Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Minute
Speaker 1: Trend Wants to Buy TikTok. Oh Man forgot Steve manouch Trend.
Speaker 2: I like, I still just think about when his wife
Speaker 2: dressed like Cruela Deville thought shit was wild man when
Speaker 2: they're printing evil esthetic like the long gloves, wasn't she
Speaker 2: wearing like what were they both wearing?
Speaker 1: Glove holding like she was smilingly.
Speaker 2: Elbow high like leather sleeves like lebron or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, anyways, we're just getting more information on the
Speaker 1: TikTok you know, the bill that passed the House to
Speaker 1: force the sale of TikTok or to ban TikTok. One
Speaker 1: thing we got new information on is just you know, well,
Speaker 1: on the one hand, it was like, wait, so Trump
Speaker 1: reversed and now opposing the ban on TikTok that I
Speaker 1: had assumed that was like him just being a populist
Speaker 1: and recognizing that this was an absolute loser. But turns
Speaker 1: out it's also aligned with his business interests because he
Speaker 1: was the first person to like try to ban TikTok,
Speaker 1: and that was because one of his biggest donors at
Speaker 1: the time was the Oracle CEO who benefited from pressure
Speaker 1: being put on TikTok, and TikTok ultimately used Oracle as
Speaker 1: their primary cloud provider in the US, and now one
Speaker 1: of his biggest donors has a big ownership stake in
Speaker 1: TikTok's parent company. So this would be almost so predictable
Speaker 1: as to be not worth mentioning, but for the fact
Speaker 1: that it ties into the larger concerns about Trump's desperation
Speaker 1: for cash at this point, Like, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: going to be a continuing story. I'm sure journalists are
Speaker 1: like keeping tabs on all the money going into his campaign,
Speaker 1: you know, his Saudi relationships. I feel like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be weird. It's gonna it's gonna get weird.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, it's it's already weird. It's yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's just it's just more like out in the open.
Speaker 2: But it's interesting though too because despite despite Papa Trump
Speaker 2: saying like I'm I'm against it. Yeah, Like the Republicans
Speaker 2: are like, nah, sorry that this one's already out, so
Speaker 2: we're we're voting for it. And like many people were like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's interesting, Like maybe they thought him coming out would
Speaker 2: maybe change how the votes came in, but they didn't,
Speaker 2: So I don't know, there's just maybe there's a bit
Speaker 2: of there's clearly a difference in opinion there that maybe
Speaker 2: he can't even Trump can't overcome the fear of of
Speaker 2: China as as sort of painting that as the threat
Speaker 2: rather than because at the end of the day, like
Speaker 2: as we were saying in the episode that came out today,
Speaker 2: it's like the only the donor part is one of it,
Speaker 2: and the other is like he also doesn't want any
Speaker 2: world where Marcus Zuckerberg could also own it too. So yeah,
Speaker 2: there's many, so many angles in here, so many angles,
Speaker 2: so many angles.
Speaker 1: It is just interesting that he has gone from you know,
Speaker 1: when he launched his original political career, his central claim
Speaker 1: was I'm so rich, I don't need any donations, and
Speaker 1: that's how you know I'm not bought. And now he
Speaker 1: may be the most vulnerable to wealthy donors that we've
Speaker 1: ever had, like oh yeah, politics, let alone like running
Speaker 1: for president as a major party candidate.
Speaker 2: And at least in this part right where like the
Speaker 2: money is conditioned on him saying something out loud, because
Speaker 2: once he's in office, I doubt he's going to be
Speaker 2: like no, you're right. I told you I would do that,
Speaker 2: So I owe you, I owe you my loyalty now.
Speaker 1: And then, just more broadly, the evil of TikTok does
Speaker 1: not extend to you know what people who want to
Speaker 1: buy it might think of it, Yeah, because yeah they
Speaker 1: you know, Steve Minuchin has announced that he's interested in
Speaker 1: buying it. He is the former Treasury secretary, and he
Speaker 1: told an interviewer that he's putting together an investor group
Speaker 1: to buy TikTok. Yeah, which, yeah, you know, like Jason
Speaker 1: said on today's show, it's highly unlikely that a band
Speaker 1: could be easily enacted like this is just so transparent,
Speaker 1: like yeah, like they vote on this and then the
Speaker 1: next day, all these like capitalistic like predators are just
Speaker 1: like circling the blood in the water and being like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll buy it. Yeah yeah, buy it. Real nice.
