Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Democratic National conven Trend or the d trend C. That's
Speaker 1: courtesy of Vanadium Silver on the discord.
Speaker 2: Shout out to you. My name is Jack.
Speaker 1: That over there is Miles Gray.
Speaker 3: To What do I owe that honor?
Speaker 1: I don't know, just got a little ODB Miles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here here.
Speaker 1: Yea yeah, all right. Uh we're a day into the
Speaker 1: d n C. Depending on when you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: maybe two. I did not watch, Miles, I did not watch. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why. That's why this show works, because I have
Speaker 1: to subject myself to untold amounts of political content just habitually,
Speaker 1: even without trying.
Speaker 3: I watched most of it, and it's like it's.
Speaker 4: Different like when the RNC you're like, yeah, man, what
Speaker 4: kind of fucked up things are everyone?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little more interested in that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The DNC, it's like, what kind of fucked up
Speaker 3: things are the Democrats? Going to ignore?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 3: Very nice? Nice? Let's remember hey there's Hillary, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, Raphael Warnock as usual, just a fantastic you know,
Speaker 4: a preacher is always going to get the crowd on
Speaker 4: its feet.
Speaker 3: And he did exactly that.
Speaker 4: AOC spoke, who else Jasmine Crockett spoke and did a
Speaker 4: little bit of alliteration like touching on her bleach blonde,
Speaker 4: bad built, butch body insult from oh she did like, well,
Speaker 4: the well the violators will the votes you violated in
Speaker 4: the It was like a v thing alliteration.
Speaker 3: And I was like, this is just we get it.
Speaker 3: We can we know, you know, we know you're we
Speaker 3: know you're witty.
Speaker 4: But I mean it's just like it's again, it's it's
Speaker 4: like a way to just get everybody in the in
Speaker 4: the Democratic Party excited. And then Biden gave his speech
Speaker 4: and I was like, okay, great, and everyone.
Speaker 3: Was so just like what an amazing speech? What an
Speaker 3: amazing speech?
Speaker 2: Like really, you think about it, even.
Speaker 4: If the speech sucked, they would say the same thing
Speaker 4: because like the whole clearly the strategies like shower him
Speaker 4: with compliments because he's had a real tough time because
Speaker 4: he's old and didn't want to admit it, and just
Speaker 4: just keep telling him he's the greatest and the head grandpa,
Speaker 4: the old.
Speaker 3: Man who saved democracy twice. You know.
Speaker 4: The one thing though that was happening though, was While
Speaker 4: he was speaking, there were a group of protesters from
Speaker 4: the Uncommitted movement who just I think it was from
Speaker 4: the I want to say the Minnesota delegation, but don't
Speaker 4: quote me on that, but many of the Uncommitted delegates
Speaker 4: just had did a silent protest with their backs turned.
Speaker 4: While he was speaking, Biden did speak about Gaza more
Speaker 4: in the sense was like the people.
Speaker 3: Out there protesting, they got a point.
Speaker 2: Innocent people are dying on both side sides, and.
Speaker 4: You're like, man, come on now, just actually even just
Speaker 4: try to fucking meet these people where they're at, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like, try and understand what people
Speaker 4: who are so just mortified by the current genocide there.
Speaker 4: Just give something other than both just empty words. And
Speaker 4: that's what it felt like. And he's like, I'm working
Speaker 4: on a seasfire plan. And even then it's like what
Speaker 4: is it, Like, how does that compare to what people
Speaker 4: were asking for initially because the conditions of the seasfire
Speaker 4: are constantly changing, and it just there isn't much to
Speaker 4: sink your teeth into.
Speaker 1: There no arms embargo, which was what the Uncommitted movement
Speaker 1: was asking for.
Speaker 2: In the end of the Seaside yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly will that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 4: And again this is as you know, there's still really
Speaker 4: not a lot of coverage of like all the like
Speaker 4: sexual assaults that were happening to detained Palestinians and that
Speaker 4: one Israeli sort of military prison, and so yeah, I
Speaker 4: think overall for what the DNC night one had to be,
Speaker 4: if you're one of the the organizers, are like, it
Speaker 4: went great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like the everyone who is watching everything
Speaker 1: that happens on the main stage in my social media
Speaker 1: feed is already like so hard in the bag for
Speaker 1: Democrats that they're just like, you know, every like their
Speaker 1: review of everyone who gave a speech is like they
Speaker 1: you know, they made a strong case case for a
Speaker 1: future presidential run right there, even including Biden. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you just give it four years to cool
Speaker 1: down come back to us. I think he gave us
Speaker 1: a strong made a strong case for a future Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: You know, the the energy was there. I think she
Speaker 1: made a strong case for a future presidential run.
