In this edition of The WeekTrend Report, Jack and Miles discuss Lauren Boebert getting kicked out of the Beetlejuice musical, Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher NOT strike breaking after all, Russell Brand getting accused of sexual assault, the auto workers strike, Trump on Meet The Press and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend September eighteenth,
Morning Edition Week Trend the week trendy. Oh, I'm Jack.
That is Miles. That is the reference to a skiff
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from a twenty year old NL. I think it's we
keep going.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
That's a reference to the Garth Brooks Deal with the
Devil songwritings from SNL.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Was the host Christians musical guest. I am Jack. That
is Miles, Miles. How do you do?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I do well?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I do well? I knew well. How how doc do
doc do you? You do?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
End onto you? My good sir? Pretty good? Pretty good.
You know it's early, but we're here. It's early doors.
Things could go left pretty quickly. Same yeah, still early,
but we're here. We're going to be realistic for realistic
times because we are going to here. Hear you, we
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see you, We apologize to you. So we're gonna Drew
bre like the thirteen Drew barrymore apologies over the weekend
that ultimately led her on a wandering path to arrive
at the right decision. Talk about Lauren Bobert, talk about
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fucking what's his name? Russell brand Ship, autoworker, strike, Trump Press,
all that anymore. But first miles, we like to let
the listeners get to know us a little bit better
and tell them something that we think is underrated or overrated.
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You wanna you want to kick us off? Under reed
Stanzo brand Fedoras AKA.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Something I think is underrated is fucking tapping, like tap
pay for shit, tapping, pay for pat tapping paying for shit,
the ability to contest taplus, Apple pay, Android pay, Yeah, yeah,
just tap it in, you know what I mean, or
just like, well, if you got that credit Like I
think most debit and credit cards have the little three
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like line thing where it's like, just tap it on, baby,
they were.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
A little bit more specific about where to tap in
some In some case sometimes it was kind of a yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Sometimes I've looked like an absolute buffoon, like doing the
underside and like just young checkout people have been like
fam dude, like on the screen where like the logo
says like has the logo that matches with your card?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm like, yeah, right, right, right, right right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
For the longest time, I was always just you know,
doing the sliding or putting the chip.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
In, and I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Recently, I've just embraced tapping more or using the phone,
and it is really underrated how much it takes you
out of the act for paying for goods. Hmm, Like
it used to be this process like I would dig
in my wallet, I will watch the number of like
paper money bills begin to dwindle as I bought shit
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throughout the day, and that would have an effect on
how I would spend money, because you'd be like, Okay,
I had sixty dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
In here, and now it's ten. You check your wallet
in the morning and say, honey, the paper money bills
are dwindling.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
They're dwindling, and a little moth would fly out.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But I think now, like because we just tap or
use a phone or whatever, it's less it like mentally,
it's less about like what does this cost in relation
to my money, and more so it's like does this
shit have fucking Apple pay? Or like can I double
click my phone and wave it or wave my plastic
rectangle at a thing and then for something? So I
think it is Actually it's under is a brilliant way
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to keep consumers go, oh yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Those thoughts You were having those realizations about how much
money you actually had left and how much money was
being spent at any given purchase. Those are called friction
miles then slow you down from consumption, and yes, yes, yes,
and those are bad. So it is good that we
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have invented a thing that soon enough we'll be able
to purchase with our minds. That will be the thing
that we can The way that we actually get telekinesis
will only be used for like being able to look
at a thing and be like purchased.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Towels. Now, yes, God, I have become God.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, but yeah, I think part of me wants to
kind of go back to money. But most places are
like we're cash free, and I'm like, that's fucking backwards
and also meant to, you know, obviously keep like poor
people out because you're like, oh, you don't have this technology,
then we can't take your money.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Actually, we don't even take stinky bills here. Yeah, yeah,
I remember hearing that, Like in Europe, they were well
on the like they were already tapping, tapping, tapping away,
and when people from like other countries would come here,
they'd be like, why are you guys still like swiping
credit cards?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I know it's the twentieth they had that the chip
reader thing going like I remember years before.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm like, what the fuck is what is this new
fangled technology here in Europe? Yeah all right, my underrated
my own was going to be my overrated h oh.
And then I told so I'll take you on my journey.
So I went to one of those Instagram activation things
like that are.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Like you did it from such business, be like, that's
how like a company of those Instagram activations?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, well that's yeah, it's purely a you know, like
they they usually pop up. They're like pop up museum
exhibit type things, right, but they feel like if a
museum exhibit was put on by the same people who
do like local haunted houses like that one. Yeah, yeah,
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but like, yeah, pretty good one, the one I went to. So,
I think what I experienced yesterday was kind of the
dre like the lowest version of this. It was called
Bubble World. Might lead you to believe that there were
like bubbles, you know, kids like bubbles, love bubbles. There
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are no bubbles at Bubble World. What the there are balloons?
There is a giant ball pit. There are a bunch
of different rooms with different experience is different lighting that
are are highly photographable. They have put the least work
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into covering up the seams, though, Like you look up
and you see that you are in Like they've put
drywall walls in to like separate the rooms for purposes
of Instagram photographing, but they haven't like put a ceiling in,
and in fact, like the air conditioning ducts are just
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like kind of draped from one room to the other.
Oh it's it's like pretty pretty rough in there. It
feels like they were charged with creating a museum exhibiting
given like a two thousand dollars budget. This all sounds terrible,
my kids, I asked my kids this morning, and this
is when it went from underrated or overrated to underrated.
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I asked my kids, like, so, what what we think
of the weekend? Like cat was everyone's favorite parts of
the weekend. They were like, oh, Death, the bubbles Man,
the bubble exhibit was the best. I went, like my
five year old literally said, I wish it had never ended.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Oh my god, it's.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And one of the rooms is just full of like
balloon like big you know, the like real big like
weather balloon size balloons. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, Like you just like walk through.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
There and like kick those and like they like bounce
into other people, but it doesn't matter because they're balloons.
And yeah, for sure, there's like the biggest ball pit
I've ever been in. Okay, So there were some superlatives attached.
It was you could say it is the biggest ball
pit you've ever been in. Yes, I think that's definitely
the biggest ball pit I've ever Okay, So they got
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something over there, bubble something. It's not clear how it
ties into bubbles. And you can purchase a bubble te
u ahead of time that will be there for you. Miles.
The bubble tea is criminal. It is in a big
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like purple can that looks like a monster energy drink.
And it was like old, Oh it's like a canned
Yeah it was canned. And they were like, no, we
don't got straws. Just drink it, take it to the dome.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
How do I open it? Oh, you don't have a
can opener.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
One of those.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You're prepared.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But I don't know, like these things are something I
don't know. I don't know if they're over it. I
don't know if they're underrated. They are they I feel
like they are the most of this moment. Like things
they didn't exist when I was a kid. I kind
of wish they did, like now, kind of seeing it
through my kid's eyes, Like you know, haunted houses were
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some of my favorite memory as a kid. Like yes,
the like the guy in the Wolfman mask with a
chainsaw was like mixing chainsaws with Wolfman, right right, right right.
It was a little bit drunk. And they're a great
opportunity to take you pictures of your kids. Mainly, I'm
driven by cuteness. I want I want cuteness.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They've they've mashed it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I mean before we're talking about like growing up in
La it was like fucking three things you could do
as a kid, like in the late eighties, Like you
would go to travel Town in Griffith Park where.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You could just train look at old ash trains.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They didn't move, they just fucking were there, and you
could look inside there was like one little tiny railroad
that would go around. And then you would buy a
like injection molded plastic toy that like you could make
on demand from like a gigantic machine that smelled like
wild fumes. And then you could go to the bred
tarpits or the zoo or the kids Museum and that
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was about it, and like, now I love that. They're
like they know that they get people to just spend money.
They're like, dude, the ship lights up, your kids just
run around. Look it's forty eight bucks, Like.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
It's too expensive, Like you time would be better spent
in nature. For sure. It is bleak in there, but
it's bleak in a way that I think is appropriate,
right says important things about our time and our moment.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Right right right.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
The New York Times like wrote an article about these,
Like there's like a Rose something, the Rose Experience. There's
like Refinery twenty nine had like a quote unquote art
installation that was like called twenty nine Rooms that sounded
like it's suck shit. But they, you know, like they
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have these high minded claims of like pop misticis like
when we arrived at the bubble thing, they were like,
and the bubble is the perfect shape and like you
were always going to come here regardless, like your fate
was going to bring And it's a great blend of
like all the bullshit on Instagram, the weirdness of our
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just like cultural moment and also just like fun fun
for kids. But it is bleak. It's dark in there.
But you, I think it's important that everybody go and
like stare into the dark void at the heart of
our of air. Yeah, so I recommend it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's like an escalation on the r like the way
that like cannibalism or capitalism finds a way to be
like yeah, finds a way to just sort of find
like a dead, dying host and then like keep making
money off of it.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Like yeah, back in.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Our day, a bank would go out of business and
that became the Halloween store. That's right now, the grocery
store goes out of business and now it's Bubble World.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now you can go.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Into time and time and time again, and we're not
like they don't have to pay that much to turn.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Re branded it as the Los Angeles Art Center, fucking
burnt out Ralphs's. It's the Los Angeles Art Center where
you can go see the van Go projection thing. You
can go see like a dinosaur puppet show. Yeah, or
you can go to Bubble World.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Those those those that companies killing it because we're everywhere
now they're like, yeah, man, we just kind of license
it and then we just do like our three D
light shows and cities across the world.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Now yeah, yeah, exactly. So I don't know, it's my
kids seem to enjoy it. Uh, And I think everybody
I'm just curious, like it, do are other people experiencing this?
What are your thoughts on it? Like? I get the
cultural criticism of it, like, but as long as you
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just take it as like a haunted house level attraction,
I feel like yeah, uh and and you know it's
like you don't mind spending way too much money. Yeah,
this isn't something that's turning the art world on its ear, No,
I guess that. Yeah, Museum of ice Cream is one. Yeah. Right,
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that's a factory in New York coming soon to a
town near you there. Yeah, they're they're dark. It's like
it's like little pieces of Las Vegas, is what it
feels like.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
M you know, righty, because these are very Veguas type
things where you're like, I don't know, in between like
binge drinking at a blackjack table. Take your kids to
the ballpit where you can probably get I don't know,
some kind of illness from touching the plastic balls that
are not cleaned.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, we'll see. We'll see if my family survives from
like being in this ballpit from over the weekend with
like air just like haphazardly piped from one location to another.
Because if we do, then then we're rebranding to MRSA World,
not Bubble World. Right, So my overrated instead is just
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like I guess the structural integrity of raspberries. I always
I expect them to like hold together better than they do,
and then I rinse them and I get like just
raspberry confetti stuck in my strainer instead of some delicious red.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
We're kind of using like a sort of like a
bigger kind of strainer like with like like big stainless
kind that kind of creates like a million little razor
blade holes.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, I use all different ones. They just comes. It's
also coming f mesh works the plastic with like a
few hole, you know, not that much, but it's.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Always been a little bit of meat behind. Huh.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
By the way, do you do you eat popcorn? When
you pop popcorn at home? You eat it out of
a colander? No, okay, that's I don't even popcorn at home.
Oh okay, yeah, you look at me like I'm a
a monster. That's disc that's disgusting, man.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know why I think the reason we didn't have
a microwave growing up till like I was like fourteen,
so I early on, I remember in the eighties, my
fucking dad bought, like inherited, some fucking wild ass popcorn
making machine that took way too long and it tasted
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nothing like the movie theater.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So I was like, my fuck this.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And then I remember going to like other kids' houses
they would do the microwave popcorn, like this shit is
fucking amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
But then I didn't have it at home.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And then by that point I was just eating Tyson
frozen chicken patties like Terioki flavored.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
That was my thing.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I kept eating out of a microwave. So we had
a movie night the other night, and I put the
popcorn for the kids in a calendar, and like some
of we had some friends over and they were like,
this is fun. Why are you putting it in the
calendar instead of a big ball? And I was like,
I don't know. That's always what we did, like when
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I was growing up, we never ate it out of
a big ball.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It was always the common I wonder because the calender
won't break, or like if you have like a ceramic bowl,
because I remember we had a ceramic bowl and I
was like, put it in the bowl.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And I do remember, I do have.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
A memory of maybe eating it out of a calendar
or something, or like a stainless steel bowl.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Be like no, because I can't trust you to hold
a fucking big ass bowl. Right, Yeah, it might be that. Anyways,
you gotta you got an overrid Yeah, overrated? Uh what
the fuck is oh? Man?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Folding?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Fucking I'm sorry this is turned into a dad cast
over here with folding tiny ass baby clothes. Man her
Massey and I we used to fucking fold these ships
like we were auditioning to work at like Abercrombie, you
know what I mean, like just fucking oh yeah, and
put that there with this side that and then you know,
and every it's funny. Every parent told us that, like
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who would like look at their like, oh, look at
you folding the ship.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
They're like, see how long that shit lasts? Go ahead,
let me see.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Let me come back in a few months to see
if you aren't just fucking balling it up on it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, And now like it's slowly devolving into now do
like a half a fold, But it ain't.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It's it's not like how it used to be. So
it's it's it's on the name of efficiency.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I've realized in the beginning the all the aesthetic part
is all kind of part of the excitement.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And then you move into the sort of practical phase
of parenting where you're like, I do not need to
fold up a shirt that is smaller than my fucking hand. Yeah, exactly,
it's like you need like one of those headlamps and
like a jeweler's loop to like fold some of these
kids clothes, Like, yeah, fold the socks for a baby.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
It's like, oh man, the disrespect of the socks to
the point.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
We don't even wear socks.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I'm like, I'm like anti sock because I think the
fun of having a baby out is like a little
baby's feet.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, baby feet sometimes, but.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, but but it's been the summer the whole time,
you know what I mean. So like we're only now
moving into like I guess the time of the year
where you would think of things like the air temperature
being a little too cold for baby feet.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
But I think shoes are up in one of those
little things. Exactly. Shoes look stupid right now to me.
I love shoes, Yeah, crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, I mean shout out to my boy row who
got me little Jordan's for the guy's child, and like
I put them on a few times, but then other times,
like we have these other shoes and I'm like, man,
you don't even.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Walk, so it's just like it's like costume me. Yeah,
free the baby feet. That's whenever you're going shopping for
baby shoes, people are always trying to tell you heartbreaking,
six word long stories while selling them to you.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah right, I'm like if they're lightly used, fam, I
don't I'm off that that sounds spooky.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah. By the way, I add so many baby shoes
to sell lately, used because babies grow out of their
shoes really quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Half of a story is never I have baby shoes exactly,
never used.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, hit me up.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I got Nike Hurrachis that I thought. Man, I bought
them like a like the moment I found out we
were having a kid, I was like, I have.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
The Hurazis too. I got the same ship, you know
what I mean. Then cut to You're like, man, this
I feel like this bait. This looks stupid and it's
like too much weight on my little baby's leg. For
nipple to wear shoes. So anyway, yeah, that's me. All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
to talk about some news. Yep, and we're back and
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we have an update. Yeah, on the Lauren Bobert story.
Last we checked in, Uh, Lauren Bobert had been kicked
out a performance of the Beatlejuice musical, Uh for like vaping,
being loud, just being enthusiastics really like the show, enjoying
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the show too much. I hadn't heard that her spokesperson
had come back and vehemently denied the vaping allegation and
said instead that people were confused because there was a
fog machine that was part of the show.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
That happened to just blow up plume right next to
one person.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, anyways, over the weekend, it turns out theaters have
unnervingly good security football Oh my god, were they using
like planning on using this for like one of those
commercials where they're like audiences can't stop enjoying, you know,
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like howun was this footage so good? It's why are
you guys watching us so close?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And they could fucking wild ass groping, like the audiences
love it. They can't contain themselves a Beatlejuice. They're like, wow,
that's a full on smear campaign down there.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But I mean, yeah, it really.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Was interesting to see how like it went from we
saw her getting kicked out, and it was almost like
they it was like maybe they were trying to fuck
with the Bober people to be like, look, we have
video y'all getting kicked out.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You want us to go step further.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, here's a video from inside the theater of y'all
getting kicked out. You want us to go step further,
here's a video of you vaping in the show and
doing just getting really sexually acted, you know, doing your thing.
Apparently in the middle of Beetlejuice, which apparently has a
like a by the like there's like a Broadway musical,
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like advocacy group they say the Beetlejuice musical is good
for children ten and up, So presumably in a theater
full of children, they engaged in I guess what could
be described as mutual groping, or as I would put it,
he was remodeling her upstairs and she was remodeling his downstairs.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, during the show and the pants handy yeah, yeah, yeah,
there was there's a lot, a lot of a lot
of frantic movement.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
And it turns out that not only does she vape,
but we also found out that her boyfriend not only
was is he a Democrat bar owner that of a
bar that hosts track shows, but he's also not licensed
to perform mammograms in dimly lit theaters.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
So there's a lot of revelations that.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yah, I mean she so she has continuously railed against
drag Queen's reading two children, accusing them of sexualizing kids,
and you know, so the hypocrisy on display for giving
her boyfriend a fleeting over the pants hand job in
the middle of a family musical is uh not great
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for her? Now, more on brand for I guess maybe
less on brand is that I guess I guess we'll
go with more on brand, uh for Republicans is the
not giving a shit about the rights of pregnant women
because she was apparently vaping right in front of a
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pregnant woman who asked Bobert to stop vaping inside the
theater and she refused to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So yeah, yeah, that's you know exactly, just that's fine, man.
You know what, the baby will grow stronger with this
tiger bullet vape juice because this shit is bomb. Here's smells,
friend Buster tried in the name of the vape God.
Uh yeah, it's it's I mean again, the hypocrisy is
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the point, and it is their thing because it's never
about what they're saying. It's about again, they just want
to create a world that is violent towards people that
are not like sort of cisgendered, heterow Christian people. So
they got to say all this shit not because they
actually give a fuck about or this, that and the other.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
So you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I mean, the backlash is not much as again as
you as you'd expect, and Colter called her a bimbo,
Megan McCain called her trash, and Bobert issued like a
non apology where she said she fell short and didn't
want to blame it all on nine to eleven, but
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things have been tough since nine to eleven. And also
she said, with a very public divorce of her ex
who if you don't know he's he exposed his peepee
at a bowling alley, I believe in previous years. And
also met Laura Bilbert. I didn't yeah, met her when
she was sixteen and he was twenty two. That's when
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that love affair started. But they swear they did nothing
until she was seventeen, which is the age of legal
consent in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So stop asking questions.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Stop being weird. Everyone, stop being weird. Okay, we know
how to keep our hands to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah. I do feel like like part of the reason
of this video is has gone so viral is because
like she is scantily clad and you know, being that
it there does feel like there's like an uncomfortable level
of voyeurism in this one, just oh yeah saying like
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people who like, all right, we we had our fun,
but people who are still like posting about this like
five days later being like, look, look great here you
can see it's like, what's.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
That move called?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Like, I don't know, I think it should be more
that like this person is unfit for to serve in office,
but we knew that before the vaping. And you know,
unlicensed performance of a brasser's video in like a theater.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So truly like some performative, uh, just obnoxiousness that is
almost impressive. It's like Cape the scene in Cape Fear. Yeah, right,
Superser Victor called that. He was like, she's she's giving
Robert to Nero and Cape fear.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
That's not something you want to be giving.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
No, being an asshole on purpose. Yeah, that's who you
are reminding us of right now. All right, well let's
move on to Drew barrymore people. So this is kind
of fun, This is okay. It feels like there has
(27:24):
been a change in how the public feels about unions
and oh yeah, the powers that be, repeatedly are not
ready for that change in how people feel about unions,
and so they pull shit like trying to bring shows
back even though there's a strike on and yeah, you
(27:46):
know they're like that. And this happened, I guess back
in two thousand and eight, like jay Leno actually brought
a show back. Some of these daytime shows actually brought
their shows back during the strike, and I mean mostly
got away with it. Like I still thought jay Leno
was super cool up until I heard that recently, but
it's not changing my opinion of him. Yeah, so brought
(28:08):
her show back and then has faced swift backlash from
people who are like, what's your fucking problem?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Man? That does feel like the kind of shit people
were saying, like Hey, what's your fucking problem?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Like, what's your fucking deal?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
What's your major malfunction?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So she posted an apology video like just she tried
so hard to find the words uh yeah in a
way that makes it clear like she could really use
some writers but find the magic words that would make
her actions okay while still allowing her to have her
(28:52):
show back.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
And she just never quite got there, even in the
four minutes and five seconds it took. So we'll jump
around and maybe hear the same thing being said over
and over again.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
But here's Drew.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I believe there's nothing I can do or say in
this moment to make it okay to own a decision.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
So that girl, your teleprompter is too far off protected
the eye line for the camera.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And I would just take full responsibility for my actions.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh my god, I know there's just.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Nothing I can do that will make this okay.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, you're actually about to do it, yep, hold on,
you're on your way to something. Okay, this is thirty
seconds ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Just want everyone to know my intentions. Never been.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
In a place to break a strike where people are
trying to advocate for their own well, well go there
to be.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Just in the crushing of labor and the work force
that has made my career possible.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Jump ahead twenty seconds.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I don't exactly know what to say because sometimes who
is she.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Talking to the camera.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Well, she's clearly has she's doing the thing where she's
reading off her laptop, but she couldn't for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
There's must be like a slip.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Of paper just off to the side beyond.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah. I've also been in meetings where older people are
doing this, and I think sometimes there's like the prompt
like not the promptness, but like their image of themselves
is over to that side and they keep looking. Yeah,
they look, they're checking out themselves even though the camera
is over on this side, or or she's reading a statement, and.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Just because the angle, yeah, the angle.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Because the other thing is sometimes people have a webcam
that's completely off away from where their computer screen is,
so everything's happening on one screen and you almost kind
of look to the camera.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
So you're like, oh, hi, I'm acknowledging you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
But this looks like a laptop set up, and she
doesn't strike me as someone would like a matrix style
multi screen setup. So anyway, there's that Let's skip ahead
another twenty seconds.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I'll just stand out there and accept and be responsible.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Good good, good.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
And there's a huge question of the why why am I?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's not what we care about.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I just like, go ahead, twenty second.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Maybe are you going to keep doing it?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Scales? And I thought, if we could go on during
a global pandemic, this is my part, and everything that
the world is experienced through twenty twenty, why would this.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Sideline us a strike? It's a strike, it's a labor action.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I want to just put one foot in front of
the other and make a show that's there for people,
oh of anything else that's happening in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I'm sorry, Drew, did you think your show was the oh?
All right? Well, this is just wanted to make a
show that was there for people insensitive times. And I
weighed the scale, and I thought, if we could go
on during a global pandemic and everything that the world
has experienced through twenty twenty, why would this sideline us?
(32:24):
So I want to just put one foot in front
of the other, make a show that's there for people,
regardless of anything that's happening in the world, because that's
when I think we all need something that wants to
be there for being very realistic in very realistic times.
So that is my why.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh okay, now I guess she did she end that
by saying well here? Did she end that by saying
I'm not going to make the show? Or she's just
saying sorry. That video is just saying sorry. No.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
This was like one of a series of shows where
she was looking for the magic, whereas they were going
to make it better better each one, people were like,
shut the fuck up, like what are you talking about?
Just just quit? And then on Sunday she announced she
was going to pause the show's premiere until the strike
is over all right, So she finally made the right call.
(33:18):
It's nothing I can do to Yeah, no, you just
did it. We're good. You know, we'll keep an eye
on you. But that's uh yeah. And then Bill Maher
did the same ship he's going to suspend his plans
to bring his show back, presumably after he you know,
(33:41):
did a run through and was just liked, no, is
he really really? Are we really? Yeah? I think so
that's what It's an alert that just came across as
her recording record. Bill Maher holds off on real time
return as w g a talks set.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
There you go, a Bill Tumar.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Indeed, he's he thinks, actually, oh, the talks are set
to resume, so we'll wait and see if there's zany
demands get met.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I'm also like, I love again the likening of a
global pandemic that's still raging on and comparing that to
a writer's strike too, where it's like, this writer's strike
is like the new COVID.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
It's a meting list. Nothing we could do about it,
has nothing to do with it, and it's so unfair
to people, you know what I mean that I just
wanted to provide like some glimmer of hope while these
greedy monsters, you know, split hairs over wages. Yeah, oh
well I wasn't expecting Bill. So is he going to
(34:48):
do a No, he's not unpositive he's going to do
a monologue when the show's finally back where he's like really, guys, yeah,
like he's written by writer shitting on.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
No, No, No, he's gonna have the writers come out
and they're gonna they're gonna be on the panel and
he's just gonna fucking like, really, got was it really
worth it?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Is it worth?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Can't good point Bill who apparently it's one of the
best paying jobs in comedy writing because he's such an
asshole to work right, right, So all right, let's uh,
let's take one more break and we'll be back to
finish it out, and we're back. We and Russell Brand
(35:42):
has been accused of rape and has swiftly been defended
by a who's who of people who when they're defending you,
you know you're probably wrong.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I saw it was like a very yeah, like there
was at the Sunday Times and there was like even
like a documentary video piece I saw over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel four have
been looking to this for a while, and you know,
the allegations, the details are really horrifying. One of the
victims was just sixteen at the time, while he was
in his thirties, and he allegedly nicknamed her the child,
(36:26):
asked her to read passages from the novel Lolita during
their time together, once kissed her mother on the mouth
and you know, another person he's sexually assaulted. He then
threatened to take legal action if she ever spoke about
the incident publicly. So allegedly of course, but right, and
(36:49):
who was what voltron of cool upstanding men came to
his aid. He got your Elon Musk, you got your
Tucker Carlson, and of course you got Andrew Tate. All
coming through.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Was the matrix coming from I think that's what he's
been saying about. This is what happens when you call
out the matrix, it comes for you.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah he Uh, it's like being charged with murder and
having like OJ and like the one armed man from
The Fugitive. Yeah, hey what don't don't judge swiftly, let's
hear him out. But there, you know, Alex Jones is like,
it's because he's come out against globalists because he like
(37:37):
started embracing anti vax ship during the Yeah that right
word tack from Russell brand. Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Recently has been really fun to watch yea, and by
that more like this guy's still around and also, oh
he's doing this kind of material now, so what's going
on things?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
He's the Easter Bunny and hop that's his voices, The
Easter Bunny and Hot.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
How recent is that movie For someone who's to recent?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I think, I don't, I don't know, you know, it's
him and James Marsden a two hander between him and Marsden,
but he claims he's the victim of a coordinated attack
by the mainstream media. Twenty eleven. Yeah, so he was
deemed the best voice for a children's movie and like personality,
(38:29):
like his personality is the well people.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Would love this like thing he was doing when he
first came out there, Like he's like Jack Sparrow but
like the real life god Jack Sparrow.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah, with the word tiny pants and is sexy. Yeah,
it's like the like a cartoonish like version of what
it was to be a rock star back when those
were still what those still existed, is like Mick Jagger is, Yeah,
(39:01):
but like that's what the fuck up thing is. Like
he was like I was merely very very promiscuous, and
my relationships were always consensual. So he's like leaning it,
he's like weaponizing his persona to be like that's all
this is, which is fucked up, And you know he
(39:22):
feels it seems like he's using a character that he
built his career on, was using it to be like
a sexual predator and abuser, right, which the one conspiracy
involving Russell Brand that I do think is interesting was
one on our low stakes conspiracy theories from eight months
(39:45):
ago that said Russell brand is moving to the right
so that when the accusations finally come out, he can
claim it's the witch hunt.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Oh wow, So okay they called that one from fall
outer Space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it makes that
they end. You look at how you know, when you
when you go into that sort of media atmosphere, that's
precisely the one you want to be in because it's all,
you know, predicated on not believing women or victims or anything.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yeah, this guy who's fucking hilarious, Right, let's see. Uh. So,
the United Auto Workers are continuing to strike through the weekend.
Negotiations are ongoing, but they're there's this political article that
was all about like how this is the Republicans chance
(40:35):
to like actually side with union workers and labor or
like it was all like very performative. It was like,
this is their chance to seem like they're sympathizing with them,
although we know Republicans will never actually side with labor
because yeah, and and so one of the key points
(40:57):
of the strike is that electronic vehicles uh can be
made by non union workers, right, because we like ramped
into making EV's during a time of like very weak
unions and immense capital power of the last you know,
(41:19):
ten to fifteen years. And so the easy answer is
for the Democrats and power to end that loophole and
tell companies they need to like make all automakers you know,
part of the union. But that option obviously isn't even mentioned.
Like it's more, they could end the loophole that like
(41:40):
the workers are bringing up. That is like the main point.
So like, yeah, the Republicans are like what about that?
So they're they're basically weaponizing the fact that EV's EV
workers are treated like shit to be like, well EV's
are bad then, and like we need to go back
to like making guests powered automobiles because those are union protected, right,
(42:06):
And it's it's just a wild article to read because
like there's no mention, no idea that like either side
can exercise the political power to make auto exactly. I
loved your look. I like someone editing this piece.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I love the article. I love what you wrote about it,
except for the part.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
When you're saying that there's something that corporations could do
to somehow like make things easier, or that maybe some
of the regulations need to be in that direction.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Let's let's avoid any talk of that. We don't want that,
we don't want that in the reality of the minds
of our readers, that there's somehow any action that the
corporation could take to make this better, because they don't.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
We know they can't do that, and we don't want to.
Just look Ev bad EV's bad Republicans. Here's your chance, Yeah, exactly,
And then uh, Donald Trump went on Meet the Press,
Yeah on Sunday. You know, Yeah, he's getting his at
baths in the media to say whatever the fuck he wants.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Yeah, with Kristen Welker, who took over, and you know
she she definitely pushed back on a lot of his answers.
But this a lot of a lot it was made
of this interview, mostly for the fact that it just
looks like we're sleep walking into another twenty sixteen in
terms of covering Trump, where it's like, don't talk about that,
you don't need like what else needs to be known
(43:36):
here because we know that this guy's behavior is beyond
the fucking pale. But it's just like, why are we
now doing the thing where he's gonna go on TV.
He's like I went on MSNBC, he's gonna lie. The
people that follow him, they're only gonna see him do
lies on camera and not the part where he's getting
(43:58):
checked and and he if they did see those parts
where Kristen Welker is pushing back, they will use some
combination of misogyny and racism to do maga alchemy on.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Their own brain and be like, yeah, honestly nothing.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
And then for regular viewers of MSNBC, they their minds
are made up too, So this like platforming for platforming
sake is just a really bad strategy going into the
next election.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
But we get it.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
It's all about fucking ratings and shit like that. And
there have been a lot there are a lot of
pieces over the weekend being like why is everybody attacking
Joe Biden and not Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (44:38):
And it's like, well, people, most people are have their
minds made up about Trump, but wait, what.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Are you saying about Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (44:45):
And like a lot of it was being like.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
They're calling him old and the mainstream media is not
doing a good job of showcasing his accomplishments, and like,
while I get that record low unemployment is cool, on paper,
and it looks like we're avoiding a recession is a
great talking point.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
It's not. It's not we say this all the time.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
It's not a metric that resonates with the everyday voter
that is needed to win an election. And like there's
so much like banging of the heads against the wall
from like the pundit classroom, Like why.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Don't they get it through their skulls that this shit
is good? This shit is objectively good.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
And again they're not focusing on the things that actually
make people feel like things are going well, Like is
healthcare affordable?
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Is housing affordable?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Do parents feel safe sending their kids to places that
could potentially become scenes of like immense violence and tragedy?
Is higher education attainable without going into severe debt?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Because the answer is no to a lot of these things.
And that's what normal.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Like they're just so caught up in speaking their own
language of policy and finance that they don't realize that
this shit goes over people's heads.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
And you know, it's like it's like they all they felt.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Was like going to twenty twenty four, we just need
to be able to say record low employment, we got
inflation under control and like he's gonna walk right in.
You just walk right back into the White House. But
you're not addressing these actual things that are experiential for people.
Like we were just talking about the child fucking tax credit. Yeah,
like that was helping keep the fucking like have the
(46:19):
child poverty rate. They let that shit lapse and when
it went poof, and that was that could have been
an easy win.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
But no, so it's shit like that.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
But yeah, you keep yelling at people about why they're
dumb for not knowing about like record low unemployment. Okay,
but how many jobs do you need to be able
to afford rent in any metropolitan area right now?
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Thanks? All right, Well those are some of the things
that are trending on this Monday morning. Yeah, we are
back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
Bye bye,
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend September eighteenth,
Morning Edition Week Trend the week trendy. Oh, I'm Jack.
That is Miles. That is the reference to a skiff
(00:20):
from a twenty year old NL. I think it's we
keep going.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
That's a reference to the Garth Brooks Deal with the
Devil songwritings from SNL.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Was the host Christians musical guest. I am Jack. That
is Miles, Miles. How do you do?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I do well?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I do well? I knew well. How how doc do
doc do you? You do?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
End onto you? My good sir? Pretty good? Pretty good.
You know it's early, but we're here. It's early doors.
Things could go left pretty quickly. Same yeah, still early,
but we're here. We're going to be realistic for realistic
times because we are going to here. Hear you, we
(01:13):
see you, We apologize to you. So we're gonna Drew
bre like the thirteen Drew barrymore apologies over the weekend
that ultimately led her on a wandering path to arrive
at the right decision. Talk about Lauren Bobert, talk about
(01:34):
fucking what's his name? Russell brand Ship, autoworker, strike, Trump Press,
all that anymore. But first miles, we like to let
the listeners get to know us a little bit better
and tell them something that we think is underrated or overrated.
(01:57):
You wanna you want to kick us off? Under reed
Stanzo brand Fedoras AKA.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Something I think is underrated is fucking tapping, like tap
pay for shit, tapping, pay for pat tapping paying for shit,
the ability to contest taplus, Apple pay, Android pay, Yeah, yeah,
just tap it in, you know what I mean, or
just like, well, if you got that credit Like I
think most debit and credit cards have the little three
(02:29):
like line thing where it's like, just tap it on, baby,
they were.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
A little bit more specific about where to tap in
some In some case sometimes it was kind of a yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Sometimes I've looked like an absolute buffoon, like doing the
underside and like just young checkout people have been like
fam dude, like on the screen where like the logo
says like has the logo that matches with your card?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm like, yeah, right, right, right, right right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
For the longest time, I was always just you know,
doing the sliding or putting the chip.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
In, and I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Recently, I've just embraced tapping more or using the phone,
and it is really underrated how much it takes you
out of the act for paying for goods. Hmm, Like
it used to be this process like I would dig
in my wallet, I will watch the number of like
paper money bills begin to dwindle as I bought shit
(03:24):
throughout the day, and that would have an effect on
how I would spend money, because you'd be like, Okay,
I had sixty dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
In here, and now it's ten. You check your wallet
in the morning and say, honey, the paper money bills
are dwindling.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
They're dwindling, and a little moth would fly out.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But I think now, like because we just tap or
use a phone or whatever, it's less it like mentally,
it's less about like what does this cost in relation
to my money, and more so it's like does this
shit have fucking Apple pay? Or like can I double
click my phone and wave it or wave my plastic
rectangle at a thing and then for something? So I
think it is Actually it's under is a brilliant way
(04:03):
to keep consumers go, oh yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Those thoughts You were having those realizations about how much
money you actually had left and how much money was
being spent at any given purchase. Those are called friction
miles then slow you down from consumption, and yes, yes, yes,
and those are bad. So it is good that we
(04:26):
have invented a thing that soon enough we'll be able
to purchase with our minds. That will be the thing
that we can The way that we actually get telekinesis
will only be used for like being able to look
at a thing and be like purchased.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Towels. Now, yes, God, I have become God.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, but yeah, I think part of me wants to
kind of go back to money. But most places are
like we're cash free, and I'm like, that's fucking backwards
and also meant to, you know, obviously keep like poor
people out because you're like, oh, you don't have this technology,
then we can't take your money.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Actually, we don't even take stinky bills here. Yeah, yeah,
I remember hearing that, Like in Europe, they were well
on the like they were already tapping, tapping, tapping away,
and when people from like other countries would come here,
they'd be like, why are you guys still like swiping
credit cards?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I know it's the twentieth they had that the chip
reader thing going like I remember years before.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm like, what the fuck is what is this new
fangled technology here in Europe? Yeah all right, my underrated
my own was going to be my overrated h oh.
And then I told so I'll take you on my journey.
So I went to one of those Instagram activation things
like that are.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Like you did it from such business, be like, that's
how like a company of those Instagram activations?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, well that's yeah, it's purely a you know, like
they they usually pop up. They're like pop up museum
exhibit type things, right, but they feel like if a
museum exhibit was put on by the same people who
do like local haunted houses like that one. Yeah, yeah,
(06:25):
but like, yeah, pretty good one, the one I went to. So,
I think what I experienced yesterday was kind of the
dre like the lowest version of this. It was called
Bubble World. Might lead you to believe that there were
like bubbles, you know, kids like bubbles, love bubbles. There
(06:47):
are no bubbles at Bubble World. What the there are balloons?
There is a giant ball pit. There are a bunch
of different rooms with different experience is different lighting that
are are highly photographable. They have put the least work
(07:10):
into covering up the seams, though, Like you look up
and you see that you are in Like they've put
drywall walls in to like separate the rooms for purposes
of Instagram photographing, but they haven't like put a ceiling in,
and in fact, like the air conditioning ducts are just
(07:32):
like kind of draped from one room to the other.
Oh it's it's like pretty pretty rough in there. It
feels like they were charged with creating a museum exhibiting
given like a two thousand dollars budget. This all sounds terrible,
my kids, I asked my kids this morning, and this
is when it went from underrated or overrated to underrated.
(07:56):
I asked my kids, like, so, what what we think
of the weekend? Like cat was everyone's favorite parts of
the weekend. They were like, oh, Death, the bubbles Man,
the bubble exhibit was the best. I went, like my
five year old literally said, I wish it had never ended.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Oh my god, it's.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And one of the rooms is just full of like
balloon like big you know, the like real big like
weather balloon size balloons. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, Like you just like walk through.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
There and like kick those and like they like bounce
into other people, but it doesn't matter because they're balloons.
And yeah, for sure, there's like the biggest ball pit
I've ever been in. Okay, So there were some superlatives attached.
It was you could say it is the biggest ball
pit you've ever been in. Yes, I think that's definitely
the biggest ball pit I've ever Okay, So they got
(08:49):
something over there, bubble something. It's not clear how it
ties into bubbles. And you can purchase a bubble te
u ahead of time that will be there for you. Miles.
The bubble tea is criminal. It is in a big
(09:10):
like purple can that looks like a monster energy drink.
And it was like old, Oh it's like a canned
Yeah it was canned. And they were like, no, we
don't got straws. Just drink it, take it to the dome.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
How do I open it? Oh, you don't have a
can opener.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
One of those.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You're prepared.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But I don't know, like these things are something I
don't know. I don't know if they're over it. I
don't know if they're underrated. They are they I feel
like they are the most of this moment. Like things
they didn't exist when I was a kid. I kind
of wish they did, like now, kind of seeing it
through my kid's eyes, Like you know, haunted houses were
(09:58):
some of my favorite memory as a kid. Like yes,
the like the guy in the Wolfman mask with a
chainsaw was like mixing chainsaws with Wolfman, right right, right right.
It was a little bit drunk. And they're a great
opportunity to take you pictures of your kids. Mainly, I'm
driven by cuteness. I want I want cuteness.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They've they've mashed it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I mean before we're talking about like growing up in
La it was like fucking three things you could do
as a kid, like in the late eighties, Like you
would go to travel Town in Griffith Park where.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You could just train look at old ash trains.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They didn't move, they just fucking were there, and you
could look inside there was like one little tiny railroad
that would go around. And then you would buy a
like injection molded plastic toy that like you could make
on demand from like a gigantic machine that smelled like
wild fumes. And then you could go to the bred
tarpits or the zoo or the kids Museum and that
(10:56):
was about it, and like, now I love that. They're
like they know that they get people to just spend money.
They're like, dude, the ship lights up, your kids just
run around. Look it's forty eight bucks, Like.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
It's too expensive, Like you time would be better spent
in nature. For sure. It is bleak in there, but
it's bleak in a way that I think is appropriate,
right says important things about our time and our moment.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Right right right.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
The New York Times like wrote an article about these,
Like there's like a Rose something, the Rose Experience. There's
like Refinery twenty nine had like a quote unquote art
installation that was like called twenty nine Rooms that sounded
like it's suck shit. But they, you know, like they
(11:47):
have these high minded claims of like pop misticis like
when we arrived at the bubble thing, they were like,
and the bubble is the perfect shape and like you
were always going to come here regardless, like your fate
was going to bring And it's a great blend of
like all the bullshit on Instagram, the weirdness of our
(12:09):
just like cultural moment and also just like fun fun
for kids. But it is bleak. It's dark in there.
But you, I think it's important that everybody go and
like stare into the dark void at the heart of
our of air. Yeah, so I recommend it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's like an escalation on the r like the way
that like cannibalism or capitalism finds a way to be
like yeah, finds a way to just sort of find
like a dead, dying host and then like keep making
money off of it.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Like yeah, back in.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Our day, a bank would go out of business and
that became the Halloween store. That's right now, the grocery
store goes out of business and now it's Bubble World.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now you can go.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Into time and time and time again, and we're not
like they don't have to pay that much to turn.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Re branded it as the Los Angeles Art Center, fucking
burnt out Ralphs's. It's the Los Angeles Art Center where
you can go see the van Go projection thing. You
can go see like a dinosaur puppet show. Yeah, or
you can go to Bubble World.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Those those those that companies killing it because we're everywhere
now they're like, yeah, man, we just kind of license
it and then we just do like our three D
light shows and cities across the world.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Now yeah, yeah, exactly. So I don't know, it's my
kids seem to enjoy it. Uh, And I think everybody
I'm just curious, like it, do are other people experiencing this?
What are your thoughts on it? Like? I get the
cultural criticism of it, like, but as long as you
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just take it as like a haunted house level attraction,
I feel like yeah, uh and and you know it's
like you don't mind spending way too much money. Yeah,
this isn't something that's turning the art world on its ear, No,
I guess that. Yeah, Museum of ice Cream is one. Yeah. Right,
(14:13):
that's a factory in New York coming soon to a
town near you there. Yeah, they're they're dark. It's like
it's like little pieces of Las Vegas, is what it
feels like.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
M you know, righty, because these are very Veguas type
things where you're like, I don't know, in between like
binge drinking at a blackjack table. Take your kids to
the ballpit where you can probably get I don't know,
some kind of illness from touching the plastic balls that
are not cleaned.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, we'll see. We'll see if my family survives from
like being in this ballpit from over the weekend with
like air just like haphazardly piped from one location to another.
Because if we do, then then we're rebranding to MRSA World,
not Bubble World. Right, So my overrated instead is just
(15:03):
like I guess the structural integrity of raspberries. I always
I expect them to like hold together better than they do,
and then I rinse them and I get like just
raspberry confetti stuck in my strainer instead of some delicious red.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
We're kind of using like a sort of like a
bigger kind of strainer like with like like big stainless
kind that kind of creates like a million little razor
blade holes.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, I use all different ones. They just comes. It's
also coming f mesh works the plastic with like a
few hole, you know, not that much, but it's.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Always been a little bit of meat behind. Huh.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
By the way, do you do you eat popcorn? When
you pop popcorn at home? You eat it out of
a colander? No, okay, that's I don't even popcorn at home.
Oh okay, yeah, you look at me like I'm a
a monster. That's disc that's disgusting, man.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know why I think the reason we didn't have
a microwave growing up till like I was like fourteen,
so I early on, I remember in the eighties, my
fucking dad bought, like inherited, some fucking wild ass popcorn
making machine that took way too long and it tasted
(16:18):
nothing like the movie theater.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So I was like, my fuck this.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And then I remember going to like other kids' houses
they would do the microwave popcorn, like this shit is
fucking amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
But then I didn't have it at home.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And then by that point I was just eating Tyson
frozen chicken patties like Terioki flavored.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
That was my thing.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I kept eating out of a microwave. So we had
a movie night the other night, and I put the
popcorn for the kids in a calendar, and like some
of we had some friends over and they were like,
this is fun. Why are you putting it in the
calendar instead of a big ball? And I was like,
I don't know. That's always what we did, like when
(16:58):
I was growing up, we never ate it out of
a big ball.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It was always the common I wonder because the calender
won't break, or like if you have like a ceramic bowl,
because I remember we had a ceramic bowl and I
was like, put it in the bowl.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And I do remember, I do have.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
A memory of maybe eating it out of a calendar
or something, or like a stainless steel bowl.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Be like no, because I can't trust you to hold
a fucking big ass bowl. Right, Yeah, it might be that. Anyways,
you gotta you got an overrid Yeah, overrated? Uh what
the fuck is oh? Man?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Folding?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Fucking I'm sorry this is turned into a dad cast
over here with folding tiny ass baby clothes. Man her
Massey and I we used to fucking fold these ships
like we were auditioning to work at like Abercrombie, you
know what I mean, like just fucking oh yeah, and
put that there with this side that and then you know,
and every it's funny. Every parent told us that, like
(17:49):
who would like look at their like, oh, look at
you folding the ship.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
They're like, see how long that shit lasts? Go ahead,
let me see.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Let me come back in a few months to see
if you aren't just fucking balling it up on it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, And now like it's slowly devolving into now do
like a half a fold, But it ain't.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It's it's not like how it used to be. So
it's it's it's on the name of efficiency.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I've realized in the beginning the all the aesthetic part
is all kind of part of the excitement.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And then you move into the sort of practical phase
of parenting where you're like, I do not need to
fold up a shirt that is smaller than my fucking hand. Yeah, exactly,
it's like you need like one of those headlamps and
like a jeweler's loop to like fold some of these
kids clothes, Like, yeah, fold the socks for a baby.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
It's like, oh man, the disrespect of the socks to
the point.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
We don't even wear socks.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I'm like, I'm like anti sock because I think the
fun of having a baby out is like a little
baby's feet.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, baby feet sometimes, but.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, but but it's been the summer the whole time,
you know what I mean. So like we're only now
moving into like I guess the time of the year
where you would think of things like the air temperature
being a little too cold for baby feet.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
But I think shoes are up in one of those
little things. Exactly. Shoes look stupid right now to me.
I love shoes, Yeah, crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, I mean shout out to my boy row who
got me little Jordan's for the guy's child, and like
I put them on a few times, but then other times,
like we have these other shoes and I'm like, man,
you don't even.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Walk, so it's just like it's like costume me. Yeah,
free the baby feet. That's whenever you're going shopping for
baby shoes, people are always trying to tell you heartbreaking,
six word long stories while selling them to you.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah right, I'm like if they're lightly used, fam, I
don't I'm off that that sounds spooky.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah. By the way, I add so many baby shoes
to sell lately, used because babies grow out of their
shoes really quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Half of a story is never I have baby shoes exactly,
never used.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, hit me up.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I got Nike Hurrachis that I thought. Man, I bought
them like a like the moment I found out we
were having a kid, I was like, I have.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
The Hurazis too. I got the same ship, you know
what I mean. Then cut to You're like, man, this
I feel like this bait. This looks stupid and it's
like too much weight on my little baby's leg. For
nipple to wear shoes. So anyway, yeah, that's me. All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
to talk about some news. Yep, and we're back and
(20:40):
we have an update. Yeah, on the Lauren Bobert story.
Last we checked in, Uh, Lauren Bobert had been kicked
out a performance of the Beatlejuice musical, Uh for like vaping,
being loud, just being enthusiastics really like the show, enjoying
(21:01):
the show too much. I hadn't heard that her spokesperson
had come back and vehemently denied the vaping allegation and
said instead that people were confused because there was a
fog machine that was part of the show.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
That happened to just blow up plume right next to
one person.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, anyways, over the weekend, it turns out theaters have
unnervingly good security football Oh my god, were they using
like planning on using this for like one of those
commercials where they're like audiences can't stop enjoying, you know,
(21:43):
like howun was this footage so good? It's why are
you guys watching us so close?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And they could fucking wild ass groping, like the audiences
love it. They can't contain themselves a Beatlejuice. They're like, wow,
that's a full on smear campaign down there.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But I mean, yeah, it really.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Was interesting to see how like it went from we
saw her getting kicked out, and it was almost like
they it was like maybe they were trying to fuck
with the Bober people to be like, look, we have
video y'all getting kicked out.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You want us to go step further.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, here's a video from inside the theater of y'all
getting kicked out. You want us to go step further,
here's a video of you vaping in the show and
doing just getting really sexually acted, you know, doing your thing.
Apparently in the middle of Beetlejuice, which apparently has a
like a by the like there's like a Broadway musical,
(22:38):
like advocacy group they say the Beetlejuice musical is good
for children ten and up, So presumably in a theater
full of children, they engaged in I guess what could
be described as mutual groping, or as I would put it,
he was remodeling her upstairs and she was remodeling his downstairs.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, during the show and the pants handy yeah, yeah, yeah,
there was there's a lot, a lot of a lot
of frantic movement.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
And it turns out that not only does she vape,
but we also found out that her boyfriend not only
was is he a Democrat bar owner that of a
bar that hosts track shows, but he's also not licensed
to perform mammograms in dimly lit theaters.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
So there's a lot of revelations that.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yah, I mean she so she has continuously railed against
drag Queen's reading two children, accusing them of sexualizing kids,
and you know, so the hypocrisy on display for giving
her boyfriend a fleeting over the pants hand job in
the middle of a family musical is uh not great
(23:50):
for her? Now, more on brand for I guess maybe
less on brand is that I guess I guess we'll
go with more on brand, uh for Republicans is the
not giving a shit about the rights of pregnant women
because she was apparently vaping right in front of a
(24:16):
pregnant woman who asked Bobert to stop vaping inside the
theater and she refused to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So yeah, yeah, that's you know exactly, just that's fine, man.
You know what, the baby will grow stronger with this
tiger bullet vape juice because this shit is bomb. Here's smells,
friend Buster tried in the name of the vape God.
Uh yeah, it's it's I mean again, the hypocrisy is
(24:43):
the point, and it is their thing because it's never
about what they're saying. It's about again, they just want
to create a world that is violent towards people that
are not like sort of cisgendered, heterow Christian people. So
they got to say all this shit not because they
actually give a fuck about or this, that and the other.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
So you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I mean, the backlash is not much as again as
you as you'd expect, and Colter called her a bimbo,
Megan McCain called her trash, and Bobert issued like a
non apology where she said she fell short and didn't
want to blame it all on nine to eleven, but
(25:23):
things have been tough since nine to eleven. And also
she said, with a very public divorce of her ex
who if you don't know he's he exposed his peepee
at a bowling alley, I believe in previous years. And
also met Laura Bilbert. I didn't yeah, met her when
she was sixteen and he was twenty two. That's when
(25:43):
that love affair started. But they swear they did nothing
until she was seventeen, which is the age of legal
consent in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So stop asking questions.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Stop being weird. Everyone, stop being weird. Okay, we know
how to keep our hands to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah. I do feel like like part of the reason
of this video is has gone so viral is because
like she is scantily clad and you know, being that
it there does feel like there's like an uncomfortable level
of voyeurism in this one, just oh yeah saying like
(26:19):
people who like, all right, we we had our fun,
but people who are still like posting about this like
five days later being like, look, look great here you
can see it's like, what's.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
That move called?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Like, I don't know, I think it should be more
that like this person is unfit for to serve in office,
but we knew that before the vaping. And you know,
unlicensed performance of a brasser's video in like a theater.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So truly like some performative, uh, just obnoxiousness that is
almost impressive. It's like Cape the scene in Cape Fear. Yeah, right,
Superser Victor called that. He was like, she's she's giving
Robert to Nero and Cape fear.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
That's not something you want to be giving.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
No, being an asshole on purpose. Yeah, that's who you
are reminding us of right now. All right, well let's
move on to Drew barrymore people. So this is kind
of fun, This is okay. It feels like there has
(27:24):
been a change in how the public feels about unions
and oh yeah, the powers that be, repeatedly are not
ready for that change in how people feel about unions,
and so they pull shit like trying to bring shows
back even though there's a strike on and yeah, you
(27:46):
know they're like that. And this happened, I guess back
in two thousand and eight, like jay Leno actually brought
a show back. Some of these daytime shows actually brought
their shows back during the strike, and I mean mostly
got away with it. Like I still thought jay Leno
was super cool up until I heard that recently, but
it's not changing my opinion of him. Yeah, so brought
(28:08):
her show back and then has faced swift backlash from
people who are like, what's your fucking problem?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Man? That does feel like the kind of shit people
were saying, like Hey, what's your fucking problem?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Like, what's your fucking deal?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
What's your major malfunction?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So she posted an apology video like just she tried
so hard to find the words uh yeah in a
way that makes it clear like she could really use
some writers but find the magic words that would make
her actions okay while still allowing her to have her
(28:52):
show back.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
And she just never quite got there, even in the
four minutes and five seconds it took. So we'll jump
around and maybe hear the same thing being said over
and over again.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
But here's Drew.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I believe there's nothing I can do or say in
this moment to make it okay to own a decision.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
So that girl, your teleprompter is too far off protected
the eye line for the camera.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And I would just take full responsibility for my actions.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh my god, I know there's just.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Nothing I can do that will make this okay.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, you're actually about to do it, yep, hold on,
you're on your way to something. Okay, this is thirty
seconds ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Just want everyone to know my intentions. Never been.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
In a place to break a strike where people are
trying to advocate for their own well, well go there
to be.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Just in the crushing of labor and the work force
that has made my career possible.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Jump ahead twenty seconds.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I don't exactly know what to say because sometimes who
is she.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Talking to the camera.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Well, she's clearly has she's doing the thing where she's
reading off her laptop, but she couldn't for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
There's must be like a slip.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Of paper just off to the side beyond.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah. I've also been in meetings where older people are
doing this, and I think sometimes there's like the prompt
like not the promptness, but like their image of themselves
is over to that side and they keep looking. Yeah,
they look, they're checking out themselves even though the camera
is over on this side, or or she's reading a statement, and.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Just because the angle, yeah, the angle.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Because the other thing is sometimes people have a webcam
that's completely off away from where their computer screen is,
so everything's happening on one screen and you almost kind
of look to the camera.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
So you're like, oh, hi, I'm acknowledging you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
But this looks like a laptop set up, and she
doesn't strike me as someone would like a matrix style
multi screen setup. So anyway, there's that Let's skip ahead
another twenty seconds.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I'll just stand out there and accept and be responsible.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Good good, good.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
And there's a huge question of the why why am I?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's not what we care about.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I just like, go ahead, twenty second.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Maybe are you going to keep doing it?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Scales? And I thought, if we could go on during
a global pandemic, this is my part, and everything that
the world is experienced through twenty twenty, why would this.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Sideline us a strike? It's a strike, it's a labor action.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I want to just put one foot in front of
the other and make a show that's there for people,
oh of anything else that's happening in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I'm sorry, Drew, did you think your show was the oh?
All right? Well, this is just wanted to make a
show that was there for people insensitive times. And I
weighed the scale, and I thought, if we could go
on during a global pandemic and everything that the world
has experienced through twenty twenty, why would this sideline us?
(32:24):
So I want to just put one foot in front
of the other, make a show that's there for people,
regardless of anything that's happening in the world, because that's
when I think we all need something that wants to
be there for being very realistic in very realistic times.
So that is my why.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh okay, now I guess she did she end that
by saying well here? Did she end that by saying
I'm not going to make the show? Or she's just
saying sorry. That video is just saying sorry. No.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
This was like one of a series of shows where
she was looking for the magic, whereas they were going
to make it better better each one, people were like,
shut the fuck up, like what are you talking about?
Just just quit? And then on Sunday she announced she
was going to pause the show's premiere until the strike
is over all right, So she finally made the right call.
(33:18):
It's nothing I can do to Yeah, no, you just
did it. We're good. You know, we'll keep an eye
on you. But that's uh yeah. And then Bill Maher
did the same ship he's going to suspend his plans
to bring his show back, presumably after he you know,
(33:41):
did a run through and was just liked, no, is
he really really? Are we really? Yeah? I think so
that's what It's an alert that just came across as
her recording record. Bill Maher holds off on real time
return as w g a talks set.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
There you go, a Bill Tumar.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Indeed, he's he thinks, actually, oh, the talks are set
to resume, so we'll wait and see if there's zany
demands get met.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I'm also like, I love again the likening of a
global pandemic that's still raging on and comparing that to
a writer's strike too, where it's like, this writer's strike
is like the new COVID.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
It's a meting list. Nothing we could do about it,
has nothing to do with it, and it's so unfair
to people, you know what I mean that I just
wanted to provide like some glimmer of hope while these
greedy monsters, you know, split hairs over wages. Yeah, oh
well I wasn't expecting Bill. So is he going to
(34:48):
do a No, he's not unpositive he's going to do
a monologue when the show's finally back where he's like really, guys, yeah,
like he's written by writer shitting on.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
No, No, No, he's gonna have the writers come out
and they're gonna they're gonna be on the panel and
he's just gonna fucking like, really, got was it really
worth it?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Is it worth?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Can't good point Bill who apparently it's one of the
best paying jobs in comedy writing because he's such an
asshole to work right, right, So all right, let's uh,
let's take one more break and we'll be back to
finish it out, and we're back. We and Russell Brand
(35:42):
has been accused of rape and has swiftly been defended
by a who's who of people who when they're defending you,
you know you're probably wrong.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I saw it was like a very yeah, like there
was at the Sunday Times and there was like even
like a documentary video piece I saw over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel four have
been looking to this for a while, and you know,
the allegations, the details are really horrifying. One of the
victims was just sixteen at the time, while he was
in his thirties, and he allegedly nicknamed her the child,
(36:26):
asked her to read passages from the novel Lolita during
their time together, once kissed her mother on the mouth
and you know, another person he's sexually assaulted. He then
threatened to take legal action if she ever spoke about
the incident publicly. So allegedly of course, but right, and
(36:49):
who was what voltron of cool upstanding men came to
his aid. He got your Elon Musk, you got your
Tucker Carlson, and of course you got Andrew Tate. All
coming through.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Was the matrix coming from I think that's what he's
been saying about. This is what happens when you call
out the matrix, it comes for you.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah he Uh, it's like being charged with murder and
having like OJ and like the one armed man from
The Fugitive. Yeah, hey what don't don't judge swiftly, let's
hear him out. But there, you know, Alex Jones is like,
it's because he's come out against globalists because he like
(37:37):
started embracing anti vax ship during the Yeah that right
word tack from Russell brand. Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Recently has been really fun to watch yea, and by
that more like this guy's still around and also, oh
he's doing this kind of material now, so what's going
on things?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
He's the Easter Bunny and hop that's his voices, The
Easter Bunny and Hot.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
How recent is that movie For someone who's to recent?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I think, I don't, I don't know, you know, it's
him and James Marsden a two hander between him and Marsden,
but he claims he's the victim of a coordinated attack
by the mainstream media. Twenty eleven. Yeah, so he was
deemed the best voice for a children's movie and like personality,
(38:29):
like his personality is the well people.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Would love this like thing he was doing when he
first came out there, Like he's like Jack Sparrow but
like the real life god Jack Sparrow.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah, with the word tiny pants and is sexy. Yeah,
it's like the like a cartoonish like version of what
it was to be a rock star back when those
were still what those still existed, is like Mick Jagger is, Yeah,
(39:01):
but like that's what the fuck up thing is. Like
he was like I was merely very very promiscuous, and
my relationships were always consensual. So he's like leaning it,
he's like weaponizing his persona to be like that's all
this is, which is fucked up, And you know he
(39:22):
feels it seems like he's using a character that he
built his career on, was using it to be like
a sexual predator and abuser, right, which the one conspiracy
involving Russell Brand that I do think is interesting was
one on our low stakes conspiracy theories from eight months
(39:45):
ago that said Russell brand is moving to the right
so that when the accusations finally come out, he can
claim it's the witch hunt.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Oh wow, So okay they called that one from fall
outer Space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it makes that
they end. You look at how you know, when you
when you go into that sort of media atmosphere, that's
precisely the one you want to be in because it's all,
you know, predicated on not believing women or victims or anything.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yeah, this guy who's fucking hilarious, Right, let's see. Uh. So,
the United Auto Workers are continuing to strike through the weekend.
Negotiations are ongoing, but they're there's this political article that
was all about like how this is the Republicans chance
(40:35):
to like actually side with union workers and labor or
like it was all like very performative. It was like,
this is their chance to seem like they're sympathizing with them,
although we know Republicans will never actually side with labor
because yeah, and and so one of the key points
(40:57):
of the strike is that electronic vehicles uh can be
made by non union workers, right, because we like ramped
into making EV's during a time of like very weak
unions and immense capital power of the last you know,
(41:19):
ten to fifteen years. And so the easy answer is
for the Democrats and power to end that loophole and
tell companies they need to like make all automakers you know,
part of the union. But that option obviously isn't even mentioned.
Like it's more, they could end the loophole that like
(41:40):
the workers are bringing up. That is like the main point.
So like, yeah, the Republicans are like what about that?
So they're they're basically weaponizing the fact that EV's EV
workers are treated like shit to be like, well EV's
are bad then, and like we need to go back
to like making guests powered automobiles because those are union protected, right,
(42:06):
And it's it's just a wild article to read because
like there's no mention, no idea that like either side
can exercise the political power to make auto exactly. I
loved your look. I like someone editing this piece.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I love the article. I love what you wrote about it,
except for the part.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
When you're saying that there's something that corporations could do
to somehow like make things easier, or that maybe some
of the regulations need to be in that direction.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Let's let's avoid any talk of that. We don't want that,
we don't want that in the reality of the minds
of our readers, that there's somehow any action that the
corporation could take to make this better, because they don't.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
We know they can't do that, and we don't want to.
Just look Ev bad EV's bad Republicans. Here's your chance, Yeah, exactly,
And then uh, Donald Trump went on Meet the Press,
Yeah on Sunday. You know, Yeah, he's getting his at
baths in the media to say whatever the fuck he wants.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Yeah, with Kristen Welker, who took over, and you know
she she definitely pushed back on a lot of his answers.
But this a lot of a lot it was made
of this interview, mostly for the fact that it just
looks like we're sleep walking into another twenty sixteen in
terms of covering Trump, where it's like, don't talk about that,
you don't need like what else needs to be known
(43:36):
here because we know that this guy's behavior is beyond
the fucking pale. But it's just like, why are we
now doing the thing where he's gonna go on TV.
He's like I went on MSNBC, he's gonna lie. The
people that follow him, they're only gonna see him do
lies on camera and not the part where he's getting
(43:58):
checked and and he if they did see those parts
where Kristen Welker is pushing back, they will use some
combination of misogyny and racism to do maga alchemy on.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Their own brain and be like, yeah, honestly nothing.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
And then for regular viewers of MSNBC, they their minds
are made up too, So this like platforming for platforming
sake is just a really bad strategy going into the
next election.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
But we get it.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
It's all about fucking ratings and shit like that. And
there have been a lot there are a lot of
pieces over the weekend being like why is everybody attacking
Joe Biden and not Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (44:38):
And it's like, well, people, most people are have their
minds made up about Trump, but wait, what.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Are you saying about Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (44:45):
And like a lot of it was being like.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
They're calling him old and the mainstream media is not
doing a good job of showcasing his accomplishments, and like,
while I get that record low unemployment is cool, on paper,
and it looks like we're avoiding a recession is a
great talking point.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
It's not. It's not we say this all the time.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
It's not a metric that resonates with the everyday voter
that is needed to win an election. And like there's
so much like banging of the heads against the wall
from like the pundit classroom, Like why.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Don't they get it through their skulls that this shit
is good? This shit is objectively good.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
And again they're not focusing on the things that actually
make people feel like things are going well, Like is
healthcare affordable?
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Is housing affordable?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Do parents feel safe sending their kids to places that
could potentially become scenes of like immense violence and tragedy?
Is higher education attainable without going into severe debt?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Because the answer is no to a lot of these things.
And that's what normal.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Like they're just so caught up in speaking their own
language of policy and finance that they don't realize that
this shit goes over people's heads.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
And you know, it's like it's like they all they felt.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Was like going to twenty twenty four, we just need
to be able to say record low employment, we got
inflation under control and like he's gonna walk right in.
You just walk right back into the White House. But
you're not addressing these actual things that are experiential for people.
Like we were just talking about the child fucking tax credit. Yeah,
like that was helping keep the fucking like have the
(46:19):
child poverty rate. They let that shit lapse and when
it went poof, and that was that could have been
an easy win.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
But no, so it's shit like that.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
But yeah, you keep yelling at people about why they're
dumb for not knowing about like record low unemployment. Okay,
but how many jobs do you need to be able
to afford rent in any metropolitan area right now?
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Thanks? All right, Well those are some of the things
that are trending on this Monday morning. Yeah, we are
back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
Bye bye,
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