Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendsy
Speaker 1: Graham ah V pro life. I'm very pro life. Is
Speaker 1: he's a very pro life. Good for you, Lindsay good
Speaker 1: good winning message. I think he says it is, although
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it win anywhere yet anywhere. It doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be actually be counter democratic. Um, I am jack,
Speaker 1: I'm back. That is my old he's been here. These
Speaker 1: are some things that are trending. Yeah, the Dali Lama
Speaker 1: is trending. Guy's always good for a laugh. What's one?
Speaker 1: What's going on with him? What's dude? There's this fucking
Speaker 1: video of him where he's kissing like he's at some event,
Speaker 1: and like this young kid comes over and like gives
Speaker 1: him a kiss and then asked to like have his tongues,
Speaker 1: like suck my tongue, and it's the kid doesn't ask right, no, no,
Speaker 1: the I'm sorry, the Dali Lama is asking this of
Speaker 1: a child. He's kisses this boy on the lips and
Speaker 1: then ask him to suck his tongue. And now everyone's
Speaker 1: just like whoa, I mean, here's it. This is like again,
Speaker 1: looks like religion when you get high up in a
Speaker 1: certain point you just fucking you have completely left earth
Speaker 1: and you are just allowed to do whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: you want. He put out like a really really weird
Speaker 1: apology that wasn't He's like, I'm sorry if that upset someone, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: non apology apology, Sorry if you were offended, because he's
Speaker 1: got the religious leader thing. I also feel like you
Speaker 1: always see him hanging with like Hollywood, like at like
Speaker 1: a Goop launch party that that's probably not an exactly true,
Speaker 1: but like that's just the general vibes of like the
Speaker 1: DOLLI Logue always seems to be like in weird celebrity
Speaker 1: settings also, so it's just a strange stew of influences
Speaker 1: that I feel like can't be good for someone learning accountability.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, we're all the talk of like grooming
Speaker 1: and shit, look at this video is fucking obscene. Like
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I don't know how he's trying
Speaker 1: to make it look like this kid is so uncomfortable
Speaker 1: and he's like sticking his tongue out. It's anyway, all
Speaker 1: I keep thinking about is how I watched that Nexium
Speaker 1: documentary and the Dali Lama was meeting with keeping hearing
Speaker 1: and I'm like, hold on, why the are you even
Speaker 1: giving him an audience? Um, but here we are, y'all.
Speaker 1: Super producer Brian said, he's on the flight lugs. I
Speaker 1: could have believed that. Yeah, I mean again, that whole thing,
Speaker 1: just to reveal that it's like, yeah, powerful people, they
Speaker 1: have the capacity to be absolutely disgusting and vile. So
Speaker 1: it's like so unsetting, like for because people like the
Speaker 1: way the deference that's paid to him, and then you're
Speaker 1: like starting to see this and you're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know how the fuck you square this at all,
Speaker 1: Like he's assaulting this kid, but he's like, I'm just
Speaker 1: teasing him, is what he said in the in his
Speaker 1: like quote unquote apology. Yeah, anyway, it's really upsetting. Don't
Speaker 1: look at it if you don't have to not and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Just it's just enough to read the
Speaker 1: headline you like want to be sent plenty. I think
Speaker 1: I got it all right. So the GOP has a
Speaker 1: little problem. They've been firing up their base for decades
Speaker 1: being like we're gonna overturn Roe v Wade. Just wait,
Speaker 1: just you wait, We're gonna do it if you just
Speaker 1: keep voting for us keep funding us. And then they
Speaker 1: did it, and it's wildly unpopular and it's losing them
Speaker 1: lots of elections. Yeah, recently Wisconsin, that's Supreme court race
Speaker 1: lost by ten fucking points in a place where that
Speaker 1: shit just does not happen. Well, I mean, if they
Speaker 1: had maybe had like I think a conservative could have
Speaker 1: won if their whole thing wasn't about being like yeah,
Speaker 1: and right now we've got a lawn the books that
Speaker 1: predates the Civil War. Yeah, on abortion, that's not a
Speaker 1: winning message, and they tried to clean it up like
Speaker 1: in the build up to the election. It just wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, it's clear even
Speaker 1: like Republicans aren't so like as a plurity and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we should restrict people's right. So like, man, dude, let
Speaker 1: fucking people get abortions if they fucking want, because that's healthcare.
Speaker 1: So one thing you've seen a lot of is like
Speaker 1: conservatives who have like really been panicked after what happened
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. They're like, we gotta stay on this, Like
Speaker 1: we can't keep doing that making the same mistakes. They
Speaker 1: think our policies are extreme with pro life, we need
Speaker 1: to embrace Lindsay Graham's fifteen week ban and that's the
Speaker 1: way out of this. It's still a fucking ban, okay.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know why they think it's like,
Speaker 1: but it's it's kind of more humane. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: play that. He was on Fox News talking about like
Speaker 1: his cred as a pro life Republican, but also like
Speaker 1: goes on to say, just a bunch of lies and
Speaker 1: stuff from you know, like think tanks that are here
Speaker 1: to just vilify you know, gay people or people want abortions. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham take it away, well, very pro life and
Speaker 1: being pro life is a winning message. Oh, I oppose
Speaker 1: late term abortions. I have a bill to set a
Speaker 1: national minimum standard of fifteen weeks. Fifty of the fifty
Speaker 1: three European nations ban abortion at fifteen weeks. I have
Speaker 1: an exception for rape, insist in life of the mother.
Speaker 1: In Wisconsin, you had an eighteen forty statute that banned
Speaker 1: abortion pretty much across the board, and the Republican Party
Speaker 1: did not put an alternative on the table. If you're
Speaker 1: pro life, you need to explain what that means. And
Speaker 1: then he goes on and be like, I want to
Speaker 1: protect as many babies as possible. Please completely gloss over
Speaker 1: the thing I've said about fifty of the fifty three
Speaker 1: European nations are like what because a thing that you
Speaker 1: don't realize is like, it's much easier to have an
Speaker 1: abortion in Europe for the most part. And then he
Speaker 1: also goes on to be like, if we do this,
Speaker 1: like have you know this other well worn line attack
Speaker 1: line of like tax funded abortion, like on demand or
Speaker 1: up to the moment of birth. Again, other complete fabrication
Speaker 1: to kind of get people on board. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's interesting to see how much like a lot
Speaker 1: of pro life evangelicals and people who are like who
Speaker 1: are lobbying for that, how much they're freaking out right
Speaker 1: now because they're like, we're about to lose this abortion
Speaker 1: issue if the GOP doesn't know how to properly message it.
Speaker 1: But you're like, the end, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the message is you have no control over your own
Speaker 1: fucking body. Yes, that's that's kind of the core of
Speaker 1: your It's not so much you want to dial that
Speaker 1: back body autonomy, it's that anyway. So they continue to
Speaker 1: scream at full voice in a panic and they're like,
Speaker 1: we gotta get behind Lindsay Graham's one, Lindsay Grant. The
Speaker 1: thesis seems to be of the Lindsay Graham plan seems
Speaker 1: to be have we tried lying? Have we tried just
Speaker 1: lying about what we actually want? Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm trying to like phrase it. It's like
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna be like Europe. You know. It's like, no, dude,
Speaker 1: just can let it go. But again, it's just wild
Speaker 1: to see how how cynical they are in certain policies
Speaker 1: where you know, they know what they're doing, what they're
Speaker 1: trying to get after, and this one is like one
Speaker 1: of those like the dog caught the car kind of moments,
Speaker 1: or like it was great to just ring that bell
Speaker 1: and see who came to feed on it. But then
Speaker 1: once it happens and you're like, oh shit, it's a loser. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sho shows you that some things might work better, as
Speaker 1: you know, in the rhetorical sense than the I R
Speaker 1: L sense. Yeah, for them at least, it's also not
Speaker 1: good because it's winning Democrats elections without Democrats actually having
Speaker 1: to do anything for the people that they represent. They
Speaker 1: love that. Yeah, it's like what if we like because
Speaker 1: this is the one time they're like, what if we
Speaker 1: correct the status quo, like and bring it back to
Speaker 1: the status quo rather than like blowing it up in
Speaker 1: which case like that, I don't know about about that. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: Louisville is trending because unfortunately it is the site of
Speaker 1: another mass shooting. Um. And this is yet another instance
Speaker 1: where a governor has a personal relationship with victims. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so some people are speculating this might mean that more
Speaker 1: people are expelled from the state legislature. You know, Christ,
Speaker 1: we could see some action at some point. No. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's super bleak, as all the mass shooting stories are,
Speaker 1: because it feels like we've it's just one of those
Speaker 1: issues that stays bad, stares us in the face, and
Speaker 1: the majority is pretty on board with doing something about it,
Speaker 1: but systemic political problems cause it to just be a
Speaker 1: fucking stalemate. I mean it's you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: this stat's been going around. This would this would be
Speaker 1: the one hundred forty six mass shooting in one hundred days,
Speaker 1: like one hundred calendar days of this year. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: like again, like even with the shooting in Tennessee, the
Speaker 1: governor wouldn't use the word gun in the aftermath of it,
Speaker 1: even though he even said, I was, oh, yeah, my
Speaker 1: wife was gonna have dinner with the principle of that
Speaker 1: school that night. And then you have there was a
Speaker 1: projectile event that occurred there, Yeah, a dynamic projectile event
Speaker 1: with high velocity dynamic projectiles. And then Governor Andy Basher
Speaker 1: he was you know, he got choked up talking about
Speaker 1: he said, I have a very close friend that didn't
Speaker 1: make it today. And I'm curious. I mean, he's a Democrat,
Speaker 1: so I don't think he's going to be less like.
Speaker 1: I mean, he'll talk about gun control, but I'm curious
Speaker 1: when the political will lines up with what most Americans
Speaker 1: are feeling that they just like everywhere feels so fucking
Speaker 1: unsafe when you have all these guns everywhere, and the
Speaker 1: solution is always just like to shrug it off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a shooting in Los Angeles recently, and you know,
Speaker 1: massive like helicopter swooping all over the place, and it
Speaker 1: was somebody picking up their gun accidentally firing and it
Speaker 1: like went through the wall and hit somebody in apartment
Speaker 1: next door. But it's just you know, the presence of guns. Yes,
Speaker 1: fucking that's all it takes. I remember when I like
Speaker 1: and when I was growing up, I had friends who
Speaker 1: whose family has had guns, you know, and like that
Speaker 1: was my first interaction to seeing like guns, Like like
Speaker 1: someone's parents had guns or whatever and they were responsible
Speaker 1: gun ors or whatever. But I remember going home and
Speaker 1: asking my dad, I'm like, why don't we have guns?
Speaker 1: And he's like, we'll never have a gun in this house.
Speaker 1: And I was like, but why, Like what about for protection?
Speaker 1: And he always says, like, you have guns, you have
Speaker 1: gun problems. That's what comes with it. And to him,
Speaker 1: it was easier for him to just have like a bat,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean by the bed and just
Speaker 1: go like that's what we'll use. But it's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's really unfortunate. I mean, I know, I've a friend
Speaker 1: of mine growing up, like his high school classmate tragically
Speaker 1: like ended up accidentally killing his sister because he like
Speaker 1: thought he was a little gangster type dude and he
Speaker 1: was playing with a gun in his room. It went
Speaker 1: through the wall and hit his sister. And yeah, just
Speaker 1: like just the fucking presence of them already opens it
Speaker 1: up to so much fucking destruction, and then on top
Speaker 1: of it to now see like so wild to see
Speaker 1: all these younger kids like gen Z who grow up
Speaker 1: only knowing that school shootings are a possibility, that they're
Speaker 1: now feeling like they're absolutely they're completely being unheard, that
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't want to have like the stress
Speaker 1: of being in a mass shooting when I just want
Speaker 1: to go to school. That they're pulling up in full
Speaker 1: force to like really advocate for themselves, And I feel
Speaker 1: so bad that these young people have to do that
Speaker 1: when it's such a fucking clear issue and all you
Speaker 1: need are the people who legislate to fucking just do
Speaker 1: something that resembles, you know, action. Why do we think
Speaker 1: they're so unhappy? Do we think it's their phones? More
Speaker 1: on this more than that later? Why are their hair green?
Speaker 1: Like what? No? There they only know violence like that,
Speaker 1: that that's a reality. I'm I look at my own
Speaker 1: privilege of being like fucking Columbine happened when I was
Speaker 1: in eighth grade, right, and then I was out of
Speaker 1: high school by two thousand and three, When I mean
Speaker 1: there were mass shootings here and there, but not to
Speaker 1: the place that it is now, And like it's all
Speaker 1: so fucking like you can see all the interconnectedness of it,
Speaker 1: all of like the lack of you know, ability to
Speaker 1: like support people who might actually need mental health support,
Speaker 1: or our ability to like wrangle with domestic abusers who
Speaker 1: have access to guns and using the second amendments like well,
Speaker 1: that's his right to be like a violent person, or
Speaker 1: this person, that's their right to be a violent person
Speaker 1: and have firearms. Only there was some legislation that had
Speaker 1: worked in the past, such as an assault weapon ban
Speaker 1: that yeah, yeah, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, And we're back, and so is
Speaker 1: the box office bafo PO for the Super Mario Brothers movie.
Speaker 1: Who um, people can boffing it up? Yeah, an air
Speaker 1: I guess did pretty well for uh what people were expecting.
Speaker 1: But Super Mario Brothers the story, I mean it made
Speaker 1: like three hundred million dollars world crazy. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is one of the most recognizable video game characters. And
Speaker 1: aside from my own anger at Chris Pratt's voice, uh,
Speaker 1: many people were able to overcome that. Yeah, the trailer,
Speaker 1: they did a nice job with the trailer. I haven't
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the movie. But other than his voice
Speaker 1: being like let's go. Sorry, let's go, Let's go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the best thing to come out of Air though,
Speaker 1: is the new round of Ben Affleck speaking Spanish videos.
Speaker 1: Is there a new round of those? Oh my boy,
Speaker 1: just take a look at this. He's Ben Affleck is
Speaker 1: saying Jack and the story Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan, Istan magnify. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm actor Mundo. It's Michael Jordan. It is out here.
Speaker 1: There was there was one where he went on, I
Speaker 1: think on a Spanish like sports show and they were
Speaker 1: talking about like, oh, look, you're from Boston. What do
Speaker 1: you think about? Like, uh, you know, are you like
Speaker 1: Celtics reds Just I just want to hear him him,
Speaker 1: like like getting down on sports talk to Celtics lost,
Speaker 1: Red Sox lost Patriots. So my man is fucking checked in.
Speaker 1: I hear he's like he's he's a real polyglot. Someone
Speaker 1: was saying, he I think he also speaks Arabic or
Speaker 1: like knows a bit of Arabic as well. Okay, Ben? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So anyway, so that was again that was my favorite
Speaker 1: part takeaway from air. Yeah, it's like, yo, Ben Affleck,
Speaker 1: just drop him in. He's hanging with the boys. It's
Speaker 1: always interesting. Like obviously the Super Mario Brothers returns are like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's astronomical. That's like an event. That movie clearly connected
Speaker 1: the Air one is like it made twenty million dollars. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe'll like go on to like build
Speaker 1: some steam, but I could have seen like the reaction
Speaker 1: to that going either way. But even the reaction to
Speaker 1: Air is like makes me feel gross in the same
Speaker 1: way the movie does that. It's like the underdog tail
Speaker 1: of the marketing scheme. Like this quote from I Think
Speaker 1: It's Deadline is like, kudos to Amazon's marketing and publicity team.
Speaker 1: Are rated adult dramas haven't been easy to find audiences,
Speaker 1: and getting Air to twenty million is a great feat
Speaker 1: the movie buy and for people who respect the hell
Speaker 1: out of marketing, right right, seriously, Hey, oh man, a
Speaker 1: marketing triumph, and that's what we're looking for. We're looking
Speaker 1: for those feel good stories. It makes feel good about
Speaker 1: America marketers winning Biden twenty twenty four. Yeah, the story
Speaker 1: nobody's been waiting for. But it's kind of the thing
Speaker 1: that well, when you'll hear about it, when we talk
Speaker 1: about the no Labels Party in tomorrow's episode. But it's funny.
Speaker 1: And when the No Labels Party talks about why they
Speaker 1: think a third party ticket could win, it's because they're
Speaker 1: like sixty four percent of Democrats don't want Biden to
Speaker 1: run and sixty one percent of Republicans don't want Trump
Speaker 1: to run. Yeah, And it's what's funny is both sides
Speaker 1: are saying they're not going far enough in their respective directions,
Speaker 1: right like, and we got to be in the middle.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, you're not. You're not understanding why they don't.
Speaker 1: But he's saying Biden, like when he was asked about,
Speaker 1: you know, if he's gonna what the deal is, he's like,
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I'm planning on it. He's like, but
Speaker 1: I'm quote not prepared to announce quite yet. But one
Speaker 1: thing that is coming into focus is his digital strategy,
Speaker 1: his media strategy, because it sounds like he's just going
Speaker 1: to go with kind of what was happening with like
Speaker 1: his COVID stuff is like hire an army of digital
Speaker 1: influencers to counteract Trump's massive media following. So he's going
Speaker 1: He's going straight for the hearts of the youngs. And
Speaker 1: how did that work with COVID. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: remember that that being I mean, I think the most
Speaker 1: you remember is like Olivia Rodrigo went to the White Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I meant it, and it was like
Speaker 1: one of those moments. But the way they look at
Speaker 1: it too is they're gonna have digital staffers now on
Speaker 1: the campaign or something like that, where some of these
Speaker 1: influencers will have like a line to the White House apparently. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then but in the more like camp painway, it's
Speaker 1: more like when he's doing a campaign, stop and there's
Speaker 1: an influencer that's local and can actually get like get
Speaker 1: some turnout through that, like collaborating with them to get
Speaker 1: more people to show up to hear the old man goal?
Speaker 1: Where am I? What day is it? Who am I?
Speaker 1: My popcorn? Where's it? There's popcorn? I smell popcorn. I
Speaker 1: having a stroke. I don't know. I gotta go. How
Speaker 1: do you open? Pdf? Jack is still the best understand
Speaker 1: Joe Biden didn't eating that ice cream? So at b
Speaker 1: how do you open pdf? Jack does not understand, doesn't
Speaker 1: care to understand. It seems to be the best thing
Speaker 1: he has going for him when it comes to digital marketing.
Speaker 1: But maybe one day we'll be watching This is my
Speaker 1: hope for America. One day we'll be watching an underdog
Speaker 1: tale about the digital marketing team that A Biden elected
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. You know, all right, Well, those
Speaker 1: are the things that are trending on Monday, April tenth.
Speaker 1: You're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye,