1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Words 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: with Trends. I'm Jack O'Brien. That's miles that sound effect 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: from Words of Friends. I missed that game that was 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: actually pretty good. Um I missed the Yeah, I missed 5 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: the Words Streak two. That was fun too. Yeah. Because 6 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: my grandmother, she was such a big scrabble fan. She's 7 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: a big reader, like always trying to get me to read. 8 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: And when I was younger, she would always make me 9 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: play scrabble with her and she would just obliterate me 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: with her like adult vocabulary. And then Words with Friends 11 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: came out. I've got it on her iPad and we 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: would play like from far, very very far distances, but 13 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: we would always still play. And when I started beating her, 14 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: she had like a moment of like, oh, now the 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: teacher or the apprentice has become the teacher. And I 16 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: was like, yes, I have Yes, that is getting getting 17 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: dunked on repeatedly by an adult. Will do that going 18 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: the lab and learn some new polysyllabic words. I do 19 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: love a person who is just perfectly content to beat 20 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: someone who's like so far below their skill level. Yeah, 21 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: she kind of like off like that, Billy Madison recessing. Yeah, 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: just she and Jade me, you know what I mean. 23 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: I think she was just like, get down, get this 24 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: week vocabulary out of here unless you want, if you 25 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: want to play, come step your game up. And hey, hey, 26 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: I honestly remember when Words with Friends came out and like, oh, 27 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: she's she better be fucking ready, bro, because I've been 28 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: to college now and like it's been a minute since 29 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: we played scrabble. Uh miss that? All right, let's tell 30 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: the people what's trending. What's trending? Queen On? Is that quote? 31 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: Q and on is trending our newest for our fastest 32 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: growing religion? Uhh Yeah, it's not the religion I would design, 33 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: but it's the religion that we deserve. Yeah, why is 34 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: it trending right now? And so this this woman, Joe 35 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: Ray Perkins, she's she's taken a few bites of the 36 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: apple trying to get into office in Oregon and now 37 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: she's running against Jeff Merkley for a Senate seat. And 38 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: this woman is a pretty out there qu and On supporters. 39 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: She's retweets q and on stuff all the time, talks 40 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: like at the end of the year, she was like 41 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: for all the haters, allow me to posit our rhetorical question, 42 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: what if you're wrong? Um? Yes, And in her announcement video, 43 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: she was saying like she's all in with Q. She 44 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: was holding a like where we go, one we go 45 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: all bumper sticker like in the this video announcement. And 46 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 1: then when basically the entire national media was like, oh, 47 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: you got a conspiracy theorist who's like again for people 48 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: don't know what Q and on is, they believe that 49 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: Q is given the inside info to help the real 50 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: patriots and Donald Trump lock up all the pedophiles and 51 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: Satanists who are basically anybody who is ideologically opposed to 52 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. It was a conspiracy theory that was that 53 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: started out as Robert Muller is working with Trump behind 54 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: the scenes and they're going to arrest all the pedophiles. 55 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: There's many threads now, there's many threads now where even 56 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: now people believe that Obama and Hilly Clinton have already 57 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: been executed for their crimes and the people out there 58 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 1: now doing appearances are doubles. Got it? Okay? Alright, well 59 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 1: now I believe it again. Now I find it believable. 60 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: So yes, anyway, so once everyone was like, hey, Oregon 61 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: Republican Party, your senate candidate is a straight up cute 62 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: like truth or like readying for office. What's going She 63 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: came out and was like, I don't support Q even 64 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: though all of the evidence points of the contract, including 65 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: her holding a Q and on bumper sticker in her 66 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: announcement video, and it's just sort of like, No. What 67 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: I like is that I believe in whistle blowing on 68 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: both sides and patriots. Like it was just a weird 69 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: one eighty. It was more like a one twenty, not 70 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: a full one eight. Right, I believe in whistleblowers. Uh, 71 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: like you whistle, but I mean you look, their activities 72 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: have only ramped up, you know, like it goes from 73 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: a thing you laugh at, and but they are they 74 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: are doing like I r L in real world things 75 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: that are very dangerous and are like it's leading to 76 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: arrests and things like that. So it's a you know, 77 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 1: rapidly expanding thing. A lot of boomers dig it as 78 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: an ideology to the more evidence we get that it's 79 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: not true, the more momentum it seems to build up, 80 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: which suggests that it's not going anywhere, and it has yes, 81 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: somebody legit wrote like a think piece and like I 82 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: think it was in the Atlantic that was like, this 83 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: might be the next new religion because it's growing faster 84 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: than any new religion and will be a be here 85 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: long after people aren't wearing aga hats too, I think, 86 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: because it like it really offers this like bizarro way 87 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: of explaining your own powerlessness, but like in a way 88 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: that like you're like, yeah, I believe in like Satan 89 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: and like pedophiles are bad. So like if if that 90 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: rubs me the wrong way, this is really good for me, 91 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: because that's exactly who the problem is. Well, I mean, 92 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: it's it ties into some of the things that we 93 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: have you know, talked about there being an a need 94 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: for an outlet for it, like in the thirties during 95 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: the depression. We talked on tomorrow's episode about how you know, 96 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: they became obsessed with bank robbers because they were like 97 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: taking it to the system. And I mean Q might 98 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: be their equivalent of that, you know, that some kind 99 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: of mythical figure who is taking it to the rich 100 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: liberal class. So I don't know, hopefully not, but we'll 101 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: see Karl Malone, why is he trending so there have 102 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: been a few people who have been kind of bringing out, 103 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: you know, because he was appearing in the Last Dance 104 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: and you know, like nineties basketball has been like a 105 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: huge topic of conversation people like on the on Twitter 106 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. We're pointing to Karl Malone in 107 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: the eighties, when he was twenty years old, had impregnated 108 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: a thirteen year old girl who like bore his child, 109 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: and he didn't acknowledge this child for a long time. 110 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: The guy played in the NFL and didn't really have 111 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: a relationship with Karl Malone until two thousand and eight. 112 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: So a lot of people are like, uh, I don't 113 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: know if you guys know this thing about Karl Malone. Uh, 114 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: but I had not known. And when you read the 115 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: articles about it, like you know, the family of the 116 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: the woman, the thirteen year old didn't want to press 117 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: charges because they wanted Malone to be around to be 118 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: able to support the child. It was very dark. And yeah, 119 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: like the whole story about this, I talking about how 120 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: he you know, barely spoke to him to like when 121 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: he was eighteen. Malone was like, hey, man, like we're 122 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: not gonna have like you're on your own in the 123 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 1: sense that like, it's too late for me to be 124 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: a father to you, but maybe we can have a relationship. Jesus, Yeah, 125 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: that is horrifying. He he lived in Louisiana. It looks yeah, 126 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: that's where Yeah, in Summerfield is where he's from in Louisiana. 127 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: That's where that had occurred when he was still in 128 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: his twenties. Yeah. Demetrius Bell, Damn, that's uh much darker 129 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: than I was expecting. I was expecting somebody to have 130 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: made a meme with like his uh T shirt tucked 131 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: into his Highways to jeans or I did too. I 132 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, what what's going on? I was like, 133 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: oh yeah. Amy Klobasher is also trending because the vetting 134 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: process to see if she qualifies to be Joe Biden's 135 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: vice president that she doesn't have any just qualifying skeletons 136 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: hidden in her closet has officially begun. She this is 137 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: the most sort of legitimate piece of information that we've 138 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: gotten to suggest who Biden is going to go with. Uh, 139 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: this is who I expected him to go with, just 140 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: because of his inability to do anything interesting or correct. Yeah, 141 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: I mean there's been a few uh they're saying Jean Shaheen, 142 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: the senator from New Hampshire, had actually turned down, uh 143 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: like being vetted. Um, so I know there's a few people, 144 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: but yeah, like it's getting real now, Uh when you 145 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: have these stories come out so to be. I think 146 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: a lot of people were hoping it would be a 147 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: woman of color at least to you know, like counteract 148 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: all the other lack of visible progress that his administration 149 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 1: would present us as voters. Um. But yeah, I think 150 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: you know, this is probably one of many options. I mean, 151 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 1: you know, Elizabeth Warren, I'm sure as also probably being 152 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: considered along with other people. But yeah, we'll see. I 153 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: don't know. Uh, good luck to them all, Yes, good 154 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 1: luck to them all. Uh, good luck to them. Bright 155 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: bart is trending. Why why are they trending miles because 156 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: Trump is out here tweeting some wild nonsense like about 157 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: ballot boxes being It's just that it's him with an 158 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: incendiary headline that is, like the d J said, like 159 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: people in Pennsylvania or Pennsylvania stuffing ballot boxes. Again, remember 160 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: we're talking about how they need uh proof of voter fraud. 161 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: They need to start seeding this story as early as possible, 162 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: so people have a thing to point to to give 163 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: a little an air of legitimacy to this absolutely bullshit story. 164 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: Um so you know a lot of people the reason 165 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: is because Trump tweeted a bright Bart story to back 166 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: this claim up, and everyone is just like cold on 167 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: or this. This is not an actual receipt from this store, sir. 168 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: This is a hand scrawled note that says receipt for 169 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: toilet paper. So I can't expn't it's above me. I mean, 170 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 1: they're not going to need proof, They'll just but they 171 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: need these stories. You know. It's the same like Seth 172 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: Rich and other ones. They just need a sliver of 173 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: something so they can all put, you know, ball up 174 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: that timfoil into a nice, you know, new era fitted 175 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: cap and put it right on and then be like 176 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: you see, do you see that Oxford model that has 177 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: him losing in a in a landslide to Joe Biden 178 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: because of the economy that I don't know. I don't 179 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: even wanna give it life. All I'm gonna do is 180 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: I will I will drag everybody I know to vote 181 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: on that day to ensure the Trump is not president. 182 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: And then we'll see what happens there like I can't. 183 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: I'm no longer like I can't. The salve of a 184 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: good holding numbers like wearing thin. Although just you know, 185 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: good snapshot means that we have to build on momentum 186 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: or whatever, just to be like, look, please vote this 187 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: other person out. Unfortunately this option isn't great. But it's 188 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: not this. It's not hell, it's not whatever. This is. 189 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: That's just it's this, but more of it is just 190 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: happening under the veneer of veneers. Yes, more veneers. Four 191 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: more years of veneers. That is one thing that we're 192 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: getting force to. He'll give you a veneerful. All right, Miles, 193 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for today. I hope everybody is 194 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: doing well. Stay say flash your hands, stay inside, and 195 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: be kind to each other and yourselves. We'll be back 196 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. We'll talk to them by