In this edition of It's Trending Home, Miles and Jacquis discuss Mitch McConnell still being alive… sort of, MTG & Tucker Carlson starting their own party, JD being averse to "low wage foreigners", Trump's overly large July 4th fireworks display, the trailer for 'Wonka's Golden Ticket', The Onion's takeover of InfoWars and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, it's Thursday, It's July second, and it's time for
this wonderful afternoon audition for It's Trending.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That's from bc R on the discord. It's trending home.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
That's what the English fans say when they believe that
they're gonna win the World Cup, that it's coming home.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Is it? Is it? I don't know. I mean there's
some Harry Kane came in massive. Are you talking about football?
Talking about talking football?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I think they were.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The England match was happening right like he was ending
right as we were recording with Matt Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Congo fuck bro almost almost did that ship.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But you know what, Harry Kane was Kanaan anyway, Miles Gray,
I'm joined by Jack Easney.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What's doing with you?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Man?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's do with I see yesterday? What'd you eat? What
are you doing TV? What I eat?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I went to the beach yesterday. It was beautiful. Yeah,
I went to the beach. It only took like thirty,
like forty five minutes to get there, about forty minutes
to get back. Went to Malibu, to the fucking sand.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And shitt my toes in the sand.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Made me a sandwich made me a sandwich and some
grapes and a couple of drinks.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Took gummies. Oh yeah, there you go. I was like,
make it all make sense. There it is, you know,
And but that's just what I need to get. I
need to get.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Let me tell you something about people in LA for
those who don't know, Yeah, we don't go to the
fucking water because La is too big unless you live
on the West side of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Going to the water, it is a journey. Journey. Yeah,
it's a journey. But I need to start doing.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I need to start taking I take journeys for everything
else that brings me down. I need to start taking
that journey at least once every like two weeks, two
three weeks, just to like go reset, be about the ocean.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
The real thing is, like you gotta find a little
beach that speaks to you. Because we have so much
beach space in southern California. I think a lot of
people just think, like they go to Santa Monica or
Malibur or whatever. There's Zuma, there's a Portos, there's so
many There's roy Rogers. There's a couple of little viby
spots that you can go to I used to be
that shit all the time in college.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'll hit up I'll hit up Mattan Beach sometimes, a
little beach town if I want a beach town. But
you know the beach I hanged up in Malibu, which
is like the best. It is kind of a smaller beach,
but it's carbon beach, billionaire's beach. Oh yeah, And I
go in right on the side of Paul Allen's house,
Paul Allen from Microsoft, his biggest house has a coastal
(02:45):
access point right next to it that they try to
but I've been knowing about it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No, no, no, yeah, yeah, you can get it.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And nobody's ever nobody's ever on that beach, like yeah,
it's so chill. The water is literally right, it's small
right there. The best beach like that is in the
popular areas of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Is great without being fully in the cut. Well, I'm glad,
damn what a day you had?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I did? I did? I did not have that kind
I'm sorry, but anyway, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's just, you know, just work stuff. I'm glad to
be employed. That's what it's all about. Tomorrow, next week.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What one day? One day? Yeah, yeah, one day one
day I'll hear what this whole beach is about. I'll
check it out for myself. But let's talk about what's trending.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
First up, Mitch McConnell is trending because about two weeks ago,
Mitch McConnell stopped coming to work.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We're like, what the fuck happened to him?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Because he I went through his like mixtape of falls
and brain farts and ship that he's had over the
last year, and you're like, bro, this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Is something's going on.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
His aide said he was hospital hospitalized and either like,
he'll be back to work once he's recovered, don't worry
about him. They gave no explanation for the hospitalization, since
the cool thing about being an old poly addition is
that you hide how close you are to death to
death because your ego won't allow you to let go
of that power, so you just just just you pretend
everything is all good. Well, now we know what happened,
(04:11):
and it's not good. Apparently he was found unconscious after
suffering a heart attack and he was received CPR when
paramedics got there. Uh, and that's and he's been hospitalized
ever since.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
This dude keeps having run ins with the Reaper. He's
he died. He died, I.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Bet you, and they brought him, they were able to
bring him back to life, and now he's just brain dead.
Oh you think it's it's like that. I think he died.
I think I think he stopped. I think his heart technically,
he technically died. They were able to bring him back. Sure,
how much time does he not have oxygen?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
How much time? Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And I think the problem is he didn't have oxygen
for a while and he's just brain dead and they
don't want to say it for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Wat I know how to do some medical diagnoses off
of a few loose sentences about someone's close sentences.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh you did listen? He did? He died and he
died he did? If this isn't is this like.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I know some like I guess Diane Diane Feinstein's her
name m also was the crip keeper coming to work
and basically knocking on Death's door every day until she
just died. And yeah, I don't know if she was
still in office, but I think she was.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
She was. I don't understand, like.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I mean, he isn't under his term is over after this,
like he's not doing it anymore, but he's eighty four.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's like he's eight. Bro, you were cooked fucking two
terms ago. Well maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I think really at the beginning of Trump's presidency is
when we really started like, oh, bro, he don't got
it anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
This sec he was like he during Biden. This when
when you started like having like freezes and ship Yeah, yeah,
yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I don't know if it's the power of it all
it is.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
But like, yes, we need term limits and that's that's
what we should be pushing for as a collective, and
hopefully some politicians will also agree and make it at
least bring it to the floor. I think I saw
recently that that was happening, Like somebody introduced a bill
for term limits.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, that's also on like the actual politician side.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Why do you want to be working until you literally
don't know where you are?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Like that's all they know, you know how Like some
people like that's all they know and they can do
and like once they stop doing that thing, then it's
like I really have no reason to live anymore. Like
my whole shit was about like being feeling fucking powerful.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's so weird, man.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's why we're smart. But we have we don't have
that kind of power, and we will live forever forever.
I'm just, I'm just, I'm just. I'm just dabbing little
bits of power, not like this shit.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Forty if I can, at the most, At the most,
I only want about twenty or thirty more years of working,
and that's pushing it. And realistically, I want about full
five more months. I want to make sixty million dollars
and then I want to retire a month forever. I
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want to do one thing I want to I want
to just film a movie that's big. I want to
make sixty million dollars and I want to retire forever.
I know that's unrealistic, So realistically, fifteen to twenty years
is I want to be up, and I want to be.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's why you got to be. You got to be
on that fire plan, financial independence, retire early. That's where
people like I.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Know a few people who are fucking gunning for that shit,
Like they want to just build up enough of like
an account and investment strategy so that they can just live.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Off the interest. And they're like, and I will never
work again.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But those are people that I know who have like
very high paying jobs, so everybody not for everybody. Next up,
Oh should I just lost my dog?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Somebody saying I've been retired by the way, it sucks, Brian,
I'm sorry, Brian retirement.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, we'll tru Meanwhile, third Party is trending right now.
Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson have been like somewhat
in sync over the last couple of weeks when it
comes to them making like really big statements about like
where they're at as Republicans. They recently announced within a
day of each other that they are quitting the GOP,
Like they're citing Trump's warmongering and caving to net and
(08:35):
Yahoo when it comes to all things Iran. Yesterday, Marjorie
Taylor Green says she's having quote serious conversations about starting
a new political party, saying the GOP she once made
sweet Love Too was no longer the same person that
she knew back then, And within twenty four hours, Tucker
Carlson has now made the same announcement.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So I'm like, Okay, they're they're cooking something up.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Quote, I'm going to help build a third party, Carlson
said an interview with a Columbia Journalism Review. There should
be a good faith effort to figure out what benefits
the country. He basically argued that when it comes to
the two issues he views as most consequential for Americans,
war and finance. Okay, maybe I could place a couple finance,
(09:18):
I would say, like inequality. Sure, that's one way to Yeah, sure, yeah,
he said Democrats, And that's.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What we call not being able to find shit. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I don't work in the financial sector, but sure.
He says that Democrats and Republicans are quote lockstep solidarity
with each other, and then he says, it's not a democracy.
We have a one party state opposing as a democracy.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'm like, true, true, true, say.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And it needs to be broken, and there's going to
be a third party, and I'm going to do everything
I can to bring that about. I was wondering who
would like blink first in terms of like saying, like.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We're making a third party.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We're going to try and capture all the people that
are completely rejecting the Democrat Republican binary.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So Tucker must have some financial backers because him and
Marjorie Taylor Green creating a third party is most is
obviously going to be pulling votes from just republic the
Republican Party, Yeah, which.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Would be a gift to Democrats.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But I don't know, maybe or those the independents who
like are kind of like, well, they're not as racist.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But I'm like, also they are. I don't know. I
will see how they play, how this one plays out.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm I'm of sound body in mind to fully believe
with every fiber and adam and my body that independent
is just a Republican.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, if anybody is an independent and that's what they
say they are, you're just a Republican.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You just don't want to say it without saying anything else.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
If you were like, I'm an independent because I'm actually
like so radic, like not even radically progressive, you know,
Like I know people who are independents because they they
just can't they can't actually stand saying that they're Democrats.
But I do get that there are a lot of pendants,
a lot of people who like, who'd you vote for?
And they go, I'm an independent, and you're like.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, okay, that's different though, Like like you said, they're
saying things more like yeah, those people have something to say,
you know, but somebody who identifies as like, yes, I'm
an independent, I think you're vote bad.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah you're like yeah, let's see you're a Republican. Let
me see your real quick.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Also, Jade Vance, he just recently, this dude is still
pushing his fucking stupid book, like trying to promote his
dumb book on TV.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's been like two months of this shit.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I feel like anyway, he just got on to fellow
Catholic convert Laura Ingram's show, uh to show, you know,
just like he just wanted to riff on the Bible
and just talk about how his Catholic faith is just
like just made him such a cool guy. She was
at like, she asked him, you know, how is your
faith informed how you view policy? And his answer is
(11:56):
just him saying a bunch of empty shit until he
basically just uses his faith to justify being xenophobic. Here's
a brave Catholic convert, jd Vance.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
You make better decisions over the course of time.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
The other thing, Laura, I'd say that my faith really
motivates me towards is to remember that our economic policy,
it doesn't exist for corporations, it doesn't exist for Wall
Street as much as we want everybody to be successful,
it exists to support the dignity of human beings we want.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So he's saying, my faith reminds me that it okay,
your economy is supposed to work for the dignity of
human beings.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I think is what I'm just trying to follow his
logic here.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Every American to be able to raise a family, to
be able to support themselves in comfort and in dignity.
That's why we're trying to bring investment in manufacturing back
to the United States of America. That's why we don't
like low wage foreigners coming in and undercounting the wages
of American workers.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Wait, okay, so your faith says that you want to
make sure that the economy works for people to live
with dignity. That's why we we can't have any broke
boy foreigners to.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The country, brown foreigners. Well, listen, I would love and listen.
I love my maid, I love my manny, I love them.
I love Trust, but gives her her old clothes all
the time. All we love all the time. But if
we can get back to the basis in basics in
America and have a young Negro be that have a
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young black child or a black woman be our maid.
Then we're back to America. Baby Imber jobs used to
be the slave those used to be slave jobs.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
My great granddad used to talk about his mammy, and.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I just wish, I wish we should get back.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I want my children to know about that, hearing her
voice just moving through the house as she made us grits.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
You remember those episodes of Tom and Jerry with the
black lady that never showed her face. I want to
give back to that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I want faceless women of color serving me. That's the
America I know. I'm like, what my faith prevents saying,
we want to keep low. That's like the most tenuous
ship I've ever heard. I'm like, But then I'm like,
oh wait, yeah, I do remember in the Book of
Mark the parable of the low wage foreigner, For he
shall not sully his land and allow the usurpations of
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the broke ass.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Low wage foreigner. Resist.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Resist there please for dignity, as they are only the
devil disguised as the needy.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I think is that I think that was from the
Bible or something like that. Jesus was a low wage foreigner.
That's what I'm saying, bro he was as a carpenter.
He was born as a carpenter. He was he made
sure people was drinking. Yeah, he was doing his best. Brother.
They're like, Jesus, man, you got money for this? He's like,
broach this ship, give me that. I ain't got no money.
(15:01):
Maybe I got magic.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
These are called him Jay the Plug. If you really
the real version of the Bible, Like, what's that big
dude from Texas? You're like, hey, because I'm from Texas,
that would be Jesus. Wait, who's that big plug? I
think big, big plug at what's what's his name?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Because I'm from Texas, we will be honestly big.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Next to the plug, the plug, Big Jay the Plug.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Give me that bread, give me that fish, boom multiplied bang. Okay,
all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come right
back after this.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And we're black, and we are black.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We are black and we are back, and we're both cansos.
So just just a note on we talked like I
think on Tuesday or Wednesday's episode about Trump is basically
like overcompensating with THEO because he ruined the fourth of
July and no one gives a fuck about it with
him as president that he's like, We're gonna have the
largest fireworks show in history, because sure, I just want
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to and it and it sounds like it's true because
last year for the Fourth of July, seven thousand fireworks
were set off for the big Fourth of July, you know,
official show at the Capitol. This year, it will be
over eight hundred and fifty thousand shells being launched for
this while that is going to be a Guinness World record,
(16:35):
so wild, I mean, can't argue it will be like
nothing you've ever seen. However, it is a little I'm like,
I mean, the people can't even get a Milli Vanilli
concert booked or know how to clean up a pool,
and they're going to launch a fucking damn near a
million shells into the air.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It is going to be end Listen. I'm not going
to sit here and pretend that I don't like fireworks shows.
I love a fireworks love a fireworks show. I love
a firework show. I love fireworks, Disney's Fourth of July, whatever,
I love seeing fire New Year's Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Uh, Chicago.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
On every Friday night during the summer, you get on
a boat and they pop the fireworks over Navy Peer.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I love a fireworks every every Friday in Chicago during
the summer. Wow in the summer. Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It's beautiful, but like eight hundred thousand like something bad.
It feels like something's gonna catch on fire, something bad,
gonna just I mean, do what to prove what I think?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's just because it's like I was saying, it reminds
me of like when I was a shitty boyfriend and
I fucked up, and rather than like apologizing properly and
like reevaluating why I upset somebody I was dating, I
would just like buy them a bunch of shit to
try to try and paper it over.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And that's kind of what this is.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He's like, sorry, I completely fucked up your big birthday,
but here's way more fireworks than you could have asked for.
Hopefully that will do something, because I'm not interested in
changing who I am.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So he's so talk He's gonna give the longest speech
he said, yeah on July fourth in this schedule to
be like one hundred and eight degrees.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, that he was saying.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And he's like, and I will do it, he said,
And I'm gonna do it just to prove to people
that I can. And I'm like, oh shit, are we
gonna watch it happen on the TV?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But again, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Let's be real, like he actually isn't going to be
like the high that day could reach that like at
like you know, three pm. He's not giving a speech
till nine to forty five pm. So the hottest it'll
be is like in the eighties, but still in the eighties,
in that humidity in DC.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And also, let's be real, he also, even if they
have to hide it, he's going to have some type
of cooling system up there.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're gonna just run.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They're just gonna fucking strap ice packs just all up
and down his body probably and then you catch a cold,
who knows. But the thing with these the fireworks though,
is obviously like sure, this is a dense, sleep populated city.
And the other part too, the heavy metal pollution in
the Potomac River. They're saying just taking that like sheer
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volume of fireworks they normally have and then exponentially multiplying
that it's going to bring pollutants like quote perchlorates and
heavy metals, the effects of which on humans and the
environment are still not well understood by scientists the Park Service.
There were documents that got leaked that point to a
potential quote public health disaster with the fireworks creating quote
(19:31):
very unhealthy air quality in DC, so much so that
their internal report recommends people wear fucking N ninety five
masks when outdoors end quote, remain indoors as much as
possible during and after the show.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
How the fuck are you supposed to see the shit?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
They're like, it's gonna be the biggest fireworks show you've
ever seen in DC. Do not come outside is stay inside.
And if you're outside where a respirator.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Wear a fucking matt is crazy. People are gonna pinpoint.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Back to this day. They're gonna be seventy in me, like.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, what happened on July for yeah, twenty twenty six,
I got cancer?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Right, That's where this is gonna be the biggest fire
agent orange.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, And i'd imagine too, just with everything situated, there's
like gonna be a lack of Obviously. They're also saying too,
with the heat that like low winds will quote it
will struggle to push the smoke along, so it could
just like sit right there.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
So this administration and this presidency has taught me so much.
I've always been a cynical person when it comes to
the country. Not always, but like for most of my
adult realistic realistic, realistics. Real yeah, since in most of
my adult life, especially since college.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
But there would be things I foolishly would believe, like
you know, if aliens came to the Earth, that like
it would unite Earth, like they like things like that.
This administration, this presidency has stripped my like my faith
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in humanity so drastically, Like this is crazy, this is crazy,
Like yeah, it's like so small. It's like this is
a television show and it's so funny, Like eight hundred
thousand fireworks for what you are literally somebody literally might
die because they just go outside and breathe it in
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and like they get fucked.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Up and they will die the next day that is
to happen. They're saying.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The humidity, it's just going to like the smoke will
just be chilling. If a chance of scattered storms materialized,
it could become an even more humid and primed for
smoke to hang around. Have you ever, like it's like
when I remember being like in a really humid place
for the first time in a smoke weed outside and I.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Was like, bro, it's fucking hang. It's just lingering in
the air.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's different than like being in the desert air climate
of like Los Angeles, Like shit, just fucking hangs. Yeah,
And that's my that's my contribution to science is smoking
a blunt and the humidity once and that's that was
That was the a B testing I was doing, okay,
And then also there the trailer just dropped for the
new Willy Wonka themed reality competition series, Wanka's Golden Ticket.
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People are not fucking happy about it. It's just like
it's like it looks like basically grown ass adults to
do like Nickelodeon guts type like physical contests. Were like yeah,
and I'm like, does that even have to be Willy
Wonka thing? I'm like, also, wasn't wasn't the whole point?
(22:47):
Like the real kid that wins was pure of heart
and that's just not in it for the fucking clout
for the money.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like that was like the sort of moral whole point.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So I don't know how they're going to replicate that,
but anyway, Uh, they're just a lot of people were
really pointing to the fact that like, there's Gene Wilder's
voice is going to be like a part of the show,
because look, we've never heard anything wrong going happening with
Willy Wonka and AI combining, but here we are, and
it's just like the voice is just like very not
(23:18):
good to put it lightly. It's created by Eleven Labs,
which is an AI company that recently made a huge
deal with Matthew McConaughey for his voice, which actually, I'm
like AI McConaughey as Wonka might be like more interesting
just to hear that. But a lot of people said
called it quote deeply evil and AI necromantic slop. Yeah,
(23:40):
and like the voice also just doesn't really sound like Wilder.
It's like seldom do these voice models actually sound like
the person, Like there's moments, but it's never like, oh shit,
that's them full on doing new voiceover, like no, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Also, like I mean it could be an age thing,
but does Gene Wilder have such a recognizable voice, And
I'm like, that's Jane Wilder, Like I don't, Yeah, I
guess it could be an age thing for me, but right, right.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Right, No, I mean like it's it's like one of
those things like if you you remember Willy Wonka, sure,
and if you hear it, you're like, man that you'll
probably be like, it'll just be off to you. I
think for people that are die hard fans of it
and die hard Gene Wilder fans are like, this is
nothing like it. But I think at the end of
the day, for casual viewers, we would be just as
fine as like hiring a human being to do a wild.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Depression, yeah, because I'm like, his voice isn't so recognizable? Yeah,
and to me where it's just like, you know, like
even Matthew McConaughey has a pretty recognizable voice now that
could be recently biased, but like and we just hear
his voice more than Jane Wesher's now, But like, how
crazy do you know how bad you have to be
(24:51):
to make a voice that you can be like that
doesn't even sound like somebody's whose voice I don't fucking know.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's who is.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, but he's like I don't know what Gene wanted
to sound like, but I know it ain't that.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
This is like one of those things where like executives
are like, yeah, we're like using AI to fucking blah
blah blah and cut to a people and like, bro
this shiit sucks and now I'm more put off by it.
But that's our duty as Americans is to be hostile
towards AI whenever we have the opportunity to do so.
(25:28):
And then finally, uh in some good news. So you
know the Onion took over the over info Wars. Yeah, yeah,
because they actually bought the distressed property off.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You know, it went to a.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Court like a court sale because Alex Jones just broke
and he's like, and I'm gotta pay the Sandy Hook families. Well,
the official info Wars launched on launched today, and dude,
he's they've already done good. They've already done better than
Alex Jones by donating one hundred thousan dollars to the
Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones has yet to pay any
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of the almost like one point five billion dollars he
owes them for all the bullshit lies he was peddling
about crisis actors and fake dead children and all that shit.
And a lot of the like a lot of the
money came from sales of the new Info Wars Rainbow
logo merch which The Onion has been.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Selling so good on I love it, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Just I love Ben Collins has taken control of it
and made it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I made it a thing, a force for good.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
So get your Info Wars, your your Rainbow Info Wars hats,
and then you'll actually be helping Sandy Hook families because
Alex Jones is continuing to try and.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Evade any kind of accountability.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
There So anyway, Yeah, he I'll never pay that shit.
Well he ain't got the money to pay it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But I mean he probably does. It's just like he's
doing a lot of life.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Do I have anybody? What do you gotta do? How much?
Sell him? One point five billion? Point?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I don't If he has one point five BILLI he has,
He's got you.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He hasn't.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, yeah, because he has money, he just will be
broke for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, well he's tactically bankrupt, you know what I mean,
Like where everything's well, I don't have anyone, you.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Everything just spend it all on cape man suticles, yes,
ground up peartle shells, but I cook up in hot water.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Like a cup of noodles. Anyway, that's probably what he eats.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Jackie's thank you for joining me for the trending episode.
We will be back tomorrow morning with a brand new episode.
It's gonna be a good one as we stroll into
fourth of July weekend. Until then, take care of yourselves,
take care of each other, get all your shots, get
your flu shots, get your vaccines, whatever you need to do.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Don't do nothing about white sprems. He don't do nothing
about no hatred. Be a force for good, please.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Please, because I trust there's more of us out there
than there are a fucking weak gass haters.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So we'll see then.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
By The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Co produced by Victor Wright
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Co written by j M McNabb, and edited and engineered
by Brian Jefferies.
Hello, it's Thursday, It's July second, and it's time for
this wonderful afternoon audition for It's Trending.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That's from bc R on the discord. It's trending home.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
That's what the English fans say when they believe that
they're gonna win the World Cup, that it's coming home.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Is it? Is it? I don't know. I mean there's
some Harry Kane came in massive. Are you talking about football?
Talking about talking football?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I think they were.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The England match was happening right like he was ending
right as we were recording with Matt Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Congo fuck bro almost almost did that ship.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But you know what, Harry Kane was Kanaan anyway, Miles Gray,
I'm joined by Jack Easney.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What's doing with you?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Man?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's do with I see yesterday? What'd you eat? What
are you doing TV? What I eat?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I went to the beach yesterday. It was beautiful. Yeah,
I went to the beach. It only took like thirty,
like forty five minutes to get there, about forty minutes
to get back. Went to Malibu, to the fucking sand.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And shitt my toes in the sand.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Made me a sandwich made me a sandwich and some
grapes and a couple of drinks.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Took gummies. Oh yeah, there you go. I was like,
make it all make sense. There it is, you know,
And but that's just what I need to get. I
need to get.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Let me tell you something about people in LA for
those who don't know, Yeah, we don't go to the
fucking water because La is too big unless you live
on the West side of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Going to the water, it is a journey. Journey. Yeah,
it's a journey. But I need to start doing.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I need to start taking I take journeys for everything
else that brings me down. I need to start taking
that journey at least once every like two weeks, two
three weeks, just to like go reset, be about the ocean.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
The real thing is, like you gotta find a little
beach that speaks to you. Because we have so much
beach space in southern California. I think a lot of
people just think, like they go to Santa Monica or
Malibur or whatever. There's Zuma, there's a Portos, there's so
many There's roy Rogers. There's a couple of little viby
spots that you can go to I used to be
that shit all the time in college.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'll hit up I'll hit up Mattan Beach sometimes, a
little beach town if I want a beach town. But
you know the beach I hanged up in Malibu, which
is like the best. It is kind of a smaller beach,
but it's carbon beach, billionaire's beach. Oh yeah, And I
go in right on the side of Paul Allen's house,
Paul Allen from Microsoft, his biggest house has a coastal
(02:45):
access point right next to it that they try to
but I've been knowing about it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No, no, no, yeah, yeah, you can get it.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And nobody's ever nobody's ever on that beach, like yeah,
it's so chill. The water is literally right, it's small
right there. The best beach like that is in the
popular areas of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Is great without being fully in the cut. Well, I'm glad,
damn what a day you had?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I did? I did? I did not have that kind
I'm sorry, but anyway, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's just, you know, just work stuff. I'm glad to
be employed. That's what it's all about. Tomorrow, next week.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What one day? One day? Yeah, yeah, one day one
day I'll hear what this whole beach is about. I'll
check it out for myself. But let's talk about what's trending.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
First up, Mitch McConnell is trending because about two weeks ago,
Mitch McConnell stopped coming to work.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We're like, what the fuck happened to him?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Because he I went through his like mixtape of falls
and brain farts and ship that he's had over the
last year, and you're like, bro, this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Is something's going on.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
His aide said he was hospital hospitalized and either like,
he'll be back to work once he's recovered, don't worry
about him. They gave no explanation for the hospitalization, since
the cool thing about being an old poly addition is
that you hide how close you are to death to
death because your ego won't allow you to let go
of that power, so you just just just you pretend
everything is all good. Well, now we know what happened,
(04:11):
and it's not good. Apparently he was found unconscious after
suffering a heart attack and he was received CPR when
paramedics got there. Uh, and that's and he's been hospitalized
ever since.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
This dude keeps having run ins with the Reaper. He's
he died. He died, I.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Bet you, and they brought him, they were able to
bring him back to life, and now he's just brain dead.
Oh you think it's it's like that. I think he died.
I think I think he stopped. I think his heart technically,
he technically died. They were able to bring him back. Sure,
how much time does he not have oxygen?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
How much time? Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And I think the problem is he didn't have oxygen
for a while and he's just brain dead and they
don't want to say it for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Wat I know how to do some medical diagnoses off
of a few loose sentences about someone's close sentences.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh you did listen? He did? He died and he
died he did? If this isn't is this like.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I know some like I guess Diane Diane Feinstein's her
name m also was the crip keeper coming to work
and basically knocking on Death's door every day until she
just died. And yeah, I don't know if she was
still in office, but I think she was.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
She was. I don't understand, like.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I mean, he isn't under his term is over after this,
like he's not doing it anymore, but he's eighty four.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's like he's eight. Bro, you were cooked fucking two
terms ago. Well maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I think really at the beginning of Trump's presidency is
when we really started like, oh, bro, he don't got
it anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
This sec he was like he during Biden. This when
when you started like having like freezes and ship Yeah, yeah,
yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I don't know if it's the power of it all
it is.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
But like, yes, we need term limits and that's that's
what we should be pushing for as a collective, and
hopefully some politicians will also agree and make it at
least bring it to the floor. I think I saw
recently that that was happening, Like somebody introduced a bill
for term limits.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, that's also on like the actual politician side.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Why do you want to be working until you literally
don't know where you are?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Like that's all they know, you know how Like some
people like that's all they know and they can do
and like once they stop doing that thing, then it's
like I really have no reason to live anymore. Like
my whole shit was about like being feeling fucking powerful.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's so weird, man.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's why we're smart. But we have we don't have
that kind of power, and we will live forever forever.
I'm just, I'm just, I'm just. I'm just dabbing little
bits of power, not like this shit.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Forty if I can, at the most, At the most,
I only want about twenty or thirty more years of working,
and that's pushing it. And realistically, I want about full
five more months. I want to make sixty million dollars
and then I want to retire a month forever. I
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want to do one thing I want to I want
to just film a movie that's big. I want to
make sixty million dollars and I want to retire forever.
I know that's unrealistic, So realistically, fifteen to twenty years
is I want to be up, and I want to be.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's why you got to be. You got to be
on that fire plan, financial independence, retire early. That's where
people like I.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Know a few people who are fucking gunning for that shit,
Like they want to just build up enough of like
an account and investment strategy so that they can just live.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Off the interest. And they're like, and I will never
work again.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But those are people that I know who have like
very high paying jobs, so everybody not for everybody. Next up,
Oh should I just lost my dog?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Somebody saying I've been retired by the way, it sucks, Brian,
I'm sorry, Brian retirement.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, we'll tru Meanwhile, third Party is trending right now.
Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson have been like somewhat
in sync over the last couple of weeks when it
comes to them making like really big statements about like
where they're at as Republicans. They recently announced within a
day of each other that they are quitting the GOP,
Like they're citing Trump's warmongering and caving to net and
(08:35):
Yahoo when it comes to all things Iran. Yesterday, Marjorie
Taylor Green says she's having quote serious conversations about starting
a new political party, saying the GOP she once made
sweet Love Too was no longer the same person that
she knew back then, And within twenty four hours, Tucker
Carlson has now made the same announcement.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So I'm like, Okay, they're they're cooking something up.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Quote, I'm going to help build a third party, Carlson
said an interview with a Columbia Journalism Review. There should
be a good faith effort to figure out what benefits
the country. He basically argued that when it comes to
the two issues he views as most consequential for Americans,
war and finance. Okay, maybe I could place a couple finance,
(09:18):
I would say, like inequality. Sure, that's one way to Yeah, sure, yeah,
he said Democrats, And that's.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What we call not being able to find shit. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I don't work in the financial sector, but sure.
He says that Democrats and Republicans are quote lockstep solidarity
with each other, and then he says, it's not a democracy.
We have a one party state opposing as a democracy.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'm like, true, true, true, say.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And it needs to be broken, and there's going to
be a third party, and I'm going to do everything
I can to bring that about. I was wondering who
would like blink first in terms of like saying, like.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We're making a third party.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We're going to try and capture all the people that
are completely rejecting the Democrat Republican binary.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So Tucker must have some financial backers because him and
Marjorie Taylor Green creating a third party is most is
obviously going to be pulling votes from just republic the
Republican Party, Yeah, which.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Would be a gift to Democrats.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But I don't know, maybe or those the independents who
like are kind of like, well, they're not as racist.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But I'm like, also they are. I don't know. I
will see how they play, how this one plays out.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm I'm of sound body in mind to fully believe
with every fiber and adam and my body that independent
is just a Republican.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, if anybody is an independent and that's what they
say they are, you're just a Republican.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You just don't want to say it without saying anything else.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
If you were like, I'm an independent because I'm actually
like so radic, like not even radically progressive, you know,
Like I know people who are independents because they they
just can't they can't actually stand saying that they're Democrats.
But I do get that there are a lot of pendants,
a lot of people who like, who'd you vote for?
And they go, I'm an independent, and you're like.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, okay, that's different though, Like like you said, they're
saying things more like yeah, those people have something to say,
you know, but somebody who identifies as like, yes, I'm
an independent, I think you're vote bad.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah you're like yeah, let's see you're a Republican. Let
me see your real quick.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Also, Jade Vance, he just recently, this dude is still
pushing his fucking stupid book, like trying to promote his
dumb book on TV.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's been like two months of this shit.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I feel like anyway, he just got on to fellow
Catholic convert Laura Ingram's show, uh to show, you know,
just like he just wanted to riff on the Bible
and just talk about how his Catholic faith is just
like just made him such a cool guy. She was
at like, she asked him, you know, how is your
faith informed how you view policy? And his answer is
(11:56):
just him saying a bunch of empty shit until he
basically just uses his faith to justify being xenophobic. Here's
a brave Catholic convert, jd Vance.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
You make better decisions over the course of time.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
The other thing, Laura, I'd say that my faith really
motivates me towards is to remember that our economic policy,
it doesn't exist for corporations, it doesn't exist for Wall
Street as much as we want everybody to be successful,
it exists to support the dignity of human beings we want.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So he's saying, my faith reminds me that it okay,
your economy is supposed to work for the dignity of
human beings.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I think is what I'm just trying to follow his
logic here.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Every American to be able to raise a family, to
be able to support themselves in comfort and in dignity.
That's why we're trying to bring investment in manufacturing back
to the United States of America. That's why we don't
like low wage foreigners coming in and undercounting the wages
of American workers.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Wait, okay, so your faith says that you want to
make sure that the economy works for people to live
with dignity. That's why we we can't have any broke
boy foreigners to.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The country, brown foreigners. Well, listen, I would love and listen.
I love my maid, I love my manny, I love them.
I love Trust, but gives her her old clothes all
the time. All we love all the time. But if
we can get back to the basis in basics in
America and have a young Negro be that have a
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young black child or a black woman be our maid.
Then we're back to America. Baby Imber jobs used to
be the slave those used to be slave jobs.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
My great granddad used to talk about his mammy, and.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I just wish, I wish we should get back.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I want my children to know about that, hearing her
voice just moving through the house as she made us grits.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
You remember those episodes of Tom and Jerry with the
black lady that never showed her face. I want to
give back to that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I want faceless women of color serving me. That's the
America I know. I'm like, what my faith prevents saying,
we want to keep low. That's like the most tenuous
ship I've ever heard. I'm like, But then I'm like,
oh wait, yeah, I do remember in the Book of
Mark the parable of the low wage foreigner, For he
shall not sully his land and allow the usurpations of
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the broke ass.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Low wage foreigner. Resist.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Resist there please for dignity, as they are only the
devil disguised as the needy.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I think is that I think that was from the
Bible or something like that. Jesus was a low wage foreigner.
That's what I'm saying, bro he was as a carpenter.
He was born as a carpenter. He was he made
sure people was drinking. Yeah, he was doing his best. Brother.
They're like, Jesus, man, you got money for this? He's like,
broach this ship, give me that. I ain't got no money.
(15:01):
Maybe I got magic.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
These are called him Jay the Plug. If you really
the real version of the Bible, Like, what's that big
dude from Texas? You're like, hey, because I'm from Texas,
that would be Jesus. Wait, who's that big plug? I
think big, big plug at what's what's his name?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Because I'm from Texas, we will be honestly big.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Next to the plug, the plug, Big Jay the Plug.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Give me that bread, give me that fish, boom multiplied bang. Okay,
all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come right
back after this.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And we're black, and we are black.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We are black and we are back, and we're both cansos.
So just just a note on we talked like I
think on Tuesday or Wednesday's episode about Trump is basically
like overcompensating with THEO because he ruined the fourth of
July and no one gives a fuck about it with
him as president that he's like, We're gonna have the
largest fireworks show in history, because sure, I just want
(16:12):
to and it and it sounds like it's true because
last year for the Fourth of July, seven thousand fireworks
were set off for the big Fourth of July, you know,
official show at the Capitol. This year, it will be
over eight hundred and fifty thousand shells being launched for
this while that is going to be a Guinness World record,
(16:35):
so wild, I mean, can't argue it will be like
nothing you've ever seen. However, it is a little I'm like,
I mean, the people can't even get a Milli Vanilli
concert booked or know how to clean up a pool,
and they're going to launch a fucking damn near a
million shells into the air.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It is going to be end Listen. I'm not going
to sit here and pretend that I don't like fireworks shows.
I love a fireworks love a fireworks show. I love
a firework show. I love fireworks, Disney's Fourth of July, whatever,
I love seeing fire New Year's Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Uh, Chicago.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
On every Friday night during the summer, you get on
a boat and they pop the fireworks over Navy Peer.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I love a fireworks every every Friday in Chicago during
the summer. Wow in the summer. Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It's beautiful, but like eight hundred thousand like something bad.
It feels like something's gonna catch on fire, something bad,
gonna just I mean, do what to prove what I think?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's just because it's like I was saying, it reminds
me of like when I was a shitty boyfriend and
I fucked up, and rather than like apologizing properly and
like reevaluating why I upset somebody I was dating, I
would just like buy them a bunch of shit to
try to try and paper it over.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And that's kind of what this is.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He's like, sorry, I completely fucked up your big birthday,
but here's way more fireworks than you could have asked for.
Hopefully that will do something, because I'm not interested in
changing who I am.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So he's so talk He's gonna give the longest speech
he said, yeah on July fourth in this schedule to
be like one hundred and eight degrees.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, that he was saying.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And he's like, and I will do it, he said,
And I'm gonna do it just to prove to people
that I can. And I'm like, oh shit, are we
gonna watch it happen on the TV?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But again, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Let's be real, like he actually isn't going to be
like the high that day could reach that like at
like you know, three pm. He's not giving a speech
till nine to forty five pm. So the hottest it'll
be is like in the eighties, but still in the eighties,
in that humidity in DC.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And also, let's be real, he also, even if they
have to hide it, he's going to have some type
of cooling system up there.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're gonna just run.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They're just gonna fucking strap ice packs just all up
and down his body probably and then you catch a cold,
who knows. But the thing with these the fireworks though,
is obviously like sure, this is a dense, sleep populated city.
And the other part too, the heavy metal pollution in
the Potomac River. They're saying just taking that like sheer
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volume of fireworks they normally have and then exponentially multiplying
that it's going to bring pollutants like quote perchlorates and
heavy metals, the effects of which on humans and the
environment are still not well understood by scientists the Park Service.
There were documents that got leaked that point to a
potential quote public health disaster with the fireworks creating quote
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very unhealthy air quality in DC, so much so that
their internal report recommends people wear fucking N ninety five
masks when outdoors end quote, remain indoors as much as
possible during and after the show.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
How the fuck are you supposed to see the shit?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
They're like, it's gonna be the biggest fireworks show you've
ever seen in DC. Do not come outside is stay inside.
And if you're outside where a respirator.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Wear a fucking matt is crazy. People are gonna pinpoint.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Back to this day. They're gonna be seventy in me, like.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, what happened on July for yeah, twenty twenty six,
I got cancer?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Right, That's where this is gonna be the biggest fire
agent orange.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, And i'd imagine too, just with everything situated, there's
like gonna be a lack of Obviously. They're also saying too,
with the heat that like low winds will quote it
will struggle to push the smoke along, so it could
just like sit right there.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
So this administration and this presidency has taught me so much.
I've always been a cynical person when it comes to
the country. Not always, but like for most of my
adult realistic realistic, realistics. Real yeah, since in most of
my adult life, especially since college.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
But there would be things I foolishly would believe, like
you know, if aliens came to the Earth, that like
it would unite Earth, like they like things like that.
This administration, this presidency has stripped my like my faith
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in humanity so drastically, Like this is crazy, this is crazy,
Like yeah, it's like so small. It's like this is
a television show and it's so funny, Like eight hundred
thousand fireworks for what you are literally somebody literally might
die because they just go outside and breathe it in
(21:38):
and like they get fucked.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Up and they will die the next day that is
to happen. They're saying.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The humidity, it's just going to like the smoke will
just be chilling. If a chance of scattered storms materialized,
it could become an even more humid and primed for
smoke to hang around. Have you ever, like it's like
when I remember being like in a really humid place
for the first time in a smoke weed outside and I.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Was like, bro, it's fucking hang. It's just lingering in
the air.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's different than like being in the desert air climate
of like Los Angeles, Like shit, just fucking hangs. Yeah,
And that's my that's my contribution to science is smoking
a blunt and the humidity once and that's that was
That was the a B testing I was doing, okay,
And then also there the trailer just dropped for the
new Willy Wonka themed reality competition series, Wanka's Golden Ticket.
(22:27):
People are not fucking happy about it. It's just like
it's like it looks like basically grown ass adults to
do like Nickelodeon guts type like physical contests. Were like yeah,
and I'm like, does that even have to be Willy
Wonka thing? I'm like, also, wasn't wasn't the whole point?
(22:47):
Like the real kid that wins was pure of heart
and that's just not in it for the fucking clout
for the money.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like that was like the sort of moral whole point.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So I don't know how they're going to replicate that,
but anyway, Uh, they're just a lot of people were
really pointing to the fact that like, there's Gene Wilder's
voice is going to be like a part of the show,
because look, we've never heard anything wrong going happening with
Willy Wonka and AI combining, but here we are, and
it's just like the voice is just like very not
(23:18):
good to put it lightly. It's created by Eleven Labs,
which is an AI company that recently made a huge
deal with Matthew McConaughey for his voice, which actually, I'm
like AI McConaughey as Wonka might be like more interesting
just to hear that. But a lot of people said
called it quote deeply evil and AI necromantic slop. Yeah,
(23:40):
and like the voice also just doesn't really sound like Wilder.
It's like seldom do these voice models actually sound like
the person, Like there's moments, but it's never like, oh shit,
that's them full on doing new voiceover, like no, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Also, like I mean it could be an age thing,
but does Gene Wilder have such a recognizable voice, And
I'm like, that's Jane Wilder, Like I don't, Yeah, I
guess it could be an age thing for me, but right, right.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Right, No, I mean like it's it's like one of
those things like if you you remember Willy Wonka, sure,
and if you hear it, you're like, man that you'll
probably be like, it'll just be off to you. I
think for people that are die hard fans of it
and die hard Gene Wilder fans are like, this is
nothing like it. But I think at the end of
the day, for casual viewers, we would be just as
fine as like hiring a human being to do a wild.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Depression, yeah, because I'm like, his voice isn't so recognizable? Yeah,
and to me where it's just like, you know, like
even Matthew McConaughey has a pretty recognizable voice now that
could be recently biased, but like and we just hear
his voice more than Jane Wesher's now, But like, how
crazy do you know how bad you have to be
(24:51):
to make a voice that you can be like that
doesn't even sound like somebody's whose voice I don't fucking know.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's who is.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, but he's like I don't know what Gene wanted
to sound like, but I know it ain't that.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
This is like one of those things where like executives
are like, yeah, we're like using AI to fucking blah
blah blah and cut to a people and like, bro
this shiit sucks and now I'm more put off by it.
But that's our duty as Americans is to be hostile
towards AI whenever we have the opportunity to do so.
(25:28):
And then finally, uh in some good news. So you
know the Onion took over the over info Wars. Yeah, yeah,
because they actually bought the distressed property off.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You know, it went to a.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Court like a court sale because Alex Jones just broke
and he's like, and I'm gotta pay the Sandy Hook families. Well,
the official info Wars launched on launched today, and dude,
he's they've already done good. They've already done better than
Alex Jones by donating one hundred thousan dollars to the
Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones has yet to pay any
(26:03):
of the almost like one point five billion dollars he
owes them for all the bullshit lies he was peddling
about crisis actors and fake dead children and all that shit.
And a lot of the like a lot of the
money came from sales of the new Info Wars Rainbow
logo merch which The Onion has been.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Selling so good on I love it, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Just I love Ben Collins has taken control of it
and made it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I made it a thing, a force for good.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
So get your Info Wars, your your Rainbow Info Wars hats,
and then you'll actually be helping Sandy Hook families because
Alex Jones is continuing to try and.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Evade any kind of accountability.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
There So anyway, Yeah, he I'll never pay that shit.
Well he ain't got the money to pay it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But I mean he probably does. It's just like he's
doing a lot of life.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Do I have anybody? What do you gotta do? How much?
Sell him? One point five billion? Point?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I don't If he has one point five BILLI he has,
He's got you.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He hasn't.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, yeah, because he has money, he just will be
broke for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, well he's tactically bankrupt, you know what I mean,
Like where everything's well, I don't have anyone, you.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Everything just spend it all on cape man suticles, yes,
ground up peartle shells, but I cook up in hot water.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Like a cup of noodles. Anyway, that's probably what he eats.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Jackie's thank you for joining me for the trending episode.
We will be back tomorrow morning with a brand new episode.
It's gonna be a good one as we stroll into
fourth of July weekend. Until then, take care of yourselves,
take care of each other, get all your shots, get
your flu shots, get your vaccines, whatever you need to do.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Don't do nothing about white sprems. He don't do nothing
about no hatred. Be a force for good, please.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Please, because I trust there's more of us out there
than there are a fucking weak gass haters.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So we'll see then.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
By The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Co produced by Victor Wright
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Co written by j M McNabb, and edited and engineered
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