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Speaker 1: through his dron loke. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over
Speaker 1: there is Miles Gray and well, this is the trending episode.
Speaker 1: It is the last episode of the year before we
Speaker 1: get into some pre recorded holiday high jinks and the
Speaker 1: top ten episodes of the year, which we'll be replaying.
Speaker 2: As we enjoy our eggnog.
Speaker 1: Chestnuts roasting on estnut roasting on an open fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just generally. Yeah, I've had a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: It's not what I expected now what I know, kind
Speaker 1: of like meaty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm what I remember.
Speaker 3: I always like, I liked the smell as a kid
Speaker 3: because it was alo the street in Japan and shit,
Speaker 3: and always asked my mom to get it.
Speaker 1: Then you eat it, you like, what do you think
Speaker 1: the biggest disconnect between smell and taste is because like,
Speaker 1: oh Jesus, I don't smoking cigarettes. That was a big
Speaker 1: one for me because I grew up you know, my
Speaker 1: grandma smoked like a chimney. I loved the smell of cigarette.
Speaker 1: Smelled like love, smelled like love, and then grandmother's love.
Speaker 1: And then I ripped one and I was like, yo, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: tastes like dirt. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you know what it was? Well, I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1: And that was a Marlborough light. I mean, I eventually
Speaker 1: would come to love that taste, but whoa I was.
Speaker 1: I was expecting it to just be the smell of cigarettes.
Speaker 3: Was the first cigarette you ever smoked? A butt that
Speaker 3: your grandma left behind?
Speaker 1: No, My my cool older sister brought me down to
Speaker 1: the parking lot next to a public pool near our
Speaker 1: house in Kentucky and we just sat there and ripped it,
Speaker 1: ripped it sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah really, yeah, dude, love that summer night I was
Speaker 3: smoking my grandma's left over.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I eventually got into that to that nasty business. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The coffee is also up there. Coffee smells like it's
Speaker 1: gonna taste really good, and then it tastes like dirt,
Speaker 1: dirt that I love.
Speaker 3: Usually I'll say beer foam because I remember, I would
Speaker 3: see it and then I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: What's the statute of limitations here? My dad would let me.
Speaker 1: Sip the phone there if there.
Speaker 2: Was like a big foam top on, because.
Speaker 4: I don't want to do that, like dumb fucks, like
Speaker 4: like bubbles, like the soap that you blow bubbles with
Speaker 4: or some ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, completely wrong. Anyway, your foam never tastes good, like
Speaker 1: even when I got real into drinking, when when I
Speaker 1: became a big hobbyist when it came to drinking, never
Speaker 1: liked beer foam. It's I don't I don't know. Everybody
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, give me a nice foamy head on that.
Speaker 2: Let me get a pint of foam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get his foam, Brian, the editors pointing out, not bad. Uh,
Speaker 1: but it's not as good as guinness for sure.
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, fair point, fair point.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, it's magic. We've been doing that off
Speaker 1: Mike for a while. We have to. We had to
Speaker 1: do it for you one time. Oh ou ou so
Speaker 1: we got one foot out the door people. I'm Jack,
Speaker 1: that's Miles. We say that this is the trending episode
Speaker 1: our show, A podcasts of some sort. We talked about
Speaker 1: America's share consciousness.
Speaker 3: A lot to get through. We should get we should.
Speaker 3: We'll leave you with a one you can chew on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll leave you with a heavy one, nice heavy meal.
Speaker 2: That you can go to sleep, take a nice.
Speaker 1: All right, First, this is actually wild because this was
Speaker 1: a prediction that I made on our Predictions episode that
Speaker 1: that will be coming out of the beginning of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, Jesu's crazy wild. Yeah, what was the prediction again?
Speaker 1: So I predicted that a Superman movie would come out
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, and they just dropped a trailer
Speaker 1: no for a Superman movie coming out miles twenty five.
Speaker 3: Fuck you, I know why do you keep charging me
Speaker 3: for lottery numbers that fucking never win?
Speaker 2: You motherfucker. You could have told me about this bet.
Speaker 1: The signal wasn't clear that day. I am a Superman bitch.
