Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Authrenticity.
Speaker 1: The new Russell Crowe Denzel Washington movie.
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: What was that movie with them multiple now Virtuosity was
Speaker 1: six point seven? What a film? Those like early movies
Speaker 1: where they just had kind of heard of computers and
Speaker 1: still we're figuring it out. Are he could.
Speaker 3: Generate his body by touching glass? I remember that was
Speaker 3: the thing. And that's pretty deep, and that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: And there what they were at an early UFC fight.
Speaker 3: That was the other thing I remember there. There's like
Speaker 3: a like the climactic scene like revolves around them.
Speaker 1: They got a lot of the future, right, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: did know that you mentioned it. I remember there was
Speaker 1: one of the I remember there's one of those where
Speaker 1: they keep talking about like Jack me in, I gotta
Speaker 1: get jacked into the the mainframe. That just always cracks
Speaker 1: me up. Uh. Anyways, we're gonna talk about authenticity in
Speaker 1: a moment. I'm Jack. That's Miles. This is an episode
Speaker 1: where we just tell you some of the stuff that's
Speaker 1: trending this afternoon, Thursday, November twenty First, but first, Matt
Speaker 1: Gates guilty as hell. Huh. I guess is what we
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 3: Tell Yeah, pour a bottle of piss out for this one,
Speaker 3: another one or the first. This is I guess technically
Speaker 3: the first Trump l so far of this future administration,
Speaker 3: the utah at Gates.
Speaker 1: To withdraw one of these nominees at a time when
Speaker 1: absolutely nobody can tell him shit, Like he just spent
Speaker 1: a whole year just being like, I don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck what anyone tells me. I'm going to keep doubling
Speaker 1: and tripling down. And he believes he's right about everything
Speaker 1: that has every he could possibly do, Like there's no
Speaker 1: scenario in his mind where he does something wrong now
Speaker 1: or in the future. Absolutely for Matt Gates to like,
Speaker 1: the evidence on this motherfucker must be so damning. I
Speaker 1: mean it to be, like, all right, except for that one.
Speaker 1: I was bad, my bad on that one.
Speaker 3: It was damning the second you heard it and you
Speaker 3: knew there was evidence of all of it. They're like,
Speaker 3: we have payments, we have witnesses. They're talking about trafficking minors,
Speaker 3: statutory rape. That's all there. I think for me, I think,
Speaker 3: you know, the biggest thing was when he resigned to say, like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm actually doing that because I'm going to be nominated
Speaker 3: to be, you know, attorney general. The thing that his
Speaker 3: resignation did was effectively end the jurisdiction the House Ethics
Speaker 3: Committee had over him in terms of investigating this behavior,
Speaker 3: this misconduct, these crimes. So by doing that, he basically
Speaker 3: made that investigation toothless. And then there was this whole
Speaker 3: thing about, well, well they release the report. There was enough
Speaker 3: pressure that apparently they're like, yeah, we're not going to
Speaker 3: release the report. And now I just don't think this
Speaker 3: is the end of Matt Gates. I mean, there's already
Speaker 3: talk of him replacing Marco Rubio as a senator, so
Speaker 3: it could just be this, like, you know, they were
Speaker 3: looking one move to sort of stop the ethics report
Speaker 3: coming out, but then he gets to hop on Marco
Speaker 3: Rubio's Senate seat and he still gets to be a
Speaker 3: basically of just a firebrand in the Senate to do Trump.
Speaker 1: One way or another, We're getting this pedophile in a
Speaker 1: position of power.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, either way, either way is what that looks like.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, I think it was the evidence. I
Speaker 3: think also just generally because some people were.
Speaker 1: Like is he doing it?
