Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Go, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special week
Speaker 2: trend week weekend, trending, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2: It has so many names. Let's go as we call it.
Speaker 2: We're we tell you what was trending over the weekend.
Speaker 2: What's trending on this line Monday morning?
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: My name is Jack O'Brien, thrilled to be joined by
Speaker 2: super producer Brian Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Jack o Brian, It's Brian the Editor.
Speaker 2: I'm Brian the Editor. Oh that's right, My bad, My bad, my.
Speaker 3: I forgot about the rebrand. It's okay, it's okay. Well,
Speaker 3: we all make mistakes.
Speaker 2: I fucked up. Fucky man, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: All right, let's just let's look. Look, let's just start.
Speaker 3: The whole thing over the top again again again, until
Speaker 3: you get it.
Speaker 2: Brian the editor, time we've gone through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a long morning.
Speaker 2: Demanding it's called brand.
Speaker 1: It's ten thirty right now. Yeah, just letting you guys know.
Speaker 2: We usually record at nine.
Speaker 1: We're an hour and a half late because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, it was just the first thing about the weekend.
Speaker 2: I gotta say I say this whenever, like Christmas or
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day or Saint Patti's Day happens on the weekend.
Speaker 2: It's weird to have January sixth happen on the weekend,
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, like all the parties and things you like,
Speaker 2: where to work in honor of the January sixth political prisoners.
Speaker 2: It's just it's not the same dressing up as a
Speaker 2: January sixth political prisoner on the weekend.
Speaker 1: I mean, I still take it.
Speaker 3: I still take a work day off just because. But
Speaker 3: it is I get what you mean. It's totally weird.
Speaker 2: But what are my kids are going to get into
Speaker 2: a yelling match with them? Yeah? I don't see what.
Speaker 3: I don't see my kids to school on anywhere near
Speaker 3: I don't think, say, my kids to school in January.
Speaker 2: What do you think I'm an idiot?
Speaker 1: Very six?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean my kids barely know that Biden's name
Speaker 2: isn't Brandon. They just think that's his name, you know,
Speaker 2: like what, They're not gonna be fun to get into
Speaker 2: an argument with. No, But anyways, happy January sixth. Happy
Speaker 2: belated January six to you and with your spirit and
Speaker 2: unto you as well, and unto you. So yeah, this
Speaker 2: is a special episode. We recorded early Monday. We tell
Speaker 2: you what was trending, and we also tell you a
Speaker 2: little little something about what's going on with us by
Speaker 2: telling you our own, our very own overrated, underrated, my overrated.
Speaker 2: I got a couple here. Bacon packaging, hmmm, like the
Speaker 2: vacuum seal kind yeah, like the like little envelope vacuum
Speaker 2: seal where, like the that you slide thet yeah, the
Speaker 2: little flow.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like it feels like there should be a good resealable
Speaker 2: package by now, but it's just such a mess like
Speaker 2: this can you open it once? It like it's kind
Speaker 2: of fucked. You just have to cook all the bacon,
Speaker 2: or at least I do. I haven't. I haven't figured
Speaker 2: out the right way to deal with that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's it's yeah, because I made it.
Speaker 3: I made a bullin AT's last week and I couldn't
Speaker 3: find panchatta, so I use bacon. And I made sure
Speaker 3: to find the smallest pack of bacons so that I
Speaker 3: can use everything, because I'm like, I don't want to
Speaker 3: deal with this this greasy, slippery, thin little package that
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have in the fridge slipping around.
Speaker 2: But every other food has like multiple packagings that you
Speaker 2: can buy like Cereal has the box, but it also
Speaker 2: has the bag and the resealable bag. And question, yes, Beyonce.
Speaker 3: Uh, what is your ideal packaging for bacon?
Speaker 1: Well, I have if not the slippery Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm not a fucking engineer here, man, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: just saying that, like somebody should have come up with
Speaker 2: someone better. I'm sorry to get sorry to get so defensive.
Speaker 2: All I am bawling my fists up right now, But
Speaker 2: I don't like I looked into like why is this
Speaker 2: the reason? Like why or why is what is the
Speaker 2: reason for why? This is just the standard way to
Speaker 2: package bacon And it has to do with like marketing basically,
Speaker 2: like they want to It's called a shingle pack Brian
Speaker 2: As I'm sure you know, reference to the way the
Speaker 2: slices kind of overlap with one another and are kind
Speaker 2: of like fanned out. But they say that basically they
Speaker 2: like to show the red part, you know how bacon
Speaker 2: like has the small red part and then like a
Speaker 2: lot of fat. And even though the fat is what
Speaker 2: makes the bacon taste good, it's also the thing that
Speaker 2: like looks the least appetizing before it's cooked, and so
Speaker 2: people like want to not or the marketers want to
Speaker 2: not show off the fat. So that seems to be
Speaker 2: I found a Forbes article that was like kind of
Speaker 2: pro the packaging there, like it's actually like an ingenious
Speaker 2: way to just show a relatively unbroken field of red protein,
Speaker 2: creating the illusion that the bacon is leaner than it is.