Speaker 2: I'll have the kids saying they want a six day
Speaker 2: work week. Watch how easy I can make it. That's
Speaker 2: how TikTok works, right, It's just you put it in
Speaker 2: there and then it makes the kids say a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah huh, it's that easy. So you have no idea
Speaker 2: how people that are younger than gen x are experiencing
Speaker 2: the Earth and how and how they perceive what their
Speaker 2: own values are. It's the Tiktoks.
Speaker 1: And if you want someone to buy up the app
Speaker 1: that people have security concerns over, who better than Steve Minuchin,
Speaker 1: a guy who headed up a bank that was accused
Speaker 1: of widespread misconduct that included illegally backdating documents in order
Speaker 1: to game foreclosure auctions concerns like the right guy, He's
Speaker 1: the guy for the job. Also throwing his hat in
Speaker 1: the ring shark tanks, Kevin O'Leary shut up also said
Speaker 1: he would buy TikTok mister wonderful, mister incredible, wonderful, promising
Speaker 1: that he will quote close the Chinese back doors in
Speaker 1: the code. Quick reminder, this man is not a computer scientist,
Speaker 1: but he is one of the dumbest people to ever
Speaker 1: attempt to play Jeopardy. So is just less than sub
Speaker 1: zero score at the end. And like some of the
Speaker 1: answers where.
Speaker 2: Like like usually.
Speaker 1: When someone answers something in Jeopardy, I know how they
Speaker 1: thought they were, like what they how they were approaching
Speaker 1: the question. But your answers, my man, are.
Speaker 2: Honestly the sinophobia that is coming out of like DC.
Speaker 2: It's just so constant. It's like, you guys, shut up,
Speaker 2: like this, figure out a new way to create some
Speaker 2: other like creator of all that ails you, rather than
Speaker 2: actually looking at like it's this, it's it's the country
Speaker 2: you're running right now. It's not the apps, And it's
Speaker 2: so much easier then just be like, well, you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's it's it's China. It's those companies
Speaker 2: that are different. And we even said this in an
Speaker 2: episode today. It's like, well, if you're concerned about privacy,
Speaker 2: what about all the American fucking companies. That's right, it's horseshit.
Speaker 2: But anyway, here they are, here, they are, mister wonderful
Speaker 2: today shoot off at the mouth.
Speaker 1: There is a Canadian. Yeah, he's Canadian as fuck, bro.
Speaker 2: And he's like, it'll be an American company. It's like, dude,
Speaker 2: just just go away, go.
Speaker 1: Away, going dude, so Canadian. He commits vehicular homicide on
Speaker 1: lakes with boats allegedly. All right, hype luxury culture. You
Speaker 1: know me, mister hype beast, mister up on the latest trends.
Speaker 2: I mean you were in your little Metajen sunset threes.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I do love those shoes.
Speaker 1: That's the one place that I do pay attention to
Speaker 1: the latest. What's all your feet and greatest, but just
Speaker 1: writ large. You know, we we talked about the Stanley
Speaker 1: cups and now uh there there are Trader Joe's tote bags,
Speaker 1: which I'm very familiar with, but I believe I have one.
Speaker 2: Most of the navy blue one. Yeah, the navy blue straps.
Speaker 1: But now we got we got them going on like
Speaker 1: being sold for one hundred to five hundred dollars on
Speaker 1: the internet.
Speaker 2: This isn't the this is the mini tote. Okay, what
Speaker 2: you have is a regular tote.
Speaker 1: Regular so it's regular tote, but small. It's a tiny
Speaker 1: tote bag, so massfunctional more sure, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it's more baller because it costs a hundred
Speaker 2: bucks or between one hundred and five hundred on the internet.
Speaker 2: I mean that doesn't mean people are paying for it,
Speaker 2: just means people think people will pay five hundred dollars
Speaker 2: for it. The ship retails for three dollars but has
Speaker 2: completely like apparently there are nowhere to be found. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go maybe I'm gonna go stop by to see
Speaker 2: if I can grab a couple and maybe they'll just
Speaker 2: laugh at me. They're like, you fucking loser. You think
Speaker 2: it a fucking TJMT right now, tj mintote, get the
Speaker 2: fuck out of here. But yeah, it is. It is
Speaker 2: like the new thing. And I'm just like, as we
Speaker 2: keep seeing like these viral trends with the most like
Speaker 2: mundane objects, you know, like steal cup or canvas bag, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm like what I'm like, I get that. Clearly it's
Speaker 2: the Internet, right, because like that's accelerating these cycles. People like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is the new thing, and then
Speaker 2: it kind of dies off. But like as we get
Speaker 2: away from like luxury items, I wonder it's just if
Speaker 2: it's truly because like the thing that about Stanley cups
Speaker 2: or these traders Joe's bags is that they're merely just
Speaker 2: more actually attainable, you know what I mean. Like most
Speaker 2: people can't get their hands on a fucking burke in
Speaker 2: or take a private jet to the say shells, but
Speaker 2: many people can cop an insulated vacuum vacuum cup or
Speaker 2: whatever the technology is for that thing, for the Stanley
Speaker 2: cup or canvas bag, And so we're just I think
Speaker 2: maybe it's like a rejection of sort of like these
Speaker 2: luxury brands and luxury items, and then we're now just
Speaker 2: being like, noah, so shit, that's attainable now as well's
Speaker 2: hot because fuck that other stuff that I'm dollars.
