June 30, 2025 • 52 mins
In this edition of Big Beautiful Trends, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti discuss their respective weekends, the SCOTUS enacting a bunch of BS, the newest 'Golden Bachelor', a 'Big Beautiful Bill' update, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're opening this recording like the beginning of Top Gun Maverick,
just a lot of thumbs up, you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I got to assume that's the main part of F one,
A lot of like thumbsing up. Yeah, I'd say, yeah,
if there's an over overarching sentiment of F one, it's
dah thumbs up, you're you're whoever did it in the
eighties did it the best, That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah. It's basically like what if Brad Pitt Days of Thunder.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, what if he was better than anyone
else at driving cars because he did it the old
fashioned way.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
But he didn't like he gave so little of a
fuck that he was like just doing it and shitty
like he was like working at a bumper car stand essentially, Like.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I mean, there's obviously a market for this.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'm now realizing they really should have made him just
like big on the bumper car circuit, Like that's how
that's where he started, because he starts like doing these
low profile like racing and like dune buggy races and
ship like if they had just had him like really
just in it for the bumper car straight up, just
go straight up.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Wait, did you see f one of all the movies?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We saw it as part of a sponsorship. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Did you buy the popcorn bucket? No?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I didn't have. What is it? Is it a helmet?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, it's a helmet.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hell does the helmet have a mouth attached to it?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, it's it's a helmet and you open the.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Visor and inside it's a it's a like cast of
Brad Pitt's face, but mouth open mouth. That's where that's
where the popcorn goes.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Then that's where the popcorn goes.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
All those buckets are that you're supposed to fuck them?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Is there something one thing?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
They seem to be going in that direction, like obviously
with the Dune one, which is that one?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I guess though that one's more about humanity's deep seated
psychological need to dream about things to fuck.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, like from the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
From the movie, Yeah, yeah, from the start that is
what start, frank whatever? Just a big, a big, gaping
desert hole.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, just a big asshole in the desert, just swimming.
What if a big asshole was swimming through the desert?
That is essentially the.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And it gave you the most, We got you high,
and it was gasoline. All these movies are just about
huffing gasoline. Huh is it gasoline? Does it give you gasoline?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I mean basically spices?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And they wonder why this generation likes to eat ass?
Did you with this Dune movie? Just pure ass eating propaganda?
You know ass at? Yeah, the big desert ass. You
know you'll be able to follow it. You'll like the
next level genius brain once you start eating ass. There's
(03:12):
the secret to interdimensional space travel in that thing. Hello
the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition of
Dirt Daily.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Guyst Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, it's a podcast production. iHeart radios podcasts. We take
deep dive into America shared consciousness. This is the episode
the record Monday morning, Pacific times ten. It's ten Pacific,
that's true. We are telling you what have it over
the weekend. What's happening here on Monday morning?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Where we are. My name is Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I'm thrilled to be joined by special guest co host
mister Andrew T. I have a surprisingly lifelike gun lighter
Oh that got left at my house? Is that how
big that gun is? It's tiny? No, it's it's smaller
than the real gun. Yeah, yeah, but it can't. It's
it's it's also I believe a German luger, ye if
(04:14):
I recall so it's it's smaller than as depicted.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It looks like one of the small guns that a
woman would pull out of her garter belt in like
an action movie.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You know. Yeah, it's teeny tiny darringers. Anyway, this is
the worst thing to light anything with, obviously, but it's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Just here here.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Let me get that for you, mister president. Uh that
that's the.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
End of you, unfortunately, and that's the end of a
cool A cool not unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It's Unfortunate's well, we'll reserve judgment on the.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
End of me being fortunate or unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But that is the energy you must know that Andrew
t is bringing to this podcast to rushing back to
get here for tomorrow's episode. But we're Andrew's bringing derringer energy.
Can I just say what We were scheduling this so
it was like, just in case Miles can't make it
(05:14):
back from the airport and time, and I was like,
there's no one, no one has ever made it back
from the airport in.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Time while traveling with a two year old.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I was just like, it's fine, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He's got this anyways, Andrew thrilled to have you here.
This is the episode where we tell you what's going
on in the world, what happened over the weekend. We
also get to know each other and ourselves a little
bit better by telling you stuff that we think is
underrated and overrated. Andrew, is there something that you think
is underrated? I think underrated?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I listen, this is obviously we're moving into deep fucking territory.
But I think I just something switched in me this
weekend and I just had all the fries I want it, which.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Was admittedly too much.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I actually woke up.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
This morning not feeling amazing. Ye, but I just had
like way too many fries.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I think I think I'm just in in fuck it
indulgence times.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Who cares? What am I gonna do with it?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Fries where a variety of different types of fries.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Movie theater fries.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I went to the Alamo Draft House. I think it's
okay to.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Do that again. I think they handled most of their
labor disputes. Should be more up on that.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And I just got fucking fries, and I'll say not
amazing chicken sandwich. But I watched twenty eight years later again,
which every time every time, Well, part of it is
I have the like the equivalent of like the movie
pass for Alamo. So it's not that I necessarily wanted
to watch the movie a second time, but it was
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one of those like someone wanted to see it. I
was like, I have no like teleg you to, no
legitimate reason to not go.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah really, because it's.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Feel like those movie passes like turn you into what
I used to be with movies. Whant it'd just be
like what's on TV?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Right? Yeah, it's like what's on And it changes your
relationship to movies because even if you don't actually end
up seeing it again perpetually in.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Your head, it's like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I can just watch it again, so you know, frequent
like not like frequent bathroom breaks, but like I'm not
even considering is this a good time to go to
the bathroom?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I just go yeah, yeah, because who cares. I'll figure
it out later.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And the fries underrated? Is too many fries just going
under yeah? Just who cares?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And then I went to Trivia Night. Did not do
well at Trivia Knight but I just had a fries.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You know, we we we were on a two week
run of victories and this one we bifted. Did you know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Rodan had a different statue called the Kiss not nos.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, it's it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Was part of a piece called I Think Something about
the Gates of Hell.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wait, Rodin is thinker. Yeah, I feel hit.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm like a fucking like.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You know, I understand I'm not a deep thinker about
art history, but you gotta gotta acknowledge that Rodin's gotta
be on the one hit wonders list as far as
come ons. Thinker thinkers so much above everything else. Is
the kiss? Just that same dude, but he's like leaning
down and trying to kiss.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He just went that's.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Actually what you didn't know about the thinker was what
he was thinking about, and it was, uh.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Kiss, all right, Uh let's see my underrated Have you
heard of the American Lean.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Whatever I'm about to say, I think American Lean.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Is American Lean like Budweiser. It's like lean, except yeah,
I mixed with spray. It's mixed with bud Wiser. I
did see someone.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Drinking a water bottle full of something purple, which was
probably like a like a kool aid thing they made.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But I it's very hard for me not to imagine
that was just full of promethoesine.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So this is something I can't fully I haven't been
able to fully fact check. But according to the CIA,
my favorite source for things, this is real.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, exactly, the CIA, those socialist governments are coming to
get you specifically exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah. So the CIA says America, America's lean left, and
we need to get them to lean more than No.
It's this idea that when they prepare somebody to try
and go undercover in another country and that person was
raised in the United States. One of the things like
they you know, they're the standard things that make sense.
(09:49):
It's just like custom differences, like they wear their wedding
rings on different fingers, they eat differently than we do,
like they uh cut, I guess, I don't know. It's
think about us, like moving the fork back and forth
between hands, which I didn't even know I was doing.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I thought that was like a British thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And then but the big one is they say that
Americans are slouchy and that like we're just always leaning
on shit. As I read this on my phone, I
was like, oh fuck, I'm like literally leaning against a
wall like i'd been gut shot.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Is I don't you?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Then?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Right? But can you train that out of someone I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I'm assuming when it's like life and death, like it's
just a manner of awareness. But then so I read on,
I got I stood up. I was like, I don't
fucking do that's stupid. I was just doing that at
that in that moment by a complete coincidence. And then
they start talking about how the other thing we do
is like, even when we're standing up and not leaning
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on something, we favor one leg or the other. And
I realized I was like doing that too. I was like,
basically only on one leg?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
How is that? I mean, yeah, how is that not?
You know, I'm just trying to figure out the ways
that that wouldn't be universal, right, because it's like the
reason I do is because I'm so tired, Yeah, all
the time. And isn't everybody else tired? Do they have
more energy in other countries? I mean, I guess they
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have better healthcare and better access to days that they
don't work.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
They're not just always working.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, I guess potentially you'd be less tired when I.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Like if you re Ember, like go somewhere as a
tourist and like the other tourists there are European and
they're like, yes, we're in like the middle of our
six week Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And you know what, I bet, I wonder if the
training for this is something basically like you're doing a
parody of a German tourist, right, because it's like like
the like the bolt upright like pos sture, just like
a one ye yeah, follow a German around weirdly too far.
I bet if you put on a fanny pack and
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then just put slightly too much weight in it, it
would it would get your body like the right way.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, try it, try it. I will say, did you
ever go, like live anywhere abroad where this is?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I guess this is a weird thing to ask a
white person where you like fit in because you fit
in here my But basically what happened was fit in
everywhere I did. I did a semester abroad and in college,
and that was my first time certainly certainly the longest
time I'd spent in Asia. And that's also the first
(12:45):
time by myself or on my own with my parents,
and the way even I mean I was with like
a bunch of like you know, clearly mostly American, some
a lot of Asian American, but a lot of white
like college do and the way. But even when I
was with just like a couple of friends or with
all like Chinese people, the way like street vendors would
(13:09):
like fucking like laser in on me. And yet yeah,
it was like a little like come on, guys.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Fuck I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And so I finally asked someone and they said, the
way you can tell just visually that I'm an American
And this was like a long time ago. I'm like
pretty old, so like there's also like just like a difference.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
This was sort of like pre China's recent big.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Economic boom, and I wonder if there was like I
don't know, like general like fucking nutrition and hormones and
shit like that access.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But basically the things that my friend, my.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Chinese friend told me that really made it impossible for
me to blend in were I was bigger than everyone
else and I walked too confidently.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's right there you go. You're not trying to like
actively disappear.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, so maybe I could have tried to blend in,
but like, yeah, they were just like oh yeah, we
can tell your America. And then the third one was
like your jeans are too nice, which I think wasn't true,
but they were just trying to add something else that
wasn't like physical to me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I think they were trying to get you to give
them your genes.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I should have.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah. The other thing, I've definitely heard people talk about
how hot guys like lean against stuff like it like
and I can picture it, you know, like famous like
pop idols or like for some reason, I can picture
Patrick Swayze leaning against stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, so I'm wondering if it's like a like James
Dean I can picture leaning or like always like kind
of being off to one side. Yeah, I'm wondering if it,
like is.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Actually just a very uncot like below the level of consciousness.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Trend level of consciousness.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah so I don't know, let's make up a word
here and call it subconscious.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Granted, mine is more like a drunk guy who's barely
staying up right and less like a you know, hot
guy putting his arm against the door, jam Jack.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
How are we going to fix this about ourselves?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I don't know, like we need.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm holding out well yeah, Yeah, I need to join
this day. I'm holding on my arms on the zoom
try to balance myself out.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, just straight out creep out stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Did this?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Anyways, I'm curious to hear from the listeners. We're all
gonna have to learn to know about else.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
So you ever.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Started now as we as we learn that, you know,
as we figured out listening to this.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And you're not one of the like twenty five like
FBI agents that is forced to listen to this, you're
going to have to learn to blend it in abroad.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So and if you're one of the twenty five FBI agents,
let us know how we're doing. Yeah, let me know,
like what you know about the lean. I'm curious, like
where it comes from. Is it just capitalism grinding us
down to a fine powder?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Or is it there there's another chance that it is,
just like because I feel like a lot of like
institutional knowledge, like this was derived from just someone saying
some ship off the cuff that became so just like
you know, someone just said this.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And be total bullshit and everybodywhere or it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Has like some degree of veracity. But how rigorous could
this be?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
If anyone lives in another country, and like notices people
are just like bolt upright all the time. I want
to hear about that.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Or extra slouchy.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Maybe it's maybe it's just that we're we're we occupy
a middle.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Zone, right, we're not committed.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah yeah, Or it's all of our American dollars, our
same size American dollars really fucking up the is.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It the wallet thing? I do? I did? Did you
ever hear about this while we're really fucking just right?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
This feels like another piece of a potential other piece
of pseudoscience that I was always told is that like
men's wallets in the back pocket like fuck up their path,
like make their posture asymmetrical in a way that is unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I heard that in Seinfeld when George. That's the only
place that someone that maybe, okay, good, great, what's I
the thinks overrated Andrew.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I should have been thinking about that.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I can go with mine. Mine's really dumb and quick. Okay,
just brand's attempting to catch on memes like just I
was watching this product release from Hines and Buffalo Wild Wings.
Oh god Atlantis. Brett tweeted, you guys really nailed the
timing on this and it's a Buffalo Wild Wings tweeting
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be the first to try the mustard. Only at Buffalo
Wild Wings, order any def item and get a free
bottle of Hines and then it's a bottle. Hines really
released a limited edition mustard Chipotle Honey, and it's just
so the timing so bad. That not not the time,
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it's bad, it's just like so late and like dumb,
Like it's just so. It just made me wonder if
specifically we like memes because they go back there at
the exact moment that, like a corporation is like getting
around to you know, having gone through all the packaging
and design meetings to determine like the exact the exact
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shade of yellow and like the number of a's to
use and mustard like that, at that moment, it's it's
like perfectly time for everybody be like, oh fuck you,
that sucks.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
The reason I'm like, I think that can't be it
is like I feel like, pretty famously we are in
the most like corporation, brain racing like culture humanly possible.
But I feel like.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
We're trying to fight. There's a part of us that's
trying to fight back and recognizes that this sucks.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Shit, not the main part of us. The main part
of us just fucking loves.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It Buffalo wild Way.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's the main part of us. But
what some part of us deep down is like this.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean, I think that's that's our age or cultural
age showing genuinely think thinking that this sucks because the
corporation did it is one hallmark of not even the
old universally, but a specific like Young gen X. Young
gen X are the only people that still think that
there's an idea of selling.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Out and literally everyone else on the planet.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, it's just like also Young gen X also does it.
They think I want to be JD fans, that's right. Yeah,
I don't know, it's cool.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think it's it's so bad that maybe it like
it becomes funny, but.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It I well, but here's here's why that is hard.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Is that like no one remembers I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Meme memes just like really got us to like I
can't laugh for I can't.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Enjoy this even for a second.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
More.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I don't know one thing I do like, all right,
let's let's contort this into my overrated I do like
how I think. I guess Twitter mostly and TikTok to
some degree, has turned everyone into like a joyless professional
comedian as far as like comedy goes. Yeah, there's the
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hack of it, but there's also just like like the
way they respond, like the way I have not laughed.
I don't like going to see stand up comedy that
much anyway, but like the you know, last couple of
times I've had to do something, the only time I
laugh is when someone is fucking bombing and like, but
when I genuinely enjoy something.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I did this the other day. It was, you know,
a very common experience.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
But like, I was sitting with my friend something that
came up on the group chat that we were both
on but other people were also on it, and my
friend texted something funny. I joylessly gave it a little
haha and I genuinely found it funny. But I was
sitting there right with him. I could have left, right
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I think, I think as consumers of comedy, the Internet
has made us all dead inside the way that like
comedians are.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Dead inside to comedy, And I think it's great. So
underrated is not that.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Under is everybody's having the comedic joy drilled out, turning
the world into the Simpsons writer's room, where like nobody
ever laughs.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, no, No. The degree to which, like even the
most delightful joke in a writer's room, especially after a
long day, all you can say is that's funny, that's
what's going in and we move on, is delightful.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Just like everyone, everyone just fucking.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Hates whatever job they're in and now apparently consuming comedies.
Everyone's job, that's rights and isn't joylessly consuming comedy?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
We'll come back. We'll talk about the Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Yay, yay, and we're back.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yes, And finally, I mean, this is a news story
I pay attention to every year just because I'm in
it to find out. When does the Supreme Court get
a break? When do these guys finally get to spend
some time with their undisclosed gifts.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
So they just ended their twenty twenty four term unsurprisingly,
just a ton of fucking garbage rulings. Yeah, they decided
that Texas's porn id law is good, is fine despite
the obvious privacy risks and obvious we've talked before about
how so basically like if you go to a porn
website in Texas, they're like, yeah, that's fine, just show
(23:23):
us your scan, your license to us, and we'll hold
on to that for you. Yeah, and people. In addition
to that being weird, there are some concerns that this
law would enable censorship of resources related to abortion, gender
affirming care, safer sex, and LGBTQ identity.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Obviously, I am a little surprised that the lobbyists, like,
I mean a lot of it, it's being enacted by courts,
and I guess it's they don't care. But I am
a little surprised, like how much Republicans are like really
executing on this on all the like they're they're really
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dog who caught the car about culture war stuff that,
like I would genuinely have thought that, and maybe they
it is also true that they simply do not care,
so maybe it doesn't matter. But I'm surprised that they
like corporatists who genuinely do not give a fuck about abortion,
fucking pornography, like, you know, sexuality, any of it. I'm
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surprised how much of this stuff they're enacting because I
guess I just assumed, you know, it seemed like the
gentleman's agreement was like, obviously these will simply be cudgels
that are passed back and forth, and like, you know,
we the people who run the Democratic and the Republican
Party obviously don't care one way or the other about
this stuff. So I'm surprised that how much of this
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stuff they're actually enacting.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, it feels like they're Yeah, I mean in the past,
like their whole thing was like we're the rich guy party.
We'll give you like text breaks and all that shit.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Will you know, you buy ass yachts and or like
vacations on your yachts and we'll you know, keep an
eye out for your best interest.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Uh. They are also the like I think they do
have a mandate two like that. I think part of
what people were responding to with Trump was like, well,
just it can't be like neoliberalism anymore, so like do
something different and there and so they are getting away
(25:29):
with this ship because yeah, it's like this is the
version of again through Yeah, yeah, that's true that it's
it's wild, but it does like I do think they
have the courage of their convictions, like they they have
like the Republican Party has.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, That's the surprising part is I did not I
thought the k Fave was like.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh man, it's just laws and the constitution. We would
love to ban pornography, slash abortion and slash square people.
But like, I don't know, like sorry, these these laws
and now they're just like really running with it in
a way that I'm just surprised.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I just I'm surprised that that they have chosen to
abandon the ca fame of it. It's just like it's
just like they're they're they're doing this stuff. I'm also
like a little curious. I mean, I would have you know,
I know, I'm sure they think that all of these
like young Trump youth angry men will be down with
(26:26):
this like anti porn stuff, because they think that they're
all Instagram ads about like finding Jesus and whatever and
you know, not jacking off.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But I I you know, this is this is a thing.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I know.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I mean, this law hits their base harder than anything
I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Harder than.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah hell yeah, I'm curious how what the popularity of
this bill has been in Texas for the past year
in Texas, I mean, but also like like to me,
it's like what is what does neo nazi twitch think
about this law rights. That's the thing that I'm like,
(27:06):
these people can't like it, that's.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Their main thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, just like let's give give the government air IDs, Yeah,
as often as we possibly can't.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
This is, by the way, the same case earlier that
had Justice Alito asking if porn hub features the modern
day equivalent of gour Vi dal essays yeah, or William F. Buckley.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
He also mentioned because he yeah, because he's contractually obligated to.
Here's here's a bigger question that I a fucking moron,
should not even probably not even have the right to ask.
Which is that, Like I feel like every time like
the raft of I mean, look, Supreme Court rulings are
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going to be fascist for the rest of our natural lives.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Seems like it.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, So I am a little surprised at the sort
of like reporting the constant report, I mean, the everything
in here, this was lost five to ten years ago. Yeah, right,
like like like all of these were inevitabilities and they
are just rolling in now.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
But like this this was an issue a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It's and to keep it interesting, they have been telling
these fucking crazy yeah stories in the mainstream media about
like is Judge Amy Coney Barrett like going to turn
around and surprise Trump and become like the new liberal
justice and yeah it turns out.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Nope, Yeah, I just it's is it just that like
the fucking media needs to have like the credulity of
like a golden retriever to function. Like I don't understand,
like like every of these like kind of like neoliberal
left wing not left wing, sorry, like center left, which
(29:00):
is actually center right in America. Like publications they might
as well just like print articles about like how like
my dad says he has my nose, but I can
feel my nose right here, Like what the fuck are
you talking about?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Amy coming Barrett might become liberal.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Like she there was a moment where Trump walked by
her where she like kind of gave him She was
like servant cunt a little bit, but yeah, and then
she sneezed, so it might have been that she just
had to sneeze. We're unsure, but our people are working
through the implications at this moment.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I guess I'm just asking.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I'm like I don't know, and I don't understand, but like,
by far, the most predictive thing in our entire life
is these act these Nazis going to act like Nazis. Yes,
and that's always been more correct than any.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Other worldview, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So I'm just like, why why do these people get
to pretend like there's something to report about here?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I'm just like, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I it's probably just despair that's making me more frustrated
with NPR than the fucking Supreme Court. Did not see
that one coming? Yeah, how could you not see this coming?
Why do we listen to you if you couldn't see
this coming, you fucking idiots.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yes, that's the big one that a lot of people
are talking about is ending universal universal or nationwide injunctions,
which was one of the ways for the courts to
push back against Trump basically taking over and ruling as
an autocrat essentially. Which, yeah, it's just that's places like
(30:35):
NPR and The Atlantic have been talking about how Amy
cony Berry is actually like could be a secret liberal
because of like some of her rulings, and this order
just reveals that she's what we knew she was from
the start, Like she has looked at the beginning of
this administration with its you know, many oversteps of uh,
(31:01):
you know, everything that they're supposed to care about as
conservatives that America is like supposed to be about just
arresting people for being brown. And her question was like,
how do we get these activist judges to leave him
alone and let Trump cook? Is essentially what I.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Mean, like the Atlantic inventing a fantasy persona for you know,
any of the justices, but in this case Justice Barrett,
and then pretending to be surprised when that fantasy that
they invented did not turn out to be true. Like
that's what like a that's like, that's like for a child,
(31:43):
that's what a child believes that this is the I
oh god, I'm so again.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I don't know why I'm more angry with these.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
But it's like they're power hungry Nazis. They've been power
hungry Nazis and they have never demonstrated anything other than
they are power hungry Nazis. Why why do you write
about them in any other way? This episode is going
to get me put on another list.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Huh yeah, I think we're like pretty safely on a list,
and where it's just a matter of like where the yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Where they where they Yeah, got to move these guys
up the list. Yeah, what's why, dear, dear FBI agent,
do you think it's an FBI agent? I think, thankfully
when it comes down to like shit that is boring
and that they don't want to listen to, they, thankfully,
I imagine, have offloaded a bunch of this to AI
(32:34):
and so an AI A agent. Yeah, f b A I,
f BAI agent. If you're listening to this, hit us up.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, let us know where we are in the power rankings.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Is like to imagine a world where the FBI agent
that was put on this show, it doesn't find it
boring and it actually falls in love with us and
like comes around and Amy Cony Barrett. They then talk
to Amy Coney Barrett and then she like starts a
revolution from me inside the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I just imagine, I imagine a world where the FBI agent,
of course, just buys I want to say, a Casper mattress.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It just sleeps a little bit easier at night. That's
my main concern when I ask how do they sleep
at night? I really want to know how do they
sleep at night? And should we get them involved in
some sort of sleep study. But yeah. Anyways, Trump called
it a monumental victory to the cot for the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's really bad. But anything
anything out of the Supreme Court, I think it's just
like this weird thing where none of us, like human
normal people have kind of I mean, cause it's like
we constantly are like, oh my gosh, like human time scales,
human minds, we don't understand. Like I think the fact
(33:51):
that this basically operates on a five to ten year cycle.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, should be or longer.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
It makes it so hard to get your mind und
because people are like, what can we do about this?
And the thing we can do about it is, I
don't know, go back in time, Like it's done and
it's been done and it's been in inevitability. So like
there is nothing you can do about this, and there
won't be for quite some time, right asterisk obviously don't
(34:18):
consider the other options, right, I'm not advocating any of
the other options, Nolita, No, you know what I mean.
I'm just like, yeah, this is it, this and this
everything that's happening here was a dead bang on certainty
the second they got confirmed. Yeah, So like I don't
know what are you gonna do.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Wait what Amy Cony Beart.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Yeah, from Notre Dame Amy Cony Barret, the one who's like, yeah,
the part of a weird cult that thinks Catholicism is
too lax, that one thinks.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, oh oh jes a, Yeah, we're gonna pin our
our errand so and has hopes on her.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
It's her fucking integrity.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
The integrity depending it on the integrity of these loathsome
Nazis is what.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That that's the damage folks like like sorcid not to.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Sing, but just like.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
But just kind of like this like like kind of
whatever centrist democrat media.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
It's like, we're all people.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
We can appeal to the integrity and we can think
our way out of this by the rules.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It's like, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
This is where we are. This is where that you
can't and you never have been able to. Did you
see that Sorkin is writing Social Network too?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I did. The boat has been missed.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yeah, I feel like we're gonna be less surprised by
the sinister undertones of Facebook this time around. Yeah, It's
like I don't yeah, good good, I guess I can't
wait to catch clips of this on fucking TikTok, where
the AI generated captions about a man finds out his
(36:16):
his workplace has spent spying on Americans. All right, let's
take a back break. Where are We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
And we're back and the Golden Bachelor also back backchiller,
the Golden Bank Chiller. I did not I remember it
being a thing that happened. Did not realize the first
one was a hit, certified dead bang hit baby, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
When When did Golden Bachelor call twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Okay, twenty twenty three? And then the following year the
Golden Bachelorette, which was less of a hit because America
is fucked up. Yeah, But I think the lesson they
learned from the first one was they just want to
like make this a fantasy of old of old guys.
So they're, yeah, their bachelor this time is a sixty
(37:24):
six year old, so the first time it was like
a seventy two year old. This time they were like,
let's bring let's make him a little bit younger. And
then the guy they picked is a former NFL linebacker
Mel Owens, and he made headlines for a podcast appearance
where he said that he would only be interested in
contestants between the ages of forty five and sixty. Yeah,
(37:47):
specifically saying if they're over sixty, I'm cutting them, which
I mean.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
The real, like obviously fucked up part about this is
I do sort of believe that in his mind he
is stating above what he would generally have considered his dating.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
He's actually being like he thinks he's.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Being cool about it. I think there's a strong chance,
oh for sure of that.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
There's a chance also that he just thinks The Golden
Bachelor is about piss play. Oh yeah, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
They they should be more specific, and this is about
kidney health, that's right.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I will say I'm sort of like uniquely unable to
do dating reality TV in general, So I find it
I find it very hard to get invested in any
of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Because you're such a romantic or you just can't deal
deal with the ship.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I just say, narrative and laser guns, apparently because I'm
a fucking child.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I don't know. I I guess it's just the the
like drama of it feels. Party two is like for
a couple years, I not even a couple of years,
probably a year I was like working for like like
this like unscripted producer, but reality TV producer, sure, And
so I don't know if like seeing even a little
(39:14):
bit behind the scenes, because it's like I don't I
don't know. That can't be it. No one, no one's
under the illusion that this is real.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
But like, but is it like more scripted than like
people might expect, are they like, Okay, let's take that again,
and in this time you say specifically, No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Think it's it's not that it's more because I do
think sep doing people's real personality so savvy. I think
it's really just like watching a process that I personally
did not enjoy very much, like the producer kind of
feeling like a writer storyteller, which is just what they are.
I understand that, but it's not the way I like
(39:51):
to write. And so I just found it very unpleasant
and now I find it hard to watch.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
But I think this is a me problem we're describing now.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, it couldn't be The Golden Bachelor. It is pure
as the as the name suggests. The first two two
got matched up on the first one got married for
three months.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
So yeah, you know, would you what's your what's your
in your past to dating life?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (40:17):
What's your like blind date situation? Have you ever done
anything like that? Jack gone on a blind date? I
don't think I had. Yeah, yeah, I don't think I
ever did that. That feels right. But what about a
blind date with like a fucking two month clock where
you had to get married at the end.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I did do that.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah, I did that, and that's how I met my life.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
You know what this is?
Speaker 2 (40:40):
This is like a real like speaking of America's like
unbelievably conservative like underbelly. This is really just getting us
back to arranged marriages. This is this is what America
yurns for fels in hierarchical, transactional patriarchy and good.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
With a clock on it, you get married? Right?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Yes, I guess good, I guess I enjoy this.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
It does, I mean seems to have a hold on
the Supreme Court. Like there's they are definitely pulling us
in a fucking handmaid's tale direction. That what we were
saying is one of the first times that we've seen
them resist the pool of capital to be like, yeah,
I don't know, maybe I know that the thing that.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Is like a little odd.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Well, I mean maybe it's not, but I'm like, eventually
the global market is going to realize this. This at
some tipping point, and I think there's a chance where
past it, like investment in America is completely untenable, right
like like when I mean, I guess not soon because
it hasn't. But obviously, once this starts, the ships, this
(41:50):
all this cultural shit starts losing people money, then someone
will have to like come and.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Step to it. People step in and be like I'm
going to be America's consultant. No one's thinking.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Money yet, so so nothing will change.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
The pornographers are losing money, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Surprised they're because they're not pornographers, they're big data companies.
I'm shocked that they don't have better lobbyists that could
win this case.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
That's sorry, that was the section.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
One thing I was going to say, you're fucking up guys.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Although I guess on some level they like this fucking
id porn stuff because.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, it's just more like that.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I guess that would be the answer, right, is that
if you realize that all these porn companies are just
collecting data about people then yeah, this is just more
data for them to collect in like a smaller sandbox
of like a small in stocks. But one day you
really have, right, I guess. And and that has been
the trend in data. Is that like because right? It
(42:50):
feels like we're going away from big data scraping to
like deep data scraping of a smaller audience.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, is that possible?
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Let me know, let me let us know people in
tech days, what's it like jacking off in exchange for
giving the government your driver's license?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Is that weird?
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Does it come back to bite you? Does that? I
mean there's a is there a new.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Market opportunity for half a torn up hustler that you
found in the woods by the creek.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
I feel like it.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Must be right, right, like just otherwise.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Oh my god, we're going back to those days.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, And isn't that what we all wanted anyways?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Yeah? Yeah, that's when America was great.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Speaking of when America was great and about to be,
the Senate voted to open debate on Trump's bill, with
only Ran Paul and Tom till Is voting against it.
Other GP holdouts were persuaded during a quote series of
closed door negotiations with JD. Vance just fucking chilling.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
My god, I imagine being trapped in a room with
that fucking freak.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
The smell alone.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
For some context on why they're having to like really
twist some arms here, the bill is very unpopular with people.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean again, it like no one actually
likes any Republican policy, uh broadly speaking, y yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Nothing holds well broadly though.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
And also a bunch of a bunch of Republican policies, billionaire.
This is what I was talking about in part one.
There's a bunch of shit they do not care about
one way or the other, any of the culture war
stuff like, so, yeah, this is I mean, it's it's
just I don't know why I feel like so naives
saying surprising, but yeah, I guess I'm just a little
(44:44):
surprised at like the ham handedness with which they're doing
all this business. But yeah, no one, no one likes this.
It's gonna happen. It was inevitable.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, Neo liberalism really did not hold up like that
a lot of the things that I think part of
me it was like, well, they'll always like recognize that
it's profitable to yeah, target have like pride merchandise and
stuff like that. They'll always recognize that it's not good
(45:14):
to side with the Nazis, or in this case, like
it's not good to side with the people who have
the really unpopular economic agenda that only helps rich people,
or in the case of the Supreme Court, that it's
not popular to you know, demand that people tell you
their Social Security number before they can jack off. But
(45:36):
all that stuff really didn't hold up. I mean any
it crumbled fast, it went fast.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, well, it didn't crumble fast as much as the
thing that was good was always the office that was
never there before.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Right, yeah, yeah, it was just the appearance.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, so the appearance crumbled but there was nothing there anyway,
which is like god true.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
But yes, you're right, it's depressing. I guess the.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Only teeny teeny teeny tiny silver lining to this is,
as we've seen many times like these, but the billionaires
who are making these decisions with their guts are no
more smart than anyone else.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
In fact, often they're very stupid.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
So yea, you know, and when there's this little pushback
for what they want, it's I think it's going to
lead them in a continue to lead them in a
direction that's going to be more and more unpopular.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Ye, so we'll see. I yeah, I mean, we'll just see.
But yeah, this is going to be bad. But it
was inevitable. So I guess what it is is like
so much of like modern liberal hand ringing is griping
about the inevitable, and I guess I just wish there
was a little more action. Yeah, no, offer, well, because
(46:52):
it's inevitable by the rules that they play by, right,
and yeah, that's they're just they have to write fan
fiction where any yeah there it like comes and saves
the Dayah.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
But just back to the Big Beautiful Bill and where
it's polling. It's currently has approval ratings between nineteen and
twenty nine percent underwater, Like it's twenty nine percent more
unpopular than it is popular, which is bad. And so
this was one thing that gave me a little bit
(47:24):
like a silver lining. The White House is attempting to
smooth things over with the most like dem ass thing.
They posted a cartoon of Trump at McDonald's with like
a scroll of like, well, all the things that the
Big Beautiful Bill does well, like off to the side
(47:45):
of it, just like real taking a thing that people
liked about him and putting it next to like really
ineffective bullet pointed propaganda, just text scrolling being like, you know,
it restores fiscal sanity, permanently secures our borders. Modern is
the air traffic control next to a cartoon of him doing
(48:07):
the fries at McDonald's. Be like, remember this, remember when
you like this? Yeah, it feels like the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
The thing that is consistently like a little heartening is
how much like I think, I feel like conservatives especially
feel like.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
I think one of the reasons.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Why they love AI art so much is they are
so bad at creating that they think, first of all
that this is good.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
And good enough best.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yeah, yeah, this is this is like what really bridges
the gap. This is this was the thing they were
like creative people hate us, but now we have a
robot that can do it badly.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
And it's like, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
And also the thing that is nice is like almost
every time they they, you know, make a claim about
the world, they always have to illustrate it with AI
because they're claims are false and they couldn't find the
documentation of it because it doesn't exist. So I don't know,
tiny silver linings is that reality does not comport with
(49:11):
their beliefs.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Hey we still got that? Well, yeah, I feel like
we'll have that for a.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
While and we'll take that to our unmarked.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Braves, just clinging to that as we're buried alive. Baby,
the big trouble with the big trouble with dumb bastards
is that they're too dumb to believe there is such
a thing as being smart. That's Kurt bonning it. And yeah,
that describes a lot.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
Of yea until it isn't I suppose.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
All right, Well, Andrew t thank you so much for
joining us on this Monday Morning Trends episode? Where can
people find you? Follow you? All that could stuff?
Speaker 3 (49:52):
I don't know. Yes, it's racist, Andrew Tea.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
I started blue skying tweeting more for no good reason.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
It's still just deleted from my.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Phone Twitter, you know, Yeah, oh no, yeah, yeah, I've
been off Twitter basically. Mostly it was that I had
a bunch I watched and Or and I wanted to
tweet a bunch of very stupid jokes.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Is it really good?
Speaker 2 (50:13):
And must it's good until you think about I I
don't don't look at it for as like political anything.
I think that's there's a there's a big kind of like,
oh in these times, what a what an important thing.
I'll just say I'll paraphrase my my tweet, which was
my blue Sky tweet, which was essentially that this is
(50:33):
in season one of and Or two. But there's a
character named man Mathma. You may remember her as the
leader of the Rebel Alliance in the first Star Wars movies,
and her story has played out pretty pretty fully in
and Or season.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Two and one.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
And I just did realize that, like such a big
part of and Or depends on the idea of a rich,
like rich white senator sacrificing everything to create a resist stints,
And I'm like, oh, that's this, That's the part that
is less believable than a man that can use telekinesis
to wave a laser sort around.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
It's like, what if Amy Cony Barrett or It's literally
that if Nancy Pelosi, yeah, wanted to lead the socialist revolution.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
What if Nancy Pelosi was doing what conservatives accused George
Sorows of doing. What if Nancy Pelosi was secretly taking
her money to fund armed freedom fighters. Wow, and I'm
so sorry. No, I'm gonna be waiting for that. That's
where I'll be if you need me. I'll be waiting
(51:39):
for that to happen. Yeah, save us, Nancy.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourself, get your vaccines way you still can, which,
as we'll talk about tomorrow, might not be too long.
Get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law, co
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Speaker 1 (52:05):
Co produced by Victor Wright
Speaker 3 (52:07):
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You're opening this recording like the beginning of Top Gun Maverick,
just a lot of thumbs up, you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I got to assume that's the main part of F one,
A lot of like thumbsing up. Yeah, I'd say, yeah,
if there's an over overarching sentiment of F one, it's
dah thumbs up, you're you're whoever did it in the
eighties did it the best, That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah. It's basically like what if Brad Pitt Days of Thunder.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, what if he was better than anyone
else at driving cars because he did it the old
fashioned way.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
But he didn't like he gave so little of a
fuck that he was like just doing it and shitty
like he was like working at a bumper car stand essentially, Like.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I mean, there's obviously a market for this.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'm now realizing they really should have made him just
like big on the bumper car circuit, Like that's how
that's where he started, because he starts like doing these
low profile like racing and like dune buggy races and
ship like if they had just had him like really
just in it for the bumper car straight up, just
go straight up.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Wait, did you see f one of all the movies?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We saw it as part of a sponsorship. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Did you buy the popcorn bucket? No?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I didn't have. What is it? Is it a helmet?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, it's a helmet.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hell does the helmet have a mouth attached to it?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, it's it's a helmet and you open the.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Visor and inside it's a it's a like cast of
Brad Pitt's face, but mouth open mouth. That's where that's
where the popcorn goes.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Then that's where the popcorn goes.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
All those buckets are that you're supposed to fuck them?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Is there something one thing?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
They seem to be going in that direction, like obviously
with the Dune one, which is that one?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I guess though that one's more about humanity's deep seated
psychological need to dream about things to fuck.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, like from the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
From the movie, Yeah, yeah, from the start that is
what start, frank whatever? Just a big, a big, gaping
desert hole.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, just a big asshole in the desert, just swimming.
What if a big asshole was swimming through the desert?
That is essentially the.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And it gave you the most, We got you high,
and it was gasoline. All these movies are just about
huffing gasoline. Huh is it gasoline? Does it give you gasoline?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I mean basically spices?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And they wonder why this generation likes to eat ass?
Did you with this Dune movie? Just pure ass eating propaganda?
You know ass at? Yeah, the big desert ass. You
know you'll be able to follow it. You'll like the
next level genius brain once you start eating ass. There's
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the secret to interdimensional space travel in that thing. Hello
the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition of
Dirt Daily.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Guyst Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, it's a podcast production. iHeart radios podcasts. We take
deep dive into America shared consciousness. This is the episode
the record Monday morning, Pacific times ten. It's ten Pacific,
that's true. We are telling you what have it over
the weekend. What's happening here on Monday morning?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Where we are. My name is Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I'm thrilled to be joined by special guest co host
mister Andrew T. I have a surprisingly lifelike gun lighter
Oh that got left at my house? Is that how
big that gun is? It's tiny? No, it's it's smaller
than the real gun. Yeah, yeah, but it can't. It's
it's it's also I believe a German luger, ye if
(04:14):
I recall so it's it's smaller than as depicted.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It looks like one of the small guns that a
woman would pull out of her garter belt in like
an action movie.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You know. Yeah, it's teeny tiny darringers. Anyway, this is
the worst thing to light anything with, obviously, but it's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Just here here.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Let me get that for you, mister president. Uh that
that's the.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
End of you, unfortunately, and that's the end of a
cool A cool not unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It's Unfortunate's well, we'll reserve judgment on the.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
End of me being fortunate or unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But that is the energy you must know that Andrew
t is bringing to this podcast to rushing back to
get here for tomorrow's episode. But we're Andrew's bringing derringer energy.
Can I just say what We were scheduling this so
it was like, just in case Miles can't make it
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back from the airport and time, and I was like,
there's no one, no one has ever made it back
from the airport in.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Time while traveling with a two year old.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I was just like, it's fine, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He's got this anyways, Andrew thrilled to have you here.
This is the episode where we tell you what's going
on in the world, what happened over the weekend. We
also get to know each other and ourselves a little
bit better by telling you stuff that we think is
underrated and overrated. Andrew, is there something that you think
is underrated? I think underrated?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I listen, this is obviously we're moving into deep fucking territory.
But I think I just something switched in me this
weekend and I just had all the fries I want it, which.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Was admittedly too much.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I actually woke up.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
This morning not feeling amazing. Ye, but I just had
like way too many fries.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I think I think I'm just in in fuck it
indulgence times.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Who cares? What am I gonna do with it?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Fries where a variety of different types of fries.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Movie theater fries.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I went to the Alamo Draft House. I think it's
okay to.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Do that again. I think they handled most of their
labor disputes. Should be more up on that.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And I just got fucking fries, and I'll say not
amazing chicken sandwich. But I watched twenty eight years later again,
which every time every time, Well, part of it is
I have the like the equivalent of like the movie
pass for Alamo. So it's not that I necessarily wanted
to watch the movie a second time, but it was
(06:55):
one of those like someone wanted to see it. I
was like, I have no like teleg you to, no
legitimate reason to not go.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah really, because it's.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Feel like those movie passes like turn you into what
I used to be with movies. Whant it'd just be
like what's on TV?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Right? Yeah, it's like what's on And it changes your
relationship to movies because even if you don't actually end
up seeing it again perpetually in.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Your head, it's like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I can just watch it again, so you know, frequent
like not like frequent bathroom breaks, but like I'm not
even considering is this a good time to go to
the bathroom?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I just go yeah, yeah, because who cares. I'll figure
it out later.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And the fries underrated? Is too many fries just going
under yeah? Just who cares?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And then I went to Trivia Night. Did not do
well at Trivia Knight but I just had a fries.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You know, we we we were on a two week
run of victories and this one we bifted. Did you know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Rodan had a different statue called the Kiss not nos.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, it's it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Was part of a piece called I Think Something about
the Gates of Hell.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wait, Rodin is thinker. Yeah, I feel hit.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm like a fucking like.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You know, I understand I'm not a deep thinker about
art history, but you gotta gotta acknowledge that Rodin's gotta
be on the one hit wonders list as far as
come ons. Thinker thinkers so much above everything else. Is
the kiss? Just that same dude, but he's like leaning
down and trying to kiss.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He just went that's.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Actually what you didn't know about the thinker was what
he was thinking about, and it was, uh.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Kiss, all right, Uh let's see my underrated Have you
heard of the American Lean.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Whatever I'm about to say, I think American Lean.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Is American Lean like Budweiser. It's like lean, except yeah,
I mixed with spray. It's mixed with bud Wiser. I
did see someone.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Drinking a water bottle full of something purple, which was
probably like a like a kool aid thing they made.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But I it's very hard for me not to imagine
that was just full of promethoesine.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So this is something I can't fully I haven't been
able to fully fact check. But according to the CIA,
my favorite source for things, this is real.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, exactly, the CIA, those socialist governments are coming to
get you specifically exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah. So the CIA says America, America's lean left, and
we need to get them to lean more than No.
It's this idea that when they prepare somebody to try
and go undercover in another country and that person was
raised in the United States. One of the things like
they you know, they're the standard things that make sense.
(09:49):
It's just like custom differences, like they wear their wedding
rings on different fingers, they eat differently than we do,
like they uh cut, I guess, I don't know. It's
think about us, like moving the fork back and forth
between hands, which I didn't even know I was doing.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I thought that was like a British thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And then but the big one is they say that
Americans are slouchy and that like we're just always leaning
on shit. As I read this on my phone, I
was like, oh fuck, I'm like literally leaning against a
wall like i'd been gut shot.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Is I don't you?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Then?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Right? But can you train that out of someone I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I'm assuming when it's like life and death, like it's
just a manner of awareness. But then so I read on,
I got I stood up. I was like, I don't
fucking do that's stupid. I was just doing that at
that in that moment by a complete coincidence. And then
they start talking about how the other thing we do
is like, even when we're standing up and not leaning
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on something, we favor one leg or the other. And
I realized I was like doing that too. I was like,
basically only on one leg?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
How is that? I mean, yeah, how is that not?
You know, I'm just trying to figure out the ways
that that wouldn't be universal, right, because it's like the
reason I do is because I'm so tired, Yeah, all
the time. And isn't everybody else tired? Do they have
more energy in other countries? I mean, I guess they
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have better healthcare and better access to days that they
don't work.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
They're not just always working.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, I guess potentially you'd be less tired when I.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Like if you re Ember, like go somewhere as a
tourist and like the other tourists there are European and
they're like, yes, we're in like the middle of our
six week Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And you know what, I bet, I wonder if the
training for this is something basically like you're doing a
parody of a German tourist, right, because it's like like
the like the bolt upright like pos sture, just like
a one ye yeah, follow a German around weirdly too far.
I bet if you put on a fanny pack and
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then just put slightly too much weight in it, it
would it would get your body like the right way.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, try it, try it. I will say, did you
ever go, like live anywhere abroad where this is?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I guess this is a weird thing to ask a
white person where you like fit in because you fit
in here my But basically what happened was fit in
everywhere I did. I did a semester abroad and in college,
and that was my first time certainly certainly the longest
time I'd spent in Asia. And that's also the first
(12:45):
time by myself or on my own with my parents,
and the way even I mean I was with like
a bunch of like you know, clearly mostly American, some
a lot of Asian American, but a lot of white
like college do and the way. But even when I
was with just like a couple of friends or with
all like Chinese people, the way like street vendors would
(13:09):
like fucking like laser in on me. And yet yeah,
it was like a little like come on, guys.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Fuck I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And so I finally asked someone and they said, the
way you can tell just visually that I'm an American
And this was like a long time ago. I'm like
pretty old, so like there's also like just like a difference.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
This was sort of like pre China's recent big.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Economic boom, and I wonder if there was like I
don't know, like general like fucking nutrition and hormones and
shit like that access.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But basically the things that my friend, my.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Chinese friend told me that really made it impossible for
me to blend in were I was bigger than everyone
else and I walked too confidently.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's right there you go. You're not trying to like
actively disappear.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, so maybe I could have tried to blend in,
but like, yeah, they were just like oh yeah, we
can tell your America. And then the third one was
like your jeans are too nice, which I think wasn't true,
but they were just trying to add something else that
wasn't like physical to me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I think they were trying to get you to give
them your genes.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I should have.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah. The other thing, I've definitely heard people talk about
how hot guys like lean against stuff like it like
and I can picture it, you know, like famous like
pop idols or like for some reason, I can picture
Patrick Swayze leaning against stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, so I'm wondering if it's like a like James
Dean I can picture leaning or like always like kind
of being off to one side. Yeah, I'm wondering if it,
like is.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Actually just a very uncot like below the level of consciousness.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Trend level of consciousness.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah so I don't know, let's make up a word
here and call it subconscious.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Granted, mine is more like a drunk guy who's barely
staying up right and less like a you know, hot
guy putting his arm against the door, jam Jack.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
How are we going to fix this about ourselves?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I don't know, like we need.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm holding out well yeah, Yeah, I need to join
this day. I'm holding on my arms on the zoom
try to balance myself out.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, just straight out creep out stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Did this?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Anyways, I'm curious to hear from the listeners. We're all
gonna have to learn to know about else.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
So you ever.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Started now as we as we learn that, you know,
as we figured out listening to this.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And you're not one of the like twenty five like
FBI agents that is forced to listen to this, you're
going to have to learn to blend it in abroad.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So and if you're one of the twenty five FBI agents,
let us know how we're doing. Yeah, let me know,
like what you know about the lean. I'm curious, like
where it comes from. Is it just capitalism grinding us
down to a fine powder?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Or is it there there's another chance that it is,
just like because I feel like a lot of like
institutional knowledge, like this was derived from just someone saying
some ship off the cuff that became so just like
you know, someone just said this.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And be total bullshit and everybodywhere or it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Has like some degree of veracity. But how rigorous could
this be?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
If anyone lives in another country, and like notices people
are just like bolt upright all the time. I want
to hear about that.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Or extra slouchy.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Maybe it's maybe it's just that we're we're we occupy
a middle.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Zone, right, we're not committed.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah yeah, Or it's all of our American dollars, our
same size American dollars really fucking up the is.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It the wallet thing? I do? I did? Did you
ever hear about this while we're really fucking just right?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
This feels like another piece of a potential other piece
of pseudoscience that I was always told is that like
men's wallets in the back pocket like fuck up their path,
like make their posture asymmetrical in a way that is unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I heard that in Seinfeld when George. That's the only
place that someone that maybe, okay, good, great, what's I
the thinks overrated Andrew.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I should have been thinking about that.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I can go with mine. Mine's really dumb and quick. Okay,
just brand's attempting to catch on memes like just I
was watching this product release from Hines and Buffalo Wild Wings.
Oh god Atlantis. Brett tweeted, you guys really nailed the
timing on this and it's a Buffalo Wild Wings tweeting
(17:38):
be the first to try the mustard. Only at Buffalo
Wild Wings, order any def item and get a free
bottle of Hines and then it's a bottle. Hines really
released a limited edition mustard Chipotle Honey, and it's just
so the timing so bad. That not not the time,
(18:00):
it's bad, it's just like so late and like dumb,
Like it's just so. It just made me wonder if
specifically we like memes because they go back there at
the exact moment that, like a corporation is like getting
around to you know, having gone through all the packaging
and design meetings to determine like the exact the exact
(18:24):
shade of yellow and like the number of a's to
use and mustard like that, at that moment, it's it's
like perfectly time for everybody be like, oh fuck you,
that sucks.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
The reason I'm like, I think that can't be it
is like I feel like, pretty famously we are in
the most like corporation, brain racing like culture humanly possible.
But I feel like.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
We're trying to fight. There's a part of us that's
trying to fight back and recognizes that this sucks.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Shit, not the main part of us. The main part
of us just fucking loves.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It Buffalo wild Way.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's the main part of us. But
what some part of us deep down is like this.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean, I think that's that's our age or cultural
age showing genuinely think thinking that this sucks because the
corporation did it is one hallmark of not even the
old universally, but a specific like Young gen X. Young
gen X are the only people that still think that
there's an idea of selling.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Out and literally everyone else on the planet.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, it's just like also Young gen X also does it.
They think I want to be JD fans, that's right. Yeah,
I don't know, it's cool.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think it's it's so bad that maybe it like
it becomes funny, but.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It I well, but here's here's why that is hard.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Is that like no one remembers I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Meme memes just like really got us to like I
can't laugh for I can't.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Enjoy this even for a second.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
More.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I don't know one thing I do like, all right,
let's let's contort this into my overrated I do like
how I think. I guess Twitter mostly and TikTok to
some degree, has turned everyone into like a joyless professional
comedian as far as like comedy goes. Yeah, there's the
(20:43):
hack of it, but there's also just like like the
way they respond, like the way I have not laughed.
I don't like going to see stand up comedy that
much anyway, but like the you know, last couple of
times I've had to do something, the only time I
laugh is when someone is fucking bombing and like, but
when I genuinely enjoy something.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I did this the other day. It was, you know,
a very common experience.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
But like, I was sitting with my friend something that
came up on the group chat that we were both
on but other people were also on it, and my
friend texted something funny. I joylessly gave it a little
haha and I genuinely found it funny. But I was
sitting there right with him. I could have left, right
(21:29):
I think, I think as consumers of comedy, the Internet
has made us all dead inside the way that like
comedians are.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Dead inside to comedy, And I think it's great. So
underrated is not that.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Under is everybody's having the comedic joy drilled out, turning
the world into the Simpsons writer's room, where like nobody
ever laughs.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, no, No. The degree to which, like even the
most delightful joke in a writer's room, especially after a
long day, all you can say is that's funny, that's
what's going in and we move on, is delightful.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Just like everyone, everyone just fucking.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Hates whatever job they're in and now apparently consuming comedies.
Everyone's job, that's rights and isn't joylessly consuming comedy?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
We'll come back. We'll talk about the Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Yay, yay, and we're back.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yes, And finally, I mean, this is a news story
I pay attention to every year just because I'm in
it to find out. When does the Supreme Court get
a break? When do these guys finally get to spend
some time with their undisclosed gifts.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
So they just ended their twenty twenty four term unsurprisingly,
just a ton of fucking garbage rulings. Yeah, they decided
that Texas's porn id law is good, is fine despite
the obvious privacy risks and obvious we've talked before about
how so basically like if you go to a porn
website in Texas, they're like, yeah, that's fine, just show
(23:23):
us your scan, your license to us, and we'll hold
on to that for you. Yeah, and people. In addition
to that being weird, there are some concerns that this
law would enable censorship of resources related to abortion, gender
affirming care, safer sex, and LGBTQ identity.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Obviously, I am a little surprised that the lobbyists, like,
I mean a lot of it, it's being enacted by courts,
and I guess it's they don't care. But I am
a little surprised, like how much Republicans are like really
executing on this on all the like they're they're really
(24:04):
dog who caught the car about culture war stuff that,
like I would genuinely have thought that, and maybe they
it is also true that they simply do not care,
so maybe it doesn't matter. But I'm surprised that they
like corporatists who genuinely do not give a fuck about abortion,
fucking pornography, like, you know, sexuality, any of it. I'm
(24:27):
surprised how much of this stuff they're enacting because I
guess I just assumed, you know, it seemed like the
gentleman's agreement was like, obviously these will simply be cudgels
that are passed back and forth, and like, you know,
we the people who run the Democratic and the Republican
Party obviously don't care one way or the other about
this stuff. So I'm surprised that how much of this
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stuff they're actually enacting.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, it feels like they're Yeah, I mean in the past,
like their whole thing was like we're the rich guy party.
We'll give you like text breaks and all that shit.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Will you know, you buy ass yachts and or like
vacations on your yachts and we'll you know, keep an
eye out for your best interest.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Uh. They are also the like I think they do
have a mandate two like that. I think part of
what people were responding to with Trump was like, well,
just it can't be like neoliberalism anymore, so like do
something different and there and so they are getting away
(25:29):
with this ship because yeah, it's like this is the
version of again through Yeah, yeah, that's true that it's
it's wild, but it does like I do think they
have the courage of their convictions, like they they have
like the Republican Party has.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, That's the surprising part is I did not I
thought the k Fave was like.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh man, it's just laws and the constitution. We would
love to ban pornography, slash abortion and slash square people.
But like, I don't know, like sorry, these these laws
and now they're just like really running with it in
a way that I'm just surprised.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I just I'm surprised that that they have chosen to
abandon the ca fame of it. It's just like it's
just like they're they're they're doing this stuff. I'm also
like a little curious. I mean, I would have you know,
I know, I'm sure they think that all of these
like young Trump youth angry men will be down with
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this like anti porn stuff, because they think that they're
all Instagram ads about like finding Jesus and whatever and
you know, not jacking off.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But I I you know, this is this is a thing.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I know.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I mean, this law hits their base harder than anything
I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Harder than.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah hell yeah, I'm curious how what the popularity of
this bill has been in Texas for the past year
in Texas, I mean, but also like like to me,
it's like what is what does neo nazi twitch think
about this law rights. That's the thing that I'm like,
(27:06):
these people can't like it, that's.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Their main thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, just like let's give give the government air IDs, Yeah,
as often as we possibly can't.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
This is, by the way, the same case earlier that
had Justice Alito asking if porn hub features the modern
day equivalent of gour Vi dal essays yeah, or William F. Buckley.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
He also mentioned because he yeah, because he's contractually obligated to.
Here's here's a bigger question that I a fucking moron,
should not even probably not even have the right to ask.
Which is that, Like I feel like every time like
the raft of I mean, look, Supreme Court rulings are
(27:52):
going to be fascist for the rest of our natural lives.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Seems like it.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, So I am a little surprised at the sort
of like reporting the constant report, I mean, the everything
in here, this was lost five to ten years ago. Yeah, right,
like like like all of these were inevitabilities and they
are just rolling in now.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
But like this this was an issue a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It's and to keep it interesting, they have been telling
these fucking crazy yeah stories in the mainstream media about
like is Judge Amy Coney Barrett like going to turn
around and surprise Trump and become like the new liberal
justice and yeah it turns out.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Nope, Yeah, I just it's is it just that like
the fucking media needs to have like the credulity of
like a golden retriever to function. Like I don't understand,
like like every of these like kind of like neoliberal
left wing not left wing, sorry, like center left, which
(29:00):
is actually center right in America. Like publications they might
as well just like print articles about like how like
my dad says he has my nose, but I can
feel my nose right here, Like what the fuck are
you talking about?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Amy coming Barrett might become liberal.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Like she there was a moment where Trump walked by
her where she like kind of gave him She was
like servant cunt a little bit, but yeah, and then
she sneezed, so it might have been that she just
had to sneeze. We're unsure, but our people are working
through the implications at this moment.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I guess I'm just asking.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I'm like I don't know, and I don't understand, but like,
by far, the most predictive thing in our entire life
is these act these Nazis going to act like Nazis. Yes,
and that's always been more correct than any.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Other worldview, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So I'm just like, why why do these people get
to pretend like there's something to report about here?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I'm just like, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I it's probably just despair that's making me more frustrated
with NPR than the fucking Supreme Court. Did not see
that one coming? Yeah, how could you not see this coming?
Why do we listen to you if you couldn't see
this coming, you fucking idiots.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yes, that's the big one that a lot of people
are talking about is ending universal universal or nationwide injunctions,
which was one of the ways for the courts to
push back against Trump basically taking over and ruling as
an autocrat essentially. Which, yeah, it's just that's places like
(30:35):
NPR and The Atlantic have been talking about how Amy
cony Berry is actually like could be a secret liberal
because of like some of her rulings, and this order
just reveals that she's what we knew she was from
the start, Like she has looked at the beginning of
this administration with its you know, many oversteps of uh,
(31:01):
you know, everything that they're supposed to care about as
conservatives that America is like supposed to be about just
arresting people for being brown. And her question was like,
how do we get these activist judges to leave him
alone and let Trump cook? Is essentially what I.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Mean, like the Atlantic inventing a fantasy persona for you know,
any of the justices, but in this case Justice Barrett,
and then pretending to be surprised when that fantasy that
they invented did not turn out to be true. Like
that's what like a that's like, that's like for a child,
(31:43):
that's what a child believes that this is the I
oh god, I'm so again.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I don't know why I'm more angry with these.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
But it's like they're power hungry Nazis. They've been power
hungry Nazis and they have never demonstrated anything other than
they are power hungry Nazis. Why why do you write
about them in any other way? This episode is going
to get me put on another list.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Huh yeah, I think we're like pretty safely on a list,
and where it's just a matter of like where the yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Where they where they Yeah, got to move these guys
up the list. Yeah, what's why, dear, dear FBI agent,
do you think it's an FBI agent? I think, thankfully
when it comes down to like shit that is boring
and that they don't want to listen to, they, thankfully,
I imagine, have offloaded a bunch of this to AI
(32:34):
and so an AI A agent. Yeah, f b A I,
f BAI agent. If you're listening to this, hit us up.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, let us know where we are in the power rankings.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Is like to imagine a world where the FBI agent
that was put on this show, it doesn't find it
boring and it actually falls in love with us and
like comes around and Amy Cony Barrett. They then talk
to Amy Coney Barrett and then she like starts a
revolution from me inside the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I just imagine, I imagine a world where the FBI agent,
of course, just buys I want to say, a Casper mattress.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It just sleeps a little bit easier at night. That's
my main concern when I ask how do they sleep
at night? I really want to know how do they
sleep at night? And should we get them involved in
some sort of sleep study. But yeah. Anyways, Trump called
it a monumental victory to the cot for the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's really bad. But anything
anything out of the Supreme Court, I think it's just
like this weird thing where none of us, like human
normal people have kind of I mean, cause it's like
we constantly are like, oh my gosh, like human time scales,
human minds, we don't understand. Like I think the fact
(33:51):
that this basically operates on a five to ten year cycle.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, should be or longer.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
It makes it so hard to get your mind und
because people are like, what can we do about this?
And the thing we can do about it is, I
don't know, go back in time, Like it's done and
it's been done and it's been in inevitability. So like
there is nothing you can do about this, and there
won't be for quite some time, right asterisk obviously don't
(34:18):
consider the other options, right, I'm not advocating any of
the other options, Nolita, No, you know what I mean.
I'm just like, yeah, this is it, this and this
everything that's happening here was a dead bang on certainty
the second they got confirmed. Yeah, So like I don't
know what are you gonna do.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Wait what Amy Cony Beart.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Yeah, from Notre Dame Amy Cony Barret, the one who's like, yeah,
the part of a weird cult that thinks Catholicism is
too lax, that one thinks.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, oh oh jes a, Yeah, we're gonna pin our
our errand so and has hopes on her.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
It's her fucking integrity.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
The integrity depending it on the integrity of these loathsome
Nazis is what.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That that's the damage folks like like sorcid not to.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Sing, but just like.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
But just kind of like this like like kind of
whatever centrist democrat media.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
It's like, we're all people.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
We can appeal to the integrity and we can think
our way out of this by the rules.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It's like, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
This is where we are. This is where that you
can't and you never have been able to. Did you
see that Sorkin is writing Social Network too?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I did. The boat has been missed.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yeah, I feel like we're gonna be less surprised by
the sinister undertones of Facebook this time around. Yeah, It's
like I don't yeah, good good, I guess I can't
wait to catch clips of this on fucking TikTok, where
the AI generated captions about a man finds out his
(36:16):
his workplace has spent spying on Americans. All right, let's
take a back break. Where are We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
And we're back and the Golden Bachelor also back backchiller,
the Golden Bank Chiller. I did not I remember it
being a thing that happened. Did not realize the first
one was a hit, certified dead bang hit baby, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
When When did Golden Bachelor call twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Okay, twenty twenty three? And then the following year the
Golden Bachelorette, which was less of a hit because America
is fucked up. Yeah, But I think the lesson they
learned from the first one was they just want to
like make this a fantasy of old of old guys.
So they're, yeah, their bachelor this time is a sixty
(37:24):
six year old, so the first time it was like
a seventy two year old. This time they were like,
let's bring let's make him a little bit younger. And
then the guy they picked is a former NFL linebacker
Mel Owens, and he made headlines for a podcast appearance
where he said that he would only be interested in
contestants between the ages of forty five and sixty. Yeah,
(37:47):
specifically saying if they're over sixty, I'm cutting them, which
I mean.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
The real, like obviously fucked up part about this is
I do sort of believe that in his mind he
is stating above what he would generally have considered his dating.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
He's actually being like he thinks he's.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Being cool about it. I think there's a strong chance,
oh for sure of that.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
There's a chance also that he just thinks The Golden
Bachelor is about piss play. Oh yeah, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
They they should be more specific, and this is about
kidney health, that's right.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I will say I'm sort of like uniquely unable to
do dating reality TV in general, So I find it
I find it very hard to get invested in any
of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Because you're such a romantic or you just can't deal
deal with the ship.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I just say, narrative and laser guns, apparently because I'm
a fucking child.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I don't know. I I guess it's just the the
like drama of it feels. Party two is like for
a couple years, I not even a couple of years,
probably a year I was like working for like like
this like unscripted producer, but reality TV producer, sure, And
so I don't know if like seeing even a little
(39:14):
bit behind the scenes, because it's like I don't I
don't know. That can't be it. No one, no one's
under the illusion that this is real.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
But like, but is it like more scripted than like
people might expect, are they like, Okay, let's take that again,
and in this time you say specifically, No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Think it's it's not that it's more because I do
think sep doing people's real personality so savvy. I think
it's really just like watching a process that I personally
did not enjoy very much, like the producer kind of
feeling like a writer storyteller, which is just what they are.
I understand that, but it's not the way I like
(39:51):
to write. And so I just found it very unpleasant
and now I find it hard to watch.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
But I think this is a me problem we're describing now.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, it couldn't be The Golden Bachelor. It is pure
as the as the name suggests. The first two two
got matched up on the first one got married for
three months.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
So yeah, you know, would you what's your what's your
in your past to dating life?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (40:17):
What's your like blind date situation? Have you ever done
anything like that? Jack gone on a blind date? I
don't think I had. Yeah, yeah, I don't think I
ever did that. That feels right. But what about a
blind date with like a fucking two month clock where
you had to get married at the end.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I did do that.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah, I did that, and that's how I met my life.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
You know what this is?
Speaker 2 (40:40):
This is like a real like speaking of America's like
unbelievably conservative like underbelly. This is really just getting us
back to arranged marriages. This is this is what America
yurns for fels in hierarchical, transactional patriarchy and good.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
With a clock on it, you get married? Right?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Yes, I guess good, I guess I enjoy this.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
It does, I mean seems to have a hold on
the Supreme Court. Like there's they are definitely pulling us
in a fucking handmaid's tale direction. That what we were
saying is one of the first times that we've seen
them resist the pool of capital to be like, yeah,
I don't know, maybe I know that the thing that.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Is like a little odd.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Well, I mean maybe it's not, but I'm like, eventually
the global market is going to realize this. This at
some tipping point, and I think there's a chance where
past it, like investment in America is completely untenable, right
like like when I mean, I guess not soon because
it hasn't. But obviously, once this starts, the ships, this
(41:50):
all this cultural shit starts losing people money, then someone
will have to like come and.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Step to it. People step in and be like I'm
going to be America's consultant. No one's thinking.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Money yet, so so nothing will change.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
The pornographers are losing money, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Surprised they're because they're not pornographers, they're big data companies.
I'm shocked that they don't have better lobbyists that could
win this case.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
That's sorry, that was the section.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
One thing I was going to say, you're fucking up guys.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Although I guess on some level they like this fucking
id porn stuff because.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, it's just more like that.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I guess that would be the answer, right, is that
if you realize that all these porn companies are just
collecting data about people then yeah, this is just more
data for them to collect in like a smaller sandbox
of like a small in stocks. But one day you
really have, right, I guess. And and that has been
the trend in data. Is that like because right? It
(42:50):
feels like we're going away from big data scraping to
like deep data scraping of a smaller audience.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, is that possible?
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Let me know, let me let us know people in
tech days, what's it like jacking off in exchange for
giving the government your driver's license?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Is that weird?
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Does it come back to bite you? Does that? I
mean there's a is there a new.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Market opportunity for half a torn up hustler that you
found in the woods by the creek.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
I feel like it.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Must be right, right, like just otherwise.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Oh my god, we're going back to those days.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, And isn't that what we all wanted anyways?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Yeah? Yeah, that's when America was great.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Speaking of when America was great and about to be,
the Senate voted to open debate on Trump's bill, with
only Ran Paul and Tom till Is voting against it.
Other GP holdouts were persuaded during a quote series of
closed door negotiations with JD. Vance just fucking chilling.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
My god, I imagine being trapped in a room with
that fucking freak.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
The smell alone.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
For some context on why they're having to like really
twist some arms here, the bill is very unpopular with people.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean again, it like no one actually
likes any Republican policy, uh broadly speaking, y yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Nothing holds well broadly though.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
And also a bunch of a bunch of Republican policies, billionaire.
This is what I was talking about in part one.
There's a bunch of shit they do not care about
one way or the other, any of the culture war
stuff like, so, yeah, this is I mean, it's it's
just I don't know why I feel like so naives
saying surprising, but yeah, I guess I'm just a little
(44:44):
surprised at like the ham handedness with which they're doing
all this business. But yeah, no one, no one likes this.
It's gonna happen. It was inevitable.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, Neo liberalism really did not hold up like that
a lot of the things that I think part of
me it was like, well, they'll always like recognize that
it's profitable to yeah, target have like pride merchandise and
stuff like that. They'll always recognize that it's not good
(45:14):
to side with the Nazis, or in this case, like
it's not good to side with the people who have
the really unpopular economic agenda that only helps rich people,
or in the case of the Supreme Court, that it's
not popular to you know, demand that people tell you
their Social Security number before they can jack off. But
(45:36):
all that stuff really didn't hold up. I mean any
it crumbled fast, it went fast.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, well, it didn't crumble fast as much as the
thing that was good was always the office that was
never there before.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Right, yeah, yeah, it was just the appearance.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, so the appearance crumbled but there was nothing there anyway,
which is like god true.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
But yes, you're right, it's depressing. I guess the.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Only teeny teeny teeny tiny silver lining to this is,
as we've seen many times like these, but the billionaires
who are making these decisions with their guts are no
more smart than anyone else.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
In fact, often they're very stupid.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
So yea, you know, and when there's this little pushback
for what they want, it's I think it's going to
lead them in a continue to lead them in a
direction that's going to be more and more unpopular.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Ye, so we'll see. I yeah, I mean, we'll just see.
But yeah, this is going to be bad. But it
was inevitable. So I guess what it is is like
so much of like modern liberal hand ringing is griping
about the inevitable, and I guess I just wish there
was a little more action. Yeah, no, offer, well, because
(46:52):
it's inevitable by the rules that they play by, right,
and yeah, that's they're just they have to write fan
fiction where any yeah there it like comes and saves
the Dayah.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
But just back to the Big Beautiful Bill and where
it's polling. It's currently has approval ratings between nineteen and
twenty nine percent underwater, Like it's twenty nine percent more
unpopular than it is popular, which is bad. And so
this was one thing that gave me a little bit
(47:24):
like a silver lining. The White House is attempting to
smooth things over with the most like dem ass thing.
They posted a cartoon of Trump at McDonald's with like
a scroll of like, well, all the things that the
Big Beautiful Bill does well, like off to the side
(47:45):
of it, just like real taking a thing that people
liked about him and putting it next to like really
ineffective bullet pointed propaganda, just text scrolling being like, you know,
it restores fiscal sanity, permanently secures our borders. Modern is
the air traffic control next to a cartoon of him doing
(48:07):
the fries at McDonald's. Be like, remember this, remember when
you like this? Yeah, it feels like the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
The thing that is consistently like a little heartening is
how much like I think, I feel like conservatives especially
feel like.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
I think one of the reasons.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Why they love AI art so much is they are
so bad at creating that they think, first of all
that this is good.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
And good enough best.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yeah, yeah, this is this is like what really bridges
the gap. This is this was the thing they were
like creative people hate us, but now we have a
robot that can do it badly.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
And it's like, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
And also the thing that is nice is like almost
every time they they, you know, make a claim about
the world, they always have to illustrate it with AI
because they're claims are false and they couldn't find the
documentation of it because it doesn't exist. So I don't know,
tiny silver linings is that reality does not comport with
(49:11):
their beliefs.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Hey we still got that? Well, yeah, I feel like
we'll have that for a.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
While and we'll take that to our unmarked.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Braves, just clinging to that as we're buried alive. Baby,
the big trouble with the big trouble with dumb bastards
is that they're too dumb to believe there is such
a thing as being smart. That's Kurt bonning it. And yeah,
that describes a lot.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
Of yea until it isn't I suppose.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
All right, Well, Andrew t thank you so much for
joining us on this Monday Morning Trends episode? Where can
people find you? Follow you? All that could stuff?
Speaker 3 (49:52):
I don't know. Yes, it's racist, Andrew Tea.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
I started blue skying tweeting more for no good reason.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
It's still just deleted from my.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Phone Twitter, you know, Yeah, oh no, yeah, yeah, I've
been off Twitter basically. Mostly it was that I had
a bunch I watched and Or and I wanted to
tweet a bunch of very stupid jokes.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Is it really good?
Speaker 2 (50:13):
And must it's good until you think about I I
don't don't look at it for as like political anything.
I think that's there's a there's a big kind of like,
oh in these times, what a what an important thing.
I'll just say I'll paraphrase my my tweet, which was
my blue Sky tweet, which was essentially that this is
(50:33):
in season one of and Or two. But there's a
character named man Mathma. You may remember her as the
leader of the Rebel Alliance in the first Star Wars movies,
and her story has played out pretty pretty fully in
and Or season.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Two and one.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
And I just did realize that, like such a big
part of and Or depends on the idea of a rich,
like rich white senator sacrificing everything to create a resist stints,
And I'm like, oh, that's this, That's the part that
is less believable than a man that can use telekinesis
to wave a laser sort around.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
It's like, what if Amy Cony Barrett or It's literally
that if Nancy Pelosi, yeah, wanted to lead the socialist revolution.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
What if Nancy Pelosi was doing what conservatives accused George
Sorows of doing. What if Nancy Pelosi was secretly taking
her money to fund armed freedom fighters. Wow, and I'm
so sorry. No, I'm gonna be waiting for that. That's
where I'll be if you need me. I'll be waiting
(51:39):
for that to happen. Yeah, save us, Nancy.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourself, get your vaccines way you still can, which,
as we'll talk about tomorrow, might not be too long.
Get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
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