July 7, 2026 • 24 mins
In this edition of CounTrend Road, Jack and Miles discuss the USMNT losing their mojo and the World Cup, Graham Platner getting accused of being a sex crim, Trump starting up his Greenland ish… again, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of contrend Roads.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And that is co O U and trend Roads.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Okay, don't get any big ideas England idea that is
courtesy of Donneghee Kirby on the discord.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
My name is it had been funny if the name
had cunt in it and that was from Cunty cut
the Cuntmaxer. Don't get any big ideas anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is that one from? My name is Jack O'Brien. Still,
I am back. I be joined as always by my
co host, mister Miles Gras.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Still undefeated heavyweight champion of the World of the World. Yeah, yeah,
yeah here, let me hold that belt for you their champ.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh is that on side? Guys? The world up his
world right before our eyes. All right, So I've been
out for a week, came back. I got.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I spent some time watching soccer, and I think I
got to figure it out. So you just like kind
of walk around until it's time to score and then
you just like run real fast and kickstep you got.
I was traveling. I was in a in the Dallas Airport,
Dallas Fort Worth Airport for the US men's national team.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You do like to go to a Texan airport to
watch the US men's national team.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That is finest connoisseur.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You got to buy a ticket to get past security
in there. But the bars in there, Oh, I'm not
even on the bars.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'm just on the air, traip the air, just soaking
in the vibes, watching people, the nervous people.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Pretty I'm sure. I mean, this is the one goal.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Miles for the one goal, they were pretty loud, yeah,
but other other than that, it was very quiet. One
guy got very drunk and uh like got on. I
don't know what he expected was going to happen, because
he between the time that we boarded and the time
we sat down, he was the wrong in front of us,
(02:19):
and he turned the game back on and it was over,
but like they were already down three.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
To one, like metaphor, it was over spiritually or regulation
title passed okay, And he was like, oh, and he
had been.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Drinked a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And sometimes I used to have this when I drank,
where I would uh you know, suddenly be a little
bit more inclined to have a.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Look at me, look at me energy. Yeah, And he.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Was making big noises about how up said he was
he was wearing a US men's national team jersey, and
then I swear to.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
God, he said, so.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Somebody said, oh, you're just finding out now, and he said,
why you say it like that?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
This is my nine eleven.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Fucking Belgium on the plane, he said, this is my
nine to eleven and then BELI fuck of Belgium waffle
where his direct American I've.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Ever heard no perspective on what a tragedy is and
then like, you only know one thing about another country,
so it's fuck that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Thing, this is my, this is my.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
This is your Why are you like that your nine
to eleven is watching a team lose that you only
bought the jersey for two weeks ago week?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, the tags are still on bro. I mean I
would have nine eleven. I would have asked him how.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Much money he had riding on under if it was
just just the jersey sunk call of that jersey person.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I am curious though, Uh God, that did he? I
wonder did he have anything to say about the intervention
of Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Maybe did he.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Have anyone else to blame? Or is purely the Belgian waffles?
I was doing my damnedest not to bring that up.
In any context, aside from at a certain point, we
were watching the game in a Chili's and I started
but I have a I have a loose theory that
I can go into about what what happened to the
US men's national team.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You're probably right.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Then I started going into it, and uh my wife
was like, shut the fuck.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
They're going to kill you. She said, you're so many
too tough. Your bitch is too bad. Yeah, they will
kill you.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, So I mean I do believe, like I've listened
to I've like read coverage of the game. I've listened
to the Bill Simmons podcast analysis of the game. I
have heard, yeah the best. He did have somebody on
who seemed to follow soccer, so that's good. He he
(05:08):
generally follows soccer via NBA metaphors.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Which is perfect for me, Yes, my best way.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But he was like, I mean, you know, maybe the
Trump thing could have hurt them psychologically if it was
a closer game, but you know, this was a blowout,
Like there was no world where they were beating Belgium.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I mean no, no, there there is a world in that.
Like there's been some interesting results. That's a very interesting
if you said, I'm gonna a European team that has
pretty good standing in teams are players in the top leagues.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, I'm probably not going to be not the day
for America.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We've seen some crazy upsets and the US was coming in.
Look I'm no expert. I do believe the US got
their whole ass handed to them.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
In that game. Like it was bad like that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I've not I only watched the World Cup usually in
terms of my soccer my football intake, I've never seen
anything like what the goalad did, like less than net.
I'm like just kind of fumbled the ball, like had
had a little bit of a freeze.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Bring a freeze. Yeah, so I just like the Trump thing.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I think I truly believe Trump intervening on behalf of
the US team like made it impossible for them to Like,
I think it's more important than we realize for teams
to have like a narrative that they can believe in
that like where they can like turn themselves into like
(06:48):
a likable underdog team of destiny.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah like that.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You know, there's a thing in sports where like a
less than stellar team will get on a roll by
convincing themselves they are a team of destiny or like
nobody believes.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
In them and it like doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Necessarily have to be true, but they just have to
believe it's true. And like that shit works, man, Like
we've seen we've seen that work. And it felt like
the US team kind of had that up to that
point and that like nobody really thought they could do it,
and they were playing better than anybody expected heading into
the tournament, and like that's kind of I think what
(07:26):
people were expecting. Like the best example of this that
I can think of is like I think maybe the
best athlete that I've ever seen is like Michael Jordan,
and the thing that we've discovered like that he had
as an advantage, like the during his career, we knew
that his event, Like his advantage was like all all
the stuff that we talked about during his career, his
(07:47):
like amazing basketball abilities and focus and stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But like after his career, we've.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Learned that like his deep pathology that enabled him to
always feel like he was being counted out like personally
and vidictively, like slighted, Like that was what drove him mentally,
and like it's just it feels like that is such
a huge part of the game, and like when Trump intervened,
(08:14):
intervened to give the US team that advantage, they get
turned into the opposite of the nobody believes in US.
He like, I always talk about the worst thing that
can happen to someone is like at a like spiritual
like in terms of being an interesting good person is
to be born into generational wealth. Like the people that
(08:35):
you see who are born into generational wealth, they're just
fucking disasters a lot of the time, right, And like
you know, we've talked about it in our icon Iconograph
episodes that like a lot of the great icons and artists,
like you're not seeing a lot of generational wealth there.
And I just feel like Trump basically turned our national
team into spoiled rich kids.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, I mean suddenly it's like you were we became
Francis from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Yes, yeah, christer Francis,
and just we took your bike, Like yes, yeah, We'll
just take your fucking bike. Like the Red Card being
rescinded was so fucked up and against everything that is
good about like the sport, I mean already but like
the thing that sucked was it instantly made fuller and
(09:17):
Baligan like a bad guy in people's minds, like to
the point that he went he went and apologized to
the Belgian manager, like he had a word like words
and he's like, hey, you know, I'm not like trying
to be and the managers like, hey, I get it, dude,
Like you're not the one who's doing this, And that
says a lot about you that he even felt like that,
probably because you were raised in the UK, but like, yeah,
(09:39):
to see it actually go down in a way that
absolutely blew up in the US's face, There's something a
little bit satisfying about that. And yeah, they had a
huge target on their back to the point, I mean
like they started doing the Trump dance.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
They were doing the Trump dance in the locker room.
You don't think that they were extra motivated by that.
And just but like from the US perspective, just like
seeing like like what you just don't you kind of
have to like feel embarrassed about something that you've been
given onusly like it just yeah, yeah, yeah, feel because
(10:13):
they they were worse than that team on that night,
but like they played way worse than they had played
up to that point.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's worse.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Than like anyone I've seen play. It's just not that
it's not a good feeling.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
When everyone goes, oh look at you all little assholes
getting getting whatever the fuck you want. That completely takes
any sort of sense of like not necessarily togetherness, but
your optimism about like, wow, we might be doing something
turns into this fucking guy is like putting his mushroom
dick on the scale. And now our players back, Yeah, well,
(10:50):
all's well, that ends well, you know, and I.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Don't want them to lose, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And I'll say when the red when the red card happened,
I was like, ah, that's shit, But the second it happened,
it was just like, oh shit, like this is this
is such a bad look.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I mean I think the US, the US is not
going to be competitive really until like soccer is truly
an accessible sport at the youth level, like it is
in every other country that's beaten the fuck out of
us in that it's free to play, like it is
such an upper middle class, solidly middle class sport in
terms of like getting into a competitive league, playing for
(11:28):
a club team that will actually like nerd develop you
as a player. It just there's like a paywall into
it and so yeah, it makes sense other sports that
are cheaper we tend to do better at.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And also whatever I mean, like you know, maybe the
US will learn I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You gotta, yeah, you have to have like parents who
will just like drive you, like drop everything to drive you.
Like a soccer tournament on the weekends. It seems like
like I don't I don't know, man, it seems like
seems like a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I mean, it's like any sport, you know what I mean, Like,
but but soccer specifically is like for for how easy
it is, right, like you look at it like yeah,
and like in Belgium, like they have they have a
ton of like just street courts too, like an all
over Europe where it's like it's a basketball court and
it's actually like in like a street soccer thing. We've
got like little we've got nets and stuff too, so
(12:22):
you can either play on a hoop or just right
behind the hoop is a is a fucking net and
now you can use it for soccer. Because you know,
in the US, like especially in urban areas, like you
don't have big, wide open fields for kids to play
and in the places that do tend to have more money.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back,
we'll talk about some news. We'll be right back. And
we're back. We're back, and uh, main Senate candidate Graham Platner, Yeah,
(12:58):
has been accused of sexual assault by an ex which
uh and the reporting is pretty damning.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It was pretty damning. Yeah, there's all kinds of evidence
against this man.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Only there had been some morning suns, if only God could.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We didn't really cover him much on the show. No,
I mean there was something there's I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I don't know what it was, and I'm not trying
to be like here but right in this region here
to cough tattoo was Yeah, that was. I mean, it's
one of those things where in the beginning when I
feel like one of the first times we talked about him,
one of the few times is like, guy's got a
fucking Nazi tattoo and he's doing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It like he's like, oh, man, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I've done a lot of listening, I've done a lot
of learning, and I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's bad, folks.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That was what I was like, Hmmm, I just don't
to me that feels a little disqualifying, but a lot
of people got behind him, uh and were like it's
like and took all the subsequent stories like his like
problematic racist Reddit posts him talking about how he's like, yeah,
I love being a machine gunner and being a blackwater mercenary.
(14:16):
Like there's like all kinds of things you're like, I mean,
like in a worldview kind of thing, I feel like
somebody wouldn't be signing up for blackwater duty.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But hey, yeah, a lot of like the narratives like
growing and learning, and then there's like it feels like
he would have had to have been replaced Dave's style
by a different person.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
There's like growing and learning, and then there's like, hey, man,
you know what this might not.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Be for you?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Might you know, you seem like a comprehensively fucked up person.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Doesn't mean you don't have a you don't deserve to
have a like a positive, productive life and be happy
because of the mistakes you made. But like when you
were talking about like the high stakes of being a senator,
and you know it's some might argue already being in
the Senate has already filled with a bunch of fucking
freaks anyway, but like it just didn't something wasn't resonating,
(15:08):
and I was like, whatever, I mean, I guess the
voters of Maine seemed to be like, well this is
better than Susan Collins, then go right on ahead. But yeah,
now he's put everybody in a very difficult position. He's like,
you know, who's going to replace him? What's going to
come of that? Is there someone that can rightly capture
the same energy to defeat Susan Collins? Because without you know,
(15:31):
for all the like the math that's happening around the
Democrats taking the Senate Maine was like the layup thing
where they were like it Maine has to go to
or else there's no chance. So this is definitely a
positive for the Republicans trying to hold the Senate. And
then now you have like a ton of conspiracy theories
(15:51):
from like fucking idiotic like liberals and people were just like,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Know, the timing of this is so real, so shady.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It's like, regardless of what you think of the timing,
this is a credible accusation.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, and that's he just found out about oppo research.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, and also like get mad at this asshole for
having a bunch of shit like he wasn't addressing and
thinking he could just duck like every time it was
like the Nazi tattoo.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh you know, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, I've made some dumb mistakes the Reddit puss, I mean, yeah,
he said some dumb stuff out there, and he was
taking accountability. I think that's why a lot of people
were like, well, he's saying the right things. But I
think this is just one of those those courtesies that
is extended to white candidate, especially men, where they're like,
I don't know, he's talking that populous shit. Let's overlook
(16:40):
all these other red flags, whereas like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But the tail of the tape's good on this one, Miles,
he's doing populism. I'm using he uh and uh right,
and not to not to quote Tom Hanks and Elvis,
but he's white.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
He's white. He's white.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I mean, and then like you think about like, uh,
you know progressives who are not white or men, they're
dragged through the fucking mud for shit, that's a fraction
of it. So there's like a lot where you're just like, man,
this says a lot about everything, Like on so many
levels the way people even look at candidates.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What is disqualifying to some people? What is not?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know, his you know admitted time of like having real,
real good uh making good money at Blackwater, Like like, well,
what was he doing?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Was he fucking was he helping young children on terms?
Was killing people?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
What are we talking about here? So you signed an
NDA man, so we're just gonna yeah man, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
He was a very promising uh candidate for person most
likely to be the next John Fetterman.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You know, the person who gets gets in on a
populist ticket and then ends up being a fucking yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Whatever, fucking maniac. Like just like with Fetterman too.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
A lot of people like I remember when he's like
pull this shotgun on a black jogger.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Do you not remember that about John Fetterman.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
It's like, yeah, but he's gonna beat doctor Oz and whatever,
you're gonna do it. That to me, that's like that
that just that says something to me about a person,
just generally how you're hardwired. But yeah, anyway, so always yeah,
it's like you get it's funny because you have the
Republicans acting like they're not the party of sex grims,
(18:26):
and they're like.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, we would never do that. Shame on them.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Once we found out, we stopped voting for that person.
I saw a clip of somebody saying I don't know
who they could have possibly been referring to, certainly not
the current head of the Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It was Kevin McCarthy. It was talking saying stupid shit.
Yeah yeah, he's like god, I mean like this, this,
this would never happen. And the other thing too, is
then you also have like there's like establishment democrats. You're like,
this is the problem with these outside populists. You don't
know what you're gonna get. You get people who are
like pro a pac You're like, see, he was like,
this is what happens. Then you also have anti Semites,
(19:01):
where like he was against Israel, So then they planted
this story against him.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's fucking just a rorshack test of nonsense right now,
whatever you want it to be. I mean, up top
you go, the guy had a Nazi tattoo, didn't cover it,
knew about it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And I was like, oh, yeah, I got this is bad. Huh.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
That says a lot. And all the people were like,
we all get drunk. I don't bro I know people
who got drunk and done some fucking wild shit, but
they weren't getting Nazi tattoos.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, and then being like, oh fuck, I forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Damn people who get drunk and get Nazi tattoos. I
feel like, I mean, I have to assume that's where
Pete Hegseth got his, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Their Crusader tattoos.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Actually they're tangentially connected to the Nazis.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I am smarter, a little bit smarter.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So as far as I can tell, just kind of
glancing at the headlines from last week, it's seems like
Donald Trump's on a bit.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Of a winning streak. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, the two fifty went off without a hitch.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
There was that shot of him watching himself on Fox
News that was a great metaphor for his presidency.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yep. And he's he's keeping the winds coming.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I don't know, maybe not, uh, I
don't know why he's just he's he's in Europe for
a NATO summit. He's in Turkey right now. There was
a great image of Erdowan guiding him down the like
the fucking red carpet because He kept like rotating looking
at weird shit, and he's like, it just was weird
(20:38):
to see two old men like helping each other. They
look like you know when you see like two old
men best friends. Yeah, and like they kind of got
to lean on each other physically. That's what that shit
looked like. Except autocrats.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So he's there in Turkey, a and he just decided
to reignite the fucking feud over the US's thirst for Greenland.
He started off by threatening to pull US troops out
of Europe and then started making noise about how he
is Greenland's one true daddy. He said the island territory
should be controlled by the United States and then said
(21:13):
he said his refusal to go along with his expansion
is desires. Quote what hurt my relationship with NATO because
Greenland doesn't help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really
help Greenland, but it's an important.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Part for the United States.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Again, there's no fucking reason for this aside from Trump
thinking that the world operates like monopoly and his desire
to just like own everything visa the American military threats.
And the other thing is that this is probably this
is one of those issues that helps distract him and
the general public from like, I don't know, all the
(21:48):
other bad, terrible shit that is happening slash not getting
any attention. So when he starts talking about Greenland again,
everyone's like, oh, here he goes, because then he's not
talking about I don't even know Jeffrey Epstein or I
don't give a shit about inflation.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So maybe it's like win win for his handlers, like you.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Just fucking talk about that for a second until we
figure out how to pivot out of this. Although I
did find this really cool thing on Twitter from a
conspiracy account that like over a thousand likes that says
the reason for Greenland obsession.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So it says cool.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
One of the main locations for the elite's doomsday cities
is beneath the magnetic anomaly in Greenland. That's why Trump
is serious about Greenland. And after a few months ago
and a few months ago, an American company received approval
to build the necessary infrastructure in Greenland right at the
anomaly site that I shared with my subscribers the anomaly site.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Cool cool cool.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
You definitely need that magnetic anomaly. I mean, think about it, yeah,
think about all the all the ways that a magnetic
anomaly would help you, uh, exact in the world that
you can't already do by just controlling literally everything in
the entire world.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yep, exactly. Yeah, but hey it's fine man, it's Brian.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
The editor has an interesting theory that Trump saw the
Gerard Butler movie Greenland.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, I love that movie. Is that is that like alien?
Sort of a procedural asteroid movie. Oh, not too.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Much asteroid, but really a bunch of people trying to
run away from the asteroid and Gerard ends up spoiler
alert in Greenland.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I had a feeling where it's safe check off's Greenland.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, you put the name of a a in Brazil.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, the true Greenland.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Anyways, all right, well those are some of the things
that are trending on this July seventh. We are back
tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get
your vaccines while you still can't get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
And that is co O U and trend Roads.
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Okay, don't get any big ideas England idea that is
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
My name is it had been funny if the name
had cunt in it and that was from Cunty cut
the Cuntmaxer. Don't get any big ideas anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is that one from? My name is Jack O'Brien. Still,
I am back. I be joined as always by my
co host, mister Miles Gras.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Still undefeated heavyweight champion of the World of the World. Yeah, yeah,
yeah here, let me hold that belt for you their champ.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh is that on side? Guys? The world up his
world right before our eyes. All right, So I've been
out for a week, came back. I got.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I spent some time watching soccer, and I think I
got to figure it out. So you just like kind
of walk around until it's time to score and then
you just like run real fast and kickstep you got.
I was traveling. I was in a in the Dallas Airport,
Dallas Fort Worth Airport for the US men's national team.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You do like to go to a Texan airport to
watch the US men's national team.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That is finest connoisseur.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You got to buy a ticket to get past security
in there. But the bars in there, Oh, I'm not
even on the bars.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'm just on the air, traip the air, just soaking
in the vibes, watching people, the nervous people.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Pretty I'm sure. I mean, this is the one goal.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Miles for the one goal, they were pretty loud, yeah,
but other other than that, it was very quiet. One
guy got very drunk and uh like got on. I
don't know what he expected was going to happen, because
he between the time that we boarded and the time
we sat down, he was the wrong in front of us,
(02:19):
and he turned the game back on and it was over,
but like they were already down three.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
To one, like metaphor, it was over spiritually or regulation
title passed okay, And he was like, oh, and he
had been.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Drinked a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And sometimes I used to have this when I drank,
where I would uh you know, suddenly be a little
bit more inclined to have a.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Look at me, look at me energy. Yeah, And he.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Was making big noises about how up said he was
he was wearing a US men's national team jersey, and
then I swear to.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
God, he said, so.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Somebody said, oh, you're just finding out now, and he said,
why you say it like that?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
This is my nine eleven.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Fucking Belgium on the plane, he said, this is my
nine to eleven and then BELI fuck of Belgium waffle
where his direct American I've.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Ever heard no perspective on what a tragedy is and
then like, you only know one thing about another country,
so it's fuck that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Thing, this is my, this is my.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
This is your Why are you like that your nine
to eleven is watching a team lose that you only
bought the jersey for two weeks ago week?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, the tags are still on bro. I mean I
would have nine eleven. I would have asked him how.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Much money he had riding on under if it was
just just the jersey sunk call of that jersey person.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I am curious though, Uh God, that did he? I
wonder did he have anything to say about the intervention
of Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Maybe did he.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Have anyone else to blame? Or is purely the Belgian waffles?
I was doing my damnedest not to bring that up.
In any context, aside from at a certain point, we
were watching the game in a Chili's and I started
but I have a I have a loose theory that
I can go into about what what happened to the
US men's national team.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You're probably right.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Then I started going into it, and uh my wife
was like, shut the fuck.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
They're going to kill you. She said, you're so many
too tough. Your bitch is too bad. Yeah, they will
kill you.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, So I mean I do believe, like I've listened
to I've like read coverage of the game. I've listened
to the Bill Simmons podcast analysis of the game. I
have heard, yeah the best. He did have somebody on
who seemed to follow soccer, so that's good. He he
(05:08):
generally follows soccer via NBA metaphors.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Which is perfect for me, Yes, my best way.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But he was like, I mean, you know, maybe the
Trump thing could have hurt them psychologically if it was
a closer game, but you know, this was a blowout,
Like there was no world where they were beating Belgium.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I mean no, no, there there is a world in that.
Like there's been some interesting results. That's a very interesting
if you said, I'm gonna a European team that has
pretty good standing in teams are players in the top leagues.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, I'm probably not going to be not the day
for America.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We've seen some crazy upsets and the US was coming in.
Look I'm no expert. I do believe the US got
their whole ass handed to them.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
In that game. Like it was bad like that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I've not I only watched the World Cup usually in
terms of my soccer my football intake, I've never seen
anything like what the goalad did, like less than net.
I'm like just kind of fumbled the ball, like had
had a little bit of a freeze.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Bring a freeze. Yeah, so I just like the Trump thing.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I think I truly believe Trump intervening on behalf of
the US team like made it impossible for them to Like,
I think it's more important than we realize for teams
to have like a narrative that they can believe in
that like where they can like turn themselves into like
(06:48):
a likable underdog team of destiny.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah like that.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You know, there's a thing in sports where like a
less than stellar team will get on a roll by
convincing themselves they are a team of destiny or like
nobody believes.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
In them and it like doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Necessarily have to be true, but they just have to
believe it's true. And like that shit works, man, Like
we've seen we've seen that work. And it felt like
the US team kind of had that up to that
point and that like nobody really thought they could do it,
and they were playing better than anybody expected heading into
the tournament, and like that's kind of I think what
(07:26):
people were expecting. Like the best example of this that
I can think of is like I think maybe the
best athlete that I've ever seen is like Michael Jordan,
and the thing that we've discovered like that he had
as an advantage, like the during his career, we knew
that his event, Like his advantage was like all all
the stuff that we talked about during his career, his
(07:47):
like amazing basketball abilities and focus and stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But like after his career, we've.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Learned that like his deep pathology that enabled him to
always feel like he was being counted out like personally
and vidictively, like slighted, Like that was what drove him mentally,
and like it's just it feels like that is such
a huge part of the game, and like when Trump intervened,
(08:14):
intervened to give the US team that advantage, they get
turned into the opposite of the nobody believes in US.
He like, I always talk about the worst thing that
can happen to someone is like at a like spiritual
like in terms of being an interesting good person is
to be born into generational wealth. Like the people that
(08:35):
you see who are born into generational wealth, they're just
fucking disasters a lot of the time, right, And like
you know, we've talked about it in our icon Iconograph
episodes that like a lot of the great icons and artists,
like you're not seeing a lot of generational wealth there.
And I just feel like Trump basically turned our national
team into spoiled rich kids.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, I mean suddenly it's like you were we became
Francis from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Yes, yeah, christer Francis,
and just we took your bike, Like yes, yeah, We'll
just take your fucking bike. Like the Red Card being
rescinded was so fucked up and against everything that is
good about like the sport, I mean already but like
the thing that sucked was it instantly made fuller and
(09:17):
Baligan like a bad guy in people's minds, like to
the point that he went he went and apologized to
the Belgian manager, like he had a word like words
and he's like, hey, you know, I'm not like trying
to be and the managers like, hey, I get it, dude,
Like you're not the one who's doing this, And that
says a lot about you that he even felt like that,
probably because you were raised in the UK, but like, yeah,
(09:39):
to see it actually go down in a way that
absolutely blew up in the US's face, There's something a
little bit satisfying about that. And yeah, they had a
huge target on their back to the point, I mean
like they started doing the Trump dance.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
They were doing the Trump dance in the locker room.
You don't think that they were extra motivated by that.
And just but like from the US perspective, just like
seeing like like what you just don't you kind of
have to like feel embarrassed about something that you've been
given onusly like it just yeah, yeah, yeah, feel because
(10:13):
they they were worse than that team on that night,
but like they played way worse than they had played
up to that point.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's worse.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Than like anyone I've seen play. It's just not that
it's not a good feeling.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
When everyone goes, oh look at you all little assholes
getting getting whatever the fuck you want. That completely takes
any sort of sense of like not necessarily togetherness, but
your optimism about like, wow, we might be doing something
turns into this fucking guy is like putting his mushroom
dick on the scale. And now our players back, Yeah, well,
(10:50):
all's well, that ends well, you know, and I.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Don't want them to lose, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And I'll say when the red when the red card happened,
I was like, ah, that's shit, But the second it happened,
it was just like, oh shit, like this is this
is such a bad look.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I mean I think the US, the US is not
going to be competitive really until like soccer is truly
an accessible sport at the youth level, like it is
in every other country that's beaten the fuck out of
us in that it's free to play, like it is
such an upper middle class, solidly middle class sport in
terms of like getting into a competitive league, playing for
(11:28):
a club team that will actually like nerd develop you
as a player. It just there's like a paywall into
it and so yeah, it makes sense other sports that
are cheaper we tend to do better at.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And also whatever I mean, like you know, maybe the
US will learn I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You gotta, yeah, you have to have like parents who
will just like drive you, like drop everything to drive you.
Like a soccer tournament on the weekends. It seems like
like I don't I don't know, man, it seems like
seems like a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I mean, it's like any sport, you know what I mean, Like,
but but soccer specifically is like for for how easy
it is, right, like you look at it like yeah,
and like in Belgium, like they have they have a
ton of like just street courts too, like an all
over Europe where it's like it's a basketball court and
it's actually like in like a street soccer thing. We've
got like little we've got nets and stuff too, so
(12:22):
you can either play on a hoop or just right
behind the hoop is a is a fucking net and
now you can use it for soccer. Because you know,
in the US, like especially in urban areas, like you
don't have big, wide open fields for kids to play
and in the places that do tend to have more money.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back,
we'll talk about some news. We'll be right back. And
we're back. We're back, and uh, main Senate candidate Graham Platner, Yeah,
(12:58):
has been accused of sexual assault by an ex which
uh and the reporting is pretty damning.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It was pretty damning. Yeah, there's all kinds of evidence
against this man.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Only there had been some morning suns, if only God could.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We didn't really cover him much on the show. No,
I mean there was something there's I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I don't know what it was, and I'm not trying
to be like here but right in this region here
to cough tattoo was Yeah, that was. I mean, it's
one of those things where in the beginning when I
feel like one of the first times we talked about him,
one of the few times is like, guy's got a
fucking Nazi tattoo and he's doing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It like he's like, oh, man, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I've done a lot of listening, I've done a lot
of learning, and I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's bad, folks.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That was what I was like, Hmmm, I just don't
to me that feels a little disqualifying, but a lot
of people got behind him, uh and were like it's
like and took all the subsequent stories like his like
problematic racist Reddit posts him talking about how he's like, yeah,
I love being a machine gunner and being a blackwater mercenary.
(14:16):
Like there's like all kinds of things you're like, I mean,
like in a worldview kind of thing, I feel like
somebody wouldn't be signing up for blackwater duty.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But hey, yeah, a lot of like the narratives like
growing and learning, and then there's like it feels like
he would have had to have been replaced Dave's style
by a different person.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
There's like growing and learning, and then there's like, hey, man,
you know what this might not.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Be for you?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Might you know, you seem like a comprehensively fucked up person.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Doesn't mean you don't have a you don't deserve to
have a like a positive, productive life and be happy
because of the mistakes you made. But like when you
were talking about like the high stakes of being a senator,
and you know it's some might argue already being in
the Senate has already filled with a bunch of fucking
freaks anyway, but like it just didn't something wasn't resonating,
(15:08):
and I was like, whatever, I mean, I guess the
voters of Maine seemed to be like, well this is
better than Susan Collins, then go right on ahead. But yeah,
now he's put everybody in a very difficult position. He's like,
you know, who's going to replace him? What's going to
come of that? Is there someone that can rightly capture
the same energy to defeat Susan Collins? Because without you know,
(15:31):
for all the like the math that's happening around the
Democrats taking the Senate Maine was like the layup thing
where they were like it Maine has to go to
or else there's no chance. So this is definitely a
positive for the Republicans trying to hold the Senate. And
then now you have like a ton of conspiracy theories
(15:51):
from like fucking idiotic like liberals and people were just like,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Know, the timing of this is so real, so shady.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It's like, regardless of what you think of the timing,
this is a credible accusation.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, and that's he just found out about oppo research.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, and also like get mad at this asshole for
having a bunch of shit like he wasn't addressing and
thinking he could just duck like every time it was
like the Nazi tattoo.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh you know, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, I've made some dumb mistakes the Reddit puss, I mean, yeah,
he said some dumb stuff out there, and he was
taking accountability. I think that's why a lot of people
were like, well, he's saying the right things. But I
think this is just one of those those courtesies that
is extended to white candidate, especially men, where they're like,
I don't know, he's talking that populous shit. Let's overlook
(16:40):
all these other red flags, whereas like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But the tail of the tape's good on this one, Miles,
he's doing populism. I'm using he uh and uh right,
and not to not to quote Tom Hanks and Elvis,
but he's white.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
He's white. He's white.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I mean, and then like you think about like, uh,
you know progressives who are not white or men, they're
dragged through the fucking mud for shit, that's a fraction
of it. So there's like a lot where you're just like, man,
this says a lot about everything, Like on so many
levels the way people even look at candidates.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What is disqualifying to some people? What is not?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know, his you know admitted time of like having real,
real good uh making good money at Blackwater, Like like, well,
what was he doing?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Was he fucking was he helping young children on terms?
Was killing people?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
What are we talking about here? So you signed an
NDA man, so we're just gonna yeah man, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
He was a very promising uh candidate for person most
likely to be the next John Fetterman.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You know, the person who gets gets in on a
populist ticket and then ends up being a fucking yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Whatever, fucking maniac. Like just like with Fetterman too.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
A lot of people like I remember when he's like
pull this shotgun on a black jogger.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Do you not remember that about John Fetterman.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
It's like, yeah, but he's gonna beat doctor Oz and whatever,
you're gonna do it. That to me, that's like that
that just that says something to me about a person,
just generally how you're hardwired. But yeah, anyway, so always yeah,
it's like you get it's funny because you have the
Republicans acting like they're not the party of sex grims,
(18:26):
and they're like.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, we would never do that. Shame on them.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Once we found out, we stopped voting for that person.
I saw a clip of somebody saying I don't know
who they could have possibly been referring to, certainly not
the current head of the Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It was Kevin McCarthy. It was talking saying stupid shit.
Yeah yeah, he's like god, I mean like this, this,
this would never happen. And the other thing too, is
then you also have like there's like establishment democrats. You're like,
this is the problem with these outside populists. You don't
know what you're gonna get. You get people who are
like pro a pac You're like, see, he was like,
this is what happens. Then you also have anti Semites,
(19:01):
where like he was against Israel, So then they planted
this story against him.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's fucking just a rorshack test of nonsense right now,
whatever you want it to be. I mean, up top
you go, the guy had a Nazi tattoo, didn't cover it,
knew about it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And I was like, oh, yeah, I got this is bad. Huh.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
That says a lot. And all the people were like,
we all get drunk. I don't bro I know people
who got drunk and done some fucking wild shit, but
they weren't getting Nazi tattoos.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, and then being like, oh fuck, I forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Damn people who get drunk and get Nazi tattoos. I
feel like, I mean, I have to assume that's where
Pete Hegseth got his, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Their Crusader tattoos.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Actually they're tangentially connected to the Nazis.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I am smarter, a little bit smarter.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So as far as I can tell, just kind of
glancing at the headlines from last week, it's seems like
Donald Trump's on a bit.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Of a winning streak. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, the two fifty went off without a hitch.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
There was that shot of him watching himself on Fox
News that was a great metaphor for his presidency.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yep. And he's he's keeping the winds coming.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I don't know, maybe not, uh, I
don't know why he's just he's he's in Europe for
a NATO summit. He's in Turkey right now. There was
a great image of Erdowan guiding him down the like
the fucking red carpet because He kept like rotating looking
at weird shit, and he's like, it just was weird
(20:38):
to see two old men like helping each other. They
look like you know when you see like two old
men best friends. Yeah, and like they kind of got
to lean on each other physically. That's what that shit
looked like. Except autocrats.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So he's there in Turkey, a and he just decided
to reignite the fucking feud over the US's thirst for Greenland.
He started off by threatening to pull US troops out
of Europe and then started making noise about how he
is Greenland's one true daddy. He said the island territory
should be controlled by the United States and then said
(21:13):
he said his refusal to go along with his expansion
is desires. Quote what hurt my relationship with NATO because
Greenland doesn't help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really
help Greenland, but it's an important.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Part for the United States.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Again, there's no fucking reason for this aside from Trump
thinking that the world operates like monopoly and his desire
to just like own everything visa the American military threats.
And the other thing is that this is probably this
is one of those issues that helps distract him and
the general public from like, I don't know, all the
(21:48):
other bad, terrible shit that is happening slash not getting
any attention. So when he starts talking about Greenland again,
everyone's like, oh, here he goes, because then he's not
talking about I don't even know Jeffrey Epstein or I
don't give a shit about inflation.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So maybe it's like win win for his handlers, like you.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Just fucking talk about that for a second until we
figure out how to pivot out of this. Although I
did find this really cool thing on Twitter from a
conspiracy account that like over a thousand likes that says
the reason for Greenland obsession.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So it says cool.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
One of the main locations for the elite's doomsday cities
is beneath the magnetic anomaly in Greenland. That's why Trump
is serious about Greenland. And after a few months ago
and a few months ago, an American company received approval
to build the necessary infrastructure in Greenland right at the
anomaly site that I shared with my subscribers the anomaly site.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Cool cool cool.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
You definitely need that magnetic anomaly. I mean, think about it, yeah,
think about all the all the ways that a magnetic
anomaly would help you, uh, exact in the world that
you can't already do by just controlling literally everything in
the entire world.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yep, exactly. Yeah, but hey it's fine man, it's Brian.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
The editor has an interesting theory that Trump saw the
Gerard Butler movie Greenland.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, I love that movie. Is that is that like alien?
Sort of a procedural asteroid movie. Oh, not too.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Much asteroid, but really a bunch of people trying to
run away from the asteroid and Gerard ends up spoiler
alert in Greenland.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I had a feeling where it's safe check off's Greenland.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, you put the name of a a in Brazil.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, the true Greenland.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Anyways, all right, well those are some of the things
that are trending on this July seventh. We are back
tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get
your vaccines while you still can't get your flu shots.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
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