Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of four
Speaker 1: Day Week Trends. Trending addition, I am Jack.
Speaker 2: That is Miles, that is this is.
Speaker 1: It is him mm hmmm uh yeah man, how is
Speaker 1: your your four days? Your four it was?
Speaker 2: It was jam packed. My mother in law was in town.
Speaker 3: We went all up and down the state to go
Speaker 3: visit people. I fucking fireworks were not every fucking night
Speaker 3: basically starting Thursday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all good. How about you?
Speaker 1: It's good, it's good. We're we're on the East coast.
Speaker 1: It's very steamy. There's like human steam, A little missed.
Speaker 1: My kids don't know how to make sense of. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been nice. You're not lying to them.
Speaker 2: It's like something spooky, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's ghosts. Yeah, ghosts, ghost sweat.
Speaker 2: You know it's hot because the ghosts starts sweating.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Should we kick it off? A little underrated? Over it?
Speaker 2: Take it off? Man? Come on, Vinnie Testa Verdi?
Speaker 1: Is he a kicker? No?
Speaker 2: I'm thinking what's the other ving Adam Vinitary? Adam Vinitary?
Speaker 3: Yeah, very Testa Verdi.
Speaker 1: Italians with them in their name will allow it.
Speaker 2: Vinitary.
Speaker 1: I feel like I do fireworks stuff every year, after
Speaker 1: the fourth of July, for what do you like? I
Speaker 1: come back complaining about the same thing, but from my
Speaker 1: underrated I'm gona switch out. I'm gonna go with how
Speaker 1: much of my time as a father of a five
Speaker 1: year old boy? Any apology I ever make any public apology,
Speaker 1: I will just inexplicably open it by saying, as a
Speaker 1: father of a five year old boy, I know, and
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's actually fourteen now.
Speaker 2: At one point I.
Speaker 1: Was, yeah, but just how much of my time is
Speaker 1: devoted to building legos? Rebuilding legos?
Speaker 3: I remember you said you were talking, You've completely fucked
Speaker 3: up a Lego thing.
Speaker 1: I destroyed a whole cluster miles.
Speaker 2: If you were like, should I call it? Is there
Speaker 2: a service I can call? What do I do?
Speaker 3: And?
Speaker 2: So weird?
Speaker 1: Long term doing it that thing together with him, and
Speaker 1: then when he wasn't around, I just like picked it
Speaker 1: up incorrectly. I think I must have missed a part.
Speaker 1: I think I like skipped a step or something and
Speaker 1: it just error shattered into one hundred pieces.
Speaker 2: Was the toy?
Speaker 1: It's the Hulkbuster. So it's a iron Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's cool. It's very cool. It's for an advanced age.
Speaker 1: You know, it's for like eight year old's eight plus,
Speaker 1: but my five year old like takes a lot of
Speaker 1: pride in being able to finish eight plus Legos. And
Speaker 1: so I'm in the doghouse man the dog house over here, brother.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just before I didn't, I didn't travel with it.
Speaker 1: But that's the other thing, is like, it's just it's
Speaker 1: a weird give me.
Speaker 3: Into your house, I'll go build it while you're away.
Speaker 1: It's a weird premise to like, because I didn't really
Speaker 1: fuck with Legos when I was a kid. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what was wrong with You're.
Speaker 2: So like nurse about them, you like building.
Speaker 1: Shit toy guns was like, oh wow, running around like
Speaker 1: Action figures, Key Man, Action Figures Oratis isn't built in there.
Speaker 1: It explains a lot, but yeah, just the idea of
Speaker 1: a toy. My toys like when you pick them up wrong,
Speaker 1: didn't break into a hundred different pieces.
Speaker 2: Well that's the thing with Legos, man, that they're not.
Speaker 3: I remember I loved Legos and I started playing with
Speaker 3: Legos because my older cousins were really good at Legos.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, you can't handle this ship.
Speaker 3: You were a baby, and I was like, fuck you,
Speaker 3: and I would start making them.
Speaker 2: But then I remember the first I had a Lego car,
Speaker 2: and you know, like when you're a kid.
Speaker 3: You start crashing ship into each other's had like one
Speaker 3: of the first forms of play you do with car toys.
Speaker 3: I smashed the fuck out of this, like not even
Speaker 3: the fuck out of it. I just was playing with
Speaker 3: it like it wasn't made of little blocks, and it
Speaker 3: exploded and I had a fucking melt down. And that's
Speaker 3: when my mom was like, these aren't fucking like rough
Speaker 3: house toys, and they're like the you just like build
Speaker 3: them ships and you you go lightly with them.
Speaker 2: And I slowly learned, but that's why.
Speaker 1: You're ready for a life of dealing with delicate glassware
Speaker 1: and ye like the things that boys naturally crystal stemware.
Speaker 3: Now I can playing songs on crystal stemwaer.
Speaker 1: So that's my underrated what she.
Speaker 3: Got underrated knowing how to time your pet's anxiety meds
Speaker 3: so they don't have a meltdown.
Speaker 1: With the finals.
Speaker 3: On the bottle, it says two hours before a potentially
Speaker 3: stressful event to give your pet this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Because my dog is super anxious, so when the fireworks
Speaker 3: go off, he will like he just starts like shaking
Speaker 3: and ship. So the first night given way too late,
Speaker 3: the second time game way too early, and then goldilocks
Speaker 3: it the last two nights of fireworks and yeah he's
Speaker 3: been fine.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I always joke to people.
