Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of and
Speaker 1: now welcome to the stage, Oprah trend.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's up, it's bees.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite early Internet meets peas Oprah telling
Speaker 1: people to look under their seats when they knew these
Speaker 1: she screams, it's peace. Uh, great work by the Internet
Speaker 1: all those many years ago. My name is Jack. That
Speaker 1: over there is Miles.
Speaker 2: That is my name.
Speaker 1: That is your name. And these are some things that
Speaker 1: are a trending on Thursday, August twenty second, Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: night three, night three baby, and what a star studded spectacle.
Speaker 1: I only caught the red carpet beforehand, so I saw
Speaker 1: the stars arrive and get asked what they're way airing?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: It was very it was people seem to be impressed.
Speaker 1: I've not been watching.
Speaker 2: It's such a spectacle. Man like it.
Speaker 3: It is wild, Like you know, obviously, the the energy
Speaker 3: is something much better than if like people were like, oh, wow,
Speaker 3: Joe Biden is going to lose to Donald Trump, and
Speaker 3: I think now that yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Don't even know.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what that would look like. It
Speaker 3: would maybe feel even weirder than this.
Speaker 1: The thing is like trying to force it probably right,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just look the same, but just the energy,
Speaker 1: the vibes would be so shifted and.
Speaker 3: Yeah it would be yeah exactly, but like it's just
Speaker 3: it truly is a spectacle to dazzle onlookers and like
Speaker 3: behold the cultural might of the Democrats. Like even like
Speaker 3: you know, we called it Oprah Trenfrey. Even when they
Speaker 3: like I saw, like, oh, Oprah there was going to
Speaker 3: speak to I was like I was even me.
Speaker 1: Said yeah, and about it, I got Oprah.
Speaker 3: He's like, well, she wrote me a nice letter. I
Speaker 3: think they like released a letter that she had written
Speaker 3: to them, like him in the past or some shit.
Speaker 3: But I mean, yeah, like the NonStop appearance is like
Speaker 3: you know, it's Oprah, Mindy Kaling, Keenan of the Bill Clinton,
Speaker 3: all of them like that, and John Legend doing an
Speaker 3: offensive rendition of Prince's Let's Go Crazy.
Speaker 2: I anyway, is that all of that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like one of my ak's where I finish it
Speaker 1: and then you say, and what song was that supposed
Speaker 1: to be? And I have to explain it to you.
Speaker 2: Oh that was Prince Prince Prince Charles.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like but I mean, like when you see
Speaker 3: all of these huge sort of mainstream celebrities. It really
Speaker 3: like reinforces the message that like what the Democrats are
Speaker 3: putting out like this is the mainstream, this is where
Speaker 3: the normis is at.
Speaker 2: Are you in or are you out?
Speaker 3: And yeah, Tim Walls gave a I was in speech
Speaker 3: that a lot on him.
Speaker 1: By the way, we called him Walls, we called him Waltz,
Speaker 1: we called him Walls. He says Walls, Walls from the windows.
Speaker 3: To the until some until he until he fucking gets
Speaker 3: in my fucking grill and tells me.
Speaker 1: To say it another way. You want me to say
Speaker 1: your name, right, say it to my face.
Speaker 3: It's false actually, but yeah, he you know, he accepted
Speaker 3: the nomination. Made everybody feel good inside. He's like the one.
Speaker 3: He's like that guy who you really forget like that.
Speaker 3: There are real big problems with like what the Democrats
Speaker 3: are running on. You're like, ah, but this guy dude,
Speaker 3: like he reminds me of my friend's dad.
Speaker 2: Thought was cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, so very masterful choice there with him.
Speaker 1: And I didn't think he was gonna accept it. I was.
Speaker 2: I was accepted. That's like I got so. I had
Speaker 2: a lot of.
Speaker 1: Money riding on this man.
Speaker 3: Might take a little different I I I expected him
Speaker 3: to be a little more humble, you know, he's always
Speaker 3: everyone was talking about how humble he is.
Speaker 2: But then he just went right up there and accepted
Speaker 2: then and went up So.
Speaker 1: We didn't even have to ask him three times. You
Speaker 1: just accepted it outright. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Ah, No, I really should come on, tim, Oh no, no,
Speaker 3: there are plenty other people that.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, yeah, yeah, okay, I accept.
Speaker 1: We didn't want to talk about and culture making fun
Speaker 1: of his son. Oh yeah, she's taking her post down.
Speaker 3: But yeah, because that aid well a child for being excited,
Speaker 3: you know, just like again every time they're finding some
Speaker 3: fucking person's child to be like, whoa.
Speaker 1: Their children don't talk to them anymore?
Speaker 3: Yeah right, exactly, Like that kid cried because he was
Speaker 3: so happy about his dad. I don't know about you, folks,
Speaker 3: but the only crying I did was because my dad
Speaker 3: came home.
Speaker 2: Okay, we want.
Speaker 1: To talk about weird Their kids still talk to them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know anybody whose kids do since
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, twenty twenty. But while again, while all this
Speaker 3: is happening and it all feels good to have, you know,
Speaker 3: Bendy Kaling from the office and Nancy Pelosi and everybody
Speaker 3: come talk, you know, the outside the United Center there
Speaker 3: was there's still, i believe till now, there's a sit
Speaker 3: in happening over the DNC and the Harris Walls campaign's
Speaker 3: refusal to have a Palestinian speaker get on stage, even
Speaker 3: for a fucking tiny slot.
Speaker 2: They're letting like billionaires go up there and be like
Speaker 2: wooh when I made my billion to the.
Speaker 3: Dollars, like you know, and but again they're not even
Speaker 3: allowing a Palestinian American to speak on that stage. They
Speaker 3: allowed the family of someone that was taken hostage to speak,
Speaker 3: and they even acknowledged Palestinian people, but the DNC Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris's campaign not willing to have someone that was coming
Speaker 3: from the uncommitted movements, like you know, the list of speakers.
Speaker 3: They apparently did everything they could to try and appease
Speaker 3: the DNC and Harris like, here's.
Speaker 2: A list of people. You can go through, pick anyone
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 3: Do you want to see a script of what they're
Speaker 3: going to say before to like wide up and down
Speaker 3: anything here? It is guess what, we can even find
Speaker 3: a Palestinian American that is willing to endorse Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: on fucking stage, but just give us the moment to
Speaker 3: be human and appear in front of other human beings.
Speaker 3: And this very when, when all of the attention from
Speaker 3: the party is on this stage, what is going on?
Speaker 3: Because you know, for all the talk about like I
Speaker 3: mentioned it, about the Democratic platform as it related to
Speaker 3: the Middle East, you know, they're saying things like, you know,
Speaker 3: we equal, we value both Israeli and Palestinian lives equally, Yeah,
Speaker 3: both sides, and that yet we are with that that
Speaker 3: is not actually being born out in what we're seeing
Speaker 3: on stage. And it's just such an easy fucking thing
Speaker 3: to accommodate. Yet these people that are running her campaign
Speaker 3: and I'm sure herself the party, they would rather spend
Speaker 3: all of their capital on having like celebrities to like
Speaker 3: blind people from like the dark reality of like one
Speaker 3: of like something where we really need to reckon with,
Speaker 3: something we really need to grapple with, because we had
Speaker 3: the America already has a problem of quickly calling people,
Speaker 3: you know, categorizing people as human or not human. And
Speaker 3: this is such a huge stain on American foreign policy
Speaker 3: right now to not even allow someone to speak up
Speaker 3: there is like really fucking painful. Uh, and just sort
Speaker 3: of underscores the failure of like the Democrats to even
Speaker 3: like pretend, you know, for all the talk of like
Speaker 3: how they're about acknowledging people's humanity and how they will
Speaker 3: protect the rights of people, just completely like erasing the
Speaker 3: tragedies that have befallen Palestinians and by extension, Palestinian Americans
Speaker 3: and other people in America is just.
Speaker 2: A big fuck you.
Speaker 3: And uh, yeah, like this is just ignoring a huge
Speaker 3: part of your coalition of supporters that you.
Speaker 1: Need completely taken them from granted. Muslim Women for Harris
Speaker 1: pulled their support for the Democratic nominee after they just
Speaker 1: got a flat no on whether they'd be able to
Speaker 1: have somebody speak at the convention, like on the last
Speaker 1: day too. I mean that's they left them hanging and
Speaker 1: then told them no last minute they said, we cannot
Speaker 1: in good conscience continue. Muslim Women for Harris walls and
Speaker 1: light of the new information from the Uncommitted Movement, the
Speaker 1: VP Harris's team declined their request to have a Palestinian
Speaker 1: American speaker take the stage of the DNC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they offered a consolation prize apparently like a private meeting,
Speaker 3: but it's like no, no, no, Like it's it's very
Speaker 3: much about being PubL scene. It's very much about being
Speaker 3: seen and not catch to the shadows like the again,
Speaker 3: just the ongoing armament of the Israeli government as they
Speaker 3: just unleashed this violent campaign. So uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: this always seemed like this always seemed like the one
Speaker 3: thing that they're just not going.
Speaker 2: To be able to get right, and.
Speaker 1: They are not surprising us on that one.
Speaker 3: But I think it, I think it really lays bare,
Speaker 3: Like this whole idea of when you hear politicians talk
Speaker 3: about like you know, like we've got to get a
Speaker 3: handle on things like police violence or these other things
Speaker 3: that are affecting people, like especially people of color. They're
Speaker 3: just those things that that affect people of color, whether
Speaker 3: it's domestically or abroad, just are not important.
Speaker 2: They are not important.
Speaker 3: They are like and I know they're having some family
Speaker 3: members of people that have been killed by like you know,
Speaker 3: by the police to be there, but again, like both conventions,
Speaker 3: like these people are used as props to sort of
Speaker 3: create the veneer that these things are being taken seriously,
Speaker 3: but like to not even have someone again, someone who
Speaker 3: would even endorse on stage, like the fact that even
Speaker 3: the unc like even though they were not even committed
Speaker 3: based on a lot of the things that people were
Speaker 3: asking for, like like an arms embargo and really leaning
Speaker 3: on the government for a like a meaningful permanent ceasefire.
Speaker 2: I just yeah, it's to.
Speaker 3: Give up something like that, like, yeah, fuck it, Well,
Speaker 3: you can have someone say the magic words on stage
Speaker 3: that I feel like for their campaign, they would love
Speaker 3: nothing more than someone to go up there and say that,
Speaker 3: so they could just continue to be like all right, let's.
Speaker 1: Just how they Yeah, yeah, how they fuck that one up.
Speaker 2: I mean it's clear how they fucked it up.
Speaker 3: But it's just like it's just that, you know, there's
Speaker 3: there are all these like moments where you you understand
Speaker 3: the limits of like liberalism and being able to completely
Speaker 3: stop the machine of like imperialism and the like military
Speaker 3: industrial complex, Like that's just a a bridge too far,
Speaker 3: and if they did that, it would become something completely else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back, and we're back or back. And so yesterday's episode,
Speaker 1: we had a story that we didn't get to about
Speaker 1: this new Megalopolis trailer that I thought was pretty effective.
Speaker 1: It was being called like the most defensive movie trailer
Speaker 1: of all time. Right it is for Francis fo Coppola's Megalopolis,
Speaker 1: which is getting extremely let's say, divisive critical reactions right
Speaker 1: when it screened.
Speaker 3: It con not to mention like the production behind the
Speaker 3: scenes contraction and like sexually harassing people.
Speaker 1: So the trailer opens with a montage of shitty reviews
Speaker 1: of past Coppola movies like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now.
Speaker 1: So they have like a sloppy, self indulgent movie over
Speaker 1: The Godfather, a spectacular failure over Apocalypse Now. And I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, like that's I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting if they like found these reviews of people
Speaker 1: who like thought Apocalypse Now and The Godfather sucked, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, we we definitely memory hold the messiness of
Speaker 1: like people not being unanimous about a thing that we
Speaker 1: recognize as good now that like they might not have
Speaker 1: recognized as good at the time. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is interesting, this is interesting. They have since taken that
Speaker 1: trailer down and apologized because those reviews were not real.
Speaker 3: They were dude, they were fucking attributing and shiit to
Speaker 3: like Pauline Kale and like some of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah film critics, and they were just like making them
Speaker 1: up truly, like.
Speaker 3: People were like these aren't like these aren't these aren't real,
Speaker 3: Like these aren't I don't even know how I was
Speaker 3: to say it, Like no one ever said that. And
Speaker 3: also I think a lot of people are like that.
Speaker 3: People were fucking with The Godfather pretty quickly, pretty like right,
Speaker 3: like it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't like I don't know apocalypse now.
Speaker 3: Sure maybe like to people a second, but like from
Speaker 3: everything I've read and not just known about, like the
Speaker 3: history of that film and winning awards like that did
Speaker 3: not seem like a thing.
Speaker 2: People are like, what the fuck is this mess?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure like every director is probably a little
Speaker 1: like Michael Jordan in the sense of like they're like
Speaker 1: and I took that personally, and it's like a misplaced
Speaker 1: comma that they read as like, you know, being about
Speaker 1: them or something in a review, even if it's you know,
Speaker 1: like well, I will look for the negative comment, like
Speaker 1: I see of nice con nice people saying nice things,
Speaker 1: so I get it.
Speaker 3: But when they are people of this big people tend
Speaker 3: to remember even they themselves like, yeah, I never actually
Speaker 3: said this.