Speaker 3: Like people were speculating like is Trump doing this just
Speaker 3: to humiliate Matt Gates during the confirmation because Democrats do
Speaker 3: get to ask questions unless he went for like the
Speaker 3: recess appointment thing, which sounds like some Republicans in the
Speaker 3: House are pushing back on that idea. So this is
Speaker 3: the one thing is that, like, although Trump does have
Speaker 3: control over the Republican Party and people are bowing to him,
Speaker 3: there's still other elements that are trying to do something
Speaker 3: slightly different. So it's at the moment slowing things down
Speaker 3: a little bit. But all that to say, Pete Hegseth
Speaker 3: is still in the running to be a Secretary of Defense,
Speaker 3: even though the police report around the like the rape
Speaker 3: allegations are have surfaced and it's terrible, and yeah, he's
Speaker 3: now like he was caught I think a Capitol Hill
Speaker 3: people ask him like, hey, what the fuck is this man?
Speaker 3: Like we're seeing hearing a lot about this, and the
Speaker 3: police report was released, he said, quote as far as
Speaker 3: the media is concerned, it's very simple. The matter was
Speaker 3: fully investigated and I was completely cleared. And that's where
Speaker 3: I'm going to leave it.
Speaker 2: But that's not true nor yes exactly, so I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: sure there were no charges were filed, but there's still
Speaker 2: a police report that's out.
Speaker 1: So as far as the media is concerned, No, we're
Speaker 1: talking about this very this police report right here that
Speaker 1: details all the sex crime is that you committed as
Speaker 1: far as.
Speaker 3: Well, what about reality, as far as reality.
Speaker 1: Is concerned, Yeah, why don't you ask CNN anytime I
Speaker 1: do something wrong, I'm just gonna blame blame the media
Speaker 1: because they do suck in a lot of ways. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, uh yeah. I mean he has control over
Speaker 1: the government and the Republican Party and a lot of
Speaker 1: people who are preemptively just being like I don't want
Speaker 1: to be in trouble with the fascists. But he doesn't
Speaker 1: have control over the fabric of reality. And I think
Speaker 1: that's going to come in a surprise to him and
Speaker 1: some of his supporters.
Speaker 3: He's like, I've just nominated Sid six point seven to
Speaker 3: be the arbiter of accepted reality. You might remember him
Speaker 3: as the bad guy from Virtuosity.
Speaker 1: That's right, and we all do, and I did even
Speaker 1: before we just had that conversation four minutes ago. Netflix
Speaker 1: is being sued over the Glitchy Tyson Paul fight. I
Speaker 1: always love a good lawsuit. That's like this thing that
Speaker 1: was inconvenient happened to me, and I am seeking damages
Speaker 1: of at least fifty million dollars.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, someone's suing because he was glitchy.
Speaker 1: The shit was glitchy, dude, I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're so litigious for the worst reasons. I was
Speaker 3: so glitchy, man. Fifty million, Yeah, fifty million.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's like if they're seeking class
Speaker 1: action damages fifty million dollars, yeah, so across they want
Speaker 1: to get sifty yo, I had fifty I was going
Speaker 1: to the casino on that night, and I would have
Speaker 1: made fifty million dollars. But yeah, I get I guess
Speaker 1: their idea is that a lot of people were inconvenienced
Speaker 1: by the glitchy ass presentation, and I respect it.
Speaker 3: I bet this dude bet on Tyson to win lost
Speaker 3: a bet, and now we're just trying to recoup his
Speaker 3: money somehow by being.
Speaker 1: Like, if it hadn't been glitch g then maybe he
Speaker 1: would have won, just as a very bad understanding of how.
Speaker 3: But the fight still happened and the result remains. I
Speaker 3: don't know, man, who knows.
Speaker 1: Legs look shaky because the feed was shaky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Schrodinger's boxing match.
Speaker 1: Uh. And then authenticity, just the this idea. I just
Speaker 1: want to keep talking about it because it feels like
Speaker 1: it's going to be the big thing. It's It's my
Speaker 1: takeaway from like this past election is it was the
Speaker 1: determining factor in many ways. Like it's the one thing
Speaker 1: that people seem to believe Trump has is like he
Speaker 1: has this appearance of authenticity, not because he has any
Speaker 1: deeply held, authentic human beliefs about what he can do
Speaker 1: and like how to benefit people. But he's the most
Speaker 1: willing to say fuck you to the mainstream media.