Speaker 1: Right exactly, yeah exactly, it's like, because this thing should
Speaker 1: be attainable. I've seen them before. In this case, I
Speaker 1: have one that's just a like a bigger version of
Speaker 1: the thing that everybody wants to get. The kids will.
Speaker 2: Laugh at you full if you pull up with a
Speaker 2: fucking oh my god and an fs T full size tote.
Speaker 1: Full sized tote, full sized Trader Joe's tote, but like
Speaker 1: with little tiny sunglasses on, and like you can tell
Speaker 1: from my energy that I think I've got like a
Speaker 1: cool thing on me.
Speaker 2: You're like holding it like this on your farm. You're like, hey,
Speaker 2: it was good. Yeah, anyway, y'all want to home cigarettes
Speaker 2: later They're like, what O my way? But yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean like this is a I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like at this tick, like, at this rate
Speaker 2: we're going the next must have item is probably gonna
Speaker 2: be like a pen or pencil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't mind that, Like snap bracelet,
Speaker 1: you know, this is pog snap bracelets, like just all
Speaker 1: dumb shit that Like that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Popular nineties it was toys, right, and then when we
Speaker 2: got the last twenty years though, have been just dominated
Speaker 2: by like hyped brand goods, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and luxury like that was a shit that you had
Speaker 2: to have, Like did you have Like I remember in
Speaker 2: the early days of like uh, you know, after the
Speaker 2: bling bling era of hip hop in the nineties and
Speaker 2: getting more into like the Pharrell Kanye West sort of
Speaker 2: fashion thing, people like, oh you got Louis belt, you
Speaker 2: got this other thing or whatever, and now or it's
Speaker 2: supreme or other shit like that, and now we're just
Speaker 2: like you got that.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just it's something peculiar to our specific age cohort,
Speaker 1: and as we get older, like we're we've just moved
Speaker 1: on to the whackest shit possible. Trader Joe's Tope pegs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like the still thy.
Speaker 1: Cups are definitely a younger a younger man's game.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, But I mean I think at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, it's just it's just like what it
Speaker 2: costs is probably the biggest thing. Because more people now
Speaker 2: are just sort of like less and less impressed by
Speaker 2: being like, oh cool, you have a seventy thousand dollars whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I will get in line for a three dollars
Speaker 2: piece of canvas, which I also was reading. Even though
Speaker 2: they're like, you know, marketed to us as sustainable, like
Speaker 2: they're actually becoming like an environmental issue because there's such
Speaker 2: a bit total proliferation of canvas totes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: Anyway, so we'll see, man, But let us know what's
Speaker 2: the new hip thing. Is it a pen? Is it
Speaker 2: a Honestly, I don't even know, like a kind of notebook.
Speaker 1: Hey, guy who took over as CEO of Stanley after
Speaker 1: being the CEO of or the CMO of Crocs, let
Speaker 1: us know what the next thing is that you're going
Speaker 1: to take over and make virals so that we can
Speaker 1: buy up. We know you're probably ze Gang, so just
Speaker 1: hit us up.
Speaker 2: Bro, or could you imagine it's like bygune thing. It's like, yo,
Speaker 2: these are like those old school AOL CD ROMs that
Speaker 2: you used to do to install AOL on your computer,
Speaker 2: or like net zero when they had.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back and we're back. And this weekend is Saint Patti's Day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Saint Patty's Day. On a weekend rip to the city
Speaker 1: of Chicago and the City of New York.
