Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: thin trend line. Because our president has drawn a maybe
Speaker 1: a thif red line. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: bread line he's drawn. He's drawn a line in the sand, folks,
Speaker 1: could be according to the mainstream media, my name is Jack.
Speaker 2: That over there is Miles.
Speaker 1: And these are some of the things that are trending
Speaker 1: on this Thursday, May nine, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's start off with Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yesterday we mentioned how he did the
Speaker 3: unprecedented pausing a shipment of two thousand pound and five
Speaker 3: hundred pound bombs to.
Speaker 2: Israel, so now bomb pounds.
Speaker 3: He's publicly warned Israel that the US, like, we will
Speaker 3: stop sending offensive weapons if there is a major assault
Speaker 3: on Rafa, which is basically the like one of the
Speaker 3: last cities that has not been completely destroyed by the IDEAF.
Speaker 4: And he said to quote, I.
Speaker 3: Made it clear that if they go into Rafa, I'm
Speaker 3: not supplying the weapons. And then later on, like when
Speaker 3: a sort of you know, a National Security Council spokesperson,
Speaker 3: they're like, so, what's the deal is Ben said, It's like, well,
Speaker 3: if they smash into RAFA, then we don't want to
Speaker 3: be a part of that.
Speaker 4: We're watching very closely what they do.
Speaker 1: If they do a precision knifing movement or pincer in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very vague, and I mean like from everything
Speaker 3: you are reading there, there's definitely you know, there's shit
Speaker 3: happening in RAFA. So it's not quite clear what he means.
Speaker 3: And you know, Net and Yahoo has basically said Israel
Speaker 3: can stand alone if they don't want to, if the
Speaker 3: United States is not interested in providing any more offensive weapons,
Speaker 3: and to be honest, they're the stockpiles that Israel already
Speaker 3: has thanks to partners like the United States, billions of
Speaker 3: dollars of bombs, like we have bombs. So I'm not
Speaker 3: quite sure. I would love a little bit more texture here.
Speaker 3: But again, like I said yesterday, it's like for every
Speaker 3: fucked up headline, you get one of these things like
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not I'm telling you to go in there, Jack,
Speaker 3: We're not sending no more bombs to you. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: now it's like, well, if they smash into Rapa, it's like,
Speaker 3: this is so vague. Yeah that, yeah, we're yet to
Speaker 3: see what exactly that means. And then again many other
Speaker 3: spokespeople like this, you know, this Pentagon Press secretary basically said,
Speaker 3: it's like this doesn't mean like we're not gonna be
Speaker 3: standing by to help defend Israel. So it's just a
Speaker 3: very it's a lot of a lot of you know,
Speaker 3: many many, many meaning.
Speaker 4: Statements that we get. That's just very fucking confusing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like they're using the same language. Like when
Speaker 1: the mainster media will be like, yeah, the blasts have
Speaker 1: killed civilians, we don't know who they're from or what
Speaker 1: caused the blasts. In this case, they're like, uh, you
Speaker 1: can't smash in, which is like an arbitrary word that
Speaker 1: they can then choose their own definition for exactly.
Speaker 4: It's like, well, we don't consider that a smash.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, from you know, the earlier reports I read,
Speaker 3: you know, they're already you know, civilians already dying.
Speaker 1: There are millions of lives at risk, and they're using
Speaker 1: language that wouldn't be precise enough for like could you
Speaker 1: imagine if, like the NBA, if their rules were like
Speaker 1: you just can't like smash him. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: a smash, this isn't a foul if you well you
Speaker 1: just like.
Speaker 4: Cut up to the rest. You know you're a fan
Speaker 4: of Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know a smash when you see it, you
Speaker 1: just can't like smash into them. And we feel like
Speaker 1: that wasn't quite smashage. It feels like they're like smashage.
Speaker 3: They're like edging with actually fucking doing something to see
Speaker 3: like that?
Speaker 4: Is that changing the bowling at all?
Speaker 3: When I said I won't send any more offensive weapon
Speaker 3: other ones?
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe, but just those ones? Did that work? No?
Speaker 4: All right, let me let me, let me jack it
Speaker 4: up a little bit. They smash into there. Uh but yeah,
Speaker 4: it's again, it's.
Speaker 2: All on the plane smashing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exatly, please define smashing Biden administration, because otherwise it
Speaker 3: tends to ring hollow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: A Republican lawmaker has claimed that the KKK is the
Speaker 1: military wing of the Democratic Party in closed door meetings
Speaker 1: ahead of anti semitism hearings. This really feels like we're
Speaker 1: headed for just true hell with regards to anti semitism
Speaker 1: hearings about protests, like people protesting just it's a rhetorical
Speaker 1: high of innocent people.
Speaker 4: Is what's happening? Rhetorical hijacking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even know stand with the KKK is
Speaker 3: the military so oh, because he's trying to say, like,
Speaker 3: I mean, as Southern Democrats, is that is that?
Speaker 4: Is that the line that's trying.
Speaker 1: To No, no, no, they're talking modern times, the KKK and
Speaker 1: modern times.
Speaker 4: Oh oh.
Speaker 2: A lot of young people.
Speaker 1: Think somehow it's a right wing organization when it is
Speaker 1: the military wing of the Democratic Party decidedly, unabashedly racist
Speaker 1: and anti Semitic.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is all this
Speaker 3: is all horseshit. Obviously, this bill that where they're trying
Speaker 3: to codify what anti semitism is and basically saying like, well,
Speaker 3: any anti Zionist speech will be anti I mean this yeah,
Speaker 3: it's my god, It's like it doesn't help anyone. It
Speaker 3: doesn't help anyone to put these like half like hair
Speaker 3: brained bills out there just to create the sort of
Speaker 3: optics to again be like, yeah, because what you're seeing
Speaker 3: out there right now with all these students who are
Speaker 3: who are trying to express their their absolute fucking how
Speaker 3: sickened they are by being complicit as Americans in this genocide,
Speaker 3: that's we're just going to be like, that's.
Speaker 4: Actually hate speech. That's hate So that's bad. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: hate speech, So don't even listen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, good docular cliches for eight hundred Alec. I
Speaker 1: do think it's going to work with a certain portion
Speaker 1: of the population, Like it feels like that's the sort.
Speaker 3: Of because you have to really intellectually, like to have
Speaker 3: your own analysis and you're this, like what your perspective is,
Speaker 3: if you're just going to be like, oh, okay, so
Speaker 3: that's anti summon, Okay, Yeah, well I'm that's bad. Don't
Speaker 3: do that and not listening to what people are talking
Speaker 3: about again. Yeah, well, spectacular failure and not failure. The
Speaker 3: media is doing what has to do. It's upholding the
Speaker 3: status quo and just doing whatever it has to to
Speaker 3: keep people as misinformed as possible when the fucking stakes
Speaker 3: couldn't be higher for you know, the one point three
Speaker 3: million people that are are trapped right now.
Speaker 1: By the way you did just inadvertently create a better
Speaker 1: name for Alex Trebec. I feel like Alec Trebec is
Speaker 1: a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's like.
Speaker 4: A little class I reverse Jack's dad.
Speaker 2: I took that off.
Speaker 1: My dad calls Brad Pitt Brad pitts and you took
Speaker 1: the Alex and Alec Alec Trebec. It was just like
Speaker 1: a little bit class here, isn't it than Alex Alec
Speaker 1: does feel a little bit it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: Jeopardy host ish.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was watching Ken Jennings last night on the Tournament
Speaker 3: of still called the Tournament of Masters, which for me,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, what's going? But I knew three things?
Speaker 2: I know them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And I impressed the people I was with.
Speaker 3: There like oh wow, I'm like, yeah, Villainius is the
Speaker 3: capital of Lithuania.
Speaker 2: Damn. I would not have known that one.
Speaker 4: It was a lucky yes.
Speaker 3: That was also me saying the worst wrong answers out
Speaker 3: loud about ten of them before I actually hit one than.
Speaker 4: The right, like almost like hey dude, please stop like
Speaker 4: yelling at the TV.
Speaker 1: I'm like yeah yeah, or showing everybody else see.
Speaker 3: Yeah when when they're like what is it the wayne
Speaker 3: like correct? I literally did the fucking Leonardo DiCaprio. Once
Speaker 3: upon a time, I would pointing at the TV, fucking meme.
Speaker 1: Get in front of the TV, pointing at it, making
Speaker 1: eye contact with everybody, or watching it.
Speaker 4: With flexing on them like what are you doing? I'm like, this,
Speaker 4: are we doing dance on the West Coast?
Speaker 1: Want to just talk about the show Hao Tani story mane, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it has a very like the details of the
Speaker 1: story would seem to suggest one thing when you actually
Speaker 1: like do the reading into the investigation that is happening.
Speaker 1: And yet everyone I talked to is like, that has
Speaker 1: the opposite of painting. So basically have we talked about
Speaker 1: it at all that like the best major League Baseball player?
Speaker 3: We did, I think when it first when the story
Speaker 3: first came out, and we were like, what the fuck
Speaker 3: is going on?
Speaker 4: And we're like, is is.
Speaker 3: Show hey a gambling addict and you this dude is
Speaker 3: cover or that the appears.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So basically, his interpreter was found to be like
Speaker 1: betting vast major League Baseball star sizes of money and
Speaker 1: you know, not interpreter sizes of money and got caught
Speaker 1: doing so. And people were like, well, this feels like
Speaker 1: it's Otani, and like this dude is just falling on
Speaker 1: a sword for him because you know, that's the cool
Speaker 1: thing for him to do for Otani and also it's
Speaker 1: the you know, would be what major League Baseball would
Speaker 1: want him to do. But when you go into the
Speaker 1: details of the story which have like subsequently come out,
Speaker 1: and like you have these like quotes from the investigation,
Speaker 1: like the details of how addicted the translator is or
Speaker 1: the interpreter is is just like so yeah, Like there
Speaker 1: are quotes from him that are just like, lost another
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand, Lol, need you to extend me another
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand this time. I'm good for it. I
Speaker 1: swear to God, I'm gonna pay you back this time.
Speaker 1: Hit keeps fucking God, damn. I'm telling you just Lakers
Speaker 1: are going to beat the Nuggets. The Lakers are gonna
Speaker 1: beat the fucking Nuggets. I'm telling you yeah. And you
Speaker 1: could just like see the process of him going from
Speaker 1: being like I'll dip into his account a little bit
Speaker 1: to cover this because I'm good for it, and like
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna win the money back anyways and just
Speaker 1: now being down like tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which, but.
Speaker 1: The public perception is so like that that seems to
Speaker 1: be the story as current, like based on the information
Speaker 1: we currently know, there could be a cover up happening,
Speaker 1: but like the actual texture of it when I when
Speaker 1: you read the quotes between the interpreter and like the
Speaker 1: bookie who is a Housewives of an Orange County character
Speaker 1: for some reason, like he was the person they had
Speaker 1: like this like money laundering thing happening, where like he
Speaker 1: would pay them money that they would then convert into
Speaker 1: I think chips at a casino and then gamble with
Speaker 1: those on the tables and then come back and like
Speaker 1: that was how you kind of cleared it so that
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite as obviously illegal. But it just seems
Speaker 1: like somebody getting into more and more. Like it seems
Speaker 1: like a gambling addiction PSA and horrifying, like really awful stuff.
Speaker 1: But everybody I've talked to about this is like, but
Speaker 1: come on, it was definitely Odani, right, Like it's definitely.
Speaker 4: Why they need that to be true.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, like like I said, like there's a there's
Speaker 3: another anecd or not anecdot This is like part of
Speaker 3: like the investigation where like he asked Otani for like
Speaker 3: sixty thousand dollars for dental work. Yeah, and he just
Speaker 3: like wrote him a check. But then the guy pocket
Speaker 3: like just a positive the check and then used Otani's
Speaker 3: account to pay for whatever this was. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know what the fuck you get for sixty
Speaker 3: thousand R I know, like, what if you get veneers,
Speaker 3: they can be like fifteen hundred.
Speaker 4: Dollars a tooth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I don't know if you fucking laced your
Speaker 3: whole grill with porcelain veneers. I don't look again, maybe
Speaker 3: he got a grill, who fucking knows.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Mill a.
Speaker 1: Major league baseball player who's like been one of the
Speaker 1: great players of his generation since he was probably a teenager,
Speaker 1: might not be the best person to like gauge what
Speaker 1: is a real what is like a reasonable request for money?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also too, like I was saying, when a
Speaker 3: lot of these athletes, right, especially like or at least
Speaker 3: my experience, like knowing you know, Japanese journalists, and like
Speaker 3: when players have come here, like when not like Hideo
Speaker 3: Nomo came here, Like you just have an interpreter and
Speaker 3: they're sort of like act as a buffer between you
Speaker 3: and the American world, so you can focus on your thing,
Speaker 3: which is.
