1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of assass 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: trends Creed. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 2: This is a bunch of ass shadow Wow, Assassin's cree Shadows. 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the one where I get to beat the 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 3: black samurai Yaske. 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: And that's why I'm mad about it. 7 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: I'm mad. 8 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 3: Where were there black people in the ninja times? 9 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: This ninjas a lady, Oh my god, they didn't exist either. 10 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 3: It's wild because, as somebody who played damn near every 11 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 3: Assassin's s Creed game, this actually was like the first 12 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 3: one was like, oh, this one's finally different than the 13 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 3: last seventeen they put out, just with different skins on it. 14 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 2: Anyway, where were we? Who am I? Where we? Who 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: are we? That over there is mister Miles Gray. This 16 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 2: is Jack. 17 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: This is Jack O'Brien coming to you, Lave from the Zeitgeist. 18 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: And this is the episode where we tell you what 19 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: is trending. It is Tuesday, June seventeenth, and last week 20 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: my favorite journalist, Stephen A. Smith, you know, say what 21 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: you will about you know, the journalists, the citizen journalists, 22 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: the journalists doing deep dive reports for four or four 23 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: media in places like that. Pablo Torre, I've heard people 24 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: like him, but I'm a Stephen A. 25 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 2: Smith guy. I just like what he. 26 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: Brings to the journalistic world. And he was caught some 27 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: say caught. I would say, you know, he was just 28 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: playing solitaire during an NBA Finals game that he was 29 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: commenting on that he was like one of the main 30 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: people covering, and people for some reason up in arms 31 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: about this. 32 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: I think everybody, I. 33 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: Mean, just what, I've never played solitaire, work, you never 34 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: played falta. 35 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 3: I mean, I think this is like one of those 36 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 3: things where, yeah, unfortunately, this guy's pretty jaded because he's 37 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 3: been to three thousand NBA games. 38 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: So it's just like this, do you have any idea 39 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: how many of these I've seen? 40 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, He's like, trust me, He's like, once I just 41 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 3: saw that Jalen Williams was unstoppable. Well I figured they're 42 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 3: not going to come back from this stout the solitaire. 43 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would like to see the uh, you know, 44 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: contrast of him doing solitaire with like what his commentary 45 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: was from the game, because his commentary is usually pretty 46 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: just so funny height surface. 47 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 2: Level, calling that shit multitasking. He's like, that's right. 48 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 3: He's like, you see when he posts he's like, yeah, 49 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 3: y'all caught me multitasking during a time out. 50 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 2: It's like, huh, I'm sorry, that's a task one. 51 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: Of my solitaire that's part of his job. 52 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 2: They want to they just like to keep it. 53 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: They it's uh, you know how when you play an instrument, 54 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: there's like kind of finger loosening drills and scales that 55 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:40,239 Speaker 1: you're playing. 56 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 2: That's what warm ups. Yeah, that's what he's doing. 57 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: He's just getting loose. 58 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay. 59 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: But Brian Windhorse, one of his co workers at ESPN, 60 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: dropped a video soon after, being like, and here's how 61 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: I watched the finals. I sit in a room without 62 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: anything on the walls, in side the arena, no windows, nothing. 63 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: To distract me. I watch it on TV. 64 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: I have, like, this is the feed of what you're 65 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: hearing in my left ear. I have a feed from 66 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: the Secret Service, who has eyes on what's going on 67 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: out there. I have these three guys behind me who 68 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: have a slack channel that's feeding me the sorts of 69 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: stats that you wish you've gotten. So just being like, 70 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: I couldn't be more locked in the idea of playing 71 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: solitaire is a joke to me. It is laughable to me. 72 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: So maybe a little bit of inner turmoil at ESPN 73 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: my loose theory. In addition to just like having been there, 74 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith hates sports. 75 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 2: It's you know, and athletes everything about it he hates. 76 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: So a lot of. 77 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: People don't know that Stephen A. Smith, you know, while 78 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: some know him for his role as an NBA analyst. 79 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: On ESPN's First Take. 80 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: Also has a recurring role on the ABC soap opera 81 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: General Hospital. He plays the character Brick, a tech expert 82 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: and surveillance specialist who works for the mob. 83 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 2: It's a soap character. I love that. 84 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, technically surveillance who works for the mob, and his 85 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 3: name's Brick. 86 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: Brick is a key figure in the storyline involving Sonny Corinthos, 87 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: the mob boss. Also maybe why he recently said that 88 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: he has no choice but to consider a run for president. 89 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 3: Ah wow, yeah, yeah, no, No, we're good. We're good, thanks, Matles. 90 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 3: His hands are tied, and not just because they're being 91 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 3: occupied by the solitaire game he's playing. I always say 92 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: that's Stephen Nasmith to keep him tied. Man, We're good, Yeah, 93 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 3: we're good, bro, Do just play solitaire. Don't need it 94 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 3: don't don't need you. We don't need you. This thank 95 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 3: you for believing in yourself. 96 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 2: Stephen A. 97 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: He's been killing the solitaire, so his solitaire stats are 98 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: really strong, so I feel like his confidence is way up. 99 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: All right, So that's the big story. Obviously, there's also 100 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: some lesser news, such as that we're in World War three. 101 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: Donald Trump seems to be just being like, yeah, we 102 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: control the airspace over Iran and started, I mean these 103 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: United States of America, bitch, we're in here. 104 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 105 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 3: It's very disconcerting for people who don't like unnecessary death. 106 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, here we are. The rhetoric has changed. 107 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 3: He's saying a matter of taste, miles, Yeah, he's using 108 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 3: he's saying we now. Before it was like, well if 109 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 3: Israel does blah blah blah, and he's like, well, we yeah, 110 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 3: can do something. He also was a veiled threat to 111 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 3: take out the supreme leader of Iran, so real big 112 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 3: regime change vibes. We're doing the same thing too, And 113 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 3: the lead up to the Iraq War. 114 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: And came back, it was like, for now, we're not 115 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: going to take out parentheses death exclamation point him. For now. 116 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: I was like, so, what did it mean before when 117 00:05:58,600 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: you were saying take out. 118 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 3: This is like, this is what's so frustrating because you 119 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 3: don't know what the fuck this guy actually means. Ever, 120 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: because so much of his posts are based on how 121 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 3: his how harmed his ego is, so I don't know 122 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 3: if he's puffing his shit up because that big floppy 123 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 3: donkey dick of a parade was so bad that he's like, oh, 124 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 3: watch me g up on Iran now. But either way, 125 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 3: it's causing a lot of instability the Yet last night 126 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 3: he was like, people need to evacuate Tehran immediately caused 127 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,359 Speaker 3: a mass exodus of a city where there are millions 128 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 3: of people who were like, is this like a bomb threat? 129 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 2: Is that why you're telling people to leave? 130 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: I assumed like something fucking terrible was about to you know, 131 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: Like I assumed that he was like, yeah, it's about you. 132 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: Better clear out. Well, they're they're about to drop some shit. 133 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 3: I mean again, this is all because of Benjamin Yet 134 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 3: and Yahoo trying to smoke bomb his way out of 135 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 3: people paying attention to what is happening in Gaza, but 136 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 3: also because I think he just knows the war helps 137 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 3: keep him in power. 138 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 2: That's the logic all these people applied. 139 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 3: Trump also said that about a Barack Obama like fourteen 140 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 3: years ago. He's like, Wow, she's gonna try and start 141 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 3: a war and Iran because he's weak. 142 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why he will do it. That looks like 143 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: you now. 144 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 3: But again, we've had all these in the lead up 145 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 3: to this, Like Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, 146 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 3: even testified she's like, yeah, basically said Iran is not 147 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 3: building a nuclear weapon and supremely supreme leader Homiani has 148 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 149 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 3: two thousand and three. That's coming from Tulsi gaber okay, 150 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 3: And she even said we will continue to monitor very closely. 