Speaker 1: Dude, I think this fucking thing is bleeding. Now it's bleeding.
Speaker 1: How oh my god.
Speaker 2: It's like tab on the on the milk, on the milk.
Speaker 1: It felt like one of those look just felt like
Speaker 1: a real standard hangnail at the corner of my pinky toe.
Speaker 1: And next thing I know, I'm looking. Yeah, this ship
Speaker 1: is looked like a like I fucked up my manicure
Speaker 1: or some ship and just got a little bit of
Speaker 1: red on the side of it. Oh, no, fucking hangnails. Man.
Speaker 1: But you know what I can't I can't say no
Speaker 1: to a hangnail.
Speaker 2: I can't say no to a hail.
Speaker 1: I got it. I got a tug at it, Like
Speaker 1: I know, I think the smarter verse. I remember, like
Speaker 1: my mom would always be like, use like fucking clippers
Speaker 1: or something, scissors. Yeah, yeah, but I'm like, nah, man,
Speaker 1: let's just fucking thug this one out now cut to
Speaker 1: my fucking whole leg is basically gone.
Speaker 2: All right, let's.
Speaker 1: Hello Internet, it's your substitute teacher here. Sorry I came late.
Speaker 1: My Honda broke down again. Man. I miss my Honda
Speaker 1: so much. Actually, I dream about my Honda prelude who
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, man, that shit was That shit
Speaker 1: goes Anyway, this is this is what season three forty five.
Speaker 1: This is episode one. This is the time we tell
Speaker 1: you about everything that trended over the weekend. It's me
Speaker 1: the main mc miles g in the Place to be
Speaker 1: with his homie, b Ryan the editor. What's going on, Brian?
Speaker 1: Thank you for.
Speaker 2: The things are going good. I'm sleepy because it's early.
Speaker 1: In the morning. I mean, we all know you're a
Speaker 1: nocturnal animal, so I really appreciate you arising to pre
Speaker 1: noon waking hours.
Speaker 2: Levitated up out of my coffin, made myself a coffee. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, anyway, here we are. It's Tuesday, Jai. Wait, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's Monday, sorry July. First, if I did not make
Speaker 1: that clear, it's the first of the month. We are here.
Speaker 1: We're fully in the summer. Now, wake up, man. People
Speaker 1: still people still fuck with bull dogs like that, dude.
Speaker 2: They better, they better.
Speaker 1: I know we do. We do here because but we
Speaker 1: also we're from la so that's just how it is,
Speaker 1: even though they're from Ohio. Let's get into everything that
Speaker 1: was trending, But first we got to tell each other
Speaker 1: what we think is under underrated and overrated, Brian, what
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated? Underrated?
Speaker 2: I am gonna go with let's see here, what we got,
Speaker 2: what we got? What we got? Air travel?
Speaker 1: What do you a time traveler from the nineteenth century?
Speaker 2: That is the angle I'm going with.
Speaker 1: Yet I've not seen such contraptions.
Speaker 2: Basically, Yeah, that's that's the way of I'm on right now.
Speaker 2: So most of what I hear people talk about air
Speaker 2: travel is complaining or like weird ship. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: And I just want to acknowledge out loud how fucking
Speaker 2: impressive it is that you can get damn near anywhere
Speaker 2: in the world within a day, or just being on
Speaker 2: a vehicle that's traveling six hundred miles an hour. It's
Speaker 2: just nutty to me. This is insane.
Speaker 1: You're almost word for word doing a Louis c k
Speaker 1: bit right now that he did on Late Night. Oh no, really,
Speaker 1: everyone to fucking complain And is that really a thing?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I really am you guys?
Speaker 1: Sorry, have you did you fly anywhere recently? No?
Speaker 2: You know, so Camo has been yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's what I'll call my my significant other. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: And yeah, she's been traveling and I'm just you know,
Speaker 2: like you worry. I hope everything's getting where it's going, yeah, safely.
Speaker 2: And it's just like most planes do. And it's kind
Speaker 2: of impressive.
Speaker 1: But it's funny for you because you're also on such
Speaker 1: the cutting edge of technology as a person that like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you always have this perspective, like
Speaker 1: with this one, you're like, guys, air travel, why are
Speaker 1: we complaining the fact that we can do it? We
Speaker 1: should just be marveling with that. Meanwhile, like there are
Speaker 1: no I know you, and there's like no pair of
Speaker 1: headphones that is good enough for your head because they're
Speaker 1: failing in one way or the other.
Speaker 2: I do have a pair that I bought specifically for try.
Speaker 2: I just don't I don't fly that often.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah no, But I'm just saying, like how
Speaker 1: the bar is different like headphones, bro, I don't give
Speaker 1: a like I'm holding you to a completely different standard
Speaker 1: air travel. Yes, I get it, we're flying very fast.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, but I can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly that movement. You don't move it's six hundred
Speaker 2: miles an hour that often, and it's just I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's kinda it's kind of cool, how like just the
Speaker 2: level of trust that's been built up over time. So
Speaker 2: even though with all this like boeing shit, all these
Speaker 2: regulation stuff, it's still like there's still that level of
Speaker 2: trust of I'm going to trust this complete fucking stranger
Speaker 2: to fly me around at six hundred miles an hour
Speaker 2: and get me where I need to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bless the pilots and bless the drugs that they
Speaker 1: do to stay alert to land the planes. My underrated
Speaker 1: and you'll know about this because we were both we
Speaker 1: both saw this video over the weekend. My underrated is
Speaker 1: Canadian wrap YouTubers, you know in the Kendrick Lamar and
Speaker 1: Drake Beef. A lot of the time, it's very easy
Speaker 1: to fall into this binary of like America versus Canada,
Speaker 1: and America better because America invent hip hop, but Canadians,
Speaker 1: I think are just smarter people in general, you know,
Speaker 1: funnier people a lot of the time. But I've noticed
Speaker 1: a lot of the fucking commentary I've really liked on
Speaker 1: YouTube have actually come from Canadians talking about the like,
Speaker 1: you know, just there noalys and things like that. But
Speaker 1: there's one specific video, What's the Dirt by that channel
Speaker 1: what's the dirt this guy or is he from like
Speaker 1: Newfoundland or something?
