In this edition of It's Nice To Have A Trend, Jack and special guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan discuss the engagement announcement of Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce, an update on Trump's health, The Nat'l Guard picking up trash in D.C. (because there is nothing else to do), an update on the embarrassingly ineffectual Dems and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of It's
Nice to Have a Trend. I had to do it.
I had to do it in honor of the big news,
the biggest news, Taylor Swift is engaged.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
My chances are over.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, you're you're hoping to get.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
In there number one Gaylor Swift Reddit.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
My name is JACKO Brown. I'm throwed to be joined,
but today's very special guest co host. Hello, what was that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Planning my outfit for the wedding?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
For the wedding you think you're in?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
She wouldn't not invite her?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Crazy?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Actually, yeah, you know what if I just randomly was
at the wedding and you guys were like, you didn't
even say anything?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Hey, what we like, had you on the episode after
they got engaged, didn't you like said it like it
was a joke. What the fuck? Yeah? So this is
big news we're going to talk about on tomorrow's episode.
But we just people are freaking out, you know, Swifties
are you know, literally just very happy about that. And
(01:20):
I do like to see everybody kind of coordinated. Nobody's
like I actually think she should have married this one
or you know, they're all just like we're so happy
for her. I mean, I'm sure there are people who
are mad about it, But do.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You think he's going to be upset when they move
in together and he finds Jake jyllen Hall's red scarf?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Do you think I don't even know what that reference
is too, but I know too much. What did she?
I know she used to date.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It was like a song and like a whole like
re release of a ten minute song, and like the
scarf was heavily featured and all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, and if you take the scarf off, his head
falls off.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He's the woman that myth was about.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's right, but that is an ex right, She's got
many storied x'es.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And yeah, they're at least seven stories.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So they announced it on ig with a post that
a lot of people were like, this looks so like
such a basic we got engaged post like it's just but.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I wouldn't expect anything like I wouldn't expect be a
Beyonce level of announcement from Taylor's, Like this is the
most tailored.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Part of what she is. Yeah, yeah, that's part of
her appeal. And the text with the caption was your
English teacher and your gym teacher getting married, which I
think is fun and self effacing and I like it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I like.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Travis stepping into his gym teacher energy.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, but then everybody was like, why didn't you say
music teacher? And then everybody was like, we know why.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She's a writer. Yeah, they had focused group tested and
most people don't know what a music teacher is.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Because like they don't know what a music is.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Arts Department, yes, because they cut music funding across America. Uh,
the BBC has you know, we like to look at
our own media and get a shame channel, the big
beautiful channel, so many are calling it the most beautiful. No,
the actual British BBC has a fucking live update page
as if this were like some kind of like ongoing war. Yeah,
(03:27):
it's like Taylor Swift announced his engagement to Travis and
then like the.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Summer of fucking royal wedding. They are so desperate to redo.
That's right, last one.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They know a royal couple when they see one, you know,
they're like, this is our ship right here. Yeah, some
guys started making bets on polymarket to like, you know,
would would they get?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Is that a new app in l a.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's right, but it's you know, you can gamble on
whether they're going to actually make it to the altar
where you could short.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Like their engagement, Yeah, to their marriage.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, probably over under on how far it's gonna go.
And then the fascists are This is like a thing
I've been noticing where they are letting their central position
because America now like a fully fascist country. They are
letting that go to their head where they like feel
(04:28):
like they have to make everything about them like a
win for them. Like the cracker barrel logo redesign that
sucks and everyone's like, yeah, that sucks. They were like,
well that's a victory. People think it sucks.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That's a victory where they said that it was going woke.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, no, they they turned that into like a woke
thing when it was just like a bad redesign. They're
just like making everything they like, giving themselves vigorous. So
this is Charlie Kirk is saying that this is a
win for fascism because this is going to like make
her more conservative.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I keep saying like everything is a sign of the recession.
I like stup my toe and I'm like it's a
sign of the recession.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's he sees a sign
of the conservative movement everywhere he looks. But yeah, he's
basically saying that she's been like a reactionary lunatic, but
now she's ready to like submit to her man. Yeah.
Taylor Swift famed socialist, Taylor Swift famed a radical leftist.
(05:37):
Taylor Swift so funny here we can, I can play
a little bit of it. Let me see.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But maybe one of the reasons why Taylor Swift has
been so just kind of annoyingly liberal over the last
couple of years is that she's not yet married and
she doesn't have children.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This is non sarcastically. I say this sarcastically. Having children
changes you, getting married changes you. And I hope that
America's biggest pop star marrying the pharmaceutical spokesperson and oh
my god, conservatizing them, Taylor Swift might deradicalize herself. She
(06:17):
might come back down to reality. I want them to
have lots of children.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh, this is so gross, so woman like. By forcing
her to use her body to bear children so that
she like becomes subservient, they're so gross.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
They're trying to like be this like mainstream, like the mainstream,
and they're like, this is actually a win for us,
and it's really just like they can't help but be
weirdos about it and be like, oh, I see this
couple's gotten married. I hope they have many children to
get I hope he impregnates her many times over? Am
I right? My good man?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's like no readers are combining. I know, can you
imagine him at like a frat party?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
He I mean that's the other thing he's like, I mean,
having children changes you, it makes you more conservative.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
This is the guy who like, like what are you
talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Like founded conservative like Turning Point USA and high school
and like is was the most conservative person like from childhood?
Uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He's he like the last Like vagina. He was like, okay,
having its own prerogative with his mom's. And then as
soon as he came out, he like closed it up.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It was like that that's it pulled the ladder up
behind him.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He cut us inbilical cord and tied her up. He
was like we're done, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So I don't know. It's got amazing monsters esque Widow's
peak on this guy.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh yeah, that's true. It's got to fill in the
space where his face should be.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Anyways, Congratulations to the happy couple. We'll talk more about
it tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Congratulations to the potential breeders.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yes, exactly, other potentially good news. Donald Trump, Donald's Trump,
Donald's Trump. Donald Trump has hand. So we've talked about
his ankles. His ankles that are the same with the
top of his legs. Just straight up tube of leg
(08:32):
from ass to foot is what he's got working right now,
which people have said just a tube of leg from
straight down and that's not good. Doctors who aren't his
doctor and aren't paid to be like, god, damn, this
is the healthiest man I've ever laid my medically trained
eyes on the other like, real doctors are like, that's bad.
(08:57):
That's usually a sign of you know, heart failure and
other things. Well, now he's got a new look. He's
serving a new luke, which is a glob of makeup
on his hand that looks like an accidental paint blotch
and that keeps being there. Like people are like, that's
(09:19):
he's really bad at applying makeup.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
This bitch cannot blend for the life of.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Him, and he's not trying, like Jesus.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Literally, it looked like he went to it looks like
he went to a Sephora and was just like all
turned around, wrong aisle, wrong foundation.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It looks accidental. It looks like like he like, oh,
you got shipped on your like you know, like a
it's blended as well as like a glob of mustard
on someone's face.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You know, which is what his makeup is made out of. Actually,
I like.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
To go with a mustard based or of a ketchup gay. Yeah,
he kind of blends ketchup and mustard so to get
that nice, healthy orange sheen. But yeah, I just think
this is a sign of where we are. And we'll
talk about this after the break in our devolution into fascism,
(10:14):
is that people recognize at some level that we're not
getting out of this through elections or through like any
means like that have to do with democracy like that,
Like he has overthrown all of those things, and the
Democratic Party is not the one to be pushing back,
(10:36):
and so we're just going to continue to be like
but he looks like he lost his breath there for
a second. Is that No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We're just like really hoping God will do what we
do is laughing.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, So I think this is going to continue to
be a story like the Medical Beat, Like I feel
like you can just have a daily podcast that is like,
how's Trump's vitals looking to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I Mitch McConnell isn't even.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Dead yet, like exactly. It's like, none of these people
are ever gonna die. Guys, We're gonna have to figure
figure out some other way out of this. Anyways. Uh,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
(11:26):
And we're back. And another big story they were seeing
is that the National Guard in Washington, d c. Uh
you know, deployed to conquer the complete and utter lawlessness
of Washington, d C. However, so they showed up and
since that problem doesn't actually exist, they are, you know,
(11:49):
either hassling random people on the street or now they're
being asked to pick up litter, which.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Is fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So based it's like this, this is the thing, and
again it kind of goes with the like previous thing
of like them just like taking good ideas and just
doing them in their bad way. But it turns out
that they were sent on a Beautification and Restoration Mission
in Lafayette Park just outside of the White House, and
(12:18):
they're just like, see they're wearing like the orange reflector
vests that I'm on the top.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Of Camo, which a tweet pointed out.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yes, yeah, exactly, that's right. They had to wear them
because otherwise they'd be completely invisible to the naked eye.
So the problem here is that, I mean, this is
something that the cities actually need. I was in Japan
and Korea earlier this year and noticed the cities were
much cleaner than our cities and couldn't figure it out
(12:48):
until I noticed that there are small crews of people
walking around cleaning up the city.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Like it's fucking Disneyland. We need that everywhere, right, exactly
like Disneyland is. This is this weird like mirage of
like what a functioning town would look like just because
they're allowed to like pay for things the way a
city in anywhere else would be. But in America you
just had mascots.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, you just like bankrupt your city, Like nobody that
they've turned it into this weird thing. Where in America,
like funding public works is like seen as a bad
idea somehow, and so nothing is funded other than the police. Like, yeah,
they had these like groups of people going around cleaning
up the city. And then I noticed something really weird.
(13:33):
These people who are in charge of like cleaning up
the city didn't have assault rifles. Like they didn't even
have like normal sized like cop handguns.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's great, that's beautiful. Let's get weird. I I love it.
There was a fuck this guy but a Seinfeld episode
where he talked about like cops should be cleaning up
like when they have downtime, and I'm like, that's the
only good idea this man ever come up with.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And so yeah, I always walking around with nothing to do,
grab a broom. Yeah yeah, yeah, great line. True.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, So I think they should. I think that's awesome.
I think people are saying, like people who are mad
at Trump are saying like that's beneath them or whatever.
But I think, like trash collection is such an important
and integral part of like city of the city and
like work, and like they should get like people who
do that should get paid well and should get protections
(14:30):
and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And so if they just shouldn't have assault rifles, they
shouldn't be topped.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, yeah, they shouldn't nobody should have assault rifles. Like
just take put that in the bag as you're throwing
the trash away, and uh, we're good, We're good to go.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
The Joe Biden thing, like when Joe Biden was president,
was you know, listening to the Democratic strategists who are like,
we can't say defund the police because people get scared
by that. Like he had this big speech where he's like,
people talk about defund the police. Police are are psychiatrists,
there are priests, there are surgeons. I don't know if
(15:07):
he said that, but he was like, they're you know,
take care of us. There are therapists, are psychiatrist they
take care of the homeless. We need to fund them more.
And it's like, no, the thing is the problem. They
should you you should fund those things which you don't currently,
and instead all you do is fund the police. The
(15:28):
whole idea of defund the police is take the funding
that you're giving only to the police and give it
to these other ideas like picking up garbage and shit.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Defund the police. Fund the police, right, like, take away
their money and make them more fun. Guys.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, Brian the editors in Mexico City where you know,
they have cleaning crews the clean up the city, and
the city is to his American eyes, bafflingly clean.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's why we think the happiest place on Earth is Disneyland,
and it's really just like anywhere that's not here, because
all these other places are doing more right by their
citizens than the US's.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
My theory is that disney is popular because of it's
actually like has a funded, funded public workforce, and also
as a walkable city. It's the only walkable city anybody's
ever been to. Yeah, there's not like a highway is
just like going down the middle of it that you're
afraid your children are gonna get fucking run over by
the more main street Disneyland is like, right, the main
(16:34):
main street Disneyland is like the only road that you
can like walk around on in America. Everything else has
been like turned into fucking you know a strode.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You know, goofy got a cyber truck. I heard, so
who knows.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Right, Yeah, in America, we have once weekly street sweepers
that just come through and just spray trash all over.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
The place, crash everywhere, and then you get parking tickets
for it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yes, what a good what a seal. Just generally Democrats are.
The way they're dealing with the ice raids and the
invun of oversities is yeah, at first they were like,
we're gonna like highlight where people have been unjustly imprisoned
and we're going to like make a big deal about that.
(17:19):
And that you saw Trump's approval on immigration like drop.
And then of course when the Democrats see something working,
they immediately fucking back away from it and.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
They're just it's like a man when he's going down
on you and and keep doing that and then he's like, oh,
I'm gonna switch, and you're like why just stop?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You know, there we go swish perfect analogy.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's me as Joan Rivers.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's right. I like it. But yeah, there's I don't know,
it's it's I'm waiting for them to just be like
these are very like all these things that were running away,
Like it seems like they think that Trump's sending troops
into people's cities is a like like a politically savvy
(18:08):
mood move and like it's not like everybody who lives
in those cities is fucking so unhappy with it. The
people who are going in are wearing masks and like
abducting innocent people.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, it's I will say that. I really like the
response from Mayor Wu. And I also heard like Pritzker
said something about it, but I'm not sure on that front.
But Mayor Wu like took She's awesome. She took a
really strong stance in Boston, and I love how she's
been like communicating and being very clear on her progressiveness
(18:43):
and like her protection of her city without kind of
having this like mealy mouthed mostly Democrat response to things. Yeah,
she's not looking at it through like a self interested lens.
So I think we need more leaders like that, or
people who are willing to like go to the fucking
ice detention centers and like demand to inspect it, or
(19:04):
like visit Kilmar Obrega Garcia who's now being fucking deported
to Uganda, which he's never been to, like to have
people show up physically, to have American officials show up
physically and put their bodies on the line just like
every other citizen who's protesting is Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I feel like their advisors have told them that they're
like backed into this like corner of like where we
can't do anything because of like outdated polling and advisor
and strategists speak about how being tough on crime pole
like polled well or whatever. But the only meanwhile, the
only people who are popular in the party remotely are
(19:43):
like Bernie aoc Zoramumdani, like people who seem to have
like the courage of their convictions that don't like shift
based on like what the polling says.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I want to say, like aoc and Bernie could use
some improval in some areas, absolutely, but just in terms
of like they're yes, they're more generally more progressive than
the other.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, and like yeah, consistent on everything except Israel, but
they're yeah, I don't know there. It's very frustrating. You're
seeing it in the New York Times too, where they're
like taught they've kind of immediately swallowed this idea that
like the taking over the city is like a political winner,
(20:24):
and like there's this Alec Carritt Santus, frequent guest on
the show, has pointed out all these different examples where
the New York Times has been like, you know, just
like talking about it approvingly. Being Still, many see Trump's
actions as smart politics or even long overdue necessary steps.
Adam Gelb, the president and chief executive of the Council
(20:46):
and Criminal Justice, a policy think tank, said mister Trump's
actions could have a short term effect because removing dangerous
people and putting more eyes on the streets can help.
Except that's not what you're fucking doing, Like, that's not
what are you talking about in Washington, Baltimore, in.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Chicago, like parents and children, and.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You're arresting seventy percent people who don't have like that's
the actual figure, seventy percent people who don't have fucking
any criminal records. And I don't know, I just if
they keep if this continues to be the response where
they're just like, well, he's got us on this one,
and not viewing it as they like very clear opportunity
(21:25):
to be like, no, we're the moral alternative. We're against
the people with masks coming into your town with assault
rifles and arresting innocent people and kidnapping innocent people and
like fucking sending them to you know, dangerous situations. If
they don't see that as the opportunity, like I that
(21:45):
it is.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I just they haven't They've been like throwing people under
the bus. They threw trans people under the bus. They've
thrown immigrants under the bus when they shifted their policy
on it to like essentially what was like the twenty
twenty Trump policy. Like, so it's that there may establish
themselves as like the default second party. So either like
(22:07):
it needs to be such a shift that we completely
change the the rather than the esthetics of the Democratic
Party like we do so many like local elections for
progressives are elected that it completely like changes the structure
of it from the inside out, or we have like
another fucking party like rise up that is actually progressive
and like not just like gay Republicans, Like that's what
(22:31):
it feels like. They're like, we're Republicans but gay, like right,
it doesn't feel like they even protect like any other
like or any even queer people like.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The Republicans from ten years ago who were trying to
take away your rights back then. Also but seems to
be like we're like Cheney, yeah yeah, but I just
think this is going to go worse than people like
uh we talked about m guessing the journalists who was
like they're in Russia during the rise of Putin and
(23:05):
how they are like looking at this and being like
this is exactly what happens, Like you're going to continue
to and like I've heard even like people and like
Choppo were talking about how like this is just Trump
like be like gesturing, but like there's no long term plan.
I think he's going to keep doing shit like this.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Until people are everywhere.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, a military rule everywhere, Like I think.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
We've already gotten used to it, like in La like
I mean they're protesters and like this, like the citizens
are trying to do as much as they can, but
like the seated like democrats, like I don't know what
the fuck they're doing. You know, they've like now this
has become normalized.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, like m guests and talked about how like in Russia,
you would like look a year later after like Putin
was doing something and like nobody pushed back and be like,
oh man, we should have like done something. Then now
we're out of options. And then a year after that
you look and you're like, oh, it's actually worse than
it was like back then, Like it just keeps getting worse,
and you have an authoritarian person who's just pushing and
(24:07):
pushing until like somebody stops them. Nothing is going to change.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I just saw a tweet that was talking about how
Trump has extended control over Washington by taking management of
Union Station away from Amtrak, and then it's quote tweeted
with that Barbie meme from the Barbie movie. She thinks
I'm a fascist, but I don't control the railways or
the flow of commerce. Yes, and it's like, now he's
doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, he's taking over room Karlin. The only good way
to get into Washington, DC is Amtrak. Take that Reagan National,
you piece of shit and dulls named after Ronald Reagan
and the head of the CIA. Anyways, Paula VI, what
a pleasure having you guest hosting today and tomorrow. Where
(24:51):
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Speaker 1 (25:39):
Hell yeah, all right, that is going to do it
for us this afternoon. We're back tomorrow with the whole
last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines where
you still can't get your flu shots, don't do nothing
about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of It's
Nice to Have a Trend. I had to do it.
I had to do it in honor of the big news,
the biggest news, Taylor Swift is engaged.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
My chances are over.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, you're you're hoping to get.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
In there number one Gaylor Swift Reddit.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
My name is JACKO Brown. I'm throwed to be joined,
but today's very special guest co host. Hello, what was that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Planning my outfit for the wedding?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
For the wedding you think you're in?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
She wouldn't not invite her?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Crazy?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Actually, yeah, you know what if I just randomly was
at the wedding and you guys were like, you didn't
even say anything?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Hey, what we like, had you on the episode after
they got engaged, didn't you like said it like it
was a joke. What the fuck? Yeah? So this is
big news we're going to talk about on tomorrow's episode.
But we just people are freaking out, you know, Swifties
are you know, literally just very happy about that. And
(01:20):
I do like to see everybody kind of coordinated. Nobody's
like I actually think she should have married this one
or you know, they're all just like we're so happy
for her. I mean, I'm sure there are people who
are mad about it, But do.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You think he's going to be upset when they move
in together and he finds Jake jyllen Hall's red scarf?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Do you think I don't even know what that reference
is too, but I know too much. What did she?
I know she used to date.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It was like a song and like a whole like
re release of a ten minute song, and like the
scarf was heavily featured and all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, and if you take the scarf off, his head
falls off.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He's the woman that myth was about.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's right, but that is an ex right, She's got
many storied x'es.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And yeah, they're at least seven stories.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So they announced it on ig with a post that
a lot of people were like, this looks so like
such a basic we got engaged post like it's just but.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I wouldn't expect anything like I wouldn't expect be a
Beyonce level of announcement from Taylor's, Like this is the
most tailored.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Part of what she is. Yeah, yeah, that's part of
her appeal. And the text with the caption was your
English teacher and your gym teacher getting married, which I
think is fun and self effacing and I like it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I like.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Travis stepping into his gym teacher energy.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, but then everybody was like, why didn't you say
music teacher? And then everybody was like, we know why.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She's a writer. Yeah, they had focused group tested and
most people don't know what a music teacher is.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Because like they don't know what a music is.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Arts Department, yes, because they cut music funding across America. Uh,
the BBC has you know, we like to look at
our own media and get a shame channel, the big
beautiful channel, so many are calling it the most beautiful. No,
the actual British BBC has a fucking live update page
as if this were like some kind of like ongoing war. Yeah,
(03:27):
it's like Taylor Swift announced his engagement to Travis and
then like the.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Summer of fucking royal wedding. They are so desperate to redo.
That's right, last one.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They know a royal couple when they see one, you know,
they're like, this is our ship right here. Yeah, some
guys started making bets on polymarket to like, you know,
would would they get?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Is that a new app in l a.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's right, but it's you know, you can gamble on
whether they're going to actually make it to the altar
where you could short.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Like their engagement, Yeah, to their marriage.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, probably over under on how far it's gonna go.
And then the fascists are This is like a thing
I've been noticing where they are letting their central position
because America now like a fully fascist country. They are
letting that go to their head where they like feel
(04:28):
like they have to make everything about them like a
win for them. Like the cracker barrel logo redesign that
sucks and everyone's like, yeah, that sucks. They were like,
well that's a victory. People think it sucks.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That's a victory where they said that it was going woke.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, no, they they turned that into like a woke
thing when it was just like a bad redesign. They're
just like making everything they like, giving themselves vigorous. So
this is Charlie Kirk is saying that this is a
win for fascism because this is going to like make
her more conservative.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I keep saying like everything is a sign of the recession.
I like stup my toe and I'm like it's a
sign of the recession.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's he sees a sign
of the conservative movement everywhere he looks. But yeah, he's
basically saying that she's been like a reactionary lunatic, but
now she's ready to like submit to her man. Yeah.
Taylor Swift famed socialist, Taylor Swift famed a radical leftist.
(05:37):
Taylor Swift so funny here we can, I can play
a little bit of it. Let me see.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But maybe one of the reasons why Taylor Swift has
been so just kind of annoyingly liberal over the last
couple of years is that she's not yet married and
she doesn't have children.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This is non sarcastically. I say this sarcastically. Having children
changes you, getting married changes you. And I hope that
America's biggest pop star marrying the pharmaceutical spokesperson and oh
my god, conservatizing them, Taylor Swift might deradicalize herself. She
(06:17):
might come back down to reality. I want them to
have lots of children.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh, this is so gross, so woman like. By forcing
her to use her body to bear children so that
she like becomes subservient, they're so gross.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
They're trying to like be this like mainstream, like the mainstream,
and they're like, this is actually a win for us,
and it's really just like they can't help but be
weirdos about it and be like, oh, I see this
couple's gotten married. I hope they have many children to
get I hope he impregnates her many times over? Am
I right? My good man?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's like no readers are combining. I know, can you
imagine him at like a frat party?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
He I mean that's the other thing he's like, I mean,
having children changes you, it makes you more conservative.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
This is the guy who like, like what are you
talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Like founded conservative like Turning Point USA and high school
and like is was the most conservative person like from childhood?
Uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He's he like the last Like vagina. He was like, okay,
having its own prerogative with his mom's. And then as
soon as he came out, he like closed it up.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It was like that that's it pulled the ladder up
behind him.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He cut us inbilical cord and tied her up. He
was like we're done, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So I don't know. It's got amazing monsters esque Widow's
peak on this guy.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh yeah, that's true. It's got to fill in the
space where his face should be.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Anyways, Congratulations to the happy couple. We'll talk more about
it tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Congratulations to the potential breeders.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yes, exactly, other potentially good news. Donald Trump, Donald's Trump,
Donald's Trump. Donald Trump has hand. So we've talked about
his ankles. His ankles that are the same with the
top of his legs. Just straight up tube of leg
(08:32):
from ass to foot is what he's got working right now,
which people have said just a tube of leg from
straight down and that's not good. Doctors who aren't his
doctor and aren't paid to be like, god, damn, this
is the healthiest man I've ever laid my medically trained
eyes on the other like, real doctors are like, that's bad.
(08:57):
That's usually a sign of you know, heart failure and
other things. Well, now he's got a new look. He's
serving a new luke, which is a glob of makeup
on his hand that looks like an accidental paint blotch
and that keeps being there. Like people are like, that's
(09:19):
he's really bad at applying makeup.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
This bitch cannot blend for the life of.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Him, and he's not trying, like Jesus.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Literally, it looked like he went to it looks like
he went to a Sephora and was just like all
turned around, wrong aisle, wrong foundation.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It looks accidental. It looks like like he like, oh,
you got shipped on your like you know, like a
it's blended as well as like a glob of mustard
on someone's face.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You know, which is what his makeup is made out of. Actually,
I like.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
To go with a mustard based or of a ketchup gay. Yeah,
he kind of blends ketchup and mustard so to get
that nice, healthy orange sheen. But yeah, I just think
this is a sign of where we are. And we'll
talk about this after the break in our devolution into fascism,
(10:14):
is that people recognize at some level that we're not
getting out of this through elections or through like any
means like that have to do with democracy like that,
Like he has overthrown all of those things, and the
Democratic Party is not the one to be pushing back,
(10:36):
and so we're just going to continue to be like
but he looks like he lost his breath there for
a second. Is that No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We're just like really hoping God will do what we
do is laughing.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, So I think this is going to continue to
be a story like the Medical Beat, Like I feel
like you can just have a daily podcast that is like,
how's Trump's vitals looking to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I Mitch McConnell isn't even.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Dead yet, like exactly. It's like, none of these people
are ever gonna die. Guys, We're gonna have to figure
figure out some other way out of this. Anyways. Uh,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
(11:26):
And we're back. And another big story they were seeing
is that the National Guard in Washington, d c. Uh
you know, deployed to conquer the complete and utter lawlessness
of Washington, d C. However, so they showed up and
since that problem doesn't actually exist, they are, you know,
(11:49):
either hassling random people on the street or now they're
being asked to pick up litter, which.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Is fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So based it's like this, this is the thing, and
again it kind of goes with the like previous thing
of like them just like taking good ideas and just
doing them in their bad way. But it turns out
that they were sent on a Beautification and Restoration Mission
in Lafayette Park just outside of the White House, and
(12:18):
they're just like, see they're wearing like the orange reflector
vests that I'm on the top.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Of Camo, which a tweet pointed out.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yes, yeah, exactly, that's right. They had to wear them
because otherwise they'd be completely invisible to the naked eye.
So the problem here is that, I mean, this is
something that the cities actually need. I was in Japan
and Korea earlier this year and noticed the cities were
much cleaner than our cities and couldn't figure it out
(12:48):
until I noticed that there are small crews of people
walking around cleaning up the city.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Like it's fucking Disneyland. We need that everywhere, right, exactly
like Disneyland is. This is this weird like mirage of
like what a functioning town would look like just because
they're allowed to like pay for things the way a
city in anywhere else would be. But in America you
just had mascots.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, you just like bankrupt your city, Like nobody that
they've turned it into this weird thing. Where in America,
like funding public works is like seen as a bad
idea somehow, and so nothing is funded other than the police. Like, yeah,
they had these like groups of people going around cleaning
up the city. And then I noticed something really weird.
(13:33):
These people who are in charge of like cleaning up
the city didn't have assault rifles. Like they didn't even
have like normal sized like cop handguns.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's great, that's beautiful. Let's get weird. I I love it.
There was a fuck this guy but a Seinfeld episode
where he talked about like cops should be cleaning up
like when they have downtime, and I'm like, that's the
only good idea this man ever come up with.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And so yeah, I always walking around with nothing to do,
grab a broom. Yeah yeah, yeah, great line. True.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, So I think they should. I think that's awesome.
I think people are saying, like people who are mad
at Trump are saying like that's beneath them or whatever.
But I think, like trash collection is such an important
and integral part of like city of the city and
like work, and like they should get like people who
do that should get paid well and should get protections
(14:30):
and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And so if they just shouldn't have assault rifles, they
shouldn't be topped.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, yeah, they shouldn't nobody should have assault rifles. Like
just take put that in the bag as you're throwing
the trash away, and uh, we're good, We're good to go.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
The Joe Biden thing, like when Joe Biden was president,
was you know, listening to the Democratic strategists who are like,
we can't say defund the police because people get scared
by that. Like he had this big speech where he's like,
people talk about defund the police. Police are are psychiatrists,
there are priests, there are surgeons. I don't know if
(15:07):
he said that, but he was like, they're you know,
take care of us. There are therapists, are psychiatrist they
take care of the homeless. We need to fund them more.
And it's like, no, the thing is the problem. They
should you you should fund those things which you don't currently,
and instead all you do is fund the police. The
(15:28):
whole idea of defund the police is take the funding
that you're giving only to the police and give it
to these other ideas like picking up garbage and shit.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Defund the police. Fund the police, right, like, take away
their money and make them more fun. Guys.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, Brian the editors in Mexico City where you know,
they have cleaning crews the clean up the city, and
the city is to his American eyes, bafflingly clean.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's why we think the happiest place on Earth is Disneyland,
and it's really just like anywhere that's not here, because
all these other places are doing more right by their
citizens than the US's.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
My theory is that disney is popular because of it's
actually like has a funded, funded public workforce, and also
as a walkable city. It's the only walkable city anybody's
ever been to. Yeah, there's not like a highway is
just like going down the middle of it that you're
afraid your children are gonna get fucking run over by
the more main street Disneyland is like, right, the main
(16:34):
main street Disneyland is like the only road that you
can like walk around on in America. Everything else has
been like turned into fucking you know a strode.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You know, goofy got a cyber truck. I heard, so
who knows.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Right, Yeah, in America, we have once weekly street sweepers
that just come through and just spray trash all over.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
The place, crash everywhere, and then you get parking tickets
for it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yes, what a good what a seal. Just generally Democrats are.
The way they're dealing with the ice raids and the
invun of oversities is yeah, at first they were like,
we're gonna like highlight where people have been unjustly imprisoned
and we're going to like make a big deal about that.
(17:19):
And that you saw Trump's approval on immigration like drop.
And then of course when the Democrats see something working,
they immediately fucking back away from it and.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
They're just it's like a man when he's going down
on you and and keep doing that and then he's like, oh,
I'm gonna switch, and you're like why just stop?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You know, there we go swish perfect analogy.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's me as Joan Rivers.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's right. I like it. But yeah, there's I don't know,
it's it's I'm waiting for them to just be like
these are very like all these things that were running away,
Like it seems like they think that Trump's sending troops
into people's cities is a like like a politically savvy
(18:08):
mood move and like it's not like everybody who lives
in those cities is fucking so unhappy with it. The
people who are going in are wearing masks and like
abducting innocent people.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, it's I will say that. I really like the
response from Mayor Wu. And I also heard like Pritzker
said something about it, but I'm not sure on that front.
But Mayor Wu like took She's awesome. She took a
really strong stance in Boston, and I love how she's
been like communicating and being very clear on her progressiveness
(18:43):
and like her protection of her city without kind of
having this like mealy mouthed mostly Democrat response to things. Yeah,
she's not looking at it through like a self interested lens.
So I think we need more leaders like that, or
people who are willing to like go to the fucking
ice detention centers and like demand to inspect it, or
(19:04):
like visit Kilmar Obrega Garcia who's now being fucking deported
to Uganda, which he's never been to, like to have
people show up physically, to have American officials show up
physically and put their bodies on the line just like
every other citizen who's protesting is Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I feel like their advisors have told them that they're
like backed into this like corner of like where we
can't do anything because of like outdated polling and advisor
and strategists speak about how being tough on crime pole
like polled well or whatever. But the only meanwhile, the
only people who are popular in the party remotely are
(19:43):
like Bernie aoc Zoramumdani, like people who seem to have
like the courage of their convictions that don't like shift
based on like what the polling says.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I want to say, like aoc and Bernie could use
some improval in some areas, absolutely, but just in terms
of like they're yes, they're more generally more progressive than
the other.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, and like yeah, consistent on everything except Israel, but
they're yeah, I don't know there. It's very frustrating. You're
seeing it in the New York Times too, where they're
like taught they've kind of immediately swallowed this idea that
like the taking over the city is like a political winner,
(20:24):
and like there's this Alec Carritt Santus, frequent guest on
the show, has pointed out all these different examples where
the New York Times has been like, you know, just
like talking about it approvingly. Being Still, many see Trump's
actions as smart politics or even long overdue necessary steps.
Adam Gelb, the president and chief executive of the Council
(20:46):
and Criminal Justice, a policy think tank, said mister Trump's
actions could have a short term effect because removing dangerous
people and putting more eyes on the streets can help.
Except that's not what you're fucking doing, Like, that's not
what are you talking about in Washington, Baltimore, in.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Chicago, like parents and children, and.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You're arresting seventy percent people who don't have like that's
the actual figure, seventy percent people who don't have fucking
any criminal records. And I don't know, I just if
they keep if this continues to be the response where
they're just like, well, he's got us on this one,
and not viewing it as they like very clear opportunity
(21:25):
to be like, no, we're the moral alternative. We're against
the people with masks coming into your town with assault
rifles and arresting innocent people and kidnapping innocent people and
like fucking sending them to you know, dangerous situations. If
they don't see that as the opportunity, like I that
(21:45):
it is.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I just they haven't They've been like throwing people under
the bus. They threw trans people under the bus. They've
thrown immigrants under the bus when they shifted their policy
on it to like essentially what was like the twenty
twenty Trump policy. Like, so it's that there may establish
themselves as like the default second party. So either like
(22:07):
it needs to be such a shift that we completely
change the the rather than the esthetics of the Democratic
Party like we do so many like local elections for
progressives are elected that it completely like changes the structure
of it from the inside out, or we have like
another fucking party like rise up that is actually progressive
and like not just like gay Republicans, Like that's what
(22:31):
it feels like. They're like, we're Republicans but gay, like right,
it doesn't feel like they even protect like any other
like or any even queer people like.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The Republicans from ten years ago who were trying to
take away your rights back then. Also but seems to
be like we're like Cheney, yeah yeah, but I just
think this is going to go worse than people like
uh we talked about m guessing the journalists who was
like they're in Russia during the rise of Putin and
(23:05):
how they are like looking at this and being like
this is exactly what happens, Like you're going to continue
to and like I've heard even like people and like
Choppo were talking about how like this is just Trump
like be like gesturing, but like there's no long term plan.
I think he's going to keep doing shit like this.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Until people are everywhere.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, a military rule everywhere, Like I think.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
We've already gotten used to it, like in La like
I mean they're protesters and like this, like the citizens
are trying to do as much as they can, but
like the seated like democrats, like I don't know what
the fuck they're doing. You know, they've like now this
has become normalized.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, like m guests and talked about how like in Russia,
you would like look a year later after like Putin
was doing something and like nobody pushed back and be like,
oh man, we should have like done something. Then now
we're out of options. And then a year after that
you look and you're like, oh, it's actually worse than
it was like back then, Like it just keeps getting worse,
and you have an authoritarian person who's just pushing and
(24:07):
pushing until like somebody stops them. Nothing is going to change.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I just saw a tweet that was talking about how
Trump has extended control over Washington by taking management of
Union Station away from Amtrak, and then it's quote tweeted
with that Barbie meme from the Barbie movie. She thinks
I'm a fascist, but I don't control the railways or
the flow of commerce. Yes, and it's like, now he's
doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, he's taking over room Karlin. The only good way
to get into Washington, DC is Amtrak. Take that Reagan National,
you piece of shit and dulls named after Ronald Reagan
and the head of the CIA. Anyways, Paula VI, what
a pleasure having you guest hosting today and tomorrow. Where
(24:51):
can people find you? Follow you all that good.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Stuff at Paulaviganalan p A L l A V I
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tour more, do more shows, so please follow me and
come to shows. If I'm in the city, you're in
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me y you guys. I also have Facial Recognition comedy
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(25:36):
But yeah, come through. I'm excited to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Hell yeah, all right, that is going to do it
for us this afternoon. We're back tomorrow with the whole
last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
each other, be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines where
you still can't get your flu shots, don't do nothing
about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.
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