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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of trend

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Speaker 1: square ball drop reference to times squares ball drop, which

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Speaker 1: is my square. That's good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good.

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Speaker 1: Gross face Killer on the Discord and it's fucking good.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to gross face Killer for that, and for

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Speaker 1: also making the football card of David Lesser's. So David

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Speaker 1: Lesser on the Discord said, I know it's too late,

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Speaker 1: but when JM McNab our writer comes on, I always

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Speaker 1: think Jonavan McNab thought of the McNab and then gross

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Speaker 1: face killer made a a baseball card or a football

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Speaker 1: card of it. Every time I've seen Jam's name since then,

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Speaker 1: I have thought Jonavan McNab Uh. So thank y'all for that.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled to be joined

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Speaker 1: in our second seat by the brilliant and talented Andrew.

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Speaker 1: You know important is this racist? And many many times

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Speaker 1: being on the show, Andrew, how are you doing New Year?

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Speaker 2: I'm eating just insane amounts of salad.

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Speaker 1: You can Yeah, that is the word. I actually heard

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Speaker 1: that before you even came on. People are talking about

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Speaker 1: it in these streets.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying

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Speaker 2: that's mainly what I've accomplished.

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Speaker 1: You hear how salad Andrews eating.

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Speaker 3: Salad.

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Speaker 1: That's a crazy amount of salad. Man. We had a

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Speaker 1: what's the wind equivalent of a rain out? A blowout?

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Speaker 4: We've got blown out, got blown out, blown out, a

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Speaker 4: blowout today and can't be with The wind in Los

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Speaker 4: Angeles is such that like both Miles super Producer justin,

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Speaker 4: both of their power is down.

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Speaker 2: That is wild. I will.

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Speaker 3: I am at a south facing window and it's unbelievably

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Speaker 3: right right now, but I'm sort of in if the

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Speaker 3: wind is where it seems to be. I think I

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Speaker 3: might be just in in the uh, the leeward side

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Speaker 3: of the mountains, because I'm really not seeing much where

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Speaker 3: I am.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, wind is trade and like if you're

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Speaker 1: closer to the mountains it gets really intense. But it

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Speaker 1: is La is very weird. It has very strange weather

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Speaker 1: where sometimes it'll be so windy they'll be like, I

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Speaker 1: don't think.

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Speaker 2: You should drive.

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Speaker 1: It's like, wait more, you should drive.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to know because it's like at some point

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Speaker 3: in recent history, the entire proposition of Los Angeles was

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Speaker 3: that the weather was very even and fine. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: obviously that climate is changing allegedly natural reasons.

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Speaker 1: You see how cold it is in the Midwest.

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Speaker 2: Come on, that's crazy, It's crazy.

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Speaker 3: But I do think part of it is like the

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Speaker 3: absolute inability for you know, post nineteenth and twentieth century

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles' infrastructure is not designed to handle much no,

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Speaker 3: and so we're getting it basically fails at any given opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is. It's like a hothouse flower, you know, is.

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Speaker 2: Like delicious and beautiful orchid.

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Speaker 1: That has never had to phase a stress test of

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Speaker 1: any sort, and when there is danger, it shatters and

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Speaker 1: falls falls apart. Brian the editor has this lord job?

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Speaker 1: Is La the New Windy City more than eleven? Very well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah you should.

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Speaker 3: Producer Victor asked if I if I could come on

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Speaker 3: the show. I immediately said yes before checking my own

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Speaker 3: internet connection or power, and.

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Speaker 2: Then realized that probaly was unwise.

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Speaker 1: But I am here the last two men in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles with internet.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, we are the Internet. We we are

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Speaker 2: the Internet.

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Speaker 1: Wait, I am legend. Let's talk about Meda.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just just a cool company that has understood definitely

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Speaker 3: didn't get lucky one time, but has understood human humans

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Speaker 3: and human interaction every.