Speaker 2: I've never been in those either of those municipalities on
Speaker 2: the glorious Day. I mean, I I've heard tell of
Speaker 2: how green it is green, Yes, the river at least
Speaker 2: in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's drunk, It's very drunk. But it's also going
Speaker 1: to be very v green at the White House because
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has made his Irish heritage a big part
Speaker 1: of his identity. He's repeatedly touted his Irish ancestors and
Speaker 1: even quoted the great Irish poet Bono in his speeches,
Speaker 1: which I didn't realize he did that. That gives me
Speaker 1: douche chills. But his celebrations of the White House are
Speaker 1: a tradition, and they haven't always gone well. In twenty ten,
Speaker 1: he was the vice president, obviously, and he suggested that
Speaker 1: the Irish Prime Minister's mother was dead before realizing that
Speaker 1: she wasn't he likes.
Speaker 2: It these days.
Speaker 1: He usually likes to bring people back from the dead,
Speaker 1: but that back then he was pre killing people. That
Speaker 1: was and that was back when he was a sprightly
Speaker 1: sixty eight years old. This year, Biden will host Ireland's
Speaker 1: t shach Leo Verador. Didn't I looked up the pronunciation
Speaker 1: of t Shah and I am nailing it, but did
Speaker 1: not look up Leo's last names pronunciation that, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna call him.
Speaker 2: You should know.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm fucking it up.
Speaker 2: Tap into your Irish roots, man, hey man, why don't
Speaker 2: you go listen to some Irish poet bono real quick
Speaker 2: and come back?
Speaker 1: But oh soutarse yeah mm hmm. So international. So they'll
Speaker 1: have an Oval Office meeting followed by Saint Patty's Day celebration.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately for this going real smoothly for Joey b Ireland
Speaker 1: is one of the few outliers in the West that
Speaker 1: is actually critical of Israel and concerned for the lives
Speaker 1: of Palestinians.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean what are they thinking? I mean
Speaker 2: there was even like the at the icy at the
Speaker 2: ICJ one of the like lawyers was from Ireland who
Speaker 2: gave like really like moving uh not testimony or whatever
Speaker 2: like when they were speaking at the trial. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, like there's been sanctions that the Irish government
Speaker 2: has put on the Israeli government. They've said, like the
Speaker 2: US cannot use Irish airspace to fly weapons there. They've
Speaker 2: tried to do whatever they could to make it clear
Speaker 2: like where they stand. And yeah, you know, they've actually
Speaker 2: like a ceasefire, not like one of those ones that
Speaker 2: just goes for six weeks or six days or six hours.
Speaker 1: A pause fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Irish politicians has specifically been calling out Biden for
Speaker 1: his role in aiding Israel. One lawmaker addressing the European
Speaker 1: Parliament referred to him as butcher Biden. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they've been pretty consistent, including Varitker, you know, just
Speaker 1: a week after October seventh, specifically, you know, became one
Speaker 1: of the few European officials saying Israel doesn't have the
Speaker 1: right to do wrong just because horrible wrong have been
Speaker 1: done to them and people.
Speaker 2: What did in Irish? What did the Irish know about
Speaker 2: occupation or yeah, chill alone, as I've not read their history,
Speaker 2: but I don't Maybe there's nothing there that would that
Speaker 2: would create some kind of synergy, but yeah, there may be.
Speaker 1: The only Irish history I know is that they're mainly
Speaker 1: a tax shelter for cool companies like Apple, So I
Speaker 1: feel like they should just be cool and friendly and
Speaker 1: in that money and those cool relationships with Apple.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will see how Joe Biden, I mean, like
Speaker 2: you know, they apparently they'll be talks of a ceasefire
Speaker 2: at least to a lobby for one while he's talking
Speaker 2: to Joe Biden. But like now, I mean, like now
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer is even saying like it's it's starting to
Speaker 2: get more mainstream that now they're doing the thing that's
Speaker 2: like it's not that like we disagree with what Israel's doing,
Speaker 2: it's just that NETS and Yahoo's bad.
Speaker 1: Well, that does seem to me like this opportunity, like
Speaker 1: they do have a far right government in power like
Speaker 1: that would seem to be a way to get people
Speaker 1: like the sort of like center left like mainstream Democrats
Speaker 1: message it to them is like they have a fucking
Speaker 1: far right, yeah, government but in power.
Speaker 2: Like but I think that just but that just shows
Speaker 2: like the what the sway is of like lobbying efforts
Speaker 2: from like the Israeli government has on the discourse here.
Speaker 2: It's not it will never be that the Israeli government
Speaker 2: as a whole or as a nation or whatever that
Speaker 2: there's there's wrongdoing. It's like, okay, let's try and go
Speaker 2: for the micro And it's true. I mean, obviously net
Speaker 2: and Yahoo is the one at the wheel and his
Speaker 2: coalition government is the one that's making all of this possible.
Speaker 2: But like now, it's like interesting they went from not
Speaker 2: saying anything to now being like, okay, yeah, he's actually
Speaker 2: bad for regional peace. He's actually also bad for the
Speaker 2: peace that if Israel wants any kind of security in
Speaker 2: the region, he's also bad for that, but still falling
Speaker 2: short of calling for an actual ceasefire sea fire, but hey.
Speaker 1: It's we are calling for a ceasefire or at least.
Speaker 2: Six months eventually.
Speaker 1: Have they tried just saying it under a cough?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: I feel like that because Joe Biden does cough pretty
Speaker 1: frequently or like here's throat, so I feel like it
Speaker 1: would just be more it might go more smoothly. I'm
Speaker 1: sure his consultants have like suggested that, but you know,
Speaker 1: try and hide the qualifying statement under like something fun
Speaker 1: like a cough that people will you know, expect from
Speaker 1: you because you seem to be dissolving before our very eyes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting to hear like people from like there's
Speaker 2: like the Northern Ireland Party isn't sending any representatives to
Speaker 2: meet Biden because when I've said quote, I could not
Speaker 2: rub shoulders, drink guinness and have the crack while the
Speaker 2: horrifying impacts of the brutal war and god that continue.
Speaker 2: It would be the very opposite of solidarity with people
Speaker 2: on the brink of destruction.
Speaker 1: Yep. Finally parents are folding their babies.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure what this meant. I'm like, wait, are
Speaker 2: they fist fight like they got your folding up? Like
Speaker 2: you got folded up like a fucking well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we did, like my seven year old's
Speaker 1: home from school sick today and kept making noise and
Speaker 1: you did tell me to go fold that motherfucker up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you'll fold his ass full, not like that
Speaker 2: I ben to put in a car seat. Apparently this
Speaker 2: is like there's some viral TikTok video about people like
Speaker 2: you gotta fold your babies, and I'm like, what the
Speaker 2: fuck is that to someone with a baby, And it's
Speaker 2: apparently it's just about like anyone who's in.
Speaker 1: The overhead storage ben on the air right right.
Speaker 2: Exactly, But like for anyone to try to put a
Speaker 2: baby in a car seat. There's like a moment where
Speaker 2: they realize in a car seat and they just flatten
Speaker 2: their body out, like like I don't want to be
Speaker 2: in a motherfucker car seat. And so what they're saying
Speaker 2: is the trick here isn't to lay your kid in
Speaker 2: like just to flop them in. It's to sort of
Speaker 2: get get a little bit of bend, get those knees
Speaker 2: to the chest a little bit, and then put that
Speaker 2: prefolded child in the car seat to make the I
Speaker 2: guess securing of the car seat easier.
Speaker 1: Ye, arm bar is really helpful to just like get
Speaker 1: them to go where you want to want them to go. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: this feels weird, doesn't It doesn't it feel like you're
Speaker 1: putting your baby in a wrestling hold.
Speaker 2: I mean like when you when you actually look at
Speaker 2: like the picture, it just it just makes more sense.
Speaker 2: You're just basically being like, just emphasize the body shape
Speaker 2: when you put them in. It's like I gotta fold
Speaker 2: this fucker in half type shit. It's just more like
Speaker 2: just enter the put the child in at an angle
Speaker 2: that is more conducive to Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: I also saw a recent parenting hack that was like,
Speaker 1: don't play with your children, because then they're just gonna
Speaker 1: keep coming back and asking you to play with them.
Speaker 1: I have a life today because I've consistently always let
Speaker 1: them know I'm not the one to play with which, wow,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, uh, that's.
Speaker 2: Not misunderstood that one too, Huh. I ain't the one
Speaker 2: to play with. But man, I took that as never
Speaker 2: play with my kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, that's that's that's that's a I don't know.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, so they're like and that
Speaker 1: allows me to be rested when it comes to the
Speaker 1: things that I do like to do with and for
Speaker 1: my child. So I think all things, I don't think
Speaker 1: there's one size fits all, but if there is a
Speaker 1: one size fits all situation, make sure to fold them
Speaker 1: to avoid wrinkles. When's Easter? When's Easter?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was just thinking about that. We're talking about
Speaker 2: when's Easter? Oh the thirty first? Okay, wow?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of weeks, A couple of weeks, all right?
Speaker 2: Well those are we out of nowhere? All right? Well?
Speaker 1: Thore are some of those things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this Thursday, March fourteenth, We are back tomorrow with the
Speaker 1: whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind
Speaker 1: to each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: get your flu shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,