ri ip
Speaker 1: to a real king and that boy is real, right,
Speaker 1: that boy is definitely real. Yeah, Okay, okay, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that boy's cool. All right. That's gonna do it for today. Brian,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining filling in for a
Speaker 1: miles leisure. You aren't on social media, So I won't
Speaker 1: even ask.
Speaker 2: On social media, So don't even.
Speaker 1: Ask, So don't even get you started Brian's famous catchphrase,
Speaker 1: don't even go there. You can find me on Twitter
Speaker 1: at Jack Underscore O'Brien. That is going to do it
Speaker 1: for us this Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be
Speaker 1: kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccines,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow. Fight