Speaker 2: I want to see. Yeah, he's from like somewhere over
Speaker 2: there on that side, definitely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's got like every time, every now and
Speaker 1: then it like it veers into like sounding Irish. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Kendrick was in the dark on this one, and I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, what the He's.
Speaker 2: Got an interesting accent. I'm pretty sure, let me know.
Speaker 1: Is he a new fee? I don't know, but anyway
Speaker 1: he did. He did like one of the wildest breakdowns
Speaker 1: of Kendrick six sixteen in La Drake distrack, and it
Speaker 1: is so detailed. I'm I'm actually really blown away. Like
Speaker 1: every time every now and then, I like, I like
Speaker 1: to go on genius and look at how people are
Speaker 1: like sort of interpreting certain wrap lines, especially when there's
Speaker 1: references that go completely over my head and some make sense.
Speaker 1: But this video like it's sort of spelling every single
Speaker 1: thing out for you in a ways that I I
Speaker 1: just didn't have the depth of knowledge or dedication to
Speaker 1: break down a bar like that first verse and the beginning.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, look he's on his like
Speaker 1: big baller rapper shit. But then when and what's the
Speaker 1: dirt vide? He's like, this man is rapping as Drake
Speaker 1: right now, just so you know, this is him fully
Speaker 1: doing Drake to set up all this other stuff.
Speaker 2: And yeah, when they got over my fucking head. There's
Speaker 2: just so many little details, but yeah, his breakdown was
Speaker 2: so impressive.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's unbelievable. I mean it really is, I think,
Speaker 1: to the point where to connect all these dots. I
Speaker 1: mean it definitely had conspiracy theory, red thread on the
Speaker 1: wall vibes, but even like his artistic interpretation of like
Speaker 1: what he was even rapping, it was just on point.
Speaker 1: So you know what, shout out Canadian wrap YouTubers.
Speaker 2: We should you know.
Speaker 1: I love hearing your commentary, Brian. What's the mean think
Speaker 1: is overrated? Overrated? Is?
Speaker 2: Uh? I guess I'll go with going out on on
Speaker 2: peak nights, on like Friday day night, because let me
Speaker 2: let me tell you kids something.
Speaker 1: I'm tired.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and I just I don't got it anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm washed. And even though look we both come from
Speaker 1: like the La beat maker electronic rock see like you know,
Speaker 1: live music seat in LA. We've been to many shows
Speaker 1: laying with questionable venues. But you recently went to a
Speaker 1: show that started at eleven pm, and word, it sounds
Speaker 1: like it broke you. The doors were an electic I think,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: I've officially given up. So I went out to this.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I went out to see it in an electronic music
Speaker 2: recital and the doors didn't open until eleven PM. And
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this was I was thinking in
Speaker 2: the back of my mind that this was some sort
Speaker 2: of mistake and I was like, no, I'm all right,
Speaker 2: I've done this a zillion times. And you know, I'm
Speaker 2: at home. It's like, you know, nine ten pm, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm just like wandering around fully.
Speaker 1: Kid.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, it's only like an hour to I
Speaker 2: can leave for this place.
Speaker 1: And it's weird when like you're up in a time
Speaker 1: period when normally like I'm in bed or asleep or
Speaker 1: getting like or I'm high watching TV or something not
Speaker 1: like about to leave that like getting ready to leave.
Speaker 2: It's a weird time for me to leave the house.
Speaker 2: And it's almost as soon as I got there, I
Speaker 2: was looking for a place to sit down.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just that you're very old. That's why
Speaker 1: I get the bottle service stuff, you know, like, uh,
Speaker 1: not that I would ever do it, but the human
Speaker 1: need as you get older to just sit down, you know,
Speaker 1: like and and I think that's where they got people.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these clubs they know older people.
Speaker 1: They might have a little more money to spend, but
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't spend twelve hundred dollars on one
Speaker 1: bottle of Stoley. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like I thought of maybe do it, but it's
Speaker 2: it was just me. Yeah, how long did you go?
Speaker 1: How long did you last till you said the like,
Speaker 1: no such thing went up? At what time?
Speaker 2: Like I made it like a little over three hours.
Speaker 2: So I left the little after too. And that was
Speaker 2: the thing. This place was just starting to get popfing
Speaker 2: to his Yeah, you're like, no, I can't. I don't
Speaker 2: get it anymore. I'm washed, all right.
Speaker 1: My overrated wireless headphones M not that. Like I enjoy
Speaker 1: the wireless headphones that I wear, but I don't like
Speaker 1: the emphasis on wireless headphones to the point that most
Speaker 1: new tech devices that have some kind of audio playback
Speaker 1: function have no fucking headphone port. Like everyone is presumed
Speaker 1: to be having to use AirPods or wireless headphones.
Speaker 2: Or some shit.
Speaker 1: This also comes up all the time when like I
Speaker 1: have older relatives, like they get a new computer and
Speaker 1: they're like, there's no headphone whole thing in here for
Speaker 1: the what I do. And you're like, I know, talk
Speaker 1: to fucking Tim Apple and the rest of these people
Speaker 1: who were just trying to do every like get rid
Speaker 1: of the damn air the fucking headphone port. They want
Speaker 1: us all buying everything wireless. But again, what is my
Speaker 1: question is, technologically speaking, what is the disadvantage of having
Speaker 1: that trust the eighth inch port available as a redundancy.
Speaker 2: Well, the issue is that wireless headphones are so lucrative
Speaker 2: that they don't want to they don't want to sell.
Speaker 1: You anything, yeah, the cheap shit anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, it's just like it's a really it was always
Speaker 2: an interesting move to me to just outright, you know,
Speaker 2: they moved they removed headphone jacks from phones, yea, and
Speaker 2: then you know, here comes this wave of wireless headphones
Speaker 2: and now with the big over ear you know, like
Speaker 2: your Bow's or your Sony's, they've removed the the the
Speaker 2: eighth inch jack from that. So now you don't even
Speaker 2: have the option of using them passively.
Speaker 1: Even the new generations of those don't even have the
Speaker 1: fucking yes.
Speaker 2: Some like I bought a pair of Sennheisers that still
Speaker 2: have yeah where you can plug it in with a
Speaker 2: wire or USB. But they've really been trying to lock down,
Speaker 2: like you are going to buy headphones every two fucking
Speaker 2: years because we say so, and it's pretty diabolical.
Speaker 1: I have AirPods from twenty nineteen that I have not
Speaker 1: they're they're they're not looking, They're not great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that battery life is gonna be sure, life is
Speaker 2: dog shit.
Speaker 1: One of them crackles unless I like beat the shit,
Speaker 1: like I have to like fucking smack it and then
Speaker 1: it stops crackling. I should just get in my place,
Speaker 1: because I think you can still. But I was so
Speaker 1: into headphones growing up that like I always knew it's
Speaker 1: like this is a pair that I can fucking use
Speaker 1: forever or at least a very very long time. And yeah,
Speaker 1: with everything being wireless or needing like internal electronics or
Speaker 1: batteries to align it now, it's just.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the thing. Like headphones are they are
Speaker 2: an electro mechanical device that really should last you like years,
Speaker 2: maybe decades. Like I'm wearing HD six hundreds by Sandheisers.
Speaker 2: These were they put these out in nineteen ninety seven, right,
Speaker 2: and they still sell them today, and that you can
Speaker 2: and that's them across the room.
Speaker 1: You know, And that's the problem. I'm sure there's people
Speaker 1: like in these boardrooms being like, yeah, man, like these
Speaker 1: things just last too long. So maybe only persons maybe
Speaker 1: buying one at most two pair over their lifetime.
Speaker 2: Because when you think about it, the thing that would
Speaker 2: wear out on your headphones that made you have to
Speaker 2: get a new pair was the wire would break. It
Speaker 2: would almost never be the actual driver or maybe the
Speaker 2: arm or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exact.
Speaker 2: The headphones are the playback of the headphones. I've never
Speaker 2: had a headphone break like where the speaker broke. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't think of a time that unless they got
Speaker 2: like wet or something like physically damage it some other way.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So this is the old head headphone hour where
Speaker 1: we complain about late starts to music recitals and the
Speaker 1: fact that where'd that eight eighth inch port go? All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
Speaker 1: to talk about what was trending over the weekend. Because
Speaker 1: my god, man, yeah, fucking so many things happened. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll be wrecky and we're back. And I think the
Speaker 1: big thing that we must talk about immediately because we
Speaker 1: didn't we weren't able to record our response to the
Speaker 1: debate was the presidential debate that took place at the
Speaker 1: end of last week, which was I would say probably
Speaker 1: one of the greatest performances I have seen from Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: and I am heartened to know that he is going
Speaker 1: to be our nominee in the election. He absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the debate, but based on what but
Speaker 1: I heard Joe Biden say about him, I believe that
Speaker 1: he won. Oh god, now, I can't even fucking pretend.
Speaker 1: It was so painful to watch. I immediately got texts
Speaker 1: from people this second he started speaking, People are like, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the Emperor has no nothing.
Speaker 2: I didn't see it, but I did see a very
Speaker 2: illustrative clip on Reddit of Joe Biden in a debate
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen and Joe Biden, Oh my god, don't
Speaker 2: even yeah side it blew all my hair off. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: I was like, holy shit, that's terrifying. This dude is
Speaker 2: a different person.
Speaker 1: I'll play This was one of the moments that a
Speaker 1: lot of people were talking about when I think it
Speaker 1: really was just visibly clear just how old Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is and how much trouble he was having just sort
Speaker 1: of putting your answer together. So for those of you
Speaker 1: who have heard it, I'm sorry to put this back
Speaker 1: in your ears again. But for those who maybe had
Speaker 1: just anecdotally heard how bad it was, here's an answer
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden was talking about healthcare. I think all those.
Speaker 3: Things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure
Speaker 3: that we continue to suppent strength in our healthcare system,
Speaker 3: making sure that we're able.
Speaker 2: To His voice is already he's unintelligible.
Speaker 1: It's very difficult. He's very raspy.
Speaker 3: Every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able
Speaker 3: to do with the with the COVID, dealing with everything.
Speaker 1: We have to do with even Trump's looking at him.
Speaker 3: We finally beat medicare.
Speaker 1: Thank your President. Oh no, no, no, that was really
Speaker 1: like the fact that he was even able to do
Speaker 1: like the office, like Jim looking into.
Speaker 2: Camera kind of m yeah, see this, what was that?
Speaker 1: You see this? Then there was another question he had
Speaker 1: about abortion and he somehow spun it into like like
Speaker 1: immigrants killing people. It was a really, really poor performance.
Speaker 1: It was a disaster. Apparently there was a debate watch
Speaker 1: party that like had Doug Emhoff, who is Kamala Harris's husband, JB. Pritzker,
Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer, Andy Basheer. There was also apparently Rob Reiner
Speaker 1: was there was quote screaming about losing a few a
Speaker 1: few answers into the debate, and Jane Fonda had tears
Speaker 1: in her eyes. Oh my fucking god. So, yeah, that
Speaker 1: is this your king?
Speaker 2: I guess so.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people were calling basically on the
Speaker 1: Democrats to replace him with quite literally anyone, and even
Speaker 1: like the New York Times editorial board, the loudest voices
Speaker 1: that we kept hearing were putting out Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Speaker 1: from Michigan or Gavin Newsom from California. Those are like
Speaker 1: the easiest first answer things you think of. I think
Speaker 1: a Whitmer is probably helps if you've become so cynical
Speaker 1: about like Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan, about what's
Speaker 1: happening in Gaza, They're like, well, she can get the
Speaker 1: turnout that might offset the people that are so disaffected
Speaker 1: by this administration's policies as it relates to Gaza. But
Speaker 1: I mean, just seeing the energy out there, you're like,
Speaker 1: holy cow. And they from the beginning, so many people
Speaker 1: were like, this guy is old, he's appeal to younger
Speaker 1: voters who you really want to energize a campaign is
Speaker 1: just not there. But everyone insisted all the time, remember
Speaker 1: there will always be people been like, oh, I've been
Speaker 1: talking to the president. He is sharp, he is fantastic. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: we're seeing clips of him like where he's slowing down
Speaker 1: a little bit, not quite giving the most concise answers
Speaker 1: as he could. And yeah, I mean, like the Democrats
Speaker 1: really completely fucking they're just revealing why I think there's
Speaker 1: so much criticism of how they're doing things, because they
Speaker 1: can't even respond to something like this without like immediately
Speaker 1: attacking people being like Joe Biden did great, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. And it's just like now the you know,
Speaker 1: the polls again are nothing really indicative of much, but
Speaker 1: in terms of people's opinions right now now almost forty
Speaker 1: or no forty six percent of Democrats are now saying
Speaker 1: Biden should not be running for president anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bad, bad, bad look on both sides
Speaker 2: of the aisle. But I mean just this is just
Speaker 2: it's just real depressing that this is where we're at
Speaker 2: and these are what are considered our most viable options, right,
Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, it's just being stuck in that
Speaker 2: room of like, well, well we have to go with
Speaker 2: someone who could win in yeah, not what will not
Speaker 2: what war? Like, what's your platform is? Or it's just
Speaker 2: this isn't democracy to me, where you're sort of forced
Speaker 2: into these really unfavorable like decisions that you have to
Speaker 2: make of like, well I have to put aside all
Speaker 2: my you know, ideals to win this horse race.
Speaker 1: It's it's I think it's just absolutely it's so cynical
Speaker 1: for Democrats like this, like this election is the most
Speaker 1: important election of our lives.
Speaker 2: Democracy is on I'm not going to be voting on platforms.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to be voting on the horse I
Speaker 2: think will.
Speaker 1: Be the fastest vote on Democracy is on the line.
Speaker 1: But if democracy, if things are that important and existential
Speaker 1: to us, and you're so like and then this is
Speaker 1: the guy who's going to go into the fight for
Speaker 1: America is the soul of America's is quote unquote democracy.
Speaker 1: You immediately like, bro, that's that's who you're that's the
Speaker 1: fighter you're picking and street fighter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is your champion.
Speaker 1: This dude, kid, what well? I thought I thought the
Speaker 1: stakes were hot. Uh okay, but yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: aim in Ismael, who's a former guest who comes on
Speaker 1: the show pretty frequently, he wrote a piece in Slate
Speaker 1: we about saying, like, you know, just the idea to
Speaker 1: keep forcing this uh this option down people's throats without
Speaker 1: actually considering what people are asking for, as people, you know,
Speaker 1: as potential democratic voters, are saying this is what we're
Speaker 1: interested in. What will you do to earn my vote?
Speaker 1: Rather than being like, this is fucking what you got.
Speaker 1: Do you want democracy to fucking die? I don't want
Speaker 1: to fucking hear anything else about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The rhetoric around it is so like it's it's
Speaker 2: it's so aggressive, and it's it's like if you say
Speaker 2: something to the contrary of like, oh, I don't want
Speaker 2: to vote for him because his policies are bad, and oh.
Speaker 1: Do you want democracy to die?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I don't. What I'm saying is I would prefer someone
Speaker 1: else can is that okay? Or do you or can
Speaker 1: you get him to maybe change some things about his
Speaker 1: platform that might make me more open rather than being like, well,
Speaker 1: if you don't, you know, your fucking grandma and your
Speaker 1: favorite pets are going to be killed by Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: So yeah, is that what you want? No, But I
Speaker 1: think I think we're fundamentally I think we're fundamentally not
Speaker 1: understanding how this works. And obviously a lot of people
Speaker 1: who look at America's politics with sober ezs are like, look,
Speaker 1: this is never really a true democracy in that sense.
Speaker 1: But even in the sense of trying to get like
Speaker 1: just in like a wanting people to like you sort
Speaker 1: of sense, you kind of got to listen to what
Speaker 1: people are asking for and then you kind of show
Speaker 1: that so then they go, oh, okay, there's that person
Speaker 1: I can support. But yeah, we will see what happens.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, apparently Jill Biden and Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: are the ones that have been like you gotta stay in,
Speaker 1: you gotta stay in. I don't think so no, And
Speaker 1: also like it was really uncomfortable, how like after the
Speaker 1: eight Jill Biden was sort of like gassing Joe up
Speaker 1: about like how well he did, even though clearly like
Speaker 1: the chirons that were running like a at the end
Speaker 1: of the debate on every news channel were like DEM's
Speaker 1: panicking over that bike debate performance. This is what Joe
Speaker 1: Biden says to Joe on stage. Jo, you did such
Speaker 1: a great job.
Speaker 3: You answered every question, you knew all the.
Speaker 1: Let me ask the crowd what did Trump do?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: This is called encouraging someone to death.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's she had the same energy as like a
Speaker 2: preschool teacher.
Speaker 1: You did such a great job. Here's one Graham cracker,
Speaker 1: you and your forehead. Here's a gold star, you do
Speaker 1: all the facts. Here's some goldfish crackers. You did it. Yay, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's your little diploma, and now keep it go. I
Speaker 1: mean also then, like when you see this, you're like,
Speaker 1: this is just a family that's hell bent on holding
Speaker 1: onto their power. Like they could give a rat's ass
Speaker 1: about what the outcome is of this election. They just
Speaker 1: don't want to be the people saying like, ah, we
Speaker 1: can't do it anymore. So yeah, very inspiring, very inspiring.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. I was I was telling a friend,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know how you're gonna like, obviously,
Speaker 1: there are people who are going to vote for Joe
Speaker 1: Biden no matter what. But for anybody who is like
Speaker 1: like needing a better reason, he better start giving some
Speaker 1: kind of reason, like you better start making it rain
Speaker 1: social spending or some shit, or or he'll do the
Speaker 1: thing that he promises and it doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: I'm calling it right now. Well I called it a
Speaker 2: couple months ago actually, but I feel like he's going
Speaker 2: to start piping up and saying the things that people
Speaker 2: want to hear much closer to the election, so that
Speaker 2: it's fresh in everyone's mind that, oh, I do actually
Speaker 2: want to cease fire now, right, and whatever the fuck
Speaker 2: else he can come up with to to you know,
Speaker 2: curry favor with voters.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel I feel like he's just waiting, like
Speaker 2: he just like, there's no way he doesn't know what
Speaker 2: people want to fucking hear.
Speaker 1: He needs a meet the Graham's level red button track
Speaker 1: that he can drop on people to completely change the
Speaker 1: narrative and then follow it up with not like us.
Speaker 2: I just feel like, in like September October, he's gonna
Speaker 2: like start piping up about stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's very early but again, like when you
Speaker 1: have these kinds of performances that now it's fully like
Speaker 1: the debate or the rhetorically, this is exactly where the
Speaker 1: Republicans want to be, is to just be like the
Speaker 1: guy's old, the guys old, the guys old, the guys old,
Speaker 1: the guys old, the guys old, the guys old, the
Speaker 1: guy's old. And yeah, so we'll see. I don't think
Speaker 1: heads are gonna roll, uh in terms of like his
Speaker 1: at like Biden's advisors or anything really happening in the DNC, but.
Speaker 2: We shall see.
Speaker 1: Let's also talk about the Supreme Court, because they have
Speaker 1: continued to be trashed through the end of last week.
Speaker 1: They just ruled this morning Monday, uh that Trump does
Speaker 1: actually have some form of absolute immunity for official acts
Speaker 1: while in office. The Court didn't agree with Trump's like
Speaker 1: absurdly broad definition. But again, this is such a blatant
Speaker 1: act of meddling and is clearly a moment where as
Speaker 1: Justice Katanji Brown Jackson said, the seeds of absolute power
Speaker 1: have been planted. So now yeah, so now this the
Speaker 1: decision basically sends this case back to the lower court,
Speaker 1: where District Judge Tanya Chutkin can hear arguments over again
Speaker 1: where they're going to have to decide what actually constitutes
Speaker 1: an official act by the former president. So talking to
Speaker 1: the DOJ about overturning the election is protected by his
Speaker 1: immunity in this case. But the Court again wasn't really
Speaker 1: defining what our technically official acts. So we will see
Speaker 1: what Judge Shutkin has to say for Special Counsel Jack
Speaker 1: Smith's case. This means that the case, the scope of
Speaker 1: the case will probably change, and Justice Sodamayor's dissent is
Speaker 1: really fucking I mean, this is part of it, as
Speaker 1: she obviously, like most people, were disturbed by what the
Speaker 1: conservative justices did on the bench. Quote. When the president
Speaker 1: uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning,
Speaker 1: he will now be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the
Speaker 1: Navy's Sealed Team six to assassinate a political rival, Immune
Speaker 1: organizes a military coup to hold onto power. Immune takes
Speaker 1: a bribe in exchange for a pardon, Immune Immune Immune Immune.
Speaker 1: Let the president violate the law, let him exploit the
Speaker 1: trappings of his office for personal gain, Let him use
Speaker 1: his official power for evil ends, because if he knew that,
Speaker 1: he may one day face liability for breaking the law.
Speaker 1: He might not be as bold and fearless as we
Speaker 1: would like him to be. That is the majority's message today.
Speaker 1: Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I
Speaker 1: pray they never do, the damage has been done. The
Speaker 1: relationship between the president and the people he serves has
Speaker 1: shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power. The president
Speaker 1: is now a king above the law.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Now, like on the internet now everyone's like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess Joe Biden would that now, you know, do
Speaker 1: whatever you've got to do, baby, because they just ruled
Speaker 1: that you can do you know, official acts are protected
Speaker 1: and you are immune. So we still haven't heard officially
Speaker 1: what the White House have said about this decision. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like, my god, at this point, maybe you
Speaker 1: can just create some vacancies on the Supreme Court bench
Speaker 1: because maybe that can.
Speaker 2: Be within your manager on them or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, come through. I'm doing
Speaker 1: a pet adoption that the I love to have you
Speaker 1: guys over. Just check this out. Is that a diar
Speaker 1: rule from Game of Thrones?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Pretty cool, right? They thought they were mythical, so then
Speaker 1: also aside from that, the Supreme Court also concluded that
Speaker 1: January sixth writers did not quote obstruct or impede the
Speaker 1: congressional proceeding to certify the election, in a six to
Speaker 1: three decision that broke down ideological lines. Hm hmm. Interesting again,
Speaker 1: everyone's like, this is oh wow, holy shit, this is
Speaker 1: like unbelievable that. But they've again gone to a more
Speaker 1: textual reading of the law to basically be like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, in this case, it's like didn't technically destroyed
Speaker 1: documents or something like that, So can we really call it.
Speaker 2: Which is false? I literally have this footage everywhere of
Speaker 2: them destroying documents.
Speaker 1: Well like the ones that they were using to certify
Speaker 1: the exos documents. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's so. That's all good,
Speaker 1: and that obviously may have an effect on what's happening
Speaker 1: with Trump's legal predicaments as well. And as we touched
Speaker 1: on last week, they also made it legal for, you know,
Speaker 1: to bribe government officials if you call it a gratuity
Speaker 1: and do it after the fact, not before, because that's shady.
Speaker 2: Yeah they get tips now too, It's great, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. They overturned the Chevron doctrine, which
Speaker 1: essentially made courts defer to federal agencies in legal dispute
Speaker 1: where there's any ambiguity. So you know, if there's like
Speaker 1: an EPA case that's talking about like systems to combat
Speaker 1: pollution or whatever, you know, the judge would normally have
Speaker 1: to defer to what the agency was defining as a
Speaker 1: system or whatever or whatever, like the ambiguity was in
Speaker 1: a language. Because also when you write these laws, you
Speaker 1: need some wiggle room to be able to adapt things
Speaker 1: for the future. But in this instance, this is giving
Speaker 1: judges power to interpret those things, which is very dangerous
Speaker 1: considering that the challenge to chevron deference is basically quote
Speaker 1: part of an extensive campaign by industry and their allies
Speaker 1: to unravel federal authority to regulate food safety, clean air,
Speaker 1: clean water, protections from consumer fraud, and more. The stakes
Speaker 1: for people's lives are profound in legal disputes over ambiguous statutes.
Speaker 1: Chevron says again, judges, within reason, ought to defer to
Speaker 1: federal agencies understanding of those statutes. So yeah, today this
Speaker 1: is someone from the Southern Environmental Law Center said, quote,
Speaker 1: today's ruling sidelines the role of agency expertise and instead
Speaker 1: shifts power to judges who do not have the expertise
Speaker 1: of agency staff who live and breed the science, financial principles,
Speaker 1: and safety concerns that federal agencies specialize in. So there's that,
Speaker 1: and then they criminalized basically being unhoused. We mentioned this
Speaker 1: Grant's past case when Rhiannon came on talking about Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decisions. But yeah, again six ' three broke in
Speaker 1: favor of the really fucked up regressive way of even
Speaker 1: looking at what a person is or what they can do,
Speaker 1: which is saying that now the people cannot be sleeping
Speaker 1: outside and local governments can now criminalize people for being
Speaker 1: in encampments. Jisodamyra, So yeah, exactly. I mean, it's already
Speaker 1: so hostile, and it's just so bizarre to be like, well,
Speaker 1: it's illegal to be a sleep outside even though you
Speaker 1: live in this country where our rules are created as such,
Speaker 1: where some people that's the only option they have, and
Speaker 1: we also have again, but we're at court, we have
Speaker 1: no you know, interest in how to remedy that specific part.
Speaker 1: But given all that, we do think that it should
Speaker 1: be criminal to be unhoused. Essentially, so a lot of
Speaker 1: a whole lot of bullshit going down with making a
Speaker 1: big push. I mean, it's just again even with this,
Speaker 1: like it's so unnecessarily cruel, and it also goes against
Speaker 1: all the fucking evidence that shows that criminalizing being unhoused
Speaker 1: does not work. And if for people, for all the
Speaker 1: fiscal conservatism that is that exists out there, it's also
Speaker 1: it's cheaper to actually find ways to get people housed
Speaker 1: than to just have this endless cycle of like criminalizing
Speaker 1: unhoused people.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you're being way too charitable with this,
Speaker 2: Like no one's trying to do the right thing here.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, but I'm saying, but I think, but
Speaker 1: it's important that we know what these truths are and
Speaker 1: how everything disregards all of that, Like obviously I understand
Speaker 1: that there's no interest in doing that, but the facts
Speaker 1: are still there that it's actually it's all the better
Speaker 1: option is always to actually sort out the problem fiscally, socially,
Speaker 1: all of that. It's not because it's because someone has
Speaker 1: an eye sore about their property values because someone is
Speaker 1: unhoused living near them. But yeah, it's a cruel world
Speaker 1: we live in. It's a very cruel world. In an
Speaker 1: even crueler country. So let's take another break. We'll come
Speaker 1: back and at least we can talk about the new
Speaker 1: Mark Wahlberg joint directed by Mel Gibson right after this,
Speaker 1: and we're back weird. So is Mark Wahlberg?
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, ro staying preyed up in everything, dude.
Speaker 1: So he The trailer just dropped for this new movie,
Speaker 1: Flight Risk, which is a new Mark Wahlberg action thriller
Speaker 1: directed by none other than Mel Gibson. It's set entirely
Speaker 1: in an airplane, and like, at first, I was like,
Speaker 1: is this is Could this actually be something to do
Speaker 1: with his nine to eleven fantasies, because like the blog line,
Speaker 1: you're not sure. It says, quote a pilot transports an
Speaker 1: air marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross
Speaker 1: the Alaskan wilderness, tension sore and trust is tested as
Speaker 1: not everyone on board is who they seem. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh shit, is he gonna like fight someone?
Speaker 1: Like is he the cop or whatever? Because as we
Speaker 1: all know, he famously said he was supposed to be
Speaker 1: on one of those planes on nine to eleven and
Speaker 1: if he was on there, it wouldn't he said quote
Speaker 1: if I was on that plane with my kids, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have
Speaker 1: been a lot of blood in that first class cabin.
Speaker 1: And then I'm saying, Okay, where are we gonna land?
Speaker 1: But I said, Okay, we're gonna land somewhere safely. Don't worry,
Speaker 1: say he lo to your mother for me, and then
Speaker 1: he later obviously apologized because they're like, what the fuck
Speaker 1: are you talking about, dude. So the movie turns out
Speaker 1: is not him fighting terrorists to reverse nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: even though the description doesn't even imply that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was going to be like Passenger
Speaker 2: for fifty seven with a white guy or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, apparently Mark Wahlberg he's the pilot who's actually
Speaker 1: a hit man trying to kill his passenger, which is
Speaker 1: played by Toafer Grace from TOF a seventies show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the air Marshall Michelle Dockery. So but he also,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, he's I don't know why he
Speaker 1: had to be bald. There was a moment where he's
Speaker 1: wearing a hat and then his hat gets blown off
Speaker 1: and then you see like how like his male powdern
Speaker 1: baldness and I'm like.
Speaker 2: Wow, Bro, yes.
Speaker 1: To me.
Speaker 2: Seeing Mark Wahlberg with that with his hairline just blown
Speaker 2: them completely back, being.
Speaker 1: Like, hey, I'm a wacky hit man pilot. Bro.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why why did he have to be bald?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I do, I you know. Mel Gibson like, God,
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last What was the last thing
Speaker 1: he was in that I saw? What's that was that
Speaker 1: he was in Daddy's home? What was that one thing
Speaker 1: he did with Mark Wahlberg?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't remember. The last thing I saw him
Speaker 2: in as an actor was Dragged Across Concrete where he
Speaker 2: played a shitty cop, and I was like, appropriate, appropriate fasting.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say it.
Speaker 1: Makes sense for him.
Speaker 2: He could have gotten someone else, But I mean, if
Speaker 2: you want a piece of shit grizzled visit of a cop,
Speaker 2: there is not a bad choice.
Speaker 1: Aside from this specific film, we haven't what was the
Speaker 1: last air air like big airplane thriller movie we had
Speaker 1: that really caught caught us all.
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of a I don't want to say
Speaker 2: it's a dead genre, but I remember in the nineties
Speaker 2: there were a lot of airplane movies. Shit going down
Speaker 2: on airplane Air Force one past fifty seven, all this stuff,
Speaker 2: and I'm it's just so I fell after out of
Speaker 2: favor for some reason in the early two thousands, and
Speaker 2: I'm not sure why anyway.
Speaker 1: I mean, flight plan was two thousand and five flight plan?
Speaker 1: Which one was Jody Foster?
Speaker 2: Oh, I missed that one. That's the one is And no,
Speaker 2: Red Eye doesn't really count with Sylvia Murphy because half
Speaker 2: of that is not in the plane. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, look, studios love a contained thriller because you only
Speaker 1: have to pay for one set. How bottle bottle movies? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: industry contained thriller. We call them contained thrillers. They're contained
Speaker 1: to one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the phone booth.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly. So I don't know, boo. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see Mark Wahlberg reverse nine to eleven in
Speaker 1: an alternate universe.
Speaker 2: Yes, I will not be. I will not be seeing
Speaker 2: this in the theater. I will be stealing this from
Speaker 2: the internet. And yeah, because like Mel Gibson, Mel Gibson
Speaker 2: is a he's a weird director. Like when they showed
Speaker 2: his pre from the director of Apocalypto, I'm like that
Speaker 2: movie was highly inaccurate. Uh, one of one of one
Speaker 2: of the wildest endings where I'm like, this is this
Speaker 2: is so historically inaccurate, but you also made these people
Speaker 2: learn Mayan, right, it's just like weird choices. Hacksaw Ridge
Speaker 2: was terrible. The christ Man Passion of the Christ was terrible,
Speaker 2: Like all of his movies are terrible in unique in
Speaker 2: special ways where it's like you can see the effort,
Speaker 2: but it's all yeah, weird places. Yeah exactly, You're like,
Speaker 2: that's the Patree, Like the Patriot is just like mind
Speaker 2: blowingly stupid.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just he's a very strange director.
Speaker 1: Yeah, strange director and a bad man. And then the
Speaker 1: BET Awards were on Sunday. There was a big like
Speaker 1: Usher had a huge tribute thing where everybody so many
Speaker 1: people were like dedicating little performances to his songs over
Speaker 1: the years. To start off with Childish Gambino doing an
Speaker 1: auto tuned you don't have to call not not my favorite,
Speaker 1: I'd have to say, but you know, honoring the Atlanta
Speaker 1: legend himself, he gave a speech that got like was
Speaker 1: really censored a ton. I know that he was like swearing.
Speaker 1: But then also it seemed like there were like a
Speaker 1: lot of the censoring happened when he was talking about
Speaker 1: it was like the Year of the Father. I have
Speaker 1: haven't seen the whole Like a lot of people posted
Speaker 1: from inside the amphitheater or the theater the uncensored speech.
Speaker 1: And he was talking about how he'd been through some
Speaker 1: bullshit in the industry, and I'm not sure what he
Speaker 1: was alluding to, but I'm very curious what is going
Speaker 1: on there. I'm sure we'll know more than you. Had
Speaker 1: Will Smith performing what did he performed like a new
Speaker 1: track called you Can Make It? And he's like, h
Speaker 1: it's weird. The set he's on. Jam our writer point
Speaker 1: out it looks like the cover of like the Dianetics book.
Speaker 1: Like it's just like a like a flaming volcano, like
Speaker 1: where maybe betans are like, I like that a.
Speaker 2: White dude is reporting on the bet Awards.
Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah, he had to. I mean he knows, he
Speaker 1: knows what the mandate is, the scope of the show.
Speaker 1: But then like in the lyrics, it's just like it's
Speaker 1: all about his like comeback. There's lyrics that say, the
Speaker 1: darker the hell you gotta endure, the brighter the heaven
Speaker 1: you get to enjoy, the harder the fall. The higher
Speaker 1: you soar. God opened the window when the devil closed
Speaker 1: the door. Believe me, they tried to bleed. Will Smith
Speaker 1: in the rear View, I see adversity was the gift?
Speaker 1: Oh Will that sounds like a man do this sounds
Speaker 1: like a greeting card someone buys you, like when something
Speaker 1: bad happens and you're like, hey, adversity was the gift?
Speaker 2: Wasn't it? Wasn't it, folks.
Speaker 1: Then the other weird part was that in the in
Speaker 1: memoriam section, like when you know you've had people like
Speaker 1: Carl Weathers, Willie Mays, Richard Roundtree, like you know, one
Speaker 1: of the Isisley brothers, Lewis Gossi Junior, like passing away.
Speaker 1: Then a card shows up for O. J. Simpson in
Speaker 1: the in memoriam and even the audience was like, huh,
Speaker 1: I mean, I okay, I get it. But technically he
Speaker 1: was acquitted. But he definitely was black culture where it
Speaker 1: was like, come on, man, for all the shit that
Speaker 1: we've seen people get away with. But yes, he's a cute,
Speaker 1: isn't it. I Mean in other award shows, like when
Speaker 1: you've been a q A murder, you kind of get
Speaker 1: left out of the end memoriam like Robert Blake was
Speaker 1: at the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Robert Blake for sure did that ship.
Speaker 1: And OJ only kind of for sure.
Speaker 2: Like I'm like he's involved somehow, but I can't prove it.
Speaker 1: But whether he did it for real, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Look, it's like OJ was such a was such a
Speaker 2: big deal, like even like for you know, for me
Speaker 2: as a kid like I did. I never got to
Speaker 2: see him play ball, but I was a big naked
Speaker 2: gun fan, and you know, like I get it. I
Speaker 2: get why he's there, but it is you're just like
Speaker 2: you can't help.
Speaker 1: But go yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean like, look you're putting on your tongue on
Speaker 2: your shirt collar like oh yeah. It's also being jump
Speaker 2: scared by OJ is never fun. No, no one, No
Speaker 2: one wants to no, no, Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's just a wild it's a wild that's a
Speaker 1: wild moment. That's a wild, wild moment. And I get him.
Speaker 1: I remember being I remember when they were about to
Speaker 1: read the verdict. I remember like being with like with
Speaker 1: my grandpa and being like I hope he's not guilty.
Speaker 2: I hope he's like bro, I had such a wild
Speaker 2: experience with that I was in fifth grade, right, and
Speaker 2: I happened to have been going to this majority white
Speaker 2: private school. So at home, it's just black people. How
Speaker 2: black people reacted to this in La right right at school,
Speaker 2: it was just white people, and it was like rich
Speaker 2: white Like I went to school with like like the
Speaker 2: Hurts ran at car kid and Jamie Lee Curtis's kid
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, and there were little white girls
Speaker 2: crying when they got the news, and this was like
Speaker 2: and you know then there's like nobody had Yeah, It's
Speaker 2: like when the news dropped, it was just like they
Speaker 2: might as well have been airing it in the class.
Speaker 2: That's how it was. That's how huge it was and
Speaker 2: how the situation was. Yeah, and it was just white
Speaker 2: wild for me at that age to see that level
Speaker 2: of like that split in the city of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: white folks were upset that day. It was like it
Speaker 2: was like twenty sixteen all over again. I've never seen
Speaker 2: that many like white people crying since that elected.
Speaker 1: But then yeah, but then it looked like when people
Speaker 1: were in the streets in twenty twenty when Trump lost,
Speaker 1: was kind of like what other parts of LA looked like.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was it was a wild formative experience that OJ trial,
Speaker 2: because it's like they preempted all the cartoons. I was
Speaker 2: like nine or ten or something like that. It's like
Speaker 2: you couldn't watch Power Rangers, you couldn't watch Big Bad Beetleborgs,
Speaker 2: you watch reruns and Married with Children. It was just
Speaker 2: OJ for Like, what how long was that trial?
Speaker 1: Like a year?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, at least because the verdict came out in October
Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety five. So yeah, that's just that's just
Speaker 1: a weird. Look, I don't know, just like I get
Speaker 1: it from the significance standpoint, because obviously he's out, he's
Speaker 1: an outsized figure. But it's like the memorium part is
Speaker 1: very just like come on now, come on now, but
Speaker 1: we don't.
Speaker 2: We didn't didn't. That didn't have to happen.
Speaker 1: But anyway, here we are a strange world we live in,
Speaker 1: and we only have even stranger things.
Speaker 2: Ahead of us.
Speaker 1: That's not a promo for the new season of Stranger.
Speaker 2: Hitty hit the Miles season five, Get in y'all? That
Speaker 2: why I hit the bank account. He's like, look, let
Speaker 2: me look you guys about the new season.
Speaker 1: Let'll tell you about some stranger things now, what is
Speaker 1: eleven and the rest of the game gonna do as
Speaker 1: they fight Vekna or whatever the fuck? Uh shit. All right,
Speaker 1: well that's gonna do it for us today. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with a new episode. H Glad you
Speaker 1: hung out with us, and the fun does continue, does continue,
Speaker 1: uh and so do the Stranger Things that we deal
Speaker 1: with on our day to day basis in the news
Speaker 1: and also check out Stranger Things the new season coming soon.
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