Speaker 3: I'm like, fireworks season in LA is pretty similar, but
Speaker 3: truly like in my neighborhood. It starts on December thirty
Speaker 3: first and ends on December thirty first. Its motherfuckers have
Speaker 3: just any reason to just set shit off where I live,
Speaker 3: and I you know, I get it. I like it,
Speaker 3: but now like with a baby like it. It's funny
Speaker 3: how quickly I went from like, yeah, send that shit
Speaker 3: up to be like I got a fucking kid man,
Speaker 3: that's my whole I've done a one eight in that part.
Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, learning how to win the meds hit right.
Speaker 3: But shout out to the veterinarian who hooked it up nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a fireworks related overrated, which is
Speaker 1: fireworks displays. Like I feel like, oh so the first
Speaker 1: fifteen or so far works in a display and I'm
Speaker 1: speaking for myself because so I'm I prefer sporadically, like
Speaker 1: little impromptu displays from different people backyards, like you know,
Speaker 1: and please do it like right as the sun goes
Speaker 1: down so people aren't having to like wake up in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night or you know, like yeah
Speaker 1: over there, yeah, but yeah, I don't know, like the
Speaker 1: second you commit to doing a long display in one
Speaker 1: place where everyone's gathering, like those first fifteen really great,
Speaker 1: no notes on the first fifteen fireworks, and then it's
Speaker 1: just the same shit over and over again. I guess
Speaker 1: I think it's mainly for kids, right, and kids are
Speaker 1: on board a little bit more for a little bit longer, but.
Speaker 3: Fine display are we talking about like people like legit
Speaker 3: pyrotechnic show or somebody who just got a bunch of
Speaker 3: illegal fireworks.
Speaker 2: Like, hey, we're doing the display in my art.
Speaker 1: No like that, Like when there is is a fireworks show,
Speaker 1: like the towns putting on their fireworks show, you go down,
Speaker 1: you go to a place if or if you can
Speaker 1: see it from your place, great, and it just lasts.
Speaker 1: Like I happened to be watching CNN last night. They
Speaker 1: were showing New York's fireworks, which are I think some
Speaker 1: of the most famous, and like they they just like
Speaker 1: outlasted the song like they were playing the Frank Sinatra
Speaker 1: in New York, New York, and then the song ended
Speaker 1: and they were like, and wow, what a great Wait, Nope,
Speaker 1: they're still going. They went for like five minutes New
Speaker 1: York and then they were just it was it was
Speaker 1: aggressive and it lasted for like the finale just felt
Speaker 1: I don't know, it felt like it was designed to
Speaker 1: fuck with pets and and I don't know. It just
Speaker 1: feels like they need to either figure out some new
Speaker 1: types of fireworks or like three minutes, Like is anyone
Speaker 1: out there like three minutes way too short for a
Speaker 1: fireworks display? Otherwise I feel like we could get it
Speaker 1: done in three minutes. Like people I like are constantly
Speaker 1: complaining that movies are too long, but I have literally
Speaker 1: never seen fireworks that didn't seem like it was dragging
Speaker 1: ass a couple minutes.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, I it all depends, man, because unless you're
Speaker 3: seeing like a renowned fireworks display, it can get a
Speaker 3: little boring because like you only usually like you only
Speaker 3: got maybe like the three types of fireworks people, do
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: But I think for me personally, I would probably prefer
Speaker 3: if we had something more like in the movie cone
Speaker 3: Heads where Dan Ayroid is in charge of the fireworks
Speaker 3: display at the homecoming game and he has one bottle
Speaker 3: rocket but it sets off like a super nova in
Speaker 3: the sky and everyone's all fucked up from looking at
Speaker 3: it and it's just one explosion. I'm fine with that, Like,
Speaker 3: just give me something spectacular in one go, because I
Speaker 3: feel like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was that one town that accidentally set off
Speaker 1: all their fireworks at once perfect. It just didn't do
Speaker 1: the timing perfect.
Speaker 2: That's all you need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like shocking awe.
Speaker 2: There was one in a nearby town a half hour one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and no that's and I saw some of it
Speaker 3: and I'm like, yo, these are some low rent fireworks too,
Speaker 3: thirty like you're doing thirty minutes because you're doing quantity
Speaker 3: over quality. Yeah, and that's what happens. I'm pure quality.
Speaker 3: I can just you can give me one gigantic one,
Speaker 3: that's fine. Just do a mushroom cloud. Fine. Good.
Speaker 1: I want to I kind of want to interview for
Speaker 1: one of our expert episodes, like somebody who is like
Speaker 1: the firework display architect, who's like, you know, really in
Speaker 1: the orthodoxy of like no, no, no, no. Three minutes
Speaker 1: is simply too short.
Speaker 2: Why is that? He's like the human brain. It's like, wait,
Speaker 2: what myles.
Speaker 1: You're really telling a story with these fireworks, and in
Speaker 1: this case story it's.
Speaker 2: Us just freeing ourselves from the shackles of King George.
Speaker 1: Yes, by the way, I do like they're speaking of
Speaker 1: the oldest story. Starting a fire a campfire. I could
Speaker 1: watch that for an hour. Just watch it. Look at
Speaker 1: a fucking campfire. I think. I think this is just
Speaker 1: me being like I'm old. I'm old at all.
Speaker 3: Ship very homer companion over here. I'd love to see
Speaker 3: a fire get started.
Speaker 1: It's a dang thing.
Speaker 2: Wow, like that tinder wood? He got what you're.
Speaker 1: Burning over there? You asking to different a nearby fire? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh just just some wood? Okay, what are you going
Speaker 2: to start it? Some bird spark? Is that bird spark?
Speaker 2: Bird Spark's good? I hear to start a fire?
