Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Alligator
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Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know this because you're not
Speaker 1: here before we start recording. But that's how he loosens
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Speaker 1: My name is Jack and that over there is mister
Speaker 1: Miles Gray. Yes, And this is the episode where we
Speaker 1: talk about what's trending right now in the news. We
Speaker 1: will talk a little bit more about the fun Saturday
Speaker 1: Morning cartoon Hannah barbera spin on a concentration camp that
Speaker 1: is happening in Flora.
Speaker 2: What is it? The Sweetest Chef from up the Muppets
Speaker 2: auditioning for to be a Southerner.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna talk about the House Freedom Caucus and
Speaker 1: how they might be fucking things up for which we'll
Speaker 1: talk about tomorrow. It's not even called that anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chuck, thank you.
Speaker 1: I think things are going to be a little different
Speaker 1: from now on. Thank you, Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 2: Where's Chuck Schumer? Is he from Queens? Because like nas,
Speaker 2: he ethered the fucking Bill? Okay, absolutely fuck Big b B.
Speaker 2: But no, right now, the word ship show is trending
Speaker 2: because Marjorie Taylor Green remember her. She was on Steve's
Speaker 2: podcast called Sweaty and Racist, where they were talking about
Speaker 2: how all of the deliberations over the Big Beautiful Bill
Speaker 2: have devolved into what she calls a shit show. And
Speaker 2: again she's very again, very loyal to Trump, but she's also.
Speaker 1: Is it elsewhere? It might It might be at the
Speaker 1: fuck Factor Certified chit Show with the fuck Factor.
Speaker 2: Certified chit Show at the fash Factory. At the very least,
Speaker 2: she said, quote, it's a really dire situation. We're on
Speaker 2: a time clock that's been really set on us, so
Speaker 2: we have a lot of pressure. And then also given
Speaker 2: the fact that there's four hundred and thirty five members
Speaker 2: of Congress and it's hard for us to get on
Speaker 2: an agreement on anything. This whole thing, I don't know
Speaker 2: what to call it. It's a shit show. And I'm
Speaker 2: sorry for saying that. I know we're not supposed to
Speaker 2: say that on the air, but that's what it true.
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what she apologizes for.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, missus space lasers. Now, while I know those
Speaker 2: margins are razor thin, it is important to caveat all
Speaker 2: that with they will most likely cave and do whatever
Speaker 2: Donald Trump does because it is a cult, and you know,
Speaker 2: they just kind of play the characters of people who
Speaker 2: give a fuck about things like the deficit, but really
Speaker 2: they're fine with the They're they're fine with this ship.
Speaker 2: So we'll see. I mean, there is a chance, but
Speaker 2: let's not hold our collective breaths.
Speaker 1: Publicans like pretty much are scared of Trump, right, They're
Speaker 1: just they're gonna are but the House.
Speaker 2: But the Freedom Caucus people are also out of their
Speaker 2: minds as like these fiscal hawk freaks because there's like
Speaker 2: should be given we shouldn't be given money to anybody
Speaker 2: for anything, bring the deficit down, and like I think
Speaker 2: they use the deficit as a way to be like
Speaker 2: no money for anything.
Speaker 1: That's like how they got into politics. I remember that.
Speaker 1: Uh the story about Paul Ryan. He was like the
Speaker 1: time that I like remember why I got into politics.
Speaker 1: Was that a keg party with somebody talking about how
Speaker 1: I wanted to like bring the deficit down. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh crazy, fuck man, that's sick. Dog, that's sick so bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2: But anyway, the House Freedom Caucus, which you know, they
Speaker 2: kind of keep their numbers. Uh, it's like opaque because
Speaker 2: they don't tell you who exactly is part of it.
Speaker 2: I mean there are people who you know outwardly are
Speaker 2: The Pew Research Group said it's around maybe forty nine lawmakers.
Speaker 2: So keep that in mind, you can only lose three votes.
Speaker 2: They're forty nine of these people who are sort of
Speaker 2: aligned with this agenda. They released Republican Yeah, forty nine Republicans.
Speaker 1: You got to get all forty like basically forty six
Speaker 1: of the forty nine, forty seven of the forty nine. Yeah. Maybe, well,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: But so they put out a whole letter saying we
Speaker 2: have three big complaints. One, it actually increases the deficit,
Speaker 2: which is a huge thing for them again because they're
Speaker 2: a horny for deficit to come down. It quote waters
Speaker 2: down cuts to propose infrastructure investment and Jobs Act funding,
Speaker 2: and fails to ensure illegals are fully removed from Medicaid roles. Again,
Speaker 2: undocumented people are already ineligible. So that's just a fake
Speaker 2: talking point you do to rile up the racial grievance crowd.
Speaker 2: It's just enough, exactly, not racist enough that it's not
Speaker 2: acknowledging the racist fantasy world that we live in, and
Speaker 2: we don't like that.
Speaker 1: They sat down, they cut the little package, put their
Speaker 1: finger on the white powder, put it onto their gums.
Speaker 1: Not racist enough. No kill this guy. Kill this guy's
Speaker 1: a cop.
Speaker 2: But the other thing, though, too, is that the moderates
Speaker 2: are like, uh, you know, like the safety net programs.
Speaker 2: I think the more I mean rational, this doesn't even
Speaker 2: make sense rational for thunders people who understand, yeah, the
Speaker 2: fashionale of it all. They're like, well, the eight hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty billion dollar cuts to medicaid. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: in a swing district, Like that's pretty much gonna sign
Speaker 2: my boot from the office.
Speaker 1: That's assuming that we have free and clear elections going forward.
Speaker 2: James, I don't know if you saw James cobbll already.
Speaker 2: He's trending right now too, because like, if you think
Speaker 2: that Donald Trump going to do anything but make a
Speaker 2: deal with the alligator devil and not rig these elections
Speaker 2: in the mid terms, you're fool of yourself. You're fool
Speaker 2: of yourself. He's not wrong, And I got a I
Speaker 2: got a concentration camp of floor. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 2: if you think this is gonna be a free and
Speaker 2: clear election, yeah, I mean all their actions.
Speaker 1: Alligator Alcatraz absolutely sounds like a fucking the home game
Speaker 1: version of James Carville politics that like he sells that
Speaker 1: lay my game, Alligator Alcatraz, thanks for listening to my podcast.
Speaker 3: Obviously, a big, big shout out to the sponsors Alligator
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Speaker 2: It's kind of a literal game. It's not much of
Speaker 2: a game. It's a picture of an alligator with an
Speaker 2: Alcatraz outfit on but yeah, razor thin margin. So that
Speaker 2: could be the thing that maybe saves us for now
Speaker 2: from going full fuckery with this bill. However, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has been summoning these people to the White House to.
Speaker 1: Start being a simple ceremony with a circle of candles
Speaker 1: and fec smear bible.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. And you go in and it's that one
Speaker 2: dude from the hearkening like and do.
Speaker 1: Beautiful balls, all right, Well, while that's happening, Travis kelce
Speaker 1: So this is just this is kind of a guilty
Speaker 1: pleasure of mine, Miles. You know, I like to I
Speaker 1: used to like to.
Speaker 2: Wat photoshop images of me and Travis Kelcey together. I
Speaker 2: replaced Taylor with me.
Speaker 1: There's that, But I haven't shared most of those with
Speaker 1: the with the outside world.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I do like to watch inside the actors studio, you know.
Speaker 1: I like to hear about the process of actors, like
Speaker 1: you know, great actors like myself. I like to learn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think lipt in past ye kind of a while back.
Speaker 1: But you know, as as we were talking about recently,
Speaker 1: you know, my massive uh you know, obviously requires a
Speaker 1: lot of acting skills, and so I like to just
Speaker 1: like to see what other actors are getting up to
Speaker 1: I say that one word in a British accent sometimes.
Speaker 1: But anyways, a lot of great actors have come through
Speaker 1: the behind the Actors studio. Unfortunately, Lipped In passed, so
Speaker 1: now we have to rely on podcasts like Busting with
Speaker 1: the Boys, which just interviewed Kansas City Chiefs tight end
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey about what it was like for him to
Speaker 1: act on SNL, and he said the writer's rooms were
Speaker 1: fun because you're just getting pitched ideas. The table reading
Speaker 1: for okay, so you're getting pitched ideas. However, the table
Speaker 1: reading for a guy that can't really read that, well,
Speaker 1: it was kind of a fucked situation. Oh so yeah.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was just trying to get through
Speaker 1: the reading instead of actually acting it out and giving
Speaker 1: it a voice and giving it a character and things
Speaker 1: like that. I was just focused on, don't fucking skip
Speaker 1: this line.
Speaker 2: So holy shit.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it's.
Speaker 2: Just it's funny. I was just I, oh, I now
Speaker 2: know who the Busting with the Boys guys are, because
Speaker 2: they're one of that. They're one of the shows that
Speaker 2: had libs being like we need Jo Rogan, like they
Speaker 2: were part of that with like man of sphear regressive
Speaker 2: misogynists sort of set and then I remember people being
Speaker 2: really upset because Taylor Swift took a picture with them
Speaker 2: and people were like, dude, these guys have some really
Speaker 2: dark takes and also a really grim past, like involving
Speaker 2: sexual assault. But anyway, it's not like, dude, Travis is
Speaker 2: just busting with the boys.
Speaker 1: Man just busting with the boys. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just like I read good that in the realm
Speaker 1: of like Geena Davis saying, if you risk nothing, then
Speaker 1: you risk everything. Jeremy Renner, I live my life through fear.
Speaker 1: If I'm afraid of it, I'll do it just so
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of it anymore. You know, that's how
Speaker 1: you have to act or uh for a guy that
Speaker 1: can't read that well, it was kind of a fucked situation.
Speaker 1: I feel like also like kind of because in that
Speaker 1: world where you know, you just take inspiration.
Speaker 2: I've seen people just making fun of Travis Kelce and
Speaker 2: then I see other people being like, as someone with dyslexia,
Speaker 2: like I totally found I'm always like, what is it
Speaker 2: is Travis Kelce? Does he have a learning disability?
Speaker 1: We did look into that.
Speaker 2: And we could not find anything like that. Or is
Speaker 2: it by default when you play in the NFL, especially
Speaker 2: a position like tight end where you you bump in
Speaker 2: a lot, do you already have some kind of brain issue?
Speaker 2: Is it a chet Homegrin situation where you're such a
Speaker 2: jock that you have no interest in your education.
Speaker 1: So feels like a little bit of that where he's.
Speaker 2: Like CT mixed with chet Holmegrin.
Speaker 1: Yes, culturally he is. He ended at a time when
Speaker 1: it was cool to think reading sucks, you know, aka
Speaker 1: like high school and like with very specific group of
Speaker 1: people in high school, and he hasn't existed outside of
Speaker 1: a bubble since then. So he's like, you know, for
Speaker 1: a fucking guy like me, dude, reading sucks, how am
Speaker 1: I supposed to do this nerd ship?
Speaker 2: What the fuck is their relate?
Speaker 1: What is it exactly? That's the main thing that I'm
Speaker 1: just like, Oh, it's.
Speaker 2: Like I didn't give a ship honestly and tell him like, oh,
Speaker 2: is this just like some mind control ship where she's like, bro,
Speaker 2: this dude is not gonna challenge like I got this,
Speaker 2: trust me, he knew and nothing he can't.
Speaker 1: Maybe they have a beautiful relationship the way that you know,
Speaker 1: like of my men's.
Speaker 2: Can you can you cook up another? One of the
Speaker 2: varietals of books that I love.
Speaker 1: Yes, just blowing his mind with like recommending Dan Brown
Speaker 1: novels for not even.
Speaker 2: She's like Travis, you know it's Barren Stain bears right.
Speaker 1: What wait? What fu?
Speaker 2: And he's with the boys.
Speaker 1: Man, I believe in love. I'm happy that they're together.
Speaker 1: I just I it does boggle the mind to Brian,
Speaker 1: the editor just said, wait, the cow jumped over the
Speaker 1: what that's how mo own?
Speaker 2: Did cow jump over the mo mo? Moana?
Speaker 1: Mohana?
Speaker 2: It's Moan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite movie. Yeah, I'm not here to hate.
Speaker 1: I am just it adds mystery to the world to
Speaker 1: imagine what things are like between between them behind I'll say.
Speaker 2: This, okay, as somebody who knows many people who have
Speaker 2: worked with Gronk another tight end. Yes, right, you want
Speaker 2: to talk about can't read good? I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's the position, but they can't read good.
Speaker 1: Maybe I can read a defense and I can tell
Speaker 1: my quarterback. Right.
Speaker 2: Does Shannon Sharp read good? Probably? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He seems like he was just pretty good.
Speaker 2: He just has terrible compromised decision making skills as an
Speaker 2: into visual but maybe he can read better. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's being tight end or what, but you
Speaker 2: know it's it's it's hard out here when you're when
Speaker 2: you're playing with a half a deck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyways, let's say a quick break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. And obviously big news that the Diddy
Speaker 1: trial has come to an end with a split decision.
Speaker 1: Did he avoided racketeering charges some of the more serious charges,
Speaker 1: did get found guilty on prostitution. We didn't spend a
Speaker 1: ton of time talking about this trial. It was obviously
Speaker 1: big news in certain like celebrity circles, but it did
Speaker 1: just feel like voyeurism to me a little bit.
Speaker 2: It was just, I mean, every time man so dark.
Speaker 2: And also just the testimony of some of the victims
Speaker 2: was super fucking heavy. Man, the shit that they were describing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like, I mean, he was guilty on two
Speaker 2: counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, and he was like,
Speaker 2: I'm coming home. Those charges do carry like a I
Speaker 2: think around potentially up to ten years each, so at
Speaker 2: a maximum twenty years in prison. Again, I don't know
Speaker 2: what that means if he's gonna just walk out because
Speaker 2: he's rich and we don't take you know, sex crime
Speaker 2: seriously at all, but holy shit. I mean like when
Speaker 2: I saw that, I was like, what the fuck? There
Speaker 2: was video and a bunch of people giving really fucked
Speaker 2: up testimony.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe that seems very systematic. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, just like a sexual predation, like somebody who
Speaker 1: like kind of used their wealth and influence to almost
Speaker 1: industrialize his predation, you know, right like just like right
Speaker 1: on a bass scale. I will say that this story,
Speaker 1: as a number of stories do from time to time,
Speaker 1: like that they're just these details, like what one of
Speaker 1: the details is that he allegedly kidnapped his assistant at
Speaker 1: gunpoint and forced them to break into the home of
Speaker 1: kid cutting because he was kid cutt he was dating,
Speaker 1: did he's X? I do just like keep coming back
Speaker 1: to how bad wealth is for people like just being
Speaker 1: extremely well, Like this is the value that is at
Speaker 1: the heart of every like capitalism, argument against like socialism
Speaker 1: or like anything that's not capitalism. Is like it's not
Speaker 1: fair for someone to work this hard not get the
Speaker 1: money that they earn. They should like get to keep
Speaker 1: all that they earned it. And I feel like at
Speaker 1: a at a low level, I think it can be
Speaker 1: a good a good motivator, but when it's at this level,
Speaker 1: at this level where like people are just getting to
Speaker 1: accumulate cartoonish levels of power, we see time and time
Speaker 1: again that it just completely destroys them, like just they
Speaker 1: have unlimited power and like they will destroy it destroys them.
Speaker 1: And then anybody who like gets in their way or around.
Speaker 2: Sometimes doesn't because your wealth allows you to skirt the
Speaker 2: consequences and your brain goes, let's keep cooking, baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't mean like it destroys them from a
Speaker 1: like consequences perspective, from a moral like having an actual
Speaker 1: like spiritual anything, any morality whatsoever, that just fucking ruins them.
Speaker 1: And like those people are always like miserable.
Speaker 2: And I don't know why just because I tried to
Speaker 2: car bomb someone carb bum You sound like a hater, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like people will just push to have
Speaker 1: more and more power, more and more just like make
Speaker 1: it easier and easier to do whatever the fuck they want.
Speaker 1: But it's like bad, It's that is bad for anyone
Speaker 1: to ever just have the ability to do what the
Speaker 1: fuck they want at all? Like it for anything from
Speaker 1: any rich person ever be turning out to be fucking
Speaker 1: evil almost invariably to like, uh, this made me think
Speaker 1: of Star Wars, where like George Lucas was like God,
Speaker 1: the fucking studio and like all these people that are
Speaker 1: making me work with like why won't they just let
Speaker 1: George cook? And that he was like struggling with that
Speaker 1: for the first three movies, and then when he finally
Speaker 1: got to do whatever the fuck he wanted, we got
Speaker 1: the prequels, which, yeah, you know, your mileage may very but.
Speaker 2: That's why we don't let George cook.
Speaker 1: I feel like in a sane world where we're able
Speaker 1: to just speak rationally and openly about like capitalism and
Speaker 1: its consequences, like this would be a point that lots
Speaker 1: of people would be making when a story like this happened,
Speaker 1: the same way that if a person who committed a
Speaker 1: bunch of crimes had like a bad drug habit or
Speaker 1: like you know, some sort of mental illness or something
Speaker 1: like that is what would be blamed. That is what
Speaker 1: would be like highlighted, like don't bring that up.
Speaker 2: Because the affluenza kind of of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I don't know, Like I it's it just
Speaker 1: seems very one to one to me.
Speaker 2: But like, well, I think it's because we there's no,
Speaker 2: it hasn't reached like a tipping point where we all
Speaker 2: acknowledge that obscene wealth is a bad thing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's like, no, that's good. That's a
Speaker 2: virtue to be able to exploit people's labor and accumulate
Speaker 2: millions and millions and millions of dollars and then you
Speaker 2: can do stuff like get your weird. Did you see
Speaker 2: the people outside the courthouse They were dumping baby oil
Speaker 2: on themselves like to celebrate, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's a cult, we are, let us be cooked.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's all very depressing, but I like
Speaker 1: it does like it. It does feel like it's all
Speaker 1: of a piece of like you know, in the past,
Speaker 1: there was a version of capitalism that like doesn't involve
Speaker 1: rich people getting to keep as much money as they
Speaker 1: want forever and ever, like and for I feel like
Speaker 1: we just very lost moment lost sight of that.
Speaker 2: I think it's always just going to end up that way,
Speaker 2: to be honest, you know what I mean, Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: just that's what a do to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, Yeah, but lots of examples, whether
Speaker 1: it be ditty, whether it be the destruction of the
Speaker 1: environment and our ability to exist on this planet by
Speaker 1: oil executives, or the changing of HBO Max to just
Speaker 1: Max and then back to HBO Max again. You know,
Speaker 1: like billionaires, nobody is there to be like that. That
Speaker 1: decision sucks shit man.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and I think we're soon approaching a situation
Speaker 2: where if a billionaire heard you say that, they'd be
Speaker 2: like ice, denaturalize that take them getting.
Speaker 1: Less breaks on billionaires. It seems to be the motto
Speaker 1: that we're running in the direction of, well, we finally
Speaker 1: have a conclusion to this story that we were all
Speaker 1: worried about. You know, Paramount. What do we need more
Speaker 1: than anything right now? We need a corporate merger. We
Speaker 1: need a Paramount and Skydance Media to merge. And Paramount
Speaker 1: did it. They managed to give the Trump administration sixty
Speaker 1: million dollars in a payoff slash legal settlement. But their
Speaker 1: legal settlement.
Speaker 2: I don't like that people are saying they bribed the
Speaker 2: administration to allow the sky Dance merger to go through.
Speaker 2: I think that's important taste, just because they paid sixteen
Speaker 2: million dollars transactionally.
Speaker 1: To the merger to go through, so that for people
Speaker 1: weren't following the story, they wanted this merger to happen.
Speaker 1: It was going to make all the like leaders in
Speaker 1: the c suite a bunch of money. And then like
Speaker 1: sixty minutes had a interview that was critical of Trump
Speaker 1: and he was like, well, maybe maybe a merger doesn't
Speaker 1: go through, and filed a lawsuit against CBS, and they
Speaker 1: both like got rid of the CBS news like leadership
Speaker 1: and then also paid Trump sixteen million dollars. And now
Speaker 1: he's like, huh, all right.
Speaker 2: Okay, actually I have a bad protocol. I love ghost protocol.
Speaker 1: Actually yeah, big fan, the second one.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite.
Speaker 1: But it's all going to be worth it when we
Speaker 1: can reap the benefits of a capture the print media,
Speaker 1: the sky Dance Paramount merger, Oh god, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: paramou it sucks.
Speaker 2: I needed it to merge so I could bring more
Speaker 2: content on there more.
Speaker 1: What is that even going to be Paramount? Like, I
Speaker 1: is there. I haven't heard like the pitches from people
Speaker 1: being like this is actually good in any way other
Speaker 1: than like sum Ner Redstones family getting rich.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know that's good. I don't know
Speaker 2: who Jesus Christ, just another hey, just more bending of
Speaker 2: your knees doing.
Speaker 1: It's actually a pretty good workout. Yeah, all right. Those
Speaker 1: are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: July second. We are back tomorrow with the whole less
Speaker 1: episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, gay your vaccines, we still can't
Speaker 1: get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye.
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