In this edition of GoldTrend Zeit Warriors, Jack and Miles discuss the conclusion of the NBA Finals, Elon Musk getting sued for pumping and dumping, World Cup 2026, Vince McMahon stepping down as CEO of WWE, Trump admitting his crimes yet again, the new trailer for Nathan Fielder's 'Rehearsal', and Drake's new album.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Trend b A Champions Gold trend Zite Warriors. Courtesy of
Paul garaventa Um celebrating to Alicia. You know, yeah, the
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Celtics fans. I I came around on this Celtics team.
I love the coach, was feeling Jalen Brown by the end,
and I like our Horford a lot. So not not great.
It's also we were talking, I don't know, it's tough
to lose on the biggest stage. At the same time,
It's also I feel like there's so many times when
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I hear old NBA heads talk about um somebody losing.
They're like, well, you know, the UM Wizards made that
run to the second round in like to like five
years ago, and I'm like, I don't remember that at all.
It's like, the only teams that I remember making a
deep run are the ones that make it to the
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finals for whatever reason. Everything else is just memory hold
for me. But yeah, I mean it was It's fun
for me to watch, you know. So somebody who grew up,
I'm I'm Biden esque in my NBA fandom and that
I have like a the majority. Yeah, the no the
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majority of my memories are from an arrow when like
you couldn't just do it with good shooting, like you
had had to have a banger and like big men
and you know the guy with a rusty razor blade. Yeah,
you had to leave the razor blade and the rain
barrel overnight. And I know how you guys do it,
Um gotta have a corn pop and you're starting to
find But so it's always I don't know, and it's beautiful,
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Like the way the Warriors play is beautiful. Um. So
that fourth first, the end of the game when they
were just trading threes and I was like, they're throwing
up some ridiculous ship. And I remember on the text
side of with Jabari, I'm like, yo, they're violating now,
like it's getting it's getting really And even Steph Curry,
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what did he do first? Didn't he fucking in the
third quarter, like look at his hands, like I'm putting
a ring on this ship? And then when did he
do the night night ship? That was that was like
he put him up by I think fifteen in the
fourth quarter. I mean they were it was over at
that I mean, of course, but I would love safe
put it putting it tonight, putting it to sleep. But
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I do think putting so he after he hit a three,
he did the you know, night night gesture, which has
been a thing he's been doing in these playoffs, like
time to go to sleep. I mean, I know that
the Aliyah choreography from the Argue Somebody video where it
was sleep, Sleep, Sleep, and that's how you did the
two hands to your side. Yeah, he's doing the sleep
sleep sleep gesture, and I do feel like that will
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continue on, like the as a gesture that people do
in NBA games going forward. It's pretty cool. It's pretty devastating. Um,
will we see props ever likes not? Obviously can't bring
that the court, like you kept comedy, yes, like, yes, exactly.
Then you go to the bench, maybe you subbed oubt
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so like you can do your signature move and they
give Steph Curry like a nightcap and a blanket, and
he's like starts sucking his thumb. I've always thought that
would be funny to like have somebody get carried out,
carried off of the court after an injury, but like
carried off like a baby with like your hand under
their and like red their legs wrap around. Um, which
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you could do with the size differential. And in the league,
you know you have a seven footer carry off steph Curry.
If these are great ideas, Um, but you would have
to tuck your thumb to complete absolutely yeah for them
to know you're okay. I also have to give a
shout out to Haleo Shaughnessy who had this tweet. It
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was an interesting observation about the Mennesota Timberwolves. She wrote,
Garnett left Minnesota and want to ring shortly thereafter, opening
the door for Minnesota to be bad enough to draft
day trade for Kevin Love who left Minnesota and want
to ring shortly thereafter thanks to Wiggins. So he was traded.
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Kevin Love was traded for Andrew Wiggins who was traded
out in Minnesota and want to ring shortly thereafter. And
then she said congrats to Dilo, who is who was
traded for Wiggins. So if that chain continues on, D'Angelo
Russell will be traded uh somewhere shortly and win a ring.
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But um, it's like a chain of custody of the
Minnesota Timberwolves have. But then don't get to actually love
that logic. It's like it's a great step in Stone
Man getting traded out of Minnesota. You're on your way, man,
You're on your way. And I feel comfortable saying this
because Minnesota has one of the most exciting young teams.
So I don't feel I'm not worried. Yeah, y'all, yeah
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are okay. You have one of the greatest actors on
planet Earth on your team and he Edwards, So that alone, alright.
Elon Musk is trending because he's getting sued for two
and fifty eight billion dollars by cryptocurrency investor who is
saying like that it's basically a pyramid scheme, Like, how
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do you legally differentiate between a pyramid scheme and doge
point this guy who filed the lawsuit in New York
accusing Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX of like running a pyramid
scheme to drive like to pump up the price of
crypto um, which you're like, wow, that's interesting. I mean,
I don't obviously know what how even viable. This is
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a lawsuit, But the lawsuit added quote that defendants falsely
and deceptively claimed that doge coin is a legitimate investment
when it has no value at all. It's just Hi,
welcome to crypto. That's the damn thing. That's a damn thing.
That's the thing, though my honor, it had never had value.
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So am I really a SCAMMERA? Yeah? Interesting. I mean
it won't be though, Like there's too much money at
stake for any sort of legal judgment in favor of
the people who've got uh there, dude, there's so many
stories of people holding bags right now since the ship
started really fucking crashing again, there's like a ten billion
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dollar crypto hedge fund where like the founders have basically vanished. Oh.
I thought you were gonna say the founders have taken
a bath, but they got They said I gotta go,
and people like, wait, what I need my money that
I invested crickets. So I don't know. The whole thing
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is so dark, and I feel like at this moment,
with people being desperate, it's just gonna get weird. But
with people being desperate, it's just gonna get weird. Could
be the the subtitle the tagline for America Century. People
being desperate is just gonna get weird. It's just gonna
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get weird, weirder than weirder than you thought. World Cup six,
speaking of America in the twenty one century. Is happening
in America, Canada and Mexico, all parts of North America?
We got him? Is there is there like a central
hub or this It's just happening everywhere. They I feel
like they suspect the main games could either kick off
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in Mexico City or l A. That's so far mm hmm.
And this will be two years before the Olympics in
Los Angeles. Yes, exactly, so this little preview of the
world fair police state. Yeah, but this the cities that
are going to be involved Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, l A, Guadalajara,
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Kansas City, Dallas, Atlanta, Stone, Mexico, Mexico City, Toronto, Boston, Philly, Miami,
and New York, New Jersey, New York, New Jersey one
of my favorite cities in New Yersey. What does that
mean it's gonna be at the Medallands or some ship.
Oh yeah, yeah, that is probably what that means. Is
that what I mean? Like, that's how I always interpret
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that line when it's like, well, what is it right,
like the NETS NETS rules rules exactly. Yeah, it's uh
so for our listeners who aren't from the United States,
those places aren't anywhere close to each other. Um, so
you know, don't don't plan on just what coming to
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America and uh and renting a car. I would say, well,
you could if you thought about it right, you could
do the l A San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, go up
the Pacific coast, you know type tour. Like you'd have
to like localize it right, Like you could do like
the Northeast quadrant. You could do the Pacific and Pacific
(09:02):
Northwest quadrant or whatever. But yeah, all that to say, uh,
World Cup. We should be fucking watching World Cup right now.
I'm so fucking pissed about this. Still. This is the
time in the summer where we get to watch World
Cup and we don't have it because it's happening in November.
Oh for the first time like ever, Like what the
funk are we doing? And again a great moment to
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plug the new podcast Lords of Soccer that I helped
produce for I heeart about the corruption at FIFA and
helps map out how we got to this point where
FIFA is just like, yeah, this is a green a
sports washing product for your autocratic state. But um, well
why did why the switch was it just like because
of weather. Yeah, because it was the temperature, it would
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be untenable right now, right because yeah, so that's why
they're like November is better. They're like, okay, cool, cool, cool,
cool cool. But the other thing that people don't talk about,
like prior to that, like the when they were saying
gonna happen in the summer, and it it was like that
sounds like absolute nonsense, Like we're going to create like
blinds that block out the sun and gigantic air conditioners
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and people like that sounds even stumber, gigantic air conditioners
for the outdoors. So exactly. All right, let's take a
quick break. We'll be back to talk about more things
that are trending. And we're back, and Vince McMahon is trending. Yep.
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He's stepping aside as CEO temporarily and named Stephanie McMahon.
His daughter is the interim CEO as he's investigated for
potential hush payments to a former employee he had an
affair with, paid three million dollars um. Twitter has like
there's so many people who have just been like, yeah,
that's like just one of the things you could probably
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look into Vince MCMAHONU out and like there are there's
like one thread I couldn't even get through, like documenting
all kinds of weird ship he did over the years
when he was at the w WF. So yeah, I
think most people who look at just the sport of
wrestling and like the darkness that's on the periphery of it,
you're like in him at the top. I'm sure he's
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up to some ship. So um, they did. They did
note that he will still be in. He'll be still
like the content still be like directing the content direction
of the This reminds me of like when Putin stepped
aside as the leader of Russia and people were like, well,
all right, well who's next to? No one's next, dummy,
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Like that's he's still leading. Everything's just right because it's not.
I'm not functionally stepping aside. I'm just saying that. So
it sounds like that Trump speaking of Vince McMahon, Donald Trump, Uh,
you know, the Vince McMahon of global politics. I guess right,
that works. Yeah, so we had day three, Um basically
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told the tale of how Trump knew that he lost. Yeah,
he was still keeping the pressure up, absolutely uh, and
just you know, the legal scholars and judges all spoke about,
like at length about like this. They're the logic that
they're trying to apply to to Pence being able to
overturn the election was just total fucking nonsense. Um. But anyway,
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let me just tell you this is just a clip
of him while they're saying. First of all, Trump is
those sayings of like I never pressured Pence to do anything.
Then you know, then the January six Committee, you know,
unveils their findings. Then this is him today, screaming in Nashville, Tennessee,
not incriminating himself at all. Here ye hear ye, the
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Great State of Georgia is unable to properly count our votes.
Thomas Jefferson said, oh, oh, we're going to take your votes.
We're not sending him back with taking him. And he
took the votes and they got elected, he and his
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wonderful president. So I said to Mike, if you do this,
you could be Thomas Jefferson. And then after it all
went down, I looked at him one day and I
hate to say this, but you're no Thomas Jefferson. Okay,
what is he talking about? Sorry? Is he saying that,
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like they're there. Other presidents have like staged, like overthrown
election results, and so I guess I don't I don't
even follow that. I mean, but yeah, that's essentially though
him saying like, yeah, I told him to do that?
Is he Producer Brian also asked the uh, the very
valid question. Is he in a helium rich environment? Is
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he like pitched up for this clip? He does? He
does sound a little bit, I mean, more than usual.
He was also being like, hey, y'all want any pardons
if you're a January six defendant, even while January six
defendants are having their lives totally destroyed and being treated
worse than terrorists and murderers, despite most being charged with
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parading through the capital. Most people should not be treated
the way they're being treated. And if I become presidents someday,
if I decided to do it, I will be looking
at them very very seriously for pardons, very very seriously.
This guy's in a fucking fantasy world. Although he's probably
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I don't know that he's in a fantasy world. Whoops,
he's a world that will become reality. He's it's just
more like his ego is stronger than ever. So yeah,
that's why he's trending, all right. Nathan Fielder is trending
because uh dropped a teaser for a HBO show, Like
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he's had to deal with HBO for a while since
Nathan for You ended on Comedy Central. The first thing
from that was how To with John Wilson. Wilson uh,
and that that was absolutely massive, massive, mate, It's very good,
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and now there appears to be a scripted series coming
called Rehearsal. The trailer or the teaser is just a
um woman with a baby, uh like or something in
a nursery doing like very standard like baby mommy interaction
type stuff. But it's like Nathan Fielder in a room
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almost like the Truman Show, where like there's multiple cameras
and it's like this everyday activity thing is happening like
as part of a reality show. It seems just the
visual of that master control room like where clearly all
the cameras are being observed and like manipulated, and then
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just seeing the figure of Nathan Fielder like pacing back
and forth in front of it, You're like, that's enough
for me to be that what is this? I think
the tagline or like whatever. The um one sentence that
has come along with the thing is basically like what
if you could rehearse for everyday life type thing? Like
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what if you could prepare and rehearse and redo everyday life,
which is intriguing to me. UM also gave me a
chance to watch old not just like Nathan for you,
but like the stuff from his days on, like the
CBC and stuff. Have you seen the one where about
MP three players I've heard about he he's like a
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teenager essentially. It's right when I pods have just come
out and he goes to a electronics store UM and
is like asking the uh like one of the sales
associates to explain like MP three players to him. And
then he's like all right, so here, just let let
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to do a visual. I'll come in. I'll be a
guy who's like here and you explain MP three players
to me. And then then he's like all right, go
and then the guys like hi, welcome to the store.
And he's like oh hi, and he's like, could I
interest you an MP three player? He's like no, I'm
just looking. There's this long the guy keeps pushing MP
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three players on him and he's like no, man, like
I I told you, I'm just looking like, why are
you hassling? So he's doing the David Brent from the
Office a bit of pantomime just to be the big
scenes stealer. All right, it's it's the absolute masterclass, right wow. Uh.
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And then finally Drake is trending. Yeah, he's got to
put an album out last night. I've head to put
an album out last night. I had to put an
album out last night, man, Yeah, I had to. I
bet he probably put money on the Celtics. All right, man,
we're dropping the album tonight. Yeah. Or I wonder if
the bet I have a because there's someone There's been
(18:30):
so many stories about his gambling that have come out
recently that I'm so curious how much gambling has affected
the decision to make this album, to release the album,
Like what his own financial situation is where he's like, yeah,
fuck it, let me just do like my dance hits
in one album and uh that that'll probably platinum and
then I can make another ridiculous bet on who knows what?
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Who knows? It's called honestly never mind, Honestly Comma never mind,
which is you'd love to hear that. Yeah, the reviews
so far say, honestly, never Mind isn't a bad album,
but it is disappointing. That's the second best review so
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far of the four that have dropped from Consequence. He's
I think he's he's done. He makes so much like
middling music. Now it's like he it's like but at first,
when he was able to make hit after hit, you're like,
oh wow, this guy can't lose. And you're like, this
guy can't buy, Like I can't remember what's what's his?
He hasn't taken over the radio recently with a track.
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I feel like, yeah, yeah, I'm sure he'll be back though. Yeah. Uh.
Ducer Brian said Drake's new album, I don't know who cares.
I feel like the next one. A good option for
his next one would be what else? What else? Right?
Dot dot dot? What else? Dot dot dot? What else?
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The next one? And then like when it gets real bad,
it's Drake his latest album. Hey y'all, come, I got
this new album, man, would you mind taking it? Listen
to it? Talking about Drake albums, early Drake albums usually
is I'd never get tired of doing it. You gout.
You guys were informing me before we started recording that
my favorite Drake album isn't even an album, does a
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mixtape mix tape. And I'm only saying that in the
strictest thing of the record deal thing, because that was
the thing all the like music industry nerds like, if
you're reading this is too late. He's just trying to
get out of his young money deal, so you put
this thing out. Still still my favorite thing that he
put out there, and I'm for me, I like, nothing
was the same or that was like the height of it,
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but then he has like then you can almost like
scoop up tracks from the next couple albums and then
make probably two good albums from like the next seven
because it's usually like one fucking real real bang are
on there. But no, not anymore. We'll see I haven't
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listened to it. Who knows, Yeah, I might be. You
might see me in a mesh Marina fucking duttye Win
in uh to this album, so we'll see, Oh, actually
I just listened to it, honestly, never mind, honestly, never
mind that no one can ever say that in sound
like it's nothing like cringe E is happening. It's feels
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like it feels like he's the one person who saw
Futures album I never liked you anyways with him sleeping
on the cover and was like, oh, that is that.
That's what I need to tap into, being like I
don't even want to be here anymore, Like give me
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the energy of the character from that, I think you
should leave season two sketch. Honestly, I don't even want
to be here anymore around anymore? What all right? Well,
those are some of the things that are trending. We
are back on Tuesday with the whole last episode. We're
taking off as mentioned yesterday for June tenth on Monday,
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So happy long weekend to anybody else who is able
to do that, and we will be back Tuesday with
a whole last episode. Kill then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourselves yet the vaccine, don't do nothing
about white supremacy, And we will talk to y'all on Tuesday.
Bye bye, m
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Trend b A Champions Gold trend Zite Warriors. Courtesy of
Paul garaventa Um celebrating to Alicia. You know, yeah, the
(00:20):
Celtics fans. I I came around on this Celtics team.
I love the coach, was feeling Jalen Brown by the end,
and I like our Horford a lot. So not not great.
It's also we were talking, I don't know, it's tough
to lose on the biggest stage. At the same time,
It's also I feel like there's so many times when
(00:41):
I hear old NBA heads talk about um somebody losing.
They're like, well, you know, the UM Wizards made that
run to the second round in like to like five
years ago, and I'm like, I don't remember that at all.
It's like, the only teams that I remember making a
deep run are the ones that make it to the
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finals for whatever reason. Everything else is just memory hold
for me. But yeah, I mean it was It's fun
for me to watch, you know. So somebody who grew up,
I'm I'm Biden esque in my NBA fandom and that
I have like a the majority. Yeah, the no the
(01:23):
majority of my memories are from an arrow when like
you couldn't just do it with good shooting, like you
had had to have a banger and like big men
and you know the guy with a rusty razor blade. Yeah,
you had to leave the razor blade and the rain
barrel overnight. And I know how you guys do it,
Um gotta have a corn pop and you're starting to
find But so it's always I don't know, and it's beautiful,
(01:47):
Like the way the Warriors play is beautiful. Um. So
that fourth first, the end of the game when they
were just trading threes and I was like, they're throwing
up some ridiculous ship. And I remember on the text
side of with Jabari, I'm like, yo, they're violating now,
like it's getting it's getting really And even Steph Curry,
(02:07):
what did he do first? Didn't he fucking in the
third quarter, like look at his hands, like I'm putting
a ring on this ship? And then when did he
do the night night ship? That was that was like
he put him up by I think fifteen in the
fourth quarter. I mean they were it was over at
that I mean, of course, but I would love safe
put it putting it tonight, putting it to sleep. But
(02:28):
I do think putting so he after he hit a three,
he did the you know, night night gesture, which has
been a thing he's been doing in these playoffs, like
time to go to sleep. I mean, I know that
the Aliyah choreography from the Argue Somebody video where it
was sleep, Sleep, Sleep, and that's how you did the
two hands to your side. Yeah, he's doing the sleep
sleep sleep gesture, and I do feel like that will
(02:52):
continue on, like the as a gesture that people do
in NBA games going forward. It's pretty cool. It's pretty devastating. Um,
will we see props ever likes not? Obviously can't bring
that the court, like you kept comedy, yes, like, yes, exactly.
Then you go to the bench, maybe you subbed oubt
(03:14):
so like you can do your signature move and they
give Steph Curry like a nightcap and a blanket, and
he's like starts sucking his thumb. I've always thought that
would be funny to like have somebody get carried out,
carried off of the court after an injury, but like
carried off like a baby with like your hand under
their and like red their legs wrap around. Um, which
(03:36):
you could do with the size differential. And in the league,
you know you have a seven footer carry off steph Curry.
If these are great ideas, Um, but you would have
to tuck your thumb to complete absolutely yeah for them
to know you're okay. I also have to give a
shout out to Haleo Shaughnessy who had this tweet. It
(03:56):
was an interesting observation about the Mennesota Timberwolves. She wrote,
Garnett left Minnesota and want to ring shortly thereafter, opening
the door for Minnesota to be bad enough to draft
day trade for Kevin Love who left Minnesota and want
to ring shortly thereafter thanks to Wiggins. So he was traded.
(04:19):
Kevin Love was traded for Andrew Wiggins who was traded
out in Minnesota and want to ring shortly thereafter. And
then she said congrats to Dilo, who is who was
traded for Wiggins. So if that chain continues on, D'Angelo
Russell will be traded uh somewhere shortly and win a ring.
(04:39):
But um, it's like a chain of custody of the
Minnesota Timberwolves have. But then don't get to actually love
that logic. It's like it's a great step in Stone
Man getting traded out of Minnesota. You're on your way, man,
You're on your way. And I feel comfortable saying this
because Minnesota has one of the most exciting young teams.
So I don't feel I'm not worried. Yeah, y'all, yeah
(05:02):
are okay. You have one of the greatest actors on
planet Earth on your team and he Edwards, So that alone, alright.
Elon Musk is trending because he's getting sued for two
and fifty eight billion dollars by cryptocurrency investor who is
saying like that it's basically a pyramid scheme, Like, how
(05:26):
do you legally differentiate between a pyramid scheme and doge
point this guy who filed the lawsuit in New York
accusing Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX of like running a pyramid
scheme to drive like to pump up the price of
crypto um, which you're like, wow, that's interesting. I mean,
I don't obviously know what how even viable. This is
(05:49):
a lawsuit, But the lawsuit added quote that defendants falsely
and deceptively claimed that doge coin is a legitimate investment
when it has no value at all. It's just Hi,
welcome to crypto. That's the damn thing. That's a damn thing.
That's the thing, though my honor, it had never had value.
(06:10):
So am I really a SCAMMERA? Yeah? Interesting. I mean
it won't be though, Like there's too much money at
stake for any sort of legal judgment in favor of
the people who've got uh there, dude, there's so many
stories of people holding bags right now since the ship
started really fucking crashing again, there's like a ten billion
(06:31):
dollar crypto hedge fund where like the founders have basically vanished. Oh.
I thought you were gonna say the founders have taken
a bath, but they got They said I gotta go,
and people like, wait, what I need my money that
I invested crickets. So I don't know. The whole thing
(06:51):
is so dark, and I feel like at this moment,
with people being desperate, it's just gonna get weird. But
with people being desperate, it's just gonna get weird. Could
be the the subtitle the tagline for America Century. People
being desperate is just gonna get weird. It's just gonna
(07:14):
get weird, weirder than weirder than you thought. World Cup six,
speaking of America in the twenty one century. Is happening
in America, Canada and Mexico, all parts of North America?
We got him? Is there is there like a central
hub or this It's just happening everywhere. They I feel
like they suspect the main games could either kick off
(07:35):
in Mexico City or l A. That's so far mm hmm.
And this will be two years before the Olympics in
Los Angeles. Yes, exactly, so this little preview of the
world fair police state. Yeah, but this the cities that
are going to be involved Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, l A, Guadalajara,
(07:57):
Kansas City, Dallas, Atlanta, Stone, Mexico, Mexico City, Toronto, Boston, Philly, Miami,
and New York, New Jersey, New York, New Jersey one
of my favorite cities in New Yersey. What does that
mean it's gonna be at the Medallands or some ship.
Oh yeah, yeah, that is probably what that means. Is
that what I mean? Like, that's how I always interpret
(08:18):
that line when it's like, well, what is it right,
like the NETS NETS rules rules exactly. Yeah, it's uh
so for our listeners who aren't from the United States,
those places aren't anywhere close to each other. Um, so
you know, don't don't plan on just what coming to
(08:39):
America and uh and renting a car. I would say, well,
you could if you thought about it right, you could
do the l A San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, go up
the Pacific coast, you know type tour. Like you'd have
to like localize it right, Like you could do like
the Northeast quadrant. You could do the Pacific and Pacific
(09:02):
Northwest quadrant or whatever. But yeah, all that to say, uh,
World Cup. We should be fucking watching World Cup right now.
I'm so fucking pissed about this. Still. This is the
time in the summer where we get to watch World
Cup and we don't have it because it's happening in November.
Oh for the first time like ever, Like what the
funk are we doing? And again a great moment to
(09:24):
plug the new podcast Lords of Soccer that I helped
produce for I heeart about the corruption at FIFA and
helps map out how we got to this point where
FIFA is just like, yeah, this is a green a
sports washing product for your autocratic state. But um, well
why did why the switch was it just like because
of weather. Yeah, because it was the temperature, it would
(09:46):
be untenable right now, right because yeah, so that's why
they're like November is better. They're like, okay, cool, cool, cool,
cool cool. But the other thing that people don't talk about,
like prior to that, like the when they were saying
gonna happen in the summer, and it it was like that
sounds like absolute nonsense, Like we're going to create like
blinds that block out the sun and gigantic air conditioners
(10:08):
and people like that sounds even stumber, gigantic air conditioners
for the outdoors. So exactly. All right, let's take a
quick break. We'll be back to talk about more things
that are trending. And we're back, and Vince McMahon is trending. Yep.
(10:36):
He's stepping aside as CEO temporarily and named Stephanie McMahon.
His daughter is the interim CEO as he's investigated for
potential hush payments to a former employee he had an
affair with, paid three million dollars um. Twitter has like
there's so many people who have just been like, yeah,
that's like just one of the things you could probably
(10:58):
look into Vince MCMAHONU out and like there are there's
like one thread I couldn't even get through, like documenting
all kinds of weird ship he did over the years
when he was at the w WF. So yeah, I
think most people who look at just the sport of
wrestling and like the darkness that's on the periphery of it,
you're like in him at the top. I'm sure he's
(11:20):
up to some ship. So um, they did. They did
note that he will still be in. He'll be still
like the content still be like directing the content direction
of the This reminds me of like when Putin stepped
aside as the leader of Russia and people were like, well,
all right, well who's next to? No one's next, dummy,
(11:42):
Like that's he's still leading. Everything's just right because it's not.
I'm not functionally stepping aside. I'm just saying that. So
it sounds like that Trump speaking of Vince McMahon, Donald Trump, Uh,
you know, the Vince McMahon of global politics. I guess right,
that works. Yeah, so we had day three, Um basically
(12:05):
told the tale of how Trump knew that he lost. Yeah,
he was still keeping the pressure up, absolutely uh, and
just you know, the legal scholars and judges all spoke about,
like at length about like this. They're the logic that
they're trying to apply to to Pence being able to
overturn the election was just total fucking nonsense. Um. But anyway,
(12:28):
let me just tell you this is just a clip
of him while they're saying. First of all, Trump is
those sayings of like I never pressured Pence to do anything.
Then you know, then the January six Committee, you know,
unveils their findings. Then this is him today, screaming in Nashville, Tennessee,
not incriminating himself at all. Here ye hear ye, the
(12:50):
Great State of Georgia is unable to properly count our votes.
Thomas Jefferson said, oh, oh, we're going to take your votes.
We're not sending him back with taking him. And he
took the votes and they got elected, he and his
(13:10):
wonderful president. So I said to Mike, if you do this,
you could be Thomas Jefferson. And then after it all
went down, I looked at him one day and I
hate to say this, but you're no Thomas Jefferson. Okay,
what is he talking about? Sorry? Is he saying that,
(13:32):
like they're there. Other presidents have like staged, like overthrown
election results, and so I guess I don't I don't
even follow that. I mean, but yeah, that's essentially though
him saying like, yeah, I told him to do that?
Is he Producer Brian also asked the uh, the very
valid question. Is he in a helium rich environment? Is
(13:55):
he like pitched up for this clip? He does? He
does sound a little bit, I mean, more than usual.
He was also being like, hey, y'all want any pardons
if you're a January six defendant, even while January six
defendants are having their lives totally destroyed and being treated
worse than terrorists and murderers, despite most being charged with
(14:19):
parading through the capital. Most people should not be treated
the way they're being treated. And if I become presidents someday,
if I decided to do it, I will be looking
at them very very seriously for pardons, very very seriously.
This guy's in a fucking fantasy world. Although he's probably
(14:43):
I don't know that he's in a fantasy world. Whoops,
he's a world that will become reality. He's it's just
more like his ego is stronger than ever. So yeah,
that's why he's trending, all right. Nathan Fielder is trending
because uh dropped a teaser for a HBO show, Like
(15:07):
he's had to deal with HBO for a while since
Nathan for You ended on Comedy Central. The first thing
from that was how To with John Wilson. Wilson uh,
and that that was absolutely massive, massive, mate, It's very good,
(15:30):
and now there appears to be a scripted series coming
called Rehearsal. The trailer or the teaser is just a
um woman with a baby, uh like or something in
a nursery doing like very standard like baby mommy interaction
type stuff. But it's like Nathan Fielder in a room
(15:53):
almost like the Truman Show, where like there's multiple cameras
and it's like this everyday activity thing is happening like
as part of a reality show. It seems just the
visual of that master control room like where clearly all
the cameras are being observed and like manipulated, and then
(16:16):
just seeing the figure of Nathan Fielder like pacing back
and forth in front of it, You're like, that's enough
for me to be that what is this? I think
the tagline or like whatever. The um one sentence that
has come along with the thing is basically like what
if you could rehearse for everyday life type thing? Like
(16:37):
what if you could prepare and rehearse and redo everyday life,
which is intriguing to me. UM also gave me a
chance to watch old not just like Nathan for you,
but like the stuff from his days on, like the
CBC and stuff. Have you seen the one where about
MP three players I've heard about he he's like a
(17:01):
teenager essentially. It's right when I pods have just come
out and he goes to a electronics store UM and
is like asking the uh like one of the sales
associates to explain like MP three players to him. And
then he's like all right, so here, just let let
(17:22):
to do a visual. I'll come in. I'll be a
guy who's like here and you explain MP three players
to me. And then then he's like all right, go
and then the guys like hi, welcome to the store.
And he's like oh hi, and he's like, could I
interest you an MP three player? He's like no, I'm
just looking. There's this long the guy keeps pushing MP
(17:45):
three players on him and he's like no, man, like
I I told you, I'm just looking like, why are
you hassling? So he's doing the David Brent from the
Office a bit of pantomime just to be the big
scenes stealer. All right, it's it's the absolute masterclass, right wow. Uh.
(18:07):
And then finally Drake is trending. Yeah, he's got to
put an album out last night. I've head to put
an album out last night. I had to put an
album out last night, man, Yeah, I had to. I
bet he probably put money on the Celtics. All right, man,
we're dropping the album tonight. Yeah. Or I wonder if
the bet I have a because there's someone There's been
(18:30):
so many stories about his gambling that have come out
recently that I'm so curious how much gambling has affected
the decision to make this album, to release the album,
Like what his own financial situation is where he's like, yeah,
fuck it, let me just do like my dance hits
in one album and uh that that'll probably platinum and
then I can make another ridiculous bet on who knows what?
(18:51):
Who knows? It's called honestly never mind, Honestly Comma never mind,
which is you'd love to hear that. Yeah, the reviews
so far say, honestly, never Mind isn't a bad album,
but it is disappointing. That's the second best review so
(19:12):
far of the four that have dropped from Consequence. He's
I think he's he's done. He makes so much like
middling music. Now it's like he it's like but at first,
when he was able to make hit after hit, you're like,
oh wow, this guy can't lose. And you're like, this
guy can't buy, Like I can't remember what's what's his?
He hasn't taken over the radio recently with a track.
(19:33):
I feel like, yeah, yeah, I'm sure he'll be back though. Yeah. Uh.
Ducer Brian said Drake's new album, I don't know who cares.
I feel like the next one. A good option for
his next one would be what else? What else? Right?
Dot dot dot? What else? Dot dot dot? What else?
(19:55):
The next one? And then like when it gets real bad,
it's Drake his latest album. Hey y'all, come, I got
this new album, man, would you mind taking it? Listen
to it? Talking about Drake albums, early Drake albums usually
is I'd never get tired of doing it. You gout.
You guys were informing me before we started recording that
my favorite Drake album isn't even an album, does a
(20:18):
mixtape mix tape. And I'm only saying that in the
strictest thing of the record deal thing, because that was
the thing all the like music industry nerds like, if
you're reading this is too late. He's just trying to
get out of his young money deal, so you put
this thing out. Still still my favorite thing that he
put out there, and I'm for me, I like, nothing
was the same or that was like the height of it,
(20:39):
but then he has like then you can almost like
scoop up tracks from the next couple albums and then
make probably two good albums from like the next seven
because it's usually like one fucking real real bang are
on there. But no, not anymore. We'll see I haven't
(20:59):
listened to it. Who knows, Yeah, I might be. You
might see me in a mesh Marina fucking duttye Win
in uh to this album, so we'll see, Oh, actually
I just listened to it, honestly, never mind, honestly, never
mind that no one can ever say that in sound
like it's nothing like cringe E is happening. It's feels
(21:22):
like it feels like he's the one person who saw
Futures album I never liked you anyways with him sleeping
on the cover and was like, oh, that is that.
That's what I need to tap into, being like I
don't even want to be here anymore, Like give me
(21:45):
the energy of the character from that, I think you
should leave season two sketch. Honestly, I don't even want
to be here anymore around anymore? What all right? Well,
those are some of the things that are trending. We
are back on Tuesday with the whole last episode. We're
taking off as mentioned yesterday for June tenth on Monday,
(22:07):
So happy long weekend to anybody else who is able
to do that, and we will be back Tuesday with
a whole last episode. Kill then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourselves yet the vaccine, don't do nothing
about white supremacy, And we will talk to y'all on Tuesday.
Bye bye, m
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