Speaker 1: Got oil it a little kindling.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So my overrated is making a quote unquote beach
Speaker 3: day work when the weather is not fucking conducive to
Speaker 3: having a quote unquote beach day. Yeah, I'm spoiled because
Speaker 3: I'm from Los Angeles. So when we go to the beach,
Speaker 3: we would be like, Yo, is it fucking hot, Let's
Speaker 3: go to the fucking beach that like it's going to
Speaker 3: be scorching, Let's just go frolic in the sea.
Speaker 2: Then I know.
Speaker 3: People who are just beach people all the time, like
Speaker 3: they just want to be at the beach whenever. And
Speaker 3: this weekend, some parts of the state, some parts of
Speaker 3: the California looked really hot, which sometimes I think a
Speaker 3: lot of people have this habit of just assuming that
Speaker 3: because it's hot, like in one part of La it
Speaker 3: means the beaches are going to be fucking swelled, you know, you.
Speaker 2: Go overcast as shit. Yeah, and the highest sixty five.
Speaker 1: It's a two part question. Is it hot where you are? Yes?
Speaker 1: Is it hot when you're standing directly next to the
Speaker 1: largest thing on earth, the Pacific Ocean, which is frigid
Speaker 1: at all times, it's freezing, it's.
Speaker 2: Unless you're in the like near the equator or something.
Speaker 3: But yeah, So I just I just it's just funny
Speaker 3: because I find out how much of a beach curmudgeon
Speaker 3: I can be, Like, I love I love going to
Speaker 3: places where it's great, great beach weather when it's cold,
Speaker 3: I'm like, shivering in the sand.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, totally, totally, and I just become like the
Speaker 3: life is drained out of me. But then like, after
Speaker 3: a while, you kind of have fun. But I still
Speaker 3: don't understand. Like when I see like little kids playing
Speaker 3: in that cold ass water, yeah, I think I like,
Speaker 3: I now realize how my mom like would always respond
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: Like, oh my god, what are you doing. You're gonna
Speaker 2: catch a cold type shit. But yeah, they I don't
Speaker 2: know what happened.
Speaker 3: I don't know where I lost that joy to be
Speaker 3: just in the shivering cold and that was fun.
Speaker 1: I think we're getting old man. Yeah, we got the
Speaker 1: beach curmudgeon over here and Mudget the campfire appreciator. We're
Speaker 1: the oldest humans on the earth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, old man make Joe Biden look like a zoomer.
Speaker 1: That's right. All right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk about some of the things
Speaker 1: that were trending over the long weekend. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and I do really believe I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys talked about this on Thursday, but it does seem
Speaker 1: like there is a real strategy of like dumping big
Speaker 1: news like right heading into a holiday weekend.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: But yeah, obviously the Supreme Court was really doing that
Speaker 1: shit at the end of last week. Some things that
Speaker 1: were trending over the weekend fourth of July be.
Speaker 3: Aria, Yeah at GOP on Twitter.
Speaker 2: It's so stupid.
Speaker 3: This really isn't that big of a deal, but I mean,
Speaker 3: it just indicates how far are we've fallen. At GOP
Speaker 3: tweeted forty seven years ago basically like our forefathers blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. It was like an independent state tweet, and
Speaker 3: they posted a graphic with two what they believed to
Speaker 3: be American flags. But what most people realized, who you know,
Speaker 3: have played Carmen San Diego or just into flags, are like,
Speaker 3: that's the Liberian flag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one star, that's.
Speaker 2: Literally one star. That's it's Liberia.
Speaker 3: And they just like quietly deleted it and then just
Speaker 3: posted a bunch of Americana horseshit, like just to kind
Speaker 3: of cleanse the timeline. But it's funny because all these
Speaker 3: users just kept coming back to like reply like screen
Speaker 3: caps of that first tweet, and they're like, y'all don't
Speaker 3: even know that is this you the people who don't
Speaker 3: know the flag.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to know, good to know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they came for the White House Pride flag on
Speaker 1: like flag flag code, browns flag. They were literally talking
Speaker 1: citing the US Flag code, which you know they clearly
Speaker 1: found out was a thing after rage googling it at
Speaker 1: three A. But there their complaint was that putting the
Speaker 1: Pride flag on the White House was in breach of
Speaker 1: flag code.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, uh huh what is that exactly? Because you
Speaker 3: guys are the people don't even know which flag.
Speaker 1: Is our American flag needs to be the highest flag
Speaker 1: on White House. Which first of all, they took a
Speaker 1: picture of just a small part of the White House
Speaker 1: and cut out the part where there was an American
Speaker 1: flag up higher than the like on the top of
Speaker 1: the White House. And second of all, is like not
Speaker 1: even an official thing. It's just bullshit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just they're they're not again, it's it's so funny.
Speaker 3: The conservatives always like if if society is like moving
Speaker 3: too far along for them, then they have to go
Speaker 3: back to find some weird rule.
Speaker 2: It's against the rules.
Speaker 3: But then but then you also contradicted constantly with your
Speaker 3: policies that like it's in the Constitution, but I will
Speaker 3: also violate other people's enumerated rights within the Constitution. So
Speaker 3: it's very tiring. I think it's just a nice cherry
Speaker 3: on top that, you know, with all this fucking hand
Speaker 3: ringing about the flag code, that the people who run
Speaker 3: their social media accounts don't even know what the fuck
Speaker 3: the flag is. I think some other congress people also
Speaker 3: did it too. This wasn't like, it's not an isolated incident.
Speaker 3: People pretty regularly, i think, post the Liberian flag thinking
Speaker 3: it's the American flag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just it's the like, uh PowerPoint presentation version of
Speaker 1: the American flag. Yeah. Well, I can't put fifty stars
Speaker 1: on this, bitch.
Speaker 2: Oh, this one's cool.
Speaker 3: It's like minimal, it's I got one star, one star
Speaker 3: review of America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, speaking of the White House and
Speaker 1: conservatives freaking up, we got a cocaine caper. So you know,
Speaker 1: we talked last week cocaine mania is transforming America into
Speaker 1: a kind of you know, strung out eighty stockbrokers. But
Speaker 1: a baggie of coke was found in the White House
Speaker 1: on the fourth of July weekend. Oh and there was
Speaker 1: a brief evacuation miles for sure.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got they saw white powder, and they they
Speaker 3: thought we were back in like the what was it?
Speaker 2: Was it Tom Dashel that got the white powder? Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's feels like a throwback.
Speaker 1: So they then tested the white powder, presumably in a
Speaker 1: bathroom stall on a Depeche Mode CD case and discovered
Speaker 1: therewars cocaine, And now the Secret Service is launching a
Speaker 1: full investigation, reviewing video footage, scouring entrance logs, which both
Speaker 1: seems like a complete waste of time and also I
Speaker 1: feel like we're not going to get unless it's just
Speaker 1: like some guy visiting the White House, like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not going to get the answers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I cool? Who left there? I'm like, I feel
Speaker 2: bad for the person who left their cocaine there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, ah shit, what fucking drop the baggie?
Speaker 2: Bro Where in the White House?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, how get it?
Speaker 1: Get back to the fucking white Did.
Speaker 2: You see this fucking on lockdown? Do the guy to
Speaker 2: fucking bomb suit. They probably gets anthrax or some ship.
Speaker 2: Well that's good.
Speaker 3: I at least they're being safe because you never know,
Speaker 3: like the police might randomly pass out near it if
Speaker 3: they get too close to the back.
Speaker 1: So I do feel like if Joe Biden accidentally like
Speaker 1: stepped on it and just like a little cocaine dust
Speaker 1: like accidentally got inhaled, it might kill him. Like he's
Speaker 1: yeah like Trump right, he like never drank or like
Speaker 1: did an any anything. So I feel like he did it.
Speaker 3: Why'd I vote for him? I know, dor you gotta
Speaker 3: do coke if I'm gonna vote for you. Joe, I'm
Speaker 3: sorry man that.
Speaker 1: You're like a drug dealer in a movie where you're
Speaker 1: like you got to prove to me. You know you're not.
Speaker 2: A cop, all right, you're under arrest, but you did Yeah,
Speaker 2: so what shit? I thought it was a law but yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it could be a big smoke bomb to
Speaker 3: distract from I don't know.
Speaker 1: The existing is my question. Because obviously the New York
Speaker 1: Post and the conservative media like it's onners, it's gotta
Speaker 1: be hunters, And on the one hand, my first instinct
Speaker 1: is like, well, can't be hunters because we found out
Speaker 1: about it, Like they would just cover that ship up,
Speaker 1: Like the New York Post created a whole map of
Speaker 1: the building, Like yeah, a game of clue like a
Speaker 1: topical map of.
Speaker 3: It's like one of those stories where it's a little
Speaker 3: thing that I'd imagine it's mostly conservative media that like
Speaker 3: is latching onto it, making it seem like a bigger
Speaker 3: story than it is because they can use cocaine Biden
Speaker 3: and then just like just wring that out for as
Speaker 3: much of little juice is left in that berry because like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, there was a there was like a
Speaker 3: huge event like there too, so I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: people in and out of there all the time.
Speaker 1: The choice smokers were playing the uh like some washed
Speaker 1: like DJ, but that does I don't know. There is
Speaker 1: a world to me that makes sense that like because
Speaker 1: why let it become a question? It's either smoke bomb
Speaker 1: to distract from something else or I think there is
Speaker 1: a world in which like they are tired of like
Speaker 1: when you look at like leaks from the Hunter Biden laptop,
Speaker 1: which is the only news I consume.
Speaker 2: Of course, well you just look at those two pict.
Speaker 1: Conservative uncle Sundsman.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're not really going through stuff, you just go
Speaker 3: back and forth to image files.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like there's a reason that this has to leak, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's.
Speaker 3: A pretty operation because the way I saw it over
Speaker 3: the weekend was there was like an APE alert because
Speaker 3: they had to calling a has Matt team, and that's
Speaker 3: why it became news because suddenly a haz mat team
Speaker 3: was called to the White House because the secrets. So
Speaker 3: at first I was like, oh, ship, like what you know?
Speaker 3: It was more like is it anthrax type energy?
Speaker 2: What the news was?
Speaker 3: And then it's like false alarm, guys, it's just one
Speaker 3: of the Secret Service agents coke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, an AP alert that went out that was like, hey,
Speaker 1: somebody left their coke, come.
Speaker 3: Get it, come get it, come get it, come get it,
Speaker 3: come get a hurry, hurry, hurry, before it's a news story.
Speaker 3: And then I think from there then it then you
Speaker 3: can have the words. It's like a mad libs cocaine
Speaker 3: Biden White House.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So my my theory was that like the Secret Service
Speaker 1: is like tired of being on the hunter Biden detail,
Speaker 1: and they're just like, all right, let's leak this. But
Speaker 1: that's it's just it was of quoting this. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: like even their own people, we are we do work
Speaker 1: for the Biden White House.
Speaker 2: That are their own knowledge.
Speaker 1: All right. Twitter had a tough weekend, those of us,
Speaker 1: who are you?
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't go on there, but I saw what happened.
Speaker 3: They're throttling how many fucking tweets you can see now? Yeah,
Speaker 3: like there's a limit unless you pay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unless you unless you're one of the blue checks.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, start limiting the number of posts you
Speaker 1: could see each day in six hundred, which a lot
Speaker 1: of tweets for me. But people were apparently reaching their
Speaker 1: limit and seeing a post that was like, you have
Speaker 1: reached the end of Twitter for the day, Go go outside.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they upped it.
Speaker 3: Unverified can do a thousand now, yeah, yeah, ten.
Speaker 2: Thousand if you are verified.
Speaker 1: I big one that is crazy to me is that
Speaker 1: like they so they're also limiting use of tweet Deck,
Speaker 1: which affects like super users.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: They're also like you can't see tweets and unless you're
Speaker 1: logged in, which so the main way you could bring
Speaker 1: new users to your site is removed.
Speaker 3: Don't need them, don't need them, Just need these assholes
Speaker 3: to start coughing up money and then it'll all be okay.
Speaker 2: That feels like their whole strategy.
Speaker 3: It's like, we just got to fucking squeeze these fuckers
Speaker 3: until they start paying us, And I don't know what
Speaker 3: that force will do if that pushes them to another place.
Speaker 1: But come on, yeah, you need people to be able
Speaker 1: to spend unlimited time on platform. If like he hired
Speaker 1: even though he's like, I don't want it to be
Speaker 1: AD supported as much as like the subscription supported that
Speaker 1: ship sailed. He hired a sales person, an AD salesperson
Speaker 1: as his CEO, And every one of these moves is
Speaker 1: just like disastrous for a business.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I feel like Linda Yakarino had like a
Speaker 3: really like stupid explanation for like why the site is
Speaker 3: as backwards as it is. Again, she speaks in such
Speaker 3: vague terms, I never know what the fuck she's saying.
Speaker 3: She said, when you have a mission like Twitter, you
Speaker 3: need to make big moves to keep strengthening the platform.
Speaker 3: This work is meaningful and ongoing.
Speaker 1: What move the fuck does that?
Speaker 2: You're you're you're.
Speaker 3: Lit whatever, just keep frustrating people on there. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's it's been the best way honestly for me to
Speaker 3: use the site.
Speaker 1: Lest yeah, that is it is helpful to people who
Speaker 1: are trying to have lives, but it's bad for them,
Speaker 1: it's got yet more AMMO for people who are somehow
Speaker 1: under the impression that Elon Musk doesn't know what the
Speaker 1: fuck he's doing. He claimed it was because bots are
Speaker 1: like scraping Twitter to feed like AI algorithms. For people
Speaker 1: knowledgeable about that, say, like that happens, but it's been
Speaker 1: a thing for a very long time and wouldn't have
Speaker 1: just like kicked up recently. And also he cut all
Speaker 1: these services as a one billion dollar bill to Google
Speaker 1: for a cloud hosting was due. So sorry, he just
Speaker 1: like doesn't have enough money.
Speaker 3: Like that, My man is canceling the free trial right
Speaker 3: at the last minute. Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Elon, we
Speaker 3: see you, you broke billionaire.
Speaker 1: Meta has an app that the mainstream media is going
Speaker 1: crazy about called Threads that's scheduled to drop on Thursday,
Speaker 1: I believe. Yeah, And it builds itself as like an
Speaker 1: Instagram app that is basically aimed at at Twitter users.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I don't Twitter is kind of
Speaker 1: defined by its lack of functionality, like it doesn't have
Speaker 1: the things that Facebook already has or like Instagram, so
Speaker 1: like they're just going to launch version of their most
Speaker 1: popular sites that just like has features removed. I guess,
Speaker 1: like the thing that makes you want to be on
Speaker 1: Twitter is the people who are already there and like
Speaker 1: the established culture, and you know that's that's being rapidly destroyed.
Speaker 1: But at least, like I have a list of people
Speaker 1: that I follow who are funny, and I can go
Speaker 1: there and be entertained by them, So I don't I.
Speaker 2: Just I don't know, maybe buy a ticket to their shows.
Speaker 1: Jack hmmm, maybe that sounds inefficient.
Speaker 3: Gets yeah, buy three thousand tickets of your favorite comedians.
Speaker 3: The thing with the Threads, though, that I was reading
Speaker 3: is that like it's not even coming out the EU
Speaker 3: because the privacy shit is like so fucked up.
Speaker 2: They're gonna they're gonna like take your blood.
Speaker 3: Type if you use threads based on like when you
Speaker 3: look at all the like the data that it's trying
Speaker 3: to get. I think it's a very clever thing because
Speaker 3: we all know how when Apple made it very difficult
Speaker 3: for like, you know, these apps to scrape other data
Speaker 3: like passively, you know how like you can opt out
Speaker 3: basically from sharing all that data that like fucked Facebook terribly,
Speaker 3: And maybe they're back with this being like, well maybe
Speaker 3: we can get some of that sweet sweet data from
Speaker 3: with our threads app to get people you know on
Speaker 3: our ship and then we can learn everything about them again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my gut is that it's not going to be
Speaker 1: replaced by because it's like so powered by people who
Speaker 1: are you know a small number of people who are
Speaker 1: really active and smart on on Twitter, and so I
Speaker 1: just feel like the solution is not going to be
Speaker 1: like and we all just discovered that Mark Zuckerberg created
Speaker 1: this cool thing that has no problems and is a
Speaker 1: safe place for everybody to go. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's not it. But the mainstream media I
Speaker 1: think is going to cover it as that. I mean, ye,
Speaker 1: every this fight was called off.
Speaker 2: Right, well every well, I don't know, it still seems
Speaker 2: like it's on.
Speaker 3: Actually oh really his news used to talk about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's training with George Saint Pierre.
Speaker 1: And shit, so I know who that is because I'm
Speaker 1: a he's a.
Speaker 3: Guy who looks like a discount Jean Claude van Dam
Speaker 3: and he was like a like a UFC fighter. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the thing that it's really wild, it is like I
Speaker 3: when I'm looking at all of this stuff, the data
Speaker 3: that it's scraping. It's truly like, oh yeah, it's surveillance capitalism.
Speaker 2: The app is what threads is.
Speaker 3: I mean, like pretty much all meta apps are because
Speaker 3: that's like their entire business.
Speaker 2: But again that's why it won't be launching in.
Speaker 3: The EU quite yet, because you know, they have like
Speaker 3: laws that are like, hey, don't send people sensitive data
Speaker 3: all around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's probably a good idea that I don't
Speaker 1: Actually it's not a practice I actually you know, engage in,
Speaker 1: but I probably should is just like check whether it's
Speaker 1: legal in the EU and then yeah, but then I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to drink mountain dew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have Skittles. Yeah, wasn't it Skittles the
Speaker 2: other one that has that die in it? Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: like certain candies too.
Speaker 1: But the thing that makes it shiny, I think is
Speaker 1: actually Polish.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be back with a couple more stories. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back, and the Wolkes finally killed Hollywood guys.
Speaker 1: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny made fun of
Speaker 1: capitalism in the trailer. There's like some line that was
Speaker 1: like he was like, you stole that from me, You
Speaker 1: stole that from me, And then Phoebe Weallerbridge was like,
Speaker 1: it's called capitalism, guys, and so I think everyone's mad.
Speaker 1: And that's why I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: It because it's an action movie that stars an eighty
Speaker 1: year old.
Speaker 2: Hey hey, hey man. Eighty year olds can also.
Speaker 3: Being action stars. Eighty year olds could kick their own ads.
Speaker 1: Also, he's like never been He's always had eighty year
Speaker 1: old vibes, Like when he throws a punch, he usually
Speaker 1: falls over like forward. He always seems off bounce. He
Speaker 1: always seems like he's on a ship that is in
Speaker 1: rough weather like whenever you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, He's like he's got like drunken master fighting style
Speaker 3: like in all Harrison Ford movies.
Speaker 2: He's never been someone who's thrown like a convincing punch.
Speaker 3: He's almost like, well, I guess I gotta hit you,
Speaker 3: like it's like fighting.
Speaker 1: I feel like he throws a punch and then his
Speaker 1: like suit jacket flies up over his head somehow. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have a picture of him and like
Speaker 3: his jacket has like come over his elbow, like he's
Speaker 3: in a hockey fight where someone pulled his jersey over
Speaker 3: his head.
Speaker 1: Yeah what am I thinking of?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think it's in Clear and Present Danger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Clear and to Air Force one are basically the
Speaker 1: same character, and it's like, you know, he's he's tough,
Speaker 1: but he works.
Speaker 3: I think in Clear and Present Danger it's the scene
Speaker 3: where their convoy gets ambushed in Columbia. Yeah, and like
Speaker 3: they gut to start getting like rocket blasted and ship.
Speaker 3: And I think there's this shot where he's running away
Speaker 3: from like a suburban.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I still remember that scene where the Secret
Speaker 1: Service guy goes, we're getting rocket blasted, sir.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, Jad, it's this way. It is this one.
Speaker 2: It's this explosion because his arms.
Speaker 3: This one, you know, because his jackets all love that.
Speaker 1: I get flying up behind him.
Speaker 3: And that's what I think Harrison Ford like totally in
Speaker 3: his in his most action packed he's like clumsily navigating
Speaker 3: his own.
Speaker 2: Suit chack kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, anyways, I mean he's one of our greatest
Speaker 1: movie stars currently, but that's currently flogging a mirror. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to ran that at all. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you need for something like this to really succeed.
Speaker 1: And it also like didn't totally tank. It made eighty
Speaker 1: two million dollars over its five days. But I think
Speaker 1: you really need the reviews to be like super fucking strong.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like a movie that people remember, like
Speaker 1: the first three are like two of the first three
Speaker 1: I guess are are classes and the fourth one like suck.
Speaker 1: So to get people back, I think they really needed
Speaker 1: this to be like really really strongly reviewed in the
Speaker 1: review which is more in the like fast and the
Speaker 1: furious range, And I don't think that was going to
Speaker 1: do it for them. I think they should have paid
Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes a little bit more to get get them
Speaker 1: up in the like eighties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, dude, just goose the numbers. Come on,
Speaker 2: they're goosed.
Speaker 3: I mean, the thing they gotta just do Like Barbie
Speaker 3: right now, Barbie is doing the thing that Indiana Jones
Speaker 3: should have been doing, which is I'm gonna see Barbie.
Speaker 1: I'm going to see it.
Speaker 2: There's so much.
Speaker 3: Marketing that also has me excited, like they're everywhere, to
Speaker 3: the point that I think there's a global movement.
Speaker 2: Happening to see Barbie.
Speaker 3: And with Indiana Jones, like it was like a whimper
Speaker 3: of like an announcement or any kind of hype, which
Speaker 3: they should because you're trying to you're trying to press
Speaker 3: that nostalgia button on the audience, which Barbie is doing
Speaker 3: very well. I think marketing wise that I feel like
Speaker 3: that because the way I when interacted with it was
Speaker 3: just hearing people be like, oh, yeah, you see it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, it's out there, like yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: pretty good. It's pretty good. It's not bad.
Speaker 3: That's kind of like what I heard, And then cut
Speaker 3: to me at the movie theater deciding which movie to
Speaker 3: go to.
Speaker 2: I chose no hard.
Speaker 1: Feelings because it was Jennifer Lawrence. You chose give me
Speaker 1: one ticket to Jennifer Lawrence. Please give me one ticket
Speaker 1: to the Jennifer Lawrence. Yeah too, Jennifer.
Speaker 2: Lawrence's It's fun. It's like, it's like a great It's
Speaker 2: like I can't get mad at it. It's short. That's
Speaker 2: what I like it. It felt it was predictable.
Speaker 3: Matthew Broderick is in it, and he and I'm like, WHOA,
Speaker 3: look at old ass Matthew Broderick, which is nice to
Speaker 3: see because I'm so used to seeing Cameron from Ferris
Speaker 3: Bueller's Day Off in the form of Connor Roy that
Speaker 3: it's nice to see Ferris Bueller himself now in his
Speaker 3: latter days.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 3: And yeah, Jennifer Lawrence, I'm not gonna front she's she's
Speaker 3: she has a she's good, good comedic chops.
Speaker 1: This feels like the most full embodiment of them, like
Speaker 1: matching her off screen persona to her like you usually
Speaker 1: like she was in serious roles for the most part, right, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like she had never gone full Jennifer Lawrence
Speaker 1: in a movie to this point.
Speaker 3: And so I, oh, yeah, it's like a scumbag type character. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she's kind of like a scumbag. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: it's yeah, I'm not again.
Speaker 2: And it's it's under two hours. Come on, y'all, come
Speaker 2: on baby.
Speaker 1: The problem with Destiny that you know people are mentioning
Speaker 1: when they're like it only made eighty two million, is
Speaker 1: that it cost two hundred and ninety five million dollars miles.
Speaker 1: That's is it?
Speaker 3: Because we're talking like Avatar type? Did they really remove
Speaker 3: his jowels for the whole movie? I heard it's just
Speaker 3: the first thirty minutes that he's jowlless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's actually had complete mail pattern bald for the
Speaker 1: past forty years and just everything he has appeared on. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like figured it out in post. That was a
Speaker 1: big part of the water World budget was Kevin Costner
Speaker 1: being like, my hair doesn't look good there because it's wet.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're gonna need to add a full head
Speaker 1: of hair back and.
Speaker 2: A lot of raid too, if you don't mind. I've
Speaker 2: always'd be cool to have a little braid.
Speaker 1: Oh if you don't think he actually got the braid,
Speaker 1: you're crazy. But some reports even think it may have
Speaker 1: actually cost more than three hundred million dollars, and that's
Speaker 1: without marketing costs, So this is like pure production budget.
Speaker 2: It's like, wait, so what was his feet? What was?
Speaker 1: I don't know? But that is the thing that they
Speaker 1: like that there is a financial benefit to being someone
Speaker 1: who's just terminally over everything. Seems like he's just like what,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, what fine if you if you
Speaker 1: pay me enough. But like the higher price tags reportedly
Speaker 1: due to Harrison Ford's salary, Steven's Bielberg's huge producing fee,
Speaker 1: and then the stop and start of production during COVID,
Speaker 1: which you know, yeah, I can't hate them for that.
Speaker 3: Wait, oh, so it's saying that it's an estimated twenty
Speaker 3: million for Harrison. That's more so Jennifer Lawrence made more
Speaker 3: money than he for she made twenty five doing no.
Speaker 2: Hard I mean rightly.
Speaker 3: So yeah, no, but I just love I just love
Speaker 3: that this movie goes way because that was the other
Speaker 3: problem with no hard feelings. I think we were talking
Speaker 3: about it because Jam was bringing up how the budget
Speaker 3: was also super high and no hard feelings, and even
Speaker 3: though it did semi well, it's hard to like recoup
Speaker 3: a lot of like the talent fees.
Speaker 1: I feel like nobody was buying a ticket for Dial
Speaker 1: of Destiny. And first of all, nobody was buying a
Speaker 1: ticket to Dial of Destiny and saying the words Dial
Speaker 1: of Destiny, which they had. Another thing, I would say,
Speaker 1: pay Rotten Tomatoes more to get the review up over
Speaker 1: like eighty ninety percent, and also like fire, whoever the
Speaker 1: fuck is coming up with these titles like Kingdom of
Speaker 1: the Christ Skull and Dial of Destiny such fucking clunkers. Man.
Speaker 1: But yeah, apparently it looks like shit like the CGI
Speaker 1: looks pretty bad that Jam went and saw it and said,
Speaker 1: which like there needs to be some sort of sea
Speaker 1: change with how Hollywood thinks about CGI, because it's been
Speaker 1: bad for a couple of years now, Like I post
Speaker 1: all all of the Avengers movies, they're just I think
Speaker 1: it might be that like effect houses unionize and start
Speaker 1: getting paid well, and like then you can actually stay
Speaker 1: in business because like, you know, you're in trouble when
Speaker 1: like the people who win the Academy Award are already
Speaker 1: like out of business for the Life of Pie, and
Speaker 1: like the people who brought Tupac back to life for
Speaker 1: that live hologram event, like they were out of business
Speaker 1: by the time that story hit. Like it's just a
Speaker 1: terrible It seems like I smell private equity.
Speaker 2: Which might got to take over the CG houses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, super producer Becca saw Indiana Jones and really had
Speaker 1: a good time. So you know it's for the Zeitgeist meter,
Speaker 1: the zeit meter our movie review rating. We have what
Speaker 1: we're one for one jam So the CG sucks, So mate,
Speaker 1: we have to get his official fresher run.
Speaker 3: See and if you want to talk of I'm sure
Speaker 3: there's like a lot of Nazi punching or see, you know,
Speaker 3: no hard feelings where if Jennifer Lawrence's character was a man,
Speaker 3: then like, this is the most fucked up movie I've
Speaker 3: ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: That kid, I guess that was the question by the trailer.
Speaker 2: Honestly, why is she on trial? Right now?
Speaker 3: I would watch it, my honor, I would argue whether
Speaker 3: or not what occurred can be called intercourse?
Speaker 1: Okay, that is.
Speaker 2: At all intrigue now I don't know.
Speaker 1: And then finally, some civil rights groups are challenging legacy
Speaker 1: admissions at HERT Harvard University. Uh, you know, in light
Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court shooting down affirmative action at Harvard
Speaker 1: and other schools. And I don't know. I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: start getting the infuriating like legal technicalities. But like the
Speaker 1: only explanation I've heard for like why not to do
Speaker 1: this is colleges being like, but it helps with donations,
Speaker 1: which is not really what situition for. Well, they have
Speaker 1: like endowments of billions and billions of dollars. They have
Speaker 1: endowments of like a fucking hedge fund. Uh. And also
Speaker 1: like just saying that out loud, like that's not a
Speaker 1: like argument you make in the public, Like you don't
Speaker 1: say we let the rich white people's children into our
Speaker 1: supposedly idealistic institution because they give us money.
Speaker 2: They give us money.
Speaker 1: Okay, never mind, we thought something like racist and unfair
Speaker 1: was happening here.
Speaker 3: It's the logical evolution of already a discriminatory practice. On
Speaker 3: when you're out, we were telling you know, it started
Speaker 3: in the twenties because it was a way to keep
Speaker 3: Jewish and minority students out of universities.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So then because they can't say that anymore because at
Speaker 3: first we've been like, well that's how we keep you know,
Speaker 3: you know who out of the class.
Speaker 2: That they're now like, well, it's good for money.
Speaker 1: That's the one they say out loud. Yeah, well because
Speaker 1: they bribe us, and we already have like a lot
Speaker 1: of money, but like, we really fucking like money.
Speaker 2: Those are ribes, So what are you saying to do.
Speaker 1: It's nothing else, it's just they bribe us. So don't
Speaker 1: think about the worst thing that it could be. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't, like, I don't have any
Speaker 1: legal expertise. I don't know how this thing like winds
Speaker 1: its way through the courts, but it does seem like
Speaker 1: pretty bulletproof.
Speaker 3: To me at this point, and again, you know this
Speaker 3: study after study shows diversity in your classes is and
Speaker 3: like really make the difference in a lot of people's
Speaker 3: lives than going to like a one note, monotone school
Speaker 3: where everyone you know, fucking check booked their way into
Speaker 3: the class.
Speaker 1: We just learn how to be friends jaded rich kids
Speaker 1: like yeah, that's yeah, that's your skill that you're going
Speaker 1: to get to learn in the future here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or yeah exactly, or like yeah, we we can.
Speaker 3: I don't know whatever, it's it's there's nothing. There's nothing
Speaker 3: that suggests doing it helps fucking anybody except to, you know,
Speaker 3: create less diversity into college classes and campuses.
Speaker 1: Learn what rich kids who went to prep school called
Speaker 1: cocaine at Harvard. Yeah cool, all right, you'll fit in
Speaker 1: at all the parties on Hampton's And yeah.
Speaker 2: Where's your family's boat docked?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 2: What flag do you fly on your yacht? Oh? Not
Speaker 2: a Panamanian one? Okay, Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1: That's truly, like they give us money.
Speaker 2: It is so bad.
Speaker 1: It's so bad, and it's so just it's blatantly that
Speaker 1: like the rich get favorable treatment, like it's yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just been an it's been an open secret like
Speaker 1: in universities or not even it's just an open thing
Speaker 1: that they like didn't even think to make a seen.
Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, we're talking about how flagrant
Speaker 2: it was, people.
Speaker 3: Like, hey, make some fake ass regatta fucking pictures of
Speaker 3: you on a row boat so we can get you
Speaker 3: into college.
Speaker 2: You don't have to shit, Like, yeah, it's there's.
Speaker 3: Clearly so many we talk about this all the time.
Speaker 3: There's so many different versions of reality based on what
Speaker 3: your income is or your family's income or wealth is.
Speaker 3: And one version is you can be passive all the
Speaker 3: way into college and your money can get you there.
Speaker 3: Another version is you have to toil even in high
Speaker 3: school to like get to get your shit together to
Speaker 3: even be able to have some semblance of money to
Speaker 3: afford college. And right now we're debating whether or not
Speaker 3: we turn off their back door money spigot.
Speaker 1: Okay, Bret Kavanaugh, like you know, I'm sure you guys
Speaker 1: talked about this admission and he got into Yale because
Speaker 1: he claims he busted his tail.
Speaker 2: He busted his tail. Okay, he's sperm.
Speaker 1: He is just the crystallization of like what if a
Speaker 1: gym teacher was a Supreme Court justice like everything, Like
Speaker 1: in seeing him interviewed during that Supreme Court, like his
Speaker 1: hearing or whatever it was, his confirmation, Yeah, confirmation hearing,
Speaker 1: like he is just gym teacher and like high school football,
Speaker 1: yeah energy, like he stopped developing when he thought his
Speaker 1: high school football coach was cool.
Speaker 3: He was on JV basketball his senior year and he
Speaker 3: never left town. Yeah, busted his tail and he never
Speaker 3: left and that pain now carries him all the way
Speaker 3: to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think I'm on something. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I'm on. I'm on my bike twenty four
Speaker 1: hours a day. Think against armstrong energy. All right, those
Speaker 1: are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: July fifth. We are back tomorrow with a whole last
Speaker 1: episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white the premises, and we will talk to you
Speaker 1: all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,