Speaker 1: This is so funny.
Speaker 2: Like me and my cousins, like we hadn't gotten together
Speaker 2: in a little bit, so we were catching up and
Speaker 2: like my one cousin he has dreads and stuff and
Speaker 2: he's like this, like he's like a cartoon character, like
Speaker 2: stoner surfer, black surfer guy, and he's.
Speaker 1: Like big two. He's like six ' four. And we
Speaker 1: were like at Major Domo, that David Chang restaurant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like a short rib thing you can order,
Speaker 2: but they only have like a limited number that they
Speaker 2: make every day. And my cousin's high ass saw like
Speaker 2: it came out on a cart and he had the
Speaker 2: hungriest stoner eyes that the people who's like actually ordered
Speaker 2: it felt bad. And then we're like they're like here,
Speaker 2: you should have a bite. He's like no, no, I'm good.
Speaker 2: You look like you wanted to bite. He's like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I didn't mean to like sera, it's your food like that.
Speaker 2: He's like, I just didn't know what it was.
Speaker 3: Your tongue literally rolled out of your mouth and onto
Speaker 3: the table.
Speaker 1: And they were like they're like there's still some meat
Speaker 1: on the bone.
Speaker 2: He was like, they carve it and like they leave
Speaker 2: it and sometimes people take it for their dogs or
Speaker 2: people eat it off the bone. And then the way
Speaker 2: my cousin took this thing and was like eating it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like they became friends and then they started talking.
Speaker 1: But it's just.
Speaker 2: No like him and the people who's had another dinner
Speaker 2: party happening at like the table he did it.
Speaker 3: To the table, the table near customers.
Speaker 2: The customers are like you know that guy, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so hungry for an hour, wants this, wants a bite
Speaker 2: of this, and he's like nah, no, I really all right,
Speaker 2: well now and then he like had it, and then
Speaker 2: they're like.
Speaker 3: A testament to his approachable energy that they're just like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: you want to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even like yo, stop stop coveting our dinner thing.
Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, you got there, Like it's then they
Speaker 2: were teasing like it's so gold, you gotta have some,
Speaker 2: and then he like joined them for I'm like, bro,
Speaker 2: we're here for another thing.
Speaker 3: But again that's like a different breed of human. My
Speaker 3: wife has that where like she will be like, hey,
Speaker 3: the thing you order is that like this thing on
Speaker 3: the menu. It looks really good, Like where I think
Speaker 3: people have when we've been at the offered her right,
Speaker 3: it's actually.
Speaker 2: I just can't that cocktail called and the stranger to
Speaker 2: be like, want to sip?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm like, bro, what the you're gonna.
Speaker 3: SIPs? Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week Trend,
Speaker 3: Long week Trend edition of Radio. This is a podcast
Speaker 3: where we take a deep dab into america share consciousness.
Speaker 3: And it is Tuesday, September third. It is the first
Speaker 3: day after a long weekend, and we are hungry, hu hungry, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Not even know. I'm not hungry.
Speaker 3: I'm not hungry.
Speaker 1: I'm ravenous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just need you to describe that dry cookie
Speaker 3: you just it was so real, you know.
Speaker 2: How like when you get it like a good moist cookie,
Speaker 2: like from the bakery, and then for some reason you're like,
Speaker 2: why didn't I just put this in tupperware and have
Speaker 2: it room time, just like a bag in a like
Speaker 2: a paper bag in the fucking fridge. It's a it's
Speaker 2: a famous amus by now.
Speaker 3: Thisly assembled crumbs just hanging out together by like out
Speaker 3: of habit.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I known each other since grade school.
Speaker 2: They kind of fell apart. Why are even fucking friend?
Speaker 3: That's why I never liked you. Anyways, you had a
Speaker 3: good long weekend. We caught up off like maybe in
Speaker 3: the open. I went to a sky Zone for a
Speaker 3: for a eight year old's birthday party. Shout out to
Speaker 3: that eight year old whose name I'm not gonna say
Speaker 3: on the podcast.
Speaker 1: But uh and then remember that you forgot it too.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say there obviously.
Speaker 3: That's also why I don't say my kids names on
Speaker 3: the podcast, because I don't remember them.
Speaker 2: My older, my old, my eldest, and my youngest in person.
Speaker 3: Ye doesn't even know our name.
Speaker 1: Mom. That my two sons, Hey, and the younger one.
Speaker 3: A little guy, my guy and little guy. But sky
Speaker 3: Zone is like.
Speaker 1: That that ship is that's a trampoline place, right.
Speaker 3: It's a trampoline place. They also have like slides that
Speaker 3: are like water slide adjace, Like they will like shoot
Speaker 3: you up in the air, oh.
Speaker 1: Like with how intense the speeds get.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's just like you know a water slide
Speaker 3: that like fires you out and then you like fall
Speaker 3: into the water. Yeah yeah yeah they have that, but
Speaker 3: like dry how they have just big like the padding technology,
Speaker 3: the matt technology, Like.
Speaker 1: How do you get that kind of like frictionless speed.
Speaker 3: You're sliding on a you're sliding on a guy yeah,
Speaker 3: on a little uh on a on a little pad
Speaker 3: guy mode. Objects are just down there again, just great energy.
Speaker 1: So one of our fastest guys.
Speaker 3: He's one of our most he has one of our
Speaker 3: most frictionless backs. But man, it's tough. Like the thing
Speaker 3: I like about the laser tech place that you that
Speaker 3: you had your first job at ultras the parents get
Speaker 3: to play, like the sky's all too much fun to
Speaker 3: just like make the parents just stand by and watch,
Speaker 3: like there will be like big kids in there. They
Speaker 3: have this one section I mean that I didn't I
Speaker 3: did not read the service, but the ship that they
Speaker 3: must have you agree to in that because there's like
Speaker 3: so much stuff that's like way too dangerous for America's
Speaker 3: appetite for their children. Like there's just like an American
Speaker 3: gladiators like balance beam where like one person stands in
Speaker 3: the middle and like takes on all comers, like they
Speaker 3: just like smash each other with these giant pillows. And
Speaker 3: there was a kid who was like thirteen just like
Speaker 3: trucking little children there. Instead of making me outraged, I
Speaker 3: was like I want to be that guy, all right,
Speaker 3: I could take him out.
Speaker 1: It's a strict no adults policy in there. You can't.
Speaker 1: I can't get it around.
Speaker 3: They have like height limits in certain sections, and I
Speaker 3: think just like pure shame. Uh and you know, human
Speaker 3: dignity also keeps parents out. But it just looks so fun, man.
Speaker 2: I mean it looks like they say stuff for co workers,
Speaker 2: throw an event for your co workers. Yeah, on that
Speaker 2: there might be a labor game.
Speaker 3: There might be an adult version of things, you know,
Speaker 3: like just like yeah.
Speaker 2: At a certain age, that's like knee and ankle Injury City.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's probably also whether like but man,
Speaker 3: they have a zip line that absolutely just explodes you
Speaker 3: off the side of that thing. Again like just things
Speaker 3: that used to exist.
Speaker 2: I just I just picked you watching from like the sidelines,
Speaker 2: like through the plexiglass, like with your hand palm.