Speaker 3: And not for reasons, just saying fuck you for describing
Speaker 3: what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: He will keep saying it, and he will say it
Speaker 1: even louder if as they point out him being wrong.
Speaker 1: I do think it's really the only unique thing about
Speaker 1: him as a politician, his willingness to say whatever benefits him,
Speaker 1: regardless of what the media what, Like the you know,
Speaker 1: Democratic Party establishment and you know, in twenty sixteen, the
Speaker 1: Republican Party establishment said he would he was just had
Speaker 1: an unshakeable belief in himself and the way he saw
Speaker 1: things that was fueled by pathological narcissism. But it ended
Speaker 1: up working out for him. And I think, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, like the Democratic Party seems to have the
Speaker 1: opposite of this. They seem to be worried about what
Speaker 1: the mainstream media will say about them at all times.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris changed her positions, went to the right in
Speaker 1: a bunch of ways that felt completely out of line
Speaker 1: with what we knew of her from before. But I
Speaker 1: think also like just remember, I think we've also lost
Speaker 1: sight of like who the most unpopular politician in the
Speaker 1: presidential election was. It actually wasn't Kamala Harris. It was JD. Vance,
Speaker 1: And like he was the person who is the most opportunistic,
Speaker 1: position changing, inauthentic, sellout piece of shit that like that
Speaker 1: that is just the one thing that everybody knew about
Speaker 1: him from the start, is he a few years ago
Speaker 1: was calling Trump hitler and then became you know, a
Speaker 1: sniveling boot thrower, and people despised him. And I just
Speaker 1: I don't think people are wrong to value this necessarily
Speaker 1: because like we were talking about, like with the the
Speaker 1: idea of people having like an allergic reaction to these
Speaker 1: like super complex bureaucratic solutions that are like neoliberalism does
Speaker 1: hide behind complexity, and it does end up fucking you
Speaker 1: over in a lot of ways, like whether it be
Speaker 1: you know, health insurance or you know, government programs that
Speaker 1: end up you know, getting taken over by corporations. And
Speaker 1: I think like authenticity, like we exist in a world where,
Speaker 1: like from our youngest days, we are being sent manipulative
Speaker 1: messages via marketing that like are trying to control you
Speaker 1: and dissuade you. And I think it's like one of
Speaker 1: the ways that people are very sophisticated now, and politicians
Speaker 1: and like big mainstream political parties just still seem to
Speaker 1: be like a generation behind. They're like talking to people
Speaker 1: who aren't aware that that is happening, right, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's fucking them.
Speaker 3: A lot of the DNC ideas feel like they came
Speaker 3: from like your divorced sixty year old uncle who like
Speaker 3: just realized you can wear a hat backwards and yeah, hey,
Speaker 3: you know it'll be cool.
Speaker 1: Exactly we just saw you walk in with the fanny pack,
Speaker 1: take it off and turn your hat around backwards, and
Speaker 1: turn the chair around backwards. Like we saw that. You
Speaker 1: can't make us not see that. But I just I'm
Speaker 1: raising it now because like you talked about, like the
Speaker 1: way that the Democratic Party is responding to the election is, guys,
Speaker 1: we need to shift to the right. You need to
Speaker 1: keep changing our position, keep adopting new positions now that
Speaker 1: you know, throw everybody under the bus. Like that is
Speaker 1: the hardening consensus around what this election is. And like
Speaker 1: I I don't really feel any panic about it because
Speaker 1: I didn't think that the mainstream Democratic Party or the
Speaker 1: mainstream media was going to be the solution. I just
Speaker 1: but we need to like recognize that's what it's going
Speaker 1: to be. It's not coming whatever is next is not
Speaker 1: coming from the mainstream media. It's not coming from the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. It's going to be something that they make
