Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Chinese Zite Balloon. Instead of Spy, let us have the
Speaker 1: same bowels, dound ish, I'm Jack and that is super
Speaker 1: producer Becca Rama. Happy Friday, and a happy Friday to you,
Speaker 1: unto you. Uh so, what's trending is a little bit
Speaker 1: of a slow newsday, slow news day. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Some some weeks feel like they pick up steam in
Speaker 1: other weeks just feel like by the end of it,
Speaker 1: everyone's just like, I don't know, man, I guess there's
Speaker 1: like a fucking balloon over Montana. Um that maybe that's something. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those days. But we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about it. We're gonna talk about this ship, um, the
Speaker 1: Spy balloon. I highly recommend to anybody watch a video
Speaker 1: of the balloon, and we talked about it more on
Speaker 1: Monday's Full EPP. But uh, there's this guy who posted
Speaker 1: a video and it just appears to be just like
Speaker 1: a dot, a fixed point in the sky, which I
Speaker 1: didn't know that was possible with a balloon, Like I
Speaker 1: thought a balloon would be getting blown all over the place,
Speaker 1: and it just looks like and that's what so here, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll just play a little bit of it. Let me
Speaker 1: share my screen with you. Unto you, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I have. Okay, that's the moon. It's a little
Speaker 1: fuzzy out here and it's a kind of a crudy phone,
Speaker 1: but it's slightly overcast. Well, what the heck is that?
Speaker 1: That's not the sun? And according to my little planet guide,
Speaker 1: it's not a planet. What the heck is that it's
Speaker 1: there's not really a reference point to tell, like if
Speaker 1: it's moving, but the guy says it's completely stationary and
Speaker 1: it looks like it's just the moon. So my bigger
Speaker 1: question is, because I am not on a issue, why
Speaker 1: do people think it's a Chinese spy? Because that's what
Speaker 1: the US military, the US government has said it is.
Speaker 1: And then China came out and was like, it's actually
Speaker 1: not a spy. It's um, it's a passenger or like
Speaker 1: a civilian weather balloon. But it seems like China is
Speaker 1: acknowledging that it does. It is from China and they're
Speaker 1: saying it blew off course. Um it's but I like
Speaker 1: it's very it's very weird. The video is kind of eerie. Um.
Speaker 1: But the response from various people online. Is funny to
Speaker 1: me because like, you can take this in any direction. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take it in more of like a
Speaker 1: UFO direction. I don't I don't think it's a UFO,
Speaker 1: but I think it's interesting. It's you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just out of sight, amount of mind. It's not over
Speaker 1: my city. Monday's guest Dye is like this Jordan Peel,
Speaker 1: This is some Jordan Peel ship. Um. But Jack Psobiac said,
Speaker 1: just posted the video and said we were bought and
Speaker 1: sold a long time ago. Welcome to New America, which
Speaker 1: I'm like, how do you get there from a video
Speaker 1: of a a spy balloon? Like we said, Jack, it's
Speaker 1: a slow newsday and people's kid drummed up about something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then they're also anyways. We talked about them more
Speaker 1: on Monday, but I did have to acknowledge the we
Speaker 1: were bought and sold a long time ago. True, it
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with China or this balloon, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we're owned by corporations and error. Society is not dictated
Speaker 1: by the things. You think it's dictated, but I think
Speaker 1: it's dictated by whatever's gonna make people the most money
Speaker 1: welcome to New America. Motherfucker's um Kyrie irving this motherfucker
Speaker 1: so we already know, like he said some anti semitic
Speaker 1: ship earlier in the season, Half apologized, came back and
Speaker 1: has been bawling out of his mind for the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets in a way that's like I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about that, you know, because he's piece of ship.
Speaker 1: It almost seemed like he was like, you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna play so well that you know, I win
Speaker 1: you back Nets fans, And this morning he informed the
Speaker 1: Nets like leadership that he wants to be traded by Thursday,
Speaker 1: and they're just like, we're like, they're also like near
Speaker 1: the top of the Eastern Conference, Like it doesn't make it,
Speaker 1: just like doesn't make any sense. Also, will somebody else
Speaker 1: take him? I don't know, probably, like probably enough teams
Speaker 1: are desperate that like, yeah they would, they would take him.
Speaker 1: But what a mess I feel I feel for Nets
Speaker 1: fans and Kevin during Apple Watch is trending. Do you
Speaker 1: wear an apple Watch? Actually, my Apple Watch just recently died,
Speaker 1: and my mother told me she was trying to get
Speaker 1: me one for my birthday And I said, why, what
Speaker 1: told me? No, I mean I used to, but I
Speaker 1: only bought it for the selfish reason of I was
Speaker 1: single when I bought it, and I wanted someone to
Speaker 1: take pictures of me when I was by myself, and
Speaker 1: you can do the selfie button, So that is actually
Speaker 1: the only reason I bought it. And to work out
Speaker 1: in big quotes, but now I have built a healthy
Speaker 1: workout routine that I don't need to watch to motivate
Speaker 1: me to go to the gym. There you go, do it.
Speaker 1: I had my watch program to be like get out
Speaker 1: of Bed, Piece of Ship Wow, and super producer Brian
Speaker 1: just said smart watch biometrics don't work for brown skin people,
Speaker 1: and fuck the whole watch. I'm not buying another one
Speaker 1: of those things. Well, another thing they're not working for
Speaker 1: is being able to tell whether the people wearing them
Speaker 1: are dead or not. As of September, Apple watches have
Speaker 1: come equipped with technology meant to detect car crashes and
Speaker 1: alert dispatchers, and it's a more sensitive upgrade to software
Speaker 1: on Apple devices now several years old that can detect
Speaker 1: when to use their falls and then dial for help.
Speaker 1: But the latest innovation appears to send the device into
Speaker 1: overdrive because it keeps mistaking skiers and some other fitness
Speaker 1: enthusiasts for car crash victims. So emergency call centers are
Speaker 1: just have been like rendered inoperable by this update. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's like they don't want to decline something that
Speaker 1: potentially is an accident. But if it keeps happening, what
Speaker 1: then are they gonna do? Yeah, man, it's just there's
Speaker 1: season these these technology capitalism like corporations are not capable
Speaker 1: of dealing with this ship like they they are only
Speaker 1: capable of making the decision that's going to make them
Speaker 1: the most money. They're not capable of like the power
Speaker 1: that technology has given them. Like Facebook, like that is
Speaker 1: not capable of moderating itself moderating like its platform. These
Speaker 1: are these should be public things. You can't run them profitably.
Speaker 1: You need to like have tax subsidized. Like I'm not
Speaker 1: a great fan of like so give it over to
Speaker 1: the government and just like allow big brother. But like
Speaker 1: that this doesn't work where it's just capitalism in the
Speaker 1: market will determine. It's like no, it won't. It's you're
Speaker 1: just gonna keep fucking up things that don't allow like
Speaker 1: society to function properly. Um So I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Apple watches are some of the most useless
Speaker 1: things that they have created. Like I truly I've tried
Speaker 1: and no, it's just the things that they seem to
Speaker 1: be supposedly making your life easier have come with more
Speaker 1: and more difficulty, much like this very specific thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for me, like the one thing that I liked it
Speaker 1: for was the workout stuff. And there are like so
Speaker 1: many cheaper, better products, the better versions of that product
Speaker 1: on the so like, yeah, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know for Apple, because my parents, as they're getting older,
Speaker 1: I think are looking into getting some the like monitor
Speaker 1: heart rate and stuff. So well know this is not it.
Speaker 1: They should go maybe for a more medical device. Right,
Speaker 1: I just turn all my healthcare information over to Apple.
Speaker 1: John Waters is trending because John Waters, I believe, said
Speaker 1: that drag shows for children is funny, like something is
Speaker 1: a concept that is funny to him. John Waters famously,
Speaker 1: you know a director of movies that seemed like they're
Speaker 1: designed to kill Fox News viewers, Like my favorite one
Speaker 1: news viewer came across that they would die. I know,
Speaker 1: Johnny Depp is like canceled, but that was like one
Speaker 1: of my first where I was in love with Giant
Speaker 1: app That movie is absolute chaos. I don't know how
Speaker 1: it ever got well. He like independently financed, I mean
Speaker 1: not like personally, but I think that they're I don't
Speaker 1: think he was, like go working through the studio system
Speaker 1: on cry Baby is is such a I saw clips
Speaker 1: going viral on TikTok a few days ago, and I
Speaker 1: was like, man, that movie really is bad ship like
Speaker 1: I used to and I watched that as a kid.
Speaker 1: I should not have been watching that as a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: think what. It's just funny to me that Fox News
Speaker 1: just found out about him, Like that's going to be
Speaker 1: what what an interest is? Like? I think they need
Speaker 1: to hire him, like they should do Waters and Waters
Speaker 1: Jesse and John Waters, uh like have a show together
Speaker 1: on Fox News and just like inadvertently kill their entire
Speaker 1: viewing audience with his takes and personality and then like
Speaker 1: he gets to control the clips that he cuts away too,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think we would, we would see better
Speaker 1: things for the future of America. All right, Waters on
Speaker 1: Waters use it? Fox News. I don't. I don't give
Speaker 1: you much, but I'm giving you a good a good
Speaker 1: idea here let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and Austin Butler is apparently planning to
Speaker 1: stop speaking like Elvis. Thank God, America, can heal? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was listen. I was watching the YouTube videos.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that convincing to me. I was expecting to
Speaker 1: be like, well, this is what I'll talk like now,
Speaker 1: but like he's always kind of had a no Jack.
Speaker 1: You have watched enough of his younger videos. He did
Speaker 1: not have the elbow sports. He sounded like like a
Speaker 1: little whiny white teenage boy. All white boys when they
Speaker 1: were winy white teenage boys, like that's what he was.
Speaker 1: But now he sounds like crazy. All right, I need
Speaker 1: to I guess I need to see the better like
Speaker 1: compare contrast videos. Is the one that I was linked
Speaker 1: off to is not? I was not, like, how does
Speaker 1: he even look at him? Stuff in the mirror. My
Speaker 1: favorite thing has been his ex, famously Jennifer Hudson his
Speaker 1: ex or not husband. Wow, Vanessa Hudgens. Not Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 1: I was super wrong. Vanessa Hudgens. They dated for like
Speaker 1: eight years, you know, the queen of high school. The
Speaker 1: call she's been trolling the comments on all of this,
Speaker 1: like reporting with his Elvis voice just being like screaming lamo,
Speaker 1: because he did not sound like that for the entirety
Speaker 1: of their relationship. She was like, I think you should
Speaker 1: be Elvis. I think you would do a really good
Speaker 1: job at it, and then he tried to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my friend told me I should go for Elvis, not
Speaker 1: his ex girlfriend of eight years. So it's been very fun,
Speaker 1: very fun to watch the demise of the rise and
Speaker 1: fall of Awesome. Butler's elmets Well, he's nominated for an Oscar,
Speaker 1: which is I mean, he's good in the in the
Speaker 1: film I think and what I don't think is a
Speaker 1: good film, but I think his performances like definitely captivating
Speaker 1: for sure. And that's a hard one to pull off
Speaker 1: because Elvis is pretty iconic. So it's interesting to see,
Speaker 1: like how because he's just like, I don't and maybe
Speaker 1: I'm just Austin Butler brained. I'm Austin Butler pilled because
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm saying the same think it's him
Speaker 1: where he's like, huh, I didn't even I didn't even
Speaker 1: notice I was talking about Elvis. Thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. But he likened it to when somebody lives
Speaker 1: in another country for a long time, because he spent
Speaker 1: three years making Elvis. Yes, which is crazy. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: but it also I don't know. I also am susceptible
Speaker 1: to ship like this, like where when I lived in Ireland,
Speaker 1: like I would catch myself on a word or two
Speaker 1: and be like, no, no, don't do it, don't do it.
Speaker 1: But every kid who studies abroad does this, Like I
Speaker 1: feel like that's the running joke of study abroad kids.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, I'm sorry, I just like I speak
Speaker 1: like the Italians. I spent the whole summer in Italy,
Speaker 1: the people who like nine to it, which seems like
Speaker 1: is what's going on here is he's leaning into the
Speaker 1: Elvis nous of it. Um. I bought it with everything
Speaker 1: that I had. But I also think I picked up
Speaker 1: a Southern accent after three years of living in Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and I was able to drop that ship real quick.
Speaker 1: But apparently, like there are reports from the set of
Speaker 1: his next big movie, Dune Part Two. His co star
Speaker 1: Dave Bautista recently confirmed that Butler dropped the Elvis voice
Speaker 1: for his performance as Fade Ratha, which yeah, of course
Speaker 1: he did. Like, that's such a wild question to ask
Speaker 1: about an actor. Is he still talking like Elvin? In Dune?