151 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: If they reauthorize the program, but they have not. 152 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 3: When Trump was asked about that yesterday, he said, I 153 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 3: don't care what she said. I don't care what she said. 154 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 3: You're director of intelligence. No, no, I don't he said, 155 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 3: I don't care what she said. I think they are 156 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 3: very close to having And this is where it's fucked 157 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 3: up now is because the White House is now going 158 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 3: with a semantic argument because no one has said Iran 159 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 3: has nuclear weapons. They have uranium, but they're saying they 160 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 3: haven't been using that to make weapons, like they've let 161 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 3: observers in. This is just purely based off the justifications 162 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 3: of Benjamin and Yahoo and now the United States. But 163 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 3: now this like semantic argument is being pushed around by 164 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 3: the leadership in the White House saying they were they're close, 165 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 3: They're this they were this close. That's why they had 166 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 3: to do something bad. They were this close. That is 167 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 3: not the same as they have it now, and it's 168 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 3: happening right, you know what I mean. Experts in gooning 169 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 3: would argue otherwise that those are the same thing, about 170 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 3: to have it and having it, Okay, like having one 171 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 3: thousand dollars saved towards buying a lambeau is not owning 172 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 3: a lambeau. I get the intent. Maybe you're trying to 173 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 3: go after there, but those are not even close to 174 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 3: being the same thing. And this is what's being used 175 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 3: to push us closer to war. And now Congress people 176 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 3: are being like, Okay, we're gonna have to introduce bills 177 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 3: to maybe you'll ignore that limit your ability to fucking 178 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 3: start wars. But come on, y'all, there's clearly there are 179 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 3: many loopholes around that, as we've seen throughout the storied 180 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 3: history of the United States. 181 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 2: The WMD's lie. 182 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: They're just like, can we actually go back, get and 183 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 1: revise like this time, They're not even like laying the groundwork. 184 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: There's just like retroactively trying to do a replace all 185 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: on the groundwork. 186 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 3: And the thing that they're doing too, is they're being like, well, 187 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 3: we have intelligence that Iran might attack US bases and 188 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 3: you're like, oh, are they or is that the justification 189 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: you need to bring more military infrastructure to the region, 190 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 3: because what the fuck are you trying to do now? 191 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 2: Yeah? So yeah, it's very, very fucking frightening, and my god, 192 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 2: like just. 193 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 3: Completely sleepwalking into absolute global catastrophe is so fucking on 194 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 3: brand for this country. 195 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,719 Speaker 2: It's yeah, scary. Yeah. 196 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: And at home, the one of the New York City 197 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: may eoral candidates and current New York City Comptroller was 198 00:09:54,600 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: arrested by ICE. Yeah, well, walking with a somebody that 199 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: ICE was trying to detain and being being like legally. 200 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to show judicial warrant. 201 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 1: Yes, you need to show me a warrant. And they 202 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: took that personal. Yeah, and I took that personal and respect. 203 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is yeah, it's all. 204 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: But so what what is all of this about it 205 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: is about that parade. 206 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 2: It's about that parade. The vibes it were. 207 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: Admittedly now where we're hearing that, he didn't let it. 208 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 2: He was not impressed. 209 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 3: He knew, he knew, he knew that was a big 210 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 3: wettl wet fart in front of it the fucking world. 211 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 3: You you thought you were about to pull up looking 212 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 3: like Kim Jong un and you came out looking like 213 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 3: Team Ou. 214 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 2: North Korea with that fucking parade. 215 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 3: Basically, he said, it's all Pete Eggs's fault, which is great, fine. 216 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 3: Apparently Trump wanted a menacing display and all he got 217 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 3: was squeaky tanks and soldiers walking so casually you thought 218 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 3: they were in the opening of Saturday Night Fever. 219 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 2: Is that a timely reference? Yeah? 220 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, Satay Night Fever. 221 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, just watch that, everybody. 222 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 3: John Travolte. But this is a from Michael Wolfe, you know, 223 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 3: who's the biographer and has his little birds in the 224 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 3: White House. 225 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:11,839 Speaker 2: Quote. 