Speaker 1: But it's people explain things.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I think I think it should be sold like
Speaker 2: a roll of tape where you just like can pull
Speaker 2: a strip of bacon off now all right, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: sorry I got sold.
Speaker 1: I think bacon should come in a jar, but whatever, never.
Speaker 2: Mind just floating. Yeah, I don't know. So that's I
Speaker 2: feel like somebody's gonna come and be like, actually it
Speaker 2: has to be stored that way. I've read somebody with
Speaker 2: like some explanation or why, like they don't do the
Speaker 2: resealable packaging because it would just lead people to reuse
Speaker 2: bacon too late. Like there's like no good way to
Speaker 2: preserve bacon. I guess once you open the packaging, it's
Speaker 2: like you should be using it as quickly as possible.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, just such a mess. It feels
Speaker 2: like it could be improved upon. Come on, capitalism, I
Speaker 2: feel like you can do better than this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bacon jars.
Speaker 2: Bacon jars. What is what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna keep this as brief as I can,
Speaker 3: because once I get going on this, I can know
Speaker 3: for like forty five fucking minutes. My overrated is having
Speaker 3: having like an organic human body, I guess is one
Speaker 3: way to put it.
Speaker 1: So let me explain.
Speaker 3: I love food, I love drinks, I love tasty things
Speaker 3: of all kinds. But I'd say once a year, I
Speaker 3: have this meter in my head somewhere that just fills up,
Speaker 3: and once it fills up, I kind of have a
Speaker 3: meltdown of I'm so fucking sick of having to put
Speaker 3: things in my body to keep it going. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I just I just kind of like have this existential
Speaker 3: crisis in my head of man, it's so exhausting being being.
Speaker 1: Human and having to tend to my human body.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like, no matter how much I love food, I'd say
Speaker 3: like once a year this happens, and I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: in the midst of it right now, and I'm just
Speaker 3: I'm so.
Speaker 2: Tired.
Speaker 3: I'm so down on like not food, but just like
Speaker 3: the process eating, drinking, shitting, the whole works. I'm just like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, can I can I just replace everything
Speaker 3: from the neck down with robot parts or something?
Speaker 2: Yeah? In at or like I was taking the other day.
Speaker 3: I always have these mad thoughts where I'm like, damn,
Speaker 3: it'd be kind of crazy if you could have like
Speaker 3: some sort of like like some sort of sci fi
Speaker 3: food where it's like you only have to like where
Speaker 3: you can eat like a snake basically where you just
Speaker 3: think this thing and then you're good for your tweeks.
Speaker 2: How doesn't that exist? It feels like that should exist
Speaker 2: for people who similarly get tired of you. I guess that's.
Speaker 1: It's kind of dystopian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's true.
Speaker 3: Honestly, there's sometimes where I would I would totally go
Speaker 3: for it, yeah, just so I can, like, because you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes if you're especially like if I'm busy and I'm
Speaker 3: in one of these moods.
Speaker 1: I just have no interest in food.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, whatever, just give me noodles or popcorn
Speaker 3: or whatever, just something that I can make quickly and
Speaker 3: I don't have to think about.
Speaker 2: The two major food groups. Yeah, noodles and popcorn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that that's my overrated. I just went a
Speaker 1: little nutty this weekend.
Speaker 2: Fucking nuts man. You're really out there, dude. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: feel like Silicon Valley is gonna come up with something
Speaker 2: for you. You know, they already had this soilent, a direct
Speaker 2: reference to soil and green, so I feel like you're going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew people to drink that, and I was like, this,
Speaker 3: is you cool with this?
Speaker 1: This doesn't alarm you?
Speaker 2: And it's basically the same thing. It's like you just
Speaker 2: replace all your eating with like chugging this thing down
Speaker 2: in five seconds and then you don't have to think
Speaker 2: about eating at all, and.