Speaker 2: So so they had to take it down.
Speaker 3: Lions Gate, who was a distributor, they had to fucking
Speaker 3: post some things to say. Quote Lion's Gate is immediately
Speaker 3: recalling our trailer for Megalopolis. We offer our sincere apologies
Speaker 3: to the critics involved into Francis Ford, Coppola and American
Speaker 3: Zoetrope for this inexcusable air in our vetting process.
Speaker 2: We screwed up up. We are sorry.
Speaker 1: Wow. We rarely get you rarely get a full throated
Speaker 1: we screwed up, guys. We screwed up.
Speaker 3: And it makes you think maybe in the making of
Speaker 3: this trailer someone may have used some.
Speaker 2: AI, some generative AI.
Speaker 1: You think these hallucinations of an AI where they mean
Speaker 1: that's at least at than.
Speaker 2: Being like noth fuck it, just make up whatever you want.
Speaker 1: It's also exactly how AI works really is like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what would be amazing is if
Speaker 1: we could find like really shitty reviews for The Godfather,
Speaker 1: like at the time, let's throw that in to you know,
Speaker 1: the search engine, and wow, they found the thing we
Speaker 1: were looking for. Exactly what AI does? They hallucinate the
Speaker 1: thing that they think you want them to find.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, look, the movie is such a fucking spectacle
Speaker 3: that you know, I'm noting.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty curious.
Speaker 1: I need to know how to I'm very curious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or good, it's it looks like a true mess. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. Let's speaking of looking like a true mess. Uh.
Speaker 2: We got some more people going undercover at the.
Speaker 3: DNC Donnie Brasco on him, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Matt Walsh, Husband of the Century. Yeah, that went went
Speaker 1: undercover and he had a wig with a red baseball
Speaker 1: cap on, dude, don't go red baseball cap. That's gonna
Speaker 1: make some connections to the back of people's minds.
Speaker 3: Immediately people are probably clocking a red hat at the
Speaker 3: d n C. They'd be like, who's this maga fuck? Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then they're like, wait, it looks like Matt Walsh
Speaker 3: with a very flammable nylon cheap wig on mad he do.
Speaker 1: You have it like pull back in a ponytail? Is
Speaker 1: that what's going on?
Speaker 3: I think it's like he just bought a fuck it
Speaker 3: looks like a bag wig you buy for a costume.
Speaker 2: But it was like so.
Speaker 3: Long he didn't know how to cut it, so he
Speaker 3: just tucked half of it behind his ear. It just
Speaker 3: again he does not You're not low, Matt Walsh. People
Speaker 3: saw you immediately. One journalist spotted him fucking immediately. It
Speaker 3: was like, hey, Matt Walsh, is that you? And he
Speaker 3: looked at the guy and he said, no, I'm not, and.
Speaker 2: Then that you know I'm not.
Speaker 3: Then the journalists followed up, followed up, I know it's you.
Speaker 3: Matt Walsh replied that man is dead. I'm a new
Speaker 3: man now. Wow okay, And he was out there with
Speaker 3: a fucking like he was with a camera guy trying
Speaker 3: to do his dumb gotcha ship again, because that's all
Speaker 3: they're fucking there to do is run a.
Speaker 1: White guys for Harris T shirt. Yes, they think that
Speaker 1: that's so funny that there's like a group of white
Speaker 1: guys for Harris. Like no.
Speaker 3: Is He's like, I'm playing conservative, you know, undercover actually
Speaker 3: just like being himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean people pointed out the skinny jeans or they're like,
Speaker 3: is that his part of his costume? But he actual,
Speaker 3: you love skinny jeans, So that was a dead giveaway
Speaker 3: to Maddie.
Speaker 1: It is kind of a mess of just like he
Speaker 1: as the glasses the like Willie Nelson wig his actual megabard, Yeah,
Speaker 1: bagbone jacket, suit jacket with like a bunch of buttons
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 3: You're doing a lot, man, You're doing a lot because
Speaker 3: just as equally you could be wearing no regalia and
Speaker 3: probably blend into like the fact.
Speaker 2: Is like I need to wear it all.
Speaker 3: I just have full regalion and I will fit right in.
Speaker 3: But then also not just Matt Walsh fucking my pillow guy.
Speaker 3: Mike Lindell was also there in disguise, but his disguise
Speaker 3: was even fucking better because he just shaved off his
Speaker 3: dumb fucking mustache and that was it, and then around.
Speaker 1: A baseball hat and sunglasses on like he's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like anamile.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen eighties, Like psa.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was, dude.
Speaker 3: This guy was spotted by a literal twelve year old
Speaker 3: named Noah, who is like making content talking to people
Speaker 3: like at the convention, and he pulled This kid pulls
Speaker 3: up on Mike Lindell talking about, hey man, like how
Speaker 3: we know how come we're rejecting the election results? And
Speaker 3: Mike Lindell's ass just gets into a full on scream.
Speaker 2: Debate with a child twelve year old child with.
Speaker 3: A child over this and it's just wild because this
Speaker 3: kid is just like smarter than most people he talks
Speaker 3: to and just not having it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's in your state. You want to know more
Speaker 2: in your state, you just don't. Fifty two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty seven thousand votes just happened last week. A judge
Speaker 2: ruled in Georgia that are missing. He is in this
Speaker 2: kid's face. Yeah, this just came out.
Speaker 1: You're behind.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't. So your sort is trust me, bro, the schors.
Speaker 3: It's in your papers in Georgia, so your sources trust me, bro.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: He's over.
Speaker 1: He's bent over, like with it, hands on his knees
Speaker 1: like you would if you were talking to a child,
Speaker 1: and being like and how were you for Halloween? But
Speaker 1: he's screaming at him.
Speaker 2: And he goes, I know someone. She's a Democrat. She
Speaker 2: got vote shooting even she even running. And the kids
Speaker 2: like what's her last name? He's like, I can't tell
Speaker 2: you that.
Speaker 3: He's like, why, that's that's proof, Like, you tell me
Speaker 3: the names. I can verify what you're saying.
Speaker 2: And he's, oh, no, a nice try. You're like, okay, dude,
Speaker 2: just get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1: That's how they get you, twelve year olds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how they get you every damn time with their
Speaker 2: little polo shirts on.
Speaker 3: You're like, okay, dude, just fucking go go fucking fade off.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm sure there'll be another one, probably today.
Speaker 3: Apparently today is the day they will actually talk about
Speaker 3: climate change.
Speaker 2: So that's good. A lot a lot of people are waiting.
Speaker 3: We're like, wait, wait, what about that other horrible existential
Speaker 3: I mean, I get democracy, that's a stake too.
Speaker 2: What about the Earth? What are we doing here for that?
Speaker 3: So that'll be I think one of the big themes tonight,
Speaker 3: along with Kamala Harris, like officially accepting the nomination and
Speaker 3: that whole thing.
Speaker 1: When we fight, we win, except for climate change climate asterisk.
Speaker 1: Climate change does not actually count when we fight that
Speaker 1: We actually just we only wept up.
Speaker 3: We only fight. Yeah, we only fight. Who are top
Speaker 3: dollar donors tell us to fight?
Speaker 1: That's right, that's it. A couple other things like RFK.
Speaker 1: The one of the heads of Project twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: is on the Timpool Show just glowing about the RFK
Speaker 1: Junior potential endorsement uh and is throwing out not just
Speaker 1: Health and Human Services but also heading up a CDC
Speaker 1: and the FDA for potential cabinet positions for our simultaneously.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think they're ready to just give
Speaker 1: him the whole goddamn thing fun. They're want to sweet
Speaker 1: sweet in the pot and just I think we talked
Speaker 1: about this when we first covered RFK, but he went
Speaker 1: to American Samoa and like really gassed up like the
Speaker 1: anti VACX movement there at a time when it was growing,
Speaker 1: and eighty nine eighty three people died in a measles outbreak.
Speaker 1: So like, this is the type of shit that if
Speaker 1: you put someone like that in charge of policy, like
Speaker 1: people die, like children die.
Speaker 2: Oh, and then he will go and be like I
Speaker 2: never I never said that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his responses would. I was not there. I was
Speaker 1: in American Samoa, like, uh, because I wanted to find
Speaker 1: out about those cookies that the growth cookies. Oh no,
Speaker 1: that's that's not even.
Speaker 3: Their Yeah, so yeah, it's all bad there.
Speaker 2: I was also reading, which is interesting.
Speaker 3: One of the big things when Biden stepped down was
Speaker 3: actually a pretty significant a portion of RFK support went
Speaker 3: to Kamalop and then so what he's left with now
Speaker 3: are people that would probably end.
Speaker 1: Up going to Trump.
Speaker 3: It seemed like there were people who were just not
Speaker 3: who didn't want a Biden Democrat ticket.
Speaker 1: Why what was their problem?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't get this whole thing
Speaker 1: about I don't understand.
Speaker 2: Respect your mummies.
Speaker 1: Everyone, all right, those are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with.
Speaker 2: The whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye.