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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Jiff
Peanut Trender. It's peanut butter but trending. I am Jack
and I'm thrilled to be joined by a special guest
co host, Paula.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
You know, I'm not afraid to say it. I have
heart radio. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
That means so much to us.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're so welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Oh my god, thank you so much. But do you
iHeart podcast Network? No, unfortunately I do not. iHeart podcast Network, Paulave.
It's been so wonderful having you here. It is the
most wonderful time of the year. My phone is blowing
up right now.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I've never felt less alone in a bad way.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So many people want to talk to me with spam
texts about the election. Spam text not about the election.
It feels like they were like, you know what, they're
going to be getting so much spam text about the
election that we can do spam text just being like, hey,
how's everything been with you lately? I got two in
a row with heart emojis like that, just double tap
(01:14):
okay for Kamala, thank you. Yeah. I think they are
trying to fuck me into voting for Kamala. Harris We're
going to check back in with Trump's sundowning brainstorming tour.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
He are you saying his brain is a sundowntown? Is
that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
She would love every town to be a sundowntown. And
he is sundown ing, which is what happens to people
suffering from dementia, where they get mean and incoherent. Towards
the end of the day, he had a Univision town
hall where just continued to ramble in coherently, whether it
be his answer to whether he still thinks climate change
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is a hoax, and I'm just going to read it.
So I always feel that with the climate and I
have been a great I have been an environmentalist. I
built many things. I owned a raw right next door,
and we did that in a very environment. I got awards,
environmental awards for the way I built it, for the water,
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the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing
of the sand and the water. What could he possibly
be talking about right there? Anyways? Four hundred more words exactly,
this coherent into the water coming up one eighth of
an inch over three hundred years, the ocean is going
to rise. And you know, nobody knows if that's true
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or not, but they're worried about the ocean just killing it,
you know. So yes, very cord. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I think when he was talking about his use of water,
he's talking about how he does wash his legs, you know,
and he uses the sand to exfoliate. He's not like
the other white you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Have you seen him stand on a slightly sloped surface.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I feel like that even some out because usually he's alreadyl.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's all person. There's no way he's washing his legs.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Did you ever do those math problems in geometry where
it's like a ladder is leaning against a wall. Yeah,
exactly like Trump standing and you have to find the
angle of his own incline.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes, he needs like a thing going from his forehead
to the ground to like make him, yeah, just like
a little bit more stable. He also, I think this
was the first time, so this was like a town
hall where people like there is one guy who's just like,
I don't think you're good. I a registered Republican and like,
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I think you're you did bad at your job. Convinced
me otherwise. And it was it was just like he
just kind of read him for filth. People enjoyed that. Uh.
He also called January sixth the day of love and
just you know, he said went down.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I mean it was love for me, like I slept in.
You know, reframing it on Twitter with my friends is
reframing it is woodstock. He's like, went down to the capitol,
I said, peacefully and patriotically. Nothing done wrong at all,
nothing done wrong, and action was taken, strong action.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Ashley Babbitt was killed. Nobody was killed.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's great because at that moment where he goes Ashley
Babbitt was killed, nobody was killed, they're like panning the
audience and this woman gives this like wait, and then
he says, there was no guns down there. We didn't
have guns. The others had guns, but we didn't have guns.
And it's just wild that he's openly identifying with the
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January sixth rioters, Like he's doing the wei thing that
like sports fans do. And I always say in theory,
it's annoying when people are like talking about their favorite
sports even say we but I fucking do that, Like
I can't help them. I can't stop myself. There's something
so and I think that's it's interesting because like, it's
just so tempting to loop yourself in because we're so
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starved for being part of something bigger than ourselves. That
was like, yeah, we fear.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I think it's very human. I do it with anything
I'm a fan of. Like I'm like, we you know
are Finland, we have health care. You know, we wrote
a bestseller this week, We the Royal Week.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's funny that hit. The thing he can't stop from
identifying himself with are the January sixth rioters. So that
was that. There was also a Trump town hall event
for an exclusively women audience on Tuesday. It ended up
airing Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I'm worried for them, and.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
He just like kicked off speaking about migrants and declared
himself the father of IVF.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Is there a creepier way to discuss that father?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
What the fuck?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
What are you invading sperm banks and replacing samples? You freak?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He's trying to end IVF by like making it so
gross that nobody even Yeah, it could be like he
made the association in my mind that it's Trump sperm.
So I don't love that. Also said he wants to
somehow ban all trans athletes from competing in all sports,
so just like they're not like even in backyard sports.
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He also just went on some verbal diary of nonsense
about Elon Musk's rocket that they literally had to just
like cut him off. It was aimed at making him
look presidential and appealing to women, and it probably worked
for his audience because they just went wild for him
because it was like only people who were part of
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like official Republican women groups were allowed to attend. So
the heavily vetted audience for Fox.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So I'm guessing his like trans fans weren't allowed to attend.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And that's what's fucked up. Let Trump's trans fans attend.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, being a MAGA supporter is technically a sport. You know,
it's very There's a huge offensive line that's gonna come.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Out, That's right, some of the best O lines in
terms of just lines that offend everybody coming out of
his mouth. But yeah, I don't know. I had like
a moment, as you know, on yesterday's trending, Miles was
playing some of his favorite little sound bites from the
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past couple of days where he was like blurg, he
was trying to say big, but he was like in
your Burg World War two Blurg and just seemed to
be drifting on. It really did feel a lot like
the moment that we had with Joe Biden, where we're like,
this person is like his brain is dissolving.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, it feels like if they were regular people and
not just like the scum of the earth, like you
would feel bad for them being like forced to do this,
you know, but like he is a horrible person and
subjecting us to this, and like if he had a
loving family that he cared about, would be at home
with them instead right fucking parading around his bigotry in
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town halls.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, it just it gave me a moment where I
was like daydreaming about like what happens if Trump loses,
Like not if Kamala wins, because you know, who the
fuck knows what's gonna happen if Kamala wins, but her
platform has not been the best in many respects, but
just in terms of like this movement of open fascism,
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because it seems like this would be the end for him, right.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Like what we thought with Biden, Like with Biden winning,
like even if it's not him, I know that Florida,
what's his face? Tried Tota Santa's right, try to recreate
the charisma and just couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But if there is like a less likable ted Cruz, like,
that's the thing I was thinking about, is like in
terms of the full blown fascists at this point, like
DeSantis turns out to be a less likable ted Cruise
JD Vance one that VP debate according to like most
mainstream media outlets, and his likability has somehow like gone
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way down since then, and he was already the least
likable hit. So like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I do think that there's not thus far that we
have seen an individual that can recreate the carusma or
whatever you want to call it that Trump has. But
I also think it would be naive of us to
think that it would like that won't appear somehow, you
know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, maybe the ideology is
still there, the hatred is still there. They just haven't
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been able to capture it in a bottle like the
way that Trump did.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, yeah, I do think they would be I do
think they would be fucked at least for a little while,
because I think they would be still stuck on like
some dysantis. JD. Vance stuff and like Nikki Hayley might
end up having a moment. Oh yeah, but I get
I guess the thing is, like I hadn't really thought
about what a Republican party after Trump looks like since
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the last couple years, when it just became increasingly clear
like he was going to either win or come within
an inch of just like, you know, taking the country
into like full blown fascism and just seeing his brain kind.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Of you can't go half fash.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, we've done many varieties of fashion. It turns out
that fascism comes in a number of wonderful colors.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But I just got a good mouth feel.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I can't emphasize enough how fucked we are if he wins,
But if he loses, I think they're pretty fucked.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Too, which is just mean the Republicans, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
The Republicans and like the Mega movement, because he really
seems out of his Like he's always seemed out of
his mind, but he seems like to be falling apart reading. Yeah,
I mean, there's also been those moments in the past
where he seemed like he was deteriorating and it was
just because he's been awake for three weeks in a
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row on adderall and then he needs to like sleep again,
and then he gets the second one. So again, maybe
this is all just me being hopeful.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I also wonder, like who are the big playmakers that
are coming up, because Mitch McConnell's like hands are falling
off slowly and like lazy Graham, I don't know what's
happening with him, So like in terms of like party turnover,
I don't know who the clear leaders are for like
the next generation of like the GOP. Yeah, and who
would be as effectively insidious as like Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, But I feel like you can always replace Mitch
McConnell with a different like insidious, like you know, just
because like there was no charisma there to begin with.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He was no but he was working behind the scenes
in like a really effective way. Yeah, And like I
don't know like who would be able to do that,
because right now it seems like because Trump has been
so forward facing, it does feel like a lot of
people are attempting to usurp that position and be in
front of the camera and try to become celebrities rather
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than like work underneath to kind of like obviously everybody
knows Mitch McConnell, but he's not out there as much
as like Ted Cruz is just saying wild shit then
bling his name after. You know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back,
check in with the Kamala campaign and Peanut Butter. We'll
be right back and we're back. So Kamala Harris went
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on Fox News. It was not a why. I mean,
I think if her point was to, you know, convey
I can remain composed while being completely sandbagged and attacked
in a hugely stacked interview, I think she succeeded at that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Maybe she was recruiting someone for her cabinet position exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I like their spunk continuing to double down. I don't
disagree with the Fox News decision. I think, like, I
don't know, it seems it played well with me trying
to think like a Republican, but I've never been able
to do that at all, So who the fuck knows.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I don't know what's useful on this media for, but
I'm just like mad at her.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah me too, I am ad at her too. There's
that there was a Kamala HQ tweet where they showed
like Trump campaign has spent millions on anti trans ads
next to a New York Times headline under Trump, US
prisons offered gender affirm and care, and we're like, oh,
like trying to point out that they transphobia. A yeah,
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like doing fucking transfer. Oh, it's just very frustrating. I
also read an article where there's like this super pack
that is working for them, is basically using social media
to focus group like a thousand different possible messages and
then the ones that actually resonate with people. They then
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put those messages into tv ads and then do like
twenty different tv ads and then focus group those until
they find the tv ads.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Dang, hot girl.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Exactly just random word generatoring. This is totally different.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But I just saw a clip of the guy who
wrote SOS by Rihanna and how like the second verse
or the first verse or something was entirely number one
pop hits from the eighties and he went through song titles. Yah, yeah,
song titles. Is that what the Kamala team is doing,
just stringing together whatever's trending.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
But again, so Clintonian, like the whole way. We've already
talked about how her positioning and her decision to like
just keep moving further to the right to try and
capture a bigger and bigger part of the tent is
like very like it's the triangulation that Clinton Bill Clinton
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made famous did not work out so well more recently.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And that didn't back for ir at all with the
crime bill or anything.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, and also people are now smarter and are like
that fucking a terrible presidency in any ways. But also
just weather ballooning and responding to popular opinion is just
such a just like letting popular opinion control your campaign.
I understand the logic, and that seems to be any
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anyone who like objects to this is just like, yeah, well,
what's she going to do try and win you over?
You're already going to vote for her, And it's like yeah,
but it also just like makes it look like they
don't have any beliefs, which is bad if you're running
to be a leader.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It's also exactly what Trump's doing. He like reads the
room and responds in that way like he literally will
say things will gauge whether it gets like a laugh
or a reaction, and then continues down that road. That's
like every every behavior of his has been rewarded in
some way, which is why he is the way he is. Yeah,
So like, how are you different from the Republicans then?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Right? But yeah, I don't know. Just generally following this election,
I feel like I'm watching a weather report for like
one day in three weeks and just hoping it doesn't
rain in Seattle or you know, it's just like I
don't fucking know, like it and nobody knows. Like the
New York Times had this headline, how accurate or off
target could the polls be this year? Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The answer is literally very off target and we don't
know in which direction more at eleven.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You know, that's like when there's like a breaking news story,
the reporter just has to keep talking to fill time.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, exactly. The polls. I mean, I think everyone else
who is worried about this election is has the same thought.
Like the polls really seem to underestimate Trump every fucking time.
They did a big one in twenty sixteen, and we
were all surprised the day after the election if you
were paying attention to the polls twenty twenty, in many
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ways they were more off. They had Wisconsin off by
ten points, like they were like that's Biden's going to
run away with us. He barely want it. But because
Biden won, like, we don't remember it as being as
far off.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Do you think the polls were so off because they
were manned by teen volunteers?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Right? Well, I think we will talk about that on
tomorrow's episode. Yeah, the poll those are the actual polls
that will be manned by team volunteers. But yeah, I
mean polling is a mess. Like I've seen people who
are saying that the polls now, like after twenty twenty,
they were like, okay, guys, we need to change everything,
and they started shifting things like so far towards the
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Republicans that they were then predicting a red wave for
the midterms, and like that's why they were off at
that time, and they think they might be off again
this time.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I mean Biden cocky, Like he literally was like they
said there was gonna be a red wave. Yeah, there was,
like every time he's asked about and then he fell.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Asleep in the middle of the sentence. So nobody seems
to really know. I feel very uncomfortable with any like
tiny narrow polling lead over Trump, who has always historically
outperformed as polls, Like, really, the only possibility of Harris
winning at this point seems to be assuming that they've
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built in a massive pulling error, like pushing towards Republicans,
because otherwise it will just be Trump overperforming again and winning.
Because this is worse than the polls were for the
Democrats heading into any of his previous elections. So we'll see,
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you know.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But the one thing, given everything that's happened, that he's
doing the best he's ever done. Yeah, like after being indeted,
after talking the way he talks, like, it's just insane.
I'm not surprised, but it's insane.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Not good polay would be how I would describe it.
But I think what's important is that one thing Americans
have gotten right is their peanut butter. And that's called
a transition. And that is what we do here in
this podcast. We transition.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
We transition, and we're pro tramp.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And we are pro transitioning. So peanut butter turns out
to be one of those things that we have I
guess mostly right, or like consumers are getting right. So
there's a review in the food blog the Takeout, which
is we used to talk about the take out a lot.
But it's basically like food snobs reviewing fast food and
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you know, grocery store items and stuff like that. And
they did a ranking of widely available store bought peanut butter,
and the two best are Jiff and Skippy according to
their like mind taste testing, which are the two best selling.
Skippies number two in sales and number one according to
their taste tests. Jiff number one in sales, number two
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in taste. But the fact that we got the top two, right,
I was like, that's it? Is it?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Because they're filled completely with like sugar, and.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It is they're bad for it. These are all these
are all bad for us. This is this is a
food review site. I should say that, like, you know,
seriously considers the mouthfeel of like Taco Bell products.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And okay, that is legitimate.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, so there's there's nothing wrong with that. If you're
going to kill yourself with food, might as well be
thoughtful about it as you're going down. But I don't know,
it just it's an interesting category of things, whether they
be just like food, they are products that are I
guess you would call them like accurately raided, Like we
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kind of have it right, Like I was thinking of purchases. Yeah,
the consumer purchases like Hines and Hunts, like Hines being
number one and Hunts being a distant second kind of
matches up with my experience of those products and other ketchups,
Like I've never had a ketchup that's as good as Hines.
I don't know why this this now sounds like a
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hinds ad sponsor.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Of ketchup.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Please Candy. I feel like despite all those like maps
where they're like California's favorite candy is actually Nilla wafers.
You know, when you look at overall sales, Reese's peanut
butter cups are still the number one selling thing, and
I think I would have to rank them near the
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top for myself.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
They are delicious, But I will say like, as I've
gotten older, I don't know what happened. I used to
eat like literally and I still do sometimes, like candy,
ice cream, terrible things for breakfast, like, but for some reason,
my palate has gotten hoity toity, And I'm like, there's
a weird aftertaste to Hershey's chocolate and I'm having a
hard time. Yeah, I'm like there's something like I'm feeling
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something in it. I'm like, I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
There's like a spiciness that I feel like, not even spiciness,
but like a kind of it's like it hurts the
back of your throat a little bit because it has
so much sugar in it has always been how I've
interpreted that. I was curious if like Cola's could kind
of fit into this, because I do feel like coke
despite the fact that there are like other types of
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sodas I've enjoyed, it's never like the cola kind Like
I've never had a cola that I was like, that's
better than coke, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But also that depends on where you are because they
have that like Coca Cola tasting thing with cokes from
all different countries, and there are some that are horrific
really and there's oh yeah there was like I did
it when I was a kid, so I don't know
if it's changed, but like there was some that was
I was like, y awful. Yeah, So like for like
the eminem thing and the coke music and like I
think it was in Vegas or whatever. Yeah, you could
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go like taste tests all the different cokes and they
had like a fountain and it was fun, but yeah,
there are some cokes that are really bad. So, like,
I don't know if it's but I've always been a
fan and this might just be the Indian in me.
I think there was some situation where with Pakistan in
India when when stuff was going down there, hope wasn't
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like allowed in India or something like that at some point,
I don't know, but then it came up with their
own coke called thumbs Up, and like I actually prefer
that to coke.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh really OK?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, but it might just beyle a different India.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah, I don't know. It was like cultural conditioning. Like
I only think peanut butter like Jiff and Skippy peanut
butter or Jiff and was it. Yeah, Jiff and Skippy
peanut butter are good because that is the peanut butter
I was raised on. And like everybody else is like
this tastes like rat shit.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Do you know what though? Is that we used to
take food to certain foods to our our family in India,
and the foods that they or the fun things that
they couldn't get, we always take them Girl Scout cookies,
like my mom always buys up a ton and then
we take them to India and then they freeze them
and like eat them slowly over the year so that
they can like ration them out.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Cookies are a great product.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And then also Big Read, although Big Read did change
the recipe at some point and it's not the same
as it was when I was a kid. And then
also peanut butter. We used to take peanut butter because
they didn't have good smooth peanut butter, and we would
take jiff. Yeah, yeah, there it is, So that is
transcending countries.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Paula Ganalon, truly a pleasure having you here with ya.
Where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Hello the Ganalan p A l l A v I
g U n A l A and everywhere. I run
a show at the comedy store called Facial Recognition Comedy
and I'm doing stand up everywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Follow me, follow me? Uh great, Well again, wonderful having you.
That's gonna do it for us this afternoon. We are
back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
get the vaccine and get your flu shot. Don't do
nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all
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tomorrow bye bye