Speaker 3: Like stark white packaging, black letters, it's just something alarming
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I feel like they could do for a rebrand,
Speaker 2: just focused on people who want to be robots, robot
Speaker 2: juice recharge, you know, so focus it that way, make
Speaker 2: it slick, make it less dystopian. All right. My underrated
Speaker 2: uh is how staged everything is. So I'm not on
Speaker 2: TikTok as much as a lot of other people, but
Speaker 2: there is there's this tweet from some somebody who let
Speaker 2: me quote them directly, So it's Vinnie Thomas vinn underscore
Speaker 2: A tweeted, I really don't want to see millennials in
Speaker 2: gen Z making fun of boomers anymore, because the way
Speaker 2: many of you watch staged TikTok skits and respond to
Speaker 2: them like their documentaries is frankly nuts. It's giving Grandma
Speaker 2: sharing a picture of a photoshop bird and saying, wow,
Speaker 2: nature is so beautiful. And then he says, I think
Speaker 2: this says a lot about the way men are socialized
Speaker 2: to misbehave on public transportation, particularly in the West, attributed
Speaker 2: to many of you after you see the worst actor
Speaker 2: in the world yelling on a fake airplane. So I'm
Speaker 2: not like fully I've seen a couple of these. I'm
Speaker 2: not like fully up on the TikTok culture, but this
Speaker 2: is something that I've noticed just generally, like we're not
Speaker 2: suspicious of things being staged. The main place that I
Speaker 2: thought recently was did you see this stephen A. Smith
Speaker 2: on his ESPN show where somebody like called in and
Speaker 2: asked him a question about cars, the Disney movie Cars.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all.
Speaker 2: Right, let's here. Let's let's play that clip real quick.
Speaker 4: Danny in Wisconsin, you live with stephen A.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 4: Danny talk to.
Speaker 2: Me, Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith.
Speaker 2: When you think about the goat of sports, you think
Speaker 2: about Mike with Dick Brady with seven rings. But where
Speaker 2: do you rank a guy like Lightning McQueen with seven
Speaker 2: piston cups?
Speaker 3: Hmmm?
Speaker 1: I would tell you he would be the goat.
Speaker 4: How are you going to be the go because you
Speaker 4: talk about the movie Cars right, You're talking about the
Speaker 4: movie Cars, right. I mean when you talk about King
Speaker 4: Wethers and Likening McQueen, they're both tied with seven piston cups.
Speaker 4: Strip Weathers, you've got about him? How can you go
Speaker 4: to somebody You got somebody that's tide which, Sorry, it
Speaker 4: ain't gonna work. I know you tried to catch me
Speaker 4: with that.
Speaker 1: You didn't think I knew that about that.
Speaker 3: You didn't think knew about.
Speaker 1: A piston cups. He's got twenty eight circuits.
Speaker 2: You got twenty eight circuits under his.
Speaker 4: Belt, has seven piston cuffs.
Speaker 1: I am not.
Speaker 4: Well, there's past piston.
Speaker 2: And then the guy like starts responding and being like, oh,
Speaker 2: come on, I don't agree with that, Strip weather Like
Speaker 2: and it's uh the response Like I've seen a lot
Speaker 2: of people on social media be like amazing and like
Speaker 2: the most skeptical people have been is like he must
Speaker 2: have had someone feeding him facts, but it seems obvious,
Speaker 2: like right in.
Speaker 1: Front of him you can see him reading.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the collar was clearly a plant, like yeah,
Speaker 2: like that that wasn't a real coller, you guys. That
Speaker 2: was just a guy who works for him, was like
Speaker 2: or an intern or something like that. But they had
Speaker 2: like a video or you know, a picture of light
Speaker 2: McQueen like ready to go right away the second the
Speaker 2: guy called So I don't like this doesn't bother me,
Speaker 2: like it makes Stephen A. Smith I think seem funnier
Speaker 2: and more approachable than I think he probably actually is.
Speaker 2: But fine, But like I'm just wondering, is this something
Speaker 2: we've decided culturally, like just without saying it that like
Speaker 2: we're going to take everything at face value because it's
Speaker 2: more fun that way, and we're just like I don't
Speaker 2: I won't give a fuck, Like fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've definitely I've definitely noticed like little little sprinklings
Speaker 3: of this all over, like you know, on YouTube, reddit,
Speaker 3: like people, there is a certain gullibility of this age
Speaker 3: that I find fascinating that that people will go in
Speaker 3: for this kind of.
Speaker 1: Stuff more easily than you would think. This feels.
Speaker 3: This feels like we are to make him seem more
Speaker 3: huggable than he actually is.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean it's good TV. It clearly worked.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm just curious if we have all decided
Speaker 2: like we're good with just bullshit like this, Like it's
Speaker 2: well executed bullshit, but it seems clearly like bullshit to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, maybe there's like some law
Speaker 2: that says you can't have a fake caller call in,
Speaker 2: and that's why people are assuming it wasn't. But it
Speaker 2: just feels.
Speaker 3: Because taking this at phase value, you have to ignore
Speaker 3: so many production things of like he's clearly got notes
Speaker 3: on this, like you know, the guy running like the
Speaker 3: blue screen clearly has all his slides line the fuck up, Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that could be obvious. Yeah, I mean obviously
Speaker 2: the calls are screened, but like it still just feels
Speaker 2: like the whole thing is a setup, which is fine,
Speaker 2: Like I said, it's just a weird thing that I
Speaker 2: feel like because we're used to seeing these like set
Speaker 2: up fake videos and like fake prank videos and stuff
Speaker 2: like that on YouTube, Like we've just had our tolerance
Speaker 2: for this sort of thing just kind of opened up
Speaker 2: to a point that now we're just like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: can get away with anything. The trick us Daddy, We're
Speaker 2: not We're not even paying attention. We don't care anyways.
Speaker 2: What's something, Brian that you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Okay, you know, speaking of the internet, I just discovered
Speaker 3: a YouTube channel called Bobby Fingers. Now what is Bobby Fingers?
Speaker 3: It's real fucking hard to explain, and I'm gonna do
Speaker 3: my best. So Bobby Fingers is an Irish comedian slash musician,
Speaker 3: slash sculptor, model maker, and he's found a way to
Speaker 3: marry all of those things into the YouTube format. And
Speaker 3: the first video I watched his was him making a
Speaker 3: diorama of mel Gibson getting arrested in Malibu while they
Speaker 3: these things.
Speaker 1: And he's really really, really talented.
Speaker 2: First of all, yeah, very really created.
Speaker 1: Look at this.
Speaker 3: He uses all this technology and clay and it's just
Speaker 3: he's really good at making dioramas, like on a professional
Speaker 3: like movie level. But he's got the sense of humor
Speaker 3: of uh, you know Lemmy from Lemmy Show, Uh, but
Speaker 3: but Irish instead of Scottish.
Speaker 1: And it's just surreal. It's a surreal channel.
Speaker 3: His latest video is him making a rowboat, full size
Speaker 3: rowboat in the shape of Jeff Bezos his head.
Speaker 2: It's real weird a rowboat that the boat itself is
Speaker 2: in the shape of Jeff bez head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at this.
Speaker 5: And I find it difficult not to be inspired by this,
Speaker 5: because if Jeff Bezos conventure into the great Unknown in
Speaker 5: a ship shaped like a massive dick, then so can I.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Wait, I want to see it. Does it? Is it fair?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Is it water worthy? Wow? And then he sings.
Speaker 1: Every video the song, Yes, every song.
Speaker 3: Every video ends with the song, and then he like
Speaker 3: takes this thing he just made and he he'll go
Speaker 3: bury it, and then he'll tell you that he hit
Speaker 3: the GPS coordinates somewhere in the video and that you
Speaker 3: can go like find it.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: It's it's just this crazy piece of performance, right, and
Speaker 3: it's it's surreal.
Speaker 1: It's like it's surreal and fascinating.
Speaker 3: You get to watch someone work on their craft, but
Speaker 3: it's more than the sum of its parts. I guess
Speaker 3: it's why I like it, because it's not just all
Speaker 3: those things I mentioned. It really does come out to
Speaker 3: be you're like, you come out of it like, what
Speaker 3: the fuck did I just watch?
Speaker 1: But yeah, in a in a really good way.
Speaker 3: He also has a diorama of the famous story of
Speaker 3: Steven Sagal getting choked out and shitting himself. He really
Speaker 3: just highly recommended check out Bobby Fingers. I'll link it
Speaker 3: in the show.
Speaker 2: Notes show notes. Amazing. Kind of looks like Robert Pattinson
Speaker 2: playing like it in the lead up. Yeah, like ugly
Speaker 2: up for the lighthouse. Very cool, great underrated man. That was,
Speaker 2: by the way, one that you came up with on
Speaker 2: the fly. When we started, you did not have an
Speaker 2: under well well done. We'll take you a quick break,
Speaker 2: should we should we take a quick break, come back
Speaker 2: and talk about some news stories from over the weekend,
Speaker 2: including the Golden Globes monologue. Yeow, and that it is
Speaker 2: a tease to another story we'll be talking about about cats.
Speaker 2: We will be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back.
Speaker 2: And so the Golden Globes aired Sunday, and the big
Speaker 2: winners were Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and Succession, and the big
Speaker 2: loser was everyone who had to sit through that monologue.
Speaker 2: Am I right? Did you watch it? I'm assuming you
Speaker 2: didn't watch the Golden Globes or you would be howling
Speaker 2: with laughter.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't watch the Golden Globes because I'm a
Speaker 3: regular person and I only watch trade shows in my industry.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but.
Speaker 3: I support their you know, their right to exist, I suppose.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know what the fuck's going on
Speaker 3: with the gold and Globes. But yeah, I heard tell
Speaker 3: that it was bad, and I don't know why they
Speaker 3: still televised it.
Speaker 2: So he got up there. He was like barely giving
Speaker 2: any time to prepare, apparently, and was announced as the
Speaker 2: host of the show a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I don't even know who this guy is.
