Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend September eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: That is Miles. That is the reference to a skiff
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Speaker 2: That's a reference to the Garth Brooks Deal with the
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Speaker 1: is Miles, Miles. How do you do?
Speaker 3: I do well?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 3: I do well? I knew well. How how doc do
Speaker 3: doc do you? You do?
Speaker 1: End onto you? My good sir? Pretty good? Pretty good.
Speaker 1: You know it's early, but we're here. It's early doors.
Speaker 1: Things could go left pretty quickly. Same yeah, still early,
Speaker 1: but we're here. We're going to be realistic for realistic
Speaker 1: times because we are going to here. Hear you, we
Speaker 1: see you, We apologize to you. So we're gonna Drew
Speaker 1: bre like the thirteen Drew barrymore apologies over the weekend
Speaker 1: that ultimately led her on a wandering path to arrive
Speaker 1: at the right decision. Talk about Lauren Bobert, talk about
Speaker 1: fucking what's his name? Russell brand Ship, autoworker, strike, Trump Press,
Speaker 1: all that anymore. But first miles, we like to let
Speaker 1: the listeners get to know us a little bit better
Speaker 1: and tell them something that we think is underrated or overrated.
Speaker 1: You wanna you want to kick us off? Under reed
Speaker 1: Stanzo brand Fedoras AKA.
Speaker 2: Something I think is underrated is fucking tapping, like tap
Speaker 2: pay for shit, tapping, pay for pat tapping paying for shit,
Speaker 2: the ability to contest taplus, Apple pay, Android pay, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: just tap it in, you know what I mean, or
Speaker 2: just like, well, if you got that credit Like I
Speaker 2: think most debit and credit cards have the little three
Speaker 2: like line thing where it's like, just tap it on, baby,
Speaker 2: they were.
Speaker 1: A little bit more specific about where to tap in
Speaker 1: some In some case sometimes it was kind of a yeah.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I've looked like an absolute buffoon, like doing the
Speaker 2: underside and like just young checkout people have been like
Speaker 2: fam dude, like on the screen where like the logo
Speaker 2: says like has the logo that matches with your card?
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, right, right, right, right right.
Speaker 2: For the longest time, I was always just you know,
Speaker 2: doing the sliding or putting the chip.
Speaker 1: In, and I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Recently, I've just embraced tapping more or using the phone,
Speaker 2: and it is really underrated how much it takes you
Speaker 2: out of the act for paying for goods. Hmm, Like
Speaker 2: it used to be this process like I would dig
Speaker 2: in my wallet, I will watch the number of like
Speaker 2: paper money bills begin to dwindle as I bought shit
Speaker 2: throughout the day, and that would have an effect on
Speaker 2: how I would spend money, because you'd be like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I had sixty dollars.
Speaker 1: In here, and now it's ten. You check your wallet
Speaker 1: in the morning and say, honey, the paper money bills
Speaker 1: are dwindling.
Speaker 3: They're dwindling, and a little moth would fly out.
Speaker 2: But I think now, like because we just tap or
Speaker 2: use a phone or whatever, it's less it like mentally,
Speaker 2: it's less about like what does this cost in relation
Speaker 2: to my money, and more so it's like does this
Speaker 2: shit have fucking Apple pay? Or like can I double
Speaker 2: click my phone and wave it or wave my plastic
Speaker 2: rectangle at a thing and then for something? So I
Speaker 2: think it is Actually it's under is a brilliant way
Speaker 2: to keep consumers go, oh yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 1: Those thoughts You were having those realizations about how much
Speaker 1: money you actually had left and how much money was
Speaker 1: being spent at any given purchase. Those are called friction
Speaker 1: miles then slow you down from consumption, and yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and those are bad. So it is good that we
Speaker 1: have invented a thing that soon enough we'll be able
Speaker 1: to purchase with our minds. That will be the thing
Speaker 1: that we can The way that we actually get telekinesis
Speaker 1: will only be used for like being able to look
Speaker 1: at a thing and be like purchased.
Speaker 3: Towels. Now, yes, God, I have become God.
Speaker 2: Yes, but yeah, I think part of me wants to
Speaker 2: kind of go back to money. But most places are
Speaker 2: like we're cash free, and I'm like, that's fucking backwards
Speaker 2: and also meant to, you know, obviously keep like poor
Speaker 2: people out because you're like, oh, you don't have this technology,
Speaker 2: then we can't take your money.
Speaker 1: Actually, we don't even take stinky bills here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember hearing that, Like in Europe, they were well
Speaker 1: on the like they were already tapping, tapping, tapping away,
Speaker 1: and when people from like other countries would come here,
Speaker 1: they'd be like, why are you guys still like swiping
Speaker 1: credit cards?
Speaker 2: I know it's the twentieth they had that the chip
Speaker 2: reader thing going like I remember years before.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the fuck is what is this new
Speaker 1: fangled technology here in Europe? Yeah all right, my underrated
Speaker 1: my own was going to be my overrated h oh.
Speaker 1: And then I told so I'll take you on my journey.
Speaker 1: So I went to one of those Instagram activation things
Speaker 1: like that are.
Speaker 2: Like you did it from such business, be like, that's
Speaker 2: how like a company of those Instagram activations?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's yeah, it's purely a you know, like
Speaker 1: they they usually pop up. They're like pop up museum
Speaker 1: exhibit type things, right, but they feel like if a
Speaker 1: museum exhibit was put on by the same people who
Speaker 1: do like local haunted houses like that one. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, pretty good one, the one I went to. So,
Speaker 1: I think what I experienced yesterday was kind of the
Speaker 1: dre like the lowest version of this. It was called
Speaker 1: Bubble World. Might lead you to believe that there were
Speaker 1: like bubbles, you know, kids like bubbles, love bubbles. There
Speaker 1: are no bubbles at Bubble World. What the there are balloons?
Speaker 1: There is a giant ball pit. There are a bunch
Speaker 1: of different rooms with different experience is different lighting that
Speaker 1: are are highly photographable. They have put the least work
Speaker 1: into covering up the seams, though, Like you look up
Speaker 1: and you see that you are in Like they've put
Speaker 1: drywall walls in to like separate the rooms for purposes
Speaker 1: of Instagram photographing, but they haven't like put a ceiling in,
Speaker 1: and in fact, like the air conditioning ducts are just
Speaker 1: like kind of draped from one room to the other.
Speaker 1: Oh it's it's like pretty pretty rough in there. It
Speaker 1: feels like they were charged with creating a museum exhibiting
Speaker 1: given like a two thousand dollars budget. This all sounds terrible,
Speaker 1: my kids, I asked my kids this morning, and this
Speaker 1: is when it went from underrated or overrated to underrated.
Speaker 1: I asked my kids, like, so, what what we think
Speaker 1: of the weekend? Like cat was everyone's favorite parts of
Speaker 1: the weekend. They were like, oh, Death, the bubbles Man,
Speaker 1: the bubble exhibit was the best. I went, like my
Speaker 1: five year old literally said, I wish it had never ended.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's.
Speaker 1: And one of the rooms is just full of like
Speaker 1: balloon like big you know, the like real big like
Speaker 1: weather balloon size balloons. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like you just like walk through.
Speaker 1: There and like kick those and like they like bounce
Speaker 1: into other people, but it doesn't matter because they're balloons.
Speaker 1: And yeah, for sure, there's like the biggest ball pit
Speaker 1: I've ever been in. Okay, So there were some superlatives attached.
Speaker 1: It was you could say it is the biggest ball
Speaker 1: pit you've ever been in. Yes, I think that's definitely
Speaker 1: the biggest ball pit I've ever Okay, So they got
Speaker 1: something over there, bubble something. It's not clear how it
Speaker 1: ties into bubbles. And you can purchase a bubble te
Speaker 1: u ahead of time that will be there for you. Miles.
Speaker 1: The bubble tea is criminal. It is in a big
Speaker 1: like purple can that looks like a monster energy drink.
Speaker 1: And it was like old, Oh it's like a canned
Speaker 1: Yeah it was canned. And they were like, no, we
Speaker 1: don't got straws. Just drink it, take it to the dome.
Speaker 3: How do I open it? Oh, you don't have a
Speaker 3: can opener.
Speaker 1: One of those.
Speaker 3: You're prepared.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, like these things are something I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if they're over it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're underrated. They are they I feel
Speaker 1: like they are the most of this moment. Like things
Speaker 1: they didn't exist when I was a kid. I kind
Speaker 1: of wish they did, like now, kind of seeing it
Speaker 1: through my kid's eyes, Like you know, haunted houses were
Speaker 1: some of my favorite memory as a kid. Like yes,
Speaker 1: the like the guy in the Wolfman mask with a
Speaker 1: chainsaw was like mixing chainsaws with Wolfman, right right, right right.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit drunk. And they're a great
Speaker 1: opportunity to take you pictures of your kids. Mainly, I'm
Speaker 1: driven by cuteness. I want I want cuteness.
Speaker 3: They've they've mashed it.
Speaker 2: I mean before we're talking about like growing up in
Speaker 2: La it was like fucking three things you could do
Speaker 2: as a kid, like in the late eighties, Like you
Speaker 2: would go to travel Town in Griffith Park where.
Speaker 3: You could just train look at old ash trains.
Speaker 2: They didn't move, they just fucking were there, and you
Speaker 2: could look inside there was like one little tiny railroad
Speaker 2: that would go around. And then you would buy a
Speaker 2: like injection molded plastic toy that like you could make
Speaker 2: on demand from like a gigantic machine that smelled like
Speaker 2: wild fumes. And then you could go to the bred
Speaker 2: tarpits or the zoo or the kids Museum and that
Speaker 2: was about it, and like, now I love that. They're
Speaker 2: like they know that they get people to just spend money.
Speaker 2: They're like, dude, the ship lights up, your kids just
Speaker 2: run around. Look it's forty eight bucks, Like.
Speaker 1: It's too expensive, Like you time would be better spent
Speaker 1: in nature. For sure. It is bleak in there, but
Speaker 1: it's bleak in a way that I think is appropriate,
Speaker 1: right says important things about our time and our moment.
Speaker 3: Right right right.
Speaker 1: The New York Times like wrote an article about these,
Speaker 1: Like there's like a Rose something, the Rose Experience. There's
Speaker 1: like Refinery twenty nine had like a quote unquote art
Speaker 1: installation that was like called twenty nine Rooms that sounded
Speaker 1: like it's suck shit. But they, you know, like they
Speaker 1: have these high minded claims of like pop misticis like
Speaker 1: when we arrived at the bubble thing, they were like,
Speaker 1: and the bubble is the perfect shape and like you
Speaker 1: were always going to come here regardless, like your fate
Speaker 1: was going to bring And it's a great blend of
Speaker 1: like all the bullshit on Instagram, the weirdness of our
Speaker 1: just like cultural moment and also just like fun fun
Speaker 1: for kids. But it is bleak. It's dark in there.
Speaker 1: But you, I think it's important that everybody go and
Speaker 1: like stare into the dark void at the heart of
Speaker 1: our of air. Yeah, so I recommend it.
Speaker 2: It's like an escalation on the r like the way
Speaker 2: that like cannibalism or capitalism finds a way to be
Speaker 2: like yeah, finds a way to just sort of find
Speaker 2: like a dead, dying host and then like keep making
Speaker 2: money off of it.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, back in.
Speaker 2: Our day, a bank would go out of business and
Speaker 2: that became the Halloween store. That's right now, the grocery
Speaker 2: store goes out of business and now it's Bubble World.
Speaker 1: Now you can go.
Speaker 2: Into time and time and time again, and we're not
Speaker 2: like they don't have to pay that much to turn.
Speaker 1: Re branded it as the Los Angeles Art Center, fucking
Speaker 1: burnt out Ralphs's. It's the Los Angeles Art Center where
Speaker 1: you can go see the van Go projection thing. You
Speaker 1: can go see like a dinosaur puppet show. Yeah, or
Speaker 1: you can go to Bubble World.
Speaker 2: Those those those that companies killing it because we're everywhere
Speaker 2: now they're like, yeah, man, we just kind of license
Speaker 2: it and then we just do like our three D
Speaker 2: light shows and cities across the world.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, yeah, exactly. So I don't know, it's my
Speaker 1: kids seem to enjoy it. Uh, And I think everybody
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, like it, do are other people experiencing this?
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on it? Like? I get the
Speaker 1: cultural criticism of it, like, but as long as you
Speaker 1: just take it as like a haunted house level attraction,
Speaker 1: I feel like yeah, uh and and you know it's
Speaker 1: like you don't mind spending way too much money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this isn't something that's turning the art world on its ear, No,
Speaker 1: I guess that. Yeah, Museum of ice Cream is one. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 1: that's a factory in New York coming soon to a
Speaker 1: town near you there. Yeah, they're they're dark. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like little pieces of Las Vegas, is what it
Speaker 1: feels like.
Speaker 2: M you know, righty, because these are very Veguas type
Speaker 2: things where you're like, I don't know, in between like
Speaker 2: binge drinking at a blackjack table. Take your kids to
Speaker 2: the ballpit where you can probably get I don't know,
Speaker 2: some kind of illness from touching the plastic balls that
Speaker 2: are not cleaned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. We'll see if my family survives from
Speaker 1: like being in this ballpit from over the weekend with
Speaker 1: like air just like haphazardly piped from one location to another.
Speaker 1: Because if we do, then then we're rebranding to MRSA World,
Speaker 1: not Bubble World. Right, So my overrated instead is just
Speaker 1: like I guess the structural integrity of raspberries. I always
Speaker 1: I expect them to like hold together better than they do,
Speaker 1: and then I rinse them and I get like just
Speaker 1: raspberry confetti stuck in my strainer instead of some delicious red.
Speaker 2: We're kind of using like a sort of like a
Speaker 2: bigger kind of strainer like with like like big stainless
Speaker 2: kind that kind of creates like a million little razor
Speaker 2: blade holes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I use all different ones. They just comes. It's
Speaker 1: also coming f mesh works the plastic with like a
Speaker 1: few hole, you know, not that much, but it's.
Speaker 3: Always been a little bit of meat behind. Huh.
Speaker 1: By the way, do you do you eat popcorn? When
Speaker 1: you pop popcorn at home? You eat it out of
Speaker 1: a colander? No, okay, that's I don't even popcorn at home.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, you look at me like I'm a
Speaker 1: a monster. That's disc that's disgusting, man.
Speaker 2: You know why I think the reason we didn't have
Speaker 2: a microwave growing up till like I was like fourteen,
Speaker 2: so I early on, I remember in the eighties, my
Speaker 2: fucking dad bought, like inherited, some fucking wild ass popcorn
Speaker 2: making machine that took way too long and it tasted
Speaker 2: nothing like the movie theater.
Speaker 1: So I was like, my fuck this.
Speaker 2: And then I remember going to like other kids' houses
Speaker 2: they would do the microwave popcorn, like this shit is
Speaker 2: fucking amazing.
Speaker 3: But then I didn't have it at home.
Speaker 1: And then by that point I was just eating Tyson
Speaker 1: frozen chicken patties like Terioki flavored.
Speaker 3: That was my thing.
Speaker 1: I kept eating out of a microwave. So we had
Speaker 1: a movie night the other night, and I put the
Speaker 1: popcorn for the kids in a calendar, and like some
Speaker 1: of we had some friends over and they were like,
Speaker 1: this is fun. Why are you putting it in the
Speaker 1: calendar instead of a big ball? And I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's always what we did, like when
Speaker 1: I was growing up, we never ate it out of
Speaker 1: a big ball.
Speaker 2: It was always the common I wonder because the calender
Speaker 2: won't break, or like if you have like a ceramic bowl,
Speaker 2: because I remember we had a ceramic bowl and I
Speaker 2: was like, put it in the bowl.
Speaker 1: And I do remember, I do have.
Speaker 2: A memory of maybe eating it out of a calendar
Speaker 2: or something, or like a stainless steel bowl.
Speaker 1: Be like no, because I can't trust you to hold
Speaker 1: a fucking big ass bowl. Right, Yeah, it might be that. Anyways,
Speaker 1: you gotta you got an overrid Yeah, overrated? Uh what
Speaker 1: the fuck is oh? Man?
Speaker 3: Folding?
Speaker 2: Fucking I'm sorry this is turned into a dad cast
Speaker 2: over here with folding tiny ass baby clothes. Man her
Speaker 2: Massey and I we used to fucking fold these ships
Speaker 2: like we were auditioning to work at like Abercrombie, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, like just fucking oh yeah, and
Speaker 2: put that there with this side that and then you know,
Speaker 2: and every it's funny. Every parent told us that, like
Speaker 2: who would like look at their like, oh, look at
Speaker 2: you folding the ship.
Speaker 3: They're like, see how long that shit lasts? Go ahead,
Speaker 3: let me see.
Speaker 1: Let me come back in a few months to see
Speaker 1: if you aren't just fucking balling it up on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And now like it's slowly devolving into now do
Speaker 2: like a half a fold, But it ain't.
Speaker 1: It's it's not like how it used to be. So
Speaker 1: it's it's it's on the name of efficiency.
Speaker 2: I've realized in the beginning the all the aesthetic part
Speaker 2: is all kind of part of the excitement.
Speaker 1: And then you move into the sort of practical phase
Speaker 1: of parenting where you're like, I do not need to
Speaker 1: fold up a shirt that is smaller than my fucking hand. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: it's like you need like one of those headlamps and
Speaker 1: like a jeweler's loop to like fold some of these
Speaker 1: kids clothes, Like, yeah, fold the socks for a baby.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh man, the disrespect of the socks to
Speaker 3: the point.
Speaker 1: We don't even wear socks.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like anti sock because I think the
Speaker 2: fun of having a baby out is like a little
Speaker 2: baby's feet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, baby feet sometimes, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but but it's been the summer the whole time,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So like we're only now
Speaker 2: moving into like I guess the time of the year
Speaker 2: where you would think of things like the air temperature
Speaker 2: being a little too cold for baby feet.
Speaker 1: But I think shoes are up in one of those
Speaker 1: little things. Exactly. Shoes look stupid right now to me.
Speaker 1: I love shoes, Yeah, crazy.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean shout out to my boy row who
Speaker 2: got me little Jordan's for the guy's child, and like
Speaker 2: I put them on a few times, but then other times,
Speaker 2: like we have these other shoes and I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: you don't even.
Speaker 1: Walk, so it's just like it's like costume me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: free the baby feet. That's whenever you're going shopping for
Speaker 1: baby shoes, people are always trying to tell you heartbreaking,
Speaker 1: six word long stories while selling them to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I'm like if they're lightly used, fam, I
Speaker 2: don't I'm off that that sounds spooky.
Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, I add so many baby shoes
Speaker 1: to sell lately, used because babies grow out of their
Speaker 1: shoes really quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Half of a story is never I have baby shoes exactly,
Speaker 2: never used.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hit me up.
Speaker 2: I got Nike Hurrachis that I thought. Man, I bought
Speaker 2: them like a like the moment I found out we
Speaker 2: were having a kid, I was like, I have.
Speaker 1: The Hurazis too. I got the same ship, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Then cut to You're like, man, this
Speaker 1: I feel like this bait. This looks stupid and it's
Speaker 1: like too much weight on my little baby's leg. For
Speaker 1: nipple to wear shoes. So anyway, yeah, that's me. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
Speaker 1: to talk about some news. Yep, and we're back and
Speaker 1: we have an update. Yeah, on the Lauren Bobert story.
Speaker 1: Last we checked in, Uh, Lauren Bobert had been kicked
Speaker 1: out a performance of the Beatlejuice musical, Uh for like vaping,
Speaker 1: being loud, just being enthusiastics really like the show, enjoying
Speaker 1: the show too much. I hadn't heard that her spokesperson
Speaker 1: had come back and vehemently denied the vaping allegation and
Speaker 1: said instead that people were confused because there was a
Speaker 1: fog machine that was part of the show.
Speaker 3: That happened to just blow up plume right next to
Speaker 3: one person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyways, over the weekend, it turns out theaters have
Speaker 1: unnervingly good security football Oh my god, were they using
Speaker 1: like planning on using this for like one of those
Speaker 1: commercials where they're like audiences can't stop enjoying, you know,
Speaker 1: like howun was this footage so good? It's why are
Speaker 1: you guys watching us so close?
Speaker 2: And they could fucking wild ass groping, like the audiences
Speaker 2: love it. They can't contain themselves a Beatlejuice. They're like, wow,
Speaker 2: that's a full on smear campaign down there.
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, it really.
Speaker 2: Was interesting to see how like it went from we
Speaker 2: saw her getting kicked out, and it was almost like
Speaker 2: they it was like maybe they were trying to fuck
Speaker 2: with the Bober people to be like, look, we have
Speaker 2: video y'all getting kicked out.
Speaker 1: You want us to go step further.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's a video from inside the theater of y'all
Speaker 2: getting kicked out. You want us to go step further,
Speaker 2: here's a video of you vaping in the show and
Speaker 2: doing just getting really sexually acted, you know, doing your thing.
Speaker 2: Apparently in the middle of Beetlejuice, which apparently has a
Speaker 2: like a by the like there's like a Broadway musical,
Speaker 2: like advocacy group they say the Beetlejuice musical is good
Speaker 2: for children ten and up, So presumably in a theater
Speaker 2: full of children, they engaged in I guess what could
Speaker 2: be described as mutual groping, or as I would put it,
Speaker 2: he was remodeling her upstairs and she was remodeling his downstairs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, during the show and the pants handy yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there was there's a lot, a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of frantic movement.
Speaker 2: And it turns out that not only does she vape,
Speaker 2: but we also found out that her boyfriend not only
Speaker 2: was is he a Democrat bar owner that of a
Speaker 2: bar that hosts track shows, but he's also not licensed
Speaker 2: to perform mammograms in dimly lit theaters.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of revelations that.
Speaker 1: Yah, I mean she so she has continuously railed against
Speaker 1: drag Queen's reading two children, accusing them of sexualizing kids,
Speaker 1: and you know, so the hypocrisy on display for giving
Speaker 1: her boyfriend a fleeting over the pants hand job in
Speaker 1: the middle of a family musical is uh not great
Speaker 1: for her? Now, more on brand for I guess maybe
Speaker 1: less on brand is that I guess I guess we'll
Speaker 1: go with more on brand, uh for Republicans is the
Speaker 1: not giving a shit about the rights of pregnant women
Speaker 1: because she was apparently vaping right in front of a
Speaker 1: pregnant woman who asked Bobert to stop vaping inside the
Speaker 1: theater and she refused to do it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that's you know exactly, just that's fine, man.
Speaker 2: You know what, the baby will grow stronger with this
Speaker 2: tiger bullet vape juice because this shit is bomb. Here's smells,
Speaker 2: friend Buster tried in the name of the vape God.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's it's I mean again, the hypocrisy is
Speaker 2: the point, and it is their thing because it's never
Speaker 2: about what they're saying. It's about again, they just want
Speaker 2: to create a world that is violent towards people that
Speaker 2: are not like sort of cisgendered, heterow Christian people. So
Speaker 2: they got to say all this shit not because they
Speaker 2: actually give a fuck about or this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: So you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, the backlash is not much as again as
Speaker 2: you as you'd expect, and Colter called her a bimbo,
Speaker 2: Megan McCain called her trash, and Bobert issued like a
Speaker 2: non apology where she said she fell short and didn't
Speaker 2: want to blame it all on nine to eleven, but
Speaker 2: things have been tough since nine to eleven. And also
Speaker 2: she said, with a very public divorce of her ex
Speaker 2: who if you don't know he's he exposed his peepee
Speaker 2: at a bowling alley, I believe in previous years. And
Speaker 2: also met Laura Bilbert. I didn't yeah, met her when
Speaker 2: she was sixteen and he was twenty two. That's when
Speaker 2: that love affair started. But they swear they did nothing
Speaker 2: until she was seventeen, which is the age of legal
Speaker 2: consent in Colorado.
Speaker 3: So stop asking questions.
Speaker 2: Stop being weird. Everyone, stop being weird. Okay, we know
Speaker 2: how to keep our hands to ourselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I do feel like like part of the reason
Speaker 1: of this video is has gone so viral is because
Speaker 1: like she is scantily clad and you know, being that
Speaker 1: it there does feel like there's like an uncomfortable level
Speaker 1: of voyeurism in this one, just oh yeah saying like
Speaker 1: people who like, all right, we we had our fun,
Speaker 1: but people who are still like posting about this like
Speaker 1: five days later being like, look, look great here you
Speaker 1: can see it's like, what's.
Speaker 3: That move called?
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know, I think it should be more
Speaker 2: that like this person is unfit for to serve in office,
Speaker 2: but we knew that before the vaping. And you know,
Speaker 2: unlicensed performance of a brasser's video in like a theater.
Speaker 1: So truly like some performative, uh, just obnoxiousness that is
Speaker 1: almost impressive. It's like Cape the scene in Cape Fear. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Superser Victor called that. He was like, she's she's giving
Speaker 1: Robert to Nero and Cape fear.
Speaker 3: That's not something you want to be giving.
Speaker 1: No, being an asshole on purpose. Yeah, that's who you
Speaker 1: are reminding us of right now. All right, well let's
Speaker 1: move on to Drew barrymore people. So this is kind
Speaker 1: of fun, This is okay. It feels like there has
Speaker 1: been a change in how the public feels about unions
Speaker 1: and oh yeah, the powers that be, repeatedly are not
Speaker 1: ready for that change in how people feel about unions,
Speaker 1: and so they pull shit like trying to bring shows
Speaker 1: back even though there's a strike on and yeah, you
Speaker 1: know they're like that. And this happened, I guess back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, like jay Leno actually brought
Speaker 1: a show back. Some of these daytime shows actually brought
Speaker 1: their shows back during the strike, and I mean mostly
Speaker 1: got away with it. Like I still thought jay Leno
Speaker 1: was super cool up until I heard that recently, but
Speaker 1: it's not changing my opinion of him. Yeah, so brought
Speaker 1: her show back and then has faced swift backlash from
Speaker 1: people who are like, what's your fucking problem?
Speaker 2: Man? That does feel like the kind of shit people
Speaker 2: were saying, like Hey, what's your fucking problem?
Speaker 1: Like, what's your fucking deal?
Speaker 3: What's your major malfunction?
Speaker 1: So she posted an apology video like just she tried
Speaker 1: so hard to find the words uh yeah in a
Speaker 1: way that makes it clear like she could really use
Speaker 1: some writers but find the magic words that would make
Speaker 1: her actions okay while still allowing her to have her
Speaker 1: show back.
Speaker 2: And she just never quite got there, even in the
Speaker 2: four minutes and five seconds it took. So we'll jump
Speaker 2: around and maybe hear the same thing being said over
Speaker 2: and over again.
Speaker 3: But here's Drew.
Speaker 4: I believe there's nothing I can do or say in
Speaker 4: this moment to make it okay to own a decision.
Speaker 2: So that girl, your teleprompter is too far off protected
Speaker 2: the eye line for the camera.
Speaker 4: And I would just take full responsibility for my actions.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know there's just.
Speaker 4: Nothing I can do that will make this okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're actually about to do it, yep, hold on,
Speaker 1: you're on your way to something. Okay, this is thirty
Speaker 1: seconds ahead.
Speaker 4: Just want everyone to know my intentions. Never been.
Speaker 2: In a place to break a strike where people are
Speaker 2: trying to advocate for their own well, well go there
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: Just in the crushing of labor and the work force
Speaker 1: that has made my career possible.
Speaker 3: Jump ahead twenty seconds.
Speaker 4: I don't exactly know what to say because sometimes who
Speaker 4: is she.
Speaker 1: Talking to the camera.
Speaker 2: Well, she's clearly has she's doing the thing where she's
Speaker 2: reading off her laptop, but she couldn't for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: There's must be like a slip.
Speaker 3: Of paper just off to the side beyond.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've also been in meetings where older people are
Speaker 1: doing this, and I think sometimes there's like the prompt
Speaker 1: like not the promptness, but like their image of themselves
Speaker 1: is over to that side and they keep looking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they look, they're checking out themselves even though the camera
Speaker 1: is over on this side, or or she's reading a statement, and.
Speaker 3: Just because the angle, yeah, the angle.
Speaker 2: Because the other thing is sometimes people have a webcam
Speaker 2: that's completely off away from where their computer screen is,
Speaker 2: so everything's happening on one screen and you almost kind
Speaker 2: of look to the camera.
Speaker 3: So you're like, oh, hi, I'm acknowledging you.
Speaker 2: But this looks like a laptop set up, and she
Speaker 2: doesn't strike me as someone would like a matrix style
Speaker 2: multi screen setup. So anyway, there's that Let's skip ahead
Speaker 2: another twenty seconds.
Speaker 4: I'll just stand out there and accept and be responsible.
Speaker 3: Good good, good.
Speaker 4: And there's a huge question of the why why am I?
Speaker 1: That's not what we care about.
Speaker 3: I just like, go ahead, twenty second.
Speaker 1: Maybe are you going to keep doing it?
Speaker 4: Scales? And I thought, if we could go on during
Speaker 4: a global pandemic, this is my part, and everything that
Speaker 4: the world is experienced through twenty twenty, why would this.
Speaker 1: Sideline us a strike? It's a strike, it's a labor action.
Speaker 4: I want to just put one foot in front of
Speaker 4: the other and make a show that's there for people,
Speaker 4: oh of anything else that's happening in the world.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Drew, did you think your show was the oh?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, this is just wanted to make a
Speaker 1: show that was there for people insensitive times. And I
Speaker 1: weighed the scale, and I thought, if we could go
Speaker 1: on during a global pandemic and everything that the world
Speaker 1: has experienced through twenty twenty, why would this sideline us?
Speaker 1: So I want to just put one foot in front
Speaker 1: of the other, make a show that's there for people,
Speaker 1: regardless of anything that's happening in the world, because that's
Speaker 1: when I think we all need something that wants to
Speaker 1: be there for being very realistic in very realistic times.
Speaker 1: So that is my why.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, now I guess she did she end that
Speaker 2: by saying well here? Did she end that by saying
Speaker 2: I'm not going to make the show? Or she's just
Speaker 2: saying sorry. That video is just saying sorry. No.
Speaker 1: This was like one of a series of shows where
Speaker 1: she was looking for the magic, whereas they were going
Speaker 1: to make it better better each one, people were like,
Speaker 1: shut the fuck up, like what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Just just quit? And then on Sunday she announced she
Speaker 1: was going to pause the show's premiere until the strike
Speaker 1: is over all right, So she finally made the right call.
Speaker 1: It's nothing I can do to Yeah, no, you just
Speaker 1: did it. We're good. You know, we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on you. But that's uh yeah. And then Bill Maher
Speaker 1: did the same ship he's going to suspend his plans
Speaker 1: to bring his show back, presumably after he you know,
Speaker 1: did a run through and was just liked, no, is
Speaker 1: he really really? Are we really? Yeah? I think so
Speaker 1: that's what It's an alert that just came across as
Speaker 1: her recording record. Bill Maher holds off on real time
Speaker 1: return as w g a talks set.
Speaker 3: There you go, a Bill Tumar.
Speaker 1: Indeed, he's he thinks, actually, oh, the talks are set
Speaker 1: to resume, so we'll wait and see if there's zany
Speaker 1: demands get met.
Speaker 2: I'm also like, I love again the likening of a
Speaker 2: global pandemic that's still raging on and comparing that to
Speaker 2: a writer's strike too, where it's like, this writer's strike
Speaker 2: is like the new COVID.
Speaker 1: It's a meting list. Nothing we could do about it,
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with it, and it's so unfair
Speaker 1: to people, you know what I mean that I just
Speaker 1: wanted to provide like some glimmer of hope while these
Speaker 1: greedy monsters, you know, split hairs over wages. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: well I wasn't expecting Bill. So is he going to
Speaker 1: do a No, he's not unpositive he's going to do
Speaker 1: a monologue when the show's finally back where he's like really, guys, yeah,
Speaker 1: like he's written by writer shitting on.
Speaker 2: No, No, No, he's gonna have the writers come out
Speaker 2: and they're gonna they're gonna be on the panel and
Speaker 2: he's just gonna fucking like, really, got was it really
Speaker 2: worth it?
Speaker 3: Is it worth?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 1: Can't good point Bill who apparently it's one of the
Speaker 1: best paying jobs in comedy writing because he's such an
Speaker 1: asshole to work right, right, So all right, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's take one more break and we'll be back to
Speaker 1: finish it out, and we're back. We and Russell Brand
Speaker 1: has been accused of rape and has swiftly been defended
Speaker 1: by a who's who of people who when they're defending you,
Speaker 1: you know you're probably wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw it was like a very yeah, like there
Speaker 2: was at the Sunday Times and there was like even
Speaker 2: like a documentary video piece I saw over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel four have
Speaker 1: been looking to this for a while, and you know,
Speaker 1: the allegations, the details are really horrifying. One of the
Speaker 1: victims was just sixteen at the time, while he was
Speaker 1: in his thirties, and he allegedly nicknamed her the child,
Speaker 1: asked her to read passages from the novel Lolita during
Speaker 1: their time together, once kissed her mother on the mouth
Speaker 1: and you know, another person he's sexually assaulted. He then
Speaker 1: threatened to take legal action if she ever spoke about
Speaker 1: the incident publicly. So allegedly of course, but right, and
Speaker 1: who was what voltron of cool upstanding men came to
Speaker 1: his aid. He got your Elon Musk, you got your
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, and of course you got Andrew Tate. All
Speaker 1: coming through.
Speaker 2: Was the matrix coming from I think that's what he's
Speaker 2: been saying about. This is what happens when you call
Speaker 2: out the matrix, it comes for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah he Uh, it's like being charged with murder and
Speaker 1: having like OJ and like the one armed man from
Speaker 1: The Fugitive. Yeah, hey what don't don't judge swiftly, let's
Speaker 1: hear him out. But there, you know, Alex Jones is like,
Speaker 1: it's because he's come out against globalists because he like
Speaker 1: started embracing anti vax ship during the Yeah that right
Speaker 1: word tack from Russell brand. Uh.
Speaker 2: Recently has been really fun to watch yea, and by
Speaker 2: that more like this guy's still around and also, oh
Speaker 2: he's doing this kind of material now, so what's going
Speaker 2: on things?
Speaker 1: He's the Easter Bunny and hop that's his voices, The
Speaker 1: Easter Bunny and Hot.
Speaker 3: How recent is that movie For someone who's to recent?
Speaker 1: I think, I don't, I don't know, you know, it's
Speaker 1: him and James Marsden a two hander between him and Marsden,
Speaker 1: but he claims he's the victim of a coordinated attack
Speaker 1: by the mainstream media. Twenty eleven. Yeah, so he was
Speaker 1: deemed the best voice for a children's movie and like personality,
Speaker 1: like his personality is the well people.
Speaker 2: Would love this like thing he was doing when he
Speaker 2: first came out there, Like he's like Jack Sparrow but
Speaker 2: like the real life god Jack Sparrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the word tiny pants and is sexy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like the like a cartoonish like version of what
Speaker 1: it was to be a rock star back when those
Speaker 1: were still what those still existed, is like Mick Jagger is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like that's what the fuck up thing is. Like
Speaker 1: he was like I was merely very very promiscuous, and
Speaker 1: my relationships were always consensual. So he's like leaning it,
Speaker 1: he's like weaponizing his persona to be like that's all
Speaker 1: this is, which is fucked up, And you know he
Speaker 1: feels it seems like he's using a character that he
Speaker 1: built his career on, was using it to be like
Speaker 1: a sexual predator and abuser, right, which the one conspiracy
Speaker 1: involving Russell Brand that I do think is interesting was
Speaker 1: one on our low stakes conspiracy theories from eight months
Speaker 1: ago that said Russell brand is moving to the right
Speaker 1: so that when the accusations finally come out, he can
Speaker 1: claim it's the witch hunt.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, So okay they called that one from fall
Speaker 2: outer Space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it makes that
Speaker 2: they end. You look at how you know, when you
Speaker 2: when you go into that sort of media atmosphere, that's
Speaker 2: precisely the one you want to be in because it's all,
Speaker 2: you know, predicated on not believing women or victims or anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy who's fucking hilarious, Right, let's see. Uh. So,
Speaker 1: the United Auto Workers are continuing to strike through the weekend.
Speaker 1: Negotiations are ongoing, but they're there's this political article that
Speaker 1: was all about like how this is the Republicans chance
Speaker 1: to like actually side with union workers and labor or
Speaker 1: like it was all like very performative. It was like,
Speaker 1: this is their chance to seem like they're sympathizing with them,
Speaker 1: although we know Republicans will never actually side with labor
Speaker 1: because yeah, and and so one of the key points
Speaker 1: of the strike is that electronic vehicles uh can be
Speaker 1: made by non union workers, right, because we like ramped
Speaker 1: into making EV's during a time of like very weak
Speaker 1: unions and immense capital power of the last you know,
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen years. And so the easy answer is
Speaker 1: for the Democrats and power to end that loophole and
Speaker 1: tell companies they need to like make all automakers you know,
Speaker 1: part of the union. But that option obviously isn't even mentioned.
Speaker 1: Like it's more, they could end the loophole that like
Speaker 1: the workers are bringing up. That is like the main point.
Speaker 1: So like, yeah, the Republicans are like what about that?
Speaker 1: So they're they're basically weaponizing the fact that EV's EV
Speaker 1: workers are treated like shit to be like, well EV's
Speaker 1: are bad then, and like we need to go back
Speaker 1: to like making guests powered automobiles because those are union protected, right,
Speaker 1: And it's it's just a wild article to read because
Speaker 1: like there's no mention, no idea that like either side
Speaker 1: can exercise the political power to make auto exactly. I
Speaker 1: loved your look. I like someone editing this piece.
Speaker 3: I love the article. I love what you wrote about it,
Speaker 3: except for the part.
Speaker 1: When you're saying that there's something that corporations could do
Speaker 1: to somehow like make things easier, or that maybe some
Speaker 1: of the regulations need to be in that direction.
Speaker 2: Let's let's avoid any talk of that. We don't want that,
Speaker 2: we don't want that in the reality of the minds
Speaker 2: of our readers, that there's somehow any action that the
Speaker 2: corporation could take to make this better, because they don't.
Speaker 1: We know they can't do that, and we don't want to.
Speaker 1: Just look Ev bad EV's bad Republicans. Here's your chance, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And then uh, Donald Trump went on Meet the Press,
Speaker 1: Yeah on Sunday. You know, Yeah, he's getting his at
Speaker 1: baths in the media to say whatever the fuck he wants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with Kristen Welker, who took over, and you know
Speaker 2: she she definitely pushed back on a lot of his answers.
Speaker 2: But this a lot of a lot it was made
Speaker 2: of this interview, mostly for the fact that it just
Speaker 2: looks like we're sleep walking into another twenty sixteen in
Speaker 2: terms of covering Trump, where it's like, don't talk about that,
Speaker 2: you don't need like what else needs to be known
Speaker 2: here because we know that this guy's behavior is beyond
Speaker 2: the fucking pale. But it's just like, why are we
Speaker 2: now doing the thing where he's gonna go on TV.
Speaker 2: He's like I went on MSNBC, he's gonna lie. The
Speaker 2: people that follow him, they're only gonna see him do
Speaker 2: lies on camera and not the part where he's getting
Speaker 2: checked and and he if they did see those parts
Speaker 2: where Kristen Welker is pushing back, they will use some
Speaker 2: combination of misogyny and racism to do maga alchemy on.
Speaker 1: Their own brain and be like, yeah, honestly nothing.
Speaker 2: And then for regular viewers of MSNBC, they their minds
Speaker 2: are made up too, So this like platforming for platforming
Speaker 2: sake is just a really bad strategy going into the
Speaker 2: next election.
Speaker 3: But we get it.
Speaker 2: It's all about fucking ratings and shit like that. And
Speaker 2: there have been a lot there are a lot of
Speaker 2: pieces over the weekend being like why is everybody attacking
Speaker 2: Joe Biden and not Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, people, most people are have their
Speaker 1: minds made up about Trump, but wait, what.
Speaker 3: Are you saying about Joe Biden?
Speaker 1: And like a lot of it was being like.
Speaker 2: They're calling him old and the mainstream media is not
Speaker 2: doing a good job of showcasing his accomplishments, and like,
Speaker 2: while I get that record low unemployment is cool, on paper,
Speaker 2: and it looks like we're avoiding a recession is a
Speaker 2: great talking point.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's not we say this all the time.
Speaker 2: It's not a metric that resonates with the everyday voter
Speaker 2: that is needed to win an election. And like there's
Speaker 2: so much like banging of the heads against the wall
Speaker 2: from like the pundit classroom, Like why.
Speaker 3: Don't they get it through their skulls that this shit
Speaker 3: is good? This shit is objectively good.
Speaker 2: And again they're not focusing on the things that actually
Speaker 2: make people feel like things are going well, Like is
Speaker 2: healthcare affordable?
Speaker 3: Is housing affordable?
Speaker 2: Do parents feel safe sending their kids to places that
Speaker 2: could potentially become scenes of like immense violence and tragedy?
Speaker 2: Is higher education attainable without going into severe debt?
Speaker 1: Because the answer is no to a lot of these things.
Speaker 1: And that's what normal.
Speaker 2: Like they're just so caught up in speaking their own
Speaker 2: language of policy and finance that they don't realize that
Speaker 2: this shit goes over people's heads.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's like it's like they all they felt.
Speaker 2: Was like going to twenty twenty four, we just need
Speaker 2: to be able to say record low employment, we got
Speaker 2: inflation under control and like he's gonna walk right in.
Speaker 2: You just walk right back into the White House. But
Speaker 2: you're not addressing these actual things that are experiential for people.
Speaker 2: Like we were just talking about the child fucking tax credit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like that was helping keep the fucking like have the
Speaker 2: child poverty rate. They let that shit lapse and when
Speaker 2: it went poof, and that was that could have been
Speaker 2: an easy win.
Speaker 3: But no, so it's shit like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you keep yelling at people about why they're
Speaker 2: dumb for not knowing about like record low unemployment. Okay,
Speaker 2: but how many jobs do you need to be able
Speaker 2: to afford rent in any metropolitan area right now?
Speaker 1: Thanks? All right, Well those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending on this Monday morning. Yeah, we are
Speaker 1: back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bye bye,