Speaker 1: South By.
Speaker 2: You're when you hear how funny this ship's gonna be bro.
Speaker 1: Forget it. We have yet to make our pilgrimage to
Speaker 1: the comedy Mothership, where I wonder where that is. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go, man, just like you know, we
Speaker 1: work in comedy. We got it. That's like like fucking
Speaker 1: Graceland for us. I'm pretty sure all lead to the mothership.
Speaker 1: Just follow any road. You're gonna stand up at that.
Speaker 2: Mother If you're on it, they'll just roll down like.
Speaker 1: Ship.
Speaker 2: It'll pull you in. Yeah, I know, maybe we should
Speaker 2: go with Jamie.
Speaker 1: That would actually be incredible.
Speaker 2: I don't think I could subject me her, you or anyone,
Speaker 2: or even the subsequent story. I would have to I
Speaker 2: guess it depends on who's there.
Speaker 1: Who's at the mother ship tonight? I mean about the
Speaker 1: ship south By Southwest is bonkers. It's just such a weird,
Speaker 1: like just all these people walking around with pink lanyards
Speaker 1: with just hungry eyes looking to So the pink lanyards, Brian,
Speaker 1: are the ones that are for the interactive and so
Speaker 1: it's all just like online marketing people just like looking
Speaker 1: around with hungry eyes looking to make connections. Dude, kill
Speaker 1: Tony tonight. Well guess what. Guess what we're We're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to get tickets to that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Nope, that ship was sold out. This it was sold
Speaker 1: out on Inauguration Day. Man, I mean, but what if
Speaker 1: you walk up and you tell them that you guys
Speaker 1: are podcast series? Hey, man, I get I'm a podcaster.
Speaker 1: What percentage of the male population in the city of Austin,
Speaker 1: Texas do you think has podcasts? Probably like eighty seven percent.
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's some pretty normal people.
Speaker 2: It's just hard because it's ever We're just surrounded by
Speaker 2: podcast like people just descend on, like you know, on
Speaker 2: Austin from.
Speaker 1: Like the digital media world. Right now, there was two
Speaker 1: people sitting at like the most crowded hotel bar that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, recording a podcast like with like mics
Speaker 1: on the table. I was like, how is that? Are
Speaker 1: you just getting a room scene for like a bar scene?
Speaker 1: Was this here? Yeah? Yeah? This was like the first
Speaker 1: day when we got podcasts. Verity check there.
Speaker 2: Is because you can't hear ship that any dishes clanging
Speaker 2: against each other, and then the like occasional word like
Speaker 2: buzzword like synergy get dropped.
Speaker 1: In Yeah, yeah, you can hear that. Hello the Internet,
Speaker 1: and welcome to this week trend edition of dirnal Guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's a production by our radio.
Speaker 2: It's a podcast we take a deep dive into America,
Speaker 2: share contuness, and this is the one where we tell
Speaker 2: you what was trending over the weekend, was trending this morning,
Speaker 2: and we let you get to.
Speaker 1: Know us a little bit better by telling you some things.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you're welcome for letting you do that,
Speaker 1: telling you some things we think is overrated, underrated. I
Speaker 1: am Jack O'Brien, and that over there is my co host,
Speaker 1: mister Miles.
Speaker 2: Come on, we're here in Austin's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're
Speaker 2: on the road, just on the road from two separates.
Speaker 1: The sickest uh, the sickest ballad about how hard life
Speaker 1: is on the road. It's on the road, dude.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Everybody keeps giving me weird looks because I got long
Speaker 1: hair and shit, man, it's because of the Confederate flag
Speaker 1: bandit king. You know, I'm like, I'm kind of like
Speaker 1: a rocket man. I feel like in a way, like
Speaker 1: I'm just like out here in space. I missed my wife,
Speaker 1: I miss my key eels. Is that some shit he
Speaker 1: says in Rocket Man In fact, as cold as hell.
Speaker 1: The the everybody's looking at me because I have long
Speaker 1: hair is turned the page. There's a whole genre of
Speaker 1: like really like you know, sad rock songs about how
Speaker 1: hard it is to be the loneliness of road life.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of road dogs out here miles at
Speaker 1: south By Southwest, weird place, trying to make some weird energy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to make sense of we haven't really seen any
Speaker 1: the area that we're staying and doesn't have like I
Speaker 1: think last year when we were down here, we talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that there were like these you know,
Speaker 1: it's mainly like a marketing an online marketing event, and
Speaker 1: last year there was like tide house, like Tied brand
Speaker 1: detergent had taken over a house.
Speaker 2: I mean, to be fair, we've barely left the hotel
Speaker 2: because we are laying down sleeping most of the day.
Speaker 1: It's nice just indulging in the luxury of.
Speaker 2: Like a quiet room and then being like, I don't want.
Speaker 1: To walk outside. It's windy. It's it is windy as
Speaker 1: hell down there. I gotta say, man to tough times
Speaker 1: for those of us with combvers you know, mm hmm,
Speaker 1: and little two pays just blown right off a little
Speaker 1: two pages, blew the hell off. Let's let the people
Speaker 1: get to know us a little bit better, tell them
Speaker 1: something we think is underrated, overrated? You want to kick
Speaker 1: us off with an underrated underrated?
