In this edition of The Zeits They Are A Trendiing, Jack and Miles discuss the death of Trump's "Goon Slush Fund", Joe Rogan coming to '60 Minutes'?, an update on Trump's Iran peace deal, Zohran Mamdani repealing bedtime for kids, Missouri vs Dolly Parton and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the Zite.
They are a trending Uh that man the whole courtesy
of a bird Turgler on the discord. Oh man, my
name is Jacob Brown. I'm thrilled to be joined by
(00:21):
mister Miles. It was it was a madness man on
all the way. Rod was mad. It was a madness man.
Was it a mad that you was out there? Man? Man,
it was your We can hear my voice. It's cracked.
I was, Oh my god, what a time.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I have behind us in the in the Pitaka and
Gabriel Maga. Yais when we celebrate and when we won
the when we won the title, because it happened after
Man City drew.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
But anyway, so he went over to London, went to
London for the big match, big match on the pitch.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Not well that one lost went to penalties.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It was you know, penalties are cool, lover. But we
did do. We did what we had to do. PSG
was a better team.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We know we got to do Now in the offseason,
we need more weapons up top.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So does that do that? That's the end of the season. Yeah, yeah,
now it's done, it's done. And then so we got
the final that was your your best team playing the
best team of another league in Europe. Yeah, the you're
determined who the best European club team and it was
who we took it to penalties. That's I mean, taking
the best. They they're the holders of the title, so
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taking them all the way to penalties and they's just crazy.
How much like the the Arsenal hate is so.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Toxic in this way is really interesting to me, Like
people have lost their minds hating on Arsenal, and I
just love it because there's just something about I think
seeing a team that you never wanted want to win
do well, that just pisses you off. So when they lose,
you like, yes, exactly right, I'm like, yeah, man, worry
about your own patch, but.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Are you good? Are people comparing Arsenal to Israel, because
that's that's that's the new trend that I'm noticing. The
Oklahoma wrote an article as we talked about about how
the OKC Thunder are like Israel in that people used
to like them and now they don't like them. And
then the guy who made Euphoria was like, yeah, actually, Euphouria,
(02:28):
like all the hate that we're getting now from the
left and the right. It used to be only the right,
and in many ways, eumoria is Israel. No, no, don't
bring that in there now, don't bring that into this.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, this is If anything, there was an interesting article
I think it was in the Athletic about how we're more.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Like the Knicks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Anyway, I had a great time, and then the parade
was on Sunday, and that's why my voice is like this.
I was screaming NonStop and I had flare smoke in
my lungs like fucking all day, and it was just
it was so dope.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's just so life, Claire. I was hitting that flair
like rick Baby, just smoking flowing smoke coming out of here,
thumbing that flair. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So it was just crazy and it was just so
dope to be I don't. I mean, there's thrill and
no official numbers. There's just like a ton of speculation.
But my god, it was everywhere in London in the parade.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Just to be like you call it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What is a collective effervescence is the sociological term for
that when a group of people just five immediately.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Become like a soda.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, exactly, a fizzy lifting drink and it lifted our spirits.
So nice, Arsenal, I love you, love you, congratulations, Thanks
quicking trip, and then you're back. Not enough to have
jet lag, to be honest, man, that was Yeah. When
you're there for like three and a half days, you're
just like an adrenaline.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I came home, I went to bed at the same time,
I woke up at the same time. Yeah, all good,
all good, All right, Well this is the episode. I'm Jack,
that's Miles. Is the episode. I'll tell you what is trending.
Uh and yeah, let's see that that one point eight
billion dollars slush fund that Donald Trump was setting aside
for anybody who's like doing dirt on his behalf. Basically,
(04:17):
it was like, if you break the law on my behalf,
we have a fund with that we will pay for
January January sixth thres have the laws been enforced against you? Yeah,
that's that seems that seems wrong. We don't like that.
That so it seems like that might have some legal
(04:38):
problems that might actually cause consequences.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It did have legal problems, because you're speaking of it
in the past tense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, court ruled the
court ruled against it. So look good news, not that
anything is materially improved for anyone, but more in the
sense that egregious fuckery isn't totally frictionless at the moment.
So this is from political President Trump is retreating from
(05:02):
plans for a one point eight billion anti weaponization fund
after a fierce backclass from fellow Republicans. White House officials
communicated the decision to Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Monday,
and then the DOJ said they will abide the court's
ruling and will halt progress after the judge said, are
you out of your minds?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So, as Darcy from ninety Day Fiance would say, it's
going away, Yeah, it's going on. What is that that's
going away?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
She was ranting about her emotional pain in life and
she's like, it's going away. So this fund is also
going away.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's a ninety day Fiance. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we love
that one. Back back back at the other gig. Why
why did they stop? Like, why did they stop on
this one? Well? What is it? Because all of his
positions are unpopular and yet he just like kind of
drills them through despite court objections. What is it about?
