Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Good
Speaker 1: and Trendy, courtesy of Johnny Davis on The Discord. I
Speaker 1: am Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined by today's
Speaker 1: special guest trending co host. Hello, what's up? You're back.
Speaker 1: You're a year older.
Speaker 2: A year older, that's a year wiser.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
Speaker 3: You know? I learned the age old trick that when
Speaker 3: you get older, you cannot party as hard and as hard.
Speaker 2: To party as hard as I have since pre COVID.
Speaker 1: Them hangovers go harder.
Speaker 2: I am sick. I literally caught a cold. Yeah, partying
Speaker 2: too hard.
Speaker 1: So we've had an aged week, you and I You
Speaker 1: from the hangover, me from just waking up, and my
Speaker 1: back no longer worker. I've been recording standing up standy.
Speaker 1: I get to like rock back and forth on my feet.
Speaker 1: It's fun anyways, Baca, I don't know why I said
Speaker 1: it like accusatory like that. Back of the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: is trending. It's never good news. They're expected to rule
Speaker 1: today may have ruled by the time you hear this
Speaker 1: on whether to allow restrictions on mifilpristone, the abortion drug,
Speaker 1: to go into effect. This is based on a lawsuit
Speaker 1: brought by an anti abortion group, anti choice group targeting
Speaker 1: the pill and our boy. Justice Samuel Alito extended an
Speaker 1: administrative stay on a lower court ruling that reimposes pre
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen restrictions on the drug just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about this story that
Speaker 1: gives me a bad feeling with this Supreme Court. What
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 3: It's I don't know, maybe the fact that we already
Speaker 3: overturn Roev Wade. It's just I think a further implication
Speaker 3: of what happened post Rovy Wade.
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you're.
Speaker 3: Not a woman and after the news kind of scurried over,
Speaker 3: you were like, okay, whatever, and maybe you if you
Speaker 3: aren't dating women, if you don't have you know, like
Speaker 3: female reproductive organs, you're not really keeping a breast to
Speaker 3: like how these things have changed since Roby Wynk got
Speaker 3: overturned last year.
Speaker 2: And it's rough.
Speaker 3: It's really sad, like abortion care is women's healthcare, and
Speaker 3: to make abortion pills illegal, which is like the bare
Speaker 3: minimum first step to even before the eight week mark
Speaker 3: that you can.
Speaker 2: Take is scary.
Speaker 3: And I do wonder if this will have implications on
Speaker 3: Plan B, you know, like, is.
Speaker 1: Plan be next. I'm sure that this article from The
Speaker 1: Guardian says it could mean the biggest blow to reproductive
Speaker 1: rights in the US since Roe v. Wade was overturned,
Speaker 1: which yeah, last year. So to bed bad time for
Speaker 1: American human rights. NFL gambling scandal is I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: all you can think about. How do you know this is? Uh?
Speaker 1: I guess a bunch of people on the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: have been suspended. Two were suspended indefinitely for gambling on
Speaker 1: football games, and then a couple of players, including one
Speaker 1: that I guess people are familiar with, were suspended for
Speaker 1: six games for mobile betting on non NFL games from
Speaker 1: a team facility. I've been kind of assuming something like
Speaker 1: this would happen because the culture went from, you know,
Speaker 1: for all of the history of sports in the US
Speaker 1: being like gambling and sports need to stay separate, and
Speaker 1: there's this like sacred thing that can't be touched. Pete
Speaker 1: Rose was like one of the best baseball players of
Speaker 1: all time. I don't know why every time you guess
Speaker 1: host I end up talking about baseball. I don't even
Speaker 1: like baseball with Becca, but he was one of the
Speaker 1: best baseball players of all time, and then like he's
Speaker 1: been like excommunicated, like erased from the history of Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball because he gambled on baseball games in the
Speaker 1: in the eighties at a time when that was like
Speaker 1: the worst thing that you could do. Understandably, I would say.
Speaker 1: But then recently, because America has gone in the direction
Speaker 1: of like whatever rich people already rich people can make
Speaker 1: the most money off of will happen. It has turned
Speaker 1: into like the Biff is King of the World future
Speaker 1: from Back to the Future too, where gambling is legal everywhere,
Speaker 1: And like I was watching an NBA game and they
Speaker 1: had like a former NBA player gambling on NBA games,
Speaker 1: and it is just like, wow, we really came a
Speaker 1: long way. I don't really give that much of a shit.
Speaker 1: It's sports who cares. But it's still like I had
Speaker 1: a feeling that like somebody was going to violate some
Speaker 1: code of ethics and then they would go like really
Speaker 1: super hard on that person because they want to make
Speaker 1: an example of them. But if you're going, like if
Speaker 1: the whole sports like industry is being funded by gambling,
Speaker 1: I think they're going to make it to the players
Speaker 1: like aren't allowed to even like gamble, like do mobile
Speaker 1: betting on sports that like they have no influence over.
Speaker 1: Feels feels weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the part I didn't understand because it says
Speaker 3: here that, yeah, it was for mobile betting on non
Speaker 3: NFL games done from a team facility.
Speaker 2: So is it the fact that it was from a
Speaker 2: team facility?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Or are they just as as players in any you know, like'
Speaker 3: was the.
Speaker 2: What I'm looking for? Professional sport?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Are they not allowed to gamble on any professional sport,
Speaker 3: even if it's not their own professional sport?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. It. Don't like to
Speaker 1: feel somewhat arbitrary feel at this point, especially when the
Speaker 1: owners are making billions of dollars off yeah none black. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But the people who risk their health, their long term
Speaker 1: ability to just lead a healthy life, those people are
Speaker 1: not allowed to gamble any money off of any of
Speaker 1: the shit? All right? And coke bear is trending. A
Speaker 1: Canadian woman was storing seventy two cans of pop in
Speaker 1: her truck. Are you a pop pop? Are you a
Speaker 1: pop person or a soda person? What is it in Texas?
Speaker 2: In Texas?
Speaker 3: I think it is generally soda, because I know that
Speaker 3: there's some places where they just say coke and they
Speaker 3: need any soda.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but a lot of the South is like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I don't feel like Texas like that because my
Speaker 3: sweet darling best friend who is from Texas, who came
Speaker 3: and visited me for my birthday this past weekend, we
Speaker 3: are at a restaurant and she's like, can I get
Speaker 3: a doctor pepper? And I feel like the waiter literally
Speaker 3: like laughed at her, was like, what are you in
Speaker 3: fucking Texas? We don't serve doctor pepper here? Yeah, And
Speaker 3: she's like, I'll just get a coke. That's fine. So
Speaker 3: I do feel like in Texas specifically, doctor pepper is.
Speaker 2: Way more important than like coke or any other soda.
Speaker 3: So you would just say the soda you want, like
Speaker 3: a sprite soda, doctor pepper.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you call it orange soda, orange pop. Like
Speaker 1: the persistence of calling it pop in places that call
Speaker 1: it pop is really I just feel like this is
Speaker 1: this is one where we can just be like all right,
Speaker 1: Like I've like, you know, I lived in a bunch
Speaker 1: of different states growing up, and like I've lived in
Speaker 1: both soda and pop places, and I think the pop
Speaker 1: people should just be like, all right, we were wrong. Okay,
Speaker 1: it just sounds funny, like yeah, you want a can
Speaker 1: of pop anyways, and pop is like a type of
Speaker 1: music or a type of art. It's just weird. Soda
Speaker 1: is specific and what it is. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's fine if your team pop, let me know your reasoning,
Speaker 1: I guess or done, that would be fine as well. Anyways,
Speaker 1: So this Canadian person had seventy two cans of pop
Speaker 1: in her truck that she planned to break out an
Speaker 1: upcoming company soiree, and her plans for a soda filled
Speaker 1: shin dig so interchangeable, I guess is how we're using
Speaker 1: it soon fizzled out. The news post is just so
Speaker 1: horny for like puns and double entendres, and so they
Speaker 1: soon fizzled out. After a bear decided to sate his
Speaker 1: sugar craving, broke into her car and drank sixty nine
Speaker 1: cans of soda. Love that. So people are like, it's
Speaker 1: it's like cocaine Bear, but on sugar.
Speaker 2: The coke and cocaine bear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, the coke bear. Apparently, the bear started with
Speaker 1: orange crush. Eventually the last thing he got was the
Speaker 1: diet pop in quotes according to the person who's soda
Speaker 1: it was. And so immediately I was like, how is
Speaker 1: the bear drinking this? Like I would imagine a bear
Speaker 1: would just try and eat the can and then it
Speaker 1: would like break apart in their mouth and then they'd
Speaker 1: spit out the metal. But apparently the bear was using
Speaker 1: his teeth to open the cans and then like drinking it.
Speaker 1: There's a part where they're like, you could hear the slurping,
Speaker 1: so it was actually like a chugging situation, chugging the
Speaker 1: sodas yeah, which is kind of gross probably, but also
Speaker 1: kind of impressive. Like I always thought that that was
Speaker 1: one of the least believable parts of the Coca Cola
Speaker 1: Polar Bear ads was that the polar bear didn't just
Speaker 1: bite the top off, but actually like popped the top
Speaker 1: and drank it like a human would. But apparently I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm underestimating They're smarter than we think.
Speaker 2: They are just.
Speaker 1: More dainty when it comes to how they drink soda.
Speaker 1: They will just guzzle that shit. Anyways, a great story.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the New York Post that let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break, we'll be right back, and we're back,
Speaker 1: and Alec Baldwin's manslaughter charges were dropped. According to prosecutors.
Speaker 1: This is because new facts were revealed just this week.
Speaker 1: Apparently the gun was modified before being delivered to the
Speaker 1: low budget Western, which increased the odds that the gun
Speaker 1: might have misfired. And they're I guess assuming that it
Speaker 1: was not modified by Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 3: So I didn't know that was ever on the table.
Speaker 3: I thought the manslaughter was purely because he was one
Speaker 3: holding fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it would seem like this is putting more
Speaker 1: of the blame on the prop master. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: prop master is like, no, this actually clears me as well,
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll see. But there's some Republican polling that
Speaker 1: is saying that most Republican primary voters say fighting woke
Speaker 1: ideology in schools and businesses is more important to them
Speaker 1: than protecting Medicare and Social Security from cuts. According to
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal Polly, We're seeing a lot of this
Speaker 1: pulling suggesting that like the right is really focused on
Speaker 1: culture worship. But then none of that bore out in
Speaker 1: how they voted in the midterms. So I'm just wondering
Speaker 1: if this is I don't know. We talked about this
Speaker 1: a little bit on Monday's episode two that like there
Speaker 1: are these pull in like ras musin and shit like
Speaker 1: that that have very slanted pulling results, and just pulling
Speaker 1: in general is slanted towards people who are willing to
Speaker 1: answer polls. Yeah, so in the long term, it's probably
Speaker 1: good for the Democratic Party if the Republicans think that
Speaker 1: the way to electoral success is more beer ads about
Speaker 1: how like woke everything has become. And because people actually
Speaker 1: don't seem to give enough of a shit about that
Speaker 1: stuff to vote to support, like candidates who their main
Speaker 1: thing is being anti trans.
Speaker 2: It sucks.
Speaker 1: It sucks. And then Havana syndrome just won't quit. They
Speaker 1: just included a bunch of shit in the Pentagon budget
Speaker 1: for investigating Havana syndrome symptoms, even though all of the
Speaker 1: evidence seems to suggest that I don't know, they've done
Speaker 1: reports that suggest that it was not caused by enemy weaponry.
Speaker 1: So it's an increase of two point one million over
Speaker 1: the previous fiscal year. I think this is more a
Speaker 1: story about how wild Pentagon budgets are and like how
Speaker 1: there's just so much shit hidden in there. That doesn't make.
Speaker 3: Sense, especially with the whole conversation we're having in general
Speaker 3: about like America's hitting its debt ceiling, right, yeah, where's
Speaker 3: the money going? Yes, the Pentagon to explore Havana syndrome.
Speaker 1: Yes, when they looked at the Pentagon's budget one time,
Speaker 1: there were like four billion dollars missing, and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't really know what happened.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Like when you wonder where all these rich people, all
Speaker 1: these like billionaires who back right wing policies come from,
Speaker 1: They've been pumping just like billions and billions of dollars
Speaker 1: of military budd into private military contractors for decades now.
Speaker 1: It's been like the most consistent efficient way to get
Speaker 1: rich is just getting hooked up with some sort of
Speaker 1: military manufacturing contract. So it's bullshit, it seems like, and
Speaker 1: it seems like their internal reporting suggests that it's psychogenic
Speaker 1: in nature, and yet they.
Speaker 2: And yet we're putting more money.
Speaker 1: Increased the amount they're putting towards like investigating it by
Speaker 1: two point one million dollars. So maybe it's a situation
Speaker 1: where they're like keep looking like they come back, They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we looked, there's nothing there, and they're like, all right,
Speaker 1: here's ut six million dollars to keep looking. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if anything ever comes with this. I can already
Speaker 1: foresee the future where they eventually have spent enough money
Speaker 1: on reporting that they're like, we found it. It actually
Speaker 1: was Russia, and everyone's like.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they'll find a way. They'll find a way
Speaker 2: to make it about Russia.
Speaker 3: You know, with enough money and resources, you can make
Speaker 3: anything happen.
Speaker 1: Gotta spend money to make money. So you make Russia
Speaker 1: into a sci fi futuristic weapon having enemy, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to spend more money on other Defense Department
Speaker 1: budgetary things. Well, Becca Ramos, such a pleasure having you
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Speaker 1: All right, that is going to do it for us
Speaker 1: this afternoon. We are back on Monday with a whole
Speaker 1: lass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccan, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to y'all
Speaker 1: on Monday. Bye I E