In this edition of Put Another Trend On The Barbie, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Donald Trump's 'President Pope' dreams, Trump preemptively ruining Christmas for the kids, the Females lying to us Men, Trumpism failing in Australia, the release of 'Thunderbolts' and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I was. I was eight year old stomping grounds miles.
I even asked ultrazon big party this week, I was,
I was so impressed.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Is that the owner of the place, Yeah, who looks
like a character from Clerks who got like edited out
of the movie.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
They were like, let's go, let's go find somebody who
might have like been here when he was here. And uh,
because I was like, yeah, my corker like used to
do that. I think he did like your job. And
she was like what, no way, I didn't expect such
a big response. And then she like went in the
(00:42):
back and was like looking for old people. I guess, yeah,
if they knew you.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, I mean you had to be working there, fucking
I was like it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Was the early I kept being like it was the nineties,
Like it wasn't the nice I started working there in
two thousand and two two two.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
She was like, maybe the owner would like I didn't
say this so that you could.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Go find someone to like yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess
my story. They respect their elders so much to like, well,
I don't want to just blow this old guy off
and say oh cool man. Sure, They're like, oh, let
me find someone from you so nice. They're really like
bro Like I mean the guy who owns that place,
like he's really That's why it was kind of a
(01:27):
coveted job because not any motherfucker could work at Ultra zoone. No,
you had to have you had to be oh, you
got to have the risk. You got to also be
able to control some children in a way that doesn't
come off like you're a dick. I learned. So it's funny.
I learned so much at that job for it being
just a laser tech place, Like I learned how to
like that's the first my crash course in dealing with celebrities. Yeah,
(01:51):
in a weird way where they're going to treat you
like shit, but you got to kind of like Jedi
mind trick them out of why they can't do something.
They're like, well I can't I can't bring this Hibachi
grill into the room. It's like, no, you didn't rent
the room long enough. Like we can order pizza and like,
but we need more anyway, shout out Altra Zone. I
(02:12):
was actually just in that on Saturday. I was just
up the street because I was at this place called
the Candy Land Playground.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
For my friend's kid's birthday there? Yeah, crazy crazy? Is
that why?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Whenever I started like going off on a rant that's
unrelated to the show, you say, if you can hear
me clap once?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yep, if you can hear me clap twice. That was
a new. One time we would just bro that it's funny,
that's new because we would just shout yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll get it. I'd be like, that's how, that's how
we get it started. And then they'd be like, and
then I got ready to play some laser They're like, yeah, yeah,
(03:00):
hell yeah. Simple times.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I mean, you might have had a more commanding voice.
I still need the if you can hear me, yeah
yeah I can.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I can. I can get the kids. Do you do
the loud whistle? No? I can't. I can spin on
my fingers real nasty exactly. I can make a finger.
That's like the final boss of American masculinity that I
(03:30):
haven't conquered yet is the loud fingers in the mouth whistle.
Because my dad could do it, and I was like,
as a kid, I was like, what the fuck is
he doing? He could do the one like two fingers,
You could do the one like this. I still don't
know what them. I gave up on it, like to
figure that one out. I'm gonna be like, I'm just
gonna be one of those like regular melodic whistlers.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah I can. I can whistle a melody pretty well,
but I cannot do the loud whistle the heart up
stone to. The harder I whistle, the less I can.
You know, the harder the harder I blow, the less
sound comes out.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yep, it's funny. Isn't it ironic that that? And isn't
it ironic? Don't you think the harder I blow, the
more miserable it becomes. Hello the Internet, and welcome to
this week trend edition of dirtally Zide. Guys.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, usually I turned my head away, but this time
I went full barrel on the camera because I was
writing the number of the time it was.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I apologize for if I.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Hurt anybody's ears. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over
there is my co host, mister Miles.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Thank you very much. Yes, just yes. What a weekend?
What a weekend? Man? What a weekend? Truly? The yeah?
You did it all? Did it? Oh? Hell yeah? Man?
Did it all? Fuck it? Not to see a Clippers
game at a bar because I thought, oh, game seven, Yeah,
(05:09):
I was like, this could be interesting narrators. It was not.
It was not. Man, that was as hell d the
third court eaven and and we're like, man, let's go
someone to eat. Yeah yeah, and not that even I
was like I was, I just was hoped. I didn't
care who won. I was just like I just wanted
to see something like a game seven and a game
seven twas not.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I always make fun of like ESPN and like other
sports outlets for they'll always do these stats that are
you know, the this team, the Los Angeles Clippers historically,
are you know, fifty four and eighty seven in game seven,
you know, like over the course of the entire franchise.
(05:51):
And I'm like, this is like so pointless, Like those
were different players, Like there's a different coach, like you
know the ship of theseus, like you know that this
is just not the same team, Like why are we
even talking about like what a franchise has done historically?
And then you have teams like the Clippers that it's
just like they're maybe the best team in the West
or second best, and they still manage to fuck it
(06:13):
up just because they're the Clippers, you.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Know, And I'm not happy. I mean, I'm not happy.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm surprised you weren't there. Just you know, like at
the end of the every you're on, you're on the
juke box just playing that over and.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Trying to get a huge blowout lead going so you
could overcome that instead of record this is cool, this
will be cool, this will be.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Anyways, bummer NBA weekend, But I mean it's fun. Steph
had a fun game last night.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Thank god.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Some more into round two, which should be very entertaining.
Uh So, this is the episode where we tell you
what was happening over the weekend and this morning in
the news. But first we get to know each other,
get to know ourselves a little bit better by telling
you some stuff we think is underrated and overrated. Miles,
what is something you think is underrated? So thing I
(07:14):
think is underrated is.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Where do I have it? Yes, recovering your balance after slipping,
thus preventing a fall in public. I think this is
actually one of the more enjoyable small victories in life.
That you're one of the great feelings. It's you feel
like a fucking Olympian. Okay, when you do this. I
(07:39):
slipped in a puddle in the parking lot of a
grocery store and I skidded for a moment. I said, whoa.
Then immediately then I like my hockey ice skating like
balance things kicked in and I shifted my weight and
I like, like I pivoted in this way that was beautiful,
Like I recovered with such a race. Okay, it was
(08:01):
fucking I was so nicely. I honibly was like oh
fuck yeah, Like I was like, whot yeah, like you
got this ship. And then but the thing that I
this is the reason why I say it's underrated, is
I just wish the one other fucking dude in the
parking lot that saw that ship could have acted. He
(08:25):
acted like I fell down and ship myself and kind
of ignored the beautiful Like he didn't want to be
like I didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I just he like would look at you, he wouldn't
make that contact.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
He saw me scared, and he saw the recovery and
then just kind of was just shifted his thing to
not be like, hey, I saw that. It's okay, man.
You can just you can just have you can just
suffer in silence. No one has to know that you
beautifully private. Shame. I'm like, bro, no, like I'm I
was proud, not embarrassed. You ran over to give him
a high five. Yeah, I'm like, you should join me
(08:54):
in that. And now I think when people do that,
we should applaud and say, hey, all that that was fantastic.
I would like to celebrate you and buy you all
of your groceries today.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So it's it's really a matter of moments because before
the slip happens, it's like a I get I guess,
like a net negative or just like a net oh yeah, neutral.
But as the slip is happening, you are on the
precipice of of a failure so embarrassing that like, pulling
out of that is a major victory.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's a huge Just like with Donald Trump softening his
stance on the tariffs, people should be celebrating them. That's right.
But no, that's how it feels. I mean anyway, I
thought it was just it was so funny how I
kept looking at that dude to see if I was like, yeah,
(09:49):
laser folk. He wanted nothing to do with it, and fine, whatever,
I don't. You don't need to give me your attention.
But like I think we just even when you fall,
because like even when I see people said, I'm going, oh,
you're right, yeah, I like to hit people with one
of those I don't do the I didn't see that
ship nice say, I'm like, hey, i'd be like I
saw you and I care. Yeah, no shade, no shame,
(10:09):
absolutely not. I'm proud of you, Myles I for one,
I'm proud of you. Man. I'm gonna be I'm gonna
actually be going to uh the Ralphs on Cold Water Canyon. See,
just doing a little set. You might you might catch
me fucking around and do something classic. You know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You almost slipped in a puddle. That's yeah, that's real bad,
Like it's ling in a puddle.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It was like I didn't see it and my there
was like a sound behind me that caught my attention.
So I took a misplaced step and it was just
one of those things where like you know, sometimes some
sneakers can just be like feel greasy. On my situation,
it was just one of those moments. And the way
I got out of that ship, jack Man, fuck that
guy in the park man, that's your overrated Is that
(10:55):
guy in the park that guy. Yeah for real, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
My underrated is how much fun birds are having. I've
always suspected that birds.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I've always suspected I have so like I remember having this.
This is like a high thought that I had.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I think I was in like Ireland and watching like
these birds just like there's like a puff of wind
and they were just up there, like not moving, just
like coasting on like kind of surfing on the wind
a little bit, you know, just like in place. Yeah,
So like there was no evident reason for them to
be doing that other than they were just like having
(11:33):
fun with it. It looked like they were surfing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And so I've always been like, you know, that seems
that seems fun as hell, first of all, and it
seems like they appreciate how fun it is. But I've
never been able to interview them about why they were
soaring around like on a bump of wind, so I
(11:53):
could never prove it. But I feel like I finally
got proof in this social media video that I saw.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think it was on Nature is Amazing or Amazing
Nature or something.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And it's a bird that just flies straight up in
the air and then like just starts spinning.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Dude, this is fucking crazy. Isn't this cool? What the fuck?
This bird hit A sixty one twenty that's seventeen three sixties.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
It's just like straight up goes like some X game shit,
Like there's no feasible survival mechanism at all.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It just flies straight up. No one in the replies
with a triple.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Axle and then pulls out of the spin just in time.
I didn't even look in the reply yea for someone
to be like, that's actually a crisis mode there.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, there, Terry Gland is on the skits right there.
It's just it's freaking out. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I just this is all the proof I need, and
like it also I feel like applies to the rest
of the species, you know. I in my old age,
I've turned into like a bird guy, and like just
all the I've read people like trying to explain why
they're always sitting to each other like that all the time,
and like the theories are like to warm up in
the morning and like mating calls obviously and communicating predator locations,
(13:09):
and I'm sure like some of that stuff, but I
also feel like it's partially they just like have a
song in their heart and they're just they just want
to like.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The answer is in the replies Jack, they answer for
why it did that? Bro, Yeah, it's in the replies
what's it saying? Choo Belie. They said, that's a roller
pigeon having a seizure. No, and they and they hit it.
But as I look into it, it's not like a seizure,
like like a neurological condition. It's just that they have
(13:39):
a trait and it's called that, all.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right, so why are they doing it? But it's in
involuntary I don't know. There's another person who says the
Verdan videos is likely a swift known for its exceptional
aerial agility. Swifts can stay airborn for up to ten months, feeding, sleeping,
and even fun.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Nothing, nothing, even they're explaining nation of a seizures, like
it's not even a seizure. It's like they just have
a skill they do and they just call it. Sounds
like a bird hater being like that's a seizure. That's
a seizure. They're like, it's a sixty one twenty It
did seventeen three sixties.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That shit was so dope whip and it pulls out
just in time.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Oh, but you just saw this clip. It's like you
saw a bird doing that, and you're like, what the
fuck you came upon this clip? And then they've also
fun up there.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I just generally I've always felt that way, like when
you see birds flying around, like they're like playing with
each other and they're just having fun, and like we
always when it's an animal, I feel like there's part
of us that, because of how horribly we treat animals,
we just want to turn them into survival robots, and
(14:46):
so we take all of the joy or like artistry
out of it and just turn it into well that
the reason they're doing that is to practice evading predators
in the most you.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Know, aggressive way.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You know, like we always just wanted to be one
step closer to propagating there the survival of their species.
Where I just feel like sometimes you know, I think
I think it's a mixture, just like it is with humanity.
You know, there's a book called The Evolution of Beauty
that explains why they look so colorful, and I mean
(15:23):
it makes sense, but also like I don't know, they
just seem persistently artistic in all aspects of their existence
in a way that I think is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, people would see my slip and recovery in the
parking lot. It's just some kind of just a human
having bounce. That's actually a mating call. That's that's right.
And the one man that was in the parking lot
who could have been on the receiving chose to ignore
it and called peacocking and my and my lineage would
have ended there. That's amazing. What Miles is something you
(15:54):
think is overrated? Fuck man, I think I've said this
like three times in the last year. But like the
phoenix effect of trump Ism that it's having on like
neoliberalism right now, it's y'all need to people need to,
people really need to be reporting on this in like
a broader context because we've seen two elections in the
(16:15):
last week where a barely staying afloat neoliberal party hath
been saved by the mere sight of trump Ism. And
the latest election was in Australia we'll probably talk about
that a little bit more, where Conservatives looked like they
were about to pull up in force but their candidate
was way too hot for Trump anyway. Albanize didn't have
(16:35):
to do too much and he played his hand, right,
He just sort of let the Trump want to be
looked like a fucking creep, and then you know, it
was ended up getting a huge majority of a historic win,
and I think for the Conservative Liberal Party it was
like a historic loss. The other side of that is
that he did not pitch voters on any kind of
transformative change. He was just like, yeah, albities did not
(17:00):
just sort of like doing what you know the Democrats
did here. They're kind of like, I mean, you see
what he's doing over there, right, I mean, you tell
you if that's what y'all want, that's fine. I mean,
but we we do our thing our way over here.
So again, Australia has very similar situation like many other countries,
a severe cost of living crisis, and it seems like
the pitch in this election is again, like I said,
(17:22):
like the US election last year, it's like you can
vote for rapid decline or slow incremental decline like you're
used to right which way? Yeah, because you've seen them
do the rapid line and it's not going very well.
So overall, I have a prediction these governments that have
benefited from Trump trump Ism like as a counterpoint or
(17:43):
juxtaposition will lose again if they fail to address the
thing that makes right wing extremism palatable inequality.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, neoliberalism, the very thing that they stand for. Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
If you because like even the stuff that Albany is
just pitching like for like that that would help first
time home ownership really didn't upset the balance of power
in terms of like the real estate industry or landlords
and things like that. It's all meant to happen, like
where it's like, oh, yeah, we can carve off a
little piece that feels like it's doing something big when
really it's not. Yeah, and that's I'm just like, this
(18:19):
is the watch the next cycle. If things only get worse,
we're going to see a resurgence again and you're not
going to be able to be like.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But the stud is quo sure, Yeah, I wonder where
the because I feel like the Democratic Party is looking
at this and being like, yeah, see, we still got it,
Like this is what's going to happen in America.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Like Marvel with thunderbolts right now about still No, you
don't look at them? What about this says you do?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I But I do feel like America in this one
respect is ahead of the rest of the world, and
we did the miss country is completely out on neoliberalism
and like not going.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
To you know what I mean. That's the thing is,
like I don't think enough people they're pissed. I don't
know how many people have yet quite you know, rightly
analyzed the situation and said, Okay, anyone who comes in
talking that neo lib nonsense is going to get us
right back to where we started. The thing that we're
yearning for is to unburden ourselves with the status quo,
(19:22):
which is violence. So if we're not talking about that,
then that's not going to happen. Where I think a
lot of people, just because Trump is back, they're willing,
they're going to be open to someone coming back to
just say something more sane but maybe not as transformative.
That's where I think. That's where like the war for
the soul of this voting base is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
How many people can be keeping like the people are
the ones showing up to the like the Bernie Sanders
and like aoc rallies and shit, and the people are
the ones who are like frustrated with the Trump stuff.
And the people are the ones who fucking just didn't
vote for Harris and what a lot of people thought
was like a shocking sure, you know, but on your
performance on her part, I feel like they maybe they
(20:04):
don't like understand it in like the exact words, but like,
I feel like it's just the mainstream media apparatus that
is like not asn't like refuses to wrap their mind
around it, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I think the thing that we'll see is like when
there's a candidate, right and their platform is like, well,
I'm not Trump and we got to like we got
to look out for each other, and you're it, it
does seem very different, but they're not going all in
on like and I'm going to raise the minimum wage
to twenty five dollars an hour, right, and having people
be like, yes, that's that shit. If someone goes back
(20:38):
and it's just like and we can get minimum wage
to seventeen or something, and people are like great, that's
where I'm worried that it's like no, no, no, right.
The reason we're so fucked is because we're not our
minimum Like we there's so many things we should all
be advocating for just as seriously.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But again, it'll be interesting to see what kind of
campaign Peepoo to Jed runs. Yeah, exactly, that's what. The
thing that is helping mainstream democrats get to sleep at
night is Pete Boodha Judge is Pete Boota.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Judge is great with facts, great on Fox News debate
and again. And I think that's where I'm like, don't please,
don't just get intoxicated by like pooning the Fox people,
Like we need to be pooning the billionaires, Like seriously,
Like that's really that's got to stay focused. And I
love to fight the oligarchy tour, but if like we
(21:29):
can't really have a fundamental agreement across the board on
what which oligarchy we're fighting and in what way we're
fighting it, Right, this is going to be it'll be
a slow creep back again to the norm Yeah. Norm
Norms love that guy from Cheers. Love him.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
My overrated is my ability to figure out where on
the machine to tap my credit cards.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Underneath sometimes some some times it's underneath. Sometimes it's like
at the top.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Sometimes it's at a place that like you can't get
the card to hit because there's like a thing in
the way. I don't know, it's it's just there's no uniformity,
and so I'm just like moving my card all over it.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And person, hey, buddy, buddy, buddy, Yeah it's right here.
Well they know, I just need to like a copperfield.
When do you get that over here? Is this your card?
I I feel like a complete fucking idiot every time
(22:39):
because there's like just so many variables. It's like where
are you tapping it?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And so like I give up too soon on the
right location because it's also not a tap, it's a hold,
you know, And it's just I just need like some
uniformity in the machines where I should just be like,
all right, where do I tap? Just show me on
the machine and they know they know their own machine.
But instead I like try unsuccessfully like three times and
(23:07):
then they're either like no, just like give it to me,
or they're like insert the card, just like get this
over with.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, bro, look, I'm just gonna I'm gonna have you
insert this man, because you're you're struggling way too much
for this man.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
They were not all meant to be tappers.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It's cool. Look I didn't just looking at you your age.
You seem like an insert, not a taper. It's definitely
makes me feel like a sniper. I had a young
person at ice cream shop. Yeah, I had a young
man at the ice cream shop that I was paying with.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
He like told he was like, no, tap it the
other way. So I was tapping it with the whole
other side of the card that I've never tapped with before.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, the one usually chip in it. Yeah, you're you're
leading with the chip end. That's what I was this time. Yeah,
leading with you normally lead with the chip in the
other side has the little thing on it. Oh my god. Yes,
I don't know. Maybe I don't even know either, yea.
To be honest, that's why I shout out to anybody
who works a register and knows their POS system is
(24:13):
a literal POS system, and they're like, you're They'll even
tell you, like, you got to put it right here,
I know, just just right here, right here on the back.
It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. And I'm like,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Let's I'm already in a panic by the time we
get to that point.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, you're looking at like the Jordan Peele sweating gift,
Like when you pull up it's all right, it's okay. No, no, No,
it's okay, Okay, God, sorry, you're sweating all over the
pos terminal.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Hands shaking uncontrollably. All right, those are some of.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
The things that we think is over it and under it.
We're going to take a quick break and then we're
gonna come back and tell you what was trending over
the weekend. We'll be right back and we're back.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
And I mean, so Donald Trump had had a weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Uh you know, we were talking last week about how
his approval ratings are incredibly low, not as low as
the Democratic Party, but like still the lowest that any
president has ever had.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
One hundred days into his termling. Yeah, since the dawn
of polling. He is not the dawn of polling. I'll
tell you that. That day one, he's yeah, so he's struggling.
And then this weekend, uh, you know, he doubled down
on the pope thing by sending out a AI slop
(25:41):
meme of him dressed as the next Pope, like with
pope stuff on, which, like it is a fit, you know, esthetically,
like Donald Trump being so into like gold and all
the ship that he's into.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It is a fit.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
There's something about it that actually it makes someone.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Who is enriching themselves from slave labor in the New World.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Like everything's gold embossed and you know, uh the hat
like that. I can see him wearing some of that shit.
I can see him starting to like rock a gold scepter.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You think his mental hat, like health declines, the mental
state declines, He's gonna start being like, where's my pope hat? Yes,
sure we're not. We can't wear a pope What ye
hear about?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
How Like, as you age, it's not like the bad
parts of your personality get fixed. It's like you become
more the thing you are. It's just like all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That is you're unable to hide it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, it just like gets the volume gets turned up
on your personality disorder, and I feel I feel like.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That would be showed up. He's like, I want to
look like Donna Tello from the Ninja Turtles to Katanas
on my back in an X shape. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But anyways, people some people thought it was disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't know what their problem is.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I would say, let's let him be pope. I mean,
you can't be president and pope at the same time,
so maybe just let him be pope. And he probably
gets to like make little papal decrees from his desk.
