Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Happy Birthday.
Speaker 1: Lord trend Passal, friend of the pod sends us great guests,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. I'm Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: by the writer of this show, Jam McNab's man. So much,
Speaker 1: so much is happening, so much, um, so much is happening.
Speaker 1: So much is not happening. Trump has not been arrested
Speaker 1: as this recording. What we're AI. Yeah, people are making
Speaker 1: some fun AI photoshops. I guess these used to just
Speaker 1: be called photoshops, but now they have to use artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence kids these days in my rate, but they're uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, they're pretty convincing. There's there's one where
Speaker 1: he's being like dragged away um by a bunch of
Speaker 1: New York cops um, and he's like laying back on
Speaker 1: the ground. And a good good tip for if you
Speaker 1: want to be able to tell if something is a
Speaker 1: bullshit AI thing is look at the legs. There's like
Speaker 1: fourteen pairs of legs like don't match up to anybody
Speaker 1: down below his Torso it's like Trump's being arrested for
Speaker 1: being the thing exactly. And then there's another one where
Speaker 1: he's running away from the police and they're like running
Speaker 1: after him. But two problems. One, he like they they've
Speaker 1: put him on the body of a much younger person
Speaker 1: who can bend his knees. So it's just like he
Speaker 1: looked like a person jogging, which I can't imagine. That's
Speaker 1: that's happening a lot. It's Trump's head on the body
Speaker 1: of Tom Cruise from the Firm, right. And then also
Speaker 1: the cops chasing him appear to just be like jogging
Speaker 1: in a race, like in they're they're part of a
Speaker 1: five k that Trump is also participating him, and it's
Speaker 1: just like a guy in a hoodie behind them. It's
Speaker 1: just like hanging out. Yeah, who's that guy? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a great question. He's just like, oh, man, look at that.
Speaker 1: A nice job, robot. Come on, robot, you dumb robot. Anyways,
Speaker 1: So that's that's how we're entertaining ourselves as a national
Speaker 1: Internet as we wait for a thing that in retrospect,
Speaker 1: it seems like he's the only one who said it
Speaker 1: was going to happen. Yeah, it doesn't seem like the
Speaker 1: best source when it's like the guy being investigated for
Speaker 1: fraud is your source. Yeah, I'm gonna say it, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's a liar. There was also a protest, you know,
Speaker 1: that was something that I think he called for. He
Speaker 1: was like, I want to want to see people hit
Speaker 1: the streets and save our democracy. And there was a
Speaker 1: group of young Republicans out in the streets of New York.
Speaker 1: And it seemed it might have seemed to you, a
Speaker 1: non expert, non trained observer, that this was a small protest,
Speaker 1: but it turns out that was by design. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: The person who organized it said, we weren't sure we
Speaker 1: even wanted to come out because some people don't like us,
Speaker 1: but we were here to show that there is support
Speaker 1: for President Trump in the bluest areas in the country
Speaker 1: here in Manhattan. And then later he was like, we
Speaker 1: actually wanted to make it small, to be quote, low key,
Speaker 1: a low key event, which the chill's been there before.
Speaker 1: You know. We're like, no, no, no no, it's actually we
Speaker 1: wanted it to be low key. That's why nobody came
Speaker 1: to the party. Yeah, it's not like a it's like
Speaker 1: a birthday party. Once you're over thirty, it's like you
Speaker 1: just want, you know, chill out with just a couple
Speaker 1: of friends, you know, yes, but I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: Trump was was happy with this turnout. Well, there was
Speaker 1: the opposite together at the last minute, the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, said Gavin Wax. Gavin Wax, what a name
Speaker 1: for a young Republican. At one point there was I
Speaker 1: think outside Trump Tower it was like the opposite protest.
Speaker 1: There was a bunch like some protesters showed up, but
Speaker 1: they're all like calling for him to be arrested, right,
Speaker 1: which I don't think was what he I mean, he
Speaker 1: didn't specify what kind of protests you wanted to be fair. Um. Anyways,
Speaker 1: well we'll all be waiting with bated breath for him
Speaker 1: to be dragged out of mar Lago and you know,
Speaker 1: whisked up to New York. I gotta say even that
Speaker 1: counter protest or you know, not counter protest, but the
Speaker 1: protest against Trump was also like quite small, like considering
Speaker 1: the press, a former president is supposed to be arrested. Possibly,
Speaker 1: it feels like this is a later season of a
Speaker 1: show that's sort of run out of ideas. The Trump
Speaker 1: presidency has jumped the shark. I think we can all
Speaker 1: agree with that, right totally. Yeah, I mean they're circling
Speaker 1: back to the Stormy Daniels story come on the question
Speaker 1: of it is peanut butter liquid is circulating? It is.
Speaker 1: It's joined the pantheon of food based philosophical queries like
Speaker 1: is a hot dog a sandwich? Is cereal soup? And
Speaker 1: that's not familiar with that one that sucks though no,
Speaker 1: it's not quite. Obviously our twizzlers still Twizzlers without the twists.
Speaker 1: Also not really a philosophical question but more of like
Speaker 1: a branding thing. But this one is is peanut butter liquid?
Speaker 1: And it came up because somebody was prevented from bringing
Speaker 1: peanut butter onto a flight by the TSA, who was like,
Speaker 1: we said no liquid, and they were like, it's peanut
Speaker 1: butter though, so they posted to Instagram the TSA popped
Speaker 1: on and whoever the TSA is like social media person
Speaker 1: is apparently of the opinion like the TSA needs to
Speaker 1: be cute, because they were like, yeah, actually it's a
Speaker 1: liquid and then like had little fun things fun repartee
Speaker 1: with people being like, aha, but what about jelly, which
Speaker 1: was confused using to me because it's like, well, if
Speaker 1: peanut butter is a liquid and jelly's obviously a liquid, right,
Speaker 1: Like they're kind of similar. The TSA confirmed also a liquid,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. Apparently this is what is known
Speaker 1: as a non Newtonian liquid. According to superproducer Brian, he
Speaker 1: turned to me onto the non Newtonian liquid, which is
Speaker 1: something that one minute behaves like a solid, the next
Speaker 1: it flows like a liquid. Non Newtonian fluids can switch
Speaker 1: between a solid and liquid state depending on the forces
Speaker 1: acting upon them, which then brought up the Great Molasses Flood,
Speaker 1: which is just a wild story where a large storage
Speaker 1: tank filled with two point three million US gallons of
Speaker 1: molasses weighing approximately twelve thousand metric tons, burst and the
Speaker 1: resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at thirty
Speaker 1: five miles per hour, so like not that fast but
Speaker 1: ended up killing when people injured. It's a slow something.
Speaker 1: I can't think of something to compare it to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a car like on a suburban street that has
Speaker 1: a stop sign. Like it's like, you know, you can
Speaker 1: really you really have time to contemplate the very stupid
Speaker 1: thing that's about to happen too. Why why has this
Speaker 1: not been a movie like it was in Boston? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but where's the ben Affleck historical drama. I know he's
Speaker 1: working his way up to it. It does feel like
Speaker 1: one of those things that a movie should make just
Speaker 1: so we could see what that looks like. Like James
Speaker 1: Cameron should spend a decade just creating the three D
Speaker 1: Molasses Flood movie just because it seems like it would
Speaker 1: be very cool to watch that happen. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: it might as well build a story around it, I guess.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean a horrible tragedy that then for
Speaker 1: decades afterwards, the area still smelled like molasses anytime it
Speaker 1: would get hot, which is like just a weird way
Speaker 1: to be haunted by something by the sweet smell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which then led us to the I Survived series of books.
Speaker 1: So this isn't really a trending episode so much as
Speaker 1: a thing that was trending that led us down a
Speaker 1: internet rabbit hole. Um, this is not something that was
Speaker 1: around when I was young. But there is a book
Speaker 1: called the Superducer Victor found the I Survived the Great
Speaker 1: Molasses Flood or the Great Molasses Wave of nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 1: But there's also like I Survived nine to eleven. It's
Speaker 1: just like a children's book where it's like like the
Speaker 1: drawing on the cover reminds me of the Choose your
Speaker 1: Own Adventure books totally, if if they had to choose
Speaker 1: your own adventure book about nine to eleven. You know,
Speaker 1: I misremembered it because I like, I didn't read these books,
Speaker 1: but I remember like seeing the pop up online, and
Speaker 1: at first, for a minute, I misremembered it as being
Speaker 1: about like time travelers. I was like, these the same kids,
Speaker 1: like just like going from disaster to disaster and surviving.
Speaker 1: But no, they're all different characters, right. I guess in
Speaker 1: my mind they were like teenage thrill seekers, just you know,
Speaker 1: going to the most horrific parts of human history. But
Speaker 1: there's like one one of them was like I survived
Speaker 1: like the Nazis. Yeah, just the evasion of nineteen forty four,
Speaker 1: which is like, I know, like nineteen people died in
Speaker 1: the molasses thing. But like it seems like a pretty
Speaker 1: wild swing to me to go from like molasses to
Speaker 1: the Nazis. It's I don't know, yeah I get, but
Speaker 1: I guess it's just things that are that kids are
Speaker 1: interested in and like a way of like getting them
Speaker 1: some sort of historical detail. I guess I'm glad that
Speaker 1: they're learning about the Nazis from a book that I
Speaker 1: don't know. I haven't read these books, but I would
Speaker 1: imagine they are based not there, not like written by
Speaker 1: white supremacists who are like and it actually wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1: I survived the Nazis and it was you know, it
Speaker 1: was fine, right, No, Yeah, I know, I'm sure. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're good books. They just I mean, they look
Speaker 1: very extreme. I guess they're for older kids. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna read you the description of I Survived the
Speaker 1: Attacks of September eleventh, two thousand and one. I Survived
Speaker 1: Number six. It's the sixth book in the series. The
Speaker 1: only thing Lucas loves more than football is his uncle Benny,
Speaker 1: his dad's best friend at the fire department where they
Speaker 1: both work. Benny taught Lucas everything about football, So when
Speaker 1: Lucas's parents decide the sport is too dangerous and he
Speaker 1: needs to quit, Lucas has to talk to his biggest fan.
Speaker 1: So the next morning, Lucas takes the train to the
Speaker 1: city instead of the bus to school. It's a bright,
Speaker 1: beautiful day in you. Yeah, so it's like just children's
Speaker 1: book premise, and then nine to eleven happens Jesus. So
Speaker 1: it's like nine to eleven like teaches him a lesson
Speaker 1: about not cutting class. Yeah, Like I'm wondering how they
Speaker 1: weave that all together. Well, it's like, do you remember
Speaker 1: that Robert Pattinson movie? Yeah? I do remember it. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that should be the twist of every movie. I
Speaker 1: think we should always pull out from every movie to
Speaker 1: reveal that the character we've been following all along has
Speaker 1: ended up on one of the top floors of the
Speaker 1: World Trade Center and then like pulls out, does he
Speaker 1: like pull out a newspaper or it's like another character
Speaker 1: in the movie is in class and it's like an
Speaker 1: intercut and then the teacher writes like nine to eleven
Speaker 1: twenty two thousand and one on the board, and like
Speaker 1: why did she write it like that? And then she
Speaker 1: writes never forget, and yeah, what date it is? I
Speaker 1: was thinking about nine to eleven today for some reason,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking about remembering when I was walking
Speaker 1: home from school on the street corner there were paper
Speaker 1: boys on the street going extra extra, yeah, because they
Speaker 1: had like the extra supplement for the paper because something
Speaker 1: so major it happened that they had to print another newspaper.
Speaker 1: They're going extra, and I remember being like, oh, I
Speaker 1: never got that. That's what extra extra means. It's like
Speaker 1: an extra newspaper. And then I had that thought, and
Speaker 1: then I felt like am I a thousand years old?
Speaker 1: Like I how do I have this memory of paper? Like?
Speaker 1: Where did these paper boys come? Boozies on the street
Speaker 1: corner saying extra extra? Yeah? And then the then Christian
Speaker 1: Bale showed up and they did a full song and dance.
Speaker 1: You were on your way to sing with your duop
Speaker 1: group around a trash can fire. Yeah, it's that's that's wild.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are listeners of this show who are
Speaker 1: not at all surprised to hear that, because nine to
Speaker 1: eleven is just like history, just like all all the
Speaker 1: other just just like World War Two. Yeah, yes, of course, newsies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be a funny historical period piece written by
Speaker 1: a twelve year old. So it's just like mashing everything together.
Speaker 1: It's like Hendricks was there playing for FDR and nine
Speaker 1: to eleven happened. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. And we're back, and Alex Jones
Speaker 1: is still hoarding his money he's saying things like, quote,
Speaker 1: I'm officially out of money. Personally, you will see that
Speaker 1: Alex Jones has almost no cash. And then then like
Speaker 1: is putting so he's like investing in a company that
Speaker 1: his personal trainer just made up, declaring bankruptcy, transferring his
Speaker 1: three million dollar home to his wife, buying a private
Speaker 1: jet like that. So there's like some stuff like he's
Speaker 1: giving the money away or like investing in a different thing.
Speaker 1: But then like buying a private jet seems like the
Speaker 1: sort of thing that the government should be able to
Speaker 1: be Like, well, you can't do that. You're supposed like
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be giving all your money away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like I can't give the money. I can't pay
Speaker 1: the money I own. It's all tied up in jets.
Speaker 1: It's all tied up in these private jets I bought
Speaker 1: for myself. They're like, well, it's good for the economy,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean he's supposed to be in the whole,
Speaker 1: like close to a billion dollars to the Sandy Hook parents,
Speaker 1: and because of the way the country operates, apparently, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, it's the greatest sin that can happen,
Speaker 1: as like a company or a person not being able
Speaker 1: to make money, you know, like making the survival of
Speaker 1: a business is like the top priority, and so the
Speaker 1: American bankruptcy system is making it possible for this garbage
Speaker 1: human to just continue to pretend like he doesn't have money. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, being the main person at a company that
Speaker 1: makes seventy million dollars a year. Yeah, that's the frustrating thing.
Speaker 1: It's working like this. I mean, it's like a shell
Speaker 1: game with you know, private jets and mansions. That's so obvious.
Speaker 1: It's like a shell game with no shells, Like everyone
Speaker 1: can see what he's doing, and frustratingly, it seems to
Speaker 1: be working, and no one knows if you know, the
Speaker 1: victims families who are owed this money are actually going
Speaker 1: to get paid. It's just ridiculous. Yeah, that's really frustrating.
Speaker 1: His lawyers have claimed that Jones did not fully remember
Speaker 1: where he holds bank accounts, nor how many trusts he
Speaker 1: had set up over the past decade, and has no
Speaker 1: idea about the whereabouts of his twenty twenty two W
Speaker 1: two form documenting his wages, Like isn't that something the
Speaker 1: government can find like dig up? I guess not. In
Speaker 1: America where they make the tax system intentionally confusing. But
Speaker 1: all right, and then this is kind of a story
Speaker 1: like so Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey, the Winnie
Speaker 1: the Pooh slasher movie was set to open in Hong
Speaker 1: Kong and then pulled at the last second from theaters
Speaker 1: for possibly political reasons. This of course ties to Shi
Speaker 1: Jimping being very sensitive about his resemblance to Winnie the
Speaker 1: Pooh and like that being a thing that people troll
Speaker 1: him with is like images of Winnie the Pooh. I'm
Speaker 1: very skeptical of the filmmaker behind the movie Winnie the Pooh,
Speaker 1: Blood and Honey, and he seems to be the primary
Speaker 1: source here. However, there is a detail in this story
Speaker 1: that really blew my mind that like it seems like
Speaker 1: you put the story together Jam and like it seems
Speaker 1: like it's like a story after story where it's like
Speaker 1: it could be that he's really sensitive about Winnie the Pooh,
Speaker 1: or it might be this other thing. It could be
Speaker 1: that he's really sensitive, or like there's this other explanation
Speaker 1: that like made this movie not very popular, and like
Speaker 1: they still let the books happen. But then there's the
Speaker 1: release of the video game Kingdom Hearts Study, which you
Speaker 1: know has Disney characters, and Winnie the Pooh is one
Speaker 1: of the characters in the video game, and they just
Speaker 1: replaced him with like it looks like they just haphazardly
Speaker 1: used the erased tool like from photoshop on Winnie the Pooh,
Speaker 1: but like not even his whole like his legs are
Speaker 1: still poking out the bottom of this like amorphous white blob.
Speaker 1: So that made me think, Okay, anything is possible, and
Speaker 1: he probably is doing this because that is just so shameless,
Speaker 1: like the removal of Winnie the Pooh from Kingdom Hearts three,
Speaker 1: like in a way that just looks like he went
Speaker 1: in himself and used the erased wool. Yeah, they couldn't
Speaker 1: even like you know, copy and paste of like Roger
Speaker 1: Rabbit or something. Just yeah, like you said, just avoid
Speaker 1: of nothingness where the Pooh once was. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: don't know that that makes me think, I mean you
Speaker 1: were pointing out like the movie is not very popular,
Speaker 1: like the movie yeah as a four percent on Rotten Tomatoes,
Speaker 1: and so it's entirely possible any failure of this movie
Speaker 1: has to do with the fact that it sucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's the thing, Like you said, it's the director
Speaker 1: who's saying like, oh, there's something mysterious happening behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: because they okayed this movie and they screened it once
Speaker 1: and then they pulled it. And to me, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's very possible that's the case. But it's also like, well,
Speaker 1: it could also be they screened it once, it was
Speaker 1: awful and they canceled it. Hot. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: is a movie where like Piglet like runs over a
Speaker 1: woman's head with a car, and like, yeah, Winnie the
Speaker 1: Pooh like whips Christopher Robin with eor's tail and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But you know, done with a budget of
Speaker 1: gift cards from Starbucks. It's like very low budget. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I haven't encountered anyone that liked it online. It seems
Speaker 1: to be pretty universally panned. This movie seems like it's
Speaker 1: the I think I talked about this before on the
Speaker 1: show that like Corey doctro told this story about ordering
Speaker 1: food from his local like favorite tie place, and like
Speaker 1: when he made the order, the actual tipe place called
Speaker 1: him and were like, you actually ordered that from like
Speaker 1: a clone website that exists and is the number one
Speaker 1: result on Google and they just put the order in
Speaker 1: for you but charge you for like five extra dollars
Speaker 1: per item, and right, so they're just like this way
Speaker 1: that people are like artlessly finding ways to just wedge
Speaker 1: themselves into other people's transactions to like make money like that.
Speaker 1: That feels like what Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey is,
Speaker 1: like somebody's just like figured out that he could make
Speaker 1: a Winnie the Pooh movie like and just happened to
Speaker 1: be such a compelling idea for people that it's now
Speaker 1: a national news story. But yeah, well I think people
Speaker 1: also like it. It's a funny idea, and I think
Speaker 1: people are also like so frustrated with how Disney has
Speaker 1: circumvented copyright laws, like they keep you know, extending the
Speaker 1: making it like they up ended it for everybody, I think, right,
Speaker 1: like they they had they actually wielded their power to
Speaker 1: have it extended to a certain point. They keep getting
Speaker 1: extensions from Mickey Mouse like they have used their power
Speaker 1: to Yeah, exactly. So I think having this finally come
Speaker 1: in public domain, having someone come in and do something
Speaker 1: that seems contradictory, yeah, transgressive, and also like you know,
Speaker 1: kind of opposes the sort of intellectual property hoarding that
Speaker 1: that Disney's known for. Like, I think everyone wanted to
Speaker 1: be on board with this movie. We're all rooting for you,
Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh, Blayney. Unfortunately us all down. You let
Speaker 1: us all down. But the Kingdom Hearts three thing is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that is amazing, just self ownage by
Speaker 1: Shi jimping to just be like, yeah, you just can't
Speaker 1: see how much he looked like me. Okay, so nothing
Speaker 1: to see here. The funny thing about that story, too,
Speaker 1: like looking it up, was that that whole thing about
Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh being banned by the Chinese government like
Speaker 1: may have started about may have started as a joke
Speaker 1: about how the government banned Winnie the Pooh, Like it
Speaker 1: was like a screenshot of a government document that was
Speaker 1: never verified, so it was like, you know, it may
Speaker 1: have been just made by someone as a joke, but
Speaker 1: then everyone latched onto the joke and the joke basically
Speaker 1: just became real. Yeah, it seems like if the CIA
Speaker 1: was good at their job, this is the sort of
Speaker 1: thing that they would have done just to like troll him,
Speaker 1: you know, But I would be surprised if they if
Speaker 1: they had that level of like social media, wherewithal oh
Speaker 1: definitely all right, well, Jam, such a pleasure of having
Speaker 1: you as always. Where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jam McNab again.
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for us this afternoon.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow
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