Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special Monday morning trending.
Speaker 2: Edition of Daily Like Gist. Jack, that is my autuistic
Speaker 2: for loving that right now.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, I can actually hear him in person. This
Speaker 1: is the first time we recorded in the same room.
Speaker 1: Actually we had that one time we recorded in our backyard.
Speaker 2: But hey, the lone Star State has brought us together.
Speaker 2: Now Loan, Texas.
Speaker 1: We're in a hotel room in south By Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: The activations are out of control down here.
Speaker 2: So active, so active south By Southwest.
Speaker 1: Man, I I'm confused by a lot of it, but
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: Hey, there was the tide painted an entire building and
Speaker 3: that was an activation.
Speaker 1: The tide activation tied the laundry detergent had taken over
Speaker 1: a whole building.
Speaker 2: We don't know, We don't know.
Speaker 1: We didn't investigate, and if we had, maybe we would
Speaker 1: have discovered something life changing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, probably not.
Speaker 3: I just have barbecue stains in my hoodie.
Speaker 1: That's right, Well, I am Jack, that is miles. These
Speaker 1: are the things that are trending this Monday morning.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Actually, first we do like to let you know a
Speaker 1: little something going on with us. What's something we think
Speaker 1: is overrated, underrated, let's kick off with underrated.
Speaker 2: Let's kick places doing fucking wacky things to us. I know, okay,
Speaker 2: under flipped everything. Yeah, I hear you, Texas. I'm going
Speaker 2: with women's college hoop.
Speaker 1: It's obviously it's having a moment, but it's still I
Speaker 1: feel like it doesn't have the institutional inertia of like,
Speaker 1: like you can't just raise women's basketball and have everyone
Speaker 1: jump into the conversation. I feel like any more. I've
Speaker 1: been trying, and I just feel like people aren't. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm trying with the wrong people, but.
Speaker 2: This I don't know. I watch NBA basketball, as we've
Speaker 2: heard out of the Jack, my Bootmaster.
Speaker 1: I even watch men's college basketball every once in a while.
Speaker 1: I feel like the best product right now is women's
Speaker 1: college basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean, like the NBA is fun, but
Speaker 3: you sort of like we're used to how like what
Speaker 3: the level is of the NBA right But what's happening,
Speaker 3: I mean, the records that are being broken in like
Speaker 3: the most impossible ways. I think is it should It
Speaker 3: should get people at least interested in what this tournament
Speaker 3: season is going to look like, because that's going to
Speaker 3: be fucking wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the players stay with their teams for the
Speaker 1: whole career, you know, like they don't they don't enter
Speaker 1: the transfer protocol is as often as men's players. So
Speaker 1: like you have Caitlin Clark in our third season with Iowa,
Speaker 1: it really kind of feels the coaches have like their
Speaker 1: unique style, right, So it's kind of feels like men's
Speaker 1: college hoops in the nineties, but Steph Curry has been transported,
Speaker 1: right and is like playing college basketball.
Speaker 2: For some reason in the nineties.
Speaker 3: Even beyond that, like what Caitlin Clark is doing. Even
Speaker 3: I was like watching a mixtape of her best blocks
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, and then you're like, watch
Speaker 3: look at all these how she's diamond it no looks
Speaker 3: all over the place. Shoot it from the logo. I
Speaker 3: also like, this is a really interesting stat that, like,
Speaker 3: no player who's in the top fifty for scoring is
Speaker 3: in the top ten for assists, and no player who's
Speaker 3: in the top fifty for assists is in the top
Speaker 3: ten for scoring. Cavin Clark has the scoring record and
Speaker 3: his number six in assists.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, Like she'esus freak. It's insanely good. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she just knows exactly where people are at. We're seeing
Speaker 1: like a generational talent. Oh right now, yeah, but then,
Speaker 1: you know we talked about on Boosti's that like basketball
Speaker 1: seems to be progressive, like players get better and better,
Speaker 1: like noticeably if you look at like play play now
Speaker 1: versus play ten years ago in the NBA, it's like
Speaker 1: a noticeable difference. And I just feel like women's basketball
Speaker 1: is at a point where it's like so because yeah,
Speaker 1: so Caitlyn Clark obviously that's the Steph Curry I.
Speaker 2: Was referring to.
Speaker 1: But there's there's a freshman from USC Juju Watkins who
Speaker 1: just average more points than Caitlyn Clark did her freshman year.
Speaker 1: She's like putting up twenty seven a game. There was
Speaker 1: a fucking brawl yesterday in game between the best team
Speaker 1: this season and the defending national champs from last season.
Speaker 1: Obviously we don't like to see anyone hurt or suspended
Speaker 1: or anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, but it.
Speaker 3: Was, you know, a very violent show that led to
Speaker 3: some bench clearing and yeah, some audience participation too, yes,
Speaker 3: which was wild to three D hop out of the stands,
Speaker 3: but like to join in as like peacemakers, right, talk
Speaker 3: come on, like, don't don't shove her now like it
Speaker 3: felt like yeah, yeah, but still just the energy.
Speaker 2: That was around that moment was pretty well so wile
Speaker 2: creat Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just it's it's if you're not paying attention yet,
Speaker 1: you really should jump on. This is this is the time.
Speaker 1: We're headed to the NCAA Tournament. The one seeds are
Speaker 1: you know, South Carolina coach Don Staley, who's kind of
Speaker 1: like the coach k Greg Popovich of this show, Kaitlyn Clark,
Speaker 1: and Iowa who, yeah, this is gonna Kaylyn Clark I
Speaker 1: think has announced that she's going to the w n
Speaker 1: b A, so this is going to be your last
Speaker 1: chance to see her play for Iowa. USC and that
Speaker 1: freshman I mentioned are the number one seed, the defending
Speaker 1: champ with the coach who like dresses like a character
Speaker 1: out of a out of like a Mighty Wind or
Speaker 1: something like like if like the Grand Ole Op you
Speaker 1: had a fashion week. It's just like so bonkers. They're
Speaker 1: a two seed, but like they're always dangerous. It's just
Speaker 1: there's like so many characters. It's so fun right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the level of the play is just on
Speaker 3: a completely different dimension.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, people are like shooting from thirty feet
Speaker 1: like it's it's true, like kind of.
Speaker 3: Like NBA level Kitlin's like logo step backs, like the
Speaker 3: buzzer beaters that are just it's just wild too to
Speaker 3: see like a player that you know, like sort of
Speaker 3: like how with Steph Currier like Watch like the flashot
Speaker 3: of the game, It's gonna have to go to Steph
Speaker 3: and Watch is probably gonna make it bo with Kayln
Speaker 3: Clark is the exact same way, where it's like there's
Speaker 3: just an inevitability about it. That is that's where you
Speaker 3: start being like, oh, this is this is when we
Speaker 3: get into like the superhuman.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Miles, what is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Hey, this is Miles Gray, and it's something someone for
Speaker 3: having me that I think is underrated. As I walk
Speaker 3: the streets of Austin a style I have seen on
Speaker 3: the internet, but it is it's another thing to see
Speaker 3: in person on such a frequent basis because I do
Speaker 3: see this in Orange County, California as well. It's the
Speaker 3: juxtaposition of super right wing phrase T shirts with designer
Speaker 3: like fashions, so I know it like it's a ironic
Speaker 3: right no dude, like a full on like Gucci track suit,
Speaker 3: like track pants with Gucci sneekers, but you have like
Speaker 3: a shirt emblazoned with the Constitution and like muskets on it,
Speaker 3: you know, like.
Speaker 2: These rights are that inaliable or whatever.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, okay, this is because I
Speaker 3: also saw somebody come out the Lulu Lemon store with
Speaker 3: bats like yag, Like this person was fucking just dropping
Speaker 3: like they're about to be popping tags later, but also
Speaker 3: had like a fucking like not maga. But it's sort
Speaker 3: of like it was like definitely like this conservative sort
Speaker 3: of like where's our nation going type thing, but with
Speaker 3: like designer sunglasses, expensive shoes that like, so it's just
Speaker 3: interesting to be like, you know, on one hand, it's
Speaker 3: just sort of this devotion. Another person had like a
Speaker 3: Blue Lives Matter hat on with like expensive active wear.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: So I just love the desire to be very fashionable
Speaker 3: like and mainstream, but also like insisting that like you
Speaker 3: think shooting unarmed civilians is also chill, right, but also
Speaker 3: like but also know my class and my status, Like
Speaker 3: it's it's yeah, because you see people do that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff like kind of like I've seen that in
Speaker 3: La too, where there's like like Biden but make it fashion.
Speaker 3: It's just like on either side, it's like this is
Speaker 3: such a weird thing where it's like I got a
Speaker 3: stunt on you, but also you need to know where
Speaker 3: I'm at politically, Like that's the most important things to
Speaker 3: me when I step outside.
Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, I mean that kind of leads into
Speaker 1: my overrated, which is I mean maybe this is like
Speaker 1: underrated in the sense that the trend is everywhere, but
Speaker 1: like overrated in the all that everybody's lying like in
Speaker 1: involved in this dynamic like that. So my overrate is
Speaker 1: like the bougie boutique esthetic that I feel like has
Speaker 1: taken over every like cute gentrified neighborhood. Oh like the
Speaker 1: high end shopping space, the high end shopping space, like
Speaker 1: if there's a Lulu Lemon nearby, you're going to have
Speaker 1: like these other like a Jenny's ice.
Speaker 2: Cream nearby and all burns yeah, and all birds you
Speaker 2: got all birds?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get there, and it's just exactly like so
Speaker 1: we're staying in one of these neighborhoods in Austin South Congress,
Speaker 1: South Congress, right, and it's exactly like two or three
Speaker 1: different neighborhoods in La. Yeah, like the neighborhood Like I
Speaker 1: went to college in DC and there was this street
Speaker 1: that was you know, had like some like it had
Speaker 1: a united colors of Benetton or whatever, like down like
Speaker 1: on one corner, but like it also had like a
Speaker 1: bunch of dive bars and shit. And then when I
Speaker 1: went back, like twenty years later, like all the dive
Speaker 1: bars have been replaced by like these like boutique feeling
Speaker 1: ice cream place. Yeah, like coffee shops with like you know,
Speaker 1: baristas who all look exactly like the baristas in LA
Speaker 1: and they like all have the same design aesthetic. They're
Speaker 1: all meant to feel like a like livable neighborhood where
Speaker 1: you can just like shop local, but they are essentially
Speaker 1: a deconstructed mall for people who shop at whole.
Speaker 2: Thing right exactly, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And there's also just like because you see this in
Speaker 3: La too, there's like where they whenever like a new
Speaker 3: gentrified sort of shopping space goes up, there's either like
Speaker 3: they want to make sometimes make it look like this
Speaker 3: place used to be like an industrial building. It's been
Speaker 3: repurposed because it has brick and exposable steel exposed steel
Speaker 3: beams and shit like that, and then like you're like
Speaker 3: when was this built, Like oh yeah, four years ago exactly.
Speaker 3: We just like to make that's like kind of the
Speaker 3: vibe we're giving people with our consumer monoculture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's one in LA that's like right by skid Row,
Speaker 1: right by like the downtown area, that has like the
Speaker 1: largest homeless encampment and it's in a big old industrial
Speaker 1: warehouse and it's almost always kind of abandoned, but they're
Speaker 1: like really trying hard to make it happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just like I noticed this as far back when
Speaker 1: I like in the late two thousands or late no,
Speaker 1: I guess it was early twenty tens when I like
Speaker 1: moved to Columbia, Missouri from New York, and like all
Speaker 1: the coffee shops in this like small college town just
Speaker 1: like everyone looked like the kids in Brooks. Like the
Speaker 1: design aesthetic, like the music they played was all identical
Speaker 1: to like Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: There's just you know, a flattening that has happened. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think it's like necessarily bad that people
Speaker 1: in Colombia want to like have the same case as
Speaker 1: people in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: But I do think it's like I don't know if.
Speaker 3: It's like it's necessarily a consumer driven more so that
Speaker 3: the developers are like just like a i've mind, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's just kind of like, oh yeah, that's just
Speaker 3: like what that's like, that's how shit it's supposed to
Speaker 3: look down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I feel like we're being been sorted by
Speaker 1: like algorithms, you know. And I think it's probably why
Speaker 1: we have like our most famous person of all time
Speaker 1: maybe right now, like in addition, you know, with Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift and stuff.
Speaker 2: I just I.
Speaker 1: Feel like they're we're all being kind of sorted and
Speaker 1: there's this weightlessness of like online commerce that we're all
Speaker 1: just like end up gravitating towards similar things, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I mean the algorithms definitely they didn't nail
Speaker 3: it for me. Uh for here, they didn't. They didn't
Speaker 3: have a single thing that I like, So algorithms do better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do better algorithms. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It just all feels like it's yeah that it can't
Speaker 1: all be the same thing, oh jack, but it is right,
Speaker 1: And I think, yeah, like we.
Speaker 3: All have these like signifiers right that like help people
Speaker 3: feel like we've attained a certain level of success or consumer, like,
Speaker 3: like what at what level we can consume? And it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: well we have a Jenny's Like that means I'm in
Speaker 3: this bracket.
Speaker 2: Oh I we have this store here.
Speaker 3: That means we're at a certain level because there isn't
Speaker 3: a target nearby or something like that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, man, you know it's just got to
Speaker 3: say though, these All Birds shoes are very comfortable.
Speaker 2: I think you are very usable. Why about four pairs?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just wanted to fit in. You
Speaker 2: did walk out of the All Birds with just boxes,
Speaker 2: and I was kind.
Speaker 3: Of competing with the Blue Lives Matter person just to
Speaker 3: be like, yo, I can you know I got money too, got.
Speaker 1: To do do one for us. They're going to get
Speaker 1: all those All Birds. But yeah, Brian the editor said,
Speaker 1: America's masterful at flattening cultures into homogeneous pace. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like appropriating different things and then this feels
Speaker 1: like it's all just ended up getting turned into a
Speaker 1: smooth the that looks like.
Speaker 2: A I don't know, it looks like a sick Witherspoon.
Speaker 3: It sort of feels like a I where like you
Speaker 3: would be like fashionable, high end shopping space, and it
Speaker 3: would pull up like a Google search and it might
Speaker 3: reference like buildings in New York that maybe were industrial
Speaker 3: buildings that have been repurposed. Then it's like, okay, that's
Speaker 3: the look, now we will put it here, and.
Speaker 2: It's all just sort of like referential in this way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It feels like a line in New York, like
Speaker 1: that thing where they took over the Highline. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: turned it into a park that's outdoor, and you know,
Speaker 1: like some of them are like built into nature, and
Speaker 1: so there's like these differentiating factors of like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: this cool hill with like weird looking rocks coming out
Speaker 1: of it, and then you know, but everything around it
Speaker 1: is identical to what you would find in every major city.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. What uh, what's your What's something you
Speaker 2: think is overrated mine? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think just to kind of keep this sort of
Speaker 3: serious tone going, the thing that I think is overrated
Speaker 3: are people that fart really loud at the urinal and
Speaker 3: act like it's not up for commentary, Act like what
Speaker 3: it's not up for commentary. So it's really not not
Speaker 3: much to this.
Speaker 2: But you know, I was, uh, I'm in town.
Speaker 3: One of my really good friends Chris lives out here,
Speaker 3: and so like we went to a bar and go
Speaker 3: to the go to the bathroom, and like the dude
Speaker 3: next to me in the urinal dude he farted so
Speaker 3: fucking loud, like he farted like he was trying out
Speaker 3: for the Olympic part. Like it was like it was
Speaker 3: it was, I mean, it was to the point where
Speaker 3: I laughed. I was like like, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: that's got to be what he's looking for. At that point,
Speaker 3: you think, and I get it too, you're peeing, you relax,
Speaker 3: you like all these muscles begin to relax, then the
Speaker 3: fart is natural. But this felt like it's like, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm doing still laughs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I fucking laugh.
Speaker 3: The guy looked over at me like that was supposed
Speaker 3: to be a private moment between him and his dog.
Speaker 2: Problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was like like I didn't say anything,
Speaker 3: but I was like, okay, Like I just finished up,
Speaker 3: washed my hands and left. But I was just like
Speaker 3: I came back and like, d like when people fart,
Speaker 3: like it's you can say something, right, like honestly, why
Speaker 3: you can't say anything or at least have a reaction
Speaker 3: to someone farting? Really like it was a comedic sounding part.
Speaker 3: That's it feels like a little like a tiny one. Fine,
Speaker 3: you know, it just.
Speaker 2: Like kind of escapes. Yeah, chalk it up to like
Speaker 2: the sonic environment of a men's room. But this one
Speaker 2: was like a confetti cannon. It was. It was like
Speaker 2: if there was a town crier, was a pronouncement.
Speaker 3: So, like I said, I think they're up for debate.
Speaker 3: I think they're up for commentary. I think they're up
Speaker 3: for analysis. And we get it. It's it is a
Speaker 3: bathroom and that you do have privacy, but like when
Speaker 3: you when you're doing it like that, come on, it's
Speaker 3: also stall.
Speaker 2: You just let them be right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if someone's taking this ship like I'm not, I've
Speaker 3: never you know, everyone has had this experience.
Speaker 2: Someone is clearly having some kind of crisis on the toilet,
Speaker 2: especially in Austin with like the food that a lot
Speaker 2: of brisket, grease, you know, really good, really good for
Speaker 2: the bowels.
Speaker 1: We got here, we immediately had a cup of coffee
Speaker 1: and then went and had Egyptian barbecue, which is like
Speaker 1: so good, punds of lamb.
Speaker 2: I'm still thinking of lamb belly ribs.
Speaker 1: And then and then you know, I go to the
Speaker 1: bathroom and next to Miles, and he comes with this
Speaker 1: passive aggressive take.
Speaker 2: What about in the stalls? Making the stalls have been
Speaker 2: in the stalls?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 2: Is that? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, that's private.
Speaker 2: You got a door, you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's wild ship going on in there that. I'm like, Oh, man,
Speaker 1: I've never like, it's been bad for me. There's never
Speaker 1: been like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: Where I'm like, that's where I have a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, you know, that is a private moment
Speaker 3: between you and your God.
Speaker 2: That's right, But.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you're like, you're doing crowd work right. You
Speaker 3: are kind of like asking.
Speaker 2: Hey, where are you from?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: What do you think? My name is? Wiles of Los Angeles?
Speaker 2: It was wild bro.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We got a
Speaker 1: lot to get to. We haven't recorded since the State
Speaker 1: of the Union. More importantly, the State of the Union
Speaker 1: response from the Republicans and the oscars obviously happened, So
Speaker 1: we'll get to all of that right after these messages.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 1: Brian the editor just wanted to let us all know
Speaker 1: about a mono Neon song about part of wing you Pee.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a good it's a good feeling, it's
Speaker 1: a good of release. But just don't do it next
Speaker 1: to Miles Gray because he will make.
Speaker 2: Fun of you.
Speaker 1: He will come on the podcast that you host together
Speaker 1: and call you out.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, don't make it, dude. I have whatever,
Speaker 2: I have recordings. I don't need to.
Speaker 3: I don't need to fucking absolve myself, but if I
Speaker 3: need to whatever.
Speaker 2: Texas a two party state, so you can't record party,
Speaker 2: you can off. I'm doing a selfie video in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: That's tell the court. And then the phone was blown
Speaker 2: out of your hand. I'm sue you for damages. All right.
Speaker 1: So the state union happened last Thursday. Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: haven't recorded since then. Overall, feels like the consensus from
Speaker 1: the Biden part of the speech was that, uh, guy
Speaker 1: kind of nailed it.
Speaker 2: Joe's got his mojo back. Energy was sharp.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I look, he's reading from a teleprompter. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think the bar is pretty low. Yeah, he seems so awake.
Speaker 2: He seems so wide awake, dude. I'm telling you. Whatever,
Speaker 2: like racehorse shot, they gave him it.
Speaker 3: Looks he he does better on whatever pedes he has
Speaker 3: to take before speech than like what Trump does because
Speaker 3: Trump gets out and he's just like a fucking wreck.
Speaker 1: I think Trump is more out of control of his
Speaker 1: own cycles. Like he I feel like he's you know,
Speaker 1: because he's been on that and veteran like mixed with
Speaker 1: adderall shit since the eighties, So he's I mean maybe
Speaker 1: that means just means that he's got his like, you know,
Speaker 1: shit locked in.
Speaker 3: You know, his part marches to a different beat. Someone
Speaker 3: call it in arrhythmia probably, but fucking wild. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I think, you know, like afterwards, all the
Speaker 3: pundits were like, you know, Joe Biden clearly made his
Speaker 3: case to be president. He's he's silenced all of the
Speaker 3: doubters who said he was. And I'm like, yeah, it
Speaker 3: was a it was a fine speech for Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: I think the content of it whatever, You could go
Speaker 3: either way depending on how you viewed this presidency.
Speaker 2: But definitely I expected very little and he delivered slightly
Speaker 2: better than what I expected. So I can't say. Energetically
Speaker 2: that is where that speech was.
Speaker 1: And energetically every time he like has a news cycle,
Speaker 1: win you know, regardless of the content of the speech
Speaker 1: and because of the alternative that we're facing on the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four presidential election. I get a sense of
Speaker 1: relief when people are like Joe did Good. I'm like,
Speaker 1: my heart gets a little less like balled up into
Speaker 1: a fist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So the speech, Yeah, there was a I mean, he
Speaker 3: like a lot of people were like, what is he
Speaker 3: going to say in regards to Gaza. He's like, I'm
Speaker 3: going to build a pier, Like there was like talk
Speaker 3: of you know, building like an emergency pier off the metage,
Speaker 3: like off the coast of Gaza. Fraid bit fell a
Speaker 3: bit short. I think of what many people are asking for,
Speaker 3: just ceasefire. Although you know, recently he's he's getting a
Speaker 3: little more outwardly now frustrated with pavy nets and yap
Speaker 3: saying like, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I think I think he's actually he's actually causing
Speaker 2: more harmed is real than good damn son.
Speaker 3: So you get those again, not quite what people on
Speaker 3: you know, who are screaming for an immediate sease fire
Speaker 3: are saying.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think that's where like the White
Speaker 2: House is trying to, all.
Speaker 3: Right, show him a little bit, drop a little guys
Speaker 3: a turkey, like you're not completely all in on what
Speaker 3: is happening there on a genocide.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think despite that, it's weird.
Speaker 3: Like the Republican response to the State of the Union
Speaker 3: was so bad, I think it almost overshadowed Joe Biden's
Speaker 3: actual speech. Yeah, I know when a lot of people
Speaker 3: are like, yeah, that was great, But all of the
Speaker 3: coverage now is all on Senator Katie Britt in Alabama.
Speaker 1: Which is I think part of the problem with how
Speaker 1: things work that we need a gaff, you know, we
Speaker 1: need something to be fucked up or else there's not
Speaker 1: going to be a news cycle. It's not like having
Speaker 1: a better than expected State of the Union is not
Speaker 1: going to capture or the news cycle. But if the
Speaker 1: Republicans like, fuck up the response that is so in
Speaker 1: some ways I feel like this is the best the
Speaker 1: Democrats could have hoped for. Is that, you know, because
Speaker 1: him doing better than expected is not gonna.
Speaker 2: Get like have legs.
Speaker 1: But like the fact that you know, Trump was like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be responding live and I'm going to totally
Speaker 1: own this motherfucker. And then first of all, his social
Speaker 1: platform like collapsed and then the only thing that he
Speaker 1: was putting out where like these what were they like
Speaker 1: like snap filters, like snap filters like Biden and Kamala
Speaker 1: with like big big eyes, yeah, or like hipster like
Speaker 1: Coachella hair.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, that I don't know if that's sort of
Speaker 3: like yeah, I'm trying to think of the show that
Speaker 3: that's specifically, but yeah, they have braided pigtails with ribbons
Speaker 3: and straw hats. Very serious and it's I'm glad that
Speaker 3: that is what That's the best Donald Trump could do
Speaker 3: was aim a phone at a TV with a snap
Speaker 3: filter and be like, yeah, you see that.
Speaker 2: Set a little bread. Now you look crazy in this. Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow you ran your little bicycle to the local markets
Speaker 2: to get artisanal bridge.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so anyways, the biggest topic of discussion, though,
Speaker 1: was the official rebuttal from Alabama Senator Katie Britt, handpicked
Speaker 1: by Mitch McConnell. Felt like a self tape audition for
Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie set in Hell.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, I've never it's uh, Honestly, the Democrats could
Speaker 3: not have asked for something better than what they did.
Speaker 2: It was on the faux drama in this speech was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: It felt like it honestly felt like if you've been
Speaker 3: in like anyone who's seen someone do like a bad
Speaker 3: monologue in high school, acting class, yeah, and being like
Speaker 3: the way our I have to admit I'm afraid for
Speaker 3: our family's America.
Speaker 2: But she was like her voice was quaking with emotion.
Speaker 1: The introduction, Yeah, oh yeah, that's just like mostly studied something.
Speaker 3: She came like framer blowing through the door exactly. There's
Speaker 3: no room to there's no room to go up when
Speaker 3: you blow through the door like that. Yes, and so
Speaker 3: everything just fell very weird, and it's wild to see
Speaker 3: how much even the Republicans are.
Speaker 2: Like, God, that was so fucking bad.
Speaker 1: There is uh, there's a great clip that we will
Speaker 1: put in the footnotes that is the end of her
Speaker 1: speech where she says.
Speaker 2: May God bless you, and may God bless America and.
Speaker 1: You have So this is being streamed by some right
Speaker 1: wing a real America's voice, yeah, where they kind of
Speaker 1: react to this in real time. And it's three right
Speaker 1: wing commentators kind of watching it, and as it ends,
Speaker 1: one of them like has their head in their hands.
Speaker 2: The other one is like just reading like just from
Speaker 2: a from a script someone has just handed them. But
Speaker 2: like truly, they act like they don't know what the
Speaker 2: fuck is that.
Speaker 1: They're like they look, is the Holy Way? Like this
Speaker 1: is exactly that's not in the script. And we both
Speaker 1: laid in the same word. Crestfallen is the right word.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, I mean, I'm sure she's a very
Speaker 1: nice woman.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting how people are like, oh yeah, well,
Speaker 2: you know, like, who is it?
Speaker 3: A source close to Trump's quote, No, no one is
Speaker 3: surprised that Mitch McConnell's handpicked senator resonated so poorly with
Speaker 3: the base. I mean, it was all the red meat
Speaker 3: that Trump is doing. It's all xenophobic immigrants are killing you.
Speaker 3: White people are getting stabbed by non whites. We need
Speaker 3: to head for the hill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she took us a story from a trafficking
Speaker 1: victim that happened, like this is a pretty well known story,
Speaker 1: like people knew she I think she kept it anonymous
Speaker 1: in her speech, but it was this one Ma Carla Jacinto, Yes,
Speaker 1: who had a horrifying experience of being trafficked. She provided
Speaker 1: these like grizzly details and said that it happened thanks
Speaker 1: to Joe Biden's policies. The actual victim she was talking
Speaker 1: about was from the story was from two thousand and four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think like there was another instance that
Speaker 3: was reference that happened in two thousand and eight, two
Speaker 3: thousand and eight, and people pointed that out, and she's like, well,
Speaker 3: I verly like She's like Katie britzehud Be, like, well,
Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to say that, like I She said, well,
Speaker 3: I very clearly said I spoke to a woman who
Speaker 3: told me about when she was trafficked when she was twelve.
Speaker 2: So I didn't say a teenager.
Speaker 3: I didn't say a young woman, a grown woman, a
Speaker 3: woman when she was trafficked when she was twelve. And
Speaker 3: so listening to her story, she's like, she just completely
Speaker 3: spiraled and acted like that's not what she did. And
Speaker 3: I get that rhetorically, she didn't say and this is
Speaker 3: because Joe Biden. What she did was a Joe Biden sandwich,
Speaker 3: evoke Joe Biden, then evoke this horrific story, and then
Speaker 3: evoke Joe Biden again two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and four. In two thousand and eight, that's George W.
Speaker 2: Bush time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And she was also like she also came out.
Speaker 3: She's like, dude, people fucking use my experience. Politicians do
Speaker 3: this all the time. I fucking hate it. I resent
Speaker 3: the fact that this woman also did this in America.
Speaker 3: And she's like, also, I wasn't trafficked by the cartels.
Speaker 3: She's like, I was trafficked by a pimp. It's like,
Speaker 3: so this, like all this shit is just being used
Speaker 3: again for her weaponized rhetoric. But it's scarier to say
Speaker 3: the cartels because, of course, yeah, because that's what's in
Speaker 3: now and people have seen Sacario and they're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm an expert now on drug and human trafficking.
Speaker 1: But yeah, regardless of like, you know, the fact checking
Speaker 1: of what she said, how she said it, I think
Speaker 1: resonated with people in a way that was kind of
Speaker 1: the opposite of as it was intended. The Republican's reaction
Speaker 1: to the speech have ranged from calling it unfortunate to
Speaker 1: deeming it quote the stuff of nightmares. One GOP insider said, quote,
Speaker 1: everyone's fucking losing it. It's one of our biggest disasters ever.
Speaker 3: I mean that's up there. Yeah, yeah, there's a few
Speaker 3: that I might throw up there on that top ten list. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it was not not a great not a
Speaker 3: great performance there. Yeah, and yeah, just like it just rereaked.
Speaker 3: It was just so insincere. And obviously most politicians come
Speaker 3: off as insincere, but this was especially insincere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just yeah, just a bunch of beer mongery. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In other news, Neil deGrasse Tyson, people are still sick
Speaker 1: of his bullshit.
Speaker 2: He's shut nerd guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like he's only ever trends when he
Speaker 1: makes some like pedantic scientific argument against a popular movie.
Speaker 1: People get mad, Like when he complained about gravity, which
Speaker 1: I think his complaints about gravity are.
Speaker 2: One of the few complaints that I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of what was his complaint about graft?
Speaker 1: I think it was maybe not maybe I'm confusing his
Speaker 1: complaint with a different one, but just the idea that
Speaker 1: like they would be close enough to swim basically space,
Speaker 1: swim to the International Space Station where it's like that
Speaker 1: that's just like assuming you know, space is so much
Speaker 1: bigger than the surface of the Earth, right, and that
Speaker 1: you would just happen to be like close to it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he.
Speaker 3: Said it should the film should be renamed a zero
Speaker 3: gravity or angular momentum, right, and he's saying that the
Speaker 3: latter the tendency, once set rotating, to keep rotating unless
Speaker 3: another for you know, Okay, it's dude, it's a movie.
Speaker 2: It's actually more. It's worse than I thought.
Speaker 1: Just relaxed, all right, But anyways, this time also, like
Speaker 1: people get mad at this guy who's been accused of
Speaker 1: sexual misconduct by multiple women for his pedantic movie takes right,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of weird, but here we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now he's got his sights on Doune Yes.
Speaker 1: Although, all right, my least favorite I just learned about.
Speaker 1: My least favorite take from him was he said in
Speaker 1: at Star Wars hashtag the Force Awakens, I'm reminded that
Speaker 1: red and blue teams cooperate with one another, rare in
Speaker 1: American politics.
Speaker 2: Oh what the fuck is he taught? Like have you
Speaker 2: seen that movie?
Speaker 3: He's just merely talking that the different like the jet fighter,
Speaker 3: like the space fighter, tyfer or X wing fighter squadrons
Speaker 3: are like blue and red.
Speaker 1: But it's a movie about a radicalized underclass who are
Speaker 1: forced to mount a violent rebellion in order to gain
Speaker 1: their fundamental freedoms. And he's like, this is actually a
Speaker 1: great illustration of why we should have like Joe Biden
Speaker 1: chilling with Republicans.
Speaker 2: Or is supposed to mean?
Speaker 3: Like, is he talking about the fact that it's because
Speaker 3: John Boyega's character was a storm trooper.
Speaker 2: Sure, like that that's what he means, but like he wasn't.
Speaker 3: It's like he like all the Stormtroopers decided like to
Speaker 3: be like, hey man, we need to be in solidarity
Speaker 3: with these people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and using that as an excuse as a reason
Speaker 1: for bipartisan ship.
Speaker 2: It seems like really.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anyways, now he so he went on Stephen
Speaker 1: Colbert and complained about the realism in June two, specifically
Speaker 1: the part where the heroes create vibrations in the sand
Speaker 1: to call sandworms. According to Tyson, the thumping wouldn't be
Speaker 1: audible because it's sand.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, wrapped up with a bow. That's that folks.
Speaker 2: Well somebody didn't do the research on that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Stephen Colbert was like, wait, because that's not how sandworms,
Speaker 1: a fictional creature, actually behave. He's like, no, I'm saying
Speaker 1: you can't thump sand.
Speaker 2: Oh really, yeah, is that true because experts disagree?
Speaker 1: Yeah, worm experts are like the and there is like
Speaker 1: a wide open complaint you could have like animals can't
Speaker 1: really grow that big on land because of like what
Speaker 1: gravity and especially the force of like that much sand
Speaker 1: around you would sure, but his argument actually doesn't work
Speaker 1: because you could actually play music under a pile of
Speaker 1: sand and see the resonance.
Speaker 2: And again we're also talking about fucking dune.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this isn't some like you know, hyper realistic sci
Speaker 3: fi thing where it's like so it's supposed to be
Speaker 3: grounded in our reality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the sand that he's talking about contains spice,
Speaker 1: which is a like mystical element that allows people to
Speaker 1: hallucinate so well that they can navigate through space. What
Speaker 1: about that is on that point, maybe there's something a
Speaker 1: little bit different about the sand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't remember. I rewatched doing recently. I don't remember how
Speaker 1: like fucking psychedelic the whole thing is.
Speaker 3: But the area of the part that always freaks me
Speaker 3: on the first one is when the hearken in or
Speaker 3: like would that one dude like.
Speaker 2: Just like that weird ceremony. I'm still like it's weird.
Speaker 3: I don't honestly get weirded out looking at shit, But
Speaker 3: the combination of the visuals with the.
Speaker 2: Sound as didn't. Evesenov says, true cinema, sound and image unsettling.
Speaker 2: I can handle that on strong acid, man.
Speaker 3: That's why I just want to I just can't wait
Speaker 3: to get my fuck bucket and enjoy doing too.
Speaker 2: Later on this week.
Speaker 1: Anyways, let's uh, let's take a quick break, we'll come back,
Speaker 1: we'll talk the oscars and of course Kate Middleton conspiracy series.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 1: And his Mother's Day in the UK on Sunday, which
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily realize or remember.
Speaker 2: I guess wrong with them over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well dude, on the wrong day. What are you
Speaker 1: trying to prove you better than us? But yeah, so
Speaker 1: they have a different Mother's Day.
Speaker 2: And that's fine, and that's fine. Yeah it's obviously worse,
Speaker 2: but that's whatever you guys want to do. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: the weather's so nice, you'd love to take your mother out? Yeah,
Speaker 2: on like the middle of March. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe is it like London like specifically gets better as
Speaker 1: spring goes along? Like I remember that being true of Ireland.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's true of London, but uh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe you don't think your mother's deserved better,
Speaker 1: but that's fine. So Kensington Palace, in honor of Mother's Day,
Speaker 1: released a photo of Kate Middleton hanging out with her kids,
Speaker 1: supposedly taken by Prince William. Kate Middleton in the picture
Speaker 1: looks totally alive in defiance of any and all Internet. Hey,
Speaker 1: y'all totally alive hanging with their kids.
Speaker 2: I've very much alive. Kate Middleton poses with her children
Speaker 2: is like the caption Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, they thought they really muffed this one, because people
Speaker 1: online were quick to notice a number of weird things
Speaker 1: about the photo, indicating it had been manipulated, which might
Speaker 1: have just seemed like more tinfoil hattery, except that this
Speaker 1: led to a truly shocking move from news agencies like
Speaker 1: the AP to issue a kill notification so that the
Speaker 1: photo could no longer be used in any manner due
Speaker 1: to evidence of manipulation, which is kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: It makes me think that like, there are people at
Speaker 1: the top of like the AP who are like Kate
Speaker 1: Middleton truthers.
Speaker 2: Right right right, really like no, yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 3: And then was really weird because after it's pointed out,
Speaker 3: it took like hours for their to be like an explanation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And her explanation was like this is from her official
Speaker 3: Twitter account. Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment
Speaker 3: with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any
Speaker 3: confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope
Speaker 3: everyone celebrating had a good had a very happy Mother's Day.
Speaker 2: See what's the C for uh typo? Yeah? Maybe uh
Speaker 2: Cat is her name full name Catherine with a C,
Speaker 2: but no, but she's Kate, Kate with a K. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that'd be wild. Huh. I don't know. Someone helped me
Speaker 2: decipher that, but I mean there's like so many fucking
Speaker 2: see because she's serving kunt.
Speaker 3: So it's just wild to see the number of forensic
Speaker 3: analyzes of this photo.
Speaker 2: The BB's like BBC Verify.
Speaker 3: That's like used to like debunk like straight up misinformation
Speaker 3: in a whole thing, bringing all these like experts to
Speaker 3: understand what happened. And some people are like, well, there
Speaker 3: are certain things like where if you take a series
Speaker 3: of photos in rapid succession, there's like some software that'll
Speaker 3: compose together like the best version of everyone's face. Other
Speaker 3: people were like, the metadata seems to suggest it was
Speaker 3: like shot with a canon lens and you're like I don't, dude,
Speaker 3: I don't know, Like right, who fine, but like what
Speaker 3: are we what are we getting at here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's still just like it's.
Speaker 3: Just sort of feeding this whole sort of online shit
Speaker 3: about like what's happening to her? And again, like we've
Speaker 3: said in the past, it's like it could be something
Speaker 3: very normal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like she had a medical procedure, so
Speaker 1: like the true like important details of this whole story
Speaker 1: she had a medical procedure, was like I'm going to
Speaker 1: be out until I think it was later than this,
Speaker 1: like yeah, and just like I'm going to be out
Speaker 1: of the public eye, like thank you for respecting my privacy,
Speaker 1: and everyone's like respecting your what what you are the
Speaker 1: princess and we are one of the most toxic celebrity
Speaker 1: cultures in the world, and immediately started speculating that she
Speaker 1: was like dead or divorcing William, But like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe like whatever medical procedure she had affected her physical
Speaker 1: appearance and she doesn't want to be sharing photos of
Speaker 1: herself with the British press, which not always the kindest.
Speaker 3: No, No, I've not heard great things about the British
Speaker 3: tabloid press and royal watchers. Yeah, but hey, uh it's
Speaker 3: it's only just fed the speculat man. People are losing it.
Speaker 3: Like the amount of like pictures I've seen, like red
Speaker 3: circles around the anomalies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what does that even tell you?
Speaker 3: Like, does that the fact that her daughter's sleeve looks
Speaker 3: a little like discombobulated, Does that mean that she's under
Speaker 3: duress and that's the secret message or it's a shitty photoshop.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. All
Speaker 2: we have her questions right now, that's right, we don't know,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's uh, well, well we'll stay tuned because that's our job,
Speaker 1: all right. The Oscars happened last night. I got to
Speaker 1: them very late, but have been reviewing notes from people
Speaker 1: who watched the whole thing. Oppenheimer won Best Picture, as
Speaker 1: announced by Al Pacino. Uh just seemed so confused and
Speaker 1: just was like, I don't know if the prompter was down,
Speaker 1: but he like did not bother to list the nominees
Speaker 1: and clearly like didn't give a shit and was just
Speaker 1: like I'm a yeah, so I have I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: Shakespeater and then just looked just was like, and so
Speaker 1: I'm here to announce the winner, and the winner is
Speaker 1: in this envelope, and so I'm gonna open the envelope
Speaker 1: and people are like no, wait wait and the nope
Speaker 1: and then you just opened it and said, my eyes see, Oppenheimer.
Speaker 3: My eyes sever, thank you so much, Al, thank you
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 1: For that, and nobody like it was just like kind
Speaker 1: of silent because everyone was like, wait, wait what yeah,
Speaker 1: my see Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2: Okay, but what is that?
Speaker 3: What is on the cart because that could be a
Speaker 3: weird way, but like, but the actual wit right, my
Speaker 3: eyes see.
Speaker 2: The big surprise was that Emma Stone won Best Actress
Speaker 2: for Poor Things. Lily.
Speaker 1: Gladstone was favored to win after having napped the Say
Speaker 1: Award last month. I think Gladstone was definitely deserving, would
Speaker 1: have become the first indigenous actress to win, and arguably
Speaker 1: gave a better performance and kills the flower Moon.
Speaker 2: But well, but at least you got to see John
Speaker 2: Cena's almost ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and John Cena baby presented the Oscar for Best
Speaker 1: Costume while naked. It seemed like, I don't know again,
Speaker 1: I don't know if just the world was in a
Speaker 1: better mood for some reason the past few days, but
Speaker 1: like it seemed like the general response was like fun Oscars,
Speaker 1: good job.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I don't know, I think that. I
Speaker 3: guess the hosting was fine. I just saw like isolated clips.
Speaker 3: I mean maybe because only one person used their platform
Speaker 3: to speak out against what's happening in Gaza. Yeah, they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: pretty good, pretty good. Everyone else kept it to a pin.
Speaker 3: Wasn't too much, too much chaos, and yeah, that's that.
Speaker 3: I guess it was pretty straightforward. I feel like everyone's
Speaker 3: just talking about the what's they ken?
Speaker 1: I'm just yeah, yeah, that was you know, Bryan Gosling
Speaker 1: gave a bravura performance, singing and dancing to the song.
Speaker 2: I'm just ken.
Speaker 1: That seems to be like the the worst thing you
Speaker 1: can do for your song's chance of winning the Academy
Speaker 1: Award is to give a show stopping performance of that song, right,
Speaker 1: because then that song promptly loses to something else.
Speaker 2: So I just can yeah to.
Speaker 1: The song for Barbie, right right, But you're also same movie.
Speaker 1: But I'm just getting lost. Billie Eilish as Barbie song
Speaker 1: What was I made for and the other fun moment
Speaker 1: the people seem to be sharing. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny
Speaker 1: DeVito presented an award but didn't mention twins, and instead
Speaker 1: they talk about how they've both been beaten up by
Speaker 1: Batman and like we're like there he is and pointed
Speaker 1: to Michael Keaton and then Michael Keaton gave a fun performance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I think the other controversial
Speaker 2: woman was there.
Speaker 3: Like Robert Downey Junior didn't acknowledge Khoi Kwan when he
Speaker 3: got his award. Yeah, and yeah, I don't just we
Speaker 3: have a lot happening. Yeah, any like micro scandals.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't. Yeah, yeah, hey man, all right, Robert
Speaker 2: you did your thing. Good for you. But yeah, we'll see,
Speaker 2: uh you know what what else comes of this? I mean,
Speaker 2: there wasn't much coverage.
Speaker 3: It seemed like, I mean I heard after the fact
Speaker 3: about how the protesters outside like completely fucked up the
Speaker 3: arrivals for the oscar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there were so many protesters asking for ceasefire
Speaker 1: that they like the arrival times were fucked up.
Speaker 2: People didn't get there on time.
Speaker 1: The show started without people like being like everybody knowing
Speaker 1: there the seats right, so that the fillers were this
Speaker 1: was like d Day for the seat fillers.
Speaker 2: Where they were like having to fill so many seats.
Speaker 2: I need you in both of these sections at once, but.
Speaker 1: Once, but yeah, I mean on the subject of guys
Speaker 1: of the Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer accepted the
Speaker 1: award for Best International Film. I still haven't seen Zone
Speaker 1: of Interest, but I hear it's like the one of
Speaker 1: the better films of the year and like incredibly harrowing,
Speaker 1: and it is, you know, it's about the like a
Speaker 1: nice idyllic home where the architect of Auschwitz lives with
Speaker 1: his family right next to the you know, concentration camp,
Speaker 1: and is literally about the evils of ignoring a genocide
Speaker 1: as it unfolds around you. And so in his acceptance speech,
Speaker 1: he you know, made reference to the fact that this
Speaker 1: is this is a movie that is about right now
Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: His wording was sort of he said, right now, we
Speaker 3: stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the
Speaker 3: Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to
Speaker 3: conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of
Speaker 3: October seventh in Israel or the ongoing attack in Gaza,
Speaker 3: and then some people just sort of like in bad
Speaker 3: faith or like, oh, they refute their Jewishness, right, And
Speaker 3: it's like no, I think what they meant to say
Speaker 3: is they refute the hijacking and you know, of their
Speaker 3: Jewishness and the ignoring of the Holocaust to perpetuate it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Kevin, like the the like, the what the people,
Speaker 3: like the amount of protesters, like they caused people to
Speaker 3: have to walk up sunset to get to the theater,
Speaker 3: and it was yeah, I mean it, it was a
Speaker 3: lot going on. But at least they'll have their one
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars gift bags.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the worsport on what's in the gift bags.
Speaker 1: I always wondered, like how it's possible, because yeah, so
Speaker 1: the gift bags are worth about one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: eight about one hundred and seventy eighty four hundred and
Speaker 1: ten dollars just in that neighborhood, which is you know,
Speaker 1: some consolation prize but a lot of the monetary. So
Speaker 1: I was always wondering, like what that bag looks like,
Speaker 1: like the do you have to have it airlifted?
Speaker 2: Out of the right is it in a crate? Right,
Speaker 2: you have to put on a forklift.
Speaker 1: But a lot of the monetary value consists of offers
Speaker 1: for stays in fancy resorts and private shows from a
Speaker 1: local mentalist.
Speaker 2: Oh so yeah, private shows from a local mentalist.
Speaker 1: The mentalist was got interviewed for this, and I was like, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know I have I typically cater to a high
Speaker 1: end clientele.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean it was interesting on Fox.
Speaker 3: They were like I was watching Fox this morning, and
Speaker 3: they're like, the gift bags are on hundreds and eighty
Speaker 3: four ten dollars the median household income in the United States.
Speaker 3: Like they're trying to draw like this sort of like
Speaker 3: class consciousness comparison, but is merely just obviously slam the
Speaker 3: Hollywood elites. But I was like, oh, look at you
Speaker 3: suddenly being concerned about income. Are you staying only because
Speaker 3: it's a gift bag that someone who was you know,
Speaker 3: cares about trans people or something? You just want to
Speaker 3: be like, yeah, Like so they're out of touch. They
Speaker 3: one hundred and sevy eight thousand dollars gift back. I've
Speaker 3: actually been to the place in Saint Bart's. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: they do actually pretty nice.
Speaker 2: It's really nice and like there's no poor people. It's
Speaker 2: like you don't. That's what I love about Saint Bart's.
Speaker 2: It's like you can't be poor and even getting near there.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't given it by some fancy gift bag.
Speaker 1: Was given it by a defense contractor who likes my
Speaker 1: work on this show and wants me to keep up
Speaker 1: the quote good work.
Speaker 2: So good work, and they tussle my hair. Yeah, But
Speaker 2: so the.
Speaker 1: Physical gifts are luxury ittoms like a wine fridge Jesus.
Speaker 2: But it's also like that some of the shit is
Speaker 2: like the.
Speaker 1: Stuff you find in like a children's birthday party gift bag,
Speaker 1: like a Rubik's cube, black licorice.
Speaker 3: It's like two violence giving me black licorice. I would
Speaker 3: be like, that's disgusting.
Speaker 1: It's probably like the most boutique black licorice, like you
Speaker 1: could find it on the street where we're recording this podcast,
Speaker 1: and often so cute. So it's like locally sourced black liquorice.
Speaker 2: I love it. But also underwear.
Speaker 1: Each bag include eighty six dollars worth of boxers oh okay,
Speaker 1: nine dollars case of poppies ODA fifteen dollars Rubic's cube,
Speaker 1: eighty six dollars worth of boxers, eighty dollars worth of
Speaker 1: black licorice.
Speaker 2: Eighty dollars worth of that's enough.
Speaker 1: That's too too much black licorice or that black liquorice.
Speaker 1: Better have like some manner of drug in it, right,
Speaker 1: Better have actual spice from the Dune universe.
Speaker 2: I better be able to navigate, get my fucking dragonfly
Speaker 2: ship and fuck off out of here.
Speaker 1: Five hundred dollars worth of roses, which like are probably
Speaker 1: just rotting in that bag right now because all that
Speaker 1: shit is unopened. Four hundred and ninety five dollars worth
Speaker 1: of throw pillows, two hundred and fifty dollars travel duffel.
Speaker 1: I would take that, thank you, thank you, that's mine.
Speaker 1: But a lot of these the offers for like stays
Speaker 1: and you know, like luxury trips. The luxury trips won't
Speaker 1: be redeemed because they're considered taxable gifts, which to the
Speaker 1: Academy stopped issuing gift bag in two thousand and six
Speaker 1: because they decided it was like too much of a
Speaker 1: tax burden to just like drop on these stars.
Speaker 2: The stars were like, oh man, are you fucking serious.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Well, Scot wouldn't want them to have to
Speaker 2: pay taxes on Yeah, it's really hard for them. I
Speaker 2: mean the American family is only making a fraction, like
Speaker 2: one third, Yeah of that, So Fox News is pissed. Yep.
Speaker 1: All right, those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending this Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with a
Speaker 1: whole ass episode of the show.
Speaker 2: Until then, be.
Speaker 1: Kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bite