Speaker 2: Oh okay everyone, Yeah, people.
Speaker 1: Are saying that about AOC, which yes.
Speaker 4: They said that about Jasmine Crockett too. I think the
Speaker 4: whole theme was like the bench is deep. The bench
Speaker 4: is deep, and yeah, there are people who are fantastic
Speaker 4: speakers and and all of that, but yeah, I think
Speaker 4: I mean for me, and I think most of the
Speaker 4: people listening to the show also are like, it's like
Speaker 4: when when it was the meaningful discussion about Gaza going
Speaker 4: to occur. I mean, there was a panel that happened
Speaker 4: during the DNC where people were speaking about human rights
Speaker 4: in Gaza, which you know, took a lot of pressure
Speaker 4: for that to happen. But again, it's like, it's such
Speaker 4: a such a stain on this party, especially because this
Speaker 4: is this is the administration that's in power, and this
Speaker 4: is something that just a just an insane number of
Speaker 4: Democrats are like, yeah, dude, stop, like knock this shit off.
Speaker 4: But to see them continue forth and sort of like
Speaker 4: insist as if there's nothing to.
Speaker 3: See here is also really disconcerting.
Speaker 4: But uh, this is precisely how I think the American
Speaker 4: government will, you know, run things when they're like, we
Speaker 4: need to cease fire, but I will keep arming them.
Speaker 3: How does that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Don't really examine the logic of those statements because they
Speaker 4: don't quite square with each other.
Speaker 3: But yeah, oh, and then I say, you're right that there.
Speaker 4: Steve Kerr also made Steve kerrman appearing Steve Kerr yep, yeah,
Speaker 4: coach coach Kerr gold Medalist, although I think I read
Speaker 4: somewhere they don't give medals to coaches.
Speaker 1: That makes sense and they don't deserve it. Fuck you,
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr.
Speaker 3: Now, but were you doing? Were you hitting all those
Speaker 3: fucking step.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a brilliant, brilliant job by him to
Speaker 1: be like, all right, steph, now make four of the
Speaker 1: most impossible threes we've ever seen with a seven foot
Speaker 1: eight guy in your face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with the weirdest febo rim that sounds like it
Speaker 4: was made in a fucking toy store.
Speaker 2: Whatever things would hit the rim. I was like, is
Speaker 2: that rim? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: They did play the Bulls music before he came out,
Speaker 1: the like Bulls intro music. Chris was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I always yeah. He's like, oh yeah, I always associate
Speaker 1: that song with Steve Kerr.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I always picture laser beams, Yeah, laser beams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a blacked out United Center and Steve Kerr coming
Speaker 1: out of the tunnel from the University of North Carolina
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr.
Speaker 3: To Guard number twenty three.
Speaker 2: I thought he did.
Speaker 3: He hit him with the we got to give Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Tell Donald Trump night night.
Speaker 1: When he did that, I was like, speaking of Trump,
Speaker 1: he has announced that this week he's going to be
Speaker 1: staging a rally in Howell, Michigan. Howe, which was recently
Speaker 1: the site of a Clan rally, has a long history
Speaker 1: with the clan. You know, in the seventies, Grand Dragon
Speaker 1: Robert Miles had a Howell mailing address and held meetings
Speaker 1: on a nearby farm. And yeah, recently, about a dozen
Speaker 1: white supremacist chanted Hale Hitler and carried signs reading white
Speaker 1: Lives Matter during a march through downtown. That that was
Speaker 1: last month. And people are like, huh, interesting time, interesting
Speaker 1: timing and location for Trump to roll out his new
Speaker 1: Are we sure she's from America like campaign? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems to be his new strategy. Yeah, we love Hitler,
Speaker 1: we love Trump from a highway overpass just outside Howe.
Speaker 1: So this both side. The Reuter's article is like, Biden
Speaker 1: Camp visited hal in twenty twenty one, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure he wasn't doing it as part of a large
Speaker 1: scale racist attack on.
Speaker 4: Right There's also the more stories too that like Trump's
Speaker 4: been like back channeling with like net and Yahoo and
Speaker 4: being like, hey, man, if you can put off a ceasefire.
Speaker 2: Deal, that's inevitable.