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Speaker 1: Now was not just somebody who happened to cash a

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Speaker 1: winning lottery ticket and has let that convince him that

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Speaker 1: he is an all consuming genius.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: God, he this look so so uh Narksucker Nerd put

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Speaker 1: on his you know, gen z hair and big chain

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Speaker 1: black tea and addressed to the nation and said, uh, basically,

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Speaker 1: guys like we're Maggan now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He announced on the Corporate Meta blog that he is

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Speaker 1: basically all in on free speech and wants to fit

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Speaker 1: in with the incoming regime. Like it's just straight up

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Speaker 1: like he's just like, yeah, Trump is right about everything.

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Speaker 1: We want to be in the Trump business, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's basically everybody getting in line as fast and as

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Speaker 3: Here, Okay, this is this is I know this has

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Speaker 3: been a bit of a drama. I have been beating

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Speaker 3: since the election and a little before the election.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 3: I know that there's been a lot of this handwringing

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Speaker 3: about like, look at all these media companies getting in line,

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Speaker 3: and I'm a little I just want to raise the

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Speaker 3: specter of using the present tense on getting in line,

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Speaker 3: and may be incorrect I'm just they're.

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Speaker 1: Really change in their tune from when they were doing

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Speaker 1: the right thing for all those years.

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Speaker 3: All these things are exactly like everything that Zuckerberg says

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Speaker 3: he's going to do. If he's a very free speech

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Speaker 3: I guess I'm a little just like unclear the ways

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Speaker 3: in which this wasn't already happening. I should say free

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Speaker 3: speech in massive square quotes obviously.

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Speaker 2: Sure. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Has Facebook not been clear Nazi propaganda for the last

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Speaker 3: five years?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Am I missing something? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: They had a fact checker department that was bad at

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Speaker 1: its job, and you know, like so they had a

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Speaker 1: fact checker department because there were like things like mass

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Speaker 1: casualty events caused by Facebook rumors in other countries, and

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Speaker 1: so in order to like, you know, be careful about

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Speaker 1: And now they're like, well, we're not doing that in

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Speaker 1: going to get rid of a bunch of restrictions on

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Speaker 3: So, I mean, I don't know, it's like, yeah, they've

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Speaker 3: been racist and fucking transphobic while they had these things.

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Speaker 3: I guess I'm like, I understand this will be quote

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Speaker 3: unquote worse. Yeah, but I will just kind of slow

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Speaker 3: a little bit, caution that people.

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Speaker 2: Like the hand ringing the hands should have been wrong.

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Speaker 3: I'm just not really like, I don't know what really

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Speaker 3: how much like this is he's the same person, he's

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Speaker 2: But these things are so cool now, yeah, he does.

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Speaker 2: He does look lit.

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Speaker 1: It looks so tight. Did you see that one video

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Speaker 1: where he was like wakesurfing with the American flag.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's just a fucking huge Nazi dork. But

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Speaker 3: he's been a huge Nazi dork this whole time. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so I don't know, I mean, all all the things that, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's it's just like the getting in line of it,

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Speaker 3: like look at look at all the capitulation, and it's like,

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry to tell you that this capitulation has been

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Speaker 1: It's just there in their official corporate communications. Yea, Like

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Speaker 1: McDonald's just announced that they're rolling back their diversity goals.

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Speaker 3: But like that also is like none of those were

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Speaker 3: instituted by the government. These were all based on their

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Speaker 3: perception of the market, and like, I guess we'll see

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Speaker 3: whether they're right or wrong. But like, you know, the

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Speaker 3: people haven't really like changed that much. It's just like,

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Speaker 3: both political parties are giving to them. So like, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, man, I just think this is going to

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Speaker 3: and like we'll just see, Yeah, Facebook will be more

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Speaker 1: I will say that a lot of my politics were

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Speaker 1: driven by just what Joe Biden told me to do, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for the past four years. So it is going to

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Speaker 1: have my guiding light, my true north there to tell

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Speaker 1: me what to do. They also just deleted a bunch

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Speaker 1: of AI profiles. Yeah, like so they created like fake

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Speaker 1: people who have been following all of the AI developments.

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Speaker 1: But they looked like shit and didn't work. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: pointed out this Goldman Sachs paper from June of last

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Speaker 1: year that was just like, yeah, it's a trillion dollar

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Speaker 1: it's it's like the the like like nose to the grindstone,

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Speaker 1: or less what they're you know, obviously they're hugely biased. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's better than the horrible racist nerds that run Silicon

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Speaker 1: The bar it clears the lowest bar of humanity that

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Speaker 3: But that, by the way, is also what gives me

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Speaker 3: on this, Like you know, Zuckerberg has gone like you know,

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Speaker 3: decided free speech and we're taking away all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's like yeah, or like McDonald's like.

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Speaker 3: These analyzes are being driven by people that also think

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Speaker 3: if you see the common theme, it's that these people

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's gonna obviously it's gonna be bad. But

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Speaker 2: They just got lucky once. Same with Ron Moss.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump at least understands how racists work. Although it's

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Speaker 3: like you're like, you know, he he's just right place,

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Speaker 3: right time, and sort of right vibe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Just like historically with like the level of genius that

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Speaker 1: people ascribe to Hitler, I've always like found it like

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Speaker 1: when you actually go back and like read about what

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Speaker 1: Hitler was, like, he was like kind of a dumb guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: He's very narcissistic and so like was good at presenting

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Speaker 1: himself because he like studied every like photo that was

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Speaker 1: but he was just like the person for that moment

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Speaker 3: Not that dipshits can't be dangerous, but it's like absolutely,

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Speaker 3: let's not like, let's let's not ascribe like they have power,

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Speaker 3: but they don't have the genius that they think.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like a lot of people in America

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Speaker 1: ascribe to them because in America we love a winner

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Speaker 1: and we're back, all right, popcorn buckets. The trend has

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Speaker 2: Did we talk. Have you seen one of those things?

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Speaker 1: The person you saw it in the flesh? What did

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Speaker 2: Made it up the corporate chain product.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, they were right. It was a

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Speaker 2: Should have just been a huge mustache. Yes, the mustache

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Speaker 1: That is a crazy looking thing. Gladiator Too had a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean because that's not the one with sharks, right,

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Speaker 3: You know, probably purists would say they prefer the performance

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Speaker 1: from Eli Confidential? He doesn't look like we don't have

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Speaker 3: It's really yeah, it's so I don't know. I thought

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Speaker 1: I would have preferred to watch all the Gladiator battles

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Speaker 3: Well, like also like all corporate stuff, right, it's like, oh,

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Speaker 3: there were three, like, you know, just normal hits with

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Speaker 3: I'm just like, how did this go from like, you know,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that the amount that like that movie

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Speaker 3: They're just xenomorphin around, they're doing zenomorph' stuff. Their tails

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Speaker 1: Anyways, Coming up January nineteenth, the working Man's Popcorn Bucket.

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Speaker 1: It's National Popcorn Day and Cinema is having a bring

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Speaker 1: your own bucket event, which sounds like something would get

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Speaker 3: This is sad that they had to make that stipulation

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Speaker 1: So a forty ounce is so ten x that don't

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Speaker 3: Five dollars four hundred ounce container. Okay, the containers I'm

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Speaker 1: It's very like not corporate. It's like, did you just

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Speaker 1: This idea seems so anti corporate. They're like they went

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Speaker 3: Whatever budget went into making this VR app, clearly what's

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Speaker 3: precisely zero. Yeah, I'm just now that pitch obviously they

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Speaker 2: The length incredibly long could be.

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Speaker 1: a single file line of popcorn. Yeah, these are good ideas.

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Speaker 1: Andrew T. What a pleasure having you on the daily,

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Speaker 1: I guess, as always, so where can people find you?

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Speaker 1: Follow you?

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Speaker 3: You know my podcast is yo is as racist andrew

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Speaker 3: T on. Whatever the least Nazi social media available is

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Speaker 3: at any given time, as far as I know.

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Speaker 1: As far as we know, that is going to do

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Speaker 1: it for us this afternoon. We're back tomorrow with a

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Speaker 1: whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind

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Speaker 1: to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines,

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Speaker 1: get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,

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Speaker 1: and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye ea.