Speaker 3: Like just fogging up the plexiglass.
Speaker 1: Or like that one that one clip of Charles S.
Speaker 2: Dutton that's a meme from Rudy when he's like clapping
Speaker 2: for Rudy was like, yeah.
Speaker 3: That was me with my six year old riding the
Speaker 3: zip line and he got like exploded off on his
Speaker 3: third and final run. In a way that I was
Speaker 3: like so proud of and like taking a video and
Speaker 3: like smiling, and then like the other dads were like,
Speaker 3: I think he's hurt, man, I think he's hurt, like
Speaker 3: run over, and he was like my shoulder, my shoulder. Anyways,
Speaker 3: this is the episode where we get to know each
Speaker 3: other a little bit better by telling you something you
Speaker 3: think we think is underrated overrated? Miles, what is something
Speaker 3: you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: Underrated?
Speaker 2: Is just as our desire to watch people eat a
Speaker 2: bunch of shit? I didn't full disclosure. A friend of
Speaker 2: mine was working on the Kobayashi Versus Joey Chestnut hot
Speaker 2: Dog like fucking battle finale to end all hot dog
Speaker 2: eating competitions because they were great rivals, like from twenty
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah what it could have been called?
Speaker 2: And at first I'm like, yeah, maybe I'll check it out.
Speaker 2: But then suddenly when I remembered it, I was like
Speaker 2: I need to watch this, like I need to see
Speaker 2: the fucking ending of this epic rivalry.
Speaker 1: And it was truly a spectacle to behold.
Speaker 2: Like they had like little pre there was like a
Speaker 2: pre card in a weird way, or they had this
Speaker 2: one dude eat like a bunch of wing, like a
Speaker 2: wing aiding contest against three Olympians, like who could eat
Speaker 2: the most wings. This guy fucking just smashed it like
Speaker 2: didn't even didn't even bother to protest, like just that
Speaker 2: he was eating all flats. Yeah, and basically like would
Speaker 2: get the one end cartilage piece off and then just
Speaker 2: like cartoon like cat style, just pull the meat right
Speaker 2: off the bone and just tossed the tube.
Speaker 1: Fucking whip those bones, britl.
Speaker 2: Look, No, I'll be honest, I don't know what they're counting.
Speaker 2: I know the house I grew up in the family
Speaker 2: I grew up in. You better present clean bones when
Speaker 2: you're eating off the bone. Yeah, these felt a little
Speaker 2: like I would say, like maybe twenty five twenty percent meat.
Speaker 1: Was on there.
Speaker 3: That's unacceptable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever, how are they counting?
Speaker 3: Are they counting it by number of wings or are
Speaker 3: they counting it by like the waight number.
Speaker 1: Wings, number wings? The number ones they got through it
Speaker 1: was whatever. That was fine.
Speaker 2: Then another lady ate like four pounds of watermelon in
Speaker 2: three minutes. It was fucking so intense to watch. But
Speaker 2: she's like casually just like scarfing it down, scarfing because
Speaker 2: I'm from the eighties. And then they got to the
Speaker 2: fucking main event and dude, this full of Joey chest
Speaker 2: had ate like eighty three fucking hot dogs in ten minutes.
Speaker 1: And they changed the rules up.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen like other competitive eaters,
Speaker 2: what they'll do is they'll like pull the buns, they'll
Speaker 2: separate the buns from the dogs, eat the dogs, then
Speaker 2: dip the fucking buns in the water or something, eat
Speaker 2: them separately.
Speaker 3: They changed they changed the rules, just straight up old
Speaker 3: school tradish full dog with bun, no separating.
Speaker 2: The whole fucking of missionary nuptewel sheet, all of that.
Speaker 1: They had it all very traditional, going Biblical on it.
Speaker 2: But it was just wild because Joey Chestnut looked it
Speaker 2: was kind of it was. It was just mixed between like,
Speaker 2: oh shit, this is wild and then me being like,
Speaker 2: I think Joey Chestnut is killing himself with glizzies up there,
Speaker 2: Like he was sweating profusely, he was forcing these hot
Speaker 2: dogs down his gullet in a way that I was like,
Speaker 2: is like is this safe? Like I was part partially
Speaker 2: like dazzled and then repeatedly uttering like under my breath.
Speaker 1: Jesus, this is so fucked up the fuck. But then
Speaker 1: I couldn't look away. Her majesty was like, this is
Speaker 1: so fucked up. I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm having trouble watching this guy force them down his throat.
Speaker 2: And then at the end he looked so weathered. It
Speaker 2: was kind of wild. And I put I put a
Speaker 2: picture of him right after it here in the dock
Speaker 2: of him. This dude is only forty Joey Chestnut is
Speaker 2: forty years old.
Speaker 4: Yo.
Speaker 3: He looks like Alex Jones after a bender.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks like Alex Jones, like yeah, like slightly like, yeah,
Speaker 2: something's going on with him. And I was like, it
Speaker 2: looks like a guy, like rather than being like yeah,
Speaker 2: the guy's like he's kind of weather.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: He was drinking a lot in his like you know,
Speaker 1: younger days.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, this dude is being so processed meats
Speaker 2: that it aged him in a way I've never seen
Speaker 2: some of the two.
Speaker 3: Things that like doctors repeatedly are just like drinking and
Speaker 3: processed meats, like those are the two things that will
Speaker 3: significantly uptick.
Speaker 2: That changed my full risk, that changed my whole Sando
Speaker 2: intake style, because you know what I mean like going
Speaker 2: and it should go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, you know that kind of ship.
Speaker 3: Just fireworks finale of price.
Speaker 2: In my mind, I'm like, tuna is safer, you're eating
Speaker 2: just a bunch of mayonnaise.
Speaker 1: Also, but anyway, uh yeah, I was just I was.
Speaker 2: I was truly impressed with what I saw, but it
Speaker 2: was it's like wild to like watch that and then
Speaker 2: everyone kind of being like, look.
Speaker 1: At this, what look at Look what's our fucking society?
Speaker 2: But also, holy ship, dude, eighty one, eighty two, eighty three.
Speaker 3: God, yeah mighty, I don't have this, like whatever the
Speaker 3: thing is that makes us want to watch people eat
Speaker 3: a disgusting amount of hot dogs, I'm not I've not
Speaker 3: watched a single one of these. Good god, I'm good
Speaker 3: to just have you describe eating one dry cookie. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like real slow, yeah, real, real slow.
Speaker 2: I think honestly, just me, just you looking at that
Speaker 2: picture of Joey Chestnut after the eighty three hot dogs is.
Speaker 1: Enough for you to understand what happened.
Speaker 3: It's like, body, I watched Alien Romulus this weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and it.
Speaker 3: Seems like your experience of watching this was very similar,
Speaker 3: like just like under your breath like, Oh, so fucked up?
Speaker 1: Why are we doing this to ourselves?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Truly so Joey chest not one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he like he put the smash on Kobyashi.
Speaker 3: I mean it feels like they like fucked with the
Speaker 3: rules a little bit to fuck with Kobyashi right, like
Speaker 3: wasn't his thing.
Speaker 1: The yeah, but the other thing is too.
Speaker 2: Like even at their their personal records, Joey Chestnut had
Speaker 2: a better personal hot dog eating record than Kobashi had
Speaker 2: his best, So like going into it, if I was
Speaker 2: if I was gonna pick, I was probably I would
Speaker 2: have probably put money on Chestnut just because like his capability,
Speaker 2: he's demonstrated a capacity to eat more than Kobayashi has.
Speaker 3: They should also like have to submit for x rays
Speaker 3: after it, so we could like see what the insides
Speaker 3: look like.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean even grosser news, like what what's
Speaker 2: like the next day or so like when you have
Speaker 2: to there, Oh god, that's even like more even trying
Speaker 2: to be like then you have to fucking nah no.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Do competitive eaters poop all the food out?
Speaker 3: A search that could have come from my six year old,
Speaker 3: Uh all right, my my underrated. Similarly in the world
Speaker 3: of sport, so college football's back. We got a gem
Speaker 3: of a postgame press conference from Brian Kelly, who's the
Speaker 3: coach of LSU. He used to be the coach of
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. He's just always seemed like a real asshole,
Speaker 3: and his press conference is just like it's not on
Speaker 3: the level with the great but it's it's just this
Speaker 3: like slow boil where you're just like witnessing this man
Speaker 3: trying to hold it together with all his might, and
Speaker 3: then at one point he just like slams his fist
Speaker 3: on the table like tardy. Yuh No. It's it's like
Speaker 3: at the end, basically, it's like after twenty minutes of
Speaker 3: him bely and you know, it's like a Sandler movie,
Speaker 3: like when you know a Sandler character who's just like
Speaker 3: and you know, just like right on the verge of
Speaker 3: fucking losing their shit. Oh, but he's always like had
Speaker 3: these like horrible interactions with the media where he just
Speaker 3: like finds an arbitrary reason to like be pissed at them.
Speaker 3: There's also a thing like back in Notre Dame where
Speaker 3: one of their football managers who was taping a practice,
Speaker 3: like they sent him up on this crane or on
Speaker 3: like one of those hydraulic lifts in a windstorm, and
Speaker 3: he fell, like the thing collapsed and he died. Oh
Speaker 3: my god, Like there there were questions around that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like so I mean nothing, you know, he was ultimately
Speaker 3: nothing to see Yeah, he was ultimately nothing to see
Speaker 3: it here, but he's just always seemed like I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, I I definitely I remember seeing this go around
Speaker 2: because I think that the caption I saw was like, what,
Speaker 2: like he's just had a series of winning the first
Speaker 2: game of a season.
Speaker 3: Season. Yeah, yeah, so like when he came to LSU,
Speaker 3: he keeps losing. Like the expectations are so high with LSU.
Speaker 2: Nuts catch in that game, I thought I could have
Speaker 2: swore I saw someone on sc just like have like
Speaker 2: a one handed like coarse scrumple.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This weekend, Yeah, I saw just out of.
Speaker 3: There's like a Robert Morris interception that was like like
Speaker 3: the the college Robert Morris, like this dude past that
Speaker 3: was like one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: He was like a one handed one right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: one handed like flip it like spinning around. There were
Speaker 3: this weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's watch Brian Kelly totally totally keep it together.
Speaker 1: And we're sitting here again. We're sitting here again about
Speaker 1: the same things.
Speaker 3: They should have miked the table, They need to mike
Speaker 3: the tables. And he was smashed again again talking and
Speaker 3: you can see you see his like water bottle that's
Speaker 3: across the table, like jump.
Speaker 1: Finishing when you have an opponent in a position. God,
Speaker 1: this guy must be great to hang out with.
Speaker 3: I know, right, Like God, he must be. He's just
Speaker 3: like so tightly wound. And I don't know, like coming
Speaker 3: from a long line of coaches, I think it's like
Speaker 3: kind of fucked up that we do this to coaches.
Speaker 3: But like in the right in the right moments, it's
Speaker 3: like hilarious that we take kind of like these people
Speaker 3: when they're like on the verge of a nervous breakdown
Speaker 3: from like combined stress and like failure and put them
Speaker 3: up on a stage and force them to answer questions.
Speaker 1: Hey, why do you fail.
Speaker 3: To talk about that who have bad stuff about them
Speaker 3: in the past that they probably have like a like boil,
Speaker 3: like a simmering, very single vendetta against this. And then
Speaker 3: those people are like, hey, Hey, so that opposing coach
Speaker 3: basically pulled your little dick out in front of everyone
Speaker 3: and jerked you off until nothing came out because you
Speaker 3: were a boy. What was the thinking going into that coach?
Speaker 1: Hey, coach, think you should leave?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I don't know if.
Speaker 2: This is I'm curious so too, Like when you see that, right,
Speaker 2: like clearly that's also like his communication style. And I
Speaker 2: get that because foot is such an aggressive sport, Like
Speaker 2: that's a communication style to motivate it. But like I
Speaker 2: feel like we're seeing like it you see this evolution
Speaker 2: in coaching over the last twenty years or like some
Speaker 2: guys like aren't the screamer types and they're yeah, man,
Speaker 2: you gotta fucking get in there, like if you got
Speaker 2: if you want them to perform, like you gotta get
Speaker 2: them bought in, rather than like I'm going to scream
Speaker 2: at them like they're my step kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, form of coaching.
Speaker 2: So it's interesting to see like the remnants of that
Speaker 2: because I remember when when I was playing hockey, like
Speaker 2: there bro, there were some fucking freaks that would just.
Speaker 3: Rip our heads off, and we were seven grade coach
Speaker 3: were thirteen year old thirteen year olds and was like
Speaker 3: the meanest person yeah, ever encountered. I had a.
Speaker 2: Hockey coach that I remember I told my mom I
Speaker 2: got off the team because this dude was such a
Speaker 2: fucking scary motherfuckerum and they put me on the older
Speaker 2: kids team.
Speaker 3: I mean, some of the all time greats. If you're
Speaker 3: if you're also interested in this, because it's just like
Speaker 3: the most one of the most naked moments we have
Speaker 3: in like public discourse, like like no no president is
Speaker 3: forced to like go up there after a major l
Speaker 3: and like deliver unprepared remarks that are like just you know,
Speaker 3: in the form of like questions from media, who's like
Speaker 3: kind of hospital towards you. If you're interested, there's uh,
Speaker 3: you want to crown their ass, crown them. But they
Speaker 3: are who we thought they were, right right right when
Speaker 3: NFL coach just got up there and kept being like
Speaker 3: they are who we thought they were. They are who
Speaker 3: we thought they were. Like what because he had just
Speaker 3: gotten like his team got cream and then he was
Speaker 3: like you want to crown their ass, crown their ass,
Speaker 3: But they were who we thought they were, and like
Speaker 3: it didn't really make sense, but it like was just who.
Speaker 1: Do they think they are we am and we.
Speaker 3: Are just lost his access to language at that point,
Speaker 3: and there's of course playoffs and then after me, I'm
Speaker 3: a man, I'm forty, I'm not a kid. Hell yeah, Miles,
Speaker 3: what's what's some things overrated?
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, my own listening comprehension abilities, I've I've
Speaker 2: been listening to you know, I like a lot of music.
Speaker 2: The Shaka Demus Implier's song Murder, she wrote, is like
Speaker 2: a dance hall story. She wrote, yeah, and she wrote,
Speaker 2: how come I'm learning now that song is about abortion?
Speaker 3: It is? Yes? Is it like an anti choice anthem?
Speaker 2: It's hard to say what it is. It's kind of
Speaker 2: like this. The backstory does not feel like empowering. It's
Speaker 2: like like he was dating someone named Maxine who was
Speaker 2: like pregnant and then she wasn't anymore and he was
Speaker 2: like what happened?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: And like that was kind of like the like the
Speaker 2: sort of texture you get on the backstory of it.
Speaker 2: And then in the third verse he talks about like
Speaker 2: how she gets gets an abortion and stuff, and I
Speaker 2: was like, well, and a part of me is like,
Speaker 2: obviously I'm not an expert in Jamaican. Patois so it's
Speaker 2: not like I'm like, I'm like, how do I miss that?
Speaker 2: I'm fluid. But for such a song like because you know,
Speaker 2: there's like this whole pantheon of like pop popular songs
Speaker 2: that are about abortion, like Brick by Ben Folds or
Speaker 2: like that Goo Goo Doll song.
Speaker 3: Slides, it sounds like it's about abortion. Yeah, like that,
Speaker 3: it's not like a dancehall anthem. You know, right, hit.
Speaker 1: Slide is the Goo Goo Doll song? Right, that's about abortion?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that's just like but then for a song
Speaker 2: that's like Burned, like it's such a such a pop
Speaker 2: that you're like, wait, this has a weird backstory. And
Speaker 2: then I was reading the Wikipedia article and I gotta
Speaker 2: find it. Like they asked Angela Lansbury about They're like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know there's this there's this song called like murder.
Speaker 2: She wrote, you know, like what do you know? How
Speaker 2: do you feel about that? Her quote was this was
Speaker 2: her reaction to it when asked about it. Quote, Oh, reggae.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm thrilled to be part of reggae.
Speaker 1: Of course, shout out Angela answer.
Speaker 3: She didn't know the shouldn't know the context either.
Speaker 1: It sounds no no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: Like an ode to cabot cove. Yes, yes, I'm very familiar.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a quick rape. We'll come back.
Speaker 3: I'll do my overrated and we'll get in to some
Speaker 3: news stories and we're back. We're back, and my overrated
Speaker 3: is I guess like corporatetocracy or like whatever we're headed towards.
Speaker 3: It ties into a news story because this weekend, Direct
Speaker 3: TV just like turned off ESPN and ABC because of
Speaker 3: a contract dispute with Disney. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: saw this. We are currently in the midst of a
Speaker 3: big tennis you know, craze us households and the US
Speaker 3: Open is on, and then it was not on, and
Speaker 3: they were just like, hey, Disney is like fucking with us.
Speaker 3: We don't like it. So we're just like this is
Speaker 3: off for the foreseeable future until they come to the
Speaker 3: table or whatever.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it just like this happened with Dodgers Baseball
Speaker 3: not too long ago, a few years back. We just
Speaker 3: have like lower expectations now more than ever for the
Speaker 3: systems that, like, you know, obviously these are like superficial
Speaker 3: things this is just like our ability to watch sports,
Speaker 3: but we also have like the two astronauts stranded on
Speaker 3: the ISS, like being an example of like how privatization
Speaker 3: and like corporatetocracy affects space travel and like comparing that
Speaker 3: to like this weekend, took my kids to the Science
Speaker 3: Center because they've been interested in Hubble in the James
Speaker 3: Web Telescope. So we went to the California Science Center
Speaker 3: publicly funded, like you don't even have to pay for
Speaker 3: admittance to the Science Center, and we watched a documentary
Speaker 3: about the James Web Telescope, which they they mentioned in
Speaker 3: the documentary it cost ten billion dollars of like tax payer,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like NASA budget ten billion dollars to
Speaker 3: put that thing up. And it had like two hundred
Speaker 3: what they call like zero point moments where if it
Speaker 3: if everything failed to go exactly as planned, it would
Speaker 3: like just go off into the universe as space trash.
Speaker 3: But it just like all these people with like terrible
Speaker 3: haircuts in Hawaiian shirts and like pun t shirts just
Speaker 3: like pulled off this fucking miracle in you know, some
Speaker 3: dark room in Florida somewhere, and it's like I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's just like the comparison of like what we're seeing
Speaker 3: with corporate Like the more we just let corporations take
Speaker 3: over everything versus like what happened with Like I feel
Speaker 3: like even though James Webb got a lot of press
Speaker 3: at the time, it's still like we don't drive home
Speaker 3: the point that like this is a publicly funded thing.
Speaker 3: There's no profitability at the end of it. It's just
Speaker 3: a thing that we funded because of the end goal
Speaker 3: is like good for humanity, and it worked. It was
Speaker 3: like an incredible this incredible achievement that allowed us to
Speaker 3: like look back into the beginning of the universe. And
Speaker 3: then we're like we don't really talk about that instead
Speaker 3: where Elon Musk is a genius.
Speaker 2: Or it's like our public subsidies basically help Elon by Twitter, right,
Speaker 2: yeah side of it too.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, we just I don't know, and like nobody
Speaker 3: would ever make the argument in America like that's why
Speaker 3: tax is good, Like, look look at this amazing thing
Speaker 3: we achieved by allowing our tax dollars to like go
Speaker 3: to this incredible achievement. Look at this like White Science
Speaker 3: Center that like is open for kids of all backgrounds,
Speaker 3: like go to and you know, just like I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's fucking I.
Speaker 2: Think because we've forgotten what like the public good that
Speaker 2: is created from tax money.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You's like it's like even like you just don't hear about.
Speaker 2: This too, like or just like all the state universities
Speaker 2: that were built, you know what I mean, like with
Speaker 2: public funds, and we're just kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: they've they've just been here, rather than realizing it's like
Speaker 2: these were fucking flourishing. The reason like they're they don't
Speaker 2: they kind of like look stuck in time is because
Speaker 2: we haven't been really investing in them since that initial investment,
Speaker 2: and we should be pouring more into these things like
Speaker 2: our own infrastructure, and I think we just kind of
Speaker 2: like I think for people who are less like who
Speaker 2: don't understand like how a lot of these things came
Speaker 2: to pass, that it's easier to just take it for
Speaker 2: granted and be like, yeah, it's just like that stuff
Speaker 2: that's there, rather and it's like, no, that's why you
Speaker 2: need to fucking tax the wealthy to create the fucking
Speaker 2: funds to make more shit that is like the stuff
Speaker 2: that wows us, that gives us these you know, scientific
Speaker 2: achievements or discoveries or places of learning or social safety
Speaker 2: program safe safety nets and the like.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah it's.
Speaker 3: James Webbs, like aud here discovering things that like Einstein
Speaker 3: predicted with math like fifty years before we knew that
Speaker 3: we'd ever be able to like see them and well
Speaker 3: enough to like prove them, right, But he was just
Speaker 3: like there should be like a mansion black hole here
Speaker 3: and like that. And I don't know, like Einstein's also
Speaker 3: a good example. He's been completely co opted by like corporations,
Speaker 3: but like I don't think he was like collecting a
Speaker 3: paycheck from IBM, you know, despite those like think different
Speaker 3: ads or whoever the fuck that was, you know, Like,
Speaker 3: but yeah, we we just because of like years and
Speaker 3: years of like corporate brainwashing it and a media that
Speaker 3: is completely corporate owned. I feel like we don't get
Speaker 3: messaging about like here's a great public works thing that
Speaker 3: was achieved with tax payer money, right, we just kind
Speaker 3: of zoom past it. And then now when like Disney
Speaker 3: and AT and T have a disagreement and like our
Speaker 3: lives are like temporarily inconvenienced, we're just like, Okay, that's
Speaker 3: how it goes. It's like, no, this fucking bullshit. It's
Speaker 3: a bad system. It's a bad system, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And that is the first time I've ever said that
Speaker 3: on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 3: I'm just nervous. I've just realized that corporatocracy bad system.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about what this is going to do, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh man? Anyways, Uh, let's get into some news stories,
Speaker 3: shall we. Sides and news stories about what I can't
Speaker 3: watch on TV?
Speaker 1: Can't we can't watch the men eat hot dogs.
Speaker 3: I just switched to sling, and like, I'm probably not
Speaker 3: gonna switch back, Like because there you go, why why
Speaker 3: would you?
Speaker 1: I mean at this rate?
Speaker 2: Like everyone there, it's the same thing with cable, it's
Speaker 2: like yeah, yeah, you get this introductory rate.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and then we're gonna turn it up on you,
Speaker 1: and then you send.
Speaker 3: Two years later you look at your bill and you're like,
Speaker 3: what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Seven hundred dollars? One the funk happened? Well, we wanted
Speaker 1: a DVR, didn't you.
Speaker 3: Just watch sports? All right? Let's talk about RFP. He
Speaker 3: spent a lot of his campaign like whining about how
Speaker 3: it was a conspiracy is keeping him off ballots. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you need to get on those ballots. People see, we're
Speaker 3: going to have a fair election. So now what's happening.
Speaker 3: What's what's the latest update.
Speaker 2: Well, first you couldn't get on the ballots, and now
Speaker 2: you can't get his name off, which is what he
Speaker 2: wants because you know, because he's he's now you know,
Speaker 2: on the road to becoming the nation's road meet Czar.
Speaker 2: And part of that deal was to trade in what
Speaker 2: was left of his parasite riddled soul to stop his
Speaker 2: campaign to help Donald Trump win. But now that part
Speaker 2: of that means he has to make good on his
Speaker 2: end of this bargain, which is, hey, man, get your
Speaker 2: fucking name off the ballots so you don't split the
Speaker 2: vote or people end up supporting you that could be
Speaker 2: supporting me, Like like, let's now, let's handle this part.
Speaker 2: He's successfully been able to get his name off like
Speaker 2: a few places like Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, among many others,
Speaker 2: but in consequential swing states like North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan,
Speaker 2: he's looking at a big old uh oh where they're like, bro,
Speaker 2: it's too fucking late, Like you we can't Like we're
Speaker 2: we've sent ballots out to counties. We can't fucking reprint,
Speaker 2: reprint millions of fucking ballots, Like it's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So sorry.
Speaker 2: Other places are like, well, once you've submitted and you
Speaker 2: have a nomination, like it is what it is. There's
Speaker 2: no take back seats. So he's suing the state of
Speaker 2: North Carolina and their election board to try and get
Speaker 2: off the fucking ballot there because it's pretty i mean
Speaker 2: for a campaign that has little money, I'm sure that
Speaker 2: Trump campaign is probably helping because North Carolina, you know,
Speaker 2: is one of the most important states in terms of
Speaker 2: Donald Trump having a path to victory in terms of
Speaker 2: like electoral college math. Now that like there are many
Speaker 2: other states in play for Democrats, like he has like
Speaker 2: North Carolina, Like you can't fuck around with it anymore?
Speaker 3: Is that because like it would be an indication that
Speaker 3: like other states have gone bad.
Speaker 2: For him or yeah, well there's so many There's just
Speaker 2: so many of these, Like after you get through your
Speaker 2: solidly red states and you look at what's teetering, you're like, well,
Speaker 2: for the amount of electoral college votes you got there,
Speaker 2: like you kind of need those because then you then
Speaker 2: you are starting to cobble together other states that might
Speaker 2: be way more competitive. So all that's to say is
Speaker 2: this has become a big focus of rfk's you know,
Speaker 2: defunct campaign now because yeah, this is the the polling
Speaker 2: is now tightening more and more and more whatever that means.
Speaker 2: But clearly that's enough for them to take action, to
Speaker 2: think like, okay, this is this is a bit of
Speaker 2: a mp my problem to out right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then Trump admitted he interfered with the election.
Speaker 3: No big deal, right, but yeah, no.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, I'll just play this clip. We're
Speaker 1: we were we were just talking.
Speaker 2: About Jack Smith, you know, uh, going after him again
Speaker 2: with a new indictment now taking out a lot of
Speaker 2: the language that was sort of deemed you know, quote
Speaker 2: problematic in terms of the Supreme Court decision. Where if
Speaker 2: you are president god, you can fuck around and not
Speaker 2: find out.
Speaker 3: It's like when you get like bad notes on a
Speaker 3: first draft of something and then you're like, I will
Speaker 3: follow your notes to the letter of the law. I
Speaker 3: will easier numbers specifically.
Speaker 2: Okay, fine, if this is what you hear it is,
Speaker 2: now do you like it? You like this toothless, non
Speaker 2: creative thing anyway, So part of that was or over
Speaker 2: the weekend he did an interview on Fox where that
Speaker 2: came up, and Trump's just being like, let me show
Speaker 2: you a little bit of how I see the law
Speaker 2: or what is legal or not. This is him talking
Speaker 2: about him definitely interfering with the election.
Speaker 4: Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential
Speaker 4: election where you have every right to do it. You
Speaker 4: get indicted, and you pulled. Numbers go up when people
Speaker 4: get indicted, you pull numbers go down.
Speaker 3: Wait what you have every right to interfere and you heard.
Speaker 2: You get indicted for interfering with a president presidential election
Speaker 2: for you have every right to or you have every
Speaker 2: right to do it.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: You get indicted and you're pulling when people get indicted,
Speaker 2: So what the fuck that means?
Speaker 3: It's like, this is a great example of him just
Speaker 3: like admitting like the thing he did is bad. And
Speaker 3: also just like if Joe Biden had said this, we
Speaker 3: would have been like, what the fuck is happening with
Speaker 3: his brain?
Speaker 1: Its just contradiction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the span of five seconds, and.
Speaker 2: People are increasingly getting more and more bored, like at
Speaker 2: the rallies, like there's people like there have been more
Speaker 2: and more people like snickering behind him, like I don't
Speaker 2: even think their plants. They're just like what the fuck
Speaker 2: did he just say? Kind of shit, They're like where
Speaker 2: are we here? It doesn't mean that they will not
Speaker 2: come out and vote for him, but yeah, anyway, it's
Speaker 2: interesting to see like people's responses, especially, you know, like
Speaker 2: former DOJ officials who now like get a check being pundits.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, this is really bad for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, can we can we just like please
Speaker 2: just stop doing this because so many things have been.
Speaker 3: Really bad for Donald Trump. Now man, it's over. I
Speaker 3: mean the game.
Speaker 2: Over all existence is really bad for Donald Trump. But
Speaker 2: yet he seems to like float away from any kind
Speaker 2: of tangible like legal jeopardy on a cloud of lies.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well we'll see.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know, but yeah he said that, and
Speaker 2: you have every right to interfere. It's just like I think,
Speaker 2: just underscorees, like his level of narcissism is just like
Speaker 2: in these new New highs, where the logic is I
Speaker 2: did a crime, but people liked it, so that means
Speaker 2: it's legal.
Speaker 3: Who Ever heard that interfering in a presidential le Like,
Speaker 3: is he saying that he doesn't think anybody thought that
Speaker 3: was illegal? Head head, Well, he's.
Speaker 2: Just sort of saying he's I think it's probably saying
Speaker 2: like I had a right to interfere with it, therefore
Speaker 2: it's legal. And plus if it was seemed that odie,
Speaker 2: if it was that odious to voters, why would my
Speaker 2: polling numbers go up?
Speaker 3: Got it after being in I think he just needs
Speaker 3: to bring you on to the campaign.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's called And that's not even sane washing.
Speaker 2: I'm becoming a bit of a Trump I'm get. I
Speaker 2: get this skewed, fuck boy teenager logic that he applies to.
Speaker 2: I don't know, mom, Like I brought the gun to
Speaker 2: school and then everyone cheered. I didn't even bring bullets
Speaker 2: or nothing. Right, They all thought it was really cool
Speaker 2: because I was doing like cool like cowboy tricks.
Speaker 1: I didn't even it wasn't even loaded.
Speaker 3: As far as I knew. Yeah, all right. There was
Speaker 3: a brief general strike in Israel over the weekend that
Speaker 3: has since been called off because of a u the
Speaker 3: courts basically saying like it's not not allowed, but it
Speaker 3: did like fuck things up.
Speaker 2: A lot of relays across the airports, schools, a lot
Speaker 2: of businesses closed in solidarity.
Speaker 1: They're like hundreds of thousands of people in the streets.
Speaker 2: But as I was like, you know, reading like sort
Speaker 2: of the reports about it, it wasn't quite like the
Speaker 2: tipping point moment that it might look like on TV
Speaker 2: when you see hundreds of cause it's it's still like
Speaker 2: the outrage is still very much limited to people who
Speaker 2: are vocal critics of Net and Yahoo. Right, It's not
Speaker 2: like it's not like his base came out to also protest.
Speaker 2: So a lot of the strikes were kind of fractured
Speaker 2: as a result of that and felt like more regional
Speaker 2: than anything. But this is obviously like in result to
Speaker 2: the six hostages that they were covered that they were
Speaker 2: that were that were killed prior to them being recovered.
Speaker 1: And it's just weird to see like people are like Net.
Speaker 2: And Yahoo's a murderer, He's a criminal, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh shit, they're like but then I realized this, just
Speaker 2: like this discussion is not very narrow.
Speaker 3: Limit to the hostages.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, like and the the tension there
Speaker 2: is high, Like there were people who were like like
Speaker 2: marching on the order like of Gaza to try and
Speaker 2: be like, we're going to get our own family out
Speaker 2: then if the government won't do it. So yeah, he's
Speaker 2: you know, I think it's getting to a point now
Speaker 2: where people are seeing it's like, yeah, this guy is
Speaker 2: not a serious actor or good faith actor in any
Speaker 2: of these negotiations, Like it's all about not having a ceasefire.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people who you know have family members who are
Speaker 3: hostages or yeah, it feels like while while they their
Speaker 3: focus is on the hostages, it does seem like a
Speaker 3: way that it's clear that Netu like doesn't care about
Speaker 3: like he's almost holding them hostage as well. Like yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, whether the policy of the idea have to
Speaker 3: like shoot people on site in areas where the hostages
Speaker 3: are being held, or the continued all out bombardment of
Speaker 3: every building in a region where the hostages are supposed
Speaker 3: to be it's pretty hard to claim, as he did recently,
Speaker 3: that like nobody cares more about the hostages than me,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: And this is also happening while you know, you're seeing
Speaker 2: a full scale invasion in the West Bank also, and
Speaker 2: so the the fuckery and the like the actual crimes.
Speaker 1: International crimes continue at pace.
Speaker 3: And the thing they're calling out in regards to the hostages,
Speaker 3: like is that he keeps changing. Like you know, a
Speaker 3: lot of the mainstream American accounts of the ceasefire negotiations
Speaker 3: are like, I'm also like didn't come to the table
Speaker 3: or and like these people are at least like coming
Speaker 3: out and saying like he insisted on adding Yahu insisted
Speaker 3: on like adding demands to a proposed ceasefire deal that
Speaker 3: would have seen the hostages release, Like you know, like
Speaker 3: another person said, like time after time, there's a chance
Speaker 3: to bring them home, and he finds other reasons for
Speaker 3: it not to happen, almost as if he's he just
Speaker 3: wants this to continue because he wants the word to
Speaker 3: continue because it's helpful to his specific political aspirations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for his far right wing government, and he has
Speaker 2: to manage that coalition government. Now he's having to manage
Speaker 2: in a growingly unhappy, populous and yeah, I mean there
Speaker 2: are you know, the reports are also like in an
Speaker 2: increasingly impatient Biden administration, I am that just feels like
Speaker 2: a big favor to the Biden administration. I don't know
Speaker 2: what exactly the pressure like there's still no conditions on
Speaker 2: the armament of Israel. So I don't know where that's like,
Speaker 2: what exactly is happening. I think one thing that they're
Speaker 2: pointing to is a reporter asked Joe Biden over the weekend,
Speaker 2: do you think that you know, is NET and Yahoo
Speaker 2: doing enough right now to bring a ceasefire? And he
Speaker 2: just said no and then kept it moving. And then
Speaker 2: you're like, Biden thinks that ya not doing enough. But
Speaker 2: where is the I mean, because remember the DNC, Biden
Speaker 2: was saying like he thinks he could get a ceasefire
Speaker 2: done by the end.
Speaker 1: Of the week, And I'm like, are It's like, are
Speaker 1: you so nice that? Are you so It's.
Speaker 2: Like, are you so naive? Or do you think people
Speaker 2: are so naive? Or is it a little bit from
Speaker 2: column A in a little bit from college.
Speaker 3: I think I think we're we're in the little bit
Speaker 3: of a little bit of b but I don't know.
Speaker 3: Like just also, just general strike is a term that
Speaker 3: is good to see in headlines, Like when you google
Speaker 3: general strikes in the US, there are things like Seattle
Speaker 3: General Strike of nineteen nineteen and Oakland General Strike of
Speaker 3: nineteen forty six. The general strike is a big deal
Speaker 3: that I don't know, it's just good, good idea to
Speaker 3: introduce to people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, but they're also understanding that, like the
Speaker 2: political project of both parties is to make sure that
Speaker 2: the labor doesn't have enough power or organ like organizational
Speaker 2: power to make something like that happen. Right and then
Speaker 2: then and that should be the appeal for us understanding
Speaker 2: my like, you know, organized labor is a good thing,
Speaker 2: especially after this day where Trump did nothing.
