Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Tucker
Speaker 1: Carl's trend Out Don lem Trend also out you Gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta keep it even one for them, one for us.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the day of blood letting of famous news
Speaker 1: anchors is upon us. I am Jack and I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined by super producer Becca Rubber.
Speaker 2: Hello, mondays, Happy Monday.
Speaker 3: On mems are going down one by one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Tucker, I mean, we'll dig more into what
Speaker 1: we think happened, what could have happened, just do a
Speaker 1: little dance on his tiny little grave. But the Don
Speaker 1: Lemon news broke since we recorded tomorrow's episode, so we
Speaker 1: wanted to jump in the trends. And again this one
Speaker 1: seems like I don't know, I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: like a social contagion of like they saw that Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson got fired without anyone telling him, and they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: we can do that, because yeah, Don Lemon was like
Speaker 1: hosting his show, he'd been with CNN for seventeen years,
Speaker 1: posted his show this morning, got off the air, and
Speaker 1: they were like, and that'll do. That's gonna be your
Speaker 1: last one. The days of them letting people give tearful, prolonged.
Speaker 1: You know, goodbyes are gone. Tucker Carlson signed off on
Speaker 1: Friday saying I'll see you on Monday, and he was wrong.
Speaker 1: Y his ass got canned. Don Lemon got fired because
Speaker 1: he had been they'd been kind of pushing him to
Speaker 1: the back burner ever since they came under new ownership,
Speaker 1: and the new ownership was like, CNN's too woke. So
Speaker 1: Don Lemon posted on Twitter, I am stunned. After seventeen
Speaker 1: years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in
Speaker 1: management would have had the decency to tell me directly.
Speaker 1: At no time was I ever given any indication that
Speaker 1: I would not be able to continue to do the
Speaker 1: work that I've loved this network CNN and came through
Speaker 1: him was like, we actually offered you an opportunity to
Speaker 1: meet with management, but instead you released a statement on Twitter.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, he's not firing someone with like your underling.
Speaker 1: And then be like, and you can meet with my
Speaker 1: boss if you want to.
Speaker 2: That's not the same thing as having an actual meeting
Speaker 2: before getting fired.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, But anyways, I don't give a shit about
Speaker 1: really either. I guess I give a shit about the
Speaker 1: Tucker crossing story. I'm glad. I'm glad to see him gone.
Speaker 1: CNN seems like it's going to shit. But with dun Lemon,
Speaker 1: I fully expect him to pop up on MSNBC or
Speaker 1: you know, one of the many other news networks for
Speaker 1: people who are like center moderate pro corporation news anchors,
Speaker 1: because that is most of the media in the United States.
Speaker 1: It will be more interesting to see, like what Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson does from here because Newsmax and onn are also
Speaker 1: facing big lawsuits to potentially pose an existential threat. You
Speaker 1: hate to see it beca don't you We hate to
Speaker 1: see it. There's a couple videos of very destructive things
Speaker 1: happening on the internet. One one of our listeners shared
Speaker 1: with Miles and I on Twitter Infinite content hashtag get
Speaker 1: vaccinated send us this clip and it is just a
Speaker 1: new home in Utah that oh I saw that just
Speaker 1: fell off, like the top top of the house just
Speaker 1: fell backwards off the back of the house. Very cool, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I would not want to be inside that
Speaker 1: house or a person who just paid I guess they're
Speaker 1: saying over a million dollars for these homes because they
Speaker 1: are prime real estate overlooking a canyon, so somebody forgot
Speaker 1: to tell the builder.
Speaker 3: Canyon.
Speaker 1: I am glad that this is something that can happen
Speaker 1: because it looked super cool. And yeah, shout out to
Speaker 1: whoever caught the video. Another thing that looked kind of
Speaker 1: cool Moleficent the dragon at disney World or Disneyland. One
Speaker 1: of the Disney's caught fire. There's great video footage of
Speaker 1: the dragon. It's like one of those fares or live shows.
Speaker 1: It's nighttime. This animatronic fire breathing dragon caught a little
Speaker 1: bit of its own breath. Never good.
Speaker 3: We can catch a little bit of a Chasmic show,
Speaker 3: which is a very iconic show, isn't you go?
Speaker 1: Yes, I wasn't familiar with it.