Speaker 1: I was like, that is happening, Like whether people know
Speaker 1: that's happening or not, like, that is definitely fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's one benefit benefits both of them to
Speaker 4: be like yeah, and then you'll be okay, that might work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so many you know who doesn't want one in
Speaker 1: the first place, and then Trump obviously would benefit from
Speaker 1: the timing. There is a long history of presidential campaigns
Speaker 1: back channeling with governments that are at war and being like, hey,
Speaker 1: just so you know, if I win, like you'll, well,
Speaker 1: we'll give you conditions favorable to your side and the
Speaker 1: cease fire. So that doesn't surprise me in the least bit.
Speaker 1: Horse trading with human lives, yep, very cool. Nixon did
Speaker 1: it with the end of the Vietnam War, like they
Speaker 1: thought LBJ, I think could have ended it, uh you know,
Speaker 1: seven years before it ended, and instead Nixon was like,
Speaker 1: they're actually not gonna end it. And when I win
Speaker 1: the election, it's going to be bad news for you guys.
Speaker 1: If you actually go through with this peace plan, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, tens of thousands of Americans and millions of
Speaker 1: Vietnamese people died as a result of just bullshit election
Speaker 1: horse trading.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yeah, it just shows you that, like
Speaker 4: just how powerful the United States government is. That like,
Speaker 4: those are the kinds of things that are being like
Speaker 4: transacted too.
Speaker 2: It's like, what did I do this?
Speaker 3: And that means untold loss of life and unexploded munitions
Speaker 3: in places like Laos.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. And we're back, And Miles, I
Speaker 1: did not know you were such a juice head.
Speaker 4: I know, bro, thank you for checking out my my
Speaker 4: fucking shoulders, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, traps are looking incredible.
Speaker 3: Man, Ignore the.
Speaker 4: Back knee, dude, and the fits of rage I go through.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm juicing, I'm on antabolic steroids, and I'm
Speaker 4: glad somebody notice.
Speaker 1: But I also didn't know you were such a beetlejuice fan.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah, big beetlejuice hit, big juice
Speaker 4: head there, big juice head on that one. Never mind
Speaker 4: the antabolic steroids comment. I don't know for me as
Speaker 4: a child of the eighties. Beetlejuice is like very special
Speaker 4: to me because I think Tim Burton's filmmaking style like
Speaker 4: felt sort of muppety cartoonish, like easy to sort of
Speaker 4: visually take in as a kid, even if I was
Speaker 4: looking at some weird, like kind of horrific monster shit.
Speaker 4: I had some of the toys that was like a
Speaker 4: weird graveyard thing that will like be like a magic
Speaker 4: trick where like you could put Beetlejuice in, but then
Speaker 4: when you open the tomb again, he will be gone.
Speaker 3: I was listening to Harry Belafonte on Loop you get It.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan Once. I'm at a friend's birthday party preschool.
Speaker 4: They had a fucking Beetlejuice performer there who looked so
Speaker 4: fucking janky.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, if you are a drug addict child's
Speaker 1: birthday party performer, you cannot pick a better character.
Speaker 4: Than Beetlejuice because the guy just looked like he looked
Speaker 4: like really sick, like.
Speaker 2: Because the makeup was all off with like just.
Speaker 4: Bad skin because again the bad makeup and vaguely like
Speaker 4: green hair.
Speaker 3: I told my mom I wanted to go. I wanted
Speaker 3: to because I was.
Speaker 4: Like this usurper cannot claim to be beetle Juice, and
Speaker 4: I will not have any part of it. So anyway,
Speaker 4: I'm really looking forward to like the new one coming out. Uh,
Speaker 4: And they're just like this interview came out recently with
Speaker 4: Michael Keaton and he said there were like two conditions
Speaker 4: that had to be met in order for him to
Speaker 4: do this Beetlejuice sequel.
Speaker 1: Those turnditions were beetlejuice and the second one was beetlejuice.
Speaker 1: Nice triasshole, you're not getting us to the third one.
Speaker 4: But the first one was like he didn't want like
Speaker 4: the studio like barge in and force just a bunch
Speaker 4: of Beetlejuice scenes into the story unnecessarily because in the
Speaker 4: original he's only on screen for about seventeen minutes total. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: And so this is the quote from maybe to say quote.
Speaker 4: The idea was no, no, no, you can't load it
Speaker 4: up with beetlejuice.
Speaker 2: That'll kill it.