Speaker 1: I think I think he just sat down.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 3: right back. And we're back. We're back. And JD. Evance
Speaker 3: continues to not be.
Speaker 2: Always going to do a start a story, go JD.
Speaker 2: Evans continues to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely crush it. So uh. He posted an old
Speaker 3: clip of a two thousand and seven Miss teen USA
Speaker 3: contestant who drew widespread mockery for rambling response to question
Speaker 3: I forget what.
Speaker 2: The question it was about that educ I think it
Speaker 2: was about the educational system. That's where the woman famously
Speaker 2: gave the answer. The Asian countries in the Iraq such as.
Speaker 3: And so forth. Yeah, So he posted that video and
Speaker 3: said I have in the hold of the full Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris CNN interview because Kamala Harris and Tim Walls gave
Speaker 3: an interview to Senna at the end of last week
Speaker 3: and we were all glued to our TV screens just like, no,
Speaker 3: I did you watch it?
Speaker 1: No I saw, I saw, I saw clips.
Speaker 2: But if there weren't really headlines talking about anything like
Speaker 2: that felt like it made her shift in policy. I
Speaker 2: was like, it's yeah, whatever. I mean, everyone was like
Speaker 2: praising it. They're like they knocked it out of the park.
Speaker 2: It was a masterclass in how to dodge Trump gotcha.
Speaker 1: Moments or whatever.
Speaker 2: Sure, I did see like one part where they were
Speaker 2: like trying to ask her about her identity, and I
Speaker 2: was like, are.
Speaker 3: Y'all serious with this shit? You guys Like she used
Speaker 3: to be Indian, now she's black.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she just said She's like I'm not like next question.
Speaker 2: And then like Politico was like she evades answering question,
Speaker 2: Like why would you even word it like that?
Speaker 3: Nice dodge. Yeah. Anyways. In addition to the inherent misogyny
Speaker 3: of comparing a female presidential candidate to a beauty pageant contestant,
Speaker 3: the move was condemned by the former contestant herself, Caitlyn Upton,
Speaker 3: who decried online bullying in her own post then deleted
Speaker 3: her Twitter account altogether. And yeah, she's been like this
Speaker 3: has been a horrible experience for her, Like yeah, and this.
Speaker 2: Was like I remember, this was like two thousand and seven,
Speaker 2: right when it happened. Yeah, and I remember, like I
Speaker 2: think I just graduated college.
Speaker 1: I thought this was the funniest shit.
Speaker 3: I was pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then and then this is like before you kind
Speaker 2: of begin to have like like empathy like as a
Speaker 2: person too, and then understand how terrible the internet is. Luckily,
Speaker 2: this was like early Internet, so you were like limited
Speaker 2: to like being on like Ebomb's World or.
Speaker 1: Something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but so yeah, this really fucking this fucked your
Speaker 2: life up.
Speaker 1: Pretty bad and being the laugh being a laughing stock.
Speaker 2: And then this is this moment he went on CNN
Speaker 2: and they're like, hey, dude, did you know about you know,
Speaker 2: like this is kind of a fucked up thing to
Speaker 2: post given and like what this did to this woman,
Speaker 2: And this is how Jdvans just.
Speaker 1: Fucking handles it like an absolute wonderful man.
Speaker 5: As right after CNN released a small clip of the
Speaker 5: Harris interview. You on Twitter posted a clip from a
Speaker 5: Miss teen USA beauty pageant from two thousand.
Speaker 1: Is self satisfied great, and you wrote, I.
Speaker 5: Have gotten a hold of the full Kamala Harris CNN interview.
Speaker 5: Now this thing that surfaced around the internet for a
Speaker 5: few years she had, you know, she struggled answering a
Speaker 5: question back in this beauty pageant.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure you're aware.
Speaker 5: In twenty fifteen, Caitlin Upton did an interview in New
Speaker 5: York Magazine about all the social media attention this clip got,
Speaker 5: and she said, I definitely went through a period where
Speaker 5: I was very, very depressed, but I never let anybody
Speaker 5: see that stuff except for people I could trust. I
Speaker 5: had some very dark moments where I thought about committing suicide.
Speaker 1: So when you posted this last night, were you aware
Speaker 1: that the woman you.
Speaker 5: Were posting a picture of had some long blank citing
Speaker 5: suicide for the attend and received.
Speaker 6: Mm hm No, certainly not, John, And my heart goes
Speaker 6: out to her and I hope that she's doing well. Look,
Speaker 6: I've said a lot of things on camera. I've said
Speaker 6: a lot of stupid things on camera. Sometimes when you're
Speaker 6: in the public eye, you make mistakes, and again, I
Speaker 6: think the best way to deal with it is to
Speaker 6: laugh at ourselves, laugh at this stuff, and try to
Speaker 6: have some fun in politics. I posted a meme from
Speaker 6: twenty years ago, and I think the fact that we're
Speaker 6: talking about that instead of the fact that American families
Speaker 6: can't afford groceries or healthcare young families.
Speaker 2: He goes on and on, and the guys see it
Speaker 2: is like, would you like to apologize?
Speaker 1: He's like, now, I'm not gonna apologize.
Speaker 3: Nope, And we're good here, we're good.
Speaker 2: Look, we need to laugh at people a little bit,
Speaker 2: like completely missing the point, but yeah, yeah, we're not
Speaker 2: shocked that. He would also like probably not know that
Speaker 2: and then be like yeah, I don't care, dude, and
Speaker 2: then try and make it is like, this is about
Speaker 2: having fun, man, that's the thing, Like we're just political
Speaker 2: campaigns are so uptight. I mean yeah, because the stakes
Speaker 2: are so fucking Hi, you loser, what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: Have a little fun, man.
Speaker 2: It's like ignore you know, like our crumbling earth and
Speaker 2: you knowing untold inequality and oppression.
Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, this is what I have a little fun man.
Speaker 3: We gotta laugh, We gotta I'm the Internet VP. I'm
Speaker 3: a good podcast guest.
Speaker 2: Mostly banged a couple of couches in my day, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I don't let that get to me. We're having
Speaker 1: a little fun, you know, That's all it is.
Speaker 3: Really feels like he should be freelancing for Stuff magazine
Speaker 3: in the year two thousand and two.
Speaker 2: Oh you know not, you know you probably he probably
Speaker 2: met Gutfeld. He's like, dude, the ship you were doing
Speaker 2: at Maxim. Oh fucking I'm not joking when I say this, Man,
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in front of Lord Byron or something,
Speaker 2: you know, A true fucking master of the written word.
Speaker 3: He's got the like just annotated copies of old Maxim
Speaker 3: magazines with could you.
Speaker 2: Imagine he's like this, yeah, written with the little thing
Speaker 2: post it notes, like the ones that were like lit
Speaker 2: the matchstick size just glittered out of one issues, Like,
Speaker 2: can I just go through some of my favorites?
Speaker 1: Man, it's a Lindsay Lohan episode. Yeah, you're gonna love
Speaker 1: this issue.
Speaker 3: He also uh the Weekend. This weekend, we saw a
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one podcast clip surface in which Vance attacked
Speaker 3: professional women with no children, calling it a path to misery,
Speaker 3: which uh.
Speaker 1: To misery, Yeah, path to victory, bath and misery.
Speaker 3: He's just I don't know, even setting aside like the
Speaker 3: weirdly specific hate that he has for women who don't
Speaker 3: have children, it just feels like a bad political move.
Speaker 3: Like half of the women in the country don't have children.
Speaker 3: Doesn't that mean like he's repeatedly insulting a quarter of
Speaker 3: the population. Is like they're not gonna vote for me?
Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, I mean because it's the same thing, like right,
Speaker 2: like they're just dope, They're just again, this is like
Speaker 2: a really terrible habit that Trump, the whole Maga thing has,
Speaker 2: where like they're like, we don't need to appeal to
Speaker 2: anybody to the just the middle. Just fucking turn the
Speaker 2: heat up and let's boil this pot down to the
Speaker 2: most fucked up primordial goo of voters who are just
Speaker 2: absolute creatures of the swamp, of the racist swamps. I mean,
Speaker 2: the same thing with like why he's doing Trump's doing
Speaker 2: appearances in like sundown towns and like where the like
Speaker 2: clan town in Michigan, Like he knows, like it's all
Speaker 2: fucking intentional, And I'd be like, yeah, man, you guys,
Speaker 2: how about how about this thing's for you right?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: That can can you get everybody to come out now
Speaker 2: if I'm talking directly to you?
Speaker 3: And other tragic news. Uh, Harry Potter super fans gathered
Speaker 3: at like we didn't.
Speaker 1: I thought you said we weren't going to do this
Speaker 1: one because it's so fucked up.
Speaker 3: It's kind of fucked up and we try not to
Speaker 3: like get into too much really dark shit, but yeah,
Speaker 3: this is so a bunch of Harry Potter fans went
Speaker 3: to London's King Rus station for the annual tradition where
Speaker 3: real station posts a fake announcement that quote, the Hogwarts
Speaker 3: Express Train is ready to depart from the fictional platform
Speaker 3: nine and three quarches the thank you for your all
Speaker 3: of your compliments at home for my British act network.
Speaker 2: They're going back fifteen seconds positively, babe, get in here.
Speaker 3: Look a British guy just like enters his body.
Speaker 2: Shit, they got a British new British guy on the show.
Speaker 3: I like that they include the fictional platform and they're
Speaker 3: they're like not even giving them that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just you just because they get to a proper bureaucracy.
Speaker 2: They don't want to confuse anyone to be like, how
Speaker 2: do I get there the fictional.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks to woke fans showed up, counted down, but
Speaker 3: when they countdown ended, there were not cheers, there was
Speaker 3: no announcement.
Speaker 2: There were just booze. Now, let's let's listen to the moment.
Speaker 2: I mean, god, they were I hope no, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I don't think people traveled from abroad to hear this.
Speaker 2: But here's the moment where the announcement did not come
Speaker 2: at king Cross station, King's Cross Station, Uh, just a
Speaker 2: regular announcement. But they even did three two one, yeah,
Speaker 2: and all they got was sorry.
Speaker 3: Their accent wasn't very strong in that countdown. I'm starting
Speaker 3: to think that they're just putting the accent. Like you
Speaker 3: ever noticed in Beatles songs that you can't really hear
Speaker 3: the accent that strongly in a lot of the parts.
Speaker 3: They're just doing the accent like they they don't need
Speaker 3: to do the accent. They just like do that to
Speaker 3: fuck with us. This is my theory. They're with us,
Speaker 3: man with men.
Speaker 1: You're cool with that, You're good with that. Man.
Speaker 3: So it was actually well publicized that the gimmick wouldn't
Speaker 3: be happening this year, but none of the fans noticed
Speaker 3: because well, they all use feral birds for communication instead
Speaker 3: of the Internet. You know, the Internet hasn't been invented
Speaker 3: in their world yet.
Speaker 1: Is that a thing?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's Harry Potter universe. They all use and ship.
Speaker 1: Oh got it.
Speaker 2: I thought it was like some you know, like you know,
Speaker 2: training day ship, like clapping pigeons.
Speaker 3: I mean basically, yeah, that's something that uh, South Central
Speaker 3: and the Hogwarts community haven't have in common together. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But the reason for this, uh as if I have
Speaker 3: to cover it. Wait, isn't that JK rolling canceled? Wow?
Speaker 3: What that doesn't make sense? Because apparently Britain's Network Rail,
Speaker 3: which manages King's Cross station, is sick of Harry Potter
Speaker 3: fans getting in the way. They said the event drew
Speaker 3: crowds of thousands last year, which made it challenging for
Speaker 3: us to run the station. Normally, our priority must always
Speaker 3: be passengers who are trying to make their journeys on
Speaker 3: the railway. So regretfully, this year there was no in
Speaker 3: person celebration. Yeah, that's fucked up. That is not okay.
Speaker 2: Just YouTube one of the old ones and put your
Speaker 2: VR goggles on and just pretend like it's twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Because September third of them is first day Hogwarts. That's why,
Speaker 3: that's why they started doing it. September one, first day,
Speaker 3: that's that's the Daywarts. There's only one train. Is that
Speaker 3: how it works in the train, and I feel like
Speaker 3: the implications if you miss it, you're like kind of fucked.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was yeah, Well then you drive your dad's
Speaker 3: flying car to Hogwarts, which happened.
Speaker 2: To Like is there like a thing when you're in
Speaker 2: the train where like you go through some kind of
Speaker 2: like warp into like you.
Speaker 3: Just run into a wall and if you're magic enough,
Speaker 3: you like pass through.
Speaker 2: Oh got it, got it, got it? And so it's
Speaker 2: interdimensional travel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like kind of they have like a magic
Speaker 3: disappearing wall, YadA YadA, YadA magic.
Speaker 2: If you're trying to get home from Hogwarts, but you
Speaker 2: don't you miss the train and you got to take
Speaker 2: your dad's flying Mini Cooper.
Speaker 1: Do you do you also fly through a wall or no?
Speaker 3: No, no, you just fly the enchanted car back and
Speaker 3: then try and hope that nobody sees you.
Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, man, I feel like I've seen
Speaker 2: a scene where a car is like in the air
Speaker 2: and then it hits a road and they're like, all right,
Speaker 2: we're good.
Speaker 3: I would just drive.
Speaker 1: Nobody saw that shit, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, they can do anything they want because like
Speaker 3: when it's just like magic, you can just be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: let me spell up one of those am I b
Speaker 3: zap memory? Right, you know, like they can. It's all good,
Speaker 3: So don't ask too many questions. All right, it is
Speaker 3: a coherent fictional universe.
Speaker 1: If I was interested, I would have watched the movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, those are some of the things that
Speaker 3: are trending on this Tuesday, September third. We are back
Speaker 3: tomorrow with a whole episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 3: be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get
Speaker 3: the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
Speaker 3: will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Bite, Bite,