Speaker 1: I was like two or three when I first saw
Speaker 1: the Christopher Reeves Superman, like the first one, and then
Speaker 1: the Superman one and two with zod It was two,
Speaker 1: I think, right, But yeah, those were big, like huge favorites,
Speaker 1: hugely influential. I used to run around with a cap
Speaker 1: on in all settings like made out of whatever was
Speaker 1: around tal newspaper didn't matter that I was. And when
Speaker 1: I was doing that, I was pretending to be Superman.
Speaker 1: It wasn't Batman. So I was at that time watching
Speaker 1: the Adam West Batman, but Superman was my ship.
Speaker 3: What's what the fuck is what was Zod's crew called?
Speaker 3: What were they called? Those one motherfuckers that pulled up
Speaker 3: with Zod? I don't have like a gang name because
Speaker 3: he was like a general, right.
Speaker 1: Or something General Zod and the Funky Bunch. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Then, because whenever I think of them, I always think
Speaker 3: of like JD.
Speaker 2: Vance because they were heavy with the eyeliner too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, heavy eyeliner, kind of close cropped beards, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: really alien charisma, completely distant, like they've been living in
Speaker 1: the Phantom Zone for uh an impossible amount of time. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the trailer, I saw it.
Speaker 1: The trailer is I did not see the dog coming.
Speaker 2: I didn't, but if he'll James Gun.
Speaker 1: It did feel James Gun. He like it starts out.
Speaker 1: Superman's like battered. He's in the one of the poles,
Speaker 1: whichever pole has the Fortress of Solitude, and he's like
Speaker 1: spitting out chick lit. He's spitting out blood and then
Speaker 1: he whistles and his little fun dog comes and like
Speaker 1: drags him and and I was like, we got a
Speaker 1: hit on our hands. Yep, I think we got to his.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, everybody, this is you can already I
Speaker 3: could already see.
Speaker 2: All the comic relief this little dog will provide. In
Speaker 2: a James Gunnion way.
Speaker 1: It was very Gunnion, very Gunion.
Speaker 3: I would say, a very Gunyian choice to have a
Speaker 3: cheery little character that kind of helps offset the tension.
Speaker 1: But I think this is a new outback appetiser that
Speaker 1: they're off right way. It's just a gun shaped, blooming onion.
Speaker 3: It's a deep gun. Yeah, it's actually they do not
Speaker 3: bite it. It's a lot of they've had a lot
Speaker 3: of accidental discharges. But the thing with the Superman, I
Speaker 3: think because when I saw that and I saw the
Speaker 3: trailer and then it said July, I was like, do y'all.
Speaker 2: Got something to bar Surpenheimer this with? I don't know,
Speaker 2: you might you have a half a barb here.
Speaker 1: You're gonna want a barber. I think you're gonna want
Speaker 1: a Superman barbin Barbin Man Booperman. You're gonna want to
Speaker 1: do something with this, because yeah, I feel like this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a hit. You need something extra with Superman.
Speaker 1: Not for me. I'm I'm the person who's like I
Speaker 1: I actually liked Superman Returns. The Brandon Routh, Damn, Kevin
Speaker 1: Spacey and Brian Singer was the fucking murderers Row of
Speaker 1: Sex Crims it turns out, but I actually enjoyed those movies.
Speaker 1: They felt like they were an homage. I mean there
Speaker 1: was was. It wasn't an homage. It was like a
Speaker 1: straight up They made it a sequel to the first
Speaker 1: two Superman movies, which were the I think the last
Speaker 1: two that anybody really fully got right. And then they
Speaker 1: gave it over to Zack Snyder, who scared.
Speaker 2: You want to you want to do a little just forecasting.
Speaker 3: This is what comes out in July of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: the same month as Superman. So Superman's July eleventh, July
Speaker 3: fourth of July, there's a Matt Stone, Mattstone, Trey Parker
Speaker 3: July second, Jurassic World rebirth July eighteenth.
Speaker 2: I know what you did last summer the Smurfs, And then.
Speaker 1: I know what you did last summer the Smurfs. It's
Speaker 1: a mashup, mashup, an unlikely mashup because the Trey Parker
Speaker 1: Matt Stone thing is a Kendrick movie. Like they're doing
Speaker 1: that with Kendrick Lamar Like what it is?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yes, because they directed I think, or we're like behind
Speaker 1: the heart part whatever where he kept morphing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, So who knows a Kendrick super mad That
Speaker 3: could be fucking weird. All right, we'll see, well Superman, Drick,
Speaker 3: will you be myke Kendrick Knight.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's yeah, No, that's something we'll be
Speaker 1: worked in. That well shot that off Mike Crypto the
Speaker 1: dog Man. I feel like we're gonna be hearing this
Speaker 1: is gonna be the last we heard of this Crypto
Speaker 1: to dog Man.
Speaker 3: You won't believe how much money the crypto lobby spent
Speaker 3: to get this character to be called that this is
Speaker 3: all part of a fucking full court press to normalized crypto.
Speaker 1: Y'all. Don't fucking fall for it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I know he's a beautiful little dog, but don't fall
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, uh Hawk Toua has apparently gone full
Speaker 1: Kaiser on all our.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Kevin Spacey. Second, Kevin Spacey.
Speaker 1: We're going for and by the way, as it as
Speaker 1: it's our custom for the final episode of the year,
Speaker 1: we always go full Kevin Spacey. Every story we'll have
Speaker 1: a Kevin Spacey reference somehow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gone for two weeks, dude.
Speaker 1: So as we've covered before, you know, charming uh said
Speaker 1: you got a hawk two on that thing in that
Speaker 1: one video and then underratedly when Bill Maher was like
Speaker 1: do you like jay Z? Do you even know who
Speaker 1: jays Z is? Uh, she was like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: like that one song Concrete Jungle Wet Dream to Mayoh.
Speaker 1: And we were like, all right, I'm I'm here, I'm
Speaker 1: here for it.
Speaker 2: Give her a three picture deal.
Speaker 1: A star is born. So she then launched a podcast,
Speaker 1: Uh talked to U and it was originally a hit,
Speaker 1: and then I think it was more interest. Yeah, people
Speaker 1: lost it a lot of interest, and then people and
Speaker 1: then she did a she launched a crypto. She just
Speaker 1: like went through all the stages of neo internet fame
Speaker 1: and over the course of a month and a half,
Speaker 1: and then Rug pulled that crypto, which you know was
Speaker 1: where you like sell all your chairs right before the
Speaker 1: thing craters because you've sold all your shares, I think,
Speaker 1: is the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, so then everybody else.
Speaker 1: Massive vote of no confidence from the only person launch.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be great.
Speaker 2: Well look at the.
Speaker 1: Line, what up fucking cell now? So soll uh and
Speaker 1: so a lot of people left holding the bag since
Speaker 1: she did that. She I mean, I think her company
Speaker 1: released a statement being like they they haven't sold anything.
Speaker 1: We don't know what you're talking about. She has not
Speaker 1: appeared anywhere, no new episodes of talk to Us, and
Speaker 1: like that she's gone. She just starts speaking with like
Speaker 1: a British accent probably actually like South African would be like.
Speaker 3: The said, you know, you're not going to believe what
Speaker 3: it says underneath my coffee mouth that wow, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyways, it's uh be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: this story moves forward. But like I think the like
Speaker 1: the thing, if they're lying and she really did like
Speaker 1: sell all her shares, I think that's illegal. Like I
Speaker 1: don't think you're able to do that. Maybe there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of regular oh right, right right, you can see.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's also been stuff where like
Speaker 3: Kim Kardashian got in trouble for doing a really weird.
Speaker 1: Like you're seeing someone else's that she like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But it was it was sort of it was deceptive
Speaker 3: because she was like, it's Ethereum max and people are like,
Speaker 3: are they buying Ethereum or they're buying some weird bizarre.
Speaker 2: Ship coin that you're that shares the same name.
Speaker 1: Well, deceptive, kind of a Usual Suspects detective agent.
Speaker 4: Never mind, Wow, doctor Burtiser, SUI I used to so much.
Speaker 3: Dude, that was my face for whatever, Like this is
Speaker 3: the best part or when maybe.
Speaker 2: When Billy Baldwin does.
Speaker 1: Give me about yet that part too. It's also clippy
Speaker 1: flippy for real. Yeah, yeah, that is movies that's also
Speaker 1: burnt on my brain in a way. That and then
Speaker 1: but that's one. So like, I go back and I
Speaker 1: watched Superman one, the Christopher Reeves one with my kids,
Speaker 1: and it was I it imprinted on me so early.
Speaker 1: I imprinted on it so early that I'm still like,
Speaker 1: this is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But I go back and I watch Usual Suspects and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this doesn't hold up at all. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: ship is not very good. It's again.
Speaker 3: It's that it's a very fine window where everything that
Speaker 3: you hit in there will be like, bro, this this
Speaker 3: is forever art.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. That and Teen Wolf are two movies that
Speaker 1: already I can't believe how much I still love this
Speaker 1: fucking movie.
Speaker 3: You're like me, You're like, you're looking your living room.
Speaker 3: He can see this, he can fucking hoop you guys,
Speaker 3: Get in here, Get in here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just turned into the Wolf playing basketball. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, how how does he do with all.
Speaker 2: That ship on?
Speaker 1: I must have so much shit on me. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll check
Speaker 1: him with Luigi ben Lauden, and we're back. And I mean,
Speaker 1: if they wanted to do a photo op to make
Speaker 1: this motherfucker look cool as hell, uh, they did it.
Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni pictured entering New York City with just like
Speaker 1: a fucking main or some shit. Yeah, entire swat team
Speaker 1: surrounding him with automatic weapons, all shackled up. It's wild.
Speaker 3: The thing is like everyone's like, oh, they're purp walking him. Usually,
Speaker 3: like for super high profile stuff, it's like you might
Speaker 3: catch a glimpse or something, but they try not to
Speaker 3: do that. I guess it seemed as, you know, being
Speaker 3: a bit prejudicial to be like, look.
Speaker 2: At this fucking guy with all the goons we need
Speaker 2: around him.
Speaker 3: But a security analyst, I'm like CNN was saying, it
Speaker 3: was like, I don't think they're doing this because like
Speaker 3: they think someone's gonna like try and make a new
Speaker 3: cool band photo Jack Ruby reference, but more.
Speaker 2: An indication that the police might think someone may try.
Speaker 3: To free him or interfere with him being taken into custody,
Speaker 3: which is like, oh, interesting.
Speaker 1: Prob'b be wild if like Jeff Bezos ran up and
Speaker 1: shot out, like would assassinate the CEO as that.
Speaker 2: It's like, wait, why did you say neck bone? Is
Speaker 2: that your that's a gangster name trying around?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he got an incident free he's being Louci
Speaker 3: Mangioni's being charged with first and second degree murder, a
Speaker 3: bunch of weapons charges stocking. So some of the reports
Speaker 3: indicated that he's been sort of on the tail allegedly
Speaker 3: of Brian Thompsons's maybe August, And they also added a
Speaker 3: terrorism I guess modifier bonus to that first degree murder
Speaker 3: charge bonus, And yeah, that means means, you know, they're
Speaker 3: basically saying that this was a crime intended to intimidate,
Speaker 3: to terrorize the civilian population or part of the government,
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: So it's like an anti terror law that came out
Speaker 2: of nine to eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, his lawyers are like, they are really
Speaker 3: piling it on here, thick. But yeah, we will see
Speaker 3: the things will begin, I'm sure, and very quickly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Alvin Bragg is like, there's no place
Speaker 3: for this kind of thing. And Eric Adams was like,
Speaker 3: New York City, what.
Speaker 1: And what are your thoughts on the assassination?
Speaker 2: You could do anything.
Speaker 3: You could charge a young vigilante hit man with the
Speaker 3: same anti terror laws we used to prosecute Al Qaeda.
Speaker 2: Only in New York.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else we got for the people. We
Speaker 1: got the Hornets, the Charlotte Hornets of NBA fame, did
Speaker 1: like a little fun give away thing where they hey.
Speaker 2: Why why you why are you carrying their water right now?
Speaker 1: Matt? It was fun And I don't see what this
Speaker 1: kid's fucking problem is. So during a halftime, like you know,
Speaker 1: on court game, I don't know exactly what the kid
Speaker 1: did to deserve this, but uh, he was given by
Speaker 1: the Hornets mascot a PS five. You can see from
Speaker 1: the picture it is like cartoon like, oh boy, mister wow.
Speaker 1: Really you know, he's like his mouth is open, He's
Speaker 1: like what it really is that you have to say
Speaker 1: mister too? You do have to say mister. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's saying mister for sure. And then uh and then
Speaker 1: they cut. You know, the JumboTron didn't stay on him
Speaker 1: for that long, and it turns out that was by
Speaker 1: design because then they took that ship right back and
Speaker 1: we're like, here's a free Jersey kid get lost, And
Speaker 1: so people caught wind of this. I don't know how
Speaker 1: the Hornets thought they were going to get away with this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the kid, I guess or his dad like kind of
Speaker 1: complained and was like, hey, you I don't know if
Speaker 1: anybody was at the game and saw me get a
Speaker 1: PS five. They took it back once the camera was off,
Speaker 1: and so they had to issue this statement. During last
Speaker 1: night's game, there was an on court skit that missed
Speaker 1: the mark. The skit included bad decision making and poor communication.
Speaker 1: Simply put, we turned the ball over and we apologized
Speaker 1: how do we put this in terms the basketball fan
Speaker 1: will all over We turned the ball over Like that's
Speaker 1: not even a good Like that sucks the.
Speaker 3: Most, Like it sounds like you tried to shoot like
Speaker 3: a logo three and turned your back immediately and like
Speaker 3: threw up like three like a tray with your hand
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it and it just like didn't even hit
Speaker 1: the rim. Yeah. Come on. We reached out to the
Speaker 1: family and are committed to not only making it right,
Speaker 1: but to exceeding expectations. We will be providing the fan
Speaker 1: with the PS five that he should have taken home
Speaker 1: last night, along with a VIP experience to a future game.
Speaker 1: Our goal is and will remain, to elevate the guest
Speaker 1: experience for every person that enters Spectrum Center and to
Speaker 1: show our fans how much we appreciate their relentless support.
Speaker 1: But it's like the skit missed the mark, Yeah is
Speaker 1: not no, the skit was a front for you, like
Speaker 1: fake giving this kid a.
Speaker 2: There was no actually, there actually is no metaphor in
Speaker 2: basketball for what this was.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah it was. It's like it's it's just immoral.
Speaker 3: It's just like what what are you doing? You mean, like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're gonna make ourselves look good, like we just gave
Speaker 3: this kid a PS five and then yoink it backstage.
Speaker 3: It's while the dad. The way the dad talks it,
Speaker 3: it's like it talks about what happened. He's like, we
Speaker 3: got the PS five. The hornets dancer who actually gave
Speaker 3: him the PS five. She starts to pack it up
Speaker 3: for him in the back quote. Then we get kind
Speaker 3: of like all the way back to backstage, and you know,
Speaker 3: the guy who kind of found us in the first place,
Speaker 3: he starts to kind of take it away, and everybody
Speaker 3: thinks he's joking, because nobody would think he'd be taking
Speaker 3: the PS five from the kid. It got pretty awkward
Speaker 3: because eventually he had to make it clear that he
Speaker 3: wasn't joking, Like what what the fuck was that?
Speaker 1: Like that guy just wanted the PS five give me?
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Come on, man, no, I'm fucking.
Speaker 2: Given, fucking give it.
Speaker 1: And you know how much he cost? Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it's It is that thing where somebody does something baffling
Speaker 1: and is like, okay, sorry, like I guess you guys
Speaker 1: don't get it, Like they're trying to hide it as
Speaker 1: like a joke. That you aren't getting in some way,
Speaker 1: and it just like makes it clear that this is
Speaker 1: a some some manner of sociopath who has never understood
Speaker 1: a single joke in their entire lives, and they think
Speaker 1: like a joke is saying you'll do something and not
Speaker 1: doing it or something. Yeah, weird, it's again.
Speaker 3: And then they're like backstage, you're like, well here we
Speaker 3: actually have a gift.
Speaker 2: Here take it. What is a kemba walker jersey?
Speaker 1: He doesn't even plan that was played for them in
Speaker 1: the twelve years. Fuck, this is so old.
Speaker 3: Well fucking I just found it. Okay, Jesus christ Man,
Speaker 3: you're kids.
Speaker 1: Man, kids? Am I right? He's like looking at the dad.
Speaker 1: Am I right?
Speaker 2: This fucker like this at home too?
Speaker 1: What sir? He's in tears. That's so wild?
Speaker 2: All right, I kind of missed the mark.
Speaker 1: I guess the joke didn't land.
Speaker 3: It sounds like, yeah, it sounds like some ship like
Speaker 3: Michael Scott in the office would say after doing some
Speaker 3: really something exactly like real off color racist ship or
Speaker 3: something in the office.
Speaker 1: Like Okay, theopathy mixed with like a bad sense of
Speaker 1: humor and like a desperation to be perceived as funny. Right,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah yeah, and you could see Michael Scott
Speaker 1: being like just really wanting the PS five yeah, and
Speaker 1: he would and would insult the kid to his face, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we have some bad news. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: people who've been listening to the show since the pandemic
Speaker 1: know that we rode hard for hydrochloroquin Uh. Boy god.
Speaker 1: So there was this one study one there. I would
Speaker 1: say that our skit of us saying citing this one
Speaker 1: study thousands of times and only this one study uh
Speaker 1: missed the mark. So there, this was the thing that
Speaker 1: so it got with withdrawn, right, it got retracted. This
Speaker 1: study that said that hydroxychloro quinn was good for battling code.
Speaker 2: This is the one. They all were like, yes.
Speaker 1: Right, because it was not the one that was officially
Speaker 1: endorsed by the government, so it had that going for it.
Speaker 1: It was like, see the government's lying and I'm scared
Speaker 1: to die. Uh, so I need something that bridges that gap.
Speaker 1: And they found there was a study that was like, hey,
Speaker 1: this actually seems to work, Like this thing that people
Speaker 1: started talking about on the internet first seems to work.
Speaker 1: And uh three of the authors have since been like,
Speaker 1: could you take my name off that ship. The methodology
Speaker 1: like is really fucked up. It doesn't seem to wait,
Speaker 1: this is one of the authors of the study. Oh
Speaker 1: wait really yeah, you're the authors of the study have
Speaker 1: called you guys don't like it? Oh boy, well no
Speaker 1: longer wished to see their names associated with the article.
Speaker 1: So what do you think happened?
Speaker 3: Is like, do you think it's more like, oh, that
Speaker 3: was such an l take we had, like we aren't
Speaker 3: gonna work anymore, Like the grift is over. Like I
Speaker 3: wonder if they got what they did out of this,
Speaker 3: and now they're like, we don't want to be associated
Speaker 3: with this anymore, Like you know what I mean, to
Speaker 3: the point where they're they're they're they're dirty, they're sullied
Speaker 3: in the medical field for even penning this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering they've probably I feel like, just this is
Speaker 1: another case of the woke mind virus getting now. I
Speaker 1: think it's probably there was a lot of people, even
Speaker 1: in academia who like I remember there was a Stamford
Speaker 1: study in the early days of the pandemic that like,
Speaker 1: when we were all trying to figure out what the
Speaker 1: fuck was going on, it was like a Stamford epidemiologist
Speaker 1: and like basically libertarian like got together and we're like
Speaker 1: the government is making way too big a deal about this,
Speaker 1: Like this thing's gonna kill like twenty people tops, right, right,
Speaker 1: and like there was an appetite for that take. So, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how it came to be in
Speaker 1: the first place that there were actual respect like medical
Speaker 1: professionals who were willing to sign their name onto this.
Speaker 1: I think it's actually like kind of surprising in our
Speaker 1: country that there weren't more that, you know, like the
Speaker 1: way that like what we've learned about how information moves
Speaker 1: and how universities get funding and all that shit, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and then like the gravity of the truth just kind
Speaker 1: of eventually pulled them out of this delusion of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is actually like kind of a tight It was
Speaker 1: pretty sick actually, all right.
Speaker 2: You know those last couple of studies, they missed the mark.
Speaker 1: They might have missed them. They might have missed the
Speaker 1: mark a little bit. Kevin Spacey reference for these past
Speaker 1: two I'm trying to think, do you ever play a
Speaker 1: character named.
Speaker 2: He pay it forward?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Pay it forward? So they forward and study conspiracy.
Speaker 3: Well, Well we'll put a pen in that one, but
Speaker 3: definitely fragile house of cards.
Speaker 1: That whole study was built them. It was built on
Speaker 1: a fragile House of cards. And then the authors had
Speaker 1: to come back and say, let me be frank.
Speaker 3: Oh Jesus, is he gonna do those weird canceled there
Speaker 3: not anymore because like people like the time has lapsed
Speaker 3: in cancelation jail and Hollywood and they're like, Okay, it's
Speaker 3: just more of a penalty box facey comeback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: Boxes is actually sounds even worse using minute minor anyway,
Speaker 3: what else?
Speaker 1: What else? What else? Uh? The War on Christmas has
Speaker 1: been pretty quiet this year, Like wonder what has barely
Speaker 1: mentioned it? This has traditionally been their biggest like manufactured
Speaker 1: seasonal controversy, and last year, like it was mainly focused
Speaker 1: on target selling a gay nutcrack as they call the
Speaker 1: black Santa Claus in a wheelchair, But that's really it.
Speaker 1: It's like they're more focused on woke mind virus getting
Speaker 1: its hands all over. Yeah. Yeah, they want to shut
Speaker 1: the government down to you, and they also want to
Speaker 1: pokem on shutting the government down, just like Kevin Spacey
Speaker 1: and House of Cards. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: Okay, he cannot throw a baseball, I'll tell you that,
Speaker 3: but there's some weird scenes he's like throw like pitching
Speaker 3: to like blow a steam off.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm not talking about.
Speaker 3: Vin Space in House of Cards. Yeah, yeah, it's like
Speaker 3: it's weir. It looks it's it looks alien. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: looks like a guy who's like a like a thespian
Speaker 3: who's like, like I can mimic the motion of.
Speaker 1: Throwing a ball. Yeah, like an alien like k Pax.
Speaker 1: All right, according to.
Speaker 4: UH.
Speaker 1: According to a recent youga of poll, only twenty three
Speaker 1: percent of Americans believe there is a war on Christmas
Speaker 1: in the US, which is down from just a decade
Speaker 1: ago where that number was around fifty percent, which is wild.
Speaker 1: But now the thing that we're starting to see, it's
Speaker 1: moving in the opposite direction, where now we're seeing people
Speaker 1: uh start to take shots at the like standard Christmas
Speaker 1: traditions for being not Jesus enough.
Speaker 2: Oh that's gonna be a hard one to win, y'all.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but Myles, I would love for this to
Speaker 1: be the direction that they go. They just keep give
Speaker 1: them an inch and they're just like and you know,
Speaker 1: what else Santa is Satan?
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh huh oh that that's that Jack Black movie
Speaker 3: that's out, Dear Santa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you know you heard about this, folks.
Speaker 2: It's about who's writing a letter to Santa.
Speaker 3: But I think he's like slightly dyslexic, so he writes
Speaker 3: Dear Satan. So the letter that he puts in the
Speaker 3: magical mailbox ends up going to HG Double hockey Sticks
Speaker 3: and he summons fucking you know, Bill's.
Speaker 2: A bub him Wow. And they become friends.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like cute, cute Satan. Yeah, he like feels bad.
Speaker 2: He's like, oh shit, this kid thinks I'm fucking Santa.
Speaker 1: Wow. And it's played by Jack Black and Santa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is played by Jack Black. Wow. Yeah that's fun.
Speaker 1: I like it. That's a good premise. Is that out? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's out already.
Speaker 3: It's like there's like seven hundred of these weird celebrity
Speaker 3: facing Like there's a Ben Stiller one too, that's out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just look around, folks. There's Christmas shit everywhere.
Speaker 1: Christmas everywhere. But yeah, they're mad at the hypocrisy of
Speaker 1: people who quote pretend to be devoted Christians who care
Speaker 1: a lot about Christ's birth when they really don't.
Speaker 3: Oh no, y'all are in for a shock about a
Speaker 3: lot of the other things that is in the Bible
Speaker 3: that they don't care about.
Speaker 1: Like they they still are weird, Like that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Like the the Democrats seized on like they're weird, right,
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, yeah, they're weird. Democrats were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to point it out. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: mention it anymore. But like that, they still haven't really
Speaker 1: faced any consequences for how weird they are. So I
Speaker 1: feel like they're going to continue to progressively get weirder
Speaker 1: and weirder.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, to the point where it's like the least
Speaker 3: fun person ever is like making all their rules and everyone's.
Speaker 1: Like, dude, shut up, Yeah, yeah, exactly doing that. But
Speaker 1: the fuck we we Trump. We won.
Speaker 3: It's like yeah, yeah, but I'm still I still need
Speaker 3: to have my Santa Non Jesus Christmas.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what the fuck do you think this is?
Speaker 1: Anyways, Well, we'll keep an eye on it. But I
Speaker 1: would love to be on the side of Santa Claus
Speaker 1: and the War on Christmas man, Uh.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, you'd fight on Santa side.
Speaker 1: I'd fight on Santa side for the like non overtly
Speaker 1: Christian parts of the of the holiday celebrations, Santa and
Speaker 1: fucking you know, Santa fucking and people getting a little
Speaker 1: bit drunk. You know you all the time, from the food,
Speaker 1: the desserts, the sweets.
Speaker 3: The fact that you would fight on Santa side again
Speaker 3: demonstrates you were always against me because I will always
Speaker 3: fight on the side of Christ.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's well established on this show.
Speaker 1: Well established anything else. We want to leave the people with.
Speaker 3: No just a general thank you for your your continued
Speaker 3: support and you know, we were honored that.
Speaker 2: You continue to listen to the show. Post how much
Speaker 2: you listen to the show.
Speaker 3: We are so heartened by the fact that you would
Speaker 3: choose to listen to us talk nonsense time and now
Speaker 3: so much we rest our weary brains for just a
Speaker 3: few a bit of respite or respite depending on where
Speaker 3: you are in the world. And yeah, just I think
Speaker 3: we you know, Jack and I always grateful. Shout out
Speaker 3: to everybody that works on the show. Shout out Brian
Speaker 3: the Editor, shout out Justin, super produced Justice, super producers, Babe, Victor, Catherine, always.
Speaker 2: Watch over in Spirit.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, also Becca always watching over in Spirit.
Speaker 1: We see not they've moved on to other shows. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: But I mean like we're a lowly show and they
Speaker 3: work on like ones that get like people like Ariana
Speaker 3: Grande on and every time I ask arian for something,
Speaker 3: of police officer shows up at my house the next day.
Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, I hope everyone has a RESTful holiday.
Speaker 3: You get what you need out of it, you don't
Speaker 3: get what you don't want out of it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, have a great, great year. And thank you Myles.
Speaker 1: You're one of the great people to work with. I
Speaker 1: couldn't do this get get on Mike with anybody else.
Speaker 1: I don't think tis this week when I was six.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck that's about.
Speaker 1: Not this.
Speaker 3: You should have just canceled it. Not as off sick, no, no,
Speaker 3: and the same show. I've loved doing the show since
Speaker 3: day one. And you know what, Jack, it's like, it's
Speaker 3: like it's like the first day. It's like our first date.
Speaker 3: Every time every you know, yeah, where.
Speaker 1: Guys, No, guy's not gonna make it to days. Shit
Speaker 1: just sweat through an overcoat.
Speaker 2: I swear to god, he pulled a diaper out from
Speaker 2: his under.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you guy, Yeah, I do just to reiterate, like,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening, thank you guys for being such
Speaker 1: a great community, and like that consistently the thing we
Speaker 1: always hear from our guests, all of our guests. Returning
Speaker 1: guests are always like you guys actually have the best listeners.
Speaker 1: Like they come up to me at a show and
Speaker 1: aren't weird and are like really nice and like are
Speaker 1: you know, show great support, So we we really appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: We hope you have a great holiday. We will be
Speaker 1: dropping holiday episodes all over the place. I think we've
Speaker 1: got some really fun ones for you, So stay tuned
Speaker 1: to the feed, but have a great, RESTful holiday and
Speaker 1: we will see you in the new year with more
Speaker 1: regular episodes. Will talk to you all there. Bye bye
Speaker 1: bye h
Speaker 3: M hm.