Speaker 4: I think the Beetlejuice character doesn't drive the story as
Speaker 4: much as he did in the first one. He's more
Speaker 4: part of the storyline in this one, as opposed to
Speaker 4: the first one, which is a case of this thing
Speaker 4: comes in and drives the movie a little bit. A
Speaker 4: lot of it is about this like relationship between Jenna
Speaker 4: Ortega and Wenona Ryder. The second was he wanted to
Speaker 4: have like a handmade feel to it, meaning like no
Speaker 4: unnecessary cgi.
Speaker 3: He's like, I've been on too many green screens. I
Speaker 3: don't want to fucking do it.
Speaker 4: Like we need to find like the magic of the
Speaker 4: early ones was like a lot of practical effects and
Speaker 4: they're like, yeah, great, And Tim Burton was also like
Speaker 4: I'm totally on board with that.
Speaker 3: So I just like.
Speaker 4: Seeing that kind of stuff and being like, oh, these
Speaker 4: people clearly like unders stand what the magic is of
Speaker 4: the sourcements of the original and are trying to really
Speaker 4: faithfully recreate that. So I'm like, yes, yes, there was.
Speaker 1: An early trailer that looked like absolute shit and I
Speaker 1: was like do they how did they make this?
Speaker 2: It looks terrible?
Speaker 1: But like since then, all the trailers have looked good,
Speaker 1: so I'm back on board.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna watch it either way. Like I just like
Speaker 4: it's I'm beatlegang you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Beatle ganged up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, yeah, it'll be interesting. I do really
Speaker 1: respect Michael Keaton's being like, I should I need less
Speaker 1: lines and I need to be like most actors are.
Speaker 1: Their notes resemble the Poucy episode of The Simpsons. They're like,
Speaker 1: and when Beetlejuice isn't on screen, people should be uh saying,
Speaker 1: where is Beetlejuice?
Speaker 3: Right? Right? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, it's and like especially in this era too, with
Speaker 4: like the egos of certain performers, like trying to reclaim
Speaker 4: their former glory, like you could ease like, but Michael
Speaker 4: eating strikes me a little bit different that they would
Speaker 4: be like, no, man, fucking It's got to be the
Speaker 4: backstory of beetlejuice, man, like when I was beetle fruit
Speaker 4: before I turned into juice. Damn, I'm saying, yeah, like
Speaker 4: what was beetlejuice like as a kid, you know?
Speaker 1: And how does that drive who Beetlejuice is today? Anyways,
Speaker 1: that movie's coming out soon. Alicia Silverstone went viral for
Speaker 1: seemingly eating poison fruit. It's the newest viral rage sleeping TikTok.
Speaker 1: They call it poisoning yourself and she posted a TikTok
Speaker 1: video of herself in England asking fans for information concerning
Speaker 1: a random berry like fruit that she had already taken
Speaker 1: a bite out of which was growing in a stranger's yard,
Speaker 1: and they were like, oh no, that's that's the Jerusalem cherry. Actually,
Speaker 1: poisonous can lead to symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea, drowsiness, loucinas,
Speaker 1: and hard issues.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, fine, this is why this picked.
Speaker 4: This video is just wild to see her like admitting
Speaker 4: it in a self taped video that she's just eating
Speaker 4: random ship off people's front steps.
Speaker 5: Okay, I've discovered something that I can't figure out what
Speaker 5: it is and I need your help. I just bit
Speaker 5: into it because I was on the street and we
Speaker 5: were discussing whether this was a tomato.
Speaker 2: Or not or not.
Speaker 3: I just I just found this on the street and
Speaker 3: I bit into it.
Speaker 2: What are you.
Speaker 1: Doing full discussing if it was a tomato or not?
Speaker 3: Well, I dropped it. Here, take another bite. It's kind
Speaker 3: of peppery.
Speaker 1: And then the I dropped into some dog shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Perhaps worth noting that she is an anti vaxer, once
Speaker 1: suggested that tampon's cause infertility and veganism can reduce the
Speaker 1: risk of miscarriage, but totally cool with foraging for food
Speaker 1: in random people's yards.
Speaker 2: Also that that fucking it looked.
Speaker 1: Like it could not have looked more poisonous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, how many seeds are in that?
Speaker 4: Just when I see a lot of seeds, I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the I don't know if
Speaker 4: that's fruit.
Speaker 1: It's like a child just being like, you know what
Speaker 1: you do need?
Speaker 2: I mean, right, color.
Speaker 3: But we've talked about this.
Speaker 4: I feel like, especially in the context with people like her,
Speaker 4: where like you have the immense like genetic privilege of
Speaker 4: being like a healthy person, so like you sort of dismiss.
Speaker 3: Any kind of science. I'm not affected by this stuff here.
Speaker 3: I'm what's this random thing? I'm gonna bite it? I
Speaker 3: need a vaccine for you.
Speaker 1: I fly first class everywhere I go, and you know,
Speaker 1: so why do I need to get vaccinated?
Speaker 2: She also what logic?
Speaker 1: There's also like not that many edible fruit, Like we
Speaker 1: we know of all the edible fruits. It's not like
Speaker 1: you're out here just walking around being like, oh, shits
Speaker 1: a new one. We're pretty we've kind of done the work.
Speaker 1: I know about all the edible fruits, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what the fuck she thought She thought it was
Speaker 1: a cherry tomato at first, but after she bit into
Speaker 1: it and realized it had a peppery taste, maybe she
Speaker 1: should have spit it out and kept eating it while
Speaker 1: being like, I don't know what do you guys think
Speaker 1: it is?
Speaker 4: Or you're trying to settle a bet like mush it
Speaker 4: open eat it to verify if it's a tomato, Like, well,
Speaker 4: the only way is to bite into it and ingest it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: She also, I remember, was a proponent when she had
Speaker 1: a newborn of baby birding, which is where you chew
Speaker 1: up your food and spit it into your kid's mouth,
Speaker 1: which it's been done in our household as a absolute
Speaker 1: like needed to get them to eat something and couldn't
Speaker 1: mash it up any other way. But yeah, I do
Speaker 1: that a lot of that thing. She was like, this
Speaker 1: is actually the way, the only way to feed your kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But I mean it's funny because I remember the first
Speaker 4: time I bid into some shift to feed the baby,
Speaker 4: I thought of Alicia Silverstone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like that ship here we go at
Speaker 2: the corner.
Speaker 3: I'm no better.
Speaker 4: But for me, I was like, I'd have a knife
Speaker 4: and I'm like, yeah, cut up a piece of watermelons.
Speaker 2: I'm not, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I took that big ass piece of watermelton.
Speaker 2: I kept the mid out of my mouth and just
Speaker 2: used my teeth like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do my gravity gravity is pulling the saliva
Speaker 4: away from the front of my mouth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah I did. I did do that and
Speaker 1: convince myself it was it was better that way.
Speaker 4: Like the version of like water falling or drink waterfall biting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and it's not gross because it's my own kid.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Uh. Starbucks has a new CEO who is uh going
Speaker 1: to not move to Seattle. I think it's the Chipotle CEO.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's somebody who was like worked for another big
Speaker 1: famous name brand company got hired to take over Starbucks
Speaker 1: who was seeing like falling profit and so some things
Speaker 1: they're doing. They're introducing a new line of eco friendly cups,
Speaker 1: promising to give more than we take in an environmental pledge.
Speaker 1: And he is refusing to move to Seattle, but will
Speaker 1: be super commuting from southern California to Seattle on a
Speaker 1: daily basis on the private jet.
Speaker 2: So on a daily basis on a peage.
Speaker 1: Baby, I don't know if he If it's not daily,
Speaker 1: then I have some questions because CEOs love to be
Speaker 1: like whoa. Everybody needs to be in the office constantly.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I need you where I
Speaker 1: am in case I need something to rest my feet on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to spit my coffee. I need a face to
Speaker 4: spit my coffee onto. When I don't like it.
Speaker 1: When I read something surprising, Yeah, yes, but yeah. This
Speaker 1: is part of a larger trend to CEOs working from
Speaker 1: anywhere and super commuting when necessary, which I just love it.
Speaker 1: We love it, don't we, folks.
Speaker 2: But just the fucking internet.
Speaker 3: There, you've super computed and computed they're young anywhere you zoom.
Speaker 4: Also, I feel like, isn't it like against the law
Speaker 4: to be the CEO of Starbucks and not live in Seattle?
Speaker 2: Is that legal? As a parting man?
Speaker 3: Also, man Dick's driving? Is there bro the best fries?
Speaker 3: Stop fucking recordingay man?
Speaker 1: All right, those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Tuesday, August twentieth.
Speaker 2: We are back.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow with the whole aast episode of the of the
Speaker 1: show Very fun one. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy.
Speaker 2: And we will talk to Yell tomorrow.
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