September 9, 2021 • 19 mins
In this edition of Matrix: Trendsurrections, Jack and Miles discuss the new Matrix 4 trailer, Sarah Palin v. AOC, the DoJ suing Texas over their abortion ban, Chris Christie's thoughts on GOP optics, Biden asking OSHA to mandate vaccines at larger businesses, and Steven Burns returning to 'Blue's Clues' for a special message
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Matrix
Trends Directions. Uh, trends directions. I'm trying. I'm Jack, you
are Miles. We are in the matrix. I don't know
(00:21):
if you guys heard. I knew it all along. Was
the matrix the whole fucking time. Yeah, yeah, so that
is the first trend we're talking about, matrix resurrections. The
trailer dropped. I think people are pretty excited, except for
superproducer Brian. Yeah, not not feeling it, but I I
(00:43):
thought it looked dope. I liked that there's like a
full color palette this time around. It's very colorful. I
mean so many films too, Like even people had complaints
about like a lot of the Marvel films being really
flat too, Like there's just been this look cinema, cinema
to graphically whatever that adjective is. But yeah, that, um,
(01:06):
there's there's not a lot of color for me. I
just look the second I see fucking John Wick as Neil.
Even though I'm look, I'm still having a little bit
of trouble and not seeing John Wick when he's got
that long ass hair and like the shaggy beard, but
him and carry and moss that like last frame when
like they're holding hands just jumping off the building, I
(01:26):
was like, yes, bro, let's go, let's go, let's fucking
dive into the matrix. Yeah, so it seems like they
have an explanation for why they are older, which is
this is a new matrix. They don't realize they're in
the matrix at the beginning of the trailer and yeah,
(01:47):
so they must have been out in reality they got
red pilled and then put back into the matrix. And
so now it's, uh, that's a smart move. I'm saying,
get smart, move, sick move, sick move mate, way to
get in done, Lana the Yeah, they look like they're
they know that they've got a red pill problem. So
(02:11):
I'm curious to see what they do with that. But overall,
I'm I guess the one thing for me that is
I guess a disappointment is like I wanted to see
a new thing that completely flipped filmmaking on its head,
but I think that's a little too Uh, that's a
that's a big ask to make, Like, well, where's that
bullet time, Like, where's y'all had twenty three years? What
(02:34):
the fuck? But other than that. I mean, I think
for the geriatric mollinials out there my friend group, we
were all like, oh my god, let's go back. M
I'm going back baby, Alright, Palin is trending. Why what?
She's just fucking trying hard. You know. She's she's sort
(02:56):
of like Donald Trump too, or like if she becomes
a just slightly around event, she's got to do her
damnedest to fucking, you know, make some headlines. And in
this one, she made some headlines because she said, here,
I'll just play the clip because we'll give her a
little bit of oxygen, because she's in the depths of hell. Um.
This is her, you know, realizing Hey, you know, you
(03:17):
know what gets headlines if you talk about Alexandria Kasio
Cortez take it away, Sarah, Wow, aoc, she's really milk
in this isn't She has such a fake feminist that
she would bring up an issue like this and try
to use it to make some kind of political point
that that's not that's not equality, right, it's oh man,
(03:38):
I don't even get me started on this. I'm sick
what she has done. She should be embarrassed to even
have tried to bring up an issue like that and
make her political point. She saw based politically but off
base even in this analogy or whatever it is that
she's throwing out there, she's she's milking the whole. Female,
(03:59):
You're milking the whole. But do you know the topic
she's talking about. She's like, I can't believe she's talking
about this, talking about the fucking abortion band in Texas? Right,
what is that? What could that possibly have to do
with feminism? Oh? My god? And like I mean, but
don't even when someone says don't even get me started,
(04:20):
they have nothing to even get started on. That's almost
always the case. That's like I'm trying to end, like
please interject with now your words. This is me handing
the baton, do you because I'm saying I have I'm
just making it up as I go. No, seriously, don't
don't get me started. Don't don't don't get me started
because literally I can't sert. Don't allow me to start
if you start me up, because then I can't start this. Yeah,
(04:42):
and then you know, came back back and forth alc.
Just like like I don't know, like once you cry
about it, just nonsense. But that's people love a good
Sarah Palem sound bite. Mm hmm um, we'll shout out
to her. Uh you know that is um, I don't
know that. That was pretty like surprisingly ineloquent, even for
(05:08):
Sarah Palin, which that's yeah, I mean, but that just
shows you kind of where it's easier when you have
to like bullshit around topics that make sense. But when
your own party and platform is such a contradiction and
has no like grounding and like even philosophically, like that
isn't just a parody of itself, you can't really say
(05:29):
things earnestly like and be really articulate because what is
she I don't know what she could say, like as
Sarah Palin's position that she's like, how dare you evoke feminism?
Because we are as conservatives are the you know, guardians
of of equality for you know, like what do you mean?
Like I don't even know, like what's the position exactly,
(05:49):
because it's more just probably likes and white supremacist. What
do you what exactly? How can you say and whatever?
All Right, the d o J is trending. O J
is always trying to trend there, so thirsty, so thirsty,
but they are suing Texas over the abortion ban, saying
(06:12):
that the state enacted the law in open defiance of
the Constitution, which seems to be true. Yeah see how
that goes? Yeah right, it seems okay, that can't no
lies detected here in open to find. Yeah, that's that's
about that's yeah, yeah, okay, So what next? What are
(06:32):
you doing here? Um? Yeah, this is you know, as
they said, as Mark Garland said, they're they're gonna look
at all their options to make sure that they protect
people's access to abortions down there. So uh yeah, this
is this seems like the obvious choice for try and
have a permanent injunction, being like, uh, yeah, my honor,
(06:52):
this uh is just an open defiance of the Constitution.
I rest my case America out Going through the courts
after the Supreme Court has sided against you seems hard.
But I don't know, maybe maybe not. Yeah, I don't.
I look, this is where we we let the ship
(07:13):
go off into the night and say, oh, miss that boat.
I'm not a legal scholar, but yeah, I know, I mean,
I think this seems like a winnable case from my
very ignorant point of view. Um. But more than that,
how about the things that you know Congress can do,
like make these things fucking lost. How about you do that?
You got the fucking votes. You're just not willing to
(07:33):
really fucking put Joe Mansion's back to the wall and
be like funk around and find out. But it seems like,
especially as you know, as it relates to the infrastructure bill,
people think he's gonna bend in that sense. But I
don't know it's which way, like actually let it happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's that guy. It's not a good look when you're
(07:56):
the senator from a state that has a lot of
people in knee and you're openly saying people don't need ship.
I don't know how you run like on that platform,
but hey, this is America. Stranger things about. All right,
let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
(08:23):
we're back, and perceived is trending. Mm hmm. Why because
it's so stupid. Okay, So the reason perceived is trending
is because of a larger quote from Chris Christie who's
talking about like where the GOP is going. Yeah, yeah,
(08:45):
they're having a day right now. Uh. He said the
GOP needs to be quote the party that's perceived to
be telling the American people the truth. They just need
to be perceived party. Everyone's like everyone goes perceived. Okay,
I'm going to hang onto that word because you mean
(09:05):
just lie better, right? Oh god, that's I mean, that's
just saying the the like focus groups, market speak, that
is of the conversation that he has during his day
to day life, just like using that to make a
public statement. Look, it's all about perceptions, and we be
(09:28):
perceived as telling the American people that we can't actually
tell the There's a lot of the things we say
that are the truth and end up really coming to
pass or and then we just realize it's all fucking lies.
So we're gonna have to fake a truth at some
point to make this stuff seem like the because what
do you do is change your whole platform around. If
(09:50):
you're gonna be perceived as telling the truth, then in
regards to anything, what what are you? How do you remedy?
I'm I'm failing to understand how they do that. This
is part of like when you google his name that
they're like three kind of big news stories that are
like Christie steps out of Trump's shadow and Stokes buzz X.
(10:12):
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is reportedly launching a comeback tour,
and his insight is, we gotta we gotta act like
we're telling the truth out here, because that's isn't that
like the the most fundamental like political principle. But they did.
(10:33):
They put the pedal to the metal to the all
the lying and ship and hardcore lying, like not democrat
broken promises and like half truth line, but like straight
up just being like, yeah, the fucking sky is green, y'all,
let's go um when you go there, Yeah, just it's
there's I don't know how you come back, So I
guess they are. I don't know. I'm I'm still don't
(10:56):
understand how you you turn from being completely full of
ship and then saying we have to be more truthful. Now,
does that mean that that's some kind of sub tweet
at Donald Trump and saying we need to oust him
from the party because we have no fucking credibility at
all and the only people that we do have credibility
with think that people are straight up slamming adren of chrone,
(11:17):
adrene of chrome out of kids and ship. I that's
kind of a problem. And also when you look at
how other people are campaigning against Republicans, they're just mere
they're just merely gesturing to the fucking others handed it
and they're like, y'all this this fool over here, ok, yeah, yeah, yeah,
go off, do it with the bear who said he
didn't need a mask when he kissed his bear. Yeah.
(11:40):
I'm yeah, maybe he'll be your governor. I don't know.
By the way, this guy is green once you take
the red pill, as the matrix showed us exactly. OSHA
is trending because Biden's new COVID plan is finally mobilizing
O Shoda provide for workers. Yeah, you know, mandatory vaccinations
(12:02):
are testing for large employers and paid time off for
workers to get vaccinated. Yes, this is him again. Strategies
we're seeing governors use. There's places where you know, people
like Gavin Newsom, uh Kroger Brand, Patrick Bateman. You'll hear
more about that um later, but that he and other
(12:24):
governors who are facing like tough races, they've actually been
energizing independence because they've been stricter with vaccine and mask mandates.
And a lot of the polling is starting to show
that seems to be something that is really motivating people
to vote um, because a lot of people have you know,
(12:44):
gotten a vaccine, realized that a lot of the issues
that we have are born out of just instability because
we have large pockets of the country that are unvaccinated. UM.
And we also have leaders who are willing to just
be like, I don't know, y'o, let's fucking have a
COVID party in my state. I don't give a fuck. Um,
And that seems to be really unsettling with a lot
of voters. So this this sort of seems like Biden
(13:07):
kind of also seeing that, oh, people like this, so
I'm gonna get tougher, because a lot of the time
he was just sort of like pump faking about it. Um.
But it seems like this is something that's going to
be announced. The fact that the truth and vaccinations versus
anti like anti scientific, anti vaxxcor ship is a political
(13:31):
winner is honestly the best political news I think I've
heard show in a year, Maybe because I mean, every
time you think we've hit peak bullshit from conservatives like
they managed to impress us. But we're clearly entering a
phase where now the bullshit is so like, on its
face dangerous that they've just put the bar on the floor.
(13:54):
And again, like I said, all like, Yeavin Newsom is
just like, oh is this your governor, Larry Elder? Have
you heard what? Then they only just says like, this
is gonna be Rhonda Santis, this is gonna be Trump
and just those names are not for people to be like,
oh my god. Yeah. And finally, Blues Clues was trending
for the past couple of days because on the anniversary
(14:18):
of that shows premiere, the original Blues Clues host Steve Burns,
Steven Burns came on and addressed Blues Clues viewers from
decades ago and it, um, I missed this show is
it's just fun? Like when I saw this, I'm like,
(14:39):
why are we talking about this? Jack? You know, both
of us don't know about blues cos I know about
Blues Clues, but I watched I watched the fucking internet
be like, oh, Steve, like motherfucking Gandalf came back and
Lord of the Rings of Ship and I'm like, come
with the turning of this time. I'm like, I don't
know this, motherfucker, and I don't care Air, but I understand,
(15:03):
But also part of my struggle is knowing I'm older.
I'm older now, so a lot of this ship that's,
you know, that's popping off our memes based on a
lot of ship that I just was too fucked up
to pay attention to my teenage years. Like I was
just there enough to know about Blues Clues and know
about this face. But other than that, it doesn't It
(15:23):
did nothing for me. I got more out of the
fucking seeing yah Yah Matine uh a dressed as mate
as Morpheus and the fucking Matrix than seeing Steve from
Blues Clues. What is Morpheus like dead in the Matrix?
Is that? What? That's a Look, there's a lot of
they're saying, why is yahya abdul Matine? Is he made Morpheus?
Is he young Morpheus? Is he not Morpheus? Is he
(15:46):
a parallel Morpheus? Yea, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, UH did
a little research on the one thing I knew about
the Blues Clues host was that he left under mysterious circumstances,
and he addressed that and said, like, look, the truth
is I just like went to college and needed to
(16:07):
go to college when I was like, I didn't want
to be a children's host, but then like, I don't know,
I did a little bit of research, and this is
going to make probably a whole generation of listeners mad
at me. But it does seem like what happened is
he wanted to pursue a music career and then the
music career like didn't really take off, and so he
(16:29):
just like kind of pretended that that didn't happen, and
which is like, you know, um, he also like keeps
keeps making reference to the fact that he was going
bald on TV and like that they wouldn't let him
shave his head because that would like freak the kids out, um,
(16:49):
which is kind of funny and weird, but for less
washed millennials, this is the equivalent of like hearing that
the guy from the Chichen commerce Shoal or Bobby mcphern
like jumped out of an airplane or like all the
all the wild urban legends about like what happened to
various celebrities. Apparently there were like all sorts of rumors
(17:12):
that he died of a heroin overdose, that he uh
died in a car accident. Was is so weird that
they that they thought that he like wrote himself out
out of the show so he could like go die
or something. Right, quite quite clear on that, but anyways, Uh,
it is really um a strange thing to behold outside
(17:32):
of the context of like what the zeitgeist that kind
of made this so kind of culturally and like emotionally
uh meaningful to people. I was just like, oh, like
when I read the statement that he made, um and
people are like I was crying so much when he
(17:53):
said that. You know, it was sweet. Yeah, I get why.
I mean, it was very easy for me to understand
why people were so taken by his re emergence or whatever.
Just for me as an old motherfucker now as I
as I call people who aren't even forty yet, um
that I just was just like, just I don't know,
(18:14):
put Redman and method Man together, just tell me something like,
I'm like red name, method Man and Steve from Blues
Clues or who would it be. I'm thinking realistically, right,
who would it be from my fucking childhood? Let me
show up right now? And I'm like this, dude, for
I think I used to get it when, you know,
(18:35):
like when I would see fucking Christopher Lloyd and Michael J.
Fox like team Up, you know in the latter years
to be Marty and Doc Brown and Ship Burton, like
coming on Jeopardy because Reading Rainbow was like such a
for like younger people like that. Oh yeah, the Reading
Rainbow revival that that hit different, um, but yeah, you
(18:59):
know what shout out to if that gave you a
dopamine boost. I'm jealous, okay, because I'm out here watching
the Matrix trailer nine times over kind of figure out
why why does Killing Reeves look all weird in his reflection? Right, yeah,
that that is weird way he looks like, I'm gonna
get I'm gonna be on like Stephen Crowder Show by
(19:20):
the end of the years, like activating some weird ship
in my head from left the building. You'll all right,
that is going to do it for this Thursday afternoon.
We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourselves, wear a mask at the vaccine, don't
(19:41):
do nothing about white supremacy, and we'll talk to you
all then, right right,
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Matrix
Trends Directions. Uh, trends directions. I'm trying. I'm Jack, you
are Miles. We are in the matrix. I don't know
(00:21):
if you guys heard. I knew it all along. Was
the matrix the whole fucking time. Yeah, yeah, so that
is the first trend we're talking about, matrix resurrections. The
trailer dropped. I think people are pretty excited, except for
superproducer Brian. Yeah, not not feeling it, but I I
(00:43):
thought it looked dope. I liked that there's like a
full color palette this time around. It's very colorful. I
mean so many films too, Like even people had complaints
about like a lot of the Marvel films being really
flat too, Like there's just been this look cinema, cinema
to graphically whatever that adjective is. But yeah, that, um,
(01:06):
there's there's not a lot of color for me. I
just look the second I see fucking John Wick as Neil.
Even though I'm look, I'm still having a little bit
of trouble and not seeing John Wick when he's got
that long ass hair and like the shaggy beard, but
him and carry and moss that like last frame when
like they're holding hands just jumping off the building, I
(01:26):
was like, yes, bro, let's go, let's go, let's fucking
dive into the matrix. Yeah, so it seems like they
have an explanation for why they are older, which is
this is a new matrix. They don't realize they're in
the matrix at the beginning of the trailer and yeah,
(01:47):
so they must have been out in reality they got
red pilled and then put back into the matrix. And
so now it's, uh, that's a smart move. I'm saying,
get smart, move, sick move, sick move mate, way to
get in done, Lana the Yeah, they look like they're
they know that they've got a red pill problem. So
(02:11):
I'm curious to see what they do with that. But overall,
I'm I guess the one thing for me that is
I guess a disappointment is like I wanted to see
a new thing that completely flipped filmmaking on its head,
but I think that's a little too Uh, that's a
that's a big ask to make, Like, well, where's that
bullet time, Like, where's y'all had twenty three years? What
(02:34):
the fuck? But other than that. I mean, I think
for the geriatric mollinials out there my friend group, we
were all like, oh my god, let's go back. M
I'm going back baby, Alright, Palin is trending. Why what?
She's just fucking trying hard. You know. She's she's sort
(02:56):
of like Donald Trump too, or like if she becomes
a just slightly around event, she's got to do her
damnedest to fucking, you know, make some headlines. And in
this one, she made some headlines because she said, here,
I'll just play the clip because we'll give her a
little bit of oxygen, because she's in the depths of hell. Um.
This is her, you know, realizing Hey, you know, you
(03:17):
know what gets headlines if you talk about Alexandria Kasio
Cortez take it away, Sarah, Wow, aoc, she's really milk
in this isn't She has such a fake feminist that
she would bring up an issue like this and try
to use it to make some kind of political point
that that's not that's not equality, right, it's oh man,
(03:38):
I don't even get me started on this. I'm sick
what she has done. She should be embarrassed to even
have tried to bring up an issue like that and
make her political point. She saw based politically but off
base even in this analogy or whatever it is that
she's throwing out there, she's she's milking the whole. Female,
(03:59):
You're milking the whole. But do you know the topic
she's talking about. She's like, I can't believe she's talking
about this, talking about the fucking abortion band in Texas? Right,
what is that? What could that possibly have to do
with feminism? Oh? My god? And like I mean, but
don't even when someone says don't even get me started,
(04:20):
they have nothing to even get started on. That's almost
always the case. That's like I'm trying to end, like
please interject with now your words. This is me handing
the baton, do you because I'm saying I have I'm
just making it up as I go. No, seriously, don't
don't get me started. Don't don't don't get me started
because literally I can't sert. Don't allow me to start
if you start me up, because then I can't start this. Yeah,
(04:42):
and then you know, came back back and forth alc.
Just like like I don't know, like once you cry
about it, just nonsense. But that's people love a good
Sarah Palem sound bite. Mm hmm um, we'll shout out
to her. Uh you know that is um, I don't
know that. That was pretty like surprisingly ineloquent, even for
(05:08):
Sarah Palin, which that's yeah, I mean, but that just
shows you kind of where it's easier when you have
to like bullshit around topics that make sense. But when
your own party and platform is such a contradiction and
has no like grounding and like even philosophically, like that
isn't just a parody of itself, you can't really say
(05:29):
things earnestly like and be really articulate because what is
she I don't know what she could say, like as
Sarah Palin's position that she's like, how dare you evoke feminism?
Because we are as conservatives are the you know, guardians
of of equality for you know, like what do you mean?
Like I don't even know, like what's the position exactly,
(05:49):
because it's more just probably likes and white supremacist. What
do you what exactly? How can you say and whatever?
All Right, the d o J is trending. O J
is always trying to trend there, so thirsty, so thirsty,
but they are suing Texas over the abortion ban, saying
(06:12):
that the state enacted the law in open defiance of
the Constitution, which seems to be true. Yeah see how
that goes? Yeah right, it seems okay, that can't no
lies detected here in open to find. Yeah, that's that's
about that's yeah, yeah, okay, So what next? What are
(06:32):
you doing here? Um? Yeah, this is you know, as
they said, as Mark Garland said, they're they're gonna look
at all their options to make sure that they protect
people's access to abortions down there. So uh yeah, this
is this seems like the obvious choice for try and
have a permanent injunction, being like, uh, yeah, my honor,
(06:52):
this uh is just an open defiance of the Constitution.
I rest my case America out Going through the courts
after the Supreme Court has sided against you seems hard.
But I don't know, maybe maybe not. Yeah, I don't.
I look, this is where we we let the ship
(07:13):
go off into the night and say, oh, miss that boat.
I'm not a legal scholar, but yeah, I know, I mean,
I think this seems like a winnable case from my
very ignorant point of view. Um. But more than that,
how about the things that you know Congress can do,
like make these things fucking lost. How about you do that?
You got the fucking votes. You're just not willing to
(07:33):
really fucking put Joe Mansion's back to the wall and
be like funk around and find out. But it seems like,
especially as you know, as it relates to the infrastructure bill,
people think he's gonna bend in that sense. But I
don't know it's which way, like actually let it happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's that guy. It's not a good look when you're
(07:56):
the senator from a state that has a lot of
people in knee and you're openly saying people don't need ship.
I don't know how you run like on that platform,
but hey, this is America. Stranger things about. All right,
let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
(08:23):
we're back, and perceived is trending. Mm hmm. Why because
it's so stupid. Okay, So the reason perceived is trending
is because of a larger quote from Chris Christie who's
talking about like where the GOP is going. Yeah, yeah,
(08:45):
they're having a day right now. Uh. He said the
GOP needs to be quote the party that's perceived to
be telling the American people the truth. They just need
to be perceived party. Everyone's like everyone goes perceived. Okay,
I'm going to hang onto that word because you mean
(09:05):
just lie better, right? Oh god, that's I mean, that's
just saying the the like focus groups, market speak, that
is of the conversation that he has during his day
to day life, just like using that to make a
public statement. Look, it's all about perceptions, and we be
(09:28):
perceived as telling the American people that we can't actually
tell the There's a lot of the things we say
that are the truth and end up really coming to
pass or and then we just realize it's all fucking lies.
So we're gonna have to fake a truth at some
point to make this stuff seem like the because what
do you do is change your whole platform around. If
(09:50):
you're gonna be perceived as telling the truth, then in
regards to anything, what what are you? How do you remedy?
I'm I'm failing to understand how they do that. This
is part of like when you google his name that
they're like three kind of big news stories that are
like Christie steps out of Trump's shadow and Stokes buzz X.
(10:12):
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is reportedly launching a comeback tour,
and his insight is, we gotta we gotta act like
we're telling the truth out here, because that's isn't that
like the the most fundamental like political principle. But they did.
(10:33):
They put the pedal to the metal to the all
the lying and ship and hardcore lying, like not democrat
broken promises and like half truth line, but like straight
up just being like, yeah, the fucking sky is green, y'all,
let's go um when you go there, Yeah, just it's
there's I don't know how you come back, So I
guess they are. I don't know. I'm I'm still don't
(10:56):
understand how you you turn from being completely full of
ship and then saying we have to be more truthful. Now,
does that mean that that's some kind of sub tweet
at Donald Trump and saying we need to oust him
from the party because we have no fucking credibility at
all and the only people that we do have credibility
with think that people are straight up slamming adren of chrone,
(11:17):
adrene of chrome out of kids and ship. I that's
kind of a problem. And also when you look at
how other people are campaigning against Republicans, they're just mere
they're just merely gesturing to the fucking others handed it
and they're like, y'all this this fool over here, ok, yeah, yeah, yeah,
go off, do it with the bear who said he
didn't need a mask when he kissed his bear. Yeah.
(11:40):
I'm yeah, maybe he'll be your governor. I don't know.
By the way, this guy is green once you take
the red pill, as the matrix showed us exactly. OSHA
is trending because Biden's new COVID plan is finally mobilizing
O Shoda provide for workers. Yeah, you know, mandatory vaccinations
(12:02):
are testing for large employers and paid time off for
workers to get vaccinated. Yes, this is him again. Strategies
we're seeing governors use. There's places where you know, people
like Gavin Newsom, uh Kroger Brand, Patrick Bateman. You'll hear
more about that um later, but that he and other
(12:24):
governors who are facing like tough races, they've actually been
energizing independence because they've been stricter with vaccine and mask mandates.
And a lot of the polling is starting to show
that seems to be something that is really motivating people
to vote um, because a lot of people have you know,
(12:44):
gotten a vaccine, realized that a lot of the issues
that we have are born out of just instability because
we have large pockets of the country that are unvaccinated. UM.
And we also have leaders who are willing to just
be like, I don't know, y'o, let's fucking have a
COVID party in my state. I don't give a fuck. Um,
And that seems to be really unsettling with a lot
of voters. So this this sort of seems like Biden
(13:07):
kind of also seeing that, oh, people like this, so
I'm gonna get tougher, because a lot of the time
he was just sort of like pump faking about it. Um.
But it seems like this is something that's going to
be announced. The fact that the truth and vaccinations versus
anti like anti scientific, anti vaxxcor ship is a political
(13:31):
winner is honestly the best political news I think I've
heard show in a year, Maybe because I mean, every
time you think we've hit peak bullshit from conservatives like
they managed to impress us. But we're clearly entering a
phase where now the bullshit is so like, on its
face dangerous that they've just put the bar on the floor.
(13:54):
And again, like I said, all like, Yeavin Newsom is
just like, oh is this your governor, Larry Elder? Have
you heard what? Then they only just says like, this
is gonna be Rhonda Santis, this is gonna be Trump
and just those names are not for people to be like,
oh my god. Yeah. And finally, Blues Clues was trending
for the past couple of days because on the anniversary
(14:18):
of that shows premiere, the original Blues Clues host Steve Burns,
Steven Burns came on and addressed Blues Clues viewers from
decades ago and it, um, I missed this show is
it's just fun? Like when I saw this, I'm like,
(14:39):
why are we talking about this? Jack? You know, both
of us don't know about blues cos I know about
Blues Clues, but I watched I watched the fucking internet
be like, oh, Steve, like motherfucking Gandalf came back and
Lord of the Rings of Ship and I'm like, come
with the turning of this time. I'm like, I don't
know this, motherfucker, and I don't care Air, but I understand,
(15:03):
But also part of my struggle is knowing I'm older.
I'm older now, so a lot of this ship that's,
you know, that's popping off our memes based on a
lot of ship that I just was too fucked up
to pay attention to my teenage years. Like I was
just there enough to know about Blues Clues and know
about this face. But other than that, it doesn't It
(15:23):
did nothing for me. I got more out of the
fucking seeing yah Yah Matine uh a dressed as mate
as Morpheus and the fucking Matrix than seeing Steve from
Blues Clues. What is Morpheus like dead in the Matrix?
Is that? What? That's a Look, there's a lot of
they're saying, why is yahya abdul Matine? Is he made Morpheus?
Is he young Morpheus? Is he not Morpheus? Is he
(15:46):
a parallel Morpheus? Yea, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, UH did
a little research on the one thing I knew about
the Blues Clues host was that he left under mysterious circumstances,
and he addressed that and said, like, look, the truth
is I just like went to college and needed to
(16:07):
go to college when I was like, I didn't want
to be a children's host, but then like, I don't know,
I did a little bit of research, and this is
going to make probably a whole generation of listeners mad
at me. But it does seem like what happened is
he wanted to pursue a music career and then the
music career like didn't really take off, and so he
(16:29):
just like kind of pretended that that didn't happen, and
which is like, you know, um, he also like keeps
keeps making reference to the fact that he was going
bald on TV and like that they wouldn't let him
shave his head because that would like freak the kids out, um,
(16:49):
which is kind of funny and weird, but for less
washed millennials, this is the equivalent of like hearing that
the guy from the Chichen commerce Shoal or Bobby mcphern
like jumped out of an airplane or like all the
all the wild urban legends about like what happened to
various celebrities. Apparently there were like all sorts of rumors
(17:12):
that he died of a heroin overdose, that he uh
died in a car accident. Was is so weird that
they that they thought that he like wrote himself out
out of the show so he could like go die
or something. Right, quite quite clear on that, but anyways, Uh,
it is really um a strange thing to behold outside
(17:32):
of the context of like what the zeitgeist that kind
of made this so kind of culturally and like emotionally
uh meaningful to people. I was just like, oh, like
when I read the statement that he made, um and
people are like I was crying so much when he
(17:53):
said that. You know, it was sweet. Yeah, I get why.
I mean, it was very easy for me to understand
why people were so taken by his re emergence or whatever.
Just for me as an old motherfucker now as I
as I call people who aren't even forty yet, um
that I just was just like, just I don't know,
(18:14):
put Redman and method Man together, just tell me something like,
I'm like red name, method Man and Steve from Blues
Clues or who would it be. I'm thinking realistically, right,
who would it be from my fucking childhood? Let me
show up right now? And I'm like this, dude, for
I think I used to get it when, you know,
(18:35):
like when I would see fucking Christopher Lloyd and Michael J.
Fox like team Up, you know in the latter years
to be Marty and Doc Brown and Ship Burton, like
coming on Jeopardy because Reading Rainbow was like such a
for like younger people like that. Oh yeah, the Reading
Rainbow revival that that hit different, um, but yeah, you
(18:59):
know what shout out to if that gave you a
dopamine boost. I'm jealous, okay, because I'm out here watching
the Matrix trailer nine times over kind of figure out
why why does Killing Reeves look all weird in his reflection? Right, yeah,
that that is weird way he looks like, I'm gonna
get I'm gonna be on like Stephen Crowder Show by
(19:20):
the end of the years, like activating some weird ship
in my head from left the building. You'll all right,
that is going to do it for this Thursday afternoon.
We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourselves, wear a mask at the vaccine, don't
(19:41):
do nothing about white supremacy, and we'll talk to you
all then, right right,
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