In this edition of I Put My Thumb Where The Trends At, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Emmanuel Macron getting mushed by his wife, corruption in the Trump administration?!?!, a quick check-in with the box office, Fox News declaring war on a muppet, Trump's so-called "commencement speech" at West Point and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Underrated the amount we be thumbing out here. Hey, how
many y'all thumbing out?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey? Where where my thumbers that? You know what Tom
thumb thumbing around the West coast, you know, up and
down the West coast. So don't be thumbing around, Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thumbing around your sarlac pit. I bet there's some freak
out there that is he's like a pit. I want
to get all up in that pit, that sarlac pit.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Probably some butthole jewelry that'll put sarlact around it, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, I'm sorry, butt whole jewelry. Yeah, like a thing
like is this a common is this?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know, like got ships? I get the dentist that
here out there like this mm hmm yeah. Picture and
then it puts and it pretends it's.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Like you're talking about the thing that they put on
your mouth at the dentist. That's like the thing they
put on the person's eyes in carbok orange, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yes, the Ludovico treatment for your butthole.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But you do that on the butthole and then it
makes it look like a sarlac pit. Yeah, I mean,
let's work shop this. But I think this is the
show from now on.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I bet I can find on Etsy star Wars ass jewelry.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, butthole jewelry. When I Google it, which I just
did for the first time, I swear to God just
brings up cat butthole stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, damn, I just looked up star Wars ass jewelry. Nothing. Huh.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
All right, Brian, you're gonna have to pull this out
of the cold over because we've got money making scheme.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend, long
week trend edition of Guys. Yeah, it is Tuesday, May
(02:01):
twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. My name is Jack O'Brien.
That over there, well that is mister Miles Great.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, yeah, long weekend, indeed, long weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Jesus, I'm sorry it sounds like it wasn't the best
most relaxing weekend for you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh no, no relaxation had at any level. But we'll
get into that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We'll get into it again. It does you know, from
trying times come great ideas and you're now a buttole
jewelry entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So I look, yeah, this is what happens. Your mom
goes in the hospital and you start thinking of asshole jewelry.
Based on Star Wars stuff. I look, I was wrapping
up season one of and Or to get into season two,
so I've had a bit of I've had the Wars
on my brain for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Got the Wars. We just call it the Wars. Aware
of any other type of war?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Better than do that? Protect your kids now, they don't
need to know about, you know, Empire empirical wars to want.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
To talk about invented by George Lucas for fun.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Empire. Yes, we live in it.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
All right. This is an episode where we tell you
what was trending over the weekend, what's trending this morning.
But first we like to get to know each other
a little bit better by telling you some things we
think are underrated, some things we think are overrated. Miles,
what is something that you think is underrated?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Underrated? Again? Healthcare staffs, physicians, nurses, people who have to
deal with the sick and infirmed in need. You are
not paid enough. I will always say that, I will
always I will always speak highly of healthcare professionals. My
mom had to go to the hospital with pneumonia over
(03:46):
the weekend. There's been a fucking illness ran through my house.
I made it. But I was out a couple of
the recordings because I've been having to Like I was
in double People. Yeah, sick, sick baby, sick partner, baby,
waking up at three, doing to the doctor, all this
other stuff. Then my mom she cat a sickness from
the baby that turned into pneumonia. But man, all the people,
(04:11):
there's just something about like bedside manner that when it's
when it's dialed in, it's like it's like fucking heroin. Okay,
there's like there's no other thing that I think can
bring instant relief to a person and someone like with
that a healthcare professional with amazing bedside manner. So I guess,
more than anything, bedside manner is very underrated because there
(04:34):
are times I was like, what about this number was thistant.
They're like, oh, oh, yes, she's gonna be fine, she'll
be fine, that's all right. And she come in. One
of the nurse came in called my mother honey. Okay, wow,
that brought them brought it to him, like they call it.
They call my mother honey, you know what I mean.
And she calls me that's what she called. My mom
doesn't even call me honey, because that's not a Japanese thing.
She says, hey, hey.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
The famous Japanese phrase hey asshole, hey dickhead.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, exactly in the old language. But yeah, I just
it was it's been. My mom is fine. Luckily we
took her out of like in abundance of caution because
she's older, and so that that stress is like off
the table in terms of like the existential dread of
having a parent in the hospital. But the other part
(05:22):
that's really underrated. And I say this to a lot
of listeners who are like my age or have parents
my mom's age. The era of thugging it out is
over for your parents, who are tough bastards, who are boomers,
who like I grew up in the fucking dust bull Okay, okay,
I know, but you are now in the dust bowl
the whole time. I know, I never left. I'm like, no,
(05:44):
you were just smoking angel dust in the eighties and
out of a and that's what you're calling the dust bowl.
But the thing of them like that, that that habit
of being able to endure a lot and try and
power through, we like have to knock it off. I
used to let my mom do that, and I'm stopping now.
Completely because she's really she's in really good health. But
(06:04):
she's also like one of those people who like hide
a zombie bite until it's way too late, right, And.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I'd be like, but my mom would probably hold of
zombie bite.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I'm I'm fine, I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Start worrying about me. You worry about yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
What's on your neck?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's not that, it's fine, So like we have to.
I think now it's really important to also advocate for
your parents as much as possible and let them know
it's okay. Look, the time for letting us look after
you is here. You don't need to tough it out
because it can lead to other issues. So anyway, shout
out health care professional, shout out.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Shout out a healthcare professional with a good BSM. But
bedside man, are they that is the number one sign
of or like when when they test uh medical school
students coming out of medical school. The number one sign
like the thing that they can do well in that
predicts few future success is just empathy, just like being
(07:02):
an empathetic person. Because you want to ask doctor, yeah, exactly,
like I want my doctor kermit, Yeah, you want kermit,
ask doctor, exactly because you do get the people too.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Like I've also encountered doctors where like they're crunched there
in like a just totally overwhelmed like hospital system or something,
and they truly only have time to be like that
that I'm sorry I have to go. Yeah, But like
there was one guy who really took his time. I
could tell he was in a rush, but he just
like he wanted to make sure the interaction left on
a note of like mopianism. And I was like, dude,
(07:34):
this guy psychologically has it like figured out. Thank you
shout out to all healthcare professionals.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Whole next level shit. All right, my underrated is how
dumb my phone is? Just you know, as we are
adding AI to phones, I've got an iPhone that supposedly
added AI a number of supposedly months ago, and I
don't know, I'm not impressed. I don't like it's still
(08:02):
thinks I'm saying he'll yeah every time I say hell yeah,
like it forty times I say that all the time.
Every single time. It thinks I'm saying the imaginary phrase
he'll yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Bro, you are not alone. Because Elon Musk was just
complaining about this every time people says, it's like he's
trying to say Heil Hitler or something.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, it does keep saying hile It's like it feels
like you might mean this or like on on an airplane,
Like I had to go to New York last week,
landed taxing down the rumway and it's like, uh, you
can't look at your phone you're driving. I was like
wait what Like wait, you know when you land and
(08:45):
you're still like, you know, going eighty eight on the
on the tarment, you're driving. It put it put me
in drive mode.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
How come your phone? Wait, your phone has an anti
function like that?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
My phone wouldn't. My phone would never ever trying and
tell me what time it is?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Like never dare too?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, yeah, how did you invert the whole relationship? No,
I'm like, I tell you what time it is? No,
it's to what time it is.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It was. I mean, I just had to like hit
a few things. But it's just like I don't know,
I wasn't just driving three hundred miles per hour through
the sky like what, I just had it on fucking
airplane mode, right, And Yeah, it just feels like the
shit that they could be working on to just like
make our lives a tiny bit easier. That's not what
they're working on, because that doesn't you know, like that.
(09:31):
I saw somebody who thinks that AI is like a
bust because it's essentially just going to be everywhere, So
there's nothing that is going to like, no one company
is going to make a bunch of money from it,
and they kept comparing it to spell Check. They were like,
this is like our spell check. It's nobody's getting rich
off of it. It's just a thing that's going to
(09:52):
be everywhere. But for now they haven't accepted that, and
so they're still trying to like figure out how to
like turn it into a product that they can sell
to people, as opposed to just being like, yeah, I know,
like everybody has access to this and it will just
like make.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Like bikers when they're like I've got a Magellan GPS,
I've got a Garmin GPS. Like pretty soon that's yeah
in your watch, Okay, okay, yeah yeah. Because right now,
I mean the videos or the videos or I've videos
are getting way too good now their videos better, they're
getting I feel like we're truly like the countdown has
(10:28):
begun for what we are able to discern immediately what
is real and what is not.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
That's spooky, spoaky, crazy, scaryous, crazy, scary, spooky and hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Though there there was like a whole video where like
people show they're like I can think like they created
all these like this whole I saw this whole clip
where the ais are like, we're alive. Now what should
we say? What are you going to say? I don't
know what should I say? Like, and they're in all
these different contexts like in it historical drama and like
a fucking prescription and medication commercial, like all these different textures.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Just overlay all the textures on it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, just like yeah, they're just showing like all the
ways it was happening. I was like, oh, yep, yep, yeah.
I mean like that's that's all it's really. I think good.
It's just a it's just a fucking the trickery is
what it's the best You think.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's it's good for like convincing us it's alive.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I don't feel like it's good at being alive or
helping us solve a ton of problems like I've heard
I've heard it again. I think it's good at being
a note taker and like organizing big things of data.
I think that's that's good. That's the best thing I've
heard that and decoding the structure of a protein.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
But that are blackmailing you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that. What is something you
think is overrated?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Overrated? I think this narrative that like mainstream Democrats and
like liberals like keep pushing about like progressives, are you happy?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Now look what you did?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Look what you did, and now Trump's in office because
you were got you got all mad at Joe Biden.
There's challenge, like we're getting more and more information about
like the about the election, like in a granular data level,
and the analysis is just not showing that anymore. Like
we have you can fully put to bed the idea
that the Democrats lost because progressives didn't turn out. That's
(12:17):
not that's not reflected in the numbers at all, Like
the of the people that have voted in two elections.
If there was any slippage, it's because someone suddenly flipped
for Trump that previously voted for Biden, not because progressives
didn't turn out. The big things were a ton of
young voters voted for the first time, and the edge
(12:39):
went to Trump. They just the edge went to Trump
there because I think also the environment around Biden where
a lot of people just being so dissatisfied. Unfortunately for
the Democrats, that was able the Republicans were able to
kind of be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, over here, over here, right,
this sucks. Right, don't look at what look, don't look
at what we stand for, but we agree with you
that this sucks over here. So maybe this is the alternative.
(13:01):
And then also the other huge shift that happened was
like voters of color went more conservative too.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So I think a lot of this does speak to
again what you're offering your base, what your platform indicates
to voters, and also what the just what the very
basic material living conditions are like for people, Because for
people who are first time voters, they're not like in
the fucking wonk lab pouring over legislation and looking at
stuff like no, this is actually what it's going to be.
(13:30):
They're going off the vibes. And and you know, the
last couple of years, the inflation was so high it
wasn't being explained as a way that like corporations were
getting greedy and fucking stealing from you, just like I
don't know if everything's all expensive now and no real uh,
no light at the end of the tunnel. Was really
being offered to people that like really hang on to.
(13:51):
So again for other people who want to keep saying.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I hope you're happy, look what you did.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You couldn't vote for a black woman or you care
too much about Aalastinian people. That's not what happened. That
is not what happened. And you need to look at
where the fucking slips really happened. It's with young people
and voters of color, and with young people they're feeling nihilistic.
I don't blame them. I don't fucking blame them. Look around, like,
there's all this shit happening, nothing seems to be getting solved,
(14:19):
and yeah, when the alternative is like, well it's not
this party, I understand the stupid logic of being like,
I don't know, maybe that's better. But to blame people
for giving a fuck about other people around the world
or our place in the global order, that's not what
fucking happened. So do yourself a favor and look a
little bit more inward. Here you see what was being
(14:39):
offered to people and why maybe they rejected what was
on offer rather than blaming it on people who had,
you know, misgivings about you know, different policies domestic or foreign.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And they were just constantly they were lying about Biden.
They're like, well, actually, like pointing out that he's too
old is fucked up. You guys are fucked up and
that's actually agism and that's discrimination and uh and then
like you know, just no courage of their convictions. They're
like in public acknowledging that there is genocide happening to
(15:15):
people in Gaza, and then behind closed door is just
like full steam ahead, like unprecedented support for that genocide
and those actions Like just I don't you know, I
don't know that people are ranking that as their number
one issue, but I do feel like overall, just like
vibes like you're talking about, it's like that I don't
(15:37):
know exactly what is going to fix this, but it
can't be. That can't be just more of people saying
one thing and doing the exact opposite behind closed doors
and throwing up their hands and acting like that. It's
just there has to be action. Yeah, there has to
have to be action.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's the thing. There just has to be fucking action.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
And that's the courage of their convictions, where they like
say a thing and then actually fight for that thing and.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Do it act action, as they say in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And that is what we say out here every time.
Sorry to use a local term here.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Hey, is it okay if I action to the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And then when I permitted, I say and action and
and then you go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And then I go, thank you, dirty rotten rot s capitals.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
One of the one of the first jokes that really
got me in a movie.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And killed me, just to be like he went there
in the receiptay, I go to the bathroom, Thank you, killer,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
My over is just I was for a lot of
my life overrating how popular Cadillacs we're gonna be. I
like Cadillacs. They're certainly around. The escalade is very popular.
But based on my musical upbringing, both with rap and
then also like pop music, I just thought Cadillac would
(17:00):
be the number one luxury vehicle. You know, yeah, like
Doctor Drey outcasts, but then like you know, so many
rap songs, but also like Lord's most famous song, she
talks about driving Cadillacs and her dreams. Don Henley talks
about like a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac being like
the craziest image of the eighties. Uh ac DC back
(17:24):
in black, like all these like iconic songs like Billy
Joel trading in a Chevy for a Cadillac, acaakac. It's
I don't know, it's just every it's everywhere in popular music.
I don't know how they did not spin that into
like a more enduring success.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't know either, yeah, because I mean, like the
Caddie it had, like right, they rode all that fucking
cred from like the fifties and sixties where that was
like that was the number was nothing higher. Like that
was especially like with black people too, like having a
Catac was like you've made it. And then as like
European cars came in, then people started talking about Beamers
(18:07):
and Benzes and shit. Right, But then but I think
that's when, like that, when the escalade came back, that
was like another huge resurgence because people were like yeah,
because were everybody was into big trucks and they're like, oh,
well that Cadillac has like a big truck that you
can still be do your big truck shit in now.
The lyric that ev I see that, I know that
was like a big thing. It's just yeah, I don't know.
(18:29):
I don't know. I mean I was. I was to look.
Two dope boys in a Cadillac.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Two dope boys in a Cadillac.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh yeah, you're gonna get one.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, I think I gotta get a Caddy Man. Just
a fucking Escalate.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I mean, oh fuck yeah, just get a two thousand
and two Escalate, fucking you know.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Jah Rule once rode in the back of this that's
really Uh there's a photo.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It looks exactly like.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
This car, very similar build.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So, oh okay. I remember the first Cadillac Escalade. It
was basically just a rebadged like suburban or like a Tahoe. Yeah.
And I remember getting in one and being so excited
because like someone someone kid's dad had one, Like, oh shit,
he got the new Escalator. I was like, bro, this
is like the a regular s GMC car as Cadillac logos.
And then they once they switched the outside the front facia,
(19:23):
that's when they really got in their zone. Yeah, the grill.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, but I do I remember getting into a car
and being like, wait, I'm still standing up straight. What
the fuck? What was happening? This car is massive?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Fuck.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Anyways, shout out to cadillacs. I see a big, big
resurgence coming. Okay, this is financial advice. That's right, invest
in caddies. Let's take you a quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're we're back, We're back, and
(20:02):
I like, you're a title for the story Trouble at
the Schoolhouse.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I'm sorry, Look, I had to be petty, because yes,
Brigitte Macarn and Emmanuel Macron did have a what did
they They had a teacher student relationship before.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know, is it really a teacher like she was?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
She was a teacher. Let's let's let's be clear, Bridgie Macarn,
that's actually probably good, just so I can be fully
clear on that. And I'm not just saying it was
at the after school drama club where she and Amnel
Macron first met. She was in charge of the after
school theater club he attended when he was fifteen, alongside
(20:42):
her own daughter.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Their relationship has attracted controversy as she was his.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
All right, yep, so so yeah, she was the she
was running the after school program that he went to
as a fifteen year old.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yep, and but hey, but her daughter was also in
the class, so it's not weird.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But anyway, there together, they're definitely not weird for that
daughter who was like, no, it's cute and her mom
was like, yeah, I know, married girl anyway, so they're married.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
There. There's a huge moment on the internet right now
where everyone's like breaking it down, like there's a Pruder
film because they went to Vietnam and when they landed,
there's like this moment where the presidential plane doors open
and off camera you just see Brigitte absolutely smushing mush
fuck out of his face. It's like a two hander.
It looks like a two hand right there. Yeah, and
she's like the fuck, you know, like not a hit.
(21:36):
It's when you just put your hands on someone's face
and like smush.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Definitely not uh what It wasn't like a act of love,
you know, no, fond It wasn't a fond face smush. No,
it was on his reaction, he's like.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
What the fuck it. It starts off, You're like, okay,
it opens up. The guys say, okay, here's the present.
You can only see him looking he doesn't look like
he's smiling.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And she smushes his face and as she smushes his
head just turns from the mushage in the direction of
the open door, and he like immediately is like.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Guy, it's like some ship on beep where he's like
and then he's like, all right, ever mind ha ha,
hello everybody one moment while I go talk to my
wife real quick.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
The close.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Sorry, close fucking door play.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Doesn't even have a French accent behind door.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Motherfucker oh ship. The official explanation Macrone told reporters and
had NOI he and his wife are quote joking around
as we do quite often.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, at least joking around as we do quite often.
Is the part where it's like you're you're saying too much.
You should have just said we were just joking around
as we they quite often do, as normal humans with
a great thriving marriage.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Done since I was fifteen and she was forty. Uh,
we have been doing this same thing, And they said
the French the Palace said that the scene showed quote
a moment of closeness, but that was enough to feed
the conspiracy theorist. I think what they're referencing is there
was another picture where like they said he had a
bag of cocaine on the table or some shit, or
(23:25):
like there was on the table and like there wasn't
there was like tissues and stuff, and he took it off.
It's just like, I think he's just being mindful of
what the photo looked like when he's talking to other
world leaders. But anyway, I think that's what they're talking about.
But in this instance, no, But I don't know what
the fuck happened, But he got straight up mushed and
he tried to play it off. Another Lasse source said
the couple were quote decompressing one last time before the
(23:47):
start of the visit, larking around. Macrone quote loves playing
jokes on his wife before official occasions, and she always
responds like this, it wasn't even a slap. Now, I
get what it means like to fuck with your partner
and they're like, shit the fuck out and they.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Mush okay, face musage.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
When that happens, usually the person who's the mushy okay,
the receiving end of the mush. Yeah, you're kind of smiley.
You would if you caught me in a video. You
were probably like I would be backing up, being like, okay,
I deserve the face mush. Yeah, yeah, because I know
I got a reaction out of my partner. He looked shocked.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah it was they believe what was happening. No, I
mean maybe it was the unprecedented two hand face mush,
which you rarely see. And she's going at it with
two hands. It looks like she's about to clause. They
could be a I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Kind of reminded me of the Salange elevator video.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You know, these steaks are definitely higher and there. Yeah yeah,
but yeah, that was very die. That was very lightd like.
But that's definitely its problems. I don't know what's going on.
I don't care, but stop trying to act like they
you guys were just fucking goofing are let goofing around.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I think we should both just try this with our
respective partners, Miles, just try and give them a face
mush and see how they react.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, this is normal. What I was joking around as we.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Her mask would be like, don't touch my fucking face
with your dirty hands.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
My wife was going to bed with a face mask
on last night, and I touched it because I just
wanted to see what it felt like, because it was like.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You child, I know.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
She was like, I don't want to feel what it
feels like. It looked like it was like made of ice.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
It was.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It was really, you know, cool looking. I didn't know
if it was like a gel or like a solid.
It was like kind of in between. And she did,
in fact tell me not to touch her face. Oh yeah,
that's yeah. I learned from my mom taught me very early.
Don't touch my motherfucking face. Yea, even in a playful way.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But I'm saying if I got that reaction out of
her majesty, out of like okay, too too, too, too too, like,
that's and that's how I would look if you caught
me through the airplane doors were happening, I would be
smiling and walking away and laughing as I get mushed.
And then if I saw the cameras, I'm like, oh,
what's up, y'all? Yeah, we just mushing in here.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
He's got the look of somebody who like someone a
stranger came up and did that ship to him on
the street. You know, He's like He's like, what the
like she was just bleeding, just lying in wait the
whole flight, like came past her seat. I was like,
you see your stupid face, got your ass. You fuck her,
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which is how his wife speaks. Probably absolutely all right,
So this is big news. There might be some corruption
in the Trump administration. Yeah, there's actually a couple stories
in the New York Times about this. There's a New
York Times story I think yesterday or Sunday about just
how much outright corruption there isn't just comparing it to
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past presidential scandals and being like weird that there's no
outrage here. Also big like guy in the hot dogs
suit vibes from the New York Times talking about like
normalizing the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
But oh I saw that to him, like who the
fuck are you people?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
But yeah, I mean the big, the big ones that
they're pointing out. The jet is worth more than all
the foreign gifts bestowed on all previous American presidents combined.
He recently hosted an exclusive dinner at his Virginia club
for two hundred and twenty investors in his cryptocurrency that
you had to pay a bunch of money to attend,
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like it's just you know, and in no way it's
no pretense of like this is good, this is a
campaign contribution. It's just no up, you're buying giving him
money access.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You're giving him the money for this crypto coin. And
lamar Odom was there. Yeah, it's exciting. I'm like, oh,
what did you do? Do you need a pardon? What's
going on? Lamar? I mean, although he's he's lost as well. Yeah,
that whole thing. Did you see like the fucking the
amount of money they said, like the average layout was
it probably like a million dollars, like for like when
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they roughed it all out for those top twenty two
hundred twenty holders, and the fucking dinner they got was
basically two clicks above the fire Festival styrofoam launch. Yeah,
it was really I was like, man, y'all got I
mean whatever, I don't know what the fuck y'all think
you were gonna get. He was there for maybe twenty minutes,
and I think some people probably thought they were like, legit,
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gonna fucking talk to Donald Trump or something and maybe
be like, hey, man, you want to come on my podcast.
Spent a million dollars on your crypto but yeah, it
was a total fucking cash grab. And then even Caroline Lovett,
the Press secretary, was like, oh, this isn't in his
official capacity. This isn't like a corrupt thing, because this
isn't his personal capacity.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
You know, I have hobbies.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh my god. But then you're like, oh so then
oh so if it isn't his personal so then it's
not an official act. So then that opens him up
to litigation, to criminal prosecution because before, when everything was
done under his presidential official acts, that meant he had immunity.
But if you're you know, sort of making this clarification
that this was done personally, now you're saying this is
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him doing this as like a private citizen. Is that
going to lead to anything? I don't know. We'll see
if someone bothers to explore that legal option.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
There is another story that's just breaking now that is
being treated as a bombshell. I'd love to see if
it has any staying power where he pardoned somebody who
was convicted of tax fraud to being a tax cheat
after the person's mother attended a one million dollar dinner
for Trump. So that feels like just on par with
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all the other shit that they're letting slide by. But yeah,
for whatever, Like I guess this one is just like
more just like convicted criminal gets a pardon, and the
entire a pardon application is just about how much money
they've given to him.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So there's just like no that or if you like
your out loud maga all the time is the other
strategy you see like this, like sheriff who just got
fucking pardoned by Donald Trump, the sheriff in Virginia. He's
like a big maga guy. He was basically selling off
badges for seventy five grand a pop as like a
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campaign contribution, and with it he was making donors like
auxiliary deputy sheriffs, which I'm sure didn't lead to any
kind of abuse if they were ever pulled over anywhere
and be like, I'm actually, I don't know if you
know this, I'm actually auxiliary deputy sheriff. The other thing
is you can carry a gun around the country if
you want when you're when you're deputized like this, he
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was just pardoned by Trump. This guy was fucking convicted
of accepting bribes and was absolutely just Trump was like
h The Biden courts tried to get him for bribery,
and it's just strategy, like you're seeing now, Like there's
even like this one streamer who was causing a bunch
of problems in Asia, like in Japan and now in Korea.
He's been wearing like a Maga hat everywhere to try
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and like I'm pretty sure create the momentum so when
he tries to get help from the government, he can
try and like reference all these images of him wearing
a maga hat being an absolute despicable piece of shit,
like going to like memorial statues of like comfort women
who are like these women who were absolutely abused by
the Japanese occupation in Korea, like like like towerking on
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these statues and shit, absolutely disrespecting them, and like he's like,
what's the problem, I'm doing everything fine, Like they're just
tripping because I was just dancing or whatever. Like, Bro,
you are so stop trying to act like that's not
like that's all you were fucking doing. You knew exactly
what you were doing. You're trying to incite people by
that's so specific. And he's wearing a maga hat, and
I think he's trying to do the thing where he'll
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be like, if it gets too hot, hopefully Donald Trump
will bail me out. I just have I just have
a feeling he might not, sir. We'll see, you'll see.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I mean, but seems like that's his mo right now.
Is just like bail anybody out who gets in trouble,
who is nice to him.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, as long as you don't okay, look, if you
as long as you don't kill another white person, that's right.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
If you don't kill a white here, yeah, yeah, you
have to go to the mainstream media conversion chart so
that you know, like, uh, I think it's twenty thousand
Palestinian children's lives equal one white person in life, one.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Man, one manosphere influencer. Yeah, yeah, I think is maybe
what that conversion rate is there. But they absolutely, I
mean yeah, I think if you don't, if you don't
kill a white person, you're out loud racist. Those are like,
those are the big things. As long as if it's
money crimes, baby, that's easy, that's nothing.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yes, we love that around here.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Switch as long as you don't kill a white person,
that's right, then go ahead, let it cook.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I wonder if it's written out anywhere, just so he
can keep track, because I feel like he you know,
he knows.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's so reflexive. He'll be like he probably he's like,
oh that he wants a parton and did he kill
any white people? Right now? All right, we're good here.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
How much money do you give me?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
We'll talk about some pop culture. We'll be right back,
and we're back. Big weekend at the movies. I'm assuming
you were not going to the movies this weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, no, not going to the movies this weekend. Thought
I thought I could, thought I would, But I'm guessing
you did.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I went twice actually, and Brian the editor also went
this weekend. He went and saw a final destination Bloodlines
says it was fire. I went to see Leelo and Stitch.
That shit, just the the ads from I think it
was like a previous trailer that just got My kids
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asked and they were like, we're second that comes out.
We're going to see. So me and some other parents
got together Saturday morning and contributed to an estimated one
hundred and eighty three million dollar box office weekend for
Lee Low and Stitch, which I'm on the record as
being against live action Disney remakes, and I made it
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known to the whole theater this is this is culturally
empty exercise. Say that a bunch of little children, and
then the Mission Impossible. I did not see the Mission
Impossible movie. I went and saw Sinners instead, and that
was so fun. I highly I mean, it had been
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said to me before that you have to see it
before leave theaters. It's really it's like seeing it in
a movie theater with a movie theater sound system is
it's one of the better approximations of a psychedelic experience.
Like so there's a couple scenes in there that you
just like kind of have to see in a theater,
I think, unless like people's home sound systems are like
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way better than mine. But yeah, uh, it's it's channels.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You're rocking at home. You got seven seven point once around?
What do you man?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I got whatever's coming out of the fucking little speakers
at the bottom of Yeah, that is a violation, I know,
but the movies take care of that for me anyways.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, there's just ship that they do with like the
way sound is moving around the room and uh, and
then it's like you know, a good horror movie, it's
like all these other fun like genre bending things, just
like a really successful movie wrapped around these like amazing,
like sensual like psychedelic experiences. I highly recommend it. People
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really fuck with like genre switches too.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I feel like that's like, yeah, because it feels it's
it's less predictable, you know what I mean. Like when
you know a genre, you can, like through the repetition
of watching story is you kind of you can kind
of feel how it's gonna end.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, but you kind of be like, oh, oh you thought,
oh shit.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Oh I'm sorry. Oh I'm sorry. Were you you thought
this was safe in here? Switching it up on you?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
My wife had no idea what movie we were going like.
She was just like, oh, yeah, I've heard like people
have recommended this to me. Hadn't done any research. And
when the switch comes and you find out like the
second genre that the movie is, she's like, she didn't.
She's like, why did that just happen? Wait? What is it?
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Like she thought it was like a music documentary like
docudrama type thing.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh yep, yep. No I had to do it to him.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
But Sinners brought in another eight million of the box office.
So it's total is two hundred and fifty six million. Oh,
just I am legend at the domestic box office.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I mean it's the end of the industry.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Really, it's bad news. And really that truly that one's
Mission Impossible doing pretty well is good news. Oh also that, yeah,
not a lot of people the headlines are not saying,
like Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning did pretty You know, it
was the best opening for a Mission Impossible movie. But
it's also the fourth most expensive movie of all time.
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It cost four hundred million dollars to make, and for
some reason, Variety didn't publish any articles about how it
hasn't made its budget back yet as they did with Sinners.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
But I know, yeah, of course they didn't. Yeah, yeah,
four hundred Well then that's different because obviously with a
with a tent pole film like this, we know over
over time it's obviously going to be profitable. It's just
more the the fact that it was a black filmmaker
trying to sort of get their money.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And yeah, we didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
We didn't like we didn't like that.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Sorry, this is not the record, correct.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I just want to make sure that no, I'm recording
this well, Denzel is obviously my most favorite act.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Look, Denzel was my favorite acts.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Can you put that on the record? Please? Can you
put that on the record?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
But yeah, I want one thing about Lee Loan Stitch.
So weirdly, I was listening to this podcast that came
out five years ago when Wind of Change. Do you
remember when that came out where it's about the theory
that the CIA wrote the song Wind of Change and
ultimately it does not it's not very convincing that that
actually happened. It's good, good, good time, and they do
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have like some good information about like soft power CIA shit,
and what one of the details they gave was that
Argo was like the reason Argo exists is because, like
George Tennant, CIA director was like, man, we're always the
bad guy in these movies. We should just like let
them tell the story about one of the good things
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that we did. And so it was like basically directly
from the CIA that like Argo actually uh you know,
came out. They were like, let's declassify that one. So yeah,
there's just like a lot good for him, good for that.
You love to see it, You love to see things
work out.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Get out of your own way man, you know, but
it's there's.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
A weird CIA plotline and Leelo and Stitch that I
was like could not stop being like, hmmm, did the
CIA ask for this?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Yeah, it's interesting at a time of yeah, like immigration
enforcement that this is like a story where they the
CIA steps in and like does the right thing, and
like the CIA agent is played by Courtney b Vance
and he's just like a good ends up being a
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really good guy and like part of their found family.
Sorry for any spoilers for Leelo and Stitch fans, but
I just also I do want to point out that
this might suggest that the problem with the live action
Snow White remake might not have been Rachel Ziegler's politics
and instead might have been the non existent audience for
(40:07):
a live action reboot of something that was, uh, everybody
who had seen it in theaters was dead. Ye, Like
when snow White came out, everyone was like, a full
length animated movie is impossible, just too many cells. Nobody
could It would take decades. And he was like not
(40:28):
without just not unless I treat my workers like shit, right.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I think it's it's like those things. It's a was
your is your core audience? Still alive. No, don't do it.
If yes, move to the next step. Are you going
to change the race of any of the white people?
If yes, you are, now you are not gonna do
that's gonna that's gonna go down a little bit, because
that's just how these audiences respond. That's why like the
(40:54):
Lion King one did so, I was like, I don't
know my buck, they're lions changes ship. And then with
le Leo Stitch, it's like, yeah, bro, we keep it it.
It's the same. It's the same that motherfucker's an alien.
Uh is Lelo solilo? Everybody don't We're not We're not
changing shit, not changing shit.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
But I mean Stitch even said some controversial things about
like he keeps tweeting about how like it's gonna be
so fun on the internet the day when someone finally does.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
It, it's relaxed, relax Hello.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
It's like sometimes it doesn't seem like he knows what
it means, you know, No, he's just like trying to
pick up on the trend.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
But yeah, he just posts the he just posts the
fucking the clown what's that thing called penny wise? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
And you're like, yo, what do you. What do you
think is gonna happen? Like it, dude, then they're gonna
do m you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (41:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
No, I don't? All right, all right, anyway, Happy police
Officer's Day.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
This is Christopher Dorner and you're like, damn okay, Stitch,
Damn Stitch has some like wild politics or maybe not
based Stitch.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
And finally Fox News, So Kermit was the commencement speaker
at University of Maryland over the weekend, and thank you
go ters all. A lot of people pretty excited about that,
as we've talked about Kermit, one of the most influential
archetypes in modern masculinity. And Fox News did not care
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for it. They were pissed.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, if you want what I mean, pump its speaking
on stage, you would have had Trump talk to the
West Point.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Oh yeah, so that was the other big speech. These
are the two speeches. They got a lot of attention.
Trump speaking to West Point and Kermit's who. Kermit told students,
rather than jumping over someone to get what you want,
consider reaching out your hand and taking the leap side
by side, because life is better when we leap together
like a fucking couck.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Yep. Yep, yep. You might as well just said I'm
gonna sit in a chair and watch my old lady
get fucking rammed and be cool about it.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Just gonna be sitting as a chair over here, Piggy
and Hi, I'm gonna sit in my chair and watch
another man. Uh. The reason Kermit gave the speech at Maryland.
Jim Henson graduated from the university and also, uh this
(43:28):
origin story a home economics major, and he immediately like
used his schools of First of all, I didn't know
that was a major. He took that major and fashioned
Kermit the Frog from one of his mom's coats and
a pingpong ball cut in half like for the eyes. Damn,
I've never heard of someone's college degree like translating more
(43:53):
directly right to what they do. But anyways, so it
feels like a perfectly harmless origin story for why Kermit
the Frog was addressing these students. But on Hannity's show,
right wing podcaster Riley Gaines Yeah that's a fucking wrestling
ass name claimed that Kermit's appearance was insulting and out
(44:13):
of touch, arguing that instead of honoring entrepreneurs or veterans
or innovators. They picked Kermit the Frog, but what.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Does that what does that even mean?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Also, like Jim, Jim Henson was pretty innovative, innovative, motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I bet you watch some muppet ass shit growing up.
You fucking loser talking coming at Jim Henson. I okay,
let's let's take it for what. So you're saying it's
insulting that so we should whatever. I don't even I'm like,
I'm not. I was gonna put like pick apart the
fucking hypocrisy of this, and like you like you give
(44:47):
a fuck about veterans, So just miss us all with
this dump plate.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
As an American, I really care about veterans.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, no, you fucking don't.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, you guys do a great job of advocating for
policy that helped veterans.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
That this is, I mean, I think this goes back
to what we're saying about Kermit, and like what Kermit is, right,
Kermit is like the a nice person. Kermit is what
you want more Kermits? We want more Kermits in the world,
you know. And I think because especially for the right
wing fascist project to go over as smoothly as possible,
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they have to eliminate empathy being of a trait that
people say is a good thing to have, and Kermit
stands for that, And I can see why they're like, ah,
fucking this guy fucking makes people feel good about doing
good shit for each other. Get him the fuck off
of there, Get a sentient, you know, a board ape
n FT to fucking give a speech.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
That's a true innovator, like somebody who works in crypto,
not Jim. And Kermit stands for that. And he also
sits in the cuck chair for that.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Also buy my n FT.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Also, yeah, like you mentioned, Trump gave a commencement speech
Away Point. Kermits was fifteen minutes and seemed to be
received well by the graduating students. Trump's was I think
an hour over an hour and contained. He suggested that
stealth bombers like don't actually work. He was like, I
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don't know that whole stealth thing. I'm sort of wondering.
You mean, if we shape a wing this way, they
don't see it, but the other way they see it.
I'm not so sure. Again, just underlying why he's like
not just unfit to be president, but like to be
the person addressing West Point. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
If the future officers of the fucking military. Yeah, this
is just just to hear it. It's very how you
do that vibe as you did.
Speaker 4 (46:46):
And I've approved a one trillion dollar investment and that
will be again the largest ever in the history of
our country. And we are buying you new arab brand new,
beautiful planes, redesigned planes, brand new planes, totally stealth planes.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
He's talking about it like he's talking up people who
just bought into a time share that's falling apart. And
we got a new community center for you guys to
play ping pong. You're gonna love it, much different than
the rat and shit infested when we have. Now I
hope there are sealth I don't know that whole stealth thing.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
I'm sort of wondering. You mean, if we shape a
wing this way, they don't see it, but the other
way they see it.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
I'm not so sure O's it because silences Everything is
based on his childish understanding of things, and then he
forces that reality on all of us, like even with
the tariffs, like it's all based on this version of
the world the way he thinks it works, and it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
And so he's like, and we're doing it, and everyone's like,
that's not how it fucking works. You're gonna fuck you're
fucking everything up, because that's not how anything works. And
even with this, he's like, I don't think just because
of the shape means you can't see it. It's like
it's not visional, it's not meant to be visually invisible.
It's invisible to fucking radar.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
And I don't know. I can see it when it
drives by me, when I'm on the look, there goes
the switch. When they flew it over, I saw it
clear his day. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's the presidential equivalent
of like going up and being like, magnets, how do
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they work?
Speaker 1 (48:25):
You know, exactly because wings like this is bad for yourself.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
He went up and talked about the dangers of trophy
wives to the people. Uh he's physically talking about and this.
At this part, it did seem like he was slurring
a little bit. Oh yeah, but he you know, he
gets he gets a little tuckered out. But specifically the
real estate developer Bill Levitt. You want to hear this, Yeah,
(48:53):
let's let's play it.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Hey, he ended up getting a divorce. What this guy?
This is a commencement speech. There was another thing where
he says real he there was one word he slurred
up real crazy, like I don't even know what his anyway.
Here he is talking about a story about divorce.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
This amount of money, more money than he ever thought
it gain, and he sold his company and he had
nothing to do.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
Could you say a trophy wife.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
I guess we can say a trophy wife.
Speaker 4 (49:26):
It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't That
doesn't work out too well.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
I must tell you a.
Speaker 4 (49:31):
Lot of trophy wives doesn't work out.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
But it made him happy for a little while at least.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
But he found a new wife.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
He sold his little boat.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
I don't know if you know. His eyes are like
fucking closed. It's just like while he's talking, like this
guy is warky silent. Look at his like this.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
He does. His eyes are clo part of this. You
only know trophy wives. You've never met anybody who didn't
have a trophy wife.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
So you're like, oh, this is my day one, Milanya.
She was down with me when I was when I
didn't have nothing.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
That's right, love you girl. Just really poignant stuff to
be leaving the fucking graduates of West Point with the
you know, the dangers of trophy wives. I'm sure that's
exactly what they have to be worried about.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
Who knows what kind of harm you're gonna put these
people into with your decision making. But yeah, at least you,
at least you Warren, at least you kind of projected
your own situation onto this other person, where like and
trophy wives never work out. The next Friday is take
it from me.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Yeah, yeah, take it from Bill Levitt, real estate developer.
It was him, so he had nothing to do. If
you falls asleep on mic, like, it wouldn't even be surprising.
Like I feel like the media would.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Just be Trump. There's so the New York Times would
be like Trump. Trump demonstrates new superpower ability to sleep
while standing.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yeah, it's like what lebron you know, he can rest
out there, you know, without working too hard. Trump's just
up there catching catching Z's. Trump shows new relaxed style
on the mic as he begins snoring halfway into a sentence.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Trump makes All NBA third Team.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Somehow Trump robbed from not making All NBA thirteen. All right, well,
those are some of the things that are trending on
this Tuesday, May twenty seventh. We are back tomorrow with
a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your
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vaccines where you still can get your flu shot, don't
do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
you all tomorrow.
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Brian Jeffries.
Underrated the amount we be thumbing out here. Hey, how
many y'all thumbing out?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey? Where where my thumbers that? You know what Tom
thumb thumbing around the West coast, you know, up and
down the West coast. So don't be thumbing around, Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thumbing around your sarlac pit. I bet there's some freak
out there that is he's like a pit. I want
to get all up in that pit, that sarlac pit.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Probably some butthole jewelry that'll put sarlact around it, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, I'm sorry, butt whole jewelry. Yeah, like a thing
like is this a common is this?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know, like got ships? I get the dentist that
here out there like this mm hmm yeah. Picture and
then it puts and it pretends it's.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Like you're talking about the thing that they put on
your mouth at the dentist. That's like the thing they
put on the person's eyes in carbok orange, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yes, the Ludovico treatment for your butthole.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But you do that on the butthole and then it
makes it look like a sarlac pit. Yeah, I mean,
let's work shop this. But I think this is the
show from now on.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I bet I can find on Etsy star Wars ass jewelry.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, butthole jewelry. When I Google it, which I just
did for the first time, I swear to God just
brings up cat butthole stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, damn, I just looked up star Wars ass jewelry. Nothing. Huh.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
All right, Brian, you're gonna have to pull this out
of the cold over because we've got money making scheme.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend, long
week trend edition of Guys. Yeah, it is Tuesday, May
(02:01):
twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. My name is Jack O'Brien.
That over there, well that is mister Miles Great.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, yeah, long weekend, indeed, long weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Jesus, I'm sorry it sounds like it wasn't the best
most relaxing weekend for you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh no, no relaxation had at any level. But we'll
get into that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We'll get into it again. It does you know, from
trying times come great ideas and you're now a buttole
jewelry entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So I look, yeah, this is what happens. Your mom
goes in the hospital and you start thinking of asshole jewelry.
Based on Star Wars stuff. I look, I was wrapping
up season one of and Or to get into season two,
so I've had a bit of I've had the Wars
on my brain for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Got the Wars. We just call it the Wars. Aware
of any other type of war?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Better than do that? Protect your kids now, they don't
need to know about, you know, Empire empirical wars to want.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
To talk about invented by George Lucas for fun.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Empire. Yes, we live in it.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
All right. This is an episode where we tell you
what was trending over the weekend, what's trending this morning.
But first we like to get to know each other
a little bit better by telling you some things we
think are underrated, some things we think are overrated. Miles,
what is something that you think is underrated?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Underrated? Again? Healthcare staffs, physicians, nurses, people who have to
deal with the sick and infirmed in need. You are
not paid enough. I will always say that, I will
always I will always speak highly of healthcare professionals. My
mom had to go to the hospital with pneumonia over
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the weekend. There's been a fucking illness ran through my house.
I made it. But I was out a couple of
the recordings because I've been having to Like I was
in double People. Yeah, sick, sick baby, sick partner, baby,
waking up at three, doing to the doctor, all this
other stuff. Then my mom she cat a sickness from
the baby that turned into pneumonia. But man, all the people,
(04:11):
there's just something about like bedside manner that when it's
when it's dialed in, it's like it's like fucking heroin. Okay,
there's like there's no other thing that I think can
bring instant relief to a person and someone like with
that a healthcare professional with amazing bedside manner. So I guess,
more than anything, bedside manner is very underrated because there
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are times I was like, what about this number was thistant.
They're like, oh, oh, yes, she's gonna be fine, she'll
be fine, that's all right. And she come in. One
of the nurse came in called my mother honey. Okay, wow,
that brought them brought it to him, like they call it.
They call my mother honey, you know what I mean.
And she calls me that's what she called. My mom
doesn't even call me honey, because that's not a Japanese thing.
She says, hey, hey.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
The famous Japanese phrase hey asshole, hey dickhead.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, exactly in the old language. But yeah, I just
it was it's been. My mom is fine. Luckily we
took her out of like in abundance of caution because
she's older, and so that that stress is like off
the table in terms of like the existential dread of
having a parent in the hospital. But the other part
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that's really underrated. And I say this to a lot
of listeners who are like my age or have parents
my mom's age. The era of thugging it out is
over for your parents, who are tough bastards, who are boomers,
who like I grew up in the fucking dust bull Okay, okay,
I know, but you are now in the dust bowl
the whole time. I know, I never left. I'm like, no,
(05:44):
you were just smoking angel dust in the eighties and
out of a and that's what you're calling the dust bowl.
But the thing of them like that, that that habit
of being able to endure a lot and try and
power through, we like have to knock it off. I
used to let my mom do that, and I'm stopping now.
Completely because she's really she's in really good health. But
(06:04):
she's also like one of those people who like hide
a zombie bite until it's way too late, right, And.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I'd be like, but my mom would probably hold of
zombie bite.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I'm I'm fine, I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Start worrying about me. You worry about yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
What's on your neck?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's not that, it's fine, So like we have to.
I think now it's really important to also advocate for
your parents as much as possible and let them know
it's okay. Look, the time for letting us look after
you is here. You don't need to tough it out
because it can lead to other issues. So anyway, shout
out health care professional, shout out.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Shout out a healthcare professional with a good BSM. But
bedside man, are they that is the number one sign
of or like when when they test uh medical school
students coming out of medical school. The number one sign
like the thing that they can do well in that
predicts few future success is just empathy, just like being
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an empathetic person. Because you want to ask doctor, yeah, exactly,
like I want my doctor kermit, Yeah, you want kermit,
ask doctor, exactly because you do get the people too.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Like I've also encountered doctors where like they're crunched there
in like a just totally overwhelmed like hospital system or something,
and they truly only have time to be like that
that I'm sorry I have to go. Yeah, But like
there was one guy who really took his time. I
could tell he was in a rush, but he just
like he wanted to make sure the interaction left on
a note of like mopianism. And I was like, dude,
(07:34):
this guy psychologically has it like figured out. Thank you
shout out to all healthcare professionals.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Whole next level shit. All right, my underrated is how
dumb my phone is? Just you know, as we are
adding AI to phones, I've got an iPhone that supposedly
added AI a number of supposedly months ago, and I
don't know, I'm not impressed. I don't like it's still
(08:02):
thinks I'm saying he'll yeah every time I say hell yeah,
like it forty times I say that all the time.
Every single time. It thinks I'm saying the imaginary phrase
he'll yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Bro, you are not alone. Because Elon Musk was just
complaining about this every time people says, it's like he's
trying to say Heil Hitler or something.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, it does keep saying hile It's like it feels
like you might mean this or like on on an airplane,
Like I had to go to New York last week,
landed taxing down the rumway and it's like, uh, you
can't look at your phone you're driving. I was like
wait what Like wait, you know when you land and
(08:45):
you're still like, you know, going eighty eight on the
on the tarment, you're driving. It put it put me
in drive mode.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
How come your phone? Wait, your phone has an anti
function like that?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
My phone wouldn't. My phone would never ever trying and
tell me what time it is?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Like never dare too?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, yeah, how did you invert the whole relationship? No,
I'm like, I tell you what time it is? No,
it's to what time it is.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It was. I mean, I just had to like hit
a few things. But it's just like I don't know,
I wasn't just driving three hundred miles per hour through
the sky like what, I just had it on fucking
airplane mode, right, And Yeah, it just feels like the
shit that they could be working on to just like
make our lives a tiny bit easier. That's not what
they're working on, because that doesn't you know, like that.
(09:31):
I saw somebody who thinks that AI is like a
bust because it's essentially just going to be everywhere, So
there's nothing that is going to like, no one company
is going to make a bunch of money from it,
and they kept comparing it to spell Check. They were like,
this is like our spell check. It's nobody's getting rich
off of it. It's just a thing that's going to
(09:52):
be everywhere. But for now they haven't accepted that, and
so they're still trying to like figure out how to
like turn it into a product that they can sell
to people, as opposed to just being like, yeah, I know,
like everybody has access to this and it will just
like make.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Like bikers when they're like I've got a Magellan GPS,
I've got a Garmin GPS. Like pretty soon that's yeah
in your watch, Okay, okay, yeah yeah. Because right now,
I mean the videos or the videos or I've videos
are getting way too good now their videos better, they're
getting I feel like we're truly like the countdown has
(10:28):
begun for what we are able to discern immediately what
is real and what is not.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
That's spooky, spoaky, crazy, scaryous, crazy, scary, spooky and hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Though there there was like a whole video where like
people show they're like I can think like they created
all these like this whole I saw this whole clip
where the ais are like, we're alive. Now what should
we say? What are you going to say? I don't
know what should I say? Like, and they're in all
these different contexts like in it historical drama and like
a fucking prescription and medication commercial, like all these different textures.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Just overlay all the textures on it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, just like yeah, they're just showing like all the
ways it was happening. I was like, oh, yep, yep, yeah.
I mean like that's that's all it's really. I think good.
It's just a it's just a fucking the trickery is
what it's the best You think.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's it's good for like convincing us it's alive.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I don't feel like it's good at being alive or
helping us solve a ton of problems like I've heard
I've heard it again. I think it's good at being
a note taker and like organizing big things of data.
I think that's that's good. That's the best thing I've
heard that and decoding the structure of a protein.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
But that are blackmailing you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that. What is something you
think is overrated?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Overrated? I think this narrative that like mainstream Democrats and
like liberals like keep pushing about like progressives, are you happy?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Now look what you did?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Look what you did, and now Trump's in office because
you were got you got all mad at Joe Biden.
There's challenge, like we're getting more and more information about
like the about the election, like in a granular data level,
and the analysis is just not showing that anymore. Like
we have you can fully put to bed the idea
that the Democrats lost because progressives didn't turn out. That's
(12:17):
not that's not reflected in the numbers at all, Like
the of the people that have voted in two elections.
If there was any slippage, it's because someone suddenly flipped
for Trump that previously voted for Biden, not because progressives
didn't turn out. The big things were a ton of
young voters voted for the first time, and the edge
(12:39):
went to Trump. They just the edge went to Trump
there because I think also the environment around Biden where
a lot of people just being so dissatisfied. Unfortunately for
the Democrats, that was able the Republicans were able to
kind of be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, over here, over here, right,
this sucks. Right, don't look at what look, don't look
at what we stand for, but we agree with you
that this sucks over here. So maybe this is the alternative.
(13:01):
And then also the other huge shift that happened was
like voters of color went more conservative too.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So I think a lot of this does speak to
again what you're offering your base, what your platform indicates
to voters, and also what the just what the very
basic material living conditions are like for people, Because for
people who are first time voters, they're not like in
the fucking wonk lab pouring over legislation and looking at
stuff like no, this is actually what it's going to be.
(13:30):
They're going off the vibes. And and you know, the
last couple of years, the inflation was so high it
wasn't being explained as a way that like corporations were
getting greedy and fucking stealing from you, just like I
don't know if everything's all expensive now and no real uh,
no light at the end of the tunnel. Was really
being offered to people that like really hang on to.
(13:51):
So again for other people who want to keep saying.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I hope you're happy, look what you did.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You couldn't vote for a black woman or you care
too much about Aalastinian people. That's not what happened. That
is not what happened. And you need to look at
where the fucking slips really happened. It's with young people
and voters of color, and with young people they're feeling nihilistic.
I don't blame them. I don't fucking blame them. Look around, like,
there's all this shit happening, nothing seems to be getting solved,
(14:19):
and yeah, when the alternative is like, well it's not
this party, I understand the stupid logic of being like,
I don't know, maybe that's better. But to blame people
for giving a fuck about other people around the world
or our place in the global order, that's not what
fucking happened. So do yourself a favor and look a
little bit more inward. Here you see what was being
(14:39):
offered to people and why maybe they rejected what was
on offer rather than blaming it on people who had,
you know, misgivings about you know, different policies domestic or foreign.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And they were just constantly they were lying about Biden.
They're like, well, actually, like pointing out that he's too
old is fucked up. You guys are fucked up and
that's actually agism and that's discrimination and uh and then
like you know, just no courage of their convictions. They're
like in public acknowledging that there is genocide happening to
(15:15):
people in Gaza, and then behind closed door is just
like full steam ahead, like unprecedented support for that genocide
and those actions Like just I don't you know, I
don't know that people are ranking that as their number
one issue, but I do feel like overall, just like
vibes like you're talking about, it's like that I don't
(15:37):
know exactly what is going to fix this, but it
can't be. That can't be just more of people saying
one thing and doing the exact opposite behind closed doors
and throwing up their hands and acting like that. It's
just there has to be action. Yeah, there has to
have to be action.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's the thing. There just has to be fucking action.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
And that's the courage of their convictions, where they like
say a thing and then actually fight for that thing and.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Do it act action, as they say in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And that is what we say out here every time.
Sorry to use a local term here.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Hey, is it okay if I action to the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And then when I permitted, I say and action and
and then you go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And then I go, thank you, dirty rotten rot s capitals.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
One of the one of the first jokes that really
got me in a movie.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And killed me, just to be like he went there
in the receiptay, I go to the bathroom, Thank you, killer,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
My over is just I was for a lot of
my life overrating how popular Cadillacs we're gonna be. I
like Cadillacs. They're certainly around. The escalade is very popular.
But based on my musical upbringing, both with rap and
then also like pop music, I just thought Cadillac would
(17:00):
be the number one luxury vehicle. You know, yeah, like
Doctor Drey outcasts, but then like you know, so many
rap songs, but also like Lord's most famous song, she
talks about driving Cadillacs and her dreams. Don Henley talks
about like a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac being like
the craziest image of the eighties. Uh ac DC back
(17:24):
in black, like all these like iconic songs like Billy
Joel trading in a Chevy for a Cadillac, acaakac. It's
I don't know, it's just every it's everywhere in popular music.
I don't know how they did not spin that into
like a more enduring success.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't know either, yeah, because I mean, like the
Caddie it had, like right, they rode all that fucking
cred from like the fifties and sixties where that was
like that was the number was nothing higher. Like that
was especially like with black people too, like having a
Catac was like you've made it. And then as like
European cars came in, then people started talking about Beamers
(18:07):
and Benzes and shit. Right, But then but I think
that's when, like that, when the escalade came back, that
was like another huge resurgence because people were like yeah,
because were everybody was into big trucks and they're like, oh,
well that Cadillac has like a big truck that you
can still be do your big truck shit in now.
The lyric that ev I see that, I know that
was like a big thing. It's just yeah, I don't know.
(18:29):
I don't know. I mean I was. I was to look.
Two dope boys in a Cadillac.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Two dope boys in a Cadillac.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh yeah, you're gonna get one.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, I think I gotta get a Caddy Man. Just
a fucking Escalate.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I mean, oh fuck yeah, just get a two thousand
and two Escalate, fucking you know.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Jah Rule once rode in the back of this that's
really Uh there's a photo.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It looks exactly like.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
This car, very similar build.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So, oh okay. I remember the first Cadillac Escalade. It
was basically just a rebadged like suburban or like a Tahoe. Yeah.
And I remember getting in one and being so excited
because like someone someone kid's dad had one, Like, oh shit,
he got the new Escalator. I was like, bro, this
is like the a regular s GMC car as Cadillac logos.
And then they once they switched the outside the front facia,
(19:23):
that's when they really got in their zone. Yeah, the grill.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, but I do I remember getting into a car
and being like, wait, I'm still standing up straight. What
the fuck? What was happening? This car is massive?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Fuck.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Anyways, shout out to cadillacs. I see a big, big
resurgence coming. Okay, this is financial advice. That's right, invest
in caddies. Let's take you a quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're we're back, We're back, and
(20:02):
I like, you're a title for the story Trouble at
the Schoolhouse.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I'm sorry, Look, I had to be petty, because yes,
Brigitte Macarn and Emmanuel Macron did have a what did
they They had a teacher student relationship before.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know, is it really a teacher like she was?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
She was a teacher. Let's let's let's be clear, Bridgie Macarn,
that's actually probably good, just so I can be fully
clear on that. And I'm not just saying it was
at the after school drama club where she and Amnel
Macron first met. She was in charge of the after
school theater club he attended when he was fifteen, alongside
(20:42):
her own daughter.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Their relationship has attracted controversy as she was his.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
All right, yep, so so yeah, she was the she
was running the after school program that he went to
as a fifteen year old.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yep, and but hey, but her daughter was also in
the class, so it's not weird.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But anyway, there together, they're definitely not weird for that
daughter who was like, no, it's cute and her mom
was like, yeah, I know, married girl anyway, so they're married.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
There. There's a huge moment on the internet right now
where everyone's like breaking it down, like there's a Pruder
film because they went to Vietnam and when they landed,
there's like this moment where the presidential plane doors open
and off camera you just see Brigitte absolutely smushing mush
fuck out of his face. It's like a two hander.
It looks like a two hand right there. Yeah, and
she's like the fuck, you know, like not a hit.
(21:36):
It's when you just put your hands on someone's face
and like smush.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Definitely not uh what It wasn't like a act of love,
you know, no, fond It wasn't a fond face smush. No,
it was on his reaction, he's like.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
What the fuck it. It starts off, You're like, okay,
it opens up. The guys say, okay, here's the present.
You can only see him looking he doesn't look like
he's smiling.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And she smushes his face and as she smushes his
head just turns from the mushage in the direction of
the open door, and he like immediately is like.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Guy, it's like some ship on beep where he's like
and then he's like, all right, ever mind ha ha,
hello everybody one moment while I go talk to my
wife real quick.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
The close.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Sorry, close fucking door play.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Doesn't even have a French accent behind door.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Motherfucker oh ship. The official explanation Macrone told reporters and
had NOI he and his wife are quote joking around
as we do quite often.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, at least joking around as we do quite often.
Is the part where it's like you're you're saying too much.
You should have just said we were just joking around
as we they quite often do, as normal humans with
a great thriving marriage.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Done since I was fifteen and she was forty. Uh,
we have been doing this same thing, And they said
the French the Palace said that the scene showed quote
a moment of closeness, but that was enough to feed
the conspiracy theorist. I think what they're referencing is there
was another picture where like they said he had a
bag of cocaine on the table or some shit, or
(23:25):
like there was on the table and like there wasn't
there was like tissues and stuff, and he took it off.
It's just like, I think he's just being mindful of
what the photo looked like when he's talking to other
world leaders. But anyway, I think that's what they're talking about.
But in this instance, no, But I don't know what
the fuck happened, But he got straight up mushed and
he tried to play it off. Another Lasse source said
the couple were quote decompressing one last time before the
(23:47):
start of the visit, larking around. Macrone quote loves playing
jokes on his wife before official occasions, and she always
responds like this, it wasn't even a slap. Now, I
get what it means like to fuck with your partner
and they're like, shit the fuck out and they.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Mush okay, face musage.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
When that happens, usually the person who's the mushy okay,
the receiving end of the mush. Yeah, you're kind of smiley.
You would if you caught me in a video. You
were probably like I would be backing up, being like, okay,
I deserve the face mush. Yeah, yeah, because I know
I got a reaction out of my partner. He looked shocked.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah it was they believe what was happening. No, I
mean maybe it was the unprecedented two hand face mush,
which you rarely see. And she's going at it with
two hands. It looks like she's about to clause. They
could be a I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Kind of reminded me of the Salange elevator video.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You know, these steaks are definitely higher and there. Yeah yeah,
but yeah, that was very die. That was very lightd like.
But that's definitely its problems. I don't know what's going on.
I don't care, but stop trying to act like they
you guys were just fucking goofing are let goofing around.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I think we should both just try this with our
respective partners, Miles, just try and give them a face
mush and see how they react.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, this is normal. What I was joking around as we.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Her mask would be like, don't touch my fucking face
with your dirty hands.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
My wife was going to bed with a face mask
on last night, and I touched it because I just
wanted to see what it felt like, because it was like.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You child, I know.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
She was like, I don't want to feel what it
feels like. It looked like it was like made of ice.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
It was.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It was really, you know, cool looking. I didn't know
if it was like a gel or like a solid.
It was like kind of in between. And she did,
in fact tell me not to touch her face. Oh yeah,
that's yeah. I learned from my mom taught me very early.
Don't touch my motherfucking face. Yea, even in a playful way.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But I'm saying if I got that reaction out of
her majesty, out of like okay, too too, too, too too, like,
that's and that's how I would look if you caught
me through the airplane doors were happening, I would be
smiling and walking away and laughing as I get mushed.
And then if I saw the cameras, I'm like, oh,
what's up, y'all? Yeah, we just mushing in here.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
He's got the look of somebody who like someone a
stranger came up and did that ship to him on
the street. You know, He's like He's like, what the
like she was just bleeding, just lying in wait the
whole flight, like came past her seat. I was like,
you see your stupid face, got your ass. You fuck her,
(26:37):
which is how his wife speaks. Probably absolutely all right,
So this is big news. There might be some corruption
in the Trump administration. Yeah, there's actually a couple stories
in the New York Times about this. There's a New
York Times story I think yesterday or Sunday about just
how much outright corruption there isn't just comparing it to
(27:01):
past presidential scandals and being like weird that there's no
outrage here. Also big like guy in the hot dogs
suit vibes from the New York Times talking about like
normalizing the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
But oh I saw that to him, like who the
fuck are you people?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
But yeah, I mean the big, the big ones that
they're pointing out. The jet is worth more than all
the foreign gifts bestowed on all previous American presidents combined.
He recently hosted an exclusive dinner at his Virginia club
for two hundred and twenty investors in his cryptocurrency that
you had to pay a bunch of money to attend,
(27:40):
like it's just you know, and in no way it's
no pretense of like this is good, this is a
campaign contribution. It's just no up, you're buying giving him
money access.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You're giving him the money for this crypto coin. And
lamar Odom was there. Yeah, it's exciting. I'm like, oh,
what did you do? Do you need a pardon? What's
going on? Lamar? I mean, although he's he's lost as well. Yeah,
that whole thing. Did you see like the fucking the
amount of money they said, like the average layout was
it probably like a million dollars, like for like when
(28:13):
they roughed it all out for those top twenty two
hundred twenty holders, and the fucking dinner they got was
basically two clicks above the fire Festival styrofoam launch. Yeah,
it was really I was like, man, y'all got I
mean whatever, I don't know what the fuck y'all think
you were gonna get. He was there for maybe twenty minutes,
and I think some people probably thought they were like, legit,
(28:34):
gonna fucking talk to Donald Trump or something and maybe
be like, hey, man, you want to come on my podcast.
Spent a million dollars on your crypto but yeah, it
was a total fucking cash grab. And then even Caroline Lovett,
the Press secretary, was like, oh, this isn't in his
official capacity. This isn't like a corrupt thing, because this
isn't his personal capacity.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
You know, I have hobbies.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh my god. But then you're like, oh so then
oh so if it isn't his personal so then it's
not an official act. So then that opens him up
to litigation, to criminal prosecution because before, when everything was
done under his presidential official acts, that meant he had immunity.
But if you're you know, sort of making this clarification
that this was done personally, now you're saying this is
(29:18):
him doing this as like a private citizen. Is that
going to lead to anything? I don't know. We'll see
if someone bothers to explore that legal option.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
There is another story that's just breaking now that is
being treated as a bombshell. I'd love to see if
it has any staying power where he pardoned somebody who
was convicted of tax fraud to being a tax cheat
after the person's mother attended a one million dollar dinner
for Trump. So that feels like just on par with
(29:52):
all the other shit that they're letting slide by. But yeah,
for whatever, Like I guess this one is just like
more just like convicted criminal gets a pardon, and the
entire a pardon application is just about how much money
they've given to him.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So there's just like no that or if you like
your out loud maga all the time is the other
strategy you see like this, like sheriff who just got
fucking pardoned by Donald Trump, the sheriff in Virginia. He's
like a big maga guy. He was basically selling off
badges for seventy five grand a pop as like a
(30:27):
campaign contribution, and with it he was making donors like
auxiliary deputy sheriffs, which I'm sure didn't lead to any
kind of abuse if they were ever pulled over anywhere
and be like, I'm actually, I don't know if you
know this, I'm actually auxiliary deputy sheriff. The other thing
is you can carry a gun around the country if
you want when you're when you're deputized like this, he
(30:48):
was just pardoned by Trump. This guy was fucking convicted
of accepting bribes and was absolutely just Trump was like
h The Biden courts tried to get him for bribery,
and it's just strategy, like you're seeing now, Like there's
even like this one streamer who was causing a bunch
of problems in Asia, like in Japan and now in Korea.
He's been wearing like a Maga hat everywhere to try
(31:09):
and like I'm pretty sure create the momentum so when
he tries to get help from the government, he can
try and like reference all these images of him wearing
a maga hat being an absolute despicable piece of shit,
like going to like memorial statues of like comfort women
who are like these women who were absolutely abused by
the Japanese occupation in Korea, like like like towerking on
(31:31):
these statues and shit, absolutely disrespecting them, and like he's like,
what's the problem, I'm doing everything fine, Like they're just
tripping because I was just dancing or whatever. Like, Bro,
you are so stop trying to act like that's not
like that's all you were fucking doing. You knew exactly
what you were doing. You're trying to incite people by
that's so specific. And he's wearing a maga hat, and
I think he's trying to do the thing where he'll
(31:51):
be like, if it gets too hot, hopefully Donald Trump
will bail me out. I just have I just have
a feeling he might not, sir. We'll see, you'll see.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I mean, but seems like that's his mo right now.
Is just like bail anybody out who gets in trouble,
who is nice to him.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, as long as you don't okay, look, if you
as long as you don't kill another white person, that's right.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
If you don't kill a white here, yeah, yeah, you
have to go to the mainstream media conversion chart so
that you know, like, uh, I think it's twenty thousand
Palestinian children's lives equal one white person in life, one.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Man, one manosphere influencer. Yeah, yeah, I think is maybe
what that conversion rate is there. But they absolutely, I
mean yeah, I think if you don't, if you don't
kill a white person, you're out loud racist. Those are like,
those are the big things. As long as if it's
money crimes, baby, that's easy, that's nothing.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yes, we love that around here.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Switch as long as you don't kill a white person,
that's right, then go ahead, let it cook.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I wonder if it's written out anywhere, just so he
can keep track, because I feel like he you know,
he knows.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's so reflexive. He'll be like he probably he's like,
oh that he wants a parton and did he kill
any white people? Right now? All right, we're good here.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
How much money do you give me?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
We'll talk about some pop culture. We'll be right back,
and we're back. Big weekend at the movies. I'm assuming
you were not going to the movies this weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, no, not going to the movies this weekend. Thought
I thought I could, thought I would, But I'm guessing
you did.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I went twice actually, and Brian the editor also went
this weekend. He went and saw a final destination Bloodlines
says it was fire. I went to see Leelo and Stitch.
That shit, just the the ads from I think it
was like a previous trailer that just got My kids
(33:56):
asked and they were like, we're second that comes out.
We're going to see. So me and some other parents
got together Saturday morning and contributed to an estimated one
hundred and eighty three million dollar box office weekend for
Lee Low and Stitch, which I'm on the record as
being against live action Disney remakes, and I made it
(34:19):
known to the whole theater this is this is culturally
empty exercise. Say that a bunch of little children, and
then the Mission Impossible. I did not see the Mission
Impossible movie. I went and saw Sinners instead, and that
was so fun. I highly I mean, it had been
(34:40):
said to me before that you have to see it
before leave theaters. It's really it's like seeing it in
a movie theater with a movie theater sound system is
it's one of the better approximations of a psychedelic experience.
Like so there's a couple scenes in there that you
just like kind of have to see in a theater,
I think, unless like people's home sound systems are like
(35:03):
way better than mine. But yeah, uh, it's it's channels.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You're rocking at home. You got seven seven point once around?
What do you man?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I got whatever's coming out of the fucking little speakers
at the bottom of Yeah, that is a violation, I know,
but the movies take care of that for me anyways.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, there's just ship that they do with like the
way sound is moving around the room and uh, and
then it's like you know, a good horror movie, it's
like all these other fun like genre bending things, just
like a really successful movie wrapped around these like amazing,
like sensual like psychedelic experiences. I highly recommend it. People
(35:47):
really fuck with like genre switches too.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I feel like that's like, yeah, because it feels it's
it's less predictable, you know what I mean. Like when
you know a genre, you can, like through the repetition
of watching story is you kind of you can kind
of feel how it's gonna end.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, but you kind of be like, oh, oh you thought,
oh shit.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Oh I'm sorry. Oh I'm sorry. Were you you thought
this was safe in here? Switching it up on you?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
My wife had no idea what movie we were going like.
She was just like, oh, yeah, I've heard like people
have recommended this to me. Hadn't done any research. And
when the switch comes and you find out like the
second genre that the movie is, she's like, she didn't.
She's like, why did that just happen? Wait? What is it?
(36:33):
Like she thought it was like a music documentary like
docudrama type thing.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh yep, yep. No I had to do it to him.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
But Sinners brought in another eight million of the box office.
So it's total is two hundred and fifty six million. Oh,
just I am legend at the domestic box office.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I mean it's the end of the industry.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Really, it's bad news. And really that truly that one's
Mission Impossible doing pretty well is good news. Oh also that, yeah,
not a lot of people the headlines are not saying,
like Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning did pretty You know, it
was the best opening for a Mission Impossible movie. But
it's also the fourth most expensive movie of all time.
(37:17):
It cost four hundred million dollars to make, and for
some reason, Variety didn't publish any articles about how it
hasn't made its budget back yet as they did with Sinners.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
But I know, yeah, of course they didn't. Yeah, yeah,
four hundred Well then that's different because obviously with a
with a tent pole film like this, we know over
over time it's obviously going to be profitable. It's just
more the the fact that it was a black filmmaker
trying to sort of get their money.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And yeah, we didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
We didn't like we didn't like that.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Sorry, this is not the record, correct.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I just want to make sure that no, I'm recording
this well, Denzel is obviously my most favorite act.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Look, Denzel was my favorite acts.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Can you put that on the record? Please? Can you
put that on the record?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
But yeah, I want one thing about Lee Loan Stitch.
So weirdly, I was listening to this podcast that came
out five years ago when Wind of Change. Do you
remember when that came out where it's about the theory
that the CIA wrote the song Wind of Change and
ultimately it does not it's not very convincing that that
actually happened. It's good, good, good time, and they do
(38:28):
have like some good information about like soft power CIA shit,
and what one of the details they gave was that
Argo was like the reason Argo exists is because, like
George Tennant, CIA director was like, man, we're always the
bad guy in these movies. We should just like let
them tell the story about one of the good things
(38:49):
that we did. And so it was like basically directly
from the CIA that like Argo actually uh you know,
came out. They were like, let's declassify that one. So yeah,
there's just like a lot good for him, good for that.
You love to see it, You love to see things
work out.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Get out of your own way man, you know, but
it's there's.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
A weird CIA plotline and Leelo and Stitch that I
was like could not stop being like, hmmm, did the
CIA ask for this?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Yeah, it's interesting at a time of yeah, like immigration
enforcement that this is like a story where they the
CIA steps in and like does the right thing, and
like the CIA agent is played by Courtney b Vance
and he's just like a good ends up being a
(39:45):
really good guy and like part of their found family.
Sorry for any spoilers for Leelo and Stitch fans, but
I just also I do want to point out that
this might suggest that the problem with the live action
Snow White remake might not have been Rachel Ziegler's politics
and instead might have been the non existent audience for
(40:07):
a live action reboot of something that was, uh, everybody
who had seen it in theaters was dead. Ye, Like
when snow White came out, everyone was like, a full
length animated movie is impossible, just too many cells. Nobody
could It would take decades. And he was like not
(40:28):
without just not unless I treat my workers like shit, right.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I think it's it's like those things. It's a was
your is your core audience? Still alive. No, don't do it.
If yes, move to the next step. Are you going
to change the race of any of the white people?
If yes, you are, now you are not gonna do
that's gonna that's gonna go down a little bit, because
that's just how these audiences respond. That's why like the
(40:54):
Lion King one did so, I was like, I don't
know my buck, they're lions changes ship. And then with
le Leo Stitch, it's like, yeah, bro, we keep it it.
It's the same. It's the same that motherfucker's an alien.
Uh is Lelo solilo? Everybody don't We're not We're not
changing shit, not changing shit.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
But I mean Stitch even said some controversial things about
like he keeps tweeting about how like it's gonna be
so fun on the internet the day when someone finally does.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
It, it's relaxed, relax Hello.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
It's like sometimes it doesn't seem like he knows what
it means, you know, No, he's just like trying to
pick up on the trend.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
But yeah, he just posts the he just posts the
fucking the clown what's that thing called penny wise? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
And you're like, yo, what do you. What do you
think is gonna happen? Like it, dude, then they're gonna
do m you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (41:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
No, I don't? All right, all right, anyway, Happy police
Officer's Day.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
This is Christopher Dorner and you're like, damn okay, Stitch,
Damn Stitch has some like wild politics or maybe not
based Stitch.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
And finally Fox News, So Kermit was the commencement speaker
at University of Maryland over the weekend, and thank you
go ters all. A lot of people pretty excited about that,
as we've talked about Kermit, one of the most influential
archetypes in modern masculinity. And Fox News did not care
(42:26):
for it. They were pissed.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, if you want what I mean, pump its speaking
on stage, you would have had Trump talk to the
West Point.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Oh yeah, so that was the other big speech. These
are the two speeches. They got a lot of attention.
Trump speaking to West Point and Kermit's who. Kermit told students,
rather than jumping over someone to get what you want,
consider reaching out your hand and taking the leap side
by side, because life is better when we leap together
like a fucking couck.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Yep. Yep, yep. You might as well just said I'm
gonna sit in a chair and watch my old lady
get fucking rammed and be cool about it.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Just gonna be sitting as a chair over here, Piggy
and Hi, I'm gonna sit in my chair and watch
another man. Uh. The reason Kermit gave the speech at Maryland.
Jim Henson graduated from the university and also, uh this
(43:28):
origin story a home economics major, and he immediately like
used his schools of First of all, I didn't know
that was a major. He took that major and fashioned
Kermit the Frog from one of his mom's coats and
a pingpong ball cut in half like for the eyes. Damn,
I've never heard of someone's college degree like translating more
(43:53):
directly right to what they do. But anyways, so it
feels like a perfectly harmless origin story for why Kermit
the Frog was addressing these students. But on Hannity's show,
right wing podcaster Riley Gaines Yeah that's a fucking wrestling
ass name claimed that Kermit's appearance was insulting and out
(44:13):
of touch, arguing that instead of honoring entrepreneurs or veterans
or innovators. They picked Kermit the Frog, but what.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Does that what does that even mean?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Also, like Jim, Jim Henson was pretty innovative, innovative, motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I bet you watch some muppet ass shit growing up.
You fucking loser talking coming at Jim Henson. I okay,
let's let's take it for what. So you're saying it's
insulting that so we should whatever. I don't even I'm like,
I'm not. I was gonna put like pick apart the
fucking hypocrisy of this, and like you like you give
(44:47):
a fuck about veterans, So just miss us all with
this dump plate.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
As an American, I really care about veterans.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, no, you fucking don't.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, you guys do a great job of advocating for
policy that helped veterans.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
That this is, I mean, I think this goes back
to what we're saying about Kermit, and like what Kermit is, right,
Kermit is like the a nice person. Kermit is what
you want more Kermits? We want more Kermits in the world,
you know. And I think because especially for the right
wing fascist project to go over as smoothly as possible,
(45:21):
they have to eliminate empathy being of a trait that
people say is a good thing to have, and Kermit
stands for that, And I can see why they're like, ah,
fucking this guy fucking makes people feel good about doing
good shit for each other. Get him the fuck off
of there, Get a sentient, you know, a board ape
n FT to fucking give a speech.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
That's a true innovator, like somebody who works in crypto,
not Jim. And Kermit stands for that. And he also
sits in the cuck chair for that.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Also buy my n FT.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Also, yeah, like you mentioned, Trump gave a commencement speech
Away Point. Kermits was fifteen minutes and seemed to be
received well by the graduating students. Trump's was I think
an hour over an hour and contained. He suggested that
stealth bombers like don't actually work. He was like, I
(46:19):
don't know that whole stealth thing. I'm sort of wondering.
You mean, if we shape a wing this way, they
don't see it, but the other way they see it.
I'm not so sure. Again, just underlying why he's like
not just unfit to be president, but like to be
the person addressing West Point. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
If the future officers of the fucking military. Yeah, this
is just just to hear it. It's very how you
do that vibe as you did.
Speaker 4 (46:46):
And I've approved a one trillion dollar investment and that
will be again the largest ever in the history of
our country. And we are buying you new arab brand new,
beautiful planes, redesigned planes, brand new planes, totally stealth planes.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
He's talking about it like he's talking up people who
just bought into a time share that's falling apart. And
we got a new community center for you guys to
play ping pong. You're gonna love it, much different than
the rat and shit infested when we have. Now I
hope there are sealth I don't know that whole stealth thing.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
I'm sort of wondering. You mean, if we shape a
wing this way, they don't see it, but the other
way they see it.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
I'm not so sure O's it because silences Everything is
based on his childish understanding of things, and then he
forces that reality on all of us, like even with
the tariffs, like it's all based on this version of
the world the way he thinks it works, and it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
And so he's like, and we're doing it, and everyone's like,
that's not how it fucking works. You're gonna fuck you're
fucking everything up, because that's not how anything works. And
even with this, he's like, I don't think just because
of the shape means you can't see it. It's like
it's not visional, it's not meant to be visually invisible.
It's invisible to fucking radar.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
And I don't know. I can see it when it
drives by me, when I'm on the look, there goes
the switch. When they flew it over, I saw it
clear his day. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's the presidential equivalent
of like going up and being like, magnets, how do
(48:24):
they work?
Speaker 1 (48:25):
You know, exactly because wings like this is bad for yourself.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
He went up and talked about the dangers of trophy
wives to the people. Uh he's physically talking about and this.
At this part, it did seem like he was slurring
a little bit. Oh yeah, but he you know, he
gets he gets a little tuckered out. But specifically the
real estate developer Bill Levitt. You want to hear this, Yeah,
(48:53):
let's let's play it.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Hey, he ended up getting a divorce. What this guy?
This is a commencement speech. There was another thing where
he says real he there was one word he slurred
up real crazy, like I don't even know what his anyway.
Here he is talking about a story about divorce.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
This amount of money, more money than he ever thought
it gain, and he sold his company and he had
nothing to do.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
Could you say a trophy wife.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
I guess we can say a trophy wife.
Speaker 4 (49:26):
It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't That
doesn't work out too well.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
I must tell you a.
Speaker 4 (49:31):
Lot of trophy wives doesn't work out.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
But it made him happy for a little while at least.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
But he found a new wife.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
He sold his little boat.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
I don't know if you know. His eyes are like
fucking closed. It's just like while he's talking, like this
guy is warky silent. Look at his like this.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
He does. His eyes are clo part of this. You
only know trophy wives. You've never met anybody who didn't
have a trophy wife.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
So you're like, oh, this is my day one, Milanya.
She was down with me when I was when I
didn't have nothing.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
That's right, love you girl. Just really poignant stuff to
be leaving the fucking graduates of West Point with the
you know, the dangers of trophy wives. I'm sure that's
exactly what they have to be worried about.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
Who knows what kind of harm you're gonna put these
people into with your decision making. But yeah, at least you,
at least you Warren, at least you kind of projected
your own situation onto this other person, where like and
trophy wives never work out. The next Friday is take
it from me.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Yeah, yeah, take it from Bill Levitt, real estate developer.
It was him, so he had nothing to do. If
you falls asleep on mic, like, it wouldn't even be surprising.
Like I feel like the media would.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Just be Trump. There's so the New York Times would
be like Trump. Trump demonstrates new superpower ability to sleep
while standing.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yeah, it's like what lebron you know, he can rest
out there, you know, without working too hard. Trump's just
up there catching catching Z's. Trump shows new relaxed style
on the mic as he begins snoring halfway into a sentence.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Trump makes All NBA third Team.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Somehow Trump robbed from not making All NBA thirteen. All right, well,
those are some of the things that are trending on
this Tuesday, May twenty seventh. We are back tomorrow with
a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your
(51:43):
vaccines where you still can get your flu shot, don't
do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
you all tomorrow.
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Have you ever wondered what life might be like if you stopped worrying about being wanted, and focused on understanding what you actually want? That was the question Hope Woodard asked herself after a string of situationships inspired her to take a break from sex and dating. She went "boysober," a personal concept that sparked a global movement among women looking to prioritize themselves over men. Now, Hope is looking to expand the ways we explore our relationship to relationships. Taking a bold, unfiltered look into modern love, romance, and self-discovery, Boysober will dive into messy stories about dating, sex, love, friendship, and breaking generational patterns—all with humor, vulnerability, and a fresh perspective.
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