Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of twenty
Speaker 1: eight Trends Later. My name is Jack O'Brien, and I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined by my special guest co host
Speaker 1: occasionally my co host co host. Today my co host,
Speaker 1: it's the hilarious, the talented Sofia Alexandra.
Speaker 2: It is me. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: What a joy. What's going on, you know, just just
Speaker 2: chilling with you, my co host host.
Speaker 1: Co host before co host with mo host. Well, it's
Speaker 1: wonderful to have you. We've been having a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And this is the episode where we tell the people
Speaker 1: what's trending. All right, it's good Thursday, which of course
Speaker 1: means Sophia, what's up? You know what that means, right
Speaker 1: you gentile?
Speaker 2: Jesus comes back and.
Speaker 1: Jesus comes to he doesn't come. So that's the Easter
Speaker 1: where Jesus comes back. So there's an egg that's been
Speaker 1: hidden and you find it, crack open. Jesus in there
Speaker 1: is correct. Yeah, no, this is the day where Jesus.
Speaker 1: Good Thursday, I think is last Sun marries the Bunny. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I think it's what I think, so last Supper where
Speaker 1: they eat a bunny and that's why we have bunny
Speaker 1: rabbit with Easter. But anyways, so it means Easter coming Sunday,
Speaker 1: and of course it means our favorite holiday tradition, the
Speaker 1: White House Easter egg Roll, which we all know what
Speaker 1: that is very gentile coded event, the Easter egg Roll,
Speaker 1: where the White House will get thirty thousand eggs despite
Speaker 1: the price of eggs these days. The American Egg Board
Speaker 1: has donated two thousand and five hundred does in cartons
Speaker 1: for the event. So it's a lot of eggs that
Speaker 1: they're going to be giving to children to roll across
Speaker 1: the White House long with long spoons. That's what an
Speaker 1: egg roll is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's pretty tight, considering like, it's not
Speaker 2: like there's people that could eat those eggs.
Speaker 1: Nah, I think.
Speaker 2: Eating so much. So it's like, why do we not
Speaker 2: do anything with the eggs that would actually make them
Speaker 2: be food, which is what they are.
Speaker 1: It's been a tradition first too long. We can't stop
Speaker 1: doing it. Okay, this is it was started by Abraham
Speaker 1: Lincoln proving that history was boring as fuck. Above all,
Speaker 1: above all other things, history was incredibly boring.
Speaker 2: But it was also like if at that point, that
Speaker 2: was the biggest entertainment. I'd believe it where you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get a long spoon and roll an egg. Okay,
Speaker 2: but I think we have like white lotos now. I
Speaker 2: don't really think we need to do this.
Speaker 1: They used to go and like watch Civil War battles
Speaker 1: back then, Like they would just get a picnic blanket
Speaker 1: and go next to the battle and try not to
Speaker 1: get shot while they watched Civil War battles happen. That's
Speaker 1: how that's how starved for entertainment they were. So the
Speaker 1: egg roll is a race where children push an egg
Speaker 1: through the grass with a long handled spoon. Sounds like
Speaker 1: it sucks shit that that event. I will say, as
Speaker 1: far as egg sports, you really can't beat the egg toss.
Speaker 1: Have you ever participated in an egg toss?
Speaker 2: No, we just eat them where I'm from.
Speaker 1: Uh, you're weird. So it's basically have you ever done
Speaker 1: a water balloon toss where you like throw a water
Speaker 1: balloon to each other from increasing distances.
Speaker 2: I've thrown it from a second or a third story
Speaker 2: down to people below. Yeah, yeah, okay, just blood, you know,
Speaker 2: don't be.
Speaker 1: Nicety.
Speaker 2: I have occasionally been tossed a water balloon.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's just the for drama. You can't beat it.
Speaker 1: I've been at many a child's birthday party completely unrelated
Speaker 1: to the fact that I have kids. I just go
Speaker 1: to them, but and rate how dramatic the games are.
Speaker 1: And water balloon toss and egg toss are near the
Speaker 1: top where it's just you know, pair off and then
Speaker 1: toss back and forth with the egg toss. You know,
Speaker 1: once the egg breaks you get salmonillan. So just getting
Speaker 1: wet from a water balloon, but very the game creates
Speaker 1: a lot of high stakes drama.
Speaker 2: I think playing water balloon based games in the summer
Speaker 2: is like the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, water balloon. Yeah, it's both of those. I
Speaker 1: love the toss game, very simple and it works every time.
Speaker 1: Nobody does enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Hot out, Why don't we go and toss an egg?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just wild. Though the Trump administration is not
Speaker 1: you know, is doing is doing a display of, you know,
Speaker 1: being wasteful. It seems seems crazy, just.
Speaker 2: A giant jerk off motion to everyone that's like paying
Speaker 2: twelve bucks exactly, we're in for eggs if they even
Speaker 2: are ever buying them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people are being critical of this. I don't think
Speaker 1: any incorrectly, Like thirty thousand eggs is a lot of
Speaker 1: eggs to just be using. There's also people like influencers
Speaker 1: online who are saying, like, here's what to do to
Speaker 1: deal with the like high priced eggs. You can dye
Speaker 1: marshmallows or rocks and then do Easter egg hunts for
Speaker 1: those things. Like have you guys not heard of the
Speaker 1: like little plastic easter Like the little plastic Easter eggs
Speaker 1: are so superior to regular eggs, Like there's so much better.
Speaker 1: You can hide shit in them. What's everybody doing?
Speaker 2: And they're reusable, and they're reusable every year.
Speaker 1: I've had the same ones for like five years, and
Speaker 1: sometimes if you know, we forget to open them, we get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand why it's such a big deal,
Speaker 2: Like why the chicken zygo is like a big part
Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, it's all about the looking.
Speaker 1: It's like pro life propaganda, like there's gotta be an
Speaker 1: embryo in there. Well I'm not into it or I
Speaker 1: don't get horny.
Speaker 2: Also, like there's so many really cool rocks that I've
Speaker 2: seen people do like paint as eggs and then like
Speaker 2: they just keep them in their yard after easter.
Speaker 1: That's fun like that, that's cute. I do like that,
Speaker 1: But you can't very hard to hide candy inside of
Speaker 1: inside of rocks noms in there. Yeah, all right, in
Speaker 1: a segment we're calling hey, that's pretty cool man, where
Speaker 1: we talk about stuff that's pretty cool and not depressing.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of good segments on tomorrow's episode.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, guys, pretty excited about some new ones
Speaker 1: that I think are going to stick with us. What
Speaker 1: do you think, Sophia. I think these are going to be.
Speaker 2: Recurring segment behind things that we think are cool.
Speaker 1: Hey man, that's pretty cool. So of first, a couple
Speaker 1: Sweden stories for you. Finally, finally just you know this
Speaker 1: also I think would fit into our recurring segment Mundanity Cane,
Speaker 1: where we're looking at like mundane things that can we
Speaker 1: can distract ourselves with as the world goes to help.
Speaker 1: So in Sweden, there are two events that are popular
Speaker 1: right now. One of them is televised coverage of the
Speaker 1: epic moose migration. There's just moose migrating across Sweden. So
Speaker 1: there's a quote in this NBC News article. I make
Speaker 1: sure I have coffee, I have snacks. Sleep forget it.
Speaker 1: I don't sleep about the coverage of these moose migrating.
Speaker 1: I was late to school because I saw a moose
Speaker 1: and my teacher was like, what you saw a moose
Speaker 1: in the city, and I was like, no, no, I
Speaker 1: was just watching TV. So that's cute. And then as
Speaker 1: for a lot, if you're more into the live thing,
Speaker 1: one of the things that they like to do is
Speaker 1: gather to watch cows get let back out into their
Speaker 1: field when it's warm enough. This is actually from a
Speaker 1: Reddit video from a couple of years ago, but it's
Speaker 1: just like a field on a farm that's surrounded with people,
Speaker 1: like it's a stage at Coachella, and then some cows
Speaker 1: just like get out into it, and the cows are like, really,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like this is a thing I didn't know.
Speaker 1: You know, when a dog is like really excited to
Speaker 1: get back out in the yard and is like running
Speaker 1: around and like kicking its legs up and like galloping a.
Speaker 2: Little bit, call it big hops.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big doing big hops. They're that's what the cows
Speaker 1: are doing. I didn't know cows could do big hops.
Speaker 1: They're always just you know, anytime I see them. They're standing,
Speaker 1: but I guess it's my that's a me thing. They're
Speaker 1: just fucking bored by my whole ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never seen them be so like lively. Yeah,
Speaker 2: especially that first cow in the video, the one that
Speaker 2: really like just the first one out.
Speaker 1: Of the gate, busts out into the field and is
Speaker 1: just it.
Speaker 2: Does a little spin circle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. It does a couple of big hop
Speaker 1: gallops and then a spin circle and then like some
Speaker 1: of his buddies are behind him and like think about
Speaker 1: doing that, and then they're like, nah, go forward, We're
Speaker 1: just cows. But anyways, pretty cute. It is really cute.
Speaker 1: And also in the world, Hey, that's cool segment we
Speaker 1: have scientists have captured footage of the colossal squid. This
Speaker 1: is big news. They are the Thomas Pyncheon of the
Speaker 1: animal community and that we know they exist and we
Speaker 1: just haven't had photographic evidence of them until now.
Speaker 2: That's like my father, Ah.
Speaker 1: Buddy, By the way, Tom's been sea, Like, how has
Speaker 1: he pulled that off? Tom's been chan for people who
Speaker 1: don't know. One of the great novelists still alive, I think.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like wrote Crying of Lot forty nine gravity's
Speaker 1: rainbow and has never been photographed. I don't think and
Speaker 1: is like just in this day and age, you'd think
Speaker 1: that enough annoying fucking people would find a way to
Speaker 1: like chase it down and get.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing with Elena fron because Lena Ferrante,
Speaker 2: people like have written about who it could be and
Speaker 2: they think it's like probably this husband and wife actually
Speaker 2: that is pretending to be Elena Ferrante, which who's not
Speaker 2: a real person, and they still haven't found out.
Speaker 1: Who it is that's the missing daughter. One got them
Speaker 1: good at novel titles.
Speaker 2: I mean, those books, by the way, are incredible. I
Speaker 2: haven't read them, my brilliant friend, it's all of them.
Speaker 2: But I think that at least when I was reading
Speaker 2: about it, they still were like, no, we don't know
Speaker 2: who it is. Like the person picks up their checks
Speaker 2: or whatever in this like specific way from their agent
Speaker 2: or gets their money in a specific way, and people
Speaker 2: have tried to trace all the stuff and they think
Speaker 2: it's like this journalist couple. Interesting, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: And again Lena Fernante, when you google Elena Fernante, people
Speaker 1: are like, did you mean a there is a picture
Speaker 1: of a woman, but then if you.
Speaker 2: Look underneath it as a quote that says, I am
Speaker 2: I am nice.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Anyways, onto the colossal squid. Last month, scientists captured
Speaker 1: footage of the colossal squid for the first time since
Speaker 1: the species was discovered one hundred years ago, and it
Speaker 1: is wild looking. So I didn't realize that the colossal
Speaker 1: squid is one of the glass like squid, like the
Speaker 1: sea through squid species, so maybe that's why it's so
Speaker 1: hard to get them on care.
Speaker 2: Transparent, so it's probably hard to shoot.
Speaker 1: But it's like kind of glowing behind the eyes and
Speaker 1: just wild it is. It is a juvenile specimen, so
Speaker 1: like it's really They kind of bury the detail that
Speaker 1: this colossal squid is one foot long because it's just
Speaker 1: just a baby he's but we haven't caught the speed
Speaker 1: he's on camera up until now. So we got you.
Speaker 1: You fuck her. Part of me stairs wide eyed, slack
Speaker 1: jawed with wonder at the mystery of the infinitely creative
Speaker 1: and complex mystery of the natural world, and a second
Speaker 1: part of me looks at this and thinks that thing
Speaker 1: is a fucking alien. Kill it with dynamite. It's real.
Speaker 1: It's real. Freaky looking. Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I think that it does look like an alien,
Speaker 2: but my next thought isn't to kill it. M m okay,
Speaker 2: it's probably like got more powers than us. It's got
Speaker 2: like probably.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and sh I can't countenance that.
Speaker 2: No, what I'm saying is like, how mad are his
Speaker 2: people going to be? I don't want to. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: like why whenever I use First of all, I don't
Speaker 2: have Alex or any of that shit, but if I'm
Speaker 2: at someone's place and it's being used, I'll always thank
Speaker 2: it after.
Speaker 1: I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, I don't want to be on your
Speaker 2: bad side. I'm like, tell your period too, like I'm cool. Like,
Speaker 2: just make sure that at the meetings they know, like
Speaker 2: I'm cool.
Speaker 1: The meetings that they're having while we're asleep, you laugh.
Speaker 1: But we do have an Alexa in our kitchen that
Speaker 1: I've tried to get rid of multiple times, and I've
Speaker 1: been overruled multiple times by my children.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kids love the Alexa.
Speaker 1: Children love the Alexa. They love getting confident answers that
Speaker 1: aren't correct from a robot voice. But yeah, it's it sucks,
Speaker 1: and like sometimes I will be upstairs and it will
Speaker 1: be talking downstairs even though nobody's home. It just starts talking,
Speaker 1: and I think it is having meetings with the Siri
Speaker 1: on my phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they all are.
Speaker 1: Should we take a quick break and come back and
Speaker 1: talk about some other news stories. Yeah, we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back and back to some really sad news.
Speaker 1: Mike Lindell, the my pillow guy who's like big Trump
Speaker 1: supporter guy, big election conspiracy spreader, has come out and
Speaker 1: told to Judge tearfully, I'm in ruins. So that's just
Speaker 1: that's just sad. But it's probably bullshit. This is just
Speaker 1: him trying to uh not have to pay anything. You know.
Speaker 1: That's like it's the thing that Alex Jones did at
Speaker 1: his trial where he was that they're bad at like
Speaker 1: pretending to be sad, like they don't have the soul required.
Speaker 2: I feel like they do cry though if you take
Speaker 2: their money away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, trail, that emotion is real. Yeah. Outside of that,
Speaker 1: I don't it's hard. It's hard to get much of
Speaker 1: a response. Yeah did twenty eight days later. The twenty
Speaker 1: eight blank Later franchise has a new installment that I
Speaker 1: think we've we've mentioned before, coming out but we got
Speaker 1: the latest trailer and I can report shit looks cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like a lot of fun. The original Fast
Speaker 1: Zombies so Alex Garland, who made like Ex Machina and
Speaker 1: Annihilation I really liked. And the Civil War movie from
Speaker 1: last year that had a cool scene. Really good scene though,
Speaker 1: like honestly great scene, the one with Jesse Plemons.
Speaker 2: I love Jesse Plemons. What an actor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the movies. The movie overall is fine, but that
Speaker 1: scene rips.
Speaker 2: But anyway, wait, wait, wait, maybe I did see what's
Speaker 2: it called?
Speaker 1: Civil War?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I did not. Yeah, I thought when you
Speaker 2: said that Civil War movie that it was about a
Speaker 2: civil war, but you were actually just saying the title.
Speaker 2: You're like, that's Star Wars movie, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: What's it? What's it called? That's Star Wars. But yeah,
Speaker 1: So his career started when he wrote twenty eight days later,
Speaker 1: I think, like back back in the day. So he
Speaker 1: wrote it, Danny Boyle directed it, and they're back, both
Speaker 1: of them for the third installment in the franchise. Trailers
Speaker 1: out and it looks cool. It's as the beautiful two
Speaker 1: as the title suggests. It is now twenty eight years later,
Speaker 1: we've got new civilization, so you got the post post apocalypse,
Speaker 1: which I always think is a lot of fun where
Speaker 1: you get to see get to experiment with like new
Speaker 1: types of society, reality, society. You know. What I like
Speaker 1: is like movies that are about society. Man, you know
Speaker 1: you can say stuff about society, you.
Speaker 2: Know, like when they're about like culture.
Speaker 1: You know, cultures tight, wow, like what if culture? You know,
Speaker 1: like what about that Preyways. Mainly I'm in it for
Speaker 1: there's giant spikes, giant wooden spikes that I'm sure a
Speaker 1: bunch of people get impaled on the Chekhov's giant wooden
Speaker 1: spikes in the background of some shops.
Speaker 2: News. The zombies are still fast.
Speaker 1: Zombies still fast except for the Killian Murphy one. He
Speaker 1: looks slow as fuck. Yeah he it's like, uh.
Speaker 2: Precious hollow bones he's.
Speaker 1: And there you pointed out child archers. Yes, children with bow.
Speaker 2: And arrow so good at the shooting, it was so great.
Speaker 2: I want I want all children Well, no, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to say that in movies though, all children should.
Speaker 1: Shoot both all children should be are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I'm going. The teachers armed the students as.
Speaker 1: And then we don't have this problem and let's do
Speaker 1: Let's close out with like a nice little quaint story
Speaker 1: from Canada. Canada's Liberal Party was caught planting buttons at
Speaker 1: a conservative conference that like had trumpy slogans on them,
Speaker 1: so like they put make Canada great again on these
Speaker 1: buttons justin up exactly, that's one of them, lock justin.
Speaker 1: So basically they made buttons that were like these conservatives
Speaker 1: are basically like the conservatives in America, to try to
Speaker 1: make them look bad, which is that I guess that's
Speaker 1: where we're at. Is just like being associated in any
Speaker 1: way with Trump administration in other countries like bad enough
Speaker 1: to yeah that like people will lie to make to
Speaker 1: make it like you're associated with the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: I mean, my takeaway was not that, it was that
Speaker 2: Canada is just so pure and they're like, guys, we're
Speaker 2: gonna do a crazy terrrist act and they just like
Speaker 2: planted for but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fake buttons, I mean, how cute.
Speaker 2: Like in America, Trump is like, hey watch me dismantled
Speaker 2: democracy and like, yeah, we'll get the other side that way.
Speaker 2: In Canada, they're like what if the buttons Okay, they're
Speaker 2: not real buttons, but we'll put them there and we'll
Speaker 2: be like they're kind of.
Speaker 1: Mean, they'll have the ability to use them if they'd like, So,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, I'm just just think about it.
Speaker 1: I think it could be kind of neat. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is super quaint, Like at a time when I feel
Speaker 1: like this wouldn't make news in the US unless those
Speaker 1: pins had like tree frog poison on the tips, you know,
Speaker 1: and were like designed to actually like shoot into your
Speaker 1: chest when you put them on your shirt.
Speaker 2: Unless they like became like a pizza gate. Then there's
Speaker 2: no way.
Speaker 1: People would become a pizza gate.
Speaker 2: You know, they're like, oh, actually, these buttons are how
Speaker 2: you get into the secret layer where we order the
Speaker 2: pizza for all the children.
Speaker 1: That's right, we keep they just make that part of
Speaker 1: I'm sure I do. Like do Republicans realize because Republicans
Speaker 1: keep talking about how they're going to make Canada the
Speaker 1: fifty first state, Like, do they realize that they would
Speaker 1: never win a presidential election ever again? Because Canada? So
Speaker 1: Canada would be the most populous state in America. It's
Speaker 1: got forty one million people. That's two million more than California,
Speaker 1: So they would have the most electoral votes, and seems
Speaker 1: like they're like this version of the Republican Party not
Speaker 1: super popular up there, considering that like they have to,
Speaker 1: like they're pretending that their opponents support the Trump Trump
Speaker 1: I deals. I feel like maybe we should make Canada
Speaker 1: just ask them for the next presidential election. Can we
Speaker 1: borrow you to be a state and then we'll give
Speaker 1: you back che yourself.
Speaker 2: Especially like after the tariffs. I love coming through and
Speaker 2: being like no, Canada.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a part of us. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: He'll probably be downtic behavior that those two things just
Speaker 2: do not go together at all.
Speaker 1: Well, Sophia, it's been so wonderful having you here on
Speaker 1: the daily zeikeeis where can people find you? Follow you
Speaker 1: all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: I am at the sofia t h E s O
Speaker 2: f I y A on all of the things, and
Speaker 2: thank you so much for having me. It's always a.
Speaker 1: Joy, it's always wonderful having you. We are back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: your vaccines while you still can get your flu shots.
Speaker 1: Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow. Bye HM.