This one that's like Pete the Republican Party is worried
(06:06):
about it seeming too overtly criminal. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, the other thing too is like it was basically
preventing them from passing an immigration enforcement built because they
kept trying to fucking sneak it in there.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They're like, dude, it's not gonna fuck. Nothing will fucking
happen if you keep insisting we do it this way.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And also, I think the other part too is because
of everyone being like, oh, people are can't afford food, gas,
whatever that you're like, you're you're making this a priority.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think they're just taxed money and giving it to
January sixth thres.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. So you know, it's
it's pretty straightforward. It's a loser.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
And it's like they got away with and so they're like,
so everybody likes these guys, right, It's like no, no.
People generally were pretty freaked out by that. They didn't
love it. It's a thing. It seems like they were
willing to ignore it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And there's still a group of people on the inner
who are obsessed with like identifying every single person and.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Like tracking they're there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like and.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Also like there's like, you know, people love hearing about
the continued consequences because so many of these people have
gone on to offend in other fucking terrible ways that not.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Just they don't succeed in identifying everyone who is there.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, I know, man, I know, I know who Ze Gang.
I don't want the wrong day to take that tour.
Daddy's got some secrets.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
D He's got secrets. Well, speaking of things that Republicans
are going to be surprised that people don't like, CBS
is trying to figure out how to fix sixty Minutes
because the ratings are going down, like literally everything else
on television droopy, ratings droopy. It's like all the CBS
(07:52):
news shows, the.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Evening news were all under Barry Barie Weiss's command for
her leadership because this is a maga network.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
This is amazing work by her to be So she's
like tanked the entire network. And then she's the one
thing that she will talk about with the ratings being
down is the thing that she hasn't been able to
totally destroy, you know. Yeah, so she's she's like, look
at these sixty minutes ratings and it's like, well, yeah,
compared to the rest of your network, Like, yeah, all
(08:24):
ratings are down, nobody's watching CBS anymore to find out
what's happening on sixty minutes. That's how people found out
about sixty minutes before was ads on CBS. But you've
you've now ruined that.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So yeah, and what to do You know that Anderson
Cooper left last year because like, yo, this is some fucker,
Like no, yea, yeah. He gave a more diplomatic answer.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
If I had to, If I had to guess what
her answer would be, it would be like recognize the
error of her ways and be like all right, I'm
taking because the other thing is that she has like
fucked with sixty minutes and not it not allowed them
to put out reporting that was like important, that would
have made news. Now the attention centers, Yeah, now they're
(09:07):
like sort of this halfway like half washed, half mega
bullshit thing. I mean, it doesn't it doesn't really work.
So my assution would be she's gonna recognize there of
her ways and be like, okay, we're we're gonna step
away from fucking with the formula and let you go
back to being sixty minutes, you'd think. But this isn't
an error, right, This is not erroneous. This is you know,
(09:30):
to destroy it. Ellisons seem to not care.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Like everything you read is they fully back Twise's leadership
because they're like, yeah, fucking kneecapped this thing and turn
it into a you know, maga network. Right, But yeah,
they've this is just a rumor, but I've read it
in multiple places now, the rumor being that the broadcast
I'm just gonna read this the broadcasters struggling with the
ratings on its flagship shows sixty minutes after veteran journalist
(09:56):
Anderson Cooper left it last year, which is why they're
thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Joe Rogan. Wow, yeah, they said.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Whilst Rogan and Cooper are ideologically opposite, it's hoped that
the immensely popular podcast, with a reported eleven million listeners
a day, will attract some much needed viewers. Technically, Rogan
is already on screens as he presents his daily show
and video format on social media.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And he's so dynamic too.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, One industry insider said, quote, this isn't stunt casting,
it's strategy. Rogan ump opens a direct pipeline to the
massive MAGA audience CBS has struggled to reach for years.
They added, you bring in Rogan and you immediately gain
a core connection to over fifty percent of the country.
He speaks to viewers who feel ignored or mocked by
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legacy media. That could solve the ratings and credibility problems
of CBS overnight.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
What would that even? So would they give him like
an Andy Rooney thing at the end where he's like,
you know what's crazy?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yes's boxers or whatever the fuck weird shit He's gonna say,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I mean, this is just so fucked looking dumb. This
is some boomer ass media thinking, right, Yeah, we see it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Over and over, the guy who's millions of YouTube views
that will translate to television immediately. Yeah, Like Rogan is
famously not a journalist and famously a fucking idiot.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So I guess if sixty.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Minutes doesn't need to be news anymore, Like to your point,
just make it like an Andy ruine, Like why even
call it sixty minutes to be like, Yeah, we got
this new show called The fucking Rogan right, the Rogan Report.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, that's a like that makes me think because that
is so much more like, obviously you just like have joked,
give Joe Rogan a show if you're going to spend
all the money that would require, rather than like putting
him on a thing that is your legacy media brand
that he does not fit inside at all. It almost
(11:50):
makes it seem like the point is the humiliation of
like destroying sixty Minutes by putting Joe Rogan on it. Yea, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
It's like, oh, we have access to Joe Rogan, should
we do the thing that like might actually succeed, which
is like make a mega news late night like broadcast
thing with him. No, let's let's humiliate this brand that
(12:14):
keeps saying no to us whenever we give them notes,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So, I mean it's like, you know, the it's a rumor.
I don't I have a like this just makes no sense.
This is from the same argo another quote. Another source
told Radar that the rumored move is a gamble because
he is raw, unscripted and polarizing that could either electrify
sixty Minutes or blow it up. I don't think anyone's
(12:39):
gonna be like, oh my god, the thing that sixty
Minutes is in desperate need of is Joe Rogan's take
on something that's he already gives his Like that product
already exists.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's called the Joe Rogan experience. You know what I mean?
How do I watch that on CBS News? That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, imagine him.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I have a TV that's stuck on CBS News. That's
like the only way that that theory works is like
I've lost the remote and I can only watch CBS. Now.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I've got one of these one channel TVs. It's only
tuned to one network.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, it's just gonna be a thing that everybody. It'll
make everybody hate sixty minutes instead of bringing his audience over.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean, these like the people who are making these decisions,
fuck know, fuck all about what's happening or like how
people are looking at anything.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So yeah, man, what let's go, Let's take a quick
break and we'll be right back. And we're back. We're back.
So just we we like to check in every once
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in a while with the state of the peace deal
that we keep hearing that Donald Trump is working on
getting closer to that is always either like moments away
or falling apart.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, the geopolitical Pam and Jim of the Office.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Where will they won't they? Yeah? I mean it sounds
like Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
He might be might have been reading books from the
ray Ja School of International Diplomacy. Because the current Iran
piece deal is well, it depends it's either falling apart,
has fully fallen apart, is imminent, or is basically done
depending on who you ask and when the markets are
going to open.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The like NonStop bombardment of Lebanon by Israel has already
left nearly four thousand people dead eleven thousand injured since
March second, according to Lebanon's health ministry, And one of
Iran's conditions, as we know from the beginning for negotiations
was that Israel has to stop with the attacks like
that stops killing people.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, like the stop stop attacking Lebanon.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
That has not happened, and that's had a huge effect
on Trump's ability to get any kind of deal or win.
And when Iran threatened to open pa stalks over this
apparently went off on net and Yahoo on a phone
call that Trump described as productive, but according to Axios,
it was just screaming at Beebie. He was saying, quote,
you're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't
(15:12):
for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now.
Everybody hates Israel because of this. Another source who briefed
Axios about the call said Trump was quote pissed at
and at one point yelled at net Yahoo quote what
the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, you know that we've heard We've heard stories like
this all the time of going hey, you got to
knock it off.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
This reminds me of the Biden administration right where it's
like they won't do anything, but they will say they
will tell you a about a rumored conversation where the
president says the thing that is actually true, right, which
is actually a little bit more infuriating because that makes
it evident that they like, know, know what is true. Yes,
(15:59):
he's fucking crazy, Yes he should be in prison. Everybody
does hate him. Now everybody hates Israel because of this.
That's extra frustrating because they still don't they they won't
do anything.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, I mean like again, it's like, well, will that
lead to some kind of pullback on like material support
to net and Yahoo Semlar? But for the moment, things
are kind of back on track, and by that I
mean Net and Yahoo has not stopped attacking southern Lebanon.
Trump was on Fox yesterday and his brain mush came
to light. I'm not even play the quote. He just
(16:35):
contradicted himself in the same conversation within minutes, when he
was asked about the Iranian military, said.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Quote, their military.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
We've sort of left it alone because we think that
their military is somewhat somewhat moderate. We've actually left the
military alone. Iran is in a very pat and then
he goestes later minutes seconds later, Iran is in a
very bad position. They have no military. All they have
is a good talk into fake press.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So they destroyed the military and the military is untouched.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Also, yeah, yeah, exactly quickly. And then as for the
peace talks yesterday.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's so stupid. He doesn't get. This is where ray
J comes from. This is where RAYJ comes in.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, if you don't know this quote, you should by
now if you listen to the show enough. If not,
look up ray J a sunglasses speedy.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But my god.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Rather than accepting things aren't going well, he's just protecting
his ego by saying the peace talks are boring. President
Donald Trump on Monday shrugged off the possible collapse of
peace negotiations with Iron, telling CNBC, I don't care if
they're over. Honestly, I really don't care. If I couldn't
care less, Yeah, don't I don't care. Uh, and then
basically said that the discussions quote started to get very boring.
(17:51):
So you're you're just gonna use that. It's I'm it's
like boring, so like I don't even need to talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's like so boring. That's that is. My favorite negotiation
tactic is gone key tinky offer. Your offer just made
me fall asleep. Dude, that's great. You want me to
go to bed because it was so dumb. All right.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
But the thing is, like, whilst the wheelst the bullshit continues,
people are still under attack and Gaza in the West Bank.
The shutting down of the Strait is as many humanitarian
aid organizations said, it's going to affect the ability to
supply humanitarian aid to the region until at least the
beginning of twenty twenty seven, even if shit stopped now, right,
(18:34):
So yeah, it's you don't know, It's all depends on
who you're talking to.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What day it is and what's going on. But apparently
their talks haven't stopped.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But again, we don't know how far we are or
how close we are.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Right, it's not a great it's not a great sign
that he's doing the thing where he's saying the thing
out loud about like what everybody else is say with
their eyes, but then doing the But there's nothing I
can do with these guys. These guys hold all the
It's like, do you think that makes you look like
a good president? Yeah, like you are not able to
(19:11):
change the course of this war. You're just like, you're crazy.
What are you doing? You're not sorry, here's here's a
bunch of money, and yeah whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh yeah, that's that's that's your leadership.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, welcome back to had such lightness when this show started. Yeah,
I gotta go back.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I got to go back to that moment mentally, emotionally.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Uh onto Zora Mamdani has finally fucked up. Dude, I'm
they got his ass.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
This guy wants to abolish children's bedtimes, so they are
in such an energetic deficit that they can no longer
learn a modified version of the Civil War. It's actually sickening,
which I feel is how the New York Post would
describe this story where Mamdannie, lifelong Knicks fan, has just
quote repealed bedtimes for kids in New York because the
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NBA is just being adorable again. He was surrounded by
kids and then like it, like he has the order.
It's written in comic sands, and he like read in
part quote whereas it is important for all New Yorkers
of all ages to support the Knicks in their championship run,
and whereas bedtime should not impede the ability of New
York's cutest to cheer for the Knicks and watch every
(20:32):
second of this historic championship series. Yeah, yeah, if the
Knicks when Mamdanni will be in really rarefied sports air,
you got the Arsenal win and the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, man, oh wow, what a run. He's on a eater.
That's the absolutely one of the great heaters that we've seen.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Eight thirty though, that's where it's every every game I
think's starting at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That seems too late, Like why would you do that
to the East coast? Well, because you got to think
about the West. Got about Yeah, we're gonna in La
don't work until until like forty you know, four thirty,
they're gonna start watching the game of four thirty. Don't
worry about the fine one.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Also, people in LA are probably like, you know, the
fucking really freaked out Blaker fans. We're all fucking like
fucked those fuck the Spurs fucked.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
And like, man, just enjoy it. I don't I get
that way. For these finals we were I get we
were fierce rivals. When Kobe and Shaq were playing with
the Spurs. That was I remember those games. I remember
that time.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But again, like as a fan, I also really you
want to see something great and watching the rise and
like the resurgence of the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
The Knicks are going into the finals on the most
dominant ten game stretch in the history of NBA basketball
m hm, and they're going against the person who is
elevating what we thought was possible on a basketball court,
and so it it's definitely worth checking out. I think
the Mats are gonna win. Also, I hope it's always
(22:05):
fun when the Knicks are in. I want to see
the video.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I just want to see the videos outside of Madison
Square Garden to be honest, and see the New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Just to see the city get torn down? Do you
think Kat? Do you think how do you think Kat's
going to do up against man? That'll be interesting? Yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. They they are hard to stop. Offense, They
got a lot of weapends, They got a lot going on.
And finally Missouri has decided that they don't want to
(22:34):
help Dolly Parton help kids learn to read. We've talked before,
especially on our Dolly part and Icon episode, about how
her Imagination Library program sends an age appropriate book to
registered children each month at no cost to the family,
and eleven states provide full government investment and statewide coverage
for the program, and additional thirteen states provide partial coverage.
(22:57):
So Missouri was one of the states providing coverage. Now,
about forty five percent of Missouri kids under the age
of six were registered for the program statewide, which is incredible, wow,
forty percent of a kid. But the state just slashed
the budget from six million to two million for the
upcoming fiscal year, meaning that no new children or families
(23:18):
will be able to sign up to get the free books.
Got you gotta be sorry, kid, You got to be
grandfathered in to the free Books program. What the fuck
I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I can only imagine where where.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Else they where that money's got. Yeah, yes, sir, fucking
Ice ice funding. I'm sure. Wow. Look, just let the
kids have a book, man, Let the kids have a
fucking book. Do something, do something good for yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
There's something electrifying about getting a book in the mail.
At that, getting anything in the mail when you're under.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Six years old, it's you. You'd believe in God, and
it flips that so hard where now I'm just annoyed
by every piece of mail that I get. Have you
been getting my mailbox? My mail is none of my business.
Have you been getting election mailers? Mailer's text calls NonStop?
(24:10):
Do fucking key chains? There's people dropping off mry chains. Yeah,
I forget there was something I saw them, Like, what
the fuck really after you? Man, They're really targeting you.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I'm like, guys, I don't even I'm not even registered
to vote in California.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I vote Florida. Okay, that's right, that's where my roy is.
If you know what I'm talking about. All right, those
are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday.
June section June second section Dune Section June Second Dune
Section Election Day. If you haven't voted already, get out
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of here. Back tomorrow with the WHO last episode until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
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Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the Zite.
They are a trending Uh that man the whole courtesy
of a bird Turgler on the discord. Oh man, my
name is Jacob Brown. I'm thrilled to be joined by
(00:21):
mister Miles. It was it was a madness man on
all the way. Rod was mad. It was a madness man.
Was it a mad that you was out there? Man? Man,
it was your We can hear my voice. It's cracked.
I was, Oh my god, what a time.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I have behind us in the in the Pitaka and
Gabriel Maga. Yais when we celebrate and when we won
the when we won the title, because it happened after
Man City drew.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
But anyway, so he went over to London, went to
London for the big match, big match on the pitch.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Not well that one lost went to penalties.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It was you know, penalties are cool, lover. But we
did do. We did what we had to do. PSG
was a better team.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We know we got to do Now in the offseason,
we need more weapons up top.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So does that do that? That's the end of the season. Yeah, yeah,
now it's done, it's done. And then so we got
the final that was your your best team playing the
best team of another league in Europe. Yeah, the you're
determined who the best European club team and it was
who we took it to penalties. That's I mean, taking
the best. They they're the holders of the title, so
(01:36):
taking them all the way to penalties and they's just crazy.
How much like the the Arsenal hate is so.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Toxic in this way is really interesting to me, Like
people have lost their minds hating on Arsenal, and I
just love it because there's just something about I think
seeing a team that you never wanted want to win
do well, that just pisses you off. So when they lose,
you like, yes, exactly right, I'm like, yeah, man, worry
about your own patch, but.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Are you good? Are people comparing Arsenal to Israel, because
that's that's that's the new trend that I'm noticing. The
Oklahoma wrote an article as we talked about about how
the OKC Thunder are like Israel in that people used
to like them and now they don't like them. And
then the guy who made Euphoria was like, yeah, actually, Euphouria,
(02:28):
like all the hate that we're getting now from the
left and the right. It used to be only the right,
and in many ways, eumoria is Israel. No, no, don't
bring that in there now, don't bring that into this.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, this is If anything, there was an interesting article
I think it was in the Athletic about how we're more.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Like the Knicks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Anyway, I had a great time, and then the parade
was on Sunday, and that's why my voice is like this.
I was screaming NonStop and I had flare smoke in
my lungs like fucking all day, and it was just
it was so dope.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's just so life, Claire. I was hitting that flair
like rick Baby, just smoking flowing smoke coming out of here,
thumbing that flair. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So it was just crazy and it was just so
dope to be I don't. I mean, there's thrill and
no official numbers. There's just like a ton of speculation.
But my god, it was everywhere in London in the parade.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Just to be like you call it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What is a collective effervescence is the sociological term for
that when a group of people just five immediately.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Become like a soda.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, exactly, a fizzy lifting drink and it lifted our spirits.
So nice, Arsenal, I love you, love you, congratulations, Thanks
quicking trip, and then you're back. Not enough to have
jet lag, to be honest, man, that was Yeah. When
you're there for like three and a half days, you're
just like an adrenaline.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I came home, I went to bed at the same time,
I woke up at the same time. Yeah, all good,
all good, All right, Well this is the episode. I'm Jack,
that's Miles. Is the episode. I'll tell you what is trending.
Uh and yeah, let's see that that one point eight
billion dollars slush fund that Donald Trump was setting aside
for anybody who's like doing dirt on his behalf. Basically,
(04:17):
it was like, if you break the law on my behalf,
we have a fund with that we will pay for
January January sixth thres have the laws been enforced against you? Yeah,
that's that seems that seems wrong. We don't like that.
That so it seems like that might have some legal
(04:38):
problems that might actually cause consequences.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It did have legal problems, because you're speaking of it
in the past tense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, court ruled the
court ruled against it. So look good news, not that
anything is materially improved for anyone, but more in the
sense that egregious fuckery isn't totally frictionless at the moment.
So this is from political President Trump is retreating from
(05:02):
plans for a one point eight billion anti weaponization fund
after a fierce backclass from fellow Republicans. White House officials
communicated the decision to Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Monday,
and then the DOJ said they will abide the court's
ruling and will halt progress after the judge said, are
you out of your minds?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So, as Darcy from ninety Day Fiance would say, it's
going away, Yeah, it's going on. What is that that's
going away?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
She was ranting about her emotional pain in life and
she's like, it's going away. So this fund is also
going away.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's a ninety day Fiance. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we love
that one. Back back back at the other gig. Why
why did they stop? Like, why did they stop on
this one? Well? What is it? Because all of his
positions are unpopular and yet he just like kind of
drills them through despite court objections. What is it about?
This one that's like Pete the Republican Party is worried
(06:06):
about it seeming too overtly criminal. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, the other thing too is like it was basically
preventing them from passing an immigration enforcement built because they
kept trying to fucking sneak it in there.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They're like, dude, it's not gonna fuck. Nothing will fucking
happen if you keep insisting we do it this way.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And also, I think the other part too is because
of everyone being like, oh, people are can't afford food, gas,
whatever that you're like, you're you're making this a priority.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think they're just taxed money and giving it to
January sixth thres.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. So you know, it's
it's pretty straightforward. It's a loser.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
And it's like they got away with and so they're like,
so everybody likes these guys, right, It's like no, no.
People generally were pretty freaked out by that. They didn't
love it. It's a thing. It seems like they were
willing to ignore it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And there's still a group of people on the inner
who are obsessed with like identifying every single person and.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Like tracking they're there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like and.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Also like there's like, you know, people love hearing about
the continued consequences because so many of these people have
gone on to offend in other fucking terrible ways that not.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Just they don't succeed in identifying everyone who is there.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, I know, man, I know, I know who Ze Gang.
I don't want the wrong day to take that tour.
Daddy's got some secrets.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
D He's got secrets. Well, speaking of things that Republicans
are going to be surprised that people don't like, CBS
is trying to figure out how to fix sixty Minutes
because the ratings are going down, like literally everything else
on television droopy, ratings droopy. It's like all the CBS
(07:52):
news shows, the.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Evening news were all under Barry Barie Weiss's command for
her leadership because this is a maga network.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
This is amazing work by her to be So she's
like tanked the entire network. And then she's the one
thing that she will talk about with the ratings being
down is the thing that she hasn't been able to
totally destroy, you know. Yeah, so she's she's like, look
at these sixty minutes ratings and it's like, well, yeah,
compared to the rest of your network, Like, yeah, all
(08:24):
ratings are down, nobody's watching CBS anymore to find out
what's happening on sixty minutes. That's how people found out
about sixty minutes before was ads on CBS. But you've
you've now ruined that.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So yeah, and what to do You know that Anderson
Cooper left last year because like, yo, this is some fucker,
Like no, yea, yeah. He gave a more diplomatic answer.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
If I had to, If I had to guess what
her answer would be, it would be like recognize the
error of her ways and be like all right, I'm
taking because the other thing is that she has like
fucked with sixty minutes and not it not allowed them
to put out reporting that was like important, that would
have made news. Now the attention centers, Yeah, now they're
(09:07):
like sort of this halfway like half washed, half mega
bullshit thing. I mean, it doesn't it doesn't really work.
So my assution would be she's gonna recognize there of
her ways and be like, okay, we're we're gonna step
away from fucking with the formula and let you go
back to being sixty minutes, you'd think. But this isn't
an error, right, This is not erroneous. This is you know,
(09:30):
to destroy it. Ellisons seem to not care.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Like everything you read is they fully back Twise's leadership
because they're like, yeah, fucking kneecapped this thing and turn
it into a you know, maga network. Right, But yeah,
they've this is just a rumor, but I've read it
in multiple places now, the rumor being that the broadcast
I'm just gonna read this the broadcasters struggling with the
ratings on its flagship shows sixty minutes after veteran journalist
(09:56):
Anderson Cooper left it last year, which is why they're
thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Joe Rogan. Wow, yeah, they said.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Whilst Rogan and Cooper are ideologically opposite, it's hoped that
the immensely popular podcast, with a reported eleven million listeners
a day, will attract some much needed viewers. Technically, Rogan
is already on screens as he presents his daily show
and video format on social media.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And he's so dynamic too.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, One industry insider said, quote, this isn't stunt casting,
it's strategy. Rogan ump opens a direct pipeline to the
massive MAGA audience CBS has struggled to reach for years.
They added, you bring in Rogan and you immediately gain
a core connection to over fifty percent of the country.
He speaks to viewers who feel ignored or mocked by
(10:40):
legacy media. That could solve the ratings and credibility problems
of CBS overnight.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
What would that even? So would they give him like
an Andy Rooney thing at the end where he's like,
you know what's crazy?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yes's boxers or whatever the fuck weird shit He's gonna say,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I mean, this is just so fucked looking dumb. This
is some boomer ass media thinking, right, Yeah, we see it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Over and over, the guy who's millions of YouTube views
that will translate to television immediately. Yeah, Like Rogan is
famously not a journalist and famously a fucking idiot.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So I guess if sixty.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Minutes doesn't need to be news anymore, Like to your point,
just make it like an Andy ruine, Like why even
call it sixty minutes to be like, Yeah, we got
this new show called The fucking Rogan right, the Rogan Report.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, that's a like that makes me think because that
is so much more like, obviously you just like have joked,
give Joe Rogan a show if you're going to spend
all the money that would require, rather than like putting
him on a thing that is your legacy media brand
that he does not fit inside at all. It almost
(11:50):
makes it seem like the point is the humiliation of
like destroying sixty Minutes by putting Joe Rogan on it. Yea, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
It's like, oh, we have access to Joe Rogan, should
we do the thing that like might actually succeed, which
is like make a mega news late night like broadcast
thing with him. No, let's let's humiliate this brand that
(12:14):
keeps saying no to us whenever we give them notes,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So, I mean it's like, you know, the it's a rumor.
I don't I have a like this just makes no sense.
This is from the same argo another quote. Another source
told Radar that the rumored move is a gamble because
he is raw, unscripted and polarizing that could either electrify
sixty Minutes or blow it up. I don't think anyone's
(12:39):
gonna be like, oh my god, the thing that sixty
Minutes is in desperate need of is Joe Rogan's take
on something that's he already gives his Like that product
already exists.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's called the Joe Rogan experience. You know what I mean?
How do I watch that on CBS News? That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, imagine him.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I have a TV that's stuck on CBS News. That's
like the only way that that theory works is like
I've lost the remote and I can only watch CBS. Now.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I've got one of these one channel TVs. It's only
tuned to one network.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, it's just gonna be a thing that everybody. It'll
make everybody hate sixty minutes instead of bringing his audience over.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean, these like the people who are making these decisions,
fuck know, fuck all about what's happening or like how
people are looking at anything.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So yeah, man, what let's go, Let's take a quick
break and we'll be right back. And we're back. We're back.
So just we we like to check in every once
(13:47):
in a while with the state of the peace deal
that we keep hearing that Donald Trump is working on
getting closer to that is always either like moments away
or falling apart.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, the geopolitical Pam and Jim of the Office.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Where will they won't they? Yeah? I mean it sounds
like Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
He might be might have been reading books from the
ray Ja School of International Diplomacy. Because the current Iran
piece deal is well, it depends it's either falling apart,
has fully fallen apart, is imminent, or is basically done
depending on who you ask and when the markets are
going to open.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The like NonStop bombardment of Lebanon by Israel has already
left nearly four thousand people dead eleven thousand injured since
March second, according to Lebanon's health ministry, And one of
Iran's conditions, as we know from the beginning for negotiations
was that Israel has to stop with the attacks like
that stops killing people.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, like the stop stop attacking Lebanon.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
That has not happened, and that's had a huge effect
on Trump's ability to get any kind of deal or win.
And when Iran threatened to open pa stalks over this
apparently went off on net and Yahoo on a phone
call that Trump described as productive, but according to Axios,
it was just screaming at Beebie. He was saying, quote,
you're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't
(15:12):
for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now.
Everybody hates Israel because of this. Another source who briefed
Axios about the call said Trump was quote pissed at
and at one point yelled at net Yahoo quote what
the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, you know that we've heard We've heard stories like
this all the time of going hey, you got to
knock it off.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
This reminds me of the Biden administration right where it's
like they won't do anything, but they will say they
will tell you a about a rumored conversation where the
president says the thing that is actually true, right, which
is actually a little bit more infuriating because that makes
it evident that they like, know, know what is true. Yes,
(15:59):
he's fucking crazy, Yes he should be in prison. Everybody
does hate him. Now everybody hates Israel because of this.
That's extra frustrating because they still don't they they won't
do anything.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, I mean like again, it's like, well, will that
lead to some kind of pullback on like material support
to net and Yahoo Semlar? But for the moment, things
are kind of back on track, and by that I
mean Net and Yahoo has not stopped attacking southern Lebanon.
Trump was on Fox yesterday and his brain mush came
to light. I'm not even play the quote. He just
(16:35):
contradicted himself in the same conversation within minutes, when he
was asked about the Iranian military, said.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Quote, their military.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
We've sort of left it alone because we think that
their military is somewhat somewhat moderate. We've actually left the
military alone. Iran is in a very pat and then
he goestes later minutes seconds later, Iran is in a
very bad position. They have no military. All they have
is a good talk into fake press.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So they destroyed the military and the military is untouched.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Also, yeah, yeah, exactly quickly. And then as for the
peace talks yesterday.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's so stupid. He doesn't get. This is where ray
J comes from. This is where RAYJ comes in.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, if you don't know this quote, you should by
now if you listen to the show enough. If not,
look up ray J a sunglasses speedy.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But my god.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Rather than accepting things aren't going well, he's just protecting
his ego by saying the peace talks are boring. President
Donald Trump on Monday shrugged off the possible collapse of
peace negotiations with Iron, telling CNBC, I don't care if
they're over. Honestly, I really don't care. If I couldn't
care less, Yeah, don't I don't care. Uh, and then
basically said that the discussions quote started to get very boring.
(17:51):
So you're you're just gonna use that. It's I'm it's
like boring, so like I don't even need to talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's like so boring. That's that is. My favorite negotiation
tactic is gone key tinky offer. Your offer just made
me fall asleep. Dude, that's great. You want me to
go to bed because it was so dumb. All right.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
But the thing is, like, whilst the wheelst the bullshit continues,
people are still under attack and Gaza in the West Bank.
The shutting down of the Strait is as many humanitarian
aid organizations said, it's going to affect the ability to
supply humanitarian aid to the region until at least the
beginning of twenty twenty seven, even if shit stopped now, right,
(18:34):
So yeah, it's you don't know, It's all depends on
who you're talking to.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What day it is and what's going on. But apparently
their talks haven't stopped.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But again, we don't know how far we are or
how close we are.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Right, it's not a great it's not a great sign
that he's doing the thing where he's saying the thing
out loud about like what everybody else is say with
their eyes, but then doing the But there's nothing I
can do with these guys. These guys hold all the
It's like, do you think that makes you look like
a good president? Yeah, like you are not able to
(19:11):
change the course of this war. You're just like, you're crazy.
What are you doing? You're not sorry, here's here's a
bunch of money, and yeah whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh yeah, that's that's that's your leadership.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, welcome back to had such lightness when this show started. Yeah,
I gotta go back.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I got to go back to that moment mentally, emotionally.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Uh onto Zora Mamdani has finally fucked up. Dude, I'm
they got his ass.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
This guy wants to abolish children's bedtimes, so they are
in such an energetic deficit that they can no longer
learn a modified version of the Civil War. It's actually sickening,
which I feel is how the New York Post would
describe this story where Mamdannie, lifelong Knicks fan, has just
quote repealed bedtimes for kids in New York because the
(20:09):
NBA is just being adorable again. He was surrounded by
kids and then like it, like he has the order.
It's written in comic sands, and he like read in
part quote whereas it is important for all New Yorkers
of all ages to support the Knicks in their championship run,
and whereas bedtime should not impede the ability of New
York's cutest to cheer for the Knicks and watch every
(20:32):
second of this historic championship series. Yeah, yeah, if the
Knicks when Mamdanni will be in really rarefied sports air,
you got the Arsenal win and the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, man, oh wow, what a run. He's on a eater.
That's the absolutely one of the great heaters that we've seen.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Eight thirty though, that's where it's every every game I
think's starting at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That seems too late, Like why would you do that
to the East coast? Well, because you got to think
about the West. Got about Yeah, we're gonna in La
don't work until until like forty you know, four thirty,
they're gonna start watching the game of four thirty. Don't
worry about the fine one.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Also, people in LA are probably like, you know, the
fucking really freaked out Blaker fans. We're all fucking like
fucked those fuck the Spurs fucked.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
And like, man, just enjoy it. I don't I get
that way. For these finals we were I get we
were fierce rivals. When Kobe and Shaq were playing with
the Spurs. That was I remember those games. I remember
that time.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But again, like as a fan, I also really you
want to see something great and watching the rise and
like the resurgence of the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
The Knicks are going into the finals on the most
dominant ten game stretch in the history of NBA basketball
m hm, and they're going against the person who is
elevating what we thought was possible on a basketball court,
and so it it's definitely worth checking out. I think
the Mats are gonna win. Also, I hope it's always
(22:05):
fun when the Knicks are in. I want to see
the video.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I just want to see the videos outside of Madison
Square Garden to be honest, and see the New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Just to see the city get torn down? Do you
think Kat? Do you think how do you think Kat's
going to do up against man? That'll be interesting? Yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. They they are hard to stop. Offense, They
got a lot of weapends, They got a lot going on.
And finally Missouri has decided that they don't want to
(22:34):
help Dolly Parton help kids learn to read. We've talked before,
especially on our Dolly part and Icon episode, about how
her Imagination Library program sends an age appropriate book to
registered children each month at no cost to the family,
and eleven states provide full government investment and statewide coverage
for the program, and additional thirteen states provide partial coverage.
(22:57):
So Missouri was one of the states providing coverage. Now,
about forty five percent of Missouri kids under the age
of six were registered for the program statewide, which is incredible, wow,
forty percent of a kid. But the state just slashed
the budget from six million to two million for the
upcoming fiscal year, meaning that no new children or families
(23:18):
will be able to sign up to get the free books.
Got you gotta be sorry, kid, You got to be
grandfathered in to the free Books program. What the fuck
I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I can only imagine where where.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Else they where that money's got. Yeah, yes, sir, fucking
Ice ice funding. I'm sure. Wow. Look, just let the
kids have a book, man, Let the kids have a
fucking book. Do something, do something good for yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
There's something electrifying about getting a book in the mail.
At that, getting anything in the mail when you're under.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Six years old, it's you. You'd believe in God, and
it flips that so hard where now I'm just annoyed
by every piece of mail that I get. Have you
been getting my mailbox? My mail is none of my business.
Have you been getting election mailers? Mailer's text calls NonStop?
(24:10):
Do fucking key chains? There's people dropping off mry chains. Yeah,
I forget there was something I saw them, Like, what
the fuck really after you? Man, They're really targeting you.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I'm like, guys, I don't even I'm not even registered
to vote in California.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I vote Florida. Okay, that's right, that's where my roy is.
If you know what I'm talking about. All right, those
are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday.
June section June second section Dune Section June Second Dune
Section Election Day. If you haven't voted already, get out
(24:46):
there might still be open. Make sure Spencer Proud is
not la Is next mayor dude, get that fucker out
of here. Back tomorrow with the WHO last episode until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
your vaccines while you still can't get your flu shot.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow. Bye bye, bye bye. The Daily
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