Speaker 2: Just a stand up comedian. Joke cooy is a stand
Speaker 2: up comedian. They you know, settled on having him host
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and the jokes were going
Speaker 2: over so well that in the middle of the monologue,
Speaker 2: he just like through the through the whole thing under
Speaker 2: he said some I wrote. Some other people wrote like
Speaker 2: after nobody laughed his joke, and they said, yo, I
Speaker 2: got the gig ten days ago. You want a perfect monologue,
Speaker 2: shut up, you're kidding me, right. I wrote some of
Speaker 2: these and they're the ones you're laughing at, so they're
Speaker 2: like you, it's like having an argument inside his head
Speaker 2: in front of everybody. Oh oh, it was tough.
Speaker 1: Maybe hire someone a little more secure in their position.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean it's a brutal. Like the reaction videos
Speaker 2: are pretty amazing. I suggest like going for just like
Speaker 2: a kind of highlight reel of reaction videos to the jokes.
Speaker 1: Because you said he's not a comedian, he is.
Speaker 2: He's a stand up comedian who's like he.
Speaker 1: Can't handle bomb, Like bombing is part of the job.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it's hard to bomb in
Speaker 2: that like large of us, large scale, like high stakes
Speaker 2: of a situation, you know, like everybody is watching. It's
Speaker 2: probably the highest profile thing he's ever done in his career.
Speaker 3: I guess when you look at it that way, because
Speaker 3: I can't not see it as this is just a
Speaker 3: trade show with like my friends and like colleagues, So like,
Speaker 3: what's the big deal? Like we're just fucking around, right right,
Speaker 3: Because to me, trade shows are always cringe, so it's like,
Speaker 3: what's the big deal? But to him, I could see, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess this is like there's a lot of big
Speaker 3: names in the room.
Speaker 1: You don't want to embarrass yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and like I just feel like it's a
Speaker 2: thankless task generally. They like there's that Chris Rock one
Speaker 2: where he joked about how Jude Law is in everything
Speaker 2: and like was like, what's why, which is like true,
Speaker 2: but for a while their Jude Law was in like
Speaker 2: every movie that came out, And then like Sean Peng
Speaker 2: got up there and was like, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: Jude Law is one of the finest actors that we've had.
Speaker 1: Like just like real mad doesn't understand humor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he just And it's not like a very
Speaker 2: conducive environment for like a roasting, you know, but like
Speaker 2: that's what people the audience expects. One thing, like the
Speaker 2: television watching audience. The audience in the room is like,
Speaker 2: don't talk about it.
Speaker 3: So funny because it's set up exactly like a roast
Speaker 3: kind of yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: The layout is very roast.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, the thing with the golden globes that's supposed
Speaker 2: to set them apart is it's open bar, so everybody's
Speaker 2: drinking and like having fun. But it was just that
Speaker 2: was not the vibe at all. But like I said,
Speaker 2: the reaction from the crowd of famous actors. They were
Speaker 2: just like not giving him anything, Like it was just
Speaker 2: they were using all of their acting and you know,
Speaker 2: physical facial control to just hang this motherfucker out the drive.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It almost like makes me wonder if we should just
Speaker 2: send out one stand up comedian every year to sacrifice
Speaker 2: their career and we can and we can just see
Speaker 2: the most gifted actors be wordlessly cruel to someone, because
Speaker 2: that's kind of the exercise.
Speaker 1: Of Okay, who's your first pick.
Speaker 2: To sacrifice?
Speaker 1: No, don't answer that. Don't answer that.
Speaker 3: They can't show can show you can't you can't be doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need rogan support, so I can't say him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there are people responding like they just like
Speaker 2: got a terminal diagnosis to some of his jokes, like
Speaker 2: just like putting their head in their hands and shit,
Speaker 2: like it became a thing like as it was going on,
Speaker 2: it was like, all right, how cruelly can we react
Speaker 2: to each of these attempted jokes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I guess there's like a fucked up like
Speaker 3: feedback loop in the room with something, because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it would be totally different because we've all seen people bomb.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, this is it's.
Speaker 3: Got to hit different when you see like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: fucking Leonardo DiCaprio like wincing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like people were like wincing and just like averting
Speaker 2: their gaze and uh but like in a very studied,
Speaker 2: well crafted way, like they're they're good at giving somebody
Speaker 2: absolutely nothing because they're fucking act so they're great. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it was entertaining.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch it live, but I went back and
Speaker 2: watched the monologue and uh, just.
Speaker 1: Past my.
Speaker 2: All right, there's a weird story from over the weekend
Speaker 2: that the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, reportedly went for
Speaker 2: an elective medical procedure at the end of December, had
Speaker 2: to be admitted to the ICU on New Year's Day
Speaker 2: after experiencing severe pain, and the White House like wasn't
Speaker 2: informed until days later for some reason, and like so
Speaker 2: basically no one knew that we were without a Secretary
Speaker 2: of Defense for a number of days. I'm not good
Speaker 2: with like official titles, so I'd forgotten, like what Secretary
Speaker 2: of Defense is the job held by Donald Brumsfeld, So
Speaker 2: it's like the the Rumsfeld job, So like kind of
Speaker 2: a big deal, or at least it has been in
Speaker 2: past administrations.
Speaker 3: And the year the Secretary of Defense became an unknown unknown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, he made himself a non unknown,
Speaker 2: Like I guess he like put one of his subordinates
Speaker 2: in charge, like on acting Secretary of Defense duty, but
Speaker 2: like they were on vacation in Puerto Rico and didn't
Speaker 2: know he was like going into the hospital, and like
Speaker 2: they're they're saying the reason for this is because he's
Speaker 2: a very private person. But it's also just confusing because
Speaker 2: according to like one former DoD chief of staff, there
Speaker 2: is a system in place to keep track of high
Speaker 2: ranking officials at all times, and even the Deputy Secretary
Speaker 2: of Defense who assumed some of his duties after he
Speaker 2: was admitted to the hospital, wasn't told why that was happening.
Speaker 2: So he sounds like I don't know, but partially it
Speaker 2: just sounds like toxic masculinity, like just like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm so tough that I didn't even think
Speaker 2: to report I was going in for a fucking medical procedure.
Speaker 2: I didn't even think about it. Okay.
Speaker 3: He reminds me of like the Sopranos, where it's just like, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like it's his inability to to be vulnerable or
Speaker 3: say what's right, what he's going through, and so he
Speaker 3: just disappears for like three fucking days. Yeah, but really
Speaker 3: he was just i don't know, in bed crying or something.
Speaker 2: Right, it's like therapist, Yeah, just like your dad calling
Speaker 2: you like three days after he gets out of the hospital,
Speaker 2: be like, hey, I was in the hospital, but everything's cool.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, literally my dad.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like, I think a lot of people have had
Speaker 2: experiences with that. I was like, it was so not
Speaker 2: a big deal because I'm so tough that my own
Speaker 2: death and infirmity doesn't even FaZe me. Bro, It's like
Speaker 2: not a thing. I'm also wondering, I think everybody's kind
Speaker 2: of wondering this, is there any chance his medical procedure
Speaker 2: was just like like he's going to come back with
Speaker 2: the most beautiful calves in the world and everyone will
Speaker 2: just have to pretend like his routine medical procedure wasn't
Speaker 2: getting calf implants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me look at let me look at a
Speaker 1: picture of this guy.
Speaker 3: And let's bring up his calves inappropriately postulate on what
Speaker 3: the seizure he had done. I'm thinking just just looking Okay,
Speaker 3: So he looks like a black conservative.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: When I say that, I'm speaking of his hairline. If
Speaker 3: anybody's confused, you can always tell a black Conservative by
Speaker 3: their hairline. So I'm guessing hair transplant. He's gonna come back,
Speaker 3: oh with corn roads.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm calling corn.
Speaker 2: Come hairline just like like just one forehead comes back
Speaker 2: with a two head, like just the narrowest forehead. Because
Speaker 2: his hairline is just aggressive. Now it's like on his face,
Speaker 2: oh man, or could be calf implants. I like the
Speaker 2: idea that he's just like.
Speaker 1: Hey, I mean, I can't.
Speaker 3: I typed in Lloyd Austin Calves, but I didn't. I
Speaker 3: didn't find any good pictures.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's take a break. We'll come back
Speaker 2: with a few more news stories. We'll be right back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we're back.
Speaker 2: We are banned. So a couple of things I kept
Speaker 2: hearing on the anniversary of January sixth, Like I said, congratulations, brother,
Speaker 2: you got away with being there on January sixth. I
Speaker 2: kept hearing that from my comrades. But the January sixth,
Speaker 2: so in the media, not from the people I was
Speaker 2: partying with. On January sixth. In the media, the January
Speaker 2: sixth investigation was being described as the largest law enforcement
Speaker 2: operation in the history of US law enforcement, which, like,
Speaker 2: that's how is that possible? Excuse me, I guess, like,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like we should have spent
Speaker 2: more time on the JFK assassination if that's true that
Speaker 2: the largest one is January sixth, like they all like
Speaker 2: filmed themselves. How I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I guess when you look at the
Speaker 3: numbers here, like at least two two thousand people from
Speaker 3: each state participated in January sixth, according to these notes,
Speaker 3: I'm like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the other like thing that
Speaker 2: they kept mentioning was like it was at least two
Speaker 2: thousand people from each state, which there were one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand people there like storming the capitol. So our definition
Speaker 2: of like who was involved is pretty wide, right, that's
Speaker 2: like anybody who shared a like dank meme suggesting that
Speaker 2: Mike Pence should be hanged, like it is considered somebody
Speaker 2: who participated. I'm not sure it's yeah, I mean, it
Speaker 2: seems like it's quieted down the insurrectionist community except for
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. But may maybe everyone's just like kicking back
Speaker 2: and being like, yeah, well we'll be fine. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be president again. So that's that's why it's been kind
Speaker 2: of quiet. But I'm sure this has had its intended effect,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people are shutting the fuck up
Speaker 2: about overthrowing the US government at this point.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I mean you remember what it was
Speaker 3: like they were it was like a dog catching a car.
Speaker 1: They had no clue what to do once they got
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: It was so embarrassing, like I don't know, they stole
Speaker 2: that lectern and like waved at the camera.
Speaker 3: Like literally I remember watching that footage of people, Like
Speaker 3: once people got inside, they were like holy shit, yeah,
Speaker 3: like whoa look at all this, Like they had no
Speaker 3: clue how to overthrow a government.
Speaker 2: And then there were like two people who were like
Speaker 2: fancy themselves as like operators, big operator.
Speaker 3: They had they had, you know, they had the real
Speaker 3: the psychopaths like in the crowd. But it's like most
Speaker 3: of that crowd was like not I don't think they
Speaker 3: were actually there, yeah, properly overthrow a government. They were
Speaker 3: just like, oh man, look at all this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not gonna have to. It turns out they're
Speaker 2: just gonna reelect Donald Trump. Yeah, I feel like that.
Speaker 2: I feel like there were a handful of people in
Speaker 2: there who's like have self self described nicknames like Spider,
Speaker 2: who were like there to do damage. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's wild. Like the the extent of the investigation
Speaker 2: was it was someone surprising to me. Marjorie Taylor green
Speaker 2: h was scheduled to host a book signing that also
Speaker 2: specifically proclaimed that it would be held on the occasion
Speaker 2: of the third anniversary of January sixth, with tickets ranging
Speaker 2: from forty five dollars to one thousand, but the events
Speaker 2: venue canceled the booking, claiming that it was pitched to
Speaker 2: them merely as a small book signing event, not a
Speaker 2: birthday party for an attempted insurrection, and so she had
Speaker 2: to like scramble. Last second, there's a picture of her
Speaker 2: like signing books at an event where but she was
Speaker 2: the only one picture and there's just like thousands of
Speaker 2: books next to her without anybody in the picture with her,
Speaker 2: which suggests to me that maybe I feel like they
Speaker 2: would have added some people to the picture if anyone,
Speaker 2: literally anyone had showed up to the event.
Speaker 1: Or if anyone knew photoshop.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, not their strong suit.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: It's also like appears to be at a daycare. I
Speaker 2: don't know, like like in the background, there's like a
Speaker 2: Barbie dream house and just like a bunch of toys.
Speaker 2: It's very very strange.
Speaker 1: Wait, but Barbie's all woke now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what the heck?
Speaker 1: What the hell?
Speaker 2: All right, there is a report from the inner side
Speaker 2: that CNN runs everything past the Jerusalem Bureau, and that's
Speaker 2: something that like CNN allows, like says is the truth.
Speaker 2: But this is like extreme even for US mainstream media
Speaker 2: because basically the Jerusalem Bureau has close ties to IDF
Speaker 2: sensors and so like one member of CNN's staff who
Speaker 2: spoke to the Intercept said that the internal review policy
Speaker 2: has had a demonstrable impact on covers of the Gaza war.
Speaker 2: Every single Israel Palestine related line for reporting must seek
Speaker 2: approval from the Jerusalem Bureau, or, when the Bureau is
Speaker 2: not staffed, from a select few handpicked by the Bureau
Speaker 2: and senior management, from which lines are most often edited
Speaker 2: with a very specific nuance that favors Israeli narratives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can you can see it.
Speaker 3: There's clearly to me, there's clearly a mandate, yeah, for
Speaker 3: Western during the you know American media that like, yeah,
Speaker 3: there is a there's a line that you have to
Speaker 3: you have to stay within to report on this.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They also CNN also hired a former IDF soldier
Speaker 2: to contribute writing and reporting to CNN's war coverage. Her
Speaker 2: name has appeared on dozens of stories citing the IDF
Speaker 2: spokesperson and relaying information about the IDFs operations in Gaza,
Speaker 2: and she served in the IDF spokesperson unit before getting
Speaker 2: the job with CNN. But yeah, just in terms of
Speaker 2: like the specific content of how this works, the CNN
Speaker 2: staff member said that basically, like war crime and genocide
Speaker 2: or taboo words like those will get edited out, and
Speaker 2: then Israeli bombings and Gaza will be reported as blasts
Speaker 2: attributed to nobody until the Israeli military ways in to
Speaker 2: either accept or deny responsibility. Quotes and information provided by
Speaker 2: Israeli army and government officials tend to be approved quickly,
Speaker 2: while those from Palestinians tend to be heavily scrutinized and
Speaker 2: slowly processed. So it's just a system that only favors
Speaker 2: one version of things, which is matches up with exactly
Speaker 2: what I feel like a lot of people feel like
Speaker 2: they've been seeing from outlets like CNN.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my partner was just talking to me yesterday about, like,
Speaker 3: you know, all the the people that she like follows
Speaker 3: on Facebook who have been booted off of Facebook of
Speaker 3: all things, for merely supporting Palestine. Yeah, and yeah, it's just, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's wild to see like what is clearly like a
Speaker 3: mandate happening of you can't actually report on this.
Speaker 1: You have to tell our truth and that's that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then just a weird trend. I noticed over the
Speaker 2: break that multiple, like mainstream media outlets were reporting on
Speaker 2: how cats kill so many animals. Like but we, like
Speaker 2: I had talked about this a long time ago, or
Speaker 2: like we had written an article back at Crack like
Speaker 2: years ago about how there was a scientific consensus that
Speaker 2: when you look, you can tell whether an outdoor cat
Speaker 2: lives in a neighborhood by the health of the local
Speaker 2: bird population. Like, they're just like walking, stalking, mass extinction events.
Speaker 2: They're just crazy efficient killers and when you let them
Speaker 2: roam free, they will kill everything in their path. And
Speaker 2: so I don't know I just started seeing this pop
Speaker 2: up again. First, the New York Times ran an article
Speaker 2: that was basically a summary of all the different types
Speaker 2: of living creatures that cats feast on, just like two thousand,
Speaker 2: including like close to a thousand different types of birds,
Speaker 2: but like also insects, lizards, sea turtles, apparently like the babies. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it basically seems like the scientific consensus is
Speaker 2: coming around to like cats are outdoor cats are like
Speaker 2: invasive predators. So I don't know that that seemed to
Speaker 2: be kind of in line with what we've seen and
Speaker 2: like talked about before. But there's this article in the
Speaker 2: New Yorker that's like very by Jonathan Franz and the
Speaker 2: guy who wrote the corrections, and it dropped on Christmas Day,
Speaker 2: and it's just like very, he's a burder. He's like
Speaker 2: one of the people who, like you know, is really
Speaker 2: into like what looking at birds, and it's just full
Speaker 2: of like disgusting imagery of like feral cats that like
Speaker 2: makes you like start to think of like feral cats
Speaker 2: as like vermin. And I don't I'm I think like
Speaker 2: everything in the article is reported, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: think he's like making anything up. But it's just very
Speaker 2: strongly like anti outdoor cat population. Yeah, you can feel
Speaker 2: the like we need to start killing these things, am
Speaker 2: I right, folks? Which I don't know, maybe maybe that
Speaker 2: is the correct policy, but it's uh, it's pretty wild.
Speaker 2: It's like two major stories that kind of had the
Speaker 2: same kind of implication popping up around a time when
Speaker 2: there's like so many cat lovers in the country. I
Speaker 2: think the cats that are talking about are generally like
Speaker 2: feral cats. But still, it's wild times, bad times to
Speaker 2: be an outdoor cat out there, folks, well.
Speaker 1: As someone with toxic plasmosis.
Speaker 3: I love cats to an irrational degree and leave the
Speaker 3: cats alone.
Speaker 2: Are you do you have outdoor cats?
Speaker 3: I used to let my cats out outside, and then
Speaker 3: we had this whole coyote problem, so they don't go outside.
Speaker 2: They kept eating coyotes.
Speaker 3: Your cat, Yeah, like when when I let them, when
Speaker 3: I let them out, Oh yeah, just voracious, just reveling
Speaker 3: in murder constantly. They are killing machines to a supernatural degree.
Speaker 3: So not doubting this that they killed billions of birds
Speaker 3: every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, billions with a bee according to.
Speaker 1: The leave the cats alone, okay or it's.
Speaker 2: Ugly, right, Yeah, I feel like this is like going
Speaker 2: to hit a Like I'm not taking a side one
Speaker 2: way or another, but I feel like this is going
Speaker 2: to be very controversial, like you know, just everywhere in
Speaker 2: America because there are so many cat people, and then
Speaker 2: it seems like there's a healthy push coming from people
Speaker 2: who think like cat populations need to be cold. Anyways,
Speaker 2: cat people, beware of Jonathan Franz and he's coming for
Speaker 2: your cat's author of the Corrections that is going to
Speaker 2: do it for us on this Monday, January eight. We
Speaker 2: are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show,
Speaker 2: a troll episode, whole ass. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 2: each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccines, don't
Speaker 2: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
Speaker 2: you all tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Bye.