Speaker 1: fun of, and that thing needs to target them and
Speaker 1: like have that be a part of what they're saying
Speaker 1: from the start. They have to like have five, you know,
Speaker 1: very specific messages and one of them needs to be
Speaker 1: fuck the mainstream media and the you know, Biden administration.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or or not just doing it like in the
Speaker 3: sort of maga way of like fuck the mainstream media
Speaker 3: is like you talk about the corporate capture of media, Yeah,
Speaker 3: how it doesn't serve you to actually talk But again,
Speaker 3: depending on you know what level of DNC strategist you're
Speaker 3: talking about, Like, no, dude, maybe it is good to
Speaker 3: like adopt that language.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: You know, we're currently just experiencing an omni crisis in
Speaker 3: the United States. So it's the it's the authenticity, it's
Speaker 3: the misogyny, it's the racism. All of these things are
Speaker 3: sort of coming together to create a fucking ball rog
Speaker 3: of disaster, political disaster that you know, the Democrats had
Speaker 3: to face off with. But yeah, I think the thing though,
Speaker 3: truly like which the reason it's trending to this idea
Speaker 3: of authenticity. There's a Pew Research study that came out
Speaker 3: this week that was just talking about how like percent
Speaker 3: of American adults are like they're not getting it from
Speaker 3: the main stream media at all, Like they're getting their
Speaker 3: news from quote news influencers or what the study defines
Speaker 3: as a person who consistently posts news related content with
Speaker 3: more than one hundred thousand followers on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok x,
Speaker 3: or YouTube. That's there again, this is more than fifty
Speaker 3: million people getting their news base sweat. When Pugh asked
Speaker 3: adults from the age of eighteen twenty nine, that number
Speaker 3: increases to thirty seven percent. So this is like a
Speaker 3: this is again part of the shifting media diet of
Speaker 3: like that people are consuming. And we also this is
Speaker 3: why we're hearing so much now too, because clearly the
Speaker 3: right has an advantage in this department of their own
Speaker 3: like talk a sphere, blogger sphere, influencers, spheres of influences,
Speaker 3: and the Democrats are constant like what are we what
Speaker 3: are we gonna do? Like we need our own Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean they need to be pumping more money
Speaker 3: into like Podsay of America or things like that, although
Speaker 3: that's probably exactly what they're thinking, because these people have
Speaker 3: been stallwarts for the establishment Democratic Party. But there's this
Speaker 3: in this Wired article, they spoke with this woman Emelia Montooth,
Speaker 3: who's like a creator progressive creator, and this was her
Speaker 3: takes you said quote what the right does really well
Speaker 3: is having a funnel that I believe starts with barstool
Speaker 3: sports that reaches mass audiences. The left is missing the
Speaker 3: top and middle of these funnels. Rather than working with
Speaker 3: individual influencers, they should focus on building that piece of
Speaker 3: the ecosystem, that funnel. Because it is true, like it's
Speaker 3: if you're not. Most people are not explicitly looking for
Speaker 3: political content like on the Internet. They want entertainment. So
Speaker 3: if they're if they're even trying to replicate that, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I mean, like, you already have huge funnels
Speaker 3: for content. Now are they gonna start platforming people that
Speaker 3: are more I don't know. It's just hard to kind
Speaker 3: of figure out. But I do see that part of
Speaker 3: the puzzle of like you capture people with a larger
Speaker 3: sort of you know, again just general sort of entertainment,
Speaker 3: and then from there they begin to infuse a lot
Speaker 3: of like political talkers or things, platform them and normalize
Speaker 3: them via that route. But I just don't think like
Speaker 3: most of the people.
Speaker 1: Like there's The Ringer, right, that's a very popular sports network,
Speaker 1: like probably comparable to barstool, maybe not as big as barstool,
Speaker 1: but it's big and popular and influential, But it has
Speaker 1: like no political stance because it's just sort of a
Speaker 1: mainstream media aligned you know, like it's just probably center left.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know what the politics of the people
Speaker 1: involved in the ring are, but like, I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any there there in the same way that they're
Speaker 1: you know, whereas like barstool, I guess it just feels
Speaker 1: like it's like a lot of the answers that are
Speaker 1: coming from people are like okay, and then we need
Speaker 1: a forty slide power point to explain like the many
Speaker 1: different steps of addressing this. And it's just like it
Speaker 1: because like nobody everybody has just been like, well, the
Speaker 1: Democrats like are kind of the standard, and like as
Speaker 1: a mainstream media institution, we just like kind of trickle
Speaker 1: down to that, and people have rejected that because they've
Speaker 1: rejected like this neoliberal order, and so I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's like a lot of like I think people are
Speaker 1: going to try to make the Joe Rogan of the
Speaker 1: left and it's just going to be the same thing
Speaker 1: we've already had, which.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of yeah, right, I think again, the
Speaker 3: Joe Rogan of the left avoids the are the policies
Speaker 3: the problem.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: That's really I think what we're getting at in the
Speaker 3: end is that while that can help and you can
Speaker 3: maybe try and like balance the scales in terms of
Speaker 3: like the number of visitors consumers of this content to
Speaker 3: sort of like lean more to the left, the bigger
Speaker 3: issue is that the policies and if if that's not
Speaker 3: the first point of interrogation and any kind of post
Speaker 3: mortem on this election, it's going to be an absolute failure.
Speaker 3: But again, I think that's why there is so much
Speaker 3: emphasis on talking about like it, this is it, this
Speaker 3: is this, rather than are are we like completely fucking
Speaker 3: ourselves over because we are unwilling to grapple these problems
Speaker 3: that are being caused by our biggest donors, right, and
Speaker 3: we are so locked in with them that we've been
Speaker 3: rendered inert in terms of addressing those problems because we're
Speaker 3: just kind of we like to we like to pick
Speaker 3: a part at the margins. Yeah, it's tough, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I think again, like the point about authenticity, it's the
Speaker 3: same thing of like are you being consistent with who
Speaker 3: you think is vulnerable and who are you're protecting? Because
Speaker 3: if that's sliding all over the place, that's hard to
Speaker 3: be taken seriously, right, But.
Speaker 1: It's nobody has really tried this. That's that's the thing
Speaker 1: to you, Like nobody is currently like in the last election,
Speaker 1: like they're going to tell you, well, the Democrats tried
Speaker 1: to like be progressive and it failed. They they didn't
Speaker 1: and also, like if the best tool that you can
Speaker 1: have when it comes to like being authentic is like
Speaker 1: actually having the truth and like kindness on your side.
Speaker 1: And no, no mainstream party has tried that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because what you're not going to hear fucking Rachel
Speaker 3: Maddow get out there and really talk about how, you know,
Speaker 3: certain lobbying interests are the reason why the Democratic Party
Speaker 3: is unable to really pursue these policies that would you know,
Speaker 3: help a plurality of American people. It's not gonna happen,
Speaker 3: although she did. We just did find out she's willing.
Speaker 3: She's taking, she said, a five million dollar pay cut
Speaker 3: because christ MSNBC is in such dire straits right now,
Speaker 3: is she so?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, man, I mean five union pay cut.
Speaker 3: What is she going to make she getion dollars?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, okay, So she went from thirty
Speaker 3: million to twenty five million, Okay, okay, okay, worth it, guys.
Speaker 1: MSNBC. I'm here, I'll brough.
Speaker 3: I'll do it for fucking I'll do it for one million,
Speaker 3: but I won't say that shit that you know, I'll
Speaker 3: get kicked off pretty quickly, but it'll be fun.
Speaker 1: We'll have a good run. We'll have a nice run.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. We're back, all right. Glicked is currently tracking
Speaker 1: for a combined North American debut in the one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five million dollar range. That is the Gladiator
Speaker 1: to Wicked box office debuts coming this weekend that we
Speaker 1: talked about that I think should be Wikadiator or Wadiator or.
Speaker 3: Just Wicked too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wicked too make it make confusing as fuck, Wicked time,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't know it. So I think that's
Speaker 1: about the range that people were thinking for Barbenheimer and
Speaker 1: it both of those overperformed. Seemed like it seems like
Speaker 1: Wicked did extremely well with critic they they're giving it
Speaker 1: like really good reviews, and Gladiator Too is like you
Speaker 1: know standard Ridley Scott over the past decade or two,
Speaker 1: where you know, we'll see it seems like a lot
Speaker 1: of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because what Barbara did one f five and Oppenheimer
Speaker 3: did eighty opening so they did two thirty five opening
Speaker 3: weekend and then it kind of just kept going.
Speaker 1: So but I think the forecast heading in was around like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Barbie could do about a million and Oppenheimer could do
Speaker 1: like sixty five cool cool cool, and they both overperformed.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. Don't sleep on baby Ratu, which is
Speaker 1: baby girl and Nasfaratu both dropping on Christmas. Baby Ratu
Speaker 1: is so baby, that's more fun to say, Yeah baby, right,
Speaker 1: baby girl. Yeah, it's funny. Like the article that the
Speaker 1: AP News did an article it was like glicked Barbenheimer,
Speaker 1: like is it going to be the new Barbenheimer? And
Speaker 1: like the first two paragraphs are just taken up by
Speaker 1: people being like, we actually think clicked is the better
Speaker 1: way over Wickadiator. Yeah, they recognize that their name sucks. Shit,
Speaker 1: They're like, we just need to like get on board
Speaker 1: with glicked and move on because having five different names
Speaker 1: is not helpful for the movement. This is like a cause.
Speaker 3: This is like the Democrats know, obsessing Overdiers. They're like, clicked, dude,
Speaker 3: it's so much bigger than this Wickiator Gladiator glad Wick
Speaker 3: and even the eyebrow raising glad dicked glad dicked glad
Speaker 3: one's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Glat yeah, gladykus Yeah whatever.
Speaker 3: I know not of wicked enough to for that to
Speaker 3: interest me, but I do know about running my fingers
Speaker 3: through you know, fields of wheat and hearing your vaguely
Speaker 3: ethnic vocals. I don't know if I may have a
Speaker 3: moment to see it, like do a solo movie thing,
Speaker 3: because I know her majesty is, she's like miss me
Speaker 3: with the fucking Gladiator ship.
Speaker 1: Really so my wife is on board for the Gladiator
Speaker 1: like I want to see that. I really do. Think
Speaker 1: it's because of Paul the Skull.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, her magic is like Paul, Okay, Paul, Paul.
Speaker 3: And isn't that mess call like a drink? No, but
Speaker 3: like that's a that's disqualified to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyways, Uh, but we are traveling this weekend,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if I'll probably end up seeing
Speaker 1: it over Thanksgiving, but we Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 3: Baby, Have you ever seen a movie on Thanksgiving Day?
Speaker 1: I think so. We usually go see movies when we're.
Speaker 3: For the Smith's Day movie.
Speaker 1: We always do Christmas Day movies for sure.
Speaker 3: At the theater. At the theater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I always in the theater. Yeah, We're we're big.
Speaker 1: We're a big movie going family.
Speaker 3: I've never seen a movie on Christmas Day, I think
Speaker 3: because like at the time, as a kid, all I
Speaker 3: wanted to do is just play whatever video like the
Speaker 3: one video game I got for the year, and be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you do whatever fuck you want, Like I'm gonna like
Speaker 3: have my eyes roll back in front of team for
Speaker 3: eight hours. Maybe I'll try that this year.
Speaker 1: You didn't even go see Titanic.
Speaker 3: That shit didn't That shit came out before Christmas? Though,
Speaker 3: yeah it did, so I saw it before. I saw
Speaker 3: it before like I saw I'm pretty sure I saw
Speaker 3: a Titanic opening weekend.
Speaker 1: Did you see Avatar in theaters on I did see.
Speaker 3: Habitat, but I saw the first Avatar in.
Speaker 1: Tokyo actually, oh shit, which may have probably my fondest
Speaker 1: Christmas Day movie going experience. Yeah. Oh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: so wild.
Speaker 3: Every time I've been in Japan for Christmas, I've gone
Speaker 3: to see a movie almost like I saw the the
Speaker 3: episode seven uh Star Wars when that came out Force Awakens.
Speaker 1: I saw that.
Speaker 3: I think that was on Christmas Day in Japan, and
Speaker 3: then I saw Avatar. Now I think it's a daft anyway,
Speaker 3: not in America, and that's the only one that counts.
Speaker 1: We live in America, all right. Hey, A fond farewell
Speaker 1: to people who no longer live in America. I'm degenerous
Speaker 1: and Portia de Rossi are leaving the US and saying
Speaker 1: we're not coming back. Fuck you guys for electing Trump.
Speaker 1: I you know, Ellen a true hero. I just we
Speaker 1: haven't really brought Ellen up in a while because they
Speaker 1: get emotional talking about what.
Speaker 3: She Everyone was really terrible to her when she.
Speaker 1: Went through yet, so she just had a stand up
Speaker 1: special that is basically that that is the tone.
Speaker 3: It's called for your approval, which is very like, okay,
Speaker 3: here we go, here you go.
Speaker 1: I hope you're happy. The premise is like, this woman
Speaker 1: has been wronged more than anybody, and just to refresh,
Speaker 1: she was canceled for doing like cruel and sadistic things
Speaker 1: to people who worked for her, such as like hiding
Speaker 1: toothpicks around her house and seeing if the cleaning lady
Speaker 1: would find them and if not, they're fired, like just
Speaker 1: like setting little traps for the people who work for
Speaker 1: them to uh like kind out.
Speaker 3: And then also any person who has worked on the
Speaker 3: Ellen DeGeneres show, just anecdotally in LA you meet people,
Speaker 3: they will always be like, there's the worst fucking thing
Speaker 3: I've ever had. And that's when it all came out
Speaker 3: because first it was the people who worked on the
Speaker 3: Ellen Show being like this workplace is talk seek, and
Speaker 3: then the pylon began like, oh, y'all don't know about
Speaker 3: the toothpick hiding, and you're like, what it was hiding?
Speaker 1: It was just a thing you heard around La the
Speaker 1: entire time I lived here, you know, from like early
Speaker 1: two thousand and tens, was that like, oh, the worst
Speaker 1: boss in La, you know. And so I just want
Speaker 1: to talk about the special, though I was only able
Speaker 1: to make it a minute and a half in. She
Speaker 1: opens the thing with with like a montage of like
Speaker 1: people attacking Ellen degenerous, and she comes out and she
Speaker 1: gets a standing oh like she was Malala Man. She
Speaker 1: is like, they are just well, yeah, they're you.
Speaker 3: Know, her place in television history. I think that's like
Speaker 3: in terms of coming out on national television, out on
Speaker 3: nation like a seminal moment.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: But the vibe of this special was sort of like
Speaker 3: using the goodwill of her, you know, taking you know,
Speaker 3: being open with the world and who she is on
Speaker 3: Ellen to then be like and because of that, ignore
Speaker 3: all the other terrible things I have done after that,
Speaker 3: and I am actually a martyr because I got through
Speaker 3: maybe the first ten minutes, and when I realized, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is just a hay geography of like Ellen DeGeneres
Speaker 3: in the form of a stand up thing. I was like,
Speaker 3: I get it. Your ego couldn't handle it. You get
Speaker 3: to be the only voice on a stage and just
Speaker 3: kind of like tell your side of things and whatever. Said,
Speaker 3: I was kicked out of show business. Dude, you have
Speaker 3: so much like you live in Montecito.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I guess not anymore.
Speaker 3: The Monasito estates, so you are no longer in the
Speaker 3: same neighborhood as well.
Speaker 1: Now she lives in a castle next to the Crema. Okay, next,
Speaker 1: hope you're hand for Erica.
Speaker 3: Yeah, also does Porsona ROSSI also suck too, or she's
Speaker 3: just catching strays because.
Speaker 1: She's yeah, I got nothing, no problem with hey, portion
Speaker 1: might be faint with you, okay. Great? Great performances in
Speaker 1: Arrested Development.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and al who could forget out of mcfiel
Speaker 3: she first hit the stage.
Speaker 1: All right, those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Thursday, November twenty. First, we are back
Speaker 1: tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, get your blue shots, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye,