Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of a
Speaker 1: trend through the Zach guest on a trend with nos like,
Speaker 1: it's been good to be out of the trends. Oh,
Speaker 1: that is courtesy of that song being in my head
Speaker 1: ever since Miles said.
Speaker 2: That Neil Young banger dude.
Speaker 3: But we all were thinking that that is by Neil Young.
Speaker 1: Somebody else pointed out they were like, I actually always
Speaker 1: thought it was by America, which was a song that
Speaker 1: Neil Young was the lead singer of which I also thought.
Speaker 1: That was like how that mistake worked its way through
Speaker 1: my brain. Also, I was like, that's a Neil Young song.
Speaker 1: Oh it's by America. I didn't know Neil Young was
Speaker 1: in a song called America. That guy's a liar. He's
Speaker 1: actually Canadian anyways.
Speaker 2: He because of GTA San Andreas that I first heard
Speaker 2: that song to begin with. That was that really? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the first time I heard it was on one
Speaker 2: of the radio stations on Grand Theft.
Speaker 3: Auto real quick. What Jack? Is that a loose XLR
Speaker 3: cable just hanging?
Speaker 2: Are you pick? He's a different Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 2: plugged into his Zoom Report.
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, leave it. Brian people need to oh shit right,
Speaker 3: oh damn. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the thing is, you know how Stephen Tyler likes
Speaker 1: to have a lot of scar scarbs wrapped around his
Speaker 1: mic I like to have a lot of loose SLRs.
Speaker 3: Exlrs xlrs. I call him SLRs.
Speaker 2: We're talking about a camera at that point, a single
Speaker 2: lens re.
Speaker 1: I like to have single lens reflex cameras wrapped around
Speaker 1: my mic. Stand All right, Hey, I'm Jack. That's Miles
Speaker 1: and uh these are It's Wednesday, April twenty fourth, four
Speaker 1: two four two four yea four too far, tip hoar,
Speaker 1: and these are some of the things that are trending
Speaker 1: on fire tip tip. TikTok is banned. Nice try, assholes,
Speaker 1: but we're not calling for it.
Speaker 4: Ban they shed you are TikTok here by banish it
Speaker 4: from the phones of our children, so that they may
Speaker 4: not disagree with us anymore.
Speaker 2: It's the it's just make it. This is the creating
Speaker 2: all these status quo haters. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: fuck's going on with this TikTok machine. How are they
Speaker 2: doing it? It surely can't be a symptom of the system.
Speaker 3: It's no.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like so we talked about how the aid
Speaker 2: package was signed for aid for Israel Ukraine and then
Speaker 2: like people in the Allies in the Indo Pacific region.
Speaker 2: But along with that was the ban on.
Speaker 3: TikTok ninety five billies.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and like in there, look it now has
Speaker 2: what they call conveniently has a new timeline that delays
Speaker 2: the ban until after the election, just in case that's
Speaker 2: gonna you know, energize younger voters. Again, well, it's not
Speaker 2: gonna happen until after and then plus there's are like
Speaker 2: these possibilities of extension. The thing is, though this was
Speaker 2: always talked about being like it's going to be litigated
Speaker 2: in court, there's no way that they're just gonna be
Speaker 2: like okay, yeah, because you decided we will sell to
Speaker 2: another company.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the TikTok CEO came out and was like we're
Speaker 1: pretty confident that this is unconstitutional. Quote, the facts and
Speaker 1: the constitution are on our side, and we expect to prevail.
Speaker 1: Which apparently last year Montana tried to ban TikTok getting
Speaker 1: out there. Hell yeah, Montana, Hell hell yeah, brother man.
Speaker 1: But the law was blocked by a judge who said
Speaker 1: that the government did not successfully show that their bill
Speaker 1: was constitutionally permissible, whatever the fuck that means. Uh, And
Speaker 1: the judge justimated that it had more to do with
Speaker 1: targeting China than with protecting Montana consumers.
Speaker 2: So similar similar vibes here, Yes, bill too, based on
Speaker 2: the hearings that we still.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a Manchurian candidate. To me, sounds like the
Speaker 1: judge of Montana as a communist, as Montana judges are
Speaker 1: wont to be. So anyways, it's an unpopular policy that
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, like what is actually going on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. Is he getting the pressure from the Pentagon?
Speaker 1: Is he getting it from Mark Zuckerberg?
Speaker 2: Well, we talked about it, like when it first happened.
Speaker 2: There's a tremendous lobbying effort from American tech companies because
Speaker 2: you can tell. Look they're all chasing tick Yeah, like
Speaker 2: the what happened to Instagram? They're like, we can we
Speaker 2: have TikTok at home. It's called reels and just ignore
Speaker 2: the TikTok watermarks you see on your reels videos because
Speaker 2: it's people aren't just like transposing them from one platform
Speaker 2: to the other. And yeah, it's about a protecting American
Speaker 2: tech interests American. Yeah, and you get you get a
Speaker 2: good dose of sinophobia and being like, well, China's looking
Speaker 2: at like, you know, who knows what their government's doing,
Speaker 2: who knows what our government is doing with our data? Okay,
Speaker 2: can you answer me that? And if it's about the data,
Speaker 2: we said, if it's about the data protection, why aren't
Speaker 2: you coming after Why aren't you cleaning up your own
Speaker 2: house first? Why aren't we talking about Twitter or Facebook
Speaker 2: and all that shit. So there's a lot wrapped up
Speaker 2: into it. And then obviously with the you know, war
Speaker 2: in Gaza kicking off, that led to like an explosion
Speaker 2: of a lot of pro Palestinian sentiment. And then that
Speaker 2: also you started to see more politicians act as if
Speaker 2: there's like some massive syop going on with people that
Speaker 2: were somehow offended at the imagery of suffering innocent people.
Speaker 1: China made me worried about the death of innocent people,
Speaker 1: and I will never forgive them for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, brainwashed me.
Speaker 2: There's so much, so much in there. But yeah, it's
Speaker 2: like it's just like one of those purely it's like
Speaker 2: so transparently flawed. When you're like, dude, if you really
Speaker 2: gave a fuck, you'd do this, you'd go after the
Speaker 2: fucking companies that more Americans are actually using. And I
Speaker 2: get that a ton of young people use TikTok, but like,
Speaker 2: let's not pretend this is about data privacy when you've
Speaker 2: done fuck call to really do anything to shore up
Speaker 2: that kind of topic for consumers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, tech companies are the number one
Speaker 1: spenders when it comes to lobbying efforts, so or they
Speaker 1: were fairly recently, they're.
Speaker 3: They're up there at the very least. Yeah, let's talk.
Speaker 1: About the London Marathon wine guy shoe table twenty five
Speaker 1: wines while completing the raith.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at every fucking mile, Yeah, after every mile completed,
Speaker 2: he would be offered a glass of wine where he
Speaker 2: would challenge himself to identify not just the fucking like
Speaker 2: the grape, but the region and the fucking year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he wasn't like he got a few like spot
Speaker 2: On and other ones generally, right, So like enough for
Speaker 2: you, you're like, oh, yeah, that is a thing you can
Speaker 2: do with your mouth is learn how to taste the
Speaker 2: different old grapes juice.
Speaker 1: Mixed in with presumably a lot of gatorade. That he
Speaker 1: was like drinking in between the.
Speaker 2: Imagine it's all like a fedrin Like he's just like doping.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, let me.
Speaker 2: Try this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, wait, and.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get this blood transfusion to get some
Speaker 2: more some oxygen into my bloodstream.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he did seem to be getting happier as
Speaker 1: the race went along. Yeah, so maybe this is going
Speaker 1: to be a new training method. I've I've run marathons.
Speaker 1: I've gone and supported. I've run, yeah, a couple of marathons.
Speaker 1: Woll gone and supported while she was running marathons.
Speaker 2: I've seen the wife do the marathons recently. When was
Speaker 2: the last time you ran a marathon? Uh?
Speaker 1: I ran one when we were about to have so,
Speaker 1: I guess twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: I ran weird before we started working out, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah yeah, yeh yeh. I ran a marathon too
Speaker 2: into like twenty fourteen, probably before we met.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you probably didn't hear about it.
Speaker 2: You didn't hear about it. I actually won the La Marathon,
Speaker 2: Like I ran it over two hours.
Speaker 1: I ran it, man, I said to like this guy
Speaker 1: stopped every mile to sample wine. I took a stop
Speaker 1: every mile to take a ship I had a real
Speaker 1: tough time and at the time I ran the La Marathon,
Speaker 1: it was like it's called the Trots. I won't dig
Speaker 1: into it too much, but yeah, it was not fun. Wow,
Speaker 1: Chicago Marathon, I had a blast. I had a blast
Speaker 1: in two literally literally metaphorically I had I did not metaphorically.
Speaker 1: I had a fun time o the Chicago Marathon. But yeah,
Speaker 1: drinking and marathon running go together more than I would
Speaker 1: have expected before I got to know marathons.
Speaker 3: They they like to have a good time out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but like yeah, and I was like when
Speaker 2: I first saw it, I was like, this guy is
Speaker 2: so smug. And then I saw that he was doing
Speaker 2: it to like raise money for like this hospice charity
Speaker 2: like like that. His mom was like at and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, there's there's some heart to this story.
Speaker 2: Wine woa line. You raised thirteen thousand hounds. Good for
Speaker 2: you and good for you, and also you get to
Speaker 2: flex your wine mouth skilled.
Speaker 1: It seems like genuinely like buzzed. As the thing went along.
Speaker 1: At first, I was like, Okay, guys, we're gonna just
Speaker 1: believe everything. We're gonna believe that because he's drinking something
Speaker 1: that's that color that it must be wine because it's
Speaker 1: running out of a wine glass.
Speaker 2: Twenty five of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just kept.
Speaker 1: Going, and he did seem to be like getting a
Speaker 1: little drunker as the as the race went along, which
Speaker 1: I'm told is not typically how marathons work. You get
Speaker 1: more and more miserable.
Speaker 2: And yeah, but again he was just sort of like, Hey,
Speaker 2: it helped to have the promise of a nice glass
Speaker 2: of wine at the end of every mile.
Speaker 1: So this guy, for you, likes wine. It's nice to
Speaker 1: see somebody who liked something this much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like at first I was like, ah, whatever
Speaker 2: about this? I mean, like I because I saw the video,
Speaker 2: and I was again because I'm so I'm like the
Speaker 2: furthest thing from understanding wine that like I get hostile
Speaker 2: because I'm ignorant about it. I'm got a fuck it,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But then you know he's
Speaker 2: he's he's doing it for his mother and the people
Speaker 2: that took care of her at the end of her life.
Speaker 2: So sip your wine.
Speaker 3: He really might not gotten away with this without that.
Speaker 1: Like no, like the two most like annoying things for
Speaker 1: like ways people to like be smug and superior is
Speaker 1: running a marathon and being like a wine expert. Combined
Speaker 1: the two is like, oh, fuck you.
Speaker 2: Have offset that with mother and hospice. And then they're like, ah.
Speaker 1: It's like people are like booing him by the end,
Speaker 1: fuck you, fuck you.
Speaker 2: Elite piece of ship. Yeah no my mother.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, fine, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back.
Speaker 3: And we're back.
Speaker 1: And George said, I didn't know he was staging a comeback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we purposefully, or at least I didn't bother mentioning
Speaker 2: because I'm like, we've given We've given this fucking freak
Speaker 2: enough oxygen. But I'm glad we're coming back to the
Speaker 2: end of this. I feel justified because he was like,
Speaker 2: I'm coming back and I'm running against this Republican. I'm
Speaker 2: getting my seat back. And he's like and the reason.
Speaker 2: And he's like, and I'm not a scammer and I'm
Speaker 2: not taking big donor money like it's gonna be real
Speaker 2: legit funds.
Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders except a Republican discrossed.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So he has recently announced that he won't in fact
Speaker 1: be running for Congress against current Republican Congressman Nick Lalatta
Speaker 1: after all, because he doesn't want to quote split the
Speaker 1: ticket and be responsible for handing the house to Democrats.
Speaker 2: Oh, is that what happened?
Speaker 1: No, Actually, it might actually have to do with the
Speaker 1: fact that his campaign has raised day total of let
Speaker 1: me see if I got this right, zero dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh, coco coco.
Speaker 3: Zero is wild's. Yeah, that's a very low number.
Speaker 2: That's like, that's a that's like the most violent zero
Speaker 2: every Yeah, when you're like, dude, I raise you couldn't
Speaker 2: even fucking ask just a random a rando on the
Speaker 2: street for like a fucking buck. At least you could say,
Speaker 2: like I raised a dollar. Yeah, but zero is like,
Speaker 2: ain't nobody fucking with you?
Speaker 3: George?
Speaker 2: I get it, and you you we're gonna be the
Speaker 2: petty congress person and we're doing your cameos, but like,
Speaker 2: let's keep it real, George. You also took a fucking
Speaker 2: plea deal in your fraud trial, which may also be
Speaker 2: reason why you can't quite campaign because you have a
Speaker 2: trial that you need to attend.
Speaker 1: Hey, that doesn't stopped some of our greatest politicians from
Speaker 1: no continuing on.
Speaker 2: And that's why No, he doesn't. He's not made he's not.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have the right stuff.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his twenty twenty two campaign still has tons of debt.
Speaker 3: It's six thousand dollar.
Speaker 1: I was owed to his campaign treasure, who was still
Speaker 1: somehow his campaign treasure in this comeback bit. Uh, just
Speaker 1: a person who's like, nah, he's good for it. Check
Speaker 1: if that's a real person. Could you imagine?
Speaker 2: It's like and this Jason D. Bowles character, he's not
Speaker 2: even a real person.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You touch them and their head rolls off. It's just
Speaker 1: a yeah, it's like a mask on her.
Speaker 2: You weren't there that day when we were talking about
Speaker 2: it on trends, But like the woman who brought her
Speaker 2: dead uncle to the bank to get a loan in
Speaker 2: Rio in Brazil, and she wheeled in a corpse, like
Speaker 2: fresh off of death and like, yeah, he would like
Speaker 2: to apply for a loan please, And they're like, yo,
Speaker 2: his head is falling back in a way I've never
Speaker 2: seen anybody alive do it. It was. She was like
Speaker 2: holding his hand to be like come on, now, sign
Speaker 2: the agreement, and she was like I'm sorry, he's like tired. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I supposed he didn't do that.
Speaker 3: That happened in New York also a number of years ago,
Speaker 3: I was working at correct that was.
Speaker 2: The story we covered a weekend at Bernie's loan applic
Speaker 2: Weekend at Bernie's loan Application. Yeah did they? I think
Speaker 2: the thing is that's vital. They gotta be wearing really
Speaker 2: thick dark sunglasses. Yeah, you can't just put somebody who
Speaker 2: looks like a dead body.
Speaker 3: Wait, they didn't have sunglasses on, and.
Speaker 2: No real it was just just like gray eyes, yes,
Speaker 2: like half open and I mean like I saw the
Speaker 2: blurred video because like obviously like we don't need to
Speaker 2: see all that, but there's a moment where like she
Speaker 2: like goes to like grab something from the bank person
Speaker 2: and she forgets to support the head and it just
Speaker 2: goes like flops. It was bad.
Speaker 3: It was bad. That's all. That's a lot to deal with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, weekend at Bernie's in reality like that,
Speaker 1: I think that goes for like that's the movie premise
Speaker 1: that goes from like most fun in theory and movie form.
Speaker 3: To like secretion to deal with.
Speaker 2: Yes, no way, you can't like laugh off fucking around
Speaker 2: like Marionette a corpse.
Speaker 1: I'm going to desecrate my loved one's corpse because I
Speaker 1: need money really bad?
Speaker 3: Is that cool? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess a bigger critique on our world than anything.
Speaker 1: But yeah, hey, speaking of needing money really bad, this
Speaker 1: is something I guess this was always a possibility, but
Speaker 1: so airlines will now be required to give automatic cash
Speaker 1: refunds for canceled and delayed flights that had never occurred.
Speaker 1: Like the idea that if a flight is delayed for
Speaker 1: too long that you would get money back had never
Speaker 1: occurred to me.
Speaker 2: No, well, yeah, because we're so used to the abuse
Speaker 2: that you're like yeah, and then you just kind of
Speaker 2: tell them, Okay. I guess I'll just wait to see
Speaker 2: my family. Yes, and I will like it, as you said,
Speaker 2: and I yes, and I will like it. I am
Speaker 2: liking it. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Like John Mullaney has that bit about like how badly
Speaker 1: he would like the let people treat him before he
Speaker 1: was married, and it's.
Speaker 3: Like, okay, you're big, aren't you.
Speaker 1: Yes, go over here, now go over there.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like that's that is exactly how I let the
Speaker 1: airlines treat me. And apparently so, the Biden administration issued
Speaker 1: final rules Wednesday to require airlines to automatically issue cash refunds.
Speaker 1: For things like delayed flights and to better disclose fees
Speaker 1: for baggage or canceling reservation. Yeah, but I think it's great.
Speaker 3: It's just like how they trick us.
Speaker 2: Isn't that three hours pass considered now a massive enough
Speaker 2: delay for a domestic flight, six hours for international flights,
Speaker 2: And they can still be like, well, we can give
Speaker 2: you a flight credit, but consumers can reject the offer.
Speaker 3: You can reject the offer. I know, actually no, thanks.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like it's like, yeah, we have like
Speaker 2: the same deference or just here to like of airline
Speaker 2: policies like we do the police. Like I don't know
Speaker 2: if you can say that to a cop. Shit, it's
Speaker 2: not get trouble with the air I'm pretty sure my
Speaker 2: First Amendment rights protect don't fucking find out. Don't fucking
Speaker 2: find out. Just fucking go with bro go with the
Speaker 2: fucking abuse. Man can't do anything. I mean, yeah, good,
Speaker 2: a bunch of small victories too, because also working with
Speaker 2: the FTC. Now there's also like the non compete bullshit.
Speaker 2: It's fucking gone.
Speaker 3: Fuck is this guy doing over here?
Speaker 2: Hey, he's doing everything but calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Speaker 2: Doing everything can and everything else.
Speaker 3: But these are one for them, one for us.
Speaker 2: These are great, Joe Biden, these are great. I like
Speaker 2: to hear that you're bringing also back, like the over
Speaker 2: the ability for people to have like log overtime in
Speaker 2: certain jobs.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 2: You love to hear it. But there's also other things
Speaker 2: that we can also add to this too. And but hey, man,
Speaker 2: when one day at a time, man, I think you'll
Speaker 2: come around maybe hold hopefully before the I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you will. I hope you do.
Speaker 2: Please fucking please, please, sir.
Speaker 3: Owen Wilson was trending this. Now I know me too.
Speaker 1: That's really like, it's been a while, it's been a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a wow.
Speaker 1: There, it's been a wow, it's been a while. My
Speaker 1: stomach the other day literally reminded me of Owen Wilson.
Speaker 1: I for some reason, I had a protein like smoothie
Speaker 1: before bed, and when I woke up in the morning
Speaker 1: when my stomach, yeah, well I had worked out and
Speaker 1: then like I was like, oh, I should like have
Speaker 1: some protein. Uh and when when like when my stomach
Speaker 1: woke me up in the morning, I was like wow, wow,
Speaker 1: Like it was really just fucking me up, but Owen
Speaker 1: Wilson was trending because there So there's apparently an unfinished O. J.
Speaker 1: Simpson satirical thriller called The Juice Huh, which there's already
Speaker 1: a movie called Juice Idiots. But that's the only dumb
Speaker 1: thing about this project. It suggests that OJ might have
Speaker 1: been innocent. It was going to be produced by Brett Rattner,
Speaker 1: who presumably has a vested interest in stories that tried
Speaker 1: to exonerate famous abusers.
Speaker 2: For Wow.
Speaker 1: So, according to the director of this terrible project, he
Speaker 1: met with Owen Wilson for the lead role of a
Speaker 1: real life attorney named Douglas McCann who got sucked into
Speaker 1: various conspiracy theories during simpsons nineteen ninety five criminal trial.
Speaker 1: And this was a serious enough film that they offered
Speaker 1: him at the at the end of the meal, they
Speaker 1: offered Owen Wilson twelve million dollars at the end of
Speaker 1: the lunch, and he got up and said, do you
Speaker 1: think I'm going to take the lead role in a
Speaker 1: movie about how OJ didn't do it? You gotta be
Speaker 1: kidding me, man, Wow, Why I'm gonna take a back that.
Speaker 3: Book presupposes is maybe it didn't.
Speaker 2: Oh man, well, good, good for you, Owen Wilson. But
Speaker 2: you're the wrong side of history because OJ didn't do
Speaker 2: that shit.
Speaker 3: Man. Come on with the wrong side.
Speaker 2: Man, you fucked up, Owen, Come on, acknowledge the fact
Speaker 2: that it was to make good for Rodney King at
Speaker 2: the very least, you know, that's what.
Speaker 3: We'll allow it. We'll allow it.
Speaker 2: We allow murder here all right.
Speaker 1: Those are some of the things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this Wednesday, April twenty fourth. We're back tomorrow with the
Speaker 1: who last episode of the show. Until then, be kind
Speaker 1: to each other, behind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,