Speaker 1: There was a lot of memes of like people pretending
Speaker 1: to be his like manager or publicist being like like yeah, so,
Speaker 1: like can Austin Butler like pitched the role, but like
Speaker 1: maybe he's like a nineteen fifties singer maybe Elvis, you know,
Speaker 1: like like what if what if Rockabilly to this Dune role? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like what if what if we just like took the
Speaker 1: role and then we just made it in Elvis character, right,
Speaker 1: because he just wouldn't drop it. But good to know
Speaker 1: he's healing. He's healing, uh, and the world can move forward.
Speaker 1: Not me, though, I will continue to deny that he
Speaker 1: ever sounded like Elvis. We'll see at the Academy Awards
Speaker 1: on the red carpet, that's true. What if he just
Speaker 1: comes with a wild British accent, like just well even
Speaker 1: when he did SNL, he was doing it. Oh he
Speaker 1: did SNL and he sang like an Elvis song at
Speaker 1: the end to sing off Cecily Strong, who was leaving
Speaker 1: SNL that was like her last episode and so like
Speaker 1: the like closing act was him singing an Elvis song
Speaker 1: to her, and it was like, that's very strange, all right,
Speaker 1: And finally, George Santos continues to be my favorite liar.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably part of his lie strategy that
Speaker 1: he picks lies that everyone's like, well, why the funk
Speaker 1: would you lie about that? Like, because the other one
Speaker 1: that made me suspect this was that he was on
Speaker 1: like a championship volleyball team at Baruke College in Manhattan, Like,
Speaker 1: which is just I haven't even been able to like
Speaker 1: look up if Baruke has a volleyball team, because like
Speaker 1: there's just something about that claim that is like so
Speaker 1: just stultifying and like boring the like I can't even
Speaker 1: bring myself to google it. But yeah, So this one,
Speaker 1: this lie that he was apparently going with, is that
Speaker 1: he was one of the producers of a very famous
Speaker 1: Broadway play. Okay, Like that's now that's something somebody would
Speaker 1: lie about, like a con artist would lie about which
Speaker 1: Broadway play the worst, the biggest failure in the history
Speaker 1: of Broadway, Spider Man, Turn Off the Dark. It's like, fine,
Speaker 1: lie that you were a producer for Broadway, which like
Speaker 1: for someone who is claiming to hate so many things.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would go into the arts
Speaker 1: but be to lie about literally the like Broadways, biggest hole,
Speaker 1: like like Broadways, like ashamed more than anything in the
Speaker 1: world than this Broadway place. Spider killed people so much money,
Speaker 1: like no one is proud about. People didn't like you
Speaker 1: too after this they were like, man, fuck you too.
Speaker 1: Before this, for for our younger listeners, people really liked YouTube.
Speaker 1: People loved you too. And then they like did this
Speaker 1: and put an album on everyone's iPhone and everyone was like, what,
Speaker 1: go fuck yourself the edge, Um, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it's great. There's also a sort of genius to
Speaker 1: it that I like. The the article in Bloomberg, like
Speaker 1: the lead producer Michael Cole denied Santos's involvement, saying, you're
Speaker 1: an assistant that he wasn't a producer on the musical
Speaker 1: something so googleble, you know, right, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe they were like it's harder to check with that
Speaker 1: who produced it because everyone has just like buried it,
Speaker 1: you know, like there's just like no known producers other
Speaker 1: than this one person. And then George sounds like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm here, like actually I did it because no one
Speaker 1: else wants to claim that they were producing that show.
Speaker 1: I guess that is smart in that sense then, because
Speaker 1: show no one likes because he has like other lives
Speaker 1: that are famous, like common lies like that. What didn't
Speaker 1: he have a lie that his like mom died in
Speaker 1: nine eleven, like people loved to claim that, like they
Speaker 1: were there for nine eleven, or they were in one
Speaker 1: of the buildings when the planes hit, or like they
Speaker 1: had a family member who died on nine eleven, and
Speaker 1: like that's a very mainstream lie. That is a classic lie. Um,
Speaker 1: But in this case, he kind of swerved on us,
Speaker 1: and I think it's that's pretty interesting. Bruke does have
Speaker 1: a men's volleyball team, but he definitely was not on it. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not all right. Well, those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending on this slow last newsday. We are
Speaker 1: back on Monday with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: More questions about the by balloon and you know, theories
Speaker 1: as to why why the story captivated us at this
Speaker 1: end of last week. Um Becca, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining Where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 1: You can find me and follow me at X B E,
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Speaker 1: back on Monday. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all on Monday.
Speaker 1: By bye,