Speaker 1: This one mom this weekend. Like I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I grew up like fishing a lot. She was like,
Speaker 1: what really? Man did not disappointed? Nobody knows things like
Speaker 1: that about. No, just like shocked that I had any
Speaker 1: like sort of outdoors experience right right right, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: huh you I thought. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I just thought you were like you hung out inside
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Just like a shut in, Like yeah, fishing you you, huh,
Speaker 1: with a with a rod.
Speaker 2: And and fishing line and the hook with to catch
Speaker 2: a fish out.
Speaker 1: Of I had a ex girlfriend once be like, somebody
Speaker 1: told me they thought they saw you throwing the football
Speaker 1: on the quad at school, and I thought that was
Speaker 1: so hilarious and like just like burst into laughter. And
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what that you would Dane to
Speaker 1: be athletic? Like that was Jack?
Speaker 2: Yeah, throwing a football out there, just throwing the football around.
Speaker 1: Like and just like bursting into laughter. I was like, huh, okay,
Speaker 1: how tight of a spider was it?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 1: A yeah? No, couldn't have been. Maybe that was he
Speaker 1: throwing around some block bucks, some floppy ducks. That might
Speaker 1: have been him. Maybe he was like doing a bit
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did the did the ball look like Leonardo DiCaprio
Speaker 2: coming out of that Lamborghini and Wolf Football Street?
Speaker 1: Was it like that?
Speaker 2: Because if that's what it looked like coming out of
Speaker 2: his hand, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that I could have been him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trind
Speaker 3: edition of Like.
Speaker 1: Guys, whoa My boys just did something there. I got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a cold, Miles not ashamed to
Speaker 1: say it. I got a little bit, and I woke
Speaker 1: up with the little something in my throat and uh.
Speaker 1: I love when podcasters come on. They're like, God, you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear me. I sound so crazy right now. You're like,
Speaker 1: you don't sound any different from how you normally, although
Speaker 1: you don't you never catch that.
Speaker 2: Like with shows you listen to a lot, I can
Speaker 2: be like, they're a little congestion, not fully like I
Speaker 2: can hear that there are a few clicks off.
Speaker 1: I can say I listened to all my podcasts at
Speaker 1: three point five speed, so three point five x the
Speaker 1: normal speed, so it's a little harder to pick up.
Speaker 2: What's the fastest you can listen to a podcast? I
Speaker 2: can do like about one point eight.
Speaker 1: I don't really I've stopped really listening to podcasts for information,
Speaker 1: So I don't really do like sped up podcasts.
Speaker 2: Can I just roll your eyes when they try and
Speaker 2: teach you something?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. At this point, I'm more just listening
Speaker 1: to the podcasts for the vibes and then reading for
Speaker 1: the information.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do them all fast. Even when
Speaker 2: I watch like reality TV, I'm watching it at like
Speaker 2: one point seven X. Really I have like a I
Speaker 2: have a plug in on my brother because.
Speaker 1: They're so much hot.
Speaker 2: There's so much expository nonsense, like I might get to
Speaker 2: the trash, like I don't need these, like the garbage,
Speaker 2: give me the garbage. No, master, Well, my name's Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 2: That over there is Miles Gray.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast where we tell you what was
Speaker 1: trending over the weekend. Usually we have regular episodes where
Speaker 1: we tell you what was trending. Uh, I don't know
Speaker 1: that I'm talking to new listeners.
Speaker 2: I guess just Bailey got it and we got normal.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, Welcome, I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. Yeah, this is a little more
Speaker 1: what happened over the weekend. Because we haven't we haven't
Speaker 1: been in touch with you for a few days now,
Speaker 1: it's been way too long. Guys, we missed you. Yes,
Speaker 1: But before we get into the stories that are trending,
Speaker 1: we do like to let you get to know us
Speaker 1: a little bit better by telling you some things we
Speaker 1: think is underrated overrated Miles, what is something that you
Speaker 1: think is underrated?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: God, so many things.
Speaker 2: After this wild weekend I had first up, just random,
Speaker 2: I got like a lot of short ones, Seltzer flavors, underrated.
Speaker 2: They're getting better, They're getting better. It used to be
Speaker 2: like lemon you want, you want grapefruit?
Speaker 1: Do you like soap? No? Damn man. I still remember
Speaker 1: when I got that pomple moose for the first time.
Speaker 1: There was something so classy, something so class But now
Speaker 1: now they're getting me.
Speaker 2: Like I know that a lot of like millennials are
Speaker 2: driving like the no alcohol trend, like with no alcohol
Speaker 2: beer and things like that, but also are becoming larger
Speaker 2: consumers just generally.
Speaker 1: Like non alcohol, like just seltzer juice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're going after us because these flavors, they're like,
Speaker 2: they touched me in a way, and I mean emotionally.
Speaker 2: I don't know how why I was trying to phrase
Speaker 2: it like that. They appealed to me in a way
Speaker 2: that I have not like had since like the nineties
Speaker 2: being a child. There's one called strawberry Sunset is like
Speaker 2: this might be sweet soda, it's seltzer. So I'm already
Speaker 2: in a little bit better because no sugar, strawberry, Kiwi pineapple,
Speaker 2: this is just great, right up? Flava apple flavors, yeah,
Speaker 2: which is it's basically like the good ones to me
Speaker 2: are basically soda without the high fructose corn syrup in it, right,
Speaker 2: but the flavors are so vivid, like you're you know,
Speaker 2: your tongue's doing knots. So shout out those Seltzer flavors.
Speaker 2: Another underrated thing. Again, this happens all the time, you know.
Speaker 2: Hurricane Helene happened, you know, and there's I think the
Speaker 2: death toll is somewhere near like one hundred, probably expected
Speaker 2: to be more as they reach people in remote areas.
Speaker 2: But the news coverage again barely any talk of climate
Speaker 2: change as like the why to all of this, right,
Speaker 2: and it's it's like so unnerving, not that it has
Speaker 2: to be like around the clock, but for how little
Speaker 2: acknowledgment there is to all of that, and like like
Speaker 2: really but also trying to connect people to like the
Speaker 2: pain and the ka and loss that people are experiencing
Speaker 2: on being like in one of these disaster areas, without
Speaker 2: trying to connect the dots as to how we can
Speaker 2: do better or prevent this, it just feels very dystopian
Speaker 2: and just another underrated part of again, how you know,
Speaker 2: it's what we choose to talk about or not talk
Speaker 2: about that has a huge impact. There were hurricanes before
Speaker 2: Miles exactly exactly, and then just generally underrated talking to strangers.
Speaker 2: I went on a camping trip with a lot of
Speaker 2: friends and we brought our kids. It was really fun,
Speaker 2: and there was this dude who had like a fucking
Speaker 2: gigantic telescope at like one of the campsite, like one
Speaker 2: of the nearby sites, and we're all like, Yo, she's
Speaker 2: that guy's fucking telescope.
Speaker 1: Dude, that shit looks probably looks so sick without the light. Bool,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what's he fucking seeing?
Speaker 2: And then it was like, why don't we just go
Speaker 2: fucking talk to the guy like no.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, yeah, I'm like no, I don't know. He
Speaker 1: sounds dangerous, man.
Speaker 2: But then we're like a guy with a telescope probably
Speaker 2: wants that shit is out there for someone to be like, hey,
Speaker 2: you want to look at and Drameda, you know. So
Speaker 2: that's and like the funniest part was this guy actually
Speaker 2: ended up.
Speaker 1: Knowing someone we were with.
Speaker 2: Wow, like randomly they used to work together like eight
Speaker 2: years ago, and they're like, yo, is that you and
Speaker 2: completely in the darkness, We're like, oh my god, and
Speaker 2: we all had a great time.
Speaker 1: We got to look in his telescope. It was looked
Speaker 1: at Saturn.
Speaker 2: That shit, like just looking at Saturn casually on a
Speaker 2: camping trip on a telescope is I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is. It was so exciting and stimulating in a
Speaker 2: way that I just you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 2: it's just I can't put my finger on it. Being
Speaker 2: in the city all the time you just become so
Speaker 2: jaded and with the you know, just the light pollution,
Speaker 2: you can barely see stars. But to really see them
Speaker 2: for this city kid, was a wonderful experience. So shout
Speaker 2: out to Omar with the telescope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that does feel like dead fishing, Like fishing for dead.
Speaker 1: You just like set up a big telescope and you're
Speaker 1: like what and watch them flock. It's like that Sands
Speaker 1: in a hy fit where he's like, I'm gonna peat
Speaker 1: this song on and watch him all come up and
Speaker 1: buy some records. Yeah. Brian pointed out, Saturn really looks
Speaker 1: like Saturn fully, yeah, sad and blows your mind. Yes,
Speaker 1: It's like, if I had to like draw Saturn, I
Speaker 1: would draw it exactly as it looks like when you
Speaker 1: finally see it in a telescope. Oh yeah, And I.
Speaker 2: Think it's the most fun of all the planets. It's
Speaker 2: the most fun looking one. The rings, yeah, man, miss
Speaker 2: and I get Jupiter is also fantastic and all that,
Speaker 2: but like just just the fact that it has rings,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yep, yep, yep, that's pretty cool. That's then
Speaker 2: he was like, hey, man, come back around three, we'll
Speaker 2: be able to see Jupiter. Oh and I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be up at three in the morning,
Speaker 2: but thank you. And then when I saw him the
Speaker 2: next morning, I was like, did you catch it.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, fell asleep, man. I was like, oh, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: so we did. Almost if you had shut up at
Speaker 1: three knock knock, He's like, oh shit, I haven't ascended
Speaker 1: to the like black Belt level of dadding, where you
Speaker 1: like wake up in the middle of the night to
Speaker 1: like see a meteor shower. I just I don't have
Speaker 1: that in me. I still need my sleep so much.
Speaker 1: You will, all right, my underrated I also have a couple.
Speaker 1: Just because you had a couple, I just frantically added one.
Speaker 1: And also because I just got a text from it's
Speaker 1: a it's a competition. I just got a text from
Speaker 1: my in laws. We were having an issue with one
Speaker 1: of our tires, where like I took it to the
Speaker 1: gas station added air and it just like didn't it
Speaker 1: wouldn't take more air. Essentially.
Speaker 2: Oh, every time like the pressure gauge came out, it's.
Speaker 1: Like it was just like, man, this is what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't expect to go up. Yes, yes, it was
Speaker 1: very emasculating. It was just anyways. Uh, they just took
Speaker 1: it in down the street and had a massive nail
Speaker 1: removed from our tire, which is the second one like
Speaker 1: in the past six months. And I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: our motherfucker's just out here throwing nails like it's Mario
Speaker 1: Kart weapons, Like, what is happening? Why are there so
Speaker 1: many giant nails? On the street at a tire, drove.
Speaker 2: Over a screw and like not even like eight days later,
Speaker 2: drove over another screw on the same tire.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey, when I was younger, I wasn't doing this shit
Speaker 2: all the time. I don't know what happened, but it
Speaker 2: feels like now it's the summer.
Speaker 1: Of the nail or screw the Yeah, I blame Mario
Speaker 1: Kart personally. Yeah. And then my other one is, so
Speaker 1: I just read this book called The Premonitions Bureau, which
Speaker 1: is about this actual group, like this doctor in the
Speaker 1: late sixties who discovered that like after this big massive
Speaker 1: mining disaster, like a coal mine was like piling all
Speaker 1: their coal waste on top of like a big hill
Speaker 1: that was overlooking town, which was not a good idea,
Speaker 1: it turns out, and it just turned it like liquefied
Speaker 1: and turned into a wave and like killed hundreds of people,
Speaker 1: like took out a whole schoolhouse of children. Horrifying story.
Speaker 1: And like all these people had these like premonitions in
Speaker 1: and around the town and around England, like right before it,
Speaker 1: people had like wild dreams where these horrifying things were happening.
Speaker 1: And so he started this thing called the Premonitions Bureau
Speaker 1: where people would like send in their premonitions and then
Speaker 1: they would like check them against fact and they basically
Speaker 1: like didn't find that many hits. But there was this
Speaker 1: one woman who like just kept nailing things over and over.
Speaker 1: She got like a train derailment, she got an air crash,
Speaker 1: like multiple airplane crashes, and she like really nailed rfk's assassination,
Speaker 1: like she was like in the yes rf case. She
Speaker 1: was like, Wow, I feel like this man's going to
Speaker 1: get assassinated, like and she just she was like reaching
Speaker 1: out to people like trying to get them to listen
Speaker 1: to her. I don't believe that there's like a magical
Speaker 1: thing that is like going into her brain. I think
Speaker 1: what is happening, Like my thesis after reading this is
Speaker 1: because like one of the details that is different about
Speaker 1: these premonitions from like what you see in movies is
Speaker 1: that like they get a lot of the details wrong.
Speaker 1: Like they'll be like it's a gray plane on its
Speaker 1: side and it'll be like a blue plane, you know,
Speaker 1: like or but they just like have a sense that
Speaker 1: something's happening. I just think that like what's happening is
Speaker 1: they have better access to their unconscious mind and like
Speaker 1: are able to into it when something is going to happen.
Speaker 1: And like with the coal waste disaster, like a lot
Speaker 1: of the people in the we're having these premonitions. I
Speaker 1: think probably because it was like at some level kind
Speaker 1: of obvious that something bad was eventually going to happen
Speaker 1: if you keep piling this shit like right above the town.
Speaker 2: Right, I feel like just naturally you're like, nah, that
Speaker 2: doesn't feel good. If that feels like the bad thing
Speaker 2: that would happen is all that coal waste would come
Speaker 2: down and wipe us out. But anyway, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's a premonition yea logic.
Speaker 1: And then like in your day to day life, like
Speaker 1: your conscious mind is like being told this narrative that
Speaker 1: every it's like, well everybody else is just acting like
Speaker 1: it's no big deal. So you know, your unconscious mind
Speaker 1: or your conscious mind like kind of shut it out.
Speaker 1: But then people who have this access to you know,
Speaker 1: it's like when you hear a novelist or a songwriter
Speaker 1: like talk about how their work is like dictated to
Speaker 1: them by some higher being or like some voice that
Speaker 1: is like completely outside of them, Right. I think it's
Speaker 1: that basically, and it's just the conscious mind is like
Speaker 1: this incredibly vast thing that can be really intuitive and
Speaker 1: impressive at like predicting things. But yeah, I don't believe
Speaker 1: that like they are getting like a flash of something
Speaker 1: that's actually going to happen like through the ether of time.
Speaker 1: I think it's just that they're wildly intuitive. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: vibe it's vibes based, is my theory on this.
Speaker 2: Because you think about like all the research about how
Speaker 2: little we are able to sort of use our full
Speaker 2: brain capacity for things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that unknown.
Speaker 2: Makes me a little bit more open to this idea
Speaker 2: that like there are things that we are actually perceiving
Speaker 2: with our brain that for whatever reason, we haven't evolved
Speaker 2: to the point to fully like process and analyze all
Speaker 2: this information. So yeah, I could feel shout out to
Speaker 2: the vibers out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to the vibers. Keep us safe please. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the you only use like eleven percent of your brain.
Speaker 1: I've heard that be debunked as like, well, that's just
Speaker 1: like at a time because they're like different specialized parts
Speaker 1: of your brain. But it's definitely true that we are
Speaker 1: only like our conscious mind is just a very small
Speaker 1: like spotlight on what is actually all the processes that
Speaker 1: are happening. And yeah, there's a really good book on
Speaker 1: it called Incognito by David Eagleman. I've talked about before
Speaker 1: on the show What is Miles? Something you think is overrated? Overrated?
Speaker 2: Just because I was camping over the weekend, A normal
Speaker 2: vacation trip, I think is overrated because there's something about
Speaker 2: a trip that takes you into like out of your
Speaker 2: day to day or your comfort zone that has a
Speaker 2: lot of benefits to it that I was really not
Speaker 2: like counting on, just like the amount of because you're
Speaker 2: out in nature. Immediately, like everyone's phones were like everyone
Speaker 2: like lost their phone because they weren't using them, and
Speaker 2: everyone's like, oh shit, my phone was like over here
Speaker 2: on this random picnic table, like and I just didn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't thinking about it at all, even though we
Speaker 2: had service up there just wasn't a thing that we
Speaker 2: were interested at all.
Speaker 1: And just the amount of.
Speaker 2: Like talking, communicating, being with our kids and like showing
Speaker 2: them stuff. It's just a much different experience than like
Speaker 2: if you go somewhere and like think chill out somewhere
Speaker 2: like on of you know, whatever whatever.
Speaker 1: Normal takeing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly, And I think just being out
Speaker 2: of there just like was stimulating in this way that
Speaker 2: was like really really beneficial that I'm still kind of
Speaker 2: like I'm living off of that like nature high that
Speaker 2: you get just from from communing with the outdoors. So
Speaker 2: I just think, like when we think about what we
Speaker 2: get out of a trip, like with your family a lot,
Speaker 2: I think the setting is really massively important because hey,
Speaker 2: it's like so cheap to go camping and like be
Speaker 2: outdoors if like you have the equipment for it. And
Speaker 2: in this way, like you're just we're forced to do
Speaker 2: something completely differ from with our time that I think
Speaker 2: ends up being like more personal, more intimate, more just fulfilling.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the normal stuff a little bit overrated now
Speaker 2: that I'm like and now I got her, majesty, she's
Speaker 2: fucking with camping because before she was pretty I get
Speaker 2: like the little angst around it because you have like
Speaker 2: a baby and like you know, it's like there's no
Speaker 2: running water, we have to bring a lot of this
Speaker 2: stuff ourselves.
Speaker 1: But it was also like really good.
Speaker 2: For like our relationships, like one of those things you know,
Speaker 2: like just from the challenge of it and overcoming it.
Speaker 1: You have just a much deeper connection. So yeah, shout
Speaker 1: out that.
Speaker 2: Shut out the the unorthodox form of relaxing, because being
Speaker 2: in nature and doing it all yourself, I think is
Speaker 2: relaxing in.
Speaker 1: A very different way. So yeah, that's my counterpoint. My
Speaker 1: overrated insects are fucking annoying. You were just caping for
Speaker 1: my underrated last week insects. My overrated this week also
Speaker 1: insects specifically. Yeah, man, we got we got lit up
Speaker 1: by a mosquito in my house. Like I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's like one jaws like mosquito that's just like
Speaker 1: coming for us. But my son is absolutely covered in
Speaker 1: like mosquito bites. I hear them in my ear when
Speaker 1: I'm like about to drift off to sleep, which yeah,
Speaker 1: Like why have an annoying voice? You're just gonna suck
Speaker 1: on my blood when I pass out anyways, Like why,
Speaker 1: what possible reason does that serve evolution?
Speaker 2: Well, you're bullying a mosquito, I do. Why is your
Speaker 2: voice like why is your voice sound like ship? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just the worst? Did it work? Did the bullying work? No,
Speaker 1: it's it's truly not worked. We're being terrorized. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we went on a camping trip last year and there
Speaker 1: were all these flies that like just hover around your mouth,
Speaker 1: eyes and nose that were Yeah, just.
Speaker 2: The orifices are the coolest part for a bug. But
Speaker 2: I like, I just land inside your ear.
Speaker 1: It's like the door of a club. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: gonna die again. I have to question your judgment. But
Speaker 1: you're gonna die if you go in there in my mouth.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat your ass. Okay, you're gonna you to
Speaker 1: eat it. You would just spit it out. Nah, all right,
Speaker 1: got to teach them lesson at least chew it up
Speaker 1: a little bit and spit it out. So is the
Speaker 1: other ones? No, yeah, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: Also just overrating the safety of the clean versions of songs.
Speaker 1: H My six year old asked me to Shazama song
Speaker 1: when we were in a coffee shop this weekend, and
Speaker 1: it was a song I thought was called neck on Yacht,
Speaker 1: so I added it. I found that there was a
Speaker 1: clean version, no no E next to it, added it
Speaker 1: to the playlist, and then when we got to the car,
Speaker 1: I started playing it and it's all about getting neck
Speaker 1: on a yacht. Just opens Yeah, I'm getting neck on
Speaker 1: a yacht, that's the first words. So and inevitably, yeah,
Speaker 1: well what is that? What does that mean? I also
Speaker 1: fucked up and let my other son watch Transformers and
Speaker 1: now it's his favorite movie and he's walking around like
Speaker 1: making Transformer noises and like talking about US military vehicles. Wow.
Speaker 1: I thought it, like, I thought I'd take anything but
Speaker 1: Star Wars at this point. But it turns out that
Speaker 1: was that was not a smart decision, Like Star Wars
Speaker 1: way better than Transformers, oh boy, because it's like basically
Speaker 1: like military propaganda.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, At least with Star Wars it was like whimsical,
Speaker 2: you know, I know, you learn about the military industrial
Speaker 2: complex and what went into.
Speaker 1: Building that death Star and to remove Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me about Apache attack helicopters exactly.
Speaker 1: Fuck he was. He was like, oh, Chinook attack helicopter. Damn,
Speaker 1: that's cool, like under his breath, like not even saying
Speaker 1: it in a bragging way. But yeah, so my one
Speaker 1: son's at school right now talking about attack helicopters and
Speaker 1: his brothers at school talking about getting neck on a
Speaker 1: yacht killing and you.
Speaker 2: Don't let him embarrass himself. But Chinnook is not an
Speaker 2: attack helicopter. Okay, oh okay, my bad for lifting.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, if you heard me say that, he
Speaker 1: would be so mortified.
Speaker 2: Let me come over, be like, hey man, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I let show you some stuff your dad don't want
Speaker 2: to talk to you, you know about vertical takeoff. No,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be this'd be real cool.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back. And speaking of good dads, we've got
Speaker 1: a GOP candidate named Derek Anderson who posted foot on
Speaker 1: his YouTube channel of him posing with his family. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's wife and three dogs, wife, three daughters. Except
Speaker 1: it's not his family. It's a family, specifically a friend's family.
Speaker 1: He's engaged, has no kids, does have a dog, though,
Speaker 1: which I feel like that makes him what the GOP
Speaker 1: official platform fucking hates.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you're wait, hold on, you're a childless, pet owner,
Speaker 2: fucking loser. Oh my god, out with you?
Speaker 1: Out with you? No stake in the future, Yeah, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: This is it's just so funny too that it's it's
Speaker 2: so blatantly meant to be like, and this is this
Speaker 2: man with his family and the way the campaign is
Speaker 2: trying to fucking pivot around it to just be like,
Speaker 2: this is merely they said, it depicts Anderson quote posing
Speaker 2: with female supporters and their kids.
Speaker 1: Is straight up a family picture, Like they're in front
Speaker 1: of a house, where the implication is it is in
Speaker 1: the house. Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, who amongst us
Speaker 1: has imposed for a family photo with a friend's spouse
Speaker 1: and the children while the spouse is mysteriously absent the
Speaker 1: husband is missing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like where's the where's your best Why wouldn't
Speaker 2: he be in the photo too?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean if you're trying to be like, these are
Speaker 2: my constituents, and you'd be like, and look at this
Speaker 2: fine nuclear family that I'm posing with.
Speaker 1: Ah, I'm very normal.
Speaker 2: But when you think again, this guy is running for
Speaker 2: Congress as a Republican, he's got bad like this is
Speaker 2: this feels like one of those things where when you
Speaker 2: look at his whole platform, you're like, oh, you're trying
Speaker 2: to soften your image up because you're an ex Green
Speaker 2: Beret who thinks, you know, people with a uterus have
Speaker 2: no right to decide what happens with their body, So
Speaker 2: what's the next best thing to be?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: And I too hang out with uteruses, and here they
Speaker 2: are iris them.
Speaker 1: Check out my collection of you to I when your
Speaker 1: weird opinions on women can't be laundered as being pro
Speaker 1: family values, like this is what you have to do. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: in this case, his strategy for sending that message would,
Speaker 1: in any other circumstances imply that he was going to
Speaker 1: straight up Dicky Greenleaf, you know, murder his friend and
Speaker 1: take over his life in account of mister Ripley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 2: So this is this was like a debate like recently
Speaker 2: where he was just asked, very straightforward, mister family Pictures guy,
Speaker 2: what's your take on, you know, the women of Virginia
Speaker 2: having the right to make decisions about their own bodies.
Speaker 4: I want to piggyback because we still have a little time,
Speaker 4: so I want to make sure we're absolutely clear.
Speaker 1: Do you support a woman's right to choose?
Speaker 3: Yes or no?
Speaker 4: I support the states to be able to make those
Speaker 4: decisions at best fits.
Speaker 1: So something. Do you support a woman's right to choose?
Speaker 4: Look, I answered the question twice now, I've said it
Speaker 4: twice now, and I've said that each state is going
Speaker 4: to have to make determination.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's the kind of dad. I'd also
Speaker 1: learn to dad. Yeah, Dad, kent, Dad?
Speaker 2: Can can I have this thing for dinner?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I think, but that someone else should decide that.
Speaker 1: Therefore, it's look.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to say no, so I'm gonna
Speaker 2: just toss it up to some other weird obscure concept.
Speaker 1: Kermit ass voice on that guy too. Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: a kermit ass voice. Not what I was expecting from
Speaker 1: a Green Beret. Probably not. They're probably not his voice
Speaker 1: out there. Here's a free here's a free tip tip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, free tip to the people running the campaign against him,
Speaker 2: just like I get the heinous political views he has.
Speaker 2: Just start bullying him with that kermit ass voice, like
Speaker 2: Derick Anderson has a kermit ass voice.
Speaker 4: Well, I believe one day that the women should be
Speaker 4: able to decide.
Speaker 1: What this man says. He was a Green Beret. That
Speaker 1: ain't no green Beret voice I ever heard? It's green?
Speaker 1: Is it? Kermit bitch?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to green beret?
Speaker 2: Was that part of the fucking Muppet military? My man?
Speaker 4: Okay, here I am on another mission, waiting to arm
Speaker 4: poor people in the name.
Speaker 1: Of American imperial anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kermit ass voice, Yeah, Wow's voice?
Speaker 1: All right? Speaking of American imperialism. Let's get into Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's weekend and Israel's strategy of escalate to de escalate, right,
Speaker 1: which seems cool and probably hard for me to follow.
Speaker 2: The logic of that, Yeah, is that like a get
Speaker 2: up to get down kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Gotta gotta get up to get down? I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they are massing at the border ready to invade.
Speaker 1: It's truly no end in sight, Like it's unclear where
Speaker 1: any of the war crimes and just unilateral attacks will end.
Speaker 1: Their current policy claims to be do more violence to
Speaker 1: create a more peaceful future. But yeah, there's a good
Speaker 1: jack of an article about just this idea of escalate
Speaker 1: to de escalate, where the piece that they envision seems
Speaker 1: to be like the total capturing capitulation of the people
Speaker 1: they are fighting. And we've seen what they do to
Speaker 1: people who are under their control, Like, right, they create
Speaker 1: an apart that state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with like just the logic too of like you know,
Speaker 2: we want to make sure that the displaced people are
Speaker 2: able to return. That's why it's really important for us
Speaker 2: to have like these incursions into Lebanon. Yeah, and like
Speaker 2: you said, there's like tanks amassing at the order. A
Speaker 2: lot of people are wondering what the endgame is because
Speaker 2: you know, over the weekend, uh, they they killed like
Speaker 2: the leader of Hesbeola, Hassan Nozraala, in like a like
Speaker 2: a strike that like flattened six buildings. Again used I
Speaker 2: thinks they the reporting says, using US produced bunker busting
Speaker 2: bombs with hundreds of innocent people killed.
Speaker 1: It's including women and children.
Speaker 2: It's just like a really, it's just replaying over and
Speaker 2: over and now we're seeing the same thing where it's like, well,
Speaker 2: now Israel thinking about very limited ground incursion or mission
Speaker 2: but very limited, very limited, very limited in scale, and
Speaker 2: knowing how that turns into something much wider and much
Speaker 2: more disastrous. But yeah, like I think the Biden administration
Speaker 2: was like it seemed like a just action to take
Speaker 2: out the head of Hesbola.
Speaker 1: But then they also.
Speaker 2: Say, but we're also concerned of something spiraling out into
Speaker 2: something wider. You said that about Gaza, and then the
Speaker 2: just then they started getting way more aggressive in the
Speaker 2: West Bank, and then now we're talking about Lebanon. So
Speaker 2: with all this stuff of like, well, the expansion, we
Speaker 2: don't really want it to spiral out of control is
Speaker 2: just it's all rhetoric.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's a very spiraling I don't know
Speaker 1: what you want, but it does appear to be that
Speaker 1: spiraling like the one which was tumbling end It actually
Speaker 1: is more like that. It's tumbling end over. And the
Speaker 1: policy of using harsh words while still giving them all
Speaker 1: the weapons they want doesn't seem to be working. I
Speaker 1: was reading a New Yorker article on the Uncommitted movement
Speaker 1: and they pointed out, like, so a lot of people
Speaker 1: are comparing this moment in this election to nineteen sixty eight,
Speaker 1: because you know, that was the election when the Democratic
Speaker 1: incumbent LBJ bailed on reelection because he was very unpopular,
Speaker 1: at least like largely due to, you know, his role
Speaker 1: in exp a horrible genocidal war in Vietnam, and they
Speaker 1: were left with lbj's VP to run for president and
Speaker 1: they lost to Nixon. And like, my historical memory of
Speaker 1: that election is that the big issue that drove that
Speaker 1: election was Vietnam. Like that was the election where like
Speaker 1: Nixon like made it seem like he was the only
Speaker 1: choice for peace. And this article made the point that
Speaker 1: actually the war in Gaza is less popular than the
Speaker 1: Vietnam War was at that time, Like the current war
Speaker 1: in Gaza is actually less popular than the Vietnam War
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty eight. And we have both sides just
Speaker 1: being like, yeah, what are you going to do? Essentially right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well yeah, we'll see if it agains spiraling,
Speaker 2: because I mean, everyone forgot to mention like Yemen and Syria,
Speaker 2: like it's not just like Israel.
Speaker 1: Is going everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah and yeah, and I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: are just looking at what is the endgame here?
Speaker 1: And then what happens?
Speaker 2: What's the United States role now in this new front
Speaker 2: that's opening up?
Speaker 1: But it seems like at the moment.
Speaker 2: Our role is our our supply of weapons and munitions.
Speaker 1: So god, yeah, maybe, yeah, we'll see, We'll see.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe we'll get another thing where Joe Biden says, hey, man,
Speaker 2: I'm really pissed.
Speaker 1: About what's happening. I'm I'm gonna say, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: frickin peeved over here, I am dude. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, yeah, just the violence continues, So please please do
Speaker 2: something different, Kamala Harris, where you can you just articulate
Speaker 2: something just slightly different.
Speaker 1: Maybe run away from Biden's horribly unpopular record on this
Speaker 1: war instead of like just staying close to it. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: in other the cruelty is the point news, The cruelty
Speaker 1: is the point. Brothers Netahu and Trump Trump spent the
Speaker 1: weekend calling for basically a real purge, but also people
Speaker 1: are pointing out it basically Crystal Knot is also the
Speaker 1: way more fucked up and genuinely terrifying reference point. But
Speaker 1: Trump suggested putting Mike Kelly in charge of quote one
Speaker 1: day of violence that would put an end to crime
Speaker 1: or even one rough hour. The world will get it
Speaker 1: out and it will end immediately, end immediately. You know,
Speaker 1: it will end immediately, folks. So yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: people were like, that is the purge, right, right right?
Speaker 2: You're saying one day where there are no rules except
Speaker 2: to do as much violence to try and put people
Speaker 2: off of doing anything bad to you. Is that that's
Speaker 2: kind of what we're talking about here. Yeah, And like
Speaker 2: to your point, because we're so like our sense of
Speaker 2: history is so skewed, people are like, the purge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it's gonna be. Yeah. Noah Burlatski was
Speaker 1: the first one that I saw on Twitter pointing this
Speaker 1: out where someone was like Trump is literally proposing the purge, lmao,
Speaker 1: and Noah Brelatski was like, he's not proposing the purge,
Speaker 1: He's proposing crystal knock. This is one of those cases
Speaker 1: where I'm afraid that the fictional fascism has overwritten the
Speaker 1: actual fascism in unhelpful ways. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it sounds like, again, you're sure it's like
Speaker 2: the criminals, but we all know that's like coded for
Speaker 2: like marginal communities. And then what so if you if
Speaker 2: you burn down a town or something and terrorize black
Speaker 2: and brown people, they'll knock it off with the crime.
Speaker 1: That's the logic.
Speaker 2: So the root cause of people stealing or whatever is
Speaker 2: because they're just not sufficiently scared enough. It's not has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with like the resources.
Speaker 1: Available to them. Okay, they're not scared enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're not scared enough.
Speaker 1: That is the theory of the case.
Speaker 2: That sounds like the Fred Trump school of parenting probably
Speaker 2: is just like yeah, man, man, like you just got
Speaker 2: to scare the shit out of your kids. Man, make
Speaker 2: the think you're a monster, and then they'll I think
Speaker 2: I think they'll be Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really talk to them. Uh
Speaker 1: Noberlaski goes on to point out like that what Trump
Speaker 1: is proposing is not funzies for everybody gets to go
Speaker 1: do it. It's a police, the police being empowered to
Speaker 1: murder marginalize people. So, yeah, he's said a lot of
Speaker 1: wild shit this weekend. Yeah, his rhetoric. Yeah, over the weekend.
Speaker 1: He also, in a different speech said about immigrants, they
Speaker 1: will walk into your kitchen, they'll cut your throat. Small
Speaker 1: towns in America are terrified of migrants coming in and
Speaker 1: even when they haven't arrived, they're terrified they will rape, pillage, thief, plunder,
Speaker 1: and kill the people of the United States of America.
Speaker 2: I'm always like, where's the bottom for this rhetoric, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? And then it's just now it's
Speaker 2: just saying like they're literally gonna kill everyone in the
Speaker 2: country and slit your throat and do all kinds of
Speaker 2: terrible things to you, untold things, and that's that's my
Speaker 2: poly see.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Then he was also saying like Kamala Harris was mentally disabled,
Speaker 2: or maybe Biden was mentally disabled, and she she's like
Speaker 2: she was.
Speaker 1: Born that way.
Speaker 2: Just really fucking awful shit just for the sake of
Speaker 2: just being as awful as possible. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: is that I don't know if that's a winning strategy.
Speaker 1: Don't the spooky scary show does seem to always work
Speaker 1: out for him, like when he just triples down on
Speaker 1: the worst impulses of the people who support him, like
Speaker 1: he seems to garner more support as everyone was like, well,
Speaker 1: surely this is the end for him, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Like I got a fundraising email from mother
Speaker 1: Jones this morning calling him like a felon with an
Speaker 1: authoritarian leanings. I don't think we need to say like
Speaker 1: leaning anymore. Yeah, I think he tumped over into full
Speaker 1: authoritarian aspirations. Should we say? Yeah, right, yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, just because he hasn't done the thing
Speaker 2: doesn't mean he doesn't want to. And that's what he's representing.
Speaker 1: He's he leaned for a long time. I think I
Speaker 1: think we're all the way over now. Oh yeah, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: we're back. We're back. And what else? What else is
Speaker 1: in the news? Megalopolis came out?
Speaker 2: What you like thumbing through a newspaper. Ah, what else?
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 5: What else?
Speaker 1: What else? Baby? Yeah? Meg, So this is the we
Speaker 1: do have to see it before, and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to see it in the next couple of days because
Speaker 1: that ship is going to be vanishing from theaters. So
Speaker 1: the number one movie at the box office this past
Speaker 1: weekend was The Wild Robot, which people seem to really love.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be taking my son to see that
Speaker 1: and just trying to get him have a cinematic experience
Speaker 1: with a robot that doesn't have machine gun arms and
Speaker 1: work for the Pentagon. So it did well. People seem
Speaker 1: to really love it. It's got like a ninety eight percent
Speaker 1: of Rotten Tomatoes that made thirty five million. On the
Speaker 1: other end of the spectrum, Fransis Horcopola's Megalopolis made four
Speaker 1: million dollars. He self financed it using one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million of his own dollars, and it was a
Speaker 1: movie that had obsessed him for years, so he just like,
Speaker 1: you know, spent. I don't think he was like, this
Speaker 1: is a smart business decision. Yeah right.
Speaker 2: I'm sure people were like, you're going to sell your
Speaker 2: wine business to make this pilot crap.
Speaker 1: It's still pretty a pretty dire outcome. One of the
Speaker 1: questions we had heading in this This was a movie
Speaker 1: where during the con on screening, there's a moment where
Speaker 1: Adam Driver's character is doing a press conference taking questions
Speaker 1: from reporters in the film, and then a real life
Speaker 1: human in the audience stands up and asks a question
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, what the fuck. So that happened in
Speaker 1: one or two screenings, but for the most part they
Speaker 1: just had it replaced by voiceover from a reporter in
Speaker 1: the movie Coward. I will be at any screen that
Speaker 1: I go to. I will be playing the role. I'll
Speaker 1: have a Derby cap with a press card in it,
Speaker 1: but will otherwise not be in costume.
Speaker 2: Just screaming above, like just trying to perform for everybody.
Speaker 2: You're like, grab the keys, getting a freaking truck.
Speaker 3: JIBRONI, I'll slap your GERRONI, John, what does this guy saying?
Speaker 1: So our writer JM went to see this movie. He said,
Speaker 1: for I guess he got one of the screenings where
Speaker 1: the actor is interacting with Adam Driver and he said,
Speaker 1: it just wasn't that interesting. A dude just walks up
Speaker 1: on stage asked him a question during a press conference,
Speaker 1: and then that's it doesn't really go anywhere. He also
Speaker 1: so he said the movie is bafflingly bad. Most of
Speaker 1: the time. Jam has a really good taste of movies.
Speaker 1: This clip is a good representation of how the whole
Speaker 1: thing feels. Should we just play the audio from this?
Speaker 1: It's it is wild. Yeah, this scene is just so strange,
Speaker 1: the performances. It's the scene you might have seen it
Speaker 1: because there is a part where he's like, go back
Speaker 1: to the club and yeah, yeah, yeah, well here.
Speaker 5: You want to help me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So just sitting at a table fantastic spread.
Speaker 5: And you think one year of medical school entitles you
Speaker 5: to plow through the riches of my Amazonian mind?
Speaker 6: Entitles me yes, entitles me entitled Yes, you have no
Speaker 6: idea about me? You think I am nothing, just a socialite?
Speaker 5: No, not nothing, But I reserved my time for people
Speaker 5: who can think about science and literature and architecture and art.
Speaker 1: Dude, I can't help shit, it's so bad. He just
Speaker 1: has the biggest fucking like sharkyutery board in front of
Speaker 1: him for some reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, it's like it's sort of like
Speaker 2: I get. I get that it's so maximalist, like it's
Speaker 2: the kind of evoking some kind of painting of uh,
Speaker 2: you know, like a king or something with just an
Speaker 2: infinite amount of food, uh set before him.
Speaker 1: But just like the pace of the.
Speaker 2: Dialogue, I haven't even the first time I've actually seen
Speaker 2: something a little bit more than the trailer, And I'm like,
Speaker 2: why are they talking?
Speaker 1: Like are they talking so slow? And like why did
Speaker 1: why does the music like make it feel like a
Speaker 1: fucking telenovella and it just feels weird and like badly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like it feels like a bad student film. Later in
Speaker 1: that scene, which it is physically impossible to get to,
Speaker 1: I just started later is how I got to. That's
Speaker 1: physically impossible to watch the whole scene. But she like
Speaker 1: accuses him of manipulating the laws of physics and he's
Speaker 1: like what, and then like he suddenly is like interested
Speaker 1: in her, and then Laurence Fishburne like appears next to
Speaker 1: him for some reason, like whoa, yeah Morpheus? All right?
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, pretty cool. I do feel like, well
Speaker 1: that is so weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just thought that camera moved like a conversation
Speaker 2: ends and then they just paner like they just pan
Speaker 2: it over and he's standing next.
Speaker 1: It's been standing there the whole time, just like the
Speaker 1: blocking was bad and that's the reveal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't it like fucking seventeen hours too? Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: I can't see it in the theater. Oh that clip
Speaker 2: took a lot of the wind out of myself.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, this ship up. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like to the bar, I'm like getting angry bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well about that gang, if you've lived,
Speaker 2: if you've seen it, please let us know.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear. Yeah, I would love to hear
Speaker 1: a positive read on the movie. If people, if somebody
Speaker 1: like you know, took too many mushrooms and went and
Speaker 1: saw it or something, yeah.
Speaker 2: Or they're like, it's no, it's actually so bad. It's funny,
Speaker 2: go go see it because it's so bad unintentionally, but
Speaker 2: it feels like right now it's feeling so bad.
Speaker 1: It's it's bad meaning bad Yeah, bad bad. M hmm.
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Speaker 1: But like I feel like a lot of people are
Speaker 1: probably like they're just going to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's checking for door dash Spirit Halloween cut. Like
Speaker 2: the whole point if I ever get a costume, I
Speaker 2: want to go to the store because then you see
Speaker 2: something different.
Speaker 1: You're like, I thought I was going to be a
Speaker 1: construction worker, but yeah, a spooky pimp. Yeah what this
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Speaker 2: Like, I think just generally that is the sort of
Speaker 2: the only reason to go into a Spirit Halloween Like
Speaker 2: it's because it's Halloween. You're like, hey, we walk around
Speaker 2: all the spooky fuck is shit cheap shit. It's ideas,
Speaker 2: because if you're buying an uber bag costume, you're either
Speaker 2: like a panicked like single dad divorcee who like forgot
Speaker 2: about Halloween or something, or just some other I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know who this person is to be honest ship. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my most cynical about Halloween or like not really feeling,
Speaker 2: you know, like always up to dress up.
Speaker 1: I like to. I like to go into a spooky store,
Speaker 1: goes as Travis Kelcey, but like doesn't have a Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift to go with him. Just pause the group costume,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't have anyone to wear the Taylor Swift part.
Speaker 1: That's the sad dude.
Speaker 2: That'd be the saddest picture is you and your Travis
Speaker 2: Kelcey and then you just lay out the Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: clothes next to you and you're.
Speaker 1: Like wanted what you're playing? Yeah, oh my god. Anyways,
Speaker 1: that I think I might have to go as Travis
Speaker 1: kelce for Halloween. No tailor, no tailor, just Travis kelsey What.
Speaker 1: I just really like Travis Kelcey. What he's dating someone
Speaker 1: I actually wasn't aware. Okay, he has been pretty shitty
Speaker 1: this year. Maybe that's why. Anyways, those are some of
Speaker 1: the things that are trending on this Monday, September thirtieth.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: White's polacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Bye bye,