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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I saw I saw Walt's COVID trending, and I think
Speaker 2: it had to do Uh there's somebody that's saying a
Speaker 2: Minnesota grandma was sentenced to ninety days in prison for
Speaker 2: violating Tim Walt's COVID lockdowns, and he'll take away your
Speaker 2: rights and everybody. It's the same like COVID. Way, I
Speaker 2: think they're just trying to say that he was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, find like one story is to make it line
Speaker 1: up with people's preconceived notions about Democrats that yeah, stolen valor.
Speaker 1: He's not. He's not a real war hero, unlike our president.
Speaker 1: Uh Donald never mind, never mind. My name is Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 1: That is my special guest co host, Paul van Ella.
Speaker 1: It's probably we are. The internet is currently a buzz
Speaker 1: about some JD event's uh drag pictures. It appears to
Speaker 1: have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dishonor to drag. This man isn't a wig, maybe eyeliner,
Speaker 2: I don't know, but very war drag. Yes, not cleaning
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's like a Halloween costume or like I
Speaker 1: think that is the origin story, is a Halloween costume
Speaker 1: he wore at Yale Law School. I personally don't give
Speaker 1: a shit other than you know that he is bad
Speaker 1: at this, but he makes it look the least fun
Speaker 1: drag has ever looked. But I guess the theory is
Speaker 1: that this is the sort of thing that the people
Speaker 1: who would vote for him would not be okay.
Speaker 2: With, or like, just the inconsistency of trying to delineate
Speaker 2: gender roles and what it means to be a man
Speaker 2: and what it means to be a woman that's coming
Speaker 2: from his camp and how he doesn't even align with.
Speaker 1: Those so right, Yeah, and that the personality he has
Speaker 1: constructed and tried on for political power also like wouldn't
Speaker 1: wouldn't be the sort of person who does this. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the person who initially posted the photo put it well.
Speaker 1: When asked if they thought it was ironic that so
Speaker 1: many politicians who are publicly so anti drag and anti
Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus would keep having these types of images turn up,
Speaker 1: they said, I don't think it's ironic because drag is fun.
Speaker 1: I grew up entirely around straight men, and I can
Speaker 1: tell you that if they have a few drinks and
Speaker 1: are in a safe environment, they'll happily throw on a wig.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more natural than the joy that comes from
Speaker 1: exploring those roots of self expression. That's a human impulse.
Speaker 1: What's unnatural is the push to limit and ban drag
Speaker 1: because you think voters will respond well to anti queer rhetoric.
Speaker 1: That is a political impulse. So yeah, his team has
Speaker 1: thus far refused to acknowledge the photos.
Speaker 2: It's really great encapsulation of that, yeah, of the problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But anyways, this is hitting at a time when,
Speaker 1: according to that New York Times article, Trump is being
Speaker 1: pressured to drop vance and pick a different running mate
Speaker 1: and has thus far resisted that. And it's like JD
Speaker 1: is an attack dog. He rules. But then when they're like,
Speaker 1: they're calling you weird. He's like, they're not saying that
Speaker 1: about me. They're saying about JD. JD's the weird one,
Speaker 1: not me.
Speaker 2: He said over and over again that the vice president
Speaker 2: doesn't matter, and then reporters have had to approach JD.
Speaker 2: Vance and been like, why do you even matter? I
Speaker 2: don't know if he saw it. There was like an
Speaker 2: interview where reporter kind of like held them to difficult questions.
Speaker 2: But Trump has said over and over again, like they're
Speaker 2: voting for me, They're not voting for this bitch, And
Speaker 2: then JD. Vance has had to be like, I am
Speaker 2: that bitch that they're not voting for. And so it's
Speaker 2: kind of I really think that the reason Trump doesn't
Speaker 2: care is because he doesn't give a shit. He's like,
Speaker 2: this is the me show. They're voting for me, and
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter whether he fucks his couch or not,
Speaker 2: or if he's in drag while he's doing it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they're voting for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder how much of the choice, Like it
Speaker 1: does feel like sometimes these sorts of politicians will choose
Speaker 1: somebody that they like, don't want to like. An insecure
Speaker 1: politician will choose like George H. W. Bush, who you know,
Speaker 1: everyone was uh like very skeptical of and they, like
Speaker 1: the mainstream media was like, this guy's a fucking whimp,
Speaker 1: even though he was like a fighter pilot and the
Speaker 1: head of the CIA and like an actual like monster.
Speaker 1: You know that that was for some reason because I
Speaker 1: guess he was a thin and reedy voiced that they
Speaker 1: were like the main problem with him is he's a whimp,
Speaker 1: and like he chose dan Quail, which I don't know if,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much like insecurity ties into it,
Speaker 1: but it does feel like that would make Swift like.
Speaker 2: The stand up comic who's headlining, who gets an opener
Speaker 2: that's really bad in order to make him look good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: They don't want to have to rise to a higher level.
Speaker 2: They just want to like coast, Yeah he was.
Speaker 1: I mean, Pence was definitely like a complete empty suit,
Speaker 1: just like the most baseline definition of a stuffed suit.
Speaker 1: It was like he has right exactly. We want to
Speaker 1: check in with Boeing briefly.
Speaker 2: I love Boeing and I would never say anything bad
Speaker 2: about them, and I love my life. I don't want
Speaker 2: to lose it.
Speaker 1: That's right. So I think the last time we checked
Speaker 1: in with the story, and maybe maybe Miles covered it
Speaker 1: when I was out for a couple of weeks, but
Speaker 1: I remember like Boeing was having its run of ship
Speaker 1: news and had to keep delaying the launch of the
Speaker 1: star Liner, which was there like spacecraft that they were
Speaker 1: launching town with the International Space Station. It does and
Speaker 1: since that time, so it was the last it was
Speaker 1: like they kept having to delay it because they were
Speaker 1: having malfunctions, and like Boeing was like, we can just
Speaker 1: do it, just do the fucking thing, like and NASA
Speaker 1: was like, we're kind of skeptical. We're a little worried
Speaker 1: about the fact that this is malfunctioning before we're about
Speaker 1: to just like fire it up into space. And so
Speaker 1: they shot it up into space a week delayed. The
Speaker 1: two astronauts who were set to travel to the ISS
Speaker 1: did overcome the malfunctioning thrusters to dock with the ISS
Speaker 1: just a week behind schedule.
Speaker 2: Uh, and they were supposed to My virginity story came
Speaker 2: to pass.
Speaker 1: Hee, am I right? Malfunctioning thrusters. We've all dealt with
Speaker 1: malfunctioning thrusters, but they were supposed to return a week later,
Speaker 1: and they're still fucking there, and most recently NASA has
Speaker 1: announced that they might be there till twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I think it's just an excuse for them to get
Speaker 2: out of plants, you know. I think they're in on
Speaker 2: it with NASA. They're like, I don't want to go
Speaker 2: to my mother in law's house. Yeah, I'm gonna stay
Speaker 2: in space.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to be back for the holidays.
Speaker 1: So yeah. They named it the star Liner, which I
Speaker 1: think is meant to like evoke commercial air flight and
Speaker 1: the idea that, like Boeing's so trustworthy, not only will
Speaker 1: you be like taking our planes to other cities, you'll
Speaker 1: be taking it to the moon. And instead they have
Speaker 1: created the biggest flight delay of all time, Like the
Speaker 1: unbelievable stranded there until twenty twenty five is like next
Speaker 1: level shit.
Speaker 2: I saw a video on Twitter of someone talking about
Speaker 2: how a flight from Puerto Rico to the US was
Speaker 2: changed to go and land in the Bahamas, which is
Speaker 2: a different country, and no one had their passports and
Speaker 2: they were all stranded, so it was like they were kidnapped.
Speaker 2: And this is getting like same vibes, but in space.
Speaker 2: You know, right, yeah, yeah, no extra personal belongings for them.
Speaker 2: There is food, but it will eventually run out. You
Speaker 2: just kind of hang it out. No passports, they right.
Speaker 1: They were asked to forgo like toiletries on the initial
Speaker 1: trip so that they could like bring extra equipment under
Speaker 1: the I like flawed assumption that they would be back
Speaker 1: in eight days. And then they got up there and
Speaker 1: they were like, God, no, this plane is too fucked
Speaker 1: to turn around, and so they were up there. Now
Speaker 1: they have sent some supplies up to them. They do
Speaker 1: have their toiletries, so their like teeth aren't rotting out
Speaker 1: of their head fortunately, but oh yeah, it's like the
Speaker 1: plan currently maybe for them to return on a spacecraft
Speaker 1: flown by SpaceX, which is their like main competitor. The
Speaker 1: whole reason that they were like so eager to fly
Speaker 1: this thing to space and like NASA, despite NASA caring about,
Speaker 1: you know, things like the spacecraft breaking apart upon re entry,
Speaker 1: was to like win this space race with SpaceX. And
Speaker 1: now they're like, basically they're like, now your spacecraft is
Speaker 1: too fucked up. You have to come back on the
Speaker 1: SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule.
Speaker 2: So you're saying, elon Musk did this. He stranded these
Speaker 2: people exactly.
Speaker 1: He's a master manipulator.
Speaker 2: Folks, spaces and space, that's right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just such a such a bad look,
Speaker 1: but a consistent string of bad looks from Boeing, and
Speaker 1: we yeah, who knows when these people are going to
Speaker 1: get back, but they're yeah, like you said, they have
Speaker 1: enough food, they have enough toiletrees, and like they're basically
Speaker 1: going to be adopted by the crew that's up there,
Speaker 1: Like so they're going to just be part of the
Speaker 1: International Space Station crew. Is kind of the loose plan
Speaker 1: as of right.
Speaker 2: Now, just really a job they did not apply for.
Speaker 2: They're not official staff of the International Space Station. And
Speaker 2: the people are just like we're just gonna give them
Speaker 2: little tasks to do, and it's like this is slave labor, right,
Speaker 2: this is this is like Surfdom. What are you doing? Right?
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back, and we've got some good
Speaker 1: Olympic updates, some good photos of people partying. Rose Lavelle,
Speaker 1: the Olympic soccer player for the US team, is apparently
Speaker 1: just like an amazing partier can drink everyone in the
Speaker 1: world under the table. The US men's basketball team was
Speaker 1: partying on a yacht and Kevin Durant was seen not
Speaker 1: knowing exactly how to ride a water slide or like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it was the correct He was
Speaker 1: sitting up and like had his hands in the air
Speaker 1: like he.
Speaker 2: Was on a roller coaster. But his face is just
Speaker 2: so nonchalant.
Speaker 1: I know, his face is like kind of uh, He's
Speaker 1: just like, what am I doing?
Speaker 2: He's like, I am riding a slide. I think that's
Speaker 2: so fun though. I love when athletes are just completely
Speaker 2: themselves and aren't putting on anything like this is what
Speaker 2: I love about Djokich. I always don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: saying that right, but I love that he hates his job,
Speaker 2: and I love that Kevin Durant is like, I'm just me,
Speaker 2: I'm just chilling. This doesn't excite me.
Speaker 1: Ye. Jokic was, Yeah, his his same. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think there's some good Jokic Olympic footage as well
Speaker 1: with him like drinking and partying with his friends from Serbia,
Speaker 1: his non horse friends from Serbia. But Jordan Chiles does
Speaker 1: not appear to be getting her bronze medal back there,
Speaker 1: I don't know appealing.
Speaker 2: Didn't they say that they wanted to share it with her?
Speaker 2: And then he IOC was like no.
Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, yeah, I don't understand about stuff.
Speaker 2: But the US is challenging it because they're saying because
Speaker 2: originally they said, okay, the appeal went through at the time,
Speaker 2: and then later they were going to take bronze medal
Speaker 2: back because they said it was four seconds after the
Speaker 2: one minute interval in which you're allowed to appeal. But
Speaker 2: then the US was like, we just got video and
Speaker 2: it was like actually a few or it was so
Speaker 2: many seconds after the minute, and then the US that
Speaker 2: it was like seconds before, and so we are again
Speaker 2: we were again pushing. So if this means that she's
Speaker 2: not getting it, it just seems like a judge's issue
Speaker 2: in the first place for not scoring her at the
Speaker 2: correct difficulty level. You know. It's kind of like the
Speaker 2: r irs, like why do I need to tell you
Speaker 2: how much I should pay in Texas? You should already know.
Speaker 1: Why am I getting? Yeah if your fuck up, And
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, but you told us about our fuck
Speaker 1: up too late, So yeah, it feels weird and arbitray
Speaker 1: the the ray Gun fallout there there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: like news stories where it's like Raygun actually was like
Speaker 1: Kaiser Soose, like behind the scenes manipulating everything, and you know,
Speaker 1: is like this godfather power behind the scenes of Australian breakdancing.
Speaker 1: And I have seen some of those stories debunked. So
Speaker 1: Raygun may not be this machiavellian figure. It may just
Speaker 1: be a terrible breakdancer. We don't know for sure. As
Speaker 1: of you, she did.
Speaker 2: Win something, but not my heart and that's all that counts.
Speaker 1: So and among Khalif is filing a complaint against cyber
Speaker 1: harassment for maybe JK ralling.
Speaker 2: Maybe no, the internet was joking that she should get
Speaker 2: like fifty one percent of Harry Potter now, but but
Speaker 2: I think emon Khalif it's like following up against this
Speaker 2: cyber harassment. It seems to be that the complaint is
Speaker 2: being filed in a Paris office, So I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what the what is going to happen to individuals who
Speaker 2: were indicating that she's trans or that she didn't deserve
Speaker 2: to be competing in the Olympics, But it does seem
Speaker 2: like she's not going to take it lying down, and
Speaker 2: I hope that the other Olympians also do that, and
Speaker 2: that this really kind of solidifies that the International Boxing
Speaker 2: Association or the IBA or whatever it's called, who kind
Speaker 2: of called into question their eligibility, Like I hope it
Speaker 2: it disqualifies those organizations from being allowed to determine their
Speaker 2: their eligibility.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Boxing Association that had disqualified her in previous
Speaker 1: years and was like just arbitrary, like just going arbitrarily
Speaker 1: off of like want wanting her disqualified so that somebody
Speaker 1: and that they were it was run by Russians and
Speaker 1: they had like a Russian boxer that they wanted to win,
Speaker 1: all right. Oreo and Coca Cola, speaking of the Olympics,
Speaker 1: Coca Cola the ultimate Olympic sponsor the Olympic uh, you
Speaker 1: know also Olympic uh life hack because people who swam
Speaker 1: in the sun were disinfecting their insides by chugging a
Speaker 1: can of coke. Coca Cola is now teaming up with
Speaker 1: Oreo the Other Rings of our Heart. No, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that sucks, but uh they Oreo and
Speaker 1: Coca Cola are teaming up to create chocolate soda and
Speaker 1: fizzy cookies. People Magazine tried them and said they are good.
Speaker 1: I believe People magazine is full of shit because these
Speaker 1: look not good.
Speaker 2: I will try them. I will. Yeah, I'm too much
Speaker 2: of an Oreo fan to not try it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know what you're doing off what's
Speaker 1: your favorite like uh, off brand or not off brand?
Speaker 1: What's your favorite like oreo flavor?
Speaker 2: I mean, I like, I always do the like mega
Speaker 2: stuff with like the most cream in the middle, But
Speaker 2: if it's a different flavor, I'm very like cautious. I
Speaker 2: go with like mint or something like close to like
Speaker 2: what an ice cream flavor would be, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Right, don't go crazy.
Speaker 1: Like with chocolate.
Speaker 2: No. Oreos are like a staple in my diet, So
Speaker 2: I think, like, yeah, I think I would try it
Speaker 2: if it was up for grabs. And then I think
Speaker 2: it's kind of like have you ever done that thing
Speaker 2: where you have your animals have sparkling water and then
Speaker 2: you see their reaction? Right, Yeah, Like I think that's
Speaker 2: like we're just doing that to ourselves, you know, We're
Speaker 2: just like, how are we going to react to this?
Speaker 2: Let's just test it. But it's at such a large level,
Speaker 2: I'm like, how does Oreo benefit.
Speaker 1: Makes my mouth feel fucking weird is essentially the energy.
Speaker 2: Well, my one dog, my big normal dog, was like, okay,
Speaker 2: this is weird, and then my little one went crazy
Speaker 2: for the for this saltz water. I was like, you're insane.
Speaker 2: And there are going to be those people with the
Speaker 2: fizzy Oreos who are like, this is my new favorite
Speaker 2: flavor and we're going to sustain it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great for getting kids to just think
Speaker 1: that they're having a treat when all they're doing is
Speaker 1: drinking water is like fizzy water. They're like, wow, it's
Speaker 1: something that's not just normal plain water. So they're doing
Speaker 1: a Oreo Coca Cola cookie that has like fizz fizzy
Speaker 1: candy in the cream. And then uh, they're also doing
Speaker 1: a Coca Cola Oreo zero sugar soda, So it's like
Speaker 1: a coke that's like flavored Oreo cookie chocolate and also
Speaker 1: zero sugar. Like why start with the zero sugar? What?
Speaker 1: You know? Like it feels like that how you can
Speaker 1: introduce as well.
Speaker 2: The people who are having that makes drink know what
Speaker 2: they're getting into, and they expect it to be diabetes,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they this feels like a weird. It feels like
Speaker 1: they don't know their audience in this guy. Finally, a
Speaker 1: creature from the Black Lagoon is being remade by James Wan,
Speaker 1: the Aquaman director, is returning to the sea for his
Speaker 1: next future film. They're describing it as a grounded, modernized
Speaker 1: retelling that leans into visceral horror, whilst paying respect to
Speaker 1: the original classic Isn't that just the shape of water? Like,
Speaker 1: isn't I mean?
Speaker 2: I literally was thinking that, Yeah, are they going to
Speaker 2: the creature from the Black Lagoon?
Speaker 1: I feel like it has to be fucked right, like
Speaker 1: they there has to be like some sexual energy.
Speaker 2: Fuck creatures in horror movie. Yeah, it's either like Godzilla,
Speaker 2: where it's based on a cat and we're like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's like our cat, or it's like this is a
Speaker 2: horning creature that everybody wants to buy.
Speaker 1: Well, Godzilla's based on a cat, like the rebook.
Speaker 2: So two different directors, because there's the one that's like
Speaker 2: the more US centric one and then there's the one
Speaker 2: that's more like japan centric. Those two different like aspects
Speaker 2: of the franchise have based They were talking to each
Speaker 2: other and they were like, yeah, the inspiration for like
Speaker 2: Godzilla curls up in the coliseum or whatever, or you know,
Speaker 2: there are certain mannerisms of Godzilla. They like watch their
Speaker 2: cats and check out their mannerisms and are inspired by it.
Speaker 2: So that's like a cross cultural influence in Godzilla.
Speaker 1: Yeah. If cats were just like Giant, they wouldn't be nice.
Speaker 1: I feel like they have.
Speaker 2: Those bas you know, but they would be very cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, the Universal continues to try to
Speaker 1: make their old old timey horror monsters happen, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 2: I guess they should do crossovers with like current day
Speaker 2: like real creatures from the Black Lagoon, like real housewives,
Speaker 2: but completely bastardize it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I like it's like faux reality show Black Lagoon.
Speaker 2: Yeah you get like wine thrown in your face by
Speaker 2: a creature from the Black Lagoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you Housewives of the Black Lagoon just
Speaker 1: have them picked off one by one? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: like it. All right. Well, those are some of the
Speaker 1: things that are trending on this Tuesday, August thirteenth. We
Speaker 1: are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, Be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to youa tomorrow. Bye bye, bye doctor,
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