Speaker 2: Oh man, just how shook the Dems really are right now?
Speaker 2: I think it's like there's a lot of talk of
Speaker 2: like what's gonna what's the next move or whatever, but
Speaker 2: the fear that is just coursing through this party, I
Speaker 2: think it is actually really underrated. And because they're trying
Speaker 2: to talk about like there's to do new things in
Speaker 2: appeal to voters, I'm like, no, these people are shook.
Speaker 2: They don't know what to do, and they're revealing they're
Speaker 2: just taking the masks off in the most obvious ways.
Speaker 2: So again, they've been actively shitting the bed for some
Speaker 2: time now, and they know they don't.
Speaker 1: Know what to do.
Speaker 2: That's why you see, like I see those things like
Speaker 2: those leaks of the Third Way kind of retreat talking
Speaker 2: points coming out as a way to sort of see
Speaker 2: how the like the real power struggle is going to
Speaker 2: be from like centrist trying to insist that they just
Speaker 2: have to appeal to independent voters and Republicans to kind
Speaker 2: of get this thing back on track.
Speaker 1: And then they don't because they don't want.
Speaker 2: It to be the people who are like, we need
Speaker 2: small dollar donors and not open oligarchy. But again, in
Speaker 2: this scrambling to appeal to voters, they're also revealing that
Speaker 2: they never believed in a fucking thing they have said, Like,
Speaker 2: for example, Gavin Newsom's new podcast where he's now just
Speaker 2: and just all his comments and now he's just like
Speaker 2: throwing trans people under the bus now and yucking it
Speaker 2: up with Charlie Kirk on his podcast.
Speaker 1: I think your smack is so fresh, Charlie, dude, that.
Speaker 2: That stuff that's smack that you talk, Dude, I'm so jive.
Speaker 2: I can just see it in your stance out there. Man,
Speaker 2: you're crouched over, you're angry.
Speaker 1: It's just like.
Speaker 2: And Cook the way he's starting Charlie Cook is like
Speaker 2: the problem Charlie Cook is saying the probably Democrats is
Speaker 2: they can't go on a podcast because they can't do
Speaker 2: the long form content. Podcasts are just way too intense.
Speaker 2: They require authenticity. It's too masculine and Democrats aren't able
Speaker 2: to hang with that. Wow, Like, yeah, that's true, man,
Speaker 2: that's exactly and you're like, what are you fucking doing?
Speaker 2: But again, I think it also reveals how quick he
Speaker 2: is to just backpedal on marginalized community shows. It's not
Speaker 2: that they ever cared, it's just that they just know.
Speaker 2: The Democrats are more the party of like saying the
Speaker 2: right things at the right time, but still sort of
Speaker 2: hiding that much better than Republicans are. Then. Also, like
Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffries admonished other Democrats that were disruptive during Trump's address, saying,
Speaker 2: he's like, you're making it about You're making it about
Speaker 2: you and not Trump.
Speaker 1: Very frightening to hear this. Yeah, leadership would have had
Speaker 1: that conversation ahead of time and then figured out a
Speaker 1: strategy that would work, because they what they did did
Speaker 1: not work. He's not wrong about that, but I feel like, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's your job. It is to
Speaker 1: get everybody on board with something that makes sense and
Speaker 1: suggests that you guys aren't with this ship.
Speaker 2: Guys, duck and cover. That's what we're doing. Yay, everyone,
Speaker 2: duck and cover. And if you don't do it, then
Speaker 2: oh it's gonna look warky. But again, the authenticity thing,
Speaker 2: I'm seeing a lot of headlines about authenticity this weekend
Speaker 2: and DEM's struggle with it. I just think the difference
Speaker 2: is that Republicans are fine embracing their backwards views in public, like.
Speaker 1: That's the whole thing that's Democrats hide them. Yet they
Speaker 1: have to spend.
Speaker 2: Time hiding it until they emerge, like those views are emerging,
Speaker 2: how they legislate and the causes they get behind, and
Speaker 2: then you're like, wait, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: So anyway they're shook. Yeah, they're gonna have to like
Speaker 1: kill the current version of the Democratic Party, and it's
Speaker 1: not going to go easily, you know, and they're certainly
Speaker 1: wants to do it, but yeah, yeah, it will have
Speaker 1: to be a like you know, Trump in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: Bernie in twenty sixteen, level like okay, just nobody is
Speaker 1: like all the energy is elsewhere. In the past, they
Speaker 1: have responded to that by being like, and we still
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck. We're going to like force it
Speaker 1: in this direction. And that's because that is what they
Speaker 1: are a machine for, you know, turning things centrist, and
Speaker 1: the centrists just shit the bed like so evidently it
Speaker 1: is like the thing, the only thing that all of
Speaker 1: Americans are united against right now is like that that
Speaker 1: shit doesn't work, the like neoliberalism doesn't work. But the
Speaker 1: Party is that thing in its current iteration. So they're
Speaker 1: going that thing is going to have to die for
Speaker 1: in some way for them to have a future.
Speaker 2: But they're just they're just so vulnerable to some other
Speaker 2: option acting as a release valve for people's frustrations because
Speaker 2: it's not happening with them. And I think that's the
Speaker 2: thing they're trying to figure out before that option presents itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, speaking of yeah or oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: theo vonn ad lib that's his that's his podcaster ad
Speaker 1: lib or so we we had to look at that
Speaker 1: THEO von interview for a thing we're doing another thing
Speaker 1: we're doing, and I just I think, so I know,
Speaker 1: it's all old news interview that he did with Trump.
Speaker 2: This is so funny. You don't even like, we don't
Speaker 2: even watch this show. It's this is just.
Speaker 1: One clip keeps sparking on interviewed Trump and talk to
Speaker 1: him about cocaine and it the thing like I got
Speaker 1: distracted by and this these two things are really funny.
Speaker 1: But the she'll have you like an al homie be
Speaker 1: out there like your own dang porch light out there,
Speaker 1: which are great moments. But the thing that I had
Speaker 1: underrated is that he's also doing like inside Baseball cocaine
Speaker 1: user talk. Yeah, Trump, he's like talking about He's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're putting in American cocaine back then,
Speaker 1: like I guess a few years back, but it have
Speaker 1: like a almost had a rattle in it, like made
Speaker 1: you feel like a damn mechanic sort of thing you
Speaker 1: would only talk about on a podcast like Cocaine Talk,
Speaker 1: like yeah, right right by, and for people who do
Speaker 1: a lot of cocaine and if you don't know what
Speaker 1: the fuck they're talking about, yeah, like a cocaine somalier.
Speaker 1: Like it's like the sort of shit that he was
Speaker 1: talking to a future president Donald Trump about having feeling
Speaker 1: like a damn mechandamn mechanic.
Speaker 2: What stupid fucking theo Dude, This guy is so stupid
Speaker 2: that like he says stuff like this and then also
Speaker 2: becomes a useful like putin idiot like yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 2: last week he was tweeting shit, It's like, hey, we'll
Speaker 2: never know the truth about what happened in Ukraine. When
Speaker 2: someone's talking about how Russia invaded Ukraine and they're like, dude,
Speaker 2: you cannot be this uncritical, like lack this kind of
Speaker 2: critical thinking.
Speaker 1: He deleted it, poor guy. And then he deleted it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just like feeling like a mechanic man about it.
Speaker 1: All right, Miles, what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: Expensive tacos and room service breakfast? Guess what I have
Speaker 2: eight in the last twenty four hours. I just again,
Speaker 2: every time I see tacos, and this goes for ramen too.
Speaker 2: These are like affordable, working people foods in the countries
Speaker 2: that they come.
Speaker 1: These are not like.
Speaker 2: We're going out fancy for ramen or something like that.
Speaker 2: They're like it's meant to just be a thing that
Speaker 2: it's affordable, accessible, And I think we're hitting that like
Speaker 2: stride of like overpriced artisanal type tacos, like not the
Speaker 2: simple shit like stuff where they can get away with
Speaker 2: charging you a ton because they're like giving like proper
Speaker 2: noun name, ingredients and everything and saying with like ramen,
Speaker 2: I feel like that too. So I just feel like
Speaker 2: that's a bubble as the economy continues to go in
Speaker 2: the direction it is. It's like, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I need to pay twenty dollars for a bowl of ramen,
Speaker 2: or you know, eight dollars for one taco, ten dollars
Speaker 2: for one in some instances, you.
Speaker 1: Know it's good. Then if you're not paying twenty dollars,
Speaker 1: you know, like that's only that's yeah, yeah, no, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's true. You should do that or when cost twenty dollars.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, I've got some I've got some artisanal
Speaker 2: pencil shavings to sell you too that you're gonna love.
Speaker 1: The flavors are fantastic.
Speaker 2: Tell the chef, and then the other thing. Room service breakfast.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to iHeart because you guys are footing the
Speaker 2: bill for this because we're out here in a work trip.
Speaker 2: But dude, the idea I think of room service breakfast
Speaker 2: sounds so much better than what actually you actually get
Speaker 2: it and stay you're in. It's like again, it's it's
Speaker 2: really it's mediocre at best, but in your mind you're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'll be like Kevin McAllister and home alone, I'll.
Speaker 1: Wear a bathrobe and all you did in the bed.
Speaker 2: No, I'm like stressed out, like writing for the show
Speaker 2: or this other event that we're doing, and I'm just
Speaker 2: like my sages, my sausages a cold, And then that's
Speaker 2: even fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the idea of it so much is the one
Speaker 1: that like I feel like the food that travels, the
Speaker 1: meal that travels the worst, right, Like it's just there's
Speaker 1: there's not really a version of most breakfast food that's
Speaker 1: gonna hold for more than like five minutes.
Speaker 2: No, especially like you think of like a sunny side
Speaker 2: up egg, the thin ass whites of the egg. Those
Speaker 2: things are like ice gel packs by the time they
Speaker 2: get to you. And that's on me, Like I should
Speaker 2: just take my ass down to a restaurant so I
Speaker 2: can just go have it passed directly to me. And
Speaker 2: also I know, just talking to the people that are
Speaker 2: working at the hotel, they're like it's a fucking hell
Speaker 2: right now, Like everyone is screaming about how they're not
Speaker 2: getting ship in time, like we're at like capacity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the service workers god less. Yeah, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a I'm talking about the conto.
Speaker 2: Having to Yeah, I was at a restaurant yesterday where
Speaker 2: we were talking to the waiter and they were like
Speaker 2: that yesterday was like the busiest day we've ever had.
Speaker 1: Fucking nightmare. We're hanging We're hanging in there, all right.
Speaker 1: Another hotel based overrated. This, I'm gonna say overrated. The
Speaker 1: way we watch media now, the a la carte menu
Speaker 1: way that we watch media, where you have to choose
Speaker 1: what you're gonna watch. You gotta start it at the beginning,
Speaker 1: finish it, or you know, like you gotta figure it
Speaker 1: out that there's just just linearly. Yeah. So I've had
Speaker 1: a couple nights of being like, I don't know, too
Speaker 1: tired to connect my hotel TV to my Netflix account.
Speaker 1: And also the remote doesn't really work in my room.
Speaker 1: It's like the only thing it's like mostly out of batteries.
Speaker 1: You ever ever remote is mostly out of batteries, and
Speaker 1: so like the only it like loses most of the
Speaker 1: functions and it can just do like squeeze it really hard.
Speaker 1: Got hard. The only thing you can do is like
Speaker 1: channel up, channel down basically and volume up, volume down,
Speaker 1: Like even turning the power on and off takes like and.
Speaker 2: Jack, you famously will not advocate for yourself and ask
Speaker 2: for a new remote to help me, Like, ah, I'll
Speaker 2: make this work.
Speaker 1: They're busy and so near the top of you know,
Speaker 1: the hotel TV. Like when it turns off, it turns
Speaker 1: back on and it's at like a channel a thousand.
Speaker 1: Numbing loop video. Yeah, this is my numbing loop video.
Speaker 1: Is just an ad for like like some marketing things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so weird.
Speaker 2: This person real estate right now? Yeah, yeah, because usually
Speaker 2: it's Mario Lopez.
Speaker 1: Yeah, usually it's Mario Lopez tell me about all the
Speaker 1: fun movies that I can order in my room. He
Speaker 1: really talks about the porn a lot. Yeah no, but
Speaker 1: dude right out here that it is just a whole
Speaker 1: run of like all the hbos and cinemaxes. And I've
Speaker 1: just been like watching what's on man, you know, just
Speaker 1: old school, like this is how this is. I would
Speaker 1: just when I was in high school school, I just
Speaker 1: had Comedy Central on and I would just let it ride.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, it was just whatever movie Comedy
Speaker 1: Central decided to show me. I would catch a half
Speaker 1: hour of that movie here and there. I caught forty
Speaker 1: five minutes of Speed, the first forty five old Speed
Speaker 1: the other day, which I was like, wow, like really
Speaker 1: not the part you remember where it's like a it's
Speaker 1: it's not a bus movie yet, it's an elevator movie,
Speaker 1: but it's fucking rips man. And and then I got
Speaker 1: to the bus part where the population of people riding
Speaker 1: buses in la are like an elderly couple, a tourist
Speaker 1: Sandra Bullock, who, by the way, also like the amount
Speaker 1: of smoking that because I'm catching a lot of like
Speaker 1: older I also watched the end of Scream three night
Speaker 1: everybody's just ripping butts. It's amazing. Cydra Bullock's character in
Speaker 1: Speed like runs up to the bus just like smoking
Speaker 1: a cigarette for no reason. Right, Yeah, it's just like
Speaker 1: completely out of line with her, but it just like
Speaker 1: gives the I think it gives the actor a little
Speaker 1: business to do. Anyways, all all the people on the
Speaker 1: bus in Speed would have in reality just been people
Speaker 1: with suspended licenses from DUIs two actually writes buses in
Speaker 1: l A. Yeah, I don't know, man. I caught end
Speaker 1: of Scream three, not great, but I'm sure I would
Speaker 1: have appreciated more if I caught the first half hour.
Speaker 1: Then I caught the first half hour of Final Destination two.
Speaker 1: The log truck, I don't know. It's just nice to
Speaker 1: not have to make a decision, and it also is
Speaker 1: bad for time, Like you just lose a half hour,
Speaker 1: you know, is it real really easy when you when
Speaker 1: it's like such a passive medium, you were just you
Speaker 1: just lose time because it's just like you get pulled
Speaker 1: into some shit. Whereas like if you're having to like
Speaker 1: make choices about like playing pausing, I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: something about it that's been nice and soothing, very inefficient,
Speaker 1: but who the fuck needs efficiency. I'm advocating for people
Speaker 1: going out and lifting heavy rocks, you know. That's what
Speaker 1: I think we should be doing. Watching movies in fifteen
Speaker 1: minute increments, you catch you kind of get the gist,
Speaker 1: But then I don't know, I've never seen the rest
Speaker 1: of Final Destination too.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe in the direction I had, I was not expecting.
Speaker 2: People are just talking about the log truck scene anyway, dude, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Exactly, that scene. It's wild. Anyways, those are some things
Speaker 1: we think are overrated and underrated. We are going to
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about the news. We'll be right back and we're back,
Speaker 1: and you know, we talked about the Democrats not being
Speaker 1: able to get their shit together. The Republicans are also
Speaker 1: starting to show little little cracks, little fissures. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they were fighting.
Speaker 2: This was never a solid thing, and we're like, when's
Speaker 2: the infighting gonna start in the cabinet? And now we're
Speaker 2: getting we're starting to get the real reports of the
Speaker 2: fucking car ride to Disney World and the family full
Speaker 2: and the family station wagon. That is the Trump administration. Silence, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but also a lot of fighting. So look, aside from
Speaker 2: total chaos, I think the one thing that's also a
Speaker 2: certainty in any Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Is bitter infighting.
Speaker 2: And the thing about getting a bunch of power hungry
Speaker 2: maniacs together is that none of them will ever be
Speaker 2: powerful enough for their own liking, and it then thus
Speaker 2: creating a bit of finger pointing and anger. So Elon
Speaker 2: Musk has basically been dictating, as we all know, like
Speaker 2: pretty much all the business of the government. But all
Speaker 2: the boot liquors that got in line for Trump are
Speaker 2: now starting to get pissed that Mark Musk is getting
Speaker 2: all the attention while also basically telling them what to
Speaker 2: do at their own fucking agencies in terms of firing
Speaker 2: people So the New York Times asked some reporting about
Speaker 2: just how shit blew up at a cabinet meeting, you know,
Speaker 2: between like Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, you know, the guy
Speaker 2: in charge of the plane crashes not happening, and Marco Rubio.
Speaker 2: How they were particularly pissed with Musk in this meeting. Apparently,
Speaker 2: like Musk started coming at Rubio for not firing enough people,
Speaker 2: and then Rubio's response was like, well, I got fifteen
Speaker 2: people to take an early retirement.
Speaker 1: That should count.
Speaker 2: And then this this is their description of this back
Speaker 2: and forth, and then Rubio asked, didn't they count as layoffs?
Speaker 2: He asked, sarcastically, whether Musk wanted him then he oh,
Speaker 2: then he goes. He asked, sarcastically whether Musk wanted him
Speaker 2: to rehire all those people just so he could make
Speaker 2: a show of firing firing them again. Then he laid
Speaker 2: out his detailed plans for reorganizing the State Apartment, and
Speaker 2: Trump had to de escalate things and be like, okay.
Speaker 1: Just sold on.
Speaker 2: So from now on, if you run an agency, you
Speaker 2: are the one who does the firing, not Elon.
Speaker 1: Do you hear that? Elon?
Speaker 2: You don't do the firing. You are the advisor. You
Speaker 2: just advise, okay, okay, like had to fucking just say
Speaker 2: set those rules.
Speaker 1: Who knows if those will hold.
Speaker 2: Then Sean Duffy, the guy again in charge of avoidable
Speaker 2: plane crashes, he started getting pissed because he's saying that
Speaker 2: those people were just trying to lay off all these
Speaker 2: air traffic controllers. And Duffy said, what am I supposed
Speaker 2: to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now,
Speaker 2: and your people.
Speaker 1: Want me to fire air traffic controllers.
Speaker 2: Ben Duffy said, he's been having to stop these kids,
Speaker 2: like personally intervening to like stop these firings from happening.
Speaker 2: And then again Trump had to intervene and then say
Speaker 2: this quote. The exchange ended with mister Trump telling mister
Speaker 2: Duffy that he had to hire people from MIT as
Speaker 2: air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be
Speaker 2: quote geniuses, he said. So he's like, okay, Sean, here's
Speaker 2: you do what you're gonna do. Get the people from
Speaker 2: m I T. They're very smart. Make them air traps controls.
Speaker 2: It's that easy. We're playing the sims go.
Speaker 1: That's the one that I need him to like stand
Speaker 1: up for you know, not let doge completely fuck everything up.
Speaker 1: And instead he's like, Uh, here's a completely unreasonable demand
Speaker 1: that I'm going to make of you that you have
Speaker 1: to hire MI I T employees MI T grads.
Speaker 2: What kind of elmer fudd ass thinking is that when
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, the problem is they're not geniuses.
Speaker 1: Right, and if geniuses brain is just TV. It's just
Speaker 1: like he says, everything you solve everything by like getting
Speaker 1: the guy from numbers to do the job. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just.
Speaker 2: Like you gotta find get me a doogie houser on
Speaker 2: the phone, bones, get me bon bone, get me a bone.
Speaker 2: I need bones to solve all these unsolved mysteries. I
Speaker 2: need geniuses for the air traffic controllers, maybe even baby geniuses.
Speaker 2: Have you seen that movie? These babies are geniuses, folks.
Speaker 2: I bet they're I bet they're pretty talented.
Speaker 1: Now, I mean before this administration, we had gone so
Speaker 1: many years without a major plane crash, and now like
Speaker 1: they yes, I think that is very specifically the one
Speaker 1: area that we're seeing that like institutional knowledge like it,
Speaker 1: you know, having on the job experience really matters. Like
Speaker 1: we started seeing the really dangerous like near misses during
Speaker 1: the Biden administration happened after the pandemic when they did
Speaker 1: like they kind of pushed people to retire early, and
Speaker 1: so they lost a big chunk of the workforce who
Speaker 1: had the experience doing the job. And then once air
Speaker 1: travel started up again, they were like unprepared and like
Speaker 1: a little understaffed. And it's just like this idea that
Speaker 1: you come in and just like completely flip the fucking
Speaker 1: game board over and just you know, it's it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: And in particular, like there was this article in The
Speaker 1: Atlantic over the weekend about just the like we had
Speaker 1: covered the fact that they fired a bunch of like
Speaker 1: FAA leadership right before that deadly crash, like weeks before
Speaker 1: the day after. We all remember when Trump had that
Speaker 1: press conference where he blamed the plane crash on DEI.
Speaker 1: That same day, the day after the fucking plane crash,
Speaker 1: FA employees, including air traffic controllers, safety inspectors, and mechanical engineers,
Speaker 1: according to this article quote received an email advising them
Speaker 1: to leave their job under a buyout program announced just
Speaker 1: two days before. And this is this is from that email.
Speaker 1: The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to
Speaker 1: move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to
Speaker 1: hire productivity jobs in the private sector. So that's their
Speaker 1: playing right, is to get rid of the people currently
Speaker 1: doing the job that are literally keeping planes from fucking
Speaker 1: falling out of the air, like put and then put
Speaker 1: ye low productivity and then add employees. But like you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't get rid of them without having the next
Speaker 1: plan in place. And just the shit sounds So first
Speaker 1: of all, that email sounds like a spam email, which
Speaker 1: makes sense. You's been taking that asking.
Speaker 2: You for your login information for your FA credentials or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like the report from inside the FA is
Speaker 1: just like people are fucking leaving because it's such a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Like more than thirteen hundred FA employees replied to that
Speaker 1: email and selected yes, I confirm that I'm resigning retiring.
Speaker 1: That is the day after the plane crash. So that's
Speaker 1: what you know, we're in a worse place than we
Speaker 1: were heading into the plane crash. Mm hmm. That it
Speaker 1: seems bad to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean they're they're doing the merry
Speaker 2: go round of hiring refire.
Speaker 1: It's just all again that was Marco rue Kind of
Speaker 1: ate with that one with the uh, with the oh,
Speaker 1: do you want me to fire everybody and then rehire
Speaker 1: them again so I can fire them again? Is that
Speaker 1: that make you happy?
Speaker 2: Also, Marco, you know he's trying to do this so
Speaker 2: then they can privatize everything because everything goes to ship.
Speaker 2: Then they can come in for the fucking scraps. And
Speaker 2: that's what's so wild. Yeah, yeah, like one of the
Speaker 2: details pretty obvious. Yeah, one of the details of this
Speaker 2: report is that one of the problems that the FAA
Speaker 2: does have and like air traffic does have, is like
Speaker 2: they're using old, outmoded technology, like like early two thousands technology,
Speaker 2: but they had signed a contract with Horizon in like
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. They're in the process of like building
Speaker 2: out this.
Speaker 1: Massive upgrade, and Elon Musk basically came in and hired
Speaker 1: somebody from SpaceX to like take over and infuse like
Speaker 1: starlink as the system that it all runs on. So again,
Speaker 1: just completely disrupting a process that's already in place in
Speaker 1: order to put one of his companies in a more
Speaker 1: advantageous position that like can like hold the country hostage.
Speaker 1: Once he's oh yeah, in charge of all of our
Speaker 1: flights like it's it's so wild.
Speaker 2: It's uh yeah, just to think of the guy who
Speaker 2: who can't even get his own cars to not just
Speaker 2: fucking drive completely out of control into something, or just
Speaker 2: his lack of consistency with anything that he has in
Speaker 2: terms of like just stable the product is.
Speaker 1: Then be like, yeah, let's put all air traffic control.
Speaker 1: Let's I mean air traffic was just rusted this weekend
Speaker 1: because one of his rockets just fucking exploded and rained
Speaker 1: debris across Florida and the Caribbean. That's cool though, it
Speaker 1: looked cool as hell, dude, that shit looked.
Speaker 2: There was a video I think it was someone at
Speaker 2: like maybe the Tallahassee Airport or one of the airports nearby,
Speaker 2: and it was like someone was filming inside the airport
Speaker 2: of all the debris falling. And then one you can
Speaker 2: tell this one dude thought he was being so funny.
Speaker 2: He goes, ladies and gentlemen, the aliens have arrived. Okay, folks,
Speaker 2: they have arrived. And this guy keeps saying it over
Speaker 2: and over this video clip. Oh, he's like narrating over
Speaker 2: the video. No, he's just trying to say, like this guy,
Speaker 2: he's there he's just in the airport somewhere, and he's
Speaker 2: just clearly trying to get everybody's attention, just not the
Speaker 2: laugh that he's expecting to.
Speaker 1: He keeps saying, dude, just shut up. That's incredible.
Speaker 2: The aliens have have arrived, all right, folks, Let's be calm.
Speaker 2: They have arrived, and like you've been waiting years for this.