226 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 3: He's accusing them of hamming it up, and by that 227 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 3: he seems to mean by that they were. 228 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 2: That's not the word I will say. Yeah, they're like 229 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 2: being just sort of cordial. 230 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: They're doing like a three stooges routine. 231 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, they were having a good time, that they were waving, 232 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 3: that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face. 233 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: Rather than a military face. Quote. 234 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,199 Speaker 3: He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this. Apparently there 235 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 3: was a phone call and he said to Hegseth. 236 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 4: The tone was all wrong. Why was the tone wrong? 237 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 4: Who staged this? There was the tone problem? There was 238 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 4: the tone problem. So this guy is notoriously not the 239 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 4: most respected journalist in the world. So I was like 240 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 4: reading all taking all this with a grain of salt 241 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 4: until I saw the quote, which felt like it was 242 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 4: a real, a real quote from Donald Trump. 243 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: The tone was all wrong? Why was the tone wrong? 244 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: Who staged this? There was the tone problem? 245 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 2: Because you know what happened. 246 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 3: Whoever's organizing it probably kept using that word in the 247 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 3: build up. And He's like, the tone is going to 248 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 3: be something that feels that that that obviously projects power 249 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 3: of the United States military. That also that aligns with 250 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 3: your powerful presence as the commander in chief. The tone 251 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 3: is going to be very very very fantastic. H Yeah, 252 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 3: tone problem, But yeah, I mean that's not the issue, Donald, 253 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 3: It's not the tone. It's that no one outside of 254 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 3: your like that, your circle of facelifted freaks and literal 255 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 3: nazis you power around with, actually give a fuck about 256 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 3: your ego. They're just again, they're just there to fucking 257 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 3: be near power. 258 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. 259 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: We'll make them care by throwing another one of these 260 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,839 Speaker 1: next year, and it's gonna be so fucking sife. 261 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 3: The other side of that is we're you know, cities 262 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 3: like Chicago, New York in LA are now getting increased 263 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 3: ice rates as pretty much a direct response to being like, oh, 264 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 3: you think you can turn out hundreds of thousands of people, 265 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 3: Let me fucking upset everyone and be even more horrific 266 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 3: than is necessary. 267 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in a bad mood. He's guys, the president 268 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: is in a bad mood. So don't even try it 269 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: right now. 270 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 2: Okay. 271 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: Somebody asked him, like, if he was going to call 272 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: uh Governor Walls in the aftermath of the assassination of 273 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: you know, by somebody who is a big Trump supporter, 274 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: something that would be like, where this to happen in 275 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: a democratic presidency would derail the entire president. Oh my god, 276 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: if a Democrat supporter assassinated a. 277 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 2: You know, a republican Republican. This is the thing. 278 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 3: This is where like you really see how the media 279 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 3: is come. They're just they they've lost the plot, like 280 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 3: you know, conservative media, they just fucking start frothing at 281 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 3: the mouth. But now all these these networks because they're 282 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 3: afraid of the backlash from the president. 283 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: There's Yeah, I guess there wasn't that like t ball game, 284 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 1: so I guess maybe that did happen or the softball 285 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 1: game where. 286 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 2: Like uh oh Steve Sale got shot. 287 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so I I guess maybe it did happen. 288 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 1: But was that during what administration? Was that during that 289 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: was during the Trump administration? 290 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 2: I think yeah, that was in twenty seventeen Trump won. Yeah, 291 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 2: but yeah. 292 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: Asked if he had called Walls yet, Trump said, the 293 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: Democratic governor is slick and whacked out. And I'm not 294 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: calling him what. I don't really call him. 295 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: He's slick. He appointed this guy to a position. 296 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, No, Like that's funny because it was the governor 297 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 3: prior to Walls that technically appointed him. He just kind 298 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 3: of was like, yeah, we'll keep the same people there. 299 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. 300 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. 301 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: I'm not calling him? Why would I call him so slick? 302 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 2: Is so weird? That's like that shows like he's so 303 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: afraid of him when he's like, yeah he's slick, you 304 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: don't slick and whacked out. He's gonna make me think 305 00:14:58,560 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 2: I'm all weird and shit. 306 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: Slick like a snake. Yeah, guy's never touched a snake before. 307 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 4: Uh. 308 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: I could call him and say, Hi, how are you doing? 309 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: The guy doesn't have a clue how he's doing. What 310 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: do you mean this is an actual quote? Yeah, this 311 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: isn't Jack doing. Hm h Yeah, I can call him 312 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: and say hi, how are you doing? The guy doesn't 313 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: have a clue When I call him? He's a mess. 314 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: So you know, I could be nice and call him, 315 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: But why waste time? 316 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 2: Jesus? 317 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, way to be Yeah, you're a tough guy. Man, 318 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna fight that guy because it's like a. 319 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 2: Waste of time. 320 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: Be a waste of time how much I beat him up? 321 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 2: Beat how I beat his ass? You're such a waste 322 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 2: of time to be so boring. Anyway, Actually, my. 323 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: Mom here, hurt my knuckles. Let's take a quick break. 324 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back and 325 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: we're back, and I hadn't been watching this series, but 326 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: HBO got a documentary series called The Mortician. 327 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 2: Are you up on it? 328 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 3: No? But it's funny because I saw the headlines about 329 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 3: this and I was like, Oh, another HBO doc series 330 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 3: for me to watch, because it's about. 331 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: Put these motherfuckers in charge of like they have they 332 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: close cases. Okay, unlike the police. 333 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 3: Ladd Homicide Division, you're fired this Los Angeles funeral home 334 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 3: that it's just been exposed by HBO. 335 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: So basically this show is called The Mortician. It's about 336 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: David Sconce, who went to prison for mutilating corpses, holding 337 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: mass cremations, and hiring hitmen for rival morticians. There's it's 338 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: always the first move of like people who are We're 339 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: in these like small steaks like showdowns between like I'm 340 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: the biggest mortician in town, I'm the biggest tiger abuser 341 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: out there. 342 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. 343 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 3: And doesn't holding mass cremations seem euphemistic for just absolutely 344 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 3: desecrating a bunch of corpse in mass like you know 345 00:16:59,440 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 3: what I mean? 346 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 2: He held a mass event? 347 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, But so the final episode is making headlines 348 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: because it so scance is newly released from prison after 349 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: all the mass cremations, the group cremations. Yeah, yeah, you know, 350 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: after he got busted for that, And so they're interviewing him, 351 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: and he seemed to randomly bring up a murder he 352 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: may have committed while the filmmakers were reloading the camera. 353 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: He described someone pulling a gun on him at a 354 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: cemetery and implied that he tracked them down and killed them, 355 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: but didn't want to say it on camera because he, 356 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: I guess, didn't know how microphones were. 357 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 2: How old is this motherfucker? Yeah? 358 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 3: That is some boomerass logic. We're like, I'm not gonna 359 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say this on camera, but I killed 360 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 3: a man. 361 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh okay. 362 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: Sorry, we're just reloading the camera over here, and they're 363 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: just like clearly doing like busy work with their hands. 364 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 3: Also, you know what reloading a camera with digital you 365 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 3: mean just you put a new SD card in or somethhit. 366 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: That's what they must have met that it was like 367 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: a two hour process. 368 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 2: Sorry, we're reloading the camera. 369 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 3: Dan, what were you saying about the gruesome murder that 370 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,360 Speaker 3: you committed in the cemetery here? 371 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 2: Afterwards? 372 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 1: And Jesus, the guy was like, I don't want to 373 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: hear the filmmaker. So David Sconce says, maybe, all right. 374 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: So there was one night I had to go out 375 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 1: to the cemetery with Barbara. I get out and I 376 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: go to unlock the gate. Some kid jumps out of 377 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,360 Speaker 1: the weeds and he's got a nickel plated right at 378 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:27,199 Speaker 1: my head and he says, give me your walk, give 379 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 1: me your watch A roning Kyleen, director of photography. I'm sorry, 380 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: but we need to reload the camera, and then the filmmaker, 381 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: let's reload. Hang on one second. This is a great story, Scnce, 382 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: a true story. I thought I was gonna die. I 383 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: really did. I can tell you more of this, but 384 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: I can't tell you on camera. I can't tell you. 385 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 2: All I can say. 386 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: All I can say is do you think I found 387 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: that guy? It's one of the things I can't talk about. 388 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: The other thing I'll tell you about too, but can't 389 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: talk about that either. Really, there's three of them all together, Jesus. 390 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: Then he says, you got a promise not to tell 391 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: on me, and he says I don't want to know then, 392 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: and he says what the promise? He says, no, no, 393 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: if there's something and he's like, oh yeah, right, yeah, 394 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: then then I'm not interested in having that information. And 395 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: SCU says, Okay, it's never gonna come back, never going 396 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: to come back, can't come back. 397 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 2: Laughs. 398 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, bro white men are so fucking evil that it's. 399 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 2: Straight up invincible. 400 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, it ain't coming back, baby, anyways, I'm invincible. Ha ha. 401 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 2: Now you won't tell with this microphone. This is the microphone. 402 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 2: So anyways, gross ass teachers, you're not gonna tell on me, 403 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 2: are you? 404 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: No? 405 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 2: Bros? The fuck up? I don't want to hear this shit. 406 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: You just got to promise not to tell me. 407 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: Then I don't want to know what you're saying. What 408 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: you don't want the promise? 409 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 2: What's wrong? You don't want to be implicated? 410 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: And make a little promise to your friend. 411 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry. 412 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 3: I thought you were built to be an accessory to murder, 413 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 3: so you're not built like that. Okay, Okay, this with 414 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 3: Hulu then instead of HBO. 415 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: All right, And finally, I mean this happened last week, 416 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: but just just an update a little. 417 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 2: He's a good news for the old, tip for the elderly, 418 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 2: for the old heads. 419 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:16,360 Speaker 1: Baseball's two somehow convinced Rick Moranis to unretire. 420 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 2: Holy fuck Sannis. 421 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 3: Back more than all back, more than ninety eight years old, 422 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 3: mel Brooks directing, I'm more just like what but then 423 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 3: even more than I'm like, Rick moranis is back? Oh 424 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 3: please please, because you only don't like random like he 425 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 3: did like one random thing a few years ago, right, 426 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,880 Speaker 3: like reviving Like wasn't he doing like the Moulson guy 427 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 3: or something. Yeah, Like he pops up in like internet 428 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 3: videos here and there, but for the most part he's 429 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 3: been out YEA. Deadline is reporting that, in addition to 430 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 3: mel Brooks, who's going to reprise his role of Yogurt 431 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 3: the Yoda character, that the movie will feature Keiki Palmer, 432 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 3: Bill Pullman reprising his role from the original, and then 433 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 3: Rick moranis playing Dark Helmet will be back? 434 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 2: Will Pizza the Hut be there too? 435 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:12,640 Speaker 1: Who played Pizza the Hut? 436 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 2: No, just the character Pizza the Hut? I don't know. Yeah, 437 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 2: was was John Candy in it? Yeah? He was the dog? 438 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 2: He was like Chewbacca guy. Yeah. 439 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: The last time Morana started in a live action movie 440 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: was Honey We Shrunk Ourselves in nineteen ninety seven, and 441 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: it went straight to video, and he was like, that 442 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: is just about enough for me. I've had plenty. 443 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 2: That's right, he's Barf. 444 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 3: That's John Candy, bar Barf, dude, dark helmet, Princess Vespa, Yogurt, 445 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 3: lone Star, Barf, Pizza, the Hut, everything. 446 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: My nine year old is gonna like this movie. 447 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 3: So Colonel Sanders, remember that this one guy's called Colonel Sanders. 448 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: Right. Those are some of the things that are trending 449 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: on this Tuesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a 450 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind 451 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines. 452 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: We still can't get your flu shots. 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