Speaker 2: It's like one of their live shows that you like
Speaker 2: pay extra tickets for or whatever. But it's like on
Speaker 2: the water, so it's like based on like you know,
Speaker 2: the Disney Fantasmic whatever. It's like a big excursion if
Speaker 2: you go to like pay the extra tickets to go
Speaker 2: see it. But it's like happens on like you're like
Speaker 2: sitting around like a stadium seat and there's like a
Speaker 2: water pit and then they do it in the water.
Speaker 1: So well, it's a good thing because this shit went
Speaker 1: up in flames, and there's really good footage of like
Speaker 1: the automated attention due to unforeseen circumstances, we're discontinuing the
Speaker 1: Fantasmic Show at this time, and like as the person
Speaker 1: is giving this sort of unbothered nothing to see here, folks,
Speaker 1: all good statement, Like it goes from like being visibly
Speaker 1: on fire to the head of the dragon like exploding
Speaker 1: in flames and everyone being like, oh, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's great to see Disney making people realize that anything
Speaker 1: can happen in this world. Shout out to Disney, And.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm looking at these images of like old
Speaker 2: because I actually I have like a silly little photo
Speaker 2: of me seeing the Fantasmic Show the first so I
Speaker 2: ever went to Disney World h with my parents. But
Speaker 2: I'm looking at what the show's supposed to look like,
Speaker 2: and I can see how that can end pretty horrifically.
Speaker 1: And this is not it. Yeah, and then just a
Speaker 1: trend that we've seen in a couple places is the
Speaker 1: police being the connect when you need you need guns,
Speaker 1: when you need meth, when you need ammo. We talked
Speaker 1: last week about how the gun that was used in
Speaker 1: the Louisville mass shooting. I believe they had to like
Speaker 1: sell it right away back to the public because the
Speaker 1: gun lobby has made it so that you can't keep
Speaker 1: guns behind closed doors. Well, the police aren't just helping
Speaker 1: that way. Sometimes they're doing charity. For instance, just giving
Speaker 1: away one hundred and sixty thousand rounds of AMMO. Gave
Speaker 1: it away to a thief. I guess it was stolen technically,
Speaker 1: but the Columbus police are still on the hunt for
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty thousand rounds of ambers.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: And then also a California drug dealer escaped with sixty
Speaker 1: pounds of sheriff's myth, which is a thing you know,
Speaker 1: the sheriff sees his meth, that becomes sheriff's myth and
Speaker 1: if you gave your hands on the sheriff never know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like got away with sixty pounds of meth that belonged
Speaker 1: to the Riverside County Sheriff's office.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely insane, and I do feel like, I mean,
Speaker 2: this isn't a new phenomenon. We allude to it all
Speaker 2: the time in our media because it is probably very true. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, if you watch anything like between Narcos or
Speaker 2: even Snowfall. My partner and I've been watching that, or
Speaker 2: you know, there's a really good documentary I think it's
Speaker 2: literally called like Cracked or something on Netflix that talks
Speaker 2: about like the planting of cocaine and you know black
Speaker 2: neighborhoods in the seventies and eighties and the reason that
Speaker 2: you know there was such a crack epidemic, Like the
Speaker 2: police have always been at the root of a lot
Speaker 2: of these issues harming our communities when it comes to
Speaker 2: drugs and violence.
Speaker 3: So I like that. There's a little jingle for it.
Speaker 3: Police are the plug.
Speaker 1: But police are the plug.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, you know, it's nothing new.
Speaker 1: But also a sie like to bury because all cops
Speaker 1: are incompetent.
Speaker 3: We know that.
Speaker 2: And I even think during twenty twenty, I don't remember
Speaker 2: if we covered this because it was before I was
Speaker 2: on the show, but there was a conspiracy.
Speaker 3: Theory going around in New York, like during.
Speaker 2: Peak pandemic, that the police were planting fireworks in black
Speaker 2: and brown neighborhood specifically because there was a summer like
Speaker 2: July June twenty twenty where like we could not stop
Speaker 2: hearing fireworks, like it was just like yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 2: was absolutely insane. And it became this conspiracy theory that
Speaker 2: like police were trying to drive our communities mad and
Speaker 2: like not let us sleep so that we would be
Speaker 2: like more irritables, that there could be more crime and
Speaker 2: like all these things. And I definitely saw that on
Speaker 2: a personal basis living in Crowd Heights at the time,
Speaker 2: Like I was living in a very kind of dangerous
Speaker 2: part of Crown Heights, a very loud part of Crown Heights,
Speaker 2: and the fireworks were just like non stop, and I
Speaker 2: was irritable. A lot of people were irritable. It was
Speaker 2: so crazy. So I don't know, it's just garbage. And
Speaker 2: we saw police cars like dropping off fireworks like at
Speaker 2: the quarters and thinks like that, So I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, they're just trying to keep things fun, you know,
Speaker 1: just like Disney trying to trying to keep it a festival. Yeah. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: a San Jose police union executive got charged attempting to
Speaker 1: import fentanyl, which the cops are always asking us to
Speaker 1: feel sorry for them about. They looked at fentanyl and
Speaker 1: had to be revived from narcan. But apparently they're part
Speaker 1: of the problem. And I know that's going to come
Speaker 1: as a surprise to everyone who listens to this show.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and then you're
Speaker 1: going to tell me about what's trending on TikTok. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back, and we're back, and what's the latest
Speaker 1: trend on TikTok?
Speaker 2: Back, We've got a new Wes Anderson trend on TikTok
Speaker 2: so lately. This is an interesting one to me that
Speaker 2: I saw it popping up because probably back when TikTok started,
Speaker 2: there were a few creatives that their whole thing was
Speaker 2: making their content really aesthetically like Wes Anderson. And that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean like their daily content, Like they were kind
Speaker 2: of storytelling in a way that Wes Anderson would like,
Speaker 2: kind of scripting and writing, and like you could tell
Speaker 2: they were really putting like art into it.
Speaker 3: So I don't want to include them in this. But
Speaker 3: now there's a trend.
Speaker 2: With TikTok where people are kind of romanticizing their own
Speaker 2: lives and turning it into a wes Anderson film. It
Speaker 2: reminds me a lot of the inserm account. Accidentally, Wes Anderson,
Speaker 2: which has its own coffee table book now that you
Speaker 2: can buy for forty dollars at the fucking Strand bookstore
Speaker 2: I saw in New York here recently. But yeah, people
Speaker 2: are basically just taking their iPhones, you know, being like
Speaker 2: turn landscape. You know they'll be on TikTok, but they'll
Speaker 2: still making landscape, taking wide shots, highly saturated.
Speaker 3: I think it's cute. It's fun though.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, a nice, silly little way to
Speaker 2: romanticize your life while you're traveling. But yeah, people, to me,
Speaker 2: it also kind of says like a how maybe uncreative.
Speaker 2: Wes Anderson is a little bit that like between the
Speaker 2: accially West Anderson account WHI has been around for years,
Speaker 2: I think since like twenty sixteen that account existed.
Speaker 3: To this, it's kind of like, okay, white man.
Speaker 2: I guess a lot of people could be very saturated, artistic,
Speaker 2: wide shot, colorful.
Speaker 1: Okay, whitest man. He may be the whitest man. We
Speaker 1: were talking about Wes Anderson before we start recording because
Speaker 1: of this trend, and it was a trend. You remember
Speaker 1: there being YouTube videos where it was like if Wes
Speaker 1: Anderson directed die Hard or uh yeah, slasher movie or whatever.
Speaker 1: But his movies are so hit or missed for me,
Speaker 1: and I don't have a central like the ones that
Speaker 1: other people really like that I don't connect with at all.
Speaker 1: There's no central reason, Like nothing makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: It's just like his movies are very polarizing, but like
Speaker 1: each one has like fifty percent of people really like
Speaker 1: it and fifty percent of people don't fuck with it
Speaker 1: at all, and it will change from movie to movie.
Speaker 1: It reminds me. I remember there was this early story
Speaker 1: about Netflix when everyone's like Netflix has data and an
Speaker 1: awgal rhythm, where they were like, the one movie we
Speaker 1: can't figure out is Napoleon Dynamite. That movie, Yeah, half
Speaker 1: the people love it, half the people hate it, and
Speaker 1: like it doesn't correspond to anything else in their film taste.
Speaker 1: And I feel like Wes Anderson is similar, but like
Speaker 1: even within his own ouvre, like some of his movies
Speaker 1: really hit, like I don't like Life Aquatic, but I
Speaker 1: love like shark movies and underwater movies, but like that movie,
Speaker 1: I don't fuck with at all. I thought for a
Speaker 1: long time it was because I only liked the ones
Speaker 1: that oh Wilson wrote with him, because it was like
Speaker 1: Rushmore and Royal Ten and Bombs and Bottle Rocket, and
Speaker 1: then I didn't like the next like three, but then
Speaker 1: I did like the Hotel One. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I love what you keep saying. It's the Hotel one,
Speaker 3: It's the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's the best one, the Hotel one. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just the Island one.
Speaker 3: But I do like the Grand Bodopest Hotel. I do
Speaker 3: agree with you.
Speaker 2: I really I feel like I came into Wes Anderson
Speaker 2: via the Royal Ten of Moms.
Speaker 3: That was like my entry, and I liked the Fantastic
Speaker 3: Mister Fox.
Speaker 2: I did not like Life Aquatic, but I also don't
Speaker 2: really fuck with aquatic movies. Moonrice Kingdom we were talking
Speaker 2: off air. That one was kind of like in my
Speaker 2: peak high school, Like if you were a hipster, you
Speaker 2: loved Wes Anderson, you loved Moon Right's Kingdom. It came
Speaker 2: out when I was in high school. Yeah, I did
Speaker 2: like that one. I was like, whatever about it. I
Speaker 2: really wanted to like The French Dispatch because I have
Speaker 2: really grown to love Sar Sharonin and Timothy Childmay together,
Speaker 2: but I felt like it felt flat.
Speaker 1: That was the one that really threw me for a
Speaker 1: little because it was like, Okay, the hotel one, he
Speaker 1: seems like he has a back, and then I don't
Speaker 1: really see the animated one. I think I saw the
Speaker 1: fantastic mister Fox, but it didn't like really make much
Speaker 1: of an impact, and so I was like, maybe he's
Speaker 1: good again. And then I saw the French discussion. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is my least favorite one he's done?
Speaker 3: Yea, is I think my least fair one he's done?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So I don't fucking know. Man, it's confusing. But
Speaker 1: he's like, what if we took the whiteness of like
Speaker 1: the prep esthetic and just like ramped it up to
Speaker 1: like ten x what the normal J Crew model is rocking?
Speaker 1: And what if the entire world was Cape cod.
Speaker 2: Literally But it's so funny because like he's iconically from Texas,
Speaker 2: Like if you are a hipster from Texas, people cannot
Speaker 2: let go Sanderson like growing up in Texas trying to
Speaker 2: figure out like I was like I need to escape here,
Speaker 2: Like I want to go to New York. I want
Speaker 2: to like leave Texas. And then I ended up going
Speaker 2: to a private Baptist college, question Mark. But I knew
Speaker 2: a lot of people in high school that were like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be teat I'm gonna be a filmmaker
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna be like Wes Anderson, and they were
Speaker 2: just like gobbing at Wes Anderson.
Speaker 3: They were like our God, Wes Anderson, Like are you God?
Speaker 2: So I'm sick of him personally, I think it's really
Speaker 2: funny that his mom's name is Texas and that he's
Speaker 2: from Houston.
Speaker 1: And also we found out during our conversation, I think
Speaker 1: Brian pointed out or you pointed out, that his brother is.
Speaker 3: A yeah, is a children's children's book right, and.
Speaker 1: That is like what he I've always been like, Oh,
Speaker 1: he just wants to be a children's book author and
Speaker 1: illustrator and like, yeah, brought that aesthetic, Like that seems
Speaker 1: to be his entire aesthetic, and like he'll have children's
Speaker 1: books all throughout his movies and that's not like a
Speaker 1: thing that bothers me. I think it's like a cool
Speaker 1: aesthetic to like have chosen to crib from. But it's
Speaker 1: a yeah, it's funny. Like the two things I know
Speaker 1: about his family are also that he's from Texas, his
Speaker 1: mom's name is Texas, and that his brother is a
Speaker 1: children's book author and illustrator. Oh all right, Megan Trainer,
Speaker 1: I guess said fuck teachers on a podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so on her podcast which is working on it,
Speaker 2: which I think is funny that she can't take the
Speaker 2: criticism in a podcast where I guess, like the whole
Speaker 2: thing is like we're learning things, we're working on it.
Speaker 2: She had already questionable Tricia Paidos, who is a very
Speaker 2: controversial figure I think in mass media to this date.
Speaker 3: But they were talking.
Speaker 2: About like parenthood and you know, I guess raising kids
Speaker 2: in this like dynamic right now with like school shootings
Speaker 2: and things like that. But I don't understand how she
Speaker 2: could have come up with saying, yeah, fuck teachers in
Speaker 2: the context of dealing with like mass like school shootings,
Speaker 2: like it's the teacher's fault. I think we've as a
Speaker 2: mass media, as people who've been reporting on the news
Speaker 2: for many years now, like it's been I feel like
Speaker 2: canonically understood, like this is not the teacher's fault and
Speaker 2: of anything, there have been many teachers who have died
Speaker 2: at the hands of these shooters, protecting their students at
Speaker 2: the cost of their own lives. So it was just
Speaker 2: like very obviously tone def as a woman who is
Speaker 2: under the age of thirty, who is very rich, very privileged, Like,
Speaker 2: no need, did she ever need to say fuck teachers?
Speaker 2: It came from a very uneducated place, So I just
Speaker 2: think it was silly. She's in a silly goofy mood,
Speaker 2: and she's trying to apologize and say her words, like
Speaker 2: I realize that they have consequences, but like doesn't want
Speaker 2: to take accountability for those consequences.
Speaker 1: There is like a vast fuck teacher's wellspring of like
Speaker 1: anger in America that doesn't make any sense, but it's
Speaker 1: just purely the product of anti socialism propaganda for you know, decades,
Speaker 1: decades and decades of like public schools are too close
Speaker 1: to socialism for people, so they just blame teachers for everything.
Speaker 1: These damn teachers. Unions are the problem with schools, and
Speaker 1: it's like you barely pay them enough to feed themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like the unions also don't fight enough for them.
Speaker 2: My mom was even telling me recently that there was
Speaker 2: like this incentive for teachers to get like a COVID
Speaker 2: bonus or something, and they couldn't get the bonus until
Speaker 2: after they signed on to be in the following school. Year,
Speaker 2: so like they had to come back in August to
Speaker 2: get the bonus that was supposed to be given in December,
Speaker 2: which is like so fucked. So for like eight months
Speaker 2: they like don't get the bonus, and then the bonus
Speaker 2: was only going to be six hundred dollars wow. And
Speaker 2: she was like, well, I'd rather just like forgo the
Speaker 2: bonus if I get to quit.
Speaker 3: And they were like it was.
Speaker 2: Like this this whole like the mental math, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is what the union fought for us, and it's
Speaker 2: just the unions aren't helping. I have a lot of
Speaker 2: heart for teachers. I have teachers in my family. I
Speaker 2: have friends that are teachers. They're the most underpaid folks.
Speaker 2: But Megan's apology apparently she did initiate an official apology
Speaker 2: on TikTok. She said, I love teachers. I fight for teachers,
Speaker 2: which you don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 3: They have a.
Speaker 1: Hard, weird statement then for someone and for them.
Speaker 2: She was blaming her pregnancy brain, which I don't think
Speaker 2: is fair, like like, yes, you are pregnant, Yes you
Speaker 2: have hormones. Yes, I don't want to ever say like
Speaker 2: being pregnant is an incredibly difficult experience, but you can't
Speaker 2: say like that's how you feel. You said fuck teachers,
Speaker 2: like that has nothing to do with your hormones. But
Speaker 2: she said, I love teachers. I fight for teachers. I
Speaker 2: think they have the hardest job and they're the most underpaid.
Speaker 2: They are the most underpret shaded when they literally raise
Speaker 2: all of us. I don't want to make excuses. I'm
Speaker 2: just so sorry, and then she added I'm so sorry to.
Speaker 1: Any teachers, teachers.
Speaker 3: I may feel bad.
Speaker 2: I will remind myself that my words definitely have a consequence.
Speaker 2: I will be more careful. I'm sorry so careless with
Speaker 2: my words. I love teachers. I'm here for you. Let's
Speaker 2: work to make schools a better place together. I'm like
Speaker 2: you said a lot of nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, it sounded like that was to stream
Speaker 1: of consciousness, which is, you know, it's not as bad
Speaker 1: as the carefully worded non apology where you like find
Speaker 1: every way to address your behavior without actually apologizing for it,
Speaker 1: but it's it's definitely a new look where it's just
Speaker 1: like you sound like you're leaving a voice message for
Speaker 1: somebody that you forgot you had called and like just
Speaker 1: didn't hang it up. And you're like, way, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Sorry? Uh yeah, I'm just uh just
Speaker 1: calling to a check in. What was I gonna anyways? Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably bad. It just seemed like very much perfunctory and
Speaker 1: trying to come up with something. So as always such
Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the daily, Like, guys, where
Speaker 1: can people find you? Follow you?
Speaker 2: You can find me and follow me at bax b
Speaker 2: e CCS, ramos on all platforms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is gonna do it for us this afternoon.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with a whole less episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you tomorrow. Bye bye,