Speaker 1: Like if he's spending his own money on a private
Speaker 1: space program and that you know he's riding on, great,
Speaker 1: But when it's like fucking with air travel and he's
Speaker 1: also the person who's like in charge of just single
Speaker 1: handedly reshaping how our air travel, domestic air air travel
Speaker 1: happens in this country, it's pretty fucking terrifying. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say, yeah, But anyways, really fun report to read
Speaker 1: as we're about to have to fly in less than
Speaker 1: a day, to be like, yeah, people inside the FAA
Speaker 1: are not even focused on their normal jobs. They're just
Speaker 1: so worried about being fired and like all the people
Speaker 1: on their team who've been fired, and yeah, it sounds
Speaker 1: sounds like they're absolutely nailing it. So I'm glad that
Speaker 1: Trump stood up for Marco Rubio, but did not stand
Speaker 1: up for the guy who's in charge of like not
Speaker 1: having all the planes crash.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it'll be funny because it'll always
Speaker 2: be like, well, we got rid of DEI and then
Speaker 2: but if you get rid of all the escapegoats, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to blame white guys eventually, Donald, that's the
Speaker 2: problem here something. And then they'll just pivot again like
Speaker 2: it was actually the immigrants again this time? What okay,
Speaker 2: all right, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, okay, to quote our dear leader after his COVID address, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the truth about Gene Hackman's cause of death. The truth,
Speaker 1: the truth Hackman truthers here. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. And Gene Hackman's cause of death has been revealed,
Speaker 1: and it is less mysterious and uh, you know, planned out,
Speaker 1: less conspiratorial than I think a lot of people seem
Speaker 1: to be hoping for. M So, since he and his
Speaker 1: wife passed away at their house, the true crime slop
Speaker 1: factory has been working over time, churning out ridiculous theories.
Speaker 1: We've got to hear a YouTube video from Law and
Speaker 1: Crime Network Five theories on Gene Hackman's suspicious death investigation
Speaker 1: five five Holy shit, wait what could you come up
Speaker 1: with a little racism in this? By the way, do
Speaker 1: you do you feel like with the it's always like,
Speaker 1: I don't know something about her. She seems suspicious. I
Speaker 1: feel like she seems is that something you've gone trueworthy?
Speaker 1: Is this something you've gone scrutiny on your relationship Jack?
Speaker 1: I've not experienced it to this degree where people are like,
Speaker 1: I think she's trying to murder you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean first there always was like what
Speaker 2: was going on with her?
Speaker 1: Did she did she do something?
Speaker 2: And then I don't know, I mean everything, I guess
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't even really look at it that
Speaker 2: way because I think I saw I was so checked
Speaker 2: out from whatever the headlines were after I read the
Speaker 2: initial thing of like, oh shit, Gene Hackman died, but like,
Speaker 2: what the fuck happened with all the dogs and stuff?
Speaker 1: So Hollywood Insider reveals how Gene Hackman was all capped
Speaker 1: murdered That one came from Benny Johnson, yikes, and then
Speaker 1: the mysterious deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa.
Speaker 2: And so they needed like just claim mystery when an
Speaker 2: investigation is in its infancy and you act as if
Speaker 2: this has been something that's been basically considered a cold case.
Speaker 1: Now. Yeah, the police started out being like, it's not mysterious,
Speaker 1: and people are like, seems mysterious to me, and they're like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's kind of like depends on
Speaker 1: your definition of mysterious. They were like, it was a murderer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we knew it.
Speaker 2: No mysterious, and that like it's we're we are uncertain
Speaker 2: of what exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, some people speculated that it was no coincidence
Speaker 1: that Hackman was found dead the same week that the
Speaker 1: Epstein files were to be released.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also no secret why we haven't seen Van Vaught.
Speaker 1: It's no big secret. Why doesn't mean.
Speaker 2: God the ones that people had already seen supposed to
Speaker 2: be revealed, Like they were like, it's the list of names,
Speaker 2: and then they like it was just a fucking stunt
Speaker 2: for Pam Bondi to give it to like Republican influencers
Speaker 2: to be like, look at the transparency and it was nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even the Republicans were disappointed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's going to fucking incriminate Trump if they
Speaker 2: would go all in on real, full on transparency, like
Speaker 2: it'll bring I'm sure they're like, ah, just do the
Speaker 2: parts where it's bad for the people, like the liberals,
Speaker 2: And it's like, naybody, you know it's bad.
Speaker 1: When Alex Jones was busting the Epstein connection, that doesn't
Speaker 1: that doesn't actually make sense. It doesn't hold water for me,
Speaker 1: somebody who holds a ton of water. Yeah, you've seen
Speaker 1: professional water like these days. But so the causes of
Speaker 1: death for Hackman and his wife are very tragedy. It
Speaker 1: is just a random tragedy. His wife passed away from
Speaker 1: hand to virus pulmonary syndrome, an illness transmitted to humans
Speaker 1: through contact with effective rodents, and then Hackman lived for
Speaker 1: another week, possibly unaware of what had happened because he
Speaker 1: was in an advanced state of Alzheimer's and she was
Speaker 1: his only care give to.
Speaker 2: It's like, this is actually darker than if it were
Speaker 2: just like a murder. Yeah you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like you have someone dying suddenly tragically who was the
Speaker 2: person's sole caretaker, and and they're in such an advanced
Speaker 2: state of Alzheimer's that then just like a week of
Speaker 2: just god knows what like when you're just unable to
Speaker 2: take care of yourself. It's like, oh my god, dude,
Speaker 2: just please, what's theory number seven? Can it be that
Speaker 2: one Gene Hackman got too close to an alien conspiracy theory?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But god, this is why we need people, you know,
Speaker 2: This is why we need sort of these programs that help.
Speaker 2: We need this many points of contact for these kinds
Speaker 2: of situations when some one person is the caretaker or
Speaker 2: not at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the so the boring lesson
Speaker 1: of this story, and like the tragic lesson is like,
Speaker 1: you know, be in touch with your neighbors, be in
Speaker 1: touch with people around you, and you know, don't don't
Speaker 1: be over overly reliant on like one person like that.
Speaker 2: Just don't don't cut yourself off. Like we need community,
Speaker 2: we need the people around us.
Speaker 1: But that that got just erased from the narrative as
Speaker 1: quickly as possible because that's not what we're trying to hear.
Speaker 1: We're trying to hear about some conspiracy theories. All right,
Speaker 1: onto news from abroad. Israel has announced their latest war
Speaker 1: crime on x dot com.
Speaker 2: The Everything app truly is gives you access to everything,
Speaker 2: just not financial transactions yet Shane.
Speaker 1: Not yet, Shane. I'm waiting, though, I'm ready keeping my
Speaker 1: money in a shoe box until I can find a
Speaker 1: stupider thing to do it.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, it just honestly, I'm sorry, Elon, but like everything,
Speaker 2: app just doesn't hit if you can proclaim you're about
Speaker 2: to do violations of international law before I can send
Speaker 2: the homie fucking five bucks for some pipe rock theory videos.
Speaker 1: Thank you so. Less than a week after Israel blocked
Speaker 1: entry for all humanitarian aid in Gaza, Israel's energy minister
Speaker 1: announced that they're cutting off the electricity supply, and he
Speaker 1: made the announcement on x which just a great platform
Speaker 1: for announcing war crimes. Some right wing publications have tried
Speaker 1: to downplay it. The Canada's National Post published article saying
Speaker 1: Israel was merely trimming electricity in Gaza as if it
Speaker 1: were a hairdresser, do a little trim, little snip here
Speaker 1: and there. They're merely cutting off a single facility and anyways,
Speaker 1: Gozlins mainly rely on solar panels and fuel power generators
Speaker 1: to produce electricity.
Speaker 2: That was from the Ministry of Energy, I think saying that, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're just using they they're fine, they don't They can
Speaker 2: use a little bit of light or not light or
Speaker 2: just like less light less electricity, I guess is the
Speaker 2: point here, Yeah, where.
Speaker 1: The reality is that the facility they're cutting off is
Speaker 1: a vital desalination plant. So cutting off that power means
Speaker 1: that half a million people are not going to have
Speaker 1: access to drinking water. Oh and the fuel for those
Speaker 1: generators is being blocked, so mm hmm. Yeah. They've also
Speaker 1: just the on the solar panel thing. Israeli forces have
Speaker 1: been confiscating and destroying Palestinian solar panels for years. Like
Speaker 1: there was a effort by a Dutch funded solar project
Speaker 1: to finally give them around the clock power to refrigerate
Speaker 1: food or do like laundry, and Israeli military administrators in
Speaker 1: the West Bank sent soldiers with assault rifles in and
Speaker 1: they shut down the project, ripped out its electrical components,
Speaker 1: and drove away with ninety six solar panels. So, just
Speaker 1: in case we thought that was an actual option going forward,
Speaker 1: it is not, thanks to Israeli forces. Yeah, but it's basically,
Speaker 1: you know, Israel has decided they don't want to move
Speaker 1: into phase two of the agreed upon three phase ceasefire
Speaker 1: deal and instead of sabage those efforts. Yeah, it's I.
Speaker 2: Mean, god, this thing is continuing, continuing, continuing, Yes, there's
Speaker 2: like then you have like the people who are doing
Speaker 2: we are talking from the Trump administration with Hamas and
Speaker 2: like it all seems I'm not sure how any of
Speaker 2: this is going to play out, but it definitely feels
Speaker 2: like it's going to play out in favor of whatever
Speaker 2: Nenya who wants. But yeah, this is just wild too,
Speaker 2: Like it's on its face such an obvious like violation
Speaker 2: of human rights to be like, well, we're not like
Speaker 2: cutting well, I guess we're cutting off water because we're
Speaker 2: cutting off electricity.
Speaker 1: But it's not we're intentionally cutting off the water.
Speaker 2: It just happens to be a byproduct this other decision
Speaker 2: that we've made.
Speaker 1: It's so fucking craven it is.
Speaker 2: We shall see how this continues to unfold.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be Lord, it would be my guess.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: The action was condemned by groups including the Council on
Speaker 1: American Islamic Relations and even the UK government, who noted
Speaker 1: that this breaches international humanitarian law. So okay, the UK
Speaker 1: got maybe by breaking free of the American relationship, the
Speaker 1: UK will start saying things that are true. Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see. I just feel like the whole Trump thing
Speaker 1: is just playing.
Speaker 2: It's just it's like a power up for neoliberalism, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like they were like the tiny Mario, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and if you get bonked one more time, But a
Speaker 2: fucking shroom just came down and they fucking were like, oh, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: we're feeling it.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, I guess you don't like this, you don't
Speaker 1: like this. I think we can all rely on the
Speaker 1: British to be good guys and on on the historical stage.
Speaker 1: I think that's usually a safe bet. All right, those
Speaker 1: are some of the things that are trending on this
Speaker 1: Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with the whole last
Speaker 1: episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines, whay you still
Speaker 1: can get your blue shots. Don't do nothing about white
Speaker 1: supremacist and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye bye,