Speaker 4: Throw a ball or hit ball, yeah, and just do that.
Speaker 3: And he sort of, I think, you know, really used
Speaker 3: that to his advantage to be like, yeah, man, everything
Speaker 3: goes through me, and you want to see bank accounts?
Speaker 4: Actually, what was that show?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he actually just.
Speaker 3: Said he doesn't want anybody looking at that, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, And that was actually Miles is with show
Speaker 3: hey right now.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if he has heard that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Miles is now his confidence all right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hi, he's hungry. I told him. I was just
Speaker 4: I was cooking him some chicken. I'm not I'm fucking
Speaker 4: ordering it on Uber eats. Dude with his fucking card,
Speaker 4: with his card.
Speaker 2: That's that's when you think you're getting away with something.
Speaker 2: It's hard to order on Uber eat. This guy took
Speaker 2: him for like eighty million, idiot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, all I can do is like sixty
Speaker 4: bucks here and there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But like I mean, first of all, this isn't
Speaker 1: the first time that we've heard of, you know, celebrity
Speaker 1: getting stolen from by people close to them that they trust,
Speaker 1: like manage, et cetera. I think it's part of this
Speaker 1: pattern that we're seeing where we just like there's a
Speaker 1: rumor about someone that like kind of fits into our
Speaker 1: overall narrative, and so we just like the Internet just
Speaker 1: like kind of goes with it. And I think that's
Speaker 1: probably what we're seeing here. I think I also think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a very unpopular take. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people are gonna be like, shut the
Speaker 1: fuck up, you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: It is definitely Otani.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 1: Like even everyone from like people I talked to who
Speaker 1: are like Dodgers fans who is the team Otani like
Speaker 1: just signed with and is playing with, are like yeah,
Speaker 1: but Otani's definitely like you're treated kind of like an
Speaker 1: idiot for thinking that it's not a conspiracy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We so many athletes too that have like Pete Rose,
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan like yeah, yeah, it's not you have enough
Speaker 3: to be like that's something I've heard of, So it's
Speaker 3: probably that. But either way, it ain't affecting his game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's got eleven home runs. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's hit some dingers. The cover of The New Yorker
Speaker 1: has like Otani with like money coming out of his
Speaker 1: back pocket, like the New Yorkers like, we're we're wise,
Speaker 1: do you on this one?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Is the cover story meant to like cast dispersions over
Speaker 3: like him saying he has nothing to do with it,
Speaker 3: or they'm like yeah, this guy fucking likes to gamble,
Speaker 3: or they'd been like, this guy's a dope with just
Speaker 3: money hanging out.
Speaker 2: He's a mark. I think I think it's unclear.
Speaker 1: The illustration is titled showtime just s H O T
Speaker 1: I M. But it does seem to suggest that they
Speaker 1: think he's.
Speaker 4: What's the opening what's opening graph in there?
Speaker 1: It's not so the cover is not related to usually
Speaker 1: on the New Yorkers, like not related to oh right,
Speaker 1: right a story. So this is just them editorializing.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, it's a meme.
Speaker 1: I don't jealous because the LA baseball team is better
Speaker 1: than yours.
Speaker 3: Well, look, we'll still manage to fuck it up. Probably, Yeah, sadly, Yes,
Speaker 3: the fucking fate of the look of us look we
Speaker 3: had twenty twenty was great for LA sports. Yeah, Hey,
Speaker 3: I mean is a fucking absolute mad man.
Speaker 4: So what we shall see?
Speaker 2: We should?
Speaker 1: We shall Uh, let's take a quick break, we'll come back,
Speaker 1: we'll talk Eurovision and we're back. We're back and uh
Speaker 1: the Eurovision song contest. I don't know what the fuck
Speaker 1: is your? Yeah, the Eurovision Song contest. Should Yeah sounds
Speaker 1: like a description.
Speaker 2: I'll just come up with that. On the fly while
Speaker 2: half asleep.
Speaker 1: The Eurovision Song Contest is a mess this year, Like
Speaker 1: I guess it's always a mess, but this year it's
Speaker 1: even worse. The finals air this weekend, and all anyone's
Speaker 1: talking about is Israel's inclusion in the event. There's a
Speaker 1: singer Eden Golan who's set to perform at the second
Speaker 1: semi final, and even the rehearsal of her performance was
Speaker 1: met with a torrent of booze and at least one
Speaker 1: person shouting free Palace. Fine, that's I like that, that's
Speaker 1: good journalism because they probably watched that one clip of
Speaker 1: like from the audience where people are doing and there
Speaker 1: is that one like a lot of people are shouting,
Speaker 1: but there is one audible.
Speaker 4: Person yelling free Palestine.
Speaker 3: Like at least one, at least one, based on this video,
Speaker 3: probably probably more.
Speaker 4: Probably that is.
Speaker 2: What we can confirm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but the controversy is even more complicated because
Speaker 1: I guess Eurovision is like we so this is like impossible.
Speaker 1: They're like this competition between nations is a political okay.
Speaker 1: And then Israel's original entry was a song called October
Speaker 1: Rain Rain. Yeah no, not a prequel to the Guns
Speaker 1: and Roses song, but rather an allegorical song about the
Speaker 1: October seventh attack that had the lyrics I'm still wet
Speaker 1: from October rain, which is weird, I don't know, okay.
Speaker 4: From the grief or something. Yeah, maybe they didn't translate
Speaker 4: well to English.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but instead of like some people are like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: so you say that you're going to keep the competition
Speaker 1: a political but you're letting this song in that is
Speaker 1: about October seventh. And so instead of like coming up
Speaker 1: with any other song that swapped some of the lyrics
Speaker 1: out and changed October Rain to hurricane, Hurricane.
Speaker 4: Masses is the story of the hurricane.
Speaker 1: Not that one damage, a different one that is basically
Speaker 1: October rain, but with hurricane swapped in.
Speaker 4: I'm still wet from the hurricane.
Speaker 1: Okay, exactly, all right, and yeah, so the controversy is
Speaker 1: just dominating the event. There are more than one thousand
Speaker 1: musicians from this year's host country of Sweden who signed
Speaker 1: an open letter calling for Israel to be barred from
Speaker 1: competing due to the quote brutal warfare in Gaza. A
Speaker 1: Swedish pop star, was a guest performer for one song
Speaker 1: and where a kafia around his wrist, which prompted the
Speaker 1: European Broadcasting Union to shoot their regrets that the non
Speaker 1: political event had been compromised.
Speaker 3: Wow, it was much simpler when that band like Lorthy
Speaker 3: was like the fucking main event.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember that like two thousand
Speaker 4: I think like two thousand and six, like they were
Speaker 4: all it was like kind of like Guar style where
Speaker 4: they all like motster.
Speaker 3: Makeup, and I think that was like the first time
Speaker 3: it hit like mainstream American consciousness, like this band Lorthy
Speaker 3: is fucking killing it at Eurovision.
Speaker 4: I was like, what the fuck is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's what there.
Speaker 4: Was, Like America the America one or each state.
Speaker 1: Submitted like a fucking artist that would be a much
Speaker 1: better American idol, right.
Speaker 3: Right right truly to be like yeah, and then you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 3: Tennessee's got a good one this year.
Speaker 1: Coming one music from Tennessee versus like you know, it's
Speaker 1: like grimy Wu Tang ship from Stey versus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's a I mean obviously this
Speaker 3: is this is has.
Speaker 4: The whole the whole world.
Speaker 3: Or it has their eyes upon what Israel's doing. And
Speaker 3: there's plenty of protesters like it sounds like the final
Speaker 3: for Eurovision. They'll be fifteen thousand fans, but there will
Speaker 3: also be an anti war protest nearby that is expecting
Speaker 3: at least twenty thousand attendees. Esh, so the Eurovision thing,
Speaker 3: it's just already we want it to be a political Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're so committed they're emitting any references to real
Speaker 1: world turmoil that In twenty fifteen, they introduced anti booing
Speaker 1: technology that filtered out the sounds of booing during the
Speaker 1: Russian entry for the TV broadcast, which one expert is
Speaker 1: expecting them to use again this year for Israel.
Speaker 4: Wow, anti booing technology. Yeah, so fucking weird.
Speaker 2: You boo?
Speaker 1: And there's just like a sound laser that's like wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: take you out.
Speaker 2: It's actually AI.
Speaker 3: It's actually Ai reaching AI to create anti booming technology.
Speaker 1: Great, great, great, All right, well those are some of
Speaker 1: the things that are trending on this Thursday, May Night,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. We are back tomorrow with a whole
Speaker 1: last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye.
Speaker 4: Bye,