I feel like that's ultimately like he would take that.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You know. I think he'd hate hanging out with a
bunch of cardinals though. That's true. Yeah, like, because they're
all going to be like, what, dude, what is this
guy saying? He's like, none of them laugh, They're all
They're all They're all dorks, all the cardinals. I don't
like them. I don't like them. He also posted on
Sunday for May the Fourth Be with You, they posted
(27:40):
a Star Wars AI image where he was a fucking
sith lord. Did you see that one?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
No, like Dark Brandon on on.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Our Oh yeah, I mean like a lot of people
are like, do you know what they're red saber means.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yo. The image first of all is Donald Trump holding
a red lightsaber, but then he's just so shredded.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It's he's fucking he nacked O'Brien over, thank you?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Why is he so strong? Nobody in the Star Wars
universe has ever been that strong.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No, maybe like in some of the the expanded Universe stuff,
but holy anyway, So that's he's having a lot of
fun with Ai I wonder what that whole thing is.
When Sheltmand shows him, he goes, when did I take that?
Oh no, yeah, I remember when my arms looked like that.
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I was a young man. This is just.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Matching year old's face, matching the his internal image of himself.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Anyways, the Catholic Church probably regretting their decision to put
him in the front row at the po at the
Pope's funeral. Right before that, he made headlines for preemptively
ruining Christmas, a great, a great New York Post headline,
one of the greats that they've come up with during
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this administration. But yeah, so, toy companies are sounding the
alarm that tariffs would mean eighty percent of the toys
will be twice as expensive this Christmas. Eighty percent of
the toys will cost twice as much as they did
last year, and there will be toy shortages, which, as
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we've covered frequently on this show, that is one of
those stories that even when it's not true, and it
never has been up to this point, the media will
find a way.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
To freak out about it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So this is a story that they will just make up,
whether it's true or not, so to actually make it
so Christmas is canceled because there's a toy shortage is
a really mind boggling own goal.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
In this part they just said, I mean, like the
other thing they were saying was fireworks also huge it
comes from so fourth of July could be real shitty,
or people I guess will just blow themselves up with
their homemade fireworks. Or and then now because they say,
it's not just the toys, it's the decorations too, like
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all the cheap, all the cheap, yeah, is now going
to cost a lot of money and.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's gonna hit Yeah, but you know what, it's only
gonna hit those greedy, fat cat children and fireworks enthusiasts. Yeah,
so you know they've had it too good for too long.
Exactly children at Christmas. We see how the Democrats managed
to fuck this up, because it's seems like a pretty
(30:43):
easy lamp that like he's enriching his you know, billionaire
friends at the cost of children being able to have
toys for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, maybe you don't need thirty dollars jack, Yeah, so
that his response was kids should just get less toys,
like maybe two instead of thirty dollars. Hmm. So it's familiar.
You'd never ask his own kids to put up with that,
or you know, the kids of Again, this is just
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children who aren't written like rich children will still get
the thirty dollars. So yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, just again
like a thing that it feels like such a layup
for the Democrats to just point out. But The New
York Post responded to that statement by going full blast
front page picture of Barbie next to Trump with the
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words skimp on the Barbie. Ah right, Bobby, I mean right,
A little poetic allusion to the Australian election happening at
Barbie is that.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, I don't know why they have a barbie that
looks just.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Like it's like, doesn't even look special. It looks like
an eighties like something you found in the Yeah, it
really looks it looks like the Yeah, it looks like
the barbie that's been at the bottom of the toy
chest of a preschool, you know, just like I worked
over and it was given a haircut with children's scissors.
Oh yeah, with with fucking I don't even know if yeah,
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like plastic those safety scissors. Yeah yeah, But also it
was so far below in the measured in the toy
chest that it's like from the eighties because as like
a denim vest it looks like a mini skirt, mini
dress like Barbie or something a lot less the fuck
is anyway, whatever New York posts that was probably the
(32:31):
the you know, the royalty free image you use good.
I love it, good for you, but you know, a
Republican polster said it sounded like Marie Antoinette saying let
them eat cake. I mean that was more to do
with food. But yeah, I get, I get what you're saying.
It's pretty out of.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Touch, pretty out of touch, pretty you know, why should
the children?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You know?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
He we've seen his attempts to interact with children around
the thing, around subjects like Christmas Joy, where he was like,
and what are your thoughts on the Santa situation? You're
at an age demographic where that appeals to you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Is that correct? So? And then the market for the
affect your your toy buying decision. What I don't know,
I like Elmo.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
And then in case there were any like movie lovers
who aren't Catholic and don't have kids that were weren't
angry yet On Sunday, he randomly announced that non American
movies would receive a one hundred percent tariff.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I think he means, like, you know, American movies that
are made in other countries, I said, quote produced in
foreign lands. He really is the pope, dude, like this
is the fucking fifteenth century or some shit. Anything produced
in far off lands will be so for many sees.
(33:58):
They travel over many the long seven Seas. Exactly, if
it took the Spice Road through the Orient to get here,
then yes, it will be tarriffed. I don't how are
you what are you tariffing? Exactly? The thing, the product
that's distributed, films cost money, and that that we would
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tariff that. Miles oh Man.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
He said it's a national security threat, which is a
weird way to describe m Night Shyamalan making trap in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I mean, yeah, another Shamalan movie. Maybe maybe a national
secret I guess what he so in this weird in
his senile brain, made in foreign land means that it's
being shaped into anti American propaganda. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, maybe he said it's a concerted effort by other
nations and therefore a national security threat. And in this case,
it's concerted effort to like get movies to shoot in
other countries. And so it's just it's just again like
go against the idea of global free trade and towards
the idea of like we'll protect America and make it
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so America can both be mediocre and still get all
the business.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Right. I mean, this is like another example where what
he's saying isn't the fucking solution to any of this.
You know, like you think about we know so many
people in LA whose lives have been upended by the
strikes and now just the just the film industry is
dying in LA. That's undernowed very fast death. Said Donald
(35:34):
Trump one time. I'm like, oh, you know, you've heard
about that. You know that's say you Americ because it's
like Ammie Fournia or whatever. But you know, one of
the big reasons too, is that production costs are highly Like, well,
it's so it costs so much money in LA because
A you have to pay crew a lot of money.
Why because their cost of living is so high in
Los Angeles. That's what's driving it. So then they go
(35:55):
to other states and then the same thing plays out,
and then they're like, well, we'll go to Canada. And
now we'll go to Eastern Europe. But a lot of
this has to do with the fact that just the
inequalities that exist for the people that do the labor
of making films has balloons costs, and without getting a
real handle on that, it's easier for them to be like, ah, well,
it's discussed. There are people who are just they're like
(36:18):
shooting stuff in Eastern Europe that's like meant to be
like somewhere in America now, or like we'll do like
a like a reality show tell all episode where it's
like it's easier to fly everybody to wherever Hungary and
shoot than it is to crew up in New York
to shoot on a sound stage, and you're like, wow,
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the way that this used to work.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The reason that's not happening anymore is like those countries
are able to offer huge you know, uh like amounts
of money to the productions to get the things made there,
to build a mini industry. New York LA like used
to have those sorts of things. They used to have
(37:00):
like tax breaks and things like that, and now they don't,
like the government no longer gives you money for doing that,
because everything.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Is just saying she's you know it's coming back. Well,
we'll see what happens. But like I'm I'm still shocked
to see how little work there is in LA And yeah,
for people who work, especially if they're doing like physical
crew like labor stuff like that, it's super fucked up.
And I know I already know people who like work
in post production. They've had to just leave out, like
(37:30):
they're just done. They're like, would you be in LA Nothing? Yeah,
truly nothing.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The it does seem to be an overall like his
internal philosophy I feel like is driven by him being
a mediocre nepo baby you know where he's just like,
we need to make it so that American businesses don't
have to compete, you know with other Like, we just
(37:57):
have to make it so that they're forced to so
they have have an advantage over.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Can I just get my dad to make them do it? Yeah? Exactly.
It really is like he thinks that the ease at
which he was able to accumulate money from coming from
wealth is just how the world works. So he is
solved as frictionless as his problems were. So like that
time I killed my nanny, my dad just made it
go away. You know, can't we do that allegedly? But
(38:25):
that's the that's like his mentality was so many things.
It's yeah, true.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
All right, out of the world of politics. Once again.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Women are lying to us, myles I love just once again, dude,
these females are lying to us. The males, thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
There's this tweet where somebody tweeted a picture of himself
and it was like, I, you know, did all the
stuff that like Men's Health tells you to do, and
here I am before and after, and like on the
left he looks like a normal person and on the
right he just like is like, you know, muscled and
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like very like kind of emaciated, and you know, looks
like he could be on the cover of like a
men's health thing, you know, like all all muscles are visible.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
And just to be an anglophile, that's all imerslimers. Yeah,
he's like he was on like uh like the version,
like the UK version of America's Got Talent, app okay,
we got got like a singer. Yeah, and he uh
so somebody posted and said do you think he looks
better before or after? And then also are you male
or female?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
And the men all thought he looked better after he
it was it was the biggest portion of responses was
men being like, it looks better after obviously, what are
you talking about, right, like forty three twenty four percent,
and then women thought he looked better before twenty seven
percent compared to after seven percent, So like pretty huge margin.
(40:01):
And somebody on Twitter responded to that poll and said,
why are women lying about this?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Like, what's the actual cause? Jesus Christ, I'm so frightened
for this person. Why are they lying about this? Holy
shit way to like, way to show everybody so publicly
your worldview has just been shattered by a pole on
Twitter again, women lie, yeah, but I don't know. It
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just feels like I see how the self reinforcing idea
of like, well, this is what men think looks cool,
and therefore it's the ideal would happen because men have
been in charge of media for so long that like
that's the male bodily archetype that men find. I guess
(40:52):
it's like the that's the body that men find attractive, right,
and that so that's the one that has on mainstream
over again.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's just been like boiled down to just
one body type in everything, and there's the same.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Thing that happens too, like when like there are like
women in bikinis or whatever and like so you know,
it's like not someone who looks like a model or
whatever and people are like, yeah, that's hot, Like you
think this is hot? What? No, what the heck dude?
She has like body fact that's disgusting, and you're like,
what do you does anyone live in the regular world?
(41:31):
I mean this, this is so funny. I mean, like
just to see. I was looking at some of the
other replies and the way people are trying to rationalize
again a that they still know better than the women
who are telling them what they're attracted to is so
strange to me, where it's it's like, nah, not gonna
believe it. This person isn't real or this is fake.
(41:52):
I don't I'm I will no longer consider this opinion
from this person who I'm also trying to be attractive to.
It's just very I'm I mean, yeah, just doubling down
over and over.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Nice trick me, But I have to put myself through
pain to make you attracted to me? Right, Like what
if what if you were just like kind of cool
to hang out.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
With and yeah, man, I mean thought of me as
a person. Aren't all these like blue check dudes on Twitter,
Like aren't they in the pickup artistry too, because as
somebody who dabbled, you know, when the economy was very
low and my self esteem was also very low. Like
in really reading the game, I mean not that it's
like a manual, but like there's these pick up artists
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always talking about shit. It's like, dude, men are attracted
to like they're attracted by what they see, women by
what they hear, and like they use that as an
to sort of begin like this is why you need
to talk up like a woman or whatever, when really
I think if you, if you distill that doubt, it's
looks don't matter to women right right like they do
to men. And if that's a truth that they're ingesting
(42:56):
even from like through pick up artistry stuff, to think
that it's it's like what the fuck?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
We run into a new generation where it's all just
like grind set like optimization, and everybody wants to look like.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Joe I said optim I said optimized to my therapist
last week, and they were like they kind of flagged
it to sort of be like what do you come
back to them when you see optimized, Like do you
see yourself as like a human or like a like
a sort of a computer program or some kind of
like machine that can be optim Like, how do you
when you use that word? And I was like, oh, fuck,
(43:30):
uh no, I merely said that to like in the
context of like being more adventurous like that. I don't
want to close myself up. I want to optimize my
ability to experience adventure. Yeah, it's just so funny. They're like, okay,
just making sure you're not on some like I am
a machine. I must optimize, right, All right, let's take
(43:55):
a quick break. Yeah, we'll be right back. And we're back.
We're back. And as mentioned earlier, Australia, like Canada, last week,
just had an election. And first of all, judging from
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the photos that American outlets went with, Australians typically vote
while wearing speedos and that's actually part of the process.
You have to wear speedos. Yeah, there's just I saw
I saw one of these headlines with like the dudes
in the speedo at the polling place, and I was
just like, oh, I didn't realize every fucking outlet had
(44:39):
some form of the dudes in the speedos voting to
be like Australian elections are happening.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, some of them even had swim caps on, like.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yeah, this guy had a boomerang in his pants.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
So these were actually all from the same polling station
at a surf club. But you know it's it is sad.
It is a great image. Yeah, guy's got guys caked
ups of male attractiveness on Twitter, but he's stopped stopplying.
(45:15):
This guy has love handles stopplying. This is the hottest
shit you've ever seen. That guy should be the only
vote that matters. Look at the definition on his delts.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Uh. But yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
The Labor Party and current Prime Minister Anthony Albanize staged
a quote dramatic comeback against once resurgent Conservatives and people
think it's because of the influence of one US President.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Donald Trump. That tracks.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
That's basically what just happened in Canada happened again in Australia.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
We were the we were the canary in the coal
mine of Earth. But well, now will you listen? Now,
will you listen to If you think that's bad, then
do everything you can to prevent a right wing extremists
to rise to power be resurgent rand.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
But yeah, the leader of the Conservative Liberal Party of Australia.
So I'm just flagging this in case you get confused,
because Conservatives are called liberals there because they're south of
the equator exactly, and so I.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Think that must be it.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
But he had previously called Trump a big thinker and
praised the art of the deal after Trump suggested that
the US should invade Gaza to you know, when he
was talking about settling it and making it like Crusoe malls, you.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Know, right right, yeah, Trump Gaza number one. But yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
It's it's pretty wild how unpopular he is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
And he's also like the dude in Canada he lost
his seat too. Yeah, not only he lost his seat also, Yeah,
because it's funny just how much like corporations, politicians are
so similar, Like they just copy each other. Oh, you've
do layoffs, all right, we're doing layoffs too. Yeah yeah, yeah,
oh what are you doing? You just kind of kind
of like let the freak who copies the other freak
(47:14):
just do their thing. Okay, cool, cool, cool, We'll do
the same. We'll do the same. We'll do the same.
It's like just the amount of people who want to
copy Trump's style, the amount of people on the other
side of that end of the spectrum who were just like,
let them freak everyone out. Okay, let's just play possum
or oh, possum.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
However it's pronounced yeah, wherever you are. They had been
leading in opinion polls in February, like, so it was
that quick that it was like kind of assumed that
the Conservatives were going to be part of this like
Trump wave takeover across the world.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
And then everyone's like, whoa.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
This seems this seems kind of like they don't know
what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Yeah, they're like hold on, they're modeling themselves after the
guy up in America who's stabbing people in their face,
like allies even oh no, no, no, no, no no.
And finally Marvel is back maybe, like I don't know,
it's this is the exact same thinking of like, wow,
the neo liberals pull it off again, are they right?
(48:16):
So is thunder First of all, I just want to
say I'm mad at Thunderbolts because there were no more
fucking Sinners screenings in IMAX because a stupid ass Marvel
everything and now everything with Thunderbolts. I was gonna go
over the weekend just to see it on a regular screen,
and my friend convinced me. He's like, if you really
want to do it, wait for the re release on
Imax so you can really in twenty five years. No, no,
(48:37):
they said this month it's gonna be. I think once
Thunderbolts phases out there, they'll bring Sinners back and I
will be there anyway.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
But so you went to see Thunderbolts instead, and what
do you think?
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Uh, didn't see it? Didn't see it? What didn't see it?
You know how? You know? I'm with Marvel movies. It's
there's too many, too many.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Too many going on, like this one seems particularly I know.
I saw it like there was good word of mouth. Yeah,
it was a good Julia Leui Dreyfus thing is very
interesting to me, though I didn't like get any of
that from the marketing. I didn't get that like she's
in it and like just getting to be fun and
be all Julie Leuis Dreyfus.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
See.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
But it made seventy six million dollars of the box office,
which is being like pitched now in the media as
a win even though it's like the second worst Marvel
Cinematic Universe opening.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
That's I'm sane, bro, They're fucking try.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
They're just like, I don't know, we need a win
for the industry. Okay, So it's less than like Captain
America Brave New World, which came out earlier this year,
and everyone's like already basically forgotten about and.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Weren't people shitting on that too, like for how low
it was, even though it was more than seventy or
eighty eight million, I guess is what it made. Yeah,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
It's just like it's not it's no longer cool or
like interesting to shit on Marvel, you know. It's just like, yeah,
I mean that's the default story is like Marvel is over,
and this one actually has like some narrative momentum, and
so people are like, like the Ringer article with Thunderbolts
gives Marvel movies their momentum back for the first time
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in years. The Multiverse saga seems to be going somewhere.
So that's not exactly like being like, you know, it's
it dominated at the box office, but again, it just didn't.
It also just didn't like the I don't know with
the marketing. I'm assuming they decided, like they're they're playing
with scared money now, and so they like decided they
needed to like be safe in the marketing. But like
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the marketing was like I don't know, it was completely
indistinguishable to me, like who who the characters were, Like
what the point of this was?
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Scared money exactly? Looking like JJ Reddick's coaching a game four? Right, Yeah, yeah,
I don't care if it ruins everything. Yeah, I'm mean
it is. It is just funny to see, like when
you compare it mathematic numerically to other openings. Yeah, you know,
we don't. We're not. It's not back. And I don't
(51:10):
want to hear that, especially when they were shitting on
Sinners for making like you know, like you know, forty
some million or whatever to be like, oh do a
little bit. Oh and this this juggernaut thing. Don't look now,
but Sinners is going to destroy the movie industry. Shut
the fuck up, man, right, because I I feel like
it's they are rooting for the old model of Hollywood,
(51:34):
you know, to come back, and so everybody's like, well,
we got to do this because we need wins for Hollywood. IP.
It's all these people who just do not want to
develop a new movie, Like they don't want to put
money behind original ideas. They're just not ready for that.
There's so many status quai. What's the what's what's the
most what's the plural of status quo? Quote the status quo? Yeah,
(51:57):
your status yesses were crazy. I think status quhi, status
qui and status quosis is. I don't know what it
is exactly, but if close feel way off based status
statusies quo statuses qui, let's go with that. Yeah. But
(52:19):
I mean, like just even again in the film industry,
it's just like like to your point with this, they're
praying that the thing of like is there something that
already exists that we can just green light and not
really take a swing on an original idea, Like they
want this to happen.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Inspired all the writers and gave all the power to
the marketing team. So yeah, exactly, it's that's that's all
they got.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
It is like how do we do asking? Yeah, people
who are probably criminally habitual chat GPT users to start
coming up with original ideas to to re energize the
film market. Yeah. Good, idea what happened with the other
big opening, because I remember on Friday we were talking about, like, oh,
let's not forget about Rust opening this weekend. Rust that one.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
So that made slightly less money. That's gonna be slightly
harder to uh spin as a win.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
It made twenty five thousand dollars twenty five thousand, twenty
five thousand from one hundred and fifteen theaters. So did
they do the thing at least like they did for
Sound of Freedom and the other Jesus movie, like where
they're not a boa.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
I'm trying to think of like what church or like
organization because like I'm assuming the NRA doesn't want to
be involved in that shit.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
I don't even have money anymore.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Like maybe just like the production team of his reality.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
Show, it just sucks man like it like what a
cursed movie. Like it's like even the thing, like, even
even though it's done and all the people that worked
on it, it's still marred by the fucking killing. Yeah,
and just feels very accidental shooting that happened on the
set of a movie about an accidental shooting. Yeah, it's
fucking crazy. Yeah, Anyway, it'll.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
Be interesting to see if Thunderbolt holds well or not.
It's got an eighty eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but
on the more specific Metacritic it's got a sixty eight.
So you know, Rotten Tomatoes is like thumbs up or
down well, and then you know, we'll give it a percentage,
whereas Metacritic actually gives numeric scores, like if somebody gives
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it two and a half stars and Rotten Tomatoes like
that's a thumbs up, that's a pass, you know.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Oh my god, that's what Brian the editor just put
a CLI out of contract said, spider bite incident, And
I'm like, what the fuck was this? On the set
of Rust, one of the crew members, like a pipe
rigger lamp operator, got bit by a brown recluse and
had to do like multiple surgeries to prevent amputation. So
this thing has just been This is like Yodorovsky's Dune
(54:54):
bro Jesus truly cursed. All right.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Anyways, I'll be holding my review of Rust for a
little while until I'll see it.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
Oh, I thought, you're like, it's under bargo. Yeah, it's
under embargo for now. All right. Those are some of
the things that are trending on this Monday, May fifth,
We're back tomorrow with a whole ass at Mayo the show.
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(55:26):
you as it's like the less well, since you don't
drink anymore and I drink less and less or I
might just have completely abandoned quote unquote drinking holidays. Yeah. Yeah,
like these just literally go by like before. Look what's
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Yeah, but like what are we doing for sego to Mayo?
Is the question that you email everybody while you're drunk
on Saint Patrick's Day?
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Yeah, while you're drunk on May sixth? You mean yesterday?
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I was. I was eight year old stomping grounds miles.
I even asked ultrazon big party this week, I was,
I was so impressed.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Is that the owner of the place, Yeah, who looks
like a character from Clerks who got like edited out
of the movie.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
They were like, let's go, let's go find somebody who
might have like been here when he was here. And uh,
because I was like, yeah, my corker like used to
do that. I think he did like your job. And
she was like what, no way, I didn't expect such
a big response. And then she like went in the
(00:42):
back and was like looking for old people. I guess, yeah,
if they knew you.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, I mean you had to be working there, fucking
I was like it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Was the early I kept being like it was the nineties,
Like it wasn't the nice I started working there in
two thousand and two two two.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
She was like, maybe the owner would like I didn't
say this so that you could.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Go find someone to like yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess
my story. They respect their elders so much to like, well,
I don't want to just blow this old guy off
and say oh cool man. Sure, They're like, oh, let
me find someone from you so nice. They're really like
bro Like I mean the guy who owns that place,
like he's really That's why it was kind of a
(01:27):
coveted job because not any motherfucker could work at Ultra zoone. No,
you had to have you had to be oh, you
got to have the risk. You got to also be
able to control some children in a way that doesn't
come off like you're a dick. I learned. So it's funny.
I learned so much at that job for it being
just a laser tech place, Like I learned how to
like that's the first my crash course in dealing with celebrities. Yeah,
(01:51):
in a weird way where they're going to treat you
like shit, but you got to kind of like Jedi
mind trick them out of why they can't do something.
They're like, well I can't I can't bring this Hibachi
grill into the room. It's like, no, you didn't rent
the room long enough. Like we can order pizza and like,
but we need more anyway, shout out Altra Zone. I
(02:12):
was actually just in that on Saturday. I was just
up the street because I was at this place called
the Candy Land Playground.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
For my friend's kid's birthday there? Yeah, crazy crazy? Is
that why?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Whenever I started like going off on a rant that's
unrelated to the show, you say, if you can hear
me clap once?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yep, if you can hear me clap twice. That was
a new. One time we would just bro that it's funny,
that's new because we would just shout yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll get it. I'd be like, that's how, that's how
we get it started. And then they'd be like, and
then I got ready to play some laser They're like, yeah, yeah,
(03:00):
hell yeah. Simple times.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I mean, you might have had a more commanding voice.
I still need the if you can hear me, yeah
yeah I can.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I can. I can get the kids. Do you do
the loud whistle? No? I can't. I can spin on
my fingers real nasty exactly. I can make a finger.
That's like the final boss of American masculinity that I
(03:30):
haven't conquered yet is the loud fingers in the mouth whistle.
Because my dad could do it, and I was like,
as a kid, I was like, what the fuck is
he doing? He could do the one like two fingers,
You could do the one like this. I still don't
know what them. I gave up on it, like to
figure that one out. I'm gonna be like, I'm just
gonna be one of those like regular melodic whistlers.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah I can. I can whistle a melody pretty well,
but I cannot do the loud whistle the heart up
stone to. The harder I whistle, the less I can.
You know, the harder the harder I blow, the less
sound comes out.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yep, it's funny. Isn't it ironic that that? And isn't
it ironic? Don't you think the harder I blow, the
more miserable it becomes. Hello the Internet, and welcome to
this week trend edition of dirtally Zide. Guys.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, usually I turned my head away, but this time
I went full barrel on the camera because I was
writing the number of the time it was.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I apologize for if I.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Hurt anybody's ears. My name is Jack O'Brien. That over
there is my co host, mister Miles.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Thank you very much. Yes, just yes. What a weekend?
What a weekend? Man? What a weekend? Truly? The yeah?
You did it all? Did it? Oh? Hell yeah? Man?
Did it all? Fuck it? Not to see a Clippers
game at a bar because I thought, oh, game seven, Yeah,
(05:09):
I was like, this could be interesting narrators. It was not.
It was not. Man, that was as hell d the
third court eaven and and we're like, man, let's go
someone to eat. Yeah yeah, and not that even I
was like I was, I just was hoped. I didn't
care who won. I was just like I just wanted
to see something like a game seven and a game
seven twas not.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I always make fun of like ESPN and like other
sports outlets for they'll always do these stats that are
you know, the this team, the Los Angeles Clippers historically,
are you know, fifty four and eighty seven in game seven,
you know, like over the course of the entire franchise.
(05:51):
And I'm like, this is like so pointless, Like those
were different players, Like there's a different coach, like you
know the ship of theseus, like you know that this
is just not the same team, Like why are we
even talking about like what a franchise has done historically?
And then you have teams like the Clippers that it's
just like they're maybe the best team in the West
or second best, and they still manage to fuck it
(06:13):
up just because they're the Clippers, you.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Know, And I'm not happy. I mean, I'm not happy.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm surprised you weren't there. Just you know, like at
the end of the every you're on, you're on the
juke box just playing that over and.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Trying to get a huge blowout lead going so you
could overcome that instead of record this is cool, this
will be cool, this will be.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Anyways, bummer NBA weekend, But I mean it's fun. Steph
had a fun game last night.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Thank god.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Some more into round two, which should be very entertaining.
Uh So, this is the episode where we tell you
what was happening over the weekend and this morning in
the news. But first we get to know each other,
get to know ourselves a little bit better by telling
you some stuff we think is underrated and overrated. Miles,
what is something you think is underrated? So thing I
(07:14):
think is underrated is.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Where do I have it? Yes, recovering your balance after slipping,
thus preventing a fall in public. I think this is
actually one of the more enjoyable small victories in life.
That you're one of the great feelings. It's you feel
like a fucking Olympian. Okay, when you do this. I
(07:39):
slipped in a puddle in the parking lot of a
grocery store and I skidded for a moment. I said, whoa.
Then immediately then I like my hockey ice skating like
balance things kicked in and I shifted my weight and
I like, like I pivoted in this way that was beautiful,
Like I recovered with such a race. Okay, it was
(08:01):
fucking I was so nicely. I honibly was like oh
fuck yeah, Like I was like, whot yeah, like you
got this ship. And then but the thing that I
this is the reason why I say it's underrated, is
I just wish the one other fucking dude in the
parking lot that saw that ship could have acted. He
(08:25):
acted like I fell down and ship myself and kind
of ignored the beautiful Like he didn't want to be
like I didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I just he like would look at you, he wouldn't
make that contact.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
He saw me scared, and he saw the recovery and
then just kind of was just shifted his thing to
not be like, hey, I saw that. It's okay, man.
You can just you can just have you can just
suffer in silence. No one has to know that you
beautifully private. Shame. I'm like, bro, no, like I'm I
was proud, not embarrassed. You ran over to give him
a high five. Yeah, I'm like, you should join me
(08:54):
in that. And now I think when people do that,
we should applaud and say, hey, all that that was fantastic.
I would like to celebrate you and buy you all
of your groceries today.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So it's it's really a matter of moments because before
the slip happens, it's like a I get I guess,
like a net negative or just like a net oh yeah, neutral.
But as the slip is happening, you are on the
precipice of of a failure so embarrassing that like, pulling
out of that is a major victory.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's a huge Just like with Donald Trump softening his
stance on the tariffs, people should be celebrating them. That's right.
But no, that's how it feels. I mean anyway, I
thought it was just it was so funny how I
kept looking at that dude to see if I was like, yeah,
(09:49):
laser folk. He wanted nothing to do with it, and fine, whatever,
I don't. You don't need to give me your attention.
But like I think we just even when you fall,
because like even when I see people said, I'm going, oh,
you're right, yeah, I like to hit people with one
of those I don't do the I didn't see that
ship nice say, I'm like, hey, i'd be like I
saw you and I care. Yeah, no shade, no shame,
(10:09):
absolutely not. I'm proud of you, Myles I for one,
I'm proud of you. Man. I'm gonna be I'm gonna
actually be going to uh the Ralphs on Cold Water Canyon. See,
just doing a little set. You might you might catch
me fucking around and do something classic. You know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You almost slipped in a puddle. That's yeah, that's real bad,
Like it's ling in a puddle.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It was like I didn't see it and my there
was like a sound behind me that caught my attention.
So I took a misplaced step and it was just
one of those things where like you know, sometimes some
sneakers can just be like feel greasy. On my situation,
it was just one of those moments. And the way
I got out of that ship, jack Man, fuck that
guy in the park man, that's your overrated Is that
(10:55):
guy in the park that guy. Yeah for real, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
My underrated is how much fun birds are having. I've
always suspected that birds.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I've always suspected I have so like I remember having this.
This is like a high thought that I had.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I think I was in like Ireland and watching like
these birds just like there's like a puff of wind
and they were just up there, like not moving, just
like coasting on like kind of surfing on the wind
a little bit, you know, just like in place. Yeah,
So like there was no evident reason for them to
be doing that other than they were just like having
(11:33):
fun with it. It looked like they were surfing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And so I've always been like, you know, that seems
that seems fun as hell, first of all, and it
seems like they appreciate how fun it is. But I've
never been able to interview them about why they were
soaring around like on a bump of wind, so I
(11:53):
could never prove it. But I feel like I finally
got proof in this social media video that I saw.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think it was on Nature is Amazing or Amazing
Nature or something.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And it's a bird that just flies straight up in
the air and then like just starts spinning.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Dude, this is fucking crazy. Isn't this cool? What the fuck?
This bird hit A sixty one twenty that's seventeen three sixties.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
It's just like straight up goes like some X game shit,
Like there's no feasible survival mechanism at all.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It just flies straight up. No one in the replies
with a triple.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Axle and then pulls out of the spin just in time.
I didn't even look in the reply yea for someone
to be like, that's actually a crisis mode there.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, there, Terry Gland is on the skits right there.
It's just it's freaking out. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I just this is all the proof I need, and
like it also I feel like applies to the rest
of the species, you know. I in my old age,
I've turned into like a bird guy, and like just
all the I've read people like trying to explain why
they're always sitting to each other like that all the time,
and like the theories are like to warm up in
the morning and like mating calls obviously and communicating predator locations,
(13:09):
and I'm sure like some of that stuff, but I
also feel like it's partially they just like have a
song in their heart and they're just they just want
to like.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The answer is in the replies Jack, they answer for
why it did that? Bro, Yeah, it's in the replies
what's it saying? Choo Belie. They said, that's a roller
pigeon having a seizure. No, and they and they hit it.
But as I look into it, it's not like a seizure,
like like a neurological condition. It's just that they have
(13:39):
a trait and it's called that, all.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right, so why are they doing it? But it's in
involuntary I don't know. There's another person who says the
Verdan videos is likely a swift known for its exceptional
aerial agility. Swifts can stay airborn for up to ten months, feeding, sleeping,
and even fun.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Nothing, nothing, even they're explaining nation of a seizures, like
it's not even a seizure. It's like they just have
a skill they do and they just call it. Sounds
like a bird hater being like that's a seizure. That's
a seizure. They're like, it's a sixty one twenty It
did seventeen three sixties.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That shit was so dope whip and it pulls out
just in time.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Oh, but you just saw this clip. It's like you
saw a bird doing that, and you're like, what the
fuck you came upon this clip? And then they've also
fun up there.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I just generally I've always felt that way, like when
you see birds flying around, like they're like playing with
each other and they're just having fun, and like we
always when it's an animal, I feel like there's part
of us that, because of how horribly we treat animals,
we just want to turn them into survival robots, and
(14:46):
so we take all of the joy or like artistry
out of it and just turn it into well that
the reason they're doing that is to practice evading predators
in the most you.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Know, aggressive way.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You know, like we always just wanted to be one
step closer to propagating there the survival of their species.
Where I just feel like sometimes you know, I think
I think it's a mixture, just like it is with humanity.
You know, there's a book called The Evolution of Beauty
that explains why they look so colorful, and I mean
(15:23):
it makes sense, but also like I don't know, they
just seem persistently artistic in all aspects of their existence
in a way that I think is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, people would see my slip and recovery in the
parking lot. It's just some kind of just a human
having bounce. That's actually a mating call. That's that's right.
And the one man that was in the parking lot
who could have been on the receiving chose to ignore
it and called peacocking and my and my lineage would
have ended there. That's amazing. What Miles is something you
(15:54):
think is overrated? Fuck man, I think I've said this
like three times in the last year. But like the
phoenix effect of trump Ism that it's having on like
neoliberalism right now, it's y'all need to people need to,
people really need to be reporting on this in like
a broader context because we've seen two elections in the
(16:15):
last week where a barely staying afloat neoliberal party hath
been saved by the mere sight of trump Ism. And
the latest election was in Australia we'll probably talk about
that a little bit more, where Conservatives looked like they
were about to pull up in force but their candidate
was way too hot for Trump anyway. Albanize didn't have
(16:35):
to do too much and he played his hand, right,
He just sort of let the Trump want to be
looked like a fucking creep, and then you know, it
was ended up getting a huge majority of a historic win,
and I think for the Conservative Liberal Party it was
like a historic loss. The other side of that is
that he did not pitch voters on any kind of
transformative change. He was just like, yeah, albities did not
(17:00):
just sort of like doing what you know the Democrats
did here. They're kind of like, I mean, you see
what he's doing over there, right, I mean, you tell
you if that's what y'all want, that's fine. I mean,
but we we do our thing our way over here.
So again, Australia has very similar situation like many other countries,
a severe cost of living crisis, and it seems like
the pitch in this election is again, like I said,
(17:22):
like the US election last year, it's like you can
vote for rapid decline or slow incremental decline like you're
used to right which way? Yeah, because you've seen them
do the rapid line and it's not going very well.
So overall, I have a prediction these governments that have
benefited from Trump trump Ism like as a counterpoint or
(17:43):
juxtaposition will lose again if they fail to address the
thing that makes right wing extremism palatable inequality.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, neoliberalism, the very thing that they stand for. Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
If you because like even the stuff that Albany is
just pitching like for like that that would help first
time home ownership really didn't upset the balance of power
in terms of like the real estate industry or landlords
and things like that. It's all meant to happen, like
where it's like, oh, yeah, we can carve off a
little piece that feels like it's doing something big when
really it's not. Yeah, and that's I'm just like, this
(18:19):
is the watch the next cycle. If things only get worse,
we're going to see a resurgence again and you're not
going to be able to be like.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But the stud is quo sure, Yeah, I wonder where
the because I feel like the Democratic Party is looking
at this and being like, yeah, see, we still got it,
Like this is what's going to happen in America.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Like Marvel with thunderbolts right now about still No, you
don't look at them? What about this says you do?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I But I do feel like America in this one
respect is ahead of the rest of the world, and
we did the miss country is completely out on neoliberalism
and like not going.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
To you know what I mean. That's the thing is,
like I don't think enough people they're pissed. I don't
know how many people have yet quite you know, rightly
analyzed the situation and said, Okay, anyone who comes in
talking that neo lib nonsense is going to get us
right back to where we started. The thing that we're
yearning for is to unburden ourselves with the status quo,
(19:22):
which is violence. So if we're not talking about that,
then that's not going to happen. Where I think a
lot of people, just because Trump is back, they're willing,
they're going to be open to someone coming back to
just say something more sane but maybe not as transformative.
That's where I think. That's where like the war for
the soul of this voting base is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
How many people can be keeping like the people are
the ones showing up to the like the Bernie Sanders
and like aoc rallies and shit, and the people are
the ones who are like frustrated with the Trump stuff.
And the people are the ones who fucking just didn't
vote for Harris and what a lot of people thought
was like a shocking sure, you know, but on your
performance on her part, I feel like they maybe they
(20:04):
don't like understand it in like the exact words, but like,
I feel like it's just the mainstream media apparatus that
is like not asn't like refuses to wrap their mind
around it, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I think the thing that we'll see is like when
there's a candidate, right and their platform is like, well,
I'm not Trump and we got to like we got
to look out for each other, and you're it, it
does seem very different, but they're not going all in
on like and I'm going to raise the minimum wage
to twenty five dollars an hour, right, and having people
be like, yes, that's that shit. If someone goes back
(20:38):
and it's just like and we can get minimum wage
to seventeen or something, and people are like great, that's
where I'm worried that it's like no, no, no, right.
The reason we're so fucked is because we're not our
minimum Like we there's so many things we should all
be advocating for just as seriously.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But again, it'll be interesting to see what kind of
campaign Peepoo to Jed runs. Yeah, exactly, that's what. The
thing that is helping mainstream democrats get to sleep at
night is Pete Boodha Judge is Pete Boota.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Judge is great with facts, great on Fox News debate
and again. And I think that's where I'm like, don't please,
don't just get intoxicated by like pooning the Fox people,
Like we need to be pooning the billionaires, Like seriously,
Like that's really that's got to stay focused. And I
love to fight the oligarchy tour, but if like we
(21:29):
can't really have a fundamental agreement across the board on
what which oligarchy we're fighting and in what way we're
fighting it, Right, this is going to be it'll be
a slow creep back again to the norm Yeah. Norm
Norms love that guy from Cheers. Love him.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
My overrated is my ability to figure out where on
the machine to tap my credit cards.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Underneath sometimes some some times it's underneath. Sometimes it's like
at the top.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Sometimes it's at a place that like you can't get
the card to hit because there's like a thing in
the way. I don't know, it's it's just there's no uniformity,
and so I'm just like moving my card all over it.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And person, hey, buddy, buddy, buddy, Yeah it's right here.
Well they know, I just need to like a copperfield.
When do you get that over here? Is this your card?
I I feel like a complete fucking idiot every time
(22:39):
because there's like just so many variables. It's like where
are you tapping it?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And so like I give up too soon on the
right location because it's also not a tap, it's a hold,
you know, And it's just I just need like some
uniformity in the machines where I should just be like,
all right, where do I tap? Just show me on
the machine and they know they know their own machine.
But instead I like try unsuccessfully like three times and
(23:07):
then they're either like no, just like give it to me,
or they're like insert the card, just like get this
over with.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, bro, look, I'm just gonna I'm gonna have you
insert this man, because you're you're struggling way too much
for this man.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
They were not all meant to be tappers.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It's cool. Look I didn't just looking at you your age.
You seem like an insert, not a taper. It's definitely
makes me feel like a sniper. I had a young
person at ice cream shop. Yeah, I had a young
man at the ice cream shop that I was paying with.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
He like told he was like, no, tap it the
other way. So I was tapping it with the whole
other side of the card that I've never tapped with before.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, the one usually chip in it. Yeah, you're you're
leading with the chip end. That's what I was this time. Yeah,
leading with you normally lead with the chip in the
other side has the little thing on it. Oh my god. Yes,
I don't know. Maybe I don't even know either, yea.
To be honest, that's why I shout out to anybody
who works a register and knows their POS system is
(24:13):
a literal POS system, and they're like, you're They'll even
tell you, like, you got to put it right here,
I know, just just right here, right here on the back.
It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. And I'm like,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Let's I'm already in a panic by the time we
get to that point.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, you're looking at like the Jordan Peele sweating gift,
Like when you pull up it's all right, it's okay. No, no, No,
it's okay, Okay, God, sorry, you're sweating all over the
pos terminal.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Hands shaking uncontrollably. All right, those are some of.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
The things that we think is over it and under it.
We're going to take a quick break and then we're
gonna come back and tell you what was trending over
the weekend. We'll be right back and we're back.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
And I mean, so Donald Trump had had a weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Uh you know, we were talking last week about how
his approval ratings are incredibly low, not as low as
the Democratic Party, but like still the lowest that any
president has ever had.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
One hundred days into his termling. Yeah, since the dawn
of polling. He is not the dawn of polling. I'll
tell you that. That day one, he's yeah, so he's struggling.
And then this weekend, uh, you know, he doubled down
on the pope thing by sending out a AI slop
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meme of him dressed as the next Pope, like with
pope stuff on, which, like it is a fit, you know, esthetically,
like Donald Trump being so into like gold and all
the ship that he's into.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It is a fit.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
There's something about it that actually it makes someone.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Who is enriching themselves from slave labor in the New World.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Like everything's gold embossed and you know, uh the hat
like that. I can see him wearing some of that shit.
I can see him starting to like rock a gold scepter.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You think his mental hat, like health declines, the mental
state declines, He's gonna start being like, where's my pope hat? Yes,
sure we're not. We can't wear a pope What ye
hear about?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
How Like, as you age, it's not like the bad
parts of your personality get fixed. It's like you become
more the thing you are. It's just like all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That is you're unable to hide it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, it just like gets the volume gets turned up
on your personality disorder, and I feel I feel like.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That would be showed up. He's like, I want to
look like Donna Tello from the Ninja Turtles to Katanas
on my back in an X shape. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But anyways, people some people thought it was disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't know what their problem is.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I would say, let's let him be pope. I mean,
you can't be president and pope at the same time,
so maybe just let him be pope. And he probably
gets to like make little papal decrees from his desk.
I feel like that's ultimately like he would take that.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You know. I think he'd hate hanging out with a
bunch of cardinals though. That's true. Yeah, like, because they're
all going to be like, what, dude, what is this
guy saying? He's like, none of them laugh, They're all
They're all They're all dorks, all the cardinals. I don't
like them. I don't like them. He also posted on
Sunday for May the Fourth Be with You, they posted
(27:40):
a Star Wars AI image where he was a fucking
sith lord. Did you see that one?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
No, like Dark Brandon on on.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Our Oh yeah, I mean like a lot of people
are like, do you know what they're red saber means.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yo. The image first of all is Donald Trump holding
a red lightsaber, but then he's just so shredded.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It's he's fucking he nacked O'Brien over, thank you?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Why is he so strong? Nobody in the Star Wars
universe has ever been that strong.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No, maybe like in some of the the expanded Universe stuff,
but holy anyway, So that's he's having a lot of
fun with Ai I wonder what that whole thing is.
When Sheltmand shows him, he goes, when did I take that?
Oh no, yeah, I remember when my arms looked like that.
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I was a young man. This is just.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Matching year old's face, matching the his internal image of himself.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Anyways, the Catholic Church probably regretting their decision to put
him in the front row at the po at the
Pope's funeral. Right before that, he made headlines for preemptively
ruining Christmas, a great, a great New York Post headline,
one of the greats that they've come up with during
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this administration. But yeah, so, toy companies are sounding the
alarm that tariffs would mean eighty percent of the toys
will be twice as expensive this Christmas. Eighty percent of
the toys will cost twice as much as they did
last year, and there will be toy shortages, which, as
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we've covered frequently on this show, that is one of
those stories that even when it's not true, and it
never has been up to this point, the media will
find a way.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
To freak out about it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So this is a story that they will just make up,
whether it's true or not, so to actually make it
so Christmas is canceled because there's a toy shortage is
a really mind boggling own goal.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
In this part they just said, I mean, like the
other thing they were saying was fireworks also huge it
comes from so fourth of July could be real shitty,
or people I guess will just blow themselves up with
their homemade fireworks. Or and then now because they say,
it's not just the toys, it's the decorations too, like
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all the cheap, all the cheap, yeah, is now going
to cost a lot of money and.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's gonna hit Yeah, but you know what, it's only
gonna hit those greedy, fat cat children and fireworks enthusiasts. Yeah,
so you know they've had it too good for too long.
Exactly children at Christmas. We see how the Democrats managed
to fuck this up, because it's seems like a pretty
(30:43):
easy lamp that like he's enriching his you know, billionaire
friends at the cost of children being able to have
toys for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, maybe you don't need thirty dollars jack, Yeah, so
that his response was kids should just get less toys,
like maybe two instead of thirty dollars. Hmm. So it's familiar.
You'd never ask his own kids to put up with that,
or you know, the kids of Again, this is just
(31:12):
children who aren't written like rich children will still get
the thirty dollars. So yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, just again
like a thing that it feels like such a layup
for the Democrats to just point out. But The New
York Post responded to that statement by going full blast
front page picture of Barbie next to Trump with the
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words skimp on the Barbie. Ah right, Bobby, I mean right,
A little poetic allusion to the Australian election happening at
Barbie is that.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, I don't know why they have a barbie that
looks just.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Like it's like, doesn't even look special. It looks like
an eighties like something you found in the Yeah, it
really looks it looks like the Yeah, it looks like
the barbie that's been at the bottom of the toy
chest of a preschool, you know, just like I worked
over and it was given a haircut with children's scissors.
Oh yeah, with with fucking I don't even know if yeah,
(32:10):
like plastic those safety scissors. Yeah yeah, But also it
was so far below in the measured in the toy
chest that it's like from the eighties because as like
a denim vest it looks like a mini skirt, mini
dress like Barbie or something a lot less the fuck
is anyway, whatever New York posts that was probably the
(32:31):
the you know, the royalty free image you use good.
I love it, good for you, but you know, a
Republican polster said it sounded like Marie Antoinette saying let
them eat cake. I mean that was more to do
with food. But yeah, I get, I get what you're saying.
It's pretty out of.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Touch, pretty out of touch, pretty you know, why should
the children?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You know?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
He we've seen his attempts to interact with children around
the thing, around subjects like Christmas Joy, where he was like,
and what are your thoughts on the Santa situation? You're
at an age demographic where that appeals to you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Is that correct? So? And then the market for the
affect your your toy buying decision. What I don't know,
I like Elmo.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
And then in case there were any like movie lovers
who aren't Catholic and don't have kids that were weren't
angry yet On Sunday, he randomly announced that non American
movies would receive a one hundred percent tariff.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I think he means, like, you know, American movies that
are made in other countries, I said, quote produced in
foreign lands. He really is the pope, dude, like this
is the fucking fifteenth century or some shit. Anything produced
in far off lands will be so for many sees.
(33:58):
They travel over many the long seven Seas. Exactly, if
it took the Spice Road through the Orient to get here,
then yes, it will be tarriffed. I don't how are
you what are you tariffing? Exactly? The thing, the product
that's distributed, films cost money, and that that we would
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tariff that. Miles oh Man.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
He said it's a national security threat, which is a
weird way to describe m Night Shyamalan making trap in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I mean, yeah, another Shamalan movie. Maybe maybe a national
secret I guess what he so in this weird in
his senile brain, made in foreign land means that it's
being shaped into anti American propaganda. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, maybe he said it's a concerted effort by other
nations and therefore a national security threat. And in this case,
it's concerted effort to like get movies to shoot in
other countries. And so it's just it's just again like
go against the idea of global free trade and towards
the idea of like we'll protect America and make it
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so America can both be mediocre and still get all
the business.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Right. I mean, this is like another example where what
he's saying isn't the fucking solution to any of this.
You know, like you think about we know so many
people in LA whose lives have been upended by the
strikes and now just the just the film industry is
dying in LA. That's undernowed very fast death. Said Donald
(35:34):
Trump one time. I'm like, oh, you know, you've heard
about that. You know that's say you Americ because it's
like Ammie Fournia or whatever. But you know, one of
the big reasons too, is that production costs are highly Like, well,
it's so it costs so much money in LA because
A you have to pay crew a lot of money.
Why because their cost of living is so high in
Los Angeles. That's what's driving it. So then they go
(35:55):
to other states and then the same thing plays out,
and then they're like, well, we'll go to Canada. And
now we'll go to Eastern Europe. But a lot of
this has to do with the fact that just the
inequalities that exist for the people that do the labor
of making films has balloons costs, and without getting a
real handle on that, it's easier for them to be like, ah, well,
it's discussed. There are people who are just they're like
(36:18):
shooting stuff in Eastern Europe that's like meant to be
like somewhere in America now, or like we'll do like
a like a reality show tell all episode where it's
like it's easier to fly everybody to wherever Hungary and
shoot than it is to crew up in New York
to shoot on a sound stage, and you're like, wow,
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the way that this used to work.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The reason that's not happening anymore is like those countries
are able to offer huge you know, uh like amounts
of money to the productions to get the things made there,
to build a mini industry. New York LA like used
to have those sorts of things. They used to have
(37:00):
like tax breaks and things like that, and now they don't,
like the government no longer gives you money for doing that,
because everything.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Is just saying she's you know it's coming back. Well,
we'll see what happens. But like I'm I'm still shocked
to see how little work there is in LA And yeah,
for people who work, especially if they're doing like physical
crew like labor stuff like that, it's super fucked up.
And I know I already know people who like work
in post production. They've had to just leave out, like
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they're just done. They're like, would you be in LA Nothing? Yeah,
truly nothing.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The it does seem to be an overall like his
internal philosophy I feel like is driven by him being
a mediocre nepo baby you know where he's just like,
we need to make it so that American businesses don't
have to compete, you know with other Like, we just
(37:57):
have to make it so that they're forced to so
they have have an advantage over.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Can I just get my dad to make them do it? Yeah? Exactly.
It really is like he thinks that the ease at
which he was able to accumulate money from coming from
wealth is just how the world works. So he is
solved as frictionless as his problems were. So like that
time I killed my nanny, my dad just made it
go away. You know, can't we do that allegedly? But
(38:25):
that's the that's like his mentality was so many things.
It's yeah, true.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
All right, out of the world of politics. Once again.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Women are lying to us, myles I love just once again, dude,
these females are lying to us. The males, thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
There's this tweet where somebody tweeted a picture of himself
and it was like, I, you know, did all the
stuff that like Men's Health tells you to do, and
here I am before and after, and like on the
left he looks like a normal person and on the
right he just like is like, you know, muscled and
(39:05):
like very like kind of emaciated, and you know, looks
like he could be on the cover of like a
men's health thing, you know, like all all muscles are visible.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
And just to be an anglophile, that's all imerslimers. Yeah,
he's like he was on like uh like the version,
like the UK version of America's Got Talent, app okay,
we got got like a singer. Yeah, and he uh
so somebody posted and said do you think he looks
better before or after? And then also are you male
or female?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
And the men all thought he looked better after he
it was it was the biggest portion of responses was
men being like, it looks better after obviously, what are
you talking about, right, like forty three twenty four percent,
and then women thought he looked better before twenty seven
percent compared to after seven percent, So like pretty huge margin.
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And somebody on Twitter responded to that poll and said,
why are women lying about this?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Like, what's the actual cause? Jesus Christ, I'm so frightened
for this person. Why are they lying about this? Holy
shit way to like, way to show everybody so publicly
your worldview has just been shattered by a pole on
Twitter again, women lie, yeah, but I don't know. It
(40:30):
just feels like I see how the self reinforcing idea
of like, well, this is what men think looks cool,
and therefore it's the ideal would happen because men have
been in charge of media for so long that like
that's the male bodily archetype that men find. I guess
(40:52):
it's like the that's the body that men find attractive, right,
and that so that's the one that has on mainstream
over again.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's just been like boiled down to just
one body type in everything, and there's the same.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Thing that happens too, like when like there are like
women in bikinis or whatever and like so you know,
it's like not someone who looks like a model or
whatever and people are like, yeah, that's hot, Like you
think this is hot? What? No, what the heck dude?
She has like body fact that's disgusting, and you're like,
what do you does anyone live in the regular world?
(41:31):
I mean this, this is so funny. I mean, like
just to see. I was looking at some of the
other replies and the way people are trying to rationalize
again a that they still know better than the women
who are telling them what they're attracted to is so
strange to me, where it's it's like, nah, not gonna
believe it. This person isn't real or this is fake.
(41:52):
I don't I'm I will no longer consider this opinion
from this person who I'm also trying to be attractive to.
It's just very I'm I mean, yeah, just doubling down
over and over.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Nice trick me, But I have to put myself through
pain to make you attracted to me? Right, Like what
if what if you were just like kind of cool
to hang out.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
With and yeah, man, I mean thought of me as
a person. Aren't all these like blue check dudes on Twitter,
Like aren't they in the pickup artistry too, because as
somebody who dabbled, you know, when the economy was very
low and my self esteem was also very low. Like
in really reading the game, I mean not that it's
like a manual, but like there's these pick up artists
(42:33):
always talking about shit. It's like, dude, men are attracted
to like they're attracted by what they see, women by
what they hear, and like they use that as an
to sort of begin like this is why you need
to talk up like a woman or whatever, when really
I think if you, if you distill that doubt, it's
looks don't matter to women right right like they do
to men. And if that's a truth that they're ingesting
(42:56):
even from like through pick up artistry stuff, to think
that it's it's like what the fuck?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
We run into a new generation where it's all just
like grind set like optimization, and everybody wants to look like.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Joe I said optim I said optimized to my therapist
last week, and they were like they kind of flagged
it to sort of be like what do you come
back to them when you see optimized, Like do you
see yourself as like a human or like a like
a sort of a computer program or some kind of
like machine that can be optim Like, how do you
when you use that word? And I was like, oh, fuck,
(43:30):
uh no, I merely said that to like in the
context of like being more adventurous like that. I don't
want to close myself up. I want to optimize my
ability to experience adventure. Yeah, it's just so funny. They're like, okay,
just making sure you're not on some like I am
a machine. I must optimize, right, All right, let's take
(43:55):
a quick break. Yeah, we'll be right back. And we're back.
We're back. And as mentioned earlier, Australia, like Canada, last week,
just had an election. And first of all, judging from
(44:17):
the photos that American outlets went with, Australians typically vote
while wearing speedos and that's actually part of the process.
You have to wear speedos. Yeah, there's just I saw
I saw one of these headlines with like the dudes
in the speedo at the polling place, and I was
just like, oh, I didn't realize every fucking outlet had
(44:39):
some form of the dudes in the speedos voting to
be like Australian elections are happening.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, some of them even had swim caps on, like.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yeah, this guy had a boomerang in his pants.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
So these were actually all from the same polling station
at a surf club. But you know it's it is sad.
It is a great image. Yeah, guy's got guys caked
ups of male attractiveness on Twitter, but he's stopped stopplying.
(45:15):
This guy has love handles stopplying. This is the hottest
shit you've ever seen. That guy should be the only
vote that matters. Look at the definition on his delts.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Uh. But yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
The Labor Party and current Prime Minister Anthony Albanize staged
a quote dramatic comeback against once resurgent Conservatives and people
think it's because of the influence of one US President.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Donald Trump. That tracks.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
That's basically what just happened in Canada happened again in Australia.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
We were the we were the canary in the coal
mine of Earth. But well, now will you listen? Now,
will you listen to If you think that's bad, then
do everything you can to prevent a right wing extremists
to rise to power be resurgent rand.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
But yeah, the leader of the Conservative Liberal Party of Australia.
So I'm just flagging this in case you get confused,
because Conservatives are called liberals there because they're south of
the equator exactly, and so I.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Think that must be it.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
But he had previously called Trump a big thinker and
praised the art of the deal after Trump suggested that
the US should invade Gaza to you know, when he
was talking about settling it and making it like Crusoe malls, you.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Know, right right, yeah, Trump Gaza number one. But yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
It's it's pretty wild how unpopular he is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
And he's also like the dude in Canada he lost
his seat too. Yeah, not only he lost his seat also, Yeah,
because it's funny just how much like corporations, politicians are
so similar, Like they just copy each other. Oh, you've
do layoffs, all right, we're doing layoffs too. Yeah yeah, yeah,
oh what are you doing? You just kind of kind
of like let the freak who copies the other freak
(47:14):
just do their thing. Okay, cool, cool, cool, We'll do
the same. We'll do the same. We'll do the same.
It's like just the amount of people who want to
copy Trump's style, the amount of people on the other
side of that end of the spectrum who were just like,
let them freak everyone out. Okay, let's just play possum
or oh, possum.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
However it's pronounced yeah, wherever you are. They had been
leading in opinion polls in February, like, so it was
that quick that it was like kind of assumed that
the Conservatives were going to be part of this like
Trump wave takeover across the world.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
And then everyone's like, whoa.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
This seems this seems kind of like they don't know
what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Yeah, they're like hold on, they're modeling themselves after the
guy up in America who's stabbing people in their face,
like allies even oh no, no, no, no, no no.
And finally Marvel is back maybe, like I don't know,
it's this is the exact same thinking of like, wow,
the neo liberals pull it off again, are they right?
(48:16):
So is thunder First of all, I just want to
say I'm mad at Thunderbolts because there were no more
fucking Sinners screenings in IMAX because a stupid ass Marvel
everything and now everything with Thunderbolts. I was gonna go
over the weekend just to see it on a regular screen,
and my friend convinced me. He's like, if you really
want to do it, wait for the re release on
Imax so you can really in twenty five years. No, no,
(48:37):
they said this month it's gonna be. I think once
Thunderbolts phases out there, they'll bring Sinners back and I
will be there anyway.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
But so you went to see Thunderbolts instead, and what
do you think?
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Uh, didn't see it? Didn't see it? What didn't see it?
You know how? You know? I'm with Marvel movies. It's
there's too many, too many.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Too many going on, like this one seems particularly I know.
I saw it like there was good word of mouth. Yeah,
it was a good Julia Leui Dreyfus thing is very
interesting to me, though I didn't like get any of
that from the marketing. I didn't get that like she's
in it and like just getting to be fun and
be all Julie Leuis Dreyfus.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
See.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
But it made seventy six million dollars of the box office,
which is being like pitched now in the media as
a win even though it's like the second worst Marvel
Cinematic Universe opening.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
That's I'm sane, bro, They're fucking try.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
They're just like, I don't know, we need a win
for the industry. Okay, So it's less than like Captain
America Brave New World, which came out earlier this year,
and everyone's like already basically forgotten about and.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Weren't people shitting on that too, like for how low
it was, even though it was more than seventy or
eighty eight million, I guess is what it made. Yeah,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
It's just like it's not it's no longer cool or
like interesting to shit on Marvel, you know. It's just like, yeah,
I mean that's the default story is like Marvel is over,
and this one actually has like some narrative momentum, and
so people are like, like the Ringer article with Thunderbolts
gives Marvel movies their momentum back for the first time
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in years. The Multiverse saga seems to be going somewhere.
So that's not exactly like being like, you know, it's
it dominated at the box office, but again, it just didn't.
It also just didn't like the I don't know with
the marketing. I'm assuming they decided, like they're they're playing
with scared money now, and so they like decided they
needed to like be safe in the marketing. But like
(50:41):
the marketing was like I don't know, it was completely
indistinguishable to me, like who who the characters were, Like
what the point of this was?
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Scared money exactly? Looking like JJ Reddick's coaching a game four? Right, Yeah, yeah,
I don't care if it ruins everything. Yeah, I'm mean
it is. It is just funny to see, like when
you compare it mathematic numerically to other openings. Yeah, you know,
we don't. We're not. It's not back. And I don't
(51:10):
want to hear that, especially when they were shitting on
Sinners for making like you know, like you know, forty
some million or whatever to be like, oh do a
little bit. Oh and this this juggernaut thing. Don't look now,
but Sinners is going to destroy the movie industry. Shut
the fuck up, man, right, because I I feel like
it's they are rooting for the old model of Hollywood,
(51:34):
you know, to come back, and so everybody's like, well,
we got to do this because we need wins for Hollywood. IP.
It's all these people who just do not want to
develop a new movie, Like they don't want to put
money behind original ideas. They're just not ready for that.
There's so many status quai. What's the what's what's the
most what's the plural of status quo? Quote the status quo? Yeah,
(51:57):
your status yesses were crazy. I think status quhi, status
qui and status quosis is. I don't know what it
is exactly, but if close feel way off based status
statusies quo statuses qui, let's go with that. Yeah. But
(52:19):
I mean, like just even again in the film industry,
it's just like like to your point with this, they're
praying that the thing of like is there something that
already exists that we can just green light and not
really take a swing on an original idea, Like they
want this to happen.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Inspired all the writers and gave all the power to
the marketing team. So yeah, exactly, it's that's that's all
they got.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
It is like how do we do asking? Yeah, people
who are probably criminally habitual chat GPT users to start
coming up with original ideas to to re energize the
film market. Yeah. Good, idea what happened with the other
big opening, because I remember on Friday we were talking about, like, oh,
let's not forget about Rust opening this weekend. Rust that one.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
So that made slightly less money. That's gonna be slightly
harder to uh spin as a win.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
It made twenty five thousand dollars twenty five thousand, twenty
five thousand from one hundred and fifteen theaters. So did
they do the thing at least like they did for
Sound of Freedom and the other Jesus movie, like where
they're not a boa.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
I'm trying to think of like what church or like
organization because like I'm assuming the NRA doesn't want to
be involved in that shit.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
I don't even have money anymore.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Like maybe just like the production team of his reality.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
Show, it just sucks man like it like what a
cursed movie. Like it's like even the thing, like, even
even though it's done and all the people that worked
on it, it's still marred by the fucking killing. Yeah,
and just feels very accidental shooting that happened on the
set of a movie about an accidental shooting. Yeah, it's
fucking crazy. Yeah, Anyway, it'll.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
Be interesting to see if Thunderbolt holds well or not.
It's got an eighty eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but
on the more specific Metacritic it's got a sixty eight.
So you know, Rotten Tomatoes is like thumbs up or
down well, and then you know, we'll give it a percentage,
whereas Metacritic actually gives numeric scores, like if somebody gives
(54:24):
it two and a half stars and Rotten Tomatoes like
that's a thumbs up, that's a pass, you know.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Oh my god, that's what Brian the editor just put
a CLI out of contract said, spider bite incident, And
I'm like, what the fuck was this? On the set
of Rust, one of the crew members, like a pipe
rigger lamp operator, got bit by a brown recluse and
had to do like multiple surgeries to prevent amputation. So
this thing has just been This is like Yodorovsky's Dune
(54:54):
bro Jesus truly cursed. All right.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Anyways, I'll be holding my review of Rust for a
little while until I'll see it.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
Oh, I thought, you're like, it's under bargo. Yeah, it's
under embargo for now. All right. Those are some of
the things that are trending on this Monday, May fifth,
We're back tomorrow with a whole ass at Mayo the show.
Oh shit, I got about that. We did forget about
sin good at Mayo? It is I don't know about
(55:26):
you as it's like the less well, since you don't
drink anymore and I drink less and less or I
might just have completely abandoned quote unquote drinking holidays. Yeah. Yeah,
like these just literally go by like before. Look what's
going on? Sinkle to Mayo? Bro?
Speaker 1 (55:41):
Yeah, but like what are we doing for sego to Mayo?
Is the question that you email everybody while you're drunk
on Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 2 (55:48):
Yeah, while you're drunk on May sixth? You mean yesterday?
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Ah shit, editor who looks on this show from Mexico
City has informed us. Fun fact, not a holiday in Mexico.
All right, those are some of the things that are
trending on this Monday May fifth. It' say good day Mayo.
We are back tomorrow with the who last episode of
(56:15):
the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
kind to yourselves, get your vaccines while you still can
get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
and we will talk to y'all tomorrow bye bye
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